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› THE REICHSTAG ELECTIONS. On the second ballet the Socialista carried the whole of the city of Berlin with the exception of
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THE SPANISH MINISTRY. Sr. M. Villanueva, member of the Chancil of Ministers, bas resigned, and is replaced by Sr. P. Cr
A STRIKE OF LAWYERS I All the Inwyers at several centres have declared (38 themselves on strike, in consequence of certain
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DEATH OF A DYNAMITARD.
June 21st, While an Anarchist was carrying a dynamite bomb in bis pocket near the house of Sr. Canovam, the infernal machine went off by Rocident, and killed him ; several other person were injured besides, and a comvation who was „walking with h'm is in serious danger.
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TIENTSIN. June 21st, 1801.
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KnowLenox is power, except in the case of the man who knows he is licked. What does Jack Morissey, the alleged brulter from Virginia City, think about It ?
PROFESSOR Canaiis, the prestidigitateur, after a long and profitable tear la the Phillippine Provinces, has returned to the capital, where he was to open for a brief teason the 19th Int
THE Coroner's Ingnext on the hede of the litte | Chinese girl who was frúnd, with her thṛat col Inga homing hours nënë Wat Print a fortnight Ago was com'inurd # the Marlstracy to-day, and, fother adjourned a week,
D'Brien:-T^ke it how was will, Wangkane 1. mat like say other place an earth; it is a queer place entirely,
it would be a quee, place if it wasn't. »
(Roslean 1~Wait, cân-ldering Its posliler THE Manila Comercio state on what is believed
to be reliable andhryhty, that the Governor of the Philipines hau wired to Madrid for permission
as soon as possible on the new currency, to open the lassi Mint (nethwith and pet to work
AT the Megfetrece today Mr. Wodehaute can-. tinued his i-garst (viļurned (enim Innt week) an the bale of the men' killed be the fall of the Chinn Merchental offices recently. The Inquiry was further adjourned unt! Monday next..
OUR Manlia contemporaries publish what par party to be the full text of the amended non- **itution of the Sornish col^nies in the East embodying numerous changes in the fircul unÅ. administrative system, to come Into force from the 1st July next.
SMALL-FOX seems to be on the increase fa'some districts in Tapin. There are on an avenge ten Case reported daily at Osake. For the week
ened rith lost, 85 new caten were developed af which 36 proved fatal. The Japan Herald. states that since the outbreak of the diente 4615 persons have been affected, of whom 1,8¢1 have succumbed.
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have retaliated promptly on the United States hut that he now approves the arrangement of a new treaty in terms of veelprocity,
We presume by this that the great Very epenotes to plus Americane the same tahteln Ching that the Chiness have in the States.--- ED.-N. CD. N]..
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tax total number of members in the Tepen Red Cross Saclay the end of May fast won 36.114, while the fonds of the Society smoanted $93,000-75.
THE P. M. S. S. Fade stramme City of Neto Yorb, with malls, &c., from San Francisco to the 8th fast, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow morning, THE Comercio reports that the steamer Awewas Ayres, the largest steamer in the Spanish mercantile marine, will shortly he sent out to replace the Isla de Panay or the Eastern ron AN Emergency meeting of St. Jobs Lodge, No, Airf. S... will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at B.go for g a'clock
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A WUHU Correspondent writing to our Shanghri morning contemporary on the rice, trade of that neit, which has gained for Itself the name of the "Granary of the Yangize," states that this
of rice bave been exported to the South which past ten years. So far, only 240.ora odd plaste is only about an eighth of former years. The reason is said to be the rich harvests experienced prehibition law interdicting the export of rice to Stam and Annem and the suspension of the
from those coun'sles.
A GOOD commentary on the attitude of pro- Chinese faniiics In the Exst 'who 'cl·lm the registration is an Indignity I, way the San "Francisco Chronicle. furnished by Melvlila D. Landon, the humorist, who is befter known as Ell Pokins. Landin travelled to. Chinn last year, and one of his party, neglecting to secure a passport, was arrested at Ha-leaw and taken back to Shanghal, All Americans wishing to travel in the Interior of "hing must take out passport“, and even when provided with these they are never use from insult and attack. Mr. Landon, who writes to us from Gothenburg, Neb., adds that the Chinese threRT of retaliation is rubbish. His words on this point are worth quoting: "China 'couldn' retsitate. All Americans there have · certl- Sicates. Then Chins has no sercial commerce, with the United States. Her big sea ports, English. They have hither masters and full Shanghai and Hongkong, are held by the inrisdic'lon over American trade in ble cities.. Our commerce with China is with Englishmen
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On the 23rd inst., at Shanghai," by H.B.M. Consul-General, and afterwards at Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. J. Bates, JAMES ACHESON, Imperial Maritime Custom Service, to GERTRUDE DU VIRNET TYNDALL, fourth daughter of John Tyndall, Erg, formerly of Ceylon.
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Thus the Nagasaki Express of the arst inst! "A couple of voung girls, apparently anxious to travel, are said to have been discovered secreted no board a Germán esmer in barbour a few days ago by the police."
Japan was a closed port, Now that Japan needed Chinese silk, tea and rice once, when
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was breaking through the clouds, and Our F.LS, F.F.S., which we rellatona'y levve alone. Island is flushed in the dawn of the Odd We cannot compliment Mr. Sketchly on his Volumes, a society formed to make us know and - handlwork. Our mantra for this adverso view understand ourselves and our Island better | run through the comments we have made. Mr. than before. So let me dedicaté this Httle Sketchly is doubtless an "ablo may, but like work to you my brother - temes : its odditles | mary, solentific searchers after light ha *ro inberen'; its slender claim on the title theorises far too much, draws flogiei infer *volume" its greatest recommendation. It is ences and conclusions from Imaginary facts, bat a glimpse into the great garden, hut the and has a pravdareed babk of gloning over. vistas are true, the colour accurate, the perspec- n' weakness in his literary capacity by coplous tive correct."
quetitions and high falniin! larguard. If he It has been offen 'sld that the merits or imagines, as stated-in his volume, that in Hong- quality of a book may be falily ganged by the kong "the Bugle of the dollar le not swerter preface, just as the bouquet of a rich wint may be thar the twitter of the ble1, and the crackle of estimated by the first sip from the glass and
the bank-bill not mor- muileal than the rustia although this is not invariably the case, it may of almost be regarded as a standard rule · In the work now under r view the preface is an absolutely accurate Indleation of the bank teelf
Mr. Skertcbly, in pointing out that all broke | about Hongkong relate only to deeds of doing. - succesece, says that with our island itself and tiplomatic stroggies, and commercial xud social
not familiar, nor likely to be until some good split arises to Infare a love of nators in our younger members as strong as the love of sport, and that it is with the hope of stimulating incal Investigation his pamphlet has been written. A HONGKONG EXHIBITION ON A We are sadly afraid that in this commerci•I age the investigators into Mr. Skertchiye so-called elucidation of Nature, the flora and fauna of the island, will be limited
to
few
enthusiasts whose sclentifie aspirations rarely go beyond the keen delight of catching butterflies or discwering some rare botanical specimen, And when he accuses those who do not happen to be actively interested in His peculiar ideas of the elucidation of Nature, of being "steeped in intellectual poverty," he is guilty of gross impertinence and writes himself down en is. And how it is a discredit to the community because certain books ars still on sale "{ssued for our edification, and telling us tha! Hongkong possesses many invects, such as emails and worms, and owes lii fever to the pre- sence of felspar," we fall to discover, and can only regard it as the illogical maundering of a *cientific crack.
Mr. Skerichly says he has another object la view, which in “to give home readers sonie Idea of our island, so that, when next they tell their friends to go to Hongkong, they may hall the request as gladly as Maed her invitation to "ome in'e the garden," And he starts to accomplish this laulable purpose by ledulging in several pages of childish verbiage, in which other men minds have been freely drawn on. Its hardly worth while following the Naturalist to his fold description of plants that have run wild in Hongkong within the last fifty years;" the last sentence of the chapter is quite saffi- cleat:-/ These plants we have glanced at are strangers, so are we; many of them fl in the struggle for existence, so do we; some establish th mselves and become acclimatized, and so do some of us; some plants bave peculiar habits; so have some of us." Mr. Skerichly's literary style is certainly amusing; It reminds us of some of Our Cfice Goat's poems.
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lest he must be very Innocent indret. It may be that. Hongkong residents knew but.. little of our island before Mr. Skerichly under- to`k to open their ears; and we are inclined to think that his drubtless well-meant hut decidedly fechle efforts have scarcely imeroved the altos. tion. The best part of the book is its general get-up; it la admirable riicted and subständlally bound in a convenient form, the credit for which is due to Kelly and Walsh, Ld.
SOUND BASIS.
There is a distinct possibility that a body of practical men, working on commonsense grounds, will after all seepmplish the lack which a few.. Robinson and opposed by the affen migrates of enthusiastic dreamers, relying on Governor
this Colony, have abandoned without a word, of expl nailon-namely, to hold an exhibition in Hongkong. The Victoria Recreation Club, afded by the members of the Garrison, have in past yews organised athlete meetings on a modest scale with such great success that no doubt there Is room for considerable development and ex paralon of the original scheme ; and we believe it is as good as certain that they will, in December next, hold a gathering in which a resolate attempt will be made to eclipse all previous records,
Nothing, deünite has yet been announced; but soundings of pablć opinion have been taken, with highly mati factory results, so that apparently it only remains for the organisers of the show to act on their Information. The
principal question, of course, is that of funds; an entertainment of some sort will be held that is rettled beyond doubt, so that there will be no innominious Gasen-and the dimensions of that show will be entirely dependent on the amount of support forthcoming. Already, we believe, there is a certainty of support enough for a very presentable athletic tournament to last three days, and to be augmented by numerous exhibitions. If a large enough guarantee fand can be obtalaed, with grants from the Club and perhaps from the Government a sucleus, there is no reason why the to proposal she'd not be amplified
lmost the dimersions of à Colonial Exhibition If not, the original programme will still remin'n Our Author says that "the ignorance displayed rond. It is hoped that the Government will not of the structure of our Island is so profound s
find any objection to allowing the ore of land on almost to command respect," a lelt-banded the Praya Reclamation; bat as no building of a pandexical compliment that ought to be Rope sold or permanent character Is contemplated, clated. And then he tells us what Hongkong of course there would be no accommodation for Is actually made of. It is not solely composed that class of industrial exhibits which are of granite-nobody ever said it was, sofar as we
most troublesome, and which constlimted the know-Mr. Skerichly has discovered that quite siambling-block of the gentlemen who recently half the island is made up of other rocks and he mooted a big exhibition scheme here. There tell what some of the other racks are. Weight, however, he a very successful flower. are truly grateful that we have the diorite or shew, with competitions alinin infinite variety
greenstone, an old trap rock that breaks through that, of course, depends on the amount available, for the p-lzite, In the matter of athletic' the granite; and also “a felepathic qua'iz porphyry," which is of true volcanic origin and is competitions and displays, the VR. C. and gonalna lava. It is likewise most interesting to Garrison are quite at home, and can be relled know, on such an undoubted authority, that "ew on to provide a really high-class show, whatever rocks are as hard as graale." Mr. Skertehly else may fail. has arrived at the conclusion that Hongkong was Dace covered with farest, which has gone from us as it has gone from Chius (Walker 111), awing to the tree-destroying tendency of the native, who, according to Skertebly-evidently
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keen bumourist of the brick-and-mortar peruasies is of a different species from our. "HX Philippine papers give the remits of the lay) A CORPESPONDENT writes s'inquire. If wa, are,
selves and ought to be described, "cot Homo snpiens at all, but Homo Ugrijardus, the 3 Years' SURAT export, from the Soxnish Westware of the existence of any special arrange.
wood-destroyer," {Perdus, may Indies as follows:-Sesson 1891-3, 201973 ment between the Ac'ing Postmaster General
destroyer in Natuialsts Hago, but not tonus 1891-2 83.838; 1990-1, 731 281, showing and an hotel-keeper named B-hm-Mr. P. á decrease of 118 865 tons during the past your,
In Laia.) Hongkong, according to the Odd Hohm, with reward to the Post-office launch.
Volumes' scientist, "is not a plutonic rock sa We have at once to confess our ignorance of any
one that Peologists any, but
has been THE Rev. Mr. MacJuggins remarked the other arrangement belween these two partles bat can day that many a man thinks he is seeing life easily imagine the cire matances that caused
formed near the surface, that his welled when he is really courting derth. Nothing our correspondent to address_1%,
ccoled above Does the up through the granite and
rock-in' fact walcanic, original about that, Mac; it is as common in Post-master know that Mr. Bohm is in the -an eruptive
Hence our island is volcepic in a certain Hongkong sa dollars are uncommonly scarce. habit of using the Prist-office launch when engaged in hit business as an hotel runner ↑
sense." It is quite cheering to be toll by the eming at la'e member of Her Majesty's Geological ACCORDING to the Manila Oceants, the various We do not for a moment believe that he does. „coasting steamship companies in the Philippines But Mr. Babe gets there romehow, Thisis not
Survey that "volcano is not a mountain; it is are so impoverished by the cutthroat competthe first time that complaints have been made
hole in the ground; a hole through which ❘tion of recent times that unless they manage to in fact some months back one of the laiding
molten rock has been forced up from below." arrange a "pool,” disaster must shortly fall on hot-ly wrote officially to the P. M. on the subjici
Bet f', he also affirms, "our dlorites or them
and for a time Mine Fesnomical. Host of ye
greensiones link us not only with earth's centre, Windsor Hotel had to find blc own way on board
but to that materious polar display of magnetic excitation, the Aurora," it is about time "our passenger steamers. The old symptoms have returned, however, and unless a remedy be
island was insured agales possible collision, speerily applied serious results may follow. It
Chapter 11 winds up in this fashion Is must be remembered that the Government there any reason why in the far future | steam Inunches of this Colony are maintained br
the clays and sands of granke "decay should the tax-payers and the tax-piyera havo a decided-
not be plunged so low beneath the face Geology emphatically answers No 1 And if so, objection to thele properly being prostituted. it comes to pass that the Post-office launch ones in the vale, and thus procisim not on y from those disintegrated semnants may arise Legitimate business has to barrotected and when
new grandles, as new heroes rose from the dry carrying important malls, etc., is made the vehicle of a public-house ranner. It is high time
that in the midst of Hle we are in death, but the that the lap was turned on. The Acting Fast.
more glorious gospel that in the midst of death master General should at once investigate this Geolory. but we heartily sympathic with we are in life." Amen 1 We are sorry for
Skrrichly.
It is reported from Japan that the wrecked Russian croiser Villas has now been virtually ahandoned. Strong hopes existed a short time since of rafting hes but a gale sprang up on the rath lost, doing so much damage that raising operations have been suspended.
township of Pilar (Philippines), on the 13th and A TYPHOON is reported to havo devastated the 14th fast It lasted more than twenty-four hours, Diterly wrecked the church, the court-house and eighty-one other buildings, and sank four sailing ships in the harbour with all hende.
We learn from the North that the notorious chief of a gang of sea pirstes and kill bandits, Chang Ming-chino, of Cheklang, was beheaded at Ningpo on the 10th Int. He had made him self the terror of the Cheklang sea-coast and on land for the past five years and was only exptured last March, ・・・
matter,
"OUR, ISLAND."
THE Comercio complaing that the French mail delivered in Manils on the 14th June took 48 At the Thomas Haabory School and Children's days to come out, having left Marcilles as long fabulously valuable tin deposits at Kowloon two Home, 15A, Boone Road, Shanghai, on the aandago as the 28th April. Probably it would be to Customs, of a son, who survived ble birth two fnstead of Stugapore, as the Far Eastern June, the wife of WILLIAM YOUNGSOR, LM, somebody's advantage if Hongkons were tried
bours.
"Clapham Junction" for Manila. THE band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Officers Mess Murray Harracks, this evening, com mending at 8 o'clock s
At Chefoo, on the 16th June, the wils of VYVVAN DENT, Imperial Maritime Customs, of
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TULSDAY, JUNE 27, 1893.
TELEGRAMS
Air de Balti
„Hersid.
*Thomas,
SMTai Clochar de Cornerila "... Plangistik.
Coola,
ANDERSON, the "Wizard of the North, was reported bela Manila some maibs ago, but bus not since been heard of until now; the latest papers from that part of the world seem to imply that he has been starring in the provinces, as the Comercio bursts inta poetry over, the existence in their midst of such a crowd ar Anderson, Canaris, Payne, and Jensen,, all to the magic las of haulness.
After quoting Mount Ararat, Darwls, Tierra del Fuego, the Incas and Pizarro, the Psalmist, Dante, Marco Polo, the Macedonian Philippus, an American bird the Turkey," the touch of the vanlibed band of the Phonidan, the risg of the Consider's. steel dylag on the beat, the Cretaceous, Miocene, and Roman, and Norman periods, Mr. Skenchly is satisfied that "here, better than in most places throughout South Chins, can be seen the Indigenous vegetation, which elsewhere has so largely been annihilated by the plant-destroying Chinaman."
Undoubtedly there is a great deal in the scheme; it is in the bands of practical men, it already has a sell!, unmistakable nuclear, and it will come to maturity. As soon as the intial steps have been taken. Ji may be parsible to estimate what the result will be like; at present, here seems almost no limit, and it is to bo sincerely hoped that the organisers will be well surpated though it must not he forgetron that up to a certain point, they support themselves With a generous palic, the present scheme is -an full of possibilities as the former one was of
impossiblities.
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NEWS BY THE American MAIL.
The following telegrams from our San Francisco exchanges were crowded out of last night's Issue:~~
LONDON, May 18th.
The cap'sin ol, the ship Eaton Hull, st Queenstown, reparts that he spoke on the voyage from San Francisco four Dundee whalers home. ward bound from the Antarctic Ocean. They reported the expedition very successful They had taken a great number of valuable soxis andi whales.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 18th. The official stilement of the Finance Minister declares that ik crops of the central provinces, where the famine occurred in 1891, are in excellent condition, but that elsewhere they are middling or donellsfactory,
TRIKETE, May zlth. - Il Picole publisher's dispatch from Nice to the effect that an American vamed (leb, killed having lost a fortune at Monte Carlo, himself in the Cafe Glacier in that cly after
BERLIN, May 28th.
The Kalmer, it is said, has ordered a perfectly modelled steel fortress from Krupp Teis his been erected at Potsdam naa playbig for the Crown Prince and his brothers. Thla ( oy, which, is destined to simulate the military mı dör of the Princes, has, it is sald, cost no less than. 2.000.000 marki.
LIVERPOOL, May 28th The British burk Goiford, just arrived from San Francisco, reports that in latitude 53 south,. longitude 49 west, she was surrounded by a large number of gigantic icebergs. Her captado, MoWilliams, warns captains of the other weavela bound round Cape Horn to and fro in Pacific poits to kenna course westward fron), the Cape
"Our Island; Naturalist's description of Hongkong," is the title of a little book of fifty-six pages, the author of which is Mr. Sydney B. 1. Skenchly, FGS,, M.A.I., late of H.M. Geological Survey. Mr. Sterichly, if we mistake not, is the geologist who discovered the years ago and wrote a report on the same which tin mines, by the way, have not yet produced the created considerable repastion-these, alleged
We have had about enough of this scientific results confidently anticipated by the discoverer; drivel-our readers will probably think they he is also the same gentleman who in the spring have had too much--and a few lines more of last year, accompanied Mr. Spencer Laisun, must finish our somewhat curiory review, at one time a reporter on the staff of this journal. To his concluding chapter Mr. Sketchly under-to latitude 45 south. and Mr. Kingsmill, of Shanghal, on a mining takes to show how Hongkong became an foland expedition to Tsinan, the capital of the Shantung and what that forularity is. And he contrasts province, which proved a fiasco; and he lo now before the public giving a course of lectures to the Odd Volumes" on "Evolation, especially relating to Men,” Whh these credentials, added to the mystie letters F. G. S., M. A. I, his experiences to H. M. Geological Survey, and a few months' residence in Hong. kong, this expert would appear to be thoroughly qualified to tell us all about our Island that we were not already acqunfated with, and a good deal more.
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THE "VICTORIA" DISASTER. PUITHER DETAILS,
Mr. Sydney B. J. Sketchly is an ambiilous LONDON, June 26
writer of the extreme flowery type-in fact, he to It has now been ascertained that four hundred
so fond of far-fetched metaphor that he frequently loses himself and the illustration be intends to Suggestions for the improvement of this work and twenty-two lives were lost by the sinking of
TO-DAY'S exchange list shows the dollar at convey in a maso of misapplied terms and mean sze respectfully solicited,
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The collision occurred at o'clock in the 21, 61d, for telegraphic transfer. Where now is ingless expressions. This may be Mr. Skertchly's the Hongkong Government with Bs gold loan, notion of artistic literary work, but it is not very afternoon,
based on an estimate of 29. xod. 10 the dollar ? high art, and is certainly much out of place in The Queen postponed a State Ball that was | Where are the poor allly inactiva ratepayers, what is stated to be a naturalist's description of to have taken place.
difcrence? Where are the ratepayers' reper face, which is really too unique to be allowed to The Governments of France, Germany, Italy socialves, who foresaw this yet could not stop pass zunoticed !-- i and the United States, wired: messigen of. And where in the OBrico with kis cheap
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PARIS, May 29th.
A death from a disease of cholovale nature le reported at Toulouse and one also at Names.
LONDON, May 19th. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, ion- fenced on Apill 13th to be imprisoned six weeks for having destroyed a document, which the wat permitted to examine by order af the court and which related to a pending contest over the will of the late Doks of Sutherland, was to-day released from Holloway Prison, Notwithstanding medical reports of the alarmisig condition of her health, owing to imprisonment, the Duchess looked well.
but a season, and with that of the tortoise whose span of life is countless years prates about the post who sang ibe everlasting hills," Byron and the ocean "boundless, endless and sublime-the image of Eteral y," "our last, lost loved lattreate, and quotes a stanza from "In Memolim, which he says he would bave altered if he dared attempt soch a sacrilege. But what he actually arrives at is this Hongkong was once connected with China, when it was insulated he doesn't know, but judging by analogy from the adjacent Ladrones,
The billiard match between Frank C. Ives, it was long ago to admit of the evolution of distinct pig-tailed rock monkey (Macacur the American champion, and John Roberts, Je Santti Johannis) whose dried bodies may be the English champion, began this evening, At seen in Chinese medicine shops. And that the close of play for the night Ives had acered is all Mr. Sketchly, F. G.S., M.A.1., ele, knows 68g points Roberts tooo, and he was siiil sboa: “Our Island, and summed up, it amounts playing, The game in 12,000 polats for $25,000 to vary little, certainly nothing of may vulgo to ja pido,
** Colonel J..T. Nesib, the "Nitrate King," has Thurd are twenty-thrée entitled "Rhopalocera Hongkongensis," a pra i effect that a hurricane had destroyed the mola Itminary ilet of the butterflies of the colony, with at the nitrate port of Junin and caused damage motorby Mr. Sherishly and Mo J. J. Walker, R. N., to tas amouna $150,000-
whose money will be, taken, fa make up the Hongkong, Hern in our pathor's modest pre- the present generation. redditional pages i received a cablegesm from Iquique, Chile, to the
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