Bro. & W. Asia as the ease may be, to reach thei homes through the crowd in order to take their children or their furniture to " place at safety, Those persons should be trested with kindness consideration, and not thrust rudely oside "What our Correspondent anyo is very just, and we are glad to give publicity to hi Wo ha ved from Messrs, Barr, ug & Ca., Shipping and Custom Agents of Camomile Street, London, specimen p 1 album Raphael Tuck & Sons' artiatio in price from ad includ:
Bro, nut the majority a simply embody cheerful good wishes report was an li appropriate to the Christmas and Now-year many of themaufficient-The church season have been to be called prettily decorated as in former years, pulpit and bed of the Cathedral being and affection, In addition to the ordinary poetry, breathing. love of more elaborate exceptionally pretty. rooms of the Pulie at the Siation been tastefully decorated, At Hongkew it the sorgeante!- mess are the mottos " Aboli printed on satin and silk, cardo edged with lion of ions and More Pay, ken fringes, and rich designs ingrained.
guid new year to ano and Altogether they form a ndsome and Success to the auld folks at hame, really splendid seri to which pita 7 and let li dealers in this kind of ware would do well the best wish," "Not forgetting our frien room are on the walla Weloo attention when
at home," 'A Happy Now Year to: all received many Christmas cards Tmmodiately below this are some Japanese during the last few days, principally padded Sigur a: raiak, the picture' of jovinlity.. the scrgeanta' meos on the from the local stores, affording illustration of the old saying low aweot i walls.are dark lanterns, rattles, whiatl are the. uses.of advertisements, One of swords, batons and other paraphernal pertaining to a policeman's calling, all being Hens, productions, adver tastefully surrounded with evergreens. 'T' for misprints, is Se rated with lower decks of the foreign men-of-war were tch representing also decorated, aa.wore the saloons of moat We hop in port, The Yuenfah re-premature, States Post Office at Washington has been in the habit of sending -paatthroe: iriatmas and Ne to the day afternoon a fre hi different Peat Offi Ss Chinese house on the north side of Clisfoo Road, near its junction with Lower Kwang-whic arrived here yesterday. It reads thus—The Oficers of the istration of the Jay Empi compliments of the season to their oollengues at 'A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year 1884.5." In the middle of the eard is " picture of the General Post Office, Tokio, with the rising ann in the background. "The eard, engraving, print ing and envelope are all the work of Mr. W. T. Phipps, Agent for the Sun Fire Office of London, sends us 9 copy of 'A few days ago Ohinam h sold the fi: removed the piping that tings with the Gas Comroault being that The Gas Company were ai 1 extra quantity of gas was leaving their goa-hold but attributed this to the Christmas fe ties, and it was not till Saturday morning that the leakage wae discovered, It in probable that some 20,000 feet of gas had escaped before the discovery was ina It is very fortunate that no explosion followed from the leakage.
Some time ago, two Chinese women upper po:
n of the building, gave the other notice to quit.
The latter, who had a large family of children, aid she could not remove till her husband returned, Soon after this the first woman gave some soup to the other woman's children, and three weeks afterwards two of them died. The parents considered that the deaths were the result of natural causes, and had children buried; but the neighbours, having heard of the quarrel between th two women, came to the conclusion that th children had been poisoned by the woman, who lived in the upper part of the house, They reported the matter to the m Milburn is going, in of certain proposals of their not opted by the other to sond out to England and this number of steamers, wear a At the Police Court Oscar Form, Sed En Ingeborg, was charged with being drank and disorderly on board his vessel and with assaulting the scoond engineer, cutting his ith a tumbler. The prisoner admitted being drunk, and aid he remain bered nothing of the circumstances, He mao fined $10 and coste, H.MLS. Supphire came up from Woosung yesterday and is now moored to the Assuciated 4g eves upper buoy.
Hongkong, and leaves here as soon as there H.M.S, Cleopatra is under orders for
is oufficiout water on the Bur for her to cross, ELMS. Merlin, from a cruise, arrived here on Friday, to await the Adumiral's orders, We noticed that she was getting up steam on Sunday night, on Sunday mornwards return She ips to Japan and back this year. She goos leyoshi Me has oe forty into Boyd's New Dock for repairs, Chefoo residents complain that they are men-of-war having been sent to Corea.
Yoritomo Maru, from Kuchinotz, ived at the O.N. Co.'s Wharf on Sunday, ig been detained two days at Woommig 4 the Bar, ig to there not being nufiiciont water on She goes into Boyd's New Duck for repairs and a general overhauling,
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