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Intimations. ̈ DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMISTS, &c. COD LIVER OIL JELLY, HIS sweet and exceedingly palatable Jally easily retained and digested by the most delicate stomach. Children speedily grow tond of it and ask for more, and although it om tales go per cent of the purest Cod Liver Oll, all │fsby taste and flavour is entirely covered.
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was a direction from Governor RosINION, MR. SHARPSET " inquired an attentive hostess, THE agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Castil! & Co.)" who had been "struck by the absence of how in the world do you manage to eat that inform us that the R.M.S. Empress of India hot soup without burning yourself ?” “Madam," | strived at Yokohama to-day, and will leave for pillar boxes from our streets." Before was the pathetic reply, I am burning myself" this port, via Kobe and Shanghal, to-morrow going any farther we confidently remark TO-DAY the birthday of the Emperor of Germany THE very facsimile of the leading article pub that if his Excellency had previously was celebrated by the Teutonic community in bed in the China Mail last night was brought made himself acquainted with the details | the usual way. Two or three German steamers to us several days ago by a Chinese coolie who wanted ten cents for it. But when ho saw an of our local postal delivery system, he dressed ship, and the Kalzer's health was
arm extended towards a little air-gun In the would scarcely bave been in such
corner of our fanctum, be bolted like a deer and hurry to recommend a scheme that has
was lost to sight in a twinkling. been discussed times out of number dering
SAYS the Sydney Bulletin: Queen Victoria the past few years and the adoption of
sympathises with the fforts. being made to uppress the cruel rabbitcoursing of the poor; which, under existing circumstances, is
but still adores the gory deer hunts and the utterly useless.
bloody pheasant-battles of the rich. She pro- where the obese Tummy sitteth in his chair, gun testeth not against the birds being driven to
in hand. Long may the reigat
Now, the Daily Frus aaya that these letter boxes will prove a great public con-
honored at tifa time at the Club Germania.
huges at West Point with marked success. *SIQUAI"I still carrying on his sensational- The people are rolling up in their teas and hundreds to ace the miraculous "medicine man extract teeth and heal the lame and the blind. "AMERIČANITE" IS-a new explosive of great glycerine, and others are secret. It is insensible power. The principal Ingredient is altro
to stock and can be exploded at will. It with be like a candle.
paying lavestment, and the amount had been added, to property account, while all ordinary repairs were charged to working account. It was the committee's policy always to keep the holders' interests. In recommending to write off godowne, in, good repair, as best for the shares $218 the committee's only object was to reduce. the property account to round figures. Nothing was carried forward for cost of materials, wood, damage, stationery cle, which will put down to working account. The item sundry de tere" Was mostly December bills, which were paid during January after the 1891 account was made.
up.
There being no questions, or for her remarks, the Chairman proposed the adoption of the report and accounts. Mr. von der Heyde seconded the motion, which was carried,
Mr. Palmer the Consulting Commitee (Messrs. On the motion of the Chairman" seconded by
as we buy direct from the manufacturer, we are venience, and also seriously remarks that stands friction andiflgnited with a match simply WOODYEAR'S Circus apparently is losing nothing by Mr. Palmer the auditor, Mr. Henderson, was
able to guarantee it 'Genuine,
Per bottle, 75 Cents and $1.25. COD LIVER OIL EMULSIÓN. A form in which the all may be taken without difficulty by doper bottle, $1.
delicate patients and children.
COD LIVER OIL EMULSION WITH HYPOPHOSPHITES (Lime and Soda). eases, especially of the Chest and Respiratory A combination of great value in wasting dis
Organs,
Per bottle, $1. Per deren Bro. BALSAM OF ANISEED AND LIQUORICE. For the rellet of all catarrhal complaints, such Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness and Soreness of abore named work, published at the the Chest, &c.
In bottles, so Cents and $7. Office of "THE HONGKONG BALSAMIC CÓUGH LOZENGES. TELEGRAPH," contains a Directory for the A never falling remedy for Coughs.
In bottles, to Cents.
THE
Ports in the large portion of Asia between
the community will no doubt be duly grateful to Governor Roamson for the suggestion. And in an attempt to ridicule the Hon. Mr. Cuater, who very naturally wished to be furnished with some
proposed expenditure, our contemporary particulars before agreeing to the
gives this brilliant illustration:—
Six thrifty Jurymen at Willimantic, Cont. other day until they had been paid their fees. alleging that if the case was appealed they The cash was promptly forthcoming. wouldn't get their money for four or five years.
Surveyor at this port, will be dined, wined and MR. Geo. Peebles, late Government. Maring toasted at the Hongkong Hotel to-night, the occasion being his departure for Shanghal, where he will hold the appolotment of Super- latendent Engineer of the Chios Navigation Co.
become well known in London as well as in THE Countess of Castelvecchio, who has
music and art, le of Paris as a lecturer Comican birth. She is only it years old, hat an enviable place for herself in European literary circles. ONE of the lending lawyers of New York is a native of Bendigo, Victoria. Thirty years ago being released, after six years' gaol, he left for he got mixed up in a mining swindle, and on the States to begin the world again. He quali fed himself in law, and in a few years held his own against all comers.
refused to render a verdict in a civil suit the
In popularity as it becomes better known, Another big sudience turned up last night to witness the second repetition of the original programme, and If applause can be taken as a criterion of the satisfaction given the entertain ment was a complete success." An entire change of programme le noified for tonight.
gentleman so much that you saw me talking MRS, BINGO. (after the circus)--I liked that with to-night He said that it was all nonsense that ladies could take cold in decolleté dresses.
Bingo-You know who he is, don't you þau ! Why, no. Who is he?
He is the owner of one of the largest drug
stores
In town.
Penang, in the Straits Settlements, and the Noi. 22 & 24; QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Post Office or three miles to the address of the † she speaks four languages, well and has made evening, consequently no entertalament was
AMERICAN CHEROOTS.
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The various Goverments and Municipal Cor porations, and all Public Hodles and Companies, Bankers, Merchants, Constils, Professional men. and other Residents, have supplied the necessary matter, upon forms specially sent for that pur. pose so as to ensure accuracy. The Naval and Military portions have been taken from the latest published official lots and revised at
·Head-quarters - in fact, no pains have been TORY D HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST a handy and perfectly reliable book of reference
These CHEROOTS, made from a fino selected quality of PENNSYLVANIAN TOBACCO LEAF are mild, well-matured, of excellent flavour, and will be found equal to Havanas. They are meeting with much favour in the Colony as an agreeable change from the usual Manila Cigar, and we confidently recommend
› the notice of Smokers.
them to
PRICE $5.50 per Box of 2ja.
WINES AND SPIRITS.
PORTS, SHERRIES, CLARETS, BRANDY, SCOTCH WHISKY, IRISH WHISKY, BOURBON WHISKY, GIN and RUM. Our favourite and well-known Brands of the above are bought direct from the most noted shippats,
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The programme and working, it is to be presumed, will be the same as in other places, that te to say, the boxes will be placed in the streets at the points deemed most suitable: and. will be cleared at stated hours during the day Thas a person living at East Point and wanting to send a note to West Point will not have to send coolie either a mile and a half to the
letter, bat will be able to drop it in the box a few yards from his own door and be sure of its reaching its destination within a few hours,
All this. Is pure nonsense. We do not say that, in course of time, when Hong kong has a real and not merely a so-called local postal delivery, when letters are delivered at stated hours at private residences as well as at the hongs and offices in various sections of the city, these letter boxes will not serve the same useful purpose as they do in towns at home; but at present, if our morning contemporary's person living at East Point wished to have an Important letter delivered at West Point dia a pillar box and the Post Office and posted it early in the morning, it would probably be delivered, If addressed to a private residence, sometime next day. The ubiquitous office coolle, a far more useful medium of ordinary communication than is generally recognised, can easily discount work of this sort, and will continue to do so until our entire postal system has been remodelled to suit the altered character
TO-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS.
Inward.
E-sang mainmen
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Phra Chom Kiao.. steamer, from Pekalongan,
Amoy. Glenavon....
Canton Dro********
Kutchinotra. Shanghai. Ningpo......
Java. Kwritin Haiphong
Halpheng, &c. Haiphong...
#Swator. Pamiat Asova...Rus. cruiser Nagasaki.
"Aggregating 16,654 tons, register.—-
Outward. Ly-sa-moon- steamer, for Shanghai, E-sang sery
Swalow, Gleneagles....
Shanghai. Art Brit. gunboat, Canton.
Aggregating 5.222 tons, register. La Familie has published the following statistles showing the amount in france to be paid per National Debt in the different countries of the world: Chins, 0.30 (38); Liberia, 51 Swizes land, 10.35 Norway, 19.40; Germany, 35.45; Japan, 39.85; Nicaragua, do San Salvador, $1.70; Mexico, 54.80; Bolivia, 73; Sweden, 74.201 Hayti, 74.20 Guatemala, 75 Ecuador, Bo; Columbis, 80; Turkey, 80.75; United States (America), 89: South African Republic, 100 Russia, 140.66; San Domingo, 116.70; Hawally 120 Roumanis. 130.99; Denmark, 135 1 Servin, 140 Chill, 145; Brazil, 219.80; Costa Rica, 228; Italy, 2741 Venezuela, 281; Greece, 384 Austro-Hungary, 360; Argentine Republic, 356; Paraguay, 400 66; Spain, 400; Belgium, 416.70; Netherlands, 467.40; Great Britain and Ireland, 5.70 Peru, 515; Uruguay, 629:25 Portugal, 6rf; France, 834 70. Britannis, it will be observed, is in for 491,70 f. per caput!! We're getting on nicely!"
OWING to a slight hemorrhage of the threat Professor Baldwin' was unable, to appear last given at the City Hall. The illness is not con. sidered serious, but Profestor› Baldwin and company will not appear again until next Mou day night, by which time Mr. Baldwin hopes to peculiar clairvoyancy will be given, also a new be in good trim. On this occasion Mr. Baldwin's
programme by the entire Company. AT the regular meeting of the Victoria Preceptory held last evening Sir Knight G. P. Jordan. waI "installed in the chair as Eminent Preceptor, by the Immediate Past Preceptor, Sir Knight D. Gilles After which E. Sir Knight G. P. Jordan appointed and invested his officers for the 'ensuing year pa follows:-
Prelate............Sir Knight Constable....
Marshal **** H Sub-Maribal
Treasurer......
G. C. Anderson.
J. McLeavy Brown,
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R. Cooke
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R. Maikwick, Jr.
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J. Lindsay Lloyd.
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J. Dyer Ball
H. J. Scott.
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1. Kirkwood.
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J. Bryant.
Capt. of Guard..... Almoner_san-gg-
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F. Ď. Goddard-
G. A. Caldwell, J. Maxwell,
Hirst, Dick, and Sharpe) were re-elected
On the motion of Mr, von der Heyde seconded
re-elected.
This concluded the busiņots of the meeting.
THE "NAMCHOW" DISASTER.
MARINE COURT OF INQUIRY.
aldent), Navigating Leut. A. Y. Moggridge, Hastings, R.N., Acting Harbour Master (Pre- A Marine Court, composed of Mr. W. C. H.
H.M.S. Leander, Captain W. H. Farrand, steam- ship Prodentia, Captain W. Waring, steamship Trujo, and Captain H. F. Halt, steamship Susier, was opened at the Harbour Office this moming, to inquire into the circumstances attending the loss of the British steamer Nam- chow. Capt. Lee, which feandered off Cupchi Point, about sixty miles from Swatow, on the 8th January," with a loss of about, 350 lives, Including the Captain, officers and crigineers,
The President skid that for some reason they had not got all the witnesses they might. The supercargo of the ship had left a week ago for
Namchow and meel again to-morrow. Penang. They had for the prasant merely to prove that there was such a British ship as thu
Phillipe Jose Machado sinted-I am first
clerk at the Harbour Office. I issue clearances to vessels prior to their departure. I produce the counterfolt of the clearance issued to the British steamer Namchow, 1309 tone, that cleared for Amoy on the 6th lust, with a general cargo, 63 crew, no European passengers, 4952 Chinese. She might have had less but not more. I produce the declaration made by the aiaster Alex. W. Lee on clearing showing the nuraber of passengers at 491.
Francis de Cruz stated-I am sixth clerk in the Harbour Office. It is my duty to make a copy of the ship's register and enter it in the book produced. On January 5th 1. made the entries shown. "Steamer Namehow, off_po.. 63.588, date of register 1879, part belonging fo, Penang, name of master, A. W, Lee, No. of certificate 017453, tons 1109 36. name of owners Chush Ya Fang, consignees Ban Mob, receipt for register January 6.8, signed A. W. Lee, I produce the shipping book. On the 5th April, 1891, the master, Capt. Colonna pro- duced the passenger certificate dated Penang. 18th February, 1891, for one year. I
made the entry. I keep the shipping book.
spared to mako "THE HONGKONG DIREC.imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus of the times and the increased require-head of. population for the extinction of the fearful, but I have given them food and warm some useful purpose might be served by
for all classes.
AND
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INDEX. TO THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG I
A SPECIAL LIST OF FOREIGNERS employed la Steamers making short voyages from Hongkong
THE PRIVATE RESIDENCES
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AND
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enabling us to supply the best growths at mode-ments of the colony. The vote of 8500 is rate prices. We shall be pleased to furnish fall certainly not extravagant; but when it is brought up in the Legislative Council for confirmation we trust the unofficial more
particulars asid price lists on application.
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members
will require some defalte information than was vouchsafed them in Finance Commitee, before stamping with their approval a scheme that, as local postal matters
are at present conducted, would seem to have nothing to recommend its adoption. As for the abject toadylam of the Daily Fress, the community has been too long used to that Journal's very consistent time-serving platform towards officialdom to be in the least surprised at its latest exhibition of The best and cheapest Machines in the grovel at the feet of his Excellency the
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TELEGRAMS.
THE UNITED STATES AND CHILI.
LONDON, January 25th. The Government of the United States has presented an ́ultimatum to Chill, demanding an immediate withdrawal of or an apology for the [[4] Chillan" circular, charging. Minister Egan with
Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1892.
THE PROPOSED POSTAL
REFORM.
and is the best printed and most handsomely THE comments of the Daily Pres on the bound volume ever published East of the Sues subject of the dozen pillar letter boxes which the Government proposes to erect in various
Canal.
*... "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND
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MR. ROBERT LOVE, business manager of Harm ston's Circus, inform us that under present arrangements this mammoth aggregation of equestrian, gymnastle and all-round talent wil
MIES Kate Maraden, in a private le ter written to Irkutsk, In Siberia, says: "I have just returned from riding on horseback 30-0 versti, er 2,000 English miles, beyond Yokuist, among the poor outcast lepers, who are hunted into the depths of the forests, and their condition is truly At this juncture the Presidat suggested that clothing for this winter and have collected cocxamining the Government Marine Surveyor toward the hospital for them. The rest i zital with a view to ascertaining whether it would be collect in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and I am possible for a broken crank-shak to knock hole sue her Imperial Majesty the Empress will in a ship's bottom. greatly help me, as she has so graciously done always. I latend working in Russia until this work is really finished and the hospital, begue, The Russian nation has been kindness itself to me, showing me everything, which means not a bittle. I am now starting for Tomsk, Taabkent* Merv, Bokhara and Baku, where there are many lepers, and I have been asked to go and belp them."
Captain Waring said he thought it was not Polan
· Lieutenant Moggridge siked whether any records of the Namchow'r engines, or of any repairs to her engines could be produced.
The President thought that it would be im ersible to produce such record in Court. He then went on to say that he was in posses» sion of a report on the disaster drawn up by Captain Burr of the Porpoise and forwarded by.
him to Vice-Admiral Richards, as well as 150 depositions of several of the survivors taken down by the British Consul at Swatow. These were. Es follows
THE SWATOW INQUIRY. Inquiry into the foundering of the steamship Namchew of Penang, official No. 63 588, on 8.4. January, 1892.
states:
TYPICAL WOMEN of China" is the title of small work by the late Mits A. C. Safford, published by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh in a neat and simple form. The book is an abridged translation of a Chinese work, "Records of Virtuous Women of Anclentand Modern Times,” and certainly cannot fall to realise the desire of the author to interest the women of Christian lands in the condition of their sisters | la
Tang Chun Sang, having been swarn, China." But it is infinitely more interesting to I am a native of Amoy. I was a passenger in arrive here from Manila about the end of the those who know s-mething of Chinese the Namehow from Penang to Hongkong and present month. The spacious pavilions will be life already,'' so that tha, maxims and thence for Amoy. On January 6th, 1893, we left erected at Bowrington, East Point, on the same motives professed may be contrasted with the Hongkong at 6 pm, when the steamer was all place occupied by all the circuses that have bard facis of daily life, and the ideal'studied right. At 9 o'clock on the night of the 7th the visited Hongkong during the past ten years, side by side with the real. The Chinese nation engines would not move. I don't know why; hot and every possible arrangement will be made of an ideal woman la particularly unfittering to people said they were injured. During the night for the comfort and convenience of the the nation and the pallonal character, here we all slept below. I slept in a cabin aft. At Harmaton's an unusually large necessarily set out in an extravagantly ennobled about 5 or 6 o'clock on the 8th, in the morning, public and varied show, and facludes the highest light, shows Its objectionable features all the people said the steamer was going to founder. calent to the several branches of more strongly on close examination. "This little="She had a list over then, but I do not recollect hippodrome business; but the great specialty, book is very interesting from an ethnographical to which side. At sbatt 6 o'clock, or a little and what is saticipated to prove a certain point of view, and is a distinct advance on the after the supercargo lowered a gig and I attraction here, is the Wild West Show, an ordinary mixonary tract. 20
got into it with him. Before 7 o'clock a.m.
intrigues, thereby misleading President Harrison. e tertalament similar to that with which Buffalo & irrat on ankles, from the London Globeral" we saw a steamer a long way off, and we hoped
A refusal to apologize will cause interruption of diplomatic (friendly) relations.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL. TRE U.S.S. Alert left here this afternoon for
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Bill created such a great furers in Londen s couple of years ago. The Texan cowboys and American Indians are repoted wonders with the Lasso and to their own particular lines of eques- trianism, and no doubt the novelty of perform ances that have never been seen here before will attract even more than the ordinary circus goer. Further particolars will be announced as soon as the date of opening in Hongkong is
Cantoni Tux steamship Empresi of Japan arrived at definitely fixed. Vancouver, B.C., on the 25th lust.
ONE of our Colonial Judges is called "Necessity" because he knows no law. Who is it ? - PAULUS, the great French comique, lately refused ha replied, "Alance and Lorraine, ke
SARAHL
So you ask me to give up this splendor, This tribute to Beauty accured?. And the tonës of your voice are as tender Đồ> As when Fate gave me to you at first..
That your love is as strong as of old, That my life is degraded, unseemly" That I'm selling myself for their gold.
| parts of the city, as is customary with our ago weekly to sing at Berlin. Asked his price. And you say that it pains you exiremely,
HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST,”. Însorio-comio contemporary when discussiOS | AFRENCH inventor named Picard has achieved
order that it may circulate extensively outside
this Colony, is published at a POPULAR
PRICE, and can be ordered at This Office, or
through any of our Agents at the various Ports,
THREE DOLLARS,
for
questions requiring an ordinary intelligence succesful results with simultaneous telephony
to grapple with, would be extremelyd 'wlegraphy along the same wire.
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I could almost believe you—but never. For the love that you won fed forever Again can your woidi sway my heart When my young life you wrecked at the start were married, though not to each other, well believed in you once-fa that mixeriage,
amusing were they not so nauseatingly BACHE, a well known French actor, said he was ridiculous. Our editorial colleague of not illegitimate, because his father and mother upper Wyndham Street possesses that
weak mind which so strongly resembles a The Russian cruiser Pamiát Anova, 6,500 to There is not space in the compass of an cheap microscope-lt magnifies trifling with Rear-Admiral Tyrtaff on board, arrived Ordinary Advertisement to detall' all the informa tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly things but cannot comprehend matters of here this moming from Nagaiaki, and saluted asserted that no such Directory has ever been real importance. At a meeting of the UNDER instructions from the Directors, Mr. H. H.
the ports, anime N
C published, either in Hongkong or any other part Finance Committee, held on Monday the Joseph, late Superintendent at Shanghal, asumed of the East, at such a low price.
25urinst., a vote of $500 for "the purchase charge of the P. & O. §. N, Co.'s business at this *2.4# THE HONGKONG" DIRECTORY AND of twelve pillar boxes to be placed about
port yesterday. HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST effes the town with a view of increasing Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium It has an extensive circulation in all Por postal facilities" was passed by the Council between Singapore and Newchwang, in the after some slight discussion," apparently Australasian Colonies, the United States, and for the no doubt cogent reason to the the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally low exte, majority of members that the suggestion Terms can be learned on application.
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We are Informed by the agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carl & Co.) that the Shire Line: steamer Radnorskirs left Singapore for this post, yester- day, and is due on or about the 3rd proz, ple A GERMAM chemlat has succeeded in any artificial sille, which has all the qualities, et, the for the pillar boxes and the vote emanated, natural saticia except, strength," whetis it is from our new Governor. The Acting deficient, being only two-thirds as strong, Kajak. Suggestions for the improvement of this work Colonial Secretary, who proposed the voters of several of the amateur Lady regret to hour thal owing to the serious e: are respectfully solicited.
Was unable to give the slightest explanation, the complimentary concert which was fins Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE. B to the practical advantages to be pto be given this evening to Mr. W. Walshe, the MENTS may be sent to the Agents at the Trios derived from these pillar boxes, but well known and Hopper Australian tenor, as "vo" Porti, pe to the Office el 1 vit di bandicoote promised to ask the Postmaster General to be unavoidably postponed In addition to the sympathy which must be fait for the invändig THE HONGKONG telegraph" propound some scheme as to where they all lories of musis must seniors the loss, even Bingene HILL, HONGKONG ware to be placed hours of collection, etc. if only temporary of sechs a freak as was pros Hongkong 934
The wholeration &
palakkad mi as its own that mich very good work had been done to make the conÓRIÍ A SUCCESS, F
hisnewd
Til you left me to fad it a le
My maid brought me home in the canlage And I pray'd God to let me then die,
- Half maddened with shame and with sorrow.
For long weeks in fever and pain; To awaken again one sað morrow. To find resten bad come back again 1-2) And the child that was bom?. Abi 'you tremble, My beautiful, innocent Boy I
His parents both died. Why dissemble - He's my mother's one pride and her joy. You ask me to leave all this splendor" That you'll make good the marriage accursed; Do you think Life can give love is lender, Or Time bring back trust as at first? Our boy must not know--in bis Heaven, His parents are waiting on high His life must be pure, without leaved,
Men tell me they love me, putulog, Nor stained with the curse of your lle.
They throw all their weak at my feets But after your own felon wooing,
I am ever prepared for deceit. Go, and suffer The torture of devile I have known in the life that I lead, ⠀ *To forget in the wine and the rörels
The result of your dastardly deed,
ONDA CHARIRE A. FOSTEL January 16th, 1893/R
she would come, and save us, but she did *When a woman has ankles almost as thick as not come. I was frightened and cold at the ordinary human neck ought she to wear the time and did not notice what she did or boots or shoes ? In which do the sald where she went." At 8 o'clock am, a fishing ankles look the least dreadful? There boat rescued us. There were 37 of us in the is something to be wild on both sides, The gig. We were taken to Cupcbi and reached it polish of the kid in the boot advertises in the afternoon, the distance being great. The the Eberal girth by attracting the eye to oficisis there gave a lot of us clothes, and the them whereas the dull, sombre tone of black supercargo borrowed money to feed us. The silk stockings has the effect of diminishing the official gave us a policeman to escort us to apparent size. But then boots have more Swatow, which we reached on the rath in the restraining influence than shoes, which allow afternoon I heard the supercargo ssy in Cupchi superfluous desk to boil over their upper edges, that the Namchow had a80 passengers. in distracting way. Since woman took to darot know how long she took to sink sex was riding on the tops of omnibuses the study of the crouching in the gig and afraid to look. We slept human ankle has been forced upon the reluctant during the night, and I don't know whether or not spectator. The majority cannot be described as repairs were being made. When I woke people otherwise than depressing The number of were running about, looking for means of saving bony ankles is incredible and such bones themselves. I saw the captain, whom I knew, They lean over towards each other on their the chief mate and another, foreigner walking separate feet in the most aggressive way, and about, their faces green, and they looked excited, even in boots "print" their profile on the outer The captain said, I was told by a man, in leather with an accuracy well worthy of English to us don't be afraid. The sailor seen, it is true, but the propostion they bear to obeyed, orders given to them. They were splendid casse, Pretty, slim ankles are often were also afraid, but I don't know whether they the ugly ones la lodnitesimally small agrunning about. I do not know how many We pigs, there were, but I have heard there were seven I saw a gig fall from one of the fals, the other fail keeping her tight, and the people in her fell into the water and were drowned. The first erdiaury general meeting of share. I don't know what happened to the other gigs. bolders in the above named Company was bald: One or two people got up the ship's ladder from this afternoon at the offices, Queen's Road the water. I don't know whether the foreigners Central.. Kt, J. H. Garrels presided, and there were saved or went into the pigs. When our were also present Messrs. H. W., Dick, C. S. glg left the captain was still on deck and Sharp, and C Hirst,
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and Mesirs, C. PATMOnisiting Committee)possibly other foreigners and the ship had von der Heyde, fuined over so far as that the water entered the T. G. Schröter, R. Lamke, W. Rudeloff, H part holes The Supercargo was fightened Elmer, Kwok A Lang, and Lung Yuk Ming and, when "questioned, sald that, nothing could The 4 bakmun" said that at the report and be done to save the ship (er that there was no accounts had been circulated he would take help.) them as read. It afforded him great pleasure to Declared on oath before me this 14th day of
(Sd.) TANG CHUN SANG." state that in the first half year of the company's working there had been none of the fida Jinary, 1892 (S.) A. FRATER, difficulites common with folat stock
Konin AAMIA COMA panies. On the contrary, the business was H, B. Ma OʻL, Consul at Swatow prospering ; it was agreed on, all-hands, that in 2 Ko Kiỏng, passenger in steamship Namchow, starting this company a real want: had bien sworn: In Chinese, fashion-left: Hongkong 7 | supplied, in providing warehouse accommoda. pas, on 7th day of month. About 10 pm, on tion for storing goods on this side of the harbour, "8th the engines stopped."): There was a high neu Plenty of business was coming la, and there" "running" sud "the steamer was rolling: very was every prospect of a continuous:náváncé” heuvlly cargo all shifting from side to side. The The total cost of repairs, and Improvements: passengers were all frightened." -Abɔst 12 to the buildings had been $5,729, 1 Two new o'clock, sail was holsted to clear the land, and. and gapacious godowns had been added *by get out" to, sea. The only sall up was n ]br and were sitesdy, earning money); Tala,
Some of the presingers, Singapore people, were
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