d the vegetation in the west and o island. Great damage was done neg and coconut plantations. The maize crops suffered severely. A expected to be the result. A week tburst, several natives visited the reported having seen boiling masses
e.
at or nine years ago the principal of 'Great Sangir, the chief island of gir group, breke suddenly into laying one side of the island waste passing immense destruction. The ns of the eruption were distinctly Sandakan, B. N. Borneo, over to stant.-Ed, H. K. T]
INEERS IN THE NAVY,
of Capt Anderson's recent lecture local branch of the Navy League, the extract from the speech of Mr. Joan president of the Clyde Steamship ssociation, delivered at the annual at Glasgow, will be interesting to our readers. Mr. Murray said:- ing over the reports of former years ont of our presents recently dealt uestion of national insurance against our vessels in time of war, and in laid emphasis on the paramount e to shipowners and the country of a thoruitghly efficient Navy. This possesses special interest for ship.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
SHOOTING.
"A" M.-S. CO, N.K.V.C.
The eleventh shoot of the series took place at Kowloon on 10th inst. Gun H. Hursthouse won both cups. The following are the highest
scores --
Gunr. Hursthouse...35 Boob. Wodehouse 23 Capt. Sanders
всмо 25
30
25
Cup Total 23 13 84 22 5 So 18 13 So
BY THE MAIL.
[FROM HOME PAPERS]
Earl Russell. The matrimonial affairs of John Francis Stanley Eail Russell will once again come before a Divorce judge very early in the forth- coming sittings of the Law Courta. The last time Earl Russell figured as co-respondent was in the suit of Somerville v. Somerville and was mulcted in 1,500 damages. Mrs. Somerville was the lady the Earl married in America. The suit now filed is by the Countess Russell against Earl Kussell, and (says the exchange Telegraph Company) it will be undefended.
The Edinburgh Merchants. The annual dinner of the Edinburgh Mer- chant Company on 5th ult. was brought to an
for only on account of their depend abrupt and sad termination through the sudden our feet for protection, but also deaths of the Master of the Company, Mr. John from the nature of their business and McMillan, who presided. The Master had tact with seafaring men and matters, just finished an enthusiastic speech in propos naturally led to notice the remesing the toast of the Queen, and was being con- ormances of Her 1-jesty's ships, gratulted by Lord Balfour and the Lord wish to be an alarmist, but I think Provost of Edinburgit, when he fell forward in pressing a feeling that is very prehis place, apparently ill. Mr. StcMillan never
the shipowning and seafaring cùn
regained consciousness, death taking place when I say there is grave reason within half an hour. Deceased was the pro- that the state of our Navy is very prietor of the famous tea frm of Andrew what it is popularly believed in Melrose and Company, and one of Edinburgh's s is more particularly the case in what leading citizens.
called the engineering deperiment, addition to an apoly-admitted lack Jed man as enginees, engine-room , and stokers, there are many deficien- anomalies which, if not inimediately th, will give rise to serius trouble and ations on the outbreak fa Naval war. of our members, i know, tended a of shipbuilders and engineers recently this city, in connecting with a paper by Batorison, vice-president of the North-
Pussy's Friends Dined.
A dinner was given on 10th ulto. to car's meat men at liity of New York Restaurant, in recognition of their kindness to starving cats, Mr. Louis Wain presided, and the Duchess of Bedford was present.
Teslá and Mars.
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British Columbia and the Chinese. A Vancouver telegram states that the new im migration law providing an educational test which practically excludes both Chinese and and Japanese has caused the Chinese to prepare pation, which will be presented to the ominion Government, protesting against the law, and at the same time complaining that their trade is ruined by the clause requiring Chinese imports to be fumigated..
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from Lient, General Sit Willag Butler, K.C.B. und Wales. At the present time, moreover, In a district order issued on 9th ult, the follow the process which affects all the three countries ing farewell to the troops was published: In (England and Wales being reckoned together) relinquishing the charge of the Aldershot dis-is going on faster in England than in either trict, Lieut-General Sir William Butler desires Scotland or Ireland. We lost in what Mr. to thank all ranks for the support he has re-Schooling calls birth-force to the extent of 17. per cent during the twenty-five years ended in ceived during the term of his temporary com- mand. He wishes to bear testimony to the 1898, the latest year for which statistics are, zeaf and ability with which the Stall, the Gen- avaliable.. And the decline went on at accele erals in command of brigades, the departmental rated speed. The total number of hisths during officers, and the officers in command of regi- the last five years of the period under examina mental and other units, worked in the public tion--that is to say 1894-95-instead of being, service during a time of exceptional strain, as they should have been if previous rates of labours in which his personal share was limited growth had been maintained, 6,760,000 were to a comparatively briefterm, but the advantage only 5,730,000. That is to say every one of the and result of which he Irequently had occasion these five years, added a million fewer to notice. He bids good-bye to all with regret." Queen's home subjects than, they might have Several Staff changes will also take place, been expected to produce. As Mr. Schooling Golonel C. Kennedy being succeeded by Col puts it there is a daily deficiency of foo or foo onel Hon. F. W. Stopford as D.A.A.G. whilst of the children which should now be growing Major Monck will be the D.A.A.G. for instruc, upto manhood and womanhood. These figures, whatever be their explanation or their signific- tion, an appointment he is 10 hold for five years, it must be borne in mind, are incontrovert ble, ance. We are confronted, at beginning of the dating from July last.
twentieth century, with the fact that, although our population is still increasing, it is increas ing at a much slower rate, and that the declin- ing tendency is still in operation, or was only two years ago.
Young Canada's Loyalty. The boys and girls of Canada sent to our late Queen an illuminated testimonial, a mam meth album of childrra's photographs weighing one-tenth of a ton, and, better still, a purse of $16,546 dollars in sixpenny subscriptions for the relief of the widows and orphans of British scidiers who hare fallen during the war.. The address to Her Majesty is instinct with loyal affect on and patriotic sympathy. The children recall Her Majesty's solicitude for the brave soldiers on the battlefields of South Africa, and her deep interest in the families dependent upon them. They declare their loyalty to the Crown, their attachment to their Sovereign, and their sympathy with those who have been left to mourn for the men who have carried the flag to victory" No fewer than 16,one of Young Canada have signed this testinionial. The Mather Country will hail with pleasure this evidence that the new generation is going to be as proud of our common Empire and as unsel fishly devoted to its interests as their fathers have shown themselves during the last year.
Coming Marriages.
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TO-DAY,
Thursday, 14th February, tyst. Chinese 26th of 19th moon of 20th your of
Krang-sü.
Sun-Res........................................... 6hr; 3amin. Stis............ shi. gemin. Moon-Max. Declination S: 6hr, ein. High water-Morning........ No Inferior.
Afternoon or omiù..
No larwater. Low water-ferning .
Afternoon oir. ANNIVERSARIES, 1797-Battle of St. Vincent, 1813-The thanks of Parliament voted to the
British forces in China and Indin. 1872-The Tong Wa Hospital, Hongkong,
opened 1879-Loss of the steamer Taiwan in the
Formosa Channel.
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1891-Seven of the Namica pirates beheaded
at Kowloon City.
TO-MORROW.
Friday, 15th February, 1901. Chinese-27th of 12th moon of 20th vour of
Kwang-s Sun-Rises
Sets
6hr. 33min." shr. 50min.
High water-dorning Shr. azmin.
Afternoon
shr. 39min. Low water-Morning. ohr. gimin. Afternoon zohr. zömzin. ANNIVERSARIES,
ports.
cheng sunk by the French in Sheipsn
harbour.
18-Fall of snow at Fonchow. 1897-King George of Grerec forcibly inter
vened in Cre an affairs. 1898-U. S. battleship Maine blown up in
Havanna harbour, H.M.S. Victorious, went aground at Suez. 1900--Kimberley relieved.
AGENDA.
TO-DAY.
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Departures.''''.
Feb. 14, Tonkin, French str, for Shanghai, &c. Fell. 14, fethas, French str., for Pakhoi. Feb. 14, Thales, British str., for Swatow. Feb. 14, Benvenue, British sir, far Saigon, Feb. 14, City of Peking, British str., for San
Francisco.
Feb. 14, Shrewsbury, British str., for Saigon, Feb 14 Vorshimni áfaru, jap. ste, for Keelung. 'Passenger-arrivmi.
Per finnan, from Shanghai-Mrs. Willough by, Mr. McCollock, and 5 Chinese.
Per Tonkin, for Hongkong from Marseilles -Messrs. Fou eroinad, Oscar jehe, Sisters Ballin and Vermian From Colombo--Mr. and Mrs. Reau- and servant,, Mr. and Mrs. Mac Neagl and servant, and Miss Donar. From Singapore Mr. and Mrs. Chas, G. Lister, Messrs. J. J. Witthamps, F. W. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Ballin, Mr. F. T. Nath, Capt, Mar- shall and servant, Messrs. Nicai, Fischer, N. Aron, Cable, Van Raale, Liene and son, and 3 Chinese. From Saigon-Messrs. Brien, ). A. N. Natijn, Veziat, Mrs. Guillot, Mr. and Mrs. Ly Ah loai and 2 children, Mr. and Mrs. Percin, Mr. Von Waldthausen, and 91 Chinese. For Shanghai from Marseilles-Messrs. Vang To Fung, Sun. Foch Sui, Sisters Chauvie, Panel, Miss Clemoneet and son, Messrs. G. Sidol, C. Coeuracto, Aug. Colet, Carlos, Otto Jorgensen, R. P. Faure, Mr. and Mrs. Vial and 2 children, and Mr. Percebois. From Snez- Messrs. Cie, Wa Yau and Mrs. Johnston. From
Ch. From Singapore--Mrs. Emma Erbcho. Colombo-Mir, A. Guliani, Au Chin and Ou witsch, Miss Mary Schwartzman, Mr. J. Scher, Mrs. Bertha Genselman, and Mr. R. P. Wallen. From Saigon-Messrs. Saffoni, Catalain, Veretti, Mrs. Guillerault, Mrs. Cousy de Fag- crolles, and Mr. A. Rault. For Nagasaki from MarseillesMr. Leon Boisbean, From Color I Mesars. Dib off, Baistel, Yvanoff, David- s, and Belt, From Saigon Mrs. Maro- hami Yumi. For Kobe from Colombo-Mr. Lavery. For Yokohama from Marseilles- Mr. C. Muratur, Mr. and Mrs. Benink, Messrs, Juchand de Penis Blery, Sisters Miemet, Mar- nier, Moubaron, Tadrake, Miss Dornes, and, 120 French Marines. From Colombo-Capt. Bernard, Messrs. Tchiro Haruki, Ollivier, Bousquet, Delinedan.. E. de Bourouviler, Reynard, Zede, le Ruille, Crosby, Ch. Petit, Lescut, Perchec, L. Hotchier, Kawanoye and Redoutable. From Saigon-Sister Vitoline.
Par D. C. C. Kho, from Bangkok.36 Ch
9 pm-Sharp Hanston's Circus at the Re-
nese. Ground (near the Race Course)
creation
A number of interesting-marriages are likely to take place in the near future. Though talked of and contradicted in certain quarters more than a year ago, the engagetnent el MissHongkong and Shanghai declared free Shelagh Cornwallis West to the Duke of West 1874-The ship Columbià burnt in Hongkong
harbour, minister is now a fait accompli, and the wedd ing is announced for Feb. 14, in London. An- 1884-Telegraph cable between Japan and
Korea opener. other wedding in which society is much inter- ested will be that of the Duke of Westminister's 1885-The Chiness shipa-Ph-yuen and Chin cousin, Lady Beatrice Butler, who is the elder daughter of the Marchioness of Ormande, Major-General Pole Carew, one of the band semest man in the Irigade of Guards. Early in the spring the Queen will lose one of her maids of honour-the Hon. Judith Harbor, Lord and Lady Sufield's only unmarried daughter, who is to be married to the Rev. F. Sullivan, the eldest son of Admiral Sir Francis Sullivan, Bart., K.C.B. During the month of Wireless Telegraphy.
Feb. Lady Marjorie Carrington, Earl Carring Wireless telegraphy was put to a severe lest
ton's eldest datighter, will be married in Lon. on 8th ulto, on board the Ostend steamer Cle-dan to Mr. C. H. Wellesley Willson. The en mentine (Captain Romyn). During her voyage gagement is announced of the young Marquis of from Osten to Dover messages were sent the
Exeter to the Hon. Myra Orde-Powlett, the only whole way across between ship and shore, daughter of Lord Bolton. Shortly after Lest records being made at every mile of the pass the Hon. Claud Lambten, one of Lord Dutham's age. This was done in the presence of a com-
many brothers, will lead to the altar Miss Lettice milter of about a dozen Belgian Government Wormald the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. officials, who attended specially to witness the Edward Wormald, of 15, Berkeley-square. trial before recommending the adoption of the Marriages have also been arranged between system for use on the mail packets. The show Commander William Goodenough. H.M.S. squalis inade no difference to the transmission Resolution, second son of the late Commodore af messages, and perfect records were made Goodenough. C.B., to Miss Henrietta Stanley, mile by mile right up to the time of the vessel eldest daughter of the Hon. Lyulph Stanley coming alongside the Admiralty Pier at Dover. Lieutenant Henry Vereker, of 1.5. Empress The committee of officials expressed themselves of India, second son ofthe Hon. Henry Veicke exceedingly gratified with the results of the
and nephew of Viscount Gert, to Miss Edith severe tests applied, and it is understood that Jaffray, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Muston the Belgian Government will be recommended Jaffray, of The Stydd House. Lyndhurst, and to pat installations on the whole of the Ostend granddaughter of Sir John Jaffray, Bart: Com beats. An important, development is about to mander Charles Napier, of H.M.S. Fictory, soll be made by which the mercantile marine will of Admiral G. Napier, D.L, Somerset, to Miss be able to communicate with the shore. To Faith Chapman, youngest daughter of Mr. Horace Chapman, J.P., of Donlead Hease, this end the Marconi Company propose to erect stations at different points on the whole Wilts; Sir Arthur. Mackenzie, Bar, of Coul, to Miss Evelyn Ward, youngest daughter of the coast line, and as a commencement a station will be established at the North Foreland.
late Major-General Ward, K.C.M.G, and Lady Seeing that these stations can get communica
Ward. tions at a distance of sixty miles, the number round the coast need not necessarily be very numerous.
"Lives of Great Men," etc. Mr. Bryan at a banquet given him at Chicago consoled himself for his defcals at Presidential elections by letting loose some winged words about Cronje and Krager. He said he took courage from the examples of these great men. Perhaps he felt an affinity. Anyway, he dipped into the future, and said that Cronje "would live in poetry and song when Lord Roberts was forgotten, and that Kruger would wear a crown of deathless renown berond that of kings and emperors. Mr. Bryan is about as bad a prophet as he is a candidate for Presidential honours, and the American people have shown that they are able to take the measure of a windhag. Even though Mr. Bryan has an affinity with Cronje and Kruger, we can prophesy with cer tainty that he will not live in poetry and song, nor will he share with Mr. Kruger à crown of deathless renown. Mr. Kreger, indeed, is not accustomed to share anything that he has with anybody else. And yet what an excellent trio paper of deathless fame! they would make in Comic Cuts or some such
TÙMORROW.
Noon-1. C. N. steamer Artoon Apear leaves
for Sagapone Penang and Calcutta. 4 p.m.--C. X. Co.'s steamer Chargeha leaves
for Mila and Australian Ports. 5pm.-C. & M. Co's steamer Esmeralda leaves
for Manila.
Cargo ex Richmond Castle subject in rent.
pan-Sharp Anston's Circus at the Re
Race creation Ground (near the Course.)
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS:
MAILS DUFL.
Indian (Chelydra) 16th instant, English (Rengal) 17th instant." Canadian (Empress of Japan) 17th instant. Australian (Chingtu) 19th instant. American (Hongkong" Maru) 20th instant. - Gennan (Bayern) 20th instant. Australian (¿firlic) 22ud instant... Americau (Chime) 1st prox. American (Doric) 12th prox.
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Departed.
Per Tonkin, from Hongkong for Shanghai- Messrs. P. Werney, P. Kremer, J. J. Connell, A. H. Joseph, A. Landas, G. Jannet, and Miss V. Helton For Yokohama-Mrs. H. Blum, Misses Mabel and Bella Issacs,
Per City of Peking, for Nagasaki-Messrs. L... Bake, and L. L. Wirt. For San Fran
ico-Rev. and Mrs P. E. Misses O. and E. Mason, Master C. Moore, Mrs. A. Lawrence, Miss Nonieballa, Mr.. Abdul Sumed, Dr, and Mrs. O. G. Place, Miss M. Atkinson, Mr. James Cook,
SHIPPING REFONTS.
Captain Frazier, of the steamship Hunan, from Shanghai, reports Fresh to light N.W. winds and fine.
Captain EE. McLellan, of the steamship Phra Chuda Cham Klae, from Bangkok, re ports-Fresh N.E. monsoon, clear and fine
weather.
STEAMERS EXPECTED..
Names.
The A. L. S. N. Co's steamer China, leftChelydra
Frome
Bur.
Singapore
Feb. 16th
Singapore for this part yesterday, the 13th inst. Empress of Japan. Japan
Singapore
ས
Stentor.
Japan
Feb. 17th Bengal
Feb. 17th Sachsen ............Shanghai... Feb. 19th Chingly
Port Darwin ... Feb. 19th The O. 5. S. Co's steamer Stentor, left Singa Kasuaga Maru
...japan..........Feb. roth pore to-day, daylight and is due in Hongkonglenngle
Feb. 19th on Tuesday, the 19th ist.
Singapore ...... Feb. 19t Maru...Kokohama ...... Feb. 20th (Singapore Feb. 20th Singapore...... Feb. 20th Port Darwin...Feb. 22nd Bombay
Feb. 22nd San Francisco...Mar. Ist San Francisco...Mar. 12th
Mr. Nikola Tesla announces that he is ast Institution of Engineers and Ship-new engaged upon the construction of a trans
directing attention to this unsatisfac
mitter and receiver in his New York laboratory fe of affairs, with special reference to the by means of which he will shartly attempt to ate recognition of the position and im-
communicate with the planet Mars. Mr. Tesla e of the engineering staff in the modern says: I have already an instrument. of suffi- 17, which is now a mass of most com cient delicacy to receive their messages, and mechanism. Speaking to steamship shall soon have an instrument powerful enough I need not enlarge upon the imperative to answer them." ty of a thoroughly competent and cfli. inc-romm staff. Most of our members naging-owners of steamers going on ened voyages to all parts of the globe, equently trading in distant waters for eriods. They are too well aware that certain quanity in our calculations lies re in the engineering than in the navi department. Owing to the advance of he knowledge, the general ability of our asters, and the increased size and greatly
ed construction of ships, the risks of tian have now been reduced to a point
The City Liberal Club. conceivable a comparatively short time But while the problems of navigation Lord Brassey presided over the house dinner been simplified, the construction of steel of the City Liberal Club to celebrate the in- with high-pressure steam, and delicate auguration of the Australian Commonwealth.
The London and Globe. omplicated machinery, necessitates an He said that the Federal Parliament would have
As a result of the financial crash of the Lon ncreasing amount of care and high tech- many difficult questions to settle. The tariff skill, and merchant shipowners recoguise would be among the most urgent of these ques don and Globe Corporation last week, consider- ecessity of making every effort to cusure tions, and it could only be settled by a reasonable interest was taken in a meeting of the most efficiency possible in the engineering able compromise. It was satisfactory to note shareholders of the company, held at Cannon tment. Unfortunately, there is ton much that a desire existed to encourage especially street Hotel, on 9th ulto, to consider a resolu- 1 to believe that the rapid change of con trade between the mother country and Australiation for the voluntary winding-up of the com- s from the days when our vessels were and so to follow the example of Canada Ipany. There was a crowded attendance of y propelled by sails, and depended almost would also be the duty of the Federal Govern shareholders. The Marquis of Dufferin, who ly for their maneuvring and fighting ef- ment to combine the local colonial forces into presided as chairman of the corporation, made cy on sailors, has not been fally appreciat one effective army.
a statement in regard to his position, and Mr. our Admiralty, which is still bound by
Whitaker Wright, the managing director, an- actitions associated with the ever-metior-
nounced that the directors had practically The Galveston Disaster. achievemmuts of our wooden walls," 1
According to the estern, Morning News arrived at an arrangement with the creditors of been convinced for some time that in the quate recognition by the Saval authorities the steamer Kendal. Castle hail some remark the company, and that the chairman would sub se changed conditions lies a very serious able experiences in the cyclone at Galveston,mit a resolution for an adjournment of the er ahead. And such fears, unfortunately, The Kendal Castle broke adrift when the windeling till 14th who, when they hoped to be been confirmed by the discussions on this was at its beight, and, with the steamer Roma, able to inform the shareholders that every one of their creditors had been settled with and to eet at meetings of shipbuikling and engine was cast upon the land. The Roma collided
present a scheme of reconstruction which would Associations recently held throughout the with her, and stove in her bows. She was
future. After complaining strongly of syste try, and especially on the North-East Coast thrown up on sandy soil a long way inland, insure the prosperity of the company in the gland. Althe meeting in this city to which and the captain determined to dig a canal to
matic attacks made upon the company by news-
The "Daily News." e referred there was an alarming unanimity enable her to get out. A gentleman who stak
ed the vessel round, and declared that she was papers which he stigmatised as "gutter rags,"
One's sporting instincts, says the P. M. (., na binion amongst those practical men whose
Mr. Wright described the various undertakings on his fand, and that nobody should touch her hess-brought them into touch in various
in which the company was interested, and said turally led one straight to the Daily New's first without his permission, had to be "squared"
he did not believe they had a "bad egg" among leader this morning, and curiosity was amply with the engineering department of our
before anything could be done. Then an army y, that the state of affairs is very unsatis
their assets. He entered into details as to the rewarded. The new regime is evidently going | Nanyang ry, and is only tolerable on the assumption of workers cut a passage stay for the vessel, embarrassments which had resulted from the to rival Mr. Massingham's Chronicle as it used
steps taken to acquire a controlling interest in
to be in its Philhellene and pro-Boer prime. In probably other Navies are no better of and she was got into open sea once more. our own. Such an assumption is not only
the Lake View Mines, and in conclusion invit- tone, to begin with, there is an almost gratuit- fe but is apt is be misleading, looking to
ed the shareholders to support the directors by ously shocking gulf between the dignity of Mr. assenting to the adjournment of the meeting Cook's swan-song leaders of Wednesday and extreme care.bestowed by, say, the Germans all matters relating to waifare, naval or
till Monday. This was moved by the chair yesterday, and the "vulgar impertinence." tary; also, in vice of the fact that in the
man, and, after some discussion, was unani-"attempt to degrade religion," "despicable ted States, where that enterprising nation
mously agreed to.
address," and so on, with which Mr. Pat, of Eatanswill, whom we take to be 10-day's leader- strammelled by the traditions and prejudices influence nur frequently too conservative
Severe Weather.
writer, belabours the Duke of Norfolk. It is verninent, steps love recently been taken
During the earlier part of the week covered quite possible, surely, to think some of the things bring the position of the engineering and chanical personnel into line with modern
by mail papers winter laid an icy hand on the the Duke said at the Vatican were misguided. tional Liberalism, Liberalisu will hardly thank uirements. In the United States engineers
whole of England except the extreme Western without descending to this. If this is "tradi enjoy executive mank, and are influentially
the Daily News for reminding the world of the conatics, Snow fell and in some cases lay to resented on the Board of Admiralty, whereas
a depth of a foot on the ground, which the re rent hosts had well prepared for its reception. fact, But the deadliest sting is in the tail. By a neat transition through the late Mr. Gladstone's fe this is not yet these I regret that time will
In many parts of the country skating was permit me to go farther into this interesting
famous Neapolitan leirers (which, by the way, indulged in, but the weather now having set in important subject, but it is beyond doubt
milder, the hopes of Londoners, in this direc- were censured by that other traditional idol, at radical reforms are urgently needed in our
Lord Aberdeen), the Daily News arrives where miralty and Navy. As inercliant shipowners,
was occasioned in the West-end of London by it would be at a glorification of the Majuba bastion were shattered. Considerable amusement are often struck by the frequency of break
the adoption of veils by the drivers of hansom surrender. It is hard on all the worthy Liberals was on the part of her Majesty's vessels,
cahs, as some means of protection against the who are so anxious to have Majuba's very name ich can only be accounted for, as was made
dead and buried; but the new Daily News will biting blast. Most of the men who had árailed evident by the illustrations given at the
themselves of the navel fashion were wearing haye in "An act as politic as it was generous, eetings I have mentioned, by the inadequacy, d in some cases inefficiency, of the engine to the broomstick. a mission to the French Government from the ordinary black wet spotted veils such as are land as magnanimous as it was wise "such are
om.staff,
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
I am aware that in dealing at such length ith foreign competition, the necessity of better cilities for training officers and men, and e defects of our Navy, I have trespassed verely on your patience, and have gone ther beyond the scope of the report under iscussion. My apology is the urgency these questions,, especially in regard to he Navy. Upon members of Associations of
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Obituary.
The following deaths have recently accurred Mr. G. A. Laws, general manager of the Shipping Federation (Limited). His death removes one of the most noteworthy persons of the British shipping world. During his career Mr. Laws was connected for some time with the India and China trade. Mr. Frederick Richard Pickersgill, a retired Royal Academi- cian. Mr. Joseph Sewell, of Belgrave, near Leicester. This veteran member of the Society of Friends was chiefly engaged in the Chris tianisation of Madagascar, where his uncle, the Rev. William Ellis, of the London Missionary Society had laboured for many years.
Mgr. Favier.
Mgr. Favier, vicar apostolic of Peking, been for a couple of days ia, Marseilles, where he spent the time with the Lazarist Fathers en route to Paris from Rome before returning to China. Asked whether he was charged with
Widening the Strand.
The
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"Every Liberal is asking in his prayers for one congregations, and the projected law of asso" drawn round the face and tied at the back of
is the next sentence. ciations, the Bishop denied anything of the
the "billycock." A young man, nanted Good hour of Gladstone now sort. He also said that whatover be advised
rich, in the service of the Egyptian Govern. Surely the pretence of Liberal unity, which was on the law of associations, the protectorate of ment, but at present frome on leave, and living to be sealed by the meeting of Sir Edward Catholic missions in the Far East would never with his parents at Finsbury Park, was leaving Grey and Sir Robert Reid without a fight, must be withdrawn from France, notwithstanding the house, on 8th ulto, when some unknown collapse after this pronouncement for more. German efforts, which would be vain.
person threw a snowball at.him. He uttered Majuba by what has commonly been the Bishop leaves for China by next mail.
a cry of pain, and fell to the ground, and on authoritative Liberal paper. Even Sir Henry assistance arriving, life was found to be extinct. Campbell Bannerman cannot both repudiate and sanction, this revelation as to his devotions. A medical examination revealed the, extra- ordinary fact that death was caused by a piece of steet embedded in the snowball, which had penetrated the unfortunate young fellow's brain.. One serious result of the heavy storm was, the dislocation of the Omnibus traffic, particularly in the northern and north-west districts of Very few of the long-distance London. omnibuses were doing more than balf their journey, while a great number were unable to complete more than a third:
The widening of the Strand is steadily going 11 kinds connected with ships and shipping; and its latest manifestation in the surround es a more serious responsibility than rests on he general public. From our greater knowing of the north of St. Clement Danes by a edge, and, in a sense, greater interest, we boarding The churchyard is still further to ught to take a leading part, and are expected be curtailed. At one time the churchyard was o do so and I trust these remarks may have of very ample proportions, for, according to the he effect of attracting the attention of other parish survey of 1734, it contained a number of almshouses. When the Law Courts were members of this Association better able than
am to deal with this matter, and possibly. projected, Street, the architect, proposed the removal of the church altogether, and would also of stimulating the activity of kindred
have set it up on the west side of the new The Associations throughout the country.
building. The Metropolitan Board of Works, supremacy of our fleet, Naval and mercantile, however, would not entertain the idea, although das long been regarded tyith jealous eyes by nations no lass qualified than our own to con the Government at the time offered to provide test the empire of the seas. Never before have the new site free of cost. The ground, has such widespread and determined efforts been been, occupied by a church of some kind cer made, by peoples and governments to challenge 1ainly since the Conquest, and probably longer that supremacy. The position and prosperity we have attained are in themselves sources of danger, and may imperil our premier position
madtime power by entendering n false confidence in methods admirable and effective snder conditions.pow passing away"
General Buller.
General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., who, with Ladly Audrey Buller, arrived at Farnborough on 9th ulto, look over the duties of General Officer Commanding at Aldershot un roth altos
Decline of the Birth rate. A startling question for the new century is, Mail by Mr.J. Holt Schooling, Fellow of the suggested by an article contributed to the Daily Royal Statistical Society, on "The Decline of the English Birth-rate The writer, founding. himself on official and indisputable figures, has witnessed a decline; and a very serious asserts and proves that the nineteenth century decline, in the rate of growth of our population, The falling off affects every part of the United Kingdom, but is most conspicuous in England.
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CALENDAR.
FEBRUARY:
Meteorological means based on fifteen years' bizi vations to 1898.
Barometer
- Thermometer
Humidity Rainfall
TO-DAY.
WEATHER RETOKT.
Barometer...udn Temperature Hurbidity an Rainfall
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TOM,
··30.39
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The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s R.M.S Empress of Japan, arrived Kobe at p.m., on Wednesday, the 13th inst., and left again at 4 p.m., same day for Nagasaki whence she is due to arrive at Shanghai at noon on Saturday, the 16th inst.
Hongkong Bayern Chira
Airlie Mike Maru. China an Doric
We wault slect the attention of shipping fema, en 199 style in which "Steamers Lesected" and "*i^rfecte Heilings" are now published in these coluning, and ka no diding crapunct Dock.tuity urge the managers of shipping free to chendars 10 their clerks to furnish this office, on the forms alrently supe plint gratia with the format susilahla information avere dRE.
GONDRONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK.RETURNS, S.M.S. Hans .......
Kowloon U.S.S. Isla de Luzna U.S.S. Bennington... H.M.S. Goliath Hut Flansa
Avalanche
PASSED THE CANAL..
PROJECTED SAILING).
Ship.
Destination.
Pate.
Alcinous
Fel, 23rd London... America Maru.. San Francisco, & April 23rd Anping Mare Swatow, &c.......... Feb. 201
Feb. 15th Artoon Apear.. Singapore, &c....
Havre, &c... JApril gib Stuits, Mc. Mär, zoth Shanghai
Feb. 17th Feb. 8th Shanghai
Outward-18th Jan.--China,, Chittagong, Flandria, 22nd January-Khalif, Stentor, Nurnberg, Tonkin, Rolund, Nithidale. 25th Bamberg January-Annam Kelvindale, Tanglin 29th Bayern January-Bayern, Homday, Glenariney, Halle, Bengal Glenesh, St. Andrews. ist February | Bombay Afier, Sanki Aferu, Idomeneus, Wittenberg, Bormida Orri, Atlas, Elektra, 5th February--Adria, Changsha 8th February-Agimenman, Beneleuch.' 12th Olimpe, Plassy, Rodnorshire, Sarvia, trene February-Gisela, Japan, Stuttgart, Hudson.
Howard-th Feb.--Bamberg, Verona, 8th February-Dardanus. 12th February Hitachi Maru.
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Arrivals at Home-30th Jan.-Antenor, and February-Prin Heinrick, Hillgien, Ulysses. 7th February--Glengarry, Ambria, Oceanien, Nurnberg, Skinano Maru, Roland, 9th Feb. Frankfuri, 13th Feb.--Aragonia, Kamakura Maru, Halle.
shipping.
Arrivals.
TONKIN, French steamer, 2,327, Vaquier, 13th
Feb-Marseilles 13th Jan., and Saigon. 10th Feb, Ms and General.-Messa geries Maritimes. SULTAN VON LANGKAT, Dutch steamer, 1,510, A. Blomberg, 13th Feb,-Singapore 1st Feb., Oil-Mayer & Co. ELSA, German steamer, 1,702, Schönwandt,
13th Feb., Hongay 10th Feb., Coal. Jebsen & Co.
HUNAN, British steamer, 1,158, Frazier, 141
Feb,-Shanghat, Joth Feb., General Butterfield & Swire.
PHRA CHULA CHOM KLAD, British steamer, 1,012, E. E. McLellan, 14th Feb-Bang kok 5th Feb., Rice-Butterfield & Swire AURORA, British cruiser, 5,600, E. H. Bayly,
C.B., 14th Feb.,-Wusung toth Feb.
Clearances at the Harbour Office: Saikong, British str., for Samsu Yorikimi Maru, Japanese str., for Keelung Hotmioon, British str., for Canton, Loyal, German str., for Bangkok. Pak Kong, British str., for Canton, Hunan, British str., for Canton. Sultan von Langkat, Dutch str., for Amoy, Onsang, British sir, for Yokohama, City of Peking, British str., for Shanghai, ; Hong Wan British str., for Amoy.
China
Singapore, &c..... Feb. 16th Port Darwin. &c... Feb...18th Yokohama & Kobc Feb. 22nd Coma.
San Francisco, &c. Mar. 12th Chingtu.....
Kobe & Yokohama Feb. 25th City of Peking...an Francisco, &c. April 30th
of Rio
San Francisco, &c. April 6th City Coptic.San Francisch, &c. April 13th Coromandel Europe, &c. Feb. 16th Deucalion
......Mar. 19th Diamante Doric
Duke of Fife.. Eastern Else
Emp. China Erop India Emp. Japan Esmeralda Eva Folmina Freiburg. Gaelic
Glaucus Glenogle Gymeric
Londin...... Manila
..... Feb. 18th San Franciscu,&c. Mar. 19th Victoria, BC......Mar. 15th
Sydney, &c
Yokohama'
Vancouver, &c......April 3rd
Manila
Partland, &c.
New York.
Feb. 27th
Feb. 18th
April 24th
Mar. 13th
Feb. 15th
Mar, 10th
Feb. 28th
Havre, &p.....Mar. 5th
San Francisco, &c. Feb. 23rd
Hamburg......Straits, &c.
Hongkong Marsan Francisco, &c Afar, and Ixion.....ondon.. Kasuga Maru Kinutschou
Liverpool......
Feb. 16th
Victoria, B.C. New York
Mar. 22nd
1Qk. desp.
June 13th
Mar. th
Sydney, &c.......... Feb. 22nd·. ......Straits, &C......
Mar. 6th
König Alliert Kweilin Marburg
Straits, &...
¡April 17th
Shanghai livre, e
Feb, 15th
Mar. 15th
May 29th
May 15th
May 152
Fch, aznd
Feb, 20th
Nippon Maru Sup Kancisco, &c. Mar. 28th Preussen mits, &c. Prinz Heinrich...Straits, &c. Prinzess Irene...Straits, &c. Rosetta Maru...Japan..... Sachsen......... Stmis, &c. Sado Mara... Marseilles, &e...... Feb. 22nd Sarnia
Havre, April reth Shanghai London........... (Feb. 21st? Sibina
Havre, &c. Mar.25th) San Diego, &c.
Strathgyle. Stuttgart Sungkiang TREON
Tamba Maru Victoria.
Mar: zoth Straits, &c.April 3rd ...Manila .......... Feb. 22nd
Mar. at
Victoria.. B.C.
Nagasaki, &c Victoria, D.C.
Feb. 16th Mar. 8th
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