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It is said that English sparows rearted with in inside of each sparrow are as toothsome sa rice-birds. LEARY-Still waiting for your, ship to come in, ch? Weary-Oh, they've come. Whole fleet of 'em. All hardships
We note that Commander R. Murray. Rumsey, RH., Harbour Master, marine magistrate etc., booked for Hongkong by the P. & O. steamer Parramatta which is to sail from London on the 4th proximo,
MISTRESS (just returned from a long visit in the Country); Well, Jane, how have you been getting on while I have been away 3"
Jade: "Pretty Jair mum, The kitchen drains all stopped up, the chimbly has been on fire, burglars broke in one night, and the brokers is in for taxes; hat everything else is all right.”. TAR Daily Advertiser states that whilst a new boller for the steamer Hyegs Maru was being hoisted up at the shear-legs by a steam-winch at Nagasaki, on the 23rd tit, preparatory to being lowered into poililon in the bold of the ship, it came down with a run, breaking the winch lato a thousand piece, which were scattered with tremendous force for a consider able distance round. The man in charge of the winch was killed instantly, several others belog injured. The boiler fell into the water.
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PerMessageries Maillimesstexmer Afølbourne, from Marseilles, Feb. 21-To Shanghai: Mr, Scott. Miss Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Creagh, Mr. J. B. Campbell. To Hongkong: Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, Mr. Bland, Mr. Garland.
Per Messageries Maritimes steamer Diemnak, from Marsellles March 6To Shanghal : Mr. F. 5. Descon, Mr. F. M. Grant: To Hongkong? Mr. Gordon.
Per P. and O. steamer Ganges, from Lindon, January 7th.-To Hongkong: Mr. and Mrs. Wrelord, Miss Gurrier, Mies Watson.
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TEE ship Sterling and the steamer Glanogla cleared at the New York barbour office on the 18th December with 65,500, und 7,500 cases of kerosano oll, respectively, for Hongkong.
Old Soak-I feel beastly this morning. : Bronk—What's the trouble Old Souk--I drank my wife's eau de Cologne inst night thinking it was old Scotch liqueur ! Tax Courrier d'Halpkong mentions ■"scandal In the judicial world, a magistrate whom it dares not samo outright Baring thrashed with a case, in the public theatre-house, an officist with whom he had a quarrel
ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30am on Sunday to convey men ashore to the ix o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m. THE PROFESSOR." It Is.a fact, I repeat that every time a cock crows someone tells a lie." "But, Professor, cocks mostly crow very early in the morning when nearly everybody is asleep." "I know that; but it is then that most of the daily papers go to press."
THE Foochow Echo says that the Viceroy' health has improved greatly, and it is rumoured that he is to start for his own country in a few weeks on leave at the end of that time he will retire on account of old age. He is said to havS 'made a considerable pile.
THяxx papers were suspended in Japan on the 1.50 3rd inst. for baving contained matter which the
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THROUGH a misinterpretation of Mille. Olga Dubola's very ambigudus, caligraphy, an error occurred in our lasus of yesterday. Mr. Gordon" was represented as having promised to assist at last night's concert, whereas the paragraph should have said "Mrs. Coxon."
AT the Magistracy today twelve Manilamen 1.10 were charged with refusing duty on board their ship, the General Werder, and with leaving the Vessel without permission yesterday. They admitted the offence, and pleaded overwork. 1.25 Mr. Wise sent them to the Rest House for a Per fortnight
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worthless arms and thousands of dummy cart- ridges had been sold. The first public notice of this alarming fraud was a letter writion to the Hangkong Telegraph on July 3rd, 1891, from Amoy, calling attention to the revelations on the Haitan during a little rifle practice, or the attempted practice. It was found that five first coasters investigated were armed with this rabbish, and similar discoveries We directed were soon mado all over, the attention of the Hongkong Chamber Commerce to these facts, showing both a whole. le commercial fraud and a serious danger to the safety of the community so of course the Chamber didn't do anything. Somebody else thought it worth attention, however, and the
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Per P. and O. steamer Arcadia, from London, been sold all over China, and to some extent in other places. These have been imported by Feb. 5-To Hongkong: Mrs. Robins, From some of our German Gleads, and distributed Colombo,-To Hongkong: Mr. and Mrs. J. through Chinese houses. Hardly one in a Searing, Miss E. M. Plume, Mr. C. May, Earl hundred of such cartridges will go off; some and Countess of Glasgow, Miss Hallowes
Per P. and O. steamer Ballaarat, from, Lou- utterly refuse to igulte, some jam in the breech,, HARMSTON'S Circus and Wild West Show and some burst the guns. Fortunately there isdan, Feb 18-To Hongkong Me. H. D. C. opened at Kollo on Wednesday (roth February) now no immediate prospect of having and was very well received. · After a short stay, for Winchesters, so that the fraud Deed ||Jones, Mr. T. D. Taylor, Mr. Albion.
Per P. and O. steamer" Parramatta, from it will return to Manila by special request, to mere trade fraud; but in the event of further London, March 4-To Hongkong: Captain R.. play in a part of the city where, owing to hostilities-and another Vamos case might||Murray Ramsey, R.N., and Mrs. Rumsey, the clumsy Spanish municipal regulations, the happen any day, even if an anti-foreign rot is Inhabitants were before unable to visit the cat of the question the fraud would probably circus. The Govenor of Manila has signified lead to much more serious consequences and his appreciation of the performance, which he might be very little removed from wholesale attended frequently, by a muniscent gift to one
murder. of the leading artistes. It is intended to open in Hongkong on Wednesday, 2nd March. THE troopship Himalaya, Captain R. Hammick, 4,670 tons, arrived here from Portsmouth this morning with Capt. Thomas, Lleuts. Boyes, Langford, Flowers, Markham, Luard, Burnside, Surgeon Moir, Lieuts. Watson, Hinde, Mrs. and Mia Buroside, and Mrs. Falmer, and She has made a very 300 troops on board. smart passage from England carrying troops for Malta, Cairo, Colombo, Trincomalee, Singapore, Penang, and Hongkong. She experienced very strong monsoon and thick foggy weather from Singapore to Hongkong. The voyage out ban, on the whole, been a very pleasant one. Himalaya't last voyage was to Australia in station. She is timed to leave Hongkong home May, 1891, with relief crews for ships on that Ward bound on the 26th of this month. The Tamar arrived last night with reliefs, for the men-of-war on this station. Both troopships left Singapore together, but the Himalaya slowed down yesterday.
commander.
MDLLE, DUBOIN'S CONCERT.
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The attendance at the City Hell last night afforded farther proof that Hongkong must have been the last place to receive the stiention of the red up on the rest of the world. The Governar reator, when good material had nearly all been Lady and Miss Robinson, Major General and Mrs. Barker and party, the Russian naval officers-these constituted almost the entire house. Yet the concert was one such as Hong- kong rarely has the opportunity to bear and, it would seem, cannot apprecinte, As Friedenthal wald, "an orchestra of musical monkeys playing Scotch back-pipe" would draw; but music never."
Punctually at nine o'clock Mälle. Duboln opened with a scherzo of Chopin, whose sweet mélodies the talented Moscow pianiste rendered with an expression worthy of the composer, This was followed by the "Imprompts Fantaisie" and a Polemoss by the same master, executed by Mdlie. Dubaia with treat spirit and were, and loudly applauded. The next place, Mendelssohn's bright and taneful "Spinning Song" called forth an undeniable
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PROGRAMME OF THE SPAÌNO MEETING.
FIRST DAY, TUESDAY, 15TH MARCH, 1897. The FLYAWAY STAKES, of each, with $50 added; for all' China paniesŢ weights as per scale. Half a mile..
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COMMERCIAL MORALITY.
"That shopping in the Siamese metropolis na carried on by persons bolding exalted positions in Siamese society is a profitable pungit there can be no doubt whatever, for it entails bot little
pecuniary responsibility on the side of the buyer, providing he is a Siamese noble, or price, or lord, Shopping la;de facio, Hitle
e short of another. name for theft and fraud in the capital of the benighted Land of Walts Elephants.
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well-informed contemporary the Stam ||Frus Press (n,the course of a leading article on
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To judge by the way the nobility of Siam treat the storekeepers of Banglesk, one would Imagine that this useful body of tinders exists but to be exploited by Siamese dignitaries. Three, four, five, and even ten years are often required" to obtain a seitlement of opistanding accounts; and Government Departments are no better in this respect than private personn The Postal Department, which is considered to
be o
one of the best organised public offices in Siam, required seventeen months to settle its liabilities with a local firm, and it has long been a notorious fact that the majority of Siamess Departments are months to arrears with the salaries of their employés, and years in arrears in their payments to nearly every firm of importance in Bangkok. This state of affairs in most scandalous, and can have no other tendency than to hold up the Siamese to a just contempt among neighbouring · gations.
This is a serious state of affairs. The Siamese began by delaying payment year after year, they.. now repudiate their liability altogether. When Is this going to end ? A Consul declares he is their unfortunate creditors. The Treaty contains helpless, and the Siamese map thels fingers at
no clause to meet the case; but is this any reason why the storekeepers of Bangkok should be dealed justice? We hope not; and we trust that the Siamese princes in question will not take the dishonourable course of sheltering themselves behind any defect in the treaty, orgiske advantage of any clause in their own crude legal code, to evade the just on the one hand the Siamese are repudiating payment of their debts. ..................... While their just debts, on the other they are pouring out their treasure, with a lavish hand on
added for each, ataxter i, for all Chins Ponles i lag expenditure has not, however, in any way weights as per scale; winners of one race 7lb. lightened their troubles, Despite the one hen- extra, two or more races 12lb, extra; to be dred thousand dicals expended on the Royal ridden by Jockeys who have neve had a Rallway Department in salaries to Banraths, winning mount before this meeting in Chins Ober-Bagrath, and copying clerks, not to men and/or Hoogkang. Once round and a(dl-don, the many postponements, if now appears
The COAST STAKES, of $5 each, with $50 added for Foochow and Amoy subscription ponies weights as per scale. "Odo milo. The AMOY. CUP, (presented); value $100 for all China ponies; weights as per scale; en- trance $5. One mile a hall The YURTOO STAKIS, of $10 each; for all China Poniess weights as per scale winners "at this Meeting 7lb. extra." Seven furlongs,
LAT night a report was made to Inspector Miss Pollard the punist gracefully responded. The JOCKEY STAXES,' of Sio each with to their excellent Railway Department. Ungrudg
Butlin at Shau-kl-win that yesterday „afternoon" MADEIRA, HOCK AND CHAMPAGNES. | two Chinsmen charteted a saa.pan at Shan-ki
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An adventurous individual who proposed to ran rickshas in London has not met with much 0.75 encouragement; the authorities throwing cold water on the scheme on the ground that such vehicles are unnecessary::and would lead to 4.75 excitement, and they clte, se fustification, the prohibition of the use of a solitary jlarickahs some years ago owing the excitement created by 0.75 In w/out in a public thoroughfare
sappeared, giving the Berceuse and the vivacious Tyrolienné of
Alsid, with brilliance of execution and an exquisitely sympathetic touch that made one quite i
ground violinist's vivid gives dress on the scarlet of the stage, Molle Duboin and Miss Souza then combined in Beethoven's magulacent, overture to Egmont, which would have been much better ff the pianoforte had been in good order. The concluding plece of the first part of the pro- gramme was a medley of Russian airs stranged for the plano by Mdile. Duboin, for the delecta tion of her Muscovite. patrons. We hope they were delighted.
The second part of the entertainment opened with Beethoven's weird Moonlight Sonata,” la which most of the audience had so recently Beard Herr Friedenthal that a comparison was unavoidable. It may be safely said, without any deutment to the gentleman from the Fatherland, that Moscow last night showed itself unrivalled, in delicacy of expression and fendresss auch a Beethoven himself would have rejoiced to hear.. A very enjoyable variation was introducted Into the programme at this point, Mr. D. Mac Donald favouring the audience with song by Zouth Tell Them which was loudly ap planded. After a couple of light, playful selec- tions on the plane by Malle. Daboln, Mrs. Cozon SEQUA last night departed from his ninal came forward to sing Sullivan's "My Dearest 1200 Modus operind After extracting a great member Heart," If the programme is to be believed. As of tooth, he asked any one who might be suffering a matter of fact, what she sang was from headache to step forward. He rubbed in a classical Italian song. Though her voice was 1.To his magic off for a few moments as dotat is best, Mrs. Coxon, who, as far and behold the few who came to declared the away the best soprano in the Colony is suf pains Instantly gone. He doerwards ralleved Eciently well known to need no further praise Eve case of tooth? in a few minutes by accorded most flattering reception, and Good-bye, applying his "instant" rollef,”
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COUNTERFEIT CARTRIDGES,...........
The Winchester Arms. Co. has sent out.
of
commisioner to enquire into the reports that unusable: Iniitations of their goods are, being extensively, traded off on people in Chics and other parts of Asia. This was first noticed during the early days of the Kolno scare Last year, when all white folks, even in Hongkong. began to turn their attention to revolvers, and repeaters, and, such things. Especially on the coasting steamers and In naiports weapons were hunted up and cleaned ready, for any emergency, and a few people began pollating up their target practice. Then it was discovered in that, during the booms in firearms, which
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The AUTOCRAT CUP, (presented); value $100. for all Foochow owned China ponies; weights a per scale winners of two or more test at the Winter Meeting za ib. extra; entrance 85. One mile. The RACING STAKES, of $5 each with $50 added for the first and Bag for the second pony for Foochow and Amoy Subscription ponies; weights as per scales winners at this Meeting
7 lb. extra. Ons mite and a half,
The NANTAT STAKES, of $10 each, divided 70 per cent, 20 per cent and 10 per cent first, "second" and "third" pony in forced entry for all Pontes entered at this Meeting weights as per scale. One mile and a quarter, SYCOND DAY WEDNESDAY, 16TH MARCH The VISITORS CUP (presented) i second Pony to receive $25, third pony: $13; for all Chin Poules; weights as per scales winners of one race at this Meeling 7lbs extra, of 2 or more
races 13 lbs, extra subscription Pontes allowed 7 lbs's entrance $5, Ona mile and a hell...
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The MIN STAKES ; of $5 each with $50 added. Second Pony to receive $25. For Foochow and Amoy Subscription Pontes weights as per scales winners at this Meeting Foi
that the line to Ayubia is not even staked out, The contractor is waiting to commence aper tions, and the excellent Royal Rallway Departe meat are unable to indicate where the line is to be built. The one hundred thousand ticals have been well expended: they have been thrown out
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Raths big and little of the window into the pockets of the various
staking out of the lise was probably not the province of the responsible Chief of the Royal
• time, as likely to come within
of the contractor charged with the Railway
Department. Now, the simple
constructio of the line seems-to-bave caused no small amount of undigalŝed baste in the Royal Rail- way Department. The Director-General, and
the new Chief Engineer, as well as the section Engineer of Bangkok are engaged in the difficult
per
sering task of driving pegs in the paddy Selds. These three gentlemen cost 200 ticals will add another large item to the expenses, and day, excluding field allowances their staff
the work they ays engaged on might readily ba carried out by Siamese labourers.
The country la daty there is no levelling required, nor is it necessary that distinguished engineers should superintend the peg-driving Not one of the engineers speaks the language of the country, and not one of them is as thoroughly apted for the work as the suspended Secretary to the
Ho knows Department,
the country.{as an engineer of Sir Andrew Clarke's surveys), speak the language and is in every way specially qualified, for, the task which is now employing the whole intelligence of the R. R. Department. But the suspended Secretary remains idle, drawS his pay and to assists to heap high the measUTS of useless expenses -
extra, el a or more sapes, talb, extra y ponies that have never won a race allowed sib, Previous Non-starters at this Moetingexcluded. Three-quarters-of-a-mille kokend MAXIX The RACK FUND CUP (presented) value $100. For all China Ponies weights--per-sole
laners at this Meeting Holb.extra poates that have never won a race allowed glds entrance #5....... Önce Round, DEPART The SPRING STAKES, of $10 each with $50 added
to be divided 20 per cent., 20 per cent, and to bragg per cent, for first, second and third Pony; for Foochow and Amoy. Subscription: Ponies;|| *** weights as per scale. One Mile and a quarter. Ba
HOKAMA January-13th, 1893.– The Consolation STAKES, of 85 each with 825.
The new Tuotal arrived here on the evening added for the second Pony; for all bone fde of the can and we are now to be tid of the pre beaten Ponies that barn run at this Meeting sent beautiful specimen of a Chinese official, to Miles on races weights as per odio, one the supreme saisiacions of the Conguingtes,
CHUNGKING.
(FROM OUR
for it has been many years
*been
The CHAMPION STAKES, of 810 each with 850 possessed such a thoroughly detested officiul as
added's forced entry for all winners at this this nephew of Li Hang-chang. He has meeting except of Consolation Stakes; winners in office here a litle over a year, during which of two TROOS #15 gatrs and of more than two time he has left nothing undone that be could Faces $15 extra previcos non-startersexcluded: do to injure, foreigners and serve himself, weights as per scale: One Mile kad quarter. This has been particularly shown in the Ta The WELTER PLATE, Value $rooy for sli China Chu Halen riots notwithstanding the fact that
Ponies; ciich weights over fr2stona zib; non- there were: nearly a score, of Christians 'mure" winner wi", thij meeting allowed zib; riders | dered, their houses burned, goods, stolen whos have, dovere tron a isace allowed ziby and their growing trops ratherad and carried entrance #sir. Three quaciers of a milosnt door off by their perscontora, Jals Chang-nba-kuci,
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