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To-day's Advertisements.

THEATRE

ROYAL,

CITY HA L L. FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY.

TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY

AND

SATURDAY,

4th, 6th, 7th and 9th December,

FIRST APPEARANCE IN HONGKONG

OF

MADAME

KONORAY

THE MODERN WITCH

AND MISTRESS OF MYSTERIES AND COMPANY OF FIRST CLASS

SPECIAL

OPENING

ARTISTS

Modera Conjuring, XX. Century Mind-Reading, Second Sight up-to-date,

PROGRAM. Blindfold Lightning Calcula

ALL

NEW

ACTS.

tions,

Spiritualistic Marvels,

Comic Songs, Mimicry, etc. CHANGE OF PROGRAMME NIGHTLY, Doors open 8.30 F.. Perfurmanče 9 P.M. Prices Dress Circle and Stalls $2, Pit St. Soldiers and Saltors in Uniform Pit 80.50, Booking Office-Romsson PLAND, Co. Hongkong, 4th December, 1899.

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THEATRE D

ROYAL,

CITY HALL.

HE HONGKONG AMATEUR

THE DRAMATIC CLUB

TWO

will give

PERFORMANCES

of the

LAUGHABLE FARCE

entitled

"MOTHER-IN-LAW""

IN THREE ACTS

by

TALFOURD TWIGG, ES,

un

THURSDAY, 21st December, 1899. SATURDAY, 33rd December, 1809, Commencing Each Evening at 9 p.m. precisely.

Dress Circle, $3. Stalls, $2. PH, Şİ Half-price to Pit for Soldiers, Sailors and Police in Uniform.

Tickets can be obtained at the Bunking Office of the Theatre, City Hall, on and after MONDAY, 18th November, at 10 am.

Booking Office will be Open daily from

that date from 10 aiu. 10, 4 pm, daily.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1890.

Co-day's Advertisements.

FOR MANILA. (Taking Cargo at through Rates for ILOILO and CERU.

THE Steamship

"VENUS," Captain D. Imas, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 7th instant, at 4 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BRANDAO & Co., Agents, longkang, 4th December, 1899. $1.495

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL

HE Company's Steamship THE

"MAIDZURU MARU,” Captain T. Ogia, will be despatched for the above ports, on SUNDAY, the roth instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. Agents. Hongkong. th December, 1899.

Intimation.

A. S. WATSON &

LIMITED.

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Co.,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

JINRIKISHA men in Tokio have started an agitation with the object of having their vehicles excnipt from taxation.

OWING to the scarcity of steamers in the East, the stock of coal at Moji is rapidly accumulat ing. There are said to be some 500,000 tons awaiting shipment.

THE British cruiser Firtar is reported to have removed from the Castle line steamer Tammelahi Cartle £25,000 in specie which was under cons signment for the Transvaal.

NEWS was received at Shanghai on the 25th ulto, by wire from Newchwang that the port is still open, though all the shipping has cleared ont. There had been no case of plague re ported since the 17th ulto.

The Kansai Railway Co: Diteriors met at the Nippon Club, Tokio na the 22nd inst, and decided to extend their lines to Umeda Station arch__Matsuyamach from Amvijima Station the present terminus, and to call a general meeting of the sharehaldes for eith December next,

.

Hughes shoulder and back, whilst the latter was getting in heavy jabs on the chin and ribs of former. In the first two rounds the contestants were fairly even but in the third and fourth counting points the heavy man, had double the advantage, by 27 points to tourteen, Davies stood six rounds, almost finishing in the sixth but Hughes who had in that round, forced the fighting, evidently had not the wind left to finish him of In the seventh, Davies made an effort to pull himself together and stand Hughes off but was too far gone, and Hughes hooking him with his right in the jaw finished the fight,

HONGKONG CBD LFT CLAR SWESUA

AT WAYY,

This game was commenced on Saturday last, the Club making to and the Navy Bo or three wickets when the rain made further play im possible. The following are the scores:

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB

5. W. Mounsey, le Paul,

fuglerae, & Sub, a Franklin Wild Moreton. b Strang

D

Dion

Res, G. R.Vallings, h Ellient ......

A. Aku kenam, e Wind, by Tuck Lt. Hill, J. Paul

11. bolas, R. W. F.,

A. Wondgate, "String, & Elliots Major Battrit-isase, just mat ........

Alkimon, String b Ellis

Extras

Total...

MORAL NAVY

1. C. 2mish, not HAN, Fizellt, « Wild, & Mackenzie

Dr. Tek, b Winxigate. 1.1. Stieng, b Wb'zunigute T. Want t

Tetal

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Fu

Wit are advised by the Acting Secretary of the Punjom Mining ompany, Limited, that he is in receipt of a telegram from the Mines, giving the result of the clean up for November, to be as follows:- -The Mill ran 28 days. Crushing 2450 toas. Yielding jo2 ounces of smelted CRAIGENGOWER C. C. 2. ROYM. ENGINEERS, Gold. Concentrates produced, 21 tons.

These teams again met am Saturday after noon on the Engineers' ground at Happy Valley, but their game was abruptly brought to TONIGHT Madame Konocal will' appear i

close by drenching rain. The Engineers elect Hongkong for the first time, and if the state- WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. |ants in our conteniraries of North China the rain drove everyone to seek shelter. The and Yokohama are to be accepted the exhibi-scholars had a strong team and would probably tion given by her and the Berols is most decid- have given the soldiers a very hard fussle for

iL edly worth a visit. We understand that there will be four entertainiuents given by Madame Kenorah in this town, which if the performance is as attractive as the programese it should be well attended.

ESTABLISHED AJ4484.

BRANDIES.

A.-Hennessy's Old Pule, Red

Capsule

B.--Superior Very Old Cognac

Red Capsule

Fee Fran

$18

$ 21

NOTICE is given by the Japanese Department of Communications that on and after December 15th, 1899, a first Order Revolving Light will be exhibited from the Lighthouse erected at castern extremity of Iwaki District, Province Iwaki. The position of the Lighthouse,

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C.--Very Old Liqueur Cognac $24 according to the Japanese Naval Chart No.

V.0.-D.---Ilennessy's Finest

Very Old Liqueur Cog- nee, 1872 Vintage, Red Capsule

Late Trams will run hour after the fall of V.V.O.-E.-Finest Very Old

the curtain.

I. C. NICOLLE,

Acting Manager.

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Hongkong, 4th December, 1899.

JUBILEE

LODGE

OF INSTRUCTION.

THE REGULAR MEETING of the above Lodge will be held TO-NIGHT, the

4th instant, at 8 for 8.30 pm. When the Address by Bro, H. W. WOLFK, on the Principle Roma in

Liqueur Cognac, 1862 Vintage

$30

216, is in Latitude 30' 59' go' North and in Longitude 159′ 20′′ East of Greenwich. The Lighthouse is a circular Brick tower, painted" White with a Black horizontal band round the middle part of it, and is 100 feet high from the base to the centre of the Lantern. The Light will show a wifite flash_every 20 seconds, and the are of its illumination will be 200 degrees between the bearings of S. 4° 35′ E. and N. 34 $4825 E. The bearings are true and as observed from seaward..The elevation of the Light above the sea is 200 feet, and in clear weather it will be seen from a distances of 23 nautical miles..

All our Brandies are guaranteed to he pyar Couxae.. the diflrences in price being merely a question of age and vintage,

Sample bottles and smaller quanti-

THE TWO MISSING FUSILIERS.

CORONER'S FINDING.

request. Visiting will be repeated by fies will be supplied at proportionati | adjourned inquests on the bodies of Privates

invited to attend.

Brothern M.M. are cordially (wholesale rates.

Hongkong, 4th December, 1893.

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PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

HOMEWARD PASSENGER SEASON,

1900,

NOTICE.

A. S. WATSON & CO..

LIMITED. QUEEN'S ROJID CENTRAL

BIRTHS.

On 3rd December, "Bicton" The Peak,

The Undermentioned Vessels will sail from the wife ft. C. Moxos, of a daughter. [1.96

CHINA DIRECT

FOR

MARSEILLES, PLYMOUTH.

AND. LONDON.

WITHOUT TRANSHHHPMINT.

STEAMERS.

Sbai.

LEAVE.

At 157, Kitamonachi, 4 chome, on the 24th No cumber, the wife of Mr. H. W. SALE, ofa

DEATH.

son.

On Sunday night, the 3rd December, at the Liovernment Civil Hospital, ExU, WIEWELS, a nalive of Trier and late with Messrs. Gar- iwi? & Co., Canton."

kong Stove The Hongkong Telegraph

Parramatta. 4886-Mar. 27 Mar 31 April 6 Massilia 5026 April 10 Avira Aprizo

For Freight or l'assage, apply to

ILA. RICHE, Suprintendent, Hongkong,

4th December, 1899.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA. HE Company's Steamship

THE

"SUNGKIANG," Captain Monre, will be despatched as, above TO-MORROW, the 5th instant, át Noon..

The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The Vessel is fitted throughout with

Electric Light.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

HUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

[1482 Hongkong, 4th December, 1899.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1899.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

The-War, Re-Inforcements..

LONDON, Berümber ist: Lord Wolseley has announced that it has been decided to call out the sixth division which will start for South Mrica within four or five days.

The War-Kimberley. News from Kimberley dated 2411 Novem her says that on account of the near approach of the relief of the town, the garrison' held a parade and cheered. The Roers in the vicinity have dwindled.

:*

This morning at the Magistracy, the

Jordan and Jones late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers was resumed before Mr. Gospertz, acting as Comer.

Inspector Cuthbert was recalled and said.. He had been in charge of the enquiry into the death of Private Jordan. Since last Monday he had not been able to get any new informa Lion. The police have heard nothing to throw any light on the ease. He had not been able to discover any rocks along the "front of the Praya East. The junks lying there all bave to ut after 9 pm. He had nothing to add

to this evidence on the former occasions. His Honour then gave his fading :-- (1) The body found in the harbour on 18th November was that of Private No. 4727 David Jordan R. W. F. Death was due to syncope. resulting on shock caused by a fracture of tite

base of the skull. There is no evidence to show how this fracture was caused..

(2) The body found in the Harbour on 21st November was that of Private No. 4888 Henry Janes, R. W. F. Death was probably due to drowning but the cause of death cantiot be de- termined by the medical evidence, owing to the body when recovered being far advanced in decomposition.

victory.. If we divide our maps, some against the French, and the remainder to go to Sammun, it, would not need a fortune teller to tell us we should be surely defeated at both places.

Must we then allow one of them to have what they are trying to obtain? Japan has taken Formosa Russia, Port Arthur; and England. Wei-hai-wei, besides other places which have been surrendered. All of them are fortified Larbours and ports, if we keep on giving up. such places, we shall have nowhere to put our own army and navy.

which would read the Empire into pieces in a speedier manner than any foreign partition." These tulegrams decided the Empress Dowager and her confidential advisors 10 adjourn their project sine die."

PRESENTATION TO LIEUT,

- OUBITT,

A number of the member of "A"'Company, S.V.C.; met at the Shanghai Club on the 18th (the writer of article) have thought of the ultime, to make a presentation to Second- following plan. We all know if we want to get Lieutenant I. J. Cubitt, who was to be married a guod piece of jadestone; we must first take the next day. A handsome silver satver had off the outer rough part. So I epresent the bon chosen, which was handed over by French as the good part, and the Italians as Captain W. D. Little after an appropriate the rough. Then following this metaphor we speech Second-Lieutenant Cubitt, who was must first settle with the French with smooth very warmly received, replied, and the cere words, telling them to be patient, and when wremony concluded with a toast. have done that we can turn to the Italians and grant them a small concession. If they agree, we can then turn ourwhole attention to the French, if they do not, we can fight them with uil our fore. The Italians have nowhere in China to get & Singapore Livee Press 25th November.)

The nuthorities here are now refusing to grant fresh troops from, not,like the French, who can obtain re-inforcements from Tonquin, so we clearances for all ports in the Sulu Archipelago, not actually occupied by the United States. have fair prospects of defeating them. If we drove off the Italians, the French might then troops; this refusal is on account of orders he willing to come to terms, but if we lost then received from the American Government, which. we should have to give them whatever thay latter is, therefore, ignoring the Madrid Treaty. asked. At all events it is easier to settle with of 1885, between Spain, Germany and Great ane at 4ine.

The writer concludes by acknowledging that op account of his poverty and plain speaking his advice might not be acceptable to the literali and officials.

A MAN EATER.

A man-eating tiger in the Swatow district is reported to have carried off over dozen children, and the other day, is said to have lak en a child of its mother's back without harm ing the mother. The tiger is the terror of the Taunch from Swatow, on the river an. The natives say that they can do nothing till the sugar came is cut.

Britain,

SANDAKAN NOTES,

The U.S. S. Forktown leaves here to-day or to-morrow, to return to the Archipelago,--$. J^.. Press Cor.

THE STATUS OF THE BOERS,

The following letter appeared in the Mail Edition of the Times.

Sir,There is so much misapprehension, generally amounting to positive ignorance, as to the standing and history of the Boers in South Africa, among the British public, and especially among some of those whose mission

ed 16 bit and had made 74 for six wickets when district round Kityung, only four hours by is supposed to be to inform us as to the facts...

FOOTBALL.

HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB 2 HM.. "BARTLEUR."

of

Despite the rain and general sloppiness matters the match between the Cimb and B.M.S. Barfleur was played. Mr. Magson acted as referee. The game resulted in a win for the Club by two goals to uif. The follow ing were the leams.

HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB

Goal.

J. A. Russ. Backs.

Locker Hay

Half backs

Howard.

Jenkins, B. T. Kew, Forwards. Lawe, Noble, Danby, Hancock, Green. O Forwards,

Price, Cluke. Scrivens, Reynolds, Ross. Half Backs.

Crosier, Collier, Hammond. Backs.

Spencer, Bell.

Goal. Dönakl

H.M.S. Bärgleur. From the start the Club had practically the best of matters but the state of the ground prevented anything like decent football. Up to half time the Chib had scored one goal, Bell, the naval back having pot the ball through himself. In the second half Lowe scored the Clubs second goal.

ENGINEER'S, INSTITUTE 7. ROYAL ENGINEERS.

This game played on the polo ground at Causeway hay turned out a veritable wallow in the mud for most of the players. Neither side managed to score.

CHINA, FRANCE AND ITALY.

SAIVE DIPLOMACY.

tFrom the Shanghai Sa Pa.} The negotiations concerning the lease to Ita ly of Sanman Bay have been going on for many months and are not finished yet. At the cominencement Haly said she wished to obtain the lease for commercial purposes by peaceful means, but now she is trying to frighten us by sending warships to cruise along our coast, but as we are showing no fear she has changed her demand to Teng shan, near Tientsin, in the Province of Pechili, with the express inten- tion of building railways över which she wishes to have control. They think, because China is engaged with the French at Kwong-chau-wan, this is a favourable opportunity to enforce their demands and so are sending their cruisers to that part of China.

The two districts, Ng Chun and Sui Ki, in Kwong-chau-wan are very productive in salt, and have excellent fisheries. Until the French BOXING TOURNAMENT AT THE demanded these places, we did not pay inuch

CITY HALL.

attention to them, but now on making an ex- amination we find that the Nao Chou Island is a very important place and quite impossible for us to cede to the French, The Emperor has sent Marshall Su to settle the question, which he has not yet been able to do. Anyway it will be very difficult for us to regain our territory as the French have al- ready occupied it and we should have to drive them out.

At the City Hall on Saturday several exhibi- tions of Boxing were given which whatever their quality may be from a scientific point of view were at last with perhaps two exceptions genuine efforts, if those who assist either by consenting to be principals in these boxing bouts or who arrange the cintests, would remember that one genuine aceting is better appreciated than a dozen shams, and that about two bad turns are sufficient to spoil a programme they would prevent as an Saturday night thelwo competitors who appeared in the ring immediately before conclusion of their feeble and ludicrous the last entry, being justly hissed on the performance. The Hongkong sporting public are very long suffering, and well behaved and that fact alone would account for the two con- testants, being permitted to finish their pull powdering exhibition-There was oo The War-Natal.

such thing as genuine boxing thought of Prince Christian Victor has gone to the from the beginning of the contest to the finish. And it is to be hoped that Mr. Harper will, front from Durban.

when he again invites the public to patronise his entertainments take care that such palpable sham contestants are not permitted to spoil what was otherwise for Hongkong a very well arranged and entertaining programme. The other exhibition which might with advantage been left off the programme was the contest between F. Howard and Ted Ryan the former might perhaps with justice have been named the dancingmaster. Thenimbleness with which he danced over the stage, and his well sustained efforts to get out of reach of punish ment, speaking beller for his agility and cau. tion than for his knowledge of boxing. This pair were supposed to represent Corbett and Fitzsimmons, and as a representation of hur lesque boxing, the show was creditable.

The best display of scientific boxing of the FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOWCAST Moderate or Trest N. winds rainy at

evening, was provided by the two sergeants THE Company's Steams un

first inning list. Nemanghe Terry evenly *HAICHING,"

On the 4th at 11.55 am, the barometer has matched and although one appeared to be the Captain Davis, will be despatched for the fallen on the Chiun coast and over Japan. bigger, his weight was counterbalanced by the

superior skill of his opponent, above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th instani, Pressure is bighest over Central China, and re-

The bout of the evening between Hughes and at Daylight.

latively low between Formosa and the Lou Davies (The Coloured Champion not ang For Freight or Passage, apply to

Choos Gradients slight with moderate mon-

up) was a firecely fought contest, but Bushes DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.

soon on the coast and in the part of the Chinn overnachled his opponent in both weight and [1494a Sca, FORECAST -Moderate N-winds; fine. skill, Most of Davies' blows took effect on Hongkong, 4th December, 1899.

FOR SWATOW AND SHANGHAL. THE Company's Steamship

THE

"PAKHOL,"

Captain Williams, will be despatched as above. TO-MORROW, the 5th instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents: Hongkong, 4th December, 1899. [1480n DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

Obituary: The death of Mr. Barnes, Managing director of the P. & O. Co., is announced.

WEATHER BEPORT.

* The Observatory report says:-

On the 3rd at 11.55 a.. the barometer has fallen on the China coast. Pressure is highest over the interior of China, with moderate gra dients and fresh to strong monsoon on the coast and in the N. part of the China. Sea FOR

lader.

PLAGUE IN FORMOSA.

.

An official report from the Formusan Gov ernment, dated the zoth inst, states that there were two cases of plague in Taipeh Ken on the roth inst. and one case on the 19th, this total

fatal. inst., 1984 cases proving

2534 cases from January last to the zotli The Kanagawa Ken authorities are contem- plating a curious experiment as a plagua, pre- ventive. They design the infection of rats with a certain contigious bacilli with the view of des- trying them as a precaution against the plague. They are now communicating with the Agri- eniturat college as to the effect of the bacilli on the human body and it will be put to a test if the answer is favourable.

Dr. Kilazato stated to the reporter of a vemacular paper yesterday that he thinks there will be no further plague cases in the city, The one suspected patient at the hospital at present was from a house where a case "had occured some time ago. Medical examination is being enforced in all parts of this city but no plague patient is reported. It can therefore: be taken that the plague bacilli have not spread out of Fukiai įņura,

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THE NEW APPOINTMENT OF LI HUNG-CHANG.

PERISU, November 24th. Two censory conjointly memorialised the Empress Dowager yesterday to the effect that the success Kang Yi had met in raising funds. for the exchequer, although good would have been far better had he been one in whom the, mercantile classes and traders believed, hence it followed that Kuangiung and Kuangsi had only been partly exploited for the good of the State. This argunient struck the Empress Dowager as a very cogent one anti she con sulted with the Grand Council as to the man who possessed most fully the confidence of the mercimtile classes, among the high Ministers of the Court. The reply was animously in favour of Lilung-chang with the result that H.E. was this morning appointed "High Cem missioner on Commercial Atairs, with instruc- tion to visit the various treaty ports and investigate the conditions, therein. This appointment has been made not exactly in favour of the commercial and trading, classes, but really for the purpose of persuading these people to contribute more generously to the needs of the Empress Dowager's armies.

THE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S ADVISERS.

The Empress Dowager evidently considers her position in Peking just now to be much stronger than it was three years ago, for a certain foreign-hating official from Shensi who recently ventured, in an audience, to exhort her to remove the Imperial Court to sianfu was unmercifully snubbed and, as if that were not enough, a decree was issued commanding the Grand Council to transmit a sharp repri mand to the unlucky official for his untimely advice..

I allude to the Press writers-that a few words from one who has had very special means of knowledge may not be inopportune. No one not blinded by envy, hatred, malice, and all un- charitableness would dream of taking his facts from Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Scott, or Mr. Stend, or even from Mr. Courtney or Sir Edward Clarke; nor could any one with the least knowledge of their antecedents accord any weight to the opinions of Mr. F. C.Selous, who

-the best, and the only really, enterprising, men poses his few hunting comrades-notoriously of their race--as examples of the whole; or of Mr. H. A. Bryden, whose actual experience has been of the most meagre But the mischief is that well-meaning people, who really desireto do the right things, take for gospel all the travastics of history, the distorted statements, and the crooked conceptions they read in papers and magazines,"

For myself, I first went to South Africa in 1861, and I knew it as not half-a-dozen others had known it prior to the railroad era. I know the Boers root and branch; stock, lock, and barret. I have hunted with them in almost every hunting ground in South Africa; I have fought for them; I have traded with them thro- ghout the Transvaal and Free State; I have dug for diamonds and gold with them 1-bave been with them on their land commissions and surveys; I have lived in their houses, and been a guest in many hundreds of their farms. I have written the biographies of all their explorers and the history of many of their greatest deeds. And with all this, knowledge of them, my estimation is that they are the craftiest, most hypocritical, most dishonest,. most untruthful, cruellest, most ignorant, most. over-bearing, most immoral, and stupidest race of white people in the world. A beavy indict- meat, but a true one.

The initial error into which our well-meaning people fall is as to the first occupation of the Cape. Our tag was planted there in 1620, years before the Dutch advent, but as the then Government had no opinion of its value, no serkus attempt was made to occupy it.

The second is that the Boers are a pura Dutch- race but as a matter of fact they are largely French. The Huguenot immigrants formed a very considerable section of the original Cape Boers, but the Dutch being hi a majority: ruthlessly forbade the use of the French language. Generals Joubert and Viljoen are of French descent, so is Sir H. de Villiers, and very many of the lending Boers in all the States.

Third, It is supposed that the Boers are entitled to the countries they occupy by right of discovery. North of the Orange River the Boers were first nowhere exceptalong the coastal lands of Great Namaqualand to Walvisch Bay Bechuanaland was first entered by Re R Anderson, 1799; In 1Ber Dr. Somerville reached Old Lattaku; in 18ot Dr. Cowan was on the Limpopo in 1812 Dr. Burchell in the Kalahari Desert; in 1813 Rev. J. Campbell in the Orange Free State, and 1820 to Mafcking; in 1824 Rev. R. Moffatt at Molopolole; D. Hume, in 1829, was the first in the Transvaal, and the same year R.Scoon was were Pretorianow stands; in 1834 the last named was at Lake Chrissie, and than at Zoutpansberg, J. Gibson teaching the same the following pear; Hume, 1830, was the first white man in the Tati districts, and, in 1833, the first in Mangwato: Captain Cutfield, 1822, was the first in the Amasiyazi country; and Lieutenant Farewell, and his party the first] settlers in Natal; Jolin Cane, 1827, the first ex plorer of Zulu and Amatongalands Captain Gardiner, R. King, and H. Ogle, 1835 the first It has been decided, at the instance of the explorers of inland Natal to the Drakensberg Russian Minister of Finance, to despatch a Livingstone, Oswell, and Wilson, 1849, the first

to Manchuria, to combat the plague which has and Livingstone, 185, to the Zambesi; Ed- sanitary corps of doctors and sisters of inercy to Lake Ngami; S. H. Edwards, Wilson, Oswell, broken out among the Chinese labourers onwards and Moffat, 1854, to Matabeleland; H. the Manchurian Railway. The detachment, it Hartley and party 10 Eastern Mashonaland, is said, will be under the orders of Captain

Fourth. The reason of the. Great Trek are Alexandrovski, of the Chevalier Guards, and 1865. The Boer comes in nowhere at all. will take passage on one of the Messageries much inisunderstood. The edicts to which the Maritimes for the Chinese part of Yinkow,trekkers took offence affected all colonists alike, whence the rest of the way will be made over land.

PROGRESS OF THE PLAGUE.

DETHRONEMENT OF EMPEROR

England, France, Germany, and Russia, the strongest powers in Europe, and Japan in Asia, are all fighting among themselves for conces sions froin China, and if one gets anything the others are jealous and want compensation. These countries first came, under the pretext of

Dutch and English, but the latter took no ex- simply trading with us, but now they have

ception to them. The bottom motive was that the Boers object to any Government whatever. acquired much important territory.

It is useless to discuss ancient history, we will only speak of the last 20 years. The

that ventures to tax them to the extent of one KUANG HSU,

penny they trekked away from their own Japanese more than ro years ago, demanded

Government in the Transvaal 40 years later, and the Liu Liù or Lon Chao Islands, and after a

Regarding the deposition of the Emperor again later still. A good many references have great deal of negotiating, they got possession of them. The French, seeing China's bands Kuang Hsi, it would seem that there must been made in a maudlin way to affairs at were full with the Japanese, took possession have been something in the rumour, for news Schlagter's Nek The story is too long, to of Anam, which had been at peace fur over received in Shanghai through various indepen- relate here, but those who have demounced 20 years. These two countries, were nol work dent sources in Peking agree in saying that athe hanging of the men conveniently overlook ing in consort, but cach took advantage of decision had been actually arrived at to begin the fact that they were condemned not by Eng. China's difficulties, Japan getting Loo Chao the next Chinese year under a new reign. The lish, but by Dutch judges. It is probable that and France Anam, although the Chinese troops older officials at feking, who apparently had they did not know this, but that is tantamount defeated the French at Cheung Shan

not been consulted, then became alarmed, and to saying that they did not know anything at Italy is at present a small, weak and poor only at the eleventh hour succeeded in pre- all about the matter, and only repeated parrot country and has not got a strong army, but venting the conf proposed. The men who like what they had rend in some Boer organ

succeeded in persuading the Empress Dowager Mr. Morley, I believe, is among these. still dares to demand our lands, because we are

of the folly of the course were the Grand Sec- Fifth The Boers did not oblaid possession again struggling with the French, who are

retaries Li Hungchang, Lu Tung, und Kun of the Transvaal by settlement, but by con profiting by our having to send troops to oppose the Halians at Sanman Bay, is Kang (Manchu), who for patriotic reasons quest, tempered with massacre. The poor, on account of these complications that the opposed the measure, and as a last resort asked downtrodden Matabele. were in possession al French will not surrender at Kwong-chau-wan, the Empress Dowager to send them to execute time of their advent, but, possessing ho although they have often been defeated, but tion first as" audacious dissentients unwilling firearms, were driven out with tremendous" demand that Marshall Su shall humble to obey the Imperial commands, because they slaughter, in one engagement 3,000 being "declined to have anything to do with such a killed witheyt the Boers losing a single man. himself and let them have Nao-chau Island. But are we going to send aft our troopslangerous procedent. The secret agents and Their whole history has been nothing but a to protect Samun, Bay, and loaya Nao-chon frictids in Peking of such powerful Viceroyans lijstory of constanc arracks upon aborigini alone? Nao cfdu slund isto Korg Tung Chung Lindeber, and had not been the we obligingly as the throat is to Chung-in had also wired the news of the pro subdued the Basujos, the Dapedi:(Sikukuniak province, the same a man Are we then going to send all our posed coup to their respective patrons, with the and the Zulus for them when they were power. troops to Kwong-chau-wan to protect Nao Chou; result that just before the Empress Dowager less to help themselves thers could have been and leave Saumur Bay alone? Although the consented to reconsider her proposition she neither Omage Free State nor Transvaal Italians are not so strong as the other European received two strong telegrams from Viceroys Sixth Both States were free gifts to the powers, washould have to send all our troops to Chang and Liu and a thin one ainder their Boers from ourselves at times when we had acehem, before, wo could hope to gain a joint names, asking her not to do a thing, both at our feet.