No. 4278, MARCH 17, 1877.]
We are requested to state that, the Jurora | Magistrate, acting on this opinion, amended summoned for the Criminal Sessions on his previous decision and discharged the
defendant. Monday next, the 19th, are not required to attend on that day. The Sessions will be adjourned to Thursday, the 22nd, at 10 a.m., at which time the Jurors must attend, and "Leave their fines," do. Fortunately there is very little business for the Jurors
on this occasion.
Police Intelligence. (Before James Russell, Esq.) March 17, 1877.
INCORRIGIBLE.
neer, was brought up for being a destitute, Malcolm MacLean, described as an angi- having been given into custody by Dr. Ayres for being a man of no visible means of A VERY duo specimen of the Carpus Kop- subsistence. The Magistrate applied to Mr chii (Swinh.) or deor, named after Mr. Gillies to see if anything could be done Kapach, Commissioner of Customs at Kew. for the men, who, it appeared, had received
assistance from that gentleman on a previ koang, has been presented by that gentle ous peaasion. Mr Gillies replied that he man to the City Hall Museum, and is had done all he could for the man; he had being successfully mounted. A vory large board an American man-of-war, but in a given him a certificate to get a situation on accession of natural history specimens to few days afterwards, he came back and that institution bas, we observe, to be asked for $30 to enable him to go elsewhere. Mr Gillies of course refused him and he was noted within the past few weeks.
of opinion that the man could not or would not keep any situation, and that the beat
The Magistrate, under the circumstances, sent him to one month's hard labour..
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Ar the Afarins Court yesterday, James way would be to send him out of the Colony. 'gapore with fire amongst the coals. Experts/bridge, I don't think he will see again, or livea on the gibbet on the 18th October Yous as he liked, or as money could, Mr.
BORDERY,
CORRESPONDENCE,
Gibbs, Charles Scokit, and Charles Shorriq, seamen belonging to the British barque Irasu, were charged with outting, destroy. Ing and giving away ship's property. James Beadle, a private H. M. 28th Regt- Berkit was further ob rged with going on out, was again brought up to answer the shora without leave at Whampoa on the charge of being concerned in robbing a 11th inst. Captain William Alfred Pearse Chinaman of $2 at Shan-sui-po in Chinese sworn said that he had noticed that larger Kowloong. The prisoner was the second quantities of bread were consumed than man charged with a similar offence, and his usual, and on enquiry a boy named Bind-case was remanded till the 20th instant, on man told him that the first two prisoners the application of Mr Sharp, who appeared had given bread away to some natives. on behalf of the Crown. He stated that the The men on being taxed with this denied cage had been referred to the Government, it, but admitted that they had permitted and he was waiting for instructions from some boat-people to take it away. Ulti. H. E. the Administrator. mately the prisoners at their own_request were taken before the Consul, when Bee- kit admitted having given bread away. The mató afterwards reported that the
THE CHINESE TERM FOR GOD, main royal stay-sail down-haul had been
To the Editor of the "CRINA MAIL.”. cut, and that sundry pieces of rope were
Hongkong, March 17, 1877. missing, and subsequently be learnt that
Sin-Another pamphlet on the above Gibbs had made away with them to a namenbject, which has just appeared in the pan man, He had not seen Gibbs give form of a Letter to the archbishop of Can- away either the rope or broad.Alfred torbury, suggests to my mind the advisabi Bindman, the boy, being called, stated that lity of the writer discussing the question bu bad neen Gibbs out the rope, but could tebe a. Tait iustead of printing ; and if then not say what becane of it afterwards; he the archbishop should fail, as he possibly had, however, heard the boatman ask Gibbs would do, in helping Missionaries to agree for some rope, and Gibbs promised to give give away some 3 or 4 lbs. of bread. This statement was corroborated by another boy belonging to the veusel (Leon Msiston), wbo forthor atated that be had seen Gibbs give the rope to the boatman, and that Sherriu kept watch and told Gibbs when the second mate was coming.-Bindman on being recalled, said he did not like to tail about Gibbs at firat, but he did so the
Feb.
I want
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haps, after all he does not deserve to be troversy has divided, not unequally, with considered so particularly unfortunate." the Constantinople Conference the honours London, Jan, 25, 1877.
They have been reverting to capital of conversation. Men, indeed, when alone, Sport and pastime languish, and even punishment in the Austrian empire where might dismiss the topic contemptuously with those onorgetle young men in the neigh executions had been almost în abeyance for some of the hundred verbal quiddities which From Java papers to the 24th ultimo, the bourhood of London, who belong to Hare some years past. Being out of practice, the contamasious clergyman's name sug following items are translated:
and Hounds Clubs, and go over the country the bangman executed Francesconi, the gests to every blockhead, whether dentists Yesterday (16th) we stated that the all weathers, even they are fighting shy of murderer of the Viennese poatman, so or not; but wherever there are ladies, his British ship Inverary had been lost in Bali their favourite amusement. It would be unhandily as call forth a letter to the rights or wrongs can be no more eroluded were saved had landed at Sumba, We are drowned in a ditch, nothing heroical about That document is so quaint that I am not now going to argue about the tiresome Straits and that the eight sailors whose lives rather ignoble for a hare or a hound to be Politik from the Executioner of Prague. from discussion than air from a room. I am informed that this is inaccurate. The British it, and the verdiet would be probably tempted to send you a transistion. Refer- business, but still there are some little oir. vessel is called Invereen and foundered 60 served him right" These energetic ring to the delay in putting Francescont cumstances with which you may be un miles to the E. of Bali, while the sailors youths than casse from their labours, and out of the world, the writer alludes to his acquainted, as I have not seen them in any eaved landed at Sumbawa after having been the awful state of the weather fills music own expertness in the strangling art of the London papers, and one or two. in their boat eight days at sea.""
halls, refreshment bara, billiard rooms, "For instance," he says, "I executed six anomalies in the case whitch are really an unknown reef in the neighbourhood of afraid the weather has much to answer for being pardoned at the last moment.
The Egerox, Sandman, has struck upon public houses, &o, to overflowing. I am criminals at Saint-Koraly, the seventh curious, Colonel Valentine Baker's and the I Rev. Mr. Tooth's offences are so Terr Sandalwood island, and will in consequence in the way of liquor, and the publicans and hanged the whole six in ten minutes, in dissimilar, that it strikes me as conical because in Sonrabaya, the second chief town thereof have to go to Singapore to be dooked the caterers are doing a roaring trade. We proof of which I hold the certificate of the that both should be imprisoned in the of Netherlands India, there are za facilities are leading an idler life than usual, for even Committes of Execution, wherein high same cell of Holloway prison. It is B "constitutional" is an impossibility. pralee is accorded me for the care and still more ddd, though not so comi- for docking yemela."
"Telegram to the Handelsvereeniging, An- £4,000 that Closter, the soap-man, has melancholy mission.
Rinking is gone out of fashion, and the rapidity with which I accomplished my bul, considering the respective offences of the These six persons, two onlprits, that while Colonel Baker was jez, 17th Fob.Arrived, the British ship expended on the Marble Rink at Knight condemned by martial law, ended their allowed to make his "hermitage" as luxur Iris Hope, Denreed, from Newcastle to Sin- have let water run into the ship to 8 feet."
any part of it. You cannot at least I 1803 Up to the present I have performed Tooth being imprisoned technically for con The British ship Iris Hope, Denreed, cannot,play billiards all day long, and twenty-seven executions with the rope, and tempt of court, and not being a first class so at the lounging clubs, such as the cat assure you that not one of them misdemeanant" like his predecessor, is derini from Shields, laden with coal has arrived Raleigh, the Road, the Park, and the lasted more than two seconds. A good the same privilege of making his cell a at Anjar roadstead. The captain reported that the cargo was on fire and applied to the Badminton, we liquor up. All very bad, worker in this line should never leave the smuggery. I don't object (vary liberal of authorities for the assistance of men to apply and I try and fight against it, but when you tongue to project, nor the features to be me, isn't it F) to Mr. Tooth's imprisonment, water.
Nor for though a man may have the beat of enter a olub, and a man looks fixedly at distorted, nor the eyes protruding. At present, although three days have elapsed, the coals are still burning. you, and then touches the ball or walls the oven, though the body should remain motives for knocking his head against a post, The smoke ascends through all the openinge waiter, you know your doom, Sherry and suspended to the gallows till the evening, he has no right to complain about injustice, of the ship, and there is but little hope of whiskey are, I think, the favourite bover onght it to become blue or black or if the performance raises a bump. Still i preserving the vessel. As probably better ages, the lattor is such a wholesome spirit or inflated, if the executioner be up to the think the law, or its administration, is coa means are at hand at Batavia, the ship is faulty, and I think the faculty bare much bangman of Austria who operates according and incapable of adaptation to modifying you know, recommended strongly by the standard of his business 1 am the only temptible which is so wanting in flexibility being towed thither by the steamer Merapi," to answer for. The theatres receive a great to the. now system. Why did they not circumstances as to treat immorality with
Java Bode, 20th Feb
In addition to the telegraphic intelligonos portion of the idle youth of Babylon, but I employ me at Vienna in the executions more indulgence than mere stubbornness,
I think you will agree with me that fanoy the two that are really doing well are, of Rutkay and Francesconi } regarding the Iris Hope that lay near Palo as I have told you before, The Court and expressly to Vienna to wituoss the hang- the exelosed advertisement extracted from Babi with fire amongst the coals, we have the Prince of Wales's, I went to the ing of the former, and really abuteber yesterday's Times opens a glimpse into very ascertained that the Merapi has been des- patahad to take the said vessel in tow. Yes. Aquarium Theatre last night, and was could not take more time to kill sad abysses of indigence wherein numbers. Unbappily, this hangman of of well-born, and well-educated women are surprised (it was my first visit) to find it an oz. terday evening, however, when she was in such a large one. It is nearly as large as. Vienna has not sufficient experience struggling almost in vain tow, an explosion of oral gas took place, the Frincesse, and will hold about £240, in his art. I appeal, consequently, through whereby the vessel was so shattered that she had to be sunk near the cape of Bantam. le did not hold that sum last night though, your columns to the Minister of the late- The crew and the captain abandoned the
nor anything like it. A rather good play rior, and ask him to put an end to those ship which went down rapidly, and is now
Heroes by Conway Edwardes, but not very divergences in executions, so that the pass guarded by a portion of the crew of the
well interpreted except by John Billington age from life to death, if it is to be by the in the part of a Waterloo veteran and Diis hauds of the hangman, should be effected Mercy. We understand that the vessel
Fancy four shillings a week for nisi' was quite now."-Batavia Dagblad, 20th Meyrick as an in enua The Aquarium in an honest, humane, rapid, and (above
As for me, I am morninge work of a lady qualified to teach proper has a wonderfully good bill of fare, all uniform manner. "Yesterday the captain of the iron vessel
from nigger minst els, conjuring, &, up furnished with numerous certificates of German, Italien, and French, as well as to stupendous performances on the trapeze, approbation, and I am desirous to be per music and singing I quite forget whether coals, had been beached between Anjer and this city, left for his vessel in the steamer which known as "Little Bob" concludes the empire to my mode of execution, and for recent experience of a lady with whom I am Batavia and found her still burning al-performance by a fearless dive from the dome this purpose I am ready to place myself acquainted. She advertised for a "superior though more than half full of water. He 75 feet. He falls into a not, but it is a rather gratuitously at the disposal of the state. nurse, to take role charge of four littl has ordered the crew to abandon the vessel. awful thing to see, and the certainty that Requesting you, once more, in the public children aged from 16 months to 6 years. On Saturday next, the wrecks will be sold be will break his neck some day makes it of interest, to publiat this letter, I am your Must be competent to teach the older ones by public auction. The vessel was built of
course as a young friend of mine remarked, devoted and respectful, Johann Piperger, little reading, &c., Salary, £40." But la "Awful yinteresting" The Aquarium is do Imperial and Royal Executioner for the vain. She received no answer. On deplor iron and was bran new. She was making ing well, I think, under Ale Wybrow Ro. Kingdom of Bohemia," What a patrioticing this ill-success to her doctor and showing her first voyage, "Ibid, 22nd Feb.
The hull of the British barque Iris Hope bertson's management. That gentleman has haugman! But, then, probably Pipergera re him the advertisment, he said "Pooh, cus with coale from England to Singapore, returned to the scene of his early labous, que t will not be regarded at home, for no down the £40 to £20, and advertise for s which as we stated formerly had arrived at
and has certainly infused a vigour into the one is a prophet in his own country, as a nursery governess instead of a nurse, and Anjer with fire in her cargo, and had been sir Labouchere, who has cemed to have police Magistrate of Parle. You cheated, did so, and sure enough the applications cams had previously lacked. noble Hungarian remarked this week to a you will have applications enough. She beashed after fruitless efforts to extinguish the fire, was this morning sold by auction anything to do with the Aquarium and its said his Worship to the prisoner, "ain by scores and scores. We hear that a Calico Ball at the Club here, with the cargo still on board, and the way, of course girds at it in Truth, calls it jeweller of the Rue de la Paix out of is on the tapir. After the late very sue inventory, for 18,200 guilders. The boats a music hall, do, &t. That gentleman 30,000 francs, and a horse-dealer of the oessful assemblies, a réussion of the char&o, brought 892:50 gulders."Batavia has been persistently attacking the Miss Champs Elysées of 10,009. You plundered Terrys in each number of his paper that soachbuilder of the Avenue Friedland, acter suggested would, we think, bo a Handelsblad, 24th Feb. welcome and appropriate termination to A telegram from the Asst. Resident of has yet appeared, accusing them of pack and yet you say you are a Hungarian the season.
Deli offered for transmission at Pinang on ing" the house on first nights when they Magnate. If that be so, why did you nos on the French system, and moreover stating than coming to Paris True, sir, ra- Danube It would have been more simple A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Western It is rumoured that Mr Giquel is about |--At night on the 8th instant, at about 2
that Messrs Lewis and Allenby, a partner Morning News, Plymouth, as follows:-"A to have fresh honours conferred upon him o'clock, Mr. Van Stiehle, at Sunghy Siput, in which firm Miss Kate Terry married, plied the accused, "it would have been court-martial was held on the 13th of by the Chinese, He has already received was attacked by robbers, wounded by them, are in the habit of sending all their young more simple on my part to make the at
the Yellow Jacket (a military distinction) and robbed of 1,000 dollars:”—Javasché
men to the theatres where the Miss Terryn ↑ top
But helas! Monsieur, December, on board the Fictor Emanuel, and is, we believe, a General in the Chinese Courant. at tongkong, upon Navigating Lieutenant Serviss, and a Mandarin of the first class.
"One of our correspondents at Deli, writes Balliston and Lieutenant Pike, of the
to us as follows, regarding the attack on Vigilant, in connection with the defalcations
Mr Stieble during the night between the of the late Assistant-Paymaster of that ship,
6th and 7th instant: Almost every night and both those officers were honourably
plundering expeditions are made by armed soquitted. At a court-martial held on the
Chinamen against natives; these expeditions 12th of December, Assistant-Paymaster G.
are almost always attended by a murder or that during the night between the 6th and 7th inst., they robbed and murdered in a A disastrous fire occurred on the early house near the Camp. During the same morning of the 3rd instant, in the midst of night, yes, almost at the same hour, there the Foreign Settlersent. The fire was first took place one of the boldest crimes ever yet discovered at about 4 p.m., in the block of committed here by Chinamen. The man- Chinese bouses between the Oriental Bank ager's house of the Rudolfsburg estate m and Mests Olyphant & Co.'s private plundered by a band of armed Chinese. Mr residence on "the hill." It originated, we van Stichle received fourteen wounds, and hear, in a cooper's shop, and is strongly his intending murderera appropriated as pay suspected to have been the work of an certainly for their brave and noble calling incendiary. At one time the Orienta! the sum of 1,000 dollars (in a box they took Bank and other adjacent foreign buildings away with them)."Jara Bode, 24th Feb. were in danger; but the timely arrival of engines belonging to Mesars Jardine, in Deli, into the complaints made in conse
The judicial commission, which inquired Matheson & Co., and Gilman & Co., in quence of the cruelties of tobacco planters, conjunction with the strenuous exertions of returned the day before yesterday. It is some foreign and native residents, prevent- said that unfavourable intelligence regard-
him some by and byo. Ele had seen Seekit upon a verbal translation, might he not Iris Hope, which, with fire amongst the the ilanlon Volta troupe, ous member of mitted to train all the hangmon of the I ever mentioned to you an incident in the :
next day. Gibbs said he had been 16 -months in the ship; he did not take the rope, but was quito willing to pay for it. He gave away only a little bread. seekit admitted having given a few biscuits away, and the third prisonur Sherrin said he knew nothing whatever about it-The Captain Kava all the prisoners a very fair character.
Gibba was ordered to forfeit $10, the value of the ropo; and the other two pri- Boxers were fined $5 each.
perhaps meet the views of all parties by
ating the Bishop instead?
I am, yours really
SERIOUS.
China. FODCHUW.
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(Herald, March 8th.) The Formosan panic has subsided, and
the Chinese now profess to be relieved of all anxiety in regard to Spanish designs en that troublesome dependency of the Empire.
H. M. S. Sheldrake returned from Tam sui on the 6th instant. Her services might have been needed to protect British pro party during the fire on the 3rd instant; but, as usual in such emergencies, Her on a coaling expedition. ̈ ̄ ̄
cono.rn which
I was pulling the other day on some people at Streatham Hill and heard incidentally good deal about Mrs. Bravo. She is living in her old house, The Priory, at Balham (which is quite close to Streatham) but under new auspices. Public opinion in the neighbours
everybody looked askance at her, and she Whereas formerly, even before the trial, often ran risk of positive insult, she is now positively with the lower classes, who
the 12th February, contains the following: "ppear, of hiring and organising a claquéply your industry on the banks of the hood has shifted bold round regarding dé, tak
bomo.
I
speaks ill of her, while ladies by an act, with instructions to applaud them, and sunne n'est prophète dans son pass are ready to break anybody's head who them alone, Now, the reputation of the think I have rarely beard the proverb bat nobtrusive deference (when they meet in shops, for instance) endeavour to show that two Miss Terrye now on the stage stands ter applied.
Has the absurd report rezobed they sympathize with her trials more than they sondemn her errors or envy her affluence.
As for the men, if Mrs. Bravo does not rust- ry again, it will not be for lack of present- able candidates for her hand.
Spain, of the Ringdove, was sentenced to Majesty's Gunboat was away-presumably two, and the Chinese have become so daring every play-guer. Putting on one side the tion. Enormously wealthy as the member which is, I think, worth the pen and ink.
nine months' imprisonment and to be dismissed the service for defalcations in his Mccounts,"
THAT the saying of two doctors will never agree" does not apply exclusively to the medical profession has been fully exempli fied in the Police Court to-day. A Chinese trader was charged with passing counterfeit dollars under the following circumstances, The defendant went to a fishmonger and bought 20 catties of lobsters for which he paid $1, and told the man to take them on board the steamer Porcan. On the way to the ateamor he had the gain examined by an expert in a chandler's shop, who pro-
nounced it bad. He took the lobsters on
so high; they have won and are still was wonder, that Mr. W. H. Smith had bought
lug such favourable appreciation of their talents from the London public, that the the Daily Telegraph. I have heard it as- very idea of their requiring a packed andi-serted with most impressive gravity as the ence or a paid claque, soun is ridiculous to explanation of the course which that great
journal has pursued on the Turkish ques- By the bye, I heard a story at Streatham spitefulness of the attack on these ladies, people have been wondering how Mr La for Westminster is, the purchase of the lady in the neighbourhood had recently bouchers can make such a fool of himself Telegraph would probably be beyond his presented her husband with twins,tly as he has done in his paper, when the moscope. Moderately estimated, and with full unaware of the circumstance had called at ive is so well known. The intimate rela remembraner of the comparatively precarious the house, and was owing to some misunder tions between Mr Labonchere and Miss nature of newspaper property, the Daily standing of the servant admitted and showa Telegraph is well worth a million sterling into the morning-room. There I found-to Henrietta Hodson are patent to everyone. down in hard cash. Nor is there any use his own words her little boy, dos, Next week that lady will appear at the Taymarket Theatre in Pygmalion, and necesity to invoke the ideas of purchase shoat three or four years old, fondling a Galatea, in which she will have to play what and a change in the proprietary to ex-very young kitten, while the mother was is commonly termed second fiddle" to plain the condust of the paper regarding looking rather suspiciously on. By way of Misa Marian Terry. The nasty artioles in English policy in the East. It would be no saying something to the child I remarked-
reproach to the organ of a great party if on Take care! Pussy looks as if she was Truth are thus fully explained.
I forget if I told you of a fancy hall aa truly national question it abandoned the jealous of your touching her kitten." Poor fortuight ago, at which, among other die-cause of its party for that of the country. Passy!" said the boy stroking her with one tinguished guests, Miss Bromley appeared But the Daily Telegraph was not driven hand. "She had five little kittens at first, as a Pillar Letter Box. Her costume was to such a painful extremity. It was not but they drowned all the others, and now necessary to be not a Liberal in order to be she's only got this." He looked quite
board, but he did not find the defendanted the fire from spreading. Between three ing fresh disturbances followed them, and 4carlet and black, and described to me a patriotic, for fortunately the better half of mournful as he said this. "But," he pon So he brought the and four hundred houses were destroyed, that they have become convinced that the something very wonderful and attractive, the Liberal party was English rather than tinued, cheering up, mamma kas got two
a
but the actual loss of property-it being poor district-was not very great. An old man and some children are reported to have lost their lives,
of
British official-uncontaminated by the Chinese classics!
which no doubt it was. I hasten to correct
Quotations. Horakose, March, 17, 1877. Do OFIDM.New Fotna, canh 168
New Benares, cash, 547 New Malwa, onah, 580 credit, 550 Allowance Tasis, 20 a 40
37
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Old Malwa, cab, 680 credit, 588 Allowance Taals, 24 32
QUICKSILVER,... SALTPETRE,
201
18 50 62
- a G.AB
Exchange,
48/111
80 days* sight,
- 8/113
6 months' sight in
30-days qu
there as appointed. lobsters back, but on the way he met the,
police force in Deli in utterly insulate the account (told to me in the most oit partizan. I have reasons, which are fully new babies, and the intends to keep them defendant, who asked him why he did not
The most seriously accused planter, against take the fish on board. To this he replied
whom the most satisfactory proofs are at gumstantial mauner) of a reparation be convincing to me, for being assured that both."
the policy of the Telegraph in Russo- hand, has, it is said, made an unsucceseful tween that lady and a very intimate friend. Turkish matters was determined (possibly that the coin was bad, and thereupon ano-
attempt to destroy himself. Atrocious illam assured that there is no truth at all after consultation with Edwin Arnold) ther was tendered. The complainant had the
Prior to the departure from Hongkong treatment is exceptional in Deli. On the in the report, and yet the gossips believed entirely in the council of Mr Edward second coin examined by the compradore of
it for certainly two or three days. There Lairson's own mind. There was the steamer, who gave it as his opinion that His Excellency Governor Sir Arthur other hand, it was the rule, as being un
were one or two other charming persons at previous communication with any member it was counterfeit. The constable on duty Kennedy, the leading Chinese residents of avoidable from the nature of things, to at the Wharf, Thomas Campbell, happened the Colony presented him with an official punish with the rattan runaway coolies and this ball: Bolina Dolato, Emily Duncan, of the conservative ministry, much less any to come up, and took the defendant into umbrella and address. Sir Arthur is said brought back by the natives who received an Vaughan, to The latter is in very thing of the nature of negotiation or bargain. custody. When the oase same before the to be the first Governor of Hongkong to for so doing so much a head. Not seldom also bad health, for which I am sorry, Burlesque On the other hand, there was pacious communication with Mr Gladstone. He was pronounced both coing to be bad, the first ten som has been presented. It is only fair to which were only valid in the shop owned by | vicissitudes of fortune, let me mention proprietor of the Telegraph, though with all Magistrate to-day, the shroff of the Court whom the Umbrella so dear to Mandarin payment was made in orders for provisions cannot afford to lose ber.
Talking of misfortunes, or rather the distinotly told by the editor and managing dered being worth. 65 cents, and the second odd that Sir Arthar remains a thoroughly the planter, where prices were kept high, what was related the other night at dinner the consideration and deference required by CaMPHION, 34 cents. The defendant was accordingly sent
and a very large proît was made. There to six months hard labour. Inspector Grey
were also frequent instances of the abuse of in my presence by the vloaz of one of the their previous relations, that the letter could not paying the coolies the money due them London parishes. He asenred us that he not follow him in that coures of foreign then took aharge of the coins, and from what
The Report of the Shanghai Municipal until after the end of the season, in order to had lately mat a college friend of his, an policy which he was beat on pursuing. he subsequently heard, be sent them by Ser.
Oxford man, aesond class" glasslo, really believe therefore that the Telegraph geant Gordon to the Treasury to be examined Council for 1576 has been published, and prevent them from going away,"-Batavia acting as porter at Tarn'e, a great draper's is almost as much & Liberal organ as it was Bank, on demand, by the head shroff there. This expert de. is an interesting doonment. The total Dagblad, 24th Feb.
somewhere in the city. Somebody formerly Certainly, there is no truth in clared one of the coins, the first tendered, to foreign population of the port on the Zist
The same journal also states, that leave marke "Really, I suppose the poor all these rumours about its having been be good, and the other to be worth only June last axacanted to 1878, of whom 1986 to prosecute six Europeans for the way in fell drank." "No," said the clergyman, either squared on this particular question Credits, about 40 cents. The Magistrate thereupon were males, 288 females, and 291 children. which they had dealt with coolies in Deli "I have reason for believing that he has of Turkey by the promise of exclusive in- Documentary, 6 months' sig? reopened the case and had this shroff called. 878 were British, 506 were from the Con- and Langkat has been granted or was under been an exceptionally abatemiotis man all formation any mors than about it having Bombay, He had, however, altered his opinion since, tinent of Europe, 191 Americans and West consideration by last accounts. The planters his lif. In my opinion he is simply an passed by purchase altogether into Con- Calcutts, and now asserted that both were bad, their Indians, 89 Asiatics, 8 Eurasians, and there, being afraid of losing their lives and unfortunate man, I don't like using the serrative hands. Nevertheless it is very shanghai, demand, relative value being 40 cents and 78-cents. Nagro: The native population is computed properties, have organised armed guards on word because I know when translated probable that the intimate connection which He added, however, that the debaeed chat 95.662, of whom 7.519 live entirely their estates. In a single night such a accurately it generally misans ricious or axisted beteen the Daily Telegraph and Mr Bar Silver, 17, dwts. Bis rácter of the dollar second tendered. was so adost:
guard was six times fired upon. A planter imprudent, or indolent or wrong-headed, Gladstone personally (like that between Lord Mexicans, well concealed that it would not be disco
Intely sent out a trusty labourer, who had or fepkiess. But this man has been well- Falmerston and the Morning Pert) may Gold Lent, vered without being bored or tested on a
served him for years, with 700 guilders, conducted, industrions and salf-denying never be resumed. Statesmen are not par. English Sovereigns, piece of stone. When the Police Court'
On the next day the latter was found all his life. Of oottrae, he wants some tisularly grateful for support and praise Australian Sovereigns 14 shroff was re-examined, he also varied his The British steamer Ban Fong Song, Capt. murdered with his head out off
qualification for success in life, but I don't when they are deserved,that their more Discount, opinion, pronouncing that the dollar arst Darke, from Bangkok, arrived yesterday On the 21st ultime, the Court of Justies know what that wanting qualification is, candid opponents will perhaps give what Lendered was good, its only defect being the (March 6th) and brought as passengers from at Batavia delivered judgment in the case unless good luck. It is true, he did one they really value are support and praise
- Bhares. sediment of the crucible, and that the second that port;-Their Highnesses the Prince of of Captains Hegers and Van de Gerel very imprudent thing almost immediately. ens tendered was bad though its counterfeit Mantennovo and the Prince of Lichtenstein, charged with the manslaughter of three Union taking his degree. He married. His sten when they are undeserved.
There may be more truth in the report China Fire Ins. Co., $150 d.B. Miro Ins. Co., $580 guilty could not probably be defeated by a who are how on a tour round the worlds
ness on the occasion of the collision between wife was a good blameless woman, the that Lord John Manners will shortly retire China Traders Ins. Co., $5,000 small trader like the defendant, Mr Itusroll The Police have recovered 31 of 300 bags the steamers Willem Kreonaprins der Neder-daughter of a respectable Berkshire farmer, then sent down to the Oriental Bank, to of tube gambler which were stolen from the fanden and 4th The Court held that the First he endeavoured to gain & livelihood from the Cabinet and Mr. WH, Bmith will Union Ins, Society of Canton, $550 have the best Shroff there sout up to give godown of Messrs. Guthrie & Co Two drowning of two of the Chinese was fully as private tutor at Oxford but the proceeds do not, however vouch for it. I only mean North China Ins. Co., P. 810
besome Postmaster-General in his place. Ohinge Insurance Co., 1903 avidence. The precaution was taken that Chinamen have been arrested upon suspicion proved but acquitted the acoteed on the of this paratit were just too little to live that it does not seem improper or astonishing Yangiame Las. Assoctasari, Tix: 610 he should not be made aware of the purpose of having been concerned in the sobbery," following grounds-The Court held that on. Toon, by his father-in law's advice he For which he was wanted at the Court, nor Eight Chinanten, who were acuteed befors far from there having been on the occasion took a farm, but after fourteen years' hard in itself, and that I cannot say of it, as 1 d., & W. Dosk Oo., 4010
tau of the other rumour that I know it to HK, 0, & M. & boat Co., $8 any one in reference to the case, Heaotivaly concerned in the post office riot and there was not even want of seamanship, and paying, however, all his debts. Then he
Shanghai Biam H. Oo, The, 98 Examined the dollars and pronounced one to the assault upon Mr Maxwell in December taking into considertion that experts differed went to London and tried to manage by
Every time that I be good and one bad. He was now told last, were yesterday convicted (March 5th.) greatly in opinion es to the manner in which giving classical lessons and doing hask of alluding to the battle royal between Chinese Imperisi Zroan, #103 that both the coins had been declared to be Opa was sentenced to six months', and the the vessels ought to have been handled, the literary #otk Then his wife died. Some dear Arthur Tooth" at Archdeacon Deni bad by two experts, and he scrutinised seven, others to four months' rigorous ima Court also held that what happoned was due friends got one of his boys into the "Ite son calls him; and the Law, I rethought me them again, but adhered to his opinion that prisonment, and each to find sureties for his to nothing else than sa error of judgment, a oast School, and the other is apprentice to of John Lang's famous article on the (Taken one was good and one was bad, the latter future good behaviour,
mistaken view of what was requirou, which a bookbinder.~ He himself; at 20. gaste of Gorhant Casey and reffaided; but it has being worth about 20 cents. It would be We understand that the Post Master did not amount to such a degres of Image, is house porter at draper's, and des been like omitting the part of Hamlet in the difficult to detect the bad quality of this General has received notification that these prudence as would bring the accused within olares himself to be a sieber men la fustian representation of the play. For, for several Banonut doller without boring as sounding it. Tar Battlements will from the 1st of April next the reson of the penal law,
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