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NOVEMBER 1844.
3 A. M.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
ABSTRACT OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS DURING THE CHINESE (APPROXIMATING TO THE LUNAR) MONTH ENDED ON THE 30TH OCTODER, 1845.
Quarter Ending
Thermometer Mean Rangel
of Barom. Man | Min Mean
Pluvr Inches
1st on 9th Oct
29 88,600 79 83,25,25
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6 b. e. b. 30 19 69 68 68
0. f. 301970 67 67 o. m. 30/19/71 67.5 68
3 b. c. m. 3021 69 66 68 NE. b E. Calm
6 b. c. m. 30 1970.5 67 | 67.5 NE. b E. NE. b E. 6
North
4 b. c. w. 302070 66 67 6 b. c. w. 30 20 68 60 60 30 20 20 66 68
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Remarks dzo. Wo,
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9 a. M.
3rd on 23rd
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Remarks
1st QUARTER.
continued fresh from the Eastward. ⠀
2nd QUARTER.
croached upon the privileges of the house of commons, as that body alone can tax colonies that have not local representative councils. In the meantime, most of the inhabitants have paid the assessment under protest, but it bes hoves them to make it a common cause, and by the next mail to send home for the opinion of tite first lawyers in England upon a matter of such importance.
The commencement of this Month was marked by a cessation of the Easterly winds which had prevailed
It is possible that, at no distant date, the po- during the preceding. On the third day, and during the lice establishment will be placed under Com- night, was experienced repeated and heavy thunder
The interests of the colony re storms; during which nearly the whole of the heavy fall of missioners. Rain charged to the quarter fell, aner the third day, pre- quires this; as it also demands the formation of a rious to which the winds bad been variable, the Breezes bench of unpaid Magistrate, as whether ground- less or not, no man in the colony can close his ears to the complaints of the Native inhabitants.
A most deliberate murder was committed on Saturday about two o'clock close by the police station at the New Market..
On Monday an inquest was held on the body, from which it appeared that the murdered man was a per- son of good character, having served two
78 80,2 7,35 The change at the commencement of this Quarter was again very apparent and singular, the winds being variable with dry weather until the third day, when it chopped round from West to N. and N.E. increasing on it and the 4th day to strong Easterly Cales with much Rain. Breeze continu ing from the Eastward until the end of the quarter.
31 QUARTER. The weather during this Quarter has been chiefly fine, 2086,2967480,8 0,050 clear, with light Breezes from different points of the compass every successive day until the last two when it broke out fresh from the E. 8: E. veering North.
4th QUARTER.
4th on 30th 29 87,4 82 69 75,50,600 The first third of this Quarter, Weather dry and clearycars as a policeman, which service he recent- with steady northerly Breezes, middle part dull and drizzlyly quited voluntarily. He had been on a at times blowing fresh from Eastward; latter part winds visit to his native village and returned to Hong-
variable with fine weather..
Mean Range of Barometer during Month Maximum of Thermometer
• 29,68
do..
•. 90
Minimum of
do.
do.
069
Mean
da. da.
do.
79,9
do.
13 Inches
Depth of Rain fallen
GENERAL REMARKS.
This being the Autumnal Harvest time, the market present little variety from the Kitchen Garden, with the exception of early Potatoes, the rarity of which are best shown by the price viz from 5d. to 6d. per lb. Yams and Sweet Potatoes are also high in price 2d. to 3d. per lb. and not plentiful.
At no period of the year is more care required in regard to Dress then at this Season, and during he ensuing Month. Asthmatic subjects ought to be particularly careful.
11. Mon.
10
30 06 65
61.
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12
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11 30 10 72 65 68,5 E.N.E.
13
(Wed.
12*30 08 73 | 68 | 71
14
Thurs. 13
15
Fri.
14
16
15
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22 22 23 2
16 30 04 76 74
Meteorological Register for one year from August 1844, to August 1845, kept or board of a Ship near Chapel, Island East Coast of China,
NOON.
9 P. M.
MIDNIGHT.
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METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER FOR THE WEEK ENDING, 16m NOVEMBER, 1845. VICTORIA, KONGKONG, Winis
Tercometer
Alenn Benth. Week. Month of Barometer.." Max | Min ; Mears) Fore,
Pluviomr.
Kafter. Inches.
KHARES.
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
a contemporary might not go home without the tem-street, where the two men first referred to drew perate refutation of our correspondent. It is scarce ly called for in China, where the unmanly attack on an inoffensive and useful cleryman, has created almost universal disgust.--China Mail, Nov. 27,
CANTON,
kong a few days before his death. Aleen (the deceased) was indebted to two of his countrymen, (who come from a town near Whampoa) one dollar, which was an old gam- bling debt. On Saturday, these two men called upon a third person, also a native of their town, and requested him to walk out with, them. This much was proved, but whether they went out to meet Aleen with the preme ditated intention of murdering him remains to be seen upon trial. They met Aleen at the gambling shop, were he had lost the money, and demanded payment-he declared his inabi- lity to pay them, but promised to do so on some future day. The quarrel commenced in the shop, but they afterwards went into the
their knives and stabbed him to the heart, one of them, (now in custody) being seen to kick him after he was stabbed. There was no evi- dence to show whether the blow was struck by the prisoner Atti, or by lus accomplice who has escaped. The other man in custody, Ac- con, was captured by the mob, who declared We hear from Canton, that the placard that he was one of the murderers, but on the which was lately stuck on the walls of the facinquest, there was nothing elicited to criminate torics (a translation of which appeared in all him, farther than his having been with the two the Hongkong papers) turns out to be, what principals, and a strong suspicion that he was we pronounced it, a piece of Chinese official aware of their intention when ho went out duplicity, intended most probably to smooth with them. Upon Atti's trowsers were ob some of the difficulties which Koying may served a few spots of blood, as if it had spurtod have expected to encounter during his Hong-out on striking the blow. kong visit. Mr Macgregor, on application, was The negligence of the police, in this affair, informed that sixty seven copies of the placard is censurable in the highest degree, and wo had been posted, and the names of the places would but badly attend to our duty, did we where they were to be seen was furnished. permit it to pass without observation. The Mr. Jackson, accompanied by a linguist and man was murdered about two o'clock, and other Chinese servants of the British Consulate, brought to the central station, where he died, personally inspected the 67 places where the but no exertions were made to apprehend the proclamation was said to be exposed. He murderers. Accou was captured and handed could only find seven copies. Four of them over to the police, by the spectators; Atti was on the walls of the foreign factories; the other captured, four hours after the murder by the three in places where bills are usually posted, deceased's cousin, and also handed over to but so covered up with other notices that they the police, though there is no doubt that he could not be read.. In point of fact, there were would have escaped from the island, had Ac- only four copies, made public, and they were | cou's brother not given information of where all on the factory walls. We presume that this he was to be found. The prisoner Accon about deception has been communicated to Her Ma-five o'clock told one of the European police jesty's Superintendent of Trade, and that it [that he would take him to the boat where the will receive due attention.
murderers wore. Several boats, wore visited It is not probable that foreigners will often without success, and this appears to have been avail themselves of the privilege of visiting the all the exertion made by the police to appre suburbs of Canton, notoriously the abode of cuthend the perpetrators of a murder, committed in throats and thieves; neither would many care daylight, within a stone's throw of their station, to enter the city, were it thrown open. In Equally blameable are they, or their Superiors, contending for the right of free access to the in neglecting to secure witnesses. At the inquest, city, it is demanded not only as an act of justice, one Chinese policeman appeared, who saw the but also as redress for many past insults, intended murder committed; Alleen's cousinsaw Atti kick to degrade foreigners in the eyes of the natives. | the deceased, who before he died informed him Sir John Davis at one time pledged himself to that he had been stabbed by Atti and the mari. carry this question. We wait for a redemption who has escaped, but of all the other Spectators, of that pledge. Perhaps the personal comfort of ¦ not one was brought forward to give evidence, foreigners in Canton would be more enhanced and on the Jury requesting that the man in by permission to visit the country, than by a whose shop the quarrel commenced, should be free communication with the city, though for the reason already stated, access to the city becomes a point which in soine degree touches the national honour, and it is therefore not to
The verses of Alifare tolerable; but the subject he has chosen had better be left undisturbed.
“One who knows," lays before us a sad picture It is not quite new, however, but we had not expect ed to see so many deformities Our correspondent is anonymous, but even were he known, we could not publish his letter. An exposure of the iniquities he notices must be left to time-if his statement is be overlooked. true, sooner or loser it will be unavoidable,
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sent for, it was discovered that the shop was closed, the man having left the Island with his effects. We beg to call the attention of the Hon'ble Attorney General to this matter. Be. fore he brings the case before a Jury, it were well that additional evidence be obtained, and Hand-bills, English and Chinese, intimate above all that the keeper of the gambling shop that on Friday first some household furniture, be demanded from the Chinese authorities, de which has been distrained upon for the police also the murderer who has escaped. The village assessment, will be sold by public auction. to which they belong is known to be near This is the first atrocity of this illegal measure, Whampoa, and there can be no difficulty in ob- and the party whose house has been entered taining their surrender, if their own Magistrates. and his furniture carried off will not fail to pro-are willing to aid as in carrying out the ends secute ali concerned for the trespass, so soon of justice. We are not aware whether any as his opinion of ita illegalty is confirmed, and meana bave been taken to secure the attend. he is in confident hopes that the whole ques-ance of the two principal witnesses who were tion of colonial taxation will ere long be examined at the inquest; but we consuler it brought before parliament. In the meantime probable that the friends of the prisoners will passive resistance, such as a refusal to pay, attempt to bribe them to leave the Island bo- can only be offered to the tax, though those fore trial, and justice may thus be defrauded. who have had their houses entered and effects An examination of the body was made by the THE FRIEND OF CHINA | carried away from the premises will have Colonial Surgeon. The heart had been pierced good grounds for an actine against the execo- by a broad pointed knife for several inches, tiveat at such was the opinion of the the knife having been partially withdrawn Crown lawyers twenty years ago, when it was and again thret, forming internally a second found prudent to pass an act of indemnity for wound at right angles with the first, though the protection of certain Governors who had externally there appeared to be only one taxed the Colonists without the sanction of par wound. It appears alrest rocredible that after lament.-A eftrcnce to the Charter of Hong, the heart was cut open to the cavity, the mu tong, and the commission of its Governor, will swight have lived so long and refined his pas We have received from a Corregadest fully ow that the power of taxation is not even collections. Borse fine after telling us Con conversant with the facts of the whole case, a lever alluded to, nor can Her Majesty in Council con- in the name of his marderers, he recognised on the subject of the recent shaderens attacks on fer that power upon any techvitost. We think police Sergeant Athina, and spoke to him in the Rev. Dr. Ball of Canton. We regret extrem. it probable that the last mail may have brought English. The Colonial Surgeon stated at the out an approval of the Assesment Act. This past, that such tenacity of life was rare. from giving the communicatio insertion in cer however does not her the merits of the ques tough it occasionally happened that after the present publication, so that the unfair statimet ton. The Apprrest of the home government heart was cus, the vicum bred for a sluirt and sill more trásir insinuations in the columns of will not protect the local one, if they have en-i perical,
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER S15, 15.
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