Monday, 6th, and Tuesday, 7th August.
Tue 2xp_ Lrevrexant's Patze.—Presented by Sub-Lieutenant Gurney. Entrance Fee, Fifty Cents. 200 and 500 yards; 7 shots at each Range. Handicap.
The above competition took place on Monday and Tuesday morning, the weather on both occasions being unfavourable, particularly on Tuesday. There were sixteen competitors, four of whom retired after firing at the first rengo. Priv. Clifton, BL points, won the Ert prize of this competition (atid also the monthly practice lenge cup for August, for the first time), Priv. ekhold took' second prize and Priv. John third.
The following are the winners of the "Nursery Prize" which was competed for on the, name, occasions Priv. Tuck: first prize, Priv.-Pease second, and Priv. Shad-gert third.
Priv, clifton Liegt, Garey Priv. John great a ddcalty ier the a a is
is this very monosyllabic form, I This competition took place on Wednes-itself as it does to so many kalei day, the:—being not at all favourable. combinations of or There were fourteen competitors. Corp. one of which is capable of being so nicely Whitfield and Priv. Clifton tied for first adjusted to represent the particular shade and second prize, the latter being handi-of meaning required, capped 4 points; the tie will be shot off The Reviewer also asserts that a know. tomorrow, and Priv. Pirie takes third ledge of Tones is indispensable where the rize, Lieut. Gurney being handicapped. context is not sufficiently clear, and quotes tain Bright was in charge of the range. the terms for ' brother-in-law" and ''tooth-'The following are the scores over 15 8 ache" as being. in ible. except for usussused their tones. Without in any way dissenting from his premiss as to the importance the tones, or staying to ask wi it possible combinations of the sound Ya can be madi to realise his illustration, it seems difficult to imagine any situation in which, such 8 confusion can arise, seem, that the tendency of the Chinese language is entirely towards the qualification of words which are liable to confusion by the addition of others to strengthen the meaning. We have words enough in our own tongue which need some qualifying, epithet to make their meaning clear—sucl as bough, bow, write, right, fain, feign THE RIOT AT KIUKIANG, and soon. 1 venture to assert that good Chinese scholar, without a knowledge of To the Editor of the the tones characteristic of any one locality, Norru-Curxa Datty News. would be able to make his meaning clear Six,—I should deem it a favour if you in any part of China far better than a less could spare me im your columns for a sound scholar whose quick ear could dis-small correction in the account of the above tinguish even the 18 tones of Canton. One atiair as set forth by your correspondent more illustration will bear out both my E. 8. L. a it crea flatter the arguments. The word shév is in the second vanity of us: Kiukiangites to feel that we had been in imminent dan x of our lives tone when in combination with mo, and at the hands of 3,000 bloodthirsty desperameans "what." If the student is to learn
does, and in the cause of so magnificent a this ening as one word Shénmo (or Shém-mo) how, later on, when he hears this shen sum as 40,000 Taels, yet our innate modesty in the 4th tone, with the senso of "very," forces us to acknow that 2,000 would is he to know that it is only his old friend more accurately represent the numbers of with a new voice? Surely he better the mighty force arranged over against off when he learns from the beginning our names can honesty be that shen has two tones and two mean-associated with no larger im than 6,000 ings dependent thereon, and picks up the Taels at the outside. It grieves me much various combinations as he goes along. to have thus ruthlessly to tear away so Apologising for the great length of thin much of our glory, but Kiukiang, though letter small, is honest.
Tam, Sir, Yours truly, Yours truly, Xacrirupe.
A Srupent, Kiukiang, 6th August.
4th August, 1888,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.