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Hongkong, 11th April, 1868.

PERSEVERANCE

LODGE

OF

HONGKONG, No. 1,165.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1898.

To-day's Advertisements.

SCHOOL SPORTS,

SPORTS,

MARRIAGE.

On the 3rd March, at All Saluts! Church, Spilsbory, Oxfordshire, by the Rev. F. Dillion stalsted by the Rev. J, Frimer Rowley, vicar'at the parish. C.. E. SYDNEY WAKEFIELD, of tha Caiñons Imperial Maritime Customs, to Mag- DARIT RIBICCA, recond daughter of Alfred

THE HONGKONG SCHOOL VALOR 5 Nelld, of Dean House, neat Canterbury.

MONDAY, the 18th of Apelt under the patronage of His Excellency Major-General WILJONE BACK, CB,

Commodors SWINTON C. HOLLAND,

A.D.C.. R.N.

Colonel H. ELSDALF, R.E. Colonel J. ROWLANDSON, K.O.R. Surg. Cól, C. KVATT, P.M.Q. Hen. R..D. ORMSBY.

THE OLD BOYS' TWO MILE BICYCLE, HANDICAP

will take place at 5 P.M. Flist Prize a handsamo Sliver Cop. Should there be a sufficient ogm- ber of Starters a Third Prize will be offered.

Entries CLOSE at 8 F.M., TO-MORROW, the 14th of April,

airy, BLACK has kindly consented to distri- bate the prizes at the close of the Mesting,

WILLIAM_BLAYNAY,

Han. Secretary, Hongkong, 11th April, 1898.

NOTICE.

1400

DEATHS.

On the 3rd March; at Weston, Cupar_Fife, N.D., JOHN BLAIR, late Manager Tanjong Pagar Dock Company (Limited), Slögapore, aged 55

years.

On the 8th March, at Mean House, Cales, on his way home from Hackow, EDGAR WILLIAM, elder and only surviving son of William Pagh, ol Kauley, Surrey,

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1898.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

From letters to hand we hear that the British ships gathered at Chefoo at the latter end of March were all on the gui obe❘ for war. None of the officers were aware

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REUTER'S MESSAGE.

VICTORY.

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The loss of the rank and file is not stated.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

SIR Henty Blaks will leave England on May 11 for his new post as Governor of Hongkong.

'A BRANCH of the Navy League has recently been formed at Chicklung, "Capt. C. H. Palmer la president, and Mr. F. Knight Gregson hon. fecratary.

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A SEVERE hurricane from the south-east passed | The ravages ofʻqeferle favor among the Benish aves New Caledonia en the aged, Febrastygarilion in Tedia’bava became to terrible of

| FIGHTING IN THE SOUDAN-EGYPTIAN | lasting from 8 pm, until morning, when a full | late gears, officers and men aliko'suffering, that trek slice during the next day, ike baromater | the need for some speciał measures to check LONDON, April 8th. felling from 3a.go to 19.15 fa the space of a few | the disɛsen hin- forced 'tirali opan the attention General Sir H. H. Kitchenar with his whole boars. At shost to p.m, on the aprd a violent of the military sutherlikes. In spite of water. force has attacked the Emir Mahmud in a zeroba barilcane commenced to blow from the south- | works and dairy fama, the Biḥilih soldier con- The trenches were rushed in a most gallant west, which has caused considerable damage to | Vactu enterie bath fa the hills and plaing, the manner. The Dervishen stood well and lost shipping and properties. The steamer Ma Qille | death-roll being "an appalling" ore; and all- heavily. Emir Mahmud, was taken prisoner. dragged her anchors, and went on Isla Mon, as "efforts to maintain a high standard of health have Tan Beltisk fors was two officers kified and well as two plis! cutlery, the Yakow, and the'] 10-far falled. The Government of India are fourteen wounded,

yuchi Wallangt. The hulk Fastole was thrown | now about to enter upon sa experímet which, on the Artillery Point. The shipeu General 8ft1- | Rit is hoped, will have important cezolts. With twit and Royal Sovereign, both leading nickel the approval of the Secretary of State three In the Bay do Orphelinat, had a narrow escapa Specfilly qualified sanitary offices and te... of going ashore. The small steamer Loyalty. be appolated respectively to the stations of lately a man of war, and disused for the moment, Lucknow, Rawalpindi, and Umballs, whas sole sunk and her maite are only visible. In the town daty will be to investigate the causes of diseasə great damage was done to properties, verandahs and give practical advice on isoliary mansures, blown away and several houtes unroofed. Justs Their attention will not, of course, be confined ·· out of town, at Faubourg Blanchot, a large 'sow | merely to the causation of enteric ; they will'da R.C. Church is course of construction was their atmost to being about Improvements ta unroofed and a great part of the atone wall the sanitary administration of the cantonments, blown down. Tho-telegraph lines went down so as to reduce to a minimum the slake which up to within 30 miles of Neomas. The steamer our soldiers have to run from epidemic disease. Flads from Sydney to Koumes, it is feared has For the present one of these appolutments is to been lost in the hurricane." On the yih alt she be held in abeyance, whila Surgeon-Möjor AM. was 18 days out.

Davier, Army Medical Staff, is employed on special bactereological Investigatlans. MOST peepe bare heard of "barking up the wrong tree," but the following story of " weeping at the wrong faberal" is told by the Frisco Chrostele z-Captain James Brooks, for, a Jong time in command of the feasy boat Tamalpats and now collector for the North Pacific Rall way way recently the victim of a strange, misunderstanding. He had an old friend who avhalted by a gilevous sickness

ANOTHER Chivers pilioner in Victoria Gaol Kas committed suicide by hanging. An Inquest was held to-day and a verdict was returned to accordance with the medical evidence..

A REGULAR MEETING of the above A SPUSTICES of the PEACE will be held was about but the watches were sleeping house-to-house cleansing to consequence of the

LODGE will be keld in the FREEMASONS, HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY, the 16th Instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.

Hongkong, 11th Apill, 1895.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

No. 152.

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THE following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Pobile Auction,

MONDAY,

to be held on the spot, on

the 18th day of April, 1898, at 3 Piki, ard published for general information.

By Command,

T. ŠERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Oflen,

Hongkong, tot April, 1993.

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Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 18th day of April, 1898, at 3 P.M. by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the

applications.

In the jusTY; 18' Room, at the MAGITRACY, on TUESDAY, the 19th day of Apill, A.D. 1898, at 13 o'clock Neon, for the purpose of considering (1) From ost GUSTAV NEUBRUNN for the transfer of his Publican's licence to sell and retall fotoxicating liquers on the premises aluste at houses Nos.

sleeping at their stations alongside the guns, all ladders and boats were holsted in, am- munition out and each ship ready for action at a moment's notice. Our advices state that six ships were then at Chefoo and more expected dally, while the Russian fleet was massed at Port Arthur. The

THE Sanitary Board has seren cleansing gaogi at work in, the city of Victoria curying out

iscreste to the number of cases of plague.

An Indian gunner died in hospital on the 8th Inst and the medical officer reports that death was doo to acuto pastelites, consed probably by some frillant polsoa. As inquest will be held. THE lollowing appointments have been made at

to the Algariss, În command, to date March 4th. Fleet-Engineer-F. Ford, to the Centurion to

332 and 334, Queen's Road Central, Endaunted has, we hear, suffered a relapse the Admiralty -Commander-E. J. W. Slade, weight of the water, which caused a considerable ind by whore bedside the captais passed

under the sign of "The Land We Live lo Hotel," to bis daughter REGINA NEUBRUNN. (1.) From one 1SYDOR SILBERMAN for the transfer of his Publican's licence to sell and retall intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at house No. 184, Queen's Road Central, under the sign of "The Globe Hotel" to his wife ANNE SILBERMAN.

WIL, C. H, HASTINGS,

Magistracy, Hongkong, 11th April, 1898.

Acting Police Magistrate, [494

Intimations.

of her old complaint and is once more In possession of a bent piston rod and the title of the "lame duck of the fleet." Hongkong's torpedo flotilla will be mo- bilised to-morrow.

The insanitary condition of Hongkong just now is far from being pleasant or reassuring to contemplate. At a late meeting of the Sanitary Board, when it was proposed to declare the smallpox districts free from that malady, Dr. CLARK at once said that the places would then have to be "posted" as plague-Infected. At the recent meeting of the Board when Macao

there was a nice little touch of irony in the President's statement that several cases in Canton had been traced there from Hongkong. There is something of the glass-house accupant throwing stones

Government, of One. Lot of CROWN LAND. DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & was declared a port Infected with plague

at Hung Hom in the Colony of Hongkong, for a

term of 75 Years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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advertised.

For Freight or Pasage, apply to

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Hongkong, 11th April, 1898.

FOR NEW YORK, FIA SUEZ CANAL.

*HE Steamship

THE

"BENALDER."

Potter, Master, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 13th lastant, at Noon.

To be followed by

5.8. "CLAVERHILL," os or about igih April. 5.3. "MERIONETHSHIRE," on or abozi zid

May.

COMPANY,

VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG.

AERATED WATERS.

SIMPLE

'IMPLE AERATED WATER.

WATER.

SODA

INGER ALK.

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SARSAPARILLA.

RASPBERRYADE, &c.

wy complaints should be addressed is the £39

Manager. Bongbong, 1st March, 1897-

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

SUBSCRIBERS TO "THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS

MUST BE PAID IN ADVANOR.

about this matter.

date March sih.

HE. the Office Administering the Government has been pleased to recognise Mr. J. Grant Smith aslu temporary charge of the Peruvian Consulate General during the absence from the colony of Mr. Felipe S, Maya, or unili further notice. SEROLANT McNabb raided the coolle quarters at the Brickworks, Deepwater Bay, last night and found about 10 men there engaged playing par law. They all got away except five who were to-day, fined $1 exch, in default 14 days.

We are Informed by the Acilog Secretary of the

A TERRIBLE CATEstrophs occurred on board the French four-masted ship Presidint Folls Faurs, which airlved at Adelalds(3.A.) (som Marseilles on the 1st ult. Tha voyage had parsed without incident anti February and, when she was in 43deg. zomis, south and 67deg, east, and was, running before a strong werterly gale and heary Ser. At 2.30 p.m. a sea broke on board from each side completely filling the decks, and for Uma the versel was naggering under the list to port. After i time the water cleared away, but it was fourd. that 15 members of the crew had been washed off-the sad denness of the catastrophe, together with the fact that the vessel was running before a heavy ica, prevented the lowering of a boat, even if it were possible or pradent to bring the vassol to the wind, and consequently the conste was kept, and the vessel continued her trip, but whh the the loss of a able saimes, the second mate and two apprentices. The victims of the "disaster were all young, the oldest among them belog 34 and the youngest the cabin boy, Andre, only 16. They were all unmarried, Fasce draws her supply of sallors simosten

Sanitary Board that sinderpest exists at the pre-tirely from the coasts of Bélitany and the shores sent time at Macao, Canton and along the delta of the Mediterranean, and xa of the lost scamen of the West River, but that every possibin pre-were Bretous Two were born in Paris, and quo cantion is being taken by the officers of the balled from the south of France. Sallary Boud to prevent the Importation of

IT is difficult for English people to appreciate infected meat into the markets of this colony,

the effect which the taxation of silt his on the M. PICHON, a former lleutenant of M. Clemen poorer classes in many countries abroad. The cean, and the new Minister to China, arrived following Incident described by the Rome correr bere by the French mall yesterday. He owespondent of the Morning Pait gives some idea bis Arst diplomatic nomar'on to M. Ribot, who of ft. A small boy in the Palazza Borghese was test him to Halli in 1993. Since then he has carrying on his head an open basket fled with been promoted to South American poste of salt. It began to rain heavily, but the boy greater importance. He now comer in "bina az

went on his way unco:cardedly until he falt water trickling over his face and dowa beck Lifting the basket from his head de

A correspondent, who is an old resident of Hongkong, writes us concerning one portion of the city and Its Insanitary state. He refers to Bridges Street and says the one-story houses there are among the old- est in the colony. These places were plague hotbeds in 1894 and this year the Boxmary of any Katia plague statistics. The Sanitary Board and Mr. J. J. FRANCIS, Q.C, our corres-

A DUEL, the result of an incident at the Zola

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* sumber of watchfal hours. One craping, not many days ago, his friend's physician exgressed the opfalon that all would be over before the morning. Captain. Brooks returned table home to Sausalito and the following moming saw in a dully paper na snaguncement of the death of his fifond, followed by a state.

ment to the effect that the funeral would take place from the residencé el a relative in the Richmond District, Sorrowlally the captain wended his way to the clly, where he purchased a suitable floral decoration for the coffin of his departed friend and sent it the ad. dess mentioned in the morning paper. On the day of the funeral the captain put in an appears ance and was greatly unprised to find none of the lottmate friends of the deceased- prosent. He took a last look at the deceased' and wAS

placd to God the change the hard of death is return to Saraiko he met a Tady, a relative had wrought In the familiar features. On

́of his friend's, who had been la constant altend.. ance on the sick man. "Well, our friend's looked horrified and safd that she could not sa gone, the captain said, glocmily. The lady

bort while bife "Why, I stiended ble how that could be as she had left him only funeral just a few hours age," the captaln pled: The lady looked puzzled and the cap tals, moden the Impression that'the death of her relative bad nfected his companion's mind,.

these premises, but as usual nothing was Picquart and Henry, The Istter received a slighi | sway rapidly, and immediately set up such towing morning Cap'in Brooks waahorified to

done. At the back of the houses in queston

wound in the arm, Col. Picquart has repeated DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS are is a large space of ground, Alled up with bis refusel to 6ght Major Esterhazy in a duel, Neon, instead of at Daylight as previously made under the constant supervision of a duly rubbish and overgrown with castor all Mr Esterbary, who lately expressed his haired qualified English Chemist and will bear compa-plants. At one time it was the property of of the Jewata violent terms, has been challenged rison with the best English Manufactures.

Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSES and Dr. Goxes. It is now simply a huge latrine by Jewish gymnsit to a desi on the frontier, Her Large Consumers,

exuding the most abominable" odours. Between the backs of the Bridges Street AT 3.15 am, to-day a fire broke out in the a lobectonio's shop, No. 288 houses and this waste ground is a sort of first floor of nullah or culvert about 6 ft. wide and the Queen's Road West - Inspector MacDonald Chinese bridge it with a plank. Our cor-

and the Bremen from No. 7 Station turned out respondent says he often amuses himself and also the force from No. 5 Station. No stoning the Chinese there; this may be trouble was experienced in getting the inmates very wrong, but his indignation certain- out and the damage was confined to the first ly has good grounds, as any passer-by Boor. The premises and contexts were unta. may judge. The big open-air latrine | mured. extends to the rear of the Caine Road done at $1,300 but the police estimate is only The occupant estimates the damage houses and its length reaches from Ladder Street to Wa Hing Street, the

about $500. latter street bounding the west side of A special meeting of the Santáry Board was Victoria College, Just near by Is Ladder held on Good Friday at 5.15 p.m. to consider s Street where a Chinese doctor died recently. In 1894 these places were sup-

further raport from the Principal Civil Medical Officer concerning the prevalence of babonic posed to be pulled down. They were only disinfected, however, and gradually plague at Canton, Whampoa and Micas, and became occupled. With a liberal use of

It was unanimously agreed to recommend the WINES & SPIRITS. Jeyes' fluid and chloride of lime our Government"to" at once Iniiftuto a medical correspondent says he managed to keep fnspection of all steamer, steam-launches and the epidemic of 1894 out of his immediate pastage-boats arriving in the waters of this neighbourhood but he thinks that the Colony from the above mentioned ports. A Sanitary Board has been lacking in its proclamatoa by H. E. Major General Black duty all the same.

Acting Governer is pabilibed in the Gasitie proclaiming that Canton, Whampoa and Macao are places at which an Infectious or contagious disease prevalia.

B.S. "QUEEN MARGARET,” 00 or about 17th

MAY.

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8.3. "ST. NINIAN," on cr about 31st May, B.S. "CRAIGEARN, on or about 14th June.

For Freight, &c., apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Agents.

Hongkong, 15th Apili. 1898'

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

FOR SANDAKAN,

"HE Company's Steamship'

THE

*DEUCALION."

Captain Branch, will be despatched

FRIDAY, the 15th Inglent.

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For Freight of Parings, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, Iris April, 1898.

on

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"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS.

FOR SHANGHAI, NĀGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

Steamship

"AFRIDI,"

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D, 1841.

ALL these are selected by our London House, bought direct at first hand, Imported In wood and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all | intermediate profts, and enabling us to supply the best growths at MODERATE PRICES,

PRICE LISTS, with Full Detalls, to be had en

Application. PORT alter removal should be rested a month before use. When required for drinking at THE

once it should be ordered to be decaaled at - the Dlipentary before being sent cat. Captain Golding, will be despatched as above | SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and After Dinner on SUNDAY, the 17th Instani, at Daylight, Wines of very superior Vintages. All are

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Hongkong, zrth April, 1798.

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AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY. (UNDER MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN

GOYEONENT).

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, FENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, KURRACHI, ADEN, SUEZ,

* PORT SAID, VENICE, FIUME,

AND TRIESTE,

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THE Company's Steamship

"GISLA," Captain L. Bralich, will be despatched as abors on BATURDAY, the 15th foarkot, P.M.

Suk and Valuables will be transhipped at Bombay on steamer of the accelerated line,

For information as to Passage and Freight, apply to

BANDER, WIELER & Co.

Hongkong, tith April, 1Bose

Wines, BRANDY—All our Brandy is guaranteed, to

As If matters were not bad enough, we learn that all the very densely Inhabited lanes between the Central Markets and Winglok Street running through to Queen's Road are in a filthy condition. From these places in the last outbreak of plague large numbers of cases came and It is highly probable that they have con- siderably swelled the list this year. The mollitary authorities have taken action now as well as the police. For some time past what they call "plague duty" and now a number of constables have been on soldiers wearing the letters "S. P." (Sanitary Police) on their cuffs are doing six hours' duty dally in house-to-house searching.

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meet his friend on the feny-boat, looking a litle pals but very much allee. The exph nations that followed revealed the fact that somebody with a use and lolitafe similar to the captain's irloed had died and it was beside the grave of gled tears with people be had never seen, sor an absolute stranger that the old man had win.. heard of and who were it a loss to account for the presench of the venerable stranger at thele triand's funeral.

howl of misery that he was quickly surrounded by a crowd of loafers and colous women. The bearing of the crowd, when it found out the cause of the clamour was remarkable, men and women uniting in heaping maledictions on the happy boy, who sat on the ground too terrified oven to cry. Had the salt been the personal possession of every individual 'member of the Crowd the boy could not possibly have fared were at their tongues. They werasil of the very poorest class, to whom salt is a luxury, and ase woman declared that anybody capable of such carelessness was¦ only fit, for an asylum or following letter appears in Truth:-Dear prison. The salt, still uncovered, was quickly rath, ste you toler to the dissatisfaction. play it should be wasted, took a handful of the merits of the regiments engaged at the Dargit disappearing when x man, saying that it was a expressed at the alleged recogabion of the scdden stuff and ran off down the street; his | Affair. It is stated that for four bonra “ seccea» cxample was followed by others until the boy sive attempts to such the position were made ** was left with an empty basket, The whole scene

and that one-regiment lasi'tan men, snolher six, curious Indication of the value of salt another thren, and another two. Well, sir, if I among the very poor in Italy,

may say so, I think what the common man want i know is, why on earth they didn'!“ rush the. A fall house greated Mr. Herts at the position," insead of merely sitimpting to do so. Theatre Royal on Saturdayevaning. As before, What stopped them ? Not any physical obstacle, the first part comprised card-tricks, that for the position was eventually, saken gulis.. exhiblied, one of the best perhaps being the fire, and if the loss of thier, six, or ser were no less mysterlour than thoig previously easily. It can only have been the enemy's

Hests places a plaster cast of a lady's hand on a all I can say is that li reflects vary Ettle Thought-reading Hand," In this trick, Mr. men is suficient to stop a bolo regiment, sheet of plain glass, which rests on the backs of credit on our men 1 kear very unplenisu two chalis. The hand them answers questions whisperings about the unsteadiness of our youth- by tapping, being able among other wonders, to fal Tomm'es amongst those who are in a post. predict the exact number a member of the on, to know, I wonder what our hyper- audience will throw with a couple of dice, Miss excitable sensation jointly would have said in D'Alion to two songs, "Magnestis" and an experience such as the 43'd Regimani kad "Baby, Vor Ma Honey," for both of which she | 4l the stoming of Badajoz I imagine they "Susie Usle, The Cinematograph was again would have failed them altogether. In the was warmly applauded, and, in response, gave would simply have been paralysed; language exhiblied with a new serier of pictores, many Diary of a Private Soldier in the Penia. of which were very effective, Alter the curtain solar War," Laialy published, the isking of was raised for the third part of the programme, Bad jos ir thus datcribed—a leason fo moderty Mr. Her mystified the rudience for a few more and moderation of language (o our pendy«X« "enchanted moments" with some new murvele liners -"At the hour of plop at night wa

talamaaf with the wonderful ilusion which he began and weld to two in the morning, af deception, and concluded the evening's enter- received ordain for the storming. It then call "Nash's Ark," wherein he first of all pro We were best back twice, but the third duces from the windows of an ark, which had time made it good, but with a great slinghtar." previously been shown 10 be emply, various And then the honest follow continues, quilte animals and birds, forfedlog, cats, geese, simply, "We lost our noble Calenal McCloud, fowls, and rabbits, and finally opens the ad every soldier much lamented his loss, for THE Queen has been pleased to signify approval ask, when, beheld I Miss D'Alon le lound he was a father to them, builder fourteen of the appointment of Mr. J. N. Jordan, Consul gracefully reclining withie, looking radiant. In officer, ten verguents, 43; killed and wounded, Generallat Seoul, to be Her Majesty's Chargé a beautifal Eastern costume. A matinee was in the 43rd Regiment," There What do you d'Affaires at that capital. The effect of this is given in the afternoon of the same day think of that? And we know from olker berefers, says a bomo paper, that in future Sir when there was a large attendance. There sources what the horrid soome tu the great Claude Macdonald conses to be Minister to Kores, and that Mr. Jordan is now directly attractions presented at the Theatre Royal this mines, the pits, the entanglements, the mense- will be a special holiday programme of breach was like. The constant explosión of accredited. The reason of the change la to be evening, when there will no doubt be a vary log chevaux-de-frise of sword-blades Exed on rought in recent svents in Kores. At the time large pdience present to witness the clever timbers chained together, the glass of itke of the difficulty as to the supercession of Mr. tricks of Carl Herts, who has been rightly styled fire-balls, and the showers of graps and musket McLeavy Brown by a Russian Financial Advirer, | "The King of Cardi." After the evening bullets. Wellington's despatch given the loss Mr. Jordan sought repeatedly for audience with there will be but two larowell-performances at Budajos at 1,035 killed and 3,789 wounded. the King of Korea. This was denied on the given, so then any patrons who have not yet I sometimes wonder whether we sin the same grounds that he was not antitled to an audience, witnessed the truly marvellous and my ip date breed as the simpla sturdy fallows who made being only Consul-General. In fature Mr. performances of this great conjuror, should seize the great repulsiion of the British Infantry.={ Jordan will have a right to demirsā audience, the earliest opportunity,

BaYORK A special general meeting of the Lonien

Chamber of Commerce, held on the 4th ult, a address was delivered by Sir Henry Blake, the Governor.deguate of Hong Kong, on malcs," with special reference to engar cultiva. ton and fruit-growing. He incidentally remarked that Jamaica proscared one of the seven great barbours of the world ; and when the time came -ês it woul? come-when a great portion of the world's commerce was carried through the Irth- Endy's Ship Rallway, the part of Kingston would mes by the Panama or Nicaragua Canal, or by vie with London, Singapore, and Hong Kong in the extent of Its shipplag. Well, markes ship pleg and sugar-growing, Hongkong can beat the

be pure Cognac, the difference. In price age works and elaborate sanitary inspec-

Hongkong, with all its expensive drain. | world for siloké, being merely a question af age and vintage. on, is monstrously malodorous. It is not WHISKY.-A Whisky is of excellent only the drains, but the private houses, quality and of greater age than most brand, backyards, stairways and passageways, In the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY Iumbered and littered with filth, and marked "E" is universally popular, and is crowded with filthy people. It all helps pronounced by the best local connoisseurs the disease-germs to thrive. To clean to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong is a Herculean task which has Hongkong market.

Dever been properly faced,

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirils to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or Irvin our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports,

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

*THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 8th Decembar, 1897,

PLAGUE STATISTICS.

During the 24 hours up to noon, Bth April, at now cases and ry deaths from plague were reportad, making the total place sat January (98 |'daya) 338 cases and 28y dektka.