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ND OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 201«. 1941.
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and as Therabaya at 6 P. M.
Fiesona 15th Nov, 1845
VINCENT STANTON,
Colonial Qbaplain.
NOTICE-Usa Cura will be open for Public Wor stop at 11 D'olest A. M., and ni halfpisst 8 O'clock P. M., dorfer the printer monika, beginning, with the lạt Novem
Victor, Beh Descher 1816,
OSNTON,
Our dates are to the 19th.-Wana, the Governor of the province, has been suspend- The ed and deprived of all his honors. extensible causes is his having appointed a Military Officer to a civil office without requiring him to go through the usual ex- aminations: but it is thought the real cause is hia friendly disposition towards foreigners, At Png there are many court intrigues, and Wang has enemies among the war party, or those opposed to foreigners, Keying has re- monstrated with the Emperor on the subject, and declared that without Wang he cannot control the people of Canton, and it is thought that the depored Governor will be reinstated.
The place continues perfectly quiet, thanke About the fac- to the presence of the Pluto. torics there are but few idle people, and they appear peaceably inclined.
Two Chinese Merchants are insolvent, and it is feared that others will follow. The Footan
Hong it is thought will be able to arrange with the creditors and resome business. Alongs failure is a more serious affair, and foreign Mer- Goods chants are involved to a large extent. placed in his stores have been pawned, and in Pome instances sold and delivered, a breach of trust which is new among men of his class. A large quantity of goods was carried to the pack house of a Shroff, or money lender on the Honan shore, but they have been recovered. On Thursday parties having goods in the Hong obtained permission from the authorities to carry them away, es it was not considered that they were Bare; the teamen (who are travy
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE,
street, in Tao-ping-shan, he was set upon by five men one of whom drew a knife from below his clothes and stabbed him in the right thigh A policeman chased two of the rascals into house, upon which they jumped out of a sun- dow, and would probably have escaped, had one of them not chanced to, fall on a sharp stone which cut him so severely that he could not run the other was stopped by a policeman, and proved to be the man who stabbed the complainant This latter is an old offender, he having suffered six months' imprisonment some time ago, with three months additional for threatening Mr Cadwell in open Court, while undergoing examination before the Magistrate. After the term of his imprisonment had expired, he was forwarded to the Cow loon Mandarin with a request that he should not be permitted to return to flongkong. Committed for trial, The other prisoner being prevented from his wound from appearing in Court, has not yet
been examined.
Super CouRT.-The Court was occupied during the whole of yesterday in trying the case of Larkins & Hunter, which was not terminated until nine o'elock ». &, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff damages, £2000.-Sydney Morning He
rald, December és
The Courler ” says :--
A DILEMMA.--Instructions were yesterday ro ceived from Washington, directing the Collector of Customs at this port to pay over all the monies he may receive, to the Treasurer of the port; and the Sub-Treasury law makes it a highly criminal of fence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to re- fuse or decline to do so.
"On the other hand, it is not yet known whether Ex-Gov. Bouck will accept the office; and even it he does, he is not here now and cannot therefore
receive the money.
"Collector Lawrence is thus in a dilemma. He
is punishable by the Sub-Tromanry law, which is very explicit upon the point, if he fails to pay it ovor; and yet there is nobody for him to pay it to Under these circumstances. We presume he will do ns heretofore, and deprait the money in the banks for anfe keeping. But what admirable manage
ment our new Ananciers exhibit."
The "GLOBE" thus makes itself merry over the calamities and difficulties its new Tariff is bringing on the country.
*THE LAST 'STOPPADES,'
Among the 'stoppage caused by the passage of the new Tariff bill, saya the Pennsyluanian, the following are the most extraordinary!
"A pair of blood horses attached to a carriage, were running furiously through Chestnut street, to the imminent peril of sundry small children. After all efforts do arrest them had failed, they were brought up plump against the Tariff of 16, where upon they stoppert incontinently.
It rained violently in Cincinnati when the news of the passage of M•Kay's bill was received, and in has has an hour ofte, wards, the rain had stopped
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Her
plendid run of fifteen days, from Auckland, New Zealand; her may here will be some weeke. mainmast being rotten, is obliged to be taken out, and, if found very defective, and not repairable, it is tended either to make a new one or to put in the Anson's. The Castor's stay here will be some weeks in consequence of some repairs. Mr Bord (who has in charge five Now Zealand rebels, four deserters from the 90th Ragt, transported for life, and three other European prisoners, transported for 18 years,) is a passenger by this vessel. Under the command of Lord John Hay, the Castor was always considered a good saiter, at present her trim not being sufficiently by the stern, is to be altered, when no doubt her good qualities will retara.-H. T. Advertiser, "Nov. 34.
NORTH AUSTRALIA,
The public are no doubt anxious to know some- thing about the new settioment to the north, it has been decided shall be much nearer home than the public were led to anticipate.
The Cornubia steaner, which conveyed Colonel Barney, the Superintendent, and suite to Port Curtis, returned on Saturday last.
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most ludicrous appearance. They perform the last offices for the dead, propitiate demons, whe are supposed to be the cause of all sickness, by prayers and trifling ceremonies, and remove tapu, a ancred restriction, from persons and places.
The head priest of Tamanga, formerly, io now a missionary, and a very pleasant and well behaved old gentleman. He seeks after Christian kaow. ge; and imparts it with as much zeal as he sued his heathen mummerias formerly.
pur.
Those who are afflicted with sickness look upon themselves in the light of doomell individuale; and they will frequently tell you, with composure, that they are going to die at a certain time; and it is sometimes difficult to persuade them that any re medy will restore them to health.
The priests retire to solitary places to perform their prayers for sick people. Chiefs of rank, and women also, assume the duties of the priesthood
ery frequently.Ibid,
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-LA-KAPA
THE GREAT BRITAIN.
It was considered at first that Port Essington
The history of the Great Britain steamer would be the chosen spet; afterwards, when that
been disastrous. Built in a dock with too matt an outlet, it sets out for a voyage to New York, part of this vast island-continent was considered un
and is stranded in Dundrum Pay. The vory plea suitable from its alleged unhealthy character, its inter-tropical position alone being calculated to
on board were insufficient and the public has prove detrimental to European comitations, Hain extenuation for the blander is, that the charts Bax Bay, situate in about 10 S., was next much
been mystified by witnessing the totally insufli talked of It now appears that Port Curtis, into which the Boyne River is supposed to empty itself, cient means employed in the attempt to extricate has been the locality fixed upon. The exact spot the vessel. With his ship the commander has seen
bis own reputation wrecked; and, by a singular fa for the seat of governmem, has not however, trans-
tality, the disastor happened at so flat a time of the pired.
year, that the newspapers, lacking subjects, have seized upon the sailor who forgot himself, and their strictures amount to persecution. While he is cas down by this fearful termination of a successful The harbour, or rather harbours, are described aa superior, and fully equal, for every shipping pur- professioni gareer, his wife has Inip on a bed of pose, to Port Jackson, which stands almost unri-sickness so dangerous that her death has been re- valled in the world. Port Curtis is situate in about parted. But journalists say truly, that the lives of latitude 23 53' S, and longitude 161 30' E., hundreds must not be risked out of delicacy to one being nearly 300 miles to the north of Moreton Bay. man: they might avow with equal truth that they There was every indication of water being plen labour under the imperious necessity of finding sub tiful in the immediate neighbourhood of the Part at jects; and the result is, that instead of condolence certain seasons, but the expedition were unable to
under misfortune, Mr Hosken is saluted by a ge- procure a supply, and that but of indifferent quality, neral hooting of the press. at a nearer spot than an inlet about six miles to the southward of the anchorage of the steamer, within Port Curtis Harbour. At this inlet about twenty. blacks were communicated with, who directed the expedition to the water-holes, the contents of which was very unpalatable. These blacks were very friendly, and from their manners had evidently seen white men. They asked for flour; pppeared frigh. tened at the sight of fire-arms, but did not under- stand the use of tobacco or the pipe.
Misfortune we call it, whether the commander be deemed at "fault” or not. "Homanum est
errore" the best of us forgets himself at times;
and it is a real misfortune if one of those momenta of forgetfulness be attended by a visitation/so grave There in an overstrained sternness which tends to defeat itself—to frighten froth into hiding-places, though of all compasses truth is the surest "Truth Says George Sund, is difficult to find out; and laws are an severe !" Our laws, in fact, revenga upon the delinquent their own crudeness and in- perfection; and society often acts in the same spirit. In every house, on 'change and in the cof- feeroom, men who forget themselves every day of their lives are now open-mouthed against the one whose forgetfulness after fifteen years of vigilance crushes him, until in the hubbub the real merits of the case are likely to be overlooked as egregiously
the lights of Man.
Captain Perry, who, it will be remembered, was landed nt Moreton Bay, and started overland in company with Mr Burnett, the Government Sur veyor, and others, for the purpose of discovering, if possible, whether the Boyne emptied itself into the sen in the vicinity of Pori Curtis Harbour, had not been seen by the expedition since, and therefore it ia impossible to say how far the Captain and his surveying party have succeeded.
sus
The country in the immediata neighbourhood of the Port, is higis forest ground, covered principally
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sufferers) appearing to think that they belonged in so far that several men were seen in the streets with stunted iron bark, box, and blood wood. by a more thorough openness,
to the estate.
Mr McGregor acted with great promptitude and energy in this unfortunate affair, but we fear that heavy losses are unavoidable, although there is a chance of recovering from 100 to 200 bales that have been taken into the city. The iniquitus system has been carried on for some time, it being ascertained that one parcel of woollens has been in pawn for two years.
There were some trifling disturbances at Ma- can yenerday, which, as jisual, will most likely be magnified into a serious riot. The govern ment intimated to the Chinese two months ago, that it was intended to form a new road through the Campo, and as it would pass through some tombs, it was requested that the friends of the deceased would remove the remaina. This was not done, but an attempt was made so drive away the workmen. The Governor immediately despatched a company of Soldiers to the ground, and the mob dispersed without blood being shed.
The value of the property destroyed by the fire at Manila on the 17th alto, is computed at half a million Sterling. None of the European Houses have suffered by the calamity, the en- tire los falling on the native population, the fire having been confined to their quarter of the city had it not been for the assistance from the French Frigate Cleopatra, and from the Europeans ashore, the whole city in all pro- babality would have been destroyed; the num- ber of Houses burnt is very great, but they vers nearly all small insignificant buildings of
sons umbrella.
"A subscriber to the Washington Union has stopped his paper! Andy orse than a, the Whiga are cruelly exulting over it.
"We learn, also, that wamerous town-clocks in heard the distressing intelligence, and it is greatly different sections of country have stopped since they feared that several lepines and levers will soon fol low the example. The proprietors say that, unless the fick system be promptly restored these works, will one and all have to be wound up! How dis tressing
The "strikers" in Auburn, Connectiut,—and the men in the mines of Pennsylvania, are requested see "Nero fidding" while Rome is burning-New York Werkly Expresa.
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
By the arrivals from Van Diemen's Land since our last issue, we have news from the sister colony
to the 20th ultimo,
H. M. S. Castor, had arrived in the Derwent with five of the Maories sentenced at New Zealand. The Hobart Town Courier of the 25th, with reference to these rebels, cays -
WAS,
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NEW ZEALAND ANECDOTES.
[BY MR. J. J. MERRETT.]
We have been presented with a considerable batch of anecdotes relating to New Zealand and the aborigines of the country, by the above gentle men, which, from time to time, we shall present to our readers.
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We begin with-
Probably, under dread of this turmoil, some- thing in Me Hosken's case has been kept back. We think the case would have been strengthened It has been shown that the excuse of the charts will not serve, because, although some parsimony or patronage may have made the Great Western Steamship Company content with the charts of private dealers which omit long established lights, the Admiralty charis contain the Dundrum light. Moreover, the Great Britain had sighted" the Isle of Man, and the mere calculation of her course must have sufficed to convince any competent sailor that the Dundrum light was not the Man light, whatever else the on- known phænomenon might be, If, therefore, it could not be identified as the Dundrum light, it was not safe to ateer by as the Man light. On nau- tical grounds, Mr Hosken's bewilderment is deemned unaccountable. We do not mean to insinuate that he was under the influence of wine: nothing of that sort is stated, or even hinted. But other influences may produce quite as great a whirl of the brain as the briskest champagne. Profound book studies may render any one for the moment as abstracted Gay company, brilliant lights, charming women, and forgetful as Archimedes or Dominie Sampson. sprightly converse and the dance, may cause a spinning of the brain as bewildering and as oblivious as wine can. If a commander were to run up at ship's drawingroom called the saloon," he might intervals from the dizzy atmosphere of that splendid
card" on card and compass firm his eye" ; and find it needful to steady himself slavishly by the
then a fault in the chart would be fatal.
The President
THE WHISTLING PRIESTESS OF MAKETU. This woman had the peculiarity of whistling in her sleep, but in such a manner that her voice was cambined with it, so na to convey words. She was considered a great oracle in time of war; for the chiefa would then come, and sitting around her while she slept she asked her questions simi- or to the following: Where have you been " How many of the enemy did you see 1" "When are they coming?" To which she would give them answers to the purpose. According to the native supperstition, her familiar spirit or demon possessed her; and the most implicit credence was It is remarkable that the five natives of New given to her replies. If a dog came near ber dur Zealand, sentenced to transportation by Court Mering her tinace, she would be immediately sensible tial, brought here by H. M. S. Cantor, and now in of it, and request him to be driven out. She was the prisoners' barracks, make no complaint of their a Waikatto woman, and had been married, but is impure. la an interview which we have hadtions, left her. She is supposed to have the power present quarters, except that the water given to them her husband not relishing her supernatural conneo. with those deported aborigines, in the presence of a of witchcraft, and she takes out the hearts of the quired fame for the impunity with which they cross While the sailing vessels called liners have ac person who understands the language sufficiently to dead. She is a singularly suoning woman, in ap and recross in the most adverse weather, a large converse with them, several questions were put to: ascertain their feelings in regard of their present
pearance she la young, and strikingly handsome position. The answer to the first question War
her eye is flushing and brilliant, but marked with proportion of disasters has attended those greut a preoliar and deep expression. It is an eye which foundered at sea, with her over confident com
floating inas, the steam-ships. "kiki gatua;" plenty to eat. The second apawer;
I have never seen equalled, excepting once, and mander on board. The Caledonia was stranded getua mai moi" plenty of sleep. To the war raying madman and a murderer; her face the third they replied net make; very just not a time a would suit an artist for the through an influence of which steamers are sup little work. To the fourth question the answer was head of a Larifer, caly marking the features more
posed to be peculiarly independent a current ; "Kakaha gatau; plenty of clothes. And, to engly. She goes with her tribe to battle, and
some miscalculation having deceived the captain. Afib “wimowie kakena; that is, very bad water. Those who have been resident in New Zealand,
no doubt has drawn the reeking heart from many
The Cambria went on shore at Cape Cod in May, last. And now the Great Britain is lost through a will easily comprehend the feelings of these unfor.
A fallen foe. I gave her the saubriquet of the
blunder in steerage. Until more precise causes Feby 12th-On Tuesday last, a police constable tonate Maories in this respect. They have been hughing ned, which seemed to amuse per. I
are discovered for these recurring disasters, the phaerved & Chinaman running along the Queen's fall their lives accustomed to quench their thirst from could bardly believe while joking with her, and public will be apt to look for the oauses either in gazing on her peculiar but truly feminine features, some inferiority among the masters, or in some Road, pursued by another calling out "Thief" the crystal springs and rivulets which rise and fow
that I mingled my minth with one, who at one time The former threw down a bundle of clothes in all directions and they have an objection to thought it a pleasure to quench her abominable } floating inns, with all their boasted splendour and laxer customs incidental to the society of the great pure water It is proper to observe, that the water and a bit of epigen, and stried to escape, but supplied to the men at the prisoners' barracks is the thrist on the blood of her fellow creatures.
ed by the policeman. The other Chipset that can be procured under the present system
abundant agrémens. soused the prisoner of haring saatched of supplying the town Itis drawn from the public out of his hand, and said he would pumps and served on the supply of the men Police Cour next day to give be immediately his in fact, precisely such as the io- did not appear. The prisoner, habitants of all grades are compelled to obtala. On by the Magistrate, stated the question belag pat, bakesat pala the
iloved by a man to the
moy in rangtatara th Maori:" thai is, did they no money to pay think ver nd for the New Zealand Chief to be aalf of onum instead hanged?
lent except one man, who clothes belonged to a
after a little zeaxa not say where the no know Fired 20 dollars or fo ment with hard
wood sad mat,
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The poor fel on the abject of the offer PAGES B0 10pression tha might aperate to their prejud
hemse
R. M. Castor In our journal of the 17th we in the new announced the arrim of this fae frigate, after a
·COMPLEXION,
Strange Idea of Complexion. —A Native told me nos day, that a white man's skio was not so good as theirs, for it showed the dirt much sooner mach change was perceptible. They have no whereas a dark skin could get well dirty before dimples among them, and think them a defect in
persons; they rarely, in extreme old age,
fose either their teeth or their hair.
I have egon several old men who are priests the one at Wakatani is a little fellow, who walks about with a measured uteb, and an Tufinite gravity navce. He is perer seen to smile, and his dignity and assured consequence, contrasted with his
dirty clothing, fores him a
The highly stimulated activity of the press is not altogether wrong: it la one of the irregular com pepsations for the waat of a proper tribunal to ad judicate on such cases. In the Navy, when a ship sustalas any serious accident, an inquiry into the conduct of the officer in charge is a matter of course; sad the mere institution of such an inquiry conveys no imputation on the officer. It would be
easy to estabilan some such Tribunal for the commor cial marine service. In order to give it full work- ing, the officer in command of a ship incurring injury or accident might, by a specific enactment, be disqualified for further employment until he should have undergone examination by a competent tribunal, and be able to produce a certificate or li cende for reengagemeal. This tribunal would not be a bad instrument to weed the commercial marine