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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1896.

is not wriiking under the sense of inheritza or | to leave Entops without visiting England, digradation, "However well you may cost the the other great Empire with which China þar pill with sugar, the servitude which trg Indlan | had important and friendly relations for so long soldier is called upon to restores in Egypt, and a period, and I have accordingly extended my be tax which the ryot is made to pay lye the talesian. It would be a breach of diplomalle benefit of Lancashire neo bitter boles to swallow. etiquete to define precisely that mission or its The snobbishness which writes down the British objects to any one but your Foreign Minister, subject of the fadian portion of the Empire but I may say that it has no higher object than as an outcast in the Colonlar, is another to attract the sympathy of England to Chius." act of unwisdom which will have to dis- In these words the distinguished Chinese states to-morrow raun, now our guest, summed up the origin and appear balore the Empire of

be perfected. Acts like these keep motive of his visit to this country. Applying | three_hundred millions of the members of the principle of the interpreter's expansion to the Emplie from joining bands and hearts | Li Hung-chang'i vague description of his misalon with the rest in the work of crowning that as an inquiry for sympathy, there need ba na

NORTH BORNEO NOTES.

The Court of Directors having received in detall the news of the late disturbance at Kantsgow and its settlement has been pleased officers concerned; especially of Mr. E. H. to express its approval of the conduct of all the Barraut, on whom great responsibility rested, and of Mr. F. F. Wise, who postponed his forlough for the public service.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

HONGKONG BUXIGHT MARKET,

Hongkong. September 10th, In helt Freight· Circular Issued to day Mexers Lamke and Rogge write —

has not changed dusleg the fortnight, Rates, The general poslilea of our freight market both for steam and for sall, contique exceedingly low.

THE BONG LIONG" IN DIFFICULTIES.

Dews

WIE

THE EMPIRE OF TO-MORROW.

No excuse to needed for reproduclog the excelicat arilcle contributed by Mr. M. M. Bhawnaggree, M.F., ick the monthly aeview To-morrow, It will be noticed that though a staunch Conservative, this distinguished Indian statesman das felt the time has come to echo what stiff-necked Conservatives toolbbly style the empty verblage of misguided Radicals and the leakage from tha safaty-valves of; "orqulet splifts →→

Not the wildest imagination, writex Mr. Browpaggreé, var the most vangulas wish at a g¤/ficent edifica, No bawer of the Empire of / doubt in accepting the fallowing practical addfilon menco from Sipitong in tal monsoon with the handy sized boats are wanted for promptes Fripp this morning, and the vessel, which hadius- Paulotic mind, could have forecast with accuracy three hundred years ago either the extent or the Importance of this great Empire of "ours gyer, which the Union Jack floats today in all the comp and pride of undisputed avereignty. Its boundaries stretch from sunitre unto sunrise; its myrlad peoples, differing from each other la

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to-morrow can help pointing out the direction in which it werkoers lies at the present day. Bat God's blessing rests upon her; the spirit bas zone forth among her childros, eating upon

thens to be welded exch and us

"into one (perial whole,

Ona with Baitsin, heure and soul,, One life, one day, one foot, ona "trone"

The other officers concerned were Mr. Joseph G. G. Whertley and Mr. C. V. Thomas.

The constraction of the Padas Raliway han been commenced and lu being actively pushed on hom Bakan, it being found difficult to com-

prezent arrangements for landing there.

An unfortunate nativó was taken by a croco- close to Mr. Wolfe's building alle, Sandakan. dlie three or four days ago in two feet of water, His cries for help were heaitrending-and-some hopes of fightsaine the teollie to release ble 30 nativen joined in yelling and splashing in the

nales, thought trouble had occurred in the Gol and ran down to the spot as he was, dressed only in bis sarong. He was only able to see

religion, language, habits of life, and modes and I have an unabakeable falth la our Empire these circumstances it is desirable to give carcíalleil, but in valu. Mr, Wolfe, bearing the

of to-morrow, which in the glowing words of Mr. Chamberlain, shall be greater and more lis Interests-distinct and potent for the peace and civilisation of the world

than any that history has ever known."

of though are yel unfied in опе comm sentiment of devoltoo tu mother country. even confileile to many relations llie and commerce is different countries-still needing. mighty protecting hand against foreign attack and internal faciten, and based upon the solid rock of the sense of self-preservation, are confided to the arbitrament of the highest legislature in the realm. It stems as if the forces of nature, the ingennity of state-manship, and the wiadom and valour of man, which are essential to the ballding up of an Emoire, could no farther go, our universal dominion of to-day the and, that

SNAKES.

as the full and real truth of lis import. Li Hong Chang's mlaston to England has the very practical object of obtaining our sanction to the lacrosse of the tariff, and England's sympathy with Chins will be laferred not from verba! protestation of friendship, bat fram her mode of receiving this very practical demand Under consideration to Li Hang-chang's representations. The basis of the tariff is a 5 per cent, daty dd valorem, but when it was signed China was pald in taels of an exchange value of three to a paand, which enabled her to make fair and extensive purchases in the Western muskets, But in the last twenty years all ibis has been radically altered. We are still bound to charge no more than 5 per cent, but when we buy articles abroad we have to remit seventsels fostead of three for each sovereign; or, in other words, the tariff you inrced on us as a war indemnity is only hall as prefactive as it was thought to be by you yourselves. A doubling of only place China in the original position she occapled when Lord Elgia and Prince Kang signed the treaties. At the present moment, It is to be feared that the Chinese staterman is too much persuaded that this matter is one to be settled out of hand, and that we cannot refuse to China what we have actually cooceded to Japan, to think about the necessary compensating The realisation of his view of conditions. abstract justice would be very much facilitated if LA Hung-chang would go out of his way a little to make the subject more attractive from the British point of view. Academically his position is quite sound. It is clear that to obtain it so quickly be will have to honour' our expectations and to meet us with some practical scheme which will show that China is

the poor fellow disappear.

Mat Salleh is again on the war-path and but a sesall following and Mr. Flint, with a good threatening to glwe trouble. He has, however, force of Police, is blackading the Labak up

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which river he has ensconced· hlusself, ward of $700 is offered for his capture.

We note that there are to be two great sabibitions within a few years-Paris in 1900 and. Chicago to 1903. British North Bornea should be represented it only in keep us en

STRAN FREIGHTS -Salgon_brenes-From Selgon to this chartering remains Impracıicable, The demand for tonnage for Singapore, already alluded to in last circular, has been maintained ard has been rather pressing lately; will, as only

loading, fear fixtures only have resulted.

For Java the demand has ceased for the there were enquiries at 15 cents, but, though present. Alter further ebarler af 17 cents steamers were willing to take the business, it could not be brought off

From Bangkok to Singapore some chartering of small stommers is reported to have been done terms less to per cent) There were at one time In the South at 17i/1z8_cente (C. customary orders in this market for tonnage in this direc tlan, which, however, before any charter came to paar, were countermanded, arrivalà of grata Hongkong, the same as heretofors, very small at Bangkok having suddenly fallen off. As for shipments only are gelag forward and the regu lar boats take everything offering at cheap rates, In coal freights there is no change. w. quote $t.co per ton from Mojt to this and $1,75 to Singapore. Notwithstanding these very low. rates the demand cootlones-slack. A imall exiler has plcked no a charter for Minis at

As to Newchwang, it is uncertain vet when the autumn business may commence. As far as the Hongkong and Canton markets are concerned, Importers during the last months have been losing heavily. Naturally they hus do not feel favourably inclined towards speculating on so extensive scale. For the present they decline to offer for forward loading, pending the receipt of more definite news from the producing districts as to the results as the recent sods there. At Amoy it is reported the regular liners have booked a few charters already, for small quan. ties, second-hall October loading, at za cents per picul.

consummation of the mastery of the art of dangerous species look more "wicked" than the the import and export duties will consequently reidence: and we can show coffee, gambler, $1.75, prompt loading at Karaiza,

Empler-rearing had been reached.

Whether in the unknowable possibilities of remote futore another Empire, greater than this, can be raised by some other nation is, however, a question which seed not cancera us. It is ennagh for the present to form a conception of what the great heritage to which we havO succeeded will be to-morrow-say, a century oi two, or three, herce. It will be what we make

, and as we shape It.

It would not be possible within the limits of this bucf aniele to enter at length upon the question of fis delence. It goes without saying that the defence of the Empire at all assailable polats without, as well as within, its farthest boundary ines, should be incessantly main tained as long as Great Britain is to be mistress al berill. No craven fears at fis extent and expansion, and a false niment regarding the so-called rights of blustering countries who are envious of Britain's 'greatness abould hinder us from protecting its frontter on land or by the ses. It is not the loss or abandonment of a few miles of territory that matters, so much as the moral injury that our authority suffers in

consequence of it. I should be, remembered that in mRGY parts of the Fmple the sphere of our way adjolos territory held by semi-clvillend and barbarons peoples. Nor must it be forgotten that within our owa dominions there are Immense districte and provlaces teeming with populations which have to be controlled and governed by a mere handful of British administrators. Any disaster to our arms, however slight, and any exhibition at weakness, from whatever cause, would convey to the miod of communities so situated an ev!- dence of the dacay of oar power, the mischievous results of which no lover of the Empire can regard with equsolmity.

Beyond providing adequate measures for the secarly of the Empire of today, there remains much more to be done for the shaping of the Empire of to-morrow,

A bond of unico of bearts and laterests has to be established throughout all its component parts, and in order to effect the many doubts have to be fought, many articles of political faith reviewed, and many scifices-made. For instance, when 'you come to think that from the markets of the countries which have been conquered by British valour or created by British plack and energy, British trade and British manufacturers are driven out by the competition of the foreign- -er who has had neither part nor lot in the for

mation of our Empire you have an untary sense at once roused in you with regard to your life lang bellef is the virtue of Free Trade. It is violence to your feelings and your creed. Never theless, I! you will courageously mould the Empire of to-morrow to its proper legitimate shape, it you will faen the fact that the United Kingdom and her dependencies are bound by the decree of Providence to contribute to each other's development and supply each other wanis and necessities, you will have to lay low many a spectre which has for years past held your mental faculty lo bondage.

Bat far more than physical defence and com- mercial interchange that which is absolutely essential to the biping of the Empire of to- morrow is the union of hearts. The strength of armies and the bond of commercial and economic interests would avall nothing were not the hearts and minds of the d'fferent com- menities which forms the population of the Emple united by the ties of affection, and con- Gdence, and respect. The soll of the Empire of to-day is doubiless prepared for the healthy growth of that ualon. Justice and Freedom, the rabust common-rense of our statermen, and the affectionate care and sympathy of the revszed Head of the Empire for the's three-score yours past have done their noble work in drawing tbs hearts of men in laving attachment to the throne, which is the freas of the Empire. The past has saught as thany league in this respect :--

Britala fought her nena of yzzom Rrisin falled ; and nevar more. Careless of air growing kin Shall we sin our fathers' sin,”

Yer, that was a grand lesson, which taught these who would rule not to trifle with a people's sense of justice and fair play ; which taught Great Britain the true sit of conserring and developing a growing Emples. But it is not only towards the full-grown children, but dowards the young and the weak as well, that the mother's sympathetic and fond pass should turn if the Empire of to-morrow is to be what very genuine British citizen would itke ti to Now, in that the care? I wish I could Answer this question in the affirmative. Ivagrit to say I cannot. There lasty children of the Empire, Canada and the virions Australian Colonies, arc, no doubt, receiving from the mother country fair treatment. Our Colonies on the continent of Africa have not much of which to complain. But there is one

Now that we are to the midst of what may be styled the "snake season" a few remarks on these interesting reptiles may not be out of place, Almost everyone has a notion that a poisoncos snake can ha distlogulshed by the shape of the head. Some say, 11 it is diamond shaped it is poisonous, while others declare that the harmless ones. How does a snake look wicked? ane might ask and the question would be diffiend to answer. As a matter of fact, no hard-and-fast rais cane lak down to enabls one to acc at a glance whether is members soaks in polsonous or not, el the same genera are barmless and polionons, but differ so slightly in outward form as to be quite ledistinguishable unil sarjected to a mioute lospection. The only sure method of telling a poisonous snake is by an examination of the teeth. If the fangs xie grooved or hollow it is poisonous; If not, then haimless, However, as this means that one has to catch the snake before the examination can take place it will probably not recommend itself to the majority of our readers.

The best method of killing a stake in by a smart blow with a rattan, which will be found a much raste effective weapon than a stick. If ibe' head of the snake can be held down whife the tall is seized and cricked like a whip' death te fustantaneous and the snake is unlajared 140 specimen.

going to prove a better market than it has long the Exspire shall be made more accessible to our

been, and that the toner populous provinces of

manuficiares. Frankness and explicitness on these points will facilitate the realisation of his desires, and at the same time clear WAT those doubts that seem to bave zegghed a firm hold on

The split used for, preserving snakes should the minds of Chinese statesmen as to England's not be to strong at first. The body should be sympathy belog wholly to favour of Japan and pauctored in several places to allow the pre-against China. While the exact administrative servative to penetrate and should then be placed relo ms will await Li Hong-chang'e jetorn to in split' mixed with one-third its volume of Peking. he be already decided two matters water. It should be leit in this for ten days and definitely. China, so far as he can arrange it, la then changed lato fresh spirit of the same to have both a new army and a new navy. Their reagth and after remaining the same length of extent will depend on the settlement of the time in this second mixture it may be placed in tariff question, and on the amount of increased sadilated split and will keep for several years revane China will thus acquire for purposes of without discolouring the fluid. To the last lat military and navel expenditure. of spirit a little carbolle should be added.

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N.B.-This not to be confounded with "snake siortes." It is original mailer and not called from an American paper, Americas papers often relate hair-raising snake-stories, but who ever heard of a paper called Truth published in Yankeeland For good old goseal. truths recourse must be bad to Labouchere's very own Truik, and ln that one never sees anake stories.

THE “ TIMES” AND THE “GLOBE"

ON LI'S MISSION TO EUROPE,

It goes without the saying that our dis singuished visitor has come here to gain, if he cab, says the Giebe, substantial boons for his country. He is understood to be mainly coo cerned in obtaining England's permission to increase the Chinaan tarlif on imports. That Is a perfectly leglifmale request; but, as a practical statesman, Li Hong-chang must res cognize the inevitable fajary to our trade which would result from taxing our manufactures at. higher rates. The quevitan is, therefore, ax to the equivalent he has to offer. In conclusion the *Globa

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that just befarn Lt Huog-chang quitted St Petersborg, he obtained the execution of a treaty creating an offensive and defensive alliance be- tween China and Rasals, and placing the Eastero Empire under the protection of the Western in all things,"

THE DANGERS OF EARTH BURIAL.

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tobacco and hemp that will be hard to beat,

We regret to state that Mr. Valberg. Assistant in the Telegraph service, died at the Lamag Station on the 22nd Aegust. The deceased officer was anxlóns that bis body should be buried at Sandakan, bat exnitary reasons forbade this being done. He was accordingly fatorred with all due respect by Mr. Chinnathemby, in charge of the Sixtion, at a spot near by, the burial service being ready by Mr. Frost, Mr. Valberg was considered an efficient officer and

his friends in Sandakan regret his lose,

The annual report of the Straits Settlements for 1894 the notices three products in which N. Borace and Labuan residents are interested :-

Gambler-The distinctly marked increase in by the better prices obtainable, owing to anticl- the exports of gambier has been largely caused patrol producten, which was not realized, and also to the low exchange. The average local piłce was $8.86 por pical, compared with Gamfacreased quaatitles generally were $7 84 In 1894. exported, notably in Gem Benjamin, Cops, Catch, and Dammar, and to lesser extents, in Rubbers, Sticklec, and Vegetable Tallow, The decreases are small and unimportant.

Coal-Imports la quantity are in excess of former years, but a decilue of 30,000 tons noted from the United Kingdom. Bornce, Calcutta, and Australls sent increased quantiles, the former country in particular, whlia Japan Imperis. WATO much the same 1994-North Borneo Herald..

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

- MAILS DUK : Tacoma (Victoria) to-morrow, French (Calidondan) tath last.. American (Paru) 12th lost. Canadian (Emrest of Japan) 16th Inst. Autralian (Austrakan) sand fast. Aneelena (Coptic) 23rd inst. Tacoma (Olympia) 4th prox.

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THEP. &.0. S. N. Co.'s steamer Masagon lekt Stagspore for this port at 3 p.m. yesterday.

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Tær N. G. 1. steamer Bisagno left Bumbay for this port yesterday, and may be expected here on or about the 27th insi.

THE Imperial Germas Mall Uner Bayire left Shanghai for this port, via Foochow, at 3 am, to-day, and is due here on or about the 14th last. stīdaylight.

THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer

Empress of Jahan arrived at Nagasaki at 6 day and let at 4pm. for Hongkong,

của Sheaghi..

Singapore, September 3rd, The anxiety which was felt for the safety of the steamship Hong Liong, Capt. Fripp, which Swatow, the steamer basing left for Singapore was five or six days overdue from Amoy and on or about the 10th ult, bas now been set at rest, the steamer "Perdana,

that she morning bringing at anchor at Kuala Kuantan, the steamer meeting with strong winds and currents and having put in there owing to her coal supplice having run out. The passengers and crew were all safe according to a letter received from Capt.

tvloed no damage, reached Kuantan about the Perdana left, the How LEDER WAY 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, When taking to supplies of

firewood and pected to leave for Singapors eliber this afternoon or to-morrow moralog. Mesra Wee Bin & Co., the agents of the vessel, aro, steamer Rudy with a supply al coal to meet however, meklog arrangements to send the the Hong Long, the Ruby leaving this afternoon. As showing the straits to which

Tessel the

WAI reduced for

fael sup- plies it is rumoured that a portion of the Hong Elong's forecastle fiillaga had to be used to keep the engines going, but fortunately there was no lack of food or water on board,

How to gain Flesh and Strength.-Take after rich meil, shout a tableanoonful of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophos- phites. It is almost as' palatable as mille and easily digested. The rapidity with which delicate chlidren and sickly pennle suffering from weakness and wasting disease Imarove and thrive upon this diet is truly marvellous. Asa remed int Consumption and Throat Affections and Bronchitis is unequalled by any other preparation in the world. Any Chemlit can Empire of China Watkins & Co, Hong- supply it.Sola Agents for Hongkong and the kong Adul

Intimations.

NOTIC E.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF

41 COMMERCE.

the MEMBERS of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE =1!! be held on THURSDAY, the 17th September Instant, at 3.30 P.M.. in the CHAMBER ROOMS, CITY HALL, for the Purposes'at':-

On monthly basis we have four settlements to report, with the exception of the charter of the Singapore account and that of the Wuotan, Afsarade, which bost has been taken up for chartered to do a telp to Maurities and back. A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of renewals, at lower rates, el engagements that those steamers are now under. The figures | speak for themselves. It should be mentioned at the same time that only through being shoroughly suited to the local trade's requires ments, and through their having, at considerable expears to ownert, obtained a Hongkong passenger certificate, have these boats succeeded scotlog their respective charters. There are still some steamers, smali and, large, not so. equipped, laid up, here and in the north, willeg

for better times, on the other hand, and this is a

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Protesting against the nclfos of the Tele- graph Companies in suddenly raising their Rates for Europe and America 371% and 43.16 % respectively;

and Nominating a Member of the Chamber for appointment to the Legislative Council. With reference to the laiter, any Member haring Candidate to prapore will please communicate with the Secretary on or before Noor of MONDAY, the rath September, in order that the necessary arrangements for ballot may be made.

By Order,

sigelficant fact, which we have pleasafe in re- ending; not a few owners have qalte recently faced the inevitable and taken what low home rates are to be gat. For several boats that have been doing cost service charters have been arranged from Java ports, Cafenite and Sing- apore. Another good number of gleamers has gone or will shortly be gaine across the Pacific to lead for home from the West coust. Almost without an excention all these are big carriers, In some lostances very big ones, and the China coast trade will not miss them. The sooner the amount of tonnage be`reduced to what may be termed a reasonable propartlen to ordinary coast-charter requirements, the roager li may he hoped to see freights back to a level somewhatTING & SHAREHOLDERS in the abovs

satisfactory to owners anyhow.

SAIL-PREICHTS:—For New York, tonnage is offering in abundance, and the fixture dailbg the formight of the Wm. 7. Rotch for the November/December loading exemplifies this season's" unremunerative state of f. rights and shown a farther considerable drop in rates. The present disturbances in Manila make it all the more likely that local charterers will have it all their own way this year, and at present, Indications polot to a further decline. The Wm. H. Connor has arrived from Shanghai and is now completing loading.

For Baltimore the El Capitan will load at |Nagasak! and this port under a charter closed in America. The Helen Breuer, chartered In the same direction, has arrived here from Nagasak

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R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,

Secretary. Hongkong, 9th September, 1896.

CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. "HE THIRTIETH ORDINARY MEET-

COMPANY will be held at the Hrad OFFICE, Victoria, Hongkonz, on SATURDAY, the 26th Instant, at Twelve o'clock Noox, for the purpose of presenting, the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 30th Apell. Issi and of Declaring Dividends.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 36th Instant, both days inclurive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. H. RAY,

Hongkong, 4th September, 1896.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

Secretary.

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MEETING

San Francisco, owners of British barque THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET

Casablanca have been found willing to accept a very noor freight, considering her handy size, certainly not sufficient to clear the vessel's ex- penses. She will shortly take the berth in place of the Sutlej, which has since sailed.

A correspondent of The British Medical Journal wittes:-Walle all are agreed as to the danger, or at least the inexpediency, of Intramural interment, of barial in vanils, and in the "dend" earth of cliy churchyards, the apolo gists of earth burial insist on the destruction of pathogenic by saprophylle microbes and the energy of the nitrifying process in suitable soils, and the advocates of cremation bellava in the greater vitality of come disease germs and the real rik of the pallation of the ground water and wells, though this danger is minimised by the general substitution of public water suppiles for private wells in all towns or large villages. Even Hoffman, the official de- fender in Germany of the existing practice, ad- mits the persistence and diffusion of the bacteria al typhoid and cholers, and recently Professor Alba, in a prize essay on cremation, has collected a large mass of well-authenticated instances of this. It is true that Skrreczka, Werulch, and Pister have endeavoured to account for the greater mortality from typhold fever and cholera pointed out by Zalzer wmong the populates re siding in the immediate vicinity of the Berlin cemelerles on such hypotheses as was of site, movements of ground waler, dessity of population, which Albu deems Insufficient, hat the polletion of the ground water and wells En Vienos from 1875 until the provision of a pare public supply from distant highlands, percolation THE Cacadap Pacife Rallway Cols steamer from the cemeteries which encircle the city on Empress of India arrived at Kobe at to pim.00 thing ground became more and more pro- Tuesday, and left at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday for nounced, the water length belag turbid and | Vancouver, vta Yokohama. yellow, charged with nitrites and positivelyoffen. sive from hydrogen and ammonium sulphides.

THE Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carlil & Co.) Dr. Levison, in a report published in 1886 on the informs as that the Northern Pacific Stemmabip graveyards of Denmark, staled that Copenhagen Co.'ssteamer Olympis left Tacoma for this port, and twenty of the sixty-eight lows in the king.idual ports of call, on the 7th fast, dom had suffered from this cause, and that 78 epidemics of typhold were distlocily tunceable to this proximity of graveyards. Dr. Lamos says We are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Gibb, that around the three cemeteries near, 34. Livingston & Co.) that the E. & AS. 9. Co. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Petersburg the annual mortality bad for some steamer Australias, from Sydney, left Port years been from 75 to 84 per 1,055, while that of | Darwin for this port, vis Timor, to-day. other and even poorer quarters of the city was only twenty-fire. To Dr. Deenlis, who for many years held a professarship of medicine at Tokio, we are indebted for one of the most striking instances of the persistence of infection in the earth. Dorlag the epidemic of 1877 detachment of troops stat to quell & disturbance A remote district had suffered very beavily from cholers, but from that year until 1879 the disease was entirely absent from the hele empire. The authorities then determined on removing the bodies of the soldiers to a public. Christensin'......stonmer, for Silgon, cemetery, employing a number of labourers for the purpose. Walle so engaged cholors suddenly broke out among them, in the absence of any other possible means of infection, and the same occurred at another place under similar clicum- stances, these two localfiles forming the centres of origin of the epidemic of that year. The out break of cholera at Yailva in rogo, when Spalo and Europe generally had been free for five years, though not connected with cadaveric infection, having been ascribed with every appearance of probability to the excavation

ARKIVÁLE

In the course of a special érticle. The Times say --

- Í hava bren given clearly to understand that in the various interviews and conversations which the Chinese Envay had with the Emperor of Russia and his Ministers nothing whatever was said about the sensational projects as to the surrender of Liao-tung and other alienations of Chinese authority to Russia which have formed the subject of numerous telegrams and articles during the last three months. They are openly characterised by the person alleged to have taken part in thera as absurdities, and if the Chloe Ambassador made no special conces- tons to Russia, the foremost of those Powere which helped China in the matter of Liao-tong, there was less reason for his doing so to the other Powers which supported her. To all of them the feels grateful for that ilmely and gen-rons aid, but with regard to any express equivalent for that service by special convention or secret treaty none has been either demanded or conceded. The Bitish Government can therefore negotiate on the subject of Li Hong, chang's mission without any apprehension that other States have surrepililously obtained advantages detrimental to its position. All existing treaties are known, and the discussion of all matters of line can be carried on above beard. Such is the present position, according to Li Hong-chang.

We also append some other extracts from the same article:-

China has many friends and well-wishers and scarcely a single enamy. Even Tapan te not implacably hostile, and it is to her interest that

Coat Ports, peace should be preserved during the five year

Aggregating 12,631 tons register. will remaining to complete the payment of the was indemnity. Within that period Chins will

HONOLONG AND WEAMPOA Dock RETURNS: become a very different Power in mliltary and of soil saturated with the Evacuations Tacoma in Kowloos naval resources from what she is at present, and ↑ of sufferers to the preceding epidemic, la Decimainnam

she looks to England whove nvery other State to analogous; while Sir Joseph Lister's care of the

SHIPPING RETURNS, From pm. yesterday to 8 pm, to-day,

Stegritatemer from Mojt

Canton. Lyamon PRZET

Straits. Chelydra Palamidumusacionin

Singapore. Aggregating 5.350 tons register, DEPARTURES.

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SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before His Honour Mr. T. Sarcombe Smith, Acting Puline Fudge.) September talk,

The following in the List for to-morrow 1-1, Friday, September 12th.

1181-LI Yik Loong v. Sia Man Hop

10.00

COMPANY will be held at the COMPANY'S Orvices, on SATURDAY. the 28th September, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1896.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to the 26th September, both days Inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 5th September, 1895.

F1398 HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

"NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, **ONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS are

requested to send in a STATEMENT of BUSINESS CONTRIBUTED daring the Half-year ended 30th June, 1896, on or before the 15th September, on which date the Accounts will be CLOSED.

By Order of the Board of Directors, e

THOS. 1. ROSE, Secretary,

Hongkong, 15th August, 1896.

LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

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in Hongkong in January next. Applications for entry should be made before September 12th to the LOCAL SECRETARY.

E. RALPHS, A.L.C.M.,

DIOCESAN SCHOOL,

West Point, Hongkong.

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