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WINES AND SPIRITS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1895.

11.30 9.9.

|

of that

their

I we are Informed correa iv. humbug has been fil'fag the columns of the Casforing abilit!**** Come, regarding the and, and reported dead and builed on

and

ref ́r to Capt. du Boulay, a British military officer, that day at dawn a brigade of the Japanese whose elaborate report as the fall of Port Artur pinloned and shot, stripped and hacked, sipped anything in racing-they often don't, sad to Second Army, under General Nor?, attacked a recently passed through Hongkang en route to

onen, disembowelled and dismembered. Many any-this wiry little customer will be had to Chinese force near Kirping. The Japanese the British Government Captain du Boulay

of the bodies were also partly born."

beat wherever he goes ou The Rife Bilgada defeated the Chinese and completely muted who was present during the assault and As regards the rubblah about the Third Army, are the fortunate owners of a chestnut and a dun, them, A Japanese detachment occispled Keeping capire is soldier, scholar and, above all, a

or Sendal division, with which this pretentious both handsome enough for anything, but as to After four heure fighting.

and ke, gentleman.

any reliable estimate. The Chinese force consisted of over threa

Mali lor weeks has written an exiremaly interesting, graphle, fight

pist without In

we must wait - In any way throwing

little longer, thousand men,

hlight en, with two Gatling guns and

apon the Important question of is destina- although both havel

e been

powed." Another new welve ficit pieces. The Chinese fer sow and and generally reliable description of the fall

iton (In fact, he admitted he couldn't conceive addition to the sporting ranks, Mr. H. E. Tom- Halshatsaf, the Japanese virorously pursuing held at, and very feably defended, strong-

whither It was based or when) it is only king, own

OWIS A big, slashing dark chestout that can them. Any Chinese forces that may be left inwarded to the ports of this noteworthy event for

New York the

refer Herald, the World, necessary to

our renders to the

ket over the ground,

1 am raiber the vicinity of Newchwang are now between the the London Times (for which last named Journal report published in our last fame of the impressed with Mr. Hohnke's white, not two Japanese armies.

British Government's our late reporter, Mr. T,C. Cowen, holds a brief),

ultimatum to the quite a beauty

look

, but one of the game, Standard, La

Le Temps, Black and White and

Tapanese' in which it is set forth that the Third hardy sort that will struggle along under the or say other Japaness China Waff by the new chams' who seem to

Army Согри

whip. will Interfere with the trade of Shanghai or the Yangtze ports And leafing about in back-puriouse in Japan a

at their peril and, in as many words, says that the pleasant pastime, ste for the most part devoted

British Fleet will effectually prevent any intera to wholesale abuse of the Japanese troops and descriptions atrocities they

heard of

ference with the trade of Shanghai or the of but never saw, As far as an intelligent description f the adjacent riverine ports, to at once appreciate the

Me four days' fighting, the Co-operation of the

of the the intelligence and the value of the corres- Japanese

Fleet and other important details pondence forwarded by an unscrupulous non-

we have looked in vain

antity are concerned

who is, in his present capacity, absolutely their screeds

for

contempt. The Sendel division of the any fndication Japanese Army was destined for Shanghai and that the writers can lay claim to be

the Yangtze, and as the British Government anything more than penny-2-liners who would

better employed in scribbing for "Penny hope that little game, the departure of the Third Army has been indefinitely postponed. than playing the fool generally Dreadfuls

Another official telegram has omrived from Keeping, dated the roth Inst. at midnight, in which General Negi reports that the Chinese had extended their defences near the river, where the Japanese attacked their two wings and then The Chinese were routed, and the their centro. Tapanese took possession of Kaeping about ten n'clock in the forenoon: There were over two hundred Chinese killed, but the number of wounded in at

at present

over unknown. The Japanese. captured 150 prisoners, who state that the Chi- rese force, including artillery, amsanted to quite 4,000, under General Seb. The Japanese scouts report that a force of about 10,000 Chinese,

moving to support Kaeping, ere now retiring upan Yingkow,

Kueping was reported captured by the Japanese on the 18th December, therefore it must have been taken again hy the Chinese, and re- captured by the Ispanese on the 10th last.— Ed. S.M.)

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"LIVING PICTURES” and other special attrae-

tions at the Theatre Royal at 9 clack to-night 137OUR report of the prize distribution at the Diocesan School is " crowded out " of this issue.

TBR 0, & O. S. 5. Co.'s steamer Garlic, with

yesterday.

Li. these are Selected by our London

AL

see

SPORTING GOSSIP.

Now that training is in full swing and actual work is being done that may, to some extent at

east, ben geiled on as a forecast of the results of Hongkong's great annual carnival to he held on the 20th, 21st, sud 22nd of next month, a few the pontes and trafolog

the

I notes may prove interesting to

"Mr. Gilles, who owns what ought to prove formidable stable, has two subs, and cae of them at least is certainly speedy and a rattling good mover. The big bay with the white star on his face, owned by Mr. Landale, le a fine looking pony and, li a trific high-actioned, has a magni. ficent stride that is bound to tell in the straight run-in; but his findth is hardly suggestive of a high-ciam rice pony, although he is quite good enough to win races the moderate company he is likely to meet.

A for- midable (as regards numbers) Syndicate from the Taikos hong are the lucky possessors of a shapely gray that has already attracted the attention of the men at the ralls,' and will pro- and German. One of Mr. R. H. Brace's pair, bably develop into a hot favorite for the Valley the dark-grey, and Capt. Thomas' dun or roan show racing quaily, and with Mr. Henry Humphreys speedy bay will have to be reckoned with later on.

difficult to ascertala with precision, how many of our boys succumbed to this disease.

Eight deaths have been reported as due to this cause. Early in June two of our boys lleleg in quite different

parts of the town suddenly died of So Manchu was ta echool on Saturday, pingue, Monday the 4th; on the same Monday Leong Shi-chak was removed to hospital, and reported dead on the following day. As consequence, 280 bors left in the course of the week, and 120 more before the clo o of the month, Wh

T:16 exceptions, the bays observed the usual formall ties, bringing their parents or guardians to apply for leave. On the 14th

July, there ware 48 hare for the 21 class-rooms instead of 812 as in May. His Excellency the Go vacation to vernor, under the chcumstances, permitted the

a farinight On re-d On re-opes Ing on the caller than usual. 3rd September, 557 boys returned and by the end of the month, this number had risen to 625, not counting 37 bays newly admitted. altribute this satisfactory return of so large a number of boys to the Governor's kind consid ration, fa remling,

summer of

with

readers of a without being mislead-dates galloped, I will reserve my opinions on the able extent to excess of the original estimate.

bound to have very far-reaching effects and in matters connected with war that la

affect for good or lil and for all time, the welfare of the great mass of British merchants and manufacturers who have important interests at make is the Far East. The great fault we have to find with these special pratiters, these shoddy do-melblogs, these funtian scrib. blers, is that they do not attempt to put an intelligent construction bron what they operations and persis or the sil

neither do they get ahead of the

slightest

st aptitude for obtaining above, have been weighed to the tea lack of of straight tips. Most them, as indicated

sadly

Wanting owing to an utter practical experience and wide knowledge of the peoples and pollice of Eastern Aula; while others again disple

display an impardonable Ignorance of history; so that under there moderances, it would be

der facts clcometences, display even ordinary ability in the performance of their datles, much less a superior knowledge of the world and all that therels fa, But

times

*ve

Ing. Although

and other reasone bave prevented me from being sack a regular atten- dant at the Happy Valley atace the rat of November last as in the many years it has been my privilege and pleasure to

votaries of the

sport of i have

kings in this colony, I managed to

to keep mysell

of the cracks, their past

records, and probable To an old racing colleague,

Casual, I am indebted for some valuable opinions regarding

"A's I have not yet seen all the Derby candi-

classic event of the meeting until Saturday."

on account

of the plague, the ATICSTS of fees doe from boys who WATC absent In

the months of June and Jaly;

for there can be no doubt that otherwis: a conilder- able number would have stayed away on zece unt of inability to pay such large lump sums at $12, 88,

c. As it le, 215 names were missing last year, or an erira loss of 125 boys in the between May and September, as against 109

mer of 1894. RETRENCHMENT.-Experience, as observable in connection

the formallon of

* new department, or the extension

of an old

shown that be one, has

expenses grow, in the first few years, to a consider It is therefore to the credit of Dr, Stewat and Dr. Eltel that their approval of my estimate in With the foregoing views 1 generally agree.

of the number of cfiers, and

and Items of and where I do not, the differences are so slight

expenditure required for the New in no cannot take into i tion griffins, taken as a whole, are gond-looking

Account, the general increase of 35

5 per cent, and 20 per cent, to the Clell Service, their racing

nor the item English Books, where tall in al ver abilites have, with a few noteworthy

Has necessitated further adjustment, neither of very much below par. Still, na

PUR | which events could aro nearly

of the same clars, there

foreseen. The Colonuld possibly have been The Colonial Treasurer in his evidence before to be sama

28 nominations applied for should secure a large

entry and

"When men become trained in Treasury work, interest this year. Until I have seen the whole they become very valuable. If a rush of pros

prove of special of the swell griffins extended, any expression of

perity comes to the colony, several of my staff, opintoa as to their respective qualifications

some of whom are really Intelligent men, may keep them well posted up in everything partain-Department. The same argument applies with would be absurd, but I promise my renders to

leave me at once for better pay," and this sentiment was echoed by other Heads of Ing to training and other sporting matters from

1887 di

malis, &c., left Nagasskl for this port at p.m. modern Far Eastern to expect lacin to posted as to the actual dalaltly well | enough for anything, but up to the present dute

While the gossip of the race coume for the that they need not be detalled. The Subscrip. partleylar been subject to 44

D'ARCS MARIONETTES

AT THE

BIJOU THEATRE AT 9 P.M. THE Pacific Mal Co.'s stemer City of Rio de Fametro, according to latest telegraphic advices from the North, fo still in dock at Nignankl.

WHEN the Douelas Co.'s steamer Fokian left

Meil on the 11th instant, there were twelve : Japanese transports in that part, loading coal

YOUT

(

fatare prospects

there is one thing they can and certain the Subscription giffini, and another coadjutor The Derby, capital racing Bext month, the Retrenchment Committee, asid (p. 127)

the

bould do, and that is to stick to TRUTH, and refrain from contributing misleading and childish rubbish to Esteld to be unmindiai Eastern or other journals. Above all, however, they of the fact that they are War correspondani (al kind at all events) and that they should be mostly If not all their time, at the seat of war. It

more convenient to send letters off from Japan," but the question of convenience is only secondary consideration and has nothing to do with the main duties of war correspondent, which is to be with an army and dangerously near the front the greater part of his time,

in the good work, familarly known as "The Mather, has been regularly on duty with the family time-piece and the familiar pencil.

House, bought direct at first band, Tur Masonic Ball, held at the Astor How the China Mail's Coml: Speciał puts it, be to-morrow or an Friday—not that any Intelligent now up to the meeting.

Imported In Wood and Hottied by ourselves, thus saving all intermediate profits and enabling

us to supply the best growths at moderate prices,

PRICE LISTS, WITH FULL DETAILS, TO BE HAD.

ON APPLICATION.

PORT :-After, removal should be rented a month brform use. When required for

decanted at the Dispensary before being

sent out.

Shanghel, on the rith lost, is stated to have heen en anqualified success from every point of

vick.

The China and Manila Co.'s liner Zafra, Capt. Gerard, which came out of Kowloon Dock on Monday after extensive repalis, leaves here for Manila on Filday next at 5 p.m.

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I will endeavour to desl critically and at some length with the programme of events either

comment, suggestion, or expression of opinion le ever likely to have any influence with such anull- wise and immaculate body of racing Solons as the old-time Stewards of the Hongkong Jackey

Jockey Club, but merely to the hope that my comments may Influence the active members of the Club to ignore at next election the claims to honours which they do not deserve, to which they have no no clair, of certain antiquated and cantankerous fossils who never owned ignorant of the first principles of racing law, and race-ponles, who are eblivious of what true sport means, and who repay the confidence reposed la them by religiously never appearing on the race-course self-respect, if unable or unwilling to perform the or doing anything either useful or ornamental.

duties of the important office to which they were Is never too late to mend.

This morning's training gallops will be fally detailed to-morrow.

AN OLD SPORTSMAN. Hongkong, 16th Jan, 1895.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

The following report has been forwarded to us for publication -

Queen's College, Hongkong. 16th January, 1895.

Acting Colonial Secretary, Str,I have the honour to forward the Annual

1. The total number an the College Roll for the year was 1048. The Plague, which mercifully spared the lives of our masters and ocholars, hai, however, played ruthless bavoc with fully half the statistics in the Table following.

The qualifications of war correspondents are varied and more or less complex and include above all things a sound memory, for memory, sa one of the ablest wilicia of a bygone age very A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. apily put it, is the cabinet of imagination, 1465. E.C., will be held in the Freemasons' Hall, the treasury of Leason, the registry of cos- Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 forg o'clock selence, and the council clamber of thought. It precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited. would, of course, be easier to endow fool with THE British Bicamer Benmehr, Capt. T. H. none, and that is just the filth Mr. T. C. intellect theo to persuade him that he had we have Clarke, which arrived here to-day from London, experienced, time and again, with Mr. T The persons referred to, on the plain ground of Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, 264 Ponsmouth and Plymouth, brought out

one of the Timer wat correspondents drking at once it should be ordered to be implements of war, ammunition, &c., cousigned special" to the China Mail, und recently a appolated, ought to bave resigned long ago. It Report on Queen's College for the year 1894.

to the Admiralty,

reporter on the staff of the Honghong Telegraph. This dlotic babbler's memory, if ever he had one, appears to have left him and gone into ghosts of the Chinese he saw crucified, roasted the and embruled at Port dimat og aner Artbar, the first baltie the opers was over! And we are not for wrong prowess for we have before us the gist of In our opinion as to this gas-bag's vaunted Mr. Mr. Cowen's report of the fall of Fort Artbur as lately become he describer, according to Reuter, "horrible batchery of unarmed Chinees, attended with nameless atrocities; groups of prisoners tied together and siddled with ballets and afterward hacked to pieces," while in the columns of sickening and very ill-considered drivel published in the China Mail laut last night he takes back almost all be said clearing out from Port Arthur in hot haste

enters & special, but

ex'remely special pleader for his barbaric protégés, the Japanese. That the

outrages and

perpetrated foul

皿ださ

trus Xers Wines.

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

We understand that the three prisoners, who were found "not gulity" in the recent Winglak Street trial for murder, will be brought up before itme of writing, remains a profound mystery. by Inspector Butlin with stabbing another coolfe A CHINCHEW Coolle, who was charged recently at East Point, will be charged with murder before Mr. Hastings at the Police Court on Saturday The coolie who was stabbed succumbed to his injuries at the Government Civil Hospital at 4 p.m. on Monday.

INSPECTOR MACKIE charged four coolles before Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning for recklessly driving a cast at excessive speed in Western Street yesterday to the danger of Passengers. The Celestials hard to contribute to secure their liberty. two shekels each to the coffers of the Treasury

feeble,

bas

one

THE British steamer Folion, Captain W. Davis, mitted Japanese soldiery com-racing-like griffin and at first gava promisa ef!

ext.

SHODDY JOURNALISM,

Not the price that we bargain to pay, It the price that the sets on herself,

the value of Truth.

--Ocion Merediki

of

useful

the present at least, may be ticketed as useless.

subs

Total Number Yeax. Number of

Scholars, Sch. days.

Monthly Eminent,

or

Max.

Mia.

TEGO SPL

1801

2,075

14

800

718

Tod

131

014

3,051 Nota

700

8.0

6z9

1894...... 1,043

*ነ

95

543

Number of Percentage Vaxt. Sch. Bays of

Examined PassÖL.

Actual Net

B

7800 ******

190...

dga B4.45 17.01.03 109

21,177.50 Briod.ra

Tosta

44.14

*8.59.60

สา.

24,123,00

19747-43

r+,248.00

87,408,44

1701

Sch. Fans, Expenditure.

The

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gazater force to the trained Chinese Assistants of this establishment; if they continue to he underpaid, the old experience of their departure, when there services are most valuable, wli agato be felt. The ones of showing, that younger more incompetent Chinese Rro

And suitable to be teachers of English in fourteen of the twenty-one clames of

fail this College, on those who dispute my posillon, which is, that Chinese teachers of ages ranging from 25 to 40, competent to teach a variety of English subjects, surely deserve higher salaries than young Chinese clerks five and ten yea's their junior, who are only required to copy or franslt dacu menis. It has, however, gravely been suggested to reduce the Balzries of these masters which are already lower than those of copying clerks this would certainly reduce expenditure, but render any chance of maintaining efficiency hopeless.

DISTINGUISHED VEITURS-Dr. Gustav Oppet, Professor at Madras University, and Dr. Dennys, Protector of Chinese in. Biliish No th Borneo, both paid a hit and expressed great Interest in the education given here. The later paid is the highest compliment, by selrelag After competitive examination, First Class and thumpony klei beak to Parken as clerk

In his own Department. CHANGE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COL- LEGT-On the 3rd September I received notice "that the Secretary of State had decided that all connection with the Education Department and Queen's College should

cense, and College should

of a Governing

that the be placed under the management

Bing Body," Thi: was:

was supplemented

on the 6th December, by in explanation con veyed to an extract from the Secretary of State's despatch, viz:-The change which is now being

Initiated has bee

been devised in Dr. Weight's own

interests, as well as those of the school, It is an alternative to the

exiting system, which has

ลด

been

found to be unsatisfactory

NON-CHINESE CLssIt was a leasure to

me to observe that the Retrenchment Committee (par, 130) share my option, that it is the duty of the College to make special provision for the education

such)

how

Referring to the Subscription griffins "The Casual" writes:-"It is perhaps yet too soon

but after carefully to judge of the merits of the Subscription track, as slow work is commonly misleading;The Jollowing tables will Illustrate the con- CLARET:-Our Clarets, including the lowest

bonoure

noting the form

of the various candidates for Valley Stakes and German Cup priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine

lew ideas I have formed will probably be found very near the mark-and product of the juice of the grape and are not

coes Dr. Noble, a new and keen 'sport' whe so here ta artificially made from salains and currents,

racing. is likely to prove a valuable acquisition to local ns f penerally the case with Cheap Wines.

relook of of a pair of subs

mislature in of old Susewind, bat in form and general 1897 contour a very pale reflex of that grand old BRANDY :-All our Brandy is guaranteed to

undebted h

■ useless: white

or grey, which is be pare Cognac, the difference in price

doubtedly the worst of the entire mob, Although the blue dun is decidedly weedy, he being, merely a question of age, and vintage

a dash of speed and moves fairly well, and WHISKY-AD our Whisky is of excellent

only comes on a

bit during

training he may, In such sorry crowd, creditably hold his quality and of greater age than most brande

Mr. Cruickshank's blaze-faced chestout is a own, -the market. The Scotch Whisky marked which was sent north, to be sold to Japanese, deed a al free al Port Arthur is beyond question his sporting owner's absence from Hongkong he

100! developing into something defenceless arrived here this morning from Moji with a carge

during

0.00 "E" is universally popular and is proof coat, and made the passage down in 4 days, for Mr, Villers, the Standard's representative, seems to have hopelessly gone to grief and, for

3.37 $1.58 12,300.00- 48,553.85 $.41 nounced by the best local connoisseurs to 8 hours, and 55 minutes. As will be seen by an

ATTENDANCE-The minimum monthly attes has forwarded to London a number of

f photo be superior to any other brand in the advertisement in another column this popular graphs taken at Port Arthur depicting the

dance, 85 in July, contrasts sadly with the maximum 88: fa April, which nearly equals the coaster will resume running between Hongkong fieedish atrocities committed by Japanese Hongkong Market.

boys as wish English and other non-Chinese and Tamsul, vás Swatow and Amoy, on Friday soldier-not Japanese coolles as the unprincipled grey that has attracted the attention of good these, 56 entered in the second half of the year, Mr. Manners is the owner of a hardy looking were adruitted, as against 308 to 1893 and of

893 of 1890 In the course of the year 403 boys specially formed for theft benefi',

to enter. Two classes have been

anderthe

charge foreign press strellags of the

of English masteras but it will be only of the Japanese

panese Govern

judges, but as this once promising sportsman is

to maintain these, if the number of punitio ment sought to prove

as against 44 in the same period last year. This course the "Comic's" m**** Age, bai in valo. "Of❘ now seldom seen either in the enclosure or on

does Hot fall below

minimum of 6a for the wo tecreased demand for admission, in spite even serve him the race-course, a very likely candidate for the memory does not e correctly, or, what le

It is perbave more likely,

of an epidemic, may be viewed 13 an Indication,

combined. It rests therefore entirely It does laurels of victroy is pichably designed for pola. that this

with the parents to show their appreciation not suit his purpose to stick to the truth. But It seems to be the general opinion that Mr.

colege has not suffered a reputation.

the advantage may be, Gowever that

FINANCES. It is specially disappolating to

devized sp:cially fact remains that Fraser-Smith, whose luck in drawing good he has caused the following to be set up in key to the situation (that means the Valley and

for them, Ong well-known Government note the low

figure, at which Revenue derivable his two sons bere, has broken through the bas long been proverbisi, holds the

Official, b

by sending cold Lype in The most noteworthy, if the least creditable evening contemporary

in the columns of our esteemed

from feature of the news forwarded by the aggregation | see some Chinese (dead) in plainly do thoman) with a sturdy little chestnut that is cre

fees stands, I have already reported to the prejudice, with which we have always A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.of barefaced liars and, for the most part,

"We

Treasury that, in view of the 87co actual gain intend, vis that the preponderance of Chinese s had to com

con. clothes, I dited with bavlog galloped alx furlongs in SADK | Increased admissions above alluded to, there ever, it is not to be forgotten, that there is hardly

the first

Eve months of the with

of the scholars renders this place unsuitable THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

amateur war correspondents who claim to repre- not sen

Weapons concealed under

the year, and of them we did | bat ie z mia.

dem ; we bat ie I min. 35 secs. This is certainly a smerte no exaggeration In

Baionalities. In this sent various English, French ned American unreasonable to consider even the possession of now, he moves in such determined fashion that, revenue, that might naturally have been ex-

them in

of alber

suitable for boys it is Hor pony, and although in no seri of condition just the total Increase, and $13,500 as the total to une, bat

connexion, Hongkong, 9th January, 1805.

assuming $1,200 1 Is newspapers in the Far East to report on the hidden weapons punishable with death. From fit and well at the past, he must be dangerous. pected. had it not been for the

China-Japan war which, far the Celesilai that

a school in the Colony but has at length Chinese, after starting with exclusively non- admitted Empire is concerned, can hardly yet be said to

that deduction, it is assy to understand how the A very shapely black in the same interest bas

Plague. total loss in fees due to this cause cannot be

Chinese Japanete saguided it as necessary to practically come on wonderfully of late, and will, if he keeps have

upils. The two classes, above spoken began, is the misleading and false tenour their

exte that fight to do so, he population whet account of time race daya, certainly gives good Correspondence and their expensive that it was tight to

of, sta for convenience called from taken at less than $1000, of which $1,181 is of their class-rooms, Class 1.C. and II,C,

the proftion delusive telegrams. Wholesale and unprin adopted more humane methods, bat that the

to do so, when they have | himself.

accounted for, by the amount remitted to boys,

but who cipled lying by shallow bogut way specials,

this gives au insccurate impression of the were absent in

in the massacre was explainable without implying

months of June and July, standard of work. Each of these classes is Fole before the semi-civiHred anything too awhil for contemplation. That groy) has improved very much since training | belance, $800 agendas/buted gue. The one boy took the papers of Class 1.A, the

having left the t

with their families, in the divided into two sections. In Class 1.C. only Japanese as representaifves of "first chop*

score naturally

by the and honest joursallem has, as the Telegraph implies that

Was where we difwed; Mr. Creelman

man commenced, whereas, on the other hand, Mr. six months unpaid by about red boys, who are I.B; while the Junior Sectl:0 found Class 11.

the fees of

of remainder of the Senior Section taking those of pointed out on

all thought previous occasion, won much. more wonderful paper victories for the alleged

Fext we considered matilation Porabjee's extremely good-looking grey is in excess of the number of absentees is the "Britons of the Orlent than we

Mr, Comman La

not fimilar with Way this is I dont know,

rapidly developing inte pakaps

useless crock." corresponding months of last year. With a heavy

difficult. Class II.C. took time or space at our disposal to enumerate, doinge, it is like to Sendanzae or, for that very nicole shaped chestnut, and

either the

Japanese zword and Ita traditional

but it

loss of

of revenue and

and Composition Just the

terrible reduction la Hon. J. J. Keswick's comple deal of the blame for the shortcomings of matter, like that carried by the Knights of the say deceiver, are stil practically unknown expense in the tenth column should appear Section sat with Class IV, and the Junlar with allie with Clais same.

and the Seniors also worked good

attendance, as obervable in the fifth colursa, Algebra papers prepared for the same class p Euclid and M. Casimir Perier has held an all day confer miles from the actual seat of war for sombs past, blow take off head or lay a body that one quantities; the latter is far and away the speedier, djsproportionate. The tablast the end of this Class V. As a compensation for the time spent

was "apeciala," who have been hundreds of Cross in the

is not a matter for surprise, that the average but in Arithmetic and Grammar, the Seator be laid at the

at the door of the officials and

in

but there is more room for improvement in the report contains two additional items of expendi- in Chinese by other classes, there two take an usual with Government News Bureau, a

h such weapons, the bearer is chestnut, Can sor, can saves," as my noble ture, vis: Adjustment of Exchange in Crown Latin. To remove any misconception, and department

content to let pas of these terrible blows friend "The Pirate oracularly expresses himsalt Agents' Account, and Exchange Compensation an act of Justice to the masters concerned, I whose cisims

but must needs leflict a dozen announced that the President had resigned | long since been heavily discounted by their accounts for elde-lonths of the bodies that we black, originally drawn by the late Mr. and Orient have or perhaps not

paid to three masters who accepted threes ART rate that folly

ree shillings have, this year, kept the four sections of the for the doller when on leave there exchange owing to the fallure of the Republican parties to unscrupulous and wilfol perversions of the saw in Fast Arthur.. protect him in the attacks made against the truth ; but at the same time, the cartespandents the number with dalberating lanib, part of Hoppins and now owned by Mr. Krather, abrentro list, in accordance with nor

there non-Chinese clauser separate, distinguishing The good looking, rather long-backed account for the increase in expenditure observable them se N.I, N. 2, N. 3, N. 4. I must not emit

on last year. existing régime.

to mention that his Excellency the Governor bas themselves, owing to a palpable and lamentable tion of the nameless barbarities perpetrated by has decidedly improved recently, and Il be only

mollated la fmita

HUBONIC PLAGUE-On the zat May, the shown his sympathy with this movement, by SOCIALISM IN FRANCE.

inck of practical experience of Orientals generally the Chinese on the few Japanese who fell inte keeps on improving in the same ratio will be clons, was under 4 per cent. of the number on the Non-Chinese Class, Mr. Machell, or further

condi.

adi- relieving the Master in charge

of the Senior And of their customs and Manners in

monthly roll; but or account of the outbreak of study of Chloess, that he may devote himself arduous and wholly inexcusable, at Mr. Creelman calls it; dangerous duties of their important offices,

a chestnut, were set down an useless fortnight ft bad, yes, cannot be allowed to go scatheless, for they not anitraty Quarcusable, though it should be of work and are by no means out of the hunt.

and homifying at the time, dar ago, but lately they have came slong with plenty fat, and on July 1st go's of ware absent, exactly College, and continue without overstrain to him appiled-in- -one- -Instance at

Inverting most must

the percentagen dishonest manner-for the

Mr. Mody's ab, a rather qacarly marked grey, tendance. From the and of

months 2017,

to apperintend the athlete of these boys. the positions which against the inference of the Worms protest wallops in fairly good style, but I want to 20 they bold, and no doubl draw the lucrative rights dravega

when that was the

the percentage of OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.-We paid kö emolumente of their responsible positions with left the Second Ass ya to Join the Tald, now

him extended before passing any definite opinion themselves; two to English boys in the under 19 years of age, and five Junlots over the Japanese army. as to his probable racing merits. perfect regularity, and are therefore expected tardily setting out,"

abranted

whom eight obtifred cartificates, vissthree Seniors Preparatory Bo

Bobool were: These remarks speak volumes for themselves. ligently and in

of * bright #zception, coming regularly dil the a 2001,

Special Subjects, I boy passe years authoritative, matter.

College was closed.

'pissed of fact manner upon what they see and keur, same paper under data Hiroshima, rut Decem-shaped (but bad tempered or vicious) white for some time, the first class formed the bulk of Goodle Arithme ic, Shakespeare and Algebra;

and a Trigonometry, and, lo fine, prove that the labourer le worthy of ber, 1894 as follows. Es no sesistance that can gallop, are worth looking after, and the tatal College attendanor. As dally dead and For Chi-yan, who took the same posilju Harg-kam, who his hire. Up to the present time, however, only in the town during the next- one of the war specials who bae seen anything Japanese sold pillaged the whole town, can be trained and keeps on the course, I of the callags, and the smoke and smell of fa Arithmetic and Shakespeare. Of the eight lour days The the latter wis certainly win a race or two if he bodies were carried out of streets in the vicinity amongst the Juniors, obtained the same maik of the fighting in the north, at Port Arthur for and diled, practically every man in it, but have only particularly noticed one of the two burning study refuse from plages-stricken houses, boys who obalned Certificates, 4 were marked ble employers with an intelligent, fair and tentionally dentalro Informed Viscount Confederation, a sturdy dark-grey with a black go it, distant, the gradual nature of the exodus Geography and I in Algebra, Taken sex whois instance, can honestly claim to have furabhas very for works wa chilen Cobably unin- "San" griffes owned by the sporting Fourmin' were borne into the belides from a spot met Gead in Arithmeils, 4 la Shakespeare, a lu Keeping, dated the 10th last..., stating that an | unðlassed report of the military operations. Wo | Muten T ́raw voorbonnal: Caluare prisoners, tally and if free going and grand style mean | decorvas pisku rather than sokowe, "11" je the spesie is Wary sailsisstory, the percentage of

The Cony

Songhong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1895,

TELEGRAMS.

THE FRENCH CABINET,

LONDON, January 16th.

ence with the various pariy leaders.

PRESIDENT CASIMIR PERIER RESIGNS.

who

The

car,

of c

of the

Arbild enco

honesty

of purpose and

to

VAL

A

the

"Mr. Hobson's rather undersized dan (or

And

A semi-official note, pubilshed in the evening, general pahile in the Occidensil toward the motor that amounts to mustiation when he doesn't want to give anything sWAY,

and

true

and

The Times rorrespondent in Parlu says that { and their general unfitness for thN IN PUNTEGRISf their kanda. Personally I do not think this bad to beat. Mr. R. M. Gray's pair, a black and the plague over 43 per cent, were abaest on June more completely to developing this branch of the

the temper which animates the Radicals and Sociallair is almost revolutionary in Intenally,

THE ANTI-GAMBLING LEAGUE, The Newmarket Bench of Magistrates has granted a simmons to the Anti-Gambling League gainst the Stewards of the Jockey Club for pormatting betting on Newmarket Heath,

THE CHINA-JAPAN WAR,' (Special to Shanghai Mercury)) ANOTHER FALSTAFTIAN VICTORY.

YOKOHAMA, 12h January, 1895,

g.m.

An official telegram has been received from

lotel.

OF

Chianso scholars, nearly today the non- fans, but only 15 boss presented themselves, of

01

16

to brave the dangers of war, report Een compared with bis wire, despatched to the grey that looks like galloping, and a cleverly deserve the most credit for-euguine attendance; zanded the Senior List in this place, was marked Mr. J. D. Humphreys' couple, a big, clamar ] Of the Chinesa boys, the Upper School boys Book-kesping, 2 10 Ding7210 Paykiography,

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