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-Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO., LD.

WARM CLOTHES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894.

Intimations.

Our lowest priced Whisky is of excellent quilly and of greater age than most brands to the market. We recommend our customers not |to be deterred by the lawness of price from trying them For a soda whisky, Thorne's Biend and Watson's Glenorchy are equal to any. Abelour-Glenlivet is very old Pent Whisky, that could not be replaced in stock at the pelos. D and E are 18o well known to need comment.

THES

"HESE ➡ all be spoilt before next cold IRISH-

weather unless properly taken care of.

NAPHTHALINE

Is the best thing to keep away Malhi, &c, and

prevent clothes smelling fusty, --

FIFTY CENIS PER TIN.

A John Jameson's Old, Green

Capait.............

B John Jameson's Fine Old,

Green Capsule.

Per dose Cue

$12.00

15.00

18.00

C John Jameson's Very Fine Old, Green Capsule.......... All these are very fine and old. Chas been #tocked In Hongkong in wood for 10 years, there being little sale for Irish Whisky in the | Colony, AMERICAN-

Pa dozen Czas,

$15,00

Genuine Bourbon Whisky, Fine Old. Red Capsule, with our Name and Trade Mark..................... Simple bottles and smaller quantities will be supplied at proportionate wholevale zmien.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the 136 Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the

Coast Ports.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

Hongkong. 6th April, 1894-

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

On and after the it April, 1894, the Prices of our WINES and SPIRIT'S will be so follows:-

PORT.

(For Invalids and general Use.)

Per deaca Case,

$14.40

B Vintage, superior quality, Red

Capaule

C Flaed Vintage, anperfor quality, Black Seal Capsule

D Very Fine Old Vintage, ext

superior, Violet "Capsule

(Old Bottled) an

16.10

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 wises are too well known to need comment.

GIN.

A Fine Old Tom, White Capsule R Fine Unsweetened, White

Capsule

RUM, Finest Old Jamaica, Violet

Capsule......

Per dose Case. $7.30

7.00

$15.00 Good Leard Island...

5.00 Good Leeward Island...$2.50 per Gallon. Sample botiles and smaller quantides will be applied at propastianate wholesale rates.

We only guirantes our Wines and Spirits to be geraine when bought direct from as in the Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.

LIQUEURS.

Benedictise, Curaço, Chartreuse,

Maraschino, Heering's Cherry Cordial, Dr. Siegent's Angustura

Bitters, &c. PRICES ON APPLICATION.

Sample bottles and smaller quantiles will be A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

supplied at proportionate wholesale rates.

We only suirantee our Wines and Spirkts to be gerulue when bought direct from us in the Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Purts,

SHERRY.

Pe date Caso.

B Superior Pale Dry, dinner

win Green Seal Capsule. $ro.fa

C Manzanilla. Pale Natural Sherry, While Capsule...

CC Saperlor Old Dry, Palo

Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule

D Very Superior Old Pale Dry,

choice Old Wine, White, Seal Capt.....................................

E Extra Supeifer Pale Dry, very finest coulity. Black Stal Capente/Old Bottled)

12.00

£2.00

14.40

20.40.

B, C, and CC are excelleat dinner wines or for invalids and delicate stomacht. D and E are after dinner winesol a very superior vintage. All are true Xeres wines.

Sample battles and smaller quantiles will be spilled at proportionale wholesale rates.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be gene when bought direct from us is the Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the

Coast Ports,'

CLARET.

Fer

С блю dax. do. Quests Pinta,

BS. Estephe, Red Capsaic......$ 6.96 7.56 CS Jullen, Red Capsule 9.00 9.60 D. La Rase, Red Capsule......... 13 96 13.92

Sainte Foy......

7 20 7.92 Cussac

9,60 10.44 Château d'Aoglide 13.30 14.40 Cha eau Haut Bion Larrivet 18.60 19.20 Cha enu Moulon d'Armail:

bacq.......

................ 11.00 22,20 Our Clarets, Incuring the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the Jalee of the grape, and are not artificially made from risins and curants, as is generally the case with cheap wider

Simple bottles and smaller quantities will be #appiled at preprationale wholesale rates.

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

HOCK.

Nie atein Radestelmer. Hockheimer...

Fr Par Case Case dos, dos, Quarts. Plats.

•$12.00 ~.. $1.00 - 14 00-

HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 20th March, 1894.

Ts

Hongkong Celegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894

TELEGRAMS. .:

OUR LATEST "POSSESSION."

LONDON, April rath. The Earl of Rosebery has stated in the House of Lords that the Government had resolved to establish a protectorate, with local administration, ever Uganda. Other details, including a railway

to Kikuyu, are under consideration.

SCOTTISH HOME RULE SHELVED.

THE total number of deaths recorded in the THE Chinese pasange-broker, charged with | IN a fire that occurred in Tokyo on the 6th Inst., Tokyo prefecture during 1893 was 37,070.

Berlin Blet-Po sick. Vot de you tok i seed Old Soak-A driuk, perhaps? Berlin Biel-Tanks, I don't mind if I do!

In the Japanese law courts last month there were no less than 43,400 civil and 17,770 criminal cases brought on for hearing, MONDAY'S COUNCIL meeting will be the last occasion on which certain of our legislators will ever ment for a very long time. The parting is going to be very dramatic, we believe. In the police court to-day, seven launch. Coxswains were fined $7 each with the alternative of a month's imprisonment, for abstracting the Pottinger Street wharf by lying alongside for a longer time than a simple call."

Q.I.D.

Hongkong Volunteers' gank :--

What rifle makes the fewest hits ? The Miole, mu TIR. - And which makes the most ? The Maxim, mum.

In the Supreme Court to-day, the Deuteros case was contiated before the acting Chief Justice and jury, and when we went is press it seemed not likely to finish till after dinner time. This means that seven hard-working business men have already been kept away from their affices since last Tuesday morning. Trade may come and trade may go, but the fawgoes on for ever." JAPANESE exchanges report that the coffin con- isining the body of the murdered Korean patdot Kim-ok-klum has been either mislaid, in the con- falan of embarkation, or stolen. It is said that the Korean Government is most anxious to secure the remales so that they might be exposed to the most "malignant Indignities,” as fa usually dose in the cases of executed criminals of the wont character.

THE President of the United States bas, says the Philadelphia Times, made another attempt to find a successor to Dr. Bedloe * Consul at Amoy. Mr. Hoge fell by the wayside. After a suficient interval a Virginia gentleman with the imposing name of Delaware Kemper is to be started for Amoy, the Senate consenting, and there is reason to expect that he will svald the errors of his immediate predecessor and reach his destination. There he will have only to emulate the virtues of the

esteemed mandarin whose memory still enlightens

the palaces of Amoy.

MR. H. E. POLLOCK, barrister-at-law has Bill-of-fading exceptions of special valve published another useful treatise on British law to shipping ports such as Hongkong. By his previous works Mr. Pollock has already gained a reputation as a reliable authority and as one of the most promising legal lights in this part of the world; and the present brockure bears evidence of careful study and able compilation.

The lay reader, however, cannot fall to smile at such an index heading as "Rats--not an act of God." We hope to find time to review the wak Ister on.

THE squall at Amoy on the 5th inst., already reported in these columns, mens out to have been a very serious one. It was a small cyclone which appears to have started near Pagoda Island on the Dragon river and to have moved N.N.E. It crossed the western edge of Amoy barbour, passed between Whaleback and Monkey islands and then went along the channel north of Amey island. it upset three junks in the Dragon river, four In Amoy harbour, four in the channel and eight or nine in Tong-wah bay, The total number of drowned, according to Jensen, of Mollo & Co., saved two drowning men and recovered fifty bodies from one large junk.

Sir William Harcourt has failmated to the latest reports, exceeds four hundred. Capt. House that it was not intended to introduce a Scottish Home Rule Bill at present.

.

THE CANADIAN TARIFF,

has been announced permitting the Import of In the Legislative Assembly at Ottawa a bill ten, vừa England, under through” bills of lading,

in bond in England.

bat disallowing the importation of tes purchased

SOUTH AFRICA. The Swaziland army bas been assembled at Bremersdorf to protest against Transvaal rule, and to demand the autonomy of Swasliand.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE M. M. Co.'s steamer Oxus left Shanghai for this port at 5 p.m. to-day.

DR. A. Forke, formerly of the German Consulate in Amoy is now interpreter for the German Consulate-General at Shanghaf

Cook (In fashionable hotel)-This meat bas turned bad, Sir.

Amateur Director-Stew it up in small places and call it a ragout of venison.

"A FRIEND," who sends a compilation written in pencil entitled "The Child's Caul," forgot to send his name and address. extract from "Things not generally known" is

However, his

cot suited for the columns of the dongkong

Tilgrapk,

defrauding coolles of $1,300 on the false pretence that he could" get at" cartala officials and defeat the Geary Exclusion Act, was brought up gala before the Magistrate to-day and further remanded unti Monday. SINCE the year 1876, 180 criminals, eight of whom were females, have been executed in the capital of Japan. Prayers for the repose of the other unfortunates who died in the Tebigara souls of these 'lost ones,' as well as those of the prison there in recent years, were offered up on the rst last.

THUS an Amoy scribe-Local holders of scrip to your once much-vaunted better-than-a-gold. mine enterprise yclept the Hongkong Land Investment Company, are beginning to wish ibat seme of the fands of the coccer were Invested in this qalet little port. Land Is "fix" and babkable houses are not to be had for love or monty, while the demand still grow stronger. The reasons are easily explained-there is shortly to be much marrying and giving in marriage. The first of Hyman's victims will probably be the juntar partner of one of our oldest firm-man who, by the by, is a "sport" and our of the best good fellows. captured in Foochow. The second will be

He was inte officer of the Douglas Steamship Company but now of the local pilot service. Ha is also has been congratulated all along the coast and one of the chosen. Each of the lucky swains with more than ordinary effusion by the holders of vacant lots. In the meantime house rent and land have an upward tendency.

312 bounce were totally destroyed; 36 others being partially burned. The loss suitsized is heavy,

THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s royal me!! steamer Empress of China arrived at Shanghal at 9.30 p.m. on Friday, and left again at 6 p.m. on Saturday, for Nagasaki,

Kitts--By gud, Sir; I am a celebrated low

comedian.

Old Soak-That you are any sort of a comedian Is an addition to my knowledge.

in Tankin got drank on the 29th uit, and tried A FRENCH soldier at one of the up-reuniry posts to commit suicide with his rifle; but he waX NO far gone that he missed himsel! 1

THE Mission steam-launch Day Spring will between 9 and 10.30 a.m., on Sunday, to convey call alongside vessels holating code pennant C, men aahore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m.

The bobbles get on his track; Perhaps they bring him back, And he's brought up in the court, charged with

embezzlement,

The same defence is always made... " *Overworked and underpaid Couldn't help it in the Government.

CHORUS) M

For they work eight hours a year, Then they scoot right out of eva,

And they never will stand In the heavenly band

For they wouldn't play their harps a minute

longer.

CORRESPONDENCE..

1 We do ust secessually endorse the colalons sorpressed by Correspondents in this column.]

À RETRIEVER'S PROTEST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGkong Telegram." DEAR MR. EDITOR,-You are always ready to maslat the widow and the fatherless and tako,

Berlin Bet-I had a drunk last night dot vos up the cause of these who are unfairly or perfectly peautiful!

unjustly treated. I therefore feel sure you will Wlok-How to?

not refuse me a corner to your paper to air my Berlin Elet-It vos champagne and at my grievances. I am a post lone widow, I have felend's expense !

after another three days unless my master pays been imprisoned without food for four days, and the governor of the pilion threatens to kit me

that time. I am sure my master will not pay it, the $ (pal-tax) for me before the expiration of as I heard him say that he could not afford it. Yesterday the warder gave me a bundle of Hongkong newspapers to assist me la pausing so nicely of fried fish that I made a meal of away the weary hours. Some of them smelled them, but the Telegraph was hard tack for me, and as I could not utilise it as I did the

Policeman or Custom House man complains of Small I sat down to read, and found amongst other interesting maiter a letter in which some too little pay and bad treatment, and in another copy an answer to the first letter by a Dockyard the Customs martyr. I cannot make ent what man who complains that he is worse of than these people have get to complain of; I should be only too glad to get a job in the Custom House, but I never learned any arithmetic; I would even take a Dockyard appointment with pleasure, but they do not take ladies in that establishment. with mine? I have had tbisty children, What are those people's grievances compared and the Boy" was never allowed more than Kalangan by Capt. William C. Howard, harbour We are in receipt of a chart of Amoy and

one dollar a month for myself and family, and be squeered' half of that. All I got was fifty cents a month, How would that master for the Imperial Markime Customs at Chinking, and formerly at Amoy. The chart He had better stick to bla job and say no more Admiralty or the U.S. Hydrographic Office.

Dockyard man like to change places with me! is handsome, accurate and thorough, and is far in advance of those issued by the British

about it, as "he is not the worst paid European This is Capt. Howard's second venture in map-House man who wrote that letter, as there is none In 'China, no, not by a long way." As for the policeman (it could not have teen a Custom making and he deserves the praise of the mariners of the China coast for his work. His leg to stand on. How would be ike to be who would have the pluck to do il), he has not a first chart, that of Chefoo and the surroundlag starved on evil smelling fried fish wrappers like country, is all to-day the best Chinese map these I get? Dear Mr. Editor, I know you cannot thanks of the mercantile mulae for the excellent for me at the present rate of exchange, but if extant. The I. M. Customs are entitled to the help me, because you could not pay five dollars both productions. manner in which they have printed and mounted.

you could find a European who la worse off than I am, it would be such a consolation to me to know it, and would ease the last hours of,

A POOR OLD STARVING RETRIEVER. Shameen, Canton, 1118 April, 1894.

was introduced late the stomach of a patient. The lights in the rooms being lowered, over two hundred persons viewed the workings of the patient's laternal organs through the trans- parency the light created in the abdominal wall. Professor Julius Friedenwald conducted the experiment, which has heretofore been regarded 29 an fmporslbility.

A SLIGHT incidental inaccuracy occurred in our bogle the Water Authority. Mr. Quill does not leader yesterday, in relerring to that mysterious hold that title, but was executive engineer in the P.W.D.; and he has now left for good. This does not affect the point-that at present Two other Coreans Implicated in the attempted any $6,000 a month, to officers who are out of Hongkong is paying about $74,000 a year, or asiaation of the refugee. Boku-sl-ka at the colony, and who mostly draw at 41. to the Tokyo, on the 30th us, have been handed dollar, this costing the ratepayers about $10,000 undergoing examination. There was apparently A MOST remarkable electrical experiment, says over to the Japanese Government and are now

a month in holidays, some dificulty in securing their arrest, for the Japan Gazette of the 4th inst. thus Boston Transcript, was successfully exhibited refers to the incident The Corean Charge at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in d'Affairs has at length yielded. Ken-to-Hexible rubber tube a diminutive electric light

Baltimore, Md., last month. By means of and Ken-to-zal, have, as Ritau-shoku's accom plices, been considered guilty of attempted murder; but these two men, when their plot was discovered, filed to the Corean Legation for protec tlon, A police-sergeant was sent from the Kollmacht Police Station to demand their sur render; but the Chargé d'Affaires, Yu-kl-kwan, refused to laten. Then Mr. Mutsu made the same demand, but the Chargé d'Affaires, with. measures. Seeing the Corean was trying to out giving a definite answer, asked for levicat evade the demand, Mr. Mutau made a final demand, threatening, in case of refusal, to seize the accused in the Legation itself. would difve the two men out of the Legation. Yesterday, Mr. Ya-ki-kwan replied that he Judge Iida, of the Preliminary Examination Court, istued a warrant for their seizure, with which Police-sergeant to Yoshiyuki, of the Metropolitan Police Board, went at to am, yesterday with several policemen to the gate of the Corean Legation, where the two men were soon thrust out. On their coming out, Sergeant Ito showed them the warrant and took them in a jintikisha well-guarded on all sides to the Metropolitan Police Station, where they arrived at about 11. After examination by Judge Iida, they were detained in the fock-up..

The Avenir du Tonkin ways — The Chinese community have within the past few days for re-burial. We bow respectfally to this plous exhumed about 350 corpses to be sent to Chios manifestation of reverence for ancestral worship, but it is not the sort of thing the Hygiene Com mission could favour. It is certainly not enough to obtain the sanction of the Government for such work; the law demands the presence of the police commissioner and a medical officer, and we happen to knew that neither was called in. passing through, it is of param-unt importance During such times of epidemics as we are that a qualified man should superintend these exhamations. We have just had a smallpox epidemic; we do not now want cholers The

Commission and a municipal physician if they Government's duty is plainly to take serious action; what on earth is the use of a Hygienic

presumably much of this dead meat is imported) are never consulted a Hongkong (where there is a Sanitary Board and a lot of Govern ment doctors, who might usefully examine info the danger here.

THE SONG OF THE CIVIL SERVICE,

Nine to live we call hard work, Though all the time we shirk

Then it's time

THE CHINESE IMPERIAL CUSTOMS

.SERVICE.

To The Corror of "Hongkong Telegrar." than the writer would have let some little light STR,-1 was in hopes that some person other I on Anti-Anarchiat's somewhat befogged production, published in your lasue of the 9th be glad if you will kindly afford me space for a inst., but as nobody has taken this step I shall

few lines.

ara

nearly $ago per month, with Hk. TIs, 25 for house rent Areistant Tida-Surveyor, Hk. Tla 125, with Tls, 25 for hours rent; Bost Officer, HE. Ts. go, with 25 Tis. for house rest; and Examiner, Hk. Tis. go, and 15 for house rent. Takes us three hours and a ball to pick up a pen; Customs is a long way from being a badly paid So you see that the Imperial Maritime Service. That the hours of work aro To maby outdoor posts frightfully long, and that the Indoor Staff are, as a rule, overbessing and sometimes downright rude to their brother offices of the Outdoor Staff is quite notorious, also that the pay and privlizges of these gentlemen are in many instances quite out of proportion to the work they perform and the capabilities they possess

With very many thanks and apologies,

Yours truly,

So

For

To break that would be a crime-

we lay it down again 1

CHORUS,

I've worked eight hours this day, And I think I've earned my pay i

It's a ferful strain

On a heated brain,

THE members of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hongkong gave their final dance of the season in the City Hall last night. A very wise discretion was exercised by the Committee of Management in limiting the nam ber of invitations, so that, instead of the scramble almost invariably associated with local balls, there was ample room in St. George's Hall to memory of Scotland's Patron Saint being for the dance with comfort, the saloon dedicated to the once alilised for the purpose of providing refreshments for the laner man-and woman. And well and liberally were the whole of the

state there is no such rank as Acting Examiner If it is any news to "Anti-Anarchist," I may

R.N., acting magistrate, Chus Slag Chi (aged 17) conspicuous in last night's function, thanks

paid, as "Anti-Anarchist says, $130 per month, Ar the Magistracy to-day, before Capt. Hastings, what is commonly known as

arrangements carried out.

The absence of

in the Chinese Imperial Customs, but there is a "side" was

grade called Assistant Examiner. He is not Hongkong Hotel, were brought up on remand, ignored the sawdust pretensions of the ragtag

to free quarters or given Hk. Tls, 10-$15.51 in and Chx Fat Cho (aged 31), bar-boys in the to the levitation Committee, who very sensibly

but Halkwan Tacis 80-$134, and is also found the first charged with manslaughter and the and bobtail who on every possible public occa-

lieu thereof. He is also entitled, in common second with complicity, in connection with the slon bailes que modern ereryday life by ridicul

with every other member of the Customs, to one death of Arther William Jinks, of H.M.3. ously posing (in their war paint, which is even Tamar in the Hotel on the 1st inst. As before more conspicuous in the ball-room than it would

year's gratuity for every ten years duty, and one the Crown Solicitor prosecuted and Mr. H. L be behind the footlights) as the representatives EIGHT HOURS WORK (?) A DAP for men of the Outdoor Staff to rise to Chief year's leave on half-pay at the end of that Dennys defended. Formal evidence was given el Hongkong's rank and fashion. Of course by the police as to being called in, removing the this mildewed crowd actually do represent the

period of service. Nor la this all; It is possible bady the hospital, etc. His Worship then life of the colony, but they don't represent any

Tide-Surveyor, of whom there are four at present, committed both prisoners for trial at the Sessions

drawing pay and rent allowance amounting to (Wednesday next), the first on a charge of thing else, and at their best they only hold a sort of brevet rank--that is, they are a self-con

Hk. Tis. 300Dearly $500 per mensem, There Have ye heard the rules my boys- "wifal murder and the second "complicity."stituted 'apper, ten who at home would be

The Civil Service rule, my boys?

four other grades between Assistant before. How Mr. Hastings could commit a The latter only was allowed ball-8500, as outside the pale in the lower middle class. This Never work a longer day than eight hours in the Tide-Surveyor, who receives Hk. Tls. 150, or Examiner and Chief Tide-Surveyor, namely, person for trial for wilful murder, who was only haps fast as well to place this not uninteresting

Goverment, may be a little bit of a digression but i la per- charged with manslaughter by the prosecution, matter of social etiquette on is proper footingWork" means time in the office spent.

Eight hours' work a day, Then eight hours for play- is a matter we intend dealing with very seriously

now, in order that the threatened campaign to In our next issue,

exclude the patronage of sinck-up shoddy from all SOMETHING of a commotion has been caused in public subscription balls and entertainments Japan by the recently attempted assassination of when another cold season comes round may be the Korean refugee Boku, at Tokio, and the action thoroughly organised. There were no florid of the Korean Chargé d'Affaires la refasing to decorations (so-called) in the City Hall last night; deliver the men up to the Japanese Government good taste and the very sensible resolve to when called upon. It is understood that he was provide at all costs for the comfort of the guests' before acting. Thle the Japanese authorities with Mr. Jas. Kirkwood, of the Chinese Imperial swalling Instructions from bis Government of the Institute, had apparently more weight ressated, rightly claiming that the offence having Customs, and Mr. D. Macdonald, of the Hong- been committed on their territory it in no way kong and Whampoa Dock Co., who were mainly concerned the Government of Kores. Finding responible for the general arrangements, than himself in the anenviable position of being the doubtful pleasure of gazing on a irashy between the devil and the deep sax, the m/langs of pictorial daubs and Cantonese flower unfortunate official had no alternative but to pots. The floor of St. George's Hall was surrender the men who had taken shelter in his simply superb, and although, especially in the legation. In consequence of this, he has been wee short hours ayant the twal, it was as of the assassinations instigated, it is alleged, by dancing was kept up from start to finish to recalled by telegram to Secul. The whole scheme hot as Auld Hornie's select drawing-room, the King of Korea, is now being goravelled, but it fashion unknown to the select chicles composed is thought that the relations of the three Gover chiefly of third-rate clerks, dead and one- menta most interested in the Peninsular King. brokers, general hangers on and their male and female cimp-followers-of the colony, and as dom will not be seriously disturbed thereby,

the ball commenced so did it end, in amity and THE Ancient Order of Job Lots met yesterday good feeling, without arogant uppishness and evening, at their rooms to Bank Buildings, under KTCase paint being disagreeably prominent. the presidency of Dr, Cantile; and there were The Engineers' Institute was naturally very also present Col, Malloy, Mesin. H. E. Pollock, strongly represented, Mr. D. Gilles, the Sidney B. J. Stenchly Sidney Jeffrey, Sinjsa President, and many other eminent members, Hancock, J. Nisilm, the Rev. R.. Cobbold, and taking light of the weight of your lo there, including a large number of ladies, Mr. cantri bating to the general enjoyment, Nissim read a paper on "Hypnotism," which and they did so with gratifying access. was very well received by the erudite sadlence. The programme of dances was varied and well proposing a vote of hacks, Mr. Sidney elected, and the Band of the Shropshire Light BJW.X.YZ-expressed a desire to hear mose Iefantry under Mr. Murphy's skilled leadership, on the subject from the lecturer, especially about provided excellent music. Still-If we are any Simple bottles and smaller quanilties will be

the records of the ancient Greeks, Indians, and thing we are critical-is our opinion Brother supplied at proportionsle wholesale zales.

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to

Egyptians, as the paper only went far enough to Murphy and his colleaguse would schiere still be genaue when bought direct from as in the Germans have crawled there somehow!

exclia further interest in this direction. Dr. gister success if they didn't rush the ilme Canilla, in seconding the motion, said that quite so much, both in road and square dances Colony, or from our authorised Agents at the

modern medical research had not yet led to any the galop, in the Far East, is a dead as Const Perts.

MRS. BISHOP, wie Isabelle Bird, who is now great faith in the efficacy of hypnotism in Methusaleb, and galop time to the gracefal WHISKY,

travelling in the "Land of Morning Calm has operations, but he personally thought there was waltz, although it may be fashionable, is not SCOTCH-

been the most Indefatigable female traveller and a great deal la in. The other Sidney, alla Jon pleasant to the votaries of what ought to be-it explorer of ber day. In the Straits Settlements, Glipin, Jualor, of the Daily Distress, then gave | isn't by tons in Hoogkong, however-the In Persia and in Thibat she overcame obstacles some of his own experiences under the poetry of motion, and tends to make and endured hardships that would have daunted "lefluence;" he staggered his hearers by saying school-girl's romp out of what should exceed in most men. What is most noteworthy about her that he once had a needle pushed through his grace the minuet of oldes times and in spright is her taxe powers of observation. She is jaw by ✯ mesmerlat-it mast have been finess the polka and mararka of more modern surpassed by very few newspaper correspondents wonderful needle that could do all that He days. The same fault, if it is a fault, was just as in her ability to present graphic picture of also kept his mouth open for are malantes mich in evidence in the Lancers and other 'ret' what she sees and to collect information from which is not saying much for hypnotism, for it dances, Shortly after midnight that played-nut the natives. She has written the best books would rather be a great science that could keep antiquity, Roger de Ceverley Bab at the ever published on the Sandwich Islands, the his mouth shut for so long. Mr. Siajanankes. Bowater would have been fast as applicable Malay peninsula, and Thibet. The result of her then spoke in favour of a further lecture on this brought to close ore of the most enjoyable travels in Cores will be awaited with much subject, and Mr. Niados with becoming modesty, dances given in Hongkong for many years, and Interest. As she probably carries a camera, ska responded with a promise that as soon as posilno small amount of credit for this result in dus to ought to obtain remarkable and valuable ble he would give a practical demonstration Mr. W. Ramsay, who acted as M.C., and per collecion of views wherewith to embellah her such sa would convince the most sceptical. We formed the duties of that anything but pleasant volume on Tak Adam, as the Coreian style hope to be dead before this ladiction takes often with a discretion and success that are the land of their birth.

beyond all semmendation.

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WITH reference to the recent fire at Nagaoka it is now reported that thirteen streets were burned out and 585 dwelling-houses, niae temples, a shrine and other property were destroyed. No fatalities are given but the damage done was enormous, one Insurance Company losing yw 31,600, representing the risks on 75 homes. THE Band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30

o'clock:

Polk Humaren

Hatal Vasa

Fedora"

Ducalossi, Larsen.“ Lenden Lifa” uz Conte. Schottische

Witchery"

Smith, LACE pys

"Now Promenade

Coute River of Years"terranean

"Tiddell Valse Tendar and True"

Our of fourteen clearances obtained from the Harbour Office of the alleged British port of Hongkong to-day, six were for Geaman steamers, one each for Danish and Chinese swas, and six for British. And this is no nousual return. Parenthetically, it seems to be about time that British subjects discarded the fashion of dating their documents A. D. signifying the year of our Lord and Saviour, Teutonic Accesiion la Its abbreviated form would be much more to the point, for disguise the fact as you will, the

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So I won't work half-a-minute longer.

The hardest work we do Is to draw our monthly screw- A difficult job that can't be left to novices

Must have clever men- With extras for conveyance to our offices.

High pay is needed, then,

Very often we'va "

Got to go on leave,

For you know what an awful lot we have to do ;

And when we go away, Our vaction-pay

is

in dallam at four-and-two.

CHORUS,

For we work eight hours a week, And then off home we inexk,

We're a hard-ased lot, We should go to po

If we had to work balf-a-minute longer,

This is not a joke;

We're not common folk-

EX.-CUSTOMS.

Hongkong, rath April, 1894.

ALIENS IN BRITISH SHIPS. Tata EDTOR OF THE "MONOXond Telegrafx.” Six-If you can find space in your valuable paper lo ventilate the complaint of one whole at present as low as the O'Brien 2/6 dollar, you will be abliging portion of your verders wha are deserving of be ter treatment than they al present receive,

I notice by the Harbour Master's recently published report that there have been only all Portuguese employed on board British ships during the year 1893-

Now can the Harbour Master inform me, or Cap any of the public, how many of these so- called Portuguese are really what they are repre sented to be?

How many of these officers and engineere on British ships are Chinese pass and simple, who

We work one month on for every six months off have discarded their queues and adopted Euro

That we're entitled to,

Bat we also do

Twelve months' sick leave for a cough !

If we have a wife, And she brings to ille

Twins, er triplets, that's another good excuss

..

For a holiday What cas people say? Ratepayers growl, but what's the use?

CHORUS.

I work eight hours a month, My pay-day is the one-th.

And after that

For I won't work stother minute longer.

I takes my hat,

Whenever one of us

Makes a bally fuss

pean dress for the express parpose of being flowed to become apprentices at the Hongkong and Whamps Dock Co.'s Works?

Some three years ago ikere was a generál agitation is local marine circles about the employment of Foreign deck officers on board British steamers. It didn't come to much,. far as I know. Bat what about: anglacers ? And what is the local En gineers! Institute dolag in the matter? Why,. simply this the Institute is run by the Dock Co.'s employés, and the englasers who are engaged on the China casat have no say se to management, not having sufficient opportunities of atten ing the meetings often enough to be able to further their own interests. Is it the chief engineers on the Coast who want there hall-Chinese or so-called Portuguese, because they can frun? them more than they

童

Working overtime, there's something wrong, and can Europrant? or is it in the interests of the

that's a fact..

It's not for pleasure-ke

Is rabbing the Treninry

And then he does the Vanishing Ant

Dock Company that they are employed, to the ousting of Europeans 1

I can understand myself that any small job Wasting done and which would be done by ins