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Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO., LD.

D. C. & Co.'s DISINFECTING FLUID, Similar to Condy's at quarter the price. Large bottles...... Fer gallon

$0.50 $2.00

This is a safe and reliable disinfectant and la net polsonous.

O better preventive against Plague and

Disease is possible than a well disinfected

bousc.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1894

vention, until quite certain that it has reached | A PROCESS of forming artificiel whale-bone from -Peking,

GREAT BRITAIN AND SIAM. Exception has been taken to any commercial Agreement batween France and Slam by which Great Britain is placed atá disadvantage.

ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. Mr. J. J. Gripliaton, Unofficial Member of the Ceylon Legislative Council, has been knighted...

FXETER HALL. Telegraphic instructions bave,..we bellere, been received by the Hargkong Government (though of course an official information le yet available) to the effect that the Registration of Brothels in Hongkong to be aballobed a early as possible."

If this turas out to be true there will be a good deal to be said before the thing is done.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

F

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & THE British guohoat Pigmy left Shanghai for

COMPANY, LIMITED,

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

HONGKONG,

Hongkong, 1st May, 1894.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

DISINFECTANTS.

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For the pmification of Houses, Cess-pools, Drains, Water-closets, &c., and for the Disinfec Ifan of Sick-rooms.

CARBOLIC ACID.

For Disinfecting Purposes. Half an ounce (abbut one tablespoonfal) of this Acid wben well mixed with one quart of water forms a superior disinfecting and deodori- zing ald

Half a pint of the Solution thus formed, when added to any vessel used in the Sick-room, will prevent any unpleasant efilla, and preserve the contests for Medical inspec'ion. It also purifies Drains, Water-closets, &c.

A les-spoonful of Carbolic Acid exposed on a plate or other vessels in Sick-room will putlly the air and prevent contagion.

PERMANGANATE DISINFECTANT, Similar to Condy's but cheaper, ço cents"a quart bottle.

A nice cleat disinfectant for Dwelling-rooms and Bath-rooms..

CAMPHYLENE POWDER, CAMPHYLENE BALLS. CAMPHYLENE BLOCKS.

JEYES POWDER. JEVES' FLUID.

NAPTHALINE.

QUICKLIME.

IZAL.

CONDY'S FLUID. CONDY'S POWDER.

SANITAS POWDER. SANITAS FLUID.

Narking on the 21st.

..

A surce by the good old barbarous process of harikiri eccurred at Oraka an the 7th Inst. The victim was implicated in a forgery case.

COUNT ITO declared in the Japanese House of Representatives the other day that, if the Strict Trealy Enforcement Bill be passed, the Cabinet will feel compelled to again dissolve parliament. The N. C. Daily News learns from Nanking the Huang Teo-lob, acting Total of Shanghal, presented himself before the Viceroy Llu on the ifth instant to ask for final instructions from the lalter official before leaving for his post,

AT Yokohama on the 14th inst. an employee of one of the local banks was robbed of a box con- taining yen 30 cco in banknotes and cols, Late exchanges notily the arrest of some men In connection with the theft, hut up to date the money bad not been recovered.

A VERNACULAR newspaper reports that... a damaged abip, apparently a foreign schooner. drifted ashore at Maramatsucho Maka-gun, the other day. The bedy of a man, long dead, thought in be a foreigner, was found on the schooner in a hossibly decomposed condition.

THUS the S. F. Commercial News: The chooner Volunteer is now at Aberdeen, loading with Jumber for Chine, and her cargo wil makce the sixth that has gone foreign from Gray's dick-load consists of Hmbers two feet square Harbor within a short time. The Volunteer's

ard too feel long.

PROPITING by Hongkong's experience, the Acting Superintendent of the Shanghal police force has ferund stringent orders to the men to ree that no garbage is thrown out into the streets of that settlement after prohibited hours, and all cases of noleance, stagnant wells and ill-smelling drains are to be immediately reported.

TELEGRAPHIC news.p' the outbreak of a second and distinct rebellion has been received in Japan from Kres. This section is styled the "Western Learning" party and is described as belog of considerable numbers. All governing officers in the dianffected districts have either Bed or been cast into prison.

In accordance with instractions received from the Tsung-larren, and at the instance of the Bush Minister to Peking. L Han-chang Vicerry of the Liang Kwang provlaces, decreed on Saturday lest that the Sam-sul-po gambling "Kelis" be at once closed. And closed they were, but how long they will remain so is a matter of speculation, judging by the contempt shown by opulent gambling-bouse keepers for previous proclamations of a like nature possibly a week or a fortnight.

animal bair, consisting in subjecting the hair to softening bath, then to a bath of acetic acid and finally placing the mass under great premare, has been invented.

A LION-TAMTR watately brought into cruit by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty in Animals of Fandon on the charge of ervellv beating, Creating and torturing certain rulmal, to wi", a Hon." He was requitteJ.

TIMES are evidently very hard with clerks, etc., Ja Australia. We read that Melbourne firm the other day got unt replies to no adet, for a jualor clerk. Men of all ages were among the applicants. Many offered to work for from cs. to 10s, a week, and one genlus, who claimed to be * shorthand writer and typewriter, volunteered to work for six months without dary.

It is said that the credit of having upset the calculations of the willing cargo-host people rightly belongs to M, H. E. Hobron, Com- miestoner of Customs; the Registrar General and his brilliant staff being quite helpless in the matter. In fact, they seemed to know just to much of the affair as was published in the news- papers from Information original" supplied by the police, and no more.

THE British gunboat Ploper left Chinking on the 23rd for Japan.

DURING the part eleven years 73.878 persons, have emigrated from Japan, the annual average being 6,443.

THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG.

then bait cough in all conscience, malters have Since the issue of our last report on the plague, become distinctly aluming owing to the rapid. Increase in the number of fresh cases and pro partialate increase in the death-roll. If alfa.

tate of affaire continues during the with the

as it will then Inevitably be, should convince even the most sceptical that the measures adopted by the sandiary

authoris les with a view to checking the spread of this very fatsl di case e not even yet adequate And that still more due repressive measures must be ed pted forthwith, such as the whole- sale demolition of insanitary plagne-begetting hovels in Tal-ping-shan and other Infected

SAYS the New York Maritime Register:-It is the metal salate in honour of the Quel's we spoalling praptions of the

THE Alacrity, with Adiles) Str E. Fremantle on bound, was at Shanghel on the path, and find, birthday.

1

"Now." selfieanied the berchaamber, who had just begued twenty cents, if I eat shared 171 lank god. and if I get a drink I'll feel good. Which it be?"

helmet is to be replaced by the hopt, or fatigue can makes the marching kit of the German woldier thirteen prunds lighter than it was.

SMALL-POX has been mare ne les prevalent in Nagasaki and other districts of Iapan for some cases were discovered there on the 17th Inst. time past and has now sopeared in Oaks. Two

Act, in force in London, which enables the authoilies to compel landlords very similar to the Metropolitan Buildings to promptly cleanse thele houses to the satisfaction of the sanitary authorities, and empowers the latter body to condemn and raze to the tenements they consid ra menace to the public ground any health. The present is an exceptional though not altegether unexpected crisis, and reeing that the bet season is now stiine

į is now sộtling in, the eradication of cally impossible, unless extraordinary mesSUTCH this loathsome plague would appear to be practi are enforced without respect to wealthy property. owners or any one else.

reported that progress is, being made by the British Government towards arranglig for the AT the Magitimacy to-day a coolle Hving In Shai Hane Lane was fined $25 by Mr. Wodehouse

patrol of the North Atlante in order to destroy derelicts. Our Bliskousins are very deliberate, for Infecting morphine Into Ixteen customers this morning. In default he went to want for a

but they generally **

ally get there" in the end. I month, and he stock-In-trade was confiscated drrellets basno!

is unfortunate that this work of destroying dermic wy.inges are presumably destroyed. All these forfeited stocks of morphine and bypo, i it is to be hoped that it will now be soon in active The new Geim-n uniform, in which the spiked localities and the passing of an ordinance

not been already well 1 underway, bat operation. It may appear an easy assertion to say that many missing ships have bren destroyed by derelicts, but when it is remembered how often verrel have reported damage from this cause, it cannot be denied that derelicts are dangers that should no be allowed to exist, TH* Hyogo Newr tells the following story of haffled miracle-monger: Not long since in Idzu province & Shinto attendant invited a great multitude of

people to witness his of a miracle. A dower vase was het before the performance assembly, and In rome flow zes were put. The holy man then began to pray fervently to his gods, numbering shout 8,000,000, and when he falshed praying be benaght forward a bottle "Look on the Bowers in the vase "the instructed which wa, he said. filled with clean water: his

audience, "and

if I drop the water in the vas, the spisite gods will come and abide on the flowers. The sadi nce all looked and were mach surprised when they saw the l word moving as if alive. A young man present exclaimed, "Ab, that's easy: I can do that without any ged. Only put a few fakes in the vase first and then drop strong rake In. The fish will begla to struggle to get out and the flowers will more." The mystery was thus exposed, and next morcing bis hoitaess left the village in disguise, moving on to paris unknown..

It is fuld that an facredible amount of smuggling lectured on between Japan and Koren, and that legitimate trade between the two countries is being steadily undermined No fewer than 5,000 crat, ortenible fishing boats, are e gaged impunity, the Korean officials bring elther in there apratintis which are carried on with unable or unwilling to laterfere with them. GOOD-NATURED Yankee remarks about Adelina Patel: Selfish, unprogressive, avaricious, hat never thought of her art sa aught bot e money-making enterprise; and now, sans voice, wens looks, sans everything, she te once more. before the America public, cap in hand, begging a few more dollars, for which she gives naogbt in return but a few old-fashioned arius that sho has been singing acurly farly years.”

are all those fellowe banging over the railings Mfan Newcome (in front of the Club): What

for?

Mr. Comso: Sh-! That's where they pat the "drunks to tober up.

of Janan sa depth of from Two to six fathoms, PEARL, shells have heen: discovered off the coast So far the finds have not been phenomen quarantine in parts of call. extended. the enterprise is likely to be continued and

It is notified that the Mesangeries Maritimes or cargo from his mail steamer Natal, leaving Hongkong for Europe to menow, will take naliber passengers i port, with a view to avoiding

THE Japan Heraid of the 19th Inst, reports the transaction of an enormons ten esiness at Yokohame. In ten days 78, 100 niculs of ten were

dianezeil of, ss compared with 45 300 piculs for a corresponding period of 1993.

MR. SUGITA, a well-known member of the Dresent Japanese Parliament, was to have been

The hot

The

Preusmeward-bound German mail steamer

Kowloon Bay. In common with the French arrived here this morning from Shangbel and with view to avoiding detection at ports of call route to Európa anchored in malls she took hence neither cargo nor passengers, and felt a few hours after arrival.

So

far from the allegations of Chinese medicos and others that the foreign doctors have not cured single plague-stricke patient, it is a fact that Doctors Lowson and Penny bave cared several patients, of both

twenty-five patients who are quite convalescent, the Kennedy-town hospital no less than and who will, Dr. Lowson courteously inform as, shortly be discharged cured.

the rear of Messrs. A. E. Skeels & Co's auction A fatal case of plague has been reported as having been discovered in the coolle quarters at

since been rooms on Fraya Central. The premises have thoroughly disinfected and during the past 24 hours to fresh cases bave been repasted

the neighbourhood.

AMONG the passengers werlying in Shanghaf❘ WRITING under date the 23rd inst, the Nanking put upon bly tris on a charge of attemateri la the Vennuskos, and that there are now from the North last week, was Dr. Martin of correspondent of our Shanghal morning contemtul murder on the 15th Inst. Polities caused Peking who is es rents for the United States, belog ordered home for the treatment of cancer

porary says: The rather startling story of the dispute, and Sugita's step-brother was the on the face. Owing to the nature of kle disease,

murders committed recently in the Viceroy's victim. be was not able either to make or rennive

ramen here is altogether unknown in Nanking, during his brief stay in Shanghai The

and those of us who have read the report in the N.C Daily News states that is authorised to say

N. C. Daily News have been somewhat a loss that Dr. Martin has not resigned the presidency

to account for such a ramour. Yesterday evening. of the Imperial Tangwen College. but goes on

however, your correspondent met an Annamese leave for one year, Professor Oliver acting as

rentleman who has returned from Chungahs, poets for the poets corner, Such patriotism is prezident ad interim.

in Huean. In conversation regarding the re-worthy of terod. By all means let the abbey cent up-rising in that province he remarked that be established t

Kelna Hut rebel had burned the ancestral

.C.

A TONKIN contemporary says:-" A pirate chief named Tay, who has plundered the province 16th May, condemned and executed the same of Hanol for ten years past, was tried on the day. As well at much executim, the tong-dor (a lecal official) attended in fall state, mounted on a scarlet-lobed elephant. The condemned man maintrined remarkable anng-frold to the very end. He looked round smiling until his head dropped off and even then his features retained the same placid ees lon This is nothing *1'; lo's of ox alle when taking a drop.

Bibbs :-Three of us went out in a stead launch on Sunday, and aw two tiger-cubs play log about on the mainland within a stone's throw of the water's edge.

Nobis:-Jumping Jehosaphat! What did you

do!

Blobbs-Came away again. No telling where the big tiger might be, you know. Say, do you want to buy a gun for $aço?

Nobbs-Yes, here you are, cash down! Where was it you saw the animals 2.

Blobbs-Hing Kee's gardens at Macao. bought them a month ago, and their eyes are hardly open yet.

He

the

WHEN E. C. Stedman heard that Rishan Potter was advocating the founding of a Wes'mlajster Abber in America he sent word to him that he should be most happy to kill off the first ten

home of H.E. Llu K'an-yi and that they had OUR morlband evaning contemporary the China beheaded one of his sons who was living there. Teady in last night's fene, makes use of the farinate man was really a son of our Viceroy, he times in the first seventeen Hines of a paragraph On belag asked particularly whether the unmouningless expression His Excellency" four replied that he was not a son but arephew. This is doubtless the foundation of the whole story. Evening Macycophant is evidently trying hard on Faming bootex at Sam-shal-pe. The It is bad enough, however, as it is, and shows for C. M. Ghip. how biter in the feeling of the Kolac Hui against the man who bas pursued its members to mercilessiv, My informant remarked that the Viceroy Liu would not dare to return to Hura",

Pow

We read that Captain Geo. W. Goodwin, who commands the steel ship Divico ding at Philadelphia for Tapan, was tate of a ship when only 19 years old, and has gone arund Cape Horn 33 times. His wife and son will sail with him. The Dirfed carries 24 men, locluding two mates and two boatswalus,

A very amusing ind Instructive incident occurred yesterday in coanection with the arduous

Atkins was hard at work uson, and gazing in happened to stop near a hovel which "Tommy cleansing operations now being carried on hy men drawn from the Garrison. It appears that Mr. Granville Sharp, the opulent philanthropist,

old gentleman waited until a soldier, fresh from amszmeal at the rubblah in the street the gord fray, bounced out in to the street gasping for against the aged one Struck by the appearance breath of fresh air, and in his baste humped up of the man the good old lend-owner asked whether there was anything he could do to help the movement. "No," was Guffink

the

A

As we wable to It's the and landlord. You can't do get old cf-the bretes as lives on the rent such like hell-fire hovels. Them's our mark

rents of It ought to be made d-d'ot for them folk, and the OCR Shanghai morning contemporary Teens philanthropist didn't aid "Tommy" worth a sooner the better." Needless to add the veteren from native sources * Chungking that shippers cent, and on the con

contrary

a bre-line for "home, sweet

this year by their specolutions in this article. home." of Indian cotton yarn have been losing largely |¿ickahs and made. Pop, ed into bis ricketty Bupan at cost price have been extremely scarce in that city of late, so that traders with small

The manager of the Russtan kerosena oil capital have been forced, in order to save further depot at Sam-sul-po (Kowloon) reported two charges, to sell at Shanghai figures only. No Szechuan merchant, it is said. darea to contractees, who are, it appears, gradually

cases of plague to day among his native- for further shipments of Indian yarn for the

leaving the district. present.

Tain afternoon

private in the Shropshi Light lofantry, who had been engaged in house- to-house visits with the emergency corps of the

sanitary authori les, was found to be suffering

European attacked, and is not regarded as a from plague, in a very mild form, and was at once removed to the Eygela. This is the first Belious case,

Appended are the latest statistics. From noon 'yes'erdly until noon to-day:→→

New Deaths Dlach. Rem, under cases

Cured

treatment

Hygeia

Glass Works... 30

0

12*

Kennedy-town 1*

27

19

-

50

10.

36

. Ali disinfectants used on the higher levels of pollician who had taken refuge in / farge national faga, and red and white cartulos feet water pressure. The second hole, ten/ SAYS the Japan Herald of the 16th inat.:-The Private houses

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.

proceeds to ask what s'eps the Japanese thunder a tent in the garden. Seeing | in one minute. The third bole, twenty-one that stormy politics! times are impending; the

HT

had (1

to ignore the Administration,

Total... 30 23

Transferred from Hygeia to Kennedy-toma,

although the plague is claiming less vicims In Deaths from the outbreak (5th May) up to May 28th, noon, 432; grand total, 457.

Latest news from Canton is to the effect that

yet it is causing sad havoc in towns and villagei to the northward and westward of the City of Rama

AN experiment with a device for swiftly stopping and repairing leaks fo the sides of vessels, caused by boles pr rents from any cause, is reported to bave been made at Philadelphia a attached to Cramp's shioyard as the Govern few weeks since by Naval Constructor Nixon,

other Navy officers. The device is known as ment supervisor for the Navy, and a

a company of the Colomes Life and Ship Pro'ertor, and le a French invention protected by a Ualted States patent. It comprises a

simple mechanical contrivance for applying to the leak or hole and firmly securing it composition of amorphous cellulose, the absorbent qualities of which cause it to swell in bulk when it comes in contact with water, and causes it tightly to fill in REFERRING to the big "convivial" meeting of every ragged opening or crevice politicians, called at the fasiatice of six rigid water can penetrate. This new compesch PRIVATE advices have been received by the foreign policy" sections and held at Tokyo on

composition the 8th inst., the Fodas Gastis reports the the United States Navy on account of its relased to grant permission to Mr. Frank Dallas, in use on the cralzers and battle ships of that the Stewards of the Tientsin Racs Cleh bad 1100 1 | N. C. Dafly News from Tientals to the effect gathering was attended by over a thousand automatic action in care of a leak, and it will be the well-known Shaoghal jockey, to ride at the persons, including Pelace Konoys, Viscounts Introduced to the future in the construction of late race meeting. It was understood that Mr. As was expected, the assassination of Kim-ok Tar House, as well as members of the lower nessed the experiments at the invitation of the of Peking. Colonel Wagack had shown his Tapi Scg, and several other members of the vessels for passenger service. The guests wit-Dallas had been asked to ride for Count Cassial klen has been brought up in the Japanese House of Represent tiven in the form of a

Worse and others belonging to the al

sections. Franco-American Cellulose Company At the present time disinfectants ought to be question put to the Government. The question. The police, sumbering about 8a, quartered large from tanks of water were filled

Three

disapproval of the decision of the Stewards by sccording to the Kobe Chronicle, is wörded ja -thɛ maolewa in seven

d by the police resigning, not only his stewardship but also his down the used freely by all,

seven places up and

King the Tog a manner assertive that two men were want to

and the wat

water was fust let out of a 24 membership of the Race Clob, stals and were vigilantly decorated with twe by the cellulose protectors, in spite of a twelve

the proceed. inch hole, which was stopped to twenty

secoode to sparsinate rot anly Kim-ok-klan, but lege. The entrance was Japan, thist sieg proved by documents showing were stretched in every direction, while a band inches in diameter, same pressure, was stopped it is pregnant with rumours, so much, indeed, they were instigated by the King of Kores, and WLE

vigilance of the poller, the

feared faches long, Government intends to take against Kozer for the userably to an opto-air mesting at Uyens, the use of three protectors. Constructor Nixon,

promoters

average width, five

Ibroen attendant on the evolution of party and dissolution, and

and were consulting to draw

inches, flow stopped op

within i's efforts to di-turb the peace and tranquility The fear, however, as not realized. When when the test was over, said: "The expert. it peales at The Opposition, Istration, and one and a half minutes by responsible Government are likely lead to the shipwreck of the Ito Cabine, or to enforce Further information can be obtained by of spa

the clock struck personal application to

artdressed the Viscount Tani rose and ment was a signal success, and the halen wera i without mare edo sie bringing forward addresses that city than has been the case for weeks past,

disposed to A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. that there is a strange rumour circulating among on this ecession, but I will now refrain from sudden sinking on account of a projectile. By ments of the

THE N. C. Daily News of the 23rd lust, reports have many things of which I wish to speak to you sallor on a man-of-war henceforth need dread no

meeting very briefly thus: stopped in remarkably short periode,

The to the

to the Throne which are in reality Impeach the natives of Shanghal to the effect that the dolag so.

Politler towns it the mouth of the Yangtae-Shanghai with the spirit which bas called you to this stopped before an appreciable quailty of water between the adherents of the clan system, and les seem to have you net la conformity the use of cellulose almost any leak can be

to get

practically

themselves into a respired the and is neighbours within a radius of fifty miles

meating

lug-of-war will be visited this year by great flood. loud and prolonged cheers, when the Viscount

This short address was followed by can rush In,”

their opponents Much feat is expressed at the receipt of recent agala rose and said: "Our country has never WRITING under a late date the Kiukiang corre colleagues' official bed of roses will be found to The next few days of parlia mentary

proceedings will he likely to see some from Hankow and other Yanatsa t:wn once exceived an Insult from foreign countries, spondent of the A. C. Daily News, thus →→

startling developments. Count Ito and his the freshets there are

and that the great river had risen cheers for his Imperial Majesty." ten fer i over what it was at the same time last angaustion was instantly responded to by three It is a book more or less forbidden and yet in The the Shaping-o or "Ode to the Baked Cakes, year. Some natives Interviewed by a representa land chears, and the policemen present all the hands of almost all literary men and, I am five of this paper ascribed the origin of the uncovered in deep reference. Then began is informed, officials. Everybody seems to know Fumour to the presence of

of a Taolet Silverant Priest who has bean golog round the steer of dinner, and the mesting dispersed at about six mere or less of its contents. The most is most

of o'clock. the elements and suburbs throwlog out

printed but is copied by hand, and thus passed mysterious binis to that effect, to anyone who THE Shensi correspondent of the N, C. Dativamily to family. There must be milions would listen to blu tattle. The Taolst pilent is News writes as follows : -There has just been s

In existence in Chies. It

parports ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE PAID IN id to have disappeared suddenly.

most unfortunate breach of the peace at Hahsien the first Ming Emo yurs ago in the reign of

chy not far from Halania, The Roman consulted with one Lia Emperor,

Tai Tes. The Emperor IN connection with the recent Buddhist cele. Catholic Chris lens got into trouble respecting glimpse of events to com

Kee, who of events to coms. All the way through KAYA biza a bratlong in Japan, the Os kt correspondent of the

the ownership of a temple site which they had, the Hyogo News willes as follows The 12th tightly or wrongly enclosed and claimed as the difficult

style is that of a puzzle and is very of May now ecoresponds to the 6th of April, on property of the Catholic Church. Twa foreigners that the names of all the Emperors of the Ming understand. But it is a strange fact which day Buddha was born in Ceylon, about a Frenchman and the other an English and Telog dynasties down to 2,500 years ago. On the former day the temple man-went to prosecute. Os arrival they had evolved therefromt. It is impossible to D'ustrate the present can bs of Amide Ikr, at Hotle, Osaka, was as usual a "warm" reception, for burning

torche

were these names and facts without quoting from the A. SYLVA, Imperial Maritime Customs, of aby swest ton. I is said, that when Baddha was premises were set on fire. The foreigners fied has put late English, but in Chinese daughter:

meaning bore, the water with which his sacred body was to the yames but were roughly handled and is halte

intelligible. The events washed was changed into sweet tea, and the cast late prison. The magistrate now fearing down to the present Emperor, Tung Chl and Dennys, was for the defendant.

predicted the the besought to come out; Kuanz. are referred to as custom of drinking this beverage on emple, as but cant hey refused to do. Later on the Pre come to the throne as children. Your readers decleton gaven by a social jus pave questions,

Bal

Mr. Francis moved judgment manufacturing | voiced priest", itinerant vendors of all descrip- | 100 with honour and escortað in vadanover China that the days of the present time. ·

well as its precincts, was crowded with load- fect sent a deputy to arrange matters and after will perhaps know that there is a widespread ides last week, as repasted, in these colames at the that depot, now send their goods direct to

fourteen days' incarceration the foreignars were tions, tion and mendicania. The holy image was Überated

are about to end. The book I am

Hongkong. In that case they pay the thin *-splendently framed, and innumerable candier

describing were Jl biedt fore it by the plan. In a GISTER) FORing was communicated.with Wates very clearly that the Chinese will reba point that you took immediately after the patį. Į are cot as grasping au the Cantonese and cannot is perhaps responsible for this, and His lordship-There was a point reserved, dues at the place of export, where the officials pond and both the French and building in its centre to which access i julnod | fudice, and the and la: toy TIARA (gulost their Manchu usnuten and drive them that point now, Mr. Francis—thår, taklog all the capital of the provlaces

tion and answer I would like to hear you on afford to be so, not being as strong as those in slaughter hack to

Excersive charges their own lands. The the facts alleged in the defendant's answer as there would mercifully fred by their owùms in this piece) of Llendly relations and let us incense Telog that will come to the throne, he is the being correes, yet that answer does not afford i

present Emperor is sald to be the Inst

and the Ode says that the family will

any defence to the petition.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 16th May, 1894.

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At Ningpo, on the 21st instant, the wife of the Rev. J. C. HOARE, of a daughter,

on from

have been willien

the

their:

will be shor of half its chagrin.

SUPREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. E. J. Achroyd, Acting Chuf Yustice.)

May 29th.

TO THE INTOR OF THE "Howarong Taragraph," SIR,Que of your Canton correspondents wrote you a few days ago that there were no Chinese ilde-waiters at Cantor, sor at any other Treaty Port except Amoy, and he thought it was about time that Chinese were employed, as they were and the revenue of Canton was falling

year. Perhaps it may

do Liars

cheaper,

off more

and

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readers generally, good to have these tatements aleated up and contradicted.

To begin at the bottom: The revenue is 1st for oplum, because

falling bly.

kb

COM being

the

right and left with the

of the Hongkong Government (and THE NATIONAL BANK CALLS

why not

and Instead of foreigners will not remedy that; and employment of Chinese Hiuskas Alum of Faschow for 3.380 sterileg. viclality of Canton send their export cargo The National Back of Chias, Limited, sued for general cargo, because the towns in the the amount of calls on shares. Ms. J. 1, Francis, direct to Hongkong lasised of vid Canton as and Mr. H. E. Pollock, lostructed by Mr, formerly, to Las crowd. Nearly all their

avold the outrageo

='outrageous squeeson of the Canton charges have been raised lately to suck sa extent as to be almost prohibitive, and large

At Wahu, on the sand May, the wife of thronged with devotees to partake of Amackathon inio their cart and at night the Catholic i book in Chinese: the puzzles lose the moto Mr. E. Robinson, instructed by Mr. H. L.

The Honghong Lelegraph

HONOKOKO, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1894-

TELEGRAMS,

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In the enclosure, distinguished by the octagonal for late:mation; se meantiave the

by

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THE FRENCH MINISTRY.

LONDON, 27th May, 1896.

settlement, this case will

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of the

appeared for the plaintiffs, and

Mr. Francis--I don't know skat I can achi

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Taskan, pics, ele, instead of using Canton s

but have been to several of

te of beardzy Cruse ́e riot. I am not

i places and made enquiries.

Is the cause and the

the remedy is not, E

Luggest, and as the

dent

authori

Would

Lantz that will never rulsa -

s is only one remedy, namely

by the cheaper working of

* stone bridge, are a muitkude of tortoises

that throughout their long lives they

ancials. The Engliskman is the R. P. Hugh ninth rule These are prophecies of wa remember the mercy shows them M. Duppy is endeavouring to form a Cabines. blessings open their tentiactory on aluring Scallas, described in a Catholle parietical as " then by

Many more were thrown in on this oộORROW. WHIP Janjouter unguere d la storiesse fins dès | country ❤ And it in mlad`unid that the very much to the arguments adduced then J Custom ara actually doing, in tha:

couraging provicales ge le matters opt and desolaito brows: Buddha fold tastyrte ou Chang Ho mai rabitrented fast with a separate Kisig, here is ako dopateros sirsady sach

be uplit

Kingdoms, acaimonious over the treaty between" Great | centuries #EO. For a time it was neglected and which the notch. There are two stien pang-l'eo az

reference to a class of people who are called

or "dishavelled hair Britain and Belgium cading the province of a severion in the pand, and the temple | Caikalle Christina asenna the,” shaped to treat cocident that great chango MIN | calculated on erch call from the time it bedimir labour. This failing-off of the Canton revenise'

beir men," that is men a'l day, *Kept over the i̇istrict, Thâm | ting thusa, disturbances x- (t): How far di ibu tar this to foilgners, The Chinese every- † und interest at 10 par oent, par anuumi të de | aught: to mid all their Influence in briew this

not gathered into a queue,

temple to f.mour for ave been brought from China seme parenteen

FRANCE IN AFRICA.

The French Press is daily boosening more

The

to have

Babr-pl-gazel to the Congo Free Stata.

ANGLO-CHINESE CONVENTION.

Six Edward Grey, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, bas declined to make say statement regarding the Angle Chinese Con

·Pratitence i

zam of the fist importance in lave:

it wrs found stil known as Buddha's Pond was not ap in | (mperio" attitude, relying upon the

Some

can do very little more then repont what I have

reduction of the preventive Arguments then proceeded as before, lasiing the revanna.

to hand over the collection of all taxes and duca His lordship gave judgment for £2,280 sterling to the Foreign Customs, and the Forelze Powers

ite hosaur. The day's festival was mailased of thate priest lafond of necking an amicable Impending and asses of prominent rulers have payable naill judgment, together with interem may be of benefit to outcha!dave

been mentioned as possible leaders. These on the total indoors at a per ounts par Ragnar Of Fantand: Bán than besede te small and me thlogs are not talked of by the natives openly, frem judgment math and SE but they dissues thoas all the same,

till late into the night, immense crowds Jolader settlemast (3) How far did the Melis magis in the religions dancing, so that not spód krate secily mans an affort to previne dr and (as remained unoscupied,

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