#'oday's vertisements.
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL. HE Company's Steamship
THE
" ACHILLES,"
Captain Harver, will be, despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 16th lastast, at Daylight.
For Freight er fastige. apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Hanukang, reth July. 96.
Agents.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
"LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAL
HE Steamship
ΤΗΣ
"CHEFOO,"
Гобл
Captain Pennefather, will be despatched on
FRIDAY, the 17th instant, at 10 AM.
For Freight or Passzer, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agente.
Hangbang, seth July, 1806.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1896.
Intimations.
In another part of this issue there will be found DR. a mont interesting report of Dr. Yersin% ̧ visit to For COAST PORTI, Waters are packed and | Amoy. The iesmed specialist has, according placed on board'ship at Hongkong prices, and | to this report, cured upwards of twenty plague she full amount allowed for Pakages and Empties | patients with his serum and was beseeched by when-received in good order.
the natives to prolong his stay at Amoy in order that others might beneft by his wonderful remedy,
Counterfall Order Books supplied on application. Our Registered Telegraphic Address is "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG,"
By the Douglas "Ilner* Halian from Coast ports this morning, we learn that the coelle
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PERSIN'S GREAT REMEDY"
FOR BLACK PLAGUE.
(From our own Correspondent.)
Amov, Joly 13ib,
I wized you yesterday to the effect that Dr. Verslay the distinguished French Specialist, had" cured upwards of twenty plague pallents with his serum, and I now have the pleasure to confirm that report.
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The Doctor amrived here by the Empress of
And all signed messages addressed thus will trouble bad onded by the 13th, and that H.MS radio a low days ago, and immediately called
receive prompt attention.
The following is a List of Waters always kept ready in Stock:-
PURE AERATED WATER, SODA WATER,
LEMONADE,
POTASH WATER, ^
SELTZER WATER,
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LITHIA WATER,
SARSAPARILLA WATER,
TONIC WATER,
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW, "THE Company's Steamship
"
"HAITAN,"
Captain Roach, will be despatched is the above Ports on FRIDAY, the 17th instant, at Noan.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers, Hongkong, 15th July, 1806..
For31 NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP AND THE Steamship
RAILROAD COMPANIES,
"EVANDALE,"
Captain W. Buyers, saillag at Daylight on 'SUNDAY, the 19th lnstant, will proceed to VICTORIA, B.C., and TACOMA, Wash., vid KOBE and YOKOHAMA..
For further Particulars, see regular Northern Pacific Advertisement.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,
General Agents.
Hongkong, 15th July, 1806.
#X:34
FOR SHANGHAI AND WLADIVOSTOCK,
HE Steamship
THE
"DAPHNE,"
Captala J: Samube, will be despatched for the shove Parts on WEDNESDAY, the 22nd ist., * 4 P.M.
For right or Passage, apply to "
SIEMSSEN & Co. slo mokoma, 15th July. ##n6,
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
THE
Steam:lip
"PYRRHUS,"
Captain Batt, will be despatched as above on
MONDAY, the 27th histant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, veta fuly, 1806)
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED,
(x133
FOR PORT DARWIN QUEENSLAND PORTS, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.
HE Steamship
THE
"CHANGSHA," I. E. Williams, Commander, will be despatched DAY TUESDAY, the 28th instant, at 3 P.M.
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Sapelor Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The First-class Salmon is altasied forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provisions during the entire
voyage.
A duly qualified Surgeon is carried and the Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light. | For Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 15th July, 1806.
Patinations.
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DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
LONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
IMPLE AERATED WATER
SIMPLE
SODA
'INGER- ALK.
WATER.
LEMONADE.
SARSAPARILLA.
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GINGER ALE,
GINGERADE.
No Credit given for Bottles that look dirty or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of containing Aerated Waters, as such Bottles are never used again
by ns.
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YESTERDAY afternoon, Carl Farke, the second officer, of the Danish steamer Ash, was taken suddenly ill, supposedly from sunstroke. Medical assistance was at once summoned, and he was ordered to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital, Before he could be moved, however, and Just after 6 o'clock, he expired, and his body was removed to the Mortuary,
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
·SHANGHAI AND, NOWTH-CHINA.
We are indebted to our Shanghai exchanges for the following ems :-
Chinese report yooo Russian soldiers in Mongolia !
A Chloese telephone company is being formed
at Soochow,
| JAPAN TIDAL WAVE RELIEF FUND.
Mr. Jackson begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the above Fund.:-- Subscriptions already acknowledged .....$3.410
Since recalved:
J. W. C.........
J. M. E. Machado .......................................
A. Ja da Roza.........
J. W. Kew & Commisemission
A Chloese woman in Pootung was recently | Capt. C. V, Lloyd.......... killed by lightning.
St. Louis Cathedral, Peking, bas an organ built entirely in China.
Highwaymen are causing a reign of terror la many parts of Shantung.
Dr. Dougall, Dr. Wingate, and the French Coal to ascertain where and how he could efficacious in the case of a youth at Canton, in experiment with the serum which had proved so
into whose legs It was injected and who very son recovered from a severe attack of bubonic plague.
Dr. Wingate (took Dr. Yersin to the Chioase Hospital, where there was one case of supposed bubonic plague. The
showed no symptoms of the plague. His temperature WAE for the day before Dr. Yersin saw him, and too the day the Doctor called. Since then Dr. | A нour paper says :—The Queen will pay ali Yersin(for{whom I have acted as interpreter here) the expenses of Li Hong-chang's contemplated has been constantly asked to see plaque patients visit to England, as he will appear thers us añ at all hours of the day and night, and, as he was Envoy-extraordinary ; but rooms will be taken at first living in the Hotel on the island of Room for him in one of the first-class West End hotels, langsoo, he decided that it would be advisable to and he will not occupy any suite of rooms at semove to the mainland and put up in the Hos Buckingham Palace. According to precedentpital there. The Committee of the Hospital gladly he takes the rank of Prime Minister on a | agreeing to this, Dr. Yersin was soon installed'in semi-official visit,
falzly comfortable quarters and practically in the thick of the epidemic,
THE new Russian troopakio Verones, Captain Andrelf, which arrived at Singapore on, the yih instant, left Odesss on the and June, conveying a large contingent of Cossacks for Vladivostock, besides nearly 200 sallers for the Russian A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. Pacific Squadron, together with quantity
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Within war material.
very short Hongkono, 4th July, 1R06.
fetime, in addition to the above, one cruiser
snd three transports have left Oders with to the city. relis and rolling-stock, and a vast
The
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Hongkong Celegraphy of galilson stores. Abortier panty of to yesterday, the tath Jely, Dr. Venis had cured
HONGKONG, WIDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1896,
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
-AMERICAN POLITICS.
LONDON, July 13th. A number of notable democrats, being alarmed at the decision of the Chicago Convention to elect Mr. Bryan, who is a most extrame Sülverite, ste rallying and Mr. McKinler, who now declares strongly in favour of a gold standard.
LI HUNG-CHANG,
During his stay at the Hospital he was ever and non asked by Chinese to attend to plague cases in the Hospital, and very often went to the rest dences of those who were sullering from this terribly fatal disease. No trouble seemed too great for the Doctor, who frequently got out of his bed at night to apply his remedy to patients
It affords we infinite plessure to state that up
Red Cross nurses has also left Odessa for the upwards of trously authenticated cases of plague. For Eart. The Veronar did a fraction over
He takes with him from here a report of the, various cases dealt with-men, women, 20 knots on her trial on the Clyde,
and children—and will, no doubt, fully endors Two Chinese householders were to-day prote-what I have stated if you took him up when he eated before Captala Hastings for refusing to arrives in Hengkang by the Haliam, obey the orders of the Sanliary Board in putting their premises in proper sanitary condition. The defendants were before the Court a week previously, and on statement of Mr.
the
McCallam that the Board preferred to have the work done to having the men fined, were remanded. To-day, however, they sgala admitted that the work had not been done. They were fined $15 each, and ordered to have the work completed by the 22nd. If not completed, they The cholera epidemic in Egypt is decreasing, would be liable to a $10 penalty for every day
Li Hong-chang has arrived at Paris,
CHOLERA. IN EGYPT.
and no fresh cases have occurred amongst the until it was properly done. British troops.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
NO CASTS OF PLAGUE TO-DAY Í
H.M.S. Redpole returned from Amoy to-day, A MEETING of the Sanitary Board will be held
Co-morrow at 4.15 p.m.
A SYDNEY paper is our authority for stating that the P. and O. Co, have in hand two vessels specially constructed for the Anglo-Angalian Hive-cattle trade.
THE 5th Northumberland Fusiliers on their way home, in November or December, will drop 500 men at Gibraltar to join the 1st Battalion, which Is to be stationed there. The paper bringing out the 1st Battalion Northumbed Fasillass from Aldershot to Gibraltar will pick
He leaves here, with the Chinese assistant geon of the Hospital, fourteen bottles of his scrum, as well as one of h's syringes and has taught the surgeon-in-charge how to inject It.
The Chinese are so pleased with the success achieved by Dr. Yersin that they forwarded a memorial to him to-day begging him to stay and effect more cures, but as he has no more serum with him no uscial purpose could be served by his remaining here and he therefore leaves to-morrow by the Hattan for Hongkong and
Saigon.
The leading Chinese of this port are having a handsome memorial tablet prepared to commemorate the remarkable achievements of Dr. Yersin.
refused to accept payment for his services, either It is noteworthy that Dr. Yerula absolutely
here.
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ng the fat Battalion 14th (West Yorkshire) Regiment at that station and take them straight | from rich or poor, and he has not even charged on to Hongkong. The trooper then picks up the for his travelling expenter or bost hire while 1st Battalion Rife Brigade at Hongkong and takes them down to Singapore, taking on the After dropping the too men there, the remainder and Northumberlands, as stated, ta Gibraltar. with the headquarters of the and Battalion go on to England, and will, according to the Stralis Frie Prisi, zo inia garrison' at Portland.
BEWARE OF SALADS]
Health
THE China Gansits understands that the much. talked-of Scots Volunteer Company at Shang- bal-klited-is now an accomplished tact, and DR. MIDDLETON, the Municipal the master tall is a particularly strong ane.
Officer of Singapore, in his report for May By kind permission of Major Retallick and that twenty-six cases of enteric fever were notified as occurring in the month, with 31 deaths, including European. He adds, inter alia, that he feels it his duty to repeat the warning of the rise attaching to the use of salads and uncooked vegetables at any time, and especially during the pre- valence of enteric fever and cholers. Consider- Ing the manner in which these vegetables are cultivated, the doubtful partly of the water in which they may be washed, and the hands through which they pass before they reach the table, the risk of their becoming vehicles for the conveyance of infection in considerable.
Officers the Band of the Hongkong Régiment will play in the Public Gardens on Saturday next from 5 to 7.15 p.m. (wasther permitting). ME. FREDERICK FISHER, who has been for some time an assistant balilff in the Supreme Court, has been appotaled a Sanitary Inspector
place of Inspector Moffatt deceased. entered on his dutler la-day.
He
THE San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has adopted an address, on the 20th ultime, to be sent to the various commercial bodles of the Parific Coast relative to legislation for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.
THE Consular Reports published by the State Department are of great value to the export trade of the country, says the New York Martiima Register. These reports are set, to be sure, so fall, so good, nor so often published as they might be, yet they contain information that could ba turned to much advantage by American mann.
THUSthe Sydney Bullitt-Alter H.M.S. Kar rákatta towed the yacht Sunbeam out of the mud at Hobait, and rendered other valuable services to her zoble owner-serwices which, at least,facturers and merchants. It is, according to our New York contemporary, for them to point out to were worth £200-Governor Brassey sent ou
the State Department the defects in there reports, board Lic. £10 among go old men-say half-n- | for that Department has every intention to make crown each. Magnificenti
them trustworthy and beneficial to trade. Much depends upon our Consular Service in the
made really advance agents of American trade,
grantes, usefulness than even spscfally employed men sent out to adranes individual interests."
Wren a view to increasing the volume of export
We learn that Mr. A. H. Rennie, whose increasing of our export trade. Conents can be
RASPBERRYADE, &C. American horse Halfjax wax, sccording to a
para in a local contemporary, 'to have run s "play or pay" match with Mr. Graham's Australian horse Egerton on Friday next, has
DR. VERSIN INTERVIEWED, Dr. Yerin called on as to-day on his return from Amoy pes Halian. He has treated there twenty-three plague parlents in all. Of these, two were in the last stages of the disease when he www them and all remedier Wera useless. He
Both died. Fifteen of the remaining twenty-one nevertheless made injections, but without success.
may be saldțto be completely cured of the plague, and convalescent They have only to fear the ordinary risks, attendant on recovery from the disease. The other six are not yet out of danger, but all their symptoms have improved by the administration of the serum, the lover largely
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Shanghal at one sweep. Eighty-four gamblers were recently arrested.
After many delays, official sanction has been granted to mine in Kirin Province,
All the Shanghal native officials called on the U.S. Consul-General on the 4th July. spected by the Total on the rat inst."
The Shanghai Dalive fire hilgade was in«
The native press expect the speedy arrival of slx Chinese torpedo boats in Shanghai.
Madame Victoria Ferry recently gave concert in Shanghai, assisted by amateurs,
Dr. van Tunselmann Ir abbot to start a hospital, with English-speaking attendants, at Cheloo,
A Censor has suggested to the "Son of Heaven" a Imperial lottery ana means of raising
TETENDO. -
Chow Total of Amay captured feasteen pirates in one day recently in Hsing Fu prefecture.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN
HONGKONG. »
[Singapore Free Press, July 7th.]
Our special telegram from Hoogkong pester- day announced that grent public disappolatment had been felt upon the contents of Mr. Cham berlain's expected despatch, on the subject of the consiliation of the Legislative Council, becoming generally knows is that colony. For several years past, sad no wander, the people of Hongkong, a colony which has practically little to concern itself beyond urban administration have found the present system of government as gelling more and more out of touch with the inhabitants as regards the more pressing needs of the place, Sanitation, water-supply, drainage, the prevention of overcrowding, and the finding room for the expansion of the city of Victoria Itali were all matters upon which the public and the It is stated that the royal treasures and ancient public press, as well as the unofficial members of works of arts stored in the Korean royal castle | the Legislative Council, have from time to tima have all been stolen.
challenged the executivé Government ; und, as a It is reported in Seoul that the Japanese Go-sule, impartial observers would affirm, with sound vernment had decided to give Korsa five million yea out of the indemnity obtained from China
The Province of Klangsu has so many "expectant" officials that the Governor has petitioned the throne not to award any more for been figrant Instance of a buncfal "* | rebrisgrade policy. Public opinion was certało. two years.
ly with the old Board when it claimed that The Chanceller' of Shaval, in the recent frien-its own medical officer should be responsi nial examinations in that Province, completely ble to the Board alone and not to the non-plussed his students by asking them where Goremment. As an instrument of munie!. Rusia was !
pal administration, limited though its sequa and pawers may have bees, the Sunitary Board, as originally constituted, was of great value to the public, in the absence of a fully empowered Municipal Commission."
Its saw character,
The King of Korea has decided to erect an arch outside the West Gate of Seoul, to com- memorate the independence of Korea, from all faielga domination.
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JAPAN AND KOREA. We take the following items from Eles of our Japanese exchanges dated to the 5th lust,-.
The population of Osaka is 483,177. Oska
Another beer factory is to be started near
reason and good cause. The emasculation of the Hongkong Savitary Beard by the cutting ont of its necessary proportion of unofficial members
The natives of Chungking are said to Emachalicred for the worse, has, in effect, deprived tha exercised over the disposst of the graves which public in Hongkong of the only real guaranted now occupy the shie of the new Japanese con-
they had that, in the matters that mest closely cession. A Shanghal contemporary heads a
concerned them-sanitation, water supply, and pira. on the subject. "Grave talk at Chang- the like-the public eplalons and latercuts would be duly recognised and respected. Theirksome- king!"
ness of the sheet official system at Hongkong- more in fact ilke that to be looked for la a French than in a British colony-led nearly two years ago to a strong effort being made by the people of Hongkong ta interest the Colonial Office In their affairs and persuade it to provide soma constitutional reforms calculated to bilag the Government talo more direct sympathy with the wants ofthe Hongkong public. The instrument by which It was sought to stir up the Colonial Office to action in the desired direction Was a petition to the House of Commons- praylog for subject 19 fonal checks now fo
the constiin. fesce-"the free election of representatives of Biltish nationality in the Legislative Council of the colony;
Conocli of such elected majority in the representatives; perfect freedom of debate for ing to their conscientious conviction without the Official Members, with power to vote accord-
being called to account or endangered in their tonguetions by their votes; complete control by the
The railway between Osaka sind Kioto is being doubled.
The Dutch'steamer Sindoro has been sold, to
the Mitaal Bassan Kalsha.
A company to manufacture telegraph wire has been started in Yokotams,
The value of land in Kelung has increased ten-fold sluce the conquest.
The Mitani family havacontributed yen 10,000
to the tidal wavo relief fund,
Four hundred Japanese recently left for Queensland by one steamer!
A conversation book in the Formossa has been published in Taipeh.
There is a project on look to start a Korena bank with a capital of $100,000.
Danjaro, the Henry Irving of Japan, was slightly wounded lately while acting.
A school for teaching the Japanese language has been opened in Talpeb, Formosa,
A payable gold mine is reported to have been discovered in the neighbourhood of Robe.
A Japanese coal company is buying a number of twelve-knat boats to carry its products.
The Yokohama Specie Bank is reported to be about to open a branch office in Hongkong.
During the hall year ending June 30th over ten million passengers used the Tokio frame.
The inhabitants of Meji are clamouring to have that post thrown open to foreign trade.
The Emperor and Empress of Japan have sent $14,000 to the destitute in Iwate province,
Between Jonë tat, 1895, and May 31st, 1895,
expected to leave Japan early this month for his Colonel Denby, U.S. Minister to China, was
all
Council over local expenditure ; the management of local affairs; and consultative voice in questions of an Imperial character." That programme, of course, went very far beyond what of local self-government would have degree been implied in the popularising of the Sent- try Houd, or, betier silti, Its conversion into a Municipality proper, with a corresponding retrenchment of Government officesin Hongkong, The c-nstitutional changes were too great in 800 Brillah subjects to be the sole electorate of themselves to be quite Justified by the claim of
population of nearly two hundred and filly skonsand. In the election of a Municipality this the validity of a ratepayer to be a municipal difficulty would not have obtruded tacit, because
elector is not limited by any question of nationality. As 1 mailer of fact, the desirable and really workable principia
diminished, with consciousness restored where reduced, and the bubonic swellings considerably 66,983ibe of raw silk were axported from Kob throughout the Empire would be municipal it had been lost. The Doctor is perfectly satisfied with the result of his visit to past. Amoy and with the complete success that has By storm on the 2nd June, great damage attended his efforts. He visite Canton to-night Islands,
was done to many of the villages to the Loochee and to-morrow and will return in a few days to
The Japanes Government has «decided, to Saigon, his supply of serum being exhausted. band over the Formosan railways to a private He informe us that it takes six monība to prepare company. properly; that from each horse he can obtain eight difraz of serum monthly, and that it will keep good in tropical climates for about twelve
months.
AMOY NOTES,
THE COOLIE TROUBLE.
(From our own Correspondent.)
AMOV, July 13th. The coolle trouble reported briefly by wire ön in some respects of equal, le oiber respects of the 13th arose through a change of coolle con- tractors. For about 30 or 40 years all the foreign Arms of this port have been engaging coolles from
864,02 towards the Rellel Funds now open all Six native Japanese newspapers have collected over Javan.
The Japanese cable steamer Okinawa Maru was to begin laying the Japan-Formoss cable
carly this month.
The Central Relief Fund (Japanes) has already sent yen 60,000 to the districts ravaged by the tidal wave.
The French cruiser Alger, with a scientific party to observe the eclipse of the sun, left
Yokohama on the rst inst
Chinese are sald to be on board the Tora Mars, Fifty million dollars of the indemnity paid by which is now on her way back to Japan. Mill, Tokio, average 26.5 sen per day, while in
| Wages in- the Kanegafuch! Cotton Spinning
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that is to say Legislative suffrage, only by British suffrage for all who qualify by cheamatances of ocenpation and payment of males; Imperial,
In various subjec's of the Imperial Act. minar colonies, owing in the overlapping of Legislative and Municipal funcitons, in the local Councils, the theoretical distinction Indi- cried kbuvo es ihat most desbable in principle, does not apply in practice. To the somewhai as well as to the markedly small consituency. wholesale claim of the Hongkong memorial, fo ho served thereby being less than half of the vety smallest Parliamentary confluency at home, is due, we think, the practical refusal of Mr. Chamberlain to commit himself to what would be put to him by the permanent officials the Colonial Ofice as a very large order indeed. We have a suspicion that the Hongkong people had gone tooth and pall for Mabicipality with fairly full power such
as exlits ́berè, and, shunted the smaller.
at the same time for the moment the dabai- question of Santiary Board reform, dropping able politieailakoes opened up by the Petition to the House of Commons and by Mr.
Whitehead's address to the Colonial party, it
made under the constant supervision of a daly | written to Mr. Grabam to notify him that business kom San Francisco to Japan the board a certain gulid and paying raten fixed by a v817 | Osaka millá the average is a little above 13 son, would have been difficult for Mr. Chamberlain
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Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESKIS and other Large Consumers.
Any complaints should be addressed to the Manager. Hongkong uit May, 1806.
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The Water used, la proved by reported Annisben is bé Avilately Parto
Halifax will not face the starter,
of trustees of the San Francisco Chamber of ancient tariff. The "Talkos" (Butterfield & Swire) THE body of the murdered Chiness detective Commerce has decided to make an effort to bong decided to refuse to conilius payment in was interred this afternoon at Kohlchin, East enlist the co-operation and support of the Sanccordance with the old tariff, and through one Polat, large number of Police being Francisco Board of Trade in sending to Japan of the Chinese employdı - engaged' other In attendance. It Eas been learned that a commercial commissioner, whose buat cealles. The result was a collision between the | immediately after doing the shooting the murkness it will be to seek out markets for rival guilds, Intimidation, and threats to attack |
the ssis of articles · manufactured in Frisco the Talkoo. The row between the guilds went derer took a nampan at the Frays, landed at and to advise as to what openings there on for four days and nights, and at inst the Bri Yau-ma-ll, and at once cleared off over the hills, may be in that country for the establish- tigh Consul, owing to the fatimidation of the and through the barrier masking the boundary of ment and profitable conduct of maniacturing old guild and danser to the Talkoo promises, Chingre territory. Since then no trace of his industries. It is proposed to support this agens salked the Captain of the Redfels to land a with the subscriptlady of members of the twe has been found.
party of marines and bluejackets with quick. commercial organizations. The ngent is to
firing goes. This was done and resulted in peace communicate his information to a committee belog speedily restored, representing the subecifbars, and they are first to enjoy any benefits which may, result from the strangement. Eventually, the information from the agent, as it affects the general commercial faterests of San Francisco, will be given in the publies Bo far so good, but why not also have agents in Shanghai, Hongkong, and the Straits Bettlements?
MEMORANDA, TO-MORROW,-16th July. American mail das.
11 Km.-English Mail closes. Noon-Piskawwr salle for London. 4.15 p.m.-Meeting of the Sanitary Board, 9 p.m.--Meeting of Perseverance Lodge.
FRIDAY-- Jaly.
10a.m. Summary Court,
SATURDAY, 18th July. French mail dus.
The Transfer Books of the H.K., C, and Macio
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STRAFTS AND RAM,
Williamson's circus is now in Achsen, was 55.87.
The mortality rate in Singapore last month
bear Bangkoke
Two Chinese wars sccently killed by a train
to find reasons for denying to Hongking wha Slogapore possesse,
What basnow happened te thiti Major-Geral Black, Commanding, Hongkong, has been added We call the following items from our Bing to the Legislativa Council and a second un official Chinese member in addition to Dr. Ha porn and Bangkok exchanges ----
Kai lu to be airo introduced into the Council. The balance is to remain as it is, the Majore General Commanding being an official and the unofficial element receiving Chloese, not-a Belilah representative. Undoubtedly this ders not remotely satisfy the aspirations of the refo:m party in Hongkong. It rather, ws abould say, emphasises the fact that the concessions they prayed for have been considered and Kaya been practically rejected. This decision, In short, leaves the case for the petition in woTHE plight than had the claims, not yet keen kons).
The District Magistrate of Selama recently kila a sambas sing weighing 270 caste
Moonlight concerts in the Pebile Gardens are one of the pleasant features of Singapore life.
The export of rica from Rangoon to the Straits The Reddol leaves to-morrow, and it is and China is this year nearly double that of last rumoured that when she has gone the old coolle year. guild will attack their competitors. Time will soon akow.
THE FLAQUR KPIDEMIC.......
At Kwala Kangsar, on the 19th May, adued. The position in fact is almost that of it hot for them if they create serious trouble ruce.
Anyhow we are all ready to make buffalo gave birth to twins a very rare occur« | res judicato's and although it is yet possible, in the futers, to reopen the questions urged near the foreign bangs.
The New Harbour Dock Company, Bings- in Jhe petition, the faci thai what amounts pore, has just completed's new steamer for the to an adveno deciston baying bern Stralis pradd.
siready delivered must tend to discourage The Perak Government are offering $100 fature agitation UI that be merely directed alops reward for the death of a man-szting tiger now the lines already indicated. The only real gala frombling them.
bytte le that the Major-General has not only, as before Twelve Eastern cadetships are open for come to attend Executiva Council, but by entering the
The number of deaths from plague during the past four months is stated to have been inlly 5,000-all natives,
At present the death rate is abent au to to not get from reliable sources.
Steamboat Co., Ltd., closed from this date wounded mèn are'now out of the hospital, and 'dally in the city." The up-country returns I can petition 'this' yentiping for the Straits and Legislativa Connell he will be acquiring that'
to the 31st inst., Inclusive. p.m.-By kind permission of Major Retallick and Officers, the Band of the Hongkong Regiment will play in the Publis Gardena –
SUNDAY, 19th July,
Tacoma mali'dety,
Ar the Magistracy 'yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Kastings, Peter Greenwald, second enginner on the German steam Martha, was charged on remand, with shipolig two coolles. Both their evidence went to show that on the aeth
Malay Peninsula. MEANS TEEMA column familiesity with the course of local administras A. Judicial Commlioner for Parak with low which will be useful to him whmavar ke May there was a general row on the boat between coolies, and during the disturbance the second engineer fired his revolver nitongst the rowdiese correct. The natives have given the Japanese has just been gezetted.
The repart about a sévolt in Formosa is qulie | powers equal to those of a Colonial Chief cation, chat, as in now areshged, become Acting
Governor. Otherwise--for an additional Chinese, The defendant was committed for trial, ball a great deal of trouble" and "many have been "To check in some degree the importation of member is a marely nominal conessaloniki, bring downdal Mr. Mogungy proseduried und | idlled in action on both sides... Wil send parti- counterfact slipes' cola; dio the Dutch posses" | "Chamberlain's despatch will be mere Deed Sen Mr. Bowley dalended) Tala delsson was reserved, i ostars in a day or two:
sons, paper currency is bein
i fruft to the Ropes of Houghou
·RIKING INʼFORMOSA.
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