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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

LIMITED.

CHEMISTS

AND

AERATED WATER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 892.

DEATH.

In Hongkong, May 15th, 1892, NETTIR, Wife- of F. H. O. Wilson, aged a8 years. London papers please copy.

(570

The Hongkong eleganph.

HONGKONG SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1892.

THE PO LEUNG RUK COMMISSION.

"TAX Po Leung Kuk has been stigmatized MANUFACTURERS. asa secretsociety, and very serious charges against the operations of the Society have been made to me. One of them "Is that the subordinate members of the Society are not disinclined to exercise what is known as the practice of squeezing if an opportunity occurs. Another is that the $30,000. which is mentioned. by the Registrar-General as the amount of the subscription gathered in ald of the Society of that amount a certain portion has been obtained by means which could hardly be called Justifiable. I think as

DAKIN'S

LEMON

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

No time to attend to the Daliv Press "Grest Drunks and Litle Braing" to-day.

THERE is no police news to be published to- day. The Captain Saperintendent (the Hon. W | M. B. Arthur) has forbidden it.

IN H. B. M. Consular polico court at Shanghai on the 3rd fast, Malbrook Fraser, charged with committing alous petty frauds, was committed for talal.

trouble about the steamer wharf at Canton, the Ir la rumoured that in consequence of the agreement between the three principal coating steamer companies is in danger of disruption. I was amoun on the Malle to-day that Mr. de Base, Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, will return to this Colony at an early date. And the erring Compradore, ob, vere, ob, vere fah he

Tax Kwong mo, after undergoing a slight even baul, reamed tanning between Hongkong and Macao yesterday and will probably be crowded plenty of sea air, to-morrow morning. with passengers, bent on getting in outing and

ANOTHER HONGKONG & SHANG- HAI BANK EMPLOYE OFF!

$500 REWARD.

$0

quiet,

go.

"OUR VERY OWŃ" ON THE WAR-PATH.

On Thursday evening fast (according to the Chinese statement) several of the rank and file of the new regiment quartered at Kowloon got hold of blacksmith employed by the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com many and attempted to bind him and drag him into their camp. The Chinaman called for ald, which was quickly forthcoming from the neighbours. Then the Indians attacked the Chinese with sticks and drove them into their house wear the Naval Yard and began to smash their doors in with brick-bats At this juncture a force of police under A free fight canned in which bricks, stones and Inspector Mackie urived on the scene. cudgels were freely used. The Indians seriously wounded a European constable, and several Chinese; and landed a lump of rock on, the In spector's back. "Our Very Own being defeated. the police returned to thels barracks and reported who, was hellere, bas reported to the Government.

„The story of the Indians is that the Chinaman throw a stone at them, for some reason of his own, and that they naturally went for him. · He. on the other hand, alleges that he did not, and that they attempted to commit an indecent out

For some time past a smart young Chinaman named Lo Yak,'alar Lo Wan Man, has officiated in the local bead office of the Hongkong and Shanghat Banking Corporation as chief shroff and collector. Не WAS * inoffentire sort of youth whore

as a man of letters and good breeding, and so manner and fluent speech at ance marked him he was, for it is now known that he was DONG other than a nephew of that "don" in select Chinese circles who under the name of Lo Hok pang swayed the sceptre of authority in the palatial money shop la Queen's Road Central, Compradore's department of "Lucky Tackson's and in addition had a good deal to do with one or two Chinese “banks" down” Bonham Strand way. After an eventful career in this city, Mr. Lo Hok Pang suddenly departed these shores, leaving many anxious inquirers behind. That was couple of months or The shroff, it seems, used to personally collect bills amounting to many thousands of dollars noon at headquarters to hand over the shekels rage on him. It remains to be seen who can amassed during the day, but on Wednesday laste the hardest. he didn't turn up at the usual hour, although he showed up on Thursday morning and left But he left the Great Bank" that morning at the usual hour to gather in the Mexicans.

never, to retum again, and took with him fully $12,000, the moneys of his employers. Whither he has fled nobody appears to know, but that he decided to disappear owing to loses on shares and at certain gaming tables there seems to be but little doubt. A warrant for his apprehension was issued on Thursday after noon and the detectives have ever since been doing their utmost to run their quarry to earth. Inspector Quincey heard that the dandy shroff had gone to Canton by the Pewan on Thursday evening to he lost no time in tearing of overtaking her and arresting the absconder

whether

SQUASH such very grave charges are hanging over ST. PITAR'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission and for some time past turned up every after

THE FAVORITE

Nos, 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL ciaty are most respectable gentlemen who then it is usual to observe them.

this society, a society which has done very steam-launch Day String will call alongside good work, it would be the wish of the vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and members themselves that the matter should 16.30 am. on Sunday, to convey men ashore to be thoroughly inquired into. If these the o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m. statements are proved it will be a very A DIGANTIC to le was son last week off the serious matter, and if they are disproved | Hesban as'tep on the water with, two birds HOT WEATHER DRINK, the hands of the Government and the hands parked on s back. It is very unusual for of the Po Leung Kuk Society will, Ice to len so far north as the Heshans. thlak, be Immensely strengthened. I Last walry, the captain of another steamer think the leading members of the So-large seal considerably farther to the south

have been resident in this island twenty, Sreakmo of a recent confirmation service at twenty-five, or thirty years, and they Starts Asylum, Bishop Bickersteth said we would wish that we should defer the "I have no doubt in my own mind that there consideration of this Bill until these matters imbectes had sufficient intellect. to know what have been satisfactorily settled-settled to the wis doing, and it is known that shots the satisfaction of the Council and the who are weak in intellect lean very much mort | xfter that popular liner in a launch in the hope

strongly to religion than others. community at large. I therefore propose, that we defer, consideration of this Bill in the meantime, and under the Standing Orders, that it be referred at this stage to a special commission." That is what Sir W. ROBINION said in Council on the 26th

of last month.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

attention to the

Wall of which are excellent quality and if the Council does not see any objection;

good value for the money.

The same being specially selected by, our London Hause, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.

Ja ordering is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial leiter for quality desired. PORTS. (For Invalids and general use).

Per.dos. Per

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A Alto Douro, good quality,

Green Capsule

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B Vintage, superior quality,

Red Capsule

12

C Fine Old Vintage, superior

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messan 14.

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SHERRIES,

A Delicate Pale Dry, dinner

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$1.00

1.50

"The matter then slands as follows: -certain allegations have been made

|

IT is stated that the Messageries Martimes,

having lost a good many passengers by the

Telug of the Canadian Pacific State are contemplating establishing_themselves à service of steamers across the Pacific. If this sort of thing goes on, the Pacific trade will soon be viry much overcrowded with steamers, and ralnova rates will by the resolt.

AT the annust meeting of the Victoria Recreation

clected: Chaisman, the Hon. H, Stewart Lockha; bon, C, E, D. Sanders; bon, treas E. C. Fearon; bath house committee, H. C. Manning, M. A. A Souza, J. R. Micbet; boat house, E. Friedrichs, W. H. Potts, L. G. Meynell; gymnasium, C. H. Thompson, F. W. Koch, C. T. Robinson...

THE Band of the rat Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, to-morrow, commencing at 7.30 p.m.:-

Falkz..............." Now and Then "... Coosa,

Nematia

Car Lewikteni Quadrille..........Tatioiie".

"Hilda"...

Newton. Bucalousi Zaperiajoonia” La Cigala".

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and embemler. (it is not stated, by the way

But it was no tiae, for the youth was not there

a clearance was got for the launch.) and up to the present time he is still hadly

"wanted," so much so, in fact, that the Police have been authorised to publish pasters in Eng- fish and Chiness offering a reward for the news of the runaway.

THE OUTRAGE BY CHINESE SOLDIERS IN SHANGHAI.

The very serious affair which occurred In the Maloo yesterday morning, and which was reported in these columns last night, says the Mercury of the art inst., has ended, as any body acquainted with the helplessness and timidity of the Mixed Court, in dealing with cases of the kind, must have foresees it would. The four ruffianly rowdies, who were lucky enough to wear the dirty red and yellow uniforms, which distinguish the rabble whom car only "general" considers the finest soldiers in the world, have by the Nanking Road tribunal to their commanding Mer of Keldamenn insolent satisfaction of men who knew they had sentence which was received by them with all the succeeded in frightening the Magistrate, who for more forma's sake had made a pretence of trying them. And all this in face of the very gravo nature of the offence, foron further enquiry, we find it was really much more aggravated than reported #1 first. The sergeant who was in charge when the case was brought to Lousa Police Station yesterday morning told really startling story to Mr. G. Brown," the British Assessor, at the Court to-day. It appears that Mr. Fabels at- tended at the station after the fight on the Maloo in a truly pitiable condition. His shirt ped and meddy, his hat was battered, he was and collar were tora open, his clothes were rip pals and exhausted from a severe kick in the lower part of the abdomen, and his neck and cheat were covered with blood, which procceeded from several bad scratches on the throat, his raf. fianly assailants having selaed him by the neck, and endeavoured to choke him when he went to [To which we would add-Better late than the Skin's assistance. According to the evidence

never 1-Ed.).

The following is an exact copy of the "poster" which is to be seen in the Charge Room at the Central Police Station and to various parts of

REWARD!

1

The chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghat Banking Corporation har affered a reward of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) to any person who shall give such information as abalt lead to the arrest of Lo Yak, alias Le Wun Man, the sald Banking Corporation.

| a shroff, who has absconded from the office of

Police Office,

Hongkong, 27th May, 1892.

PANTON

a

ANTI-TELEGRAPH RIOTS. IN

'SHENSI

Lu Chuan-lin, Governor of Shens, sends to the Emperor a report on the anti-Telegraph riots in that province, on March 23rd and 5th. During the two years that have elapsed since the commencement of telegrapha In Sheast there has been no trouble until the mesant. Six years ago the people of the Cheln chow district complained of the all-wells at Pingohou as the cause of a drought, by the and they were disposed choktag of the dragon, to fill the wells up with mud ! "Two years ago drought and epidemic, that then prevalled, were by some attributed to electricity, (Foreign inventions being new and strange to the people) while others ascribed the calamities to the olk wells. A mob from Sichuan and Chein-chow, impressed with the belief that the dragon wai, suffering from the oil-wells, assembled to fill them. all with earth; but they found they had been anticipated in this design by the peopla of Plag-chow, who had fed the region, often 1 up the alleged sources of evil. But that something might be done, the new mob set fire to the straw dwellings of the miners. The same night that this occurred a mob ert down the the telegraph poles of Chang-wa and deterred the mob from further unlawful proceed. Yung-show. Soldiers were called out, which ng and several prisoners were taken, A proclamation was then issued threatening death on any found cutting down the poles. At first the Governor thought the rioters were insurgents, but it tumed out, that they were ignorant peasants, who thought that telegraph poles, being Foreign contrivances, were fit objects of wrath. They were not the people who warred against the oll-wells, and are not to be tried in the same manner. Six leaders of the riot were beheaded, while their misguided follawen were all pardoned.---Native Paper:

GOVERNMENT IN SIAM.A

REDUCTION OF OFFICIAL: SALARIES,

There are rumours in the air that the Slameto have a scheme is hand for carrying out a considerable reduction in the salaries of their European employés and that a number of the

and reform with which the new heads of Depart presume is part of the noble plen of retrenchment ments are about to inaugurate

their reign and "bid"for royal favour by the reduction of their respective estimates. Retrenchment in the expenditure of the kingdom's revenue is a polley to be highly commended and one at which few will be found to cavil, provided it begins at the right end. Unfortunately, in Stam, matter are not begun at the right end; the spirit of topty turveydom is so prevalent, and the inability to res a certain fitness of order is so common, ihat we find ministers endeavouring to do first that

range are about to be dismissed. This wa

which ought to be attempled last and vice being yearly wasted on the fads of the Palace, varid. Take for instance the treasure that is and then consider the process of starvation which is carried on in respect to the Tele graph Department, that is cut down so low. that It Is Impossible for it to be other than the ridiculous shadow of what ought to be. The Police Administration again is treated to the same monetary starvation that renders it the mere laughting stock of all who may need it, Education too is to receive its quietus," if rumour be correct, by the all per

the expenditure as

of Sergeant Den, who was on duty in the station charge-room at the time, the soldiers when brought in behaved most violently. On hearing the circumstances of the case, Sargeant Donvading manis for retrenchment. The Army and

The temnantar

against the Po Leung Kuk Society, Club on Thursday the following officers were the colony ~ and they have been referred to a Bot. Committee for enquiry and report. Those allegations, or some of them, are of such a nature that, if they are proved, they may 1.Tomaterially influence the views of the Government in regard to the Bill now before the Legislative Council for the incor- 1.25 poration of the Society. The 'suggestion" ("it having been suggested that the Registrar Generel's official influence was brought to bear on certain subscribers") is not one of those allegations, and it has not been referred to the Commlitee. Further, аво

theder gestiones.explaiendio vou 1.00 bearing on the question whether the Bill before the Council should should not be passed. Assuming, as is highly probable, though I have no direct information on, the point, that the 1.10 RegistrarGeneral has long been of opinion that for various reasons it was.desirable that funds, should be subscribed for the purpose of the Society, and that he has ALL the vessels in the harbour were gally expressed his opinion to others, that would decorat: 1 yeaterday, except few low tramp not in his Excellency's opinion afford any Douglas boals, the Empress, and the Chins steamers down west that knew no better. The reason why the Bill should not be passed. were particularly gorgeous. It is worthy of of That is what the Colonlal Secretary, that right in among the men-of-war with all presumably directed by Sir W. Roninson, their banting, was a dirty white steamer flying wrote to Mr. WHITEHEAD on the 10th inst. the dragon flag, and apparently purporting to be

These two extracts seem, in our humble a urboat of some sort, but not exhibiting the be just a well if the very evident parcel of the utmost indignation at the brutality of the B St. Estephs, Red Capsule... 4.50 5.00 opinion, to be directly contradictory decency to dress ship even to the extent of something he carried Insido his cost were shown the very pithy remark: "Well, all I can say, it a policy that will tend to gain esteem

Grave allegations were made, a Com-holling the Unlos Jack.

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CLARETS.

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or

IN TROUBLE.

remarks in thels advertisments. Doctor PETITE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK AGAIN this and other small formalities had been Norlu Hoda Effendi of Wellington Street, Cal valunicars to cure all diseases pronounced in- catis, goes in for rather an extensive order. He curable by other practitioners, with the excep ton of two, and at these he draws the line. "Ban deformlifes and death excepted," so ruot the advertisement.

mission was apppointed to enquire into Ar a meeting of the provisional Committee of them, and then the Commission was told the Kawic in Aquatic Club on Thursday evening not to notice those allegations. Fur & sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Holmen, ther, the Governor took care to appoint | Newton, Tomlin and F. A. Frows, was empower- the Commissioners himself, which facted to arrange ways and means for the establishing Per deprives the Commission of the powers of of the club, andprocurea alte from the Government Bot, a Royal Commission to compel witnesses sufficiently large to admit of a bathing place for to appear, and thus the whole investigation now hear that the subscription will be gro per ladies being fenced and suitably arranged. We will be a wretched farce. And lastly, annum for gentlemen and the same sum for $1.20

the Commission, gulded as to its objects ladies and we trust to be informed shortly that 1.45 and its procedure by the Iron hand of an the public have subscribed freely to what must

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0.75

TELEGRAMS.

THE PERSIAN TOBACCO MONOPOLY.-

LONDON, May 18th.

The Persian Government bare borrowed the sum of half-a-million sterling from the Imperial Bank of Persia in order to compensate the 75 Persian Tobacco Corporation for the annulment

of their monopoly. 1200 FRANCE REQUIRES AN EXTRA CREDIT.

May 19th.

1,30

&

0.75

1.00

The French Government have saked the Chamber to vote an extra credit of sixty-two, million frases for the purpose of bastening the building of ships of war.

SPEECH OF THE PRIME MINISTER.

A SHROFF BOLTS_WIIH - $12,000.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.).

CANTON, 27th May, 1892. A couple of weeks ago, in Wyndham Street that indefatigable terror of the Hongkong. Police by his aids, Sergeant C, Hadden, was struck with force, Inspector W. Quincey, while accompanied the somewhat bulky appearance of a Chisaman's shirt front. They stopped the Celestial; asked him who he was, and suggested that it would

observed. The Interpreter proceeded to do so, but the first soldier he went up to received-kim, with such a cuff on the ear that the poor Inter- preter was glad to desirt. Seeing the sort of men he had to deal with, Sergeant Don deter. mined to search them himself, bat he, too, was violently assaulted by the same rufian, who peeled the skin off the sergeant's nons with his long and filthy nails. Sergean Don obtained the aristance of some constables in the station, and they alleged that they had been severely beaten after the most vigorous resistance the soldiers.

by the police and took off their filthy clothes for wem finally lodged in the cells. In Court to-day.

the purpose of showing the Magistrate some imaginary braises, Mr. Taal was expressing

It

and mainstay in the wars of the falnure, denga

With many of the intended reforms wacan flod- no fault, but others’are as bad can be, and wedo asic, and expect, that if the Siamese intend us to .. give them credit for a sincere desire to husband their resources and cut down useless expenditure, they will be consistent in that policy. We must he excused from refusing to belleve that the Siamese are sincere, as long as thousands of catties are spent on royal yacht cruisers, palace Junketings and all the well knows aureuxenerative frivolities we are all so well acquainted with. To cut down the subsidles of the most important departments in the country, and at the same time pour out an endless stream of the coln of the resim for idle peep shows," procesildas, and cheap European novelies is not a palley that Pollen, when Captain McEuen Interposed with can commend itself to sensible men, mar is

for the Siamese or beneft for thele is the Paince that absorbs the revenue of the

Country Kingdom, and the proposed retrenchment will The soldiers throughout the proceeding bedo lile good if the surplus be swallowed up in of over a million dollars, he was a trusted bill, haved in the most insolent, and rowdy manner the never ending round of "ratee-shows" that collector to the great local Bank, and he didn't to the Magistrate, but he submitted to It meekly take the place of more serious affairs. It is in see why any damined Hongkong policemen should

the Faisce we would like to sen retrenchment meddle with him. Mesus. Quincey and Hedden or without them off to the commanding and reform, and until that happy state of things

officer with the utmost urbanity, took Mr. Le Yuk down to the gorgeous bulldleg Wherein Great Cesar (Hawkins) is absolute autocrat of all the dead brokers and other unfor tunates in the colony, and had him searched; THE ANTI-FOREIGN MOVEMENT. and neglected. the bulky excrescence which first' aroused the wily detective's suspicion being $5,000 in solld bank notes. The Acting Compradore, the brother, we understand, of the one who is absent but not forgotten, vooched for the bans fider of his shroff, and the ubiquitous Qalacey bad to retire somewhat crestfaller, after expressing regret for the trouble he had caused.

up. The Chinese nobleman was naturally very Mr. Tsai, is that they ought to have got twice as Indignant; he was a nephew to the compra-mach, and if I had been there they would have dore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank who got it." had let in that immaculate concern to the tune

WRITING to a Shanghai paper, Mr. J. §. Collins suggests that wherever riots or troubles of any kind are traced to the Misraff, these should be deprived of their degrees, which is a punishment much dreaded, and far more likely to be effective than the degradation of officials, as these latter

But the world mores around very strangely, class. At Chingbo, N. W. Fuhkian, the serious police authorities were informed by the chief deally have less Influence than the iterary Munder will out! Lats on Thursday evening the rint of the syth ulto, was directly instigated by manager of the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, the head of the learned gentry. At Kienning or his deputy, that Mr. Lo Yak, the trusted shroff the head mau of the Migrati hired coolies to above referred to, was missing, and that transplant graves into a plot of land just bought large sum, stated at $13,000, had also vanished for the pu. poss of bullding a missionary hosp. The usual idiote course was followed. No The existing hospital was torn down, the telegraphie communication between Hongkong missionaries snobbed, and narrowly escaped being sazothered in a deep liquid manure task

::

MORE OUTBREAKS IMMINENT,

consequence of rumours current":

comes about the revenues of Stam will be frit tered away and the mullienda of reforms so sorely needed will continue to remain unheeded

Bai wo now.come to another phase of the retrenchment scheme-that of cutting down the salaries of European officials. Here the Siamese are making a grand mistakes. They The other day we stated (says the Shanghat have engaged men af what at the time was con» evening paper of the first inst.) that the U.5.5. sidered by both parties a fair bargain, and unfess Piiril went up river in a great hurry, In conse. the Blamese find that they have been. Imposed quence of disquieting rumours from theneighbour upon or that they are not receiving the worth hood of Chinklang. We are sorry to say that of their money, they will be committing turned out to have been only too well-founded. insposed that good, men, men of skill and re- though our report was questioned at the time, it has deplorable mistake in "docking the wages of tacir, oficials. It is not for in 'tement to be Several telegrams of bave hors received therent there that the seck fresh fields where their services will

disquieting character

putation, will suffer such treatment. They will Chinklang, rondles and Kolschwei mai intend to burn the meet with greater remunerative appreciation Roman Catholla and other Missions at Tan-yang Even If they remain in an ungrateful sere as the 1st of the 5th moon (16th May) and vice, they will ever labour under sense and Face of Canton, could be carried on murder the missionaries And Foreigner gene of wrong and the pubile service of Blem will will the Hongkong Government put a stop to rally. But the Roman Catholics, are to be the suffer la proportion. It would be far better for e this nonsensical short-sightedness without special objects of attack. We understand that the Siamese to dismiss outright any superflucus THE Tam correspondent of the Amoy Gasets further ada, or must the unofficial element again | Mt. Wagner, our energetic Benior Consul, sent officials than keep them on in a state of dissa. writes on the 19th instants-Everything is be compelled to teach our paid servants the

a telegram to-day to the Governor of Klangau tisfaction, which would ultimately disorganize going on very smoothly over here, and work is beginning of their "datles ?- and at gå pm Province at Beochow, requesting that official to any department to which they might be attached. Just commenclog, tea has come down

En some

Quincey and four

Clerks

of the take immediate steps for the prevention of blood. On the other hand we are quite with the Siamese quantity in the green leaf form, and even a

and Shanghal Bank left the colony shed and outrage at the threatened places refermiers in believing that they have allowed has put in appearance It the packed form. It the steaza-launch Kamis, in pursuit of the The Marquis of Salsbary speaking at Hastings There have been any changes in our little defanitas. They had a good time, of course. yang a few days ago posting placards calling an on their hands. There is almost in every de Three soldiers were actually caught at Tan a large number of worthless loafers to be cast said that he was confident as to the result of the community of late, Mr. Alexander Holse that After sticking on some fishing stakes in a couple the people to burn the Mission, and murdes the partment in Blans reg-tap and bobtail crowd 8.to approaching general elections; that in foreign most genfal of Consuis) having taken the place of hour, they eventually reached here at 6 Torelge hogs, and gosty, but, they were not who are not worth their tall, and who having affairs there was an absaicue calm, and that with of Mr. Hollend. There has also been a change .m, the run occupying eleven hour. And it punished, age and the gullible Siamese as their last hope and proved falleres elsewhere have pitched on Stars regard to protective measures he favoured these in the Commissioner of Customs. A report is a hardly necessary to say that when the 1,00 against countries that excluded British products. Bring at out the place that shortly Woodyear's parmers arrived at the Babylon of the New to the time, before in repetition of last only refuge. If the Slamese are bent on weed.

May soth, Circus intends paring us a visit. I hope it is true. Far East, the pursued philanthropist had endas outrages actually occur, for the The Marquis of Salisbury, in his speech at The weather af or having been rather change vanlaked. The British Acting Consul General Fereige Governments to give the Peking, au- with the only the entirely

and CAR

only appland an act 4.50 940farther said that to charge duiles on fred and | The railway la golova to bear to well,

Hastings seferred to in yesterday's telegram able I think has settled down for the summer, (Mr. T. Walters) was applied to, and it is to be thorities to understand that they will not tolerate which will have to be undertaken 4000- en merrily. Our commed that he at once threatened Viceroy Lay mare lots at the ports and Mission stations er or Inter high state of efficiency is to wille departments. 154) Han-chang with all sorts of, pains and pessities and immidiatly after the first outbreak, should be obtained from Siamese public

unlest this latest Hongkong and Shanghal Bank any unhappily take place, the vicious and How many of the class related to ever contrired losely were seized and rent back to Hongkongkeupine Mandarinate should be taught to enter upon their responsible positious I

other. The time has passed dard alluding to the Premita's speech deprecate the world and his wife. :: Jièrickshas were at m

we don't striics out of this report as it suggests for indemnity and the execution of castles by

Ignorance of the Slamten on publie 100 | the suggestion as it is calculated to wisetili | 'high' premium. The march-past was dug,

defeat in Canton

consular justice that quite the Peking Government, on the

work can account for the strange paricals-ly the Hongkong Regiment (represented bey and Justification, Ed Telegraph.) But the the assembl: 1 thoasande, as they thought of their is not likely to be brought to the surface and beheading that has been going on for the last but do not endanger the efficiency of any depart

It would appear as if with all the torturing and service. Wood out these gentry, by all means, BIRTHDAY HONOURS,

May 26th.ioada yeng By the way, the new regiment Inspector Quincey and the four amateur dolocfew months, the real Kolao-hwel lenders are still ment by cutting down the salary of a thoroughly Curacoa Hering's Cher Costura Prince George of Wales has been created was not yellow calform, as our aually teres, here the hongkong the Bank heave and there is more than spielen eficient fard, capable oficiala i policy which

Duke of York, Earl of Interness and Baron mtaler.az mening contemporars and leave here by the Pawan this afternoon that some of them occupy high places say would in tab end prove the verse of economical and Killarneyed Ali, the remarks about "the varied uniforms of the⠀⠀ The next thing we shall probably hers will be Consul General Alabaster of Canton has bem | Shropskies Light Infantry, who wore plain white that some enterprising genius has walked on appalutad K.C.H.G.

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