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Mr. Whitehead moved and Dr. Ho. Kal seconded that counsel be heard on the second rending.

The Colonial Secretary raised a point of order, Counsel could only be heard where Individual Interests were peculiarly affected.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1892.

Up to 4 pm. to-day the police had already picked up 13 dend bedies out of the water, and to my knowledge many others were taken out by the people, and scores-possibly hundreds were seriously hurt. A rough estimate of the damage done to property showers that it cannot far above that figure.

The French Government ban 'rosvived' to

Initiate prosecutione against Monseigneur Vigas, Archbishop of Avigrion, and against the Bishops of Montpeller, Nimes, Valence, and Vivien, all Eve prelates having been charged with having issued political pastorals,

His Excellency ruled that though the original / be mach under $20,000, and is in all probably detained by the Turkish police on the pretext, large number have not only lost all their

Fraya Reclamation Bill affected suck Interests, this, as simply providing a method for distribut», ing compensation, did not, and therefore standing order no. 52, allowing counsel to appear, did not apply. Motion cut of order.

ADJOURNMENT.

The Council then adjourned until June 6th.

THE WEE MAN “TOSH”

(With apologies to the Shade of the late Thomas Hood, Esq.)

[Specially Dedicated to the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., the Indo-Chins S. N. Co, the China Merchants Co., the Eastern and Australian 5. S. Co., the China and Manila Co., the China Sugar Refining Co., and the late lamented-Tok Ket, owner of the steamship, Pasig.]

Load laughed the passenger 1 a laugh As loud is giant's roar :

"At first my name was Little Mac,

'Tis now MacEdwin Mohr I

"For I bave swallowed bit by bit

The chow you put before me,.

And I have drunk your offered drinks-- Why now complain and bore me? "And now that I have got from you

The things I mostly wanted, Come, tip your fists and say so long,' I'll take 'God speed' for granted."

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do sat cessarily micrse the optalana expressed by Correspondenta ka this column,

RIVER STEAMERS,

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TO THE Korran of the "Hongkong TelegrAPE,” SIR,-1 shall be greatly obliged if you will kindly allow me space in your valuable paper for this letter, which is of considerable loterest to the Chinese community.

from Canton on

I was a passenger by the steamer Fatihan anton on Saturday night, and being under the impresilon that we could get meals on board at any time, several of my friends and myself took only a little food before going on board the steamer.

About 9 o'clock we ordered som "chow" from the steward but regretted to find that we could not get any, being told that it is * rule on board that no meals can be supplied to Chinese passenger after 8 o'clock at night. So

The city and the whole litteral now presents sad and heart-rending aspect-streets, roads, beach, and harbour covered with masser af dibris of all kinds, thousands of houses and boats and vehicles of all soris practically anathilated, and bodies of dead and wounded here and there, besides the pour ruined creatures rendered home less and destitute with such terrible suddenness. Truly it was an awful sight, while the groans of the wounded and dying, and the lamentations of the others, deepened the horror that was in the hearts of all.

H. E. the Governor and all his staff at once

of

tumed out, and in a remarkably short space time the water and land police, aided by a party of blue-jackets, were hard at work on their errand of mercy.

Those who saw the waterspout a few moments before it broke say that it looked like a big column of mist, reaching to the clouds, of grayilas

The Bulgarian sudent Kusheleff, who was that they intended to examine bim la connection with the murder of Dr. Valcovitch, has been relcaacd. :

The cotton-spinners, who were locked out in consequence of a dispute between the members of the Cotton Master's Federation and their employees, are partially resuming work.

The Republican conventions in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts

and Massachusetts have declared against the Lord Salisbury bas refused to concede the claim made by Canada to fix discriminating duties against England or to favour panicular colonies. He en Belgians and Germany mercial treaties with

By a fire in a large building in St. Petersburg Dine other dwellers in the premises are at present pasons were burned to death, while 15 missing.

that grest part of it is not money borrowed from the banks, but apparent profits (when every thing was "booming") that have now disap. peared.. A large number of people in Hongkong and Shanghai and elsewhere have been stripped

their

savings in cash and on paper, which sccounts for a large part of the shrinkage, and margins, which were at one time very large, bat owe money to the banks beside. But these are not losses that it is necessary for the banke to realise If their debtors are men is health and in work these debit balances will be made up sooner or later, and will be assisted when the inevitable reaction from the re

e reaction comes; and the losses wave thongkong and Shanghel Bankers have to face, including that by the defalcations of the compradore in Hongkong, will only absorb The value of the goodwill of the Bank is unques. A portion of the Reserva Fund at the worst.

same.

or ants,

All these channels are kept in perfect repair by ↑ rules. Truly, these Chinese have a genius for the officials, resident lo Yangchow, whose organised and peaceful industry which would be business is to superlatend and regulate this poorly complimented by comparison with bees enosmous traffic, and make fortunes out of the

Dredging goes on continually, and · On ̈shore, crowds were entering mod insuing willows are planted along the margin to bind from the gates of the great enclosure within the soll.

which the alt stood piled in huge stacks, Our voyage reached its limit at the " Ta-ma- Į thatched with reads. All this precious- stórs tou," a little landing place with the usual cluster comes hither, by way of the Grand Canal, from of ians and tea-shops, bill a mile from the south the extreme north-east of the province, where gate of the city. The swarm of badasds behaved fairly well, and called us "Foreign Devils only hundred times or so. When our lowdab, replying to innumerable inquiries, explained that we had not come to purchase land or prospect for gold mines, but simply to amuse ourselves, of the beads. Meanwhile, they watched our fin with very much the same sort of interest that a Gardens at feeding time. London crowd displays in the Zoological

rose to

race of aborigines, savage and strange in their habits, collect and prepare it an marsky flats forded by the sea. Having discharged their freight, the junks lay in a cargo of small wares with which they ply a lucrative peddling com- merce on their retura voyage up the Canal, pas

rosal-official character,

de la stations free in virtue of their

As everyone is aware, zult in China has from the earliest times been a Government monopoly. Some idea of its value as 'a source of revenue The afternoon came on, hot and still. The may be gathered from the fact that every plcal

We

shipped for export at Shib-erh-bui pays a Gov wondered at the Chinese moving about bare ernment duty of

Tis, 2 1,103.

and that the annual headed in the blasing sun we talked listlessly, production (as I learn on good authority, though tried to read, tried to sleep. At half past five we no exact statistics are available), must consider crawled out, imp and languid, and found it ably exceed two million picula. By a curious

meant doubtless for

The good

impaired at all, and it will undoubtedly at the thermometer in our cablu

for its earning power has not been end of the present balf-year show a fally

the amount of the available reserves, over 61 sufficient profit on working to pay the customary dividend. Considering this earning power, and

Moursund, the leader of the Radical party in milions, it is certain that the shares are intrin dlatinmly cooler on there. Within the past forty provo (like that other salt of the earth, the colour, and of semi-luminous-appearance, as if | Norway, has.committed suicide, within the pre-alcally worth 100 per cent. 'premium, which in years the river, now nearly two miles off, washed | tra officiala) is forbidden to be used in the

the centre were quite bright. We all sincerely trust that you escaped it in Hongkong, and if it met any vessels at sex, all we can say is

"God help them,"

· FURTHER FARTICULARS.

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Captain A. Quintal of the Perseverance bas. kindly favoured us with the following particulars of his unpleasant experiences while at anchor at Macao "We arrived at Macão st 21,30 1,02 yesterday and half an hour later, while I was getting my tiffin below, bearing the wind howling round the rigging and notic ing the vessel heel over to an alarming extent I rushed on deck and saw that tornado bad torn away our awnings, capsized a crowd of sampan and precipitated a number of our passengers isin the river, while trader who was getting ashore with his baggage was blown clean oOTAT the engine-room sky light and fell through on top of the bollers. He was soon rescued none the worse for his abrupt introduction to the "fire room. It was impossible to do anything except steady the ship as well av passible by bringing her head on to the wind and steaming ahead, Every cargo-bost and sampan alongside at the time turned over inmediately. Strange to say the Heungsion which was lying at the wharf was struck only on the port side by the wind, and had a litle of her paint-work scratched by flying debris.. Tornado, took from 4 to 5 minutes to pass over the Perseveran4 and seemed to cover only about 60 to 70 feet We got back to Hongkong at 7 p.m. yesterday, The Kwang-me and Wing-yuen escaped the outside owing to the weather being thick, the rain coming down in torrents."

cincts of the Norwegian Parliament,

The Pall Mall Gasette, in commenting on the results of the general elections in Victoria, states that the Tory re-action in Victoria is due to a desire to reassure the British inverfor.-

The shocking example of the labour party in New South Wales affected the result.

The St. James Gaxatie says that it is clear that Victorians are averse to a revolution or any violent Innovation.

The Speaker ways that the labour party in Victoria thoroughly merited its defeat.

THE

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WHAT PRICE BANKS?

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI DANK, AND

THE BANK OF CHINA, JAPAN AND

• THE STRAITS.

A correspondent, who evidently knew what he was writing about, is reported in the North China Daily News of May 17th as follows:-

I bave seen your lender of the 4th inst, and deeply obliged for your courteously dispell ing the mystery of our financial depression. But your explanation of the existing crisis is almost more than the ordinary two-and-two-make-four sort of mind is able to digest all at once. There has been a loss in Hongkong and Shanghal Investments of from 20 to 30 million dollars. Much of the capital of these investments was borrowed from the banks and has never been pald back The banks have been left with portfolios full of paper which no one knows have on their books long lists of debtors who will never be able to clear off their debit balances, but whom they do not like to bring to book for fear of aggravating the crisis."

about their quotation, even in the present crisis. it is unreasonable to expect another series of losses such as those at the places our Co pondent enumerales.

salt,

The enviable post of Yen-g-din-prö, Salt Com- mimioner, estimated to be worth some 35,000 taels a year, salary and pickings, is filled by direct appointment from Peking once every six years. One important source of income to this magnate is the sale by auction of licenses (440) the salt-grounds. Each license represents Eve required to render legal all purchases made at

of the the "Ta-ma-tou." South and east

race the city de spread immense suburbs, new utterly destroyed; province. which produces it; thus the salt at lead through the green plain which is strewn Hupeh, while Kinnges derives its supply from Miles of well-paved paths that were once streets, Shih-erh-bul is exported, chiefly to Hunan and "At the last meeting of the Bank of China with grass-grown mounds of subbish. Here the province of Cheklang.

dwelt the wealthy salt commissioners and In London the Chairman explained that the Directors thought there would be a reaction in merchants who now have their seat at Yangchow, alver, but he also announced that they were An we strolled along we could trace the making provision for the worst: beginning, fates of ruined houses on either hand fact, the 7 form which our correspondent recom: Ragged clumps of mulberry orchards of mends. It is the habit of humanity when things Peach, apricot and cherry trees, neglected and are going well to be over confident and to expect and silk culture once flourished here. The iron running wild, show that great industries in fuit them to go silil better, and when they go badly, to be over-despairing, and expect them to go worse. band of the Tal-pings has wasted all. Our object bas been to show that there was no mystery about the present depression, and that there is no reason for despair. With patience and little more confidence in the future, the present crisis will pass away as others have done before, and our great local Bank will come ont alronger than ever through its trials."

As we intend in the course of a few days to devote special attention to the affairs of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, it is unnecessary at present to criticise in detall the rubbish which we have just quoted from the Shanghat morning paper in fact, we need only direct attention to threerabid assertions. The first is that the value of the Bank's good-will is go per cent of the pair capital; the second, that there lathesis. about the causes which have led to the extra- ordiary depreciation in the market value of the shares; and the third, that there is no reason for despair, as with patience and a little more con- fidence in the future the present crisis will pass AWAY

Bank will come out afronger than ever through its trial. We will not lasult the fatel- ligence of our readers by wasting time in con- traverting fallacious statements and absurd contentions which, on the face of them, bear their own condemnation.

The city walls; black with age, and crumbling into raat breaches, are costed with a dense growth of creepers and created with young trees. Around lie the traces of a magnificent system of canals, silted up and choked with reeds. We passed over the rude plank bridges that have been laid across what remains of two superb locks or floodgates, massively faced with hown stone; threaded a foul and dingy little street, and entering at the great gaune Eamern gate, climbed fis still marrive ramparts to view the city. But now came our crowning sensation, for there was no city to view nothing but a riotous growth of vegetation far and wide of hird or insect brooded over this savage scene A deatblike stillness unbroken by

by the saund One of two reed huts peeped through the tangled thickets, and a few cultivated patches of miser- ble size were visible. They might have been the clearings of primeval man. Near the west gate rose a crumbling pagoda; and in the north are still standing, the curving double roofs of a Confucian temple met the eye. We could not learn whether this had been spared by the rebels or rebuilt; most probably the latter, in which case it is pisin that a Confucian temple must be a very important possession indeed, since & city

ruins cannot afford to be without one.

hundred bags of the mineral; and armed with as many of these as he thinks the

prospects of the season will warrant his taking, the merchant sends his agents northward. Anshorementlaned, the consignment must be conveyed to Shit-erh- hul, where, having been duly examined and weighed, and the legal tax assessed, it is stored in bond to await transkiptuent.

The penalties for smuggling are severe. Ten cattles of contraband salt render a boat.llable to confiscation; and if the quantity exceeds fifty picais, the owner in addition is banished beyond the Great Wall, the heat is saws across the middle and the halves fixed upright to the mud of the river shore in farroram. In units of this, with the greatest ease in Chinklang. There are I was able to procure specimens of Klangez salt two distinct kinds, known as the Hasipel and Healnan salts respectively, from being produced in the districts north and south of the river Hual, The former is a dirty blackish powder obtained by flooding shallow fields with the sea-water, tion. The Huainan variety is gulta presentablo by comparison, occurring in little crystals of a pale amber tint. It is prepared by boiling the water is fron vats; when cool, a preparation of that extraordinary vegetable, the soap-bean, le mixed in the brine, causing a precipitation of |the crystals--a process I am not chemist enough to explain. The water is then poured off and the salt spread out in the sun to, dry. It là the best salt manufactured in China.

we had to suffer the pangs of hunger all the way tornado owing to their being obliged to anchor the real value of to-day,, They are bellaved to others have done before, and our grear | where, as we were told, a few groups of houses and scraping off the crust left on evapors.

down. It would be a great convenience to Chinese p*ssengers if meals could be served on board the Fatihan,the same zu'on' the other Canton river night boats. No doubt the passenger lists of this steamer would be greatly Increased, If such. Indulgence were allowed,

Thanking you in anticipation,

I am,

Yours faithfully,

A CHINESE PASSENGER, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1892.

MACAO.

TYPHOON AND WATKESPOUT.

CALAMITOUS CONSEQUENCES.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT.)

Macão, May zand. page of dark disaster is to be noted Another in the history of this unfortunate Colony, now surely with more than merely a foot in the grave. To-day, just as all the church belle of all the churchesin nur Holy City were posling! out the noon chimes, the place was struck by a A farious hurricane, accompanied by a water- apout, which did incalculablé damage and ren.. dered thousands destitute.

as by

Since yesterday morning the main had been pouring steadily, flooding much of the low lying land about Macao. There was no wind, but heavy clouds hang over the land, making the sky dark and dismal. Just before twelve o'clock the rain ceased suddenly, almost and the aky grew quite black worse than we have ever seen even on the wettest days. Then the wind came along the earth, with a sharp, violent crashing noise, like the exple sion of as immense bunch of crackers, or the aring

of a feu de jote, and with hardly a moment's warding the tornado war

upon us, in all Its majestic fary. The inreslauble laubing action of the tempest fully bore out the Chinese expression kual-mi-lung, "serpent with Ite tall cut off." The typhoon broke on the city from the direction of Tai-pa, and. Ko-lo-wan Islands, striking south-south-west, tearing over the Barra hills and fort opposite, wrecking every-: thing in its course. From Barra Fort, along the river bank to the Bazaar, incalculabio destres tion was wrought. Crossing the river, the tornado sirack Fakram, throwing down sum erous houses along the marginal road, and damaging every building, blocking the road and the by-ways with arbete, and causing sOCHE destruction of Ufe and limb.

The greatest sufferers from the ravages of the typhoon on shore were the salt fish dealers and corers," who number many thoussads, all poor wretches who could ill afford such losses as they have susisined. Mr. Le Caros, prominent and popular member of the Council, also suffered kasvily, and the Remedies properties were -wrecked. The verandah of Mt. Hippia's duce, mear the steamship #bart, came down all: at

with ence.

a tremendous crash. : In the river, big Junks were capsized, four

hundrede and sampans were smashed to amithereens. The damage to the shipping

Upon arrival here we learn that Capt. Quintal found himself "chucked out of his job by Mr. Ramany, an engineer who is the new manager of the Launch Company: Presumably the captain was responsible for the fosce of the wind and for the "Acts of God "—or the Devil either for that matter. His vessel got out of the wood with comparatively slight damage, but he ought to have taken her indoors and put up the shutters.

We shall have something more to say, shout the Launch Company in a day or two, mean- while, koni soit qui a mal y pense

The Macao passenger boats Kwang-mo and the launch Perseverance have gone round to Wanchai Bay; the latter to effect repairs to her deck gear, necessitated by the clean sweep made by the tornado at Macao yesterday, the former to fit new pumps in the engine-room. The Kwong-mo will probably resume running to Macao on Wednesday next, and the Pera verance a day or two later,

NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN

MAIL.

The Chica Navigation Co.'s steamer Talysas, Capt. R. Nelson, from Sydney, vis ports of call, arrived in harbour Ibis morning. For the sub- joined items of news we are indebted to our Colonial exchanges

SYDWAY, April 18th.

The Sydney Cup was rua for to-day and resulted-Stromboll, 1; Calde, 3; Highborn, 3, Twenty-two others started. Stromboli won by a bead in 3min. 310secs.

MELBOURNE, April 18th. Deeming, accused of the Windsor murder, has been examined by medical men of Melbourne, and pronounced to be perfectly aane. His line of defence will now be that he is an "Instinctive criminal.

The weather was very wet' to-day, and all holiday fixtures had to be postponed or abandoned.

The soliciter for Deeming the Windsor murderer, is applying for a postponement of the trial on the ground that he will not be able to prepare his defence by the 25th inst. also that in the present stats of public feeling the prisoner is not likely to receive an impartial trial.

A man named Michael Quiren was found murdered in his bed at Bendigo, on Tuesday morning, but there is so far no clue to the tour derer,

** THE PAHANG BOBBERF.

What does all this exactly signify to the shareholders? If one-half or one-third of the losers of the 25 millions (to take un average) cannot pay, must the Bank lose the amount of, say, ten million dollars? If so, the shares of that Bank which is generally supposed to

The Singapore Government furnished the practically monopolise the business, instead of local press with the following information on the

worth 100 per cent, premium, would be || 17th Inst, *-- about 20 per cent, discount. Which is On the roth inst. Tungku All, the Dato Gajah, absurd.

the Orang Kaya Cheno, and about 700 men You explain that the present depression is a started up the Semantan River. reaction from the previous inflation, and promise

A linie ragged crowd sean gathered about us; curious but divli, volunteering much dubious information, and exhibiting maladies of eye and skin that were wonderful to behold.

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I make no doubt the reader is growing tired The space enclosed by the walls is roughly of all this weighty and interesting information. rectangular in shape, and measures little over 1 To tell the truth, so am I; but having been at mile each way; this part, as in most Chinese the trouble of acquiring it, my conscience would towns, having been of far less importance for all not let me rest without passing, It en to some- purposes of peace than the suburbs. In more body else; and what victim so meet as the great than twenty-five years Ich'en has not recovered patient public,

which

never remembers and one whit from the effects of elvil strife, and it

a rescilea from the reaction ;" but is this founded killed one of the song of the Orang · Kaya | KARATE For Chinese wais are wars tl: ex. / høyer bears a gindge ?

on a mere general principle of alternation, or does it rest on appreciable data f ́ The slúmn- bling-block to the bucolle mind is, assuming the shrinkage to be real and not fictitions and that ten millions of it are borne by the banks, and perhaps ave milions by one single bank how is the loss to be recovered and if not recovered, will I be taken from reserva fundi of out of the next two years' dividends ?

You value the goodwill of the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank at go per cent, of its capital. The 'goodwill' of a business, I suppose to be the assumed "value of its special power of earn- ing money. A power of merely making losses, would not be worth paying for, and it would be really a most important service to bond fide holders of shares in the Bank if they could be shown on what specific foundation their assumed power of making money now rests. A magnificent business is, after what has passed and is now passing, not in itselfs guarantee of a profitable business, and if by little patient aslysis you could show to those who are obliged

look on from

a great distances, and have no means of knowing what is below the surface, the specific sources of the Bank's profits and the grounds for bellesing that recent experiences in Hongkong, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Singa pore and elsewhere, will not be repeated, you would render a valuable service to very many non-speculative people who have been in the tabit of investing all their savings in the Bank's stock

a

to

On the 11th they took nine stockades and

Palawan, wounding another.

The Sultan was to enter the Semantan district on the afternoon of the 13th inst. with goo men, The To Raja of Jellei ill and remalus la Ulu Pahang, as does his son Wan Tanjong; but no action prejudicial to the Sultan's authority is expected from the people of the Jellel district.

It is reported that Panglima Muda has returned to Ulu Jempol,

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.

never

into other channels.

Chinklang."Z" N. C. Daily News.

A great multitude of junks, which had been termination. The old inhabitants have been cut detained down river by the calm, began to pass off rect and branch; and the current of trade the us. They moved in two great-files, liks flocks might have brought new saitiers has deviated of waterfowl, along the sides of the river, lock-

ing, very

picturesque with their salls of white A globe-trotter of considerable reputá in his | and brown. The inn was now high. The mist. day and sincs, paid a visit to Ichiên six centuries wrack broke into slender tralling drifts which ago, and has left as a record of his impressions, melted into the blue of space; and the hills starling out with the solemn and inilispensable along the south and west came out soft and blus. assurance that the "people are idolators and | At eleven o'clock we stopped upon, the band of use paper money,"

You must know, he continues, "that this city stands on the greatest river in the world, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

the nan

name of 1

f which is Kian. It is in some places The weather bas been very wet and unseason- ten miles wide" (Oh, Marco 1), in others eight, able for the time of year, and bad floods have In others six, and it is more than roo day's been experienced on some of the rivers, great journey to length from one end to the other, damage being thereby caused to tobacco. This it is that brings so much trade to the city planters' prospects. It is feared that unicas a we are speaking off for on the waters of that speedy change takes place this will be, on

river merchandise is perpetually coming and most of the estates, one of the most disastrous going, from and to the various parts of the world, CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL tobacco planting seasons yet experienced. cariching the city, and bringing a great revenue

REGISTER: Considerable interest is being evinced in the to the Great Kaan"... Messer Marco Polo said operations now being carried on in the river that he once beheld at that city 15,000 vessels at Byte close at the back of Sandakan, for the one time g And the article in largest

aand May, 1892---Al 4 pe cultivation of sugar, Manila hemp, coffe and quantity of all is sait, which is carried by this other things. The quality of the land for case river and tus branches to all the cities on their cultivation is said to be unrivalled, and there banks, and thence to the other cities in the are several thousands of acres close alongside interior." the sea and casily accessible.

Gold is being found in Darvel Bay between Lahat Datt and the Segamab: over 60 men art at work there, 19 of whom found 834, worth in three days: the area now being worked Is over two miles in extent,

We traverted what was once the Eastern

DEAFNESS ABSOLUTELY CURED.--A Gentleman who cared himself of Deafness and Noises in the Head, of 14 years standing, by a new methad, " will be pleased to send fall particulars free. Address HERBERT CLIFTON, 8, Shepherd's place, Kennington Park, London, SE, Eng-out.

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suburb, retuming to our boat through deep gravest of hibiscus. There is no more generous soft in Sags..... the world than this alluvial plate where every-l The fall in silver is an occurrence which

thing is now so wild and weedy. On the way come home to almost all foreigners in Chius in

my companion, being tied and thirsty, stopped one way or another, and its effect on the baskt,

A very unfortunate occurrence happened in at a house to ask for a drink of water. It was whose liabilities are in gold and their assets in Sandakan Bay a week ago, whereby Mr. Hodder, refused, with the explanation that the water silver, needs no explanation. What you say young man who had been assistant on one of here was not good to drink," the real motive about the Bank of China on this head is not, the tobacco estates, lost his life. While returning being a superstitions fear lest with the however, particularly reassuring, as, if the from seeing the steamer Mamson start for water the lack of the house might be given the directors declared dividend of 8 per cent. Hongkong he unfortunately fell out of the boat away too. Nothing comes sugly. A few yards while they had lost 16 to 17 per cent, not on be was in, in tow of a yacht, and although further on we found, suspended in a bedge, Cima 3. jamas..... their capital alone but on all their silver invest-known to be a good swimmer, sank almost among the tangled wild roses and honeysuckles The Victorian general elections, took placements by the depreciation of that metal, the immediately and was never soori agalo,

the straw effigy of a man. Tags of paper scribbled vererday, but the returns received are very in- question arises what will they do next? | Singapore Frei Prats.

with thaledicure charms, were fastened all over complete. Sir Grabam Berry was returned for Auditors are known to be complaisant to

its and if the dalinquent who had inspired this East Bourke Borough.

directors, and they do not make protests with-

astless plecs of stationery suffered an sche for LONDON, April 21st. out good grounds. What was the motiva

A DEAD CITY—ICHEN, every tenth needle that was thrust through eyes,

cary face, limbs and trunk, he must have wedst Ons-half the ares of the vineyards of Bordeaux, of the Directors of the Bark of China France, insladium the Médoc and Sauterne, has | then la provoking their auditors' protent

bitterly ened the petty farceny that provoked | Tokyo, NOTES OF...A-HOUSEBOAT EXCURSION. been desolated by heavy frosts, junta de

such a passion of revenge. and paying a dividend which had not

A short wide creek, called the Ssa-yen-kou, The frosts hara'affected the champagne vint- | been "euroed? If it was merely lack of the

Paper (Concluded.) yards in France, and the damage resulung there- moral courage to confess the truths to their When I came on deck next morning at six leads straight south to the river. Here we spent is incalculable, hardly s | froen la widespread,

shareholders, what confidence can the peblie o'clock we had already been for some time under the night, amid a swarm of boats; and waking singin vessel escaping The Wale Cloud The revolution in Venezuela has become very he expected to have in future proceedings way. The sun, just over the horizon, hung broad up every ball hour or so, devoted watchmen, was not at her wharf, having cleared out serious. The army of the insurgents having of the Board By sending their holdings and yellow like a harvest moon. The alt was dogs, and the Chinese nation at large to all the Victor Pack carly to make room for the Hosam, which had taken up a position as Polite, the troops of Pre-out to Chinn for sale, the London shareholders still and cools Pheasants were crowing, and infernal godt. baen chartered by Viscount Senna Femander sident Palatio made an attack upon them in have shown that their estimate of the position plowers wheeled in the air, uttering shrill cries, Shortly after dawn we were once more upon to bring over his family. They arrived Mein force. A desperate engagement ensued, result differed greatly from that put forward by the People were already at work in the fields, and the broad bosom of the Yangtze, Chinklang- ufter a

a p.m. and she returned to your port by s In the defeat of the Government troops, who Directors. But so young an institution cannot crossing the ferries is great numbers Before ward bound: As we sat on deck sipping our

sound lost one-third of their number. Many of the be beyond hope of reform, and it would be an long we entered region of surprising beauty, coffee, while the newly-risen sun glared at u *pm. The White Cloud must buvo met w Government troops joined the rebels, and there I obvious advantage to all concerned to take the where: for:miles 'and 'miles: the" high, banki | yellow and cold through a bank of för, a muided

trouble, in the middle of the river." Heungskan kept to her wharf all the time was great slaughter on both sides.

present opportunity of sifting the affairs of the were crowned with stately trees superb roar, like that of some great city, was home I believe that these larger buats enstained The insurgent forces, to the number of 3ooo Bank to the bottom. A few years hence, when asenne that leads almost to the 'of our wats. It took us more than half an hour to «no great damage, owing to thele, size. (This men, are now marching spon Puerto Cabello, its roots have struck deeper and spread wider, Ichien. Now and then an opening in the banks acertain that this sound proceeded from a pafat is not quite correct, as will be seen from and the population of that place is fleeing the criticism will be gagged by the aprechension of gave glimpses of rich cornlands and farm-houses far ahead on the north back, where there our other reports-Ed. H.K.7) The Steam town,

touching hidden springs. Local committees will embowered in green groves... Birds were singing was a forest of maste. This was Shih-érh Lausch Company's Perseverance had just „The President has ordered a general conscrip- have acquired vested rights, and directors may everywhere's the cuckoo was calling far away, | hui, the great salt station, where all the salt ⠀⠀ anchored when the fall-less serpent broke ton of the inhabitants, with the view of restt have become dictators, against whom votes of the cashat dove moaned in the deep follage. The manufactured in the province of Klangit ∙ loose, and the Hitle craft must have had a bading the rebels. The commerce of the country shareholders will beat like waves on a solid rock, golden oslole: finted his liquid notes and flashed must be stored previous to exportation. As we

quarter of an hour, as many native boats is paralysed.

While the devil is sick seems good time to from se to tree: We gilded along to the dowy approached, the clamour grow in allow How were being daibed against her. The after

Apill 22nd make a saint of him, or to try tol

morning, drinking in the scens saith delight, variety-4 and we could make out the west yellow part of the plucky little launch la badly: The President of Venemela declares that the In reply to the foregoing very able summary Away behind de the reaches of minty waterway hulle and high curving storns of the sall-janks smashed, the awning gone, and I hear that revolution has collapsed. many of her passengers were drowned.

A commitee has been firma ve Biobank of a state of affairs in connection with the two scintillaled in the gun, and the trees warakterona "hich lay tanged in regular parallel rows of

Is Hamburg to above named banks which is a discredit to nil } int soft blog – China” láska best in the first anfortunate that the storm was, so sudden, as send

La expedition

in the Antarctic Ocean in July concerned and which is almost certain to lead to ginment of spring. Later on the landscape absolutely nothing.could be done to prepare for

exha Earl the important proceedings in the ls courts, the scrubies a ragged faxuriance that is displeasing i of Derby considers that the project leader writes of our Shanghal contemporary to the eye the Berce sun has drunk on penis and obtain a fair hearing and a friendly audience were, I believe, only slightly damaged. He thinks that leading men ought to familiarlad klaras_néthing short of providential that if the public with the aurel idea embodied in the was dead low water. Thus the did KG proposal „damage on shore, and many of the people who Speaking upon the subject of Imperial feders

were throws into the water were able to save dos Loid Derby remarked that a strong convic. "themselves owing to the, shallowness of the Hon" prevails that none of the plans for the harbour. So the silứng up of Macao harbour is political and commercial federation of the pot as vomitigated curas, after all

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twenty, or more each, to the number of five Hundred or thereabouts. This is far from repes. penting the maximena of the traffic; for in the later summer months, as I am told, a thousand

too late to catch the fall force of the fately for holding Pan Britannic contests ought to writes himself down an ass-or something worse and streams, The yellow earth shows in bant,' hosts or even more may be moored here, They'

by faditing the following evidently tospired bare patches, and the plenteous dust deadens the are of massive construction and capable of cam nauseating twaddle, which every holes has seen any long Rle of salt boats, laden twenty on dhlity persons on board it la easy to

pada ing over åre hundred tons.". As each - junk) in the Far East who knows anything of these

a banks will laugh at and probably attribute to down to the water's edge with their freight, from understand that they have erected a large, and ressons of a doubifal character or the North Within two miles of Tea on the prosperous trading settlement at Shih-erh-bul: No We may explain to our correspondent and canal throws of a southward branch to the river, harbour master, no Kaff of meddling offical le to other, anxious renders who are looking on by which the junku pses to Shih-brk-hui, a needlead to keep onder among this immense feet" from a great distance, that the shrinkage of 25: walareide station that for many years past has avery bout of which falle inte i place, and myulla to ga millione, is from the polat of infiation, and | superseded Tasche so the Klingon, mult: depolah ini bera / Betir, according to smed and Imranbefal

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HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.

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