As a medium for English, American and Australian ADVERTISEMENTS of goods suitable for the tropics, India as well as Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Java, and West Indies (Central America being included in that term), or connected with agriculture the Tropical Agricallurist stan

Three hundred special constables (( slainese) have been enrolled for Polica duty durint: tho visit uf the Duke and Duane& of Connaught to the colony. A contiogunt of fifty-seven Sikhs for the force arrived here in the r.s. Japan. MR G. E. Noble, Chid htittager of tho Hongkong an

Tun unofficial members of Council to At a very digni6vil mid en the very per course in dealing with the demand of t he Imperial Government for an increase of the military conti ibution from £20,000 to 240, 1 00 per annum. The resolutions might have expressed mere explicitly the

The Gentian steamt-r Sisgpo reports : H.nl I:glit S rtherly winds, tine w•iither to u ; thcoce calm and li,bt Westerly winds, n.I line weather. The British steamer reports : Sh.nghai t.. swatow, fog and light earls. it. indp. Bswatow to HoilLoug, bt eeze, and tine weather. The B

Tbe impasse into which the Company was landing itself became evident many months ago to certain well-posted shareho:ders, who, I y culling out heavily, caused the rapid fall in value of the Inve.siment Co.'s stock, which made matly a resideut sour-tempered. But the al.are holder

Of course such an objection applies with even greater force to the other alternatives befoie the directi.rs. If the company is to be reconstructed it must first be dissolved, in which case the shareholder who paid slo.i for a $5O share has a char It. cannot by any prt.cess of ar

.d of the charge c f asseulting a woman and euttisig her thrust because the indictment omitted to state that cut her throat ' there and then.' His Lordi,hip said that in the local Criminal Procedure Ordinance a form of informinion wits g.ven the subject of which was larceny, and

THL suuciary if the i j ring Meet ng at litailow will le tied eitb lestr et at. The meeting just conclueed be considered how every point of owv a great sweets. The 'tether elm floe, aithough the sun ere very ti.ting to riders. The wins fairly divided. Mr sinning siz Mr Penniman