Torap's Advertisements.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. HONGKONG HARBOUR.
is hereby given oth
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1895.
BROWN, JONES & CO.
DEALERS IN
ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLE AND
"HONGKONG GRANITE CEMETERY
MEMORIALS
LETTERS CUT AND FILLED WITH IMPERISHABLE LEAD CEMENT.
Intimations.
(From Fapanese Papers.) MR. WAEBER.
SKOUL, Anguet zaih,
Mr. Waeber, who, according to a rumour, was to become Adviser to the Korean Court, will, It is now stated, be appointed Russian Minister to Mexics.
CHOLERA is still very prevalent at Kobo and Onk
*** We have received a mass of correspondence from Amoy, including proof of the existence of cholera in the district, which we shall publish on Monday together with a lot of ather corres- pondence and Interesting and Important matter which is "crowded out" of this issue. FROM Newchwang it is reported that owing to Chinese authorlites are distributing rice and cash
Ai
FOOCHOW NOTES.
MORE ABOUT. THE ATROCITIES AND THE
COMMISSION FIASCO.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Foocrow. August roth.
No Instant the CENTRAL FAIRWAY DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Kuroda, President of the Privy Council, has had the serious famine now raging in Mancharia the Vice-Consul and Messrs. Bannt ter and S'arr
be MOVED about Soo feet to the Southward,
The Fairway will continue to be marked as heretofore, vis, the entrance with two mark buoys palated red and white la horizontal stripes.
The Southern Ino of buoys will all be painted black and pumbered with uneven numbers com- mencing from the Fairway buoy..
The Northern line of buoys will all be palated red sad numbered with even numbers com- mencing from the Feltway buoy.
W. C. H. HASTINGS, Acting Harbour Master, &c.
Warbour Department,
Hongkong, aand August, 1895.
ZETLAND
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VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
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AERATED waters,
DA WATER..
THE PREMIER AND THE MARQUISATE.
TOKIO, Augnał rzið., As the result of an interviaw which Count
with the Premier (Count Ito) at Hakone, the latter has been persuaded to soceprhla promo-
and also the decoration of the Grand Order of
is, in effect, the principle which Sir William Harcourt fald down..
According to an official rep^rt, one-fourth part of the main ins of the greal Trans-Siberlan Railway his nɔw besɑ completed. The total cost has, so far, amounted to 73.437,11 roubles, and no lower than 70,325 pasons have been employed on the works. The ablaining of additional labour to stated to be assured. The Letual cost is less than estimated, as a more fivourable roule for the Amur sec fon was found. The Tear has expressed his sailsfaction at the favourable progress of the work.
tion from the rank of Count to that of Marqul. In all the districts east'of North Kinchow, and accommodated in a second tub, whi'e Chu Trang His Majesty will most probably arrive about the
Merit. The Premier returned to the capliat last night and proceeded to the Imperial Palace this morning, afterwards attending á Cabinet Council.
" ILLNESS OF THE CROWN PRINCE, Tokio, August 14th, H.R.H. the Crown Prince is reported to be suffering from pneumonia. All the Ministers of State, including Margals Ito, have latted the Takanawa Palace to make special inquiries..
THE NEW JAPANESE MINISTER TO SEOUL
Tokio, August 14th.. The formal appointment of Vircount Miura as ASPBERRYADE, &c. Japanese Minister in Korea will Es gazalted within a few days. He is expected to leave Tokio for Seoul on the 25th lart,
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No. 515, REGULAR MEETING of the above
LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the and September, at 8.30 (or q'p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 24th August, 1895.
"MOGUL" LINE of STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
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S. S. "AFRIDI," FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL MIDDLESBROUGH AND STRAITS.
'ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby laformed
CONSIGNEES of are handedlemmer
risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and -Kowloon Wharf "and · Godown ̈ Company, "at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
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Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 5. P.M. TO-DAY,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the sad proximo, will be subject
to rent
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre-. sented to the Undersigned on or before the and proximo, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left fa the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 2nd proximo, at a P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL, CARLÏLL & Co., Agents,
Hongkong, 24th August, 1895.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
-FOR-SWATOW,-AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
“HE Company's Stearnship --
THE
"HAITAN,"
Captain Goddard, will be despatched for the above Parts an TUESDAY, the 17th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
́. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 24th August, 1895,
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"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS, „FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KORE AND
T
YOKOHAMA.
*HE Steamship
"AFRIDI,"
Captain Golding, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 37th 'instant, at' Noon,
fastead of as previously advertised.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 24th August, 1895.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
FOR KOBE AND YOKOHAMA. HE Steamship
THE
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"AZAMOR," Captain H. Nicholls, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 27th instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
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Hongkong, 14th August, 1895.
FOR CHEFOO AND TIENTSIN, HE Steamer
THE
"CHINGPING."
Captain Blake, will be despatched for the shore Ports on TUESDAY, the 37th instant, at 5 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 24th August, 1505."
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NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA
LEMONADE
SARSAPARILLA.
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DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS are made under the constant supervision of a duly qualified English Chemist and will bèss compa- rlson' with the best English Manufactures.
(Special to Stam Oðurver) THE GERMAN EMPEROR AT COWES,
LONDOM, August 6th,
even the territory still occupied by Japanese troops, no opposition being offered by the latter to the good work. The assistance given is 1.440 cash to each adult sufferer and half that amount to children under twelve years of age.
INTERESTING CLAIM FOR MAINTENANCE The Bangkok Observer of the 13th instant has the following -Michell
Michell.
versus
Thin WAS an action Instituted by Mrs. Georgiana Helena Michell in the High
·Court of Justice in England against her husband, Mr. E. B. Michell. She claimed the sum of £550, being arrears due as mainten Ace of his daughter Madeline and son Edward, in terms of a certain deed of separation. For the defence advantage was taken of a clause in
the deed which stipulated that, if the defendants' income were la decrease, the allowance should be reduced in proportion, and vice versa, and the defendant's contention was that, having, loca the deed, resigned his appointment as Legal
The Emperor of Germany has arrived at Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESTES and Cowes for the Regatta. His Imperial Majesty Adviser to the Government of Stam, he had had
dland last night with Queen Victoria,
other Large Consumers.
Any complaints should be addressed to thi Manager.
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1891.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER
SEEDS.
SEASON 1895-96.
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Our First Supplies of these best Quality Seeds have arrived, and Orders will be executed In the sequence lo which they are received as long as the supply lasts.
SEED LISTS
with
HINTS FOR GARDINING
..
GERMANY AND AUSTRIĄ,
LONDON, August 6th, The German Chancellor and Count Kalnoky, Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, have met at Anasig, a town in Bohemia a few miles from the frontier of Saxony, to discuss the situation,
́ENGLAND'S AFGHAN GUEST.
LONDON, Augusi yih,
It is announced that the reason for the delay In the departure of Sardar Nucr Ullah 'le a political one.
JAPAN AND THE POWERS. THE LIAOTUNG PENINSULA RETROCESSION DIFFICULTY.
LONDON, August ŋth, A difficulty has urlsen over the retrocession of the Liaolong Peninsula, and a deadlock has taken place in the situation' owing to the action of Germany, which has refused to shara in the opposition raised by China, Rusils, and France to the claim by Japan for an additional indemnity,
THE “UNSPEAKABLE TURK" IS OBSTINATE.
torësori 10 private practice, which only brought him to sufficient to live upon, and that, conse quently, his income was mil. Upon this a com mission was issued to Bangkok for the examina- tion of the defendant as to his tacame. This commission was heard in April last, and occupied nearly ten days, Mr. Tilleke appearing for Mrs, Mickell and Mr. Page for the defendant. We learn now that the defendant has not been
able to support bis plea, and that the High Court of Justice bas entered judgment for paintiff with costs. We also learn that Mr. Michell has reached London, where he is now residing.
FILE of Bangkok papers received here to-day contala news to the effect that Commander Cotesworth and the officers of H.M.S. Rattler have presented the United Club (Bangkok) with * handrome clock that the many friends in Bangkok of Lieut. Commander May, of H.M.S. Radpole, are very glad to hear that Mr. May has been promoted to the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy, The same files contain reports of a fracas on board the German steamer Donar in Bangkök harbour. From these reports It appears that there was a row on board
men, and that, on the officers of the ship inter- faring to quell the disturbance, the Chinese cargo cooller had turned upon them with long poles. "Dr. Hays was on board the Dosar and he started at once for Messrs. Windsor & Co.'s, and while
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I forgot to mention in my last that the. Com- mission did not leave here with one hundred "braves." As a matter of fact the matt was a sorry #sbow," In one bost the English Coud,
Consal, Licut. Evans and Dr. Gregory were (missionaries) were stowed the Am rican
plag, Chief of the focal Board of Foreign Trade, and 50 "braves, under command of Colonel Chu, started off in the third, boat. E cb bost was towed by a s'am launch. The whole lot arrived at Sulkow at noon on the 15th and at 5 am, on the 16th they set out from Sulkow on the overland Journey to Rachang, which clly they reached the next morning. Fify "braves" joined the happy band at Salkow,
It is understood that the Emperor of ́Ausicia will pay a private visit 10 England next month. 25th Aug, and will be received by the members of the Royal family and entertained by them while bere. His principal visit will be to Her Majesty at Balmoral, wh-re befe to be enter tained at deer-staking, with the Prince of Wales as guide. The great deer forests belonging to the Queen are not to be disturbed until he comes, so that his Majesty ought to have excellent sport.
The river Min is not navigable by steam launches above Sulkow owing to the rapids which „Dr. Rapson, a collaborator of Professor commence there, but fairly large fit-bottomed | Bebring, head of the Hygienic Institute at Halle, cargo boats are used to navigate the r'wer for describes in the German Medical Wasbly the about 149 miles above Solkow. The chief clilcs | result of the experiments' ha bas been making on the river above Sulkow are Yanping-fu and | with a view to discovering an antidote to the Kienateg-fa and it to sear these elites that the cholera. Following the method employed in Rasstantes merchants had brick-tea factor{#snaill the case of diphtheria, he has produced an anti- within the last few years, as Mr. Chesney Duncan, chelets fluid fres from bacteria. This fi id he who was in the Russians' service here for some tolidifies by a special process. He treated time, and pald several visits to their up-country sulmals with a solution of it, and abtained from brick-tes factories, can tell you. In fact, he their blood a rerum which, he says, "proves lo probably has more practical knowledge of the be efficaciour not only against the cholers Min river, Suikow and the navigation of this poison, but also against living cholera bacteria," great waterway than any other Briiisher in the Far East,
Codrington (23) who was so terribly cut and Fam happy to be able to report that Miss slashed about by the Kucherg desperadoes, is better and has gone to Kallang for a change of alt. Miss Mildred St.wart (17) is also better, and I hear there is now some hope that she will pull through,
All is, appsrently, quiet here, bat Chinese soldiers still patrol the streets at night, which is doubtless indicative of the fact that the officials bave reason to believe that as far as an out. break here is concerned prevention will pro- bably to better than cure, for they know only too well that a rough-and-ready cure, exhibition of savages adden, unprovoked,
and fahaman
It is laled that the Russian Government har- resolved to appoint M. Lesur, the well-known Central Asian traveller and diplomatist, to the post of Councillor of Embassy in London, recently vacated by Count Boutenleff. The appointment has considerable significance at this moment, when the relations of the Foreign Offices of London and St. Petersborg seem to have relapsed into something of their old condition of mutual distrust, M. Lessar, who has lately been exercising the functions of Russlan Diplomatic Agent in Bokhara, belongs to the forward party in the matter of Muscovite expansion in Central Asia. In England. bo best known by the singularly aadicions part he played at Fenj-deh in 1884. and by his astute participation in the negotia ilaus la London relating to the despatch of the Afghan Boundary Commission. His present appointment is an unmistakable testimony of he desire of Prince Lobanoff that the Centeni Astan interests of Russia shall be represented place. with due prominence and vigilance at Chesham-
The Judicial Committes of the Privy Council referred to it as the result of the disastrous col- has now given judgment on the second case Italon between the Ravenna and the Chishima, The pesent case was by the representatives of sixty-two of the Japanese crew of the Chishima, who lost their lives on that occasion, for damagea from the P. &O. Co. The 1. of England is that such cases canot be consolid ted and brought as one action, as was sought to be done Court there is held and the case was appealed to Shangbai, where, resting on a
to the Consular Court in Yokohama. LONDON, August rath,
The Sultan of Turkey is reported to be determined not to allow any foreign control in
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recent
the administration of Armenia. The Grand between the cargo coolles and the stevedore's | interfered with in any way, shape or form declalon of the Court of Appeal here, where
Visier, it is said, advises the Ports to make this concession, but the Palace Party are strongly
have been issued and can be abtained on opposed to it. application.
Our Seeds are all tested before being put op La LONDON:
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
"
THE QUESTION OF THE MEKONG STATES,
LONDON, August 13th. The Timer, in a leading article to-day on the
be affected at their very dears. They know that where, to this settlement, cannot be attacked and butchered wholesale, as were those
women pure, noble
and children at Kuching, without running the risk of immediata repdiants et a nature which is, perhaps, advisable to any a little about at present as possible; suffice it to say that instead of merely hinting at it I ought, the British Government had any "grit" In It and the American Eaole was not all caw and scream, to be now fareishing your readers with graphic detalla of a kind of it-for-tat business which would probably astonlab the heathen Chinee not a litle and cause him to understand, once and for ever, that however litle he may think of the lives of his own countrymer, the lives of foreigners are counted priestess that their homes, whether in Kucheng er anywhere else, are their castles and most not and that no punishment is too severa for those (whether of high or low estate) who either take part in or countenance or connive at fiendish outrages perpetrated on defenceless, well- meaning, noble and inoffensive ladies, young children and on an innocent babe, unable either to run away from the would-be assassla or to raise its bands to ward off the blow the babe who knew not that his nurse (Miss Lena Yellop) was bearing the brunt of the attack, was being done to death while lying over his little body in order that she might his life. Think, Sir, of the terrible, the heartrending, sganizing scenes in the Stewart's house at Kucheng on the rat August-the mother beseeching the assassins en her husband's life; then he havi g and the pain caused by the spears which have killed before her eyes, baif mad with grief pierced ber bedy she struggles towards the room in which her babe is sleeping. Her husband is beyond ald. Gonel gone to rest, why not die in the attempt to sava” his offspring ? Alas! alas i ber will is greater than her strength. The sight of the mingled body of the asse catches door of the nursery is hardly reached when the her fast-closing eyes and she, too, fall never to rise in this world! Gone! Suffered a martyr's death for His sake. Gone i Gone to Rest
When we think, sir, of these Indescribably awful scenes weare appalled, ashamed, chagrined beyond measure not only to think but to know
question of the Upper Barma boundary; write a revolver. On going back to the ship it intended to send him from 'ime into eternity: easiest way would be to bing one test action,
They are packed under our own Supervision, with approval of (besteps which have been taken and the greatest care is exercised to insure to affirm the British light to the Mekong States (Keag-bung, Keng-cheng, and Keng-tung), and protection in transit.
declares that the French claim to them is absolutely baseless.
CLAY'S FERTILIZER,
to
Sowings should be made in FINE WEATHER ONLY and the remainder of the packets secured
(From Rangoon Gasetta) from damp, and kept in a dry place for repeat THE PAMIR BOUNDARY COMMISSION. sowings.
SILLA, August 7th. The Amir's Agent having anived
the 17th July the British and Camp on Ruinen Commissions have started work and A high-class Fertilizer for Pot Plants and for the first boundary, piller was erected os the 28th Joly and by tke ret of August the ile use in the Garden generally,
to the Benderk! Pass was practically settled. There seems some chance of falshlog all the
arise.
It supplies natural nourishment to the soll, demarcation this month should no difficulties
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steaming there in his launch heard the report of was ascertained that the carge coolies had attacked the Master and the Mate, cutting open the eyebrow of the former. One of the ship's officers had thereupon fired his revolver and woanded one of the coolles. It is needless to state that, as soon as this was done, the cooltes scampered off into the cargo boats, and la a fow minutes coulies and cargo boats were quite clear of the Donar. Later on Chief Inspector Shelf, with poss of police, went down to the scene of the trouble. He found bad been used in the attack on the officers, there five of the poles and as iron trident which
call alongside vessels bolsting code pennant C, The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday, to convey mon ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning
THE REPORTED OUTRAGES NEAR about 12,30 p.m.
SWATOW.
A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525, Zetland Street, on Monday, the and proximo, at E.C., will be held in the Freemasons' Hall, 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely, Visiting brethren are
cancer of cargo in the same cames were by the Honis of Lords, the Court decided that concerned, which has since been reversed":
different claims arising out of the same lois could be properly prosecuted together, Thlathe Privy Consequently, we are to hear any more of the Council has held to be wrong, and has reversed.
entered in Yokohama. It would case, a single acilon each
case will have to be
and then we shall have the point decided as to seem tha
who was in fan's in the original collision. At present a British Marine Court has held the Ravanna free from fault, whilst a Japanese Court has b-id the Chishima free from blame exch decision (according to the L. & C. Express) implías, apparently, that the other vecsel was in the wrong.
It is announced by several St Petersburg papers to-day that the agreement concluded in the Russian Kerosene Company (the Brothers Paris between American petioleum Grms and Nobel) is about to be signed. By this gree, ment the kerosene trade in the Mediterranean,
well as in Sweden sad No way, is left the Russian kerosene firms, while for the rest of exclusively to the Brothers Nobel, representing Europe Russis will xport :5 per cent, and America 65 per cent, of the qwn fly required for consumption,
Paris Jourants at that one of the subjects which will be discussed at the Geographical Congress la London is the cholca that the British Government is reluctant to of a standard merilan. On this peint an severely punish the really responsible persons; important decision has been arrived at by tha that the Queen appears to care not to avenge French official delegates to the Congress, who the death of those of her own sex who ware so
have authored their chairman, M. Lappirent, shockingly outraged; that the Chinese Govern- to accept Greenwich as the standard meridian, due to our equals Will the great people, the the metric system aball be used for all measure ment is still treated with the courtesy that is on the express condition, however, that in retard Democracy, of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales be satisfied with the fare being terrestrial map. Should this compromise he ments in the preparation of the proposed complete
insist, will it not cry out from pubile plat universal recognition of Greenwich as the oly performed in Kücheng to-day ? Will it not accepted, it will constitute the first step toward the forms, from the street corners and through meridian, and farther involve the principle of the public press for bitter retribution ? Estas pelformally in the drawing of maps.
French hope so. Let us hope that the Democracy of delegates have also resolved to support any pro Great Britain and of Greater Britata conjointly pass tending A NEW PUNKAN.-Mr. Evros Adjes, of the firm take such action as will shake to its founda-map la quesifon, their reason being that in will cause our naval and military authoriiles to collaboration to the work of preparing the great of Movers. Lim Soo Hex & Bich can tions the rotten fabric as which the Govern- certain countries Africa, for example-frantier has invented new kind af punkab, which can be set to fans whole room for x hours fail if need be) the tottering throne of the many other details are still unrolled,
ment of China rests ; that it, will shake (to ks | lines are will to a great extent undefined, and at stretch, fast or slow. The Rangoon
As soon as we read the alarming report pub lished in the Chino Mail's "Extra" yesterday rerpecting an alleged attrek on Roman Catholicndially invited. missionaries somewhere near Swatow, we wired murder trial at Baticalon in Ceylon, on to our Swalow correspondent for fall patti on the 31st July, the prisoner's life iterally hang culars We received no reply yesterday and in the balance. The jury at first brought in therefore refrained from mentioning the matter verdict of not guilty, by a majority of one. The in our last lasus, foaling nasad that our cor. dgs would not accept the verdict, and sent the Jurymen back to see if they could bring A respondent's silence indicated that there verdict by a majority of two or more. The jury was to all probability no truth in the report. returned a second time, and brought in a verdict We are now glad to by able state that of galliy of murder agafast the prisoner by A, S. WATSON & CO,, LD. there is, as we surmised, very little, if any, majority of two-whereca the prisoner was reason for ballering that there has been any fresh anti-foreign outbresk in Fabkien Is province, as will be seen by the following
special telegram :=
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The report of the attack on missionaries at At Chloklans, on the 18th of August, Gronoz | Kayingchow is based on rumour and I esn
obtain no confirmation of it here,
THOи.
Jongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1895.
Captain Di Marco, will be despatched as above 'REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
on TUFSDAY, the gid September, at Noon.
At HOMBAY the Steamers are discharging in' VICTORIA. DOCK.
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CARLOWITZ & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 24th Angust, 1895.
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THE PROPOSED UGANDA RAILWAY. LONDON, August 23rd. 7 Mr. Casson agrees with Mr. Stanley about the advantages, political and commercial, to be derived from the Uganda Rillway.
(Special to Kode Chronicle) THE RECENT SAD OCCURRENCE AT YOKOHAMA.
YOKOHAMA, August 13th, 2:35 pm. Mr. B. E. Brackenbury, of the Hongkong and R. Conradi, Commander, will be despatched as Shanghat Bank, who shot himself on Saturday above on or about the 7th September.
las', died this morning of his wound, -
THE
**DOLONG,"
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THEAT will be a Chidren's Service at the Peak Church tr-morrow afternoon at 5 p mi, conducted by the Rey. Mr. Alfred Iliff. Hysane~333, 136, 338 and 340.
AUTUMN rice crop prospects are reported to be very satisfactory in Burma fair in Siam, and more or less unsatisfactory. In Japan owing to the damaga caused by the recant typhoon and great floods, reported in these columas, in that country.
MA UCHIDA KOBAL, the newly appointed Secretary to the Japavans Légation at Peking, will, it is stated by a Japanese paper, shortly proceed thither, and open the conference com vened to discuss the new commucial treaty | between China and japan.
sentenced to death.
Tho
exclude official Government
Garsior has seen the designs, and as far alleged Ruler of China's teeming millions. We Reuter's Agency Is laformed on good authority
It is able to judge, Mr. Adjee seems to have got hold of a good thing. A medel of it legally protected will shortly be an exhibition in one of the shops there, where offers for the patent and the sight to manufacture it may ha made. The Fankat is suited for use to Officer Hospitals, Churches, Hotels, etc., and is adaptable for use in large or small rooms alike.
PROPOSED KUCHENG MEMORIAL..
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We have very great pleasure in publieking the following letter received this afternoon from the Right Reverend Bishop Bardon, and in so dolog express the hope that his fordship's appeal wil not be made lo vala —
TO THE EDITON or www "Hawazowo Telegraph."
ment will throw down the gauntlet to all have the power. (1
Let us hope that our Govern- comers; defy all who say her nay; and, having right on its side, impress on the minds of the Chinese garazoment and peoples permanent But I must not wasty your renders wiE this SCUES of our rights, our majesty and our might, question and would not have gone so far into detalls but for the purpoke of fetting the world know through the Trigrada how the majority of Europeans here view the situation.
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL|||
LONDON, July 26th.
dates from 1700, when that land was taken that the British title to the Island of Trinidad possession of by Dr. Halley without any objection
on the part of Portugal No claim by Brazil has hitherto been pubilely advanced, but it is ready to discuss in a fileadly spirit any represer understoed that Her Majesty's Government are tations which the Brazilian Government may wish to make on the enbject,
*
There is growing excitement at Rio de Faceiro about the Belifah occupation of the Island of Trinidad... The Brazilian Government has rent two notes to the British Legation. emphatically protesting against the occupation,
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Richmond yesterday, and laid the four- dation stone of a new mechanical Institute and secondary school, which is about to be erected the Surray County Council at cost of over
the alluded to bis approaching speech,
coatso
A testimonisi from the actors and actresses of the United Kingdom, in commemoration of the honour recently conferred upon him, was pre- S-I have just received a letter from Foo-sented on 16 last. to Str Henry Irving. The chow stating that it is proposed to erect gift took the form of a crystal and rold casket -46,000, His Royal Highness, in Memorial of the Missionaries lately massacred at and
book containing an illuminated address of abort Foochow Cemetery, and also to place a Tablet to members of the theatrical profesion. The the Army, and said-I have still, I believe, a Whasan, near Kucheng, over their graves in the and 400 leaves of vellum, signed by nearly 4000 retirement from the Commandership-in-Chiel of | their memory in the British Episcopal Church c
it Foochow The design of the Memorial has precantations was made by Mr. Bancroft, at the considerable amount of vigour left in me, and Lyceum Theatre, which was crowded in every I would ask those who lead the public press The cost is estimated at $1000. Sobicriptions as received a great oration, spoke with deep emotion society? (Hear, hest.) At the same ti received the
i approval of those most interested, part of the house. Sir Henry living, who whether I am faineant or an scilva member of limited to one dollar. I shall be glad to receive in thanking his brother and sister actors for I thought desirable and of advantage to the this small sum from any one desirous of the gift and hearty welome they had given him, country that new arrangements should be made subscribing, opening an account in' the Hang-
It's kong and Shanghal Bank on behalf of the million in personal estate bas bien reported since manth, I shall have presided for thirty-nine noteworthy that no will disposing of a is the great department over which, in this very
the Finance Act of 1894 came into operation, consecutive years, I am not in a position, nes J. S. BURDOM The pefaciple that the person who hays one - would I wish, to stand in the way. I can only
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-pound of tea ought to pay more in duty than two say that I think it will be found that I leave in Hongkong, 24th August, 1895, 0.
persons who buy hall a pound auch, does not | a very good condition the milliery fostitution DR. CARTLIB has also received a letter from seem to find favour, especially when the buyer over which I bave had the honour and pleasure Fooshow on this subject and he will piecuinte kis | of the pound packet has half a desen children, and, I hope, the advantage of presiding for no List next week,
and the other iwo buyers have none. And this
Mr. Hara Zenzaburo, Mr. Asada Hatakichi, | Mr. Habima Yozo, Mr. Katagi Yaye, and several || Hwasang Memorial Fund,
other reildents of Yokohama kate under conv sideration « scheme for etablishing a great godown company with a coplist of yom 1,000,000 HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co, An Inquest was held this afternoon, when a
Agents,
vardict of "suicida while teraporarily insane" under the name of Yokohama Hayeki Soko Hongkong, sath August, 1895‹ [argo ! was returned.
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