the spirit of conquest, and she contents herself} with claiming the place which belongs to her ↑ in the regulation of international cosupetitions, There exists between China and France a close solility of interests. We cannot believe that, in face of a clear declaration of our deter- mination to maintain ourselves at a spot which has been ceded to us by the same title as other concessions made to England, to Germany, And to Russia, the Tsung-li Yama will per acvere in a hostile policy.
(Signed)
VICE-ADMIRAL DE CUVERVILLE.
CONTRABAND GOODS AND PERSONS FOR THE TRANSVAAL.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1900.
band persons, Mr. Westlake argues that it does not, on the ground that such persons, baring minds, may change them on arrival at the neutral port and abandon their hostile destina tion. But the consignees of contraband cargo could equally alter its destination at the neutral port. On this point we prefer the reasoning of the Japanese Professor. This question, it should he stated, came up in the japanese war in the case of one Wild, an American adven turer who had persuaded the Chinese represen The cession of Kwang-chow-wan necessarily tatives in the States to enter into an egregious contract with hith for the destruction of the carrical with it the cession of the islands which shelter the anchorage and assare possession, whole Japanese forces by a secret process This spot concerns in the highest degree the
"at a small cost and without losing ships on future of Indo-China. We are theis; we must Rien except by a stray shot at long range." stay there. Our departure would entail disas-To meet the desperate perit the Japanese trous consequences, and on the other hand, our searched, while she was touching at one of occupation would be illusory if it were not sur- their own ports, the Garlic, on which Wild had rounded by the guarantees demanded by the shipped at San Francisco for the British port of Hongkong, on his way to China, and after French Commission of Delimitation.
wards arrested him at another of their parts on board the French ship Sydney, to which he had transferred himself to escape capture. Neither proceeding gave rise to any diplomatic incident. but, as Professor Westlake points ou, in both cases fapan was acting in her own territorial yators. Independently of the question of continuous voyages, there is much difference. of opinion as to the Capture of such persons. Mr. Hall goes so far as to deny the' right to detain passengers in the service of the enemy na hard a neutral vessel unless the In view of the capture of the German steamer
vessel has been in some further way identified Bundesrath, with three German officers and
with the service of the enemy; but this view twenty men in khaki uniforms on board, by a runs counter to the authorities, and is not followed in the "Manual of Naval Prize Law." British cruiser in the neighbourhood of Dela
As Lord Stowell pertinently asked in the foa Bay, the following will prove of interest -
Friendship case, "What are arms and am At least two interesting questions of Naval munition in comparison with men ?" There Prize Law arise in the present contest. First:seems little doubt that a neutral vessel carrying Have we the right to stop neutral vessels on
a large number of passenger recruits for service the high seas carrying contraband such as muni-
in the Transvaal might be detained and taken tions of war, to Lourenco Marques, or else-
in for adjudication with equal regard for law where on the Portuguese East African coast,
and justice. In the famous Trent case, which to be forwarded on by the Delagoa Bay Rail.
stirred up so much bad blood between the two way, or other route, to the Transvaal?
peoples, Mason and Slidell, the Confederate Secondly: Have we the right in the same y envoys in Great Britain, were taken off a British to stop neutral vessels carrying intending ship bound immediately for a Danish and belligerents: such as the three hundred
utinely for an English port. The seizure Frenchmen wh are said to have volunteer.
was wrongful because they had no contraband ed or taken service under Kruger for the
character, being engaged hot on a military but mere pleasure of fighting this country? A
A diplomatic mission. The United States pre- third question may be acted for completenessferred, however, to surrender them, on the Are goods of Bulish origin forwarded with the ground that they had been irregularly same destination on British or neutral vessels liable to capture 2. These there questions, is believed, enser all the gun of capture that are likely to use, seeing at the Boers have no. ports to be 'blockaded and no ships to blockade our parts.
[BY A LEGAL CORRESPONDENT.]
way
As to the first question regarding comundam! cargo, the fact that at least one foreign vessel has been sopped and searched by a British cruiser in East African waters would seem to indicate that our legal authorities are now pres pared to answer it in the affirmative, but it would be necessary to know what actually happened lefareoning toa definité conclusion, The fullest and most reveat discussion of this and the second question by an English writer is to be found, cúriously enough, in the Into duction fp, vili.-xxvii.), contributed by Profes sor Westinke to the vuluine of "Cases on Inter national Law during the Chino-Japanese War," by the Japanese Professor Sakuye Takabashi, issued a few months ago from the Cambridge University Press. All thice metiens turn on what is known as the doctrine of antiquons voyages whether ship, cargo, or persons, 25 the case may be, are exempt from capture because they are proceeding of being conveyed in the first instance to a neutral port-say, Lourenco Marques-or whether their ulterior hostile destination--say, Pretoria-may be treated as a ground for cipture. The question gave rise to some controversy during the American Civil War, in which, as was only natural, the American counts were inclined to extend the doctrine unduly, while sonie of our own writers endeavoured to restrict it as un- reasonably.
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taken off the Trout, instead of the
vessel
being detained anal taken in for adjudication. The latter is undoubtedly the more regular cose, sual is now prescribed to our own haval officers. Lord Joná Russell, however, was too well advised to claim any genen imanunity for the carriage of persons in the enemy's service
As to the third case, of British subjects trad- ing with the enemy, goods shipped by them on board British vessels for Lourenco Marques with the ulterior destination of the Transvaal may certainly be scired, as expressly decided in the Yonge Pitter already quoted. In the ce of such goods unt being contraband ship ped on board a neutral vessel the position his ixen modified by our adhesion to the Declara- tion of Paris, which protects enemy's goods on board neutral vessels from seizure. The an- swer would seem in strictness to depend on whether the property in the goods had passed to the consignees in the Transvaal or not. This particular question is hardly likely to be raised; and, indeed, there is as yet no news of any vessel having been captaged and taken in for nejudication by the colonial prize court.—P.Mf.
Gazette,
BRITISH REVERSES OF THE CENTURY.
In view of the recent British reveres in the Transvaal, it may be interesting to recall some of the principal disasters that have befallen British arms during the century, which are thus given in a London paper :-
The first great disaster after the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars was the loss of twenty thousand men, including British infantry and cavalry and a large contingent of Sepoys, in attempting to force the Khyber Pass in 184t. The British had sent a double expedition, under Burnes, by way of Quetta and the Bolan, and under Wade by way of the Khyber, in order to back an unpopular claimant to the throne of Afghanistan against Dost Mahomed, who, was supposed fean to the Russians, The Khan of Khelas had said to Burnes on his way up. "You have brought an aimy into the country, but how do you propose to take it back again " That is the whole gist of the master: no one withstood the resolute advance, in the hill-tribes, the mountains, the Afghan winter, absolutely harred retreat. Of the twenty thousand who retired from Cabul, one solitary doctor escaped to tell the fate of the remainder
In the case of the Springhok, 1866, 5 Wallace 1, the Supreme Court held that a vessel might_ be condemned for breach of blockade merely far sailing to the neutral port of Nassau with a cargo to be sent by another vessel to a blockaded port. This decision appears both unreasonable and opposed to an expressdecision of Lord Stowell-the Fong Pieter, 1801, 4 C. Rob. 79. But the same objections do not apply to the simultaneous decision, exactly covering the present case, in the Peterhof, 1866,5 Wallace that cargo of a contraband nature consigued to Matamoras, in Mexico, to be thence for- warded across the Rio Grande to the Can. federate territory, was fiable to confiscation. It is true that two years earlier, in an action on a policy of insurance covering this identical cargo, the Court of Common Pleas in England held that to make contraband goods liable to seizure they must be in actual transit to a lestile part; but they observed that there was nothing on the facts or admissions before them to show
The British reverses in the Crimea were that arrangements had been made for sending on the contraband goods from the neutral portmatters of commissarial and organisation rather to a hostile destination. (Hobbies 7. Henning, than of anos; but the cost of this useless war, both in blood and in money, was a disaster in 1864, 17 C. B. N. S. 791.)
itself. The attack upon Russia was followed 1 short interval by the Indian Mutiny; whereof the earlier chapters record what may be described as the most frightful disasters of the century. The revolt of the Sepoys took the Indian authorities by surprise; the country between Lower, Bengal and the Punjab in 1857 an almost unbroken area of massacre; and to this day an Englishraan can scarcely hear the names of Delhi, Lucknow and Cawnpore with
THE AMERIČAN DOCTRINE.
That is the crucial point, for the American Courts admit that it is not unlawful for a neutral to send goods of a contraband nature by sea to a neutral port on the chance of finding a purchaser there, or, as it is said, "to form part of the common stock of trade at the neutral Port The Autre out, was adopted by the Westlake points out, was adopted by the Institute of International Law at their meeting in Venice in 1896, Except this case of Hobbes Henning, a technical argument on demurrer,
out a skulder.
The second Afghan War began with the British invasion of the country of Shere Ali in
1878. As in 1839, we marched up country without much trouble or loss, took possession or control of the passes, and established our Resident at Cabul. The massacre of Sir Louis Cavagnuri was followed by a war of varying fortunes, which brought Sir Donald Stewart, Lord Roberts and other generals into promin ent notice. The battle of Maiwand, fought on July 17th, 1880, was terrible disaster. Bur rowes lost over thirteen hundred men, out of the total garrison of three thousand at Kandahar; and it was left to Lord Roberts to relieve the isolated town by his famous march.
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practical security, shot down nearly half of the British, with Colley at their head:
The accupation of Egypt brought with it sundry disasters in the Soudan. Hicks Pasha Osman lost an army of seven thousand, men. Digna massacred the garrison of Sinkat, and inflicted a heavy defeat on Baker Pasha at Trinkitat, in these cases the massacred troops were Egyptains, under British officers. In 1884 came the Nile Expedition for the relief of Gordon in Khartouin. On Jan. 17th of the following year was won the Battle of Abu Klea. Herbert Stewart fell in another costly but still successful Battle at Abu Kro, and Sir Charles Wilson, with his small flotilla, pushed up-stream to the neighbourhood of Khartoum, only to find that Gordon's gallant stand had ended with the massacre of his garrison and bis own death.
This list of reverses within the past sixty years cannot be regarded as a long one, or as particularly serious, when we hear in mind the extent of the British empire and the multiplicity of British military operations. As conipared with British victories in the same peried, British defeats shrink into insignificance.
INTERESTING SIDE LIGHTS
ON THE WAR,
£25,000,000 is in danger of destruction in Johannesburg,
"Oh, mine Got 1" one has just been saying to me; "1 can'd dell how much I shall lose by dis peesness. I shpeak mit much feeling, my frent. Blease excoose me grying. Vou do you dink? Do you dink I can git back dirty dree per cent. of voi I lose from de British Govern ment? Ob, Goeden lose £60,000-ain'd it derrible?"
They are pulling their long faces all over the place and shedding their tears wherever you ineet them. It is cuough to make a statue ill to have to hear and see them and move among them. Why don't they equip a regiment of rough-riders or make up a battalion of volun teers among themselves? Why don't they fight? The war has jeopardized their property, and they have a keener interest in it than any Tommy or any officer now at the front. How can they see the cream and flower of English manhood rushing down here to spill its precious blood for them and never feel a blush of shame, or a pang of any emotion except, grief over losses which will still leave many of them rich?
Really Capetown is a wonderful place. It is worth the journey to see the streets blocked by able young men and the hotels crowded by rich refugees, while each night's train takes out the fearless gentlemen who are deliberate ly risking not only their lives, but more of remarkable tribute is paid to the British worldly advantage than can ever come to these officers in the war by Julian Ralph. an American skulkers who cling to the shelter of England's who is acting as war correspondent in Southguns and weep while they wait for men to die Africa. In a letter dated from Gape Town, he
that they may rush up to the British treasury writes as follows:
with their claims.
On every ship that arrives in Capetown from London are many British army officers.
Some ships bring a duen or twenty: others as many as fifty. They are the pick and flower of Englishmen. Most of them are young men, in the late twenties and early thirties, bearing distinguished names, exibiting the long slender faces of the British aristocracy, carrying themselves at once like dandies and like athletes.
and gicater
The one strange thing about them is that nobody is sending them there, and they do not know to what part of the seat they are going or what they are going to.do. They only know that they could not keep away. They are to see what they call the fun" it is war against busliwhacker, guerillas,
in which R sharpshooters, proportion of officers than men are certain to be killed, but that does not matter to them." The first accounts of skirmishes they read after they have landed tell of the deaths of officers and the wounding of others. Apparently the manner in which the enemy reveals its pre- sence among the kills, out Natal way, is hy the dropping of an officer from his saddle or in his tracks as he pushes ahead of his men. What of that? It is part of "the fun,” they say,
These fine young fellows have come during their leaves of absence, which have been well- earned in active serye, in disagreeable clim ates, in lonely parrison posts in the Soudan or on the Indian frontier
One who came here with me has given up a billet for which he had long been striving, and which was offered to im just as he had determined to come out here and do a little fighting for variety. Another of my companions on the voyage was starting to make a long projected tour of the world, but this disturbance proved more attractive. A third officer on the same ship arrived in England to see bis people, from whom he had long been suparated; but he got no furtherthan London, and only stayed four days when he caught the spirit of his comrades and holted for South Africa. another ship was a young mau with an income of £10,000 a year who was just about to be married, but instead of taking his bride to St. George's he asked her down to Waterloo in see him off for Durban.
On
- I watched these men on shipboard during seventeen days. They were up at six n'clock every moning, running so many dozens of times around the deck in slippers and pyjamas in order to keep themselves in good condition, then plunging into a cold bath, coming back to the deck again in flannels as fresh and blocni. ing as new-cut lowers. All day they read about South Africa in the little libraries they had brought along with them, and which they exchanged for other books that other men had brought on board. They were, I say again, the best of Englishmen-wide awake, well informed proud, polite, considerate, and bounding with animal health and high spirits.
The more I saw of them the angrier i got at all I have ever read about the various fanatical people on earth who are celebrated for not being afraid to die-the Soudan dervishes, 1 mean and the stolid Turks and pilfering Albanians, and now, last of all, these wooden- headed Bours. Of some of these we are told that they welcome death, rf others that they believe themselves in God's care. And what of these English? Are they afraid to die? Who would say such a thing or think it for a moment of these splendid fellows who have led England's ranks against every fanatic on earth except the Turk? They are as ready to die as any men, and they rank above their foes as towers rise above the lowly grass, because they risk their lives with a full knowledge of what they are doing and because in risking themselves they risk the most enviable lot of which any men can boast. The incomes, the estates, the wives, the clubs, the comforts and the luxuries with which these men can surround themselves whenever they will, are ties which should make life dearer to them
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the bare, bard lot of most of the poor wretches whom historians and poets have glorified for not fearing death; every one of whom, honestly believe, fears it more than there splendid, dashing fellows, who keep on carving empires out of the map to swell the size of England.
In the saine letter the correspondent deals. with another and less attractive side of the com. posite South African picture. Having given witness of the Army officers he proceeds:
"Been to Government Honse?" I asked one of these men yesterday,
"No," said he, “and I'm not going. I am afraid they might send me somewhere out of the thick of things I don't want them to know I'm here. I'm going to wherever it's liveliest. I'll be certain to find somebody under whom have served or with whom I have fought, and so I'll see the best of it."
And that was the man who told me that out of too men with whom he studied for the service seventy-five are dead already, fifteen of illnesses and sixty of bullet wounds and spear thrusts!
which only dealt in passing with the question, there does not seen to be any English authority the other way. The only authority there cited was a dictum in the mine, 1800, 3 C. Rub. 167, where a vessel had started with contra- band go for a hostile part, but, on hearing that such port was blockaded, bad altered her course, and made for a neutral port. The point discussed was whether the intention at starting to carry.contraband to a hostile port was enough to justify condemnation, although, before capture, the vessel had altered her destination, and was making for a neutral por. Lord Stowell said that to justify condenination thic contraband must be in course of transit to a hostile port; but there was no suggestion before him that the cargo to be landed at the neutral port was to be forwarded on overland to n Bostile destination. If that had been proved, there can be little doubt that Lord Stowell would have upheld the capture, as he did in the case of the Richment, 1804, 5 C. Rob, 335, A vessel with a contraband cargo captured on her way to a neutral port, but with a hostile port as her ulterior destination; or as in the Yonge Pieter, 1801,4 C. Rob. 79, when he condemned, under the rule against trading with the enemy,
The disasters in the Transvaal. War of 1881, a cargo shipped by a British subject for arising out of the annexation of 1877, have neutral port to be forwarded overland to a
been sufficiently recalled to mind in the past frostile destination. On the whole, there are lew months, Sir George Colley was dispatch- good reasons for believing that on this pointed with less than a thousand men, of whom he Our Prize Courts and Privy Council would: lost more than a quarter at Laing's Nek adopt the doctrine of the Supreme Court on January, 28th. The Gordon Highlanders It should in fairness be stated that the semi-were iuried up in the time to share in a official Manual of Naval Prize Law” limits
further defeat on the Ingogo River; and contmband to woods bound for a hostile port. Colleys-far occcupation-of-Majuba Hill led at the end of the war but without citing any other authority than the to the worst disaster of all on February 16th Imina above referred to.
The Highlanders, two companies of the 58th, two companies of the 60th, and sixty four blue jackets reached the saucer-like summit" at five in the morning. Soon after noon the edges of the saucer were lined by Beers, who, in
* SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS. As to the second question, whether this doc trind of continuous voyages applies to what, in spite of the late Mr. Hall, we may call contra
I the exhibition these refugees are making in Capetown were as important as it is con- spicuous, one would think the Englishmen in charge here would drop the contest where it is and go home in disgust. But it is only a phase of a sile issue, quite apart from the prin- cipal at stake.
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain Nesbitt, of the sleamship Zwrenn, from Samarang, reports:-Light N.E. winds and calms with fine weather tifl within 200 miles of port, then fresh N.E. gale and high
SCR.
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Captain Rubsuma, of the steamship Hailong, from Coast Ports, reports:-Tamsui to Amoy on the 31st ulo, strong N.N.E, wind, rough sea and cloudy weather. Aniny to Swalow on the 3rd inst. fresh monsoon, moderate sea and hazy weather. Swatow to port moderate to streng N.W. wind, rough sea, overcast and dull hazy weather. Vessels in Swatow on the 4th inst.. Charterhouse.
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR.
JANUARY.
Meteorological means based on fifteen years! observations to 1895.
Barometer Thermometer Humidity..... Rainfall
30.159
·597 73 .1.545
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer.. Temperature Humidity Rainfall..
"On day at On date if
TO-DAY.
JO 3.15.
30.20
68
4.tn.
30.16
ون
Friday, 5th January, 1900, Chinese-5th of 12th moon" of "25th year of
Kwang-si Sun-Rises.
Sels
bhr. 40min. 5/1. aquia. High water-Afternoon
ohr, 17min. Afternoon
thy. zzmin. Low water-Morning......... skr, dómin. Afternñon qhr, şömin. ANNIVERSARIES, 1642--Sir Isaac Newton born. 1757--Calcutta recaptured by Clive. 1827-Duke of York dict 1840-Decree of Emperor Tao-kuang prahi
biting trade with the English. 1858--Commissioner Yeh captured. 1876-D. Smith, late chief officer of Canton
Ater steamer chang, committed sui
cide.
1896-Village of Goi, Persia, destroyed by
carthquake; oo killed. The Govern ment yielded to the Chinese petition. re the Light and Pass Ordnance. 1897-Sharp shock of earthquake a Kiukiang
Trial of Mrs. Carew commenced at Yokohama,
TO-MORROW..
Chr. 4tmin. shr. 25min.
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TUESDAY, 9th... O.&O..steamer Stratḥgpie Agaves' for San
Diego.
WEDNESDAY, tothi Noon-Imperial Ceriman Mail Line steamer
Preussen leaves, with mails, for Glengarry. Bremen and Hamburg. ex Tientsin subject to rent.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Due,
...To-morrow.
Names.
Gravi.
Singapore
Valelta.....
Singapore ......Jan. 7th
Proussen
Shanghai: ....Jan. 9th.
Cargo 9 pm.
Repeat concert at City Hall, hail of the S. African Fund
Giscla
Moji...
Jan. 10th
Coptic
Jan. 11th
Sachsen
Stentor.
Onsang.
FRIDAY, A.
N. P. R. steamer City of Dublin for Victoria
B.C. and Tacobna, Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Dardanus leaves for Liverpool (direct). p.m.--Australian Lloyds steamer Gascia leaves
for Fine and Trieste,
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE.
English (Faletia) 7th inst. German (Preussen) 9th inst. American (Coptic) 11th inst. German (Sucksen) 11th inst. American (Onsang) 14th inst. American (America Maru) 18th inst." Tacoma (Taroza) 18th inst, Canadian (Empress of India) 25nd just.
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The O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Stenfor left Singa pore this morning aml is duo in Hongkong on 11th inst.
The MS. S. Co's stemmer Queen Milehæisle arrived at Tacoma from Japan and Hongkong on the 3rd inst.
Dock.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS. Isla de Cub............................
Kowloon
Isla de LuzRN H.LGS. Herthu... ILGALS. Gefon.... 1.MN. Algerine..... Strathgyle.... Trafalgar a Triumph
Pozean
De Jugn d'Austria Dupline ....
Meamwir
Cosmopolitan
PASSED THE CANAL.
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Outward 5th December--Benzwirlich. 8th December Gengarry, Regulus, Wabaxa Maru, Vasario 12th December--¿forven Westphalia, Stentar. 15th December--Aher 5. 19th December-Canton, Hyson, Lang, bank, Sachsen, Aeolus, Hurifon, Cathay, 22nd December Babelsberg, Kanagawa' Marn, oth Decaturia, Benvenue, St. Jerome, Indus, Dark, Loutakken, Eystrowan, Cilysapo,
Homeward 30th December – Cilenshiel, Stevia, Aunum, Machaon.
Shipping:
Arrivals.
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Japan Singapore
Jan. Lith Jan. tith Singapore Japan...Jan. 14th Milke Maru......... Bombay .................Jan. 15th
We would direct, the attention of shipping firms to the style in which "Steiners Expected" and "Projected Sailings" are now published in their columns, and in so doing respect. Trily urge the managers of shipping firms to give orders to their clerk to furnish this office, on the forta already sup piled,gratin with the latest available information every day.
PROJECTED SAILINGS,
Ship,
Abergeldie
Afridi
Airlie
Algoa Ambri
Destination.
Dalc.
Portland, &c. ......Jan, 27th ...New York, desp Sydney, &c......... Jan. 6th San Francisco, &c. Feb. 1oth. Havre, &c. Jan. 18th
America Maru...]San Francisco, &c. san. zyth
Antenor..
Bayern
Belgian King Bonbay
Breconshire
London......
Straits, &c.
Jan, 23rd
Mar. 7th
San Diego, &c. Feb. ist
......... London.......
Jan, asth Victoria, B.C.......Jan. zoth Canton Shanghai, &c.
Jan. 11th Carlisle City......San Diego, &c. ...Jan. 20th Carmarthenshire. San Diego, &c. ... Feb. 15th Catherine Apcar, Singapore, &c......Jan. 9th China ........San Francisco, &c. Mar, 3rd City of Dublin...¡Victoria, B.C.......Jan. 12th City of Rio... San Francisco, &c. Mar. 17th Coptic
San Francisco, &c. Jan, zoih Lenton............ Jan. 31st Cowrie
London......Jan. 9th San Francisco, &c.Mar. 10th.
Vancouver, &c....Jan. 17th
Diomed
Doric
Emp. China. Emp. India
Enp. Japan
Gaelic
| Giscla
Hakuai Maru
Hailoung
Handberg
Hangchow
Holsatia
11
Feb. 14th (Mar. 14th
San Francisco, &c. Feb. 13th Singapore, &c......Jan. 12th Swatow, &c........Jan. 7th. Shanghai
Straits, &c.
Shanghai
.......Havre, &c.
...Jan. 4th
...May roth
Jan. 6th
Feb. 8th
Hongkong Man San Francisco, &c. Feb. 22nd Inaba Man..... Marseilles, &c... Jan. 14th Tadavelli......... New York
Jan. 18th Kamakura Maru.¡Marseilles, &c......Jan. 26th Samarang, &c................ Jan. 17th Straits, &c.
Jan. 24th Victoria, B.C..... Jan. 15th
Kansu Karlsruhe Kinshiu Marn König Albert Straits, &c. 1pongsang.... Manila Maidzuru Maru..... Swatow, &c. Mazagon
Condon..... Menelaus f.ondon........
April 4th
Jan. 8th
Jan. 7ih
Jan. 13th
Feb. 6th
Nippon Maru San Francisco, &c. Mar. 20th Oldenburg) Parminauz
Preussen
Straits, &e.
....Europe, &c.
Straits, &c.
Japan
Prinz Heinrich...Straits, &c.
Queen Eleanor...New York...
Rosetta
Sachsen
CITY OF DUBLIN, British steamer, 2,154, Jas. R. Rae, 4th. Jan,-Tacoma 29th Nov, General Dodwell & Co., Ld.
Saint Irene Sarnia
Silesia Strathgyle... | ZWERNA, British steuner, 941, J. H. Nesbitt, | Stuttgart
5th Jan-Samarang 26th Dec, and Sungkiang Labuan 31st, Sugarland Cotton-Lauts, | Taiyuan. Wegener & Ga.
Tientsin... LOONGMOON, German steamer, 1,245 P Trocas ..... Schulz, 5th Jan, Canton 4th Jan., Gene- Valetta ral-Siemssen & Co. HAILOOND, British stetuner, 753, A. J. Robson, 5th Jan-Tamsui 31st Dec, Amy 3rd Jan,, and Swain 4th, General- Douglas, Laprik & Co.
KARAN, British stember, 1,245, P. Bennett, 5th Jau-Chinklang acth Dec,, General,- Butterfield & Swire.
SULLTAN VON LANGRAF, Dutch steamer, 1,756, A. Blamberg, ph Jan,--Singapore 27th Dec., Oil-Meyer & Co. KIUKIANG, British steamer, 1,240, C. F. Arn-
old, 5th Jan., Chinking joth Dec., tiene ral-Bniteriield & Swire.
WAKASA MARU, Japanese steamer, 3.885. 1. B. MacMillan, 5th Jan, Singapore 30th Dec, Genem-Nippon Yusen Khishe HATING, French steamer, 705, a Jenssen, 5th Jan-Haiphong 3rd Jan., General.--- A. K. Marty.
Marnzuru Máru, Japanese steamer, 667, T. Ogata, 5th Jap-Amoy and Swatow 4th Jan,, General-Order.
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Clearances at the Harbour Office. Haikang, Portuguese steun-launch, for Macao, Saturday, 6th January, 1900,
Kwai, Chinese steara-launch, for Wuchow. Chinese-6th of 12th moon if 25th year of Losset, British str., lur Hoiltow, Suikeng, British str., for Samsui, Kwang-sil. Sun-Rites
Helsalia, German str., lur Yokohama, China, fieunan str., for Saigone Kung Fing, Chinese str. for Shanghai, Reuce, American ship, for Baltimore. Kengna, British ste, for Canton, Kiukiang, Bratrste str.; for Canton. Kami Lum, British steam-launch, for Macho. Katsuyaum Maru, Japanese str., for Kobe. Kynde Mar, Japanese-str., far Yokohama, John McDonald, American ship, for Honolulu.
Sets Moon-In Equator 11hr, am.
shr, zmin. High water-Afternoon
Merking 6hr, 27min. Low water-Afternoon .. shr. y5min.
Morning ........HONE ANNIVERSARIES,
1878-Great Fire at Tientsin 1,400 famine
refugees burnt to death. 1889-Wreck of the British ship Anglo-Indian
near Tamsui; Captain and 13 of the 18-Messrs. Henry and Victor Roque, Cap.
crew drowned.
tain Roze, Mr. Costa, and Messrs. Roque's Compratore attacked by pi rates at Dongtricu, Tonquin; Captain
Roze murdered and the rest of the
party were taken prisoners and held for ransom until 7th March. 1896-National Reform Committee arrested at
Johannesburg. 1897-The dismasted British barque West York
sold at auction for $5,800. 1898--The town of Amboina, destroyed by an
Earthquake.
AGENDA
TO-DAY.
Cargo ex Karlsruhe subject to rent.
K.V.C. ORDERS.
TO-MORKOW.
Noon-P. & O, steamer Parramatta leaves,
with mails, for London. N. P.-K. steamer Saint Irene leaves for Victoria
B.C. and Tacoma.
The Zulu war indicted on the British the great disaster of Isandlwana when fourteen thousand of the blacks surrounded Colonel Glyn on his march from Helpmakaar, with two batta- lions of the 24th, a battery, and a few leries. This calamity was aluust an extermination; and the news as it reached England was only It is disgusting to leave these men and turn relieved by the account of the splendid stand into any one of the Capetown hotels to find of Lieutenants. Chard and Bromhead, with 80 yourself surrounded by the rich refugees from 5.30 pin-Signalling at Head Quarters. men, who defended the commissarial store at Johannesburg and to hear them cry like Rorke's Drift against 4,000 natives, and so children as they tell you what they will lose if prevented the victorious impi of the Zulus the British do not hurry tip and take the from entering Natal.
Transvaal before the Boers destroy Johannes- burg. They actually cry in their plates at din ner and half-strangle themselves by sobbing as they drink their whiskey at bed time. The Mount Nelson, the Queen's, and the Grand hotels are all full of these merchants and millionaires, faring on the fat of the land, idle, Toning att of then every city, and discussing what per cent of their losses the British govern ment will pay when they put in their claims at
2x am. Tenders far specie, for H.M. Treasury Some came here as clerks, some as labourers
chest, received. in the mines, and some are merchants who 3 pm-Meeting of the Justices of the Peace, in brought to worth of goods out from Birming- St. Andrew's Hall, to appoint member ham a dozen years ago. They tell you that
of Legislative Council, they have left 100,000 worth, or £80,000 4 p.m.-Lovee at Government House. worth of goods in their shop, and that altogether Cargo ex Indrapura subject to rent
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Cargo ex Merionethshire subject to rent.
p.m.-Football, Rugby, England v. The "World, in aid of the S. African Fund. p.m.-Concert at City Hall in aid of the
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-South-African Fund
MONDAY, 8th.
Departures.
Jan. 5, Thales, British str., for Swatow. Jan. 5, Look, British str, for Singapore. Jun. 3, Cheytang, British str., for Shanghai. Jan. 5, Isi Ping, Chinese str., for Canton, Jan. 5, Simla, British 4-masted bark,
Adelaide.
Straits, &c.
Feb. 21st
Jan. 6th
Jan. roth
May 30th
Feb, ist
Jan. 6th
Feb. 7th
Victoria, B.C...... Jan. 6th
Havre, &c. .... ...........fan. 35th Havre, &c. ..... Feb. 5th San Diego, &c. ...Jan. roth Straits, &c.
Mar. 21st Jan. 8th Sydney, &c........Jan. 15th Robe
......fan. 6th
...Manila
Marseilles, &..............{jan. 17th. Shanghai
Jan. 7th Wakasa Maru Yokohama
Jan. 6th Weimar... Straits, &c. April 18th Wittenberg.....Havre, &c. ......Jan. 27th Yawata Maru ...Thursday 15., &c... jan. 26th
SLEEP WHEN WORK IS DONE,
During the late summer (1996) I passed several weeks in a foreign city nearly 700 miles further south than London. We had about tên "days instönso hel, and for six nights, when it was art, I do not think I slept as many hours nitogether. The result Ing nervons collapse was simply awful. My brain rede, 1 cod aefther understand nor do anything phily. I walked, as the goal Book ways, in a vain show." What blessed thing is sleep; -how destruc tive, how killng to lose it.
Incalthy sleep the nervous system in activo- re especially that of the gain and spinal cord. They lies quiet, the muscles relaxed, the pulse lower than when we are awake, and the breathing de frequent bu deeper. The naturo-wise keeper of the Home of Life-proceeds to renew the energies espemed thongh the day. To inis this renewal, even in part, is to Iral the vigo of insanity and look into the mouth of death.
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more; Macbeth doth Murder sleep!" So raid Macbeth himself; let there is a power whiels murders, more sleep than ever did Dancan's assasin and to that Mrs. Henttic alludis when she says of her daughter, "She get a drop."
*Ju May, 1891," writes the lady, “My, daughter Letitia fell into low, weak condition, and could not gen per frength. She had no appetite, and what Title tool she took gave her grain at the chest mand side. She got an sleep at night, nail became very nervous and low-spirited.
As time passed by she grew weaker and more feeble, and we thought she would never get better. A doctor attended her, but none of his medicines semel to suit her tuse, mul for two years alio con. tinued to suffer.
Une day she read in a book about Mother Solgel's Cautive Syrup and what it had done for other
forget a Tottle from Mr. Nicholls, chemist, Dome gal Place, and after taking it Tegan to improve, being able to eat, and her food agreeing with her. After. hasing d this medicius a short time she was strong and well as ever, and has since been in good
Jan. 5. Sandakan, British str., for Sandakan. Jan. 5, Prie of Doon, British bark, for Rajang. Jan. 5, Ken Ping Chinese str. for Shanghai. Jan. 5, Kalyan, British str., for Canton.
Passengers-Arrived.
Per Zureza, from Samarang—4 Chinese. Ver Hailong, from Const Ports--Mr. Ander- son, and 499 Chinese.
Per Wakas Maru, from Singapore-13 Europeans, 8 Chinese and r Japanese.
Per City of Dublin, from Tacoma-Mrs. Gore and 2 children, Mr. Humphreys, and
Chinese.
To Depart.
health. For long time I, myself; suffered fmm weakness and indigestion and seeing what good Mather Sefgels Syrop had done, I took it and was completely restored to sound bealth, You may no this statement as you like. (Signed) (Mrs.) Mary Beattie, Trinity Squre, Beltust, August 14th,
IMENS,**
g to suffer from indigestion. I haul & poor "In the early part of 1801," writes another, "I petite, and all food gave me pain at my chest and light the food I took I had pain hud sick beadache,
awing fooling at the stomach. No matter how
For over a year 1 wus tormented like this, when Departed.
Mr. John Weir, Hring in this placo, told me bow he -Per-Sumtakon,-for-Sandakan-Messrs.-F. had been care by Mother Buigel's Syrup, and riscon H. Ball, W. G. Darby, Mumby, A. Greig, A. del ne so try it. 1 ild sa, and soon all pain left Lorentzen, H. Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. P. me, and I have since enjoyed good health. I know Breitag, Dr. N. B. Dennys, i Japanese and argyro residing in this district who have been Chinese, For Kudat-37 Chinese.
beasdited by taking thu samo molicius. Often In my shop hear persons say what it has done for them. You are at liberty to publish this lotter. (Bigned) Alexr. Wison, General Merplaat, Castlewellan, Per Parramatta, from Yokohama for Mar-
Newcastle, Co. Down, Ireland, Aug. 18th, 1880. seilles Mr. and Mrs. J. Symons, For Calcutta
Mr. E. P. Keebles. From Shanghai for Indigestion or dyspepsin déstroys the power to sleep London-Corporals Cox and Duff For Singa by starving, and thus weakening, the nervous system, nicel the whole boly starves, su in thrown lulo pore-Mr, G. Cochrane. From Hongkong for London Messis, Hugo Wilckens, S. and L.
profanel disqnder. Food my taken into the Tobbs (2), E. C. A. Rogers, RN, I. V. Ftouch, mt, people constantly say toes-110-
good." No; Just in a see it does harm. Ferment Williams, R.N., Ward, Miss McKinnon, and Corporal Davies. For Marseilles-Capt. Udo, soured, undigested it develops poisons which act Pockels, Lieut. F. Ritterm, Messrs. A. C. the system somewhat a pesticats does upon a community, Fish in lost, strength gives to Garfit and C. Jacques, For Suez-Col and trembling weaknee courage in suplantod. by fear, Mrs. Edge, and Miss Haynes. For Bombay and life is dreary and desolate. That Mother Belgele. Messrs. F. Chesania and E. Luinjec, For Symp should be able to curo a discuse so common and Penang Mr. P. D. Donald. For Singaporeuter.ible is ronson for fine to us all. For the Blessis W. Smith and Lum U Cho."
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