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Co-day's Advertisements.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1901.

To-day's Advertisements.

HARMSTON'S THE HONGKONG ODD VOLUMES

CIRCUS

AND

ROYAL MENAGERIE.

LAST NIGHTS!

LAST NIGHTS

CHANCE OF PROGRAMME.

First appearance of the ELORONA BROTHERS

in the Great Aerial Bar Act, concluding with

the PERILOUS DIVE for LIFE from

distance of 50 feet into a net.

THE JANSONS JAJAX THE MARVEL.

THE SISTERS FREZAĜONDA.

THE LARGEST CIRCUS EVER IN HONGKONG.

GRAND FAMILY MATINEES.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH.

SATURDAY, MARCH 2ND..

Commence at 3.30, Children price to all Parts.

Door Open 2.30 PM.

WEDNESDAY EVENING,

FEBRUARY 27TH, 1901, COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT

SISTERS FREZAGONDA.

MONA. TESSIE, DOKA. DAISY. A HOST OF NOVELTIES.

THURSDAY EVENING,

AMATEUR RIDERS NIGHT. Open to all. A HANDSOME SOUVENIR to any gentleman who can ride standing or the back of a horse Three Timesaround the Circus ring without coming off. Those intending to compute will kindly send in their names. Each rider will have the assistance of the Mechanic for riding,

SOCIETY.

LECTURE.

[R J. J. FRANCIS, KC, has kindly

ADDRESS

the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, at the CITY HALL, on TUESDAY, the 5th March, at 5.15 PM, on "AN EXAMINATION OF THE

SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST."

The Undersigned will take the Chair. Ladies and Members of the Public are invited.

HENRY E. POLLOCK,

Hon. Secretary,

Hongkong Odd Volumes Society. [2470

Hongkong, 25th February, 1901.

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LIMITED.

TH

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE DIVIDEND) of 10% per Share and BONUS of 14% per Share for the Six months ending 31st December, 1900, declared at Monday's Urdinary Yearly Meeting, will be PAYABLE at the l'remises of the RosesONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, ON

Intimation.

On the 25th at 15.55 am. the barometer has risen on the China coast, fallen in the extreme North, High pressure covers China, and the A. S. WATSON & Co., depression has moved into the Sea of Japan.

LIMITED.

Gradients moderate with fresh monsoon on the coast, and strong monsoon in the N. part of the China Sex. Forecast :--Moderate N. winds; fine.

FOR THE

RACES.

CHAMPAGNE.

Jacquesson (Dry Marquetterie 1893.

Fils [Brut Naturel

1893.

Jules

¡Dry.

Munin

[Extra Dry.

E” WHISKY.

and after TUESDAY, the 26th February, Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky.

and Shareholders are requested to apply for. DIVIDEND WARRANTS at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, Queen's Building, Praya.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

THOS. 1. ROSE,

Secretary.

L

Hongkong, 25th February,

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

£3480

THE FIFTEENTH YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the Club will be held in the CLUB HOUSE, on TUESDAY, the 5th March, 1901, at 5 P.M.

By Order,

C. H. GRACE, Secretary.. Hongkong, 4th February, 1901. [2496

PONIES! PONIES!! PONIES !!!

THE Undersigned will hold their Annual

Sale of RACE PONIES on WEDNESDAY, the 6th March, 1901,.

at 3 P.,

Box Office Plan:-ROBINSON, PIANO Co., Opposite the CTY HALL, when upwards of Queen's Road.

POPULAR PRICES.

SOLDIERS and AILORS of ALL NA- TIONALITIES admitted to CHAIRS and STALLS HALF-PRICE.

ROBELT LOVE...............Manager.

Col. Chas. B. Hicks......Representative. Hongkong, 23r4 February, 1901.

THEATRE

So PONIES will be offered. Entries will be received until Noos on Day

of Sale.

TERMSAs Usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 25th February, 1901. (2500

[6.4¢

ZETLAND

ROYAL.

BOXING TOURNAMENT.

(Open to All-Comers, in decide the Bond fide Championships).

25TH FEBRUARY, 1ST & 2ND MARCH.

Under the Management of Mr. C. T. ROBINSON,

VALUE OF PRIZES, OVER $2,000.

GIGANTIC ENTRIES.

PROGRAMME

OF

FIRST SERIES. 16 BOUTS

SEE POSTERS

AND

716

HAND BILLS.

BOOK SEATS EARLY.

LATE TRAM and LAUNCH will leave

hour after Each Performance,

POPULAR PRICES.

Do.

STAGE RESERVED SEATS......$10 Season,

Do.

44 per Night. .$3 and $2. ..$1.

DRESS CIRCLE

PITT

BOX PLAN NOW OPEN AT ROBINSON PIANO CO.

Hongkong, 25th February, rost.

A

LODGE,

No. 525, E.C..

REGULAR MEETING of the above LODGE will be held at the FREEMA- SONS HALL, Zetland Street,, on FRIDAY, the 1st March, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend. Hongkong, 25th February, 1901. (asic DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED:

FOR SWATOW. THE Company's Steamship

"THALES," Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Part, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 25th February, 1901, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

THE Company's Steamship

"HAICHING,"

Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 28th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 25th February, 1901. 12530

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED.

FOR FOOCHOW VIA SWATOW AND AMOY.

THE Company's Steamship

"ANPING MARU,"

154 Captain S. Atsumi, will be despatched for the above Port, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, at Daylight.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship

TH

"LIGHTNING,"

having arrived from the above l'orts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed

at once.

Cargo remaining on board after the 28th instant, at 2 P.M., will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Couds from alongside; such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vesse! will be landed and stored at Consignees'risk and

expense.

No Fire Insurance will be effecied. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Com Agents. Hongkong, 25th February, toot. · [as50..

ORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP

COMPANY:

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP GLENOGLE.”

FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO- HAMA, KORE, MOJI AND

SHANGHAL

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 25th February, 1901.

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED.

"B" BRANDY:

Guaranteed Pure Cognac.

PORT.

Of the Finest Vintages.

SHERRY.

Pure Xeres Wines.

AERATED WATERS. Absolutely Pure.

CICARS & GIGARETTES.

etc., etc., etc.

A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

MARRIAGE

At Hankow, on the 14th of February, 1951, by the Rev. Griffith Jehn, D., ALBERT LISTER

GUSTA WYLIE. L.M.S., Hankow.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE State entry of Queen Wilhelmina and her husband, Duke Henry, into Amsterdamn, has

en fixed for the 5th of March. LADA CURZON, with her daughters, says the Advocate of India will leave India for Eng- land, on the 23rd March per s.3, India. We note in the Government Gazette of the 23rd instant that Koto M. Shoshichi, Esq., is ampowered to act as Japanese Consul in Hong- kong.

with the finest ivory, the whole top being in is at Osborne House, and is entirely covered one piece, without tlaw or blemish. This is valued at two thousand guineas.

light on the China, coast, moderate with strong † Quaxx Marguerite of Italy, says a well-known HER late Majesty the Queen' possessed over a monsoon in the N. part of the China Sex home paper, recently assisted at the most hundred pianos, says the dfarning Leader, Tho Forecast-Moderate N. winds; fair.

pathetic function imaginable,' when she gave most beautiful is, perhaps, that kept in the audience to Signer Gianturco, and received white drawing-room at Buckingham Palace. from him the fatal bullet with which Brenci It has also historical associations. The case; killed King Humbert. This was extracted with its exquisite Vernis Martin decorations, from the body and used as evidence against originally belonged to one of Anne of Austria's the murderer. It was subsequently handed harpsichords. When it was suggested to the over to the Italian Ministry by the Public late Queen that the case could be safely trans Prosecutor. The widowed Queen expressed formed to her grand piano, she at first refused. wish to preserve the gruesome reliç, and it has to run any risk of spoiling the old harpsichord, solemnly been committed to hor keeping. but upon being assured that the task might be THE United States ship Kentucky minstrels she at last consented. The experiment was entrusted to expert workmen, without danger, gave a concert and entertainment on Saturday entirely successful. Another magnificent plano. full to excess, in all parts and the American night at the Theatre Royal. The theatre was sailors in many instances were noticed to give up their seats for Britishers. By nine o'clock there was scarcely a seat to be had, and when the Kentucky band opened the entertainment, practically every seat was occupied. The band played excellent music and was a decided at traction. The items were many and were very creditably dismissed. The performers were Messrs. Cloud, Johnson, Callan, Kavanaugh, McCarty, Walker, Sperlo, Ilrady, Vandubock, Hall, Kearns, Carruthers, Snyder, Dunham, Newman, McGrath, Farrington, Rattan and Gilbride. The latter gave a step dance in good style and a lot of fresh jokes were cracked along with the inevitable "chestnuts." selections by the band included the “Stars and Stripes for Ever" (Costello), and a selection from "Faust." A very successful conclusion was arrived at with a sketch entitled "The Managers Difficulties," immediately followed by "My Old Kentucky Home," rendered by the entire company,

RACE HOLIDAYS:-The Post Office will be closed at noon on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 26th, 27th, and 18th inst.,

respectively.

Tha Lady Superioress of the Italian Convent "begs to acknowledge the following subscription given for the extension of the Convent by C. Fresseli, Esq, $100.

THE late Lord William Leslie de in Por Beresford's will has just been proved in Eng land, by his widow and sole exccutrix the Dowager-Duchess of Marlborough, the value of the estate being £38,961 135. 7d.

THE Tokyo scandal case, says a Japanese pa per, is to be heard in the Tokyo Local Court on the 28th instant from foam. The space of the Local Court being limited, however, the public trial will probably be held in the Court of Appeal NOTICR is given in the Garitie that all persons claiming waste or uncultivated land, such as a hillsides and land covered with brushwood etc. will be required, if the claims are established to the satisfaction of the Land Court, to pay

Crown Rent for such land.

THE Shunpar on the 14th uito, celebrated its ten thousandth issue. The first publication et the paper took place at Shanghai on 30th of April, 1872,, and it has continued to appear daily since that date, with the exception of a few days at each Chinese New Year. LADY: "Well, what do you want?"

Tramp: "Leddy, believe me, I'm no ordinary beggar. I was at the front—"

Lady (with interest); "Really-" Tramp Yes ma'am ; but I couldn't make

GREIG, L.M.S., Yochou, to ELIZABETH AU anybody hear, so I came round to the back."

DEATHS.

On the 16th of February, 1901, at the Gen. eral Hospital, Shanghai, WILLIAM HAMBLIN, aged 24 years.

"At the General Hospital, en Sunday, the 17th of February, yol, GRORGE SAMUEL WILLIAMS, late 2nd Engineer ss. Fungsi, Red 26 years, son of Airs. J. T. Pearson and the late Captain W. Williams.

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1901,

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Punch.

As will be seen from our advertisement columns, Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C, will lecture at the City Hall, on Tuesday, the 5th prox. at 5.45 p., on An Examination of the situation in the rar East Ladies and members of the public are invited to attend the lecture. Mr. Pollock, K.C., will take the chair.'

THE retums of the number of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ended 24th February are:-

Non-Chinese Chinese

Library. Museum.

285 37

07 9.577**

Totals... 363 9,674

THE F. and O. steamer Plasty, due bere on

THE OPERATIONS IN BRITISH the 1st of March, with the outward English

SOUTH AFRICA.

Lownow, February and De Wet is close to the Orange River, his objective being Griqualand West. Col. Plumer is pursuing.

mail of the 1st February, is a new and a sister- ship to the Assaye and Sodraon, and she is on her maiden trip to Singapore and the Far East. She connected at Colombo with the Britannia. She has on board a large number of passengers for the different ports of call

A BANGKOK paper says Dr. Halkin, á savant of Liege, is to visit Siam on a tour of geogra phical and ethnographical exploration on be half of the. Belgian Government. He arrived at Singapore from Penang recently. After China, and the vast expanse of Siberia from visiting Siam he proceeds to Japan, North Vladivostock to Moscow and St. Petersburg,

The invadere everywhere in Cape Colony are retreating northwards. Since entering the Colony, De Wet has lost 35 killed and $5 prisoners and many of his men have deserted. General Methuen has expelled 1,400 Boers from a strong position near Vetpan, British casualties 57, including three officers killed. The Boers suffered severely. The Boers have captured another train loadA LONDON press dispatch of 35th Jan, says: "The Russian Admiral Alexieff has protested of food stuffs at the Klip river.

against the despatch of the British gunboat. Plover to dislodge pirates from Elliott and Bloude islands. Admiral Seymour has refused to admit Admiral Alexieff's contention that these Islands, which are eastward of the Liaotong Peninsula, are Russian territory, and refers the question home."

#1

LATER.

(2540 LOSS OF THE P. M. 8. S, CO.'S

STEAMER CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO.".

FOR TAMSUI VIA SWATOW & AMOY. THE Company's Steamship THE

Captain K. Sobajima, will be despatched for the #MAIZURU MARU,"

at Daylight. above Port, on SUNDAY, the roth March,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, z5th February, root. [2260

•

EYE SIGHT.

Mr N. LAZARUS, Occuilst-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16, Queen's Road Central

(R. HOUGHTON & Co.)" "(Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL), . Business hours: A10 P.M.

די

GREAT proportion of cataracts

The City of Rio de Janeiro from Hongkong and Yokohama to San Francisco struck a

harbour. Many lives are lost, Mr. Wildman, rock and sunk outside San Francisco United States Consul General at Hongkong, Mra. Wildman, and children are among the missing.

THE forty-sixth annual report of the Wesleyan

of Great Britain have spent nearly £12,000,000 that during the last half-century the Methodists Chapel Committee, issued last mouth; states

in the erection of places of worship, schools, mansès, organs, and on enlargement and re- novation schemes, in addition to clearing off debt amounting to £2,634,336. Exclusive of great mission schemes ip contemplation, not- ably in London and Liverpool, the Connexional Chapel Committee has sanctioned LONDON, February, 23rd. ·

further A Further particulars of the loss of the "Rio comprise nearly to new chapels, which will outlay of £451,047, on some 387 cases, which de Janeiro" states that the ship struck in a still further increase the sitting accommodation fog with the pilot on board and sank inby 21,500. M twenty minutes. Great confusion prevailed

THE LOSS OF THE “RIO DE JANEIRO."

THE military Headquarters Office here have and several hoats were capsized, 122 lives received instructions from the War Office, to were lost, #4 Saloon

passengers, 19 Officers, despatch to Peking at an early date about four and 43 Asiatic passengers Seventy-nine hundred and fifty men of the Royal Welsh

A diseases affcoring those ad faciat and were saved, including za Cabin, 15 Asiatic Fusiliers to reflere the Australing contingent

occur to those having somo deficiency in the passengers and 11 Officers, The deaths of The above Steniner having arrived, Con-Eye Strain ending in serious forms of disease. confirmed. Capt. Ward sank with the ship.

construction of the eyes the many years of Mr. and Mrs. Wildman and children are signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send Glasses specially adapted in youth to those in their Bills of Lading for countersignature requiring them save and preserve the sight. and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignces' risk and expense. That

**DODWELL & Co., LIMITED,

2515 February, 100 LIN

WEATHER REFORT

The Observatory report says:-

Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, wenk eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi- ente a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Classes only to correct and carefallen quickly in the North, and is little changed

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES. only after testing the sighti

ADVICE FREE.

On the 24th at 1.55 am. the barometer has

which has been stationed in Peking since the relief of the Legations, and is now to return home. The relieving force will be made up of about one hundred and ten inen from B. D, F. and G Companies of the Fusiliers; and will be under the command of Major Everitt. They are to be retained as a part of the permanent departure urs being rapidly pushed forward. Legation Quard, and preparations for their

in the South Pressure is lugh over S. China, It is expected that the men will leave for the and low

The

IN every parish in the United Kingdom arrange- numbering of the people on the last day of ments are now being pushed forward for the March. The Registra-General is sparing neither pains nor expense to make the forth coming census as complete as possible. Desir ing that neither a house nor a person should be overlooked, he has issued his instructions to the local registrars and the enumerators. Coupled with these is an incentive in the shape of a promised bonus for good work. As the burden of responsibility for accurate returas rests on the shoulders of the registrars, they will receive "an additional bonus of sixpence reward, however, is to be given at the sole dis. per hundred names, counting from zero," This cretion of the Registrar-General It applies only in those cases whore "the registrar has, by attention in the arrangement of enumera- tion districts, by care in the selection and supervision of enumerators, and by accuracy in the revision of their work, facilitated the com; pilation of the census returns at the Central Office." The bonuses will be distributed as soon as work at the head office shows whether

the registrar has acquitted himself well. An increase in the pay of enumerators is also sanc tioned by the Treasury.

A BOXING Championship Tournament, under the management of Mr. C. T. Robinson, is advertised to take place on Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Theatre Royal. The following is the programme ---

FIRST SERIES.

Feather weights (136 lbs.)

1. T. Lawless, z. D. Davis,

Band, R.W.F. "E" Co.. R.W.F. Middle weights (158 lbs.)

2. Thos. Phillip, . W. S. Bailey, H.M.S.Argonaut. Hongkong,

Light weights (140 lbs.) 3. T. Baddeley, W. Thomas,

Sapper R.. "B" Co., R.W.F.

Heavy weights.

4. Jack Gorman, 2. Bob Savidge,

Harmston's Circus. H.M.S. Goliath, 10 Minutes' Interval.

Feather weights,

5. J. H. Brihn, W. Howard,

U.S.S. Brooklyn.— RAM.C.

-- Middle weights.

6. E. Mansford, v. J. Bums,

H.M:S. Argonaut. U.S.S. Albany..

Light weights.

7. Geo. Smith, v. W. Foster, R.M.L... FI.M.S. Centurion. H.M.S. Terrible.

Heavy weights. 8. McMurray, Corp. Aldridge,

25 S: R.A.

39 S. R.A. to Minutes Interval. Feather. weights. 9. T. Mathews, C. A. Bowley,

Band, R.W.F.

Taikoo. Middle weights. 10. Sergt. Jones, v. E. C. Duffey,

R.W.F.

U.S.S. Brooklyn. Light weights.

11. Thos. Phillip... Sandford,

H.M.S. Argonaut. "B" Co., R.W.F.. Heavy weights.

12. J. H. Tibbs, v. W. S. Bai'ey,

U.S.S. Brooklyn. Hongkang,

10 Minutes Interval, Featherweights.

13. J. Veir, (Serg.). W. II. Creasey, H. M. Dock Yard, Siege Train.

Middleweights.

14. J. W. Newman, Bob Berwick

H.M.S. Terrible.

Taiko,

Light weights. 15. T. Harvey, R.M.A. 2. J. Kinzay,

H.M,S. Tamar',' U.S.S, Bennington

Heavy weights.

16. A, Monk, v. Sergt. G. H. Morriss,

R.W.F.

Indian Seige Train.

· RESERVES,

Gunner G. Mercado, 25 5. *.G.A.

T: Webster,

H.M.S. Centurion, Pie. R. Jones,

R.W.F.

Pie. J. Sullivan, Pie. P. Walters,⠀

Middle weighs-Ceo. Smith,

RW.F.

H.M.S. Centurion. W. G. Green,

H.M.S, Endymion, Light weights-W. Barrett,

Sapper ha

Heavy wel

Plc. B. Moore,

C. Morriss,

AO.C

C Co., R.W.F.

−11. Dāvis,

D. Jones,

MR.W.F

A. Smart, A

^R.WF.

Gr.. G. Barrets

THE following verses appear in the Wei-hai- Lyre, on the subject of the mails for that place

A

A LOST.

I met a man in Seymour Street

Who passed the time o' day, And inter alia remarked

The mail comes in to-day."

This happened soine three weeks ago,

Since then we haven't met;.

I fancy he's avolding me;

We haven't got it yet.

It may be he spoke honestly And feels a littld shama; In having spoken airily

Of mails that never cama.

The Sun gets up, the Sun goes down,

The daylight grows and fails;

The Haimun ploughs the Chefon track,

But never brings the mails.

Perhaps in some remote decade There'll come to Wei-hai-hai

A steamer, Crammed from bow to stern,

With mails that want astray.

been intending for some time past to make a SAYS Daybreak in Sport and Gossip:—I have pilgrimage to the new French road, of which I hear excellent accounts. The method of buying the graves has, I host, had much to

commend it.

looking upon coffins after they have been used Our French neighbours, not

as a marketable commodity, decided that the sum of three dollars a cothin was enough to be paid, the coffin being removed to ground close at hand. The result of this arrangement was that the Chinese did a big deal in coffins, small ones especially, and a leg or an arm or any portion of the human anatomy was sufficient for this little move after a time, and then made it each coffin. Our French friends tumbled to so much a head, or rather a skull. This, how- Ningpa, which were intended to bring the sum ever, brought some consignments of skaits from of three dollars each from the, coffers of the French Municipal Council, but the Celestials U. P. for the present and little luxuries that it were caught in the act. The little game is all

was hoped might be obtained for China Now

Year will not be forthcoming.

THE LOSS OF THE "CITY OF RIO."

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

As reported in our Extra on Saturday, Mr. Whiley, the manager of the Sperry Flour Co. in Hongkong, received a wire to the effect that the City of Rio de Janeiro had sunk off Fort Point, close to San Francisco. It was reported at first that all passengers were safely landed, but a later wire to Mr. Whiley said that several lives were lost. It is now feared that the loss is very heavy, mild the Reuter's telegram received, in the Colony on Saturday afternoon, reporting the loss of Consul-General Rounavelle Wild- man and family, is confirmed.

Great sympathy is felt for Mr. Aldritch, Mrs. Wildman's brother, and acting U. S. Consul in this Colony. Mr. and Mrs. Wildman had with them their two children, a little boy and a girl only about eighteen months old.

Mr. Wildman was the author of several books on Chinese and Malayan subjects, and quite recently had published the amusing"Told in the Sanctum. He was also much interested. in the Phillipines question, and was considered an authority on Phillipine, matters by the Americans. Mr. Wildnian was a member of the Hongkong Club, where, and in the Colony generally, he will be greatly missed.

The captain was W. Ward, who had been in the Pacific Co.'s employ for many years. The City of Rio was a fine iron four-masted steamer, of 3540 tons, and was built in 1878. The full list of casualties is not yet known.

We are informed that Captain Ward entered. the service as a cadet in 1874, and has been in active service since then. The Rio left Yoko- hama on the and inst,

"CITY OF RIO PASSENGERS SAYED.

HONGKONG. February 25th. We have been courteously informed by Mr. 1.5. Van Buren, agent in Hongkong for Pacific Mail Go, that he is advised by cable that the following Cabin passengers who were on board of the City of Ria, have been saved,

Mr. Brander, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Harpen, Mr Secht, Mr. Holtz, Mr. Alcott, Miss Herian and Mrs. West. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Castle of San Francisco and Mr. Klose, late of Messr Arnhold, Karberg and Co., who were passengers from Hongkong, left the ship in Japan and did not proceed to San Francisco..

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS, Another successful entertainment was given to a fair "number of spectators on Satur... day night The Company now advertise. their farewell performances and, after such"; good reception as they have enjoyed from the first performance to the Inst, their concluding exhibitions will no doubt be of much merit. The Chinese were never tired for the first week or so but as the cold. increased, they., probably preferred to miss a good thing than to be shivering up in the gallery. However, the Europeans in the boxes have always been numeroas and altogether, the Circus has been very popular during its stay in the Colony An altered pro gramine is to be presented this week; and on Wednesday night the Sisters Frezagondas taketheir benefit. On Thursdaya riding contest in the ring will take place and there is bound to be a good audience on these occasions. In addition to the other alterations, the Eldrona! Brothers make their first appearance as trapeze artistes, and from what we hear of them their performance is well worth seeing CAPA The Sisters Frezagonda certainly have de served well of the public for their first-class and varied dancing. The Brothers Eldrona will also appear and give an exhibition of their wonder ful dive into the net from a height of fifty feet Several other changes of programme are also advertised S

On Thursday evening the 28th inst. There will be an Amateur Riding Competitions apen