No. 4600.-APRIL 1, 1878.]
"REUTER'S TELEGRAME.
(SUPPLIED TO THE "OKINA MAIL,”) (By Southern Route)
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contributed to the funds of the City Hall, and the question has been mooted whether It would not be better to repeat the per formance at the Theatre Royal' instead of the Lusitano Theatre, but we understand THE WAR.
in the balance of advantage is considered to LONDON, 30th March, 1878.
lle with the latter. A new comediotta being prepared i My Undle's Will in to take the place of The Family Shakespeare," and we think a arowded house may be fully anticipated.
All our Troop-ships
for 500.
are
Lord Beaconsfield said in the House of Lords in reply to a question that the Queen's message relative to the reserves of the army would be presented on the 1st of April, and that the discussion on the subject would take place on the
Gunaion.
4th
Ws hear a very daring robbery took place two or three evenings ago from a house in one of the bye-lanes at Salylugpoon, and that property to a large amount was carried In reply to a question put in the House of
away. The modus operandi of the robbers Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote said that
was singularly clever. Mr Choy. Akun, the British Government felt that the time formerly interpreter to the Surveyor had come for decided steps, and would General's Department, occupies a house is consult Parliament on them. He denied Sam To lane, Salyingpoon. On the oven that the British Government had hindered fug in question, about 7 o'olook, a number the meeting of the proposed European Con- of men during a ralu-storm, knocked at gress, and declared that they only desired the door for admission on the pretence that that the treaty of peace between Russia and they wanted assistance, inasmuch as their Turkey should form the basis of the dis-boat was capsized in the squall and that they wished to consult their victim on the subject. The unwary man opened the door, and no sooner were they admitted than three of the robbers kept him at bay by one man holding a cooked pistol to his temple, and two fixing the points of their daggers to his sides, threatening that if he made the least stir, the steel would find its way into his body, and the bullet into his head. Kept in this position, the unfor. tunate man had no choice but to yield to the demands of the robbers, who obtained the keys and ransacked the whole house, carrying away something like $1,800. The other inmates of the house were completely frightened, in fact did not dare to make any alarm for fear of the robbers carrying out their threat of killing the head of the family.
LOUAL AND GENERAL
Wa hear that the ruast at the Peak was struck by lightning last week during the heavy thunderstorms,
THE Postmaster-General's Report for the last year is published in the Government Gosite of Saturday, but pressure on our spade prevents our reproducing it to-day.
*Taxus will be a special sessions held at the Supreme Court on Thursday next. The cases to be board are, we believe, the charge of alleged rape against A. Baird, and the Kowloong Dook larceny osse.
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En Afuk, a shop coolie, was charged on remand to-day with causing the death of man, at 115 Jervols Street, by shooting him with a revolver; but as the Coroner's Jury had returned a verdict of nooldantal death, the prisoner was discharged.
We mentioned some time ago that woh Sung-tao's diary had been suppressed by the Tsung-H Yamen in deference to attacks made upon it by a Dennor named Ho. The denunciation is commonly reputed to have been prompted by Lu, the late colleague of Kwon, and now Minister to Germany: To counteract the too favourable reports given in the diary, a survey of the foreign relations of China, written by Kwok before his departure, has lately been published Is is instinct with the spirit of patronising anperiority, and recommends a return on the part of foreigners in China to the posi- tion occupied by the Dutch in the 17th century, when they were treated with entire benevolence" by his Sacred Majesty Kang Hi. It is suggested that opium and missionaries be got rid of as a matter of course, and any loss of revenuë thus caused will be compensated by the withdrawal of Tax adjourned quest on the bodies of the the Consular establishments and naval four persons who were poisoned on board squadron which will then no longer be ne- pessary. The programme, it will be seen, the S.S. Deucalion will be resumed to-moris as complete as it is practical, and will doubtless be hailed with enthusiasm by the row at past 2 o'clock at the Magistracy,
Friend of China.-N. 0. D. News.
NOTICE is given in the Government Gazette of Saturday that Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies has been plenaod to extend the leave of absence of the Revd. R. Hayward Kidd, Colonial Chaplain, for four months, commencing on the 8th July next, on the ground of urgent private
affairs.
Tuxes seamen are charged with being concerned in brosching cargo on board the 8. S. Ulysses, at Whampoa, and the onse will be the subject of enquiry to-morrow, at the Harbour Master's Office.
Tux weather has caused detention to sc- veral vessels approaching this port. Nearly all the ships both from the northward and ~ southward are unanimons in reporting fine weather, so we may conclude that the weather we are experiencing is local.
the North China Famine Fund,
Tax announcement of the death of Mr. W. F. Mayers, H. B. M. Chiness Secretary of Legation, will have been received by all our readers with astonishment and regret. He was bound homewards on leave of absence, and had reached this (Shanghai) from Peking, with Mra Mayers and their two Ho obildren, as recently as Saturday last. was brought ashore, suffering, as we are formed, from typhus fever; and yesterday morning (March 24thy he died. The event comes so unexpectedly and so rapidly that
faith
THE GHINA MAIL.
Mr Teller såld It was done at the request Opium was on board. As may be supposed, for training on holidays. When the reserves the high prioes, &c., have cut off or are embodied with the regular troops, the of the petitioners.
Mr Hayllar and the beneficiaries had diminished to a great degres the daily armed strength of the Hellenes will nouns already been settled with, and Jardine luxury, and in proportion to the craving is to nearly 14,000 Infantry, about 8,000 Matheson chose to leave the money in the the willingness, at present, to pay anything Mountain Rides, 2,500 Frontier Elfes, 665 hands of Mesars Mallwen Frickel & Co. for the sacrides-How is it steamers cannot Cavalry, 1,500 gunners with 50 guns, and There were two points to be considered: get freights to tempt them calling bere on about 600 Engineers, who, in time of peace Did the petitioners make the beneficiaries route South Junks are arriving every het as firemen at Athens. The gendarmerie enter into an agreement for a settlement of day laden with oil, which commodity com-amonat to about 1,600 men; and there is their claim, and was not there an under manda most remunerative sales, and for a militis of some 80,000 in strength, but Ita standing that they should be paid off and which there is still great demand. In a discipline, training, and equipment are the balance belong to the petitioners-Mr short time the cotton will be coming. Large stated to be far from perfect. There are A. Wilson having paid the beneficiaries quantities are yearly consumed in the also PO battalions of Frontlar Volunteers out of his own pocket?
adjoining districts. Surely steamers could amounting to 19,000 of all ranks, giring » cut out the junks in a trade they are total enrolled strength of somewhat under admittedly incompetent to take part in. 180,000 of all denominations. The country Every steamer that comes here now will is divided into five military districteris increase the trade of the place; and that the Eastern Roumelia, Western Roumella, Chinese themselves fear this is proved by Morea, the Archipelago, and the fontan the energetic aotion they are taking in Lalands. Each of these distriota is com- Ningpo and Fokkien to favour a continuance manded by a General, of whom there are one fronclad, the King George, bull by the Thames Ironworks Company.
Quotations,
Bowenone, April 1, 1878,
Twe following is a translation from a Berlin journal, apparently written lo good "The latest American progress in build ing will be the mammoth hotel,' soon to be erented in Chicago. The enormous hotel is to have a frontage of three. English miles long, a depth of six miles; the height, of seventy-seven stories, will messure 3480 feet from the ground floor to theroot. The hotel will have no stairs, but fire hundred balloons will always be ready to take via tora ap to their rooms. No room waiters are to be employed, but visitors will be zerved by a now-patented automaton, put în Mr Teller, addressing the Court, sald every bed-room, who will do all shaving, that Mr Smith had no intereat whatever, shampooing, eto, to the guests by a very either one way or the other, except to faith simple and ingenions mechanism, suppos- fully administer the estate. The benefi- ing the guest requires hot water, the auto clarion were two ladies In England, and Mr "A Smith felt it to be his duty to protect their maton will be able to call down staire. bucket of water up to room number one mil. interests. The question was, was the mo
on three thousand one hundred and seven,ney to go into their pockets or the pocket of the old method of supply,The Nassau twenty in all. The Greek Navy bosats of and the water will be up in seven seconds of Mr Alexander Wilson, He (Mr Toller) is outside busy surveying, The Moorhen by a patentod elevator. Half an hour be did not wish to reflect upon Mr A. Wilson's left on Monday for Fooohow.-N. C. D. foro fable d'hote, Instead of the ringlog of conduct, but it appeared that he wished to News. the bells, a gun (twenty-four pounder) will make money out of the estate. Mr Wilson be fired on each floor to call the guests to bad paid no interest whatever, and It
An ounce and a ton weight of tron will get ready for their meals. The tables in the was after a great deal of trouble, that AN OUNCE AND A TON WEIGHT. dining rooms will be measured four miles 81,700 had been got from him. Specui- each, attendance to be performed by twelve Istions of this kind were not proper, fall down a pit with equal speed and in waiters on horseback, on either side of the and he (Mr Toller) felt sure that the equal time. Until about three hundred table. Music during table d'hote will be Court would not recognize them. As to years ago all the learned men in the world played-gratis-by eight bauds of seventy the law of the case he contended that pro. disbelieved and denied it. seven then each. For the convenience of hate could not be revoked, and cited cases Italian, taught the contrary to the popular visitors, a railway will be built on each in proof of this. Be submitted that the belief. The University of Pisa oballenged floor, as well as telegraph offices. The prios petition should not be entertained, and fur-him to the proof. The leaning tower of of one bedroom will be from one dollar to ther that Mr Alexander Wilson could not that elty was just the place for such an ten dollars. The cost of this building in be allowed to make bargains with the be- experiment. Two balls were obtained and There was now, he said, a weighed, and one was found to be exactly estimated to be $680,000,000. The billiard neficiaries. room will contain nine hundred American, balance of 83,200 to the credit of the Estate double the weight of the other. Both were ninety-nine French, and one English table, after paying Mr A. Wilson what he had taken to the top. All Pisa, looked on, and and sa most of the visitors are expected to advanced, with interest, and he said the rowds of dignitaries were confident that be Americans, the billiard rooms will be fit beneficiaries had signed the agreement young Galileo, then obscure and despised,
The two balls Bank, on demand, ted out with a spittoon one hundred feet spoken of under a mistaken knowledge of but honoured and immortalized now, would
what was meant. In reply to the Chief Jus-be proved to be in error.
50 days' sight, tice he said that the agreement was made were dropped at the same instant. Ola
" 6 months' sight, *** several years ago; there was then about theory and all the world said that the large.
Oredits, £2000 in all due to the beneficiaries. He ball, being twice as heavy as the less, must went on to say that Mr. Wilson had no legal come down in half the time. All eyes Documentary, 6months sight,.. standing when he paid the $1,700, but watched, and lot all eyes beheld them Bombay, demand Rupesa,...
Oaloutta, nevertheless, Mr Smith paid him the money trike the earth at the same instant, Mon with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. The balance he held for the benefit of the beneficiaries; the money was quite roady and at the disposal of the Court.
circumference.'
Police Intelligence. (Before 0. 7. Creagh, Eng.)
1st April, 1878.
STEALING PASSENGERS' TICKETS.
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Lai Apo, and Wan A-1, barbers, were charged on remand with stealing a passenger ticket, and were sentenced to six months' hard labour each, and to be exposed in the stocks for six hours at the Harbour Master's
Office.
HOGUE AND VAGABOND. Leong Afub, a coolie, was sent to one month's hard labour as a rogue and vaga band. Inspector Lindsay stated that he know the defendant as an old thief; be had been several time convloted. He had no occupation, but loitered about public-houses, watching dranken seamen.
UNLAWFUL FOSSESSION.
Wong Amahn, a coolie, was fined $10 or six weeks hard labour, for being found in the unlawful possession of a piece of wood.
DRUNKESNESS.
John MoMillan, and Charles Neale, sea- men unemployed, were charged with the above offence, and discharged with a caution.
Emil Winther, 3rd engineer 8.6. Quarta, was dealt with in a similar manner,
John Banton Cook, private 74th Regt., was fined six shillings. He was violent when arrested, and was dragging a China- man along the ground by his quens.
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George Smallwood, seaman unemployed, was fined 50 cent.
Soivet Nelson, a seaman belonging to the American ship North Star, was found $1 for being drunk and obasing people about the street.
LARCENY.
Lut Alu, a coolie, was sent to 8 weeks' hard labour for stealing a pair of shoes.
List Ateo, and Lo Aplug, tailors, were
SUPREME COURT.
IN PROBATE JURISDICTION. (Before the full Court.)
April 1, 1878.
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then disbelieved their eyes, and repeated Shanghai, demandy ... the experiment many times, but each with the same result. The little ball was big Bar Sliver, 17, dwts. B., enough to destroy a theory 2000 years old; and had it been sa little as a pea it would Sycee, have destroyed it just as well, or even more quickly. But how was this? Did not the earth draw down the large ball, which was double the side, with double the force?
The Chief Justice said the question was whether a petition was sufficient, perhaps It would be necessary to instituto a suit, to which Mr Hayllar replied that he was agreeable to rely upon the petition.
The Chief Justice asked why the aYes, truly, but in drawing down the large ball there was a double force of resistance counts had not been closed when the money was paid; and Mr Toller said that Mr A. be overcome, and as the two forces acted Wilson would not or could not produce a given proportion on the leas, the velo city of the two were equal, though in bulk the will
there be two wagons, one with a load of they were unequal Let us suppose that
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VESSELS TO ARRIVE.
AT HONGKONG,
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Remarks,
Cuxhaven Hamburg
Hongkong Bank, 50% prem Unlon Is, Boalety of Uanton, $1,800 Uhina Traders' Ins. Co., $1,200 Yangtze Ins. Assoc., TIL 625 Chinese Insurance Co., $250 On resuming, the arguments were non-five tons, and the other ten tons, and that North China Ins. Co., Tle, 960 tinued on either side for about an hour the unequal loads are drawa by equal horse-.K. Fire Ins. Co., $600 longer, and the hearing finally concluded, power should not their speed be equal, China Fire Ins. Co., $170
though their weight is unequal No B.K. W. Dock Co., 8% prem judgment being reserved.
there must be a double horse-power to draw | H.K. G. & M. 8.-boat Co., $17 dis the double weight to obtain equal speed Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tis. 22 Lot a ten-pound weight and a one-pound Hongkong Gas Co., 875 fall to the earth at the same time, and the Hongkong Hotel Oo,, $55 earth must draw down the heavier weight China Sugar Refining Co., 2% dis with ten times greater force than the other, Chineas Imperial Lost, £105. A very imposing pageant was witnessed that they may have equal speed, and it does on the French Bund this afternoon (March so. A ton weight of iron and an ounes- 22nd) at about one o'clock. It was the weight, leaving the top of a pit at the same escort of the coffin containing the body of instant, would therefore at the same fustant, Taken at Messys Falsoner & 00,'s Propias one whom we conjecture to have been a figh fall to the bottom. military officer, fo one of the steamers for conveyance to his own country. It was described as passing through the settlement a few months ago. First two gong bearers, ADVICE TO STUDENTS.-Sit up to the table very similar in most respects to that we followed by about eighty men, some bearing when you read; easy chairs abolish memory. red boards with Chinese characters inscribed Do not go on reading the same book for too on them, and others carrying large banners. long at one sitting. If you are really weary Then came two drummers and eight other of one subject, change it for another, Read instrumentalists followed by 180 soldiers steadily for three hours a day for five daya two and two. Next wore banners, followed in the week; the use of wet towels and After these strong coffes betrays ignorance how to read. by an officer on horseback.
Cheok the accuracy of your work as soon as eams (the greatest innovation we have over seen in China, on such an occasion) ayon have finished it. Pat your facts in railitary band, consisting of ten brass order as soon as you have learned them. instruments (4 cornets, & tener, 1 bass, and Nevor read after midnight. Do not go to 2 contra base), with big drum and kettle bed straight from your books. Never let. drums. These were followed by 200 more your reading interfere with exercise or saldiers, more banners, another officer, and digestion; and lastly, if you can, keep a it has all the force of a severe shock; and charged with a similar offence, and sent to then by four chairs containing mourners. clear head, a good appetite, and a cheerful
After these came the coffin in the same heart. one too which arouses the utmost sympathy ten weeks' hard labour each. for his bereaved widow and obildren. Mr
magnificent catafalque that was used on the Tre glory of the British Navy has
At the present day the When left. Name, previous occasion. The procession was com- indeed faded. Mayers was one of those men who are at once deeply studleas and thoroughly prac
pleted by more soldiers. It was really an backbone of our maritime power is repre- imposing sight, and was striking from its sented by 45 ironclade, 25 of which are in Aug. tical. He has been a constant contributor
departure in some particulars from the old commission, and a force of between forty 14,"Regulus, We are glad to note that the P. & 0.to our local literature, and has published
and fifty thousand blue-jackets and marinos. Sept. Chinese habits.
At the close of the war of 1815, we had no 8, Andreas, steamer Gaelic (Captain Kidley) has far-same works which will prove of value to all who, with comparatively limited personal
less than 214,000 seamen, marines, and
Oct. nished another illustration of the good knowledge of China, its government and
2, Anna Bertha, feeling which exfats amongst natives under its literature, have commenced to study
The rumour that the Marquis Tseng, officers, and as many as 184 line-of-battle
19, Oscar, than 5,000, then mustered fully twice as foreign influence. The native crew of that the subject, and have frequently to seek Jardine, Matteson & Co. to sunal probate eldest son of the late Tseng Kwa-fan, was ships. The marines, which are now no more
information of a kind d'ficult to obtain. It which had been granted to Mr John Grant was to be appointed Minister to France, many bayoneta. Altogether, at the and of 20, Benedicts, steamer has subscribed the sum of $25 to aid that his political opinions did not Smith, one of the executors in the estate of is incorrect. The Chinese Government are that exhausting war which preceded 1815, Nov.
exactly tally with those of his ohler, Sir the late Mr William Wilson.
said to have determined not to appoint any we had 1,762 sea-going vessels, made up of
2, Cadiz (5.), Mr Hayllar appeared for the petitioners, more Foreign Ministers at present. Instead, 104 two or three deckers, 268 frigates, Thomas Wade; but we are sure that His
Kwoh, the present Minister to England, is Excelloney esteemed his abilities as of sand Mr Teller for the defendant. very high order; and that his death will. The petitioners are the Attorneys of also to be scoredited to France and charged of from 20 to 60 guns, 762 smaller 2, Johana Smidt,
vessels. No wonder Captain Marryat waxed 3. Elizabeth Shields, Hamburg at Belcher's Bay, for the Canton Customs, onuse gap in the staff of the English Mr Alexander Wilson, one of the execu.with Chinese interests there. An extra vessels, and many hulks and receiving 2, Mimms, went on a trial trip yesterday, under the Legation at Peking, that will be very tors in the estate of Mr Williams Wilson, allowance of Tis. 20,000 will be made him eloquent upon the subject of the British 20, Jetti,
acutely felt.
who died here some time back, leaving for the purpose. This is probably in view abla direction of Captain Holcomb, whose The remains of the late Mr William Fred. Mr John Grant Smith of Mesura MoEwen of the Exhibition, on account of the severe Navy under such circumstances.
ENGLISE papers quote from the "Manual
1, Glengaber, extended' experience in handling small erick Mayers were conveyed to the Cemetery Frickel & Co. and said Mr A. Wilson eriticisms that have lately appeared in the of the Imperial Gorman Navy, 1877-78,"
The estate was in 1873 foreign Fress regarding the absence of a real
4, Dayana, The weather was yesterday afternoon (March 25th) with the his executors.
marks of respect to which his official rank valued at $10,950, and was lodged in the firm Chinese olen me in the Chinese Exhibition some information about the Prussian fleet. 2, Otto,
This consists of eight ironclad frigates, of very unsettled with a stiff breeze blowing, as Secretary of Legation entitled him. It of Messrs Mekwen Frickel & Co. The bene- Commission.
19, Sedan, and a heavy sea. The schooner's behaviour had been arranged that the funeral should ficiaries under the will, were two ladies in
A Peking correspondent of the Sin-pas which two are unfinished; five fronclad 13, Sir Harry Parkes, London start from Dr Johnston's house in Shan England, who are sisters of the deceased states that Chen Len-pin has now received corvettes, of which three are unfinished; has given general satisfaction.
tung Road, where the deceased breathed while Mr Alexander Wilson, held the his final instructions to proceed to Wash sixteen wooden corvettes and nine 10, Forward,
smaller ironolads, seven Ironclad gunboats, bin last; and soon after the hour named the will. Considerable delay had been caused ington as resident Chinese Minister to the gunboats. Coastal defence is left to two 20, J. Worcester, London procession set out. The coffin, placed on a in settling the estate, owing to the will not United States. He left Peking on the 18th six torpedo boats, and four smaller Jan gun carriage and covered with the Walen being forthcoming, and Mr Alexander Wil and at Tientsin was to visit Li Hung-chang gunboats. Besides all this, there are 8, Korso, Jack, was drawn by a detachment of sailors son, an old gentleman, who it was said in to have conference with that statesman, belonging to the British barque Globe, were from H. MS. Thistle, and followed by somewhat cocentric, paid the beneficiaries After a stay of two days at Shanghai, he ave deepatah hoate, two large transport 17 Hylton Castle,
Another pabloation, 27, Earl of Devon, Antwerp ordered to forfeit 2 days pay sach for being members of the British Consular Service the sum of £1,700 in settlement of all will process by steamer to Hongkong, where steamers, eight training ships, and eighteen 2, Belle of Oregon, Liverpool
Representatives at Shanghal of the various claims they had on the estate. In 1877 his secretaries, interpreters, Coniniar staff Vessels of sorta. absent without leave. They said they were Treaty Fowers and by officers of some of Mis John Grant Smith, the oxesutor, ob and attendents await him.Cala has not the Austrian Naval Almanas for 1878, 30, Elizabeth Childs, Plymouth drunk and went on shore to keep out of the men of war in barbone. Several of the tained probate in the Supreme Court attained his present dignity by the regular gives some further detalla. Four out 81, Wandering Jew, Penarth trouble.
decessed's private friends and other mem here, and remitted to Mr Alexander Wil oldal ladder. He is a Canton man; owing his of the Ironclade were added to the Feb.
7. Nourmahal, Robert Willisma, and Arthur Foalgers, procession at Ita starting point.
bers of the dommunity also joined the on the 21700 he had advanced the bene advancement to his knowledge of English, eet during the last twelve months: 2 Per Ardua,
9. Lady Penthy clariss, together with £287.10, being He was employed in the Tsung-li Yemen prior the alator ships Baiern and Sachsen, arm-
B, Lodore, seamen belonging to the British barque
The route followed was the direct one up Interest at 5 per cent on the amount ad to his mission to the West Indies and the otrod corvettes; and the two other alster
8, Hedwig, Falcon, were ordered to forfeit 2 days' the Footbow Road, which was densely vanced. The money had all been with Spanish Main to investigate the condition of ships, the Micks and Scorpion, armoured
9, Channel Queen, Cardif thronged with Chinese, Excellent order drawn from the firm of MacEwen Frickel the coolie trade. Little else is known of gunboats. The first pair are each of 7,898 pay each and sentenced to 2 days' impris was, however, maintained by the Police Co. and Mr. Smith after remitting the his official rebord-Yung Shun-fu will be tons displacement, with two barbette tur oument with hard labour for being drank, who stopped trafo at the side streets until 1997.10, as above stated, to England, in associated with him as corenvoy. He was et anda cassmated battery protected by 10, Saran Nicholson, Sydney absent without leave and using threstening the procession had passed. It was nearly settlement of the claim of Mr. Wilson, a Canton boy, who went early in life to 15-inch iron plates, and sach, carrying 6 o'clocks before the Cemetery was reached, still retained a balance of $8245, which be Ameries, and he is understood to be a and abusive language towards the Master Ma de Sarruys, Minister for Belgium, and contended should go to the beneficiaries, wonderful product of the highest American Kropp guns. The second pairfare of 1,000 (David Barry.)
M. Ferguson, Minister for the Netherlands; The petitioners on the other hand alleged anlture. He has recently acquired a button tons displacement the water line and Sept. fained the procession at the entrance that Mr Alexander Wilson having paid the of the fourth rank, and the grade of a armament protected by Binok fron plates, 1, Carl Wilhelm,
and each carrying a single 30-centimetre Nov. while a number of foreign residents were beneficiaries the sum of £1700 which they prefent. He studied Chinese at the arsenal; Krupp gua. The moral of this is said to 6, Catbaring,
be that, whereas in 1884 Prusis could not Ar the Marine Court to-day Henry Hill waiting ita merival within the enclosure.
The coffin was burge into the Chapel, had agreed to take as a final settlement of and in a pat of ill Hung-change
their claim, and the morey in the hands of
hinder a blockade of the German ports by fireman was dued $5 or 10 days' imprison-
where the service was impressively read by Case MacEwen Friskel & Co, having been
the Danish fleet, she might now defend the ment, for using threatening and abusive the Very Rev. Dean Butcher. At the con; allowed to remain there for the benefit of a WINCHOW.
portas and bombard Copenhagen into the There is an extraordinary dietnand at Bargains of Crete Consiste, in time of Viking. towards the steward, whom he clusion of the first portion, the members of the firm, the residue of the estate, vis: language
H.M. Consular and Diplomatic service in $8248, belonged to them as attorneys for
This Army of Greece threatened to throw overboard.
Shanghal with the Acting Judge of the Mr A. Wilson, Mr Hayllar went at some present for foreign opium. The Chinese Supreme Court ranged themselves on either length Into the case, and contended that have abstained from getting any via Ningpo pesce, of about 12,000 men; but, as the Wa learn with pleasure that, in response so side, and bore the remains of their old probate should never hats been taken under the feat of steamers arriving and principis of obligatory service prevalls, comrade and friend to the vault, aroting out, so the estate was, in point of fat, bringing the drug ditest. The result is this number is depable of being very large- ceromony was conslede grouped while the wound up by the petitionsis. The money that there is none to be had, and the native bolag with the folurite out rook net Aurrers (8) ceremony was concluded.
was lefs in the hands of Mears MacEwen stock (by reason of the bad orop) is small, serving colours obliged to serve Diomed (s) #riakel & Co. ** speculation, and Mr and commanding unprecedented prices for three years in the first ban of the Mabel Clark. Smith obtains probate and remite to whom Grest hopes were entertained as to the reserve, which is called out for twenty days'
Wenshow (a.) he thinks proper, the money which the supply the Eurons would bring but these continuous drill every year, and all year I have been diangpointed, inasmuch as no 1.In the scootd ban, which is only salled out petitioners allege is their:
THE sailing cruiser built at the Patent Slip
craft is well known.
At the Marine Court on Saturday Joseph ~Hardwidge, and James Chubsoy, seamen
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the very general with expressed by those
who saw this late performance of the Choral
The coffin, bore the simple inscription ia repetition of Trial by Jury”
Wm. Frederick Mayors, Died at Shang, given, probably on Thunday hai, March 24th, 1578, aged 88 years the 11th lopt. The proceeds will be |--Shanghai Pepera
March Hond.
one 801-contimetre and four 28-centimetre
San Francion
1, Elizabeth Ostle,
Antwerg Liverpool London London
Dec.
26, G. B. B.,
Cardiff
Flushing
Hamburg London
Cardiff
N'castle (...) Liverpool
Fonarth Greenock
London
London
Sydney Falmouth Cardif
AT AMOT.
Cardif
Cardiff
LOADING FOR CHINA AND JAPAN FOREM At London. --Steamers via Maa Gandh Loudoun Castle. Burmese.
Madras,
Robert Hundarnom At Liverpool.
Peorith
Bailing Vessels.
Priam (a) Victoria (4)
Ai Greenock