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Joban's hertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Unde signed.have received lustractions

THE

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

(For etccount of the Concerned'))

ON

THURSDAY, the 22nd September, 1898,

At 2 10 P.M.,

at the NEW CLUB,

SUNDRY FURNITURE

Competing

SIDEBOARDS. WRITING TABLES, FENDERS and SETS FIRE IRONS, COAL SCUTTLES, ARMCHAIRS, CLOCKS, DRESSING TABLES, OVERMANTELS, CROCKERY PICTURES, ENGRAVINGS,

&G.. AND

Two ENGLISH BILLIARD TABLES by THURSTON & Co. with all Äppurtenances, &o

TERMS ÁS Ünual.

Catalogner can he had on TUESDAY on ap- plication to the Auctioneers:

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Jongkong, 17th Statember 180S

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GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH NORTH

BORNEO.

GOVERNM»NT OF LABUAN,

REVENUE FARMS FOR 1899.

CENDERS will he received by the Govern- ment See:clary, Sandakan, on or before

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the 19th November next for the following

REVINDE FARMS for 18991-

OPIUM FARMS.

SPIRIT LICENSE FARMS,

PAWNBROKING FARMS,

CUSTOMS FAR: S for North, Bornea only. GAMBLING RESTRICTION FARMS for North Bernen enit

For Particulars "mote's

to

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 1898.

Intimations..

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK &

COMPANY,

"FICTORIA DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG.

AERATED WATERS,

SIMPLE

SODA

AERATED WATER.

WATER.

GINGE

INGER ALR

EMONADE.

GARSAPARILLA,

ASPHERNYADE, &c.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK, & Co.'s WATERS aro made under the constant supervision of « daly qualified English Chemist and will beat compa daon with the best Engilah Manufactores.

Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBg, Masts and other Large Consumers.

Any complaints should be addriited to the Manager

Hongkong, fit March, 1897

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NOW READY!

IN HANDY PAMPHLET FORM.

Messi, BIRLEX DALRYMPLE & Co., A FULL, CAREFULLY REVISED and

minngkong..

17th September 1899.

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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, "AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

HE Company's Steamship

"THALES,"

T

Captain Bathurst, wil be despatched for the above Porta, on TUESDAY, the 2014 Instant, at 10 AM,

For Freight on Pastage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.

Hongkong, 17h, Sentember, 1899.

farir

THE CHINA' AND MANILA STEAMSHIP

COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR MANILA (DIRECT),

'HE Company's Steamship

THE

5M RAL DA."

Captain Tayler, will be despatched for the above Port on THURSDAY, the 22nd lustant, at.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers and is fitted with the Electric Light.

·For Frelphi or Paistar, apply to

Hongkona

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co..

General Managers. „Septemner, 1.

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THE PENINSULAR AND, ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION, COMPANY, STEAM FOR

accurate account of the INTERPORT CRICKET MATCHES With a Critique on the Week's play, the Festivities connected with the Carnival and the batting and elding of the various teams.

PRICE, 50 CENTS PIR COPY. Orders will be promptly attended to by

The Manager THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.,

OFFICE, No. 6, Faditor's Hill. Hongkong, 20th November, 1807.

· A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITAD.

MANUFACTURERS OF

ALRATED WATERS,

AERATED WATERS of our mànu- facture are sold throughout the Far East and are invariably pre- ferred on account of their excellences

ABSOLUTE PURITY is guaranteed. The best materials only are used

THE PRICES are only half those

STRAITS, CEVLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, charged in England.

ADEN EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading sued for BATAVIA, PARSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL und AMERICAN PORTS).

THE Stearssbig

"BALLAARAT," Captain C. L. W. Feld, carrying Her Majesty's Malls, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY,

86., on SATURDAY, the rat October, at Noon, taking Pass Apd Cergo for the abori Ports,

Sineerd Valuable, at Cargo for France and Tea for London fader arrangement) will be transhipped at Collinbe into a steamer proceed. Ing direct to arseltes and London; other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed vid Bombay.

Parcels will be received at ls Office until 4 P.. the day before walling. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.

Shippers are panicularly xequested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's Bills of Lading.

For iniber Parlando, apply to

7

A. RITCHIE,

Superfatendent," Hongkong. 17h pember, 1XQ8.

NORTHERN PACIFIC, STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

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WATERS MANUFACTURED BY US are acknowledged by the leading English makers to be equal to those of their own production.

SIR WARD FRANKLAND, L.C.B., D.C.L., P.R.S., P.C.S., &c. the greatest living authority on Water, reports as follows on the water as prepared and used by us in our manufacture "It possesses an extremely high de

gree of organic purity and is "of most excallent quality for

drinking."

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1898.

No wonder our letters go astray. Chan Chla war today sent to go for four months for

THE Universal Gazette leiran that the number A NATIVE pazer give: this accoudofia - Canton of Censors in Peklag wil be reduced by hall; Viceroy :-Viceroy Tea Chung having applied there are over eighty of these powerfal digni- | to vacate his part through illucas le permitted to tarles at prezent,

do so. He is a vory avaricious men, so much so that when be governed Fokien and Cheking bribes were publicly taken and by this means he has added several million tuels to his riches, When transferred to Kevngtung it was a better past for hire and unexpectedly he now reslgos. He might have been induced to do so to the present critical state of affairs in China and so he wishes to get out of the difficulty or it might be that he havlog made his plla he wishes to | Uro, & natired life.

TELEGRAMS.ng stampy from letters at the G.P.O. and

(Special to the Hongkong Telegraph.) ANOTHER BRITISH SUCCESS.

THE CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY,

for dollslag a lattor, property of the Post Office, he received another four months.

AT Talplog, the local manager of the Spirit Farm has curialled, the number of liquor shops, by personally going round and laking away the licenses of all those which la la optolon were Dot suitable. The bar-keeperi have appealed to the Resident.-Perak Pioneer..

SHANGHAI, September 17th. Reports from Peking state that a con- cession for the construction of a railway A WELSHMAN has accomplished the feat of from Kowloon to Canton has been grant-walking 4000 quarter, milles fa 4000 successive ed to British capitalists.

periods of gt minutes each at Leeds, England,

REUTER'S MESSAGES.

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THE RECENT TROUBLE IN CRETE. TURKEY AND THE POWERS..

LONDON, September 15th. The Porte in a circulate note to the Powers relages to withdraw the Turkish troops from Crete, and ask them to'appoint a Governor.

The Admirals at Candle have, refured the Governor's request to extend the time of their altimatum.

SPAIN,

The Cortes has been aspended to enable the Government to cope with the political and military agliations,

DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.

A barricane occurred on Saturday at the Leeward and Windward Island, "Kingstown and St. Vincent by which 300 people were killed and 2,cdo rendered homeless. In Barbadoes 200 were killed and the estates ruled,

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report to-day says:-On the 17th at 145 am: The barometer con tinues steady and normal on the China coast. Pressure is slighly low in a troughlike grea lying across the N, part of the China Sea and extending Eastward to the Pacific. "Gradients light for N. E. winds on the Chins coast, and for S. W. winds in the S. part of the Chian Sea. FORECAST: Moderate N. E. winds; showery.

1 world's record. Twenty thousand perrons looked on at the finish. He had previously walked the distance in intervale of g3 minutes. We learn that, by the courtesy of Colonel Retallick and Officers of the Hongkong Regi- ment, the band will recommence playing on the ex-front at Kowloon on Sunday afternoons from to-morrow at 4.30 p.m. Kowloon residents will doubtless appreciate the kindness of Colonel Retallick and his officers.

A SARCASTIC lawyer, during the trial of a case, made sise of the expression, "Cast Dot your pearla before swlae." Sabiequently, as he rose to make the argument, the Jadga facetiously re- marked, "Be careful, Mr., not to cast your

A soleus requlom mass was celebrated in memory of the late Empress of Austria at the Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday afternoon. The faterlor of the Cathedral was draped in. black, the pillars belog sat Ined with broad black bands and the upper part of the church festooned with black cloth. Here and there were wreaths with streamers of black and orsage. Under the dome was a catalalque sur- mounted by a crown and surmounted by lighted tapers. On the pall was the deceased Espress's monggram to allver. The Bishop (the Right Rev, L. M. Piazzoli), assisted by a large number of priests, officiated,

Hi Excellency Major General Black, the Chlef Justice (Sir John Carrington), the Acting Colonial Secretary (Ho T. Sercombe Smith), and other Government officials were present, together, with the various consuls.

AMONGST the vessels destroyed la battle off Carlé was the Marquis del Duero; this was the boat that came to Sandakan (the town Was

JOHN CHINAMAN IN SYDNEY.

Qar a'mand-eyed lends have a happy knack of adapting themselves to clicumstances that probably is not possessed by any ciber race ba the face of the globe. Pat John Chlarman, on board ship, down to the East End of Lindos, almon canaleg lo North America, or gaiden- Ing, gimblog, store-keeping and fishing in California, h: ploda along untiringly with "that steady bid galt of his that would soon knock a walie man out of time. Australia, untă the heavy pole tax was imposed, was a bappy hunting ground far John. He digglog days and many became millionslies came thero la his thousands fa the old gold-

They fosilcked around workings deserted by the whites and often made very rich hauls, and is their expenses were small they made these so- called "played out mines or patches pay band somely. Anyone who knows Aduralia will recollect the celebrated Kong Meng mine la Victorta.

sten.

pearis before swine." "Don't be alarmed, your then 14 miles further up the Bay) and demanded / Pariltioned off by matchwood walls de longs

Honour; I am about to address the jury, not the Coast."

AT x dinner party. In South Africa the hostess told the Kaffir boy to bring the champagne." The boy left and returned without the wine, She commanded him again to bring the cham- pagne, with the same result. Then he whispered, "No lat. "Nossense." sad the woman, "there is plenty." "No," persisted the native, "me look at all the bottles: all say, 'Extis dry !!!

Thx Malay Mail seeks for the establishment of a State Bank in Selangor, or rather a Bank backed by a Government guarantee, to advance money to respectable people at six per cent, interest. At present, business operations there are clogged for want of cheap money. The only people who have money are the chettles, but they comblee to keep up the rate of faterest to

THE SITUATION IN THE PHILIP. | rapidly enrich themselves.

PINES.

On ergalty at the American Consulate we

learn that Consul-General Widman bare ceived no news from Mantle of trouble'between the American authries and the rebels. The Consul added that he believed the accounts of strained intens had heen' mach'exaggerat. ed that bearing out our owe opintort.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FOR gambling in Penya Central a coolie was to- day fined $7.

Tux lawol possession of a place of wasd to- day resulted in a coolle being fined $5 or fourteen

days.

A WEEK or so ago the agricultural school in Hupch was formally opened by the Viceroy. It is in charge of a European fastractor,

THE aplawful possession of six tzels of oplum cost a coolle $75, falling to pay which he will have Government board and lodging for

three months.

THE Master of the steara launch Ram Sku was to-day fined $15 ex lx weeks for blowing his stem whistle other than for the purposes of navigation.

THE Italian Government has imposed a lax of 10 ire on bicycles, and in falare all machloes will have to carry a mark showing that the yearly tax has been paid."

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theme. Down lower George Street, Sydney, The above generalisation leads me to my DOLF the Circular Quay-an antiped:an in business that the quarter is colloquially. Rateliff Highway-there are so many Celestials known as "Chinx town. There ara tibe all the stilbitee of a regular Chinese' Street, except that the road is much wider. Chinese and lodging houses, fank shops where old grocers, fancy goods shops, gambling dens copper, fron, lead, rope &c. The

41 bought adours fa the neighbourhood 10 characteristically Chinese and to the new to be found here. Great red and gold signs comes from home there is much of Interest

adorn the exteriors of the shops and when one enters and gets into those little stuffy rooms saan lo be out in the fresh air again. Joha the pulling down of the Sabah flag under threat

wears his national costume, queue and white of bombardment. Mr. Pryer, who was then in soled shoes and all, and he has brought his charge of the district, refused the demand, and pational music with him, a music too well-known Mr. Cowie arriving in the Far East anchored to most Hoogleengiics, Pea nus, ies, preserved her between the town and the Spanish man of the main articles of trade, and when you ses a geoger, fios, feory carvlogs and allie goods are war, while British figs were holaed over several place with a few dusty bundles of cige.or houses. After the departure of the Far East Couple of sickly looking bunches of baniras la the Spanish threatened to land a party to haul the the window it is quite safe to say that inside fig down themselves, but Mr. Pryer manned you can get a lottery ticker or take a band in a the heights at the back of the town with armed clever in elading the police bat the latter are game at pab-a-du, or fantan. John is very Sooloos and Bajus who could have shot down often too clever for even him,

elves. After this Mr. Pryer went on board and folat bereft from which all fices are paid. Sald a landing party with litle lear of barm to them.gamblers are nothing if not ays'ematic. Each house always pools & certain amount for their adopting the "Civle Rominus rum" attitude fines are pretty stiff and generally ran from £10 when threatened that he would be taken to to 30 Not many years ago there was a great Minila, the Capiala sal! he would return for an between the gardener's guild and the, increased force; and after having had a sherry to a big lottery and he was refused the money. gambler. A gardener drew the winning ticket and bitters together, Mr, Pryci went on shore,Then he and his fellows made an urgent demand while the Captain get up steam and went back to Manila-B. N. B. Herald.

These boss.

for the prize and were set upon and very badly handled. The maiter went to the Water Folde Court add both tldes mastered strongly. Some of MESSRS. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts in their the gamblers brought along a van with a lot of Wukly Share Report state -Since our last goods in it. When the deck lan was given report the market has contlaurd steady, and at them the fardeners left the court and the rates have been well maintaloed. Banks.cealed a number of tren bars with handles, gamblers rushed for the van whalein was con- Hongkong and Shangha! Banks have ruled kaires, bludgeons, &c. They attacked the steady, and sales at 104 and 205 per cent, pre- cabbage raisers and backed and beat them miam have been effected. The 'Londas quota-ard the culprits were pantshet severely.

fearfully. The police rande a Dumber of arrests The

Ar Seram ban, the Residency Surgeon suggested, the other day, that a central milking stallon should be established there under contral of the Sanitary Board. The Board approved of the ides in principle. But one of the members sald that the cows would also have to be hocsed at the milking station 3, I brought from a son I £47. Nationals have again charged great objection to the gambling houses, and tance Immediately rior to the milking hours,hands at $17. Marine Insurances.-Unions are they would h: Hkely in hold their milk.

PAWD

more, pailicularly those near the Quay is that ffering at $15.-Cblea Traders have been-rasny poor devlie of-a-what-labourer-visita- donc at $63) the mirket cloilog weak with his week's wages, while the wife has to Ustao big type, double-leaded and conspicuous selle at $63. Fire Insurances-Remalo uz-

thera on Saturday nights and comes away minus ly placed, the Maintchi Shimbun informs the changed Shipping-Hongkong, Csalon and

the children's clothes or her own in order public that there is a project on loot to obtain Micro Steamboats have been in some demand, mentioned above a Christianised Chinaran, Mr. to obtain food for the week. In the row Government assistance for solving the present

Goldtown, who was educated here, look a pro- dilemma to the Import t-ade. Millions of dollars closing with buyers at the latter rate. Indo-

and sales have isken place at $aft and $253.ratnent part on behalf of the gardeners. He worth of goods are lying stored to Yokohama Chinas have changed bands at $44 and $544. European clothes and no queue. By profession was a very decent, young yellow and woTO and Kabe, but the Japanesó merchants to whose Douglas Steamships have again been done st arder they were imported cannot take delivery, $58.

he was a lotespre er and commission agent, and very serious inconvenience is felt on li$8.75, 88.95 Rod $8.95. Refineries,~Small lols I bave myself seen a hral banslation of the

Slat Ferries have been fixed af

His action so facensed the gamblers that they offered a reward of Laco for bis head, sides, Now the Government has been devoting of China Sugars have been sold at $154, and are bill volfing the same, made by an educated large sums to the redemption of War Bonds steady at the rate. Lusans are firms with buyers Chinese. He had to go into biding and the and Consols, En order to relieve the

water was the only newspaper min who managed ran bin to earth, and not being trotted ha copy of the interview af to s post then poisssica-with the aur sacra fames be little suburban paper grateficesly Instead of selling it at a high price to one of the big metro- Pollian diler. However it's too late in regret such iblogs noW.

pressure in the money market. If officialdom as a duty to perform in that respect, why should it not also recognise some obligation in That is the question prophanded to themseles the field of the country's foreign commerce by embarrassed Japanese merchants, and there is no difficulty in casfeclaring the answer they fiad. Thele lica, then, is that the Treaty should place a sum of B or to million yes at the disposal of the Specle Bank, and that the lalter should give accommodation to japanese middlemen, the foreign imparters, on thele side, remitting a moiety of the interest and storage on the goods. It is supposed that fully filty per cent. of these good, could be sold to the con suming classes without difficulty or delay, and the proceeds of the salts could be applied to releasing further instalments of the accumaisted Imports. There is nothing to Indicate the anthorlty upon which our-contemporary ralles for the above statement.-Yapan Hall. Tax following Imperial diet was issued on the thlostant? We have received a memorial

Ar about 10.30 m. 10-day Chinese coalie fell from a height of 40 or so ft from the bam- boo scaffolding at Beaconsfield Parade.. When

an the bead. He was taken to the Hospital and

tile hopes are entertained for his secovery, THERE are many complaints being made by the respectable residents of Gough Street regarding the way la which the Chat Mat game is allow ed to be carried on a brothels in that street The salty pastime is kept up until 2 de 3 a.m. and like Mscbeth "doth matther sleep matom Chang Yin-huan saying that recently there

13 During the Summer Months,picked up he was bleeding from seven wounds all ERATED WATERS should be Is kept in a cool place, preferably in an ICE CHEST OF REFRIGERATOR, until required for use. The Bottles should be stored with the necks downward so that the corks are covered by the HE Above Steamer having arrived, Con. I water. This will prevent an escape-rt for the nolay loik, THE

signees of Cargo are hereby requested to of gas taking place and rendering the send in their, Jills of Ladlag for countersignatore and to take immediate delivery of their Goeds waters more or less flat. from alongside.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS STEAMSHIP VICTORIA," FROM TACOM», VICTORIA, YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND MOJI

Cargo Impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and atured at Consignees' risk and expense.

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DODWELL, CARLILL & Co., .

Agents Hongkong, 17th September, 1893.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, HE;P&O. S. N. Co.'s 'Steamship

"BRINDISI,"

FROM BOMBAY AND STRAITS, Consignees of Cargo by the abaye-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed of their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where exch consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery cas be obtained as soon as the Goods are lauded.

This vestel bringe on Cargo:~

From Ferslan Gall, ex S.S. Khondolja. Goods not cleared by the 23rd inst., &t 4 PM); will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any caso whatever,

All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and certificate of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognized.

H.A. RITCHIE,

Superintendent. Hangkong, 17th September, 1897,-

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

Hongkong, 5th SeptemEor, 1898.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTE.

effectively. We hope the police will be on the

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Tax Malay Mall urges thorough-going reform to the clerical service in Selanger. Its poluted out that, under the present system, a man who his never kept booki may be sent to take charge ofan bat-lation treasury; a P. W. D. man, who cannot speak Malay, may be sent as chlal clerk, to a coast district offices a man from the Audit Office may be installed as land clerks and so on. A MEETING of these? (atorested In the Nurses' Memorial Fund was held at the City Hall at (7 noon to-day and there was a fair attendance..

The Rey R. F. Cobbold presided. The follow leg commalitee was appointed-Rev. R. Cobbold, His Lordship the Chief Justice (Six

It is requested that a communications relating to Bubscriptions,

have been many memorials presented to the Throne suggesting the advisability of inaugurat- ing the conscription among the people of the empire, according to to, elga methods, la order

make the whole popolation of China soldiers. | The memetalles, however, thinks that this scheme is a wide for the present crisis, but that If each pravicce organises its own volunteer corps, drilling them according to the Western method already auctioned by the Throne, making the members serve a certain ilme, and thed pating them into the Reserve, their places to the corps being taken by sacculta and so on, thepfan would boar quicker results, especially

with sellers at $5. Rubs nie offering at $35- at $41. Mloing-Fucjoms have ruled quiet Olivers."B" have been done at $3.60 and are steady at the rate. Great Eastern and Calc- donlans have been is strong demand and have $5,60, but are again caster with sales and sellers heen sold to a large extent at $5, $5.25 and

The Chinese gardens al Waterloo and Botany at .15. Jelebus ats quiet with sales at 842. and ales en Bayswater, Road are splendid ex-- Docks, Wharver and Godawn.-Hoogkong mples of the Celestial's skill as a gasdiener, In and Whampoa Docks have changed hands at land that in the memory of the oldest in mary cases they have reclaimed and drained

have been taken off the market at $53. Lands, frogs, mosquitoes and other small deer. To-day 145 per cent, premium. Kowloon Wharf shares habitant was devet anything bet a bean for Hateis and Balldingr.~Hongkong Lauds are enquired for at 255. Hongkong Hotels are firms radlikes, &c., and form the main vegetable these swamps are laid out most geametrically and planted with polatoes, cabbages, carrots, with sales and buyers at $53, Humphrey's supply of Sydney and suburbs. The dwellings Estate Lave been booked at $34. Chios Pro are all constructed of packing cases, pleces of vidents have been in favour and sales have beenila and sinc, sheels of sacking and such like, One wet ster- made at $91. Cot'an Mills.-Hongkong Co- and wretched hovels they are. tons are in demand at $47. Miscellaneous only one room, no window as just an open noon I vislied some 29 such places. They had Electrics have been sold at $. Ropes are pentre. so chimusy and the fire on the cariben wanted at $161. Tramways are asked for at floor. In que corner was a wet ted on a framı $110.

and underneath the bed stood the baskets of vegetables that Wing Le, or whatever bla Dame was, would reil to us poor white folk next day. The worst part of China town to Sydney in Wexford Street, down by the Hay market, rgn.lid plage that is not safe to be entered after night-fall, Here are all the oplum dens and here too many an an fartanate white girl has come to the deepest depths of Infamy and degradation through" having cultivated the oplum babit. Sometimes vagrants and in the court they look like torpses the wrecked creatures are brought up a two or three days old and fast possessing the power of locomotion. In fact I have seen them with death-like faces and not able to speak. but whenever they get a chance they're back to The Salvation Army ladies take them in band their "Chow" (as they call the Chinaman) again.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarfy endorse the opinion expressed by Correspondents to this comes.]

THE OPIUM FARM.

TO TIM EDITON or run “Holdkona Tzzmanara."

There are plenty of clever and. Industrious Chlação carpenters in business in Sydasy who make most attractive articles, of furniture out of packing cares &c. They work at lentially low rates and doubtless have spolled many a while man's trade and generally it is a matter for con grainiation that the poll tax was imposed. There are quite enough Europeans to do all the work Sydney requires and there's no room là

Middle Kingdom."

Advertisements, &c., be addimised to the "Manager, Hongkong | W. Carrington) Hons, P. C Chaler, D. R. D. qulio agree with Chang "Yin-huan's 'argdments, aimer supplies only the Indian drug, DC the city at least for any more subjects of the

SIR, With regard to the latter of the 8th inst, from the Hongkang General Chamber of General Chamber of Commerce, proposing the Commerce to the President of the London limitation of the prepared drug to local con. sumption and the supplying of the American and Australian Markets 1-think it would have quiries first. It would have been found that been well had the Chambers made a few en- the present allowance of fire cheats per diens for local consumption is not nearly adequate, Tes chests per diem would about office with been driven to Macao. Chlas is directly res out reckoning on the export trade which has es the volunteers could be utilised to serve ponsible for the smuggling of opfum fato this sgarrisons when the regular troops are needed colony and the balance of it is most inferior Felsewhere, while they could farther be used to article, which raight be placed on the same

reinforce the regulars in emergencies. We

bails as the gr-per-gallon whiskey as compared with the fine old blended liquar. The Oplum especially as thean volunteer corps could be has nothing like the deleterious effect on the Comm mustrious intended for publication must be accompanied IN October last there were in New South Wales formed into the nucleos of a haze army in times smoker that the common China article has.

A sketch like this would not be complete Whilst the colusins of the fencing Tigraft wil always 3:422 fall blood aboriginals and 3,663 half of geed. This plan should he put lato effect at You have only to look at Sama-sul-po, which be open for the fair discusated by correspondents of all questions castes. Twelve years back the full bloods once, especially as regards the provlace of Kuang population of about rocó and yet has 20 without reference to my old friend Mr. Quong affecting public taterats, must be disiactly understood that numbered slightly more than double the ball, si where there is a serious rabaillon among the opfam ? All the large gaanilies seized comes

bolling establishments. Who consumes this Tart, one of the "whitest "Chinamen that over

lived in his handsome catering establishment. castes, but since then they have decreased at Secret Society men. We hereby command that directly from China and is smuggled baik by only Europeans are employed and Quong is a the average annual rate of 160, agafast as the Viceroys and Governors of provlaces at home and protect this colony first, as all other else, while he has a decked partially for Sco

Europeans, and Chiseas. Let charly begin at Britaber in dress, sympaibles and everything Advertisers are requested to forward all notless intended for average annual increase of 36 half-castes. A into action at once the recommendation of Chang colonies that have farms protect their monopatisk Songs-it was a treat to hear him and the insertion in that day's trans not fator than Three of Clock so as total sum of £16,73% Was expanded by theYin-buan and report to us within three months lists, by putting prohibitive penalties on all Editor of the New sing "Huntingtower"

Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a "colonial government on behalf of the aborigines what they hare done in the matter; but the owners of fliteit oplam seised. It would soon stop one of our linle newspaper suppers ons sight. duslog the year, and overy possible protection Viceroy and Govainor of the Two Kuang pro. | the struggle and also protect the revenge of Qazog taken, a big band to every charitabla movement, sparing neither money for pains, and is afforded them, but nothing can prevent their vincey are to be only given one month to report

his game has become a bousehold word all over numbers steadily, dwindling; A few pants to me, on pala of savorye penalties.---N. G. D.

Australls. Plly there were not more like him, hence they will have become an exiinet race,

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AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM. Hongkong, 17th September, 1898.