THE
To-day's Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Undersigned, have received instruc
tions to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION," (For Account of the Concerned,) TO-MORROW
FRIDAY, the 23rd December, 1898, at te o'clock (NOON),
at their SALES ROOMS, Ice House Street. 111 Tubs each jobs. SALMON BELLIES. 17 Barrels each iso lbs. SALMON BELLIES. AN ASSORTMENT OF WINES.
Comprising
MOUTON ROTHSCHILD, SAUTERNES, POMMARD, CHAMBERTIN, NIERS- TEIN,
SPARKLING CIL LAFITE, MOSELLE, HOCK, LIQUEURS, BRANDY,
&c.,
&C., AND
TERMS:-As Usual.
&c.
One WARDROBE, DRESSING TABLE and SIDEBOARD.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 22nd December, 1898,
N°
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.
No. 86.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1898.
Intimation.
ELECTRIC WORKS,
THE proceeds of the concert at the City Hall THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE by the Dramatic Company of H.M.S. Powerful on Boxing Night are to be donated to Naval charities.
"Ten following is the programimo of music to be
A. S. WATSON & Co. to find any other name for it, renders it well played by the KO. Li Band at the Office electric shock at the "Electric Works on Sanitary Board, for(1) Attempting to obtains
LIMITED.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
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OTICE is hereby given that MONDAY next, the zih instant and MONDAY, the 2nd January, 1899, will be observed as HOLIDAYS at the KoWLOON CUSTOMS, OFFICE
Work at the OPIUM EXAMINATION OFFICE and CUSTOMS STATIONS will proceed as usual.
H. M. HILLIER, Commissioner of Customs,
Custom House,
for Kowloon & District.
Kowloon, 21st December, 1898.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION
THE
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HE Public are hereby informed that on and after the 21st instant the RATE OF POSTAGE on Letters posted in the Colony to the places mentioned below will be 4 Cents perà oz.
The Full Schedule of NEW POSTAGE RATES will be published in the GAZETTE of the 24th instant.
AM. THOMSON---- Postmaster General.
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Ter Cute
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$10.80
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12.00
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gradually sifting themselves out and becom- ing more and more exclusive year after year, A Class finds that it is derogatory to its dignity to be seen in the company of B Class, and that C Class must be shunned at all hazards. This snobbery, for it is difficult nigh impossible for any cohesiveness to be shown in any particular line of sport and, as a natural consequence, either a club must fall to the exclusive use of one particular class or else go to the wall. What we should like to see would be all classes mixing on a perfect equality when once aquatics, football, cricket or any other outdoor amuse ment happened to be the order of the day..
Mess, Murray Barracks, on Saturday next; com
mencing a 6 p.m. --
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"THE ALLEGED- BRIBERY CASE:
CHIEF JUSTICE INDISPOSED, An inquest was held the Police Court to-day. on the death of Thomas Mercer, fourth engineer The case against Frederick Howard Kew, of the Salkader who was accidentally killed by clerk, and Lo Wing, auessenger, both of the Monday fast. Commde.. Wi C. H. Hastings, a bribe us a public servant within view to influ Dr. J. C. Thomson said-On the morning of Attempting to obtain a bribe as a public ser the 20th inst. 1 examined the body of avant, with a view to incline him to do an act contrary to the rules of honesty and integrity (3) Attempting to extort money under cover of office-which was to have been taken at the Criminal Sessions today was adjourned. till. to-niorrow at ten o'clock, owing to the indispo sition of the Chief Justico.
Acting Police Magistrate, acted as Coroner ence his conduct as such public servant (1)
{"Q.") King And Grimth European male adult, said to be that of Thomas Mercer, at the Government Mortuary Ground
It was that of a young man, a little over thirty. Anil KapoThere were no external marks of injury except And Tsarea cut on the left hand across the third and little, finger. The blood was dark coloured and quite fluid throughout the body. The heart. the internal organs were much congested but was fattily degenerated. The brain and all otherwise healthy. I came to the conclusion that death was due to electric shock. That is the reason the blood was dark coloured and fluid. The condition of the heart rendered it likely that a slighter electric shock would prove fatal than in the gase of a man with a healthy heart.
THE mortality return for the week ending Toth December was 25.1 per 1,000 as compared Unless this state of things can be brought with t8 the previous week and 21.3 the corre about we fear that the Victoria Recreation sponding week last year. The President of the Sanitary Board minuted that this was a Club and consequently its Regatta must end in failure. · If the Regatta is to be un-
large increase as compared with the previous der the auspices of the V. R. C. entirely, week. "He understood that 11 deaths had then class distinctions must be done away occurred from intermittent fever.. The Medical with once the door of the Club, has been officer of Health stated that this was the passed. Outside, A Class, B Class and diagnosis of a policeman-at Kowloon and at Class, and all the other Classes of the alpha- Aberdeen-and was not that of a inedical man bet may keep entirely to themselves, but once inside each member must forget that AT the Supreme Court to-day, Heary Francis he is anything but a simple sportsman and Robert Brayne, B.A., was admitted to practice remember that he has equally good as a solicitor by the Puisne Judge. An affi- men for his associates. Another method davit was filed by Mr Chantrey Inchbald of reviving the interest in the Regatta, stating that Mr. Brayne was a fit and proper if people cannot be prevailed upon person to be admitted as a solicitor "in this to lay their pride aside fra short honoumble'Court." Mr. Brayne arrived here time, would be for the Victoria Recreation on 17th inst. He was formerly of Cheltenham, Club to be finally wound up and a separate and was educated in the Cheltenham and club established
each particular Class
Then we should have the A's, Trinity Colleges. He was admitted as solicitor the B's and the C's all conserting within the Supreme Court of Judicature on 25th their fellows and the question of class October, this year. would be done away with. The regatta could be arranged to be held by a committee could be chosen from amongst league of all the different clubs and the the representatives of each, A would no longer be disgusted at having to row in the
for
JUDGES' NOTES.
Judges' notes was a matter of coinment in the Supreme Court here in the Li Sing case a short time ago. The same question in another form was before the Court of Appeal in England lately and the master of the Rolls is reported to have said, with reference a note at the end Francis Joseph Price said-I am an electrician of a case conceming registered trade marks, employed at the Hongkong Electric Co. I made in which be was reported to have laid it down the acquaintance of deceased or Friday Inst. I that it was desirable that solicitors should know believe he was the fourth engineer of the that in appeals in cases where evidence has eteamship Salhadgi. I had been on board his been taken orally in the court below it is their ship on Monday afternoon and left him on board duty to apply in good time for the judge's about 5 pm. I next saw deceased alive about notes of evidence. That it is right enough, 7 pm in the Electric Light station, with the but there comes a passage which is alf wrong, second engineer of the same ship. They were although whether I am to blame for it or any speak to them I went straight up to my quarters are these: If they do so they will generally not there by appointment with me. I did not body else I do no: stop to inquire. The words to dinner. The next thing was about 7.30 when be supplied by the fudge's clerk with copies of a Chinese engineer who was on duty coine, to those notes. Now that is not the practice, my quarters, about 30 steps above the station. and I have never had any authority to say what I am represented to have said, and the passage in consequence of what he told me I went down at once. I saw the second engineer of the must be put right. What it should be is this; Salhadgi, the Chinese engineer who came up If they do so this court will apply to the judge and a Chinese fitter fifting the body of for a copy of his notes. But it, as frequently the decensed in the Station close to the happens, a copy of the notes is applied for just machine where the accident occurred. before the appeal comes on there is no time to MR. P. HILDEBRAND, chief engineer of the The body was then taken to the verandah and obtain a copy for the use of this court, which Woosung-Shanghai - Railway, has received it appeared that he was breathing. I was going leads to coufusion and inconvenience. where he will be cutployed on railway under- orders from Germany to proceed-to-Shantung-to-get-some brandy when the second angineur never has been the practice-of-any-jurige-to-
of the Salhadjt said he did not think it advise give copies of his notes to solicitors or counsel" takings there. Mr. Hildebrand will therefore already. When I left deceased at five o'clock, able as he though: deceased hind had too much
WHY GERMANS SUCCEED, leave Shanghai about the end of the end of the he was the worse for liquor.
It
OF THE FINEST Scoren MALT WHISKIES, Vio- let Capsule.. E-WATHON'S VERY OLD LI- QUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY, Gold Capsule
15.00 THORNE'S BLEND and WATSON'S GLENORCHY are high class Soda Whiskies, of greater age than most
same boat with B and C and would conse- brands in the market..
quently feel that his dignity was not com ABELOUR-GLENLIVET is a very old promised by indulging in aquatics. B and C would no longer feel the restraint of A's Peat Whisky, (smoky) and could not presence, and a rivalry would arise amongst now be replaced in stock at the price. the various clubs which we believe would go
Dis well known for its fine far towards saving our Regatta from becom complete the extension of the line beyond the had nothing to fear.: Continuing, witness said-young. In Germany, says the Consul, trua
ing a farce, as it now promises to do.
flavour.
E is of superb quality and pro- Malay States, Gibraltar, Gold Coast_nounced by lending local connois. Colony, Johore, Lagos, Natal, Newfound
seurs to be the best brand in the Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, St. Helena, The Falkland
Hongkong market. Islands, The Gambia, The Leeward Islands (which comprise-Antigua, St. Christopher and Nevis, Dominica, Mont serrat and the Virgin Islands), The Niger Coast Protectorate, The Niger Company's Territory, The Windward Islands, (Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), Tobago and Trinidad, Turks Island, and Uganda, FOR LONDON'VIA MANILA AND SUEZ CANAL,
THE Steamship
"BELGIC"
Captain Rinder, will be despatched as above! on TUESDAY, the 27th instant, at Noon.
This well-known steamer has Superior Accomodation -for Passengers and carries a Doctor and Stewardess.
For Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD VIRE,
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Hongkong, and December,
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR MANILA, (DIRECT)
THE Company's Steamship
*SUNGRIANG," Captain Dodd, will be despatched" as above on THURSDAY, the 29th instant., For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents
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Hongkong, 22nd December, 1898. MOGUL WARRACK-MILBURN LINE. FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.
HE Steamship
THE
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will be despatched as above on or about the 15th January, 1899.
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S.S. ENERGIÁ............About 31st Jan, 1899. 13th Feb., 1899. S.S. ARGYLE" S.S." SIKH "
28th Feb., 1899: For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co., Agents.
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Hongkong, 22nd December, 1898. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID), ADEN, BOMBAY, PENANG, AND
SINGAPORE. -
THE Steamship,
"VINDOBONA," having arrived 'Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, whence delivery may be obtain.a. This vessel brings no Cargo ry
From Trieste, de S.S. Amphitrite transhipped at Bombay
From Venice, 9.5, Carlotta and Massimi- Hans, transhipped at Trieste.
Optional Cargo will be discharged hero unless notice to the contrary be given immediately,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claius must be sent in to the office of the Undersigned before Noon on the 28th instant, or they will not be : reconguited f
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 28th instant will be subject to rent,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by.
SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents Hongkong, aand December, 1898. · [1465)
THE HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING AND DYEING CO., LIMITED,
NOTICE: NOTICE is hereby given that the FINAL "EN" INSTALMENT of $30 per SHARE on the shares in above COMPANY becomes dua on the THIRTY-FIRST day of December. next, and PAYMENT thereof must be made to the BANKERS of the Company, viz., the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION on or before that date.
JARDINE, MATHESON & COậ
General Managers, Hongkong, 30th November, 1898, [1390
A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
Established 1841.
BIRTHS.
At Dublin, on the 13th of November, 1898, the wife of A. A. WHELAN, of the Hongkong, and Shanghai Banking Corporation; of a son.
At 18, Broadway, Shanghai, on the 15th of December, 1898, the wife of WM. TAYLOR, of a daughter.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1898,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.. Cannot something be done to revive the rapidly failing interest taken in our Annual Regatta? Each succeeding year sees the sport becoming of a poorer quality and its partisans of a less representative character, and, unless matters shortly mend, the Regatta will have degenerated into a semi private function only supported by a few lovers of acquatics whose attachment to this form of sport still urges them to prevent its becom- ing a thing of the past in Hongkong. Cer tainly the Victoria Recreation Club has been passing through a trying period of its existence. Its site is about, to be resumed by the Government, and there is apparently difficulty in obtaining an equally suitable one, its bath has become practically a thing of the past, for it now only consists of a short pier with a small matshed on the end thereof, and altogether the Club shows evident signs of decay and failure of vitality. It is still resorted to as a place of ammusement, but not as in former years for purposes of sport
alone.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS, THE ANTI-ANARCHIST CONFERENCE.
LONDON, December 20th. The Anti-Anarchist Conference threatens to end in failure. The representatives of Great Britain, Belgium, and Switzerland-declined to surrender foreign anarchists on the demand of their Governments.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF CRETE.
Prince George of Greece has started for Crete escorted by the flagships of the four Powers, Great Britain, Italy, Russia and France.
EVACUATION OF FASHODA. Major Marchand's party evacuated Fashoda on the thinstant, marching to Sobat. Egyptian troops immediately occupied the fort.
LEGAL NEWS,
Sir Henry Hawkins has resigned.
WEATHER REPORT.A
The Observatory report says:-On the 22nd. at 11.55 am.: The barometer has risen generally, An anticyclone is central in N. China with moderate to rather steep. gradients and strong monsoon on the coast, and in the N. part of the China Sea. FORECAST:Fresh N. E. winds; fine.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Six hundred and twenty-seven deaths were registered at Singapore last month. The ratio per thousand was j261.
The sale of wines by Messrs. Hughes and Hough will take place to-morrow at noon instead of 11 d.in. as previously notified. Tite British Post-Office and British Companies now control 1,111,366 miles of telegraph wires. The plant employed is valued roughly at 30 million pounds sterling.
THE Post Office will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, the 26th and 17th inst., and on Mon day, the and January, except from 8 to 9 am.
Letters for Hongkong, Peak and Kowloon may be posted up to gam. The Night Box will be kept open. The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
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A PRESENTIMENT of his death and of the manner of it, which was held by the captain of the steamer La Bourgogne, and which was known to the directorate of the Company, is being urged by Counsel in France in favour their clients while seeking for damages arising
from the collision.
THE Band of the K, O. Regiment will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, to-morrow, commencing at 8 p.m.-
.Thesursist
Green
Overly.......This Barber of Lostlie........... Melection... Les Cloches de Cornerille....Pourpunte. Pinta................ Pantominique verringe Lavotto....
....Tizzle... selection....
The Car Partslenme .....el na Z'Hana
Gol Bave the Queens
Watson. Caryll
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month. Mr. Unglaube, Assistant Engineer,
has also received similar orders, and will leave for Kiaochou without delay. Assistant Engineer Rutenberg will be in charge of the Woosung Shanghai Railway in the meantime, and will
present Woasung terminus to the Woosung Creek When that work is done Mr. Ruten berg will also proceed-to-Kinochou.-V. C. D. Nees.
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. His Excellency Major General Wilsone Black, C.B., presided, and there were also present-Han. T. S. Smith (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. R.D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Hon. F H. May, C.M.G. (Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon. W. M. Thomson (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. RM. Rumsey (Harbour Master), the Hon. C..P. Chater, C.M.G., Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei A Yuk, and Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, unofficial members."
MINUTES.
:
The Coroner-Is anybody allowed in the Station?
instead.
was bent.
TRUE COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.
The minutes of the last meeting were read back to my work. I thought they had gone is a result and not one of the causes of the trade
Witness-No, I think the general public are not allowed in the station. I knew them to be many, furnished to the Foreign. Office by Mr, A report on commercial education in Ger- engineers and I knew deceased to have been Consul Powell, affords interesting evidence of in charge of the electric plant in his ship, so I the value of developing the intelligence of the I then went up to iny quarters and sent commercial education is treated as an import- a house. coolle for chairs and told the second ant factor in the newly developed competition Engineer that it would, he advisable to take with other trading nations, and especially is it him on board. The coolie brought a ricksha noteworthy to remark how the study of mode
--Hanguages, including Russian, is being encour- The Corner What power was the dynante aged and fostered. But, in the opinion of Mr.. running at the time.
Powell, the great success which has åttended Witness It was running at between 2.000.-German trade since 1873, but more especially men told me I think he got about a third, commercial education than to the high state of and 2,500 volts. Judging from what the China during the last ten years, is due less to superior which is sufficient to kill a man- I saw marks general education the German has enjoyed. on the brushes as of hands. One of the brushes for many years. "The commercial success of
the German nation is not the outcome of com Cheung Shing Bad--I am No engineer atmercial education; the latter is rather itself the the Electric Works. At a little after 7 pin on offspring of that success, which has opened the the 19th inst., I was in the engine soum when eyes of the Chansbers of Commerce and muni two Europeans came in. They walked round cipalities, and lasterly of the Imperial Govern looking at the engines. I followed them. One ment, to the immense value of commercial of them touched the engines in a familiar way education for a commercial people, Therefore, They then went towards the door and I went the wonderful increase of cominercial schools away but ger I suddenly saw them near the successes of Germany," engines ag tin. I was going to warn them but before I moved the deceased fell backwards. I saw his right hand touch the brush; but I did not see his left hand. Then I ran to where deceased was and I saw that the two brushes were bent. I then went and called Mr. Price and we curried the body to the verandah.. helped to put it in a ricksha. Deceased left;
Mrs. Bishop offers the following practical band bied and there was some blood on the suggestions, as the result of 15 months' travel in China, sight monthả of which was in the The ricksha coolie who drove deceased was Yang-tse Valley, to the head of the navigable also called to give evidence.
John McKinnan, P.C. 61, sud-On the 19th The strengthening of the contral
waters of the Min and beyond. inst. nt" 8.35 pm. I was on duty at Murray Government. In its weakness lies the weak. Wharf. Last witness drove man up. ness and possible abrogation of our treaty thought he was drunk. I examined him and obligations. It is its strength and capacity to The following bills were rend a first time on found he was dead. Another man came down
fulfi them which alone make them worth more the motion of the Acting Attorney General with the corpse and he told me whom'deceased First reading of a Bill entiled An Ordinance to was. I took the corpse in an ambulance to the
than the paper on which they are written, amend the Waterwarks Ordinances to 1897.station and thence to the Government Civil
Among other fodes of strengthening the Pist reading of a Bill entiled An Ordinancs Hospital and finally to the mortuary The giving it through our diplomatic action such Government are the negative one of avoiding for the naturalization of Wong Tong alias man who came with the corpse was perfectly buffets and threats as cause it to lose face in Wong Wing Kwan.
sober.
The finding of the Coroner was "Accidental deatli resulting from electric shock"
and confirmed,
Owing to indisposition H. E. Sir H. Blake was unable to be present at the meeting of Council, Major-General Black presided in his stead.
The following gentlemen were elected to act on the following Committees for the ensuing
year.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
I
The whole of the Council excepting the machine. Governor.
LAW COMMITTEE,
Attorney-General Major-Geneml Black, Mr Bell-Irving, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. Bellilios and
Mr. Wai-A-Yuk.
FIRST READINGS.
LORD CHARLES BERESFORD AT NANKING.
the
THE CHINA QUESTION.
SOME PRACTICAL SUCCESTIONS,
HINTS TO DIPLOMATS AND TRADERS.
urging it without delay to reconstruct its army, eyes of its subjects and the positive one of
navy, coast and river defences, and equipments. and armaments generally, on those European models which (if illustration be needed) have proved to efficacious in the case of Japan placing European officers at the head of the commissariat as well as in the position of drill, instructors. An empire which has found the advantage of officering its maritime customa |with Europeans would scarcely need much
pressure on this point,
2. The ag re and immediate pressing of tse Valley, in the bold spirit of the Merchant our commercil interest, specially in the Yang... Venturers of Bristol, the establishment of our merchants in the great cities now open to our trade, the investment of capital in the building of silk and cotton factories up the great river, where coal, iron, and any amount of docile and capable labour is at hand and cheap, thus establishing our right to that region as a
sphere of influence by visible and practical: methods in advance of any other nation.
THE JAPANESE ARMY, The Universal, Gazdite relates that Lord. Charles Beresford arrived at Nanking from, The Japanese Army is not in good odour Wuhu in the Chinese gunboat Nanskép in the at present. It appears that the billeting.system maming of the 9th inst. He was accompanied pursued at the autumn manoeuvres gives rise by Taotai Tao Chilin, railitary secretary, and to abuses bitterly complained of by the people, landed at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The The sum allowed for feeding and lodging a various Chinese forces in the city, turned out. soldier is 20 sen per day. In consideration of and lined the roads for a distance of two miles that payment do receives a bed and two accorded a splendid reception, Lord Charles morning. It is not easy to see how such a to welcome the distinguished visitor, who was meals, one in the evening and one in the had an interview of over two hours. with pittance could suffice. Certainly it can not Viceroy Lau next day The Viceroy tendered unless the soldier himself is prepared to be him a banquet in his Office of Foreign Affairs, content with very frugal fare: But accord when Lord Charles said that Great Britain was Ing to the complainants, he is not at all dia the nation that had been the longest posed to be content. He expects his out friendly with China and it was pleasing to be a kind of holiday, and if his ing to him to see this friendship being hosts de nor furnish, good rice and palatable strengthened. After the entertainment, his condiments, together with a modicum of rate Lordship was invited to inspect the military and he wants to know the reason why. The result naval schools, the Arsenal and other govem is that a house where soldiers are billeted has 3. Hy attending to the oft-times repeated ment establishments. During the conversa-
to expend some 30 ten a head over and above warnings of Consuls and travellers as to the tions between Lord Chales and the Viceroy the allowance. A further grievance is that the necessity, recently largely increased by several important subjects were touched upon, soldier insists on taking the housemaid out for German and Japanese competition, for our Among others the gallant Admiral suggested a walk in the evening, and likes to have the manufacturers to acquaint themselves carefully that the gingals and other antiquated weapons samisen played for him by the daughter of the with the needs and tastes of the Chinese, as to should be done away with and that it would family before he retires for the night, In fact the widths, weight, and make of plain cottons, be more conveniant if the men were armed he is altogether a pampered Lothario, and and the colours and patterns of printed goods, with rifles. He also pointed out the disadvan- neither the non-commissioned, nor the com- and even to stoop to consider so small a tage of having three kinds of rifles in use missioned, officers tum a deaf ear to his most ter as the colour and patterns of the wrappings among the troups which might cause confusion, frivolous complaints One vernacular news in which the goods are put up, certain colours
cartridges used might become
paper makes a grievance of the fact that some being regarded as unlucky by the Chinese, mixed and victory would thus be 500 guests were entertained: by the military and constituting an effectual barrier to their turned into defeat He suggested that authorities at the recent manoeuvres. It calçu introduction into the markets of the interior,”. a change should be made without loss of time lates that each guest cost as much as ten and that rides of a uniform: pattern should be soldiers, and thus, since the total number of
THE HEIR TO THE THRONE used. The Viceroy replied that the Govertops employed was fluy thousand, ten per
OF ITALY, ment had already considered this and had cont of the outlay was incurred on account of given orders to all provincial authorities that the guests, from which fact the newspaper that the War Departufent is rolling in
for tho
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The date of the baptism of the son of the
There must be some reason for this gra- dual decadence, and we fancy that it is not very far to seek. Our older sportsmen are becoming less and less inclined to take upon themselves the duty of encouraging the younger members of the community fo in- dulge in acquatics and the men whom they have trained, and who should now take their places, have not come forward in their turn to carry on the acquatic education of their juniors as they should have done. They forget that they needed encouragement them- selves at one time and found it, and they expect their juniors to shape their own course without the necessary "licking into shape" which they themselves underwent at the hands of their seniors, in their younger days. As a matter of fact we are now grow- ing a race of old young men who have not the same characteristics as their predecessors. They look upon themselves as men directly / A LODGE meeting was held at the Masonic in future Mauser rifles only should be used by infer while the people are oppressed taxes, Doke and Duchess of Aosta was November 3. they have left school and entered upon a Hall last night to enable His Excellency business carcer, and consider themselves the Governor to become better acquainted to this effect were being made...His Lordship Silly talk of that kind throws discredit on the The ceremony took place at Turin in the the equals in every respect of their seniors, with the local members of the craft. Sir Henry reorganize her navy she would do better first for insperance, butit spets more than probable, chapel of the Holy Winding Sheet, which is the reasons, that the soldiers do not cherished religious, heirloom of the House of quite forgetting that these same seniors have Blake, who is a District Grand Fast-niaster of to improve her anny which would prove of treat the people with proper c consideration. The Savoy The King,and Queen of Italy were become what they are by a gradual process Jamaica, arrived at 9.30 pan, and all those who service to her in less time. If all troops in the blame rests, of ourse, chiefly with the officers. It present, as well as the Princes and Frincesses of development, into one stage of which could possibly be present were presented to uniform method, provided with the same tation of the latter point is the formation ad of Faris the Marquis Guiccioli, Ficfect of the various provinces should be trained on a festa, also with the system. A patent illus of the Royal Family, and the Dowager Countess entered a boyish love of sport which in great him. His Excellency left shortly before 11 and equipments, their pay increased and paid opted by troops marching through the streets Province Baron Casua Mayor, of Turin, measure helped to fit them for the positions | the meeting then broke up.
up, and their services much better approof Tokyo. They move in sections of fours and the digni" tarias of the Court, Mgr. Ki- that they now occupy. It is a pity, but never-
clated, they would turn out a very strong army with the non-commissioned officers on the chelny, Archbishop of Turin, performed the theless a fact, that sendentary amusements
in a few years. As General Gordon had flanks, and as the style of, march is very loose, ceremony and gave the child the names appear to have more attractions for the youth
expressed it the Chinese are capable of being a front of five men occupies nearly as many Amedeo, Umberto Isabella Luigi, Filppe of the present day than outdoor sport....
made splendid soldiers, for example there was varde. Add that the centre of the street rather Marin, Giuseppe, and Giovanni. A recepton the battle of Taku, at which they were able to than the side is regarded as the proper ground was then held in the Throne Halla fije: Another thing which undoubtedly has led
Lists Bish troops and the battle of to fake, and it will be seen that a battalion on the presumptive heir to the throne of Hale now bears the title of Duke of Apulia, This was Liangshan they overcame the French, Chinezo march becomes a inost embarrassing obatrue- to this decline in the interest taken in the
soldiers could make a stand against Irained tion to traffic. Thus the lesson taught to the the first occasion of a ceremony in the Royal Victoria Recreation Club, as a recreation
European troops if properly drilled and led by men whenever they move from place to place Family since the appointment of Mgr. Richelmy club, is the first growing tendency towards,
efficient officers, Lord Beresford, at the Viceroy's is that everything must give way to them, and to the archbishopric of Turin. It is stated that exclusiveness and class distinctions in sport
request started on the 1 stk just, in the Wanshen that the convenience of the citizen is as nothing the Countess of Paris has announced the birth to Chinkiang and Kiangyin for the inspection compared with Our sporting clubs are not the cosmopolitan
of the land and river forces under commanders There with the dignity of the soldier of the Prince; her grandson, to the Holy Father,
feudal-time samtal, and that he has sent his congratulations and:
Best wishes...) associations of a few years ago but are supervision,
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A NEW departure has been instituted by Mr. Brewin, the Government Inspector of Schools, in having the examinations for the Grant in Aid held at the City Hall instead of at the respective schools as on previous years. The lower forms were examined at the schools last week but the examination of the higher stan dards from all the schools was held yesterday, and to-day and will be continued to-morrow at the City Hall under Mr. Brewin's own
all troops throughout the country and changes wealth went on to say that even should China wh
Li nad Huang, bafors, proceeding to Shanghai, - in this syafani atan Mail
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