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Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO., LD.

WARM CLOTHES,

THESE will all be spoilt before next cold" weather unless properly laken care of.

NAPHTHALINE

Is the best thing to keep away Moths, de, and prevent clothes smelling fasty,

FIFTY CENTS PER TIN.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 6th April, 1894-

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1894.

Entimations.

Our lowest priced Whisky is of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands in the market. We recommend our customers not daferred by the lowness of price from trying them all. For a soda whisky, Thorne's and Watson's Glenorchy are equal to any our-Glenlives is a very old Pent Whisky

A John Jameson's Old, Green

Capsule.....

B John Jameson's Flat Old,

Green Capsule.

C Jahn Jameson's Very Fine

Oid, Green Capaas.........

$13.00

15.00

18.00

4:

Da Doberck's ralu-gauge shows that an inch of SOME one said to Prince Bismarck that he had rain fell here between sünnet last night and nom an iron constitution. "Iron, yes, bat_rusty," today.

retorted the ex-Chancellor. A JAPANESE vernacular paper pubiishes what FRIVATE letters have been received from Aden purports to be the result of the official Isqntry to the effect that three sergeants had died on into the defects to Yokohama breakwater. Out the troopship Himalaya, and sixteen men of the of 13,000 concrete blocks, only 500 are cracked, Royal Artillery were la hospital there from the ibis month, and completed probably twolvo serviceable above water. Work is to be resumed who was exceedingly popular here. the majority but alightly, and cally to be made same vessel Among the dead Jn Sgt. Evans, months hence.

At the Maglancy this afternoon Mr. H. E Wodehouse Beld an Inquiry into the circum stances connected with the fire that originated in No. 136, Bonham Strand West on Wednesday sight, with disastrous results to six other houser in the vicinity. No evidence of a compromising nature being produced, and the police having a spicions, bis Worship ordered the release of the premises.

In the Supreme Court yesterday :--

Debtor (Chinese woman) You your lordship, Lidmlt owing the money, but I left my infant daughter with the plaintiff in Canton

security, so it is all right.

of

children in this Counti His lordship Oh, bat we can't take deposits

All these are very fine and old. C has been stocked to Hongkong in wood for 20 year, there being little sale for irish Whisky in the } public funds, being 8500 as compensation THE oldest dressmaker's blil in the world has/ From an insurance polat of view the losses were

Colony,

| AMERICAN-

Genuine Bourbon Whisky, Fine Old, Red Capsule, with our Name and Trade Mark

$15.00

Sample bottles and smaller qaratitles will be applied at proportionate wholesale rates.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirit to be genuine when bought direct from as in the 136 Colony, or from our authored Agents at the

Coast Ports.

GIN

WINES AND SPIRITS.

On and after the 1st April, 1894, the Prices of our WINES and SPIRT'S will be as follows:-

For dozen Caso,

PORT. (For Invalids and general Use.)

B Vintage, superior quality, Red-

Capule..........

$14.40

C Fined Vintage, superior quality, Black Seal Capsula

16.20

D Very Fine Old Vintage, extre anpeiss, Vinlet Capsule

(O4 Rottled) .................................

30.40

Port after removal should be rested for month before use. Wine required for drinking at once hould be ordered to be descanted at the Dispen- sary before sent out. These wines are too well known to need commert

"choked off" by the Colonial Secretary; and' when he attempted to go further in the matter by moving for a Commission to inquire into the whole question of the Opium Farm and Ordinances, the Governor abruptly closed the ses fon and went away to Japan. facts which have already come to the This is the shortest possible rhum of le could not be replaced in stock at the pricknowledge of the public through our D and E are too well known to need commisat IRISH

columns. We now learn that by the last Perdones Cut. English mall (March 25th) a despatch was received by Mr. G. T. M. Ó'But, Colonial Secretary and acting Governor, from the Secretary of State, directing that sec. 38 and 39 of Ord. 22 of 1891 be amended as soon as possible in the direction proved necessary by the Company's memorial; and that LOGAN be pald 8537 out of the for his unjust imprisonment, and 37 as the Per dar amount for which his property was sold. under distraint towards paying the costs of the appeal.

The above record of events might well side points, all of importance in their way be amplified by the mention of numerous but we must be brief. There are several valuable lessons to be learnt from the history of the Looan CASE. In the first place, we have always protested vehemently against the folly of the Oplum policy pursued by the Hongkong Govern- ment, and this affair strengthens our contention at every step; the prevention of smuggling can never be effected by such incompetent tinkers as the Hongkong Legislature, and indeed the ablest men an Good Leeward Island.......

earth would have their work cut out if Goed Leeward Island...$2.50 per Galion, they tackled the problem. The Iniquitous Sample bottles and smaller quantitles will be agreement negotiated by Sir Jroa RussLL tupplied at proportionate wholesale rates. between the British and Chinese Govern- We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits toments is a millstone round our necks, as brenulae when bought direct from us in the the local authorities will of a certainty find Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the out--though, as usual, they are sure to

LIQUEURS.

be too late in making the discovery; it is already patent enough to any ordinary Heering's Cherry Cordial, man of Intelligence, but officials are not Dr. Sieger's Angostura ordinary mortals. In the second place, when novices are appointed to dispense Justice, they cannot fall to administer some degree of injustice with it; Mr. HASTINGS is no doubt an excellent officer and a may do better than many, but there is no getting over hard facts, and Lord RIPON's dispatch conclusively shows that Logan was unjustly treated; he was punished for the amateur magistrate's Ignorance of law. We have expressed our opinion of this previously, and what we said then (December 2nd, 1893) cannot be improved

Per dosen C A Flue Old Tom, White Capsule $7.za B Flac Unsweetened, White

7,00

Capsule

RUM. Finest Old Jamalca, Violet

Capsule......

Coast Ports,

Benedicine, Caraços, Chartreuse,

.

Maraschino,

Bitters, &c.

PRICES ON APPLICATION.

$15.00

6.00

THEX losses by fire to Chicago last year aggie- gated $3.900,000, the largest sum in thirty years. The percentage of loss to premiums was do.

percentages for those years having been 98, 88 relatively heavier in 1887, 1885 and 1874-the and 83 respectively.

been discovered on a Chaldean tablet, dating 1800 B. C. It has an entry of "ga pure vest. ments for the priests. Among the items are "ten white robes of the Temple, sight robes d'ACCORDING to latest estimates the proposed ship- his lady, ten pair of gold collars, two white robe: the Atlantic with the Mediterranean, will be 30 the house of his lady, ten collars of the house of canal from Bordeaux to Narbonne, connecting

Before this discovery, the oldest account of this Receipts at 75 cents a ton would, it is said, give and four scented rabes." Also "two winders," miles long, from 144 to 115 feet wide, from 28 to probably scarft for binding about the waist. 13 feet deep, have 31 locks and cost $152,000,000. sent was on a tablet dating over 1400 B. C.

a net locome of 5 per cent, on the cost. Last night Mr. J. Monroe, the popular manager IN the police court of the Royal Naval Seamen's Club, Wanchal, Wodehouse, Ho Shan Shio, a resident of Jervels to-day, before Mr. was entertained by upwards of forty friends, Street, was fined $25 for leaving two laps members of ships' companies and residents, at a running in bis house yesterday. For every such dinner in the Club, after which he was pre-case detected and punished there are probably- dated with two gold slags and gold locket in fact, there must be dezcos never known. Why desired to do honour to him on the eve of his establish a meter system, with payment by subscribed for by his numerous admirers who does the Government so obstinately refuse to departure for the auld countrle in the Tamar,measure?

HONGKONG POLO CLUB SKY

MEETING, 1894.

X.C.M.G.

President :-Governor Sie Willi

Patrons-Vice-Admira) the Wöf: S

Fremantle, K.C.B.; Major-General Digby Pušų, C.B.

Committed:-The Hoa. T. H. Whitehead 1 Captain A. H. Thomas, A.SC.; Captain W. H. Murray C. E. Ruck-Keene, Esq.

Honorary Siwitary and Treasurer :-F. H. May, Esq.

Judge-Major Acheion Lyle, S.L.I. Starter-H. E. R. Hunter, Esq. Clark of Scales-Captain W, H. Manay. Clerk of the Course:~Captain A. HI, Thomas, : A.S.C.

T. F. Hough, Eaq.

Handicappers:-The Hon. J. J. Keswick;

Valso

SATURDAY,-7TH APRIL, 1894.

"Kaiser*

Galepe

„Harensis.

William Buca cest Macal

Waldtoufel Sir A. Salliras.

·Medley Overtura... "Camaynila". Lakers.****** Hanszat,

"Pepita Selection.The Great*****

HALF-MILE RACE; prize presented; for all

Selection."Utopla, Woland “.. Marurkaanse de CoachesMichels. "La Carina "

China pooles weight for inches as per scale, with izlba added; subscription griffin of 1893-94 allowed 7iba; bond fide polo poules and backs allowed 12lbs; second to receive Mr. Ruck-Keene's g. Exchange, 11st, q'b......

$10 third to save stake; entrance, $3.

Mr. J. D. Humphreyu' g. Swift, 11st. alb......

Capt. Thomas I

Mr. Copenhagens'b. Elsinore, 1st. gib......

Mr. Hart Buck 2

Mr. Neilsen 3 Exchange was a hot favorite. At the fourth attemp! Swift was the first to show in advance,.

POLO SCURRY; quarter walls i prize presented by the Polo Club; for all bona fide polo ponies; catch weights over sast, zibs.; second to save stake; entrance, $5.

Mr. Salep's g. Iron Dak..............Major Lyla 1 Captain Thomas'b, Stonehenge, Capt. Thomas 3 Mr.F. H. May'ng, Sweet William, Capt. Mumay 3 Duke got a trifle the best of the start, and making Odds of 3 to 1 were laid on Stonehenge. Iron

from the favorite, with Sweet William a bad third. Time, 33 seconds. ONE MILE HANDICAP, & fereed entry for all

Sample, hottles and smaller quantities will be A. S. WATSON & CO., Lugallant sailor, but law is not his forte; he. Itle to report from Hawall. The political A committee has been appolated to make in all the running won very easily by two lengths.

supplied at proportionate wholesale rates,

We only ra te ont Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us la the Calony. cr fem ou authorised Agents at the Coast Puris

SHERR Y.

Per dozen Cria.

B Superior Pale Dry, dinner

wn fireen Seal Capsule. $10.80

C Mazala, Pale Natural Soey, White Capsule...

12.00

CC Superlat Old Dry, Pale

Natural Sberry, Red Seal Cap the................................ D Very Supelor old Pile Dry, choice Old Wine, Whits Seal Capeute

E Extra Superior 01 Pale Dry,

12.00

14.40

very finest lity. Black SalCapsule (O'd Bottled) 20.40

B, C, and CC are excellent dinner wines or

for luvas and delicate stomachs. D and E are after dinner wines of a very superior vintage.

All are trac Xres wines,

Sumple bolites and smaller quasites will be

supted at proportionate wholcanic rates.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be gervine, when bought direct from us in the Colony, or from our Authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.

甫

CLARET.

Per Per Case Oasa 1 doc. e das, Quarts Flats

St. Estephe, Red Capsule......$ 6.96 7.56 St. Jalles, Red Capsule

D La Rose, Red Capsule...

Sainte Foy.........

Contacera

HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 30th March, 1894.

he

Hongkong Celegraph.

on leave. Mr. Monros suitably acknowledged An authoritative estimatu fixes the amount of but after going about a hundred yards Exchange the souvenirs, and then assisted materially in drinking water thrown away on Wednesday's rushed up on the rails, and before the village the musical part of the programme. THE Transvaal nine of South Africa is said to gutter in attempts to reach the fire at eight the straight Swift for a few atildes showed pro- fire-or, rather, not on the fire at all, but into theas reached had drawn clear. At the turn into be one of the largest subterranean gold mines in million six hundred thousand gallons. We would minently, but ball-way down Exchange had the the world. There are four and a half miles of not have thought there was so much in the race in hand and coming away by himself won drives underground along the reefs. Three reservoirs, but we are bound to believe what we cally by six lengths; Elsinore was a good vertical shafts of 400 feet have been sunk, and are told on the best authority. Yet never a

third. Times, 31) and 63 seconds. the fourth, fifth and sixth levels are well deve segle jagful of this fresh water need have been offt. There are 400,000 tons of ore ready for it was taken. The superintendent of the Fire loped. The ore is low grade, but there is plenty taken from the mains, nor was it any was when willing, enough to keep all the stamps in full Brigade is a marvellously typical Civil Service operation for twelve months. Africa has become cadet. an important source of gold sopply for the world, and the maximum of production in that THR Nicht Nicht stater that the total amount of Country is yet to be reached.

money given by the Mikado to the families of the Kugs, or Court nobles, on the occasion of THE Japan Dally Advertiser says:-There Is the Imperial Silver Wedding, was 1,900,000 yen. situation remains unchanged. The fine American vestigations and apportion the donations. It is barquentine Hills, bound from Newcastle, proposed to give 3000 yen to each of the NSW. to Honolulu with a cargo of coal, was familles of princes and marquises where finance 27th. All the crew were saved-The fire libel rask, 20,000 yen to the familles of Counts and wrecked on the island of Hawill on February we lasufficient to malaisto the dignity of their cases against the editor of the Star have come to 10,000 yen to those of Viscounts. The presents nothing, the defendant being granted a dis are to be made in the form of Government bonds, charge in consequence of the time for present or shares in sound and reliable companies; the Ing the indictments having lapsed. Some toads or shares to be retained in the custody comment has been evoked in Honolulu by the of the Imperial Household Department for fifteen action of a native judge in North Kona, years, during which period 70 per cent, of the ordinary charge of gambling, and Inflicted on respective families, the remaining go per cent. who convicted eleven Japanese o theaterést or dividends will be paid to the pine of them a fine of $100 aplece. The other being retained and added to the principal. After two came off easier. The onlocky Japanese the expiration of the fifteen years the whole of were about to be shipped off to the Volcano road the principal, with the accumulated interent, in taken sixteen months to work it out, their job familles concerned. to work off the fine, though as it would have to be presented as hereditary property to the

stated that an appeal has been made. would have probably outlasted the road. It is

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1894.

now:- WHO IS IT PAYS THE PIPER? That the magistrate acted witra viras was proved in the Appeal Court, and that he ought Or June 5th, 1893, JAMES HENRY LOOAN, & to have been made the defendant in the salt po "preventive officer" employed by the ane can reasonably doubl, for it was Mr. Hast- Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboating in reality who took the aplum from the claimants, who were customers of the Opium Company to detect opium-armuggling an Farmer. Yet Logan, against whom the appeal their vessels and so save them from the went, was mulcted in over $100 as costs of the possible penalty of confiscation, discovered legal proceedings, and being unable to pay that two tins of prepared opium, each contain- sam was "sold up the proceeds of the ing about 125 taels, among the baggage sale of his goods and chattels befag loafficient of LAX Yix and LAM SIU, who were the very magistrate who had made the original to liquidate the costs, he was brought before Falshan, bound for Canton. This opium was proceedings, for further punishment, and by bim embarked as passengers on the steamer mistake which led to the costly Supreme Cost not, entered on the manifest, and so was imprisoned for three days! In indicting discovered by the I. M. Customs searchers merely nominal sentence Mr. Hastings showed on arrival in Canton it would have rendered his sound sente, although three hours would the vessel and cargo liable to confiscation, have met the requirements of the law equally or to a fine in the discretion of the native well, and if this sort of justice does not mean the authorities. After the opium was unearthed manufacture of criminals we should like to know what it is. Ferhaps it may be contended by LOGAN, the two Owners produced that it was burlesque of the law. If so, it is a 9.00 9.60 "permits" from the Hau Fook hong, pity that the Magistrate did not take upon him- 1196 13.93 lessees of the Hongkong oplum monopoly, self the burden of the title-rdle, just to complete 7 20 7.93 sanctioning possession of the 250 taels, the farce and make it as thorough a success as **** 960 10.44 | The Hongkong Government, honestly possible under the circumstances. Chiesa d'Anglade 13.20 14.40 endeavouring In its own dunderheaded,

The net result of this combination of Cta eau Haut Brion Larrivet 18.50 19.20 bungling, stupid way to check smuggling, incapacity on the part of Attorney. Chad Mouton d'Armail.

bacq........... .....21.00 22.30 has enacted various Opium Ordinances, in General and Magistrate (for the Secretary Our Clarets, including the lowest priced, are one of which (sec. 38, ord. 21 of 1891) there of State has practically censured both by guuraniced to be the genuine product of the are references to non-déclaration in mani- reversing their action) is that the Colony has Juice of the grape, and are not stificially made fest, and forfeiture of non-declared opium. again to pay for the blunders of its officers į from raisins and currants, as is generally the What the legislative genius who framed and still we cannot rid ourselves of these Case with cheap wines,

the law meant, heaven only knows; but costly incapables. The Hongkong Tigraph, Sample bottles and smaller quantities will be Logix took it to mean that this particular on behalf of the ratepayers, has protested applied at proportionate wholesale rates.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to

ot of 250 taels belonging to LAM YIx and incessantly against the system under which Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the the simple fact of its being undeclared on Street are dumped here; but all the same Const Ports.

the manifest. Accordingly he brought they stay with us, and cost us money. Mr. Per Per the case before the acting police MITCHELL-INNES is another example, and magistrate, Comr. W. C. H. HASTINGS, a far more expensive one. All attempts Quarts. Pisis. R.N., who at that time was a very at Improvement are douted; Mr. War-Kags province, and the Hithara mine, in Faku-another act of patriotism further commending 20.00

raw amateur on the bench. Mr. HASTINGS HEAD has done his best, and all that the 24:00 —

upheld Looks's contention, and confiscated Governor does is to run away, so as to the apium. The two Chinese appealed avoid the present exposure by Lord Ripon. and on the 8th August the Full Court We sincerely trust that the member for decided that the magistrate had clearly the Chamber of Commerce will return to misunderstood the wording of the law; the the charge as early as possible and insist oplum must be returned and LoGAR must on thrashing the thing out in Counci. MADEIRA AND CHAMPAGNE.

pay the costs. As it happened, he was noi a Government servant, nor recognised -Full particulars of the various Brands on in any way as an official, so that the

application.

Attorney Generalwas savedthe humillation" BRAND Y.

of having to appear in the case and see the THE SEAL FISHERIES BILL Fer doses Cass.fruits of his own inimitable clumsiness at

LONDON, Apil ¡th. $14.40

law-making. Another result of Logan'i The Bill introduced by Sir Charles Russait stalus, or want of status, was that he to legalise the award of the Behring Sea became personally responsible for the Commissions and regulate" future selling to coats--some B250. Being a poor man, he those water bas passed the second reading in could not pay; his employers, being & "conscienceless company," held out for "principle at any cost," aince the cost did The force of the recent bomb explosion in not fall on them. As VOLTAIRE said, "It is Paris was something terrific. Many of the but not in a looking-glass." So the H.K. were also hundreds elsewhere in the street, grand to see a martyr In a just cause-windowa were smashed in the Senate Home, RE

C. & M. S. Co. refused to pay the costs in their servant's case, and in due course he

ARREST OF AN ANARCHIST, The anarcblat Meunier, believed to be was brought before the magistrate, on implicated in the Paris explosion, has been days for non-payment. By a strange Irony resistance. November 11th, and sent to gaol for three arrested in London; be offered a desperate

the field

rising

China ponies entered at this meeting (except in races and 7); entrance, $1; entries left la after the 4th of April, $4 exira; entrance fees with $10 added to go to the winner; second Mr. Cruickshank's g. Havoc, TIL. 4..... to receive $10. Third, to save stake.

Mr. Taylor's g. Thunderbolt (late Volin, late

Mr. Master I

Mr. Caraibers' . Nero, 11st. Blb............

Thunderbolt) 11st. 3lb.......Mr. Taylor z

Mr. R. Fraser-Smith's g. Catterthus, sa st.

Mr. Cruickshark 3 Tolb.........................Capt. Thoma Thunderbolt was backed at evens, again st the field. To a good start the favorite cat a at the There was considerable adversa comment on. work next the rails, with Nero next and I iavod Ave it came to pass that, as a punishment for when the steamships New York and Paris relative positions were maintained

the American Line, saya the Marine Journal, and Catterthun bringing up the rear, Thess bheid from the inhabitants of Hongkong foreigners were not at once discharged from the und th their Innumerable shortcomings, the rains were

for the were first brought under our flag, because all first half of the journey, but on nights, and there was great tribulation and to wholly constitute the ships crews. The of the lead, and led into the straight whiba two Taland for one hundred and thirty days and employ and American citizens taken on instead and at the Reck Havoc deprived Thunderbolt took clasc order,

inconvenience; esll-doers died in scores, but the company might have made reply by a cen. length advantage. At the mile past Tha ader. righteous lived until at length the Prophet trast with the American navy, in which the bolt made his effort, but failed to get on terms, Doberck on the sixth day of the fourth month to majority of the men are not only anything but and Havoc, ridden out to the end, passed the post the year ofour Lord eighteen hundred and ninety American citizens, but stand no chance under three lengths in front, the others pulling up at four spake (in his dally weather report these existing laws of becoming citizens wille serving the finish. Times, 34, 67, .40 and 2.15. words, saying: "Weather unsettled, Probably on a war ship, which they would have, though, if THREE-QUARTER-HILE RACE; prize presented; rain." Then, the sky became black, the burning they served on an American merchant vessel a sun was obscured (la fact eclipsed entirely) certain time after taking out their naturalisation

for subscription griffins of any year ; weight and ere the first "cock crow of the morrow, papers. But the company, while decllaing to

for inches as per scale; winners and placed thunders roared throuehost the island, lightning take the public into their business secrets, made

ponies at any ace meeting in Hongkong or flashed, the gates of heaven were barst asunder ao explanation, nor were they swerved from their

Chios (off-day: not to count) rolbs. and and rala poured down upon the thirsty land, and course of action, which, by recent developmenis,

5lbs, extra, respectively; penakies accumuls great was the fall thereof, and all mes rejoiced shows them to be fully and thoroughly American,

live; second to receive $10.; third to save exceedingly. Ah-men 1

stake; entrance, $t. Not only are they now doing all the work of Mr. R. Fraser-Smith's bik. Luginsland, rost. glb. MANUFACTURES are apparently on a boom in docking and over-hauling these ships at an

(car. 10st. 13b) Mr. Taylor r Japan as they should be, considering the state American port, the annual overhaul of such Mr. David's g. Sliver King, fast 71b. ayer of exchange and the marvellous cheapness of rastlantic liners being hitherto unknown good labour. From various papers we note that this side of the ocean, but we find that Mr. Cruickshank's d. Gusgadees, 10st. 12ib. Mr. Manners on the zand March an application was made the crews are being changed from their foreign

Mr. Cruickshank 3 chants of Osaka to establish a company with New York for her orerbanting at Newport Mr. Blank's g. Exit, 11st, 6b, Mr. Master... to the prefectural authorities by loading mer complexion. Prior to the departure of the Mr. Salos g. Blefum, rost.glb, Capt. Hont o 300,000 yax capital for manufacturing steel and News the entire crew of her engine department Mr. J. D. Humphreys' in. Vigilant, 101t. ralb, pig-tron at Sakai, near Osaka. Arrangements or transferred to another ship to be taken home to England and paid off there, while a

Mr. Hart-Back o Vigilant was very troublesome at the post, of sugar mill at Yacyama, Okinawa prefecture, with a caplial of 750.000 yen, divided take the ship down to Newport News, with the galloped ball-way as the Black Rock fill, and into shares of 50 yrs sach. Another project on race that if satisfactory they would be fag fell with Vigilant hopelessly left bebind and foot is a new miang Company, with a capital of retained afterward and the preference given to Luginsland facing the wrong way. The latter 1,000,000 yen, to work the silver mines of Karstan, Americans of equal ability hereafter. "This

roan's chance of victory was quickly started in pursuit, but the speedy shima province. These mines have been this Hae to the patronsge and best wishes of all maffed out. Gurgade led the way, with previously worked on a capital of 200,000 yen America. The managers are resisting all Exlis and Silver King in close pursuit, Biafiam The company is to be floated upon half the temptations towards asslideg other nations. And Exile following in close order, and the capital named, which will subsequently berised THE Earl of Dunmore, a Scottish cadet of the to its full amount. A gold mine is also maid to grand old house of Murray--they still swear by both Bladem and Gungadees hung on to his Hittle black whipping in. Half a mile from Herald doubts its value.

home Silver Klog was sent to the front, but have been found in Bange province, but the the loyal Tullibardine, who unfurled Frince

'Charlie's Inckless banner at Glenfinnan In the quarters, and this trio entered the straight on AT the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. H. E. forty-five has been in Hongkong for some days almost equal terms, with Lagiosland rapidly Wodehouse, police constable Colin Rae charged past, and has been, of course, treated as if he Luginsland came with a rush, and just manag making upible Ice-way. At the mile starting post Messrs. Arnhold, Kurberg & Co., merchants, with were an ordinary second-class globe-trotter having stored kerosene in tins on the Wharf at that is by the self-constituted /iffs of this electro-leg to get a clear run between Šlver Klog Tal-kok-ul on the nights of the 27th and 18th plated monument of Bliain's weakness, almost last fifty yards and won easily by two lengthsg and Gungerdeen, he came right away in the March, contrary to the Dangerous Goods Ordin- bordering on imbecility. Lords and

Books' ance. The evidence showed that the conating and other extraordinary specimens of what the | A fair third, - Times, 33. 65, and 1.391. steamer Trifos wii alongside the wharf, taking Americans very accurately describe as tramps" | HURDLE RACE I prise presented; for all Chian in a cargo of kerosene and matting, and also a na rare birds in Hongkong; but it certainly collag her bankers. There were between 5,500 is rarity to find an Earl--and a Scotiab Ead and 2,000 cases of kerosene, each containing at that who forgets the accident of birth and about five gallons, and some of them leaking, relles what he has done in the on the wharf; and alongside there were world for the credit of the name he six or eight cargo-boats full of matting, and beara. Fincastle" has mada a coal lighter. The mala deck of the steamer for himself by his own exertions that places him | Mr. Manners' g. The Shifter, rast, glb, Mr. May a was crowded with Chinese passengers. Yet his higher in the estimation of the workers and Worship accepted the defendants' mesurance that thinkers of the world than the vapid political it would not occur again, and dismissed the inconsistencies, so prevalent lately, of a hundred chugel This is just the sort of thing that Earis. Lord Dunmore, we may state, is both an absolutely nullifies all "precautionary" legiala accomplished artist and a daring explorer, who tion, and leads to trible disasters. The positive has made his name in the world of letters, in the alofalness of this misplaced leniency is so trans-Strich received by last French mail we find the parent that, for very disgust, we cannot say more following, which will be read with interest about it. The same magistrate had to deal with a "The result of a combination between Feer big Chinese schoolboy, of well-to-do parents, and pencil may be seen at the Fine Art Society's caught on Pedders Wharf with a revolver and Gallery, New Bond Street, where the Earl of

munition, unlicensed of course. The boy sald Danmore, F.R.G.S., exhibits seventy-one he only wanted to amuse himself," and after drawings, mado during his famous pilgrimage in Mr. R. Fraser-Smith's d. Duart, 118t. ilbon bit. Taylor nominal Eine of $5. Comment is superfluous 193, he wandered through the Punjab, "the bare statement of facts eloquent enough,

be genuine when bought direct from us in the Lay Stu was liable to confiscation from the wooden-headed protégés of Downing bare also been completed for the erection de crew of American ektizens were selected 10 and after oue false start, ln which Lugiasiand

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13th December, 1993) pointing out how PAESIDENT DIAZ says that prize-fighting is too the present state of the law had caused brutal to be tolerated in Mexico. He draws the great injustice to LOGAN personally, and line at bull-fights!

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Mr. May a.. bad threatened to kill coolle for having to the Pamirs, or the 'Roof of the World, as it Mr. Copenhagen's 5. Elsinore, 11st. 7lb. ...... resulted in effectively barring the river THE Governor gous away, the Chief Justice goes obtained employment from the proper authorities, is called in Persian, and over the great mountain

Mi Nelisen o steamboats from taking any steps to away, ball of the officials in the colony go away fastead of through the compradore on the usual range that separates the Chinese Empire from the Exchange and Fidget were the best favorites, prevent smuggling; in effect, shipowners but Mitchell Innes stays on for ever i The basqueeze "system jand the Magisterial prescrip Central Asian dominions of the "Ak Fadisisa, but Duart was also greatly fancied in certals could no longer try to avoid confiscation man who ought to go, still site tight.

tion was " bound over for six months in two of Great White Cear," "These sketches are the quarters. To a capital send-off Duart made hot. of their vessel". In the Legislative THE Mission steam-launch Day Sprig will compradore would easily And, thereby practically asknown countries, and their value is enhanced

aureties of $25 each," which of course the first exhibited series of scenes in those almost ranning for the first two hundred yards, when he' Council, on the 15th March, Mr. Call alongside vessels hoisting code pannant C, letting the man off scot-free, Mr. Wodehouse is by the fact that they were all taken on the spot, the pice from Fidget, Daart lying third, Eleinere was pulled back, leaving Exchange to cut out H. WHITEHEAD, member for the Chamber between and ro.30 s, on Sunday, to convergentleman, who no doubt tries hard and and that, too, many times under circumstances fourth, and Maypole completely out-paced from of Commerce, asked for the production men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, prazning konestly to do his best jʻ but what an awful of grass hardship and difficulty, climatic and the start. At the Black Rock the leading pain of this memorial and reply, but ka wai) vious 18.30 pm.

Vere at least four lengths in front of Duart, bui