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the Mekong Valley region the question of the merits and demeis of that Laid of Promise have again come to the front. Mr Berkett, It may be mentioned, is probabl, one of the most promising of British consular officials and bar, irrespectivo of ble recent ex- plorations, attracted attention to himself by the able manner in which he has drawn up Trede Reports in recent years on the Land of the White Elephant.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1892.

where, I saw no signs of the French until reached the frontier. Thence I quickly made my way to Saigon without incident.

A LATTER-DAY KABLE,

COMMUNICATED.

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Some one has been urging the Introduction of black edged postage stamps for the convenience of people in mourning,

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the Crianel, whom he asked for a loan. The Colonel not knowing bis vaito's true character, of course received him, but later on a deputy, , who entertained suspicions of the guani man of Three of the partners ofi

'n largo varnish fac- rak, went out to gather information regarding tory near London have died within a year, leav him, and it was found that he was an impostoring an apgregate fortune of over $10,000,000 in He was immediately arrested, and upon being personalty, beside large estates in lands. searched a liɛket of membership of the Kolas In Dresden, a laborer was sentenced to, four Hut was found upon him. The audacious ad months Imprisonment for stealing a crocodile venturer is now a prisoner.

from a menagerie. The creature was brought into court as the chief witness agafant bim.

One of the largest camelia plants ever known is fills a large green-house. Some 2.000 buds have growing in a nursery near Birmingham. It quite

Archdeacon Farrar says that when we look back to the state of society in England Biity years ago and compare it with the present con- dition of things, we may thank God and take courage.

Richard Wagner left his autobiography with

WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOR A HORSE?

Indeed be well for the inhabitants of that region / and eschewed checks and coloured neck-cloths, asserted that a certain Wu Teh-chung was a deen trimmed from the irce and it still has 6,000. strong, healthy man. At that time I began to fa

Whether the Siamese are likely to maintain their sway over the Laos States in,' of course, doubtful and there are many, amongst them not a few Frenchmen, who consider that it, would were the Cimmertan darkness which has for ages enwrapped that magnificent valley in its sable mantle dispelled, the country thrown open to free trade, and its people, now steeped in ignorance and sivagery, brought under the control of some be stated that but one conclusion can be on Slam's enstern frontier and should long ogo have been foreszen by Slamese statesman, long ago and strengthening the position of Stamp on the north and north-eastern frontiers, have frittered away their time and resources in

The great Doctor Ranteantacus was a man of barly frame. As in clear water face answereth to faco, no clothes are emblematic of the inner man, Therefore he arrayed himself in sober black, the only aura proof of a reverend mind, the symbols of carnal, borse racing propensities. On the Sabbath he walked abroad with measured tread sad looked becomingly mournful, as he reflected on the wickedness of those that go down to the sea in ships; for on the seventh on the previous night. Now verily the labourer

Ranteantacus. And, forasmuch as the true algu more too--in bir own opinion. So at least was

out his income and ald blan to a noble presence, sold a drug of great price to the Unregenerate. But behold there was a leader of the Unre generale who said: "Nay, my people shall not

On hearing the statements made at one of the judicial examinations by Mr Mason's boy, who member of the Kelas Hui, the Viceroy fu mediately sent to Foochow and had this Wu la question arrested. The City magistrate had him tried the other day, and it turned out that Wo was entirely innocent, was not in the least degree

KC connected with the secret

soclety

and never

Your horse is wosk and weary with a long 'day's jay. You have ridden fin since early morning. Impatient to reach shelter for the night, you drive the spur into his panting sider. He leaps forward, and for a time trots onward rapidly. What did the apar do for him? Did it giro him strength? If so, why feed him? If not, what made him go faster? Here is a short personal statement which a man maken. Try

Ho say "Up to August, 1885, I was always a if you can see any likenous between, the two cases,

tired, dull, and beary, with a mint, disxy sensation sz liz should tumble down any minute. I scald not

teste la my inouth, my broath was bad, and my mouth. imagine what was coming over us. There was a bad matter, My would often fill with an offensive slimy appetite was poor, and after eating I suffered great

pain fa the stomach, and was sick every warning, pain like the thrust of a knife cutting me between the shoulders and low down in the back at the kidmore. When at work I g

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

“HE Undersigned Kas received instructions

TO-MORROW,

To Sell by Public Auction.

Consal

the 28th of April, 1897, at 2.30 P.M., at the Residence of

G. COATES, No. 5. Queen's Garden,

THE WHOLE OF HIS "..· ELEGANT MARINBURK-MADE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE:

&G...

VELVET-COVERED

&c.

Comprising Very handsome SILK TAPESTRY ́and DRAWING-ROOM SUITE, CHIMNEY GLASSES, TABLES, PICTURES, VASEN, CARPETS, LACE and WOOLLEN CURTAINS CORNICES, POR.

TABLE, CHAIRS, SIDEBOARD, WHAT- GLASS and PLATED WARE

great and civilized Power. En paisant it may day they sic not Idle, nor do they take in all sail knew the prisener who implicated him. He said Ferdinand Praeger, to be published when pain, and wind would roll all over me. I had much TIERS, etc.. LARGE EXTENSION DINING drawn from the cargy displayed by France is worthy of his hire, and usually of a good deal that be bad been no Instructor in the larpalo | son Slegfried reached his majority. Siegfried is and threw up a great deal of phlegm. I also bad • ¦ NOTS, DINNER and DESSERT SETS,

who, instead of taking the bull by the born of respectablilty is a fair round belly, he, to eko Hall, when questioned, acknowledged that he ministerial duties at the London Tabernacle, is { stand and rea 800 tired in five minutes, and had to

- a manzer which vergea on criminal ach Kine be wasted with this drug, nor degrade them.

of the fatereats of the subjects of Chulalongkorn, nd of his interests

this The stiltude of the Slamese on Mekang Valley Question will doubtless be likened

selves by the use of it) and then, with thy canting. meddlesome, high-falatin emissaries, be gone Then was Rantcantecus sorely grieved, and he spread out his hands with and said unto him: "Thou hast

department at the Foochow Arsenal at a salary whatever about the secret sectety. The prisoner of to taels per month, and that he knew nothing

did not know the man before him and said that he was undergoing such tortures at the time that be named Wa to obtain a respite,

AMOY.

now lwenty-one, and the autobiography will soon appear.

James A.. Spurgeon, who is to carry on the

a younger brother of the late famous prescher, zud has for sopie time been assistant pastor of the great church,

The committee of French Deputies on the World's Fair have agreed unanimously to recommend to the Chamber the granting of the Government's request for 3,500,000 francs for the French exhibit,

The new villa of the Empress of Austila in

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as best I could, for Thad wits and family depending "I kept on with my work, however, for some time upon me. But it was a hard and tedious task, as even stooping made me cry out with pain. After a while I grew so week I could scarcely crawl about, and was compelled to ries up my employment; When I ventured out of doors I felt so diar, the: I had frequently to stop and rest for four of falling, and was so bad that people would think I was in drink, and

unta Nero fiddling on top of the Tamparts wildhaly horror and rebuked the Dooken Instant on Kulangsu to a erowded house, Corfu has been ransacked by brigands, who had often to call at a chemist's and raraght to

Rome was ableze; an example of masterly Inactivity leading to marked success-succeed. ing in being, as of yere to late. Of one thing we may rest assured, and it is that, given a beneficent Governor backed up by sufficient ticops to enforce his decrees, we should soon

treasures which

DOUBLE · BEDSTEADS - with MAT TRESSES, WARDROBES, MARBLE-TOP WASHSTANDS, LARGE MARBLE-TOP

COUCHES, CHAIRS, ele, etc.. DRESSING TABLE, CHEVAL GLASS,

The above will be on view on Wednesday Bext.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS OF SALE.-As customary.

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Hongkong, 21st Ap:11, 18na,

F.RAPP.

Auctioneer.

[45%

FUBLIC AUCTION,

made and havos in the place and walked off help me hems. I tried herbs and other medicines, and with a lot of bric-a brac and art moner cannot replace.

when my, wild go on almanna from the and to Sell by Public Auction,

bear but litle of slave-hunting, lawlessness, | enemies, and if one smite thee on the one check night is capacity was tested to the most limit. the Vatican, and, belog informed that the Pope the bad en cured by a doctore had given

rapzcity, and squeezing by petty officials and swarms of Euddhist priests. It is equally certain that then and not till then will justice be dest out with impartiality, and that the lives and pro. perly of the people will be safe frem molestation

and spoliation.

Then

blasphemy, and furthermore then sayest that thou canst not see through a stone wall and art proud of thine ignorance; but I will teach thee all things. Thou shalt love thine turn to him the other alse. And because thou at exceeding proud and baat spoken disdain. fally, to teach thee humility it is right that thy people boy my drug and because thou art lacking in love that also will. I teach thee. But the Unregenerate answered; What Me Beckelt sold about his journey will have none, neither of thee nor thine!* was Kanicantacus very wroth, and ha istuset forth in our to A reporter

smote bios upon the right check, and mole bim Bangkok contemporary-1 left here for Korat at the begining of December, but instead upon the left check and smole him hip and thigh, of taking the ordinary route, via Saraburee, I and cried with a loud voice, saying: "The

Idolations beast, must needs teach thee the west with the Governor of Ubon by way of the religion of love! Thou lying, bypocritical knave, old high-road through Kmbin and Sislpbon long detour to the east. Frem Sisiphon I set think not thou canst deceive me with false out nearly due north through most uninteresting words Thou wouldst injure the elect and and, unproductive, country, until I reached the deprive me of my just dues, therefore hast thou Korat bills, which range one behind another, refused my drug. But it is meet that the just and are almost impassable, except in one or should prosper and that my income be cat cur- two places, although only some &o feet high,talled, so look that thy people buy much of it; On the northern det entered the Korat plateau, elec will I sulle thee again, even as I have comp:ia ng the whole of the Eastern Laoi States, amitten thee already, and yet harder.". and exisiding we thlids cl the way to Leang Phrabang. This region is as flat as a pancake, and fairly open, except for a certain kind of tree which is found everywhere right up to the edge of the big jungle near Korat. These trees

And it came to pits after many days that the Unregenerate said within himself: "If my people must needs buy this drug, twere better that I should manufacture it myself, for thus much silver would be saved." And he did so. and went out on to his dung-hill and crowed with very loud voice, saying "Is it not even as I said unto you? This fellow hath a lying tongue andds a conning ustificer of reasons, but now it is made manifest that his heart is set wholly on injuring the elect "

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT). Woodyear's Circus opened on Monday the 18th hundreds of people having to be turned away. The spacious tent, which was brilliantly lit up and tastefully decorated, is capable of accom modating 5,000 people, but on the opening Wealth untold awaits Woody car's season here. The programme was replete with attractions and the skill of the large assemblage of "stars" a1 something marvellous to behold. The Circus to the best and strongest ever seen in The management is this part of the world. certainly to be congratulated on having arranged a show which for the variety and individual excellence of its features would be very hard to beat anywhere. The clowning of Meurs. Victor, Martyn, Pippo and Fewclothes was very clever and brought down the house several times. Victor as a clown is really very clever, and his great shoulder perch performance is a thing which must be seen to be belleved; the contor tion set by Little Ethel is also a very strong attraction. Professor Victor Valazic, who is also well known as a clever parachutist, intendi to give an exhibition of bis skill aeronaut in a day or two are their departure for Shanghai. His parachate performance is one of exceptional daring as he uses a parachute without a hoep; the time it takes to expand is much larger than it sal in such exhibitions, and he drops several bandeds of fret before the piece of fall silk opens out to check the fearful a tent and depart from this port for your place about on the 27th inst, and we shall once more revert to the pristine simplicity of our own devices for amusement. --Mercury,

An

A Boston woman as a visit to Rame called at

was lil, offered to give him the Christian science treatment, but the offer wax declined. The Pope sticks to the old school.

The Wild West Show has collapsed in London, probably because it was found too tame, with its tired bisons and mustangs and dejected. aborigines, even for the antaught London man's

poot

Ideas of the Western wildness.

The condult that is to bring the water from the reservoir at St. Cloud to Paris is made of rolled steel pipes, five feet in diameter inside, with a thickness of nearly quarter of an inch. The man-holes are âve to every mile.

Because a colored minister at Yonkers con- tinued to preach to his congregation after it was claimed his resignation had been accepted, he was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct at the instance of some of the members,

A well known paval authority, writing under a nom-de-plume says thai England la dering a madtime Sadowa. To hold her position she should have 40 per cent of the naval power of the world, of the world, while she has but a3 per cent.

What are described as the finest stables in the

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attended by a doctor bat I

I got no better. In this deart-and-slire way I lingered on until. 1890,

in it I read of a case of a railway guard at Manchester, a medicine called Mother Belgel's Ourative Syrup after tim up. So I wrote to him, and he replied that if had oured him and would do me good. Epen this 1 got a bottle, and after a few doses I felt better, and by keeping on using it I was soon all right and back at my work, and

soe. When I hare been well ever since. feel any signs of stomach disorder a few dosen not the right directly. I feel very grateful for the grest beneft Thave received, and with athers who, may be ill, to know, of it; as, if I had known of Mothar Boigefi Syrup at the outset I would have been asred over four rear suffering. I have lived in Birkdale Biteen years, and if say ono writes to me I shall be glad to reply.

HE Undersigned have received instructiona

ON SATURDAY,

the 30th April 1892, at 2.30 PM. on the Primirem.

al Bowrington Foundry, Esat Point. THE FOLLOWING MACHINERY, STORES,

BLC1

Comprising:

******

Steam Pumps, Donkey Pumps, Brass Deck Pumps, Iron and Copper Piping, 2 psir Boat Davis Anchors, Tyanck's Patent Anchor, 11" and 11" Cable Chain (suitable for Moorings), f" Stud Chain (of Special Quality), Complete Set Taps and Dies, Steel Plates, Boller and Stay Tubes, 2 by 5' 9" long; one lot Rifles, Swords, Axes, Patent Compressors, &c., đe, ng

Alsa

■ Patent Powerful Steam Capiton Windlam, the Engine and Windlass are connected to one late; a Walker's Patent Feed Heaters, Spars, &c., c

All errors of description at Purchasers' risle on fall of hammer.

(Signed) "THOMAS SPYRZİN,

Kitchen Bange-setter,

**23, Stamford Road,

“Diskdale, Southport.” Now, where is the likeness between Mr. Sperrin's" experience and our illustration about the horse is this: The homo gaina no now strength from the application of the spur. Of course we all so that he cens But the pain arouses him and malies a draft on his reserved nervous power--with a

a correspond. ing degree of exhaustion to follow. This is

Catalogues will be issued. She gives nothing for nothing. All Nature's way.

TERMS-Cash before deliverr. must be paid for. Look back at Mr. Sperrin's state whone be "I kept on at my work,.

MYLL

GORDON & Co, for

Auctioneers, hi spur. It

It was work or worse with him, as it is Hanglong, 19th April, 1802. [

1443 with most of us. But he had to pay for labouring when he was unable, by haring to give up work, altogether, and what the end would have been had not Possibly the saddest thing we can think of. Any way Beigal's Syrup come to the resous nobody san say, this triumphant medicine sared him, and he can work now without « spar.

are not large, but the wond is hard and heavy. Then Ranteantaċus arose early in the morning velocity of his fall. I believe the circus will fold boraes of the Baroness Von Zuvilan in Paris, meat wife and family depending on me? That was

VOTY

and is universally used by the natives, It might be worth lumbering when railway communica. tion is opened. The inhabitants are few, and are all white-belled Laos (that is to say rot tattooed) who settled there after the rebellion of 1817 drove them from Wien-an, In the north, They are chlafly devil worshippers indeed were most of the people I saw, there being only few Buddhists, comparatively speaking. I found traces of Brahmanism in some paris, though. The chief product is salt, the whole region being covered. with the efflorescence. It is largely exported from Korat and Luang

little else produced Phrabang. There the people only raise what they need, and hardly much. that. They resemble the Siamese very and are peaceable folk, although decolts used to be plentiful around Kerst before H. R. H. Prince Sanprisit took vigorous measures to suppress them recently. As far as I could see there is not much are in baliding a railway from Bangkok to Korat unless it is carried on to Nong khai, 311 miles further north. Between here and Korst there is nothing to feed it, really, but if Chinnmen can be induced to settle in the Eastern Laos State to any extent, and agriculture is casted on extensively, it would be remunerative. There would be no difficulty in carrying it on to Norg-kba bere is already. a broad highway cleared, twenty-five or thirty, yarde broad, and passable almost everywhere even in the rainy Season, HR.H. Prince Pracback, the Com. missioner at Nong-khai, is strongly desirous of

then

the line carried on to his province.

of

fiver wan

In socth the Unregenerate was a man of deep devices, crafty in many things. He had read to the books of old, that it is in the eating that the pudding is proven. Therefore he went unto the emissary of Raatcantarus and smote him upon the cheek and took his cloak from him, and leoked that the emisanry would turn to him the other cheek and give unto him his coat also. But the Emilssary turned bis back upon him, and fled unto Rantcantacus and cried out with bitter wolce" generation of vipers! Have 1 not lived in an eight roomed house and begat sons and daughters, all for their sake, and lol they have set upon me and beaten mel of a truth it is writtens 'Cant not thy pearls before swine, else will they turn again and rend thee!' Then the anger of Rastcaniacus waxed very hot and his face was changed, and be sought out the Unregenerate and amote him yet again. And the Unregenerate was sore puzzled and much distressed, and said within his heart: "All men are liars: yea, even the ancients have deceived me, for it is not in the eating that the pudding is proven, bat in the beauty of the plates and of the platter."—N. C. Daily News.

NOTes from chINESE PAPERS.

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A telegram from Yangchow states, that the Nanking Viceroy took his departure from that city on the goth inst., when he embarkske Tor kae Wa and Hill districts.

A disastrous fire which destroyed forty houses and was attended with loss of life, occurred in small town bear Nlegpo on the night of the 14th inst, The sufferers by the fire are all well-to-do farmers in that region,

Admiral Ting and his fleet started yesterday morning for the S.uthern ports. The squadron will return to this fort some time in the middle of the stb moon. Part of the Reet will then pro ceed to Japan and the other vessels to Cores,

NEWCHWANG,

world are those occupied by the magnificent The stables cover three acres of ground, and are fitted up in a style that is little less than sump-

tuous.

"In the Criminal Court of Düsseldorf a man has been condemned to five years' penal servitude for robbery and to death for murder, in stric: conformity with the letter of the law. The legal bother now is which sentence should be carried out first.

The faielerance of the Tork has a new illas tration in the recent order of the Parte com pelling the closing of all mission schools which could ast shows firman authorising their esta blishments, and forbiding instruction in private

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

April 18th. About forty-two steamers and three sailing, vessels have arrived and loaded since the part opened. This is not betterthan in previous years to the same date, but the season is a very late one, and will an doubt pick up lost time.dwellings. Now that all the festivities and spare time have given way to hard work and goose shooting, there is not much to write about, or lelsire to do la, but some bare facis must bo given, such as the visit of H.M.S. Firebrand with a new Commar der, and of a number of Bishop Corfe (of Corea) hes old friends.

come to cheer the members of the Church of England. Last Sunday he gave an addrem rather than a sermon, and paid a very just tribute to the missionaries who for so many years had done service in H. B. M.'s Court room. We learn that at last we sin to have English service regularly, but the community is too small to expect that a' church will ever be built unless the Governments come to the rescue. This morning two new Pilars were appotated in the places of Messrs, Robinson and Blachford, who died last winter, and it is said, a third cancy (or rather another new one) will soon be filled, as the proper somber of (8) efficient Pilots is not yet completo.-N. C. Daily News.

NEWS AND. GOSSIP.

Jerusalem now has a raliroad.. London has 4,000 letter-carriers.

se theatres in London regularly employ over 12,000 people.

Risala is gratified at the steps taken in Paris against the Anarchists.

display at the World's Fair.

Denmark has subscribed $66,000 for its

France proposes to exeiciae stricter control of foreign insurance companies.

Many African travellers have faith in the commercial development of Africa.

Lady Zetland bas collected $25,000 toward

Deacon,

The Pope speaks In praise of "that most illustrious man," Christopher Columbus, Is pleased to learn what the United States is going to make the Columbian Fair a success, and pro. nounces his blessing upon the enterprise in a very fervent manner.

A pupil of Joachim, Betty Schwabe, aged sixteen, the master's "favorite pupil," has made a brilliant début in Berlin, playing a concerta of Joachim's, Mendelssohn's concerto and a The critics predict a Vieuxtemps ballad. brilliant fature for her.

Whether Mine, Bernhardt's remark about

spending her later years in a convent was meant serously or not, Paris has takes it up in characteristic inshion, and the catchword there for expression of the unlikely is, "Oul, when Bernhardt takes the vall."

The committee In Alx for the restoration of

the temporal power of the Pope has published an appeal to all Catholics to participate in the circulation and signing of a monster petitition to theking of Italy, requesting him to "return to the Holy Chair its heritage."

In the Caucasian province of Georgis, when a drought has lasted long, marriageable, giris are yoked in couples with a yoka on their shoulders, a priest holds the relay, and thus | harnessed they wade through rivers, puddles and marshes, praying, screaming, weeping and laughing.

Dr. Finsch, who is getting up an armed force at his own expense, with four fame elephants to carry guns and other heavy supplies, to go to the assistance of Emin Pasba, is a German American botanlet and oznithologist, well-knows In Beriin. Ha Inherited severni million dollars from his father,

The experiment af the killing of cattle by abattoir, where the electric, plant le now being electricity will soon be tried at the Aberdeen installed. If the experiment proves that this manner of killing the cattle has no bad indsence on, the quailty of the beef, the application of electricity will hereafter be general, a

had a

with the painful and alarming consequences and If the render also has indigestion and dyspepala, ymptoms, or knows of another who has, he will be able to treat himself or advías his friend:-↑ Advs.

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE,

(From Mantra, Cea, Talconer & Co,'s Reglaber,}

To-day, Brematang 3. 191.. Baronetar—ID. THE

THEDONSKEving 3, the summ Kbetttotisakarmeil 3,184 vanové Thermomecseng pẫm. Thamermannəm, (Wet buib). Thermemata-m "TharmonietuEWE SLITS.

Lo-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

IN THE COLONIAL COURT OF ADMIRALTY OF HONGKONG.

Suit No. 8 of 1809.

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,

Against

Plaintifa

The 5. S. TORRINGTON." “HE Undersigned will' (partant to a com- THE

*mlasion for sale issued herein) Sell by Public Auction,

ON MONDAY,

the and day of May, 1893, at 13 o'clock, Noon, on board the vessel (unless previously sold by private treaty)

The Iron Screw Steamship

*#TORRINGTON,"

gross tonnage 2,098, net register tonnaga 1,562, Es she now lles aflost in Hongkong harbour, and without Cargo, Coal, and Stores,

The vessel was built by Mesus, RAYLTON & DIXON, at Middlesborough, in 1875, and classed 100 Ar at Lloyds.

Length 296 feet 3 inches, breadth gỗ fost r inch; depth as feet & faches. Is fitted with one HE Undersigned have been instructed by compound engine of 210 b.p. nominal, Bou h.p.

to Sell by Public Auction,

TO-MORROW,

the 28th April, 1892, at 11 AM, at 'Her Majesty's ORDNANCE STORES, Queen's

- Road, East.

THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT STORES, &c. BRASS, COPPER, GUN-METAL, LEAD, CARTS, LAMPS, LINEN, JUNK CANVAS, COTTON and WOOLLEN RAGS, CAST and WROUGHT IRON, STEEL, TIN, OLD FILES, CASKS, LEATHER, WAGONS, &c.

Also

A QUANTITY OF

WORN OUT CLOTHING, TERMS OF SALE-Cash on delivery in and errors of description at purchasers risk on Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7. All faults the fall of the hammer. All Lote to be cleand within 48 hours. Jangan

in 1874, diameter of cylinders h.p. 38'; l.p. 73k. Stroke of piston 36.

Two cylindrical multitabular Iron Bollers built by RICHARDSON of Hartlepool in 1875. Work ing pressure 65. Retabed in 1891.

The englues and bollens were put in thorough repair and passed survey in Hongkong la February, 1892.

She has a collision bulkhead, and. 5 water- tight compartments.

Total deadweight capacity, bunkers excluded, say Rice or Goal 2,500 tons.

Accommodation for 40 First Class and Second Class passenger

Donkey boiler and Winches new 1886. – Sha fitted with steam stearing gear, and has electric wires throughout, also condenser,

wharf at A steam launch will leave Fedder's whe 15.45 am on the day of Sale to convey intende Ing purchasers on board the said steamship, i

By: FRA HAZELAND, A

Matthal Pre-Colonial Court of Admiralty of Hongkong. 1st April, 1893.

the Irish Hospital for Compile in his wife's

freistabe Consumptives. bed-room, will be tried at Nice, May 6th.

A large robbery in the Clony Museum turas cut to have been perpetrated by an official.

Two hundred and twenty-four wine-growers

A loan of nearly $9,000,000 is necessary, it from the Rhine region will exhibit at Chicago, is said, to cover Kaiser William's extravagances, The gas company of Paris pays the city about $4,000,000 a year and lights the streets and public bolldings at cost

A bag containing gulneas, hall-guiness and. foreign coins was found the other day in the family rule at Stanes Cemetery, Ireland, by a gentleman named Rogan. It is not reported whether the board was secreted by a miserly ancestor or not. The coins are heavy enough and sure enough to bring in market the sum of

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

Auctioneers.

[467 Hongkong, 27th April ̈ Bos

DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, A

LIMITED.

The Naniding Viceroy arrived at Yangchow ng khai is fertile, and needs a railway to on the afternoon of the 18th instant and was to i Carry away the tobacco, cotton, salt, etc. There review the forces there on the following day, is not much rice grown, but an important item le the bark of a species of tree which is mixed with He would then proceed to Taingkangpu betel nut. What surprised me considerably in those States was to see the extent of the Siamese influence; there were Commissioners everywhere apparently administering the Government very satisfactorily. The peuple seemed to have heard of Bangkok, but bad no idea where it was situated, I went with Prince Prachack from Korat 10 Noog-khal, and from there to Wien-sac, the most Interesting spot I visited. It was formerly a waited town, bat decayed after the rebellion in 1827. It is now reviving, however, the ten dency among the people in the provinces being to relato. Returning to Nong-khai, I eat off an the 4th January down the Mekong on a 600 or for mulle Journey to Saigon. I had a double boat, some six feet long, which got swamped about the second day after I started. The boatmen dived for my guns and papers, but A lot of photographs that I had taken

A feeding tank at the works of the Canton were spoilt. Although there was

pleaty

Electric Light Company exploded a short time water my VOTARO down the delayed very much by the frequent rapida Iago, and broke down the walls of the building had to leave the beat and go overland to Ubon Two persons who were in the room were badly on that account. Ubon I found a very thriving the hospital for treatment.

scalded and bruised, and had to be conveyed to its Governor, Phys Rachasena, being i energetic and progressive nobleman. thoroughly Mudio, and a printing-press there, and the vernor had also, a couple of fair-sized steam-who styled themselves generals were taken alive, launches on the river, the Maus. They were and a great number of others were dead on the twin-screw borts, and had been carried field. The chief, who has occupied fortified overland to the siver the same way that post in the mountains, ir still holding out with

The Statesman's Year Book." published by I had come. They can only run between his few faithful followers. Owing to the long May and November, but they ex-distance that must to be traveried and the pos- Macmillan & Co, shows that there are 386,676 tremely useful, as they run to Korat in sible mishaps that might occur, the Governor uninhabited houses in England and Wales... about four days, whereas the bullock-carts General ordered the captured chiefs to be The Government Labor Buress at Melboumentar Wilisch, a Berlin shop-keeper," was

SPECIAL NOTICE used by the Chinese traders take quite three executed at the place where they were kept in has found work for 1,500 men who were out of

employment. There are still 1,300 men idle. fined $20 by a police court weeks to do the journey. Post-offices were being custody, instead of taking them to the capital.

Emperor William requires whoever goes to having called a telephone girl who keeps him on sale at the Hongkong and Victoria THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH *-will- opened along the Mekong by an official sent by Prince Prachack, who accompanied me part of The Chi-kou-are, at Tientsin, which was des- the German East African Colony to obligate waiting fifteen minutes à miserable, brazen-

way, but they will only be of me to the troyed by fire on the 4th fast, was one of the himself not to write a line to any European faced woman.The prosecution asked that he Hotels, opposite the Hongkong Club, and xi Blamero officials for a long time. I did not go oldest buildings in the empire- and a relic of the far from the river anywhere except near Ubon, pasts It was erected in the Han dynasty and reproduce at the World's Fair, the versel Santa

It is stated that the Spanish Government will only $1, but the police court held this Padder's Wharf, EVERY EVENING from 5:30 to

penalty to be too mid, asislephonegitis nonded 7.30 o'clock. faut enquiries elicited the fact that the population has been kept in repair since the Tang dynasty Maris, in which Columbus made his French Was Department has taken steps toward the call rate as centa, ca

pecial protection from next slege of Faris the on the Oflen will be charged

RICHTEN CENTS. three bad years, and everywhere there is dit Formerly some priests were installed within Iis discovery the original edition of "Pickwick the construction of `in Immerseʼestabilahment was extremely aparac and poor. They have had Conditions Improved as I got down to Baac, walls to perform their sacerdotal functions, bat

-Advertisers are reminded that the Hongkong though there is very very little produce | upon it being discovered that, they, were not given by Dickens to Macready has been sold | in the elly for the preservation of meas by freta: Telegradă has by far the largest circalation of

Similar restablishments on a smaller scales to export, and therefors no means of purchasing were expelled and afterwards parts of the Tast the late James McHenry's library for twenty-mal belicased to the fores encircling the my glass newspaper published in the Far

six gal

I guineas. temple were appro riated to collegiate uses. that M. Macey opened a couple of years The grand Hail of the Temple being chledy of suppressing play. Di Sklavin hick con from a central station operated

Austria's Emperor, has made sensation by Capital The cold air it be supplied to all Eut THIS 18 GUARANTEED. Termin

application. the Comptoir Françait, long) closed. Even

certain court ladies es planted

places

In the recent engagements between the troops

A movement is on foot for the harmonising of manufacture and sale of beer,

There was actually a daw-mill, a photogta andthe rebels at Toftashan, sevèral rebal leaders the laws of Bavaria and Prussia regulating the e, managers of the Paris theatres havQ |

kowever, European manufactures saw

Aro

strictly keeping the regulations of the order, they

the store

Austria will make a fine exhibit of glass, parcelain, bronze, leather, arilatic iron and cablest work at the World's Fair.

paper.

copy of

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combined. First, they seels protection against the excessive control of the State. Then the scala of fcés established by the Society of Authors, by which every dramatist receives in per cent upon the gross receipts of a play and a hundred france worth of places at every per

in unbearable.

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Adwn towards Bassac I found the places marked, solid masonry, was not burnt down, PAVADU | "tained suggestive allusions that are resented by new compressed air system, and Hongkong, 14th October, 1891,

on the map only consisting of about a hundred families, living in stap huts, and growing barely Anough to support themselves, At Khong I saw the French leam-launch Argaz İslög high and dry propped up among the rocks of the rapide, andwith only a native crew on board There If chance of her getting through this year beard she has passed the worst parts. Beyond thing and a few salaatonaries at Ubow and elses

An audacious member of the Kelas Hut has The wives of the German Minister, the British about to go to London Incognita to find

for some time been sojourning in. Amoy and 'Chargé d'Affaires and the Wurtemburg Minister making his living by telling medicines in St. Petersburg are Americans. A pretty fair and giving pugilite exhibitions He has a diplomatic team for one town, fit along been passing himself of sa a veteran and A new letter card has just been fassed by man of high official rack la the yoy the British Postofice. The idea is to make it ober day he dorned himself with a bine button possible to send short notes without the publicity and a pénoneke's leather and went to call upon of a post card and less cost than's lesser

Paris damas announce that Queen Natalle pubiliber for her, themoirs In Berlin Vienes her effects to this end wareh futile by theories expected to give sono dedith of Mura's less lis, and of asda nekarton

is that Vita to entertain him for a

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