dance; and the sectable, welcome-1 a'mosphere of the festivi les made one rasy and unrestrained from opening to clore of the festivities. The refreshments were ample, convenient of access and just what the occasion required."
The evening was cool and erect For dancing and hour, and few left before the final strains of the last orchestral #ccompaniment melted away into the grey down of the early morn
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1995.
Kennedy prese tedhe medals of the Royal At Bombay on the 12th fostent, Admiral Humane Society to Captain Knox, the Chief Officer, the English quartermastore and the lascar crew of the steamer Nubia, who rescued the crew. Shakin-Skak in the cyclone of Admiral and Captain Knox both testified to the value of lascar crews, and to their patience, amenability to discipline, loyalty and gallantry.
KREAN OFFICIALDOM.
A GLIMPSE RHIND THE SCENES.
COUNTRIES.
The London Times comments on the ably
"I got no sleep at night; I would lie for hours tossing about. In the morning I was wore tired than when I went to bed."
Thus writes Mr. Klinn Mathews, of 1, North Road, Burnt Oak, Edgware, nome Landon, under date of
everyone seemed t, enter into the spirit of the May, 1802, off the mouth of the Hooghly. The that the whole country is in a state of anarchy, lkers and men wrote poetry and are good Written paper read by Mr. T. H Whitehead bit se deptember 22nd, 1802. Just two years before this
There were Rome furandred present, and the who e wife was in ur qualified success, a cret alike to the organiz-se and everybody who was cancer ed in the entertainment of the delighted guests, mbore pralne was unstfused and who only complaint was that such a pleasant réunion should be so soon hrought to a close.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
Tue Canallan Pacific Raliway Co.'s steamship Empress of Japan left Yokohama for Vancouver this morning.
Fuchus Apa
TO-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS. Inward.
Chunchan
Namva
Taisang
Gaelic
......steamer from Shanghel.
Kutchinated, Bangkek. Sw tow, Shanghat 5. Francisco, Aggregating 11 30 tons reglater.
Outward.
Aden..........leamer for Singapore. Carm wihamshire... Verona
Singapore. Narasaki, etc. Aggregutlag 6,270 tons register,
The British steamship Ayr, which arrived Beer tant, eft Kwe intrn on the 24th 37 start. Fram Kuchino za to Tarnsbout bed sou Early winds and dense fg From Toro- about in Hongkong ha north-east moDSOON and weather.
The British steamhlo Namon, from Swatow, Jef, Spatow na the zith instant. From Swatow
4 port had moderate north-east-breeze, and following sea with fine clear weather. In Swałow the steamships Kwangle, Panting, and Thales.
Ý
The British steamshin Tafsang left Shangbet on the 25th Instant, and Swatow on the 29th. From Shanghal to Sterp Island had fine cles: weaths with m-derate asutherly breeze; thence Talchau Islands bed forgy weather, anchored
The B⋅itish steamer Slam, Capt. J. F. Meurer. from Swatów, repotird on arrival at Singapore on the 16th Inst, that two cooltes had jumped Singapore. overboard shortly before the vessel reached
I have just received letters from Korea ainting
The Tong haks, or sebole, bave sprung up again in · Ifferent parts of the kingdom. The Japanese send out troops to sabiae them, hul the moment they wè Grquered in one place they spine up in another, and they honeycomb even the racks of the people in Seoul. The King lessid to be in great danger, and he fears assination more than ever. There are many Japan and the King is now working fr Koreans who hate everything connected with
combination with the Ioanere troops be le charged he some with selling out the country. the Spanish Ag er anbaldized by the Govern-ith him. I'd no describe his palaces and Spain has just ordered that all steamers flying I wrote you come weeks ago of my interview ment shall in futurs carry none hat Spanish his court. It would be impassible for any one ang peers. The prevalling practice is to carré. to have the cors to there buildings to-day at least two British engineers, and formerly, all
which I had while I was in Seoul. were Bilish,
"ocean " „St. Louis will be from New neen resound of the merican in York for Southampton on June 5th.
Rule of the Road at Sea-The President of the United Sistes has signed the joint postponing the new
Rules of the Road at San Panch, according
10 Presidential proclamation, should have gone I: to`rffect on March 1st. Every effort will be made hy wide publicity to warn American esmen that the new regulations, which have been generally chculated, are to be ignored. It was uncersary for the Navy Department to send cablegrams to several warships to prevent March tat, The President lasted a proclamation on February 26th.postponing the effect of the new Rules of the "oad at Sea until some future date,
which
fal-ly well educated from a Chinese standpoint, BRITISH TRADE WITH ORIENTAL He has learned to read the Chinese, and be cap. read and write the Korean. He has passed thall examlostions by which the King selects his. officials, and if he can keep up his share of the King's revenue bis office is masally left with Him Many fach intelligence, and the whole nation has the mak and men much more than ordinary ing of a very good people I any method can be eraired by which cormption may be done away with and property rights be preserved, price walls once or twice, in addition to the trip I opportunity to get inside of the which I made through the grounds when i gullar upon the King. The buildings are surrounded by a wall, and they are built within prus, each of the cotone from two to four acres of space. In geleg to the King you have to pass through from six to a dexen buildings, and everywhere You go you zhact soldiers and canuche,
you
Fand
The King's bodyguard confronts you at every dred There are 5oo of these bedyguards torn, entre are servants by the tens of hun- each of these is no strong that he has to lift a bar of fron six feet long and weighing 100 pounds fores the ground and hold it at arm's length bove his head. This is the test which the soldiers undergo before they are admitted to the guard 11
will straighten cut your
· Over and Jake a rod of tron weighing too pounds and attempt to lift it abovs your hand without bending your derful strength these men posters. A number of arm, you will see something of the
them are always cines to the King and they sur reund his chair as he goes from one palace to the other, and as they go they wall ont a chant protect your King." China and Korea. These man have great power. The tunuchs are also abiquitous, both fa They are sald to be wise counsellors, and they have a great deal to do with the ad-
WON.
Emp
follows:- the members of the Royal Colonial Instiinte as he font her health. A font taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, and great distress after eating wore Among Brat things ako complained of. Sho The statements
Sho orered made before the Royal food at tiron, and fancied she could eat heartily, yo Colonial Institute the other day by Mr. White- when the very dishes he had naked for were not before.
Alike from the specialist view of the exchanges, and between her head, and supported in a weighty speech by Mr.
her she turned from them as though they warn Bith Lennand Courtney, do not form pleasant reading.
from the gutter. Her skin grew allow, her eyes bunker and from the national view of the
oonatant pain at her chest, Her bowels were English statesman they tell the same tale of the decay of British trade in the East, and the supers salon of Britlab manufactures by the rising steam industries of fodia and Japan. sloughout the discusilon there was a ten
sides, and between her shoulders. constipated, and the least exertion set her heart thumping as if it must lamp up into her mouth. At her breath. She sore than over that she could get or got to thin and weak she was no good for work. She couldn't walk out doom withon stopping to real every few zode almost
to pass lightly over the economic causer which and
bich anderlie the situation. Independently of questions of carrency and tariffs, Great Britain now beginning to feel the rivalry of the new steam-using countries of Asia for subsianitally the same reasons as she began to feel the rivalry of Belgium and other European competitors in the middle of the ceptorr, India and Japan are reconstructing their industrial system on the hasts of the steam power and the co-operation of labour and capital on a great scale. The same
SRING 100
ladastrial
mechanical force and the
methods which
gave British manufacturers adopted by Astatic producers, destroying that the monopoly in the Asiatic markets are now, when monopoly. The relation of gold to silver is a most important factor, but the treatment of the querion aromes un air of unreally when it is
mental cause.
them from patting the new cade isto operation l'afcen. The seller in. this well and poes to which means something like this: -"Soldiers, put forward as the sole or even as the funda-
ministration
The doctor did what be could for her, all any doctor could ito. At Orst he said he thought her looked possibla. Evori the smell of violets has reade illness was owing to the smell of the farm-yard. This strong men turn pale and faint dand away. Yet the doctor was wrong. If he had been right, she would have got better whan the family left the farm st Bentley Priory and went to live at Burnt Oak. But she was not improved by the change of air she grew worse and worsO.
"In
7 anys Mm. Mathews, "I want over to Chelmsford to rialt mount, Mes. Traughton. She
dyspepsia. She bought me a bottle, and I began told me of the good Mother Scigel's Curative Byrop had done her, when she had indigestion and taking it. After a fow doses I felt relief. I kept on taking it, and in two months I was strong and as well as ener. My husband and friends wore astonished, yet I assured them that Beigel's Syrup had done it. Yours truly, (8igned) Eziza MATHEWE."
them, At one time the Kinr thought of running cerial of governmental affairy Hers. None during the past 20 years by 7 per cent., the by the astme thing-indigestion aird dyspepsia. The
*
The King of Kores does all his work by the electric light. He sleeps in the day. lime, **4 receives of his callers At night. There is wall about twenty feet hig there to clear around his palace city, and sentinels stand day and night. Every 300 fest along the padde of the wall there is a little guardhouse bost on feet. qure, which con taine two armed soldiers. Each of these guard- houses has well within it Hard with strew, and while one soldier watches the other curls himself up up like cite
1
all steep in their day clothes, and they rarely have blankets. The rates which day clotaci! go into the palace city are and there are always servants and officials about
guarded be
by soldiers.
lot of live wires around the palace walls, ta news by the AMERICAN MAIL.order that any one who kitemated to climb over but eunuchs are allowed to wait upon the Que them might be killed by the terrible electric and her Majesty has palacer, soldiers and shock which would result from the contact, retion of her own. They dress like the bigh The boldings in the King's palace cities (he official which long gowns reaching to their han two in Seoul) are numbered by hundreds.feet, and homchuir caps. They bave long, They cover many hundred acres, and he bas yellow, sober faces. Their voices have a big
falsetto pitch and they move about with a wake- miles of spartments in different parts of the
ilke galetaCIE. grounds. He keeps his movements a secret, and only the fewest people know in which palace he
The Koreans are very superstitious. They sleeps or how long he will stay there. You can have their astrologers, and one of the propbets of never tell where to find him, and it would be the past said that the present dynasty would last almost impossible to lay a plan for his abduction, only five hundred years. This time is now up, and He has all the walls of bis palace city lighted, the people look upon the war to a certain extent corner will be bright at night as it is in the that the King's days are numbered. The King and when the electric plant is in full blast every
as a decree of the fates, and some of them think daytime. He sleeps in a room guarded by bimself is very pro ressive, and be would like eunuchs, and in receiving his officials they are to improve his people. He may be able to do so,
the fbe can control ble officials,
and be daytime, and they wait around
be able his Majesty to Boon #1 itt
The Occidental and Oriental Co.'s steamship Goalie, Capt. W. Pearne, from San Francisco, vía Yokohama and Nagasaki, with the American malls up to 5th March, arrived in the harbour this morning. We are indebted to our San Francisco exchanges for the subjoined tele- KURILE -
LONDON, February 17th,
A dispatch to the Standard from Madrid anys evening Senor Abarta, Minister of the that at a meeting of the Council on Wednesday Colonies, announced that the Governor-General of Coba had sent a csblegram announcing that
per
The figures given in Mr. Whitehead's tables pounds sterling of British and Irish produce show that, while the total declared value in exported from the United Kingdom har decreased using countrier, but in connexion with gold-asing decrease bas arisen not in connexion with aliver- countries. Indeed, while the decrease of exposts berwern the average of 1870-74 as compared with 1893 bas been 13 per cent. 17 gold-using countries, there has been an incres of cent, to allver-using countries. If we take
QUED. tiles instead of values and confine our view to Whitehead's tables show an increase of nearly the great staple of cotton-cloth exports, Mr.
130 per cent, to India from 1873 to 1879, an increase of of only 17 per cent, to all other countries which 100 percent. to silver-using countries of the East and to Mexico, against an increase pracileally represent the gold-asing natless of the world. These rates are not so great as the increase in the preceeding 23 years, 10 that, proportionately, there has been a falling off. Te countries have been Great Britain's best
and it is only the Increasing decreats of value in the tefal exports, as shown above, to the gold-galog countries. The two great silver-asing countries of Asia have be the adoption of modern · Industrial methods and steam power not only lafmensely increased capacity for purchasing the productions of Great their capacity of production, but also their
The point is plain mnough. The convict slept
night because his nerves were tinstrang hy soundly beesuse he was a healthy man, although he was a wicked one. Our rich friend rolled about all of his stomach. Our correspondent was prostrated the stata
The reason remains a secret with the roots and herbs remorly named cured her because it has that power. from which it is made. Tot as long as it drives away discans and gives us back our health and strongth, who cares for its mystery? Results, not
arguments,
are what we all wanit
"Burnt Oak House, Kigwan, September, 22nd, 1802. I have known Mrs. Mathews for some seven years, and remember her long and Ingering iness. She informs the that Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup eared her, aftor medical and other mens falled. Mr. Mathews is a lads of respectability, agri word ona be implicitly relied upon. You can use this statement in any way Tou may think proper. Yours truly, Dealer, Barat Oak Storos, Edgware."—[ddet.
god) T. H. House, Grocer and General Provision
there for a Fame; thence had fresh north-north- } he had sent General in Chamber with several required to come into the palace during fon do this only through the Japanese. There is / Judged by volume of excorts the silver-ales Scorr's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with cofumes in pursust of armed bands in the pro-ready to receive them in the evening. As very little known abeat the Government of has helped to mitigate the for food that builds up the wasted body. Read' the province of Matanzas, killing several the becomes dusk the gates which enter | Kares, and it will be surprising to many people
cast to north-east winds with high sen and beavý rain to arrival at Swatow; thence to port bad fine weather and moderate monenon, In Swatow the steamships Thales, Rio, Paoting, and Loyal.
on
The Beltish steamshis Gadife left San Fran- circo on the sth instant at 4.05 p.m., and had westerly winds to Y. kohama, arrived there on the 2ret si 8.21
Brited from Yokohama and the 23rd at 3.52 p.m.; arrived at Nagasaki on the 26 h at 9 x.m., willed from Nagasaki on the 17th at 606 m. To the 13th had strong south- weat wind and head sea; thence to Chapel Island bad strong northerly and north-east winds and cleody weather, and thence to port had moderate north-east winds and cloudy weather. On the 24th.m., nasted a German barque, showing Q.C.R.G., whing be reported.
vince of San'lago de Cuby,
The police altacked and dispersed a band in brigands.
MADRID, February 27th,
A dispatch from Havada announces that fo rkirmishes with the Government troops In Matansar the rebels lost two killed, and three of their number were taken prisoners. The in
urgent at Guantanamo, a short distance sast of the city of Santiago de Cuba, bave dispersed.
the
The British steamship Fushun left Sharghaf on the 26th in tant, From Woosung to Bonham had moderate breez and doll, cloudy hity weather. From Bonham to Chintan Island bad mederate southeast winds and thick foggy weather.
Anchered for nine bones between Chinson
Taland and
bat Strep Is and, dusing dense fog. From Steep "gland to the Haeshans had Katherie stads and
Turnabout had times. From
STOCKTON, February 28th.
chairs watched by
to know that it has that there are departments in Seoul much like
fixed
organization, and these at Washington. These are supposed to control the affairs of the kingdom, and in timee past they have practically controlled the King. The King, with the aid of the Japanese, is now running the machine, and it is probable that some of the reballions throughout the country are fomented by the officiel.
The
ATO
Britain.
Hypophosphites acts both as food and medicine, It not only gives flesh and strength by virtue of its export
hown nutritious properties, but creates an appetite the following Scott's Emulsion is in my
pinion an excellent and valuable compound. have given it to been delighted with the results obtained. It is consumpilve patients and bava pleasant to the taste and can be borne by the most sensitiva stomach"-E A. RODWAY, M.D., Butter-Knowle, Darlington. Any Chemist can Empire of ChinaWatkins & Co., Hongkong. supply it.Sole Agents for Hongkong and the
[Note is made of the fact that the low value facturers #gainst both the Britlub and Indian of silver gives advantage to Japanese manuAdvt. manofacturers.]
TIN AND COAL-
• County Hospital, wis arrested, He.ls the coming of out of their ry, awaltiow He collects all the 18355 € vower, and every one la Dundee, whereas now about one-third
the other man named in the Indictment. Who
Supervisor not knowe yet
tox certainl tis said that Chairman James Brown of the Board to the man, and he says himself that he has heard it is he who is accused. He is a soon with high following sea and doll gloomy very strong mon-
non-wealthy contractor, and one of Stockton's most prominent and highly respected citizens. Both Dr. Bulmer and Mr. Ward are out on ball, and threatening weather, with frequent heavy rain aqually. From Torosbout to Chapel Island had
are in Stockton. The last named is now strong monson and following sex with dark engaged in business in San Francisco, having a cloudy weather; thence to pait had moderate
Ne there. monsoon and fine clear weather, with moderate following ses.
man
CURIOUS WAGES CLA'M.
fo a
t
both are
servant on each side
servarita in
owners, who have Rone in to see the King, There are fackers of all sorts, and as you look you see that the "Black Cronk" is here outdone. There are no such gorgeous people The planet th
as these officials. als. them na horseback. He bas Here comes one of in the paddle. Another servant leads the horse, * be alts to steady bim and be fans himself as he rides through the streets. His gown is of light blue silk, and be lanks clean eugh to be eaten. I doubt, how ever, whether investigation would show this to be the case, and it makes me think of the young anele y dy who, before ging to a party, yels down lo ber mother as follows:
the
Conang Advertisements.
VICTORIA PRECEPTORY,
A REGULAR MEETING of the VICTORIA
PRECEPTORY will be held in the FREE MASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 30th Instant, at 8.30 for goclack precisely, Visiting Knights are cordially invited to attend,
Hongkong, 30th March, ro5.
f389
PUBLIC MEETING. DY request a MEETING will be held at the B CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, CITY
palace are closed with heavy doors plated with iron. They are locked with massive from bars, and the keys are then taken into the King. It is death. to any one estside of the gatekeeper to touch the locks, and they are so heavy that one of them is a load for a man.
The scenes about these gates are more gorgeous than thote of the "Arabian Nights, They are surrounded by sil the queer characters who make up official Kores. There are soldiers The Government of Korea conrists of the The County Hospital scandal and the ludict. There are the King's musicians ta yellow; and
In plum-coloured pantaloons and blue coats. King and is officials in Seoul, and a vast ments found yesterday by the Grand Jury In COD.
number of officials who nection with it, formed the one subject of con. In bright gowns. Men with paddles for whiping up into eight different provinces. Each of
there are all sorts of gorgeous servants, dressed over the country.
vasttered versation in Stockton to-day. When it was an the people squat under the
kingdom is divided nounced that Dr. Ratsen bad been arrested and sleeves rolled up in the shoulder and their by the King, and it is divided up into censties tune warning that the case of Manchester does
walls, th
their these provincan i has a Governor, who is appointed Mr. Whitehead given a clear and not inoppor. that a man of equal prominence had been in- brawny muscles ready for action, dicted with him and that the charge
There are or districts, each of which bas its officers. Every not stand alone among the industries of Great against the twa belbing a a Supervisor, the interest The gorgeously caparisoned
grow.
feet and neigh. Thereal's, who stemp their cly or district of tèn thousand koutes or less has Britain, "Turning to the fute mannṇfacture,” | This morning Charles Ward, ex-superintend
are leopard-skin-covered ■ magistrate, who is a sort of a rules and judge. writes Mr. Whitehead, "we find that about ent of the
and
ad priser opon all thirty years ago nearly the whole of It centred disputes. He is a bows down before him. Korea has between conducted on the banks of the Hugll, wear they practically ran the kingdom outside of shores has been most detrimental to British three and four hundred of these magistrates, and Calcutta. The amoval of this trade from our Soal. They collect the taxes and they have interests." Tin-mining has attained scaras of cribes about them who are a sort of them. These lowes officers all pay thone above
prodaci political sirikers, and who do the dirty work for portions in the Straits, them for their offices, and they expect to get and Australia will have to submit to
having recently increased about
15 per cent. per annum." "The Li
the mines in Cornwall this back their money out of the people. The poor competition at whatever disadvantage to them. farmer, to fact, bas to pay taxes over and over selves. If we turn to say other industry, the again, and if he gets anything ahead it is Aslatie races are enjoying a similar advantage squeezed out of him by torture or paddling. over their Western competitors. In the care of
The high officials of Seoul are numerous, coal, of which Japan has a very
very large supply, we fied though the most of them bave fled to the and that several large stearnship companies HALL, on MONDAY, the 1st April, at 11 AM country on account of the war. I was told
for hundreds of thousands of to which all interested are invited. that there were eight Vice-Presidents to the tons of
coal to be delivered In Singa. Just behind this man, looking even more Home Office when I was in Seoul, and there in
allowing for 20 per cent, gorgerus, come anther noble siding on a
#inferiority number of Vice-Presidents monocycle, with alx men pushing and arrying Office. Is this office there are about fifteen
to the Foreign 20, which is the price of Welsh coal at the same bim. This machine runs on the bicycle principle, clerk and nearly as many Secretaries of State, POTE
part As Sir Thomas Sutherland recently there may be some people go down on their knees when he passes his closest advisers, and these are called the
who will live t gentlemes prevent Indeed. He has on official boots of black broad officials when they go to the palace take their hy, and he le urdaub edly a very bigh efficis Ministers of the Right and Left. All of these and Oriental steamers built on the Yangtsre in
of these Chies instead of on the Clyde, the cloth. A filtern-dollar homehair cap covers his tollet cases and wardrobes with them, and a and the leapsed kin, which is only per servant always trots behind carrying their extra head, mitled to be used by officials, covers the back of clothes, cambs, brushes and other chamber ble chelr.
I note
the other officials furniture, They have get
walt a of out
chairs when their
they meet him. This is etiquette
they cannot. in Korcs, and provides that the man of low rank must never official work is done outside of the palace, but it get out of the palaes before the sun rises. The by above a man of higer stallon, As the the fices are not be full blast until about high monocycle approaches the gaudy dadu on korte» nocu, HALIFAX (N. S.), February 28th.
back sees him, and his fan drops
dismay. He A mail steamer which arrived from Jamaica there is no help for it. He is an under sicer, sight, are fond of late hours. They sit and
proad, and be doesn't like
The Koreans, although the laws do not like to get down, but pamit the men to go on the strests at to-day beings news of a mysterious robbery,
and be The advices state that the Colonial Bark of He orders ble servants to stop. They lift him off are always of one sex. They are always cannot tower above the man in the
golo among themselves, and their London sant five boxes, each containing £1000
parties in Reid, to the Colonial Bank of Kingston, rides by. As the chair comes up, its retinue of Parties or hen parties, and the
bis horse,
men det love the towing bow! to all to get out of the way and tours more aid men gossipers in Korea than there how down before the great man they are carrying are old maid gossipers in Ameries. It is, not re
do how and And they do
they
bows quic officials of Korea try not to meet each other on disaged men to spend a night in chatting, sing. Follow metal mate
The uncommon thing for a creed of young and mid- the streets, because of homilations which they Ing and in the writing dis have to undergo of this nstars. One day I saw
and the Chiasse le the 3 054 bani language. I may speak in Trunks letter of their education and schools,
About 11 o'clock this forenoon Ward came into the city under arrest, in commany with Sherif Conningham and Depoty Sheriff Roble- 200, Ward was in Esthrop this morning and totended to go to San Francisco, but missed the tralo. While at Lathrop he learned. of the for dictments. and, thinking he was one of the men wanted, drove over to French Camp, from which point he telephoned to the Sheriff that he was there it wanted.
Sberla
"Say, ma, shall I wish for a high or a low
Becked dress 22
have coal of 13 per ton, agalact
F.. HENDERSON,
Secretary. Hongkong, 30th March. 1805. CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT
1406
shortly ***** 8210, who was in Lathrop and it has been In use in Kores for ages. The The King has two men who are supposed to be remarked at meetive to see Peninsuler 7 PER CENT, SILVER LOAN OF 1886, E
pital
he
followed and overtook him soon sfer reached French Camp, and was returning with his prisoner when they met Deputy Sheriff Robinson with the warrant for the exhos,
Ward saperlatendent's arrest.
Ward reached the city it took him but a short time to secure the $1000 bends required, The two arrested men and Supervisor Brown all talk freely and unconcernedly of the master, and each one declares that he is entirely Indocent and has no fears of the result of the trial. All three are highly respected.
A rulous claims for wages for detention Aden of the Japanese cruiser Tatruta, bullt at Elswick, was heard on the Tith ult, at Newcastle
·County Co et. Arthur O'Neil,
■ fireman, test cas claimed £31, balance of wages he was to receive unfern agreement with Messrs. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co on the voyage of the Tatruts to Y kohama, Mr. Joel for the plaintiff put in an agreement by which each fire
ped
| trimmer
£40, paying his { pars
g back. The Totsuta left Elswick July 21, 1894. War was declared on Aug. 3, and the vessel was arrested under circumstances which are well known here. The firemen returned to Engbad and applied to the Elswick firm for wages. Tha replied, "1! you were directed to break your engagement by a responsible officer of the Bridal Government you should look to that
settlement of your officer for
for B claim. Mr. Greenwell, for the defendants, wald the Captain endeavoured to Induce the men to proceed, but they declined to do so, and owing to a circumstance which happened in the meantime the contract became imposible of performance. It was a difficult to see why they should get anything from the defendants
When the boxes reached Kingston one of them as it was to see why the d-fendants should was empty, the icon which it contained having
contract having trators. zaything from the crew,
been extracted. There is no clue to the perpe. The become impossible of preformance the crew were not entitled to recover anything.—The Judge: Text sounds hard.-Mr. Joel: not law. The Judge! If it were
LONDON, February 28th,
A dispatch to the Daily News from Odess
that
Не
and
tervants
how
wolle bis And he walks slang superior
to
fare skey can sus the Klasteraan
There
Tees, and
the Tyne." Abait oman, but enough has been quoted to show that the cotton manufacture does not stand alone among British industries in the new industrial competition between the East Rnd the West.
JAPANESE COMPETITION,
drift of industrial competition between West and Ay furishing a few concrete examples of the
abject lessen in connection with the Hoo, T. H. East, we may give the following illustrations of cöstkie goods at Singapore. They form an Whlchend's paper :-*,
PRICES AT SINGAPORE. Japanese Goods.
English Goods Matcha (safety).. 14 tog to Sto
(alpha)... ka) 134 to $15k - on not Importad, Bulk piece goods........
mawoot approach, Umbrella (prar per does
(k)
Towels (all kinda).
ch
law t would says that Mms. Modjeska has been forbidden to the King's father go loto the palace, and a dozen we the Chinese char poetry. Is poetry they | Undershirts men per does
he hard. I shall not make it law less I am forced.--Legal argument having followed, Mr. Greenwell said he would call do witnesses-Hia Honour said the case was one of such Importance that he would inke time to consider ble judgment.
MISCELLANEOUS,
The shipwrecked Mariners' Association in Jays
offi
sppear at the Warsaw Theatre, because white --high oficials did to get out and walk in order BECERA CORE in every way, and though they
at Chicago she lectured at the World's Fair on Russian oppression to Poland.
Embusador Bayard is suffering from influensa and is golog to Bournemouth.
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Amongst the various goods which Japan le are, on the whole, a very refined people, and are | are writing and pelatleg paper, yellow metal | hays many things which new crust and bad, they now making for this and other Eastern markets good natured and kindly,
sheathing, beaus wire, easy, bear, mineral waters and many classes of cotton goods.
however, which Korea as which we do not find There is one class of Government officials,
In Amerion, and which are now restricted to
to do him honor. I could see they were all angry They are at having to do so,
It is these nobles who have ruined Korea. The Earl of Cowley died barn to-day. He roll in wealth, and it is a wonder to me where The country is said to be poor, but the officials was born August 21, 2834, and succeeded to his they got all the money they spend. They dress the second daughter of Colonel Thomas Peers who has access to the palace wears a grown Korea and Chinn- These are the censors. They
In 1884, On Asgast, 1863, he married in the finest of silk, and the ordinary man of rank title
enough milk to make a lady's ball The best of Korean bats cont
coat Lrom $10 410 appolated by the King, and it in their bost- everything is high.
Theis expenses 0:18d over the country and see that their setablishments
is administered. There are perhaps a ten to a Many of them carry from must be
under the Government, They in all sorts of ways and the streefs, and those are a ali
Aave vent $660 før distribution among the, crew | Willame, member of Parliament, and a TEIKKIE
of the wrecked ship Earnscliffe. This is not the first time that generous aid has thus been sent to Singapore, but, we may point out as the men are maintained by the Board of Trade, and receive their wages in fall until they obtain employment or are sent home, the money so received is really only an inducement for "grog- shop" Indulgence.
result of their anion two children have bees born, a son and a daughter,
The ren, Henry Arthur Mornington Wellealey, Viscount Dangan, who succeeds to the tide, at
when they
Justice
THE GOOD SLEEP of a bAD MAN.
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Hongkong, goth March, 1805.
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one ilme wanted to marry Mias Fortescue, the hundred scrvants with that ged in their own part of oficial detectives. Ha 2 pETĪGIM TRS Ixa certain prison that we all have hourd of lay a obtained.
actress.
HALIFAX (N. S.), February 28th,
one in
SPECIAL NOTICE.
along t quaiters. A Korean nobis's home consists of a to know what they are. They may appear in hanged the most mening. Yet he lay there, covered supposed convict upon his narrow from not. He was to be Advican report that the schooner Rebecca number of one-story buildings surrounded by a
the disgalen of
pia cookie or a peddlar, and they by a rough blanket, sleeping as quietly and soundly Regarding the Catruis Hall mutiny, from from Seville and her crew of six were drowned,
Wood was wrecked whlia en route to Kingston wall, which la the city epass upon the street by will gettin
town roled by
an unjust a tiged saboolboy. Occasionally the guard in the gate, which is so made that you cannot see magistrate and live among the poor. They and passage outside peared between the bars of the cell, later information it azeron, says the Rangoon Times, that the whole crew, elgbtcen in number,
VIA, February 28th, ~ lealdo of 1
of the yard when it is open. Half of this their complaints are just they have the power Til mas had violated the law prohibiting murder
out whether the people are complaining, and if only to and his charge breathing deeply and relay, I be on sale at the Hongkong and Victoris refused duty at Diamond Harbour, and that on
The Fremondblatt, & semi-official newspaper, eight feet
made up of buildings of
"THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" will of one-story rooms, the Captalo sitempting to get them to work be ways Austria-Hungary wűl accept sa invítailum
Iquare those the was sitacked ; the Steward in defending Captala / te Jain in the International Monetary-Conference, servants. The noble has several houses/al, and they have theʻzlakt to order any head-1-bia own body, and Nature rewarded izim na if he had | Fedder's Whart; Every Evening from 5.30 to chadtheco, Each of them carries the king's he had not wided the physiol laws governing Hotels, opports the Hongkong Club, and a quarters of too for bluself inside the yard, and a number off bylake of a Goverant. They have of Iste been the neulost of his race.
7.30 o'clock. however, been very corrupt, I am told, autosed and tumbled upon his luxurious bed. He wa of buildings
concubines, for his wife and jo It was stated by Herr Lieber, the representative He lives well. His bome is by de means in of the Committee on Naval Estimates, in the uncomfortable one, and with its wide
That same night, less than a mile away, rich man have been bilbed by the ofacials. verandaks,
who are now controlling the
Fond giveth his beloved was practically range Ebay can to put down this
a good and useful member of soalety, yet he could not night. that biasing which the Panimist ways,
Howlande! Want of money? The fear of examies? to this man. Whas alled him? The tortures of Mothing of the sork Theis why didn't he sleep as well as the murderer?. Xón would like to know Biyandy las na levis inte the motion;j
Farraday, accidentally shot bim in the wrist;
the plot, Mr. A. Mauger, was wounded on the with a sick, and the Steward was badly
BIRLIN, February atth.
bed with a kaffe and the third oficer wounded | Relchrisg io-day, that the Government did not 】 its quzerly shaped ridged s'ofs, and EMANG? | doing whai kvadratke, and it is believed by A. Aleep. And, worse stiil; this happened to hits every
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with knife. Captain Farraday, Mr. Manger, the fatend to increase the number of sea-golog rooms, heated by fires under the floor, he can foreigner Inletoren-that the cleaning of the third Officer and the Steward are in College vessels abova fourteen. But seven second-class if he has enough money, live very well. This
einine. It is a herenigan Hospital. The crew, who are entirely Germans cruisers and one Erst-class czuisar would be and Swades, are in goal at Diamond Harbour, ballt. The Government, however, reserved the all comes from the man was grab the soil, and biɛew Jɔb'ihamitka adaqueting of Chios.
money he gets out of squeezing the public." "Is | Agguan stables of Mazuen odiletal corruption is a Among the crew the Fallos discovered Milhgry | right to ingresso the aumber of the Arst-class from the offices walcis the King's oficials are it will turn out, time only cșa šelt. Severte) whom they brought bach to Caloutta,
to himn for a consideration, Swon an offelul le PRANN O. CARPENtan in afarning Gall
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