Hong Kong Telegraph 1892-10-05

Hong Kong Telegraph 1892-10-05

Year: 1892

THE FRANCO RUSSIAN ALLIANCE DENIED. RUSSIA AND THE PAMIRS. A VACANCY IN THE SACRED COLLEGE. CANADA AND RUSSIA. LATEST TELEGRAMS. RUSSIA ON THE SICENCE RACKET. OUR NEW MINISTER. SIR JOHN WALSHAM AND THE TRANSIT PASS QUESTION. A SORT of opium is obtained from the common. THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s stesmer Theran left ;op,bay yeaterday for this port. IT is stated that the mines of the world produce twenty-five aons of gold every week. AN American paper remarks that the biggest sponges in the world are found at the free lunch counters. ON the 18th September the steamer brought back five hundred pllgrims from Mecc to Batavla. IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. CHINESE PROMISSORY NOTES. FORGING A HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK CHEQUE. ARNOT RUDYARD KIPLING REID GONE MAD. Mr. Gladatone in the course of a letter says that Mr. Labouchere's sctlon in the matter of. In the betting on the St. Leger which will be decided at Doncaster on Wedneaday Grm is. PASSENGERS BOOKED FOR CHINA. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. The Yellow Rlver has brokes loose sgalo Fourteen distrlcts at lcast have stiffered. Parallel with the Yellow River on the aouth is a amall atream known as the Hslao Ching-ho. On the north of the river the vigr