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STORM AT KOBE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1899.

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THE WORKS AT PORT ARTHUR. The high wind from the west aid north-west The works to be undertaken in the improve. which prevailed at intervals nearly all day on ment of Port Arthur, for which the Russian Monday, and all the following night, caused Government have assigned a sum of 11,000,000 the sea to get up, and some seventeen or eigh-roubles, include the construction of two moles, teen boats, were wrecked off Temposan, reports a considerable deepening of the dock, and of the Kobe Chronicle of the 18th. A police the roadstead and entrance channel. On the boat going to their assistance also foundered, completion of these operations, naval store. and the occupants-eight or nitic policemen houses on a large scale will he erected, and and a sendo-were nearly drowned. They furnished with stores and supplies of all kinds. were rescued by another police boat. Some of The floating plant will also be increased, the the men in the boats that were wrecked are existing dry-dock lengtheneil, and the con- reported to have been drowned. Damage was struction of a new one will be commenced. The done to the breakwater on Temposan g programme also includes the erection of a hospital, a church, houses for the commander and for the harbour officials, baths, warehouses, barracks, and dwelling-houses for the medical officers,

* A Cho is 138,000 square feet.

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THE POWERS.

At the end of the nineteenth century the World Powers have rediscovered the Pacific. In fifteen years the position has been revolutionised; in les years all the forces which make for unrest have energetically asserted themselves; in ten years more they may have stamped the Pacific with the marks of conflict for supremacy.

Russia, japan, the United States and treat Hritain are the four protagonists for premiership in the Pacific Gerouny and France possess opportunities for annoyance, but hegemony can be theirs in only the sinallest degree. Just as France in New Caledonia is a thorn in the side

March 12th the tidings of the amnistics reached General" Croje, the Boar commander, outside the fort of Potchefstroom, On St. Patrick's Day Colonel Winslos, finding his wounded men were dying for want of food, sent out a Kaffir spy, who brought in news of the armistice, which he obtained promptly without the know. ledge of that soul of military honour, Meinheer Cronje,

FALSE FLAGS OF TRUCK.

Limpopo, it is further remarked, are still the two great fissures in the plateau, which carry off most of the surface waters to the surround ng marine basins. The Transvant has several magnificent rivers, and is well watered genor ally, being peculiarly suited for grazing or agricultual purposes. Bush, including mimosas, thom thickets and creepers, cover extensive tracts on the northem and southern plains, and the Wakkerstroom and Utrecht districts Two days later Winside sent a letter to towards Natal are well wooded. But else Comje informing that worthy that he had got where the characteristic features are grass to hear of the armistice, and he understood lands, downs, hill slopes, flats, even many provisions and much needed medical requisites were awaiting entry into the fort. Cronje parts of the higher uplanils being covered with savannahs, generally affording good professed complete ignorance as to the ammis cattle. The fice, and so our poor fellows, who had come pasturage and fodder for Boers and other agricultural settlers have to the utter end of food and physic, had no alternative but the bitterness of surrender. hitherto occupied themselves chiefly with the

On March 3rd the men, women, and children, breeding of sheep, cattle and horses, but there can be no doubt, according to the best au- worn down almost to skeletons, left the small thorities, that much of the country is eminently earthwork in which day and night, under a alapted to the cultivation of cereals, being veritable fau d'enfer, they had been cooped up capable of yielding two annual crops and pro for three months, with bugles blowing and a ducing some of the finest wheat in the world.home-made flag attered with bullet-holes The forest growths are confined chiefly to the (Lieutenant Rundle afterwards showed it to deep kloofs or gorges of the mountain ranges, the Queen) waving at their head. They were beaten by treachery and treachery of a pecu. and these gorges will be of very great value to

fiarly base and heartless degree. the Boers when the advance of the British into Transvaal territory once commences, for parties

By the way, my friend, Mrs. Boul, was will doubtless retreat within their fastnesses and make raids on the invaders as opportunity during the siege shot in the neck one offers. The abundance of grasses and herbs in

noning when rushing from one sandbagged such a territory as the Transvaal naturally led shelter to another. The flag of truce dodge to an abundance of herbivorous animals, and

was tried over and over again in the disastrous this again to a prolific carnivora. By the early campaign of 1880-81, and just as many times our innocems walked into the trap. At opening settlers the Transvaal was described as thic

paradise of hunters," as many as two hundred of the ball, at the massacre of Brunket's Spruit, lions being, it is said, killed by the lloers, in their when the 9th were cut to pieces, le drapeau great trek in 1835-37. between the Orange blanc was used simply as a cover, under which the Boers closed in upon the doomed regiment. and Vaal rivers. Besides the lion, there is the leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, girate, zebra, And at the action of the Ingego River these quagga, many varieties of antelope, and the chivalrous gentry fired upon one of the heroes ostrich, while the large rivers are frequented by of Rorke's Drift, the Rev. Mr. Ritchie, who the hippopotamus and the crocodile. However, had gone forward with a white flag in response the larger game is gradually disappearing as

to one hoisted by the enemy. That militant churchman, in describing the incident to me, the country is becoming settled. But it is the

observed that when he heard the splash on extraordinary mineral wealth of the Transvaal that has attracted most attention,, and, 'indeed,

stones of Westley-Richart bullets all round him he never since his ordination felt so hugely is in no small measure responsible for the pre-

inclined towell, express himself in not sent war, for Had it not been for the discovery

One callous of gold and diamonds, there would have been

exactly devotional beatitudes. few Uitlanders in the Transvaal demanding subaltern, indeed, averred that the padre used the franchise. Moreover, besides the gold and the diamonds, there is much iron in the terri-big 1" but then he was only a very was given to his statement, But the tory, to ether with copper, lead, cabait, sulphur, junior second lieutenant, so little credit sulipetre and coal, this last, with gold, copper ccasion was ont 10 and iron, being probably the most abundant self-restraint of

arany chaplain, and widely distributed. Altogether it will be for while the reverend gentieinan stood seen that the Transvaal is a country of wander ful resources, which only wait to be developer under a liberal and progressive government for the territory to take perhaps the leading place in South Africa.--Kobe Chronicle.

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The barometer remained very low all Mon day, standing at 29.19 at six o'clock in the morning, but rising gradually to 29.41 at 6 pm. All through the night the wind was violent, exceedingly heavy gusts blowing at intervals.

A report of the Kobe Meteorological Station, issued at noon on Monday, stated that a depres sion appeared off Formosa at 3 pm, on Satur day, and had advanced to Southern Kyushu at 6a.m. on Sunday. The barometrical reading was 29.99. As this threatened a storm, a warn ing was issued by the Central Mercorological Observatory to the eastern districts 1, 2 and 3, and also to the coast of the districts 4 and The depression subsequently became, worse, and at 2 p.m. on the same day it advanced to Eastern Kyushu, where the barometer regis- tered 29.90. At 6 am. on Monday the depres- sion had advanced to the vicinity of the Ki Channel, the barometer falling to 2970. At the same time the atmospheric pressure began to rise over the Luch Islands, and a strong north-westerly wind set in. At of Australia, so Germany in the Carolines has Kobe the pressure began to lift at about placed herself athwart the American line of to .in. on Sunday, producing a gale, communication between San Francisco and the which continued for more than 36 hours, Philippines. If the next great struggle is to be All day yesterday the whether continued between Germany and America, as Adinical rough and squally in Kobe.

Dewey thinks, the Americans will realise their A telegram from Shizuoka dated the 17th mistake in allowing Germany to acquire the saysThe rica fields for a space of over loo remnant of Spanish dominion in the Pacific, cho" on the coasts of Osada-muri, Obe district, But beyond that Gemany can do little. Unless were flooded by sea water yesterday in corse she is able materially to augment her present quence of the high waves. The einbankinent possessions, she cannot hope to be in the run. was smashed for an extent of some 180 feet,ning for a leading place in the Pacific. In and work is now being undertaken to prevent America, the idea already obtains that the the inrush of inore water.

United States are the paramount 'ower between A message from Hoji of the same date the Chinese and the American seaboards, saysThe yale which was blowing since yes and that the destiny of the Pacific is to be an terday went down at 3 this morning. Eight American lake. But the talk in which some boats were wrecked and a stone wall and pier leading officials and polucians in Washington are indulging is as the prattle of a child excited on the beach collapsed. No lives were lost. Owing to the gale, communication between by a pop America can only acquire the Moji and Shimonoseki was entirely stopped.

authorhecks in the Pacific by an alliance with Jar Russin. But Japan leans to warts Great Britain. The Agaericans therefore turn to Russia, the powerful magnet which seems to attract republicans irresistibly, and a Russo-American combination is not an im possibility. Russia will tap the natural wealth of Siberia and northem China. She will find the sinews both of war and commerce in the one and the raw material of Considerable naval forces in the teeming population of the other. In the unlikely event of a Russo- American alliance in the Pacific, Japan and Great Britain will be driven together by

On the fateful murn of Branker's Spruit (says need of mutual protection. Japan, with con tinued organisation and a measure of good writer in the 57, James's Gazette) a captain fortune, cannot wholly fail to secure a large of horse and a subaltern of infantry rode out of Pretoria. The captain was of the R.D.G.'s and voice in Pacific destinies. The incursion of

individual was at that Western Powers has mbbed her of the position the other military of ascendency and independence to which she precise period of his combative career attached would have attained as the result of her adopto the K.R.R.C.-which mystic procession of tion al Western methods, and the yellow race initials, rendered into the understanding of the will only now be able to assert itself in the world at large, incans the King's Dragoon Pacific in league with, or under the domination Guards, and the King's Royal Rife Corps. of, the white race. Japan recognises two The object of our pilgrimage was to augment things that at the moment Great Britain is the resources of the re-mount department, and the gentle Boer was not at the moment con- the paramount Power in the Pacific and that

sumed with a burning desire to part with his Great Britain's attitude is defensive, not

surplus horseflesh to the Rooi Radjes" or aggressive.

Red-Coats, as the Transsnalers called us then. Refused hospitality on a very transparent ex-

Another shocking instance of Boer treachery cüse that night at a farmhouse, we were, with

was that of a civilian doctor, who, with suspicious persistence, urged to present oursel

surgeon-tunjor, was despatched from Pretoria to the scene of the Brunkers Spruit massacre, ves at another, an hour's, further ride on the road. We, however, off-saddled, and spent our nigin on the open veldt, which, though not strictly saved my friend Comeford, the Army medico, to succour the wounded prisoners. His uniformi comfortable, was, on the whole, preferable to the hut the other doctor, the Boers having decoyed chance of being murdered by the hall-drunken him into a house on the pretence of giving him and Eunatic Dopper Boers who that evening

a drink of milk, was stripped to his nether had concentrated at the identical farmhouse to which, we had been so thoughtfully directed.arments and cowhided-yes, incredible as it may seen, actually cowhided--to within an That very night the Sery cross of insurrection

inch of his life. I remember as if it were only had gone forth, and our kindly informants no doubt considered that such a chance of polish yesterday the ghastly look of horror and shame that stamped itself on that luckless practitioner's ing off two British officers was not one to be

face as, with tears in his eyes, he recounted to thrown away,

us the details of the atrocious outrage to which

THE H. & S. BANK », YO-KEE,

On the 12th inst, in the Yokohamia Chiho Saibansho, before Judge Watanabe Nobura, an action instituted by Mr. D. Jackson, Manager of the Yokohama branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, against a Chi- nese firm, known as Yo-kee, No.. 150, Yoko: hanta, for the payment of a promissory note covering the sun of Y7,000 issued by the latter in December last, came on for hearing. The plaintiff was represented by Barrister Ideurs and the defendant by Mr. Akiyama, The Japan Herald reports that at the outset of the hearing, Mr. Akiyama made a protest, referring to the incorrect translation of the name of the Chinese firm, and also of the word "Munager," as no person except Directors could be legally qualified to bring an action in the Court re presenting corporation. The Court was adjourned till to aim, on Saturday, the rath

YOKOHAMA BRITISH CONSUL ROBBED.

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If Great Britain does not remain mistress of the Pacific as of other seas, the fault will be The Yorous states that Mr. H. A. Bunar, that of her sons under the Southern Cross, British Consul at Yokohama, with a friend of Federated Australia should count for at least as his, was out shooting at Tsuchiura on the 6th much as Japan.......Australian federation is as inst. He stayed at an inn called Maruman. momentous a fact in Pacific history as was the On the morning of thegth Mr. Bonar discovered triumph of Japan in the war with China. Both thar Y. 30 in paper money which he had put in

events mean that New Powers have arrived the pocket of his clothes the previous night prepared-to-dispute with all-comers for their was missing. The matter was at once reported respective rights. Australia as a nation, however, to the police who made search for the last will enjoy dignities and must face res money when it was found in a cupboard of the ponsibilities unknown to the individual colonies, house. A maid and manservant of the hotel...That Australia will rise to the level of the were arrested on suspicion, but the former was released after examination,

THE YOKOHAMA AUTUMN

ILEGATTA.

The autuma regatta which, on account of the typhoon, had been postponed for a week, says the Japan Advertiser, took place on the rath inst. It is impossible to conceive of a greater contrast as to weather than that between the two Saturdays--the one blustering, wet and wholly impossible for regatta purposes, the other bright, warm, almost windless, an ideal rowing day. Of the regatta itself it may safely be said that it was the most satisfactory held by the Club for many seasons. The main cause of this was the absence of those vexatious delays in starting which, of late years, have been more and more complained of by the officers and spectators. All the races were started on time, the Senior Pairs only excepted, this race baving to be postponed owing to the illness of Squire. J. J. M. Carst is to be congratulated on his excellent rowing, winning every event in which he had entered. Abbey, too, showed what good training and conscientious work will do by winning both the Junior Paris and the Junior Fours. Molu's able coaching was rewarded by his crew securing first and second prizes in the Club Fours See m

From the list of winners published we note that Carst stroked the winning boat in the Senior Double Sculls, when big was accom- panied by Irwine, in the Seator Fours, and-in the Scratch Fours. In the Open Fours Hay- ward s.roked the wizning boat, in which H. A. Poole was No. 2, Carst No. 3 and Irwine bow.

occasion can hardly be doubted. She has in the part given ample evidence of her mettle. ......Australia has always evinced a lively sense of the merits of a ring fence. If such a fence has not been preserved, the misfortune, not the fault, is hers.-The Saturday Review.

THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF

THE TRANSVAAL,

TRICKS OF THE TREACHEROUS BOER.

TALES OF BUS DECEIT IN BATTLE, and

HIS BAD FAITH ELSEWHERE.

out in the advanced front flourishing a pocket handkerchief he noticed, to his great disgust, that the Boers were profiting by the opportunity to creep round our flanks. Even that war- worn Bishop, Father Brindle, might be par- doned if under the circumstances he did what une troops are reported to have done in Flanders.

MURDER OF CAPTAIN ELLIOTT,

After the annihilation of the hapless guth, two unwounded officers, Captains Elliott and Lamnbart, were set free on parole. They were taken to a drift on the Vaal River, and were forced to attempt a crossing where the river, owing to heavy floculs, was impassible. The Captain's cart in which they were sitting was turned over, and when swimming for the lines the Boers poured in a velley upor, then, killing poor Elliott at once. Lambar, who, like myself, had been-on remount work, escaped by a miracle, and managed, half-naked and foot- sore, to reach Natal After peace

was

established some of the murderers were tried by a Boer jury at Pretoria, and, needless to say, promptly acquitted. No other reparation was ever made or asked for by our Covernment for the foul deed.

COWHIDING A DOCTOR.

he had been submitted.

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FORLING DESPATCHES.

SHIPPING REPORTS. Captain Thomson, of the steamship Argyll from Amoy, reports-Strong monsoon and fine weather.

Captain Robson, of the steamship Failoong, | from Swatow, reporta-Strong E.N.E. wind and high sea, fine but cloudy weather.

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Captain Warrall,-of the steamship Kintuck, from Singapore, reports: From 19th to zzad, moderate to light variable winds and fair; from 22nd to arrival, strong monsoon with heavy

confused sea.

NOTANDA.

CALENDAR.

OCTOBER.

Meteorological means based on fifteen years'`

observations to 1898.

Barometer Thermometer Humidity Rainfall

29.08:

.76.3

.71

5-79-1

TO-DAY.

WEATHER REPORT. -

On dale at

15 TE.

Barometer. Temperature Humidity Rainfall..

.30,20

On date at

.4 13.M.

3011

TO-DAY. Thursday, 26th October, 1899. Chinese-22nd of 9th moon of 25th year of

Kwang-si Sun-Rises

bler. 3min. 54, 25min.

Sets Moon-Last Quartir 5.17 p.m.

ANNIVERSARIES. 1839--Lin andered all British ships to leave the coast of China within 3 days. 1843-In Canton 1,200 houses and 3 factories

burnt.

1850-North West Passage discovered by Me

Clure.

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1859-Royal Charter wrecked. 1893-Pacific Mail Cos-steamer City of New Fork stranded outside San Francisco harbour.

1896--Li Hung-chang appointed Minister for 1894-Chin-tien-cheng taken by the Japanese.

Foreign Affairs. 1807-Mr. MeLeary Brown; Financial Adviser, dismissed by the Korean Governinent.

TO-MORROW.

FARRAMATTA, British seamen – 2851,1

Symons, 36th Oct-Shanghai 24th Oct. Mails and General.-P. & O. S. N. Cả c TAMSUI MARU, Japanese steamer fors, S.

Nagatz, 26th Oct-Amoy and Swatow asth Oct, GeneralMitsui Bussan Kaisha.. KwanG PING, Chinese steamer, 1343, W.

Blake, 26th Oct,-Tientsin 19th Oct, and: Chefoo 21st, General.-C. E. & M. Co.

Clearances at the Harbour Offos. Kwangsi, British str., for Shanghai, Hikosan Maru, Japanese str.. for Kuchinotzu. Tategami Maru, Japanese str for Nagasaki. Hongbong, French str., for Haiphong." Chowfa, British str., for Bangkok,« Hermes, Norwegian str., for Chefoo Haitan, British str., for Swatow Hahata Maru, Japanese str., for Kobe. Kintuck, British str., for Shanghai.

Departures.

Oct. 26, laiman, British str., for Swatow. Oct. 26, Bygdo, Norwegian str., for Chefoo. Oct. 26, tampon, British str., for Canton. Oct. 26, Chorofa, British str., for Bangkok.) Oct. 26, Stanfield, British bark, for Rejang, Oct. 26, Pronto, German str., for Canton, Oct. 26, Hikosan, Afaru, Japanese str., for Ku

chinotzu,

Oct, 26, Hakuai Mari, Japanţie str., Vladiva.

stock.

Passengers-Arrived,

Per Hallsong, from Swatow-41 Chinese: Per Kintuck, from Singapore-357 Chinese. Per Bormida, from Singapore-160 Chinese. Per Kwane Ping, from Chefoo-28 Chinese. Per Parramalla, from Shanghai for Hang.. kong--Lieut. H. P. Cayley, R.N., Messrs. Sin Tak Fan, Men Win Sin, Ping, C. V. Daly, Mr. and Mrs. E. L.. Halsell, Miss E. Waggoner, Mr. E. Carter, Miss H. L. Carter, Mr. H. R. Munch- meyer, Baron de Wasservas, Messrs. A. G. Wood, Reichert, W. N. Brown, Geo. McBain and servant, Dr. E. H. Horsey and servant, and Sikhs, For Singapore-Mr. f. A. Roosen. For Bombay-Mr. and Mrs. F. Pirdeaux. For London--Sir Chas. Ross, Messrs. C, W. Farden, W. P. Lambe, Misses Ghey, Symons, Mrs. Sowerby, 4 daughters and a sons, and Mrs. D... M. Hay and 2 children. For Marseilles-Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Probst, 2 children and amah, Departed. and Mr. Jowelt.

Ver Haknai Maru, for, Amoy-Messrs. K.

Tekino and Uyenhara. For Chefoo-Mr. P.. Rapanaki. For Nagasaki-Messrs. M. Elliot and Masaju Mari.

Per Sandakan, for Sandakan--Messrs. W. Friday, 27th October, 1899. Chinese-23nt of 9th moon of 25th year of R. Burnside, W. Wilson, & Japanese and 180

Chinese. For Kudat-46 Chinese.

Kwang-sil. Sun-Rises

Sets

6hr, quin. Shr, agwin.

STEAMERS EXPECTED,

Names.

From

Duc.

Singapore

Singapore

To-morrow Oct. 28th

Shanghai

Oct. 28th

Singapore

Oct. 19th

Oct. 29th

ANNIVERSARIES. 1728-Captain Cook born. 1854---Daniel Webster died. 1870-Surrender of Metz. 1871-The Tarter General, Chang Shap, visited

Hongkong, 1800-Li Hung-chang charged with trespassing

in the Imperial Park. 1897--Death of H.R.H. the Duchess of Teck.

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

MAS DUE. American (Coptic) 28th inst. English (Bengal) 28th inst Indian (Lightning) 31st inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 9th prox. American (America Maru) 18th prox. Australian (Chingiu) 12th prox.

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The steamer Lightning from Calcutta, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon,

The steamer Birchior left New York on the 24th instant, via Suez, for Hongkong, China and Japan ports.

Bamberg Bengal. Coptic Ixion...

Kagoshima Maru., Moji... Idomeneus ... Singapore Oct. 30th Lightning

Singapore... Oct. 31st Queen Adelaide... Portland, Or..... Nov. 8th- Empress of India. Vancouver...... Nov, gth: America Maru...... San Francisco... Nov. 11th Chingtu .......... Sydney ........ Nov. 1zth

We would direct the attention of abipping firms to the style in which "Steamers Expected" and "Projected Sailings ara now published in these columus, and in xa doing respect. fully urge the managers of shipping firms to give orders to their clerks to farsh this office, on the forms already sup. plied gratis with the latest availableinformation every day.

Ship

PROJECTED SAILINGS.

Destination.-

Date,

The steamer Indravilli from New York and Straits left Singapore for this port on Wednes Abergeldie.... Pentland, &c. Nov. 11th day 25th inst, at 7 p.m.

The O. S. 5. Co's steamer domenzus from Liverpool left Singapore yesterday and may be expected to arrive here on 30th inst

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The steamer. Kawachi Maru (Europe Line) left Kobe via Moji for this port to day and is espected to arrive here on the 1st November.

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The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s R.M.S. Empress of India from Vancouver, arrived at Kobe 3 p.m. on Wednesday the 25th inst. and left again at midnight same day for Shanghai, where she is due to arrive at 8 a.m. on Sunday the 29th inst.

They were not good souls, quite up to the job themselves, and so it was suggested that we might "call next door," where our enter tainment would not impossibly have assumed a

Mention of the much-flogged doctor in-

The O. & O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Captic with game hardly recognised in the ethics of hospitably brings to mind the ease of Captainmails, &c., from San Francisco to the 19th tality. I have decended to this morsel of Higginson-a cousin, by the way, of that very persunal detail because it illustrated from my succesful exponent of the new journalism, Mr. ultimo, left Shanghai for this port at 1 pʊn,

w knowledge that detestable quality which served together, before we got our commissions,

Alfred Harmsworth. Higginson and myself yesterday. bulks so largely in the Boer character--"selm," artful, cunning, as they describe it when speak in the same Irish militia regiment. Afterwards we went through the Zulu and Hoer wars to- ing of themselves; treachery, it might with more justice be written down by people whose gether, and inually both of us tried, as officers of conceptions of fair play are otherwise than the Houssas, on the pestilential Cold Coast and those of the average Dutch Transvaaler. Some

thai other Golgotha so celebrated for its very times this peculiar side of the Boer character superior development of mud, missuma, man. has been responsible for results more humorous groves, and malaria-Lagos. Dining one night at than tragic. Take, for instance, an episode of Government House, a corrogated iren torgue, the Potchefstroom siege, as narrated to me the in which every 12 months or so we laid out the other day, coming home from the Cape, by body of a fever-stricken proconsul, our talk urified to the subject of this article. Four of his Mrs. Percy Boult, one of the ladies who con- trived to survive through the vicissitudes of a Excellency's guests had served in the far-away three-months-long investiment in a terribly Transvaal, and each of us had our several ex- over crowded mud fort.

periences to recount of Hoer had faith.

Perhaps the most remarkable reminiscence was that of Walter Higginson. Riding one exceptionally dark night with despatches. for Sir Owen Lanyon at Pretoria, he was hoisted out of his saddle by means of a time-honoured South African trick-that of a rope hold breast high across the road. Brought to mother earth with such precipitancy as ensured a pro longed period of unconsciousness, the docu

FIRING ON A FUNERAL.

By a Boer messenger, who, under cover of a

iments with which he was entrusted were

bore

We have already dealt with the history of the Boers and their character, as well as with the events of the last war with Great Britain, Some account of the physical features of the country may now prove interesting. The Transvaal (that is, the country beyond the Vaal river to which the Boers emigrated after their difference with the British Government) forms compact inland territory about as broad as it is long, not more than 45 or 30 miles from the Indian Ocean.at Delagoa Bay, but piherwise lying completely within the outer rim of the vast South African tableland. Its extreme length is some 500 miles and its extreme width about 400 miles. No accinate surveys are available, but the total area has been variously computed at from 10,000 to 120,000 miles, or about double the extent of England proper. The mean altitude of the territory above the flag of truce, carried a letter to a sister of my sea exceeds 3,000 feet, so notwithstanding that friend, came a document in telegraphic cipher, that it lies between 22° 15 and 28 S. lat.-that purporting to be from Colonel Bellairs, com is to say, about the same latitude as Formosa manding the troops in the Transvaal, an in the northern hemisphere the Transvaal informing the beleaguered garrison that he enjoys on the whole a healthy, invigorating with a strong column had come to their relief, and would be with them next morning. The climate, well suited (o the European constitu tion, In some of the low-lying districts, it is besieged 21st Scots. Fusiliers were "to make true, African fevers are endemic, and the tsetse

a sortie in force on three rounds being fired fly haunts such districts and makes them almost from a gun in rapid succession; a big fight was impossible of being traversed because of the to take place" (here is where they gravelled fatalities that nceur among the cattle, but the themselves)" and the Boers, were to be driven progressive settling of the country and the away." This precious missive was so evidently drainage works carried on are gradually signal failed, or the heroic little garrison never a fraud that no notice was taken of it. The tricting these unhealthy tracts, and even the

three guns; but sure enough in a dren tsetse fly is said to be gradually disappearing.ching rain they heard heavy firing in a wood "Physically," says one authority, "the Transvaal

about a mile of and the distant sound of a forms a well-marked section of the great South

very badly imitated British cheer. African plateau, an elevated shallow basin with

The enemy got their morning's amusement a mean altitude of over 3,000 feet, whose con

for nothing, and they must have had some formation has been compared to that of a

trouble in drying themselves, for, acrord saucer. On the south and east this basin is

00 Lint separated from the coast by a lofty inner anding to Mrs. Boult, the rain

well have less elevated outer rim, the former from 6,000 particular occasion could not to 10,000, the latter about 2,000 feet high, been heavier. Mrs. Sketchley, one of Mrs. Bouth's sisters, died during the siege. A truce

And now it may be asked, Why have 1 in sweeping round in curves concentric with the

of an hour was arranged when the body w23 seaboard, from Cape Colony through Natal and buried,, but before the time was up the God ficted on the readers of the St. James Gazette the east squint of the firms novads fearing Boers opened a quick fire upon the this catalogue of Boer misdogs? Is in to the equatorial regions." The highest-

A convinced that, if Austral Africa is again to mountain in the Transvaal in 8,225 feet above sorrowing family, and the officers of the 21st sea level, but the mean altitude of the had accompanied them to the shallow grave. Pass through the fiery crucible of war, the Boers Transyaal plateau being, as already. 'stated, just outside the entrenchments, Major-General will again-play the game, not in accordance accordance with the Sir H. Rundle-ihen a guañer subaltern-was,

with the rules, but some 3,000 feet, none of the mountains appear it may be mentioned, one of the mourners at tangled notions that prevails in the land beyond to the eye of striking citration above the

the Vaal, as to his being perfectly teghtmare, normal level. From a geological point of view this inexpressibly sad funeral. But the crown-

and even commendable, to resort to every pos ing act of treachery was that which, involved the it is pointed out that the numerous fossil re-

sible barbaric ruse when openly in the field, JAPANESE TREATY WITH CHILI,mains of aquatic life, together, will extensive surrender of the fort.

not against savages but fellow white men. One sandy tracts and the presence in several places of water-worn shingle, give to the central table-

policy which I predict they will, then the ques land the appearance of an upheaved lacustrine

tion of reprisals will become a very earnest basin, whose waters escaped at one time

matter of consideration, for, the future South. through the Limpopo to the Indian Ocean, at

Africa Commander-in-Chief, whether he be Sir another through the Vaal to the Orange River,

Redvers Buller, Lord Kitchener or Sir“ Fight- painters, fand thence to the Atlantic. The Vaal and

THE SENTENCE ON MILLER.

TOKYO, October 14th.

At the Appeal Court to-day, at 10.30a.m., the "American, Robert Miller, charged with a triple murder, was sentenced to death. He looked out of sorts, no doubt caused by anxiety as to the probable fate awaiting him. He listened attentively the reading of the judgement, and showed no sign of perturbation whatever. The Judge read from a previously written document the principal features of the case leading up to the murder of Suye, Aki and Nelson Ward The Court recognised certain extenuating cir cumstances in the murder of the two girls, and on those two charger would have sentenced the accused to imprisonment for life. But as the marder of Neistin Ward was a most unprovnk ed pac, committed with premeditation, the Court sentenced the prisoner to death. The whole proceedings occupied about an hour,

A Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Chill was signed on the 16th ins); in the Japanese Foreign Oface by Viscount Aoki and the Chillan Representativo, who is going home by the next steamer to obtain the ratification of his Govern-

THE BETRAYAL OF POTCHEFSTROOMİ, "

13

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.

al

Dock. Kowloon Isla de Cuba.... Isla de LuzoN Simla...... Liberal

7.S.S, Oregon. Yuensang.... Culgou ..... alay Flint Esmeralda Zafiro Petrarch*********

D. Juan d'Austria ›. Mongkut

Cosmopolitan

PASSED THE CANAL.

Outward 6th September Energia, Adria, Anapu, Bamberg, Voroneg. 3rd Oct. brought to a heighbouring farmhouse and Intravelli, Ixion, Vindobena 6th October careful tracings made of the signatures they-Japan, Yarra, Undaunted, Idomenens, toth The true significance of this example October-Ayr. Konigsberg, 13th October-- of Boers craft only became apparent some Rentoiduil, Inaba Mart. 17th October--- months later, when a pretended letter purpor Tantalus, Arab, Audla, Queen Cristina, 20th ing to bear the sign manual of Sir Pomeroy October-Patroclus, Socotra, Telena of the 9th, to yield up Lydenburg to the Colley, and directing Second Lieutenant Long, Homeward-20th Oct-flrani. Boers, who were then closely investing that town, was handed under the usual flag of truce to the young commandant. But that officers was astute beyond his years, and as a consequence the much-coveted store of ammu nition and war inaterial at Lydenburg remained under the protection of the Union Jack. This was not by any means the first occasion on which forgery was resorted to.

THE MORAL OF THE TALE.

Shipping.

Ambria

Algoa

San Franciscó, &c. Nov, 21st Havre, &c. .................. Dec; 24th' America Maru...San Francisco, &c. Nov, 14th Bamberg Havre, &c.

Nov. 28th Bayern

Straits, &c. Now, 8th Bengal Shanghai....Oct. 28th Bingo Maru...... Marseilles, &c...... Nov. 17th Breconshire ...... Victoria, B.C. .......... Oct. 28th Carlisle City......San Diego, &c....Dec. 31st Carmarthenshire San Diego, &c. Nov. 15th Changsha China City of Dublin... Coptic Diamante

- Doric

*

Yokohama & Kobe Oct. 27th San Francisco, &c. Dec. 16th Victoria, B.C... Dec. 30th San Francisco, &c. Nev, gth Manila.......Oct. 27th San Francisco, &c. Dec. 23rd Kobe Doyo Maru

jOct. 28th Vancouver, &c..............Jan. 17tk Emp. China Emp. India

Nov. 230d Dec. 20th Emp. Japan...... Hailoong .........Swatow, &c.... Oct. 28th Gaelic

San Francisco, &c. Nov. 3oth

Haitan Swalow, &e.......... Oct, 27th Hukata Maru.... Kobe & Yokohama Oct. 27th Hector ............ London.......................... Nov. 14th Hongkong Maru San Francisco, &c. Dec. 9th Idzumi Māru... Victoria, B.C. Nov. 16th Japan.

Japan

Nov. 4th

java

London

Nov, 2nd

John Sanderson.. New York

¡Oct. jist

Kagoshima Maru Bombay, &c.

Oct. 316L

Karlsruhe......... Straits, &c.

fan, 74th

Kawachi Maru... Marseilles, &c......{Nov; 3rd

König Albert...Straits, &c.

Dec 13th

Königsberg Havre, &c.

Dec. 10th

Kweiyang

Tientsin

Nov. 4th

Machaon

London....

Nov. 28th-

Maidzuru Maru... Swalow, &co..........Oct. 29th. Miike Maru ..... Kobe & YokohamaĵOct. 27th Monmouthshire Portland, &c. ......Dec. 23rd Meyune New York, Nov. 15th Nippon Maru... San Francisco, &c. fan. 3rd Oanfa.........

Orestes

Mamelles, &c.. Oldenburg Straits, &c.

London....... Parramatta..... Europe, &c.. Preussen ....... Straits, &c. Prinz Heinrich...Straits, &c.

Oct. 20th

Feb, 21st

Oct. 31st

Oct. 28th

Jan. roth

Dec. 27th

Nov 18th

¡Oct., 28th

Feb 7th

Victoria, H.C.

Dec. 9th.

London... Havre, &c

Nov. 16th

Nov. 19th

· Queen Adelaide. Victoría, ^B.C.

Rubilla.....

Sachsen .... Saint Irene. Shanghai

Japan

Straits, &c.

New York, &c......Qk. desp..

San Diego, &c. ... Dec. 15th. Havre, &c.

Arrivals. KINTUCK, British steamer, 2,880, Wartall, 25th Sibiria

Oct, Singapore 19th Oct., GeneralSt. Mark

Strathgyle Holiday, Wise & Co. ARGYLL, Britisht steamer, 1,386, W. S. Thom Suevia

son, 25th Oct., Amoy 24th Oct., General. Sungkiang

Manila -Dodwell & Co.

Teinan

Sydney, &c. Shanghai: Whampoa.. Yawata Maru....Manila, &c.

HUE, French steamer, 704, P. Merlees, 25th Oct,-Haiphong and Hollow 24th Oct., General-A. R. Marty,

Nov, 12th?

Oct. 30th

Oct arst LOCL 30th Oct 271

LOONGMOON, Gerinan steumer, 1,245, F. Schulz, 26th Oct-Canton 25th October, General-Siemssen & Co.

Tire great value of Scott's Emulsion of Pure KWANGSI, British steamer, 1,240, A. Harris, Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wast

26th Oct,-Canton 25th Oct, Geneml.—| ing Diseases is shown by the accompanying "Bunterfeld & Swire."

statement from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, HAILOONG, British steamer, 783, A. J. Robson, | Aust. :-"Having been a great sufferer, from. 26th Oct..-Swatow 25th Öct, General-pulmonary attacks and gradually, wasting away. Douglas, Lapraik & Co.

for the past two years, it affortis me greak

given me great relief, and cheerfully recokninand it to all suffering in a similar way to myselɛ In adition. I would say that it is very pleasant to take." Any Chemist tan supply it“ Sei Agents for Hongkong and the Empire of China, Watkins & Co., Hongkong.---[ddur,

One of the terms of the armistice concluded thing is certain: If the Boers again adopt the BORMIDA, Italian, steamer, 1,499, G. Delaya, pleasure to testify that the above medicine, has

by Sir Evelyn Wood at Laing's Nek was that he should be at liberty to send eight days' pro- visions to each of the garrisons in the Transvaal, all hostilities to be suspended at each town for eight days after the arrival of supplies. Oning Fred Carrington,

26th Oct-Bombay 7th Oct., and Singa- pore zoth, General.-Carlowitz & Co. HAKATA MARU, Japanese steamer, 3,861, F. L. Sommer, 26th Oct,—London via Singa- pore 20th Oct., General, Nippon Yusen Kaisht