THEATRE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY APRIL
To-day's Advertisements.
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Manager..... MR. JAMES BELL.
anted.
TO-NIGHT (WEDNESDAY),
FOLLOWING THREE NIGHTS ONLY, THE
ADA DELROY COMPANY.
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(WEDNESDAY), the 25th April, FIRST CRAND CHANGE OF)
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IN THE FIRE OF LIFE, A TERPSICHOREAN PHENOMENON.
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WEIRD DREAM VISIONS. A PSYCHOLOGICAL, BEWILDERMENT. A HUGE SENSATION CAUSED WITH 181 LONDON BIOSCOPE, TO-NIGHT (WEDNESDAY,, AN ENTIRELY NEW STRIES OF PICTURES
Deputing recent scenes, and
dents
in connectioa with. THE TRANSVAAL WAR. TO-NIGHT (WEDNESDAY, First Presentation of the Great London Mystery
THE CONVICTS ESCAPE. MISS ADA DELROY'S COMPANY
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STAR ARTISTES
IN, AN
ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME. Admission $3, $2 and $1.
Box Plan at ROBINSON PÁSO Co. Doors open at 8:45. Cominence 9 o'clock: Terminate 11.45.
IN THE MATTER OF ORDINANCE. No. 1
OF 1892,
AND
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF
PANY, LIMITED, LATE OF 6, 7, 8 AND 9, WHITEFIELD STREET, FINSBURY, LONDON, E.C., ENGLAND, NOW OF 23, BRIDE LANE, LONDON, EC., ENGLAND, MANUFACTURERS, FOR LETTERS PA TENT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG OF AN IN- VENTION FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR EMBOSSED PRINT. ING," ron WHICH HER MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT - WERK ON THR 5TH Day of SEPTEMBER, 1893, GRANTED
Intimation.
·LIMITED. ›
WINE MERCHANTS.
dragged on that occasion and anyona acquainted with the harbour, mustre alize the danger attendant upon a vessel drag- ging through the rest of the shipping at a time when it would be practically impossible for assistance to be sent from the shore.
necessary.
ACCORDING to the Chino Shimpun, Marquis to thinks them is small chanco, now of the integrity of China' being preserved.. His Ex: cellency thinks the Government is going from bad to worse, and that all hope of seeing it
on him.
THE JOHNSTON DIE PRESS COMA, S. WATSON & CO., bling at such an order, but we think it is Marquis Ito is a friend of Li Hung-chang, and Of course there would be a deal of grum-adopt an intelligent remedy must be abandoned. has always been a believer in his great ability The sending down of top-gallant masts and yards is a somewhat tedious un as a stateaman, but Li is now feting' old, and dertaking it is trud, but, when it is rendered no doubt the affairs of state press too heavily necessary for the safety of the ship and her consorts, no shipomaster should grumble at being required to do so. Another point in favour of such a regulation is the fact that many of the sailing ships lying in port during the typhoon season have only a care-taking crew on board, who would be of little or no use in case of emergency, as it takes more than two or three hands to send down a yard. We do not for a moment say that such a re- qulation would do away with all danger, but
→ Estaplished AÐ, 1851.
TO JOŠEHI YARDLEY, JOHNSTON CL ARETS.
LATE OF 15, SEVENTH STREET, WASH INGTON, B.C., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOW OF 22, BRIDE LANE, AFORESAID, MANUFACTURER OF STA TIONERY.
NOTICE hereby given that the NN PETITION, SPÉCIFICATION and DECLARATION required by the above-cited ORDINANCE have been duly filed in the Ofice of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong,, and that it is the Intention of the said "JOHNSTONA DIE PRESS COMPANY, LIMITED, BY MATTHEW - JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, their duly authorized Agent and Attoney, to apply at the Sitting of the Execu tive Ciun it gereinafter mentioned for LET TERS PATENT for the Exchisive use within the sail Polony of Hongkong of the above nanted Inventions. And Notice is hereby also Kiven at a Sting of the Executive Council will come for, decision, will be held in the OFFICES, Victoria, Hongkong, on-MONDAY,
betere whom the Matter of the said Petition
Council Chamber,, at the GOVERNMENT
the jeth day of APRIL, 1999, aber MLM. Dated the 1st day of April,, 1900,
$39b}
MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS, 18, Bank Buildings, Honghnagi The Agent and Solicitor for the said
JOHNSTON DHE PRESS CO, L
18 TIL MATTER OF ORDINANCE No. 2
OF 1592,
Special Late Theatre Steamers will leave for Kowloon every evening alter the performance. Special Late Theatre Tram Cars will leave for the Peak after the performances on WED. NEDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS the IN 25th and 27th insts.
TAMES MORGAN,
Business Representative. (532h
Hongkong, 25th April, yoo.
TO-MORROW NIGHT,
(THURSDAY, the r APRIL.
WARREN'S
CIRCUS,
Opposito Harbour Master's Office. West Point.
GRAND BENEFIT NIGHT OF THE
SISTERS WARREN.
*
UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE.
POSITIVELY THE LAST TWO NIGHTS.
YOUR LAST CHANCHI
A BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE.
Teening with Gorgeous Costumes and a Distinctly Uniques,
Refined and Original Prograntine,
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR!
Box Plan at Messrs. RomNsON'S PIANO Co.
W. PFLUEGER, Genend Representative.
1526b
Hongkong, 5th April, Hyat DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
+
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND POOCHOW. THE Company's Steamship
*BACHING,
Captain Itavis, will be despatched for the above Ports, on FRIDAY, the 27th instant, at 11 AM.
For Freight or l'assage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPKAIK & Co, General Managers,
(537b
Hongkong: 25th April, 1900,
THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED..
FOR MANILA,
THE Company's New Steamship
DIAMANTE," Captain Blaxland, wil be despatched for the above port, an TUESDAY, the 1st May, at 5 PM.
The attention of Passengers is directed to the excellent accommodation, provided by this steamer. She is fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.
[szgla Hongkong, 25th Aprij, 1900,
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR LIVERPOOL (DIRECT), VIA SUEZ CANAL. Taking Cargo at London Rates. HE Company's Steamship
THE
AND
THE Marter of THE PETITION OF THE JOHNSTON DIE PRESS COM. PANY, LIMITED, LATE OF 6, 7, 8 AND
9 WRITEFIELD STREET, FISSEGRY,
Loxion, B.C., ENGLAND, NOW OF 22, Him. LANE, LONDON, EC., ESGLAS, MANUFACTURERS, FOR LETTERS PA. TENT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE WITHIN
THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, OF AN 18-
YENTION FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN
PRESSES FOR EMBOSSED PRINT
HER MAJESTY'S
WHICH
ING," FOR LETTERS PATENT WERE, ON THE 30 Day, or JULY, 1894, GRANTED TO JOSEPHI VÄRDLEY JOHNSTON, MANUFACTURER OF STATIONERY, LATE or 33 BARKLEY STREET, NEW YORK CITY, IN THE COUNTY, AND STATE OF Nuw. York, USA, Now OF 23, Betoe LANE. AFORESAID.
NOTICE is hereby given that the PET1-
CLARATION required by the above-cited ORDINANCE luve been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, and that it is the fatention of the saidi JOHNSTON DIE PRESS COMPANY, LIMITED, by MATTHEW Jous DENMAN STEPHENS, their duly authorized Agent and Attorney, to apply at the Sitting of the Excea- tive Council hereinafer incntioned for LET- TERS PATENT for the Exclusive use within the said Colony of Hongkong of the above named invention. And Notice is hereby also given that a Sitting of the Executive Council Before whom the Matter of the said Petition. will come for decision will be held in the Council Chamber OFFICES, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 30th day of APRIL, 1960, at FIAM Dated the 21st day of April, 1900.
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GOVERNMENT
MATTHEW }, D. STEPHENS, 18. Bank Buildings, Hongkong, The zigent and Solicitar for the said JOHNSTON DIE PRESS CO., LI
ZETLAND
LODGE,
No. 124, E.C.
RIVET CHATEAU MOUTAN PARMAIL.
$7.56
9.00
22.20
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE WAR. BOERS MOVING SOUTHWARD.
We wonder when the Police will take steps to keep the Wyndham Street flower sellers in something like order. They stopped the aus ance occasioned by the mad charges of the chair coolies at Pedder's Wharf and the Hong kong Flotel.and it would not be asking the Captain Superintendent too much to see to it that steps were taken to stop the frantic jostling
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Wx hotice that the Police have taken to heart the remarks made by H. E, the Govemor zhen" he inspected them the other day, and are dulling most busily, It is evident that the force has no intention of earning a similar criticism when
ACCORDING to the Siam Free Press, Bangkok next inspected.
is in a worse state of sanitation, or rather intani. tation, than ever. Ghulera, quail-pox, and var- ious fevers seem to be rife, and it appears that there is no proper supply of drinking water, so that the poorer inhabitants are compelled to drink either water well known to be unfit for that purpose, on account. of sewage pollution, or to use Inckish water. The sewers and drains of all descriptions seem to in a bad condition, and nothing done to improve matters. The Free. Press concludes his article thus-While Singa pore, Saigon, Hongkong, Japan, and every place in the Far East are spending thousands upon thousands of dollars for good water sup
dying by the hundred, nay thousand every year and nothing is done to relieve them. "Unfor tunately, says our morning contemporary, the Sanitary staff is quite inadequate to the extent of Bangkok. Whose inult is that ? · Surely it. is not the fault of the staff. We boast of civili- zation and progress here, in Siam; what is the Government doing in "hygienic matters,"
♫ $1. Esterair, Red Capsule...$ 6.96 it would certainly reduce the risk to a mini-of customers, particularly ladies, by the flower CST. JULIEN, Red Capsule ... ' 9.00
mum. We recommend the matter to the vendors. The keeper of a stall in the Marketplies, the Siamese Covernment seed its subjects is not allowed to rush at a prospective customer PLA Rost, Red Capsule...... 19.96 1392 attention of the Harbour Master, CHATEAU HAUT BRION LAR-
and shove a beefsteak in his face, and we fail 18.60' 19.30
to see why the flower vendor should be privileged in this respect, HACQ...........
.... 21.00 Chateau PONTET CARNET...... 25.00 CHATEAU-LA TOUR CARNET... 30.00 CHATRAU RAUZAN........
****** 43.00 CHATEAU LAFITTE
48,00 These Chauris are bought direct from the leading" Frunch"growers. The lowest priceil are of exceptional value and giranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of the grape, and are not artificially made as is generally the case with cheap Wines,
CHATEAU LA TOUR CARNET, CHA TEAT RACZAN, and CHATEAP LAVIFTE are commended to the notice of Con- noisseurs as high,dass after-dinter Wines of a rich and rare`character,
LONDON, April 23rd. '. Reuter's correspondent at Wakker stroom wires that the Beers on the 22nd inst. attempted to turn General Rundle's right. but the Yeomanry and Mounted Infantry, detecting the movement, drove off the enemy. Many of the enemy are moving southward.
LATER.
SPEAKING about the Philippines last month, at a dinner given in his honour in Cincinnati,
MESSES, Arnhold Karborg & Co. of Shanghai, have been appointed agents of the Yangtse Trading Coy, a Company started by Mr. Archibald Litle of Chungking for the purpose of establishing Steam Navigation on the upper Yangtse. The Company have a steamer now. building at Shanghai, called the Pionier and Judge Taft, the president of the Philippine it is expected she will start on her maiden voy. | Commission, said "The commission is not age from Chungking direct via Hankow and organized. Its members have never conferred chang towards the middle of May. The fare together. I speak therefore for myself alone. to Chungking and back to Shanghai will be I am not now and never have been an expan Tis. 400. for first class passage. So far no sjonist. I have always hoped that the juris steamer has been up to Chungking and the diction of our uation would not extend beyond Pioneer will be the first to attempt this. Need- territory between the two oceans. We have less to say the undertaking will be watched not solved all the problems of popular govern-" with great interest in Shanghai,
ment so perfectly as to justify our voluntarily. seeking more difficult ones abroad. I do not think, in this instance, that we have voluntarily sought then. Circumstances beyond our control, the sequel of the Spanish war, have thrust on us responsibility for the future govern
THE BOERS' STRENGTH. BURGHER LISTS FALSIFIED. LAST night the Ada Detroy Company repeated the programme of their opening night before a The Times correspondent at Lou-tir audience at the Theatre Royal, Each
Sample bottles and smaller quanti-rengo Marques states that the South ties will be supplied at proportionate 105,000. men in the field and that African Republics at one time had wholesale rates.
The they still muster 80,000. Burgher lists were deliberately falsified to decrire the British In- telligence Department.
We guarantee our WinesandSpirits to be genuine only when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Const
Ports.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 125, 1900.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
GENERAL BRABANT AT BUSHMANSKOP. General Brabant engaged the Boers at Bushmanskop, and several Irours eannounding took place.
WEPENER.
item was heartly applauded and chcored. The However, Mr. Bell informed, the audience that line light was much better than on the pre- vions evening, but anything but a success,
they had now found out the defect in the lime light apparatus, and they hoped to have every thing in working order by this evening, when an entirely new programme would be given. The Bioscope pictures were capitally shown and afforded much pleasure to the audience. Might we suggest that during the rather long interval between the first and second parts that
the pianist should play some popular airs to make the delay less tedious. Of course we know that intervals are necessary, but we merely make the suggestion.
THE. Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial
Col. Dalgety reports all woll" at and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge Wepener.
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WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:-
On the 25th at 11.55 an. the barometer has
failen over Japan and the Loochinos, owing to the formation of a depression to the W. of the tolatter area. Pressure is high to the E. of Japan and over N. China. Gradients moderate for N.E. winds on the China coast. FORECAST: Fresh N.E. winds"; dull, rainy,
We have had many and various rumours lately concerning Russia and Japan in Cor but the telegrams have contradicted une another, and nothing is clear as present exept det Russia evidently means obtain a concession of some kind. We learn that the vice-consui who landed the other day at Mokpo from a Russian warship, was much pleased with the harbour It is said there is good shelter for a fleet, with twelve fathons of water at low tide, and the harbour promises soon to be one of the best irr Corea. The Russian fleet at Masampo will probably remain there till after the sale of land at the end of the month, and it is said, that the Russians mean to get host of it,
What will no doubt alienate many of
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
H.M.S. If hiring went into dock to-day.
THE Ceylon Government intend to establish on earthquake observatory di Colombo. Plans for the building have been drawn up.
with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals-
U. Sassoon, Sons & Co ... "Dinner balance" (B. & S.) ..... Hongkong and Whampoa Back Co. Canadian Pacific Railway Co...
Meyer & Co
Nippon Yusen Kaisha........
Peninsular and Oriental Steam N. Co... Reuter, Brocklemann & Co Siemssen & Co......... Standard Oil Co. of New York. Abdoofally Ebraham & Co.. D. Nowrojec..
D. Gillies
F. Bornemann .................. Lamike & Rogge.... Carmichael & Co.
J. R. Cruuk
A. M. Essabhoy
A. J. Jackson....
$100
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THE room at the Harbour Master's Office in
which Marine Court cases are beard canot be said to produce a favourable impression upon,
Japan's friends, is the fact that she tries to. As will be seen by reference to our advertising exclude all other countries, whenever pos- columns Mr. Warren announces the last two sible, from buying land or securing trade performances of his deservedly popular circus. advantages wherever she is concerned. And latending patrons should book early in order. It has a general dusty, moth-eaten and
REGULAR MEETING of the shoke | according to various reports, the Coreans are to avoid disappointment.
ment of the Philippines. The proposition is scientious men, and by some with a fury of vigorously denied by high-minded and con-
superlative and epithet that is hardly consistent with a judicial attitude or an impartial con- sideration of the question. My conviction is that the calm investigation of the future his torian into all the conditions existing at the time of taking each step toward the present situation in the Philippines, will lead him to conclude that President McKinley and his administration selected in each crisis the only alternative which a due regard to our national and international obligations would permit."
A MEETING of the Sanitary Board will be held to-morrow at 4.15 p.
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DRUERS OF THE DAY.. Adjourned discussion of Report on Plague and Overcrowding...
2. A reply relative to the formation of a Trust Corporation...
3. A reply concerning the increased price of food in the Colony
4. A. reply relative to the Public Urinal at the Western end of the Cricket Ground.......
5. A letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bengal relative to Bubonic Plague.
6. Further letter from the Secretary to the Government of Burma relative to Bubonic Plague
7. A letter from the Secretary to the Govern- ment of Bombay relative to Bubonic Plague.
8. Proposed appointment of a Committee to confer with the Acting Registrar General in connection with Chinese Cemeteries.
9. Report of the Drainage Sub-Committee relative to the proposed amendment of the Public Health Ordinance.
AGENDA,
Proposed additional shed at Kennedy Town for sheep and swine.
Minute of the Medical Oficer of Health relative to the cancelling of the contract of
Fong-Shi, scavenging contractor of Aberdeen and Aplichau,
A LODGE will be held at the FREEMA-not altogether inclined to take the side of Tus dropping of a small word often alters the for half-a-century or so A few dusty and Orange relative to brick-yards.
de Ist May, at S.30 for p.m. precisely. SONS HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, Visiting Brethren are rondly invited to attend.
Hongkong, 28th April, 1900.-
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Entimations.
AN APPEAL..
PHE, SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, GUIDE RO, bers most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong word the Post Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds
of NEEDLE WORK.
Gentlemen's Shins made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on old ones.
Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Co. dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.
very tough problem before it ; by herself we issue, in the repart of an application for an Japan, "The Government of Japan has a
whole sense of a sentence. In our yesterday's hardly think she can do much against such. a powerful antagonist, and yet if she gives electment order the word "not" was omitted, way in Coren before Russia, the task will be thus making the report read as though the order only the more difficult hereafter. And is had been granted when, as a matter of fact, it Russia likely to be satisfied with the occupá, { was refused.
tion of Corea, or has she designs in Japan In a topical column a home paper says,:"It is
herself?
A SUGGESTION.
often arranged that the punishment fits the crime. Not long since the Boers were con- victed of smuggling guns in piano cases. Yes terday we read, they were much harassed by General Broadwood. The pianos had come home to roost."
We shall soon have the typhoon season upon us again and as we have had no really hard blow since 1896 the probabilities are that this year the Colony will drop in for a storm of typhoon force; we cannot except to escape sent free for so many years in ACCORDING to the Router's telegram we publish succession. It has always struck us as peculiar to-day, the Burgher lists were falsified in order that the sailing ships lying in the harbour to deceive the British, but we think the number during the typhoon season are not obliged stated, re5,000, must be a false statement any by the Port Regulations to take reasonable haw, even if the children and old women were precautions against the danger of dragging | their anchors in a typhoon. We understand counted in. But, then Kruger spread a report that in Calcutta and several other ports that London had been annexed and occupied.
3. An application from Messrs. Leigh and
4. Result of the analysis of a sample of Milk taken from 35, Stanley Street.
5.
Fortnightly lime-washing return. 16. Mortality Returns from Macao for the
weeks ended 2nd and 9th April, 1900.
7. Mortality Statistics for the weeks ended 31st March, 7th and 14th April, 1900,
8. Twenty-seven applications for licenses to keep swine, 2 to keep cattle, and 1 to keep
neglected look about it that makes one imagine that it belongs to a past age and has been closed-
tion of afficers applying for mates and masters' delapidated instruments, foruse in the examina- certificates, are scattered about, the colouring is peeling from the walls, the chimney has. smoked in the corner and spread a mantle of sont over a portion of the cieling, and the tables, chairs and a few bonks and papers untidily scattered around look as if the application duster would not be amiss. The stove and A CORRESPONDENT to the Nippon reports a.. stove-pipe sadly need a coat of black-lead and, strange custom observed in the mountainous. in fact, the only thing up to date appears to be part of Kita-hambara district in the province the clock, though, to be sure, the little trap of Echigo. If the first born happens to be a in the bottom of that had lost its fastening and was hanging down in a farlem manner. The Harbour Office'is, so far as appearance goes, on a par with the Supreme Court. New public buildings are sadly needed in Hongkong,
of a
goats,
The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, liable to winds of hurricane force, during The Praya near the Harbour Master's Office church in St. Petersburg. Althe hour fixed for mulberry cultivation and do a little wood-
how are taught by the Sisters.
Hongkong, 22nd April, 1892.
NOTICE.
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THE OFFICES of the "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH have This Day heen removed to No. 60, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Second Floor, (the premises Captain Riley, will be despatched as above, to which address all communications should formerly occupied by Messra. POWELL & Co.)
be addressed: For Freight, apply to
"IDOMENEUS."
on THURSDAY, the 24th May,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 25th April, 1900,
ETIL F. SKERTCHLY, .
Manager. [5386 Hongkong, 1st May, 1899 TEACHERS,
HIBBERDINE'S ILLUSTRATED COMPOSI- TION SERIES
MAKES LESSONS A PLEASURE TO SCHOLARS.
To be obtained at i-
daughter, she becomes the heiress of the family, all the boys afterwards born being given to other families. Coupled with this anomality there prevails, the custom of early marriage, and there are fometimes as many. as four married couples under a single family Tuz following story is told of the Czar of roof, a family consisting of two or three Russia:-A few weeks ago the Czar of Russia couples being a common affair. The people made up his mind to hear mass at a certain in this locality. subsist chiefly on farming and
the mass he arrived accompanied by his suite. cutting and charcoal-burning as well. It may It was, however, noticed that he frequently interest the reader to hear a little more of one spoke to his aid-de-camp during the services phase of the simple life of these rustics. The a most unusual thing, inasmuch as he is noted hardy work of charcoal-burning falls upon the for being extremely devout when in church. strongest member of a family," who daily When the ceremony was over and the clergy proceeds some four or five // into the mountains were forming the conege to escort their so for the purpose. His wife rises at about vereign to his carriage, the Czar expressed a two o'clock in the morning and prepares a meal desire to be conducted to the vestry. When for her husband. While it is yet dark the how is it that you did not receive me to-day burners, leaves his house and makes his way be arrived in the room he said, Brethren, husband, in company with other charcoal-
Arriving on the spot where the fimace is con- stricted, he takes out the charcoal which is ready and replenishes the furmance with newly cut logs. The work thus finished, he retraces his way homeward carrying a load of charcoal weighing over to kwamme. He is met by his wife who comes up the mountain path for a distance of some two rito receive him, and the wife carries the load the rest of the way home. On the following day the wife goes to the nearest town to sell the charcoal and returns with a supply of food and other necessaries. This routine is regularly maintained from July
the burricane season, all vessels are compelled is, at the present time in a shocking condition to take precautions in the shape of sending so that directly a fall of rain occurs the roadway. down top-gallant masts and yards. In Hong becomes ancle-deep in mud. Surely this state kong this is not the case, however, and it is of affairs could be remedied by the application not an uncommon sight to see a sailing of a little gravel to the surface of the road or, vessel lying at her anchors with not only topgallant, but also royal and skysail failing this, a layer of ashes would tend to im yards across. It must be borne in mind, too, prove unatters. dragging in the harbour is not only endan Colonial Office, had undertaken to write the that a sailing vessel breaking adrift or
Literature says:" Mr. H. F. Wilson, of the gering herself and the lives of her crew, but volume on 'Sir Stamford Raffles: England in places all other vessels which may happen the Far East for Mr. Unwin's Builders, of with all your vestments? Where are your by the light of a torch made of the rugi bark. to be lying to leeward of her in jeopardy. Once she starts to drag or breaks adrift there Greater Britain series, but, having been called gold and silver stoles and treasures? It is the is very little chance of bringing her up again, out to assist Sir Alfred Milner at the Cape, he custom when your sovereign comes to your as has been frequently demonstrated in has handed over his materials to Mr. Hugh E. church to welcome him with due ceremony, Hongkong harbour during a typhoon. Take Egerton, the author of A History of British for instance the typhoon of the 29th July, 1896. In this storm the sailing ship Glen Calad started to drag and it was found im- We note the death is announced of Mr. Boyd possible to arrest her progress until she was
Bredon, Commissioner of Customs at Swatow, almost ashore on Cowechow, and then she on the 19th April, a relation of Sir Robert Hart. was only brought up by the cutting away of He joined the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs in 1881, as Private Secretary, to the anchors and the hospital-ship Meance was Inspectorate at Peking, and gradually rose to run into by no less than three vessels, two of the position of Commissioner. Mr. Bredon only which were dragging. A glance at the chart returned from a holiday at home last year, when will serve to show how far the Glen Caladh he was appointed Commissioner at Swalow,
Mesara, KELLY & WALSH, Limited, Hongkong, Shanghai Yokohama and Singapore her masts. Five sailing vessels dragged their
Mesaro, W. BREWER & Co., Hongkong and Shanghai.
Messrs. TSUI MAN KOK, Hongkong. Messrs. MAN YU TONG, Hongkong. ·
Wholesale:-W, HIREBERDINE, 60, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
Colonial Policy??
There was no answer, Then, I will tell you You have gambled your treasures and lost them at the baccarat table. This is abominable, This game in only worthy of Satan. Do I err? If so, tell me," No one spoke. The Czar, re fusing the offer of priestly escort, walked solemnly out of the church with his suite. That night, the game of baccarat was forbidden by royal decree throughout the length and breadth of Russia, and now, po one may have
baccarat table even in his private house,
to November
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