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`HIAWATHASLIRD,

[BY HELYRICH VON LONGYELLOW.]

Up and spake the mighty Kaises, · Spake the mighty Katter Wilhelm, Wilhelm of the throne of Frussia, Of the House of Hohenzollers,

Spake be bravely, after dianer,

After besourleg the toust-list,

After toesting everybody,

Alter shoniny "Hoch " and "Prouit"

(Not to menilon "Hock and Selixer"}; After all the great lamazha Spake th Kaiser to his brother, His Imperial and Royal

Highness Flenty, Place and brother, Spike the Kaler, as reported

In the Germen dally, papers, Which are subject to a consor, And were therefore quite unable

To give out & fenity version Or to misrepost the Kalier :-

"Henry, ry beloved brother, Go to those henlgbird besiben, In the far-cf land of Chios,

Go and preach my sacred gospel, Teach them that I am the Kalser, Teach them that there is no other,

Teach them that I have no equal-

I am get on to that, now;

That is all there is about li Teach them this, my brother Henry ; If they will not listen, hit 'em

Cli think that they will let you ;

You If they take the hilag meekly) Hit 'em hard, and ili 'em heavy 1 Hit 'em quick, and bit um often! With your mail fin go blt 'em ; Malle fils are fine persuaders. Modi fists are most convincing. With your malè i fi.t, theo, il "em, When you're tired of bluing, kick 'em Kick 'em, hit 'em, hit 'em, kick 'em, Wilb the bob-nailed brat of Pracs!», With the maled fist of disto

Hit 'em on the blooming boks, Kick 'em on the shies and ankles,

Kick 'em on the tiibasket,

Hit 'em til you tap their claret,

Kick 'em till they dislike aliing,

What else it a malle 1 fist for ?

What are bob-nailed boots designed for?

Did Int design a picture

(Or caricon, or else conundrum)

Or at least I did the talking

And an artist did the pletare--

Calllag on the Western nations

To protect their cherished treasurOS (Meaning me, though there are others) From the deadly Yellow Parli P Good old moto, self-protection 1

Go, naw, Henry, go to Chias,

And protect par cherished treasures— What are cherished treasures made for

If they do not need protecting ?

If you want to know what danger

To protect them from, I tell you

From the warlike men of China,

Front the military Manchu,

From the Hanese heroic,

From the "blaves" all over China- From all these you must protect them,

If the Chinese are not fighting, Masker-blt 'em all the harder |

Pale, pate ton panourgón,

Kaltaraxippostraton,

Kal telosen kai pharangga, Kal Charybdio harpages 1 Maldi fits and hob-nalled bluchers,

Go, my Heary Hiawatha,

Go unto the sleeping dragon,

Turn your Exco toward the suoriss,

Let the sight of ibat inspire yath, Taka the Geton, the cruiser, And the Deutschland, the steam-roller,

Or pantechnicos, of wagon

For conveying saliway lugg*g*,

You will also have the Kafter,

And the Katrin Augusta,

And the Kormoran, the sea-bird,

And the Moaws, the Shu-shu ga, And the West Wind, eld No-ico-mis Will haftlend you when you'd coal-less. When your bankers all are empty, When you haven't any fuel,

Not enough to cook your supper, Let alone to feed the bollers f

Not a scrap of tallow candis. Nor a matchbox in your pocket- Then the western wied will help you Till you reach some coaling station, Where you bet your bottom dollar There will be a damdenglander, With some coal in bis possession. He will e vet filthy lucie. He will stick you for some money He will higgle. he will barter He will fill your empty bankers, He will mend your busted bottlers, If your male fist wants mending, Il there is a screw loose somewhere, Or if you have lost a rivet From your armeur-plated gauntlet, From your fronclad menagerie,

If jint should reed repairing,

boller.labe Is Jerky,

If

Get the Britisher to help you. Britishers are partly German ; Ralf the race, and all the'tulers, Ara Teutonic by extraction ; · So to all their Highland pipets, Fighting Afghan Fozzzzles; They and we are more then caution, And abiquitous we both are And we get on well together.

So, the British coaling-stations, And the dockyards of the British Will be very handy for

YOU

If you don't see what you're waullog In the window, enter, seking, They will treni you most politely." Quoib the Kaiser, "I have spoken 1"/

Then went Henry Hiawatha Forth before the eyes of natloss, Kid the "Dreimal Hock" at coiers, Forcibly to preach the gospel Of his Sacred Lord the Kaltor. Came be intellogs out of Stes, Cams be lingering to Adea, `Como a litala distrace farther,

And the cycle tyre was punctured, And the Illy drooped and faluted,

And the lion roared in whlipers,

And the toffeall-log grew quiet, And the screw had ceased from screwing the weary crank bad rest,

But the West Wind, old Nokomis,

And the British bofler måker,

And the Cardiff coal purveyoTS

Camp and helped him on 'a bit

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1898.

By the power of German Centar, By the law of feza-majestat, By the terrors of the dungeons, By the fierce, ferocious lay, By the punishment of pressmen,

In the happy Fa1berland, They have shown you little pity; They avenge themselves upon you They repay your paraccatton

With a persecution grand i You have shown them little mercy, You have pitilessly crashed them, You hawa played the paltry tyrant

With your victims of the Press, Now they ralte a laugh against you, Loud and long, the whole world over, Laugh 1 Borer man was laughed at,

Like your own self-merciless. We, too, have a gospel, Henry, Sacred gospel, mighty gospel. And we bava a malled fist,

You can tell your Holy Lord. He must learn Before he teaches; He should bear before he preaches | For the pen that pricks his speeches

is a mighty as his sword,

Hongkong, March gib.

TRADE.

SVENGALI.

"In San Francisco the steamier was boarded by officials and I was examined. I told them the truth, but the interpreter, who was half white and half Chiness, was bilbed by my owner to say what they pleased. I could not speak a word of Engllib, and there was no one to help' me.. I was taken on shora to

family house, where I was sok for $1007) Then my troubles began. I passed through weeks of fever and delirium and wished I could dl. Slowly I recwered. My master saw that We had no charms for me and I was gold to man in Sacramento. The rest you know: Yes, I want to return to my home as soon as my passage money can be raised."

And this was Lin Fah! Who could have recognized in that haggard face and wasted ferm of the poor slave girl the lovely giri whim we saw on the banks of the Flag King?

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the hand, a chubby Hule fellow, who to the joy of bla grandfather's bract. They are waltlog at the landing steps, their faces expect antly turned up-stream; and here comes the barge of Leung An Hing, the ich California merchant, now the largest landed proprietor lo the district. There is a terrible scar upon the left temple, received many years ago. To every. body else bot Llo Fah it is a frightful disfigure ment, He was wounded for her, and Lin Fad looks up at her husband's seated face with gratitude and love.

H. W. PATION, in San Francisco Call.

MAGNETS FOR RAISING SHIPS.

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Apropos of magneta for lifting parposes it ti interesting to note, says Cassiar's Magazine, that some one has auggested their application to the ruling of fron and steel vessels sank in deep "Will he die? Is he dangerously wounded?"

water-too deep to admit of the employment of aket Lin Fah one morning, with tear-glained divers. Onn proposed scheme has for its object facs and voice choked with abs. Pal loh! the raising of the ill-fated Victoria at the British Pal loh! Ales ! stay! I have been the cante

nowy, which now lies at the bottom of the of ft. It was sil because of me. Hai rahi Hai Mediterranean, in 450 feet of water, off the vah! I cannot bear to think of " The mara harbir of Tilpoll. The weight of the wreck In Ing newspapers had told of a tragedy in China water is estimated at yooutons, and the suggested towo, A promigeat Chloèse merchant, the pro- method of raising it is as follows: Powerlul peletor of business houses in several cller, had hydraulic rama and dysamo machiner, and a heen shot down while passing along Jackson series of heavy electro-magnets will be arranged THE TRANSPACIFIC PASSENGERtreet. Highbinders bad been lying la wait for OD pontoons at the Kee of the wreck," A him for several weeks, The Kwal Kang, to

migast, lowered over the side and coming within warm Liu Fah belonged, had laid the matter reasonabla distance of the sunken venel, On the border of Chlóstown, San Francisco, Is before the Beng Kang Tong. A secret meeting would be drawn toward the laiter, and, on touch- a large bulding called by the Chinese Shoo had been held. Chinese detectives were em-

ing any iron or steel part of it, would im-, Koon. It was opened twenty years ago to pro- played to work on the case, Leong Ab Ping|mediately stick to it with a power of 100 vido an xaylum and school for the rescue of that bad bien proved to be the man who helped ber each magnat made attachment, which would be class of Chinese gals who have been imported to escape. The gang had secretly condemned Indicated by means of an electric dial on the and sold for the vilest purposes. A more bope. him to death and ordered eat the "batchet man"

pontoon, a trial pail would be given to the rope less condition cannot be imagined. Kidopped to taken his life. Hearing of the plot, be war to a ceriala that a connection had been made to or begalled from their homes la China, living laadvlied to emp'or some rival blahbladers to act

1 firm part of the wreck. Should this not be San Francisco back siams, behind barred doors as his bodyguard, bat bad relased, nylog

the case, the magnet would come off, its position and windows guarded by bighbinders, uouble la am a Chelaifen man. I trust in God and the would be then slightly moved and a fresh at- | speak our language and taught to look upon laws of the United States to protect me." All trement made until a firm hold had been taken

was toconsolable. She rt- every while person as a "foreign devil," what day Lin Fah

of the wreck When all the magnets had been worder if many of these wretched women, fase! food; she best her breast and lay thus fixed, the wreck would be considered ready despalting of release, have found rest in a sul moaning upon the floor to broken-heart- for raising. Each libing rope would be attached cide's gravel Upwards of a thousand of theseed grief. Later in the day the mairon came

to the ilting pontoon by means of a sheave on the unhappy creatures have been rescued from thle | In. ""Don't fret, dear,” said she, "1.have just head of a hydraulic lífitog ram having a stroke cursed bondage since the Christian ladies of come from the hospital. The doctors say the of twelve feet, which would give an effcifre lift San Francisco began their benevolent work woued, though dang rous, is not necessarily fa- of twenty-four feet. Each bydraulic cylinder on Hundreds are now the mothers of happy Christal, Cheer up. Lang Ah Piog will not die,"

the panigen would be in consec lon with all the tlan homes, and many a household la far ard Lin Fah gave a sigh of relief.

others, and a balancing accumulator would pre- China has cause to bless these women of Am-

vent any rope getting more than a normal strain erics for the retum of some long-last daughter.

al 100 tons. When the rame had made their full stroke the Ni fag ropes would all be simul- taneously held in position by means of special hydraulic thing blocks. The ram, would then be lowered and another illt of twenty-four feel given to the wreck, and the operation would bo. repeated until the wreck would be raised sufficiently near to the surface to be towed to shallower water and there beached. However, all this is, at present, la imply in the nature of ing gestion, more inieres log probably than practi- cally valuable, especially at the roughly estima red cnt of Risex:cullon ract up close to the

500, as mark,

One Sunday evening': the winter of 1885 • young Chinese merchant living at Sacramento presented bimself at the door of the Mission Hama He asked to see tho Sin Sban. There closeted together he told a sad, strange story, Next doar to where he lived was a Chinese gitt who was in great distress. Night and day he had heard pliaus appeals with cries and sobs, "I want to go back home. I will not stay here Oh, where is my mother Kau meng, kau meng !" (Save life I save life () Then followed angry vol- ces and heavy blows and muffled cries, as if a hand were held over the girl's mouth "Shat tau ni" (I kill you) said she harsh volce. "Didn't I pay $1cooler you and what are you good for?" Latter in the evening then erchant stole out fato the back porch and heard a conversation next door, from which he gathered that the week fol lowing the glel would be taken and sold in some distant mialog camp, where she would be forced into an varamable life.

There was no time to lore. Leong Ab Plog, for that was the merchant's name, resolved to rescua her from their clutches. White men could not be relied upon. Some were honest, hat others were subsidized by the slave rings. That night ho removed a piece of morter from the wall that separated him from the adjoining room, then a plece of lith was sawed away till he was close enough to be heard by the wretched girl. She roused herself asthe klad valca addressed her. "Lliten," sold be, "you are in trouble and I can help you I know what wou have suffered. A worse fate awaits you if you stay here, for next week they will take you far away and sell you. Dosli despatr. Only follow my directions and you may be free. Pear gbli How often had she been deceived ↑ "Ob, let me alone; don't worry me, don't mock me with such words," sald she. If you have any pity for me get ma s dose of oplam that I may end my misery,"

At last te latened. She drew nearer. Did she understand the plan? Yes! She was wing. As well lose hes life fa a struggle for Liberly as to die by slow, torturing griel, or even worse. Everything was arranged and her face lighted up with a new hope.

Next day the matron and deaconess of the mission went up to Sacramento. All day long the girl walted in a state of feverish aexfely, Aboat midnight the Just visitor had gone. Whea all was sill.rape ladder was passed round the porch into the girl's window and made fast to the posts of her bed. She quickly attired herself in all her clotber, adjusted the cords and waited the signal. The last footstep on the sidewalk had died away. She looked into the deserted street. All was an stil na' death, "Ha lo " whispered Ah Plaz "He sing lol i Go very carelally!" Noiselessly she passed through the window and began her perilous descent, Step by step she felt her was down to the side walk. A white man and, a indy rushed up and harried her along to the end of the block, where a back way walilog. She flew long the street. Behind her was the sound of opcuing windows, excited shouls and shrill police whistles. A wild shot from an upper window whistled past the foglière girl and her rescuers. "On on as fast as you can gallop!" said the matron to the driver as they slammed the carriage door. Another shot broke upon the night air as they dashed round the corner followed by a shouting mob. With blanched cheeks and trembling. limbs the girl sank into a corner of the carriage A kind hand-touched, hers and a soothing voice sald, "04 ni sam, ra shal keep. (Don't fear, you are sale now.) It was the first kled ward she had heard for many months. The pent-up emotions foudd vent. She burst Into Bond of tears-not tears of beartrending remorse, but tears like April showers that roll away the black clouds from ourakles and give promise of a bright and glad to-morrow.

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Three months bave passed and the day for Lin Fab's departure hai antlyed, Aletter had come Chins' enclosing money for her pisings home. It was a happy day. Kind treatment, good food and fresh ale had done much to obli- terate the dark lines of care from her face and restore her to health and beauty. A back was engaged to take her to the steamer, and the time had now come to say farewell to that home where she had passed the only happy days she had known on American soll. Scaled to the cat rlage, a stalwart policeman opposite, her band clasping that of the kind matron at her side, sbe sald in pidgin English: Me no saver one ting, Why for you Melican lady so heap kind Chi- nese gli ? Melads, muddy no blong my You 'Melican, me Chinese Whi' for you makce me alla aim you sirta? You my welly good fles. My think of you by day if I die!

"Lin Fah," said the matron to Chinese. "It is the religion of the cross that teaches us to dn Confeclus taught that 'all within the four this. seas are brethren Jesus loght as that all mankind are our brethren," "Chan-ha!! Chan- hai!" said Lin Fah. "I tuk some far me

ke become Clistin like you. Ye-su; some day me see you up top-alde and bebha go away from you any mo!"

Me b'lleve

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EFFECT OF THE MOON ON VARIOUS PEOPLE.

"If you res the new moon over your right shoulder it's good luck all the month"-over the 1:fi shoulder belog bad luck, of course. "Il you meet the new menu face to face with money lo your packet you will have that kind of money in your pockets for a month and so on, this last being taken from an old black-letter treatise on abings worth knowing" Everywhere in the On their way to the steamer it had been world the idea prevalis among those who lack stranged to call for a few minutes at the boipl-selen fic training bat anythiog falling to the lot tat. It was Lin Fah's own request. In one of of man when the moon is waxing will likewise the wards, propred ap by pillows, was a pale increase, similarly decreasing while the moon wases. The Hinden troubled with warts looks faced Chinaman with a bandaged herd. He raised himself as they entered, and Lin Fah at the new moon, picks up a plach of dust from beheld the brave and chivalrous benefactor to beneath his left foot, rabs the wart with it~and whom the owed e and liberty. Looking at when the maca goes te doen she want. If you the pallid lace before her, the beautiful girl fall ill you can be cured by herbs gebered in poured forth warde of gratitude to one who bad the fall of the moon, Fisked his life in her beauif. No one present

The Moslemi in the kingdom of Oudh cure could tell what war passing to Ab Ping's mind Insomnia, palpitation of the heart, nervous pro or what crgerd blm sach agiteilov. At last he stration and similar evils by stationing the said: "Lin Fah, you are about to return home

sufferer with a barla of water in his bands in I have had something on my mind that I wanted the light of the full moon In such a way that its to say to you." She bent lower, and what he refulgent image shines directly from the qald said was in whispered words, the import inle his eyes, says writter in the Chicago of which bystanders could only guess. En | Times-Herald, Then, without moving his Fah naked down till her long eyelashes gas, he in sequired to swallow the water at s touched and scarlet blushes mantled her checks.draught. For a man to speak to malden in China would be highly improper. Bat America is outside the domain of Confucian conventionalliles. Lin Fah shook her head, with a sad look, and heaved a deep sigh. "It cannot be," she said; "I belong in another, Farewell!" As aba

-In Northern India the people lay out food in the fall moon that eres la the months corre sponding to our September and October, half of each, and give it to their friends as a means of Insusing longevity. That same night the girls pour water in the moonlight, saying they are get

rid of the cold weather,

I passed out of the door, her eyes wet with tears, as long aga moled that Yorkshire maids

Ah Plng sank back upon the pillow, the picture of despair. This was the girl whom ke hud loved since that early morning when he saw her passing down the rope ladder-the girl whose name the doctors had heard him call while he lay in fever and delirium after the tragedy on Jackson stree).

Ön boxid the steam Oceanic was a missionary lady bound for Chios, in whose charge La Fab was placed. The malibagr had been taken or board, the gangplank removed, the boarse whistle blew, bandkerchiefs waved, as the great versel began to back out foto deep water. These were sad partioge between husband and wile, lovers and friends; the sobs and tears and heartaches of women mingled with the calmar good-byes of the men. Tears of gratitude molaiened Lin Fah's eyes' as she waved her adieu to the fadles who had cared for her so kindly. The steamer turned to the Golden Gate and was soon out of sight,

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"da worship the new moon on their bare koecs, kuceling upon an earthfast stone," and Lady Wilde says that the Irish damsels drop on their knies when they first catch sight of the new moon and say: "Ob, moon, leave us as well as you found us!" In India the natives take seven ikrords from the end of their turbant and give them to the new moon with a prayer.

The spots on the moon are caused by many persons or things. Sometimes it is a man with

faget on his back, sent thither for picking up sticks on the Sabbath. Chaucer calls him a thief and puts a thorobosh on his shoulders. Dato say it is no lows a criminal, than Calo, Shakespeare provides a dog' to keep him com. pany.

Flodoos keep, not a man bat 'a baro, In the mann, and the well-known connection in the minds of the people as to man in the moon and Insanity may account for the statement zarding the March kare, and possibly the thornbush may be the distinctive covering of the batter. At any ralt, this is a good guessing as a lot of the sus myib people have done, while Baring-Gould Identlies the moon children, Bill and Halki of the Northern mythology, with 'Jack and GM of the na sezy sbyme.

On the mhart in Hongkong father and brothers were waiting to welcome back the long lost girl. Who shall describe that joyful meeting after two lorg date of separation and grief? But there was more sadness in store for Lla Fab. The as more. She bad gray-haired mother was

Orowed over her last derling, refused to be

The Greenland Etqalman believer that the comforted, and to pined away. Her father was

sun and moon were originally brother and sliter. now a broken-hearted man. The family property had gone. Thousands of dollars had been She, baing texted by him paat ordinary and spent in fruitless search, The dowry bad rapce, seized some

Bafe within, the mission walls be told the to be refunded to old Mr. Woog. Disaster ↑ his face, Ismpblack and rubbed it on

the ran, her brother after. Finally she wont so fast she rose up into tha atr and became the sun, while her scoty-faced brother turned into the moon. In Samoa when a great famine oppressed the people the moon Tose one night, big and round, like a breed fruit. A patient mother, unable to quiet the pangs of | her little one, looked up and said: "Why don't You come down and let my baby have a bite of you? This made the mãos so angry that sho simply icked up both mother and child, and they have been there ever since.

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NOTANDA.

CALENDAR

- MARCH. Metsorological mosus dared on ten years' observations to 1893, Barometer immun -30.059 Thermometer ........................ő20 Humidity.......................................... 85.0.

Rainfall...

TO-DAY.

WEATHER PEPORT.

4.08

On dala si Oo date mu

10 #

4 p.m.

30.18

Barometer.******* Thermometer an 63 Humidity...AKAM 82

Ralofa!!

TO-DAY.

30.04

65 77

RLINES

Saturday, 12th Mar-b, 1798.

A WARM TIME.

News of a remarkable escape from an awful đenih by dre kad suffication in the beart of the horning bush comes from Warragul, Victoria (says the North Queensland Herald). The road from Mirboo to Yarragon is only a basla track, and giant trees and scrub overhang the roadway 'between the townships mentioned. Yesterday (January 16th) afternoɔn two men, farm hands, left Mirbas on horseback to rida to Yarragan, After golyg about four miles the ale became thick, and presently they observed #imes lesping from ires to tree on the south.... xide. They decided to keep on, belleving they would soon fexva the flames beblað; hai alter proceeding a couple of :mlies they becama alarmel by the roaring naise of the great fis, and immedia'sly after raging dimatı burst (brough from the undergrawih, hugs treenerisk- Ing to the grosad in all directions. They gallop- ed forward, batike fire was found to be advanc» ing, and presently burning trees were falling ahend and' across the track. Their clothes caught fire from burnlag "leaves ́(ziling about them and they dismounted at x break and

(St. Gregory)) { Chinese-20th of and moon of 24th year of drenched their horses and themselves. They

Kwong-rit, Jewish-182k Adar, 6658. Mohammedan-18th Showall, 1315,

San-R$143******

............. Går. Amin. 1hr, 5min. MĚNĚ.

4hr, 07mfu, GAY, 47min.

High water-Morning

Afternoon Low water-Morteg

"Afternoon ****** ANNIVERSARIES,

1508-C ar Borgla killed, 184Commissioner Kl-aben, degraded by the

Empror, left Centon az a prleoner. 1868-Attempted asvagsination of the Duke of

Edinburgh at Sydney, 1879-Hongkong Latheran Church opened. 1884-Bac--Inh, Tonkin, captured by the French 1896-Santiago and Valparaiso damaged by

earthquake.

TO-MORROW.

Sunday, 13h March, 1898.

then posted on nearly exhausted by the intensd hest and suffocating smoke, and, after a most exciting and perf'ois rid^, reached Yarragon in safeir, utterly overcome. Their faces and bands were blistered and the hair was sluged of their horses. Their experience is regarded as one of the most miraculous escapes in the anuals of life in the Australian bush.

Scorr's Emulsion of Paré Cod Liver Oll with Hypophosphites is orascibed by Physicians ali over the world It fa a remarkable remedy for Consumption, Scrofula, mod wasting discasos, and very palatable." Read the following:-"I have much pleasure in stating that I have tried Scott's Emalaing' in a care of impoverished blond, with werofalous disease, and found it to be a very efficiant preostation. It was taken without the least difficulty."-A. TEMPLE PERKINS, 21, Landship Park. Stoke Newington, N. A Chemist can supply It. Sole Agrote for Hongkong and the Emples of Chins:—Watkins

Chinese-311 of 2nd moon of 24th year of &CN.. Honekana.- ↑ Adnt.

Kwone-sür Tewish-191k Adar, 1858. Mohammedan-10th Shawoll, 1516.

Sua-Mutt um................................ Bār. $mta.

Sets

Co bhr. 66 mln. High water-Morning .................... Ohr. Smin. and 11kr. 40mt«. Low water-Morning ............. Går. 18min. Afternoon ...... 6hr, 60min. ANNIVERSARIES.

1764-Earl Grey born. 1841-Renewal of hostilities and capture of foris

In the Macas Passage. 1871-The Mexican Dollar asrayed by the

Chinese Governmeal.

1879 -Marriage of the Duke of Connaught.

881-Assessinaison of the Czar Alexander II. 1884 -Slege of Khartoum commesced,

CHURCH SERVICES..

St. John's Cathedral --Commuulos, 7 a.m.,

Matine, 11 ... Evensong, 5.45 p.. Roman Catholic Cathedral Mast at 6,

7am., 8 x.m. and 930 m. Benediction,

sp.m.

Union Church Services, it aim, and 6 p,m, German Bethesda Chapel," West Point

Morning Service, ur u.m

St. Francti Church, Wanchat ——Mass (China). 6.m., (Part.) 7.30 am., Beocdiction, 5 p.m. Joseph's Church, Garden Road :-Morning

Service (English), o a.m.

St.

St. Anthony's Chapal, Wait Folat --Mass, 5 Wesleyan Methodist Church :—Services, TD-30

a.m. and 45 p.m.

St. Peter's Seamen's Church :—11, 2.m, and

6.30 p.m.

MEMORANDA.

TO-DAY, 12th March. gp.m.-Performance of "An Ideal Husband ..

at the Theatre Royal by the Brough Com. pany.

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

Mais Dur:

French (Ernest Simona) 14th last. American (City of Rio de Janeiro) iqih inst. Australlen (Manmuir) 14th inst. Indian (Catherine Aptar) 15th 'nst. Tacoma (Columbia) 19th Insi. American (Garlic) azad lost, Canadian (Emprézs of China) n4th lust. American (City of Peking) 31st inst

WE are informed by the Agents of the Austrian Lloyd's S.N. Co., that the Company's steamer Glitla, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, the zith inst.

THE Nippon Yusen Kalsha's steamer Tosa Maru (Europa Line) left Yokohama direct for this pars yesterday, the rib, and is expected to arrive here on the 17th lust,

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THE Chios Matual Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Hintsch, from Glasgow and Liverpool, pasted the Canil on the tb, and may be considered deo at Singapore on or about the 24th fast,

SHIPPING RETURNS. From 6 þim. yesterday to 5 pm, to-day,

ARRIVALS.

Atk. ....................steamer, from Halokong

Yokohama Crefald wanaom

ย Katchinofzz Kulung Mars con Nanchang

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Aggregating 9.595 tons register. DEFARTURES,

Salgos

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The family wAS DOW story of her life. "I was kidnapped nearly a year followed disaster. ago, just two weeks before I was to have been bankrupt and almost dealfiute. And where married. My captors "gagged me to gifs my WAT young Warg? Alas for human Ecklenci cries, and I lost consciousness. When I revived Hearing that his bride had been carried beyond I found myself on board a Junk bound for Flong the sexa and imagining too well her fate he had kang. Once or twice I attempted to call a past-, made matrimonial Alliances elsewhere, Lin anding host, but a pistol was pointed at my head. Fab received the news in silence. It was what

Os arriving in Hongkong I saw many while she had expected. people. I was told they were foreign devils, who Two days afterward the boat on which they would cast me into deep dangeon If I made Journeyed passed the old plice-the old home any disturbance, I cried and wing my hands stead-there no more. It was a bitter moment, in franila grief at belog separated from my to see the home of her childhood owned by home, Twice I attempted to escape, only to be others. At nightfall they reached the humble

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and beaten. I mollexed to a po- cottage that was to be their home. Abl why liceman, but he did not heed. At last my captor had she not died in childhood and spared her became alaimed, I rejoiced 'oon day when I family all this misery ?

Years bars passed. There have been changes heard him tell somebody that he was going to return me to my friends.. I became quiet, for in the old homestead at Shan Hong. The old And the buskers cessed from, banking and the helloved his word. Next week was taken na konto is still there, but near it is a red brick far board a large steamer. After ima days at sex I chak, or mansion, with upearved, bell-shaped wondered that it should take so long to get 10 roof, modern windows and foreiga farallure. the month of the river. A woman, whispered The household gods are to be seen no more. to me that I was being taken to America. The grotto of Kwan Yin, the goddess of mercy, I realized that I had been deceived and lay for has been torn down and on its sits stands & three days meaning and sobbing is my herth. I Christian chapel, Lin Fah is seen again on the tried to forap overboard, but was dragged back, banks of the Ping Kong. Her slave dress has Bahamas with the assurance from the captain Coffic.................................

And at last Hongkong,was nighted,

Sighted on the donghty Deutschland,

Sighted on the giddy Goffor,

Sighted by Imperial. Henry,

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All sailors are certain that sleeping in tropical moon says will either make them cross-eyed or bilad. Of the American vessel 81 Captian year of two ago a number of the crew, diregard. ing the advice of their fellows during a spell of hot weather, slept on the deck in the moonlight, and soon after went completely biled at night, though they could see as well in the daytime as ever. The skipper of the ship reported the occurrence, and with it made a statement to the affect that up to that time he had been a disbe Bwinan..... # llever in the so-called moon blick. Paul Eve Progris " Stevenson reports that he, too, was hurriedly Daphne........................ awakened on his way to New York from the Propontis...............***

He heap clasy s mo better shut 'em up," wald | gone, and the is seen elegantly attired in that all sorts of things would happen to him if Wuotan shuung

On the jewing, sneering, nothing-fearing fonda tay captor, and I was shut up the rest of the embroidered rabes and brocaded silk Shakeslept in moonlight, This is a disease as Aritong umo

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Intimations.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

TN order to facilitate the return to the writer of Courtipondence, Registered and Ordinary that it from any caure delverable. It t | suggested that the Sender's Name and Address may be superscribed upon the Cover (ace Pontal Galde pir, 58).

A. M. THOMSON,

Postmaster General,......

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General Post Office.

March rith, 198.

GOVERNMENT BILLS.

ENDERS for

SPECIE - MEXICAN

DOLLARS, Current in this Colony, and weighing 7.1.7., in Exchange for Sterling Bille drawn ni to days' sight on the Lords Commis«. sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, London, will be received by the Chlef Paymaster, Any Pay Department, until ri A.M. en' MONDAY, the rath instant,

The Tenders to state the total amount required (In Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which each Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be. issued for sums less than roo.

The Tenders to be in Duplicate and in sealed covers, addressed to the Chief Paymaster, Army Pay Department, and endorsed "Tenders for Government Bill.”

The right to accept or reject any all of the Tenders is reserved.

E. H. GORGES,

-Colonel,

Chief Paymaster, China. Her Majesty's Treasury Office, Queen's Road, Hongkong, 12th March, 1898.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

[370,

N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of

A SHAREHOLDERS In the COMPANY will be bold at the COMPANY's Offices, No. 3 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Victoris, on MONDAY, the art Merch, at 12 o'clock (NOOM), when the subjoined Resolutions, which worn passed at the Extraordinary Meeting held on the 28th February, 1898, will be submitted fer confirmation as SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS,

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS. That Articles Nor. 53 and 123 of the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by eliminating therefrom the word "February TM' and substituting therefor the word "March,"

That Article No. 7 be altered by laserting tha words " or Extra Reserve Fand" Insmediately | after the word "Fend” la tha, sixth line of the sald Article, and the words " and Extra ResorVG Fund" immediately aller the word "Fund” la the seventh line of the said. Article.

That Article No, rax be altered by inserting the words "and subject to the provisions of Articles 121A and 1aíß" immediately after the word "fans" and before the word "be" in the fourth Ine of tuch

Article.

That the following Articlia be inserted, inge mediately after Article No, zar, and be nume bored Articles 1218 und 121B. rarA.-- Although the Reserva Fond may amount to the sum of Qae Million Dollars the Direcions may nevertheless at their -discretion from time to time appropriate a partion of the net income and profits earned by the Company in any one year to the sormation of an additional Reserve Fund, to be called 'Extra Reserve Food,TM”, 1a1B. The monies standing at the credit of the Extra Reserve Fand may be applicable for the equalisation of dividends, and such monies, or sansa porifan thereof may, when. ever the Directors shall think fit be appropriated towards the equalization*of dividends,"

By Order,

JAS, B, COUGHTRIE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 28th February; 1898,

THE CHINESE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTIE

(IN LIQUIDATION),

TOTI.E_Is hereby divon that a SECOND and FINAL RETURN of CAFTTAL amounting to $2.75 per Share has been declared in this matter,

Upon delivery of Scrip to the Liquidator for Cancellation at ht Office on or after the stofTMTM Instant cach Shareholder will receive an Order on the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI CORPORA

full settlement of his Claim against the TION in full Compholders

have not collected yet the Sha First Return of Caplis), amounting to $7.50 per whare, declared on the grat Anguss, 1897, Kra requested to do so without further day-to enable the final winding up of this Company,

Hangkang, 8th day of March, 1808.20

J. GODSMANN

Liquidator,

dla Messrs, HELCHERS & Co,

Praga Central,