she has beby put through. From an outward view there does not appear to be as much as a plate of her dented, and within the ship a sight, a very slight leakage, in one of the holds, is the only thing to remind her ship'e company that she has been ashore. A little paint, perhaps, is scratcher of her sides, but there is nothing in her appearance to tell the spectator of the peril in which she has so lately sload.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1901.
Sherin County charged with fraud in connec on with the flutation of Pattisons (Limited), with obtaining £39,000 from the Clydesdale Bank for Patisons (Limited), which they appropriated, with showing false profit and loss accoubt, and with defrauding Archibald Arrot of a large quantity of whisky, on which he had advanced money in the belief that it was lying to his credit with Pattisons (Limited). They pleaded not guilty, and were remitted to the High Court för trial.
The French Navy.
The total number of new vessels to be can). menced, to be continued, or to be completed for the French Navy next year is 119: Iron: clads, 6; armour-plated crisers, to protected cruiser, torpedo-boat destroyers, 26; torpedo- boats, 42 and submarine boats 28. The French Naval Budget for 1902 provides for an expendi- ture of 12,483.918. as compared with the corresponding expenditure of £13,107,701 for 10. The reduction of £623.783 is rather apparent than real, being explained by the transfer of certain expenditure from the Ministry at Marine to the Ministries of War and the Colonies.
The U. S.
Why?
fishers intend to complain to the Spanish tion of their notable conduct in South Africa. Goveniment.
Our Unstable Earth. The comparative instability of the earth's sur- face and its possible response to the pressure of the atmosphere is supplied by the result of the researches made in Germany on the rising and sinking of the North Sea coast. The latest levels taken in the district near Hamburg have been found to differ from the accurate record of levels made fifty years ago to a remarkable extent. Urissder Hill has sunk nearly 5 ft. from the level determined 50 years ago. There are several causes to which these phenomena may be ascribed. Prof John Milne is of the opinion that an immense majority of earth tremors, and of (especially) minor earthquakes, as well as some of the major earthquakes are brought about by revolutions, gradual or sudden, in the unfathomed caves" of ocean floors, and it may well be that subsidences or elevations of sea shores are responsive to these movements,
Of the latter, Gunner Joseph Wright also served on shore during the recent operations in China. We may hope that one or two mid- shipmen who have served in China will also be among the early recipients of the Cross..
United States.
New York and most parts cast of the Rocky Mountains have suffered from the great heat- wave of extraordinary intensity, causing hundreds of deaths day. The mortality. among children at Pittsburg is unprece dented. The Chief of the United States Weather Bureau says on 3rd_alto.-"The present torrid wave will last three days at least, each day growing hotter and the death rate growing heavier. All weather records will be broken. There must be a storm centre or cool wave generating in the Rocky Moun tains to move the bank of hot air now hanging over the country. No storm is possible from either ocean. The thunder storms are mere breathing spells. The warm wave may last a month." Concerning all which prophetic science the public," happily, are becoming sceptical.
The brokers on the Stock Exchanges of New York and Boston are utterly fagged out by the strain of the last few days, and adjourned, not only over the National Holiday, but until 8th ult. This is that first time on record that the Exchanges have been closed. for so long a period on account of the heat. The ambulances and hospitals have not been able to cope with the vast number of cases. The people are completely exhausted, and in order to get the benefit of the sea breezes thousands of New Yorkers journeyed to Coney Island, where they sleep on the sands.
Baroness Hayashi At Home. Baroness Hayashi was “At Home" at the Japanese Legation on the evening of 3rd ulto, when an interesting programme was supplied by the Japanese artistes now in London. A samisen sola, a song, a dance, a short play, and the Okagura, another dance, were rendered. in the play Mime, Sada Yacco appeared, when Jingoro and A'ye-ninya was given, which is the Japanese equivalent of Pygmalion and Galatea, She performs a dance in which the remarkable feature is for the dancer imper. sonating the figure to keep her face rigīti, as though carved out in wood, and to make the sudden change. from. the gestures and move.
New Yorkers feel that they are assisting in ments of a man to those of a woman. Amongst
numerous company present were:-breaking a record, and statistics are being the Baroness d'Andthan, Mr. Matsui, Mr. and Mrs. searched for comparisons. The hottest day.
yet recorded was Sept. 7, 1881, when the Matsukata. Mr. Arakawa, Mr. J. Conder, Mr. and Mrs. Watanabe, Mr. Nakai, Mr. Negishi, themometer reached too degrees. The high- Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. est temperature for any previous July day was Angier, Dr. Divers, Mr. A. Diósy, and many of 99 twice-in 1876 and 1898. The Herald the Japanese residents in, or visitors to, Lon-
claims the mercury went to 107. Most of the den at the present time.
streets in New York are Asphalted, and every- where the asphalt has partially melied, and the iron shoes of the horses sink into it, while the wheels of the heavy drays leave deep ruts. The poor animals are dropping dead right and left. A pair of horses which were drawing a yan near the Herald office stopped for a moment's rest, and both fell lifeless.
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The China Gazelle says-Her owners are to be congratulated upon her escape, which it is not too much to say is due solely to the skill and zeal of her captain, officers and crew, who must he warmly complimented upon the success of their efforts to rescue the vessel from an awkward position. She has sustained little or no damage (the place where she stranded having a soft and sandy bottom), beyond
slight leak in her after ballast tank which makes aboot inches of water a day, possibly from the starting of a ivet. It will, however, be necessary to love survey of both vessel and cargo and she will probably have to dock here before The Continuing her voyage to Hongkong. Kinshi had just made a record trip across the Pacific, doing the run from Yokohama to Cape Flattery in the splendid time of 12 days and is hours, which has only been occasionally ex-
Mr. Wilson, Secretary for Agriculture, is ceeded by the Empress boats. She had not many passengers on her present voyage to Hong-represented 16 have said:-"I have no doubt but that the United States in a few months kong, most of them having left her at Yokohama.
will be in a position to produce on its own The story of her stranding is a very tame one and happily devoid ofexciting incidents. It is as doinnin everything that goes upon the table follows: She left Shimonoseki at 6 pm, on and the back. The United States will then be the 19th for Shanghai and Hongkong, passing commercially and industrially almost indepen dest of other nations. The Agricultural Depart within a miles of Tsushima at 1.30 am, on the 20th. A course was set to pass five miles ment's experts are experimenting with coffee, off the South-east of Quelpart, a good safe dis. and it is expected that something will be lance, but a strong and, of course, an unknown accomplished towards its cultivation during current, carried the vessel out of her Course by the fiscal year in our lasular possessions. 13 miles North-eastwards, and instead of clear- Rubber will be cultivated extensively Before ing the island she ran into a bay (unmarked long in Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. and uncharted) on the East side of Quelpart where she took the ground in broad-daylight
Why should His Majesty's representatives at 130 a.. on the 20th. She went ashore with little very shock. It was raining heavily at the when joumeying at the expense of the State choose subsidised foreign lines in preference to time and very thick. The ship went over seven fect by the stern. There was no confusion British steamships? This is a question which whatever on board and offices and 'crew went Viscount Cranborne is to he asked to answer. The Split in the Liberal Party.
The most absorbing political question at the about their duties with the greatest calmness, Mr. Norman points out that Sir Claude Mac- assuring the few passengers on board that Dohald has travelled from Japan via the
present moment is the rapid development of there was no danger: To get the ship on an United States, and a North German Lloyd the split in the Liberal party. Mr. Asquith's even keel, Captain Horton ordered the cargo Passel across the Atlantic. He suggests that letter in those forty Liberals who have been on of No. 4 hold to he jettissoned and 820instructions be given that official journeys shall
political friends points clearly to the open large cases of matches went over the side. in future be made from Japan by the Empressing to persuade him not to dine with his Thea in No. 3 hold, which was filled with heavy Line of steamships across the Pacific, by the rupture that now seems inevitable. The dinner › hales of American and Japanese piece-gands. Canadian Pacific Railway, and thence by a
to Mr. Asquithe will take place, despite the a great deal of useful wark was done in shift British vessel front the American continent to attempts which have been made to bring about ing these weighty ales about to help to
its abandonment. The gravity of the situation tip the vessel on an even keel, and this
of the Liberal party is now recognised by was finally accomplished.. "No," "4" bold "was
Liberals of every section.. A meeting of the empty. Four anchors were then rigged
whole party has been summoned by the Whips out astern, turn on each quarter held with
for the 9th inst., and will be held at the Reform about no fathoms of steel wire and Manila
Club. The real question is Is Sir Henry cables and each day at high water Captain
Campbell-Bannerman or Mr. Asquith to lead Horton hul the engines contiously worked
the Liberal party in the House of Comasons? ahead and astern; heaving in and slackening
The key of the situation is held by Land Rose- away the lines till at last at 4 pam. on the 25th
bery, who is now on his way home, from his efforts were rewarded by the vessel floating
Gastein. The pro-Boers are redoubling their gently off the bank where she had lain for five
efforts to bring pressure upon Mr. Asquith not to dine. We have hitherto known Government days, before the assistance sent to the Kinshine's aid had arrived. She was then steered a little
by party, but Government by dinner party outside into deep water, and after a careful
seems to be a new feature of political life." examination it was found that heyond the slight leak the ballast tank, the vessel was quite safe to continue her voyage and she came on to Shanghai, arriving here to everyone's sur prise last evening and coming up to her wharf this morning. Captain Horton speaks in the highest terms of the splendid way in which all his officers and Japanese crew worked through tatt, displaying the best qualities of good sea- men in an unpleasant emergency, working admirably and willingly, and happily too with complete success. Indeed, the way the Ainshiu has been saved is a matter for aft round con- gratulation. We believe the actual cost of 'getting her off was only some $700.
BY THE MAIL.
(From Home Papers.)
The "
Cressy."
The makers of the gear of the Cressy state that the accident which occurred to the steer. ing gear was not due to any defect either in design or construction, but to it's having been- incorrectly coupled to its engines.
Death of Professor Tait.. Professor Talt, of Edinburgh_University died on 4th July at a good round age, but nevertheless, before his time, owing to griel at the loss of his son, Lieutenant Frederick G. Tair, the well-known golfer, who fell in South Africa. He was both Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman in 1852.
The Queen's Nurses, Queen Alexandra received on 3rd uh, at Marlborough House between seven and eight hundred of the Queen's Nurses, who are en gaged in nursing the sick poor in their own homes. Her Majesty presented badges and certificates to a great many of the nurses.
⚫Osborne.
Osborne may soon come into the market, The King greatly prefers Sandringham as quasi-private residence. The maintenance of Osborne costs about £15,000 per annum. The property is a very valuable one, not so much on account of Oshorne House, as because the entire estate would realise a great deal for building sites.
Irish Education.
this country.
The Dominion Dinner. Mr. Chamberlain was the principal speaker at the Canadian Dominion Day dinner on rst ulto. He ran over the record of what had been done in Canada since the time when she became a nation, and siid the world could hardly show a parallel to such marvellous development. Nor had the world ever seen anything more striking than the devotion with which Canada and the other colonies and dependencies of Great Britain had moved with the mother country in the struggle that had been forced upon her. Mr. Chamberlain dwelt, amid constant applause, upon the unity of the whole Empire, in the face of the common danger.
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The Coronation. Wednesday, June 25, is the day which will probably be fixed for the Corontion. No reigning sovereigns will attend officially, but the King of Denmark and Greece and Part- ugal, and the Grand Duke of Hesse may probably be present as relatives:
Provisional Battalions. Instructions have been given for the for nation of, four inare provisional battalions of regular troops. The No. 9 battalion is to be
The Proclamation of the approximate date formed at Colchester from details of the
of the Coronation of the King and Queen was Norfolk, Suffolk, and Bedford Regiments at Colchester, Lincolnshire at Fleetwood, and made on 29th June with the customary State Essex at Warley; No. to battalion at Dover ceremonial, though, owing to the secrecy which from details of the Royal Sussex, Leinster, and has been observed as to the event, compara- Royal Dublia. Fusiliers, all in the South- tively few of the general public were present Eastern District; No. 1 battalion at Ports at the carlier stages of the proceedings. The mouth from details of the Northamptonshire first Proclamation was made at St. James's at Portland, West Yorkshire at Strensall, York-Palace, and the King and Queen, with Princess shire at Sheffield, and Gordon Highlanders at Aldershot; and No. 12 battalion at Chatham from details of the Cameronians and Con naught Rangers at Chatham.
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The Russian Fleet. The Russian Pacific Squadron, is to be strengthened by two torpedo transports and one squadron armoured skip, the Peresvet, which will make the squadron a strong one. The greater part of the vessels are new, and they belong to the best that can be found in the Russian Navy. The Pacific Squadron will in future consist of six ironclads, six first-class armoured cruisers,, two second-class armoured cruisers, scren sea-going gunboats, twa torpedo transports, five sex-going torpedo destroyers and a fotitia of torpede boats. The total dis- placement of the squadron will be 143,527 ton, and its armament will, consist of 216 heavy guns, and of 686 small quick-firing guns,
Victoria and the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, looked on from the garden of Marlborough House. The Pro clamation was next read at Chancery-lane, and then at the Mansion House. At the latter point a considerable crowd assembled, and at the close of the formal ceremonial loud cheers were given for their Majesties. No public announcement of the ceremony was made in advance, and the first general knowledge that something of interest was in progress was conveyed by the signs of preparations being made for it in the streets.
Obituary.
By the death of Mr. J. Gibbons Livingston, which occurred at Mayfield House, Wavertree, Liverpool loses one of its oldest citizens. The son of the late Mr. John Livingston, he was born in 1819, and after attending King's Col lege, London, he served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Bushby and Co., merchants. In his twenty-second year he went to China, where he remained about eight years, and became a partner in Shanghai in Gibb, Livingston and Co. He left China and returned to Liverpool in Council in 1855, was made alderman in 1868, 1849. He was clected to the Liverpool Town
The Royal Title.
NOTANDA
CALENDAR.
AUGUST.
· Meteorological means based on fifteen years'";
observations tā zēGS. Batometer.biamu Thermometer.rounung
Homidity Rainfal
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer. Temperature Humidity Raisfall
TO-DAY.
.39755
81.0
.83.
1345
On dan date st
10 3.M.
20.60. 85
Friday, and August, 1901.
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ZENTA, Austrian cruiser, 2,200, Runst, and
Aug,Chefoo 28th July, TANTALUS, British steamer, 2,281, T. M. Gregory, 2nd Aug-Singapore 7th July, General-Butterfield & Swire. DEVAWONGSE, German steamer, 1,057, 1: Textor, and Aug,Banglok 24th July, General Butterfield & Swire. KWANG LEE, British steamer, 1,462, · Ru ist Aug.,
Lincoln, and Aug,-Canton
/ General-C. M. S. N. Co. PIGMY, British gunboat, 755, Oldham, and
Aug, from cruise,
Clearances at the Harbour Omno. Yrensang. British str., for Manila. Flong Wau 1, British-str., for Amoy. La Rhong, French str., for-Canton. Benvenue, British str., for Nagasaki. Hanoi, French str., for Haiphong. Blogul, Britiskt str, for Shanghai. Kongnan, British str., for Canton,
:
Donariures.
Chinese-18th of 6th moon of 27th year of | Aug. 2, Obi, British str., for Maji.
-Kwang-sil. Sun-Rises
Sets
Shr. 18min. bhr. Szuin phr. 30min. Johr. samin. 3hr, 17min.
• Afternoat kon ghr, aginin, ANNIVERSARIES.
High water-arring.
Afternoon.. Low water-Morning
Birthday Emperor of China. 1890-Enstoms Offices closed. 1899-Emperor of Germany's cutter Mettor won
the Queen's Cup.
FO-MORKOW,
Saturday, 3rd August, 1901. Chinese-19th of 6th moon of 27th year of
Kwang-sü. Sun-Rites
Shr. iguin Ohr. 53min.
Seis Moon-In Equator 3hr, a.m. High water-Morning ...ohr, zömin. Afternoon....athr, 24min. Low water-Morning at phr. zmin, Afternoon ...... Shr. quin.
ANNIVERSARIES.
1899-Canada decided not to increase Chinese
poll tax.
AGENDA.
TD-DAY.
Aug. 2, Hailong, British str., for Swatow. Aug. 2, Hanoi, French st, for Haiphong. Aug. 2, Sabine Rickmers, Brit. str., for Canton. Aug. 2, Puensang, British str, for Manila. Aug. 2, Tsuruhiko aferu, Jap. str., for Kobe.. Aug. 2, Vipere, French gunboat, for Canton.
Passengers-Arrived.
Per Tantalus, from Singapore-190 Chinese. Per Devawdagse, from Bangkok-to Chí
пекс,
Per Victoria, from Tacoma, &c.--Mrs. J. Panton, Mr. P. Harding, and 25 Chinese.
Per Dengal, from Shanghai for Hongkong- Dr. Sedlmayr, Mr. L. B. Stanley and Chinese. and Indians, For Singapore-Messrs. A. E. Gray, Brunswig, and 5 Indians.
Per Massilia, for Hongkong from London- Mr. P. Deacon; Mr. and Mrs. Cheung Pui Kai, infant and servant. From Colombu-Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and 5 children, Messrs. J. Buck and Baldwin. From Singapore-Lieut.-Col.. O'Hava, J. Okn, a Mail Officers and 2-Sorters. For Shanghai from London-Mrs. Phipp's- amah, and Lieut. Farmar. From Colombo-- Lieut. Hulke, Messrs. G. K. Mitchell and J. Tuxfortl
To Depará
Per Bengal, from Hongkong for Singapore-- Messrs. A. C. Gray and M. Brunschwig. From Hongkong for London-Lieut. H. D. Briggs, Mrs. Weston, Coy.-Sergt.-Major Cook, Mrs. Cook and family, Private Swingler, Mrs.
Australian Vaudeville Company at the Theatre Swingler and family, Gunner Stafford, RA,
Royal.
TO-MORROW, 2
There will, we doubt not, be general satisfac- tion all over the Empire at the announcement made by Mr. Chamberlain recently that a bill will be introduced with a view to the modification of the style and title of his Majesty the King. The desirability of expressing clearly his Royal and Imperial mere supremacy over the component parts of the British Empire is so obvious, that it is un- necessary to labour the point. The Sovereigh who reigns over the greatest Empire the world has ever known ought, in justice to his subjects as well as to himself, to find in his style and title an adequate recognition of the fact of that sovereignty, it is to be hoped that it will not pass the wit of man to devise some suitable Cargo ex Banbay subject to rent. fonn which shall express the over-sea lordship which is the proud inheritance of King Edward VIL.
Theatre Royal Grand matinee. Australian Vaudeville Company, P. & O. Co.'s steamer Rengal leaves for
Bombay. Noon D. & Co.'s sleamer Thales leaves for Swatow, Amoy and Foochow p.m.-Public Auction by Messrs. Hughes and Hough at No. 7 Caine Road. Cargo ex Lightning subject to rent.
SUNDAY,, 4th.
Slippery Customers.
2.50
SHIPPING GAZETTE.
In future the Telegraph shipping form sup atplied to Captains of vessels will contain a heading for notices of officers and engineers transferred or on leave, etc. Friends will much oblige by giving this information:**
The efforts of some of the Boer prisoners St. Helena to escape from their sea-girt prison would make very pretty reading in a boy's book of adventures. One cannot help having a certain sympathy for the two prisoners who Swani pul to a Russian barque which was unloading coal, but were refused permission to come on board and had to swim back again. Others, again, seem to have contem- plated seizing boats and pulting out to sea, as they had formed a cache of buried provisions, It seems, too, that some time ago a general rising of the prisoners at Deadwood Camp was intended, and was only frustrated by the vigilance of the authorities. Decidedly our brother Boer is a slippery customer, and neither, his hand nor his tongue has lost cunning in confinement, He can make a dash for liberty or bamboozle a sympathetic British visitar with equal expertness. In fact, he is just as
slin" as ever.
Pretty Comfortable. Meanwhile the Boer at St. Helena seems to be doing himself very comfortably, and to be consoling himself for his inability to escape with considerable success. Unlike his great prototype, Napoleon, the caged aasvogel of the veld (we are not quite certain what sort of a fearful wildfowl an aasvogel is, but it doesn't matter) the Roer accepts his last phase," as Lord, Rosebery might call it, with charac teristic equanimity. He runs a newspaper, goes in for storekeeping, pawabroking, com- mission agency, and the keeping of cafés and The Leviathan.”
boarding establishments. Likewise he is eam- ing good money in employment in various The Leviathan, armoured cruiser, has been suched from the yard of Messrs. John Brown
capacities with the British inhabitants, and his presence in their midst is sending trade up by and Co. (Limited), Clydebank. The vessel is of the same type as the Drake, King Alfred,
to be going on for the best in the best of all leaps and bounds. Everything, therefore, seems and Good Hope. She is coft. in length between
and in 1870 became mayor.
possible prison camps. But what about British perpendiculars and 71 ft. 3 in, in breadth, with a
Commander Philip Nellesdale Wright, who-trocities? Where is the Miss Hobhouse of St. deplacement of 14.160 tons, i.h.p. of 30,000, and
speed of 23 kaots. She is of the same dimensions was wounded in China on June 19, 1990, died Helena? Why is the Daily News silent? as the Terrible and Powerful, but is improved after an operation on 27th ult Commander Where is the Apostle Paul? Surely there must in several ways, notably in matters of arma- Wright entered the Navy in 1884. He was a he something to raise a howl over. What is it? ment and protection. She has an armoured gunnery lieutenant, and had held the appoint- But echo answers, "What?" citadel for protection, while her armament con factories. He was appointed first lieutenant of ment of experimental officer to the ordnance sist of two oz breech-leading guns, 14 12
the Orlando, and on July to was promoted to pounders, and nine Maxims, and She also has
be commander on the special recommendation two tubes. There are three complete decks,
of the Commander-in-Chief on the China two of which are heavily armoured. There will be four funnels placed in line fore and af, Station, after having been dangerously wound- the height of which will be about go ft. aboveed at the defence of Teinisin at the early stage of the troubles last year, Commander Wright was the second son of Mr. Philip Wright, of Wellington Hall, Montgomery, and was only in his 31st year.
It is announced in the London Gazette that the King has been pleased to issue a Commis sion, under his Royal Sign Manual, to inquire into the present condition of the higher, general, | the fire grate. and technical education available in Ireland, outside Trinity College, Dublin, and to report what reforms, if any, are desirable in order to render that education adequate to the needs of the Irish people.
The Yunnan Railway... The Finance Committee of the French Senate has adopted, without fodification, the Bill relating to the Yunnan Railway as it was passed by the Lower Chamber. The report. on same has been deposited with the Senate for general discussion, which took place on 3rd inst, the Senate agreeing to the scheme.
Kuemmel Brot.
July 31st..
Mr. Walker, and officer s.s. Wingsung is on leave.
Mr. Weare, late of the Taisang is appointed and officer of the Wingsang. August 1st.
Mr. C. F. Milne, acting chief officer, Chefee has gone and officer, Poochow
and Sergt. Thomas, R.W.F. For Marseilles- Lieut. J. W. K. Desney, R.A. For Singapore Mr. von Saldera. For Bonbay---Mr. T. A: Husain,
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain J. Panton, of the steamship Victoria, from Tacoma, reports -Fine weather through out.
Captain T. M. Gregory, of the steamship Tantalus, from Singapore, reports -Fine weather throughout..
Capt. H. Textor, ofthe steamship Devawonga, from Bangkok, reports:-Cloudy and rainy weather, with moderate sea.
OLD "THREE-DECKERS."
11.M.S. Hodney ploughed the sea into two Inqui ribbons of white foam, as she gathered weigh on ber journey out to the Cape of Good Hope, in days when. the Boer War was undreamed of and ships like this
three-decker" ruled the waves supreme. Kine hundred men maned her, aud-prominent among the
them
was Corporal Eccies, one of the "boya of the old brigade."
Corporal Eccies, who spins this yarn to m, is now hule aisl
did hearty at
at is, and he has served Her Majesty
21 years as a Royal Marine-"soldier and sailor too.
και την πουλή
tako mie days to tell you all my experien
tes during the 21 years 1 spent on the old three-
said the bluff old
Camellian, and Rodney?
Mr. D. A. McKay, chief officer; Srechnen, is deckers, H.M.ifting hb qnid, "but
transferred to the Tungchow
Mr. C. F. Maundrell, chief officer, Ngankin is transferred to the Saechten.
Mr. P. Blair, supernumerary and engineer, Pekin, has been transferred to the Chunghing Since appointed and engineer Wuchang.
Mr. A. Austin, 3rd engineer, Wuchang, is transferred to the Chungking.
tint storm off the
bit o'
In the Radkey was the worst
ther Ierer experiencet.
handred men nu board her, awt 150 mnen
thundering against the wirift from their lashings, umbled or wounded in the hurricane. Casks broke bulwarks until they started a plank. Sheep, caught
hills of incoming trace. by
FEAR, WETO KWest down the latches like corks in
Mr. T. E. Taylor has gone acting 3rd *I carry a wound on my thigh to this day that engineer, Woosing
was caused by a tablo burled against me whau Mr. P.-Hamilton-has-gone-acting-3rd-range dentures sui feats of endurance. hammock. “Aye, m' lad, a sailor-. engineer, Chungking.
is on leave,
Mr. R. McLellan, 3rd engineer, Chungking. Mr. J. H. Woollacott, and officer, Faechow, has been appointed chief officer, Chefes.
Mr. H. B. Cochran, chief officer, Tungchow, is transferred to the Ngankin
MM. Bryan, 2nd officer, Ngankin, has gone acting chief officer, Kweilin..
Mr. J. S. McGavin, chief engineer, Woosung has been transferred the Xweilin
Mr. A. M. Morton, chief officer, Kweilin, is on leave.
Mr. W. Jack, acting and engineer, Wuchangs has resumed duty as 3rd engineer.
transferred to the Woosung
Mr. J. Hildreth, chief engineer, Kweilin, is
Captain J. Wheeler, Pechili, has been ap
Hongkew, pointed and wharfinger, Asenciated Wharves,
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE
Canadian (Tartar) to-morrow. German (Princess frene) sth instant. American (Doric) 6th instant. Australian (Eastern) 6th instant. German (Stuttgart) 7th instant. American (Nippan Maru) 14th instant. Canadian (Empress of India) 20th instant.
Check on Sham Marriages. The Bishop of London's order to his clergy on the celebration of marriages between Bri- tish subjects and foreigners or foreigners and There can foreigners comes none too soon. be no doubt that simple English girls are not unfrequently inveigled into a form of wedlock which their insinuating sweet- hearts, know perfectly well will be invalid abroad, and so
powerless victims of desertion and repudiation. Their
The N. Y. K. Co.'s steamer Sado Mart sorrows come before the police-courts not (European Line) left Kobe via Moji for this unfrequently. Again, foreign subjects are, apt port on the 31st ull, and is expected to arrive
here on the 7th inst.
become
the
ferential claims and costs the unsecured credi.accordance with a memorial from the Lords to finish up an elopement with matriny,
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· HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS Siskan
Kowloon D
which perfidious men can put asunder because the legal requirements of their States have not been observed. Those (orinalities will be necessary from henceforth, before the London clergy can perform the service, as certified by Y. Suntan the Consuls of the various Governments. Canton River... Thus a summary end will be made to a good Zaire. deal of heartless rascality, The London clergy Tweed..... Lave frequently complained that as the law Colonies....
Taishan stood, they had no option but to perform a ceremony which might, for all they knew, bo de Austria an arragebam. The remedy is now in their Petrarch own hands.
Sir E. Ashmead-Bartlett. Sir. Ellis Ashinead-Bartlett's promised pro posal to his creditors was laid before them at The Conspicuous. Service Cross. ihe Bankruptcy Court. The proposal was to
The London Gazette, announces that, in the effect that after, the payment of the pre-
Commissioners of the Admimly, the King has tors should receive 7s. 6d. in the pound. Sub- jeet to a claim of £12,000 by Mr. William approved the institution of a new aval decora
tion, to be designated the Conspicuous Service Cross. This decoration, it is proposed, shalt Burdett Courts, the debtor's celebrated Turkish concessions are to be held in trust, two-thirds
be awarded for meritorious or distinguished for a person who is to furnish a certain sum of service before the enemy, performed by warrant money, and the remaining third for the benefit officers or acting warrant officers, or by subor of the other creditors. In connection with a dinate officers of the fleet. The institution of paper called England be 1st £16,000, and the Cross fills a gap and remedies a long-felt Since 1880 he has incurred for political pur-grievance. The new decoration will stand, as poses an expenditure of £14,000, while he puts
it were, between the Distinguished Service down interest upon borrowed money at £7,020. Order, for which only commissioned officers The meeting was adjourned till July 30. are eligible, and the medals for Conspicuous Gallantry, or for Distinguished Conduct in the Field, which are awarded only to petty officers For a long time the pearl fishers from and seamen of the Navy and non-commissioned foreign nations carrying on operations at the officers and privates of the Marines and to pon- 'Sulu Islands have, without fa murmur, paid a cominissioned officers and privates of the Army Unlike Mr. Kipling, whose "School Boy trifling tax. All the islands in the archipelago respectively: There does not exist among the Lyrics" of 188 has sold for the ridiculous were under Spanish rule for a quarter of a grades of the Army any precisely similar rank sum of £135, editiones principes of works by century. Of late the industry, mentioned has to those of the naval warrant officers which Mr. George Meredith, our greatest living been greatly extended; improved appliances include the hoatswains and gunners of the writer, command relatively small prices at have been brought on the scene at considerable combatant branch, or the naval subordinate auction. "Poems," published in 1851-Mr. expense, and the increased sum disbursed is officers, which include midshipmen and naval Meredith's earliest book--lately fetched found to affect the profits adversely. Now it cadets, and these officers; who, being officers, 18 10,-as against 17, sos, paid for an ex- is remembered that the impost is contrary to a were of course, ineligible for the medal, were ample in 1897. The Kipling craze, however, treaty made between Spain of the one hand, also by the terms of the warrant debarred from is on the wane. For instance, the 20 val. and Britain, Germany, and France on the appointment to the order. This is now re-edition de luxe, issued at 10 guineas, recently whisky other, which guarantees free, fishing to medied. The 6r to receive the Cross are four made but 3 guineas, as compared with
strangerd from all lands. The aggrieved pearl midshipmen and two naval gunners in recogni- fifteen months ago,
For the provisioning the German troops in the Far East trials have been made of late with a sort of bread called Kuemme! Brot (bread with caraway seeds), which is made by the Imperial Bakery at Spandau. The bread is made of rye-flower, with, much salt and cura way seeds, and other materials of great nourishing value it can be eaten both dry and in soups.In the same Imperial Bakery also eggi biscuit is baked for the combatants in China These biscuits are made of wheat- flower, a good percentage of egg, sugar and strong extract of heef. Large quantities of bath
sorts of bread have already been sent, to China and others are to follow.
Whisky in Trouble," Robert and Walter Pattison, noaging
directors" of: Pattisons” (Limited
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The Sulu-Pearlers.
"When the Rudyards Cease from Kipling."
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During the whole 21 aus of active service I dover In a day's illness. That's a pretty good record!
When my term was nearly completed, I was transferred to HMS. Pembroke. She bad just been task ca
uclive servico and was being filiod out for u
During the alterations, i
lay at her › dismantled, her ports wide open, 1" bad lo take my tunt on sentry duty, min or snow.
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• Mid-winter it was, and the weather cold and raw. Racing about tween decks," said the Corporal, exposed to
to the worst of weathers, I caught a severe cold, and I couldn't shake it off. My reconi yan broken.
It settled on my chest, hurd and fest, making my. breathing swfally bad. I couldn't walk uphill. was too wheezy. You could hear me breathing, like a tng, twenty yards off. I did manage to struggle through my work, though,
Then indigestion ret in After eating, my
agreeable rumbling solar and causing grout pain. stomach being swollen with wind, making a dua Soveral doctors tried to help me, but their medicino didn't hit the mark. I got worse and worse.
The old Pembroke, now lying at Chatham, is something like the hulk I then was. My sough shook my body through and through. For months lopt proppol with pillows, After a fit of congbing, perspiration rolled off me, sonking my fineu. My body seemed on fire.
Like the sharp stabofa cowardly knife did along twreath pain nis, 1 alarmed and tervo
Though this day in the 20th of April, 1900," said the gallant Corporal, "Iyet remember that acbing- puiil that caught me in the back, on the right alde. and that my bowels were very entive. Altogether; was in a bad way. My wife, when the doctors had me Mother Salgel's Syrup, to pnil m failed!
I to help me heer hulk insistel on giring
Ime round... Ilus no faith in it, becured it was an ampre cribes modleing, but I surer by Soigel's noin, My first battle shutsued my appetite, improrail may breathing, and loosened my cough..
The improvement continued week by week, until I was completely restored to "health. Congli, pain, as weariners were swept away like chaff before the toind."
Corporal Becks of f
" of 9, Southill Road, Chatham, By Mr. H. Woolgar, h permutas fo; Now
Unquestionably, Seigel's Syrup
he is getting younger every day!
known to me.
Aye," continged the old sexman, who,
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is proud of his modal for long by the way, Beigel's Syrup put life, power and go into my at int lifelos halk. Tani now sixty-five, Mill young
life and And full of to Seigul's Syrup. If you think others will " parem You may
Such a th's stirring narrative, and ite: truth is vouched for by Mr. G. W. Philipe, of the VICTORIA, American steamer, 2,112, J. Panton, Chatham High Street, mber 312, who writes "I ist Aug. Tacoma, USA. 4th July, Gene and verify every ward that Mr. Benles, has said. ral-Dodwelt & Co., Ed.
Mother Beigel's Syran lan ↑
lius male a tow man of him. BENGAL, British steamer, 2,751, A. L. Valens Aquaduted with Mr. Eccles's cane could
doubt the officacy of Mather tini, zad Aug. Shanghai 30th July, Mails orders of the stomach and fosgel's Syrup. In ali and General P. & O. S. N. Co.
11.M.S. Rudsey to more ploughs the deep, bus shi MASSILTA, British steamer, 5,625, G. M. Montes in peace and gait at Chatham ; yet you, who are ford, and Aug. London, 26th May, and calling in strany wild because there is trouble Singapore 28th July, Mails and General. within you-mutiny among your digestira organa, In P.&O. S. N. Co
factam follow. In the steps of the gallant Corporal, KAISERIN ELISABETH, Austrian cruiser, 4400, and can silain, in this way to the same bal old
Wiber, and Aug,➡Cheloo 28th July,*****
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