Hong Kong Telegraph 1893-08-31

Hong Kong Telegraph 1893-08-31

Year: 1893

THE GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER. THE Government Astronomer of Hong-kong is a man who stands high in the estimation of a limited number of admirers, but in the opinion of no one does he stand so high as in his own. MORPHINE AND OTHER POISONS. H. M. S. Caroline arrived at Shanghai on the 26th inst. THERE are 1687 judicial officlais in Japan, of whom 1,212 are judges, 375 public procurators. FIVE fishermen who landed at Stonecutters Island yesterday, without the permission of the military authorities. AT the Magistracy to-day, before Capt, Hartings the two proprietors of a gambling-house at 57 East Street were fined $60 or three months each. THE amount of coin struck at the Osaka Mint during July was as follows. The Agricuitural Bureau's monthly report states that the average condition of the crop in. Latest advices state that the troubles in the Egyptian Cabinet have been settled. Colonel Colvill Grensdier Guards Captain Glbb Worccster Regiment Captain besant. London newspapers in discussing the Bombay riots mostly ascribe them to growing bitterness. In the House of Commons last night Mr. Russeil Under-Secretary of State of India.