October says:—The Tea market has further Any person cannot adopt unless he or she favourably developed, though the trade is older than one who is to be adopted, and shows reluctance accept the rise in pri major. is evident that the export from C The conscientious hewn in ientios will prove smaller than xt avy time since ing both genders un every oceasior really while the prospects are brighten-delightful. For instance (Art, 1 ing, deliveries showing improvement. The A Japanese loses hiis or her nationality range of prices current is still on the low standard. Indian Tes, though very firm, 2 When he or she has centered is still selling at reasonable rates, Ceylon, into the service of foreign army or navy, Tea conti value, as the without, ete. goes on increasing, moreover This almost exceeds the particularity of prices on the whole are still ruling mode-the choleric rural gentleman who posted tate, ut, that "Any person whose We take these notes from the Times of und trespassing in my field Ceylon his ur her tail cut off as the case "(A curious experience befell the Bombay ther cases, however, we care in distinguishing identities. 105 tells us that one whose quality of futher and child irrevocably been established before the tinie of the marriage of his or her father and mother has the rights of a legitimate child from the day of their marriage."
No easy ' quality," we should think, to establish "irrevocably." The next passage will doubtless be somewhat obscure.
Art. 285:—Any person who demands a right to fall to a person whose existence is not certain on account of absence, must prove that the latter was alive, ete.
Phis right to fall to" is not, as might be expected, a new belligerent right, but simply the right of becoming heir, as the neighbouring articles she At the moving ut the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements on the 12th ult., the Governor Sir Cecil Smith explained the late vising in Pahang was due to the visit to Singapore some two years or more ago of the unfortunate Turkish frigate ul, when there was an extraordinary idea circulated by some unscrupulous persons, by Arabs or others, throughout the state of Pahang, that this Turkish frigate was scut out to turn the infidels out of a ccording to the London and China Ezpress, twenty-two governments are re-prevented at the International Monetary Conference-—fourteen European, and those ut the United States, India, Canada, Calcutta mail train on 3rd November. At a point between Satua and Mauekpur, on the East Indian Railway, the engine surprised couple of good-sized tiger cubs that had been amusing themselves on the line. The pair showed no alarm, but, just as if they knew the speed of the accelerated mul to a nicety, cautered along in front of the engine for two hundred yards ur so, and then turned off to the right and left. Te is right to add that the train was going up a steep incline at the point where the en x occurred, so that the trial of pace was not a fair one.
The loss of so powerful and valuable an ironclad as the Howe when entering a well-known port like Ferrol is likely to create a indignation at home. She was a crew battleship of the first class, of ws burthen, and 11,500 LIP. attached ty the Chanel Squadron. She is commanded by Captain Alex. P. Hastings, who is an aide-de-camp to the Queen, She was commissioned at Portsmouth on the 9th of May, 1890, and he loss to the British Navy will be a very severe one.
The following telegram from Europe appears in the Australian papers fetorring to the failure of Gerainn efforts at colonisation in Africa, Prince Bismarck says that the English are the only. nature pioneer colonists,, the Germans being most successful hitherto when settling under the British thy, as in Australia.
Prince Bismarck has x blunt way of telling the truth, and we hope those of his countrymen who fancy they are about to eclipse the efforts of early English colonists by founding a new Gerninny in Enst Africa, in New Gumes, and in other insalubrious spots, will take his warning to heart. But if we: remember rightly, Prince Bismarck. when Chancellor, sang quite another tune.
We understand that the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation have secured the lease of the building at Colombo now used as the O.B.C. premises with effect from the 1st of Javuary' next. The rent has been fixed after some negotiation at RI16,000 per annum, and the leave is to ran for a period of 7'yexrs, with liberty to renew it. The property, it will be remembered, was bought by Mr. de Soysa for the sum of £12,000 sterling, and, was under offer_to the Chartered Bavk. Indeed, negotiations were nearly complete between, the local agent and the proprietor, who asked R14,000 a your, the tenant to pay taxes and all repairs, conditions which the twannger of the Chariered Bank would not That ending of the} agree to. The Hongkong and Shanghai year, and will move their bank into the old and well-known premises with the new year, Gladstone was paid £100 for: his recent: article on Home Rule in the North American Review, the ueticle containing something under 4,600 words. The London Times had the whole article transmitted to it by cable, at a cost of about £230; and the Daily News and other morning papers i i 200 for from £100 to Baldwin, for twenty yer China, spoke atthe Asbury Park Methodist Church, New York, on' the 23rd Oct., before a Inrge congregation, detailing the kind treatment she received at the hands and stating that she regarded superior in many respects to other foreigners to whom the United States acourds free entrance to the land and citizenship.. Lhe speaker said that since she had beer, delivering lectures in this country she had received threatening letters, and not long ago ® special policeman was detailed to guard hee house to prevent a scheme for burning it down. This was in Christian America and in Brooklyn, She had never been in such danger in China. The Chinese, she said, were good labourers and could work longer and in places where others could not. Yet they were beaten, bruised and killed—all because they worked, while Trish and others got drunk and would not work aswell. When this reference to the Trish was made considerable disturbance arose in the church and several peuple left. Continuing, Mrs, Baldwin suid it made her sick to hear speeches such as were made during the Columbian celebration, in which America was spoken of as the land of the free. she thought it was not the case, Daring the war on the Chinese at Sexttle, Cleveland and Bayard were appenled to seven tines to protect the Chinese, but they only sent troops to protect the United States mails.—Daily Press.
At the door of Lloyd's, London, there big porter ina red coat, whose duty it is to see that unauthorised persons dv nut: come into the cov, and ty shout out loud the contents of telegrams received. Tu a private letter received by the mail the towing iusident ie told with reforenta the loss of the Bokhara. "It is said that an underwriter at Lloyd's took a risk at 80 gulness. Just as he was in the act of signing the slip the ted-coated man at the door, in the exercise of his duty, bawled out 'Bokhara'—and to make the news impressive stopped. 'The underwriter, pen in hand, believing that the news would be has arrived,' snatched the slip from the broker, saying, (1 have it,' when Red-, cent followed is totally lost!" Reinainder left to your imagination, not reported to
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