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To-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

R. J. M. ARMSTRONG -kak vrceived M

train the SECOND

MORTGAGEE

to Sell by

.ON

PUBLIC AUCTION,

WEDNESDAY) the råth March, 1895, AT 4.00 PM., on the Premises, In SEVEN LOTS, Net. 1, 17.

19. 21 and 21 TF2 M1 ALLEY and Nos. 126 and

127. PRAYA WEST, Viend, Hongkony, situsty on Sections L., T&M to "term Sections R & E of Marine Tent of fro

Each scelton te held fold farther Paritalars, of og vars at the Te

For Condition

K. W, MOUNSEY,

Solicitor,

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apply to

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J. M. ARMSTRONG,

Auctioneer,

Hoppkone, oh March, 1896.

SHIRE LINE OF STEAMERS.

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FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA. THE

THE Steamship

"CARMARTHENSHIRE,” Captain E. Sincock will be desnatched at above TO-MORROW, the 11th instant, at 5 PM.. Instead of as previously advertised

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Agents.

DODWELL, CARLILL & Co..

Hanahone 10th March 18-6

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AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY.. (UNDER MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT);

STEAM TO SHANGHAI AND KOBE.

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HE Company's Steamship~~~~

"FLEKTRA,"

Captaid F Cossevich, will leave for the above places on TUESDAY, the 17th instant,

For Freight or Passage, anoly to

SANDER & Co.,

Agents, Hoepkene, roth, March, 1896,

1488

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES."

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

THE Steamship

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LIGHTNING having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Carvo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo Impeding the discharge or remalalar on board after the 12th initant, will be landed at

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1896.

Intimations.

PRICE LISTS,

with Full Details, to be had on Application, PORT after removal shoo'd be reste-l a month

before use. When required for drinking, ́aute ir"should be ordered to be decar

be Dispensary before being ----

er and After Dinner SHERRY=Excelsuperler Vintages. All are

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and how

could discharge.

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Ordinance for codifying the Law relating is Second reading of the Bill enthiled s the Sale of Goods.

Read a second time, considered in Committee and amended.

Second reading of the Bill entfiled As Ordinance to amend the practice as to the vacating of the registration of a Lis pendins. and, no amendments having been made, send a third time and passed.

'Read's' second time, considered in Committee'

Second reading of the Bill entitled As Ordinance to provide for the extradition of Fugitive Criminals from the Territory of the British North Borneo Company, committee, read a third time and passed

This was read a second time, considered in

-Second-reading of the coiled An

Ordinance for the Incorporation of the Pra sident in Hongkong of the Batel Evangelizat Missionary Society,

* writer of actes on " The Situation which CATTLE DISEASE IN HONG KONG. Second reading of the Billestiled.” As on the part of Great Beltain and polating

***** { appear from timeto time in the Tisnisin Timer

Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law to an alirmatum and to eventual.

We regret to learn that on Saturday last | relating to Factors, Most of the English and Ford papers on the aand ultimo stated that one object of Li

Read a atcond Ume, considend in Committe, took the same view of questions at Heng-chang's melon to Russia la to negotiate several bsed of cattle in the Dairy Farm

and amended. say now, when the terms of the surrender, of Kochino Bay Company's establishment, at Fokfolum were Issue. What wilbefore them in all its area, 500 if from Wel-hal-wel, as a Russian attacked by rinderpest and that slace the the Treated far-reaching details, so

outbreak of the disease twelve of Company's start in its tone, so defiant, of all aval station for a period of 20 rOITE,”

cows have succumbed to this scourge, while tho opposition? How cleverly it has all been THUS the China Gazelis (Shanghai) of the 5th prospectsef checking the spread of the disease are managed, and how toolish Sir NICHOLAS Instant-Another proof of the alter inadequacy by no means very bright.. How the diseage was O'CONOR and our diplomatists must have of our whari accommodation, large as it is, was imported here we have been unable to ascertain, felt

when they realised how they afforded yesterday when the P...teamer --but as it-has been very prevalent in Japan for had been deceived

Com-Fermoss came into the harbour with a cargo months past, especially in the neighbourhood of placently they had accepted Russia's of over 5000 tour, which she is compelled to Kobe, it is probable that it was brought here bland denials as false in fact as they were unquestionably true. In the letter How far ighter, nowhail befog available where the from Japan. We are, however, not now so much concerned about how it was Imported, is our deet in these waters and our armed forces in Hongkong from the standard Ir is not generally known that the Dutch as with the important questions of (a.) bow at which they ought to be maintained, Colonial army la Java is recrufted from all the can be gol zid of at Pokialam (8.) how the other dairies in the Colony can be protected and to which they should promptly be brava scallawngs, wondering vagabonds and raised la presence of an armed and hostile | gent) men adventurers mious means who against a visitation of the disease ? From all wo Russia in Korea and in the Liaotung happen to deft out among the eastern posses can gather the gravest anxiety li fell by Mr. peninsula, and allled with China In such tens of the Hitle Queen of Holland. That the Kennedy and other dairymen owing to the fact a manner that the vast resources of the demand is frequently in excen of the supply, that the cattle which have died at Fokiniam have Celestial Empire are at the disposal of the the Japan Herald thinks may be gathered not been (u they would have been in Australis TSAR and his Government in any eventuality? It is to be hoped that the from the fact that two Dutchmen have been crany ether civilised part of the world) cremated; vell of scepticism and unconcern, so recently sentenced in Saigon for "crimple that the disease is a most infections malady; successfully drawn over the eyes of Sir They were proved to have attempted to induce and because there is no veterinary surgeon in NICHOLAS O'Coxox and Lord. Rosebery's roldiers of the Foreign Legion to desert and the employ of the Government whose services Cabinet by Russian diplomatists, has at join the colours of Holland,

'could be availed of in the present emergency last been removed and that the situation Ar a meeting of the Shanghal Chamber of Com. We have been unable to ascertain that the will be faced promptly and fearlessly, and merce on the 25th ultime, the Committes Government have yet taken any steps to reading. in a manner worthy the beat traditions decided that the cases of plague reported from deal effectively with this outbreak and of our fatherland. Have not the world's communities allowed apathy to Hongkong ware not sufficiently numerous to can therefore only hope that, this matter. The bill was then considered in committer, full them for a sufficiently long period into cause serious apprehension or to justify the having been brought to the notice of the a sense of security which was neither Beard in, recommending that exceptional mea-authorities, the necessary steps will at once be justified by circumstances nor facts? Will tares should be taken at present. The immusity taken to prevent the spread of the disease it still be denied that the time for action is which Shanghal enjoyed in 1894 when Plague beyond the district in which it has, we bellore, A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. nigh; that Russia, in the game she has was epidemic among the natives in Hongkong attacked upwards of 30 head of catile.

Mr. C. Vivian Ladds, the Colonial Veterinary been playing for years' past in the Far | and Canton could certainly not be attributed to East, has all to gain and nothing to lose the efficiency of the quarantine regulations then Surgeon, is at home on leave 1'. The time seems to have passed by when put in force; and now with isolated cases only security for the peace of the Orient could in the south but Htile alarm need be felt. The been attained by the conversion of Church fitted a temporary

LATET-Our Clarets, including the lowest pilced, are guaranteed to be the genulae product of the juice of the grape and are not stifficially made from isles and corrents is is generally the case with Cheap Wice BRANDY.—All our Brandy is guaranteed to be pare Cognac, the difference to price being merely a question of age and vintage,

WHISKY.-All cur Whliky is of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands is "the market.

The SCOTCH WHISKY marked "E" is universaliy popular, and is pronounced by the best local connoisseurs to be superior to any other brand in the

Hongkong inarkeL

We only guaranice our WINES and SPIRITS to be genuine when bought direct from us in

the Colony or from oor authorised Agents at the Coast Parts.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, Yöth January, 1866.

Hongkong Telegraph have into a peaceful neutral zone under Portal to kest in readiness to reelre Ray

HONGKONG, Tuesday, March 10, 1896.

¿MAGNA EST VERITAŠ ET PREVALERIT.

We note with regret the absence from the columns of our evening contemporary

of the Secret Treaty between: Russia

the guarantee of the Treaty Powers. It

case which la the opinion of the Doctors didn't suit England to take the necessary of the Far Eastern Problem, and that Tur creditors of the Japan-Slam Trading steps to bring about such a simple solution requirer solation." being so we may be excused for asking, Corporation, in liquidation, may be pleased to |the questions-Are we ready? If not, learn that M. Meaulle-Lefebre was successful fa. why not? If we are, then why delay and ving a few of the fragments of that concern. thereby grant our enemies time wherein It appears, says the Stom Fras Prits of the 25th to prepare not only defensive operations

on by loans from the Corporation, and the

the late lire, M. Meaulle-Lefebre, however, learned that a sumber of cases of champagne and spirits had been taken to a local auction room for sale, and pounced upon them with all

suction for the benefit of the creditors. M. taste. These liquors will now be sold by

promptitude in another direction and telegraphed to Japan for funds to cover another local Japanese venture.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. There were present: His Excellency the Governor, Sir Willam

Pollock (Acting Attorney Gegera), Hon. F. A. Robinson, K.C.M.G., Hon. J H. Stewart Lockhart (Colonial Secretary), Hen. H. E.

Cooper (Director of Public Works), Capt. W. C. H. Hastings, R.N., (Acting Captale Saperia- Colonial Treasurer), Hon, R. M. Ramsey, RN tendant of Police), Han, A. M. Thomson (Acting

T. H. Whitehead, Hod, JJ, Bell-Irving, Hon.

Hon. C. P. Chater-This bill fa-similar in every respect to the bills incorporating the Spanish Procuration, the French Mission and other societies, and its object is to facilitate the business of the mission. At the last resting of the Coutel! I informed you that the details had been complied with, so I hope the Hon. necessary for the introduction of a private bill members will have no objection to the second

Hon, Mr. Whitehead seconded.

read a third time, and passed.

Committee

on the

Bill entitled As Ordinance to amend the Law as to certain feneys bald into the Supreme Courts or to | the Registrar thereof.

the Hon, Attorney General, the Hon. Treasurer Upon considering amendments proposed by

objected, on the ground that by adopting them the object of the Secretary of State would be defeated, Thereupon the consideration of the Bill la Committee was postponed.

THE SANITARY BOARD.

oilta that at the next meeting will ask

Hon. Mr. Whitehead :-Sh, I beg to give

Will the Government lay upon the table a copy of all the papers or correspondence between the Colonial Government and the Home

authorities, and all other documents, incinding

the reports or written apfuloss of the unofficial of the Sanitary Board and its reconstruction, members to connection with and on the subject

(Continuing): May I ask, Str, that you will give

E. R. Bellllos, C.M.G., and Hon: Dr. Ho Kal, carly as possible, so that we may have mora Acting Clerk of Councils,

His Excellency :-Very Well, ADJOURNMENT:

MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

NEW MINDEN. Dr. Ho Kal, who has been re-appointed a

the oath and his seat.

His Excellency adjourned the Council for

■ fortnight.

of anything in the shape of an apology but, as now appears evident, offensive limo, that the Japanese bar-toɑm was carried / (Harbour Master), the Hon. C. P. Chator, Hostostructions that these paperi bo circulated as either to ourselves or to the "foolish action alming at the destruction of the proprietors declared that they had lost everything unofficial members, and Mr. F. J. Badelev. Ums for their canalderation? alarmist " denounced in its leading peace of the East and the serious injury article of the 4th December last in of British commerce in these seas? connection with the news, first published by us, and wired to London In October last by the "Eminent Person

MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED? be connected with us,

read a first time to-day, for the regulation supposed to

In the Bill laid before the Council and

tung peninsula and Port Arthur were marriages, there are one or two sections practically ceded to Russia, Our Infor- taken from Imperial Acts which would mation was declared to be wholly false" appear to have been inserted with, and to be derived through wholly unknown very little consideration of the real and unreliable" channels. The foolish facts of the position in Hongkong, and of alarmist" was charged with wilful mis-the state of the law here. For the representation and the whole affair was pooh-poohed as childish and unrell-

Consignees' risk and expense Into the Godowns of the Wanchal Warehouse and Storage Cora and China by virtue of which the Llaou-of the registration of births, deaths, and Mraull-Lefebre has also acted with exemplary member of the Conncil for a further term, took

pany, Limited, Wanchai,

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside, such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and

expense.

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents.

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Hongkong, toth March, 1895.

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• REPORTS.

The Hoo. Colonial Secretary lald on the table the report of the Acting Captain Superlatendent of Police for 1895, and the returns of the Superior and Subordinate Courts for 1895, and the Report of the Finance Committee. (No. 1.)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT

SHANGHAI,

who died on the 5th Instant at about half-past eight. The inquiry took place at No. 7 Saus Souci Terrace, the residence of deceased, Mr. Gro, Jamieson acting as Coroner, Messrs. G. J. Morrison, C. W. Dickson and J, W. Lamond forming the jury.

not had dinner. made

With the publication in the North China Daily eur of the text of the Treaty, received direct from Peking under circumstances and with details that can leave little doubt as to its authen- ticity we hope that the China Mait is convinced that it did us an injustice in denouncing the statements by us as both false and foolish, and In Condemning the author of the telegram to The Tinus as a liar, for that is what, in effect, it did. All that was telegraphed by the foolish alarmist" to London was true. All the details we gave were substantially correct. Russia is to have full permission to use Port Arthur (or some other port at her choice) as a naval depot and is to construct a branch line of railway from Tsitsikar to the southern extremity of the Liaoutung peninsula. She is to have the control of all the country to the north-west of Korea bordering on the line of the railway, equally in time of peace as in time of war. There is no mention of any cession of territory by Russia, and so the Russian denials and declarations In October last are true to the letter however false and deceitful in the spirit. Even the island opposite and close to Port Arthur, which she is to

bot permitted to fortify for the protection of her railway terminus against the greed and covetousness of Foreign Powers, la hot,, in so many words, trans...

&c.ferred in absolute sovereignty to her.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s" WATERS are made under the constant supervision of a duly qualified English Chemist and will-bear compa- rison with the best’English Manufacturen............

Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSxs and other Large Consumers. day complaints should be addressed to the

Manager. Hongkong, ard May, 1896,

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITEDY ·

ESTABLISHED AD, 1841

WINES

AND;

SPIRIT S.

The Hoo. Director of Public Works laid upon the table the report of the Public Works Com.

THE COST OF THE ADMINISTRATION., Hoa. T. H. Whitehead': I beg to give matice that I will, at the next meeting of the Council,

Shanghal, March 6th. UNDER date the 20th February the Pekingssk the following question :---

An inquest was held at noon to-day on the correspondent of our Shangbai morning con

Will the Government lay upon the table a body of Dr. F. W. Waliney, Veterinary Surgeon, riatement showing the total cost of the Admin. enrolment of the births of legitimate temporary reports as follows in the case istration, or the expenditure of the Government children the father is primarily responsible. connected with the antergeoris treatment of Dr. under the head of salaries, including allowances; For the registration of illegitimate Greig in Kirin :--As to Dr. Grefg's case in children, the mother, and no one is to Kirin, Mr. Beraclerk sent Mr. Haste, the year 1895 ?

pensions, exchange compensation, etc, for the be put on the register as father without Newchwang Consul, to investigate the case os his consent and that of the woman. the spot. He kept him, there for ten days in It is very doubtful if among the order to try and induce the Tsungil Yamén to mass of pagan Chinese in Hongkong settle the matter before he left. Falling this there are any legitimate children. All the children of concubines are certainly illegitimate; most probably the children of the first wife "also. English law, and English law alone, prevails in Hongkong. Marriage, according to that law, is the union of one man with one woman for life, to the exclusion of all others. Chinese marriages, with their concubinage, have never been recognised concommitant by law in Hongkong, and if ever the question comes fairly before the Courts the better opinion is that they will be pronounced not to be marriages at all. It is a disgrace to the Government of Hongkeng that there has never been any legislation or attempt at legislation as to the status of Chinese women and children in the Colony.

REUTER'S MESSAGE.

THE DISASTER IN ABYSSINIA,

LONDON, March 8th.. Detalls to hand of the disaster to the Italian arms in Abyssinia augment the gravity of it Ode brigade was annihilated after heroic, resist ance. The enemy numbered a baadrei thon sand,

General Baldisherm fá unable to rolleve Adigra), which, gurisoned by 4 coo men with a month's supplies, is entirely surrounded."

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

She has only a license to use it, but the practical result is the same. Russia la to "furgith hundreds of officers to drill and discipline one hundred thousand soldiers in the Kirin and neighbouring districts. We wonder whose soldiers they will be AT the Magistracy-to-day a contractor was fined when drilled and armed? Not Chinese, $25 for blasting en Kennedy Road yesterday certainly. China fs to open markets and without isking proper precautions for the pubile facilliate in every way the unceasing..fety.

now of Russian manufactures Into China. It was expected is Shanghat on the 6th that the of course to the exclusion of British pro-China Merchants' steamer Haas would be the ductions of all kinds. There is a complete first resul of the northern site:" to reach the 1437 offenilve, and defensive alliance between

St. Petersburg and Poking, not aimed at Tientsin Band this year. |Japan alone, but af all the possible enemies, present and prospective, of either of the high contracting parties.

ALL; these are selected by our Londen House, bought due at first, band, Imported in wood

This afternoon Mr. T. Sercombe-Smith, Police Magistrate, granted a transfer of the license of the Praya East Hotel to the former holder

That this treaty has actually been thereof, Mr. J. C. L Roach. entered into, whether with or without the formalities usually attendant on the com- Fox erecting cocklofts without the permizzion of pletion of International contracts; "is con- the Sanitary Board, one Chinaman was fined clusively proved by the fact that Russia $15, alle a fellow-countrymas war muiated in is, and for some time past has been the sum of $2 for the same offence. acting on its provisions. Her fleets are

now intends to apply more potent remedies, which we sincerely hope will sean predece attefactory results. When the Chinese Govern asst feels that the Foreign Governments are in downright earnest they seldom fall in getting Justice done. It would be well if the Chinese law were strictly enforced to regard to these Hing, high and low, were punished as well as breaches of the peace, and the Chine to minds-

those directly gully. If this were always insisted on we should hear no more of any missionary troubles.

THE telegraph officials of Klyklung are stated by the N. C. Dally News to have received on the 28th ultime a wire from Landbou, the capital of Kauao, to the effect that Governor We Kuang-tao of Stenst had arrived at the scene of the Mahommedan rebellion neir Haining, and that General Tung Fa-halang had turned over to him Han Wen-bsis, the principal Mahom medan rebel chief, captured in January by that General. The prisoner is now confined to the care of the local authorities of Lanchoa preparatory to belog transported to Peking. In a recent battle between Governor Wel's troops and the rebels over a hundred petty chiefs, wara fisin and the Mussalman inhabitants of a num ber of fortified villages were recently compelled to buy pardon and freedom from being turned over to the fory of the soldiery by handing over is the authorities eig£ty-four of their aksakals (grey-beards) and Fmasms ( exchers of the law). Tux Colonial Surgeon, Dr. After, C.M.G., booked to leave London for Hongkong by the P. & O. steamer Australia on the 27th fastant, THX second annual general meeting of share. Shanghai, Limited, was held at the office of the holders of the Co-operative Cargo Best Co., of gents, Messrs. Wheelock & Co., on the stb, Mr. H. F. Such (Chairman) presiding. The report and accounts were accepted and passed, the directors and auditor were re-elected, and li | was decided that a dual dividend of 9 per cent, making 15 per cents for the year, be paid, 4.4. Tis. 9,000, Tir. 15,000 1 transferred to Reserve and Maintenance account and Tly, 1,477.72 will be carried forward.

MEMORANDA,

-THURSDAY --15th-March.--

wittee, held on the 11th February 1896, and moved that the report be confirmed,

Seconded by the Hon. Acting Treasurer. numbered C-the proposed road from Mount His Excellency 1-With reference to the item Kelletat an estimated cost of $6,000, I beg to say that I am in favour, personally, of that road, but I coulder that not only is exceedingly gerans in wet weather. But the Treasurer, who sleep is proposed, but it will be actually dan.

holds the parsa tight, Informas ma we have'no funds to carry on the work, so I hope the Hon. members will accept this excuse, and hellava opportunity... -me' that the work will be dose at the earliest

Josephine Whliney, the wife of deceased, been married six years. My husband came la was the first witness called and stated --I have

last night at about a quarter-past eight he had Am sorry to say he had been doing and was unsteady when he came home. I don't know where he had been. He said he had been to the Race Club. As a rale eray evening he went to the Race Clob. When been drinking. I was sitting in that chair. he came in I reproached him for having (indicated) when he rose up and took a packet from the mantel-piece." I was reading a paper and did not see what he took cut. I thought. It was a packet of cigarettes. I saw him put his hand to his month, and then he put a bottle on the mantel-place and said he had taken polson. At first I did not believe him and thought he was only frightening me, but he fell back into his | chair and then on to the floor, I immediately got some salt and water and tiled to pour some |_down his throat-but, ho ́ was past help: The Hon. Acting Attorney-General-Sir, I beg days. I did not know what was in it. I only saw parcel had been on the mantel-piece for some, to mere the first reading of a Bill entitled As him pat his hand to his mouth, but I had no Ordinance to further amend "The Public what he had taken until he said to ms. Health Ordinance, 1887", with regard to the taken palsan. He first fell into the chair and comaflisstion of the Sanitary Board," A memo- then on to the floor, where he seemed onCORE randum containing the statement of the objects clous. He was making peculiar noise in his and reasons is attached. *****

'THE SANITARY BOARD.

Hoo. Act: Treasurer :-I beg to second. Hop, T. H. Whitebead :— Sir, I rise to move that the frst reading of the bill be postponed for one month. In view

His Excellency -Would it not be better to 'move that at the second reading?

KLY

throat for about half-an-hour after. I tried to get him to swallow t'u salt and water nu an emetic, but I only got a little into his month, and I don't know whether he swallowed it i don't know why he did it ; I'm sure he nÖVOI thought of it before. There was no quarrel between ney he was hardly in the house ten minutes before it was all over,

Mr. Whitehead On the ith Dicem ber last I asked for all the papers, including deceased for a long time, In fact I have had very Dr. Rold stated I have not been attending. the reports of the unofficial members relative to little attendance upon him at all. I was sent for this subject, to be laid on the table. This was refused by the Government, who then promised last night at about half-past eight. I get a that they would produce them as soon as fastrucmage by x colle, and a telephone mesange tions wats received from the Secretary of State. Immediately. Then I came out here. I

from the Horse Bazuar arrived almost The changes which this blis prapates to effect are so enormous, ridiculous, and retrograde that I

| here at about twenty minutes to ntoe. The that the members of the Coutell should had quite dead, There were no signs of life at alle think it better sow, on the first reading of the bill, deceased was lying on the rug here on his back, the right of perusing the papers on the subject, clothes, and there were no signs of violence at all

examined the body without removing any. including those received from the Secretary of of State and all other papers appertaining to the The bottle from which the poison had bean" question. · The question of postponament is drunk was here produced. The nick of the only for a month, and the Sanitary Affairs of the | boksie was broken, ka Colony are still entlafactorily fooked after by the Dr. Reid :—There is a little prasato sold left. old Santiary Board, and I think that perhaps | I sakod Mrs. Whitney about the bosile and she business might be facilitated if the postponement said that it had fallen down. asked for be agres to,

His Excellency -Is that seconded? Hon. Dr. Ho Kal -1 beg to sscord it. head and seconded by Dr. Ho Kal-that the His Excellency —I moved by Mr. White consideration of this - bill be postpésed for one"

- Agreed..

BIRTHE- AND DEATHIS-

The nineteenth general meeting of the Straits Insurance Co., Ltd, will be held in Singapore. ** Dividend warrants of the Chlia Mutual Steam-month, Personally I have no objection.

English Mall closes. ship Co., Ltd., ready to-day, NoonMirsadors leaves for London, via-urant

ports of cell, p.m.-Service of Prayer, the Armenian

Atrocities, in the Cathedral.

FRIDAY, 13th Much, Transfer books of the China and Manlia | and done, cria Steamship Co., Ltd, close from this date to the 28th Ins, inclusive.

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in force in Port Arthur and in Klaochau Fox not racaileg a house declared unfit for habitation by The Sanitary Board while it was Bay. Her officers and surveying parties being cleaned a penalty of Bag was imposed by are passing freely through all the country the Polke Magistrate this morning, t lying to the north-west of Kores. Interpreters, as provided by the Secret THE Hall and Holtz Company, of Shanghai, are Treaty, are on board Russian warships, reported to have definitely decided to open a Every movement of Rusala and of the branch house at Tientsin this spring. Mr. Rusdan forces since October last points Jacques will be the local representative of the The to the existence of some such arrangement, firm. and is only comprehensible on the supposition of its existence.

The Han Attorney General moved, the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the late valating to the registration of Blythe and Diotht.

This was seconded by the Hon. Trasanter

·· RECOND⋅ READINGS.

Men. Whitney, re-called, stated that she did not sou Dr. Whitney open the paritat ; she heard. him open 14. - Sủa hạd thought; it was s and did not sen the bottle till he put it on the packet of cigarettes, She was holding a paper, mantel-plece. The winess had taken it up and dropped It Dr. Whitney had sald-I have taken a bottle of prassic acid." She did-nat belleve him, and thought he was trying to frighten her, but he said he had, and that was the last he said. The bottle, was empty when witness took it up.

Dr. Reid (continuing)—I wag shown that bottle. I asked Mrs. Whitney what he had taken. She said hydrochloric acid. I did not think that could be the thing, and asked for the battle. The bottle was, shown me and I saW The Hon. Altorney General moved the second that it was penarie neid. reading of the But entitled An Ordinance to The Coroner :—Au Cvetesinszy surgion woula prevent doubts as to the validity of documents || he have prussid Kold ? N Court of Admiralty of Hongkong phi heretofors sealed with the Seal of the Colonial: Di, Reld --Yer, probably for poisoning dogs,

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SMALL-PON has Lean very prevalent of late In | The When the "Eminent Person? Arzt | Tokla, and threatens to Incréass in-virulence. and bottled by ourselves, thus saving al inter-wired to The Times that journal declared. The rinderpest, however, seems to have died out mediate profits, and enabling us to apply the the news to be of the utmost gravity, completly in Toklo-fi, no fresh case baring best growths at MODERATE PRICES,

[-demanding the most carnést considersilon | dein exported sloes the toth ultimo, !