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RATS ON THE PARADE GROUND.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1901.

CONSERVANCY OF THE

WHANGPOD RIVER.

Mr. Van Cüylenburg asked for bail on behalf | oepulture, and we are able to establish the of Singaram, on the grounds that the prisoner was not mentioned in the information.

Mr. Fort opposed.

Mr. Van Cuylenberg said this prisoner du

appear to have taken any active part in the offences and no money was found in his posses- sion. The information did not disclose that he took any active part in the robbery; the man Abdul Kader appeared to have done it all

Mr. MacArthur, and officer Esmeralda, is promoted 1st officer, of that ship.

Mr. Johnstone, sails as and officer of the Esmeralda. '.

June 24th.

Mr. Gibson, chief officer of the Hallan, has been transferred to the Haileung in the same capacity...

June 25th.

Mr. Fraser ex 3rd mate of the Diamante is promoted 2nd mate. home on leave.

Capt. Ramsay of the Diamante is going

A. B.

that the man was of a fair skinned race, ttle is known of this race at present, but Bail was allowed in the sum of $2,000. th latest discovery will doubtless stimulate Mr. Van Cüylenberg also asked for bail for at simplify conjecture. In any case it is cer Katchie Mydin.

th that we can now behold by far the most arent man ever yet seen in the flesh. The ingination almost reels at the abyss of time Of all the the lies between us and him. bolay makers who visited the museum Easter and thronged round the dead he held quite a laves every day and suspected that they day--very few The Magistrate refused to grant bail.

e looking at a man whose life was ended

Mr. J. Evans has gone chief officer of the Mr. Lowell asked for bail on behalf of Abduls before the time of Abraham, thousands of Bakar. The only offence against this prisoner, fars before the date assigned to Adam by their short is acting chief officer of the he said, was forgiving the keys to another tamblical chronology of Archbishop Ussher Haitan. by and the charge was for retaining 23 keys he date thus assigned 10 Adam is 4004 B.C the property of the Hongkong and Shanghai w the great Pyramid was built by Chufu, Bank. Bail refused..

Cheops, about 3700 years B.C. But Chufu

Mr. Atwood, recently on sick leave, bas gone. a King of the IVth Egyptian Dynasty, 3rd officer of the Hailong. hich was probably at least one thousand

Mr. Fairfield, has been appointed supernu- ars later than Moncs, the first King of ypt. Maspero in the Dawn of Civiliza-mary and officer of the Hailen. ti," and in this is supported by Chabast, cosiders that the Egyptions were in the valley ofthe Nile anything from eight to ten thou sal years before the Christian Era. And although it is not necessary to assert that the per-light-haired fair skinned race entirely dis. appeared at their enrsing, it gives us some ide of the most awful antiquity of the man whose body now lies in Bloomsbury, a man of It awakent curions re- the Nedith period. flections-Isian

The following letter from F. E. Major Gen-

"SHANDHAI, June, 20th. eral Gascoigne, to. H. H. the Governor with

The Boxer trouble was no exception to other other correspondence, was laid before the ill-winds and one of the most substantial ad- vantages which it has brought in its wake is Sanitary Board at to-dhy's meeting:

My attention has been called to a statement, no doubt the fact that we are within measur made in the China fail & last evening (17)able distance of having our river properly cannot

served by a regularly constituted Board. Had in which it is said that it is believed that a very large number of rats have been found in the not the Foreign Powers got the upper hand of New Parade Ground &c. &c. This is in eon China by reason of her last year's madness, the tinuation, no doubt, of some utterances of Dr. probability is that the state of the question, which was first mooted by the Shanghai Cham- Clark at a recent meeting of the Sanitary Doard, As your Excellency is aware I at the time didber of Commerce in 1898, would have been Ast quite endorse the views entertained by how, in the same position as it was at its inception. The people who could consider Dr. Clark and requested that the matter might receive further attentina. Owing to an accident the Woosung Bar as a heavenly sent barrier, my memo to your Excellency was not brought would not be likely to realise the fact that up before the Board and as time elapsed Shanghai as a scaport is doomed to certain

Mr. Battenburgh, applied that the bail raised thought it best to it the matter drop. But extinction if nothing is done speedily to prevent now that the matter has again cropped up the silting up of the river which is slowly bit from $2,000 to $10,000 in the case of Nina Pil- would request your Excellency to bring the steadily going on before their very eyes. Inlay, might be reduced. The $3,000 found on matter up for full inverigation. It is not for fact the last two or three P. & O. steamers had the prisoner were not notes belonging to the a moment suggested that Dr. Clark has made Oitter Bar. However, as things have turned

to lighten a good dent in order to get over the Hongkong and Shanglini Bank, but Govern-

ment notes, and prisoner's own money. his statement loosely ar carelessly. What is

The Magistrate don't feel inclined to contended by Major Williams (in charge of out, the Chinese will no doubt be given the the Tarade Grothe) is that Dr. Clark has opportunity very soon of taking the Bar back alter my decision.

to where, as they would have us believe, it been misinformed by his people as to the

umount of rats found, ia the immediate came. neighbourhat. Major Williams' contention is that if rats in any number were found in the neighbourhood he must have seen them, where- as, with all the search possible made after his attention had been drawn to the matter, he has not seen them: ne'ther have they been seen in any numbers in Murray Barracks. Only one dead rat has been found on the Parade Ground during the last eight months. Major Williams is living in a tent on the Ground; and it would be impossible for rats to be there in any numbers without his sening them.

Our contention in that the people from whom Dr. Clark has received his information have misled him.

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I would certainly desire, therefore, that at tention be drawn to this

A Minute from Dr. Chuck was attached a under ---

The Inspector of the district reports that, during the fast two months over 2,200 dead rats have been found in the neighbourhood of the Raul Ground and the Cricket Grend. This averages over 36 a day. Further comment is, I think, needless. There rats were collected within a radius od 200 yards of the Parade Ground. If we count only those from the City Hall, Government Offices, Murray Barracks and Beatonsfield Arcade, they total 1080 for the two months, or uver 17 per day.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not perņas pily endorse the opinions expressed by " Corenspoelenty, marlik columaj

PROPOSED REOPENING OF

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.- rome Exer 199 **fee loose Trurguari."

Mr. Van Cüylenberg applied for prisoner Papanali. This woman, he said, was the son who gave the whole game away.

Bail was allowed in the sum of $500. Katha Purinal and Mutu Kamaran were admitted to bail in suing of $2,000 and $10,000 repectively.

All the other prisoners were remanded in custody, and the case was postponed for a week.

BAMBOO SEED FOR FOOD.

We take the following notes from the Indian Forester-

The history of the conservancy question is hilly this. In 1898 the Chamber, having re. cewed some official encouragement, appointed committee to draw up asscheme. This com- mitteg at once set to work and discussed the question in all its bearings, not only with all the representatives of the shipping interests here, but also with merchants and others who-Straits Times. could give sound views on the subject. The Consular Body was also approached and the question fully discussed. The outcome of all this was that a very comprehensive and feasible scheme was drawn up and submitted to the Con suls. These gentlemen deemed some alterations necessary and made recominendations accor- A great deal of dis. dingly to the Chamber. cussion then ensued until in April, 1889, the find scheine was drawn up, approved by the Consular Body and sent on to Peking. In due course a reply came from the Ministers to the effect that they felt bound to consult their re- The spective governments in the matter. Chamber thes applied to the good offices of kindred institutions in the principal European capitals in order to get the scheme sanctioned The Chamber waited a year and not hearing again from Peking wrote to the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps in June, 1900, enquiring It..appears about the fate of the scheme.

that this letter never reached Peking and the probability is that it was seized by the Boxers. Thetrouble was now raging and 'noth- ing further was done until last spring, when an- other letter was sent by the Chamber reminding the Ministers of the correspondence regarding the Conservancy scheme. Shonly after this Mr. Hewett, than whom no one has a better graso of the question or has taken more in derest in it--went North on a short holiday and when at Peking met all the Ministers with the

with them in his capacity of Chairman of the Council and Vice-Chairman of the China As- sociation. Among the numerous questions dis cussed, of course the Conservancy scheme took precedence, and the income of these discus- sions was the appointment of five Ministers to form a committee on the Whangpoo Conser vancy Question,

It would not appear to be yery, generally known that the seed of the bamboo is not only fit for consumption by man, but that in this corner of India, it is being collected and so consumed to an extent sufficient to ameliorate a very pronounced local scarcity. How far outside the Dharwar district the seeding is tak ing place I am unable to say, I undoubtedly extends some distance into Kanara. Here two talukas are alone involved. In them it is rarely possible to meet with a single culm pot under going the process. The approximate area may be stated at 75,000 acres, extending fifty iniles from north to south, along belts three to eight miles broad. It is generally admitted in this area that but for this prolific seeding, owing to the great scantiness of the rainfall during the past two seasons, the poorer classes would have been hard pressed.

NO TANDA.

CALENDAR..

JUNE.

Meteoiogical means based on fifteen years'

***" observations in 1898.“,

Bamfeter Thenjometer

Humdity. Rain!

TO-DAY,

WEATHER REPORT.

..29.763

.80.7

.:83.0

16 496

On date . Un date an

TO 2.11.

Baromter.. Tempoiure Humidy Raint...

20 Sn

29.73

+85

83

74

78

-0.07

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TO-DAY. Tursday, 27th June, 1901, Chinese-th of 5th moon of 27th year of

Sun As......

St... High wer-forning, Afternoon.

Low wter-Afternoon

Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES,

shr. somin..

Mr. C. Walker, late, 3rd officer of the Hai- Loong, is promoted and officer of the Haitan.

June 26th.

The officers of the s.5. Tsinan are, Captain Q. Anderson, chief officer C. Webb, 2nd A Burn, 3rd J. Carle, chief engineer J. Runcit, and M. Murray, 3rd F. Maquire, 4th J. Smythe chief steward J. Wilson.

SKIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

FLAMS PER

French (Anuam) zad-prox. American (1,77e of Peking! 4th prox. Camdian (Empress or Yapon) gilt prox. American (Guelic) 12th prox. American (Hongkong Maru) 20th prox.

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The Silk ex N: P. S. 5. Co.'s steamer Tacoma arrived at New York on the zaud-inst.

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The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer Athenian left Yokohama for Vancouver on the afternoon of Wednesday, 20th inst.

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer Coptic, will be despatched for San Francisco via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Inland Sea, Yokohama and Honolulu, on Tuesday September toth at noon.

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The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking, with Mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 6th inst, via Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to morrow moming pi Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS. Arethusa .....................

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SIR,--Will you permit me to earnestly entreat exception of M. Pichon, and discussed matters cidentally draw attention to the old Hrahmin 1858-Traty between France and China signed. Australian

ta heg-ta pray intendag occupants noi, to resume reskience it Beaconsfield Arcade for a further periost of at least three months. This entreaty on my part is in a public duty.

Yours, etc.

** BURO," Hongkong, June 26th, 1991.

AT THE MAGISTRACY.

A CREDITABLE ARREST. Kwak fling was charged by R. Adlington P. C. 6 with being in unlawful possession of mund-assaulting in the execution of his

duty.

Mi. flewett left Peking three weeks ago with every hope that the question would be soon. definitely settled. but from the telegram which appeared in our last night's issue it seems that some important question, and not mere details as we nu asked to believe, has cropped up, perhaps some unexpected obstruction on the part of the Chinese authorities.

-The-Chambes,wo-understand, on the receipt. P. C. 61 sworn, in said at about 6.40 h.m. is of the telegram from Peking felt some diffidence in asking Mr. Hewett to proceed again to Pe morning I was on duty on the Praya East. saw some men landing coat out of a boating, but as there is no other member who has on to the Praya. As soon as they saw me, one better command of the subject, the Chamber shouted Sergeant and they ran away, I hearded-very wisely concluded to trust to Mr. Hewett's The defendants bat and was knocked by him proved public spiritedness and invite him to undertake the mission: And they were not fer into the harbour with a boat hook. 1 hung on to the boat for about yards and climbed wrong in their trust. On being asked this morning by a representative of this paper aboard caught hold of defendant but he

whether he could spare the time from his own got away and jumped into the water and was

work and that of the Council, which must have arrested subsequently on the boat. There were

accumulated a good deal during his late 40 balties of coal.

absence, Mr. Hewen simply replied, "1 am afraid I will have to go.”

The defendant stated he got the coat while shrimping and the constable fell into the water when he tried to board the bunt.

Mr. Hazeland sentenced the defendant un the first count to 14 days! hard labour and on the 2nd three weeks, sentences to be con secutive.

STRALING CLOTHES. Leung Shui, a seaman on the s §. Flatshire was charged with stealing $250 worth of clothes. Walter Henderson and Police Cons stable og gave evidence, and the defendant was sent to gaol for one mouth.

SUN YAT SEN'S SCHEMES,

Among the arrivals in Yokohama by the America Maru was Mr. Sun, says the Koke Herald of the 19th inst, the wellknown Chi- nese reformer. He came immediately from Honolulu, where he has been visiting his family for some months. According to Reater telegram, which has appeared in the foreign press, Mr. Sun Yat-sen stated in fon olulu that he aimed at the overthrow of the Empress Dowager and her Mandarins and is backed by a strong fores

in conversation in Yokohama on Monday with a representative of the Japan Gazette, while not denying the truth of this statement and indeed confirming its substance. Mr. Sun Yat-sen stated clearly that he did not wish to talk politics:

"things will be worse in China before they are better," he said oracularly "I think before very long." Just now everything is unsettled and I have not had time to inform myself thoroughly since my arrival of the latest news from China. 1 do not think the Chinese Court has any sincere intention of returning to Pek- ing, but will probably take up its position at some other point than Sian, where i will have closer communication with the Yangize.

We are informed by the Secretary that the Chambers received the telegram, referred to in our yesterday's issue, requesting that a member of the Chainder be sent to Peking as soon as possible in order to confer with the Committee of Ministers about some matters of detail in the Whangpoo River Conservancy scheme, after 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning and it was acted upon at once. Of course we did not imply that the Chamber had not replied to the telegram as any one of ordinary intellect would conclude, but we did imply that up to the time of going to press no member of the Chamber had started for Peking.-Mercury,

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK

: ROBBERY.

POLICE COUNT PROCEEDINGS. AT SINGAPORE.

At the Police Court on the 20th inst., the 14 prisoners arrested in connection with the theft of notes and gold to the value of over $270,000 from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, were arraigned befofe Mr. Michell.

Mr Fort appeared for. the police, and asked that the case might be postponed for a week. A certain portion of the money, he said, bad been found at Colombe, and on Monday last a telegram was received from India stating that one of the persons implicated had been arrested there. It was impossible to bring this man before the Court for some time.

The Magistrate Has all the property been recovered?

Mr. Port replied that not the whole, but the greater portion, had been recovered; there were from eight to ten thousand dollars still missing, The man arrested in India was one of the chief persons wanted. Mr. Font asked for postponement for a week only, and he would then be able to say what definite charges would be framed against the prisoners.

Mr. Delay asked for bail for two of the prisoners, Ana Nana Nohamed and Kayder "As to the chins of the rival nations in Mydin. Their names were not mentioned in China, it is clear that England and Russia the information of the case, and they were only hoth profess friendship from interested motives. | charged with receiving, not with taking part in Russia wants an ouiler for ber railway and the theft. No evidence had been given against England wants to increase hertrade. Germany tiem, and no information laid to say what bas also trade interests. Of course Russia is was the charge, nor was any specific sum closer ethnologically than other nations, but | mentioned. I would not advise China to trust to her professions of friendship. England's attitude is more aboveboard and the opening of China to trade would be mutually beneficial think that Japan could have great influence in China by the "friendly introduction there of modern methods through the similar language and customs of the two countries,

The Inspector in charge of the cave replied that the charge against the prisoners was that of receiving $3,000 of the stolen money.

Mr. Delay The prisoners were abt arrested on a warrant,

1,

1837-Canpore massacre.

1566-TE 8.5. Prince Albert confiscated by the British Consul and Customs at Canton. 1870-F! of Clarendon died.

The fact that there has been an unprecedented deficiency in the rainfall over a tract of country which is almost invariably well favoured in this respect, leading in its turn to a sudden seeding of the bamboo, is significant and of interest; but with this aspect of the question I am not at present concerned'except in so far as to in-

saying, "When the bamboo produces susten ance we must look to Heaven för food.". The purely local infubitants are not the only ones who are taking advantage of the present situa-1596-Sicide of the Rev. Nestor de Castilho tion. The news has spread far and wide info

fat Macao. territories where forests do not exist, and

1897-Loss of the Russian ironclad Ganjul in the influx of the people represents a serious factor in the preservation of the reserves from fire: It is a common thing to see cart-loads of immboo grain plying along our roads where but a short while back gmin in any form was at a premium. As it seemed doubtful whether any attempt to place a check on this wholesale removal would succeed on the one hand, or be desirable on the other, no action is being taken to arrest it,

When the seed is ripe, a very slight shaking of the already dry stems is sufficient to induce it to fall plentifully. The flour is either mixed with rice or "jowari," or eaten by itself, prepared into the ordinary fla: cakes of the country, termed "chapatis." It is said by the natives to be sufficiently nutritious; and the mere fact that it is so largely collected shows it so to be. Nevertheless it would be of interest to ascertain what percentage of proteids' the flour contains, and where it would stand in the scale as a nourishing form of diet. It has been found that two women can collect about Bibs, of the seed in the day, which, after the removal of the husk and bran, is reduced to 6lbs. This quantity will make so cakes seven inches in diameter, or sufficient, it is said, to feed an able-bodied man for six days. It is interesting to note that the flour is being bartered in local markets by the poor for "chillies" and other condiments; but there is, so far, no recognised market rate. My horse, bullocks, goats and sheep refuse to touch the bran referred to, even when mixed with their ordinary grain. The seed is eaten raw under protest, but when cooked is more appreciated.

THE OLDEST MUMMY IN THE WORLD.

1

-the Baltic. 1898-Belgian contract to construct the Luhan

1899

Railway signed.-Egyptian Govern- ment refuse to allow Spanish fleet to ! re-coal.

E. & A. S. S. Co's steamer Airlie-

ground on Vermon Istand..

TO-MORROW,

Friday, 28th June, 1901.

Iris... Hailan...e

Colonics...... Munchen Simongan.. 'Marechal de Villars.

"

Cosmopolitan

Aberdeen

PASSED THE CANAL

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PassangersArrived,

Per Malatea, from Singapore-200 Chinese. Per Taishun, from Shanghai-Capt. Dawson, Per America Maru, from San Francisco, &c. Messrs. A. J. Bowie, J. W. Copmann, F. T. Dredge, G; McBain and servant, Johnson, R. L. Malcolm, O: S. Rothschild, S. Sudzuki, Dr. F. W. Foxworthy, Mrs. G. F. Herr, Licut, C. D. Herron, Misses B. Marley, M. Reese, Yu, Herigan, Mrs. M. Macondray, Dr. Milin, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rittig, Mr and Mrs. f. R. Shanks and 3 children, Mrs. Barrett, 2 children and governess, Mrs. M. Dell, Mrs. E, H.. Gale, Mr. and Mrs. J. D, Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. C. Palmer, Rev. and Mrs. G. J. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Vu and servant, 23 British Marines

and 127 Chinese.

Per apas, from Shanghai for London-and- Lieut. J. E. Lenche, and 59 Rank and File, R.E.

Departed.

Per Coptic, for Shanghai-Mr. A. Harper. Far Kobe-Lieut. Palmer. For Yokohama—. Mrs. M. L. Brutton, Miss M. Brution and amah, J. Henderson and John Moran. For San Francisco-Mrs. A. Jones and inlant, Messrs. Cunningham, W. R. Allison, and Capt. S. B. Thompson. For London-Messrs. A. P. Niewkamp and A. Van Ryn Van Alkemade.

Per Sachsen, from Japan for Port Said-Mr. A. Prochaska. For Genon-Dr. K. Osawa, Mrs, and Miss Dentici, Mrs. Monteggia, Messrs. H. Stock, A. Boettcher, and G. Kikuchi. For London-Miss Blakeway. For Antwerp--Mr. K. H. Karst. For Bremen-Dr. Scriba, and Messrs. Scriba, Jr., (2) From Shangbai, for Singapore-Mr. E. W. Nordin. For Genon- Messrs. Messing, von Reitzenstein, W. H. Stephens, von Richthofen, Otto Auz and A. L. Nickerson. For London-Messrs. A. B. Gas- 100, L. Wells, C. C. Capel, and Mrs. W. H. Stephens. For Antwerp-Messrs. Van Toll, and Lean Baesons. For Hamburg-Messrs. Wyneken, Wirth, Passavant, Knoetzis, von Alventleben, Koch, von Sanoma Jeltseli, von Kriegsheim, Fuhrmann, Vanel, Schmidt, Hem- pel, Marquard, and Adrian. For Colombo Mr. and Mrs. Saxion. From Hongkong for Singapore Messrs. Graf von Königsmark and Percy Scott. For Genoa-Capt. P. Brandt, Mrs. J. P. Cottam, child and servant, Comdr. Taussig, U.S.N., and Mrs. Gemahlin, Messrs. Z. Oppenheimer, H. Breckwoldt, "Cottam Jr, and Pierre de Langue. För London-Capt. Andrew Raniray.

SHIPPING REPORTS.

Capt, Patterson, of the steamship Taishun, from Shanghai, reports Moderate to fresh imonsoon weather throughout and showery.

Captain G. Kraeft, of the steamship Mara Kolb, from Moji, reports From Moji to Formosa Channel strong S. W. winds and sea, thence moderate S,W,, off Breaker Point wind hauled round through till NW, with heavy ES.E. swell, from Pedro Blanco to port fresh 5.W..

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Captain E. G. Andrews, of the steamship Malacca, from London and Singapore, reports: -Left London on May 18th, Singapore on June 21st, and arrived in 'port yesterday at 9.20 p.m. From Singapure to Hongkong experienced light variable winds and calms, fine weather with occasional showers of rain until noon on the 26th, thence, moderate to fresh S.W. winds to arrival. To the Southward of Macclesfield Bank, passed a large 4-masted, green painted sailing ship, bound Norilsward, name unknown.

STEAMERS EXPECTED.

Names.

From,

Outward-17th May-Rhein, Crusader, 28th May-Silesia, (German) Agamemnon, Imogene. 24th May--Min, Ranshan, Shirley. Pioneer. 31st May--Benalder. 4th June- Malacca, Glamorganshire, Acilia, Deuca tion, Kick. 7th June-Anniam, Kawachi Maru, Ballaarat, Arara, Jupiter, uth June Chiese 13th of 5th-inoon-of-37th-year of Kaisew, Kongsberg St. frene, Erzherzog,

Fraus, Ferdinand, Erica, Glenlagan, Glenroy. Benalder

Singapore 14th June-Bamberg, Patroclus, Ernist Annam men .......Singapore Simons 18th June-Antenor, Indus, Awa Indrapura Japan Afare, 21st June-Bingo Maru, Edderton. City of Peking. Japan 25th June-Magul, Neckar.

Empress of Japan. Vancouver......fuly 9th Homeward-14th June-Pyrrhus. 18th June Gaelic San Francisco...fuly 12th Hiroshima Maru... Bombay July 12th -Stuttgart, Banca, Dresden, Batuvia, Meri- dian, Oceano, Sillania. 35th June-Canten, Hongkong Maru... San Francisco...July 20th Preussen, Silvia.

Kwang-si

Sp-Riter

Skr. 1quin. Seis

bh. 47min. Hgh water-Morning. Chr. 15min. Afternoon....... phr, 57min. Low-water-Afternoon ..... thr, 24min. Afternoon ......11hr. 57min.

*ANNIVERSARIES. .

18-Coronation of Her Late Majesty Queen

Victoria. 1846-Blockade of the Canton River com-

menced.

18

Death of Lord Raglan, Commandern

Chief in the Crimea. 1874-Loss of the s.s. Lef Tek. 18-Loss of the s.s. Haiphong near Yoko

hama.

18-Third expedition to Manila lest Frisco,

-Earthquake in Italy. 189-Fight between guard boat and likin

station near Wachow.

AGENDA.

TO-MORROW. Dayight-N. Y. K. steamer Hitachi Maru

leaves for Marseilles and London.

4 p.-N. Y. K. steamer Rosetta Maru leaves. for Sydney and Melbourne via Manila etc.

(Abut)-P. & O. Co.'s steamer Malacca leaves

for Shanghai and Japan.

5 p.-C. M. Co.'s steamer Diamante leaves

for Manila.

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SATURDAY, 291h. (Albut)-P, & O. Co's steamer Japan leaves

for London.

2.30p.m.--Public Auction by Messrs. Hughes

Cano

and Hough at No. 17 Des Voeux Rd. Gymkana at the Happy Valley. ex Flinshire subject to rent.

SUNDAY, 30th.

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Arrivals at Home-11th June-Agamem- non, Hakata Maru, Serbia. 21st June In- dus, Prins Heinrick, 25th June-Ascania, Awa Maru, Konigsberg, Marburg,

Shipping.

Arrivals.

MALACCA, British steamer, 2,600, E. G. Andrews, 26th June, London. 18th May, and Singapore 21st June, General.-P. & Q. S. N. Co. ARISTEA, Austrian steamer, 2,208, G. MSco pinich, 26th june, Moji 19th June, Coal. -Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. "PELEUS, British steamer, 4,800, Asqueth, 27th June, Liverpool 5th May, and Singapore 22nd June, General,-Butterfield & Swire. MARA KOLB, German steamer, 2,700, G. Kraeft, 27th June, Moji 20th June, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.

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ANPING, British steamer, 1,158, H. Barlow,

27th June, Canton 26th June, General C. M. S. N. Co. NURNBERG, German steamer, 2,663, H. Mayer, 27th June, Shanghai 22nd June, General →→→Carlowitz & Co.

AMERICA MARU, Japanese steamer, 6,307, P.. H. Going, 27th June,--San Francisco 29th May, and Shanghái 24th Jans, Mails and General.-J. S. Van Buren. TAISHUN, American steamer, 1,216, Patterson, 27th June, Shanghai 23rd June, General. -C. M. 5. N. Co. HANSA, German sicamer, 1,200, Lorenzen, 27th June, Java 15th June, Sugar-Sander, Wieler & Co.

The most recent addition to the British Museum is perhaps the greatest wonder in that store-house of wonders. It is the body of a | Cargo ex Sunda subject to rent. man found in Egypt. This in itself is not so wonderful, for Egypt is a vast cemetery from which have been unearthed the bodies of men and women who lived and died ages before Rome was dreamt of, and amongst them the corpses of greatness fill many a page of history. We can look on the forms of Seti 1, Ramases 11, a Sesostris, the Pharaoh of the oppression and of Ramasis 111, and see, them as they were in life. But the dead man, whose body now lies, in the Upper Egyptian gallery, has an interest and an haportance all his own. For he was not an Egyptian, but one of a race, that inhabited the Nile valley before the Egyptian occupation. The body was found TheO. S. K. Co's steamer Daigi Mary leaves in a shallow, oval grave scooped in the sand. stone, and covered with slabs of unhewn stene. The hole was too short to permit of the body being laid at full length, and it Caro ex Heathburn subject to rent.. was accordingly placed in a curious posture, It lies on its left side leaning slightly forward. The face rests upon the two hands, and the H. K. V. Co.'s Promenade Concert at the CIINXIANG, British steamer, 1,269, E. Stringer, knees are drawn sharply up almost to the breast. Around the body are earthen jars which contained funeral offerings, and between the stomach and the thighs are deposited flint No T. K. Y. Co.'s steamer America Maru knives of neolithic pattern, the altitude is al-

leaves for San Francisco, via Shang-t most precisely that of human remains found in

hai, etc. the cemeteries of Ballas and Sakhara by Mr. Flinders Petrie We may indeed infer that they belonged to the same race, and that this was the ordinary mode of sepulture. --

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Volunteer Parade Ground.

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Non-P. & D. Co.'s steamer Chusan with mails etc., leaves for Europe. 12. p.m.Meeting of the Shareholders of the Hongkong Electric Company Ld., at

But the body under discussion possesses a value superior to the other specimens of his Pa race. For while the remains found at Brilas and Sakhara consisted only of bones, the body in the British Museum is in an almost perfect state of preservation. It was not inummified after the fashion so familiar to us from the Egyptian tombs, but has been preserved main-

The Magistrate-Are your clients prepared to give bail?

Mr. Delay-Yes, substantial bail if neces-ly by dessication, to which its having been cover

"But radical reform in China can only come sary.

ed with a thin coat of bitumen has contributed. through the sweeping away of the Manchu, The Magistrate said he would postpone the The body is quite uncovered and naked: dynasty and its corrupt officials and the adopcase for a week, and grant bail to the two pri- the legs and arts are shrunken to the tion of European methods in business and soners in the sum of $2,000 each,

mere thickness of the bone; the face has lost government administration. The Emperor is Mr. Battenburgh applied for bail on behalf most of the covering and flesh, and some por- probably a good man but weak. I was on the of Ana Nina Pillay, on the same grounds as tions of the scalp are gone. Much of it, how same steamsi as U. S Minister Conger and he set forth by Mr. Dolay, qu

ever, remains, still bearing a thick crop of curly agreed with me that the Emperor was weak The Magistrate Bail granted $2,000 reddish brown hair, while the torso, though very child he said. Li Hung-chang is an able. It was mentioned to the magistrate that $3,000 emaciated, is singularly little altered. We can man but too much infected with Manchu ideas of the money was found on the prisoner, and clearly see the wrinkles of the skin where the

form will come throghol the Mar

larged the bailte tocentral charle

'their offices.

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5- THURSDAY, 11th, D. I. Co.'s steamer Kiaulschow with mails etc, leaves for Southampton,

SHIPPING CAZETTE.

PHRA CHOM KLAO, British steamer, J,100, Morris, 27th June, Bangkok 21st June. Rice. Butterfield & Swire,

27th June, Canton 27th June, General Butterfield & Swire.

JAPAN, British steamer, 2,795, C. C. Talbot, 27th June, Japan 10th June, General- P. & O. S. N. Co.

Clearances at the Harbor Union Coptic, British str., for Macao: Flha Verde, Portuguese str., for Macao, Chunsang, British sir., for Bangkok, Hitachi Maru, fap ste, for Singapore. Pak Kong, British str., for Canton, Hoimoon, Britishi str., for Canton. Taishun, American str., for Canton, Juan, American stry for Haiphong. Saining, British str., for Wuchow. Sentili, French str, for Canton Nurnberg, German str., for Singapore

June 27, Sachsen, Gerotan str., for Europe future the Telegraph shipping form sup: June 27, Coptic, British Str, for San Francisco, plid to Captains of vessels will contain a

June 27, Clara, German gir, for Hoihow.. heading for, nolices of officers and engineers June 27, Elita Nossack, Ger. str., for Shanghai, transferred or on leave, etc. Friends will machJune 27, Chingri, Brit, transport, for Calcutta. oblige by giving this information

June 27, Tiola, Bruish transport, for Calcutta, June 27, Ula, British transpor, for Calcutta June 27, Irie, British transport, for Taku June 27, Muttra, British transport, for Taku

June 2200.25 Rattenbury, now in Hongkong, lakes command of the Diamante, the present contain

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their clerks to furnish this office, on the forpus mlready supi nifed gratia with the fatest wesilkbla information avary day,

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PROJECTED SAILINGS.

Ship.

-Destination.

Date.

Havre, &c. Acilia.

Aug. 9th Alcinous....... London... July 21td America Maru...San Francisco, &cifuly 4th.

.....july 3rd Anping Maru...Foochow

New York

Aug. 1st Bayern

Straits, &c. ............... July 25th Bengal Shanghai July th Bingo Mari ...Kobe & Yokohama July 18th Catherine Apcat. Singapore, &c...... July 3rd Chim......... San Francisco, &c. Aug. 6th Chinking oilo, &c. June 29th Chusan...... Europe, &c. July 6th City of Peking...San Francisco, &c. July 13th

San Fruteistu, &c. June 27th Coptic Daigi Maru Tamsui............... June 30th Diamante........Manila ...........................June 29th Doric San Francisco, &c.Aug. 15th Duke of Fife...... Victoria, B.C...June 28th Emp. China Vancouver, &c......ug 7th Emp. India

Aug. 18th ......July 171 Emp. Japan....... Gaelic .......... San Praselisen, &e July 23rd Glaucus...Liverpool July 15th Clenesk.

London..

July th Glengarry

London....... June 28th Glenagle...... Victoria, B.C......July 26th Hamburg ....... Straits, &c. ..... Oct. 16th Hiroshima Maru. Moji &c. July 16th Hitachi Maru... Marseilles, &c.... June 28th Hongkong Martan Francisco, &c. July 30th Hudson............ New York. Aug. 1st Idzumi Maru Victoria, B.C. ...... July 8th.. Indrani ........... New York ....July zoth London........... June 28th Japan....... Kaisow........ Victoria, B.C.......Ok, desp Kawachi Maiu... Kobe & Yokohama July 5th Kiautschou... Straite, &c. July 11th

· König Albert....Straits &c. Aug. 22nd LowillerCastle... New York July and Maidzuru Maru...Swatow, &c. June 29th Malacca Shanghai, &c. ...June 29th Nippon Mara...Sun: Francisco, &c. Aug. 24th Olympia Victoria, B.C........ July, 16th Per

San Francisco, &c. Ang, 31st Preussen Straits, &c ....... Oct. zud Prinz Heinrich, Straits; $er Sept 19th: Prinzess Irene Straits, &c. Sept, sth Frometheus...London) uly, 15th Queen' Adelaide. Victoria, B.C., July 8th. Rosetta Maru Sydney, &c. fuse 28th Sachsen. Straits, &c. Oct. 30th Sambia Havre &

July fath Silesia. Yokohama & Kobal une agth Stuttgart Straits, &c.

Aug. 8th Sungkiang

June 28th Taiwan

Port Darwin, &c... July 14th Taiyuan

Sydney, &c. Thales Tsinan...

Tunab

Wakna Maru Whampoa

Manila

fuly 6th:

Swatow, &CA June 30th

Yokohama, &c..

Haiphong

July and

Uns 28th,

cilles, &c....uly th