Co-day's Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION. ·
HE Undersigned has received instructions,
THE
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
at Bicton, Plantation Rond, the Peak, the Re- sidence of Mr. H. T. MEYERINK,
ON
WEDNESDAY,,the 15th February, 1899,
Commencing at 2.30 PM.
THE WHOLE OF THE
FINE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. All Nearly New.
Comprising
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1899.
To-day's
Advertisement.
BIJOU THEATRE. RECLAMATION GROUND, PRAVA, WESTI
LAST {4} NIGHTS
of
"ROBINSON CRUSOE.”
TO-NIGHT
(WEDNESDAY), the 8th February, 1899.
AST Night but three of
じ
THE PORT OF HULL.
Last Night but three of
THE OPEN-SEA. /
Last Night but three of
THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Last Night but three of
THE TROPICAL ISLAND. Last Night but three of
have obtained command of practically the whole country, with the exception of Manila and Cavite..
LOCAL AND GENERAL."
MAJOR Wellby, by permission of King Menelck, is going west from Lake Rudolph to one of the This conquest of the Spaniards has not, it sources of the Sobat, and thence to Fashoda. appears, beenaccomplished by the Philippinos on behalf of the United States. In the THE French Government has decided to make beginning the Philipinos certainly acted with Nouméa, New Caledonia, is naval bead- the Americans, and did yeoman service in quarters in the Pacific, and to establish there driving the Spaniards into Manila and a large dock and naval works.. clearing the ground for the American
IN the matter of the suggested Pacific Cable troups, who, upon their arrival, found that little or nothing remained to be it is expected that Canada and Great Britain done. The Philipines hemmed in Spaniards will raise the sum required (both contributing on land and the American fleet was equal amounts) to cover the estimated cost of fully capable of reducing Manila to the project.
Very Fine TEAK COVERED READING ROOM FURNITURE, LEATHER COVER. ED and BOOKCASES and WRITING DESK to Match, CURTAINS, CARPETS, HAIR CARPETS, SIDEBOARD, WHAT NOT5,
TOP MARILE
VERANDA TABLES, CHAIRS, EASY CHAIRS, HALL TABLES, IRON BEDSTEADS with Spring Matresses, BATHTUBS, WARDROBES, Fine PICTURES and BRONZES, GLASS FRIDAY, 10th and SATURDAY, 11th Heb. utterly ignored them, and hence the first WARE, CUTLERY and CROCKERY,'
&
&c.
$&c.
A Lot of New TABLE LINEN-unused, Several Fine, Marble and HALL CLOCK. On View from Sunday, the 12th Feb., A.C. Catalogues are to be had at the house or from the undersigned.
TERMS OF SALE:As customary,
PAUL BREWITT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 8th February, 1899.
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VICTORIA PRECEPTORY, REGULAR MEETING of the VICA TORIA PRECEPTORY will be held at the FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on THURSDAY, the 16th instant, at 8.30 for p.m.
CRUSOE'S HUT AND PALACE,
MATINEES at 4 PM.
MONDAY, the 13th February, 1899. First Grand Change of Programme
BLUE BEARD."
PRICES AS USUAL. Hongkong, 8th February, 1899.
Entimation,
a mass of ruins, so that capituation FOR embezzling $6.80 and $3 in July and or utter destruction was the only choice August last year an assistant at one time em left to the Spaniards. Then the Phili-ployed in a shop in Jervois Street, stas at the pinos naturally looked for some recogni tion at the hands of the Americans but Magistracy this morning sentenced to a month's found, to their surprise, that it was not forth imprisonment. coming. The American military authorities seeds of distrust of the intentions of the United States were sown.
A Football match was played yesterday after noon between a team from H.31.S. Alacrity and one from F.M.S. Inferibitch. The latter after a well contested game managed to gain a victory by goal to nil. TO-MORROW afternoon, on the Hongkong Football Club's ground, at Happy Valley, in the second round for the Challenge Shield, H.M.S. Pictorious will play E. Company of the Royal Welsh: Fusiliers. Kick-off at 4.45 p.m.
It is comparatively easy to moralize and to point out mistakes after the event, but still we think that we cannot be blamed for [1184 saying that the present situation in the Phi- lippines has been brought about by a com plete lack of any definite policy upon the part of the United States. We believe that had the matter been discussed in the Senate and the question of the future of the Philippines Tite Governor of Gennau East Africa has re- thoroughly thrashed out, and the arguments | ceived a letter from a mining manager stating for and against American Occupation care that he has, discovered a great gold reef south Á. S. WATSON & Co., fully weighed and a definite line of policy of Lake Victoria, and that he is convinced that adopted, immediately after the news of the the whole platení contains rich veins of the LIMITED.
destruction of the Spanish fleet off cavite metal. was received, that the present crisis could Americans have allowed matters to drift; they have decided upon no particular line of policy and have let affairs take care of them selves with the result which we now witness.
precisely. Visiting Sir Knights are cordially WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. never have arisen. On the other hand, the
invited to attend,
Hongkong, 8th February, 1899.
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CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAL
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
"WOOSUNG,"
Captain Dawson, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the eth instant, at P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, Sth February, 1899.
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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA TH
[*HE"Company's Steamship
"SUISANG,"
Captain Payne, will be despatched us above on SATURDAY, the 11th instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE. MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, Sth Félaruary, 1899.
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ESTABLISHED 1841.
PORTS
Per doz,
(For Invalids and General Use.)
B.-VINTAGE. superiorquality,
Red Capsule
$14.40 C-FINE OLD VINTAGE, SUP-
erior quality, Black Seal Capsule........... 16,20
D-VERY VINE ÜLD VINTAGE
settlement between the Americans and the
By the kind permission of the Officer Com manding Royal Welsh Fusiliers the band of the regiment is allowed to play twice a week on the barrack square in front of the hospital situated at Wellington Barrack, Queen's Road, from 3.30 to 4.30 p.m.
THE Midland University, at Birmingham, will be unique amongst the universities of Great Britain, in the possession of a school of brow- ing. There will be a chair for a Professor of Brewing, and the training will bo of the fullest, bath for malsters and brewers.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
Legislative Council was held in the Council
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED,
At noon to-day the 18th ordinary annual meeting of shareholders in the above come pany was held at the company's offices Pedder Street The Hon. Jr J. Ball-Irving occupied- the chair, and there were also present Messrs. (Capt.) Fillet, J. C. Reter, A. B-Smith, H. W. Beryl (Secretary, Ho Fung, K. Chinoi, Ho Fook, Lo Cheung Shui, and Ho U. Shang.
The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting
The Chairman said Gentlemen, 1. hope" that you are all satisfied with the results of the working of this Company for the past year, and will approve of the proposed distribution of profits. It is recommended by the General Managers to again write $25,000 off Property” and pay a final dividend of $6.50 per share making
in all 88:50 share for the year against $7.50 for 1897. The outlay in connection with extensions, including, the cost of property purchased from the Government, to which referred 12 months ago, has so far reached $68,322.67, and an additional expenditure of new boiler and other plant will be necessiders that when the approximately $38,000 on
during the cur-
This afternoon a meeting of the Hongkong
Chamber at the Government Offices, there being present His Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G), His Excellency Major-General Gascoigne (officer commanding the Troops), the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lock hart (Colonial Secretary), the Hon. H. E.. Pollock (Acting Attomey-General), the Hon. rent year. Mr. Parlane R. Murray Rumsey (Harbour Master), the extensions to which 1 have just referred are Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G. (Captain Super completed, the works will be in a thoroughly intendent of Police), the Hon. A. M.
Mefficient alate and capable of meeting any in- creased demand that is likely to arise for some Thomson (Colonial Treasurer), the Hun. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), the Hon
years to come. General expenses have in- creased about $4,000 over those of the preceed- C. P. Chater, C.M.G, the Hon. Dr. He Kai, Bell-Irving, the Hon. T. H. Whitehead, the Hon. Investments of surplus funds on mortgage are the Hon. E. R. Delilios, C.M.G., the Hon. J. J.ing year, but this extra expenditure has been
fully counter-balanced by much larger receipts." Wei A Yuk, and M. G. F. T. Buckle (Clerk of
now yielding 7 per cent. interest per annum, to be Councils.)
increased next month to 7 per cent. and the debentures of the Hangkong Wharf & Godown Co, Ld., returning 56 per cent will be re-invest ed on niortgage at the above rate should a favourable opportunity of realizing them occur. Before moving the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be pleased to answer any ques tions or give any further information.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES. Answering the Hon. E. Belilios,
The Coloni 1 Secretary said the site selected for the new Law.Courts was the site immediate- ly north of the City Hall on the Praya Reclama- tion Ground. The site at present selected for the new Post Office was that now occupied by the Post Office and Supreme Court or by a portion of those buildings, but a final decis- new Law Courts had been considered by the Goremment and a favourable report on such plans by the Director of Public Works had been sent to the Secretary of State. No plans for the new Post Office had been considered. The Segretary of State had not sanctioned any scheme for the erection of the new public
The Hon. E. R. Belilios said he intended to
had not been arrived at. Sketch plans for the
ask a few questions at the next council meet- ings, a copy of which he would forward to the Clik of Councils. They would to the plot of land now lying refer fallows to the north-east of the Gaol and the Magistracy,
.
A WARNING TO BE ABOLISHED, The Colourtat Secretary proposed and the
To the end of November last year, 246 vessels, of 380x800 tons, were launched on the Clyde, as against 232 vessels, of 258,000 tours in 1997 being the largest retum for ten years. Never before have the Clyde ship-builders had so much naval work on funds now, How is it all to end? We earnestly trust The worst epidemic of jailuenza which has offices referred to. - Curo, that it may be possible to arrange an amicable visited New York sine 39, was raging there Philipinos.even yet. The action of Saturday 1st oth. The leading physicians attribute and Sunday last may have damped the it to the filthy condition of the streets. In the ardour of the Philipinos for the time being fatal cases the attack was invaribly followed by but we have had an object lesson in their pneumonia, and the hospitals of the city were steadfastness of purpose in the untiring full of sufferers, energy that they displayed in the hellian ActorPING TO THE of an exchanges, the against Spanish rule, and it is only to be Korean budget for the next fiscal year will supposed that they will be equally deter mined in the present instance. If it is to be amount to about 6,000,000 yen, having been war, there can be little doubt as to the reduced by a million yen from the original The eventual triumph of the Americans, but it departmental estimate of 7000,000 yen. must be remembered that it will bea long and Household expenses have been mised costly proceeding to reduce the Philipinos to g50r yen without opposition.-
FRESH strength is being tent every day in New. to obedience by force. The Philipinos can carry on a guerilla warfare, probably for years.
York to the suggestion that the United States ordered to be decanted at the Dis- and can harass the Anfericans to an alarm-
and Great Britain should jointly construct and ing extent with but little loss to themselves, for they know the country, and are, used to jungle fighting. In the interests of trade, which will be greatly disorganized thereby, and more particularly in the interests of Sample hotties and smaller quanti | humanity and peace, it is to be hoped that wholesale rates.
extra superior, Violet
·Capsule (Old Bottled) 20.40
Port after removal should be rested for a month before use. Wine re- [quired for drinking at once should be
pensary before being sent out These Wines are too favourably
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-known to need comment.
TION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR
DATE, TIUME AND TRIESTE. (Taking Cargo at through rates to SOUTH "AFRICA, CALCUTTA, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, BLACK SEA, LEVANT and ADRIATIC FORTS.)
THE Company's Steamnship
"GISELA,"
Captain F. Mosca, will be despatched as above on SUNDAY, the 12th instani, at Daylight
Silk and Valuables are transhipped on arrival at Bombay into an accelerated liner,
For information as to Passage and Freight, apply to
SANDER, WIELER & Co.,` Agents,
"Hongkong, 8th February, 1899.
Lizga
THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- 9HIP COMPANY, LIMITED, FOR MANILA (DIRECT).
THE Company's Steamship
"TAI LEE," Captain Kock, will be despatched for the above Port, on MONDAY, the 13th instant, at.5 M.
This Steamer has Accommodation for Passengers.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 8th February, 1899.
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SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED, FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE. (Colling at PORT DARWIN and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, NEW, ZEALAND, TASMANIA, SC) Steamship
THE
"AUSTRALIAN," Captain Helms, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the 20th instant, at 4 P.M.
This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham. ber which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi- sions, Ice, &c., throughout the voyage,
This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light.
A Stewardness and a duly qualified Surgeon are carried.
MB-Return Tickets issued by this Com pany to and from AUSTRALIA, are available for return by the Steamers of the CHINA NAVIGA TION COMPANY and vice versa.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents, Hongkong, 8th February, 1999. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED.
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FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG-AND- SINGAPORE, THE Company's Steamship
"SUISANG,"
› having arrived from the above Ports, 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, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Cargo remaining undelivered after the 15th Instant, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected,- Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
· JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Manager, Hongkong, 8th 2 bruary, 1899, -
fiosa
We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.
A. 8. WATSON & Co., Limited, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY..
The Houghong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1899"
Philippines.
TELEGRAMS.
(By Telegraph.) Special to the "Hongkong Telegraph.".
THE SITUATION AT MANILA.
MASTA, 8th February,
4-51 p.m.
AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
control the proposed Nicaragua Canal. Hither 0, the suggestion has been, that the States should undertake the construction, and Great Britain join thein only in guranteeing neutra- fity.
a compromise of the currency difficulty on the basis of India opening her mints to silver and and gold alike at the ratio of 22 to 1: Addi the United States opening their mints to silver
tional support has haren securel for this pro- pisal, and it is to be pressed on the ludian Currency Commission and on the Government,
A MARGS gas tank in New York collapsed while undergoing the water test. Eight million gallons of water swept destructively through the district. There was no warning whatever Aguinaldo's captain-general and privatekneked off their feet and crushed against of the impending disaster; many people were secretors have been taken prisoners.
"Enikings: six were killed and at least twenty njured. Damage was done to the extent of
THE WATERWORKS TAKEN. The Americans have captured the Manila waterworks..
PROPOSED NEGOTIATIONS. Aguinaldo proposed a cessation of hosti lities with a view to opening negotiations but General Otis refused to entertain the proposition.
THE FIGHTING CONTIŅUES. Desultory firing continues but the Philipinos avoid an encounter. A large number of Philipinos have been taken prisoners.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.– The news wired by Reuter to the effect that the bill for the ratification of the Treaty of Peace between Spain and the United States has passed the United States Senate, by a majority of three only, serves to show that the new policy of expansion entered upon by the American Government is by no means so universally popular as it appeared to be at the time of the signing of the Protocol. Reuter's wire of the 5th instant THE RISING THAT FAILED. stated that but slender hopes were enter- tained at Washington of the Treaty receiving
The arrangements for the Philipino rising. ratification; and, in all probability, had the in the town of Manila have entirely col unfortunate collision between the American | lapsed. and Philipino troops on Saturday and Sunday last not taken place, the bill would have been rejected. The Honourable Jous BARRETT, in his interesting lecture recently delivered before the Odd Volumes Society; explained very fully and clearly that a two- thirds majority was absolutely necessary for the passing of a bill, and it is easy to imagine that the three votes which eventually carried the day might not have been forthcoming had events at Manila been otherwise.'
*
Received at 5.30 p.m. Publised at 5-45 p.m.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR.
LONDON, February 6th.
The Committee of the Chamber has rejected the Dreyfus Bill on the ground that M. Man- zeau's report was not convincing.
THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP.
elected leader of the Liberal Party,
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has been
THE PEACE TREATY RATIFIED. The Washington Senate has, ratified the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain by a majority of three.
CLERICAL.
Revd. Mr. Foss, a Missionary at Kobe beer-consecrated Bishop of Osaka. »
OBITUARY..
ever a million dollars.
MR. Herbert Gladstone's party has arrived at Constantinople freen Baku, after completing the purchase of some vidinhle petalum wells with a comparatively recent perind more than £1,000,000 of British capital have been invested in the Caucasus. The commercial policy of Russia bas completely changed, and now offers every encouragement to outside enterprise, especially British. THEg nugget to be exhibited in London, which is creating a sensation there, is from the Klondike. It is valued at $30,000 and was stripped to Europe by the Cunarder Lucania. The nugget was found in the Klondike and is to be placed on exhibition in the Union Bank, London. It is the property of H. M: Kersty, formerly manager of the White Star Steamship Company, and nbe associated with a company that was recently capitalized for prospecting in Yukon.
AT Tokenhouse-yard, London, recently, por tions of a King's share, a quantity of debenture stock, and 30 new 100 shares of the New
River Comysay were sold by auction. The
Colonial Treasurer seconded the following resolution, which was carried :-"Whereas it has been usual to warn officers appointed
No questions being asked, the Chairman proposed the adoption of the report and ac
counts.
Captain Tillett seconded. Carried.
".
On the motion of Mr. Chinoy, seconded by Ho Tung, Mr. Thomas Arnold was re-elected auditor,
This was all the business. Dividend warrants will be ready to-morrow,
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE,
·SUPREME COURT.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.. (Before Sir ! We Carrington, Kim Godde
Chief Justice, and a special jury), February 8th.
A ok . E. R. DELIŲJOS. to the service of this Colony since 1894 from a country possessing a gold standard of
In this case (adjourned), A "Hok," of 23, rance on half their salaries will be granted from the Hon. ER, Belilios the sum of : 11,400, currency, that the exchange compensation al-'Aguilar Street, contractor, sought to recover to them so long as it is granted to other mem- being the balance of money due for work done hers the service, but that the continuance, and materials provided by the plaintiff on a thereof a
not guaranteed and is subject to the building belonging to the defendant which is angout vote of the Council, and it is deemed known as Beaconsfield, lately in the occupa that sach warning is calculated to deter eligible tion of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.
Mr. Pollock (Acting Attorney-General), in- persons from entering the public service, it is hureby resolved that is expedient to disconstructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, appeared for the tinue such warning in bure, and to regard the plaintiff, and Mr. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by compensation as a permanent but not as 4 Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) for the defendant. pensionable emolument,
FIRST READINGS.
The follesing Bills passed their first read Integer in Ordinace to con- the Laws relating to. merchant shipping, the duties of to Harbour Master, the control and manageme of the vessels navigating the same. A Bill end waters of the colony, and the regulath of
an Ordinance in consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Criminal Procedure in the Supreme Court.
BECOND READINGS.
The following composed the special jury → Mesers. R. Marten (foremany, H. M. Mehta, J. Van Buren, Walter Poate, W. R. Loxley, W. Hutton Potts, and C. A. Tomes.
Mr. Slade opened for the defence. He remarked that the houses in Thung Man lane belonging to plaintiffs and defendant were only the width ofthe table at which he was stand practically back to back houses and there was
between the two rows of houses. Of this strip and the only piece his lordship was con- cerned with was about ten inches in width. It breadth only, plaintiffs having no ground_of was in veference to buildings' erected on this complaint whatsoever if defendant erected buildings 50 ket or too feet high on the re- mainder. He contended, however, that the alterations which had been made were a post:
The Bill for amending and consolidating the law relating to prisons and the Bill relating to solicitors of the Supreme Couit passed their second-readings,
THIRD READINGS. The Bill for the requintion of vehicles was tive benefit to plaintiff. read a third time and passed
PDERESS IN THE WORK-HOUSE.
The Marchioness of Donegall, who has long been known in London as a typical specimen of the faded and impecunious aristocracy, is now an inmate of St. Mary's Union work-house at Highgate. Wearing a dilapidated dressing gov the poor old creature applied for admittance in gown and carrying a Bible and some tracts, hely hours of a December morning at the Great Northern Hospital, and was taken from there to the work-house infinnary, faint and ill
The officials were incredulous when she described herself as the Marchioness of Donegall, but they need not have been had they remembered how an applicant of that name and title has frequently applied for alimony orders to the London magistrates, since she and her husband separated, and the always without success, for it is many years lapse of time has prejudiced any claim, if any, she might otherwise have had. Debrett states and is Clerk of the Peace for county Antrim that the Marquis is seventy-six years of age, The unfortunate woman pow on the parish is his second wife, having married him in 1865.
TRANSVAAL BUTCHERIES.
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF NATIVES. The Capetown.corresondent of the Daily
The following message
by the burghee officers." M'Pefu has completely outmanoeuvred the large army in a splendidly fortified bushy Transvaal forces, M'Peft being now with a mountain.
(Case-proceeding.)
NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS AND ORUISERS;
A contemporary says that the new battleships and cruisers which are to be added to the British Navy under this year's ordinary programme have received names. The three battleships Venerable, and will all be improvements on the will be known as the London, Bulwark, and. Formidable. The four armoured cruisers will be known as the Rinaldo, Matine, Euralus; and Batchante, Tenders for four battleships, an annoured cruiser, and twelve destroyers, to he built under the extraordinary programme, have been requested.. By the end of December, 1899, there will be in hand or completing no less thin sixteen battleships and twelvenrmoured cruisers.
A CURIOUS ERROR..
A
of Chancery on Dec, te On the marriage of A curious application was made in the Court Admin and Lady Seyinour very large sums of moncy were put in settlement on the husband and on the wife. The stocks settled were named in the respective settlements, and the Admim's bankers, who had the custody of them, received the dividends. "În course of time one of the trustees of the Admiral's settle. ment resigned, and it became necessary to appoint another. To know what stocks should
ha
Mail says on Dec. 9nge was handed in by me been ried from time to time, the Admiral got first two roth parts of a King's share offered realized 1,000 each, while others brought at the Johannesburg telegraphs last Monday, a list from his bankers, and they accidentally and was stopped en route by the Transvaal included in it some of, Lady Seymour's stock. L950 and £960 each. Eight 112th parts of Government on the plea of its being inimical As a result some of her ladyship's property, got King's fetched prices ranging from £845 to
to the welfare of the same in into the new settlement, and Mr. Justice North.. 1860 each. For 14 120th parts of a King's Despatches from the front reveal a horrible was as asked to authorise a retransfer of 47,821 share £799 each was obtained, and one brought butchery of women and children and unnined tioned a transfer of Line amount, or, as thera state of affairs. There has been wholesale to its original position. His lordship sano. £795. A 64th pan was sold for £1,840. The natives by Transvaal nativo forces... 3 per cent. debenture stock, sold in lots of
had been a small logs on the sale of her stock, "There has been a general: bungling of the which had got into the husband's settlement by 100 each, brought prices varying from L107 Campaign. The burgher forces are in a state of mistake, stock of such value as would make, or tq-2109-per-contr-and-of-the-foo-shures-as-remote General Joubert's order are nearly make up the difference_ sold at £445 each and five at £440 each, has AT the Magistracy this morning Captain Hastings gave another German blue-jacket a lecture for using a knife. It seems that last.
"The war is not half begun. Torrential rains: night two blue-jackels belonging to the Kalierre falling, and the Transvaal camps are fright went to a coffee-shop in Honglióm and called fully insanitary. for a cup of coffee. On their being served they MP'efuberg.
"The natives have relaken began to quarrel as to payment and struck the shopkeeper's assistant, one of them producing a knife and stabbing him in the arm. They also broke Swarth of crockery. An Indian constable came on the scene, and with the assistance of P.C. Cormick defendants were arrested. The one who used a knife was sen“. tenced to six weeks' imprisonment and ordered to pay $to compensation, the other being fined. $25 and ordared to pay $id compensation,
The deaths are announced of Count Caprivi
The fact that President McKINLEY had appointed a commission to report upon the Philippine question may be taken as showing that a large proportion of the people of the United States were in favour of giving the Philipinos a fair hearing before forcing a government upon them. Had the ratifica- tion of the Trealy failed, the United States would certainly have been no worse off than before and some other arrangement might easily have been arrived at with Spain which would have been acceptable to both sections of Americans.As matters now stand, however, the situation can only be described as having gone from bad to worse. The and Prince Alfred of Coberg, Philipinos having risen against the Ame ricans, the United States are placed in even a worse position than that occupied by Spain prior to the outbreak of the war, The Observatory report says-On the 8th They have, it is true, taken over the islands at 11.50 am. The barometer has fallen on the from Spain, but, in a sense, they were not China coast. Pressure remains low in the Spain's to sell, for the Philipinos, in the in- extreme North, and highest over Central: terim between the signing of the Protocol China. Gradients slight on the coast, moderate and the ratification of the Treaty of Peace, with fresh monsoon in the M. part of the China have successfully dealt the death blow Sea Forecut-light or moderate N.E. to N to Spanish Authority in the Philippines and winds; fine.
WEATHER REPORT.
· AN IRISH PHILANTHROPIST,
-Lord-Iveagh, who has lately presented the sum of £250,000 to the Jenner Institute in hid of scientific research in bacteriology, is thọ. third son of the late Sir Sir Benjamin Lee
Panty created a Baronet in 1887 and mised to the HEASTS of Guinness, Hart, M.P. He was born in 1847. "Several burgher officers will be courtmarPeerage in, 1891 The family have already tinlied for disobedience. Genomi Joubert is made princely gifts to the citizens of Dublin, ill in bed, and the burghers are returning. His father, among many other works of charity "The feeling in beadquarters is that the and munificence restored St. Patrick's Cathed whole force must ininediately return, and it is ral, Dublin, at enormous cost. Lord hoped that operations will be resurged after Ardilaun, brother of Lord Iveagh, handed over Christmas,
*** to the corporation of Dublin; Stephens Green "Mr. Kruger is much concerned.
Park, one of the best laid out open spaces in roborated in every particular by despatches recently bestowed in fruit, for the erection of I should add that the above facts are cor-the British Tried Lord Iveagh himsolf quite from the front, and afterwards published in the better class nrtizan dwellingi ja London and Jolinnesburg pape
Dublin, the sum of £100,000, TREAT
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