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DEATH. At Caraustle, Scotland, JAMES FERRIER. (By cable.)

The

A WORKMAN who was digging a trench for n water main in Croydon fet his pick smash through something which examination proved to be two earthenware puts filled with coins. In all, some three thousand seven hundred bronze coins were recovered, together with

Hongkang Celegraph gments of the two round pots in which they

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1903.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the British Museums they later on pronounced to have been struck be tween the years 337 and 350 A.D. A number of them appear to have one time been gilded, for when cleaned with acid flakes of gilt were loosened. Though quite green with age, the coins are in excellent preservation, the various designs having been skilfully executed. THE Craigengower C. C, beat the R. A. 11. C. understood that the Clown cannot claim them on Saturday by nine runs,

as "treasure trove," for that peculiar right exists only in the case of discoveries of gold and silver. The coins will be deposited in the Town Hall Museum.

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LAND at the new treaty port of Kongmoon on the West River has been purchased and surveyed for the erection of Customs buildings.

TUG "FAME" ARRIVED.

It is

TELEGRAMS.

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LONDON, 9th April. Bye Election.

At by election at Camborne, Sir Wilfred Lawson (Liberal) has been elected Straub's by 3.558 votes, against Mr. (Unionist) 2,869 votes. Sir Wilfred Lawson replaces Mr. W. S. Caine.

The Chine e Customs. Sir Robert Hart has appointed a Russian Commissioner of Customs at Newchwang,

Holland.

The Dutch Chamber has passed the Anti- Strike Law by a large majority; the strike is unabated.

The "America" Cup. Shamrock III has had another successful

WHISKY MESSES. Hughes and Hough inform us that of late, arrived here from Vang-ro lay yester trial completely beating Shamrock I.

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THE 0,5.K.S. Setsuyo Maru, 1099 tons, which Jeft Kobe on the gist ult. for Tsingtao, ran aground in the Inland Sea alal 10 a.m. the CELEBRATED | same day. No lives were lost. The Arlang Maru was going to the wreck with divers and salvage apparatus. BLEND

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THE Hongkong Electric Tramway construction staff has been fur her strengthened by the arrival, per the last English mail, of two aditional representatives who will superintend the laying of the line. A quantity of material has already been received from home, and consignments will continue to arrive for some time to come.

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The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.'s tug, Fume, of which so much has been written day afternoon, having made a three days' passage. Mr. J. W. Jameson is expected from Saigon shortly.

DEATH OF MR. J. FERRIER.

LONDON, roth April. Military.

General Sir Evelyn Wood and General Sir George White have been promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

The Coup d'Etat in Servia. The King of Survia by submerging the Constitution for a few minutes yesterday succeeded in ridding himself of a number of Radical Senators and State Councillors, and re-starting the Constitution with a clean

Mr. James Fersier has died at Carnoustic, Scotland, whither lie had gone on two years' leave. For about 20 years he was connected with the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company and for ineny years the Superinten dent Engineer. The sad circumstances of the death of his wife and elder daughter, the latter succumbing almost immediately after attending one of the Caledonian balls will be remember-slate. ed, remarks the N. C. D. News. Mr. Ferrier P. & 0.5: S. Sobruen, which was wrecked on was a passenger homeward by the ill-fated

24th April 1901 un Tungying.

A RUMOUR.

The Colonial Secretary left for Canton by the night boat last evening, though, we under- stand, the orginal arrangement was that he was to have been conveyed there in a gunboat. There is a rumour that the object of his visit is connected with the recent murder and body. snatching of one the leaders of the recent revol THE attempt of the French and English Pressutionary movement at Canton. The man in to stamp the intended visit of King Edward tokong, and the corpse conveyed to Canton for question was secretly assassinated in long- Paris to be a step directed against Germany is rather undesired by both the King himself and

the inspection of the authorities. He was his Cabinet. The visit is by no means a sur

a prominent rebel leader, surnamed lung. As that the native who was killed on the New we stated some time ago, it is also supposed Kowloon Road, during the recent revolutionaty movement, was one of the leadeis, and was secretly done to death by emissaries of the Chinese Government. It will be remembered that an offer of $sco was made by the local Government for the capture of the murderer or murderers.

prise to Germany, as the English Government had previously notified it to the German so that in fact it became publicly known first from Berlin.

THE gunboat Esk, which left Sheerness for China in 1878, has been condemned as unfit for further service and has been ordered to be sold out of the navy after 25 years' service in te Far East.. The Est was built at Jarrow, costing £21,112. The gunboat Firibrand, built in 1876, at a cost of £21.473, has been condemned and ordered to be sold after upwards of 20 years' service on the North American and China Stations.

NEWS has just reached us from Canton to the

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In Messrs. libert & Co.'s Market Report of the 4th inst., are the following remarks on Mr. Taylor's annual report for 19.2.

General Taft. President Roosevelt speaking at Fargo, eulogised General Taft as the finest type of a public servant,

The America" Cup. The new Shamrock in further trials at Weymouth, beat Shamror. · 7 by four minutes in a seven ruile run,

Lord Milner will Proceed to England,

Lord Milner will take two months' leave September. His Lordship is looking very and proceed to England for August and

worn,

The King to Visit Pairs. been decided that the President and all the At a Cabinet Council in Paris, it has

Ministers will receive the King at the rail- way station on the 1st May, and a grand dianer will be given at the Elysee on the 2nd May.

Obituary.

LATER.

The death is reported of M. Stcherbina, wounded by an Albanian sentry. the Russian Consul at Metrovetza, who was

The Evacuation of Manchuria.

that despite the strenuous opposition of The Times correspondent at Moscow says certain Russian Ministers, it has been finally decided that the evacuation of Manchuria mest be completed. M. de Wille, the Minister of Finance, has consistently urged the necessity of this step on economic grounds.

The Customs Annual Report for 1902 is pub tished, from which it will be seen hul impo..3 having on board two hundred souls a d bound at moment of landing have increa ed by for Shek Lung, was struck by a squall on the

Tls. 63,002,000 and exports, at inament of ship anorning of the 11th instant and sunk. Only meat by Tis. 49,003,033, which hardly bears out irty-five passengers out of the two hundred

the theory that depreciated silver is stimulat were saved. The various hospitals and sizing exports and curtailing imports. The longsin Canton have despatched steam launches fures regarding silver are interesting, as the and oth boats to render assistance. Our

net export for the year is stated to be close on informant does not state where the disaster 71s. 14,000,000. The Statistical Secretary for occurred.

the first time draws a distinction between the export of sycee and of coined silver, and states that the great bulk of the export consisted of dollars which were shipped to night. Tiongkong; that it is certain that these dollars were not sent abroad from Hongkong,

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The Strike in Holland.

un causing her husband to bring this action. hey fellen out with these spirits,to the extent It is a long story, but by no means uninteresting,

in co junction with the three American, mis- I leam that the London Masionary Society, sionary societies operating in North China, are about to revive an educational scheme of some importance. I believe a wide scheme of build.

TIENTSIN, 31st March. Nearly goo Russians withdrew from Moukden in the course of six days since the zand inst. The men are under orders for Port Arthur, Dalay, Nicolaevsk, and va ious other towns The men who proceed to places other than Port Arthur and Dalny are expected to throw off their military uniform and will be employed in mining and other work,

The Tartar General refusin; tos mition the porth China Educational Union, establishment of a caute station, is Manchu in medicine, one for theology, and the rest for

comprising four separate colleges, one for her by Russians, the latter sent a r. presentative in Peking to obtain permission, he Foreign

aris, was noted about a year ago. The pre- Department alter interviewing the representa

sent scheine is simpler. The details are not finally settled, but I am given to understand tive, has granted permission for the establish that the London Missionary society's High ment of the station —Asaki,

School for Toys will probably be transferied from Pekin ia Tung Chow, some twelve m.les from the capital, and affiliated with the Ameri can college the e: also that the English body. will take as a chief responsibility the medical school at Peking to which students of medicine from the American college may be sent.

POLLARDS LILLIPUTIANS.

THE GEISHA.

The al surdity of the attempts by spies is sufficiently rebutted by the fact that any lower can always find out the number and nature of the gues at all our ports or even of the whole available supplies of modern guns in the coun- try. If the fortifications are efficient there is What the Russians want to know is the strength not the least harm in the fact being known.

Office publishes in the world. The Russians of the garrison, and this information the War date n't use a single wat vessel for so foolish a process as bombardment, but they would willingly hazard a si amer of the volunteer fleet in rapidly Innding 2000 men to turn the fortifications in rear and rush the varrison,"

At the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening The War Office is "getting it hot" just now these delightful and talented litle folks pro- from every quarter of the political sphere. duced the Japanese opera, The Geishu, before a The most active critics are the Young Tories, of large and appreciative audience. To theatre-whom Winston Churchill and Ivor Guest are goers the plot of this refreshing play is well the first artive members. But it crops up all known, suffice to say that from the rise

over the country. The Manchester Guardian of the curtain, where the audience is in touches Hongkong in it sunvey of fault-finding. troduced to the tea house of "One thousand

Touring the capture of a Russian spy at Aden joys," to the fine everything went with the dash which characterises the operatic

the paper ays:- talents f the Company. To particularise each individu would be unfair, as honours were evenly distributed. At any late, the past of 0 afim za San, so ably portrayed by Miss Al ce l'ollard, deserves a few words. Her acting was superb, singing excellent, and it reds no critic to see that in her the Company have a very strong mensher. Her rendering of he Amorous G. ld Fish, ↑ Geishi's Life and the far well sang with her maital lover, Captain Kahina, won her golden laurets. As the piquant "lley Seymour, the role could not have been in safer bands that Miss Daphne Trot Her her rendering of dancing elicited the higliest praise, and Chon Kia fairly brought down the house. the nur ery songs and The part of Lieut. Reginalt Fairfax was ably taken Miss Ivy who fully engrossed the attention of the audience by her adinizable rendering of Starf my Sout. As the master of the tea house, Master Jack Pol lard kept the house in continual fits of laughter by his personation of Wanki Master Oscar Heint, as the haughty Marquis Imari, Master Charlie Lindlurs, s Captain Kabin, and Master Teddy Macnamara, as To Shanley, the middy, came in for consider able applause. The piece was a geal success, the scenery was admirably staged and gave a failiful representation of a Japanes tea boue, while the dresses, and kimonos were greatly admired. To-right theatre-goers will have another opportunity of witnessing the ply To-morrow and Wednesday nights the Belle ofision of the two years, New York will occupy the boards,

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.).

A DULL TIME IN ENGLAND EXCEPT IN POLITICS.

London, March 13th. A dulness that can be felt pervades the land, except in the four or five constituencies where hoarse politicians daily indulge in "talkee

been retur ed unopposed for East Perthshire elections. Alicady Mr. B. Buchanan has talkee" in the fand hope of winning by

as a Liberal, and Mr. Devlin, who has been till now a Canadian Emigration Commissioner

In this sense the furts are a positive danger to ourselver. At Hongkong heavy guns are mounted on an island remote frim:tbe mâink, garrison, and a volunteer ship arnight, afing the trade route to Canton like any merchant steamer, could rapidly land men, capture Stone. cutter's Island, turn the guns on to the dock- yard, and effect a great deal of damage before the men were dislodged. The navy might just as well be non-existent so far as the War Officer policy is concerned,"

The Government policy in regard to the Navy for the year which begins next month is disclosed in the preliminary statement just issued by the First Lord of the Admiral ye Lord Selborne. Briefly it shows that for next wear the estimate is £14,437,000, and last year £31,255,000, ws the amount spent hus, there is an increase of £3,202,000 on compar

The extra cast is spread over a number of branches, but is chiefly due to greater activity in building new shi,s and reconstructing old ones. The additional nien and officers will nu ber about 5:o, raising the active service to 127,000 in round numbers. Next year's expenditure in now warships will be over £10,000,000, Next month the number of warships in course of construction. will be seventy-two. This activity in dockyards and The seventy-two ships will comprise eleven private yards is without parallel in recent years. battleships, nineteen armed cruisers, two second-class cruisers, four scouts, four third-

submarines are of a new and apparently eight torpedo boats, and three submarines. The class cruisers, two sloops, nineteen destroyers,

satisfactory type, for next year ten additional ships will be added to this class

in Dublin, bas su ceeded to the Nationalist representation of Galway City in the stead of of the service. All able seamen will be trained An attempt will be made to raise the standard the condemned el. Lynch of Boer-Irish to some mechanical knowledge and some Brivade farae. At present a fight is waging in acquaintance with stoking so as to be of use in Woolwich, where both sides are trying to case of emergencies, Greater proficiency in persuade the Arsenal workers that "Codlin's shooting will be encouraged by granting Amsterdam was in partial darkness last your friend, rot Shot" In the Rye division medals carrying bonuses to successful.com.

of Sussex the rival candidates are at it hammet petitors.. and tongs because Col. Brookfield, the old member, has been appointed Consul at Monte the Chertsey division of Surrey, Mr. Leigh Video. The last vacancy to be created is in Bennett, the sitting member, having died on

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THE following notes are from the New York Maritime Register of the 4th ult :--Kelat (Br. March 2 with loss of main topgallant-mast, Indrawadi (Ur. s.5.), which arrived at New on fire at German American Dacks, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 26. The fire, which was caused by an explosion, was gotten under control same day. The forward hold of the steamer, filled with cargo, was flooded with water.

York February 20, frum Japan and China, was

THE Avenir du Tonquin complains of the French flag having such a small share of the Straits Settlements wade. Bul it admits that there can be no remedy until French ship. owners at Saigon seek the aid of Chinese capitalists. What is needed is a line of steamers plying between Saigon and Singapore by way of Bangkok and the intermediate pouts. Chinese capitalists at Saigon are ready to advance money for such a line and to become part owners, but the French shipping laws stand in the way.

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THE Ladies Recreation Clubver us flongkong Cricket Club, was a lawn teenis contest of Saturday last, the ladies choosing their representatives. The results were as follows:

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MARSIAL Su, or Su Kung-pao, as the Chinese call General Su Yuan-ch'un, Provincial Com mander-in-Chief of Kwangsi, is stated in a late Northern dispatch to have owed his recall to the French Minister at Peking. The latter is credited with having told the Chinese Govern ment that Marshal Su sympathises with the rebels in Kwangsi, in consequence of which the longer the Marshal remains in that province the longer will the rebellion continue. The Government, continues the despatch in ques- tion, is greatly astonished, as the common idea entertained at Feking and by mandarindam in

general in the provinces is that

mainland. if this is the case the stock of cur and that they are destined to filter back to the Mr. W. Hayes Fisher's Successor, rency must be very much more plentiful in

The Hon. Arthur Elliot M. P. has been

both here and in the Noith, sycee is getting Sury. rather scarce. Customs statistics are valuable

mainly for purposes of comparsion; we have

seen that there has been a large net expou of silver last year as against a considerable net impos: in former years; it is not stated why it is expected that more silver will filter back from Hongkong in the future than in the past, nor is there any means of estimating what China.

quantity of silver filters into or filters out of

A DEMAND FOR SAILING SHIPS.

Hongkong's South China translupments to American, Australasian and other distant ports, as far as direct lines of communication are concerned, are largely despatched in sailing ressels. Local chaitering, however, has not been brisk, and it seems quite likely, in respect of tonnage for the ensuing season for New York and Baltimore, that shippers may have made additional arrangements elsewhere. A small sailer prompt is required for Callao loading. The British barque Howard D. Troop has left for Iloilo to load for the States, while the British barque Rose recently made depai ure fr Freemantle, The Yanky clipper Holliswond, which arrived here on the 23rd February, is chartered to load for Callan; the British birque Eclipse is loading for New York at is/- per ton: and the British barque Kealueit, to arrive from hanghai, is chartered to load for Baltimore and New York. The American schooner Columbia, 772 tons, is disengaged.

ARMED ROBBERY NEAR WHAMPOA.

Advices have just reached us from Sum the effect bat, on the night of 7th instant, a Cheong, a populou village near Whampoa, to

President Loubet to Visit England. that President Loubet will return the King's The Deals states it is considered certain visit.

A new squadron is to be formed, called the South Atlantic Squadron, with bases at Gibraltar

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and Sierra Leone. It will protect our interests coast of America, thus taking the former littoral west coast of Africa and the south east

from the charge of the Cape station.

In ten years the cost of the Navy has just about doubled. This fact is much commented upon in the House of Commons, but there is

posals. Englishmen generally realise the vital there is a tendency to cavil at the growth of the importance of maintaining a strong Navy, but Army expenditure. Mr. Brodrick's abortive scheme is partly responsible for this, and the muddling of the War Office of late has done much to stir the resentment of the "man in the street," who has to has pay the piper and objects to the instrument turning out a confused medley of tunes.al

The announcea ent of a "clearing sale" by order of the puth African Garrison Institutes details which are commented upon sarcastically not likely to be much opposition to ile pro (late Field Force Canteens) reveals some

the largest firms of auctioneers in Pretoria and by the press. The sale is in charge of ene of Johannesburg Among the articles for dis The Philippine Currency.

posal are to be found ribbons, blouses, hairnets, purchase silver for the Philippines.

skirts, umbrellas, Turkish baths, tennis balls, The Washington Treasury continues to painsook, alpacas, silks, dress shields, ladies' boots and shoes, sunshades, zephyrs, cressone, laces and corsets, besides a whole assoitment of mascul ne attire. 1 admit my ignorance as in the precise uses of some these thing, but it seems to me that there is some connection. The first note of protest comes from the fion. between them and the plague of women ” of which Sir Frederick Treves complained. Even to the eye of the apologist dress shields and corsets can hardly be the proper equipment of an active campaign.

Fighting in the Philippines. The Americans captured Bacolod, the stronghold of the warlike Moros of Mindanao on Wednesday; one hundred Muros were killed and many wounded; three Americans were wounded.

Russia in the Far East. General Kouropatkin, Minister of War, starts in a fortnight on a two months' tour to

Dalny, Japan and Vladivostock. the east; the tour will include Port Arthur,

(N. C. D. News.) President Roosevelt on the Tariff.

LONDON, 6th April is, declared that Americans cannot entertain President Roosevelt, speaking at Minneapo the idea of abandoning their protective tariff, but important changes in details can be made occasionally when changes in the conditions in the country render lliem necessary.

The Turbulent Albanians.

LONDON, 6th April. The Poste is sending one more mission to negotiate with the Albanian chiefs, probably by means of money.

The King's Easter Holiday.

LONDON, 7th April.

them.

Kirg Edward replied with similar cord alry and trusted the alliance of centuries would endure for all time."

(K_be_Herald).

We often criticise the red tape of our Govern- ment &ffices; but it seems the asinity of official- dom can taither go in the administration of Germany. The following instance of cast-iron official folly is posted up in the Post-offices of Berlin.

'A pfennig piece has been picked up in the part of the Central post-office to which the public have access. The person to whom it belongs must notify the Postmaster within six weeks counting from, to-day. In the event of possession of this coin it will become the pro- no chim being made within three years for the rety of the Post Office" A pfennig is, of course, worth less than half a farthing

The Balkan trouble is not yet done with, but friends of mine who are on the spot assure me that nothing really serious will take place, at least this year. There are too many objections to an outbreak as an incentive to general European conflagration for the Powers to take the chances just now. As to the insurgents, they are said to number 50,coo, but their arms are not good and their leaders are not large

sized men.

who will move that the Army be reduced by Ivor Guest, Conservative member for Plymouth, the number added under Mr. Brodrick's scheme. He will be backed by a number of well known but conspicuously by the Young Tories headed and influential men on both sides of the House,

Mr Winston Churchill, who has seized his economy. father's mantle as an apostle of efficiency and

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.

MAILS DUE.

German (Sachten) Tomorrow.. Canadian (Empress of India) To-morrow. American (Coptic) 15th inst. German (Bayern) 16th inste Indian (Gregory Apear) 17th inst American America Maru) 23rd inst. Indian (Sultang) asth inst.. American (Korea) 2nd proxi

The steamship Fatshan will proceed to Can ton at 5.30 pm, to-day, belah

The steamship Hankow is underlined to leave for Canton at 8 am, to-morrow.

The silk ex the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s R.M.S. Empress of Japan, arrived in New York on roth inst

The law cou is are dragging through two extraordinary, cases. In one Lady Granville The Apcar Co's steamer Gregory Aptar. Gordon has been contesting the right to hold from Calcutta left Singapore for this port o Gordon, on the plea that the father is Lord The Imperial Gennan Mail steamer Sachsen Granville Gordon and Mr. Eric Ge don knew left Shanghai on Saturday, at Rm, and of and concurred in the liaison which existed may be expected here on or about this between her and her present husband. The evening, the g} evidence has been among the most remarkable head in the divorce court for many years. In the second case a vacuous gentleman, named Cavendish, is seeking to set aside a settlement made by him to Major and Mrs. Strutt on the plea that it was executed under undue in-

fluence.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer: Athenian from Hongkong and pons of call, arrived at Vancouver at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 13th just,

The Canadian Pacific Railway Co's R.M.S. Empress of India arrived at Shanghai zith inst. on Tuesday, 14lb inst, at 8 a at 10 am, left 8 pm, and is due of Hongkong

made a raid on teeast side of the village. No gang of armed robbers, numbering over seventy King., Carlos, in toasting King Edward, her child born before ber divorce from Mr Bic the afternoon of the 12th instant, a

At a State Banquet at Lisbon yesterday, less than thirteen houses were rifled and, in most addressed His Majesty as my very dear cates where the inmates offered resistance, Ally" and dwelt warily on the ancient alliance they were ruthlessly shot down. The village between Great Britain and Po ugal. The informed of the fact bastened to the scene, but guards, numbering about fifty men, on being King said the people of Portugal recognised how great and loyal a friend King Edward had on their approach were met with a volley, always been which laid low two of their mes. Rein- forcements were hurriedly sent for from an that they were powerless, for the robbers had other village, but on their arrival they found kidnapped no less than twenty-two young girls, Marshal Su is a protégé of the French, he baving hitherto always been spoken of by the retire in peace the girls would be killed, luthe and intimated that if they were not allowed to French in terms of eulogy, so that this alleged event of being unmolested they promised to denunciation of the French officials comes as a thorough surprise.

leave them at a temple about four miles away, and the villagers were at liberty to take them party, fully armed, repaired to the temple, and back in the morning. The next morning a found the late cap ives of the robbers safe and sound. Loot to the amount of $5,000, consist- Mr, Cornwall: First class, Sir; I do not knowing of cash, jewelry, and clothes was takes "Lasse | how I got along without one so long-Advi.

away by the marauders. HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

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Bussia and Manchuria.

In other words he asserts that he was induced CHEFOO, 31st March. to sign the settlement by means of alleged The N. Y. K. Co.'s steamer Kinshiu Maru The Russian soldiers in the Newchwang messages from the spirit world delivered by district will be withdrawn on the th April, the planchette. Mrs Strull is alleged to have (Bombay Line) left Singapore for this post on The soldiers stationed outside the fais are also been in close touch with the great departe, the 11th lust, p.m., and is expected to arrive arrive at Newchwang to take over the admin messages said to have been received from The Imperial German Mail steamer Bayern packing up their arms. Tantai Li is shortly to and at frequent intervals in the evidence ice on the 17th inst istration of the place. The Russian Commander VARIOUS ARCHANGELS Carrying the German Mails with dates. hom az Newchwang proceeded to Poit Artbur on the 28th to consult upon maiters connected seems to have come to the rescue of the young Saturday at 8 am, and may be expected here were read to a wondering count: A`Miss Jay |„Berlin,of the 17th, ult,, left, Singapore: on

with the evacuation-Aiaki, MAR

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