WATER RETURN,
Level and, Storage of Water in. Reservoirs on the 1st May.
LEVEL 1808
-1899,- 15 4. 10 m. be. (65f. 4 in. below Tytam for overflow
Loverflow f14ft 6 in. below $338. 3 in below Pokfulam..
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overflow
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STORAGE GALLONS... Tam. 148,100,000 42,160,000 Pokfulam.. 34,980,000 1,700,000 Total...183,080,000 46,920,000 Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria and Hill District during the month of April.
1848.
189, Consumption. 90,085,000 50,262,000 gallons Estimated
population
Consumption).
194,500
per head 15.4 per day
1842.
200,000
18.
9.3 gallons Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula during the month of April. Consumption... 5,303,000 6,611,000 gallons Estimated
25,000 population
6.9
Consumption)
per kend
30,800
8.3
gallons per day The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
R. D. ORSBY,
Water Authority,
SHANGHAI SPRING RACES.
THE DAY, THURSDAY, 4th May. The GREAT NORTUERS PLATE; value, Ts, 125; second pony. Ths. 25; for ponies that have run at this meeting: weight for inches as per scale: winner of fine race at this incet ting, 7hs extra; two or more races, Tolls extra: entrance, Tls 5. Seven forlongs.
Reachnul
Sandsiom
Hermes.....
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1899.
THE NEWCHWANG BAILWAY »
QUESTION.
THE SAMOAN ORISIS,
BOMBARDMENT DY THE WARSHirs, INTERESTING PARTICULARS.
LATE TELEGRAMS,
otaux, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs ih Mr. Meline's Cabinet in 1896-98, has put for ward the suggestion that the Chamber of Deputies should appoint a commission to deal with the question of the French possessious in Africa
TUK ADELPHI TRAGEDY--SIR DERRY IRVING THREATENED
A DANCER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
PARTNER'S ́SAVETY. · ·
NEW YORK, April 2011. News, with regard to the Crisis in Samoa A Sun cable from Vienna says A cúrious reaches us that, as Mainafa and his chiefs case was tried this week. A young lady asked continued to defy the treaty, Admiral Krantz heavy compensation from a young man with
The mah Richard, Arthur Prince, the mor in command of_the_U:S. Philadephiu- -whom the recently-danced_at_a_masked ball, summoned the Consuls and senior naval and who allowed her to fall so heavily that shederer of Mr. Willan Terriss, Une fois actor officers to meet aboard his flagship, lle sustained severe internal injury. The defend. has managed to despatch from the lunath there read a memorandum calling on the Cansplant declared that his partner was a poor danger, asylum in which he is confined a letterin Sir of the three Powers to stop the Provisional and that it was dificult to guide her through Ifenry Irving, theatening kill him when he Government's illegal acts, and make peace in the crowded room. She rejoined, that the is released.
defendant had attempted some new steps which Sainoa. "The English and American Consuls agreed, also the cutains of the U.S. warship he had seen in an opera haller and desired to Philadelfia and H.M.S. Porpoist.
imitate. He Aing his legs about and went trough some kind of Russian beat-kuce dance, in the execution whereof he tripped and bothings fell heavily. The Judge derided that the man could not be held responsible for the safiny of his partner and the case was dismissed.
THE EASTER VESTRIES, Ritualism was the chief questim discussed in the English Church vestries throughout the United Kingdom at their recent Easter gret
High
Low
ording Afternoon Morning
Afternoon o ANNIVERSALLIES. 1821-Napoleon Bonaparte died- 1826-Empress Eugenie bom. N 1842--British troops evacuated Ningpo, " 1861--Borlase raid-at-Syatow.
1871 -"The Dolores Ugarte, coclit ship, burnt
near Macao. 1897-Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty final
ly rejected by the US, Senate
* TO-MORROW? Saturday, 6th May, 18997) Chinese 27th of 3rd moon of 25th year
Kwang-si Sun--Riser
The comments of the leading London papers on the action of the Crar's Government in, withdrawing all opposition to the Newchwang Railway loan afford interesting reading. The Stambard considers there is no reason to dis trust the accuracy of the information" that the abandonment of the opposition to the North Grn Extension Railway contract is the outconic of negotiations between the Russian and British Governments. It adds: "It is gratifying that an incisient should be closed which might have assumed very serious proportions had: the Ministers of the Czar adhered to the fine taken by their
The week previas the admiral issued a pro- accredited representative. Nor would it be clamation stating the result of the meeting, and well to inquire ton curiously into the history of disowning the Provisional Government. He the affair. Did M. de Giers succumb to the called upon Mataafa and the 13 chiets to rear climatic influence to which the temperaments peaceably to thich homes. He also stated that of the Muscovite agents in China is susceptible, the prisoners were to go quietly to their houtes
AIR, CITANEBEAULAIN'S BROTHER DEAD and become a victim ni excess of zeal'; or have without molestation. He guaranteed the pro-.
LONDON, April 2nd. his principais on the Neva been convinced by section of the naval force in barboundo al,Who
Richard Chamberlain, brother of the Secret Lord Salisbury's arguments that their Minisheyed, and threatened to use the same force ter made a mistake? Some future The book against those disobeying the proclamation. Heary of State for the Colonics, died in London
10-day. Richard Chamberlain au une time re Lord George Francis Hamilton, Secretary of will give the answer. Memwhile, it is a dis
also upheld the action of the Chief Justice. A presented the west livision of the borough of
State for hulia, in a letter to the newspapers.* copy of these decisions was sent in Matala, Islington, London, in Parliament in the Con- denounces the action of Lord Halifax, the pre inct gain that our view has prevailed. 1. in this instance, we had allowed a remonstrance
who crachated Mutiuny, and took up a positionservative interest. Since his retirement hesident of the English Church Cat, for defying17 from Russia, backed or not by express menace,
constituted authority, to terrify the Chinese Governinent into break- fing fuch with as, a fatal blow would have bein
deal to our induence,"
The Times sees in the wishisuwal, further proof that a little firmness and straightforward language at a critical myment can never impair the relations between two great and Self- respecting Powers actuated by an equal desire for a friendly understanding.
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farther inland. The German Consul issugs a counter proclamation declaring the Adhuital's proclamation untrue, and upholding the Pro visional covernment. The Mataath men now began to assemble in force, and hemmed the town in on the bandward side. There was heat excitement in the streets as the people, lead the rival proclamations.
Admiral Krantz then sent another tentera Matala. This was ignored by the rebels, wh banícaded the roads, and made benches within the municipality. They also rook possessien of sone British houses, The English' Consul, Ad- mital's tag lieutenant, and a brother of Lieuten aht Gaunt were intercepted by some armed na-
had devoted his attention to managing the estensive Chamberlain properties at Birming ham..
می با
* April 6th. The routerence of the Builders and Plasterers Association hits proved to be barren of results owing to the plasterers refusing the demands of the employers not to compel the fremm to in their unigas.
LORD HALSTAX DENOUNCED
Lord, Genge' says that high as well as low churchinen ought ja repudiate rebellion in Ùe
Church.
SHOT DEAD IN MISTAKE FOR LIFE PRÍS
Further particulars have been received re- SILENT. as crammed to be al Agurk shot deat a private whose arrival at Punta Arenas, in the Straits Yesterday, a madman, whose name has beengarding the Belgian Antarctic Expedition. gentleman named M. Tourch on the Bois de Bolongne. Anul, it is stated, mistook his vie tini for 31. Lombel, the French President; :
Magellan, was reputer, yesterday. It is stated that the Belgion, the vessel in which Jiem. Gurlache'» exploring party wens rum veye, visited Hughes Bay and fahner Land, penetrating the unexplored regions westward of Alexander Land, and reaching latitrale $1 3am, and longitude un deg. The Belgia
Rela
"Ohr, buning shr:55min, High water -Morning ohr. 33min. Afternoon ...... 6hr, gamin Low water--Morning of gutin. Afternoon ..... ohr. ¿lwin,
ANNIVERSARIES,
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Anticky Ml, Wood at the British
Legation, Tokio
1552
huis Park murders.
1892-
Pharsal captured by the Turks. Peking-Pashun collision in the Yangtze.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
MAILS DUE
French £708) 7ih inst Canadian (Hueprëse of Japan) Stis inst." American (Nippen Maru) 14th inst..;- American (City of Rio de Jandiro) 16th inst. American (Coptic) 25th insu
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tives, who were in possession of Mr. Gurr'shouse, caused by the heavy fogs which are prevailing clearest the ice on March 14th. Two menthers | delivered in New Vink-on the goth ultimo..
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WRECK OF A FRENCH BARQEF - 15
LIVES LOST.
April 3rd. Another strious shipping disaster has been on the British coasts, "The Marechal. Lannél. ja lange new French barque, had left Swansea with a canger of coal for San Francisco on her maiden voyage, when she was enveloped in very dense fog, and completely lost her bear- ing. Eventually she can ashore on the coast Pembrokeshire, and incame a total wreck. The whole of the crew, 25 in all, were drowned.
NORWAY'S WARLIKE ÁCIÍVEIN.
what has happened the triumph of the pacific and conciliatory elements in Russian statesman- ship, and above all, the practical expression af the Czar's own determination to meet this Coralf way in the removal of all the regrettable misituderstandings which have litherto kept Russia and England apart,”
An armed rebel uvered the fag-lieutenant One of the papers, the Belly Graphic, wized
with a rifle, when the Coire:l' and Lieutenant the occasion to read a lesson to some of the
kunt drew their revolves and chased theit English newspapers in the inlly of attempt.
assalams of All three displayed great bravery, ing to persuade the public that the settlement
An American lieutenant, who was unarmed, da of the Newelwang dispute besides being a Wednesday, gether with the Admiral's great triumph for Britistsiplenary, was a
secretary, went with a final letter to Matania to Tumiliation for Russia Russia barks dowRear, mit, but were stopped by a guard bebe in China:" * Russia gives-way jo England." [proceeding full-way. The baie was taken by The MASONIC CLAU CHALLENGE CUP; value,
These and similar lines were placarded by a guard, and an impuden reply was returned. The Daily Mail's correspondent at Bother, Tis. 359 presented by the meinbers of the
Later on Captain Sturdi took Taylon a berg, Sweden, referring to the warlike prepara certain evening newspapers all over London Masonic Club: for China punies, being fure to the confusion in every decept person half east spy, prisoner, The rebek wee jalons of Norway, says: "The only possible. fide griffins at "date of entry; to be won on who believes in the dignity of the Eb- allowed till 1 oflock to evacuate the mesobjeer of these preparations is frattark Sweden, two consecutive meetings, or three times inglish Pross and its general superiority, over cipality, but they ignored this, and half an whose defenses and arnjaments are inferior all, by ponies, the bona fide property of the its foreign rivals, Ecuitation of this kit hour before the signad for, bombadanent wa and whose infantry are rued with obsolete same owner or owners; courante. Tis. 10; 70 adds the Graphic, "isot noly valan, it is
given they made an attack on the American and weapon. Should the Norwegian degt auack per cent to the first pony, zo per cent to the also stupid. In social intercomuse such a British Consulates, thus beginning the way, Gothenburg the ĉity must inevitably fall. second pony, and to per cent to third pony breach of good manners would nowhere be
At oblouk on the all of Much the until the cup is finally won, when the second tolerated. Why should it be allowed in the,
Admiral opened from the distant Matrala pony will receive 75 per cent, and the third journalistic treatment of politied" questions? villages with the six-in h guns of the US. ship pony 25 per cent the entrance fees; weight It is supid because in the first place, the ! Philadelphia. 1. M. Ships Perfoise guil for arches as per scale. One mile and a Yellow authors of this sort of swagger always : Novalis um/kly followed. There was the gathering of 570 persons, he said he discri.
ince the risk of afterwards finding that theie-greatest-diftily-in heating the qusitions of ¦ is not much to crow over, and, in the second i the eneur, a the whole of the island is covered. place, it causes pain and britation which is not † with dense forest, but excellent shooting was unlikely to show itself in'fresh difficulties.
made ou some shore villages, the houses of The exception is well taken, and it is to be
which nei quikly in dames, The Su istung STARES: a forced entry of Tis. hoped that the remonstrance will not be with-
An unkotiinate evident happened early in 5, for subscriptions griffins-entered at this-out-effect-But-so-long as the public at largest the afternum defective Stell front the meeting list pony to receive 70 per cem., and even the intelligen soution of the public, Philadelphia burst close to the American second pony 20 per cent., third pony to per allow themselves to be swayed by swagger
Consilane, The pieves singshed through the cent weight for inches as per scale; un-
and an attitude of boastfulness and faluti, se
house, tearing the roof of the veranlah and placed ponies allowed 5 lbs. One pile. bung will a certain class of journalists continue mahonses, and smashing the cockerg and
to offend
Juncheon table. Some marines wha were atit-! side had a narow tape. Prisate adge had his leg shuntered close the knee, and the limb had the atuperate Summe of the others. 1. D., Canon of Westminister, and were knocked over, bin at injured. One
-quarter.
Altair
Thom Rose
Ther
Time, 2 mins 42 4-5 secs.
Otani
Final Forget... Pickle
Time. a mún. 12 4-5 sec.
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2
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The PARI-MUTUEL Cup: value, Pls. 100 arided to a sweepstakes of Tis, 5 each; second pong to receive jo per cent, and the third pony to per cent. of the stakes: for China jonies: weight for inches as per scale; gritūps at date of entry allowed ribs a penalty of for non-starters and winners at this meeting One mile and a Itall.
Scotsuban
Rio Grande Standard se Canelas..
+ Dead heat. Time, 3 min. 19 secs. The YANGTZE STASES: value, Ts, 130: second pony, Tls. go; for Chinx ponies that have run at this meeting, weight for inches as per scale; non-winners at this meeting; allowed tolls,; entrance Ts. 5. Two miles,
Corbie..
Sinbad.. Impact......
Time, quins, 34 3-5th secs.
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- The Mancuu STAKES+value, Tl5 10; second pony, Tis so for China ponies bond fidd grißins at date of entry, that have ran and hot won a race; weight for inches as per scale; entrance Tis. 5. One mile and
quarter.
The Downcast
Kaelin.
Argyle......
Time. min. 42 secs.
The CONSOLATION Cer; value, Ts. 150 second pony, Fl. 30 third pony, Tls. 25 for panies that have run at this meeting and not won a race; weight for inches as per scale; entrance Th. 5. Once round.
The Outcast
Iriefless
Sandstorm
Time, 2 min, 37 45 sec
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DEATH OF BARONESS HIRSCH,
Paris, April 1st. --Baroness Hirsch, widow of the late Hans Hirse, the Hemey philant's rife was masked to pieces in his hat The bombarding continued slowly during thropist, is deail.
the afternoon,
The Mafietoa ihen how we armed ikeinselves,
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of that on pealition have died.
WIRELESS TEAÞGRAPHY.
Facber interesting experiments in wireless telegraphy are shortly to be unde in order to way he worked: 11 is proposed to utilise the Eiffel Tower in Paris on which to fix instru nients to communicate with the South Par Land, difï the Kentish const
test the distance over which the new system
RATIONAL COSTUME IN AYOLING.
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Tui. Nippon Yusen«Raisha's steamer Hakala Mara (urope Line) left Singapore for this poyt yesterday, the 4th, and is expected to arrive here on the yth instant.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamier Empress of Japan arrived at Nagasaki at 6a.m. yesterday, the 4th, and left again at 3 p.m. for Shanghai, where she is due to arrive at to jo p. terday, the 5th instant. HusGKONG; AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS, Isla de Cuba...... at Kowloon lela de Lutzon Henry Failing........ Hating
The Cycling Touring hub recently pase ened the landlady of hire at Dakle, in Kaitlandshing, for refusing ta give the Countess Harbertons ditch, except in the bar parlour where gentlemen were sitting moking. The teason assigned by the landbody for her sehsal was that the Countess was wearing "ational costume The information was dismissal. PRESIDENT KREGER AL JOHANNESBURG,
LADYPTIAN QUAIL & PROFECTIVE MEASURI President Kruger, who is visiting Johannes bug, has been welcomed. In addressing a
Arteding to the regnoustrances made by the London Sportcaran in reference to the whole. minated any hetween lydy aúl disinjales, sale destruction and threened extinction of The must be eligany Sew-cncrail in Egypt by French and English sports-son aust forswear theiroki country if they desired in the French Govenment has prohibited The tran-it on its alway in of Egyptian beggbar-hip in the Transcnat," Petitioners who wished to come under another Goverment quail despatched by French consignees to the
London market,
i were "shers in troubled waters," and, as such,
RUSSIAN POLITICS, inspech deforma», If they ruined loyal, President Kinger said, the full franchise work? The spread of social democracy in Russia is new be long delayed.
treating serions labour troubles in that country. As the outcomes of these (industrial disturbances. the military have arrested hundreds of strikers.
Hongkong Maru...
V.S.S. Charleston
HLM.S. Fam
man d'Austria Pari
Cosmopolitan
PASSED THE CANAL
Dock.
2191
Outward - 14h April -hudrapura, Kintuck, Tats, Bamberg, Idomeneus, Palazinia, 18th Agiri lelohy Habicht, Kenmore April Japan, Boynton, Tonkin, 25th April- Darbriüt. Rogstad. - 27th Aprit--Courie, 28th April -Prinm. Bastern, 2nd May-Henglor, Dorothea Rickmers, Aggi, Nubia, John Adam--
SEA!.
Homeward-l May· -Silesia, Yarra,
TWO OF A TRADE.
The Baroness leaves several million pounds sterling, chiefly bequeathed to charities.
Baron Hirsch fell an estate of £2500, much of which was begeathed in charity and afterward dispensed by a Baroness. Millions have been spent in colonizing large hoodies, off refuge con H.1.GMS, faize and H.M.S. Rong, I distasteful to song members of the congressi | serions and even appalling dimensions. Then to be engroyed that the disagreement-in-them
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and cutrenched Muliunie, where o riendly natives. women and children, were taking refuge. Searly all the townspeople had taken
B, which were present. It was a strange sight. The Americans operated from Nuhunu, with the Colt automatic gum, firing 400 shots a
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A CAMIN OF WESTMINSTER, A sensation has been caused by a sermo
DIRE FAMINE IN RUSSIA. aid at Saint Margaret's Church, West inster by the Nev. Joseph Armitage Robin. Norrisian Professor of Diemiry at the Fniversity PEASANTS FORCED JO LIVE ON KÖLTS
AND STRAM. of Cabilridge. Thepreacher took for his subjekt the Athanasian Creed, which he declared, was
New York, Marcle 25th. n's creed, but a hymn written in a barbasian A able to the Tribune from London says: age, nejoicing at the victory of the Catholics Diving to the rights press censorships which
That two of a trole seielou agree in a common the Arians. Nowadays, he said, portions prevails in the Can's dominion to much has of this rared could not be endorsed. These been heard of the Russian fantine, There is | saying. Its workness, however, resides in the fact evilling, sheering saying. The iden pressions of opinion by the preacher were in ducht, however, that it has reached most. fion, who got up and left the church,
whole of fan great provinces to the east of th Compensam ad reciprocal junloney. While that is likely." . Rives Volga is now involved, and the peasants of a traie loty lly see reasons for an honesty
Bot HuCowary, or even a philosophical, inference population, numbering saved, millions, is
difference of apoion to which the outsider is blind. reduced to the last extremity of want. West of
Again, two of à trade any agree and both be the Valga the Lamine district extends almost to
wing a point of entrse, connected with their Moscow itself, Tonglionit this large arga the
try. Some years ago there was high delate inting, exhibited in jailure of chops is said to be more complete than even during the terrible visitation of 1891 Paris, was an uriginal Velasquez or a copy. Hall The unhappy puasiatry are endeavouring the artiststuni zaduniserute in Fampe got tot under to support life in a mixture of weeds, acons the collar about it. It was one of the other—so they said, karein des fact came out. • It was neither an and Chopped straw, and are being derinated
tariginal nor a ropy a it was a erpling. The experts by the steers of typhus and ytreskive cold an
were mistaken. And me spolutive judgment inverything.
tinute, also a ther-pounder gun, and shrapnel
hell. It is not yet known if many natiyes ja suburb of London, on the Thames, The were killed.
The goal on
Russian refugees in the United States and the Argentine Republic. Boness de Hirsch was quite as remarkable a personaget is her hus. band. Worth many millions in her own right, she gave as freely of her wealth as of that left by her husband. She was a daughter of the ate Senator Bischofheim of Brussels, heat of the great banking house of Bischotheim & Goldschini, that inanced the Erie Railway reorganization in 1871.
She manied Barok Hirsch when 22, and was of great help to hit in all his sharing financial inletakings as we but at an, the rebels under cover of dark 1roups on the irontier, the Government will ask ! constitutions enfeebled by insufficient nourish-
as in his splendid philanthropic plans.
SIXTY DAYS ADRIFT AT SEA.
Honolulu, March 26th. High dâys under hure poles, carried along by the wind and sea at the rate of tice, knots an hour, with anchors gene, fore-opmast wrenched and useless, water supply gone by the casks burning from friction between them and their stuncitions, as the
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KLILIKIUS JAM FACTORY DESTROYED.
April 4th. Aalestructive tire has occurred in Silvertown,
bfactory-of-James Keiller and Són, Limited, of was doubled, and Dundee and Silverton, da well-known mam
wer the questions whether a nunq* scams Incated the enemy in some dense taturers of narmalade, jumis, confectionery, positions rutenam ve kupt theur on hush inside the municipality, in different, a as totally destroyed. them all night with the Sordenteit gun, and shrapnet shell from the seven pounder,
ness, crept down the, Tivolinoad, killing two British men-of-war-eien, and wounding two others, one mortally, and he died next morning, 'The rebel must have emmled up in the dark. as they were not seru.
The same night a sergeant of Mainos un the Angelist was accidentally glad through the legs by his own sentry,
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RUSSIAN TROOPS ON THE GERMAN
FRONTIER.
Owing to this further making a Russian
next session darthe GeimandArmy be strength ened by the addigion of rasco men.
ANDREE'S EXPEDITION.. The emissary sent to Siberia by King Catar 1. of Sweden to make caquiries respelting the file of Here Andive's Arctic expedition reports that he is not yet convinced that the story toll by the Tunguskis tribe, who inhabit the moun jainous district of Veniscik, of die discovery of
number of instruments, is a hous
I'ment.
vessel tossed and pitched, such was the pre- ¿ Another defective shell from the Philadelphia i jart of a balloon, three human bodies, and a province alone, but the Government meastires
dicament of the Japanese schooner Riushui Maru, with seventecir soyls aboard, which part into this port in distress on the 22mil.
She sailed from Tekin December 31 ma shark fishing cruise, and January 17th was struck by a westerly gale, which drove her be fore it. Unable to beat back to Japan against this wind, the schooner was forced to try to make Wake island and eventually made {: Honolulu.
350; second pony, Tls, 100; third pony. TS. A NEW AMERICAN NAVAL GUN.
50; a forced entry for and open only to win- -ners-at-this meeting optional for the winners
of subscription griffin aces: weight for inches as per scale. Each pony entered to pay five per cent. of the value of the stakes and prizes won. One mile and a quarter; ·
Loyalty Callisto
Beachnut
Time, 2 min. 37 sec.
THE LATE MR. COOK.
Str. M. Cook, the head of the world-famous tourist agency, who died recently wrote an article which terminated thus: "Thus ends my public career as a personal conductor. which commenced in 1844 as a small boy with a long wand, assisting the guidance of 500 other small children from Teicester to Syston by special train-five miles. Since then I have taken part in conducting almost all classes and conditions of people to all the chief-parts of the globe, and I think may fairly claim to be satisfied with concluding such a career with the German Emperor in
Palestine
For ten years from 1865 to 1875-be rarely | slept in a bed, and he annually journeyed something like 53,000 miles. It was during this period that he invented the system of in- ternational travelling" tickets, and laid the foundation of the tourist business. In Egypt Last year, the firm had in operation over 40,000 sets of international tickets, covering 3,500,000 miles of railways, ind,, waterways. The services Mr. John Cook rendered to the Government in the transport of troops, and stores for the Nile operations of 1884-5 are well-known in what manner he has opened up Egypt and promoted the prosperity of that. country everybody knows who has ever spent a season there,
SOMETHING_TO_LICK.CREATION.
New York? Aped 206.
A Sun Special from Washington says: There are now being manufactured at the Naval gun factory here rifles of all sizes for the ships au- thorized, which are expected in develop far higher qualities than those obtaining for ordnance of equal size at present' installed on shipboard. They will be heavier, more costly, und greatly superior to the best guns of the Oregon Brooklyn and other types of new vessels. None of the larger sizes have yet been assembled, but designs were completed several months ago, by which twelves, eights and sixts will be more effective weapons than guns of the same calibres now afloat.
The Russian Governbabat, but withstanding vions warnings, has not unitated that of itritish India in organizing and insuring against nine times of comparative plenty, and the has caught it almost unprepared. Much is consequence is that this tenibile catastrophe being done by private agencies and the Red Cross has been distributing relief to more than CONTENUATION OF THE BOMBARDMENT
70,000 persons for the last two months in ome On Thursday the shelling was continuri.
in cope with due distress are sill very in- burst in the harbour A piece went throngh
THE LOCK-OUT OF PLASTERERS.
adequate The Times notices as significant the Catholic Church and another pieces through
In connection with the dispute between the the fact that in a country where 85 per cent of the German Consulate, smashing the crockery, The Germans then left for the warship File Master Builders Association with the Plaster the population subsists entirely by agriculture es Union, which has resulted in a lockout of the While expenditure on the agricultural There was hot tiring from the reliels. AL
2.200 plasterers, a Herong was held in is department of the Government is 1.500,000, night on American marine was shot dead by
Mauser bullet while his post near the ghat last night to consider the difficulty while the army and navy rost £32,000,000.
The meeting, which represented goopoo work. { 51. PETERSBURG, March 25th. The new- American Consulate, Bullets peppered the British Consulate all night long. The enemyers in the lding trade, authorised a conter-spapers of the city publish pitiable accounts of could not be seen in the dense jungle, but the once with the caployers. It is puntuable, that the condition of the so-called fumine districts the conference wilt réstik itra settlement of the | of Russia, especially Samaa, in the eastern rifles and Nordenfells replied.
stifficulty.
- part of European Russia. The efforts of the Red ris Suciety have stayed off the horrors of actual starvation, but the society's funds are all exhausted, and the dire distress, com pelling the consumption of all kinds of garbage has produced an epidemic of terrible mortality from typhus, scurvy, and her pestilential
Lieutenant Gaunt had a narrow escape from the enemy's bullets. Another Britisher, was shot in the foot by a sentry, The were on all night in the rain and rein forcements were urgently needed, as the position of the town was critical Ballets were being fired at the warships under enver of the darkness, Some spies and Matafa prisoners were arrested, but it is im possible to say how many were killed.-
11.3.5. Tauranga, which it is understood intended to annex Tonga, is to be intercepted at Ciji by the Union Company's steiner Tuzioni. Nearly all the inhabitants are ou farships and they are very uncomfortabls Some Lunities are leaving for Suva and Tonga, The bitter feeling against the Germans is in- creasing, and they are being roughly spoken to by American sentries.
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EIGHT DAY'S BOMBARDMENT.
March 21st.
ANTARCTIC RESEARCH,
The steam yadt Belgica, commanded by Lieutenant de Gerlache, is returning from the Antarelle regions, and has arrived at Punta Arenas in Chili. The vessel was ice-bound for two months,
The commander reports that after visiting | diseases. the South Shetland Islands his expedition The peasants are compelled to self every examined the castern shore of tirahan Lal thing and are living in cald, damp and filthy a tract of lofty and continuous land in the Ancalats. Weakened by hunger, they fail ready areti: Decan, which was discovered in 1832 victims to typhus and acute scure. Unless by Hiscos, who took possession thereof on the Government gives prompt aid the Volga provinces appear doomed to a repetition of the horrors of 18gi and 1892. -
behalf of Great Britain.
Subsequently the Belgica pusfied south as far as possible through Weddell Sea. They found that the sea was open wafer as far south
as the active volcanoes:
Much new land was discovered, but the Belgica will not return, as Originally proposed, for another winter in the Antfäctic regions.
A.MILLIONAIRE'S WEDDINGDJ
One of the first pieces completed is a six- inch ride which will shortly be tested at the Naval proving-ground-down-the-Potoma-The The captain-of-H.-M-So-dovalis/bas-issnect- present six-inch rifle has a velocity ut ex- an onder that all the women and children; and
The Vanderbilt wedding, a great social event ceeding 2100 feet per second for its projectile, those not actively engaged in the war, had
to which New York society has been looking while the new piere, with its enlarged powder better leave for Tutuela, Muliumu, Tonga, or
forward for some months, took place yesterday charge, will have not less than 3000 feet velo-
New Zealand, so as not to hamper the opera The contracting parties were Mr. W. K. Van amid splendours permitted only to millionaires. city, and the cigla-inch will almost equal it. tions. The bombardment has been going on
rapid-fire six-inch gun with 3000 feet velo- for eight days, and is still proceeding. The derbilt-son of the well-known, taillionaire of city will equal in effectiveness the old slow American and British troops are fighting New York, and brother of the Duchess of Marl fire eights now mounted on the Baltimore and.¦ shoulder to shoulder.
borough-and Miss Virginia Fair. The ball- Hoston.
H. M. S. Perwise shelled, the villages cast room in which the marriage festivities were In addition, to the vast sumount of work the and west of Adia, capturing many boats,
hell was fairly converted into a land of flowers shop is doing for the new ships, it is engaged
LONDON, March 24th. for the occasion, with song birds concealed in also in converting all six-inch guns of slow-fire
the foliage. The United States Government has given an pattern into quick firers. The difference be assurance to Germany that Rear-Adinira!" THE TRIPOLI HINTERLAND-QUESTION, tween the two is very great, and it is intended | Krantz, who is now at Samua is command of In view of the objection of the Italian Co- that every yesset now mounting slow-fire guns the cruiser Philadelphia, will only act, if vernment to the clause in the Anglo-French shall be equipped with the most modern emergency arises, in accordance with the African Convention relating to the Tripoli mechanical appliances, us fast as batteries can decision of the majority of the officials repre- hinterland, the French, Government has in be dismounted and guns sent here for the senting the three. Powers at Samoa. The structed M. Camille Barrere, the French Ap change. So far nearly all the vessels of Washington authorities add that a, unanimous.bassador in Rome, to assure Italy that if the Admiral Sampson's command have new sixes, ratificalion or adjustment of the Samoan quer fate of Tripoli is ever discussed, France's and some with Admiral Dewey's fleet, but the tion will be sought at the earliest moment. I attitude will not be one of hostility to the Haltimore, Philadelphia and a number of other the meantime, the instructions given to Admiral Italian claims The Minister, was instruct
essels sill, retain the same old batteries Kranizare that he shall act in a conciliatory ed, to inform the Itatain Government that mounted when they were fral constructed,
France had no designs on Tripoli,, Mr. Hans
spirit.
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR,
MAY.
paleteorological means based on ten years
observations to 1893.
Barometer Thermometer Humidity Rainfall
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT'
Barometer
Thermometer Humidity
Rainfall
24.867
.76.2
84.0
13.0
Da date at On dale ut
4 in.
19.79.
72
TO-DAY. Friday, 5th May, 1899. Chinese-abih of 3rd mo
Kwang-si Sun Rises
Sets.
29.83 78
Here is a case of ran doctore ; bork, doubtless, mompétest men, they were wrong, or if only one was wrong-bor let us have the story: fint. It wines from a seguitable zoaice, and is well cor rolanned.
**Du March. Lost," says the relater, "1" bad a severe attack of inthevan, which prostrated me for bir mouths, After this" "I would not get up my trength. My appetite was poor, and what little I did cut gave me milf pain et the chest -and apout the beat. Sharp, entting pains in the re gion of the heart seized ine every now and again, sometimes so best I feared 1 was going to die. Ab night 1 got little or no sleep on account of wind, which has immu my tlerent, unfil -I-fairly gasped : for gest, During the painful attacks of my com phuist
pon
"my perspiration would stand in 'beads
B
1 sanilom strength to that extent I could not MALI.
Indeed, I was a weak as a child," I was gften so diay I had to catch hold of something to keep myself from fallin. Several times these attacks hase e apra me at concerts, obliging my friends be conduci bie bome. As time passed on I grew. more and naver fechte und abandoned all hope of ever. wing well and strong again.
"I had two doctors attending me who prescribed medicines which, however, cases only for a time and then 1 was as bad as ever.
the detor wid I had plouring ; the other said I had heart disepKE,
** For two and one-half year I. lingered along, nearly as much dead as alive, all my relatives and friends thinking I would at recover. In November, 1893, a book was left at my house in which Freni öf, ease like mine having been cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup My wife preared me a bottle from the Irvingin Drug Stores in Westgate Street, and the first gave ine mich relief that I continued th the medicine, I would then eat well and the food agreed with me; the pain around the heart soon cease ing.
In a short time my strength returned and I got back to my work well and vigorous. Since then I have been in the bed of health. You are sc iiberty to publiska. this statement is refer to me.(Signed) William Henry Jerri, 18, Rendlesham Road, All Saints, Ipswich. Nozauber, 18th, 1897
One of "Mr. Jervis, doctor pronounced his com-. plain to be pleurisy; the other said it was heart dis ease. Were they both right, or both wrong3 Dr Wai any right and the other wrong In the latter cass which one? Judging from the symptoris as set fortbely Mr, dervis the probability in that both ware right- far as they wear.
The sae or bug which surrounds the heart (called the pericardian), and the sue in which the hings rést: (called the plence), are parts of the tymphticsystem'; which is the especial abiding place and, stamping ground of the kind of polson, produced by the dis-- ensed disgestire system, aut the case of rheumatla
and heart disease. ¦¦ Now, after (if not gout, pleurisy, before) his stack of influenza Sir Jerria aufered from seule dyspepsia with torpid live, which Engen- dered the poison that set ugi A mill form of bo
pluring
and heart disorder. When the real and of a all the dyrpopria was cured
aliment
5th year of by Mother, Sigel Byrup, those Applet
consequential tropblas yanished, as in
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trade
ran diffet and both be right.
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