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CHEMISTS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21, 1907.

characterised as such, was ineraly a prelimi- nary canter for those who are agin the Government and probably. It should not be takuntoa seriously. The President was in one of his characteristic, moods, entirely

|* HE Walwppu has asked the members of the "THE CHINESE LANGUAGE"

Diplomatic lady in Peking to warn their re- spective nationale not to travel into Tibet at present, as the Central Govern eat, will not be responsible (r their safely, in the circum-

'sances.

case was reman te ! for a week.

The book is an up-to-date non, as the Author is apparently well aware of the tanfeqcy to BIR WALTER HILLIER'S LATEST BOOK. burst the trammels of the archaic forms of the book language in use for many centuries and "The Chinese Language and how to learn it: A Mancel for Beginners By Sir Walter Hilto find a fresh vigeur in a simpler style of com. lier, XCM.G CB, Professor of Chinese, King's position and expression, in which movement A. S. WATSON & CO., sarcastic and occasionally practical : witness

his opening remark: "There are small WITH regard to the Cale reported in the Wors College, Condon. Formerly Chinese Secrethe growlog and progressive newspapers are LIMITED

savings ur der various heads which I can in kong Telegraph on Monday last in which, aitary to H M's Legation at Peking, and some taking such a promincat lend. The vogue of time H.M's Consul-General in Korea London: the pedantic, cambrous, highly ornate style of form you of, if you wish it." The proviso is the result of the nowats-uted invasion by street

and modern requirements are being met by one exquisite, but it is not business. Comin; to coplies of the Samchun steam launch Fe Kegan Paul, French, Trubuer & Co, Ltd. the past is going with all its picture-queness, some of the points dealt with by the speakers, Chung, a coolie was killed by falling down the ublishing, rice: 12.6.

It is a trife saying that there is no soyal road more suited for present-day needs. Mr. Hooper appears to have suggested that engine mom, the Indian watchman on bourd' the office of inspector of markets was "aithe vessel appested before Mr F. A. Hazeland, to learning; but the present volume would We are glad to see sinologues, more and pography and frut ensemble to be an attempt to the so-called Chinese dialect in so distinci together useless," and "that the work could today, on charge of manslaughter. The appear from its neat hoards and clear tyre taking up the only right view that make the road an artistic one at least. There as to constiture (eight) different languages, any be carried out by other inspectors." It is charitable to assume that on the spur of the

is one of the text book appearance about it two of which are quite as u-like as English and Dutch. Carstairs Douglas enunciated moment and in pursuance of a desire for

in fact, it wou'd seem as if the author were

Parker and our Author subscribe to it. reform, Mr. Hooper gave vent to sentiments

determined to make the book look as little like this view hnidly, and, ont to mention others, We are also pleased in nntire that a variant which in the bald light of day can hardly be

the formidable text-books, as he styles them,

Inne in Mandarin is called attention to, and al bs learners of the Chinese tongue are dis deemed durable. The markets of Hongkong

as possible, for he is of the opinion that would

are by no means on a par with those elegant

couraged at the beginning by the sight of the bonks put into their hands. | institutions in London, known as workhouses, and to suggest that a casual glance by a busy sanitary inspector is sufficient to secure their cleanliness is to say the thing that is not.ir is stated in a Washington despatch of tith Mr. Hooper would have the senior inspector inst. that Attorney General Bonaparte has a ABSOLUTE PURITY undertake the duty, in accordance with the sunced his intention of bringing criminal pros terms of the Healths Commission's report, ceedings against John D. Rockefeller, as the

SY, APPOINTMENT

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AND HOUSEHOLD.

ÆRATED

WATERS

AND THE..

HIGHEST ·DEGREE

Dr

PERFECTION....

OUR SODA WATER is the most whole. some daily beverage that can be taken,

OUR LEMONADE ORANGE CHAM: SQUASH, Sc., possess the true flavour of

PAGNE, RASPRERRÝADE, LEMON

the finest Fresh Fruits. We would draw special attention to OUR LIME FRUI CHAMPAGNE, wuch has the pleasant characteristics of the Saes! Lime Fruit.

OUR DRY GINGER ALE in a beverage of

delightful flavour and aroma.

Tug" Red 'cross is hereafter not to be made a trade mark at the pleasure of merchants and druggists. This his been now introduced into the new laws that are being drawn up by the Ministry o Justice, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Agriculture, Works and Commerce, on the ground that this being the sign of the International Red Cross Society 'it should be the special mark of the members of that Body,

head of the Standerd Oil Trust, and E. H. Har-

tongue

This latest attempt to smooth the, vía difficilis to the aspirant to possess a Chinese and Celestial book knowledge is modest enough in its claim as to what a diligent study of is will produce--the result which will ensue from following out the fines of study fait down by the author. He

transform himi inin a Chinese as far as speech

le laid down for its observance. Mandarin

Telegram.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

SERVICE.

"BRITISH FLEET NORTH,

FETED AT VLADIVOSTOK,

From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 21st August, 4.85

p.m.

The British Fleet "was feted at

Vladivostok yesterday

POCHOW NOTES.

CHANGES,

Wuchow, 19th August, 1907. Mr. 5. M. Russell, Acting Commissioner of astoms at Wuchow, bas retired, from the

has pot made suich 'a use of the ancillery aid of variant tones as, for example, has been notably done in the walow, Amoy, and Cantonese forms of speech; but that it is made use of ie noparent; and eventually it may be discovered that not a language in China hai is indebled to this aid for an extended use of words otherwise Castoms service and leaves to-morrow by th confined within the primary tones, though the o different methods n is clearly ex'mplified in the wide difference of their general use in the Fokienese type of languages mentioned above and the Cantonero type with its numer ous dialects, in all of which lesser divisions of the language which have been studied they have been discovered

Sanul en route lor England. Mr. Russell har that time he has made himself very popalar with all classes of the community, both Foreign

but has Mr. Hooper. reflected upon what riman, as the promoter of the illegal rail:oad does not inform the use of the book that it will genius of each form of speech may employ them only been a few months in Wuchow, but during

merger for violations of the anti-irusi laws of is concerned; but its aim is to start him fairly the United States. It is understood that war rants for the arrest of these men will issue in the near future.

duties the Commission would already bur den the 'zenior inspectors? The Registrar General was far from diplomatic when he bluntly said that it did not matter what Haine the man was called, and probably the man would follow that up with the observa-THE case against Wong Hok Kam, formerly tion, that the salary's the thing. We are engaged as a "boy" on bord .MS, King quite certain that the great majority of the Alfred, who was charged with stowing away

on board the collier Mercedes, thereby obtain intelligent and thoughtful section of Honging a passage from Japan to Bongkong without kong will support us when we hold that we permission; and the head fireman of the collier, need adequate and continuous supervision who was indicted for aiding and abetting the of our markets-even if we have to dispense stowaway on board, was concluded at the with the services of some of our rat-catchers. Police Court, to-day. Mr. F. A. Harland The unrour of it all is that members of the fine the fireman Sto and the stowaway $15. Boardshould confess their ignoranceofwhat is

A TELEGRAPHIC despatch, dated San Francisco,

Capt. A. Pedersen, arrived here to-day from the codfishing grounds off the cost of Siberia and reported that the vessel had been boarded by men from the Russian gunboat Mindjur, her ship's papers taken and her cap tain warned to stay thirty miles from shore. under threat of being confiscated and the officers and crew taken to Petropavlovsk in irons.

and to put him on the road to ultimate success. as a speaker, a reader, and, to a certain extent at all events, a writer of the language.

This is not 'Chinese without a teacher, as the constant direction of a native or other competent instruct r' is insisted on.

of

OUR SARSAPARILLA is not only a deli. happening. Were such a submission made be- July 14, says: The barkentine S.. N. Castle, ↑ words as they should be...l'ere the element

cious drink but a blood pur fier as well. OUR STONE GINGER BEER, since is introdection, has been steadily growing in populer favour.

„S. WATSON & CO.,

-LIM (TED),

CHEMISTS, ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,

&c. &c. &c. HONGKONG, CHINA & MANILA, Hongkong, 17th August, 1907.

BIRTH.

On the 20th insi,, at No. 5 Queen's Gardens, Hongkong, the wie of James 12. Dasing of 763 Chinking, of a son,

forea British municipal electorate there would he trouble, indeed. It was an eminently sane remark that Mr. Hewett made; witli refor. ence to the permanent employment of the plague staff, when he said that the trained men should be retained, at all costs. We are, happily, emerging from the plague area by degrees, but that does not estimate the admirable although disagreeable service which these men do quietly and unostenta. tiously, It พุทร unfortunate that Mr. Hewett should have made the gaucherie regarding the presentation of the proposed, Estimates to the Sanitary Board, and to speak of the Officer: Administering the Government as *graciously" pleased to do something or other because his speech on the whole was an entire vindication of the work of the Government. Mr. Hewett, and with all humility we aver it, is on the side of the

The Honghang Celegraph Government even in his sternest diatribes,

HONGKING, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1907

THE SANITARY BOARD IN SESSION.

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WHILE the Chinese in Connaught Road were enjoying the antice of a compatriet from Tam sui yesterday afternoon, it did not occur to them that the man responsible for the some what unusual exhibition was insane. Fortun. ktely, his insanity took no homicidal tendency, and when the police took him in charge there, was nothing to show that he was other than a victor-er-joying the-pleasures-of-Hongkong Examination by the doctors however, showed that the man was not responsible for his actions, and he was sent to the Lunatic Asylum,

ance He became so enthusiast'c that he over-

because as a public servant in two British As extraordinary acculent occurred as a mat- communities-for-a-period-covering-his-resid-shed_wbich_had been erected for sing-song ence in the Far East he cannot fail to purposes at Shek-song-isai shortly after mid. recognise the honestly fair principles which night. A Chinaman, who was descried by the actuate British officialdom. It is not a plea police as a coolin thought it was better te climb up on a wall, adja-ent to the matshed, and saist (bing to speak about, but one is com

view the show for nothing, rather than pay the pelled to give attention to a small item which

two cents demanded for admission. He sat on appeared on the agenda of yesterday's meet the wall for some time, enjoying the perform ing. A Chinese restaurateur mide an ap plication about a water tank on his premises and it was said: "As the removal of the tank meant the ruin of his business he trusted the Board would grant him permission to retain it. A humble and simple petition Of all the members, Mr. Lau Chn Pak was the only one who thought it necessary to say that the man should not be ruined if possible, Mr. Hooper taking the higher and more judicial ground that the applicant should state his case before the Board. No discussion, arose

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

MASTER C. da Silva, son of Mr. Claudio du Silva, formerly of Hongkong, a local Queen's scholar, was to leave for England on 16th inst, to study law, says the Singapore Frie Fress.

bal inced himself. In falling his head became wedged between two upright bamboe poles and with the impetus of bis fall his neck was brnken.

A Mon of rastics belonging to a place called Siaoch hpib, near Sungkiang, attacked on Thursday morning (1 th inst.) and made havoc of the residence of one of the gentry of that district living in the market town of Tien-

The Kreater part of the hook is taken up with lessons of considerable length, consisting sentences for the learner jo turn into Chinese. To aid him in this task are pated in parallel columns the English sentences and the same sentences put into the Chinese idium, or pid- gin-English, so that here the proper sequence of words is shown that is to say as' conceras, the Chinese construction, and consequently the tyro has no difficulty in the arrangement of his

of topsy-turvydom so conspicuously present- in nearly every thing Chinese, when compared with our style of doing things is most marked; in fact, there is often a regular bouleversement of nearly the whole sentence: the hipaman 'speaks backwards, roads backwards, and writes backwards, ‘that is to say, the order of the sentences is often inverted! Here is a good rule fro n the book:-' is a sale rule, in attempting to reproduce an English sentence. in Chinese, to begin by cutting out all super- fluities. It should, in fact, be treated as one would a telegraphic message and be reduced to its lowest possible dimensions, after this it may be transposed into a Chinese key with the liberal interspersion of certain particles.

But to return in the lesson ;-At the foot of

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We have no doubt that this book will prove very useful to the ever-increasing number of those who are beginning to tura their attention to the acquisition of Mandarin,

1. F. C. SPORTS.

At the V.R.C. yesterd. afternoon a couple! of swimming races and a Water Palo match were held.

In the Two Length *landicap, the following was the result

FIRST HEAT.

I. M. C Lopes (owes 7 secs,) ... J. M. R. Pereira (awes 8 secs.) A. R. Ellis (ower a secs.) H. S. Jephson (“po”)................... Time, 51 secs.

SECOND HEAT,

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A. J. V. Ribeira (owes secs.)...... "J. A. V. Barros (owes & secs.) L. Le Breton (owes 7 secs),

Time, 42 secs.

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THIRD HEAT.

P. M. Remedios (ower 8 secs.)........ 1 A. H. Carroll (owes 6 secs.).................... 2 ___J_W. Bains-(owes.J SECS.}===== E. M. O. Remedios (owes't sec.)'.. Time, 47 secs.

and Chinese.

Mr. Russell joined the Customs service is 1879 and has had a distinguished career. In 1893 he received from the Chinese Govern». ment the order of the civil rank of the fourth class and exactly ten years after got the British war medal and clasp "Defence of Legations," at Peking. Mr. Rossell leaves Wachow with the hearty good wishes from his numerous friends that he will enjoy the rest that he has sa deservedly earned.

Mr. P. Kremer succeed Mr. Russell as Acting Commissioner of Customs, ed interim, Mr.. W. Von Dewall from the Canton Customs is' transfered to this post as an assistant,

NAYAL

"

The German gunboat Tringtau has surprised everybody by succeeding in getting back to Wuchow yesterday afternoon from Nanolug. The Tringfaw took advantage of the slight rise n the River to get down as far as the Grand Rapids. There she waited for another risa and managed to negotiate the rapid success. fully. Another delay took place at Kwei fisien, but the water was just bigh enough to enable the Triaglaw to get through and from there to Wachow she had an cneventful passage. The Tsingtau loft for Canton'at day. “light this morning.

NEW VICEROY,

The news of the appointment of H.E. Chang Yen-chun as Viceroy of the Two Kwang has been received by the local Chinos with manifest pleasure." The new "Viceroy hat a very good record so the Chinese say, and they are look ing forward to have a few necessary reform accomplished locally. For some considerable time past many of the leading Chinese news- papers have been under the late Viceroy's ban and their circulation in Kwangsi province

the pages are the Chinese characters, which are to be used in the construction of the sentence given above with the spelling and tores marked according to Sir homas Wade's well-known

The final proved to be very interesting as the system of orthography, which is the standard frode for the transliteration of the Chinese pro: three first men in each heat who competed nunciation of Mandarin; for the book is for the came in very close, but Ribeiro gave up when only a few yards from the finish, when he could The English future student of Mandarin meaning is also attached to these words: 1-la-casily have had second place, Remedies swamp ohibited.

very well throughout the race and caught up almost unnecessary to say that these sentencer and lessons rise in gradation from the simple the other men after the first length. The result phrase of a low wordesufficient to express the commonest everyday wants to a more complex structore with subsidiary clauses, or sentence, attached to the main one.

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By the time the student has thoroughly ma-tered these lessons by a dili,ent study of them he has some 600 words at his command the tip of his tongue. A list, however, of ready to slip in well-ordered sentences from

1,000 characters is given towards the end of the book, with pronunciation and meaning These characters are beautiful to look at, clear and distinct in typography, and some three-quarters' of an inch square.

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The paradigm of a verb is given, so that the machen. The doors and windows of the relearner may be able to see how moods and sidence were smashed to pieces and the mob tenses are built up by the employment of ad ws guilty of serious acts of vandalism by verbs and particles of oue sort and another.

The book ends with an fodex of Character,

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P.: M.'Remedios 1, M. C. Lopes..... Time, 472/5 secs.

In the team race, three teams competed, and at the finish there was only a couple of 'yards'

Reme lios' term made a very poor show, being margin between Barros team and Baior. composed almost of all new swimmers. The result was as follows:-

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~A. V. Barros, L. Le Breton, A, E, Alves, A. R. Ellis, F. K. Tala and A. Silva Netto.

2- W. Bains, J. M. R. Pereira, J. M. C. Lopes, A. J. V. Ribeiro, A. A, Alves and C. A. Rodrigues.

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3.-P. M. Remedios, I. A. 9. Alves, A. H. Carroll, F. di Roza, P. A. Yvanovitch and E. M. O. Remedios,

Time, 5 miqules 14 secs.

In the Water Polo match a change was according to their radic.ls; but we are inform which it will be impossible to replace. The ed that there is to be an English-Chinese made in Barios team by H.A. Lammert sub- reason of this outbreak of the mob is said to Vocabulary in a second volume which apstituting A. R. Souza, M. Roza Pereira was substituted for A. J. V. Ribeiro and C. A. be hostility to an agreement made with the|parently has not yet been published. Railway Company whereby the latter is allow

Rodrigues for O.' K, Chunyat, in L'E. Lam• ed to get gravel and stone from the district.

men's teams,, The unlucky victim of mob violence, Mr. Citing, is charged by his fellow townsmen with having made the alleged distastelul con tract, and they accordingly gave him a proof of their dislike..

The radicals are not forgotten, the baking expedi nt for an alphabet in a pa-alphabetical language, and without a knowledge of which the scholar is unable to make use of a Chinese- Eoglish dictionary when he does not know the pronunciation of the word he is in search of

Without the Sanitary Board the gaiety of Hongkong would be very seriously imperilled; for there are few delights which can more successfully entertain the public than the academic discussions which take place there on questions affecting the minutiae of civic administration. At yesterday's meeting a most important problem cropped up relating to the care of lost and pariah dogs, in con- nection with the debate on the Estimates of the Department, and it is satisfactory to know, on the authority of the Medical Officer of Health who interjected a remark in reply to one of the sinofficial members, on such a trivial matter, although the ques-desir ying a lot of antique objects of art of that there are no "strays" in Hongkong at tion of stray dogs assumed wonderful pro jade stone, bronze and porcelain, many of the present moment. But the question of portions, The application was refused.” the Estimates for the Sanitary Department is worthy of higher consideration than the quibbling about the fate of unclaimed dogs, and, parenthetically, it may be observed that in the Straits the matter is settled by an offi: cial arm'd with a gun. These are the first Estimates that have appeared with reference to the Sanitary Department since the art of the Commission appointed to deal with sanitary affairs was published. The work of the Commission was primarily to discover methods whereby the administration of the Department could be improved, but there is no lesson to be learned from the Estimates for next year that the recommendations of the Commission have, børne fruit,, unless we assume that the alleged saving of some $8,000 in a proof of good intentions. Unfortunate. ly, the members of the Sanitary Boards en to have run away with the idea that they were called upon to pass the Estimates, which was absurd. All they were required to do was to express opinions on the items

The P. & O. S.,N. Co.'s a. Socotra lett Singa pore for this port on 20th inst, at 6 p.m. proposed for next year's work, and, where

The P. & A. S. S. C'vans, Alestä sailed from sirable?" nécessary, to make suggestions which would

Kote and it due to arrive, at this port on the be considered by the Legislative Council.

morning of the 18th inst., at daylight.. i Yet we read of one member saying," I move Messrs. Rozar's & Ço, ahnounce jo our busi- The I. C. S. N. Co.'s. Kamang from Cal. that the item be struck out," and another, :ness section their resignation at agents in euntin and the Straits left Singapore for this port with unnecessary vigour, saying, 1 flatly Hongkong of the Banco Nacional (kramarido, on roth inst., at 6 pm, and is due here on 26th refuse to pass them," the "them," being the The establishment of the agency in this Colony

The C. P. R. Coli 2.s. Monteagle arrived at

POLICE UNWIN, of the Waler Folice Station, prosecuted a coolie named Wong Yung, at the Police Court, this morning, for going on board the seamer Derwent yesterday afternoon with. out permission. Wong said he went aboard to

SHIPPING AND MAILS

Indign (Namsang) 210d inst.

see a friend. He admitted he had no permis English (Malfa) zand inst., 8 'a.m. slon.' The fine was paid,

"Pass a fine of $7," said Mr. Pozeland.

LAT STTING, a building contractor, of the Shing Kee firm, 66, Queen's Road Fast, was arrested yesterday morning and charged with offering a bribe of $3 to .i Lam Yan, a clerk employed at police headquarters. The bribe was alleged to have been given in order to secure a truck licencé. Accused was arraigned before Mr. F. A. Hareland on the charge and the cast

was remanded

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Canadian (Tartar) 120d inst. Indian (Kumsang).26th inst. German (Prinx Heinrich) 27th inst., 2.M. German( Print Regent Luitpold) 27th inst., p.m. American (China) z8th jost,

The 6.8. Aberlour left Keelung on zoth inst., and is dus here on zand inst., at 3 pm -

Barros team through at the whole match were on the attack and H. A. Lammert after missing a nice shot mads up for it by scoring almost immediately after, "The second goal was scored by E. M. (). Remedios who stemed to have stack close to his opponent's goal throughout the whole game.

In the second spell, W. J. Carroll replaced Rodrigues in goal. E. M... Remedios notch ed the third gaxi when only a couple of yards from the net, by punching it in from a pass by his brother which was impossible for the goalkeep er to stop. -H. A. Lammert scored the fourth and last goal, and the game ended in a win for

This the people considered an injustice as they were kept in ignorance of cure-

new Viceroy this prohibition has been removed rent events. Since the appointment of the

and the people hail this as a good omen and are elated thereat.

.TRADE,

The trade of Wuchow seems to be improv. ing. The Customs returns show a decided in- crease of revenue for the last quarter as com- pared with the corresponding quarter in 1905, A very marked increase in the importation of col. ton yaro and raw cotton is noticeable, and the exports of raw silk, silk waste, camphor and camphorwood planks, etc. are the 'principal staples to show an increase. Wachow does not enjoy this measure of prosperity ́estirely, as under existing conditions, Wuchow is main- ly used as the chief depot for distributing" goods to the various trading centres. The export of live stock, principally cattle, con- tioues in grast quantities and a slight feeling of dissatisfaction. is expressed locally as it is feared the country will be denuded of cattle if the present rate of export contigues,

FATAL FIGHT.

A serious affray took place yesterday morn ing on the foreshore. It appears that a coolie engaged in refuse gathering made his way into the big cattle shed, in front of Jardine's poo- tons and was proceeding to collect the refole in the shed when he was stopped by the cattle shed conk. Words and then blows ensded and in a few minutes, both combatan were hard at it. All of a sudden the cattle Thed cook picked up a big stone and struck the refuse-gatherer with it on the head, the litter falling to the ground apparently stunned. The cook than commenced kicking the pręstiato men reducing his features to pulp. NI PRE of the big crowd attempted to interfer and a specimen of the local police watched the pro ceedings with apparent interest, but insde no effort to intervene. The stricken man seemed

To one even, who does not wish to learn the language, the book, in a number of its pages, conveys in a succinct form much information about both the spoken and written languages, of the genesis of the latter, and how the crea tive faculty of the primitive Chiaoe was exercised in language-making.

With our knowledge of the superiority of an alphabetical form of speech, it is amusing to read as regards the written language: To many thoughtful' Chincec it is a matter of sur-the Blues by 4 garis toʻnif.. prise that this script has not been adopted as a common medium of communication through. Lammert's team proved a disappointment, alto revive for a minute or two and picking up out the world, They say Why multiply, though he, Fereira and A. B. Carroll played scripts, and invent complicated systems when | well. you have ready to hand a langua, e free from grammatical intricacies, a denguage that has stood the test of ages, and in which it has beca found that no changes were necessary or de-

Bros tuam played a very sound game, and

Whites:-C. A. Rodrigues (goxl), W. J. Car rol, L. Le Breton (full backs), A. H. Carroll (all back), L. E. Lammert, F. da Roza and J. M. Roz Pereira (forwards).

his iron rake struck the cook a fearful blow on the skull with the result that the coal was laid The fill wing were the teams -

out. Both combatants were now Apis de com- Blues-F. K. Tata (goal), J. M. C. Lapes, but and were allowed to remain of the beach I. A. Lammert (full backs), A. V. Barron, (half | in sife burning sun, the police refusing to move back) A.R. Ellis, P. M. Remedios and E M. them, Early this morning the cook died O. Remedios (forwards).

through the result of the fearful clout be gok, and exposure. The refuse gaterer is miji on Sir Waller puts down as difficulties in the acquisition of the language, tones, pronuncia

the beach and is likely to sucumb to his sare tion, prefixes and suffixes, and the amplification

fous Injuries, Great Indigiation pravalle amingst the Chinese at the altitude of the of the written language when speaking, so that

Police in this matter and a complaint signed though the former is monosyllabic, it is pot far

by a number of leading cheats hau beak wrong to describe the latter as syllabic. footnotes, which are like the flowers that bloom was largely due to the efforts of the managing Nagasaki at 4.30 p.m., on 20th inst, and left. Some foreign Mandarin speakers make light | V.R.C. "B" Team, and on Friday the V,R.C. made to the Police Magite, The Magli in the spring. There were other remarks eines Meurs Rosario & Co. Mr. Jagain at a am, Wednesday, for Kobe, where of the tones, but our author is wise in saying: "A" Team us. Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, trate replied that the Potoman did of a similar character such as, " We are in. I Leiria, The severance, of his connection with | she is due to arrive at 9'aming aand lost.%

bey are most assuredly wrong, bàn th ed to vote nearly batfx million dollars" which constituents of the Corporation. Messts arrived at Nagasaki at 3 p.m., où zoth seat, and Another difficulty called attention to is the Hongkogg Water Polo Shield Competition. Officer in the yamen. Headless to say bewrayed air gular unconsciousness of the real Amatoon V. Apcar & Co. bave been appointed left again, at 5 am, same day, for Shanghai, redundancy of metaphor and allusion in the The latter match is likely to prove a very excuse is Almsy and Asther repres

are to be made to the Ygher authbrities; where the' is due to arrive at poon, on sand ing. i wrlison Inngangs. position. In fact, the debate if it may be successos to Messrs. Rosario & Co.

the Portuguese Bank will be regretted by, the

insu

The C. P. R. Co's is. Empren of China,

WATER FOLD.

On Thursday the Corinthian Yacht Club vs.

to play off their ties in the sixth, round in the the cut oplás there us no "Ex

Interesting ona.