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MR. SPEAKER.

DISAPPOINTMENT AS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.

The Right Hon. William Court Gully, Q.6. M.P. who has again succeeded himself in the Speaker's chair, illustrates the romance of life! as it is lived in the Temple and Lincoln's Inn, writes Charles Beaham in the Daily Mail, For the Bar is a lottery a gamble nearly as fickle and wild in its surprises as the tables at Monte Carlo. Frequenters of the tables are full of whims and fancies, the same with the young barrister, who after seven years' brief lessness, is tempted to consult the oracles through the medium of the unused plum-stoner leit on his plate" this year-next year-some time-never," and abide by the verdict of the last stone,

THE CAMBLE OF THE BAR.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1901.

Gully he was at Homburg, where both of them and a few other invalids were listening to But Mr. Gully music under the trees. looked as wholesome and happy as ever,] the man of alert mind and comfortable health who appeared to have found the task no: by any means so severe a strain on his constitution as it proved on the constituions of more than one of his predecessors. But then it should be remembered that up to the present he has, bad an easier time. What the future will bring forth no man can say. But whether it is a Liberal party quickened into new life, or an. Irish party bent on reviving past glories, or a new parliamentary figure more fervid in his beliefs and in his rhetoric, Mr. Speaker will be among the first to feel the difference.

THE GROWN-UP VIEW OF THINGS.

[BY . .]

In some ways it is very difficult to grow up. It is particularly difficult in dealing with our early impressions of people. Growing-up is, indeed, the gradua! readjustment of our senses of criticism; and if nothing happens to bring about this readjustment with regard to certain people, we naturally fail to take the grown-up

sometimes, as I found in the case of the gas Stror. The gas-fitter was my earliest hero in real life. He belonged to that period in my existence when no hero of romance could be too romantic, and so hero in life too material. On the one side I placed King Arbur and the Black Prince and Joan of Arc, and on the other side the gas-fitter, Lionel agreed with me on most subjects, butin this instance he was inclined

Mr. Gully was himself a despairing_young barrister, as the late Lord Chief Justice Russell once illustrated by means of a little story now about to be repeated. Lord Russell and Lord Herschell and Mr. Gully were contemporaries on the Northern Circuit, thirty years ago. Ten years before that Mr. Gully hat come up to the Middle Temple from Cambridge, bearing with him, what are usually described as the highest credentials. He had headed the list in the Coral Science Tripos of 1855; been preview of them. This is extremely inconvenient sident of the Union and in every way conducted himself as one destined to the highest office in his

profession, chosen Yet seven years later, both he and Lord Herschell seriously contemplated emigrating to colonial bare, which, short of Lagos and the Gold Coast, constitute the most miserable fate which can overtake mental barrister. Lord Russell himself.not long after-needed a whole; fortnight to reject the offer of a county-counto retain only the gas-fitter and to strike, out judgeship. In the summer of 1894 another despairing young barrister, who probably will emigrate, went the Northern Circuit; and at more than one circuit mess enjoyed the chance! of sitting opposite Mr. Gully, who had not om igrated; but stayed at home and prospered. Now bar messes are like masonic banquets-not to

· be lightly spoken about to the outside world. But the outside world knows well enough that Mr. Gully possessed by far the highest claims on his party for the High Court: Judgeship vacant at the time. Two unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament are sufficient to make any man Attorney-General of the Ber mudas; but Mr. Gully, after failing at White haven in 1880 and 1885, went northward and succeeded. From 1885 forward he had been the Liberal member for Carlisle; and nevér) given the slightest trouble to his leaders. And his claims wou'd certainly have been acknow. ledged, had the Liberal government been willing to face a contested election. But-to borrow a phrase from current fiction-ministers were tottering to a fall; for this reason and no other the judgeship went to a Liberal lawyer who was lucky enough not to have a seat in parliament.

AS THE DISC REVOLVES,

Mr. Gully is far too old a band to shew dis appointments; though it is inconceivable that he did not feel it. There must come a time when even those who have drawn lucky num. bers at the Bar want to get free of the rough and tumble; they find themselves very tired or wrangling with pert, middle-aged, square-jawed. Juniors; of sitting opposite the depairing brief less at circuit-messes, and being called "Gully" or "Webster," as the, case may be. Going circuit at all must grow to be a nuis ance; while a good part of Mr. Gully's work in town consisted of heavy arbitration cases, which are dull and well-paid and wearing, Disappointment at sixty" will invest even a successful life with the atmosphere of failure. The jargon, lavished so freely on the young and capable and eager, to the effect that such checks are really blessings in disguise, cannot appropriately he used unless the sexagenarian happens to be a lawyer. That's where the lottery comes in. Ten months later; another turn of the wheel! and Mr. Gully quitted his dull arbitrations, and his wanderings among. duller assize towns, to occupy the Speaker's chair.

HOW TO FILL THE CHAIR,

state of the atmosphere. “I thought, all along go check the collections of ravenue made by an

the escape, was in the bedroom," he said, and departed straightway in that direction with his bag of tools, over, his arm. And there I found him, a moment later, hunting for a hole in my gas-pipe with anibstrument that ended in a sharp point." Why," miss, exclaimed Priscilla, "there isn't never a leak in your bed- room foe, is there?" There isn't yet," I ans swered sadly, but there soon-will be.

There was worse escape of gas in my bed- room that evening than there had been any where as yet and I slept on the drawing room sofa, and dreamed of all the horrible stories Priscilla had told me about people who were suffocated through gas escapes. Bomewhat to Priscilla's disappointment, was not suffocated in my sleep and I found I had sufficient energy left in the morning to despatch a note by special messenger to Mr. Spilsby. Please send a carpenter round at once to do some re pairs," was the substance of it; and Mr. Spilsby answered it in person. In spite of the prefensions of the printed card, he was evidently the sole representative of all the trades it set forth His tool-bag was over his arm as usual, but reflected with satisfaction that it was the tool. bag of a carpenter this time, and was therefore a reasonably harmless tool-bag. "First of all," I said blandly, "I want you to level all the floors. After that you might pick up all the mortar that is laying about and fill in the hole more in the kitchen wall. You will find there is more than enough. And, by the way," I added carelessly, "if you would mend the leaks in all the gaspipes as you go along, I should be much obliged.,

Mr. Spilsby looked a little unhappy. 1 ami sure he would bave greatly preferred to go on being a gas-ftter. But I had sent for him as carpenter, and he was obliged to live up to that printed card. Besides, there was the difficulty: of the tool-bag. It would have been imposs sible to make a good gas-fitting job of it without the instrument that ended in p

quirements of the moment, and behaved like a carpenter for the rest of the day.

It is very nice, of course, to live without an escape of gas; but I doubt if it is worth the loss of an illusion. One pays dearly sometimes for learning the grown up view of things.-P. M.

all the other people. I did, not go so far as that myself; but there is no doubt that our gas- fittar provoked great extravagance in the waypoint. So he succumbed to the dramatic re of hero-worship. Even nurse admitted that he he was a particularly superiorman fora gas-fitter. By birth, she once told some one in our hearing, he was not a gas-filteratall, but a house decorator, and it was only his natural talent for gas-Stting that had led him to sacrifice his true position in the social scale. But as nurse said precisely: the same thing about the carpenter and the window-cleaner and the man who came to wind up the clocks, I do not really think her opinion was to be relied upon.. I believe she only talked like that to justify her condescen sion in associating with such people. For it is a fact that the gas-fitter was onco actually in- vited to have tea with us in the nursery.

But although that was a red-letter day for us," I am sure we did not think any the more of our gas-fitter because we had seen him eat hot buttered toast off a "Present from Brighton," and drink tea out of a large blue cup that proclaimed him to be a good boy. And when the placed his empty cup on his plate, and rose | without waiting for grace to be said-a proceed ing we were sternly forbidden toimitate, although both inclination and a sincere flattery prompied us to do so we felt somehow that social intercourse with the gasfitter had not increased our devotion to him. It went much deeper than that. Indeed, 1 think we adored him most because he knew so much. He repre senteds fund of information that noone else in our

circle cared about. To sit at the feet of the gas fitter while he took up a board and peered Into the mysterious recesses of the floor was an ideal of acquiring the most fascinating sort of knowledge. His bag of tools was another point in his favour. It was full of wonderful implements, and bits of putty ready to be pinched into plasticity, and dozens and dozens of little shapes in brass, that had no name in particular but added greatly to the interest of our dives into that bag. Above all, it contained invariably the right sort of sails. We never dreamed of asking the gas-fitter for anything: but the strange, sympathy that knitted us to gether nearly always prompted him to give us the very nail we coveted most before he went away.

With this early picture of the gas-fitter in my mind, I naturally felt I was summoning an oldi friend when Priscilla came and said we must send for some one to mend the gas-pipa in the kitchen. Of course, my interest in nails had. declined with the lapse of years; indeed, when I came to think about it, there seemed no valid reason why a man whose profession it was to mend holes should deal in nails at all. For all

that, I was anxious to test my early impression of the gas-filter, and I found myself burrying: home to lunch rather faster than usual on the day that he was expected. The moment I opened the door I knew be had come. There was the subtle atmosphere of puttiness that follows the gas-fitter wherever he goen-though why I never know, for putty has no more business among his properties than nails and there was also the look of extreme injury on Priscilla's face that always ap pears there whenever anything is being done for her ultimate benent."He's taken up the boards in the dining-room, she grumbled;"and

It is not difficult to be a good Speaker; but the recipe rather resembles those which a conjurer will present gratis to his audience for the successful imitation of highly elaborate tricks. The despairing barrister who wants by-and-by to preside over the House of Commons must cultivate a temper which nothing can' ruffle; a readiness never at a loss, and that cannot be intimidated; no nerves an iron constitution adapted to sitting in a chair and doing nothing for hours at a time; a clear voice; a memory) for faces and the names of the constituencies belonging to those faces; and, above all eye sight betterthan the average among middle-aged men. The rest is quite simple. Had Mr. Goschen been able to see from one end of the House to the other he would certainly have been put up for the Speakership when Viscount Peel obtained the Chair. The latter is considered to have been one of the best Speakers of modern times; but he became just a little severe towards the end in his methods with refractory members; Mr. Gully is more urbane. He owns a singularly melodious voice, and takes possibly a more humorous view of disor der than Mr. Peel did. His clear-cut, clean abaven face could hardly attempt to match the thunderclouds that sometimes lowered on Mr. Peel's 'brow; indeed, it matches his full-bottom- ed wig to a degree which makes him look cross the floor from wall to wall serenely classical; or like imperturbable Mr. Speaker Brand, who subsequently quitted St. Stephen's for dairy-farming, and bas left a name much venerated among those who prefer un watered milk..

NO TAYOURITES

can't lay lunch or nothink "But the gas scape is in the kitchen I exclaimed. "Oh, he's drove a hole in the kitchen wall as well." said Priscilla, growing considerably brighter as she realized her opportunities of depressing me. And he's been spillin' hot stoff all over the new matting," she called after me, as 1 went into the dining-room. The gas-fitter had certainly made himself at home. A yawning while the tool-bag lay near, displaying its wealth of treasure with all its old prodigality. The scene was very familiar. I thought. So was the face of the gas-fitter when he rose from his recumbent position and turned to wards me. But this he soon explained away in a most proasic fashion. "I'm Spilsby" he Informed me briefly; "I put you blinds up when you first come in."

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I felt a pang of disappointment "Then you're not a real gas-fitter at all," I exclaim

Gazelle,

IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH.

KUCH CLIFFORD, (M. A. P.)

Standing on the eminence supplied to me by my four and thirty years of life and looking backwards from that giddy height, I cannot but feel that it is somewhat premature to begin already to prate about the days of my youth yet, if there be truth in the saying that each individual year passed in Asia should count as three spent in temperate Europe, 1 saviti-eight to reckon my age at no less than sixth-eight, for during seventeen years of hard service have sojourned beneath a Malayan suu.

exceedingly intoxicated Malayimja, who had grafted many European vices-on to those to: which his rank made him natural heir, se

The miasma which rose fiam the inky waters by-pfybt racked my follows with fever, and more than Buce 3 bare fiad to cook rice for the whole crew while the Bust remained anchored to the bank, because no one of them was well enough to undertake that or any other duty. Yet passed unscathed, and then and afterwards during the whole of my service in the Malay Feninsula, I never came in for the "touch of fever with which almost every white man in the East is destined to make acquaintance.

· ↑ "had" "no interpreter, there was no one in the valley who could speak a word of my own tongue and for three months never saw a white face. My clothes felt to pinces on my back, I grew lean on the poor diel, and once, and again I floundered hope- lessly when hearing some case in the then partially unfamiliar vernacular; but it was my first taste of independent command, my first Z district, its people the first human beings to whom I had been able to say: "Col Come "Do this " and beboid they went, came, or did at they were my very own, these people, and I loved it and them, and was happy.

Later, when someone chanced to remember the lonely boy, an elder man was was sent to replace me, and after that came-two years of district work under more direct supervision, broken once or twice by a trip to Singapore, whither I went to bearlead the Regent of Perak, an unspeakable old curmudgeon, whose quaint, old world manner used to put me to the shame of open shame, and cover me with humiliation.

Once, too, after three years' service, I was selected to act as interpreter for the then Governor, Sir Fred Weld, flie finest gentleman and the purest, sweetest character that it has been my lot to meet. He was making a diplomatic visit to the Courts of tradepen- dent Sultans of Pahang and Triinu, and this, my first glimpse of native is under native rule, fired my imagination made me long to understand more hidroggily the ways of the people in whose customs and) language I was already so much interested. I felt then that to know the real Malay, a man must live in a State where antient Landmarks have not already suffered defacement at the hands of our restless European civilisation, and later I lived to prove that this was no mere fancy, On New Year's Eve, 1886, I was present at a ball given by the Sultan of Johor, and there I chanced to meet an old friend, the Raja Muda of Palang, whose little plans for the creation of a civil war in that State I had had a small share in thwarting when I was in temporary charge of my first district. He confided to me that he had been invited to return to Pahang

by his brother, the Sultan, with whom he had ostensibly made friends during the previous year; that as the N. E. monsoon made entry! by the river's mouth impossible, he proposed to journey to the capital overland; and, that he feared treachery, and was unwilling to undertake the trip unless he were accompanied

Fred Weld, and next day. I told him of what I had learned, and was bidden to find the Raja Muda and bring him to Government House,

In 1883 I received my orders to join Sandby a European officer. I was staying with Sit burst in the following February, having earned- that privilege by passing the necessary exami- nation by the aid of an Honourary Queen's Cadetship. Lack of cash, however, the lack that drives so many of us on and out towa ds the rising sun coupled with an oppas une offer of a nemir son to the Civil Service of the Frotected briStates, put an abrupt termic nation to all entsof a military career.

At the time, harit of the notion of being up and doing hother delay, the triumph? of being abl

off my own bat, for living then was the salaries covered ex

penses, and the glamour of the uolinown, made it impossible for me to understand the nature of the step which I was taking; but, looking backwards, I am glad that I chose the life! which has been mine, rather than that other one, despite its glitter and its many attractions; True that I exchanged my chance of a share in a magnificent campaign for a couple of years of dreary "bush whicking" in Malayan fur gles, and that circumstances: forced me to be old before I had fairly learned to be young, but "the lore of men who have dealt with men: in the raw and the naked lands" has it owa! fascination for those who have acquired it by years of patience and of study-not study of a printed page, but of the hearts and motiver and désires of the men of a strange-race.

Joining as the most junior cadet in the Service, I was soon taught the meaning of Whewell's aphorism that we are none of us infallible, not even the youngest. I learnt that in this, as in other nurseries, little boys were ta be seen and not heard, that a day's work was not the same thing as a day's shirk, that an order was above 'aught else, and many other things, painful at the time and galling to my budding manhood, which I have since tried in my turn to impart to others. I also had the privilege of sharing a house with Sir Hugh Lot, o...o.. a wise old man who had grown grey among Malays, and who knows more about dusky interiors of the Oriental mind than is easily to be won nowadays in places where civilisation has gained too sure a grip, and has made the barrier between the white and the brown a wall difficult to scale, Later, Siri Frank Swettenbam, K.C.3.0, took me in haud He, also, was deeply versed in the vernacular and in native methods of thought and action. Also, he was at that time reputed to have the most useful and the most painted tongue in Asia, and he certainly kept s edge keen by vitriolic comments upon my ways and works. Had I been a free agent, I should have carried my wounded dignity to the other side of the globe from that which he chanced to inhabit, which shows that boys do not always know what is good for them, since, by that act, I should have lost the staunchest, and, I believe, the kindest friend that man need wish to have A year after joined, 1 was travelling with Sir Frank Swettenbam as his secretary, and

When Mr. Gully began, the members, who still missed their Peel-and they would not bave been buman if they had not-hinted that the new. Speaker intervened in debate far too much. The fault at any rate, soon disappeared. Mr. Spilsby seemed offended, and prosince our journey led us through very dificult ed, inasmuch as the despairing, barrister whodnced a card that announced him to be a followed some time later to have a glimpse plumber, carpenter, anbiner-maker, electrical of Gully" in the midst of new magni

engineer, upholstorer, paperhanger and gas

ficence, noticed that he was reposeful infilter." It was certainly very confusing. A man the chair, suffering, all gladly, so long as who was born a house decorator and practised they kept within the bounds of order. More at a gas-fitter might be tolerably easy to place over, he noticed how Mr. Gully refused to allow in the social scale; but who should determine the rank of a Mr. Spilsby ? I doubted if ourse himself to be inveigled into confidential chats with the leaders of that little world of parlia hemelf could have grappled with the situation. ment, to the dulling of the presidential ear.

Meanwhile, I wanted my lunch. "Surely," One Cabinet Minister, now a Cabinet Minis-expostulated again, the gas escape is in the

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tor no longer, sauntered up and began to Kitchen 1" You can never say where an escape whisper loving into that organ. "Gully gave answered Mr. Spilsby vaguely, and he his answer shortly and sharply, then tumed flagged over the hole in the floor and sniffed again to the honourable member in possession of the House. Later on in the evening, that is to say, when the House had come back after its dinner, an Irish member became unmanage- able. Mr. Speaker, who had shown himself to be very long-suffering several times before on that particular evening, continued most suave up to the bitter end. But since the gentleman had made up his mind to be suspended the Chair could do no less than pblige. He went out shouting something about Mr. Kruger; and thus relieved by a gen- eral burst of laughter what had not amounted to any very great degree of tension at any time in the course of the little scene. The Speaker laughed, too. Now if it had been Mr. Peel- Me: Post would have died rather than move muscle of his face. Well, there are many ways of being a good Speaker. The next time, the despairing barrister caught a glimpse of Mr.

with an air of experience. I felt that (it) was really Mr. Spilsby who could not say where The escape was and explained that, if he was

in search of a smell of gas he had better go to: the kitchen, where the smell really was. But I ended in lunching uncomfortably over the drawing-room fire with a tray on my knees, while Mr. Spilsby made excavations in my dining-room. M **About dinner time he went away, leaving the matting with an accordion pleated surface to it; and I dined in an atmosphere of gas and putti- news, while Priscilla trod mottas wherever she went, and informed mo gaily that the hole in the kitchen wall was "all over the place." The smell of gas increased, until it grew positively alarmed ing; so after enduring it for a day or two, I sum. moned Mr. Spileby by a peremptory postcard. He walked in just as I was sitting down to break Bet, and expressed the greatest virprice at the

The result of this was that on January 15th, 1887, the Raja Muda set out for Selangor, whence he proposed to pass into Pernak, and over the main range of mountains into the interior of Pakang and i was told off to accom- pany him. The journey would be slow; the jungle. would swallow us up as soon as we left. Perak territory; and no news of or from us could have been expected for at least three months. No senior man could be spared for so long a time, and though there were some delicate negotiations to be conducted with the Sultan, whose country we considered stood) sorely in need of "protection," the whole responsibility attending the special mission was left in my hands. Here at last, was that priceless thing, an opportunity, and the Fates were very good to me. The pear was ripe, and the treaty, which had been so long upon the way, fell into my dispatch-box after only a few weeks negotiations at the capital.

Thereafter for twelve years I'sojourned in Pahang-first as political agent, when I was the impotent spectator of much evil; then as officer in charge of the interior, when I had some power, much work, all the fighting that was going, and a gloriously rough time; finally, as Resident, when my authority was almost au- tocratic. In 1887 Pahang was the most lawless State in the Peninsula, its people the most oppressed and burdered. In 1899 it was our boast that it had become as safe as Piccadilly, and my successor has put it upon record that the natives are happier and better off than their neighbours on the western seaboard.

COSTLY COUNTRY SEATS,

WAGES, BILLS "THẬT REACH £20,000 A YEAR.

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There are, as nearly as possible, 8,800 places in the United Kingdom large enough to be dignified by the title of "country seat." Of these there are at least sixty where a staff of from 250 to 500 servants is found necessary. and in these cases the annual wages bill reaches

total of from £16,000 to £20,000.

Country estates of such magnitude as this are;

the Duke of Portland, Alnwick Castle, Haddon, | represented by Welbeck Abbey, the property of Tring, Madresfield Court, and numerous other stately homes,

At the majority of our largest country seats the gardens form the most expensive item. At Welbeck, for example, with a staff of seventy or eighty men and boys in the glass houses and gardens proper, the duke's 'wages billin this department leaves him very little change out of 6,000 per year. The horticultural work at the Abbey is, however, exceedingly heavy, there being over thirty acres of kitchen-garden

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or forty is kept busy, largely in the splendid kitchen garden and fruit houses,

jungle, we sent all our baggage on by an easier route to wait us at our next baiting place amid One of the best examples of these luxurious civilised surroundings. In a tiny station nick gardens to be found near London is at Sion ed ent of the forest, we found a young magistr Northumberland, where a staff of thirty House, Brentford, the town sent of the Duke rate very sick with fever and zuncommonly sorry for himself, an is the way with men who are in the grip of that torturer. Sir Frank at once sent him down river and round by sen to the nearest port, and, as the presence of an officer was required on the spot, I was hidden' to remain in charge of the undestrable district. I posscared the clothes which I stoąd up is, one complete change, and my night gear, “ For food there was rice to be bought, and the where withal to cook curry was to be picked up in the neighbouring villages,

I have said that the district was undesirable. It consisted of r20 miles of swamp, with a black, oily river creeping through it to the ser In the interior, where the tributary streams branched out exactly like the sticks of a fan the villages in the various valleys wars joined each to each by threads of footpath, and the swatop water, which covered much of the plain, was so poisonous that it used to take my feet swell beyond the capacity of shoes.

Therefore, I did my tramping bareshed, with the result that the soles of my feet acquired homy hardness which often since has stood me in good stead in lands where cobbler shops, wore hoty or when, blisters minde, shoe leather a torture. For the rast, it was my duty. to go down river, to a place over the mouth once in every manik, there to take OTSE KAAL

Gardens do not form the only expensive PRECS itan in a large country seat, and some ecently compiled details of the pfaff employed what a connection with an establument may be formed the second size in Suffolk, give very goodfice adfthe way in which the hands are mully employed in these places. The Natal wage bill is 918,500 per spam, and ahe jumbinginervantstividad as follows Ho and abide gestion dity-fourya Boyforty, indoor mats seventeen, beepers

kunsmis garpenters. Mosen, Forteklawer rat

terpere three pintors englacers two, blacksmiths two, wheel

The annual wage bill averages £9,000 The proportions are pretty well preserved in this classy but in the great masa-of-little placky where less than fifty persons are employed at an annual cost of 1,500 to £2,000, these usually a smaller proportion of gardeners and more men employed for estate work proper There sa charming but somewhat curiously kept little place on the borders of Surrey and Sussex, where the whole staff of twenty by thirty appear to be "handy men," and the op who is today building a stone wall or carting wood for fuel may to-morrow concentrate hit powerful faculties upon the culture of fruit under glass.

Carrington, J. C Cadiond, Miss" }, Cotewall, H. R Connell, J. J. Chandi Singh Coy, C. Cooper, A. J.` Carum Bakshi, (Um

balla) Calcutta Turf Club. Caine Road No. Chandar Pal Singh.

Crews, J, Danenberg, E. Davies, D. Eldred, Mrs. ˆ(5) Eticne, Gagillo Eleshal, E. Evans, Capt. C. HÀ

Of other expenses besides wages connected with England's great homes it is impossible to speak with any degree of accuracy. Horse

cattle, and other stock vary so greatly in pice and are kept under such widely different conEskell ditions that comparisons cannot be made, while in the gardens the same diversity exists for the differences in outlay are so great. A. India.

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McNamara, B.

Moyi, Miss

Moody, Dr. C.

Bush, D. F.

McConnell, A: E.

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Marquis, N. MacBain, G. Macalpm Meissuer, T. Mackrchnic, W. E. Mathows, Mrs. W. Mackenzie, A. C. MeWilliams, Miss Mayer, E. Majer, Mrs. Montilla, B. Martinez

Murdalihal, C. S.

Mills, Mrs. 1 Moore, J. W. Norton, E. C.. Negel, G. P. Neave, Mrs. Nicholson, H. J. Nanson, R. C.. Oldham, G. O'Dell, F.

- Oldenberg,

Powers & Co., R. H. Pow Long & Co. Panegeon, Mr. Paterson, J. B.. Pomery, Miss Perzal, J. Piry, A.

Frankel, H. Filiberto, V.

';

Fritz Gerald, H. C.

(New York). Fazal Ahmed Falkenflick, S. (5) Falek, W. Flores, J, S. Fox, F. (a) · Fursia Karsang. Geoghegan, N. M. Guria, M.

Giere, A.- Gosselin, Comm. Ghulam Rascol

Haram Singh

Hans, Mrs. A. J. C. Honker, Mrs. Ó. Harman Singh Heintz, H.

Hira Singh

Hooper, Mrs. A. F. Hinton, R. S. Hakam Din.. Mawan Singh Hollister, G, K.

Hinda Singh Haraguchi, 11. Turihin Khan- Ignacio, F. Jackson, J. Jenkins, B.N. Joseph, S. S. Abdul Jurmanali Shah, Kader Bap, Insp. Kala Singh

Mondial, Ph. Mannington, do Nobile, Li, W. Nicoll, Miss A. Naden, Thomas Nazal Khan Nalillo Bux Nihull Singh. Olbes, F. Owper, Geo. Ortis, C.

Perica, F. Plora, D...

(3)

Pind F. Lara y

Plant, J. S. Philipp, L. Firy, H.

Pate, Percy Rajaram Singh Rahim Alli Roza, A. M. R. C Ridont, J. T. H. Rustam Khan Ressurreccion, Rougier, 1 Rosauro, Miss Lucilja Rennie, A. H. Stern, B.

(2)

M...

Shaminsky, S. Sultan Mahomed- Smulas, Hi Saloon, A. J. Sato, T.

Sabay Khan Saifa

Said Mahomed Sassoon, P. Stanford, Mrs. M Sturdy, E. V. Stevenson, F. Solomon, L. P. Thomson, Charles Thornhill, Capt.".. Tever, Marino^! Tomas, C. F.

! Telvier

Utter Singh Umetami, N. Vallance, Mira, Watts, F. War Singh Wan Pat Yo Yonsen, Mrs. Young, F. H. “Zaiza, M. M..de -

List of Registered Covers for Merchant Ships.

S.S. Amigo

PE

11

...F. Wallat.、

Bellerophon....K. Morgan...

Bergenhaus. « „Capt. J. H. Svendsen:(s) Brand

Capt. J. Thornse

S.S. Carthage

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Calchas Calchas Changsha S.M.S. Gefion S.S. Glasgow

Glenogle....... Hatching Hainan...... Kashing

...M. L. Higuo.

,H. C. Beasley. .Mr. Carefull.

Capt. Tom Moore. Kollmann H. Dámenico, A.D. Mr. Clements." E. F. Gibcon. F. Clausten.

G. Hooker.

G. Dubien.

OF

Pricchard, H. O.

}}

Kirkfield

ข่

Menilaus ....

..J. Ambrose

Milos......

Minto.......

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Parks, W. Paulding, G. Pasucal, F. Patyn, J. Robinson, C. Rennie, F. Reid, Capt. C. F. Rialton, J. Renori, G. J. B. Ripton, Segt, F Robr. W. Hibing, F. H. Ricci & Co. Ross, Miss M. J. Rafter, Major J. A. Richardson, J. F. Raustzen, E. P. Reys, G. Reynell, W. Ross, A. J. Rodrigus, A. C. F Roberts, A. W. Richardson, J. Raeburn, M.- Ross, A. Reid, J. G. Shaw Samborn, F. G.

San Fat Sen Skinner, W.

Spence, Lieutenant. Hä

H. C. Spence, M.

Simon, Dr. M.

Skordahl, J.

Scott, G. M. Smith, H. M, Shariff, Miss M. S. Salisbury, J. Spindaler & Co. Scott, C. H. Smith, C. 1. Smith, B. Sheppard, T. M. Scott, W, G, Stevens, R. Souzac,

GJA Schilling, G. M. Sundt, H. Suzuike, S. Todd, Capt. J. Trumpt, E. Thorne, Miss M. Tamé, T. Tchang, M.J. Thomson, C. H. Tiberi Tausing Mn. ED). Upton Upham, M. U. Williamson, T. H. Watson, H. G...

Walters, A.

Wexton, C.

Buschen

Ship Nevelle.

S.S. Ningdo

Ship Norwood

..A. Hausen

(3)

..Abdool Karin Ebrahim.

W. Rummler.

Capt, D. Steveń! -

J. L. Manthie.

„Š. Takiake,

Ship Sierra Estrella...S. Cruston.

S.S. Sydney.... A. Lagrange.

Tainglas .....D. Wessels.

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Tsinan..... W. H. Wilson. Ulysses... Weldon.

Vita

Vienna Wengkel

.M. England. .C. McLay, ... C. Schnur

Intimation.

HE CHINA & JAPAN TEL

COMPANY, LIMITED.

蕊蕊

HONGKONG EXCHANG

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

EXCHANGE LINES, $Bo Par 'Annota

PRIVATE LINES, $100 Per Ansubs.

NO CHARGE FOR INSTALLA

N.B-A special charge is made for lines

more than average length.

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES OF EVERY

CRIPTION IN STOCK

INCLUDING

BATTERIES,

CHEMIC

HEMICALS,

NSULATORS,

Wallance' F.

Westrop Miss E.

T

List of Registered Covers In Poste Restante. Allan Thu Con & Ca Kaplus, Ni..

Altins, T. S.

Kummi Kham

Ackermann & Co, R. Knappstein, O.

Abonne; S. A Adam, Miss Air Kine, Lapis

Abdul Khan Anthony.

Abdul Rahman- Aldoy Khan Arjun Singh Adulatos, G. N. Kfzal Khan Bulch Mahomed Butchen Singh Bagoo Usgal Singh Buckie, PC: 183. Brandt,

mployed in the warious & Bakan Singli

difiers somewhat in

theme part of the cottury, depending upon 5. Baktha Singh

• Klimet" and other conditions:

posi

in this amber lud,while

coded

stricts, of course, the uld have to be increas- per employed in farming operations. might be lessened. F. In third. Stathe.nu

which there are about

Kamman Singh

Kurozyni Koff F

Kicola, Miss A. Kelly, M. J. Liaco, Cheang Lopes, DaC), Lowe, WS. Lam, Aron

Herin

Leo Me Ladha Singh, Lovatt, Mus Mandige A: L. Maula Bux Mahomed Akbar Manga Khan Mussa Khan Mohamed Kha Mangude Singh

ELECTRIC BELLS,

LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS, SWITCHES,

ELEPHONES,

VIRE, &c. &C., WIRE

PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION,

ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONE

Erected and kept in orders:

Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical work

Trained Mechanicisos sent to Out-Parts-te

p Installations if required..

NOTE ADDI

lez Hovir-ROAD:

Bhagwan Singh

Bishen Singh

Brown, G.

Brandt

Makend Singh Mehta

Munshi Hussain Shah

For full Particulars,

Apply to

Brown, Itrik

Budha Khan (2) Bull, P. GalvaD

Sahib

C. E.

Modia Singh

Moller, WA

STUART HARRISOI

Manager.

Hongkong, 18th December, Igon.

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