Minister, left for Naples on Thursday morning by the M.M. steamer Anadyr, Mr. Robbins, the Superintendent of the Electric Light Works, gave the Ratepayers an opportunity on Wednesday evening of making a close comparison between the respective merits of the Electric Li Bray's Patent Gas Burners. cult of electric lamps was for a few hours sot in action, and in the Nanking Road exaniples of each system of lighting: be soon in close juxtaposition, priority of the electric light was very mani-fast, Immediately under Bray's Lamps the yellow light of the triple gas jet struggled With the white rays from above, but at a distance of a fow yards the brilliant light from the Brush lamps cast black shadows the road, while no sign of the proximity of the yas jet was apparent. the Electric Light Company have been making strenuous efforts to prepare themselves for the allicient supply of the demand which they hope will be forthcoming. Bands which are said to be practically indestructible have been specially prepared for the engines, and everything is being dono to render the repetition of former break-downs impossible.
Yesterday afternoon the fog-horn intended to be placed on the Newchwa Lightship was tested for sume time. People complained, and rightly, of this having been done during business hours when its dis agreeable sounds irritated the cries which it gave forth were often hideous and in their miserable wailing resembled nothing ever before heard here, When railways were novelties Sydney Smith comwrud the whistle which the engine gi afore entering a tunnel, to the a, let us say, condemned attorney entering, Jet us say, hades. The sounds that dis. turbed the Bund yesterday were such as the attorney might have uttered after torment, and when he found that by no process could he have himself removed from the pains and penalties he had incurred. They were despairing and dismal, quite such asa hope abandoned attorney aight utter.
The sale of Manila lottery tickets h been prohibited by the Government in the Eiupass. in cowsegnence of @ Alemorial ravinees of Kiangsu, Kianyse, and
from a high official, Has our inevitable Taotai been moving Tso to this?
An adjourned general meeting of N Ca., 8.V.C., was held on evening the residence of Mr. C. J. Holliday. chair was taken by Lieut. J. W. H. Bur-gone and there were about twenty memers present, Mr, John Macgregor was animously elected senior lieutenant, but it yar decided to allow the appointment of a captain to remain in abeyance for the present. A resolution was carried. by a Jarge majority to the effect that in future no private or corporal shall be promoted to the rank of sergeant until he shall pass an examination before a board of officers, The Practice Challenge Cup of Nu. 3 Ca. $.V.C. was shot for on Saturday last, when the weather was most unfavourable in cou-sequence of strong wind and heavy rain. The highest score was that of Private Robinson, 32 out of a possible 35 at the 500 yards range. As he has now won the cup twice in succession it becomes his absolute property.
It is notified that Mr. Walter Judd will take charge, as Superintendent, of the Extension Australasia and China "graph Company's station at Shanghai from the Ist prox.
A concert, in aid of the funds for the relief of sufferers by recount floods in Germany and Austria, will be yi Masonic Hall on Monday the 5th March, in which Messrs. Iburg and Fentam, the Concordia Liedertafel and several eutlemen amateurs will take part.
'A supplementary bazaar, in aid of the building fuud of the new Union Church, will be held in the Temperance Hall on Friday and Saturday next, the 2ud and 3rd prox., commencing at 2 p.m. on the first named day, The articles which will be offered for sale have recently been received from home and are not things left over from the former bazaar, The Captain of one of the mail steamers running regularly to this port has reported that ember last he observed heavy breakers, apparently caused by a sunken asterly direction from the islet of T king. Another observer, who saw the breakers at the same time, states that they apponred to be from one-half to three-quarters of a mile, south of the islet. The posi as given in the China Sea Directory is Lat, 29791' 42" N, Long. 129° 39' 48"
Few if any jiurickshas wore plying for hire on the sireers on Sunday, the proprietors of most of them having determined to strike against the increased license tax, and objecting very strongly to the strict inspection to which their vehicles have recently been subjected by the police. The jinrickshas are the property of some ten companies who have lately found thi the business has been very "wnremune being disappointed at the the resolution to at the number of license issued; they have deter Jusiness, at all events in the propriety ort that the of a large number of the coolies has n lately exceeded an average of 300 cash per which may be believed or not.
said also that the ce lies are demanding better terms from the owners, A yood many more than a thousand of the jinriekd, by the owners, to have bey recently objected to on inspection, upon grounds, and for faults, that they consider inadequate. It is quite possible that these statements of the proprietors are greatly exayyerated, and no one will regret if the result of thole present movement is to hand over the whole traffic to the Chinese on whose account an offer was made last to take up the whole of the jinticksha licenses at the present rate of S150 per month. Scarcelya vehicle of the kind, except a few private ones, was to be seen in the streets; whilst the number of wheelbarrows showed a manifest increase, though they did not appear to receive any from foreigners. s appear to be growing tired of the game, humber of these yelicles were plying hire yesterday; the majority are, however, not yet been disposed of. Detective Mack arrested two more of them on Tuesday, each of whom had a sword and revolver with cartridges to fit the latter. They were brought up at the Mixed Court on Thursday and remanded to the city to keep company with their associates.
A Correspondent writing' under the signature of Pedestrian makes the following comments on the well meaning but foolish offer of a Chinese gentleman in the matter of the native dogs that infest the Settlement, Another objection to the proposal of the member of the "Institue tion for Saving Oxen" is, that if the dogs were delivered to him there would be no security that they would be taken five, still \g8g @fty or sixty, [i from the Settlenent! Phe friend of oxen and of diseased and nad dogs may be, and doubtless is, an est man who would do what he promised. But his countrymen who run boats" on the river and creeks would probably unload their freight of canine rabies, actual or incipient, as soon after getting out of sight of Shanghai as the countrymen would permit them. Itwonld, of course, be impossible to send them by land. ' Thus Pedestrian:—Pray what aves this, would-be philanthropic El gentlemen say he wish the wretched half starved animals, lives he has suddenly become so anxious about? Provide food or shelter for those for whom no owners can be found, or try to make his countrymen more kind to them? Nothing of the sort, From the same superstitions fear of taking life which probably makes him a vegetarian, he wishes to prolong the wretched ce of a number of half-dead beasts, who, could weak, would only be too to be put an end to, and how does be propose to carry out his charitable homo? By sending "the animals a long distance" into the country to starve or become a pest to-the neighbourhood there. Very much akin is this sort of philanthropy to what one sometimes sees practised in the Native streets here, where mangy curs, scarcely able to crawl from weakness, are iched frou door to door by mere children, or, still more revolting, scalding water is thrown upon them by liwman fiends; but not a scrap of food given to them 32 funeral processions of unusual length and grandeur passed through the Settlement yesterday, one in the foronoon and the other in the afternoon, accompanied by the customary noise of gongs and other unmusical instruments, The professivual mourners, who were very felt the seurcity of them were conveyed chairs, but the ity had to walk, At the British Police Court on Monday, Michael Regan, a fireman Lolunging to the 3.3. Benulder, was charged with having refused duty' and wit using abusive uage towards James Robertvou, chief ner of the same. According to thy evidence of the complainant and another witness the accused was noder the influence nor and scarcely fit for duty. The leaded that the complainant had used violence towards him by attempt! to drag him out of his berth but this statement was unsupported by evidence. His Worship ordered Regan to forfeit two days pay, to pay the costs of the Court and to return to duty.
The exhortation "save us from our friends," must have presented itself to the nds of the Directors of the Hongkong and ianghai Bank on realing a recent issue ur Ho) contemporary the Ching Wescarcely think," saysthatastute 1, in commenting on the half-yeatly rt of the Directors, "that any one question that the application of the Joint-stack system to banking in Hongkong has been anything but a success, or that its effect on the. prosperity of the Colony has been small." It is dificult to understand at first sight what ground our
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