FIRES IN VICTORIA.
Two fires occurred during the last twenty hours in the city of Victoria and both, we are pleased to say, owing to the smartness of our fire-brigade, were extinguished before any serious damage, was done. One happened at. 9 o'clock last night in the detached kitchen at the Han. Dr. Ho Kai's dwelling house in Seymour Terrace. The amah had a small fire in an earthenware chalty on which she placed a pot to keep its contenis warm; around the tchatty was some firewood dry- ing for future use. Believing that everything was left in a perfectly safe condition she left the building. It is supposed that some sparks or hot embers must have fallen on to the wood, which ignited and set fire to the rafters in the sloping roof overhead. An Indian policeman noticed smoke issuing from the roof and immediately ran down to the Central Police Station. Det-Sgt. Sullivan, a fire-brigade official, lost no time in repairing to the scene of the fire, went into the burning building and managed to extinguish the flames before they had obtained firm enough grip to do much material damage.
The other fire was at 15 this morning in the second Bour of No. 25 West Street, Central district. This door is used by Chinese pork sausage inanufactory. A coolie siceps on the premises and said this morning he was awakened by hearing a crack. ling noise in a room in which two lamps were burning. As soon as he say the place was on fire he gave the alarm; the Fire Brigade arriving very shortly afterwards the fire was extinguish ed by 8 an. The second door, the place where the fire originated, was guttert, only die walls and roof remain standing, the damage being estimated at $t, but is insural for $1,000. The ground floor, barber's shop, and first door, family residence, were slightly in- jured by water, but nothing of much conse quence,
OPIUM RAID.
For some time past the Opium Farmer has been put to great loss by the snuggling and illicit boiling of opin in the New Turritory, On the 4th of this month Mr. J. J. Spooner (Chief Excise Officer with a pay of police and Chinese excise officers made a raid on a village called Kival Chung, sizusted on the mainland at the back of Simcentters' Iskard. In a house, for which they led a search war rant, they founabeyidce that opida bad been prepared there and so were papted to make further search in the grunds surrounding, which led to the discovery of the implements, used in the manufacture of prepareil opiuni, in some prickly pear bushes The party after- wards went da to Chin Wan, where another capture was made, together with a complete
set of boiling inplements. The two men cap- taped were brought up before Mr. Halifax yesterday and a tie of Stoo imposed on one and Sio on the other.
STORIES OF BATTLE.
Told by Wounded Boers and Britons.
CAPE TOWN, November 8th. The first three Boer prisoners brenght fare rice's Store at Elands Langle after the battle had rather a good time of it.
The Absent-minded Beggars" in charge of them having satisfied themselves as to what a Boer was like at close quarters, commenced comparing notes with them upon the fight, the prisoners being meanwhile giver plenty to eat
and drink.
With the exception of a young Hollander att could speak English duently enough,
Character Among the Wounded. The conduct of the wounded men of various nationalities was worth-studying,
A sandy-haired, square-headed German, with a lance wound through the muscles above the knee joint, we brought in howling and shiver. ing. He kicked up such a row at a man in the Gordons with his arm
insing threatened to brain him with an enspty bear bottle.
The German was then lifted of the table
upon which he had been placed and put into a corner out of the way of the exasperated Scotchman.
A Braw Laddie.
In contrast to the cowardly Teuton was a Gordon Highlander, who swore with a very strong Dunder accent. He hart his wrist shattered with a Mauser bullet, which had passed on and possibly killed metady else. On the field dressing" being removed the blood spurted out of the wounded arm like a garden spray, which caused the gallant Dun- donian to ejaculate "Ma God!"
After getting his wound attended to he immediately tackled a plateful of bread and jam, saying apologetically "I be'na' had any thing tac cat the day."
Helmet Well Spent.
At Dundee a Dublin Fusilier, wishing to test the Boer shooting, put up his helmet above the wall behind which he was lying, and it was no sooner up than down it came with a bullet through it, fired by a hidden enemy,'
Five times more the helmet was put up, and as often it toppied over with a fresh hole in it. At last a shelf dropped where the marksman was hidden, and the shooting ceased.
A Plucky Sergeant. When in the tluck of the fight at Elands Laagte Col. Chisholme was shot through the body Trooper Clifford, of the Imperial Light Horse, son of the Rev. W. H. Turpin, of Grahamston, rushed forward and raising his commanding officer in its arms sought to convey him out of the zone of fire. But before this could be done another bullet crash- ed through the unfortunate Colonel's brain,, instantly killing him.
Trooper Turpin was forthwith promoted to sergeant, and has been specially mentioned in dispatches for conspicuous bravery in the field.
It 'Went.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900.
But in a few minutes numbness departed.. Our gallant him. com. went down, picked up rille and fired several more rounds before he almost collapsed from loss of blood."
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The Humane Mauser. Other wounded on-board the falunga speak of the Mauser bullet as causing only a sharp prick when it passed through ann or log.
The wound it makes at entry and exit is so tiny that a lead pencil could not be used as a probe. The "paralysing shock" credited to the small bore missile does not seem to be borne out by experience.
Of the 123 wounded a Glencar and Elands Laagte brought round to Cape Town and sent to Wynberg only three had to be carried off the Jelunga in cots, all the rest suffering from wounds iphead, arms, or body walked to the train,
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A Boor Mistako.
At the Elands Laagte engagement it appears that the effect of the shrapnel was rather moral than material, for the Boers were well covered by great boulders behind which they fired rapidly. The bayonet charge, however, they could not stand, and fled like rabbits, the Lancers riding into them from the flank and doing terrible execution.
The Boers mistook the Latters for a body of their own men in the darkness until they were within 40 yards.
Dr. Homabrook and the Rev. Mr. Andrews rode towards a Red Cross house, where the onc. ministered to the sick and the other read to and prayed for the dying.
One of the last things "Tommy" does when ordered to the front is to make his will;although every regiment contains a percentage of happy. go-lucky fellows who do not worry themselves about what will become of their property when they no longer require it.
U.S. HOSPITAL SHIP.
MISS HIBBARD EXPLAINS THE ARRANGE-
MENTS OF THE "MAINE."
Apart from our gratitude to the U.S. hospital ship fine for the splendid service she will do us in South Africa, we must naturally feel in- terested in this chance, of comparing American and English hospital work.
I could not help feeling (writes a Morning Leader representative) as Miss Hibbard, the head nurse of the Afaine, described the ship's outfit, that perhaps our cousins in this particular branch have, as it were, begun younger and grown faster,
The nursing brigade on the Maine consists of five doctors, the "British medical officer Dr. Hensman; five nurses, or supervisors as they are called, one to each of the five wards into, which the ship will be divided: 20 onlerlies and two ambulance officers and to trained male nurses. This class of nurse, Miss Hibbard says, is peculiarly useful. The men are trained in the Washington training school, and are drafted thence into the Hospital Corps or the Signal Corps.
A GENERAL SYEONS STORY.
Symons was one of the coolest, most daring men that it has ever been my good fortune to come across.. I remember ou one occasion in Burma we received information that Bol Lah- Oo, a redoubtable dapoit leader, was lying up in á parch of jungle about twenty miles away. Symons was up in hot haste, and within half an hour the column of seventy-five mounted in- fantry, reinforced by two squadrons of Bengal cavalry, bad started in bet pursuit.
It was impossible to heade the enemy, sp Symons, formed one long line and we swept at a hard gallop through the open jungle. It was a dificult country, interspersed with high banks and deep ravines; men and horses came down in dozens.
I was riding behind Symons on the extreme left of the line. Suddenly we came upon a boa ravine with steep banks literally packed with anen, and on the other side of the raving was Lab-Oo, the man we had been hunting day and night for the past two months. 1 do not think there were more than ten of us together. Riding dow was impossible, so Symons slipped off bis horse and said down the bank, followed by the remainder,"
Symons therally elbowed his way through the mass of men in his cagemies to get autoss to the opposite bank, who were too dumfound. ed to do anything;
AGENDA.
TO-DAY.
9 fan.---Concert at City Hall in lak of the
South African Fánd. -
TO-MONNOW,
CHURCH SERVICES. St. John's Cathedral:-Communion, 7am,
Matins, 11 m., Evensong, 5445 pm, Roman Catholic Cathedral:-Muss at 6 aan., 7 aan, Sam, und 9 jo am. Benediction, 5 12.13). Union Church:- Services, 14 a.m. aml 6 p.1a. German Bethesda Chapel, West Point:--
Morning Service, 17 alm. St. Francis' Church, Wanchai-Mass (Chin), Gam., (Port 7.30 a. Benediction, Sp. St. Joseph's Church, Gorden Road-Morning
Service (English), 9 aan. St. Anthony's Chapol, West Point:--Mass,
Sa.m.
Wesleyan Methodist Church-Services, tozo
9. and, 5.45 pm. St. Peter's Seamen's Church:11 am, and
6.30 pan.
Fam.
MONDAY, 8th.
Tenders for specie, for 11.M.. Treasury
chest, received.
3 pm Mecingofthe Justices of the Peace, in
'St. Andrew's Hall, to appoint member of Legislative Council. p.m.--Levec at Government House, Cargo ex biilivapura subject to rent.
TUESDAY, 9th.
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On a ridge on the stoping bank crouched a man with an old findeck. "He took a steady aim point blank at Symons. Just as he was in When was in Jacksonville during the war,"
the set of pulling the trigger Symons noticed said Miss Hibbard, one of my mass instituikin and mored steadily in his direction. Ile a school of cookery for the Hospital Corps men,
did not alter his pace, and quietly drew his and some of those going nut a the Jaine were
sword. Not a muscle of his face moved as the D. & O. steamer Struthgyle leaves for San HelCaptured Twenty-five Boers.
trained in it. It was a very popular school and
man fired. The powder dushed in the pan and
Diego. Dr. Haluk did a plucky thing. Riding there were so pupils; they were particularly the next moment Syanons hath cleft him from forehead to chin, aúd the man railed dead at alone to a party of 23 Tuers who had lost their taught to dish up the ordinary tations in an way he told them the English had won the appet:sing for, so if our patients turn dainty his feet. Symons returned his sword and 5:30 pm.-"A" "B" and "C" Gan Drill at
we shall be prepared for them."
started to climb the bank as if nothing had
battle, and they must consider themselves his
prisoners, ordering two take the weapons
and the others to march before them.
He brought them all to Elands Langle station, prisoners-Central News.
THE EVE OF BATTLE: METIVER'S ADDRESS.
ORANGE RISER, November, 27th. Lord, Methuen addressed his division' this alternoon.
He Brst real telegrams from Sir A. Milner. the Governor, congratulating the troops, and expressing sympathy with the wounded, and then, speaking for himself, congratulated his troops for the work they had done,
The work was the severest encountered by the British army for many a long day.
They had in front of them an enemy to whom they could not afford to give one point. Their tactics had been excellent, and he recognised
and admired their courage.
FOR WORTHY OF THEIR STEEL When called upon to fight for his country, he preferred to fight against a foc worthy of his steel than against savages whose sole recommendation-was Uncvery..
He hoped that he and his men had gained each other's confidenter, and that they would all do their duty to their country as English
Then should do.
Loid Methaen described as dastardly the conduct of the enemy in firing on ambulance Wagens, the shooting of a British officer by a avounded Beer, and the use of Dum-Dum
bullets, but he refused to believe that these
acts were characteristic of the opemy..
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He would give them credit, until he was conviced the countrary, that they, as the British, wished to fight fair and square.
Addressing the Scots Guards, the General' said that they had acted as he expected his ok battalian would-Router Special,
KRUGER'S FORTUNE.
NOT AMASSED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE.
In an interview which a representative of the Marin-M. Henri des Hous-had with Dr Leyds at Brussels, the latter combats Mr. Stan tey's views on the Beers and the war in the Transvaal,
The Maine's norminal accommodation, is for
copatients, though its capacity may be stretched tn 22; if needfat. Inside everything is painted a cool pale green, while outside the ship is white. At the head of each bed is a inte basket containing the patient's toilet requisites. There is a plentiful supply of clothes-pyjamas, dressing-gowns, and thousands of handker. chiets; for the idea is that when a patient comes on board, his own things are to be put away, unt to he seen again diff he leaves the ship at the end of the voyage.
Miss iblandt does not expect to go to the front; though that may happen. as the Maine is to be entirely under English orders. The original idea is that the men who are too badly wounded to be of any possible further service, carefully tended all the way. shall be taken on board and brought home,
Lappencil-From "Recollections of General Symons," by One Who Served With Him, in To-day
HOW SOME ARTISTS WORK.
Many people must have seen English painters who went out of their way to confuse their eyesight and destroy all unity of impression. Some begin a large landscape at the top of one corner, and finish it all the way down, bit by bit.
These make a tunnel with their hands to shut - mút everything but the one patch of colour they are matching. These hold up white paper to gauge a value; these match tints upon a palette knife held against the hues of nature; these cut holes in a card to look through and these peep
ILK.V.C. ORDERS,
Head-quarters.
40 5.30 p.m.-Revolver Practice. 39 -Range Finding Class 5.30 p.m.-F.R. Gun Drill at Head-quarters.
WEDNESDAY, Toth. Noon--Imperial Cernan Mail Line steamer Preussen leaves, with mails, for Bremen and Hamburg.
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· Clearancss at the Harbour Offos, Meidsuru Maru, Jaguiñose s't, for Swatow. Keongsang, British str., for Foochow. Triumph, Ceraun str., for Manila. Makasa Maru, Japanese str., for Yokobamn. Mirfie, British sir, for Port Darwin. P. G. C. Klao, British ser, for Swatow, Pakshan, British str, for Swatow, Hailong, British str., for Swatow. Fab Kong, Buitish str,, for Canton, Hating, French str., for Holbow.
shun, Chinese str., for Shanghai. Turbe, British str., for Cuddalore. Kavui Lum, British sicura-launch, for Macao.
Departures.
Jan. 6, Parramatta, British str., for Eutope. Jan, 6, Kawang Ping, Chinese str., for Chèfoo. Jan, 6. Kiukiang, British str., for Canton.
fan. 4 Holsalia, German str., for Yokohama. Jan. 6, Rrota Maru, Jan, str., for Yokohama. | Jan. 6. John McDonald, American ship, for
Honolulu.
Jan. 6, dirlie, British ste, for Australian Ports. Jan. 6, Fushen, Chinese str., for Shanghai. Jan. 6, Pakshan, British str., for Swatow Jan. 6, Asaura, British str., for Singapore, Jan. 6, Kwongsung, British str., för Foochow Jan. 6, Ticalšiu, British str., for Kobe. Jam. 6. Hakara Maru, Japanese steamer, for
Yokohama.
Passengers-Arrived,
For Benverlich, from 'Singapore--350 Chi-
mese.
Per Haicking, from Coast Ports-Dr. Sten- house, Dr. and Mrs. Thomson and son, Mr. Ozorio and nephew, and go Chinese.
Per Leongsang, from Manlia-Mr. and Mrs. II. Payoi, Mrs. A. L.. Wetmore, Mrst and Miss Foote, Mrs. C. M. Knepper, Messrs. R. Inch, R. Plan, H. B. Taylor, Knight, K. Daiki, H. F. Williams, and 62 Chinese.
Départed.
Per Parramatta, from Yokokama for Mar- scilles- Mr. and Mrs. J. Symons. For Calcutta Mr. E. P. Keebles. From Shanghai for London-Corporals Cox and Duff. For Singa- pore--Mr. G. Cochrane. From Hongkong for Loudon Messrs. Hugo Wilckens, 5, and L Tubbs (5), E. C. A. Rogers, R.N., F. V. Cargo ex Tientsin subject in rent.
Williams, R.N., Ward, Miss McKinnon, and p.m.-Repeat concert at City Hall, in aid of Corporal Davies. For Marseilles-Capt. Udo
the S. Afric. Fund.
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5.30 pm. Company and Carbine Drill for the
Recruits of all units.
5.30-pan-D" Infantry Company, Company
and Arm Drill. 6 pm- Engineer Company Drill at
Head-quarters.
Practically all the work of organising and through their legs, their half shut eyes, or into 6 p.m.-Baud Practice for unenrolled Drum-
fiting out the abip has been shared between Miss Hibbard and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who
as personally interviewed all the members of the brigade before engaging them. The female uniform is either of blue duck, or white, with white duck aprons and little white caps, very murli like the cap which Teamel gives to "Miss France" in his Pouch cartoons. Each nurse wears-also a special liule gulti badge.
Nearly all the nurses have seen service in the American and Spanish war. Miss Hibbard herself was among the awful hospital tents at Jacksonville, where they had 85otyphoid cases,
PUSHING THE AMERICAN OUT
OF HAWAII.
The Murathan Gazette, of Honolulu, notes with regret that the Portuguese and Japanese are taking up the best lands in the Hawaiian Islands, to the exclusion of the Americans, whin, it was expected, would go to the islands in large numbers after annexation became a fact. The Gazelle cites a typical instance, and comments as follows--
"On the southern slopes of Haleakala tifere is now to be seen not an experiment, but a demonstration of the course of racial events on these islands. A vast tract of land lies on this slope, rising with gentle grades from the plains of the isthmus occupied by the Hawaiian Com mercial Company, up to, and above, the frust line. The soil is rich. Fruits and sectables grow with luxuriance. Corn makes excellent crops. With a gond road, the owner of only Dr. Leyds objects that Mr. Stanley spent but ten acres of such hand may steep every night-i a single day in Pretoria, and not more than six within the cold belt, and descend every morn days in foliannesberg, and that the only people ing to the warmer belt below. This region is he frequented there were friends of Dr. Jame ideal for the most satisfactory growth of son and Rhodes. He is therefore not in a posi-Anglo-Saxon civilisation in the tropics, because, tion to judge, as he has not examined the ques- if he wills it, the settler may find anly half an -tinn-from the Boer point of view.
hour's rifle between the tropics and the tem
perate zones.
Dr. Leyds denies that Kruger has amassed ą fortune by the granting of monopolies, and "What is the situation? What is the outlook contends that the State alone has benefited by there? The Portuguese have settled on this these concessions. He adds that the import-tract and are doing well. Many, it is said five ance of these oumpolies has been greatly ex- hundred, Japanese have taken land in Kula and aggered, and that, with the exception of those Makawao, and are making excellent profits out in dynamite,' alcohol, and tanning, almost all of their agricultural work. Out of some hun- the rest have cased to exist, owing to expira-dreds of settlers are there any Americans? No.
tion of the term. ·
Dr. Leyds affirms that Kruger's fortune has not cost a farthing to the State, and that it has never been increased by speculations of any kind in the business matters of the State.
AN HONOURABLE PEACE,
Yet the profits of agriculture in that section, te- day, would open the eyes of the small farmers of America,.... While there is much waving of the tag over the islands with the patriotic shout that the islands must be Americanised;" day by day, step by step; the men of other Asked for his opinion on the battle of Del-nationalities are becoming the bone and the sinew of the people. One leaking upon these mont, he said he knew nothing about it, as be was no longer in communication with his Gur prosperous people pre-occupying the land, must eroment. As lang, however, as there remined regard the case of American settlement in this region is almost hopeless..... It is simply. single burgher in the Republic the war would de to say that the American farmer can or will
We are ready" De Leyds added, "to con supplant the Portuguese or the Orientals. clude an honourlible peace when it is desired, and we shall never cease to urge it, even while continuing to sight.”—Reuter,
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not be ended,
PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN BEFORE A BATTLE,
The names of the British killed and wounded after a battle are ascertained by means of the identification cards which all British soldiers carry sewn up in the lefthand corner of their khaki tunics."
LYDDITE AND SLEEPITE,
On the card is written the soldier's manie, rank, regimental number, together with the name and address of his next-of-kin. The latter is added so that the authorities may know where to forward the effects of any soldier who gets killed,
After an engagement the roll is called as soon as the regiments get back to their camp. Every man who does not answer is "ticked off as missing, and search is made for him on the field. As the search parties come across the dead and wounded men they rip open the tunic The Dub was bending at the time, and heat the left-hand cornerandfakeout the identifica second story comes from Dundee, where a did not even take the trouble to look up. His tion card. The cards thus collected are carried officer heard the Dub saying to himself as he back to camp and handed over to the clerks of Lyddite was like. "Like!" exclaimed the turned his back on the shell, "Och! Go to blazes with you.
A Dublin Fusilier was removing forage from the old camp at Glencoe, when a shell came form the Boer's 40-pounder, and entered the ground with a bang five yards distant,
Not Out of Action. Among the wounded who arrived at Cape Town 31 Oct. by the felinga was a non-com. of the Gordon Highlanders who was struck in the right shoulder by a Mauser bullet at Elands, Langle. The missile pierced through fesli and bune as if they nad been tissue paper But the man says all he felt was a sensation of numbness in the armi.-
Knowing he was hit, he took his rifle in his teft hand and flung it as far down the hill as he could, so that in the worst event it should not be taken by the Boers.
the general in command, who therefrom compile
the casually lists.
After all the cards have been collected the roll is checked again, and a note made of those men of whom no trace has been discovered. These are usually presumed to have been taken prisoners, but it does not always follow that the assumption is correct.
In the comer of his tunic oposite the identi- fanion card every soldier carries a small pad of bandages, etc., for dressing a wound, This "field dressing, as it is called, is added to “Tommy's "equipment in order that he may be his own, surgeon until medical assistance arrives, or may have the wherewithal on him to bind up the wounds of a 'chum,
a small black mirror.
mers.
6 to 7 pan.---Band.
I have often seen men painting sunsets who would shade out the sky with a hai or hand that they might see what they were pleased to call the true colour of the ground. Of course, the grass instantly became quite another colour to what it had been when the sky entered the painter's eyes at the same time. But they 53 seemed unaware that they were painting by this process two quite different effects in one frame.-R. A. M. Stevenson.
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain Weigall, of the steamship og from Manila, reports:-Strong breezę, high sea and heavy rain squalls.
Captain Dowson, of the steamship Woeseng, from Shanghai, reports Strong monsoon, high sea, dull and overcast.
Captain Newcombe, of the steamship Chikli, from Wulu, reports-Strong N.E. to fresh N.W. winds, with heary rain and northerly sea.
Captain Davis, of the steamship Haiching, from Fnochow, reports:--Strong N. and N.E. winds throughout, heavy rain and rough sea. Steamers in Amoy-Ness and Kaifong. In
watowldorado and hig
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR.
JANUARY, Meteorological means based on fifteen years' observations to 1898.
Brometer Theminmeler Humidity. Rainfall
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer.. Temperature Humidity Rainfall...
-TO-DAY,
.30.159 .59.7 ..74
.1.545
On date at a date al
1:225,
THURSDAY; 14th.
ILK.V.C: ORDERS,
30-Range Finding Class
Trumpeter's Class 3-30 p.m.-F.B. Company Dill at Kowloon 5.30 pm
Dorks.
A" "B" and "C" Machine Gun Company Drill at East Point.
- PRIPLAY, 121,
N. P. R. steamer City of Dublin for Victoria
B.C. and Tacoma. Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Dardanus
leaves for Liverpool (lirect). p.m.Australian Lloyds steather Gisela leaves
for Fiume and Trieste.
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5.30 p.m.-Signalling at Head-quarters,
...........
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE. English (Paletta] to-morrow,' German (Preussen) 9th inst. American (Coptic) 11th inst. German (Sachsen) with inst. American ? Onsang) 14th inst.
American America Muru) 18th inst. Tacoma (Firenze) 18th inst. „Canadian (limpréss of India) znd inst
The Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Co.'s steamer “Gisela lett. Maji for this port this morning.,
The N. Y. K's steamer Inaba Maru (Europe Line) left Kobe vie Moji for this port yesterday, (5th inst.) and is expected to arrive
here on the 12th inst
The steamer Terukai from London and Liverpool passed the Canal on the 5th inst. and may be considered due at Hongkong on or about the 1st February.
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Pockels, Lieut. P. Rittenn, Messrs. A. C. Garli and C. Jacques. For Suer-Col, and Mes: Edge, and Miss Haynes. For Bombay-- Messrs. F. C. Bhesania and E. Luinjee. For Penang-Mr. P. D. Donald. For Singapore- Messts, W. Smith and Lum U Chò.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Names
From.
Duc
Valetta
Singapore ......To-morrow
Glengarry Preussen
Singapore
To-morrow
Jan. 9th
Giscla Coptic Sachsen
Jan. zoth
Jan, rith
Jan. 11th
Stentor
Jan. rath
Jan. 12th
Japan .... Bembay
Jan. 14th'
Jan. 15th
Inaba Maru..
Onsang...
¡Shanghai
Moji... Japan Singapore
Singapore...... Moji.
Mike Maru America Manu San Francisco... Jan. 18th Taconia
Tacoma
Jan. 18th Bisagno ...........Bombay
Jan. 18th Empress of India... Vancouver......Jan. zand Teenkai
London
Feb. 1st
We would deset decottention of shipping fims to the style in which Steamers Expected" and "Profected Ballings are new published we these columns, and ko sa doing respuet- fully urge the managers of abipping femy to give orders te their clerks to furnish this office, on the forms already expe 'plied gratis with the latest avaliable information every day,
PROJECTED SAILINGS.
Destination.
Ship.
Date.
Abergeldie
Ponland, &c New York
Jan. 27th.
Qk. desp.
Afridi.. Algoa. Ambra
Canton
Sinn Francisco, &e. Feb. toth
Havre, &c. wysján. 18th
America Marti... San Francisco, &c. Jan, 27th Antenor.... London
Jan. 23rd Bayern
Straits, &c. Mar. 7th Belgian King San Diego, acc. ...Feb. 1st Bombay
London
Jan. 25th Breconshire......Victoria, B.C. Jan, 20th
.....¡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, BC. Jan. 12th City of Rio
San Francisco, &c. Mar, 27th San Francisco, &efjan, 20th London.............Jan. 31st
Coptic Cowrie
30.23
30.10
38
72
54 53
0.15
HONGKONG AND WILAMVOA DOCE RETURNS.
Kowloon Bock at Isla de Cuba.............. Isla de Luzon
Diomed
Doric
Emp. China
11
H.LGM.S. Hertha...... ILLGALS. Gefion.. HMS. Algerine.......
Emp. India
11
Enip. Japan.....
Gaelic
+
Gisela
Trafalgar
Haiching
Hailooug
Hakuai Maru
Hamburg
Holsatia
Saturday, 6th January, 1906.
"Chinese-6th of 12th" moon of 25th year of Stratheyle..
Kwang-si Sun-Rises
shr. amin. Sets
.......shr. 25min. Moon-la Equator zähr. am. High water-Afternoon shr. zmin. Morning. Ohr. 27min. Low water-fiernoon ghr. 45min.
Morning...hong ANNIVERSARIES, 1878-Great Fire at Tientsin 1,400 famine
refugees burnt to death. 1889-Wreck of the British ship Anglo-Indian near Tamsai; Captain and 13 of the
crew drowned.
Portu...
D. Juan d'Austria Mermair Daphic...
Cosmopolitan
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PASSED THE 'CANAL..
י,
Outward-14h December--Morveu, Steu- for. #gth December--Kherson. 19th Decem ber-Canton, Hyson, Langbank, Aeolus, Burdon, Cullay, 22nd December-Babelsberga, Kanigiton Mar. 30th December-Asturia, Renvenue, St. Jerome, indus, Dart, Loptukken, Lyon, Olysapo, znel January-Ceylan Braemar, Emma Luykis, Oldenburg, Sanuki Messrs. Henry and Victor Roque, Cap- | Maru, St. Andrews.
tain Roze, Mr. Costa, and Messrs. Homeward-2nd January-Malacca. Roque's Compradore attacked by pi- rates at Dongirieu, Tonquin; Captain Roze murdered and the rest of the party were taken prisoners and held for ransom until 7th March!.
Johannesburg.
1897-The dismasted British barque West York
sold at auction for $5,800. 808-The town of Amboina destroyed by an
Earthquake.
TO-MORROW.
Some exaggerated stories are circulating in South Africa in regard to Boer inquisitiveness and the astonishing explosive power of Lyd- dite, two of which are worth reproducing. In the first instance, a fanner white visiting Cape- town made a few inquiries respecting English methods of war and munitions. And it came to pass that he encountered an Englishman of old acquaintance with whom he conversed in the faal, a sort of broken English and kitchen Dutch, respecting the new shells to be employed for the Kruger crashing. What is die Lyd-1896-National Reform Committee arrested at dite dingus that they praat about so much?" asked the peaceful bucolic, "Well," replied the other, "it's a thing full of something fired from a cannon, and when it drops on a kopje, and finds nobody there, it jumps on to another until a finds a kopje, kopje, and so with people, when it bursts with a big noise and kills everybody dead" "Alle magtig," exclaimed the rotian, "but we'll never be able to fight against that." The Boer asked a well-known racing nut what sportsman. "You place a shell amongst a herd of cattle in a garden, and when that goes off it rains cabbage brady," "Magtig!" exclaim; ed the Boer, "wonderlyke," "But, continued the Dundee man, "that's nothing to the new kind of dynamite called sleepite. When these shells go off every lurgher within a two mils radius falls fast asleep from the gas. The ronibaatjes come along, take away your guns, tie you up in pairs, and walk off singing Rule Britannia" "Maglig again exclaimed the Boer, "de verdomde Eenglesche is wonderlyke voor inventie!" Then he went off across the Buffalo and told his friends that Englishmen who resided for long in South Africa were big ger liars than even the Boers themselves.
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Sunday, 7th January, 1900. Chinese-7th of 12th moon of 25th year of
Kang.si. Sun-Rises. Chr. 42min,
Sets
shr. 26min.
High water-Morning......... okr. 22min.
Afternoon on thr, somin.... Low water-Morning 7hr.” “Smin. Afternoon ... phr. 3min. ANNIVERSARIES.
1558-Calais lost. 1697---Swan R. W. Australia discovered. 1841-Foris at Chuenpi laken with great
slaughter. 1889-Northamptonshire Regiment left Hong-
kong. 1890-Japanese Government handed. Port
H.M.S.
Arthur over to the Chinese. Caroline left for England. 1897-The Mansion House Indian Famine
Fund opened.
Shipping.
Arrivals.
Cum, British steamer, 1,58, Newconds, 5th Jan, Wuhu and Clinkiang 30th Dec., Rice and Oil-Butterfeld & Swire. KWANG LBR, Chinese steamer, 1,505. R. L.
London
Jan. 9th San Francisco, &c.Mar. 1oth Vancouver, &c.. Jan, 17th
Feb. 14th Mar. 14th San Francisco, &c. Feb. 13th Singapore, Sec......Jan. 12th- walow, &c.... Jan. 9th ..Swatow, &c........
Shanghai....
Jan. 7th
Jan, 4th
Straits, &c. ....... May 16th
Havre, &c. ......... Feb. 8th
Hongkong MaruSan Francisco, &c. Feb. 22nd Inaba Maru......Marseilles, &c......Jan. 14th Indravelli
New York Jan. 18th Kamakura Maru Marseilles, &c. Jan. 26th Kansu
Jan. 12th Samarang, &c. Karlsruhe... Stmits, &C.
Jan. 74th Kinshiu Maru...Victoria, B.C. König Albert...Straits, &c. Loongsang Manila Maidzuru Maru... Swatow, &c..........
Europe, &c.. ....... London.. Menelaus................. London...............
Massilia.... Mazagon
Jan. 15th
JApril 4th
fan, roth
Jan. 7th.
.....Jan. 20th Jan. 13th.
Feb. 21st
Jan. Toth
May 30th
Feb. 6th Nippon Mart San Francisco, &c. Mar. 20th Oldenburg... Straits, &c. Preussen.........Simits, &c. Prinz Heinrich... Straits, &c. Queen Eleanor... New York.. Sachsen ..........Straits, &c. Sarnia .......... Havre, &c. Silesia Strathgyle.
Feb. 1st
Feb. 7th Jan. 15th Feb. 5th
Havre, &c. San Diego, &c. ...Jan. 15th Straits, &c.
Manila
Sydney, &c....
Marseilles, &c...
....Mar. 21st
Lincoln, 6th Jan,,--Canton 5th Jan., Gone | Stuttgart. ral.-C. M. S. N. Co
Sungkiang KWONGSANG, British steamer, 989, W. S. Taiyuan..
Stalker, 6th Jan.,Canton 5th Jan., Genc- ral-Jardine, Matheson & Co.- APENRADE Gerraan steamer, 900, Bendixen,
Jan. 8th Jan. 15th
Trocas
Jan. 17th
Tsinan
Valetta
Port Darwin. &c... Feb. 15th
Shanghai
Weimar.
Wittenberg
Jan. 7th April 18th JJan. 27th
Straits, &c. Havre, &c
Yawata Maru...Thursday Is., ke... Jan. 16th
6th Jan-Canton 5th Jan, General Jebsen & Co. LOONGSANG, British steamer, 192, Weigall, 6th Jan, Manila 3rd Jan, General-- Jardine, Matheson & Co. HAICHING, British steaner, 1,267, W. Davis,
6th Jan.,-Foochow 3rd Jan., Amoy 4th, Scorr's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with......... and Swatow 5th, General-Douglas, Lap Hypophorphites, if the most valuable remedy raik & Co.
for Consumption, Scrofula, General Debilliv WooSÚNG, British steamer, 1,150, Dawson, Gili | Wasting Diseases of Children, Chronte Coughs, Jan., Shanghai 2nd Jan,, General--- - and bronchitis that has ever been produced. Butterfield & Swite.
It is very palatable; it is very fattening and BENYORLICH, British steamer, 2,165, R. W strengthening. It will ease at once the most Thomson, 6th Jan, London, 19th Nov, violent cough and will give both: comfort and and Singapore 30th Dec., General-Gibb, strength to the sufferes. It possesses the com- bined virtues of these popular remedies in their Livingston & Co. HANGCHOW, British steamer, 999, Pearce, 6th fullest form. Any Chemist can supply it. . Sole Jan.,➡Canton 6th Jan; General--Buiter: Agents for Hongkong and the Empire of China, fekt & Swire.
Watkins & Co, Hongkong,-[Adej,
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