Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1894.
An annual tax of one yen is now low. I on bicycles in Tokyn.
FAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO., LD. SEVERAL light shrcke of earthquake were experienced at "lentsin on the 14th inst., ?us:ing from twenty-seven to thirty-three second-
D. C. & Co.'s DISINFECTING FLUID, Similar to Condy's at quarter the price.
Large bottles.. Per gallon
350 $3.00
This is a safe and reliable disinfectant and is not poisonous.
No better preventive against Plague and Disease is possible iban a well disinfected
house,
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
HONGKONG..
Hongkong, zral May, 1894.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
DISINFECTANTS.
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Odd Volume (in office of Dally Pest-What Is statu quo. Str,?
Editor Oh It's a sort of Romen bric-a-bract
DR. Arendt, the German financler, prop that England, Germany, France and the United States anite by treaty to fix silver prices each year.
THE British sufp Queen Victoria, which canded in Yokohama bay on the 15th ins, flet 1 off the following morning without having sur' ined any damage.
IT is raid that the x authorities of Canton are raising thele tariffs; a measure not calen-. lated to Improve the present stagnant condition of trade by any means,
THE O. & 0. S. S. Co.'s steamer Oceanic, with malis, &c., from San Francisco to the 8th inst, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow morning.
An idea of the value of some of the temples in Japan may be gained from the fact that the two Hongwanjl temples at Kyoto are to be separately insured for over 5,000,000 yen each,
THE Chinese Government transpor: strime: Talan has been handed over to the China Merchants' Company and will be employed runnlag between Shanghai and Wenchow, A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525. will be held in Freemasons Hall. Zeiland Street, Fon Friday, the 1st proximo, at 8.30 for 9 pm precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
call alongside vessels hoisting code perarat C, THE Mission steam-launch Day Spring will between 9 and 10.30 s.m., on Sunday, to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m.
CARBOLIC POWDER. For the purification of Houses. Ceas-pools, Drains, Water-closets, &c., and for the Dhialeo- tort of Sick-rooms.
CARBOLIC ACID.
For Disinfecting Purposes.
Hall an ounce (bout one table-xpoonful) of this Acid when well mixed with one quart of water forms a superior disinfecting and deodail- zing fluid.
Half a pint of the Solution thus formed, when arried to any vessel used in the Sick-room, will prevent an unpleasant, effluvia, and preserve the contents for Medical inspection. It also purifies Drains, Water-closeis, &c.
A tea spoonful of Carbolle Acid exposed on a plate or other vessels in a Sick-room will purity The air and prevent contagion,
PERMANGANATE DISINFECTANT, Similar to Condy's hot cheaper, so cents a quait bottle.
A Sroux City lawyer called the. Com a liar. The Court left the Bench, knocked cat the lawyer-with an uppercat on the point of the jaw, and remarked that the fine usually lost in such cases for contempt of court; wealthy rmitted,
A RELIABLE Correspondent wiltes us from Canton that it is rumoured in that city that Mr. Lo Hok Pang, late lamented comprado e cf the Horgkong and Shanghai Banking Corps attou, happy racans of his release. has passed in his checks the plague being the
IT may interest the scientists of the Higkong advanced that you can cram a student for Odd Volumes to know that hypnotism is for
exarolnation hypnotically, and he will rem mber it all when he wakes up. So much advantage has been taken of this dodge by examiseen in France that It Is now forbidden by law, DWING 20 recent heavy rains the prerat silk
A nice clean disinfectant for Dwelling-rooms Crop in the Cheklang province. Is rer sad to
and Bath rooms.
CAMPHYLENE POWDER. CAMPHYLENE BALLS. CAMPHYLENE BLOCKS.
JEYES POWDER.
JEYES' FLUID.
NAPTHALINE.
QUICKLIME.
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CONDY'S FLUID. CONDY'S POWDER.
SANITAS POWDER. SANITAS FLUID,
At the present time dielafectants ought to he used freely by all.
have turned out very badly-about ther forty per cent. below the usual quantay. A meeting of the members of the slik beaga wAL held on the 15th inst, to determine a fixed price for the new silk when the market orenci on the
22nd.
It is estimated that fully ten thousand Japṛncsa ablain employment from foreign merchants. every year while the tea season lasto. It is also a notable fact daring the seases that crime decreases greatly, particularly the and burglaries. This is taken by a vernacular con temporary to prove that poverty is more reap sible for crime in that country then retural tastinct.
THE proposed exhibition of Victorian prefacts In Hongkong, referred to in there columns a few ago, is now notified for Monday and Tuesday next, in the Victoria Hotel, as may be seen in our advertising colomes. All who are interested in getting far better and cheaper ford thas Hong. kong has ever yet had the chance to enjoy, should make a point of looking in and asking a few questions,
THE Metropolitan Police Department of Japan bas decreed the abolition of all clocks from its offices on the score of economy !
THE Portuguese gunboat Diu, which came down from Macan on Thursday, left for that destins tion about twà o'clock this afternoon.
A DISASTROUS gale passed over Toyama, Japan, on the 3rd Inst. Seren houses destroyed and 7,000 others more or less damaged is its record.
Misa Sniggs-Which do you prefer, Burgundy or Hock?
Berlin Blet.—Burgundy in fine, and so la Hock, but gin-ach, Himmels mutteri
A SCAVENGING Contractor was fined ten dollars this morning by Mr. Wodehouse, policemagistrate, for leaving five large tobs of whewon the beach at Shau-ki-wan. Instead of promptly removing them according to his contract. WI note that the Canadian Pacific Rallway Company is having built in England a fine passenger steamer for the purpose of entering into competition with the Richellen and Ontario Navigation Company on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river.
"CITIZEN," of Kowloon, writes stating that "part of a wall in Chator Street, the property of the Kowloon Godown Co., is in a highly dan getoos position, and Hable to collapse at any time. It should be properly attended to at once, before any serious accident happens." Directors, please note.
THE projected overbead rallway, by which it in intended to connect the Shimbashi and Uyeno railway stations in Tokyo, in said to be receiving both attention and support in that city. The length of the fine will be four talles and three quarters, and it is estimated that it will return bandsome profits.
Sallors Home, bad prigged a coat as wain't A BEACH-COMBER who, while staying at the his'," was "cotched" to-day and seat to prison, for six weeks, by Mr. Hastings. Another sea. farlug gentleman unemployed was given three months' healthy exercise by Mr. Wodehouse for third wandering mariner, picked up la having stabbed a comrade in East Street. A Road Central by a tender-hearted bobby, was Queen's lodged in the house of detention as a vagrante
GENERAL Meshy writes with reference to the murders reported to have recently taken place in the Viceroy's yames at Nanking:-"If I w Kste-yl who was assassinated in that same not greatly miriaken, it was the Viceroy Ma palace about twenty-four years ago, August, 1870, by one of his own relatives. History sometimes repeats Itself. The man who is to get the worst of that bargain. All those who foolish enough to kick a sleeping tiger, is likely rob the
ybees are liable to be atung more or less severely."
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Tax pable will note with pleasure that Capt. A. H. Thomas, the courteous and energetic honorary secretary of the Gymkhana Summer interested in the above will be held lu- the Club, has notified that a meeting of sports" billiard room of the officers men, Murray Barracks, on Thursday the 31st, to discuss a programme for the forthcoming summer. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance, for these pleasant recufans during the long and trying summer season are perhaps the must enjoyable that occur in the colony,
Two opposing septs of the Huang clan, who live in separate villages outside Foochow city, had
́Klits (smiling).—Ah, what kind of an actor would you call me, deal boy?
Old Soak (grimly) -A malef-actor, old man ! Tux Canadian Pacific Railway Co's royal mail steamer Empress of Japan arrived at Shanghai at 5 pm. Testerday, and left again at 2 p.m. to-day, for Vancouver, vie Japan.
A REWARD of $500 is being offered by the Hongkong Government for information that will lead to the conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the shop No. 137. Queen's Road West, on the morning of the 15th fast.
AT Chefen on the 17th inst. a portion of the roof of the Collegiate School suddenly collapsed, ten boys, who were at their lessons in the room, Alad named Howell was considerably bruised almost miraculously escaping arslous injuries. and another bay sustained a slight woond le the
schip all the others excaping without injury The accident is supposed to have been crased by the chalinapus firing of heavy gons at the visit of the Viceroy Li Hong-chang. foris, whice the soldiers are preparing for the
parative freshness of the g-ft. wide Inne, Any house, found to contain sick or dead is at once noted, and a message is sent for the police ambulance and the disinfecting corps; every stick and rag of movable property is taken out, and the building is siuleed from top to boitom the walls are whitewashed, and coplous drenchings of carbolic are applied all over. This opera tun takes at least half a day, in an ordinary three-storey hous
house,
properly six-roomed, but more likely sixty. Windows and doors are opened also, and if any fresh air et all extals in these abominable back-alleys and courts. It has chance to get into the still more abominable tenements for once probably the only time since they were built.
Ay ocean race between the vachts Pigilant and Valkyrie would, says the Nw York Maritime
The recepilon accorded by various inhabitants Register, be an excellent test of the quellifes to their causal visitors is (since the Government of the two yachts, and would in measure settle
ettle displayed force enough to quell the threatened the question as to the respective merits of the disordes) frequently amusing. Most of them are different builds for all kinds of weather. For civil enough, in the dall, latless manner of the American waters the centre-board, for Fnglish coalie class; often the women smilingly tell the waters the cutter is now the general beitel, with children to chin-chin taipan," while the men opleion divided of course in support of the idea
basten to air their knowledge of the foreign that one or the other class is the best all-round tongue by assuring the sanitary men that it is boat.
"allight, do got sick, 1 Tumber one." A gentle- man in Station Street offered cigars to the party, ASA คล and explained with an American recent that his -house was " *vurly clean,** which was true, A lady living in a to by to pigeon-hole in the next prater for having kept her door barred again-t house apologised profusely through the inter- intrusion,
to the owleg
f.ct that she wan engaged to delicate tollet operations, which elicited shouts of laughter from the assembled the size of a cottage plane case and not as sub- crowd. One poor colle, whose "castle" was
stactful evidently misunderstood the obj-ct of the visit, for he began openlug the drawers submissive smile that was quite pathetic. another case, a room was locked and the key a tiny cabinet and showing bis wardrobe with a
unobtainable; and a very old man living in the In
next apartment related how the slay child be amiting was the sole survivor of the departed family.
A house-coolle died of plague during last night in his quarters at the Naval Yard. He had been alling two or three days, and stayed in Market Street, but returned to his work yesterday. The body was removed at 6.30 am, ta-day, but seven or eight other coolies who
who occupy same room have been allowed to go about and mix with Chinese and Europeans as usual, instead of being isolated and having their clothes and gear disinfected, nothing more sensible could be expected. regulations do not provide for such & case, so, Of course, the red-tape
SAYS the Stockton (Cal) Mail of April 19th
The transfer to the Sperry Flout Company of the Union flour mill and the adjoining warehouses, Nos. 2, 3 and 4, was consummated this afternoon, and the deeds placed on record with the County Recorder at 3.16 o'clock. By the terms of the Isle the Sperry Company pays $200,000 for the balance, $175.000, notes secured by mortgage." property, $115,000 of this being cash and the It is noteworthy that the Sperry Flour Company the direction of Mr. Wolley, an old and valued bas lately started an agency in Hongkong under employé of the Company.
MR. OTORI, Japanese Minister to Korea, whoso return from that country was noted a few days either from facts or fancy rather a gloomy since, has been interviewed and has drawn picture of Korean affairs. From a condensed report of the interview published in the Hyogo News we
we gather that the Togakuto the insurgente being quite sufficient for that rebellion will soon be crushed; the forces sent against
purpose,
As regards
relations existing the former has requested Korea to recall some between the Russian and Korean Governments,
have settled 3,000 of its people who
Siberis, or to allow them to naturalize; the Korean Government
has decided on the former course, murderer
до
the
ما
Kimir dere har obtained. 1,300 yes as hit upon him. The family of Kim, it was rumoured,
lished by Viscount Taal and others to protect comitted suicide when they heard of the mur der. The Shinrin Seminary, of Tokyo, estab- and educate the Korean refugees, has occasioned good deal of bad lesling on the part of the *.
Korean Government.
the
THE PLAGUE.
HOUSE-TO-HOUSE VISITATIONS,
All disinfectants used on the higher levels of quantites of oplata for which they had no; mult; Brother Dyer, of Social Parity and Sentinel of the gkong Telegraph, whose descriptions
the city will, in addition to purifying the house drains in which they are used, beneficially affect the condition of the drains on the lower levels,
and should be used freely.
Further information can be obtained by
personal application to
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 16th May. 1804
The Hongkong Telegraph
Sal
the
officially on account of the plague, bal very few The Government schools have not been closed of the children are attending..
the house-to-house visitation has been very The appeal for civilians to volunteer help in poorly answered; six men came forward, and of thene
only three could be accepted, the others not being able to arrange their time conveniently For cleansing and disinfecting, however, (for which volunteers were not asked) three officers of the R. E. and two others have freely given
their services, which are highly appreciated by
the authorites.
Appended are the latest statistics. From good on Thursday until noon yester- day:-
New Deaths Disch. Rem, ander
cared treatment
cases
Hygela............... 0 Kennedy-town 3
14
I
17
Gings Work 20 TO...! а Pelvalo bouses
41
Total.....22
21
From noon yesterday unili noon-to-day- Kennedy-town Hygeia
Private house.. Glass Works,, 20
Total............ 21
a
72
1
13
17
17
44
I
4
0
;
20
74
❤
Deaths from noon to 5 p.m. to-day, 6. Deaths from the outbreak (5th May) up to May 24th, noon, 335; grand total, 32.
THE CARGO-BOAT STRIKE..
A carboncular affection of the lungs, spitting of blood, palms in the chest, and a lever which generally proved fatal in ten or twelve days, it changed in form, and the person attacked were the symptoms. As the disease proceeded suffered from intense thirst, a black and palsied tongue, black spots on the body, and inser- stbillty. There was no known remedy at the time, and to most cases the appearance of a black spot, or, as it was called, a plague spot, was the harbinger of a apredy death, là là supposed to have caused the deaths of 37,00proog people in Asik and 25,r09,000 fr Europe; 100,000 died in London alone,
horrors
It is impossible to form any conception of the orrors of this period. The peop's, deseed by rulers, priests, and doctors, became the victim fing of fanaticlem and terror. rumour circulated to the effect that the Jews had caused the pf gun- by poisoning the water, the report rathed ready bellel, and scaulted in most awful persecu tions. In Mainz 12 000 of these unhappy unfortunate people were put to death, The Jews, in many places, being threatened with death, and knowing that it meant fire and torture, killed оде #nether.
Mand
and
committed suicide on the first peonie signs of the disease, others died from terror alone. Rubbers sacked the towns ad cities, murdered The people and ad Ped terror to the enerál would fill to truly describe the consequence of sufl suffering. The twe-fol, imagination
ibls awful plague,, Death, misery and sin malked' hard in band from E-s' 10 West.
It is believed that the disappearance of the
able to this cute. Norwegian setigment in Greenland is attribut
It
-NOTES FROM THE NORTH.
(FROM OUR CORRES"ONDENT )
SHANGHAI, 19th May, 1894 being persistently though quietly
of
rumoured here that China is on the ev. of great upheaval-bath soci T and palfites. The noterloon Kn-to Huf chais Ta Tro (Great Sword) and Hsiao Tao (Small Sword) lo consequence, many bigh snl influential are very much on the warpath just now, and officials are trembling in their satin shoes at the prospect of the wrath to come; among bei g four Viceroys (wo Lis and two Lius). Of distinguished officials, coming from various parts late, we have bad visits from a great
number of the empire, not a few of whom adopted dis guises for the more effectual capryl
carrying out of their missions. Yun Huh, a nephew of Hrich Fu Chlog. Minliter France and. England, followed this course, but what bis object was is not known. It was this young gentleman who
cured the services of amateur- revolutionist Mason, and wen the time co Bid him to obtain he dazzing rewards that L Hany Chang had ready to offer. These he duly received when the Mason frisco fizzled rut. sub was made a Tactal and was also promised more substantial honours when the proper time felt due, In connection with some of the secret visits that oficials have lately, paid this port,
the half-million magexing rifles which are shortly to be landed in the immediate neighbour. hood, should not be forpotted. The officials have been here and the rifle are to com, these are facts which cannot be disputed and penple will put two sad two together somehow! No ewer than six thousand of the rifles ard sald
to bare here damaged by water, and much difficulty is belog experienced having them properly repaired and rendered it for service, owing to the work being carried as to
to secret.
sea-
Chinese Sam-aul-po, with a view to subsecnens planned to ensnare Mason and the other
You have already published an interesting account of how Viceroy Liu of Nanking has been haunted by the angry spirits of the ruthlessly murdered Koino Hui victims, but especially by that of Li Helen-mou. The devil catcher, designated by the knowing ones (}
hou
Tuotat was ordered by telegraph to proceed In all haste to Nanking where, it is seid, be har been putting the conscience-smitten Liu through some extraordinary movements for the pur- pose
of dislodging the evil spirits. Among ather things the poor Viceroy bas had to
crawl from his couch to the shrine of a famous ancient.
playing the old game-paralysing commerce drastic measures have proved efficacious your As soon as the cargo boats showed signs of Aukai bero, Past Grand Master of the Elder
and bioffigg the Government and European correspondent bast gofag out on strike, with the evident object of Brethern, a
a distance of ten /. but whether these
community late surrender-he gunboat and foreign, have heen seen foaling around-
not beard.
yet Many of Mason's former friends, both Chinese was brought down to West Point ready for actios; and the police promptly went over and Shanghai of late, but it is not at all likely that they took the numbers of all the Hongkong boats at
at have either the daring, the
the means energy or in any enterprise on the scale of the leaving the waters of this colony. The effect same time it can be understood that the spirit of prosecution of all that had omitted to take one out the requisite cicarance papers before dupes who were drawn into the net, but at the
|secrets to his father. We fancy that this highly | was arrested on the 8th fust, by the pollen at the I did nothing and one native RAC preclically all returned to theirregolarwork in the
SIAM NOTES.
BANGKOK, 12th May, 1891. Forty jars of samsku, which it was attempted to smuggle ashore from the steamer Kong Bang, were seized by Mr. Caylenberg, one of the Oplant Farmer's agents, last Thursday everinge
An elephant hunt, at which may he reen the rare siebt of some 3,500 core. Hed elephants, may be
be witnessed on the 14th Instant at Ajathia.
a serious difference of opinion on the roth lost.(Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mr. F. H. May, The special committee of the Sanitary Board which led to open warfare with most disastrous Capt. Superintendent of Police) a pointed with results. The fiery cross was sent round and full powers to deal with the epidemic among the younger branch of the Huangs, by cleverly the Chinese community In Hongkong, have now arranging an ambush, bad a
a tremendous advantage in the deadly struggle which took from the garrison, to carry out the work of dous at their disposal a inige staff, mostly drawn place, killing thirteen of their opponents and searching
every house in Tai-ping- only losing one man. It is very probable, bow-
for cases of plague, and to thoroughly ever, that the mortality list will be greatly added
strip cleanse and disinfect every building to after his Excellency the Viceroy has taken a found to be infected. As may be imagined. hand in the game.
this means &
tremendous amount of A DIFAMATION case in which a Methodist ence it is imposelble to realise it at all adequately unpleasant work though without actual exgeil experi- missionary named Pratch figured as defendant Among the civilians who have joined the was tried at Bombay on the 19th ulto, and
emergency corps (as
which fall detalls of resulted in the reverend gentleman being con- personnel and operations were given by Mr. victed and flued R. zor with the alternative of a Francis at the Salary Board meeting THREE Chinese were found on board the months' simple imprisonment. Oplum was the on Thursday afternoon last) is shin Kwangice venterday in possession of large cure of the trouble and a similar case against of t
representative 100
scones to be witnessed by any man one of the men was in bed, with the drag under renown, was to have been heard on the 3rd inst,
dally who cares to join the band his blanket, and he kicked and struggled terribly Lord Colle Campbell is prosecang, and al- preity large book, were they allowed to run to the workers would fill= brought before the magistrate they all said theyceedings would be quarbed, but this was declined, before he was induced to give it up. When mated that if an apology were forthcoming pro- length their seriousness deserven. "did not know the law," and their blend fo
wai magical. The officers of the Imperial restionances, which has a derided bold on the Alfred S. electing to fight the matter out.
for instance, the round made this by one party-Upper Station Street and poking about in Chinese waters, and 2o1 unna-
Maritime Customs saw the Hongkong police native mind just now, may also effect them. nocence cost them $405 altogether.
It THE N. C. Daffy News says that a son of the case attracted much attention on account of of the houses were empty; and therefore did not stood that the Government really and truly did that the month is more likely to close with is confidently predicted that the birthday cele Hang Lane, there were thirty houses to be THR Keba Herald states that Mr. Ritchie, whose inspected, occupying three hours; but nearly half turally asked what was the matter. As soon as
brations in November next will be the signal the news got abroad, and it was generally under- for action on the part of the secret societies, and Viceroy of Klangsa is reported to have tea one being the first foreigner dealt with by the take up much time, so that the average was nearly of the victims of the recent raurders at Narking. Japanese, upon the rescision of the extra- a quarter of an hour to each occupied house, The end, the recalcitrant boat people very sensibly
mean to "see the show through to the bitter lamentations rather than rejoicings. If rumour may be relied on, the young men as territorial rights of Portugal in that country, and party consisted of three Europeans, who did the surrendered at discretion, and to-day they have forcibly made a member of the Kelso Hus who was sentenced by default to one month's work, one Chinese constable, who ecclety, and was murdered for betraying mejor imprisonment on the 11th August, 1893, when requ
r." harbour. at all but it in the doorway of each
Several of them have made conciliatory sensational and dramatic story must be taken Fuldal Police Statios, and sent to the Chibo house visited. The houses are some two storied
overlure to the
Yau-ma.!! and Water Police, with a very large grain of salt.
Salbanske, where in accordance with the law of and some three-nominally; but each storey is
In a rather
fashion, deprehe
deprecating the AT Yokohama the other day, Oka Junji and his criminal procedure the Judgement, was read to made into two, or even three, cocklofts. Every is:
threatened when
prosecutions. The trouble him, after which he was sent to prison. The floor is partidored offiato tiny son Yarukichi, convicted upon the triple charges regulations as to criminal procedars stipulate rooms, tea
called living.
is now quita ended-that is, unless there to be of murder, wounding and incendiarism, ware that the defaulter may oppose a decision rendered five feet high from floor to ceiling. Light and
feet square feet
* sequel in the palice er harbour magistrate's And sometimes less than
court. But there is no doubt whatever that, in sentenced; the former to dasth and the Isiter, in his absence providing a declaration is made air only reach the outer pigeon-holes; the rest
spite of the lofty pooh pooh of the Daily Pres owing to the fact of his being under age, to clans within three days, and Mr. Ritchie is said to are pitch-dark, and as close as the grave.
(which as usual didn't get the news) there was a these men burglarised of remembered the have been contemplating such step; though. Passages and staircases are of pigmy dimensions serious strike imminent, with possibiltiles of rios The function will be unmarked by the presente
a Buddhist maple, why be should have thought of doing so in the searchers having often to murdered a couple of priests under circumstances incomprehensible to our contemporary, seeing and knees, and squeeze
next, and nothing but the quick and declive to get about on
on kind of fiendish cruelty and then attempted to destroy that months and not days only have elapsed tures more like rat-holes than anything else.
through narrow
section of the authorities nipped it in the bad. the edifice by fire,
since the judgment was pronounced,
Most of the rooms contain "beds," made of a THE PLAGUE IN CANTON. CAPTAIN PATTERSON, of the Chius Merchants IT is greatly to be regretted that the wretched a blanket on top and miscellaneous assortment
couple of boards across trestles, with a
it and
allached by the British Consulate. The land Co's steamer Hinch, was presented with a weather experienced yesterday marred what of indescribable rubbish underneath.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
was bought by the Royal Railway department. beautifully embroidered Ang, foily feet long, by would otherwise have been a very interesting, many
The Falat Net, a handy-sixed steamer with the merchants of Tientsin on the 15th 1st if not actually an imposing military
of the rooms the bed does not
CANTON, 25th May, 1894 powerful engines, recently built in Hongkong to in commemoration of baxing completed his in the Happy Valley, there Major-General laid out on the frost. Generally the floors cold and rainy weather which we are now having sold to Mr. Tan Keng Uab, for towing, pur- rise to such magnificence, but is humbly The plague in Canton is worse than ever; the the order Messrs. Andersen & Co, has been five hundredth voyage from Shanghai is that Digby Barker had arranged to review the troops are swept, but never washed, nor are stairs, has finished off, no doubt, a good many who poses. part. The Town Band played in the Pablic of the Hongkong garrison. All necessary
Ona izial trip to Pakret the accom. holes and comers, walls or de
were almost recovering or might have escaped pllaked the distance, with slack water up and Patterson was the recipient of bearty congrato's was to have
to another, altogether. The mortality is for the time very taken pinces the Grand Stand, a position affording an excellent valuable property from the Chinese point of view, have cleared the drains such as they are; and
quarter house. and uninterrupted view of the proceedings, fill the
we feel certain that another fortnight will clear FORMOSA advices state, according to the Shant Despite the Vath which, towards, 4 o'clock, and a replace, leaving leis room than there is in hat morning paper, that the high authorities of developed into a steady down-pour, large the common cook-hore also used as a latrine
rabbit-barrow. At the back of each floor is the epidemic out altogether. the island intend handing over the charge of the crowd of spectators, many of whom were ladies, and from the open fires dente clouds of who will pay Tit. 8,000 of theteaboals: ir day fact that very few madves kurd, and constant and apparently toughen and blacken the inbabi. Imperial sailway to a syndicate of mpar vists, put in an appearance, but it was a noticeable green-wood smoke rise and permeate the Jobo building, Blind and choke the foreign intruder, the authorites, free of all other disbursements.
NINA in the statutes nithe realm. The new- Chinaman" is a firm believer in, If this monopoly should come into opera.on, supporter of cheap shows, but even bis ardent tants without causing them the least dissatis
That the leathsome plegue new prevalent in law, containing about 63 articles, the work of Formosa will be under a system of famed is dumped by rate, The troops turned out
the neighbourlag province of Kwangtung and in Laing Rataps Yall, the Siamese Advocate out faction. Men, women and children herd this Colony should not be confounded with the | General keep the upper classes out of mischief, and--to Kolung, etc., are already farmed out to syndicates the representatives of the different regiments When the search party enters, the occupants during the 14th Century, and which originsted in regular suply is an fudication of that lend
monopolies, as the kin revenue, coal mines at in strong force and by half past four o'clock
in contented makery.
terrible pestilence which over-ran most countries Fat bullocks for 5 ticals each (39, 444), and of native merchants.
and companies were drawn up in line to receive mostly stre, some in respect, some la surprise in Chios, the following historical facts clearly milk and honey that the peoples of the aeth are the Commander-in-Chief. The men on parade ad curiosity, and some in resentment, JAPANESE contemporary slates that Mur-kam!
show though grand and #oldlerly
mill in soarch of. We are intermed, however, no opposition. A glance at the movi And there i so did Hongkong's
During the first half of the 14th Century the that this is the price asked for bed! la Patriew murderer Carstens
figures is sufficient to satisfy the searcher that C Chinese had suffered much from famine, foods, only a few tours from Bangkok, and that the iratory (now awaiting his tat Germany) has just died. A post mortem anal loo's for twelve hours is Taipingshan to teach investigation of the black holes proceeds. A in like manner though in a lesser degree. A door. But the usual formula of asking ques JUDO-Is there any special work you desire to nation has been held by Doctors Eldridge,
a the wretched Chinese coeltas a lesson they are boll's-eye lantern fashes into each crib and terrible
Patbreak of
of plague masked the" termin-- I would like to follow my regalar vocation, examalantion they declare that desth wre dra te Digby Barker 18. fois de
de Jole was Bred,
our informant slyly adds, generally dispensed Judge--What is that? Prisoner-Inspector for tuberculosis complicated by acute pneumonts, more or less
promptly told the Sanitary Board.
The ballet, which could not be found on the first the Band
a few bars of
to Italy,
Bangkok Tinces, examination after the
May 15th, muscles of the man's back. Baker very considerately, out the proceedlinge benents the bed in necefany, since porer of leaving desolation and sufferies bauled it lately a nikdent of Bangkok, who lack a prox
Sweden, Norway,
learn that a The shooting took place, it will be remembered, abart, The retreat was covered by the Hong, the corpse were discovered in that position. was believed at the time that the infantion was missat part in the battle of Fakes, bas rethed in the Honmura Road district a year sal ion | koog months ago, since which time, the decossed kas
Volunteer who, to borrow, one of From thom to room the party makes its way, arried in the air, and writers of the period speak into pevate 114, * Brownieła"! put expressions, looked si wali no | from the street level or cellar to the roof, ) of a kind of mini which passed alebis, ** F**T** Vamber of the Fusion prottet, Abes® bees in very bad health.
costă be expected under sha uiconm
Bouring sad at lassernergie gladly to the domei diedenečen, douchý med migny on NYONY |
Nolklog is known at the French Consulate of
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1894-
TELEGRAMS.
"THE GRAND OLD MAN,"
LONDON, May 24th. Mr. Gladstone's right eye has been success- fully operated on for cataract. His health is unimpaired.
THE BUDGET.
:
Sir John Lubbock, on behalf of the Opposition, brought forward a motion to divide the Budget
aper
of royalty
A disputo basing arisen with respect to land owfood partnership two or three Chinamen,
by of the recent Klong-Kut-Mal elő
the
BOU INT
Lofag machinery an∙1 land; has been
Bill in two, so as to enable the House of Lords Gardens In honour of the event, and Capista | preparations had been most directly opposite Endless quantites of evil-smeling stuff, possibly | great, but the rains and the following high flor? / tide against her down river, in three and
and the march-past | apparently cleaned from one year'sendelse
to vote on the section referring to the Naval Sinking Fond. The motion was rejected by a majority of forty.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Oux article descriptive of the plague, its origia and development, the hospitals etc., will appear In Monday's tenue.
It has been said that politics were invented to
get the lower classes into it.
TO-NIGHT'S performance of "The School for
Scandal" by the Potter-Bellew company, with
house,
tions
to
on every
side.
Own
THE." BLACK DEATH."
A new Siamese law of evidence based upon English principles, which was submitted for approval by H. R. E. Piluce Swasth, the Minister for Justice, baving been approved by the Council of State, is now, we understand, only the Royal sancion before being
amateur sistance, should draw a bumper | Seitaro, one of the palicemen shot by Akion, who mnly want to he let they are not suffering from plague, and so the earthquake, and drought, Europe beings filicted rate includes butchering and delivery at the
do during your term of Imprisonment? Prisoner Wheeler and Rookwitz; and as a result of 38 sadly in need of. As soon sa tintaperu} [eveals its emptiness; or, if there is u figure ation of these calmante, in Chías, and the discissions with regard to tho vuccedent'stesk's origin
boomed,
on the bed, be or she fo
to rise for examination, Very often a bandis (7966
spread
reached Constantinople in
om thence on" tá
A WORD of praise should be given to the Tole | embedded in the **U BETER, was dicavored: National As the altered of blankets on the couch, has to be lifted, to England, and ScotlandFines, Germany, skhough the supply a qui RESZ-
phone Company for the promptness with which
tbey ran down a line to the temporary hospital at Kennedytown, whblo a vary law hours from the time when it was started,
reload and
there no under
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