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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893.

I bave the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

J. E. O'CONOR, Asst Seme, to the Govt of India,

such as Hercules might have band'ed, Elther | firms on whose hehalf you made the representa- is cheap at half a dollar, Nambarless postage- tion, may have to make. stamps are done up in bundles of a hundred at five cents a bundle, In odd contrast are sheets of paper on which ten stamps are pasted which cost twelve cents a sbrei. The proprietor, a meek little man in evident awe of his muscular wife, does not know whether he has 50,000 or 500,000 stamps. He is too busy or too lazy to count his stores.

There are other booths on this mad, sii neat, e'eas and Interesting. But to save time, tum sound and go back to the main street and travel parallel with the canal. Stop, If you like, at the old temple at whore base the road tur sharply at a sight angle. It is like others of its class, but a trifle older, gloomier and more worn and neglected. It is an appropilate illustration of the nailrs teilgion, poleg to ruin and oblivion. When you return from the temple, walk and have your ticksbaw follow yon. Of the hundreds of diminutive shops, you will quickly lenen which to avollard which to enter, The former are

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· THE LATEST CROSHING. The local Secretary of the Ranh Austra in Gold Mining Co. yesterday (August 2110) received a telegram from the manager at the mine, stating that there had been a rough clean- up of the battery for a yield of 1,950 ounces of ainsigem. The estimated quiniity of stone ernshed was put down at 4 30 tons. The battery bas recommepced crushing.

This makes three crushings within threa months and they run respectively as follows

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1,600 ezi amalgata from 380 tons. 1,300 21. maleam from 400 tons 1,950 011. amalgam from 430 tons

these which deal la American and English | This makes altogether a total of 4,850 ounces of goods, stoves, refrigerators, seaps, perfumery amalgam from saro tons of stone. It is roughly and the like. The latter deal chiefly in cheap estimated that this amalgam will produce some- japanese wares of all classes and kinds. In one thing like 1,750 ounces of smelted gold. All are chop-sticks-pet the substanilal bars used by this stuff is now lying at Raub, at the John Chisaman, but slender and graceful rods, Manager's quarters: bot WO Are Estured which suggest bodkins and knitting needles that there is inte or no fear of loss by They are made of baid woods, bamboo, horn, theft or raids. There is to be a final clean-up Ivory, steel and silver. The prices range from about the middle of September ; and, after that three cents to three dollars a pait. The prettiest has taken place it has been asserted that the of all are telescople, the burnished silver points quantity of gold to be brought to Singapore to aliding back into oxidized sliver handles, enrich the company's caffers will be about

3,300 ounces, 117 $70,000,--Straits Times.

In another shop are children's toys. They ale like and unlike thest used by our own little folks at home. There are dolls," but dolls with Mongolian characteristics of the most ex

geted kind fishes, ducks and frogs, which sie attracted by magnets, but the dishes are nblique-eyed and the ducks and frogs are built upon lines unknown in every other part of the world; tiny shoes, clogs and valippers: umbrellas, parasols en inch in diameter; plaster dragons resembling young elephants, and clay horses which would pass muster as house-dogs; fanny animals in plaited straw and split bamboo, so strong and durable that they will last a century; wooden and paper eggs and boxes, which when opened dlactose sli other eggs and boxes untli on the twentieth opening you come to a marble or a dice: mysterious whistles and trumpets, which, when blown, open a trap-door and throw out an loftated paper-fish or jumping-Jack; bamboo flutes and

horos, which produce unearthly discords at the

GREATEST FLOODS AND CYCLONES.

1848--New Od:ans, La, fonded; 1 600 houses under water through a break la the levees. 185a–During a serera rainstorm a cloud burst 'occurred in the bills above Holmfirth, England. The large reservoir there burst its banks and, the water pearing down the willey, levelled many milis, several vill-res and killed ninety persons,

1875—A

tremendous ga e in the Indian Ocean. Atany resvels lost. Remarkable escape of the Sarah Sands, a British troopship, with 300 soldiers on board,

1851-During heavy storm the sex broke through the Holland dikes and submerged over forty thousand peres; 100 lives lost,

1864-Tomado at Lisbon; a large part of the cly and all the shipping in the harbor destroyed;} religious processions ordered.

1864—A great cyclone at Calcutta ; a tidal wave; water role thirty feet is a fore moments; or seventeen thousand persons feowned.

1865-General and long-coutsnued storms la England and the Continent. It has been estimated that the storms it that spring cost the people of Euere £200,000,000

West Indies. Over 1,0co lives lost.

1870-Dicadful tornado in the Virgin Islands,

1872-Frightful floods to various parts of Italy; one third of Rome under water.

1874-Mili Kiver Valley, Mass., desolated by the bursting of a reservoir, 144 lives known to be lost. Pittsburg and Allegany much damaged; 410 persons drowned.

1875-Great Enrricane at Buda-Pesth; over 200 fires lost in the city and thrice that number In the country,

1875-Destructiva tornado on the Texa coast; Galveston and many other towns much damaged great loss of life.

1876 Most destrective cyclone on record in the Bay of Bengal, India'; 215,000 persons perfabed.

totally destroyed by a cloud-burst; ever 700 1878-The clay of Miskolcz. In Hegazy,

A.D. 61—A most destructive storm raged all over Europe and the Mediterranean for more than two weeks. This is supposed to be the stormves los', in which Paul was wrecked on the island of Malta.

393-Heavy rains in all parts of Europe. Over 3,coolves lost by floods in England and 10,000 In the Rhine Valley.

044-A terrible storm fa all parts of Europe: 1,500 houses blown down in London, 1,000 in Fatia ; nearly one ball of Rome destroyed,

root-A hurricane in the British Islands; goo houses blown down in London; much damage done in all parts of the island.

1315-A great storm In the English Channel; fleet and several thousand soldiers on their way to help john in his war with the Barons

were overwhelmed and lost.

14-Cloud-barats in Holland caused an overflow of the Meuse through the breaking of the dikes. In Dordrecht 10,000 PETSODE WCIC drowned, and over 100,000 in Friesland and Zealand.

1483-The "Great Waters 'in South England. Rains fell daily for three months and all the rivers everflowed. Over 6,000 14 are miles were submerged, and 10,000 people made homeless. the Hollaud elkes gave way in se res of places 1530--Darlag a heavy storm from the north at occe; a general inundation followed; 400,000 people were drowned; so serious was the calamity that the Hollanders discussed the pro-" priety of abandoning their country forever.

slightest breath; diminative armories where the swords and spears, shields and diggers are such as were worn by the Shoguna In forgotten years; Then there are picture stores, where we find very pretty Japanese drawings and very i ludicrous Here is a Holy imilailers of European ones. Family with the Madonos in a kimono, abi and clogs, and the infant Jesus with oblique eres, knock-knees and Japanese short jacket: along tide of it i. * Crucifixion, where the Man of Sorrows is a well-fed Daimio, the Remun guards two-sworded Samaral, and the muhitude Are.. Consistaci Yokohama boatmen, rickshaw-runners and farmer. There is nothing sealistic in this school of popular art. The same little Jap and the same costume may be Washington, Bismarck, Gladstone, the Czar or Jalias Cassar, according to the exigencies of the occasion. alon. Quite amusing are the counters where the women of the poorer classes buy their tollet and perional ornaments. The last of articles is

1536-A burricane on the east coast of Eng- as long as that of any fashionable establishment land and west coast of Norway ; 200 English in Patts. There is bair-was, perfumed soft-vessels lost with most of their crews. soap, balz-off, hair-die sing, hair-dye

and

pomade; there are plumpers ever which the bzir is drawn, combed and smoothed, combs wherewith to comb it and pads and cloths to amooth it. Then there are hair-pins of wood and metal, of cow-hoof, bamboo and tortoise shell; larger bair-pins and hat-ples with carved beads or swinging, pendants; batterflies, buds and flowers made from paper, silk and tinsel to decorate the head when the bar is dressed pads and rolls of fine tissue paper which takes the place of the bandkerchief in this part of the world; scents and icen fed powders ; queer look- Tooth-brushes that sesemble little brooms, and tongue-scrapers in every style jewelry of tortoiseshell, mother of pearl and colored stones. The cost of most of these articles is comically low, A fair outfit for the wife of a mechanic will consist of a silver pin, three bamboo plus, a tinsel butterfly, two paper flowers, a necklace, brooch and earrings, and cost 48 cents) DI 'this amount the silver pin cosis just one half,

The fan stores deserv's a few minutes visit.

1617-Inundations In Catalonia and other parts of Spain from, cloud-bursts in the moun tains; over 50,000 persors perished in Catalonia alone: 75.000 elsewhere in Spalu.

1753-"The Great Storm" is England; the most terrible ever known. In London alone the damage was estimated at $10,000,000. Over 8,000 lives were lost along the coast,

1717-General foundations to Holland. Im- me damage done at Hamburg and other

Dutch ellies. Over 10 000 Ilves lost.

1719-A snowstorm in Sweden; 7,000 troops marching through the mountains were over. whelmed and perfthed to a man,

1737-A cyclone to India; 600 vessels were wrecked on the coast and many foundered; 30 000 persona perished.

1768-A great hurricane in the West Indies. In Havana 4048 houses were destroyed and 1,200 people perished.

wrecked, with enormous loss of life. The 1775-Storm over Great Britain, 1,200 vessels opponents of the American war declared that the storme me as a judgment on the Government.

3780-Unprecedented barricane in the West Indies. Twelve Brilah men-of-war were wrecked

and over 1,600 sailors perished.

1783-Cyclone passed over Surat, in the East Indier all the shipping was destroyed and 7,000 lives were lost

There are the femillar bamboo and paper fans which cost a fraction of a cent and exquisitely Carved tortoiseshells which cost as high as ten dollars; slik ones, square, round, oval, heart-

1785-A cyclone passed over the richest dis- shaped, with palated or embroidered Agurestricts of France; 131 towns and villagen were plaited straw and split bamboo ones in colors so destroyed and 5.000 lives were lost; damago gaudy as to be almost oppressive to the eye, and estimated at $7,000,000, others magnificent in embroidered slik and inco, with ivory or tortoise-shell sticks. Then there are trick fans which have hallow handles or sticks, which open with a spring and often reveal queer interlars; comic fans, which are carved or painted to depict buffoons and buffoonery; children's fans, so small and light sa to seem toys to us larger barbarians of the East.”

Of interest are the confectioner, the grocer, the baker, the painter, carver, shoemaker, dry goods? dealer, the Jeweler, optician, silversmilk, crockery-seller and book dealer. With each there are so many detalls utterly novel and etterly different from thou of Europe and America, as to make a visit a genuine surprise

1787-Cloud-bursts in Navarre; over 2,000 livet lost in the terrents from the mountains,

18.0-A. storm passed over England and France; 700 vessels were lost and one district of London was levelled with the ground.

1802-During heavy rainstorm and cloud. burst the banks of a reservaje above Torca, in Spain, gave

gede mali over sixty square miles were

and 1,000 persany drowned, 1807-Awful cyclone and tidal wave at Caletta 30,000 houses destroyed; 90,000 Persons drowned; the living could not bury the dead, and a pesilience ensued in which 75,coo peraons perlaked,

1811-Tremendous fled in the Danube. The

as well as a delight. Nor is the effect lessened by City of Pesth flooded; twenty-six villages and the charming urbanity and kindliness wherewith

towns were submerged with enormous loss of you are welcomed and which bids you farewell,

ille. no matter whether you have been a heavy

1813-General Inundations in Austria, Hong, purchaser or merely one who comes for a "lockary, Poland, fervis and Bolgaris. The rains seo." Make the round if ever you visit continued the summer, the crops filled and Yokobama, You can do it in a day, but you snormous damage was done to property. Exte can do it far better by devoting to it an entire in September came a very andden frod. A Turklab corps of 3.00 men perished. In Silesia 6,000 persons were dipward.".

week.

THE CLOSING OF THE INDIAN MINTS,

The following correspondence has been cour teously forwarded for publication :-) To Mesure, David Sassoon, Sana & Co.,

Hongkong.

1814-Tremendous storm in England and Irefuad; 1,600 vassels lost in Great Britain and France; loss of life estimated at 6,000.

18:6—An awful gals on the English and French

castry ships at anchor were blown on shore and destroyed; over Roco lives lost.

1833-Great storms in Ireland; half of Dublin destroyed; Immense damage done in all parts of Simia, 9th August, 1893, Gentlemen, I am directed to acknowledge | the island. the receipt of your letter dated the 3rd July, 1293, 1828-Hanicaan at Gibraltar; mers than 100 on behalf of certain banks and fimmala Hongkong vessels wrecked in the bay. Mooth piracy was (addressed to His Excellency the Viceroy) discontlangd for a year, there being no ships left icgarding the effect on the trade between India | in Hazbary,

and China of the closing under the Indian 1629-Lundations at Danipig on acpqunt of Colnage and Paper Currency Act, 1893, of the broken dikes of the Vistpia: 4,000 hopies Indian Mi-ts to the coinage of silver for the destroyed, 10,000 head of cattle and 3,000 buman public.

beings drowned. 2. I am to say that the Governmark of India 1831-A hurricane at the Cape of Good Hope. fully recognise the great importance of the trade. The settlements were almost destroyed ; so between lodia and China. The injury, tempor serions was the damage that there was talk of ary to a great extent it is hoped, which the abandoning the colony. accent legislation might cause to, that trade was

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1879-Szegedia la Hungary was almost des- troyed; of 6,566 homes only 331 were left stand 150,000 were homeless. In the same year there log | 77 persons were drowned and in the district

were severa Korms, cloud-bursts and flode in

Spalo; over 3000 houses were destroyed in Murela; 1,000 lives were lost.

1820-Many destructive storms in Kansas,

Iowa, Illinois, Missoul and other States; loui estimated at $4000 000.

1882–Great floods in the Ohio and Mlucis.

appi; cormous damage done to property and many lives last. General subscriptions opened

In many cities for the flood sufferers.

1887-Great inundation of Yellow river, China; populous province of Honan flooded; enormous destruction of property; millions of persons drowned and perished from exposure and privation.

towns in the Conemaugh Valley, Penn, by the 1889-Destruction of Johnstown' and other bursing of a reservoir; loss of life about 3,000; damage to properly about $10,000,000,

18ga-Sicat inundation of Mississipp! and whole counties and districts flooded; thousands tributary rivers; hundreds of persons drowned; homeless; losses of property, many millions.

NEWS AND GOSSIP,

The German War Minister has decided that the handles of all batchels, axes and besieging material of the German Army must hereafter be made of American bickory wood.

Several fashionable ladies have appeared in. London driving with a feminine band-maiden instead of a footman behind them, the band- maiden arrayed in livery and buttons.

In France compulsory education is rigorously applied to sil cliser, and yet 7 per cent of the young men who wish to join the army are rejected because unable to read or write.

in the Government of Kazın at the present time a great competition is going on among Chemlats in the sale of charms, which are sup posed to act as a preventive against cholers.

Dr. Tomezoll, a noted Russian physician, is about to make publie what he claims to be positive cure for leprosy. The chief ingredient in the remedy is a whey obtained from sheep,

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To-day's Advertisements.

ZETLAND

No. $26

LODGE,

A REGULAR MEETING of the above HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 1st September, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely, Vitting Brethren are cordially invited.

Hoehne, tat. September. 180%.

LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS'

BAY VIEW HOTEL.

·ress

THE BAND of the Spanish Cruiser Krins Cristina (by permiliston) will Play on the Lawn in front of the BAY VIEW HOTEL this Evening, from 8 cutil 10.30 PM.

Hour know, 1st September, 1891. 1982

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI "THE Company's Steamship THE

"HAILOONG,"

Intimations.

CARMICHAEL & Co., LD.

BAVE JUST LANDED

ELEY'S CARTRIDGE CASES, DAGS and BELTS, NEW castle chilLED SHOT, SHOOTING STOCKINGS in ́great variety, DAWSON'S TAN LEATHER BOOTS and SHOES, BROWN CANVAS WALKING and TENNIS SHOES, DOG COLLARS in NICKÉL, BRASS ́and LEATHER, DOG CHAINS, &c.

Hongkong, 19th August, 1893,

CARMICHAEL & CO., LTD.

18, Praya Central, Hongkong.

THE

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HONGKONG HOTEL.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, "Kremlin "—A, B. C. Çoda—TELEPHONE, No. 32,

PROPRIETORS.............................................. THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.

Captain Rosch, will be despatched for the above Ports on SUNDAY, the 3rd instant, at Daylight.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL the most commons and best appointed Hotel in the Far East For Freight or Passage, amply to

affords unequalled accommodation to traweilers and others. It is situated in the centre of DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. the town, opposite the General Post Office and the Hongkong Club, adjacent to Pedder's Wharf General Managers. (the principal landing stage of the Colony) and in close proximity to the Banks and Shipping Hongkong, 1st September. 1801. f980 Offices.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

The HOTEL STEAM LAUNCH conveys passengers and baggage to and from all Mall Steamers. THE TABLE D'HOTE, at separate tables, is supplied with every delicacy, the cwisins being

under experienced supervision.

CALCUTTA

THE Steamship

"LIGHTNING,"

Captain J. G. Spence, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the stb instant, at | = P.M.

For Freight or Panare, apply to

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkons, 1st September. (803

FOR SINGAPORE AND PENANG. 'HE German Sicamer

THE

"DEUTEROS,"

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Captain W. A. Diase, will be despatched for

the above Ports on MONDAY, the ith instant, at 2 PM.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

KING WO CHEONG,

No. 32, Prays Central. Honokang, 1st September, 1893

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

"LIGHTNING "

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having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees THE Steamship

of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside. »

Carga Impeding the discharge or remaining on board after the and instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into the Godowns of the Wanchal Warehouse and Storage Com pany, Limited, Wanchai.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 1st September, 1893,

NOTICE,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

1973

THE BED-ROOMS, with adjoining Bath-rooms, are lofty and well ventilated, open an to

spacious Verandahs, are lighted by gas and fitted throughout with electric communicators. The Reading, Writing and Smoking Rooms, Ladies' Drawing Rooms, the new, Bar and public

BILLIARD ROOMS (Six English and American Tables) are fitted with every convenience. A handsomely appointed GRILL ROOM, where chops, steaks, &c, are served, at any hour

adjoins the HOTI, and is under the same Management. The WINES & SPIRITS are selected by an Expert and the BEST BRANDS only are supplied. HYDRAULIC ASCENDING ROOMS of the latest and most approved type convey passengers

and baggage from the Entrance Hall to each of the Sve floors above." NIGHT PORTERS and WATCHMEN are continually on duty, -

Hongkong, 12th February, 18Ŋa.

Hotels.

R. TUCKER

Manager.

Hotels.

STAG HOTEL.

NOTICE..

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THOTEL, situated at a height of red THE Undersigned begs to announce that

PEAK HOTEL.

OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

and well appointed above sea-level, having been Leased by the Proprietors of the "VICTORIA HOTEL," is Now OPEN and will be ran in conjunction with

Realdents. their HOTEL in Queen's Road, thus enabling them to offer special faducements to Visitors and

...$ 4.0O

$70 to 80,00 25.00

SUMMER RATES, One person, per week.......... One person, per day................................ One person, one month.... Married couple (occupying one room) per

day a

Married couple (occupying one room) per

week

Married couple (occupying one room) per

month........ For full particulars apply to

7,00

OPENED for BOARDERS.

the above Popular Hotel is now RE-

ventilated Bed-rooms, fitted with Douche and The STAG HOTEL has 16 Cool and well Shower Spray Baths and every convenience.

Having TWO BARS, Upper and Lower, also. First-class BILLIARD ROOM, visitors will find the Accommodation, all that can be desired. The Billiard Table is an excellent one, and only the best Liquors are kept. First-class Cutrina. BOARDERS by the Day, Month or Year an moderate terms

Application for same to be made to

L. C. AIREY, Proprietor.

45.00

* 110.00

Hongkong, arst August, 1803-

For Sale.

VICTORIA HOTEL Hongkong, 11th April, 1893.

1907

FOR SALE.

1933

BRANCH of the above-named Company THE WESTERN HOTEL, THE ONE FOURTH SHARE in that deal

has been OPENED on this date at HONGKONG, of which the Undersigned has been appointed MANAGER,

The OFFICE of the Company is at Nos. 1 & 1. Beaconsfield Arcado.

By Order,

H. U. JEFFRIES,

Manager. Hongkong 1st September, 1893-

MITSU BISHI COLLIERIES.

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Princess Ahmadee, of the royal family of Delhi, has gone upon the French operatic stage aNE ness and purity. Shels convert to Christianity, soprano. She has a flexibleirice of great sweet- a few weeks ago at Forismath in the furasceNCE is bette Bree company has been

Over a ton of tobacco and was borned FOTICE hereby given that the known as the Queen's Pip:," where all con- TRANSFERRED to the NIPPON YUSEN traband tobacco seized in Great Britain is des.. KASI troyed.

By Order,

H. U. JEFFRIES, Agent. Hongkong, 31st August, 1893. NOTICE.

MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

Á law is to be promulgated in Russia this summer trobibiting the transfer of land in the possession of rural communities, or individual peasants, to persons not belonging to the rural population,

Mormonism has taken a considerable hold in New Zealand, mainly among the Maods, the latest statistics showing the sect to have 3,176 members in Now Zalsed, of whem 235 are Europeans.

At the Mont de Pié &, the big Government pawnshop of Paris, almost 2,000 saucepans were pawned fat year, Bed sheets were the most numerons of the pswred goods, no less than 91,194 paire appearing on the list.

Daniel Colladon, whose death at Gapeva occurred recently, was one of Swizerland's most famous men. He first lighted Geneva with gif in 1843 (he was then forty-one years old) and afterward invented the "fairy fountain.

James Berry, the English ex-executioner, hes reached the end of his rope as a lecturer, and is

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R. CHAU TSEUNG FAT has been appointed SECRETARY to the above Company, vice Mr. WOO LIN YUEN, deceased.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

(KWAN ́HOI CHUEN), Managing Director. Hongkong, 1st September, 1803-

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To be Let.

TO LET.

anxious to drop back on the other platform. He DWELLING HOUSES:-

appealing to the sheriffs in the United King dom to give him a fresh start la fe," a be mrk by helping others to start out of it

The German Government has bought the Faroesa Palace in Rome, and will establish in it a school of fine arts for German paintent and sculptors. The palace belonged to the Naples branch of the Bourtons, and is a splendid eld structure, though mech in need of repairs,

Influenza is believed to be dying out in Londen, after being more or less prevalent since the first outbreak over tha world several years ago. For a considerable tima the number of deaths from the malady have been about twenty a wosk. Daring the deaths occurred. week of Juce only six such

divided into nice classes. When one of these The King of Assam bas 200 wives, who arn ladice dies, her body is let down ever the palace walis, and then buried; it is against the law for a dead body to be carried out through the palice doors. At the King's death, his consorts receive permission to remarry themselves to any of bis subjects.

The manufacture of the new cable to be laid between Lubon and the Azores was begun on June 19th. It will be laid in September, and le expected to be in full working order by the middle of November. The cable is considered of meteorological importance, as the Island of

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"BURNBRAZ Glonealy, *THE WILDERNESS," Caine Road, "NORMAN COTTAGE," Robinson

Road.

RIPON TERRACE—Bonham Road Nos. 4, 8 and 9, CHANCERY LANE, FLOORS in Blue Buildings, FLOORS is Elgin Street, Peel Street

and Staunton Street,

FLOORS in No. 4, Shelley Street.

Hoi 14 KNUTSFORD TERRACE,

Kowloon,

No. 6, VICTORIA VIEW, Kowloon.

QUEEN'S ROAD WEST,

OLD "EEN" PRESIDES.

A QUIET AND COMFORTABLE HOME

FOR MEN OF THE MERCANTILE, MARINE,

The very best LIQUORS and ACCOMMODA.

TION. *

Froperly known as "CONNAUGHT HOVER," belonging to the Estate of JOHN ALEXANDER MÖSELY, Deceased

For Particulars, apply to

V. H. DEACON, Solicitor to the Executors. Hongkong, 30th August, 1893-

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“AQUARIUS.”

They come as Strangers but leave as Friends." THE TABLE WATER OF THE EAST,"

BEN. FRANKLIN TAYLOR,

Proprietor.

Per 1 doren quarts, $1.75, less allowance on

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Per

Hongkong, 18th March, 1893. HAUENSTEIN'S HOTEL,

THIS

A MOY.

@HIS Fint-class FAMILY HOTEL is situated on the beach at KULANGSOO

and has First-class Accommodation for Visitors, An EXCELLENT TAHLE Is kept, and WINES, SPIRITS, and MALT LIQUORS of

he very best quality.

Terma Modernis,

Amoy, 1st September, 1892.

R. HELLWIG, Proprietor.

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empties returned to our Godawns, $0.50. Net price, $1.75,

doxen plats, $1.00, less allowance on

empties returned to our Godowns, $0.25. Net price, $0.75

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co.

Sole Agents.

13, Queen's Road,

Hongkong, 8th August, 1893.

"THE TYPHOONS OF THE EASTERN SEAS."

A REVIEW, by

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THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL PALMIR, RE

PRICE .............THIRTY CENTS. TAKARADZUKA, HOTEL. Ore Offce of

NLY few Copies left, to be oftained at

"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"

Pedder's HilL Hongkong, 10th August, 1893-

ONE HOUR AND A HALF FROM KOBE, ViS. NITHENOMIYA, EXCELLENT CUISINE AND CELLAR. LOVELY SCENERY AND COOL NIGHTS.

"HE IRON MINERAL BATHS and TWATERS are highly recommended by the Medical Faculty for Gout, Rheumatism, | Chlorosis, Eczema and other affections.

For terms and particulars, apply to

Miss A. HUGHES, 4191

Manageress.

FUJIYA HOTEL,

MIYANOSHITA, HAKONE.

Four and a half hours from Yokokama. Nos. 11 and 12, COOMBE ROYAL FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION.

Kagadne Gap Fornished.

OFFICES :—

FIRST and SECOND FLOORS No. 4 Recent Read Central, over the Back of China, Japan and Straits, Limited. PRAYA CENTRAL2 over Mess, Dos

glas Lapralk & Ca GODOWNS

BLUE BUILDINGS. THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

Apply to

& AGENCY Co., Lth. Hangfour, Int September, 1803.

TO LET.

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