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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1892.

We are informed by the Agent of the Messageries.had gone on this year its business was consider Maritimes Co. that the Company's steamer ably in excess of that for the same period

·Sagkaliem, with the next French mail, left Stoga of 189, pore for this port at 6 pm, to-day, and may be That concluded the business of the meeting. expected on or about the 17th inst.

THI N. C. Daily News of the 6th inst, reporta that a Chiarse-owned locks, the Yuanial, hat

been lost on the Ruggeds. Asoon as possible hows was forwarded to Shanghai ofthe accident and the tugboat Fukles went out to render assistance. She found the wreck and took four fishing boats, laden with kerosene and other cargo, to Ningpa from the wreck, and returned with and bet forcin to take the rest of the cargo but when the Faåler got back the locha had entirely disappeared, and may be adrlik.

THE "ZAMBESI” CASE.

At the Magistrary today before Mr. Hastings, Assistant Polire Magistrale, George J. Edwards, master, and J. L Mattock chief officer of the steamship Zambesi were charged with unlawfully assalting and unlawfully imprison ng Tokochi Yonex on that vessel on the 4th and 5th Feb. M. Hastings (Messrs. Woman and Deacon)

appeared for the prosecutton. The Japanese Consul was fovited to take a seat on the bench. Defendants pleaded not guilty.

Takochi Yonezo suld that he was a barber. THE E. and A. Co.'s Australian liner Catterikun About 5th January he and Nakamura Masami- and her genial skipper, Captain-Neil-Shannon,--chi stowed away on board the Zombeaf at Kobe, are willl as popular with the travelling public as Four days out, the carpenter discovered them ever, as is evidenced by the large number of and took them on deck to the chief officer. Wit satisfaction expressed by those who arrived here from the Celonies in the good old ship this morning. On leaving Sydney she was clammed with passengers, and the fact that everyone of them is struck with the seagoing quiltles of the vessel and the marked courtesy of the commander and his officers speaks volumes. for the efficiency of the E. and A. Co's service. A number of the passengers are going on with the Catterthun to spend a portion of their holiday In the picturesque hills and dales of Dai Nippon:

A bili has been passed by the Legis tive Assembly of Prince Edward Island to abolish the Legislative Council and constitute an Assembly of 30 members, half of whom are to be elected by universal suffrage and half by the

property franchise.

In Prince Edward Island, a province of the Dominion of Canada, the present Parliament consists of a Legislative Council of 13 members, who are elected by the people, and a House of Assembly of 30 members. The province bas four seats in the Domialen Senate and seven in the House of Commons,Ed.)

Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons last night that a difficulty of the gravest kind lies in the way of every State pension scheme that has been proposed.

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Great Britain and France bave renewed the modus vivendi between the two nations in connection with the Newfoundland fisheries for the present setson.

It

is reported that a French expedition to the

been massacred.

H

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE,

(From Masses. Cea. Pulcinae & Co. Stagister.)

Today,

for compulsory purchase, was rejected by a ¦ NEWS BY THE "AMERICAN MAIL.. majority of 42 votes

Major-General Herbert, C.B., the commandant The Occidental & Oriental Co's steamship of the Canadian Millds, reports that the of Gaelic, Capt. Pearce, with the Apperican malls. ation of the Militia is deplorable, and the of April 16th, arrived in harbour this morning, the arms are of an obsolete pattern. Farsonnel of the force, however, ls good. The For the subjoined telegrams we are indebted to Dominion, he says, is without a single heary our San Francisco exchanges: modern gun, and large portion of the armament provided by England is useless.

The Ameer of Afghanistan, das warned the Afghan chiefs against the wiles of Russia, and declares that the safety of the country lies in its friendship with Great Britain.

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The Canadian House of Commons has rejected the motion affirming the right of. Canada to make commercial treaties with oiber Powers

Apill reth.

The matters in dispate between the cotton- splaners and masters have been submitted to arbitration with a view to a settlement of the lockout la that trade.

LONDON. Apill 9th.

The British ship Baroda, from San Francisco November 22nd for Queenstown has arrived at Crookshaven with the loss of her starbreed bulwarks and boats. She was compelled tre

The steamer from Persia, Inden with cotton, and with 200 passengers on board, before report ed, and due at Balu, a port of Russia on the Caspian Sea, is the Alexander Walkow. Fears are entertai-ed that she has foundered and, that all on board have been lost.

jettison roa tons of her raro in the passage.

passengers she invariably carries and the general | nes, offered bim $5, which was all he had in Niger, under the leadership of M. Menard, has | Chicago is arranglag for a great. Səcialist demon- | the work has already been finished, bal it is not

A. S. WATSON & COMPANY, LTD.

The following is a full report of the ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the shore Company which was held at the Hongkong Dispensary yesterday afternoon. There were present. Mr. John D. Humphreys Chairman Messus, J. M. F. Machado, H. Humphreys Į. Grant, W. W. Sutron. E. K. Chardi7, F. Kapp. H. Crawford, E. H. Joreph, S. E. Levy, G. T. Velich, John A. Jupp, R. Isherwood, S. Kelly. G. &neling, S. S. Benjamin and A. H. Mancell,

Secretary.

been read

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The intimation convening the meeting havlug, The Chairman said he would like to know if soy gentleman bid any question to nok for he would like embody his answer la the remasks which he had to make.

Mr. Crawford asked that a reply might be given to the rumours which were in circulation as to the financial praition of the Company, and Mr. Levy asked whether the new issue was required to pay off the liabilitlen of $81,085 53 as had

the world.

Their

Mr. Dalalel has tabled a motion in the House of Commons for the creation of a labour depart ment.

The Durham coal-mine on strike at Castle Eden have wrecked the house of a colliery official by means of an ex-losive material.

The Union Bank of Austzalin has issued m City of Sydney municipal 4 per cent. loan of £150.000.

The minimum.is fixed at 99, and tenders are to be received up to the 13th Instant.

April 7th.

Sir Richard E. Webster. Q.C. Attorney General, in reply to a question asked in the House of Commons, stated that Deeming would only be brought to England in the vent of the acquittal upon the charge laid against him in Melbourne,

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Carl Auguste Sampson, known as the strong man? having been convicted of the theft of diamonds valued at £1,000 the property of Margaret Bernstein, was in-day sentenced to 12 month' imprisonment. The Treasury refused Mad me Bernstein permission to withdraw the

charge.

The Board of Trade returns for the past month show that the Imports into the United Kingdom have increased £1400000, while the exports have decreased to the value of £2,00000.

The chief officer said It was not

They were enough, and made them work.

He did not take the $5 firm willing to work, them. Witness did not see the captain at that time. That day was Sunday, so they did not commence work until net day. Then they helped in washing decks and scrubbing brass and from work in the engine room. They arrived la Honkong on the 4th or 5th of February. When nearing the port, both men were put in the store-form by the chief officer. They were locked in. He give them no reason for doing 10. They were kept foar days in the store-room. They did not try to get out. Witness asked the.

Her Majesty the Queen has given an audience storekeeper to let them out and he replied that he to several French veterans of the Crimean War. was very sorry, but he was ordered to keep them

The Admiralty has declined to reconsider its locked up, and his wages world be stopped If he let them go away, Two days before the sleamescision respecting the command of the Queens

laod gunboat Gayundoh being assumed for short was to leave, they were taken aft and put into periods by the efficers of the Australian Auxiliary a room next the captain's cabin, with bandcoffs

Squadron. on their wrist. Witness was secured by his left hand to the niher man's right hand, his was done after they were taken to the room af. The chief oficer did it, nobody else being present. It was about 5 pm. The room was about six feet square, with no light at all. Next mening, about seven o'clock, they were feeling almost suffocated, when the chief officer came and opened the door. They asked to be let out, and he took them down to the store-com again. Witness was freed from his Irons on the way down, and then again ironed. At six pm the same day the chief officer came to the store-room and ironed their feet, witness' left to the other man's right, besides the irons already on hands. A Japanese Lamp trimmer, Nakayama, was present, and the captain was just outside, and saw all that took place. They were locked Ein Pasha has made a request to the in the more-room and left for the night. Shortly German Government that it should regard After midnight, groping about the store-room, Wadelal, his old station in the Equatorial The Chairmen in reply said-Gentlemen they found an iron pin with which they broke provi ce, as outside the British sphere of influence before asking you to confirm the report and states the link connecting their bandcuffs and 1 ke-In Africa, so that he may be allowed to exeit ment of accounts which have been presented to wire the leg chains, leaving them free, though, Authority in the country. you, I will make a few remarks, in the course the loose" bracelets were still on them. Then of which 1 will refer to the rumours that have they forced the door open and get away. They been brought in my notice by the shareholders, ellobed through the ports of the 'tween and concerning which I was informed I would decks and jumped into the water be asked questions at this meeting. A ramour supported himself by a piece of board picked up has been in circulation in respect of $86,848.891 in the ship, and t led to swim to the nearest set down as due by our customers, which is said steamer. They kept ingether as long as possible, to be unduly large for a business like ours. but at last witness missed bis compar, asked one of our shareholders, Mr. Crawford, as Witness got to another steamer and climbed un lo this, and he was surprised at the smallness of the cable chain; The crew on this ship torned the amount, which represents reslly about two him aut again, probably taking him for a thief months' becking, and curs, it must be remem-He awam off to another steamer and called out bered, is a credit business. This rumour has been widely circulated by a few persons who are for help, and was taken on board and well treated. Next morning the Water Police came not bareholders in the Company, but as you on board and tok him to the station, will are from the report due provision has been made for all had bnd doubtful debts, and the correctness of th's 'atement of accounts vouched for by myself as your General Manager and by the auditor. Yet it has been rumoured in the Colony that this amount $86.000 odd is mostly made up of bad and doubtful debts. All that I will say of the persons circolating these rumours, knowing them to be fakte, that 7 would rather have their bad word than their good. words The total or gross amount of our "bills of parcels account is $123,261.01, of which, during period of many years, $36 412.10 has been written off to the debit of profit and loss absolutely. The full amount, however, as stated, la stili abown in our trade ledgers, and our accounts against the people still owing are still kept open fracas la reported to have taken place in the for the sake of convenience and to prevent their National Sporting Clab, London, when Charlie being supplied with more goods, if after a lapse Mitchell, the pugilist, assaulted Mr. Piesse, of two years, they should endeavour to oblala

been rumoured ?

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Each

At this stage the case was remanded until so a.m. to-morrow ;. bail, in two sureties of $350

NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL

The Eastern and Australian Co.'s steamship Callerthus, Capt. Neil Shannon, arrived from Sydney, ea ports of call, late last night,. We

are indebted for the subjoined telegrams to our Australian exchanges :--

LONDON, April 5th.

April 8th,

A per cent. loan of £100,000 has been floated on the London market by the Govern- ment of Trinidad. The amount of the lead was subcribed two fold, and the average price was

102 35.9.

Advices have been received in Faris from Senegal, to the effect that the position of Colonel Humber's Fxpedition In French Soudan i desperate, the expedition being neither able to

retient nor to advance.

Major-General Bibbage a prominent share holder of the Bank of South Australis, recome mends the voluntary liquidation of that bank

The French Chamber of D patles has voted 3,250,000 for the representation of France at

Chicago Exbiblion,

the

The German section of the Socialist party in

stration to take place in that city on May Day, and has issued circular which is decidedly -anarchist in tone.

Thiememakaing xam. (Wat bulb) Des The meetmed K. fda....... Thartacola berma 1,4%.

The mean qua vida salīmīgasm Inwar wikiḥ,

To-day's Advertisements.

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Sir Arthur Sullivan's illness will probably retard for a long time the new comic opera úpon which he has been engaged. Some portion of at all improbable that the work may have to be abandoned entirely. The composer's Illness THE Company's Steamshly

DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW; AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

"NAMOA,"

At a meeting of shareholders of the Bank off of a more serious nature than has up to the

present been indicated.

Captain Roach, will be despatched tor the above. The Brisah sailing ship Dundeenman, Captain | Ports, on THURSDAY, the 12th instant, at scheme of absorption into the Union Bank of South Australia it was resolved to confirm the

Potter, which left Tacoma October 13th for Noon. Australia.

Liverpool, reached Queenstown to-day after a voyage of 188 days, during the latter part of which the crew suffered frightlally from scurvy,

LATER.

The meeting of shareholders of the Bank of South Australia, was of a stormy character, Meirs. J. W. Arbuthnot, Charles Hirt, and Rigby were elected liquidators. A proposal was Eubmitted to elect a committee of shareholders to assist the liquidators, hat the motion was rejected

Mr. Arbuthnot, replying to questions, sald that he thought that it would be the first duty of the liquidators to form an assets company. The Union Bank reserved the right to impose a call upon shareholders of the Bank of South Australis if necessary.

April rath,

The French Chamber of Deputies has voted 3000.000 francs for the purpose of carrying ou operations in Dahomey, in West Africa.

The Anarchists have set fire to houses In many parts of Austria. One hundred tenements were burned to the ground at Leonfelden. The Anarchists stole a chest of dynamite from a dynamite factory in Lawar Austria,

France bas agreed to a renewal of the modus vivendi with England, in regard to the New-. foundland lobster fisheiles.

Five of the crew were in a dying condition when the veinel sailed into Queenstown and the situation became known to the authorities, The sickness of the five men threw all the work on the remaining ones who were able to be on duty, and the latter were fast run. ning down when the vessel get inte port,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, toth May, 1892.

ises

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

FOR KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

A six days' go-as-you-please roller-skating THE Company's Steamship tae, which began on Monday list, was finished this evening amid intense excitement. The contest resulted in a victory for Snowden, the American champion.

NOTES FROM Chinese papers.

"MIIKE MARU," Captain J. B. Macmillan, will be despatched for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 19th instant

For Freight or Passage, apply to.

GEO. R. STEVENS & Co.

Agents, Hongkong, rath May, 1893,

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OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM-, SHIP COMPANY,

The dead and decomposed bodies of the vast number of Chanyang prople who fell victims to the brigands who infested that part last winter, now present a most offensive sight. The coun try round is Iltemlly strewn with hones and carcases. To put these unsightly objects out of Tom Mann has been defeated by Mr. Ander-view, and to prevent the growth of disease germs, Engineers. Een for the secretaryship of the Society of Geneo have the remains removed and hurled CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

April 13th.

The warrant for the arrest of Deeming applied for, by te Public Prosecutor at Widnew in Lancashire, has been granted by the Bench.

Dinitron floods are reported from places la the State of Tennessee (U.S.A.), and great loss of ille and destruction of property have been thus caused.

Two bombs have been found in a goods train travelling in the Grand Duchy of Luxemborg.

A lighted bob has been discovered in the School of Architecture, Madrid.

A serious confl ct has taken place at Wyoming, in the United States, between a gang of cattle thieves and the police, respiring in the loss of 46

liveL

The police endeavoured to arrest several of the cattle thieves, and in a fight which ensued 28 of the latter were killed. Eighteen police also lost their lives in the encounter.

Her Majesty the Queen, who recently amived at Hyeres, in the South of France, has visited Tenlos

to

The General has also promised to defray the expenses attending this benevolent undertaking

A certain expltullut has Intely received sanction from the authorities to prospect and develop the copper mines in the Talangwu district, Kuangai The mineral, wexith-of both Kuangrang, and Kunigai is known in be very extensive, but owing to the superstition of the people who believe that the fingrind of the land would be apolled, such undertakings have heretofors been. Impossible. In this case the authoriiles are on. the side of the merchant and have declared that no evil result will attend the unearthing of the buried treasures.

NOTICE.

The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to sand in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to taka- Immediate delivery of their Goods from along.. side.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

J. S. VAN BUREN,

Agent, Hongkong, roth May, 1997.

NOTICE..

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA.

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HAVE This Day been appointed MANAGER It is rumoured that a certain expectant official Hongkong. Branch of the above of Canton has been hacked 10 death by a

named Firm. number of people who had: grievance

Y. FUKUHARA. #galost him. The official in question had made

Hongkong, toth May, 1802. himself, odious to unfortunate people who came under his rule on more than one occasion, of #l

TO LET. by tordinate sequeslog" and injustice of a

riding in his chale when

has ceded to that of the United States, upon House of Commons that there will be a dissolu. | Kinds. The official was of excited men, who de Praya East, on Marine Lot No. 42.

The Government of the Republic of Uruguay purchase by the 1 tter, the island of Liberiad, near Monte Video, the capital, which the naval uthorities of the United States contemplate -converting futo x coaling station.

A party of Pallah Anarchista bave mordered Bishop Poniaskl The murderers were pursued, and, in endeavoring to make good the scape two of the criminals were shot by the police. Two others of the Anarchists then committed suicide.

The Daily News announces that a general impression prevails amongst members of the tion el Parliament about the end of May or the beginning of fane, and that the general elections will take place at the end of June.

A lock-out of 50,000 operatives engaged in the production of cotton and woollen yarns is con- eldered to be inevitable. It is possible that 7000 weavers will also be affected by the lock

out.'

he encountered a

band

manded his blood to satisfy their long cherished glevance. The party dragged him out of his chair and set to work with a vengeance, backing him right and left until scores of wounds had the law. The district profect, on hearing this bren Jadicted up the unjust administrator of news, Immediately despatched men to the place to arrest the guilty parties, hot when the runners threatened to serve the district prefect in a reached the place the people restated them and similar way. The occurrence has been reported to the high authorities.

WO Large, Dry, and Spacious GODOWNS,

Apply to

N. MODY & Co.

(501

Hongkong, 10th May, 1802

SPECIAL NOTICE.

HE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

be on sale at the Hongkong and Victoria

Pedder's Wharf, EVERY EVENDIO from 5:30 to Hotels, opposite the Hongkong Club, and at 7.30 o'clock.

them. The amanot which is put in the report serious that the Government has undertaken to make commercial treaties with foreign Powers of anarchist and labour disturbances on Mayday Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting the usual rate--25 cents,

is absolutely nett. It may be looked upon practically as cash, for the great bulk of it is collectable within two months from the end of the year. I may say that in point of fact, for the first four months our collections on bills at parcels account are nearly equal to double the amount given as due by customers at the end of the year. I will next refer to the question of the

A plague of mice la Greece has become so make inquiries with the view of communicating to the mice the bacillus of typhus,

Is paper on Inebriety read, before the Medical Society of London, Dr. Usher announced the discovery of pathological changes in the blood, and the alteration of appearance of the red and white corpuscles, denoting degeneration, He advocated as a remedy manganate of iron

and M. Pasteur,

Incendiary fires are taking place in Vienna. They are attributed generally to the work of the Anarchist party..

In the Canadian House of Commons the motion affirming the right of the Dominion to was submitted and rejected, The Hon. George E. Foster, Minister of Finance in the Canadian Government, opposed the proposition on the ground that it was equivalent to an assertion of independence.

Four directors of the Cambrian Railway Company have been summoned to the bar of the House of Commons, and admonished by the

dent.

fatelligence has reached Paris to the effect that a French expedition in West Africa has been attacked and repulsed by the natives, The natives captured four Freech officers and 81 native troops attached to the expedition.

Stringent measures are being adopted all over Europe, and also in America, for the suppression THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of Pure A dyasmite bomb was exploded in Valencia, Diseases is shove by the accompanying state- The French Court has decided that Gustavement from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, Aust, Spain, no damage was done, Matthies, who was believed to be the accom. Having been a great sufferer from pulmonary plice of Ravachel, the leader of the Paris attacks and gradeally wasting away for the past that the above medicine has given me great plosiona in Paris, Anarchists, was tunccent of the dynamite ex-two years, it affords me great pleasure to testify From St. Petersborg it is reported that several rellef, and cheerfully recommend it to all suffer Habilities of the Company. It has been pointed | and gold. He intends to Interview Dr. Koch Speaker for a breach of privilege in dismissing Russian generals have received orders to join would say that it is very pleasant to take." Any ing in a aftollar way to myself. In addition I

out to me that rumours have been circulating

Ravachel, leader of the anarchists in Paste & servant in the employ of the company for their troops on the German fronties,

giving

evidence before a Parlamentary com. La Nacies, the principal daily paper of Chemist can supply it. A. S. Watson & Co. that the Company is largely in debt, and that

Buenos Ayres, condemns the growing desire of (Limited), agents in Hongkong and Chios. the increase of caplint which was unanimously freely explains to the police the anarchist mitte.

Count von Caprivi, the Chancellor of the the people of the Argentine Repablic to repudiate Advi voied at a meeting of the shareholders about a procedure. He has also communicated a recipe year ago and confirmed robar quently, and which I for precaring an explosive three times as power. German Empire, is visiting Carlsbad for medical their European debts and, to depend upon the

treatment. His visit is regarded as an indication United States for protection, thep stated to berequired forthepurpose of increas-ful dynamite.

The police have seized a case of dynamite of his resignation of the Chancellorship at an

The mill owners in the west of Scotland have CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL the stock of the Campany and for the dere- ing lepraent of new business, that this money has cartridges consigned to Mathieu, Ravachal's early dare lo consequence of a dispute with given notice to their employds that they intend Herr voo Bachlicher, Secretary of State for the to reduce wages at the rate of from 10 to 15 per. been called up now after the lapse of a year to Heatenant, who has not yet been arrested.

The death is announced of Robert Berming Interfor." meet financial difficulties! It is almost unneces sary to go into the question, but I will do so. ham Clements, fourth Earl of Leitrim, aged 45 It stands to reason that your accounts having yearn been audited by a responsible official of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, if such a thing is the case it would be impossible etterly Impossible for any shareholder to finance the amount of his abarca at the Bank, (Applecie) The information, would be known to him in detail, and it would be known to him about a fortnight ago. Now, about there liabilities: They are set down here at $81,085 53. That is in round numbers $10,000 more than at the end of the year before. Against this it will be seen

Mr. Heary Matthews, QC., Home Secretary, that your stock is increased by $15.000, so that in reality your outstanding debt has been practically stated in the House of Commons to-day that, if decreased by $15,000. The amount so far from diplomatic remonstrance falled to prevent the belag a large one and I believe it is much less anarchista expelled from other countrice from at the present moment(bear, hear) is a very coming to Great Britain, the Government would small one if you consider the area which this buslask for increased powers of exclusion in Hartie, ness covers and a portion of the money is on mortgage which existed in my time, (when the pool are forming a union. They demand shorter business belonged to me)of $80,000 on the Victoria hours of labour and a weekly bali-holiday. They Exchange. The rest is a merely nominal sum. marched through the town to-day, carrying the

reemblems of their calling. Every man of business mat kota London, for

must owo money. In Since, accounts met dos must be

weekly

concern

Dr. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, to-day opened at White chapel, London, a fine art exhibition, which it is intended to open on Sundays,

The masters intend to lock-out about 15,000 Staffordshire pottery bands.

Sir James Fergusson, Postmaster-General, made reference in the House of Commons last. The Oxford crew, who defeated Cambridge at the University boat-race last Saturday, have night to the recent rapid passage of the received a telegram from the Emperor William rejoiced Messageries steamer Polynesian from Australia of Germany, to which he states that be to Marseilles. He said it was very undesirable to sacrifice regularity In the mall service la order to secure an occasional quicker transil Her Majesty's Government could not undertake ments,

It is reported that the assassin of Dr. to make a change la the existing mall being able to control any outbreak

Valcovitch, the Balgarian diplomatic agent in Constantinople, has been arrested through the the treachery of an accomplice. The sass[A is a man named Merdjan."..

The domestic

servants

Mr. J. A. Fronde, the historian, has been appointed to succeed the late Professor E. A. Werman as Regius Professor of Molas Hicy

the University of Oxford,

at

pay day, and they expect statements of the amounts they have to pay presented to them twe Mr. Adger, Liberat member of the Canadian or three days before handed. Here, la Hongkong, House of Commons, proposes to impeach Sir A, nobody has ever sent in an account on our pay P. Caron, Minister of Militia, for corruption day-the sgth of the month which, if due, has Sir A. P. Caron denies the charge,

Mr. A.G. Blair, Attorney-General and Fremtar not been paid. (Hear, hear). The total amount,

[The Polynesian left Sydney on February 26th and arrived at Marselles on March 29th, making the run in 32 days, inclusive of all stoppages.-EL]

April 9th.

醬

The German Government has refused to res cognize the claims put forward by Emla Pasta to the effect that it should regard Wadelal, his old station in the Equatorial Province, as out side the British apkere of influence in Africa, so that he might be allowed to exercise authority in the country.

The Democrats, fearing that the Republican success at Rhode Island would involve the capture of the New England States, are likely to revive Bland's Bliver Bill in the House of Representatives, with a view of conciliating the farmers of the Western States, and thereby securing the agilcutirat vore

REGISTER.:-"

9th May, 1897.--Al·4 pm;

*STATION.

Merch

T

Shanghai

Applega

at their victory.

Reports from all parts of Europe show that great activity, is being generally displaved by the Anarchisis. The police have, however special strangements, and are confident of Hunot, the chief of the Spanish Anarchista, Amer... who is under arrest, has confersed that plots are in existence to place explosive bombs in the holy water in churches throughout Spalo, It being known that la an explosive agent.

water Sir Michael E. Hicks Beach, President of the Board of Trade, has expressed the opinion that t the decrease in the exports from Great Britain anti is due to diminished confidence on the part of British merchante in the financial soundness of certain foreign countries, donde

De Glen, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, la seriously ill from levar, at

Thirty dynamite cartridges have been, found

·lise at Barcelona, In' in-place on the

the milway Spai

A bomb has been found on an elevated railroad Locendiaries has been discovered in Brooklyn. in New York, and gang of anarchists and The city of Sydney loan of a quarter of a The Afghans are boycotting the railway stations in the Khojak district, on the Transmillion, has been successfully doxted in London

Lord Carington In the course" of "a" sproch" displan rallway,

An epidemic of influenza' has begun among delivered last night paid that it was worth taking journey to Australis if only to note the absence Mr. Patrick Egan, United States

If you deduct the sum I have just stated, so of New Brunswick, offers to submit to a select the horses employed in London, berader in of clius hazreda and religious prejudices there, th

far from being large la excoodingira mall, committee the charges of conuption against

a great many of our accounts are himself.

and

pald on fourteen days' credit for the sake of

The Admiralty Bas abandoned its claim

that

Chill, has declined to accept the vacant post of American Minister in Paris, In succession to Mr. Whitelaw Reld, who lately resigned. Mre Egan has also declined the American Embassy in China. ANYAGAD

Tho call minern of South Wales and Mon

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