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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1892.

THE Chinese revenus cruiser Ping Ching, Capt. | N. P. Anderson, left Amoy for Shanghai on the 18th Inst.

To those about to marry.It is one of the easiest things in the world to economically lay out the

monpy you never will have.

Ir is staled that no fewer than seven hundred languages are rpaken on the African continent What a chance for Mitchell-Innes |

Mr. R. WRIGHT, of the firm of Turner and Wright, well-known brekers in Maniis, died suddenly of an apoplectic fit on the 14th inst,

PT is Intended to hold a Masonic Charity Ball at the Amoy Club on or about the 19th February.

A MEETING of the Diligentia Lodge of Instruc- tion will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 28th instant, at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely.

A SENIOR master carpenter in cae of the British gun-boats here fell from the wharf near the Blue, Buildings yesterday and was drowned." Ths | faneral took place this afternoon;

BERKTE," said her Majesty to the Prince, "you de gamble. I have proof. Hem, sir, in s poker chip I found in your pocket." "Nonsense, ma," said Wales; "I've been playing tiddledywluks with Battenborg's babies."

THE selling pilte of coal in Venezuela is $23 perton. The Hongay mines would be a profitable investment is situated in that locality.

AN OLD SPORTSMAN will briefly review the programme of the Hongkong Race Meeting of 1892 in to-morrow's Hongkong Telegraph.

MARINE insurance business, says the Landen Insurance News, has fallen on evil days. What with "contrary winds, storms and wrecks," It would be almost impossible to make medey under any circumstances, but with rates at theit present level, not only can there be no profit, but there must be a positive and heavy loss. Of course it is to be presumed that somebody li getting the beacht of the existing state of things, but leadequate intes are a doubtful “advintage even to the insuring public. A company that is carrying on its business at a loss is not the The latest thing in fire brigade tools is a guneasiest institution to deal with, it is astonishe which will fire a metal cap carrying a small THE P. M. S. S. Co's steamer City of Peking, | piece of strong cord to the top of the highest with mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 3111|| buliding, "The card is used to pull up a rope alto, bas arrived at Yokohama, and will Itavu | and the rope to pull up a hose. for this port to-morrow.

THE premium on gold is rising in Italy, and silver is almost disappearing from circulation. A bad outlook for the future of the once almighty dollar.

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We learn from Manila that the new Captain- General of the Philippines has recently sent home to Spaln a number of officials for alleged malpractices in the performance of their duties,

A NEW cure for bydrophobla is said to have been discovered by a certain Dr. Engels in Africa. It consists of an extract prepared from a variety of the palm tree, which i injected under the patient's skin.

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IM Sydney Supreme Court.Justice Sir George Innes - Judges don't always know the law, 33 witness the number of different opinions given." Chief Justice Darley here soiggered audibly, while Mr. Justice H. Stephen coughed signlä cantly behind hir band.

WHEN the editors of the Arizona Kicker and the elegant China Snail dle there will be great agits tion in heaven test they growl at their harps and grow furious over the bad condition of the jasper svennes, And if they become obnoxious they'll be dumped into the bottomless pit and burnt with fire and bolled in brimstome for ever and

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A SYDNEY paper spys the air of that city is full of ibel actions. The Australian Star lately had to defend some more or less trumpery ones which must have cost much money, and there are numberless write out in all directions. One paper has six writs in its office.

Young Mr. Larist (of Arizona)-I ain't a-going to stand no more nonsense, Lil. You've got to choose balween us. Is it. Jake Roundup or is it me?....

We learn from Chinese sources that owing to the fallure of the Slam rice crops the holders of Tonquin rice are simply coinlog money, owing to the brisk demand for the staple of life in the Straits and Hongkong, "Firsts" are now fetching $1.70 per picul, "seconds $2.60, and "commons" $2.20 to 83.55 in the local market; which is a considerable advance on the rates prevaillog a month ago,

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ing that some steps cannot be taken to bring about a more healthy and prosperous state of affairs, Reserves are gradually being encroached upon, and dividends reduced, yet so far au rates are concerned, there appears to be little or no effort at Improvement,

THE BUTTERFLIES.

A DOLLAR A COLUMN.

TELEGRAPH STORIES DY THE

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GREATEST MEN ON EARTH.

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

This beautiful chrome, which we pretent to our teaders to-day regardless of expense and is a proof of our enormous enterprise, should have appeared with our last sensational novelette, as niomised; but unfortunately a base mieten from the opposition fiction establishment. filled with jealousy, crept into the office and jammed bis hoolonthe plate, spoiling the features even worse than nature, which is saying a lot, So we had to have another built; hence the delay,

THE CURSE OF CON-FU,TSE. -

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A crowded house witerssed the opening per- formance of Professor Palmer's “ Buttërßics " last night, and came away pleased, amused, astounded, and impressed. The fun, and frivolity of the first half of the evening was completely eclipsed by the bewilderment and mystery of the second part

It is rather inconvenient that there is no programme, though a formal statement ion paper of the various items would not be a difficult matter, but the arrangement by which Mr. Baldwin announces each event is fairly satisfactory. The evening began with, an exceedingly funny duet by Miss Ad Delroy and Mr. James Bell, which brought down the house Miss Delroy hails from the "Galety," In the early history of the Chinese race; when add the "Criterion," where she certainly must the eastern half of Asia was occupied by various have been one of the brightest of all the

branches of the Mongolian family, before the bright stars; and coming to Hongkong Empire was settled, society was constuted very Mr. Bell has an inimitable, style and an differently from that of the present day. Human tickle the sisibles et the most solema and miles of country was peopled by triber, indepen original grotesquenes, which could not fail to nature was the same; that was all Every few depressed, even were not his sallies of humour dent, self-contained, and ruled despotically by lis set off by the charms of a beautiful partner. The head, or mandarin. There was no law but the combination was so successful that the audience arbitrary will of the mandatins ; no Government, insisted on three recalls, and even then wanted except such as each tribe, could enforce within its own borders; no cities, but only the villages some more.

of the settlers; no roads, no trade, no education, no religion, no priests, but just the rudimentary lastitutions of semi-nomadic Mongolians.

Con-fa-tse was bead of a large family community, or tribe, which came in a fleet of junks to the southern shores and selected a fertile plain, near the mouth of a large river for their colony. The chief of the clan was a man of deep soul and strong mind, much given to greater character than the average, a man of

thinking of matters beyond the reach of ordinary men, and not of so much interest to them as the grosser occupations of the daily struggle for life He preferred to give a minimum of consideration to such ordinary affairs, barely devoting to ibem sufficient attention to keep them from worrying him; and the rest of his time was all occupied in making investigations and speculations in the regions of the unknown. In fact, he was philosopher.

Miss Marion Constance then gave a very pretty exhibitiën of skipping-rope dancing, la Miss Kacktus (surrendering gracefully)—It's

which the movements of the reel, the fling, the Jig, and other steps were very cleverly intro- We regret to hear that Captain Samuel Ashton, duced, the whole dance being a graceful per you, Gabe. I see you've got the drop on me.

the popular commodore of the Douglas Cam-formance such as is rarely witnessed even in ACCORDING to a Syitney paper, the new twin-pany's Line, and President of that progres much less uncivilised places than Hongkong, screw. Ofent boat Ophir steams 211 land miles ilve and useful society which under the style an hour, can travel 14,000 miles at 18 knots (or of the British Mercantile Marine Officers Miss Delroy also gave a new kind of dance that ran 10 knots for 130 consecutive days) on ber Association has succeeded in abolishing old is not an easy matter to watch the dancer's feet was very clever and successful. But really, it stock of coal, and is the newest and perhaps time slavery Hongkong by means of

when there is such an attractive face above safest and most perfect boat.

the Sunday Cargo-Working Ordinance, is

them, very unwell at Foochow and is not likely to return to Hongkong for a month or so.

He has handed over the command of the Hafien to Mr

THE iwo Atlantic liners for the Cunard Co., now being built by a Glasgow firm, will be 600 feet larg, or only eighty feet less than the Great || Eastern, while their Indicated horse-power will be three times as great as that vessel's. These will be the largest sea-going passenger boats in existence..

IT is stated that the number of ladies, from 18 to 50 years of age, who apply for positions as nurses in Brisbane Hospital is now beyond ordinary calculation. This is chiefly due to the fact that three nurses from that festive establishment have recently been married to three doctors. A number of these ladies could find lucrative employment as nurses in Hongkong. -

In view of the male and female (especially, female) missionaries Australia Janow despatching. in batches to China, the Chinese Goverment, remarks the Sydney Bulletin, might very fairly retaliate upon Kangarooland by passing n Restriction Act, only permitting the landing of que missionary to every 500 tons of registered tonnage of the vessels so taking them.

H. Bathurst, his chief officer.

Mr. Bell held the attention of the audience for balf an hour with his nigger funniorities, the most laughable part of the whole show, after which Baldwin himself. gave a selection of unparalleled humbug. A committee of five well known residents was induced to go on the platform to "see fair," and try to detest how Baldwin did it and certainly each member of the committes tried his best and was

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were guilty and must suffer. Without delay he was taken into the open courtyard in the headman's house, and hia little girl was bound to the stake before blm. A dim sense of what was going on had numbed and stupefied him i bat as he saw his beloved child being bound, his mind took in the whole situation with terri-s ble clearness; he understand, and the thought of their awful position and theirutter helplessness drove him mad with despair...

Fiends 1 Wretches Mensters! World you burn' an innocent, helpless habe, who could not harm you if she would ? Would you commlit to the flimen a child to sweet, 10 lovely, so grod and pure? Hive you no hearts ? If the even were as guilty as tha vilest wretch among you, if she had done tha worst that man could, da to hurt you, could'yan lank no that rear trembling-farm-and my you beller ad this? Could you carry out your Just desin on the guilty In such fair and beaut ful shap 2. Oh, men; be men, let reason and humanity guide and sublue your anger, let the instincts of fish and blood prevail over the unrensoring violence of fiends and brutes 1 Search for the bus culprit, even for one thert day. Look for the thief, walt a lttle until you know who has done the deed, but-my child | Youw 11 burn my child 1 Take me first. I am.gulfty, not she! Sheknows nothing, I aut the culprit. Burn me, but spare her and pity her 1. No? Then, let my curse be ever,upon you, and upon your land, and upon ell who ever come among you, feel monsters and de. |vilish fiends 1. May you know the utmost harrots of misery 1 May you feel the pange of binger for ever, and bever know the fintest gleam of hope May you all be filled with the spirits of devils, and may your children be a young serpents to their fathers for eyer May every venture fall among you, and every rich man be come poor. May the light of prosperity never brighten the land, nor joy; ner rest from toil, nor hope of success, May you know nanght but envy, hatred, and malice, lying, thieving, and murder, until the end of the world!”

In a desperate burst of frenzy, Con-fu-tre rushed at the nearest of his captots, seized him by the throat, and fell with him, writhing and struggling in his madness. Together they lay on the ground ———— dead. As they penpla the man who had been attacked, who w crowded round them, it was seen that strangled before they knew what had happened, was wearing under his clothes, torn to shreds by the old man's hands, one of the stolen garments. He was the thief.

PART III.

The village was visited next year in just the same way as Con-fu-1z0's settleshent had been. Robbers and pirates carried off everything they could find, and left the pe ple destitute. Poverty forced them to all manner of shifts, and those murdered by those who had none. Men would who bid crops were poisoned or waylaid and stab their own fathers to get the food from their and dined in bloody luxury on the corpses to hands; futhers murdered their own children,

such a pitch of horrible misery were they reduced, that each starving man regarded his neighbour, or his own brother, with murderous eyes, and no one knew when his turn would come. And last of sil, a restilence crept through the settlement, and carried off the faw poor wretches that remained

A GERMAN sulboility states that four-fifths of the steam engines of the world have been con

thickly peopled by Industrious swarms of

And now, though all the country round is structed within the last quarter of a century.

humanity, Lone dare live to that place. The total horse-power of these engines is estimated at 49,000,000, of which the United terribly beaten. The Professor was tied fast in be organised bis little settlement far more com valtares fly away in fear of it. It is Having pitched his tents on a favourable site, Even the wolves avoid it, and the streaming States takes the lead with 7.500,000 horse-

his chair, bands behind him, feet secured, and then pletely and methodically then was the rule in haunted by the spirits of those who slow power Great Britain, 7,000,000; Germany: the curtain was drawn. One of the commiltice those days. Instead of leaving every member of their wives and brothers, those who were 4.500,000; France, 3,000,000, and Austria stood sentry behind the little curtained enclosure, his flock (about 400) to his or her own resources, slain and those who died of plague, with 1,500,000. Considering that the horsepower of

so that nobody could as-ist the profesor as most mandarias did, he himself took an active murder in their eyes. But most fearsome of an engine is equivalent on an average to the there, while in front and at each side the audic. ce interest in their welfare. All their flocks, all the ail is the ghost of ena old man, that with is power of seven men, the world's steam engines could see that no monkeying went on; and the products of their industry, all the harvests of fierce looks holds everyone it meets, and shrieks represent the energy of 1,000,000,000 men, or professor's chair was raised a few taches, so that their crops, had to be turned over to him, for forth imprecations in a diabolical voice, pet-fring double the number of workers in the world, the everybody could see ander, and make sure there redistribution on communistic principles; and the bearer. The few who have entered and left. total population being estimated at 1,460,00,000 was to trap-arrangement. Yet directly the under his own patriarchal tool he had established the district alive, relate that they were led professor was shut inside the curtains he began..schools, alms houses, and several ether instru-through-all-the-blood-cuniling-sights-and-all. We have to announce the arrival from Manila | ringing bells, blowing trumpers, banging tam- ments of general benefit. He was judge and the fierce cries and sepulchral means, by the by the steamer Zafire of Mr. Robert Love, the bourines, and throwing things about. Suddenly ruler of them all, and appointed his officers to advance agent of Harmaton's Circus-n gentle- the cu tain was thrown back, and there he was execute bis designs, man well known in Hongkong-who informs fitting as before, tied up, and calmly offring But there was perhaps too much theory and on that this famous Hippodrome and Wild West 100 to anybody who could discover a lose too little practice. Relying on their beneficent Show Buffalo Bill's only rival—will arrive here | knot in his bonds. The quickness of the trick is | head man, the people became carelessį their within the next week or so and give a series of | 'simply maavellour. Again and again, while he crops were ruined by bad weather, and tho. Tux erstwhile general manager of a big Victorian performances in the Pavilions at Bowrington, was in the midst of his fun, rattling things about demand on the chief's store was far too heavy. bank has filed his schedule-assets," m/f/ Hia Esat Point, the place where in years gase bye about and playing Old Hany within bla costatos, Roving bands of unsealed Mongolians from other financial declension began when the auditors | Chiarini's Chrous achieved such unparalleled attempts were made to surprise bim, but in valo; parts of the country invaded and plundered the found in the teller's cash one of bis I O U's for | sucDESSCE. Mr. Love states that Harmston's every time, he was found tied up all right, med | peaceful settlement į storma destroyed his fleet a thousand odd pounds. It would be interesting Circus includes some of the best talent the Far nobody could establish a claim to his offer of while away fishing and trading, war junks full of The best and cheapest Machines in the to know how the auditors of the Hongkong and East has yet seen, and he promises in a few hundred pounds for a louse knot. As fierce and ruthless pirates came and brought Shanghai Bank squared their consciences le days to give our readem full details both as Baldwin said, this is not a new trick; it is old, | death and destruction with them; fevers and market, for sale at manufacturers' prices.

passing certain very shady items in their audits to the date of opening and the character of the but it is well done; and as the art of slaging is plagues within the bonses, foes and misfortunes of twelve and six months ago. They may, yat performance.

old, and yet there are singers almost beyond" without, entirely broke up his settlement, and be called upon to explain.

price, so it is possible to perform an old he was forced in his old age to become a lonely TO THE EDITOR or the "Honazovi Tulnorazie" trick better than anybody else. And Badwin wanderer, without a friend or a servant, poor,618,--Last night at our entertainment, during - -certainly-does-it-wonderfully.

broken, destliute, despairing, an aimless pligrim | the-presentation of Mrv. Beldwin's–HIiving- in a barbarous lind.

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As the supercargo of the ill-fated-steamer Namchow left for Penang yesterday, taking with him a couple of his staff, there is not much likelihood of an official taquiry foto the cir- cumstances connected with the wreck of the Namchow being held. Probably the authorities are of opinion that the Telegraph's exhaustive (4 report of an interview with the supercargo is quite sufficient to satisfy owners, underwriters And the relatives of the deceased alike.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. Hongkong, 4th January, 1892.

The Honghong Telegraph.

.HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1892.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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H.M.S. Piginy left here yesterday for Shanghai, and the Pallar for Amor.

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Ir the correspondent who has sent us a letter criticising the article reproduced in aur columns the other day from the Shangha! Mercury, will forward his name and addrèss-tat for publica- tion but as evidence of good faith-his letter will be published, but not otherwise. Corren- pondents who do not choose to respect our rules A MELBOURNE contemporary refers to our —which are the rules adbered to by all reputable friend George C. Miln as the son of a parson, public newspapers-will greatly oblige by and remarks that the, fact la apparent in his sending their communications to "Brownie "or elocution. Our contemporary, as the Bulletin the "Spotted Dog" of the Daily Prasa, or points out, is altogether wrong; Mils himsell, patting them in the dust-bin, or somewhereas the parson, one of the most popular and anywhere outside the radius of Pedder's HUL biggest salaried preachers la America, and when ho walked out of the palpit to play Hamlet, at YESTERDAY Inspector Hanson, in a police boat, the head of his own company, a great crowd of seized a junk near the American mail steamer, fashionable, forsaken übeep rolled up to cheer THE 'Princely House' is in mourning; "Buxey" bar writice through his recent attack of La heading towards Stonecutters Jeland, The the shepherd on his way. Church and Stage marter of the Junk said he had nothing on board, have never come in closer contact that on the gripps..

but search revealed a large quantity of raw night of Mila's first appearance as a play-actor. opium-280 balls with a pass for conveyance to But he isn't of parsonia descent or theatrical the Opium Farm' premises af Monkut, The extraction by any means. The Bohemian siralu Junk had left Pedder's Wharf, ostensibly for West in Mila's blood came no doubt from his mother, Point, and thinking the coast was clear the man | the daughter of a gifted but now forgotten ilter. had attempted to get behind Stonecutters ateur Christopher North who wrote Timer

lard, where he would lie until dark, and then leaders in that paper's halcyon days. the opfum could be run ashore la Chinese territory, that is if anybody wanted to run it ashere. We shall probably know all about this to-mLGITOW,

THE Pope, who is a highly cultivated old gentle man, can speak English, German, Italian and French perfectly. SHARE business stil ni dead as Methusaleh, And, unhapply the prospects of a change for

- the better årg not encouraging."

PROFESSOR BALDWIN's, most instructive and enjoyable entertainment at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, to-night; at g'o'clock.

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spirit of a little child, gentle and beutiful, that took them by the hand and guided them across the lonely-hills, peopled only by terrors which could not come near that one aweet spirit,

CORRESPONdence.

[We do not nearly endorse the opinions expressed by 10 Correspondents in this column)- PROFESSOR BALDWIN'S ENTERTAIN.

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HONGKONG SNOBBERY AGAIN IN THE

SOON ASCENDANT.NET

The second half of the entertainment was a

Picturés,” a man who was dressed like a gentle« hypnotic seance by Mrs. Baldwin, Of this all.

man and who occupied a seat in the dress circle, we can say is that everybody should go and see

Con-fa-tse walked from place to place,

kept annoying the audience and insiting the for themselves. The most sceptical man on begging bis bread and giving in return the lady on the stage by san-less and rude perional earth could not fall to be impressed with the results of his experience and creditations. He emailen. This is the only instance in ever tem marvellous ut'erances of the medium. It is not

was accompanied by the last of his cian, they travel where any Englishman has ever half a dozen cases, It is filty or sixty, in which survivor of the four hundred souls who had once,

insulted defenceless ladies on my stage. I was question, answer, and description and me claimed him as head of the family litle not on the stage at the time, or you may be of the questioner are all detailed accurately, with giri of seven, All- the rest were dead, the quite sure it would not have been repeated. I apparently no possibility of collusion. whatever vicims of lightning and tempest, plague, only write to say that I have made arrangements The whole of the audience is invited to test the pestilence and famine, battle and maides, and to deal promp ly and forcibly with auch cads in reality of the mesmerism, and everybody can sudden death. These two alone remained, and cate we are annoyed again in a similar manner. ask questions. Of course, in one evening it is made their way us best they could, across The offender last night. is said to be a cheap impossible to answer them all, or deal with the country, staying as long as they might when clerk in one of your local banks. whole number, but such a large number of they reached a village, living on the charty of

Yours truly, queries, written on paper and securely kept in the sailers. Every evening, after the day's toll

G. S. BALDWIN. the queri:t's pocket, ate detected and answered, in the fields or on the blue water, the people Hongkong, aand January, 1892., qe, b that the whole sudicned is bewildered begynd would gather round the simngalesarjelio the [We regret exceedingly that Mr. Baldwin'sciever, expression. Undoubtedly there is somelting hapse of the head man, and listen to the ratioactive and interesting entertainment should uncanny about the business, We asked "Which child's songs and the old man's sermone (Sweet. have in any way boen prejudiced by binck is worst, Brownie' or 'Gracay " but the songs they were, the songs of her happy guardiam of such a pronounced description; but medium pleaded that she was becoming to childhood, trught by her mother in the day of when: made acquainted with the personality tired to go on, and the entertainment had to be prosperity and refinement ; but every one ended of the eff nder shoddy, cad who, prior to concluded just before twelve o'clock.

with a stanza from her own "heart; a wild, heart- learing Englard, was dragging out a hand- The Company appears again to-night, and on broken ipment for the days gone by, fox, the to-mouth existence on Borer sneum) 216 Monday for the last time. It is hardly necessary friends passed away, for the happiness, that was, hard-working fantor clerk, and who of arriving · to urge that everybody should go and see the bow but a dream; a memory that served to here and being admitted a member of that amusing and wonderful performance of the deepen the blackness of the wretched, misery.fanlicensed tap-room known as the Hongkong "Butterflies,"

which must be theirs for the rest of thejë days, Club; at once blossomed lato a Dook" of And the grandfather would tell them many his own creation, like Mr. Cyril Platt, Hercules strange tales from his own life, of all that he

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whether to report this person to his employers - and use moral influence to ensure good: behaviour" In future, or to give him ons tridze chance. We select the latter alternative, as the dellaquent is very youthful and we have no desire to injure any young man's prospects ; but let it be clearly underst stood that the next employs of a publie company who mikes a blackguard -- and Julence of himself in a public entertainment “will have to bear the full consequences of his blackguardianE3 Hongkong Telegraph.1

John Scott, Veltch, and a dozen of other nobla hid teen in many countries, when bla clas, wasaports" of a similar calibre, we were placed with himg of how things were done in his modal.. 20 iba horns of a dilemma. Our trouble was colony before the evil day; of how the Sourprs Canton, 20th January, 1892. of utter inin fell upon them, and how It should We had another little bisse the night before Have, been averted;; and "warnings many and WOODYEAR'; Royal Australian Circus opens last at 11 30 p.m. over at Fates. It looked stern did better, lest others should share the same to-morrow pight in their spacious Pavillon at very bad as seen from the Shamec, but only fate, And he would talk" fer hours About things West Point, discetly opposito the Wharf and about twenty woeden, Garpenter's work shops that had never entered their mindig of human Godown Co's Wharf. The location, is, a- most - and some junk and simpan building shanties - nature, of man's dealings with bis fellow, man; of A GREAT friend of ours named Walker had a suitabló one for all classes of the community, were demolished. Of cou:ss it is rather hard charity, and prudence, and social science, ¡. Thur cat-a peculiar cat. He wasn't the renowned and the programme, published in our advertising on the sufferers to be rendered houseless at this they made their way, the old man prating and A GENERAL MEATING of shareholders in the Hookey Walker, and the cat-well, it was an colemas, shows that a first-class attraction hat cold aesson and so near the Chinese New Year the little girl singing from country to County Chinese Insurance Co (in liquidation) was held ordinary member of the feline species, but it been provided by Madame Woodyear and Mr. but otherwise the fire did a great deal of good having always their faces to the yesterday, when the report of the liquidator was had something the matter with itsjaw bone, And W. Harland. There are some old Hongkong By removing crowd of hoygls that were unfit which their clan had migrated presented Mr. S. C. Michielsen (chairman) our chum was specialistand an experimentalist, favorites in the opening night's" bill, inclddigg to live in. It also gave outsiders on Shameen said that a contract had been made with a and he said, lo and behold 1 I will even ex- charming Miss Alice Moore, the famous clown chance to admire the palatial residence of the syndicate (mentioned in the report) by which it periment on this suffering pussy And he did Martyn, and that first-class equestrian, gymnast Missionaries (American I believe) at Fa-ter Ewould not be necessary, de anticipated, too, after administering that soothing drug which and athlete, Mn. 7. Schredel; but in addition to which formerly were hidden from view by the make any call on the shareholders This is commonly known as choloroform. But the these accomplished arthites, Miss Zuida's Calido huts that have now been wiped out of exlatence would cpat $13.873 and small pos-cat, unused to such luxuries, preferred to die for ille' act is said to be a marvel, and Bob Lee's by the devouring element. They are really very tion of the paid-up capital would be saved, so quietly-and die he did. We omitted to ring horsemanship in, as well known as M. nice houses, as good and as big as any there are that shareholders would receive about $11 per mention before that this unfortunate animal was Victor's reputation as a clown, rivaling that of on the English concession, Why the missions share. The Company's expenses for the rest of Thomas cat-but no matter. After the Gilmail or Little Sandy Woodyear's Japa" les prefer to pay £40 a month rent for a hotse the term of liquidation would be $5 per month customary Coroner's inquest, friend Walker, who are reputed "find chop, and Mr. H. Dixon bas on Shameen, Instead of living in their bonies to the liquidator, $30 offices tant, and say rc is a great stickler for eficial forms, Sled a writer Daly La be seen to become a popular Hangkang specially provided for them at F-techicks pity expenses. Against that there would be no, we don' ment that he wrote a formal favorite his bounding Jockey, belog an extra are empty believe-is, of course, only known $50 60 monibly interest on the company's bank despatch of twenty-six pages of foolscap to the ordinarily smart performing The other to the initiated." A good job for the Missions Salance. The liquidators report and accounts Colonial Secretary, begging permission to inter members of the Company are unknown to us, too, as the pennies from the widows and orphans "were adopted and Mr. J. Goormann was elected the defenct under the old oak tree in his back, but they bangg high reputation, and no doubt at home, would be getting scarce if they knew sole liquidates hy place of Messrs. Michaelsen garden, with milltary honours. To-morrow, will win and wear Flat Wait Folate Tickets | how the good work was carried on la à calicis Mand Dodwell; This oebcinded she'bualness. afternoon at 3.30—no card). /Bo mota is be 15.

Chins May be booked at Kelly and Walsh, Edi

AN ARRANT SNOB

TO TAKEYOR OF THE !! HOKOWO TELFORAPM,"

in one place they stayed inkay" months, in fact--for the country was roug's sid wild, and the hills highand rugged, and the natires told them terrible tales of robbers, and SIR-To the Interests of fair-play and on beasts, and evil spirits. - So they remained a behalf of a large circle of fiends I beg to ank long time without moving. The villegers got to you to publish the name of the arrant snob who, know them well, to regard them almost as alu-the--Theatre Royal-last nigh', made such part of their own lives, gas peludo offensive remarks to Mrs. Baldwin as to cause

One day the house of the headman, in which her to show him up promptly, on the spot. they stayed, was robbed. All the valuables of the Such a cad should not be allowed to go village were stored there, rich clothing, ancient unshipped in a "Biliish colony. relles, and curious criaments-all ere, gone. Yours trulyge That very day Confuture had intended to depart, and he was at once detained, ing here was no loveallgation he was to the thours,

he was golog away and the things disappeared

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CAMARONE OF THE AUDIENCE. Hongkong, aand January, 180s,

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