Intimations.
DAKIN. BROS. OF CHINA,
, LIMITED, CHIE MISTS, &C.
EUCALYPTUS OIL AND
F
INFLUENZA.
Of all the preventives, OIL OF EUCALY- FYTUS, either dizgisised under fancy names or
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1892.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1893.
Fire bars to be taken out of furnace, bridges down, salety valves taken adrift (and fitted to Government requirements), lagging to be taken Away when necessary and boiler to be tested by hydraulic pressure.
Cylinders to be opened out, valve cailng doors taken off, main bearings and crank-pins opened UP and pamps taken adrift and steam-pipes to be tested by hydraulic pressure.
to
THE STEAM-LAUNCH GRIEVANCE, GOVERNGE Sir W. ROBINSON's reply to the deputation of residents-owners of so- called private steam-launches and cargo- boats-who Interviewed his Excellency on March 28th, is a practical admission that The Merchant Shipping Consolidation H. H. Joseph, Esq. Supt., P. & O.-S. S. Co., Ordinance, 1891, has proved in many
I would mention thịa will be an annust survey for private launches instead of six months which are granted launches carrying passengers.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient servant,
(Sd.) ROBT. C. DIXON, "Act, Govt, Marine Surveyor,
Hongkong.
J
Important essentials & consc On receipt of this extraordinary official generally useless piece of legislation which is neither in keeping with the times in which document, which will only afford amuse- we live nor with the commercial requirement to practical engineers and shipwrights, the Superintendent of the P. & O. Co. very naturally applied for an estimate of cost of such an elaborate survey, and the Dock Company in due course forwarded the following
In its pure state, has earned the most proments of this port. When first brought fessional and lay support, and up to the presen it certainly seems to have vindicated the claims put forward in its behrif.”—Chemist and Druggit. Feb., 6th, 1892, -
DAKINS' STANDARD
BRAND OF EUCALYPTUS
OIL.
Bottica, soʻcis, and $1.00
before the Legislative Council last year a number of its sections were, vigorously opposed by Mr. T. H. WHITEHEAD, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, and the late Mr. P. RYKIE; but it was, as in the case of the Gambling and Optom Ordinances, forced into law by the sheer weight of the 'Official Phalanx, composed of persons who had but Bttle experience of this colony, no knowledge whatever of shipping matters, and who simply voted as they were told. We believe that Mr. HASTINGS, the Acting Harbour Master,"Is the
official directly responsible for drafting the technical portions of the Ordinance which have given rise to so much irritation and opposition in shipping
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL circles, and we are certainly bound to
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
}
WINES AND SPIRITS. WE Invite attention to the following Brands, all of which are excellent quality and good value for the money.
1
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.
In ordering is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wasted, and initialleiter for quality desired. PORTS, (For Invalids and general use),
Per dol Casc.
A Alto Douro, good quality,
Green Capsule $10
B Viatage, superior quality, Red Capsule......
C Fine Old Vintage, superior
quality, Black Seal Cap.
Bule
נג
D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra superior, Vialet Capsule (Old Bottled) oma: 18
SHERRIES.
A Delicato Pale Dry, dinner,
wine, Green. Capatic...
Per
Bot.
1.10
say that anything more ridiculous, short- sighted and uncalled-for than the various restrictions placed on the large fleet of steam-launches employed in actively assisting the commerce of the port, can scarcely be conceived. The man, whoever he was, who drafted this blot on local legislation, knows very little about the trade of Hongkong, and he knows still less about shipbuilding-at all events so far as the necessary surveys of steam- launches are concerned.
TENDERË
From the Hongkong and Whampoa Deck Company. Limited, for the following repairs to the P. & O. Steam Launch - To Place the launch on the slip for
examination ...................$ 25,00
Draw the propeller shaft for inspection roco† Take off the old sheathing, caulk the bottom and put on a new suit of metal .....
Inspection,
MANILA papers Just to hand report another great fire in the Sampaloc quarter of the city, on the afternoon of the 31st March,
MRS. GLOBE TROTTER: "Well, hero we are, | bick in the old flat,”
Mr. G. T.: "Y»e»a, and we shall have to settle down and be nobodies again for another eleven
Take out the botte 395.00 drill the various parts for thickness. Test by hydraulle pressure. Reship the boller and make all the connections. 60.00
Open out the cylinder and valve-can- "lng"cover, main-bearings and crank- pins opened out, Pumps taken adrift and steam-pipes tested bý hydraulic · pressure......4991 UPTRY)
2500
$515.00
D. GILLIES, Secretary.
months,"
REGINALD (on the stare): At list, my love, we are together. Rest you in these arms for ever." (Aalde, to man in the wing)); "Step lively there, with the curtain. Dan you suppose wo want to stay like this mit night ? Hortense OUT of every thousand French people, according (as the curtain drops); " For ever.”,
to Mulhall, but g2 are under five years old
which is only two-thirds of the English average, 136. But then France has more old people (over, 60 years) than any other country in the world she has 116 per thousand. England has only 7 and the United States but 56 per thousard.. on the night of the 7th wild, a large bird of Chinese and Annamites swooped down from Cal-vang on the village of Tham-muc, in Tonkin, burat a number of dwellings, and carried off 44. prisoners, and over go head of cattle. The com. mander of the military post of Phong-nac went In parsuit and rescued all the captives and most of the booty, the robbers scattering into the Jungle.
THE name of the China and Manila Co.'s steam ship Diamante will disappear from the shipping returns of this post, probably for ever, a couple of days herce; the agents (Mesars. Shewan & Co.) having decided to despatch ber at daylight on Friday for Kobe, where the will be handed Such a bandy coaster shoul! give a good account over to the Japanese who have bought her.
of he
f herself_on_the_coast of Dal Nippon
It appears, says a San Francisco contemporary, that in New York they have an import traffic in European giris similar to that in Chinese and Japanese women which flourishes at this port. The New York pelice are now working to break up the business. It requires something more than police, activity to do that in 'Frisco, where more law is invoked to get these persons into the country than to keep them out.
shutters being pub up. Te is a far simpler and of a grippe and mumps. Lots of the rising more easily rectified offrir-simply an epidemic
generation are hers de combat with colds; cough, a gripps, and mempi. That's all.
TO-DAY'S. SHIPPING RETURNS, -
Inward.
*
-
Sunghiang ......... tearner, from Canton. Chowfa...
Bangkok. Aggregating 2,086 tons, register.
Outward.
Palinurusteamer, for Singapore. Shanghat. Nagasaki. Saigon, &c.
Hongkong, 5th March, 1892. The foregoing letter and tender clearly ALL the schools in the colony have closed their show the utter absurdity of the surveys doors! They are no bankrupt, por shave rendered compulsory by The Merchant any of their "leading men" skipped the colony Shipping Consolidation Ordinance. The Acting--they are not directors of huge concertis, neither As already stated in these columns, we Marine Surveyor's notion of stripping off one of these horrors is the cause of the do they held towers of attorney! for dead-tends," could not sec" our way to support the the copper to make an inspection of the deputation of launch-owners who wanted frames and timbers of a steam launch is one set of regulations for their trading so extremely verdant that we fancy that vessels and quite another for Chinese and worthy official must have been indulging other launches plying for hire. We then in a quiet joke; and we are certain the ¡ pointed out that there was no material Secretary of the Dock Company must have difference whatever between launches used smiled grimly when putting in that $395 $1.00 | for carrying mails and passengerson board for taking off old metal, etc., and steamers, or transporting workmen from two or three other items in the tender. the docks to vessels in harbour, and But it is mere waste of time seriously launches carrying passengers to Kowloon | discussing such nonsensical restrictions to and elsewhere, If the rigid surveys the business of the port. Public safely 1.25 provided by ordinance had to be carried demands that the bollers of steam-launches out, there was certainly no room for any must be periodically surveyed, but beyond class distinctions, and it was on this point that nothing else is really required, and that Mr. EDWIN MACKINTOSH, who was Governor ROBINSON has shown his good chief spokesman for the "private" launch-sense In conceding that point, As to the owners, made such a feeble case. He most convenient methods of carrying out actually stated that the deputation this survey, and some other sections in the thought the whole of the provisions of Ordinance of considerable, importance Section 7 of the ordinance were quite which require amendment, we must leave proper and entirely right in the Interests | their discussion for another article. of the public if only applied to such launcher and boats as ply for hire; but when they affected what the deputation maintained was private property, it was going beyond what was necessary." This was bare-NEW YORK has Knights of Labor for Chloese faced special pleading for the interests" of Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE and some others of the same stamp, and with any fairly intelligent and independent Govern- Casement could only have tended to injure the a dos cause that was being advocated; and Pints, further, other very doubtful expedients were used to convince the Governor, which, to say the least, ought to have
1.50
4.60
B Superior Pale Dry dinner o
wine, Green Sea (pinle 7.50" 0.75
C Manzanilla, Pale Natural
Sherry, White Capsule... ro
1.00
CC Superior O Dry Pale.
Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule...
to
1.10
D Very Superor Old Pale Dry, choice old Wine, Walte Seal Caprele
E ExtrySuperior Old Pale Dey,
Fry Guest quality, Black Seal Capsale (Old Bot- thed)
CLARETS.
13
1.10
14
Per
I dez, Quarte
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
BRANDY.
ין
1.25
Per
12.00
Per
Per des. Case.
Bot,
$1.20
A Hennessy's Old Pale, Red,
Capsule om.........$13.
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule
15
C Very Old Liqueur Cognac,
Red Capsule.noami 20
1
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
ciger-makers.
Tax Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. informs us that the steamship Ravana, with the next English mail, left Singapore for this. port at 1 pm. yesterday.
Sour more influential Chinese compradores of banks and millionaire firms are reported as under a cloud and very likely to be son numbered with the missing. We shall sea!
Red Capsule umma 4 $4.50 bean accompanied by far more detailed A Roular Convocation of Victoria Chapter, B.St. Estephe, Red Capsule... 4.50 5.00 explanations than were given. However, No. 133. will be held in Freemasons Hall, C St. Jullen, Red Capsule...... 77.50 In this connection. It is but fair to Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 13th instant, D La Rose, Red Capsule II
point out that as regards the estimated at 8.30 for 9 mm, precisely. Visiting brethren MADEIRA, HOCK AND CHAMPAGNES launch, the provisions of the Ordinance
cost given, of surveying steam are cordially invited. FULL PARTICULARS OF THE VARIOUS BRANDS
and the extraordinary notions of the large rice crops thoroughout the province during Our Berma contemporaries, predict unusually IN STOCK ON APPLICATION.
Acting Government Marine Surveyor the current year, which will go far towards must be held mainly responsible. It is making goad the losses involved by merchants important to show this clearly. Sub- of all classes consequent on the long-continued section 21 of section 7 of the Ordinance | drought.. provides that all steam-ships under 60 HARKSTON'S Circus opens to-night, and there is tons, not holding passenger certificates: no question about its excellence. We have seen 1.40 must undergo a yearly survey of hull some samples of what this Company has in it, and machinery and comply with the and can assure our readers that it is a genuine 1.75 requirements of the Government Marine show, well up to representations. In the words
Surveyor before again using such of the poet, this is a cireus. ships; and the two following sections IT is reported that amongst Melbye's victims make the owner, master, or person in mast be numbered one of the aidest master charge of any steam-launch under 60 tone mariners connected with the trade of Hongkong that is used without certificates of survey, who has been swindled out of 217,000 by the 0.75 or without complying with the requirements foreign adventurer. Now, where is Consul of the Government Marine Surveyor, Hlable Melbye? Something rotten in the state of to a fine of $500, or the alternative of six Denmark, eb? months imprisonment, with or without hard labour. Mr. H. H. Jossa, local 0.75 superintendent of the P. & Ő, S. N._Co,,
wished certificates granted for the Com pany's tug Korrion and launch Lily, and made the customary request to the Government Marine Surveyor; and here 1,10 was the reply received:-
D Hennessy' Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac, 1875 Vintage, Red Capsule ... 30
SCOTCH WHISKY.
A Thorne's Blend, White Cap-
B. Watson's Glenorchy, Mellow
8
sute ***** Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark... 8
C Watson's Abelour-Glenlivet, Red Capsule, with Name
and Trade Mark....
KD
D Watson's H
Blend of the Finest colch' Malt Whisicles, Vialet Capable to
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky, Gold Caprylerı
IRISH WHISKY. -
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule
B John Jameson's Fino' Old,
Gran Capsule .....................
12
0.75
1.00
4
8
10
1.00
1.10
C John Jameson's Very Finn
Old, Green Capule..... 12:
Genuine Bourbon Whisky, fue old, Red Capsule, wab Name ..................... 10
5,00
Government Marine Survey Office,
Harbour Department,
29th February, 1893. 0.75 At the Peninsular and Orental Coy's steam tug
Kowloon and launch Lily, Sir, I have the honour to inform you that having visited these launches for the purpose of making a survey, I would draw your attention to the fact before a, Government, certlscate cân be granted, they
will b
I have to undergo the simas examination, as the steam launches that are now carrying passengers within the waters of the Colony and holding a Government certificate: 450 0.40 The launch to be slipped for examination of
ball
propeller and shaft to be drawn for dkamerkreise 4.59 inspector if necessary. If there is any doubt as C Fine A. V. H. Geneva linn $25 a50 to cradition of hull, then the copper taken away for examination of timbers.
With reference to the boller and engines of these launcher, knowing nothing about them;
GIN.
A Fine, Old Tom, White Cap-
sula
B Fine Unsweetened, White
Capsule
RUM:
Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
Capsule
1.00
must be
Good Leeward Island.$1.50 per Gallon, sketch or drawing of the boller must be supplied,
LIQUEURS,
· Benedictino Mareschloo
CUTACOR Heering's Cherry Cordial Chartrensa Dr. Siegent's Angostura
Bittern, &c. 'PRICES ON AFFLICATION,
A. 5. WATSON & CO., LD, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
-ESTABLISHED AD, 1841. Hongkong, 4th February, 1892.
THE Band of the rat Shropshire Kext, will play the following programme at the Officers Mess this evening, commencing at 7.30 pm-
Selection.........The Sultan of Mocka ”.............. Celler, Vale. Parting "engasinanunoulderpay, Selecting Babylonia "conomasticoman, katte
"Harald". Mopky.
|
Adeni Notal... Alliance... Funboat
**
Aggregating 6.516 tons, register.
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial Hosplial begu to acknowledge, with thanks, the flowing donations to the funds of the Hospital Kut Sut, Commanding Forces in hidese
Kaloon
Mr. Justice Fielding Clarks.. Mr. N.J. Edr...
Messi, H. M. Ally & Co.
China Export Impo, and Bank C16 Mr. Darabjee Nowroje
Captain Chan, Chinese Kowloon Mears. N. Mody & Co Messrs. Dorabjee and Hing Kee .......... Messra. Asgar and Esmail... Meases. M. 5. Sassoon & Co Hon. E. A. Cooper
Rev. D. Hamilton...... Mr. G. C. Anderson Mr. S. Barff Mr. Jas. B. Coughtric Mr. G. Giraalt..... Mr. J. E. David..... Mr W. J. Stunders. Mr. M. Ally
Mr. H. Habibbhay......... Mr. A. M. Essabhoy. Mr. Leong Chak Kee Mr. B. P. Karanjia Mr. A. V. Appr
15.00
15.00 13.00 10.00 to.co
10.00
10.00
10.00
Mas A. (newspaper in hand); "A"morement is on foot to mako drugs cheaper,"
Mr. A.: "Good1 "That will bring illness within reach of all."
HONGKONG QUARTERLY SHIPPING RETURNS
We are indebled to Mr. Hastings, Acting Harbour Master, for the following shipping. retins of this port for the quarter ended the 31st March. They show an increase of 66 vessels. A FURTHER depreciation in silver and a drop of aggregating 54,873 tons, for the period, which a farthing in the exchange this forenoon, are is highly satisfactory seeing the Chins Mer -facts-scarcely-calculated to increase-the-lepe chanta river steamer kangas ceased to figure that Hongkong has actually reached the tuning in the returns since the 25th February, And point of its recent unprecedentedly heavy troubles, yet it has been alleged that the Sunday Cargo-
9,033)
A MOST interes logelis, which British Columbia warking Ordinance was killing trade! proposes to send to the World's Fair at Chicago, If the wreck of the old Hudson Bay C^m^nny's. steamboat Braver, which was the firsts cam- boat to stir the waters of the Pacific ›ff the North American coast. The wreck of the Banver
lies at the entrance to Vancouver Harbor, wheir was run aground and abandoned in 1835. The engines and boilers are intact, the main- mast and smokestack are standing, and enough of the wheelhouse and deck cabins remain 10 show what the vessel was” The wreck can be rated easily and transported, according, ta' the N. Y. Sun,
H. G. BROWN AND COMPANY, LIMITED.
The following is the report for presentation to the shareholders, at the third annual general meeting, to be held at No. 6, Ice House Lane, at noon on Tuesday, 19th April, 18ga !****
The General Managers now beg to submit their Report, and a Statement of the Company's Accounts, for the year 1591.
The early part of the past year gave great promise of good results, and as
matter of fact
the actual results of the sales of timber show an Improvement on the figures for 1890 but the the Company's veicis during the latter half of exceptional and continued misfortunes befalling
_tigi_have_ brought the results of the working- very much, below what had been anticipated
The working account shows a net profit of $23,908.15 carried to profit and loss account, which, together with them of $1,473.50 brought forward from 1890, gives a total of $25.380.65 to be dealt with, and the General. Managers and Consulting Committee recom- mend that this be appropriated as follows:- To Interim Dividend of $2 per share
already paid Flail Dividend of $1 per shure
1
$12,000.00
making 6 per cent. for the year... 6,000.00 Remuneration to Consulting Com-
11
mittee and General Managers as
per articles of association
2,390.81 Depreciation, &6. .................................in 4,500.00, Carry forward to sext accoont
489 84
$5,30 65.
STEAMERS AND
art
SAILING VESSELS
414 650
824.574)
23.30
5.667
23,750
64
73555
#51
11,406)
9254)
32,824
39,050
18]
7,009
4.470
32,936
153.3.6
4,497
17.550|
14.004)
13,301
332
FLAG.
British .... American...
Cainese...! Danish......
Austrian ..
Datch.......
[Germani....}
Japanese....i Norwegian..]
Freach
Peruvian....}
STEAMERS.
NO: TONNAGE |
377]
ONNAGE. No, |;ONNAGE,
6,635
SAILING VESSELS. RIVERSTEAMERS.
TOTAL
ONNAGE NO.
goo'ts
9,2541
32,824
$37.7
2,998
$7.550
1,319
11,721
577
******* QIQILA
THE TONQUIN COAL-FIELDS.
JEgg r
15,043): 357) - 408,771| 1,014)- 1,208,953|| 958) 1,155,179)
784,238
Mr. A Trante, of Messrs, A. R. Marty & Co.'s, is boked as a parrenger by the M. M. Co's steamer, Haibhong, which sails for CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
Haiphong to-morrow. It is rumoured in shipping Messrs. Dalrymple, S-100r, and Layton circles that M. Trante is going down to Tanquin retire in accordance with the Articles of Associato inspect the Kebau coal mines in which tion, but being eligible, offer themselves for ré-election.
AUDITOR. The accounts have been audited by Mr. Fullarton Henderson, who offers himself for re- election.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co General Managers. Hongkong, 4th. Apill, 1892.
AROUND THE WHARVES.
AT THE DOCKS.
Messrs. Muty & Co., the local agents, seem to be doing a good business with Chinese, who export the coal in junks from Hongkong to. Canton and West River poris, where it fads. a ready sale.
THE GAP ROCK LIGHT.
Almost all the magers of vessels entering the port from the South speak very blably, of the atility and qualities of the Gap Rock lamp which fished in 2 mile arc of light eer'th's wild xen waves at 6.30 p., on Friday last for the fat time. But one and all say “why' on earth didn't they put a light there 30 years ago 1o
JOTTINGS ON SIAM.
THE CONDITION OF THE STATY%. The shocking condition of societyjane, a dogdom in which Englishmen are largely interested owing to its proximity to the Billah province of Burma and our Malayan possessions, is thus discussed in a recent Usue of our well-
Neglect of the interests of the people of Stim is everywhere in evidence; nowhere do we find
THE 'TRICO-CALCUTTA TRADE,
the United States le developing rapidly, the The trade in gunny-bugs between India and bales coming through. Hongkong by the Inde China and Apcar? Einers for transhipment by the Pacific Mail Co.'s steamers bound hence, to 37.00 Frisen. Its found that, labour bring very cheap 2500 in India, this class of goods can te manufactured 20.00 there at sufficiently low cost to pay Americans to import rather than manufacture them in the 15.00 States Can't the Slambering Dragon" take-a-Informed contemporary the Stame Free Pr
wrinkle from this?
The American bark Jennie Harkness was thin so-called bumane Government living up towed round to Aberdeen by the Pilot Fish to the most elementary notions of what a govern yesterday and docked; and the steamship Wingment is suppored to be. The people are neglected, sang, which has been lying alongside the Kow the country is neglected.
Expenditure on loon wharf for some time, und going a thorough Improved means of communication, irrigation to oo overhaul, is now being scraped, and painted in and agriculture is unheard of, is never cou 1000 the Cosmopolitan dock preparatory to resuming templated, and it almost sounds blasphemy in 10.00 duty on the Calcutta line, via the Indo-China the ears of many in Siam to 10.0's Costeamer Choyrang, which left for Talwanted Slamose officials are under any obligation to. suggest that the to oo to-day to take in a full cargo of sugar consigned interfere in such matters. Jatico, the criterion. 10.00 to Shanghai,
by which we must judge mallans, exists not, andi with
every petty maglatrate, noble, and prince The five light-houses which the King of Slams surrounded by his xenana of houris, each ordered whilst on a tour of inspecion to the dependent on her clitle of litigants for the:
10 02
10 00
10 00
__NEW_LIGHT-HOUSES IN STAM
10 00 Siamese Malayan Provinces a couple of years luxurles she enjoys, it is impossible that the 3.50 ago, are all fa course of erection and it is state of Siames: Judiciary should be other than 3.co expected, will be ready in a few months when what it is disgrace and a scandal throughout 5.00 notifications will be fissed by the Naval autho the East.
Those at Tangkah and Renong are to be of the rities detailing the power and class of the lights. revolving order, and at Kedah, Trang, and Takus-Pab red lights will be established, light will be placed The Bangkok Timer says whilst at Singers, on the east coast, a revolving that it has been so arranged that the light-houses have been placed on headlands and lalards, whence they will be visible to eassels at a dit tance, of at least twenty miley, and will thus prove of great assistance to navigation generally, especially to casting traders
ONCE upon a Time, says a modem Chinese legend, there were two Water-Spirits, the ace very Good, and the other very Bad. These two Launches, the good one into a Great Hong's Spirits entered into the bodies of two Steam beautiful bost, sliver mounted and jewelled in seventeen boles, and the bad one into a common tratteran of a ferry large, with moss on its bottom worse than the Bishop's beard, and nearly as bad as that on the boary rooss-grown blue-mouldy Chestnuts which the China Mall uses as padding. These two launches both ran in the Harbour, and often met at the Wharves. The Great Hong's Launch held is Nose In the Air and scoffed at the Green One, and called it Bad Names and jeringly cried "Go and Wash your Face," "Go and get you clean your Fair_cut," "Go and have yourself surveyed,
THE NAVAL SQUADRONS.
The Russian and French squadrons have gone, northwards and the American Bagship Lancaster and our British cruisers will dogbiless: seen follow sull. The U, S. 8. Alliance left. It is
for Nagarald to-day, want donec s the doty of all Europeans official and non-
silent while such a state of affairs continues in How is it poselble, then, to look on and remain prevall in the country? How is it possible for men with any sense of sight and wrong, with for the smelioration of the human sace, to defend spark of feeling for their fellow man or a desire the chios and maladministration: that obtains, in Slam And yet we find some who: not only remain silent, hut who will calmly contand that the appalling condition of the country is all that can be desired, and that the Siamess are doing their duty by the people they govern, Biladed by a false sense of daty, or self interest, they defend abuses against which their ancestors. nged long and bitter wars and spilled their blood like water to uproot from their native land. official, to endeavour to spread the light of AAA TMART RUN. •
tern civilization la Slam, and not to stultify the.. Flues out," "Go and Bust youmalf” and so on,
The Scottish
Oriental Co's steamer began to get elled, because in spite of all these from Bangkok. She made the voyage in which it is impossible to sustain.
Chowa Siamese by maussoun adelatior, or confirm them, But the green one sald
naffen, and
the great one Capt. Phillips, arrived here at gas this morning in wrong principles by setting up a defence: Nasty Jars the Ugly one got there just the same. days, 4 hours and as mlastes, which is As long as it is possible for the inhabitants of: So the great one persuaded its owners to pull the very good work considering the beary weather Slam to remain in afamdabing condition without Strings, and work the Racket, and have a Law she encountered after passing Cape Varella, as the Bangkok authorities takding the least steps to passed that would Squelch the hated Green One, will be seen from the following quotation from send them succour long as the present rotten by imposing mountainous expenses for surveys her report of the voyage wherein it is stated that, Judiciary system chesins in the country, as long as which would not touch the Great One. So the "from Cape Varelis to las 17,13 north and long the sys em of imprisoning men without trial on Law was passed, and the green sanch was 111.6 cist, had strong head wind, Increasing to conviction of offences, the squeezing of official surveyed, and her owners were ruined and went Bung. And everybody said "How good and heavy rain. From the 4th to arrival, had Government to expend a title of the revenues
* gale on the 3rd Instant with high cross-ses the robbery of Commissioners, the refcant of and kind of the Government to prevent these moderate head wind and foe
Fof weather. A
Arrived the country on the requirements of the people, casty Green Launches from accident, and to here this morning at 375 aminohen and as long as the present regime continues, wa at the top of his volen, fell foto the water and, loilst that they shall be perfectly safe, like
....... AN, IMPORTANT SENOUNCEMENT. was carried away by the current-or the alliga-' | Warner'a Safe Core," So the Green Launch
sty, and we challenge contradiction, that the Al's meeting of the Marind Associa following Kecurately sams be sold to tors
kad
don held. fast night it was afnounced, amidri Kingdom It was bought by the surveying expenses, and
owners of the Great Hong's land applause, that Captain A. Tillett, Lt Launch for tuppence or so. Thea the two RN.Re local Marine Euperlatendent of almost within hail of English anips as they pass
Almost within
Port, and; Launches met again at the Wharf, and the the enterprising Canadian Pacific Company, had on to our empire in the East, there is a land- Great One was mocking and triumphant. But become an Honorary Associate of the Associa where the ways of 1 fe se the same to-day as the Green One said I will blow up, and bash tos. Upon enquiry we find that the names of they were a thousand years ago a land wherein your Boller lo for you if you are, not Comdr. Hastings, Acting Harbour-mastery Capt government is oppressian, wherein law a you cannot, the Law will apt allow you Indo-China Company and Capt. E. Bante, and sold herein it is terror to be rich and civil to me. And the great one answered G. C. Anderson, Marina Superintendent of the infamous tyrannywhereto Justice is bought. And the Green One unit I don't care a Lloyds Sarveyes, are entered in the list of danger to be poor, wherein man may still be the Luppenny damn for the Law, I will blow up Associates of the Society whose good work fa alive" of man and woman is no more than a If I want to, and nobody can hold me the past is deserving of the hearty co-operation creature of Fiat reproach to Europe, down, and don't you forget 1 But there was and support of mercantile marine, mastery and disgrace to the century, en cuires on humanity, no nood to do that, for it was easier to bare a: oficers in the future, than fest|collision. So the two Launches disged each
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT,
Add 2) 2112 1. a hight on religung This land is Slam 192.
MEMORYLATHE TIMBER TRADE. other's Ribs ia, and both had to be beached at Mr. Evans, late third glicer of the Dengan The large amount of timber lying in the upper
3rd March, 1897) Then the Green Doe Co's steamer Hormeteose right thigh was reaches of the river awaidng but the first favour chuckled, and said “Now, you will be brought broken during the passage of his vessel scross able rise of the river to arrive at Bangkok gives under Government expervision too, and made the Formosa, Chanoel in a heavy gale, is about promises of a very healthy timber season fo
Of the 38-h ulto, a number of time-expired me of the French naval squadron at Salgan were being embarked on the transport Za Nivs. homeward bound, when one of the tars, in his entheslarm standing on the top of the deck awning, waving the national fag, and shouting
GEORGE R. Sus has been having a slant at the diets who put money into the missionary
business.
A woman dying, starving, cold, unknown ;
Crying for bread outilda a workhouse late; Crying for bread she gets-ah, what
A staño, to die on, at the workhouse-gale, Over the seas go ships and English-gold-
To clothe the savage, feed the lasy Turk;" Here lie our sisters, hungering in the coldm
To feed the English is not England's work,
shewing pitch or stays diameter, farmaco, com- | Out on the Poor Law sham 1—the heartless bustion chamber, girders, and method of con That makes a mock of Want's despairing my ? struction of the shell, before I can decide to, ix That is the cloak of Charity sits drest, the working fritture by the Beard of Trade And robs the rich and leaves the poor to dies also the various parts of same, to be, England, blush 1. And now for very shame, rules, drilled for thickness,
Then whatever the prespus comes out to by Birds at this system, rotten to the core, these rules, the, safety accordingly,
safety valver will be loaded all you do, the pours slope the blame...
And each starved pauper dies at England's door If the butler has not been taken out of the He might have rubbed it in a bit about much launch during the last 33 years, then it must be frands as the common or garden-calesionary, lited for inspection of bottom and the huil richly paid for work that could not be done even 'underneath examined,
If he triedwand is dosen't
to
utate of
the
to
or at least, they never look any notice. So it 1 at prepente comple of locats thores than repers decided booms and that alga will be a nobody, and the Government never got to knows leg will have to be broken ala and react as there is every propsoes that the toak trade will everybody who was responsible was allowed to the other ons, i vann, maarmarns to fearn, prosperous diseason for the, teak Sonichests of so free and will do it again; only that next time suffers a good deal of pals from, ame, in time, Bangkok But while every year like splendia nothahody will be killed, and then there will be la mannequance of some delem, jo sitting, the innke forests of Binns, are being thinned, the
- are doing absolutely nothing: lay then?
up, and squared the matter, and mid autfen to Ling to his home in Australia, where kleinbikin Blameon:déziers. Prices sse high in Europe
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