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Americans and Englishmen are generally of the opinion, that the railways of their respective countries hold the record for speed and it is little known that the French railways in this respect hold the first place.

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ntendent of Police has been authorized to issue temporary liquor licences,

THE death is announced of John Crossland, the well known Lancashire professional cricket- er, at the age of 50 years capture

1903.

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If you want first class developing and printing fifth last match is to be played in Melbourne: The fastest train in the world is the business go to LeMunyon Also strictly fresh filtrarunne train from Philadelphia to Atläntie - City; }^Adpi):

ey forged & YTRE Case in which John Griffis, formerly sud di terboatswain in the employ of Messrs. Funchard and vice versâ, which does the distance 'ofi

teur rund Lowther & Co., was charged with perjury was

sixty miles in less than sixty minutes and has A. SHRUBB, who held the British amateur's

RESTINO LECTURES On Thursday evening af o'clock in the urch ball a lecture on the above subject was delivered by the Revd. T 'Pearce, of the London Mission. There was a large attendance, fun

At the outset the lecturer congratulated this members of the Union Church Literary Society on having done something to answer practically the question: How as Europeans we may make

an average speed of 6.1 miles per hour. ning record for four miles, has annexed the continued this morning and further remanded The daily issue is delivered free when the address is. Taking into consideration the dead level record for a mile and a half, which he negotiat THE 05, Empire Looks the Hill's World Tour meetings of their Society were to those who

accessly to mesenger. Ou copios sent by post an country and the comparatively short dissed in 6min. 47 3-ġiec. millitional $1.80 per quarter is charges for postage. The postage on the weekly free to any part of the

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1993

THE WAR CLOUD,

The extrenie gravity of the information, contained in a telegram from our corres

punlay the bests of our lives in the Far East? The

could attend regularly rational, instructive and pleasing way of spending certain evenings in each month. After defining the terms ofhic subject Mr. Pearce explained that, it was; his purpose to lecture on Modes

Controv or on the benefits which have acc World through its great controversiesan

ing Company and Musical Hall artists from Australia to Manila. After remaining there a month the Company is coming on to Hong kong hin

delle can buy and THE Manila Tiules reports that Hermann is now a prisoner in Cehu, awaiting trial for Pesth and others, will very soon eclipse MARSEILLES having been reported free of piracy, robbery, murder and other crimes.

tane covered. it cannot be said that this RUSSIA is settling 1,000,000 colonists in train is entitled to claim the championship; Amur (Eastern Siberin), and is undertaking for many several short lines at present con-reat road and irrigation works in the Ussuri struc ing in Europe like the Manchester-region of Manchuria. Liverpool electric railway,' the Vienna-Buda

this performance. On the same grounds plague, the British Consul there (Mr. M. C. 1,700 pesos of the stolen money have been ang controverfia'isz, nor was he about

to

Baltimore also the express from Philadelphia, distance 96.33 miles and speed 49.84 miles per hour, and the London-Harwich expresses, 68 miles done at the rate of 47.23 miles an hour, cannot be considered first raters. Leaving asitle all distances under 100 miles, we find that, among the i8 fastest expresses run.

Gurney) now issues clean bills of health to British merchant shipping,

recovered. 93d a beteggia madagdứt do

A COMMISSIONER Henry Clay Ide, LL.D., is to he vice-governor of the Philippine Islands. Awh n-Governor Tair leaves the islands on 23rd December and Commissioner Wright takes the gubernatorial chair

SINCE the Brussels Convention, sugar in Germany costs 3d instead of 5d. per lb. similar fall has occurred in France, where a5 per cent. more is now consumed.

.

THE E: and A. liker Airlie, which has put up which was 150,000lb.in 1898, increased to THE export of Siberian butter to Great Britain

such a creditable record of service in the Far

on the ethics of controvesy➡a subject on nhe typical Anglo-Saxon had still something to

learn from and, in the lecturer's opmic thing worth teaching to people of

le was not with then that evening his audience how to conduct controversie might, however, in passing drop a few to how controversy should not be carried on. controversial not to be-s. Intolerant. 1. Vin- Mr. Pearce then advised his audience in matters

pondent in Shanghai, and published else during the past year, no less than to werd East, under the command of Capt. St. J. George2,500,rooth, in 1902. It is expected that 1903 tent. 3. Abusiyel 42 To exercise prudence and

where, to the effect that in European circles war seems inevitable, is, not minimised by the fact that we are reliably informed, from local sources and from large shippers of cargo, that there was another significant "slump" in Japanese bonds on the London Stock Exchange this morning, and that the leading steamship companies in Japan have com- pleted arrangements for placing their flects under a neutral flag, on the first news of

an outbreak of hostilities.

DOMESTIC SANITATIOV,

is returning to China from Australia.

TH French mail steamer Polynesien, which recently grounded off Marseilles-which port she subsequently entered in safety-has a rent 2011, long, in her bull, unite the water-line.

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will show a further enormous Increase to the detriment of Danish butter.

fore-sight before engaging in controversy also spoke of the qualities essential to a suc THE och states that two capitalista in by an apt story. Turning to the subl

cessful controvertialist, illustrating each rout London are contemplating the establishment the lecturer proceeded to speak of

proper. class of fan Anglo-Japanese Bank in Korea with the controvertialis's from whose writings he had object, it is said, of entering into.competition drawn certain curiosities." He would call with the Russo-Chinese Bank

them whimsical controvertialists. The word annath hay man on whimsical” was derived from the Saxnn word.

first fatal accident to roped climbers in England It occurred while the party was ascending Sca: Fell pinnacle in a heavy wind.

on French lines. Considering the hilly character of "la belle France," it must be conceded, that an equal speed in England or on the flat country of the New England States would not deserve the same credit for excellence, since fast trains in France have sometimes to go up a gradient of 7 to 8 millimetres in the meter, the Paris-Mar-H. E. THE Governor, has been pleased to seilies express being an example of this. recognize M. Gaston Lichert, Consul for THE disaster which bafell four men while scal There exists another disadvantage on French France, as Acting Consul for Russia, pendinging Mount Sca Fell, in Cumberland, was the railways, consisting in a greater number of the arrival in the Colony of M. C. Bologovski. stoppages; and these considerably reduce the average speed and augment the cost of ex- ploitation. The following list of "flyers" is These CLARETS are specially selected

We understand that the question of do-extracted and arranged from the article: and obtained from the LEADINGFRENUHmestic sanitation, brought forward by Mr. "Vitesse destrains No. 890, Cosmos," which

E. A. Hewett at a recent meeting of the gives the speed between stations :- GROWERS; they are of exceptional value Sanitary Board, has been productive of

Mites per considerable discussion. The matter was

338.7 speed 56.58 and in fine condition.

fully reported in our columns at the time,

149.15 54.56 and it will be within the recollection of

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our readers that the debate at the Board iwegting arose through Mr. Hewett's amend- ment that a certain application respecting domestic sanitation he refused on the ground that a dangerous precedent would otherwise by created, and it would be impossible to know where to draw the line. The system A. S. WATSON, & Co., of drainage and sewerage' best suited for

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tropical climates has received considerable attention of late, and although it is generally admitted that the water-carriage system of disposal is undoubtedly the best, in temperate regions experts are unanimous in the opinion that no one system can be universally applicable, but that local conditions must be carefully studied before any recommendations can be made. Much less then can it be expected that one system can he devised which will suit equally well all tropical towns, without at least most profound modifications to render it locally possible and acceptable. In Hongkong, however, the authorities can- not overlook the fact that they are providing for a very mised population, the bulk of whom are totally incapable of looking at anything from the point of view of the educated. As Prof. Simpson recently stated, FURNITURE is better to try to improve what is

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THE jaunting car, wherein "Skin- the Gaat" Janes Fitz Harris) enabled the Phoenix Park murderers to escape, on May 6, 1882, has been shipped to Philadelphia for exhibition purposes.

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THE Daily Mail states that Mr. Robert Davies, 54.256 shipowner, of Menai Bridge, has given £135,000, invested in English railways, to the Palvinistic Methodists in the Khasi-hills, India.

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Paris.Nancy The only German express doing more than 40 miles an hour is between Hamburg and Berlin, and this train goes at a speed of 50 miles. Other nations content themselves with a very moderate rate of speed, as the following figures show:

Belgium

Miles an hour,

41,89 18.6

20.9 ... 43.64

27.78 ....37-34

34.6

THE Portuguese community at Maceo will be pleased to learn that Dr. Espectação d'Almeida returned by the, s.s. Empire to-day from his two years' commission at Timor. The worthy medico is extremely popular at Macao.

INQUIRER" writes to the Timer to call attention to the widely spread discontent in the Royal Artillery, consequent on the almost total stoppage of promotion in that, glorious branch of the Service since the end of the war.

H.E. the Governor has appointed Mr. Arathoon Official Trustee, and, Mr. J. W. Jones to act as Seth to act as Registrar of Companies and Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, with effect on and from the 15th inst, and until further notice.

ARRANGEMENTS have been made for every alternate steamer on the E. & A. Co.'s lien to touch at Timor, en toute to Hongkong and Japan, and this additional port of call should form an interesting break in the voyage to the

East.

M. SPELTERINI, Swiss aeronaut, and two companiona have crossed the Alps in a balloon The daring party ascended at Berne, the capital f Switzerland, and, descended at Bignasco, a village near the Italian frontier, The journey, which is about 20 miles us the crow flies, was traversed in a little less than 20 hours,

Hwem, a corner, a point- and certain men were said to be marked of from their fellows by corners or points in the interior of the axul toward which the vibrations of the brain were directed. In corners. maggots lie and we speak of people who have maggote, in the THE directors of the Orient-Pacific Company brain. North of the Tweed whimsical people have granted the stranded Queenslander, Mr. ate said to have bees in the bonnet Bees, Frederick Goodwin, and his friend, Mr.however, come by metamorphosis from a kind Jamieson, of Ryde (N.S.W.), assisted passages of maggot. So from the comers in the brains to Australia by the R.M.S. Orester gun cube of certain whimsical folk queer aides fly forth medical udaleta astonish and please the world for a thort time and possibly to perpetuate themselves in the, comers of other brains, Mr. Pearce instanced the school men of Europe during, the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries as exam- ples of whimsical controvertialiste, bavit g first traced the rise of the movement which produced the school-men and Shown how Shook through Arabian Influence Greek philosophy THE Admiralty has ordered three cruisers of became dominant in Europe.The Ambians the type of the Duke of Edinburgh One lewere the mathematicians and metap to be built by W. Beardmore and Company, of the time being denied by their Limited, Govan, Glasgow, another by Vickers, cultivation of the fine arts. T Sons, and Maxim, at Barrow-in-Furness, and proceeded to illustrate at som the third by Sie William Armstrong, Whit whimsicalities of the school men. worth, and Company, at Elswick, Newcastle was penetrated and permeated with t ou-Type... The Duke of Edinburgh, which was lian philosophy, The next sectic built at Pembroke, has a displacement of 13 lecture was devoted to a brief review 550 tons, her length being 48oft, beam: 73ft, two questions contraverted between the

alisis and Realists. Stories of the per of the lecture and the questions which a endured by the Nominalists enlivened"

Europe for so long a period were illustratively rather than in a formal Mr. Pearce referred at length to the words. Dunce" and "Danciad "in theirrelation to this controversy. In conclusion, the lessons tain controversies were sought to be Impressed. The effect of controversy mischievously con ducted on men's time, temper and charity and the importance of distinguishing between,dis cussion and discussion and of guarding against the beginning of strife were brought home 10. the minds of an audience which had followed.

and draught 27ft Her indicated horse power speed of 23 13 knots. Her armament consists is 23,503, and she will, it is estimated, altain

of six 9.2in gung, teu 6ib, guns; and 28, smaller quickfiring and machine guns. She is built of

steel.

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lecture with pleased attention throughout.

COUNT de la Vaux, the well-known French. neronaut, has made a successful balloon voyage across the English Channel, and over the eastern seaboard of England. Ascending at Saint Cloud, near Paris, the Count, who was accompanied by two companions, was carried a distance of well over 200 miles across the THE King has instructed Mr. Arthur Christop Channel, and the eastern English counties, her Benson (a son of the late Archbishop of The next day the balloon was over I Hull, and Canterbury, and master Eton College) and the aeronauts shortly afterwards alighted in the Viscount Essex to prepare for publication selec- vicinity of that city. To an interviewer, Count

FINANCIAL RETURNS FLA tions from the late Queen Victoria's correspond-de la Vaux stated that he crossed the Thames ence, between 1837 and 1851;-

between Greenwich and Chatham. When The account of revenue and expenditure near Hull there was, he thought, every prospect from 1st January to 31st August is published of the ballhon reaching Scotland, as he then in the Gazette. The total amount collected was 53,431,700.42, against an actual expendi. had 230 kilogrammes of sand in reserve. The wind, however, changed, and threatened to re, including Public Works Extraordina him to make the descent. the revenue was $1,793,57632, or an carry the balloon, out to sea, thus compelling $3476/585.26 For the same period of last

IT is reported from Moji that the Japanese Navy's watch towers in the islands of Mutsure and Takenoko, at the entrance to the Shimo by submarine cable. The work of laying down noseki Strait, are at present being connected

the cable was started by the cable steamer Okinanwa-maru on the and inst., and is to be finished in a few days.

for the 853-39% illion.

the most noteworthy

$32,488.25; while the other items show increase

respect" of land sales liče Preveque, nut, otherwise specified,

total revenue of $1, $1,200,970,09, (OF RI Tor-the same ujod:Jast decrease expenditure

Bulgaria (Tjariboy-Sofia) Denmark (Copenhagen-Korsur)......... 37. Greece (Athens-Patras)......................... Italy (Milano-Bologna).. Netherlands (Amsterdam-The Hague) 40.7 Norway (Christiana Charlottenberg)... 27.09 Austria (Vienna-Pressburg).....znjani. 42.25 Portugal (Lisbon-Oporto)... 27 78 Spain (Madrid-Barcelona) Russia (St. Petersbury-Moscow). defective in the old systems understood by Switzerland (Bern-Zurich) ... natives than to bring about á radical change Servia (Belgrade Tsaribed)...... .... 306 by introducing purely European methods of Turkey (Constantinopel-Sarenbey)... 26.35 disposal. We recognize that the Sanitary The Americans were the first to try fast trains Board intend dealing with applications for on long distances and will most probably the water-carriage system on their respective always hold the lead in this respect, as no merits, but are in agreement with Mr. other country, with the exception of Russia Hewett in maintaining that the authorities and India, can boast of 1,000-mile tracks.

TRAUSTE BINS ser quinton of nearly $700,000, while the expeug should commence at the beginning and The positions occupied by the two most

AFTER waiting several months, the State Goshowing, & decrease of over

Auer auto mud olunura para corresponding period of 1903, refuse all such applications unless it be important industrial States on the Continent,

vernment has at last decided to appoint a audellars. Under the heads of reve shown that sufficient water would be Germany and Belgium, with regard to rail-

cessor to the late Mr, E. A Whiteley, Commer that miscellaneous receipts have d provided irrespective of nullahs or the way-speed, is remarkable, the more so as SOME bellicose Japanese have already applied cial Agent in the East. The choice has fallen Government supply. The question will, of both are railway countries par excellence. for official permission to contribute war funds, upon Mr. John Bligh Suttor. This gentleman course, be raised, what constitutes a sufficient The imins-on-the-Malay-State-railways-do-Mr Megals, Director of the Revenue-Bucais.an engineer, and since 1879, or f nearly 25 water supply? The late Mr. Hugh Mc-about 20 miles an hour and the Imperial of the Department of Finance, has informed years, he has been in the employ o Callum, whose name is well known in con- Chinese "toy railway," between Shanghai of war funds from the public should be accept rarrying out duplication works on the

the prefectural Governors that contributions way. Commissioners, of kite years chiefly in nection with hygienic matters in Hongkong, and Woosung, contents itself with barely ed solely in case of war or emergencies but tains und eldewbere...What qual gave it as his opinion, some twelve years sixteen, which is similar to the records on, that they should be positively refused in time Sutter has for the post do ago, that fifteen gallons of water and over per the Sumatra railways, where the "flying, of peace.

appear. Sir John See is, howev PHOTOGRAPHIC head per day may be viewed as an ample Dutchmen" do zg kill., from Belawan to

bis fitness for the office, and states DEPARTMENT. supply of water providing the water-fittings Medan in somewhat more than an hour. Two large contingents of Japanese passengers are good, that is, that they do not leak. Of The same cautious rate of transit prevails went to Manila recently on the Yawuta Maru these fifteen gallons from three or five would on the other lines in Sumatra, and Batavia, and another large number on the Hongkong be required for flushing purposes. This the capital of Netherlands India, can boast | Maru, and in searching their baggage some maing, and timbers of the State. The salary police, fire brigade and gaof coming next wit being the case the question will naturally of trains doing about zo miles an hour. The hundred pounds of tobacco were found, and in arise whether or no an independent supply line from Auckland to the "Wonderland "mattress that went through as part of their of such a yield will be found in the hill of New Zealand is 169 miles long. The district of Hongkong, and if so whether train starts at 9 am. and wobbles through there is the least possibility of the supply an absolutely flat, barren and desolate being materially affected during a drought. country until 7 p.m. when the disheartened There can be no question that the water traveller is packed into an overcrowded mail supply has been shown to be wholly in coach for another two hours which, however, adequate to the Colony's first needs and that is not beaten in speed by the steam-horse at the rate of progression in the increase of the the antipodes. population will soon overtake the increased supply which the additional works now in course of construction are expected to yield. There are many other points which might be considered in advocating no change in the system which has served us so well, CA and it is to be hoped that Mr. Hewett and his supporters will not allow the question to drop,

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THE Boer to drink in the tropics is the Bear made in the tropict SAN MIGUEL,

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amounting to seven kilos, or nearly fifteen and personal baggage a quantity of human hair, one half pounds, was discovered. The property was seized by Customs officials. *** Pagode

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commercial agency is £750

THE Juvenile Smoking Suppression Bill: prac tically received the imprimator of the Legisla tive Council at Sydney, on asth ult, and having already passed the Assembly, should therefore are become law shortly, It's a Bill of o only

clauses, which read as follows: Any dealer in tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, and any licensed tobacconist, or other person who", supplies any

INCLUDED in the cargo of the E. and A steamer Empire which arrived today from Australia" were the following items:-For

imary"

co under Public Works Extra Miscellaneous Services show, a saving:

of $55,114.549, and Public Works Recurrent $30,265 16 The most important increases one of $170,763.23 in the sanitary department,,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

American China) 16th inst Indian (Catherine Ascar 6th inst “Canadian (Empress of India ) 46th inst. * German (Roăn), 27th inst. German (Hambure)in Indian(Namtang) and prox Australinn (Caáverão) Bih prox...

Manila: 494 carcasen veal, mution, and lamb person actually or apparently under the age of American (Nippon Mark)

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ongkong

Germanë MAKE

62 cases frozen sundries, 181 boxes butter, 70 cates concentrated milk. She also took 16 years, with tobacco in any shape or forte, aboard:45 tons frozen, beef at Brisbane for the cigars, or cigarettes, shall be liable to a fine abi

Exceeding five same port. For Hongkong iz boxes gold

this Act ma coin (valued at £6636), 200 tons lead, 300 boxes butter, 557 packages for

packages fongus, 65 tons, naval stores; also large lines of general cargo And for all ports.

Tric French Mail of the aand September was delivered in London on the 22nd inst.

The British Mediterranean squadron at Suda Bay (Crete) is kept in readiness for any. We are still doing business at 3, Des

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