At
SUPREME COURT.
IN ORIMINAL SESSIONS. fore Acting Chief Justice, SNOWDEN.)
November 28, 1878,
General.
THE CHINA MAIL.
11-It is untrue that I said as "no boundary was mentioned in the agreement I could claim more ground if I chose, and even have built houses as far down as the foot of the hill." I never thought, or gave expression to such a statement. It is a barefaced untruth.
their Committee In London not to accept the exchange in question.
'Apologizing for the length of this letter, I am, Dear Sir,
Your obodient servant.
JOHN R. WOLFE,
LORD LAWRENCE'S LETTER. Replying to Lord Lawrence'e recintly published letter, In which he dwelt upon the advisability of coming to terms with the Ameer," General M'Murdo writes as follows to a contemporary-
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. Following up the successful use, of the electric light in Paris and elsewhere, the London Stereoscopio Company have now caused powerful machinery to be erected at their Regent street premises for the produc" tion of this new lighting agency, and claim to be first in applying it to purely summer. ciat purposes. A consider ble namber of persong assembled on by eroning to witneed the illumination of the lower end of Regent street by means of a lamp in con- nection with the apparatus, and as nsuel the soft but powerfai rays of the electric light caused the ordinary street lamps to look din and yellow, as though soon-through a fog, by force of contrast. This lamp, bes sides illuminating the street, is made to throw its light upon the window of the com
he "cannot do better than append the Inspection might have come off in a quiet statement of an eye-witness," viz., Mr Ho and orderly manner but for the indiscretion, Aloy. Now, I would remark in the first place on the part of Mr Wolfe," Mr Ho doolarea that the report of the proceedings that ap that the whole discussion was carried on It would boa long peared in the Foochow Herald, was given in a peaceable manner.' by one who was an eyewitheas of all that and a tedious task to go through every lies took place in connexion with the riot and of this statement and separate the grain of outrage, and is confirmed by another eye truth, here and there in it, from the large witness, both of whom, to say the least, amount of untruth, and mis-statement by had as ample opportunities as Mr Bo aloy which it is surrounded, and with which it in had of observing what really took place, canningly and plausibly blonded and and were quite as capable of reporting intermixed. truthfully and accurately thereon. In the second place, Mr Ho Aloy, was not an eyewitness of all the circumstances con-
While admitting the gravity of the off nected with the outrage in question. With
enco committed by the Ameer, Lord Law: these remarks I should be quite content to
renos urgan that we should not bear hard dismiss all further notice of Mr Ho Aloy's
with him on this account." **atatement" were it not that, if its specions,
This reads well, but what is its true bearing with misrepresentations were allowed to go with The following gentlemen wore empannel-out contradiction, some, I fear, who are
12.It is entrue that. I sald "I could at reference to our relations with our sub-pahy's promises, and thus it can readily be Been by a glance at the coloured photographs I submit, with there displayed that the new light is no led as a Jurg-Mesars J. Noble, T. W. not fully acquainted, with the real facts of a moment's notice obtain through the jeat races in India Sewel, O. Taufer, J. M. Ferras, HM. the case might be led astray by ble state Consul assistance from the Admiral," & great respect to Lord Lawrence, that destroyer of even the most delicate colours. knows better than he does The apparatus, which is constructed sacord- ment." Os the day of the outrage, after &c. and nearly every line on page to no one Bastos, M. Penguin and P. Pladge.
Mr Ng Choy again Boted for the attorney some conversation with me is Mr Stewart's is an invention on the part of Mr Ho Aloy. the degree of appreciation in which ing to Messrs Siemen's plan, consists of an
house, about a report that I had heard hind
13.—It is untrue that Mr Ho stayed in the art of insult is used as a political electric coil, worked by an eight-horse power gna engine, and emitting a constant been circulated in Focchow, to the effect the house three quarters of an hour after weapon by all Eastern potonistes, and that
succession of tiny sparks. The coil com. that certain mandarine had openly said the mandaring left. He took his departure their finesse in this line far surpasses that of
municates with a burner in the ground glass. that, as a matter of course they would tell in a very short time after, and left the civilised nations; and it is the manner in lies and sacriftos truth whenever it suited houss surrounded by a yelling mob who which such affronts are resented or submit lamp outside, and produces a light equal in their interests to do so, Mr Ho Aloy filled the compound and garden, and dested to that afforda the index of power to their brilliancy to about 4,000 candles. This is seemed to assent to this doctrine and trayed everything they could place their minds. There may bo, as Lord Lawrence con- the smallest illuminating power that can be said, when truth interferes with my in-hands on in the garden and about the
produced with a due regard to coonomy with any known system of the kind. It is this torest truth must give way and perhaps house.
fact that rouders the electric light aneuited in the present stage of its development to
Dessarily involves a large outlay, and it is illuminating power of such magnitude ne- in this matter of expense that the value of the electric light as a substitute for anal gas will probably be ultimately decided, bat the advocates of the present-Eystem aro confident that the advantage in this respect will be found on the side of the new agency. The object which the Stereoscopic Company has had in view, however, in fitting up the apparatus at their establishment has been, not so much the lighting up of the exterior of their premises, as the taking of photo. graphs upon dull or foggy days. With three burners of an aggregate illuminating power of 16,000 candles it is stated that a light is produced more powerful for the purposes of photography than that of the sun, and that photographs have been successfully taken by this means. The absence of the overheating qualities of coal-gas from the new light is much insisted on,
REGINA V. WONG ALUM,—LARUENT. The prisoner, who was charged with steal
17.30 from the person of one Chun Asing, was again.brought up. He called two witnesses for his defence, but the Jury found him guilty, and he was sent to months' hard labour.
No 4802-NOVEMBen 23, 1878.]
absolute foar need accompany them. The perhaps something similar may have oc- last distinct shook felt in this Colony occur- ourred in Hongkong. Perhaps this will red shortly after 9 a.m. on the 23rd of June form material for a poto to-day." So it is 1874; but the tremulous visitor of this noted accordingly, and it is notoworthy that, morning was apparently the most severe at almost exactly the same time as in shook ever experienced in Hongkong. In Hongkong, the shock was felt in Canton, 1874, we find that all the conventional though the duration of the oscillations may accompaniments of a bona fide earthquake be somewhat overstated. were present. The China Mail of June 23, 1874, ays:-"At about half-past one o'clock this morning, the sky became `over- cast and in a very short time a heavy. fell of rain began, which continued with but slight intermissions, until about 6 o'clock when a short luli occurred. about 6.30, it began to rain again, and those who were awake and stirring noticed that suddenly the entire heavous were illuminated by a bright and vivid flash of lightning. The flash was unaccompanied by thunder, but was followed by as severe a fall of rain as has been experienced for some time. Rain sensed at 9, and a cooling "day was looked for, when, at exactly 20 minutes before 9 o'clock, a alight shook of earthquake of about one-half a second's duration, followed within a couple of as-
The following prisoners were then brought conds, by a second shook, stronger and of nearly thres and a quarter seconds duration, up for sentence —
LA Ataun, found guilty of stealing an ear shook Victoria and suburba, in fact the enring from the person of a woman and lace- tire island." The same cannot be said on rating her ear, was sent to 9 months' this occasion, partly on account of the fact hard labour. His Lordship remarked that formerly this sort of offence was punished that we are now enjoying the finest Novem- by flogging, and that if any cases of the ber weather, and partly because nearly all came sort over came before bim again to respootable people were at the early hour should order the culprit to be flogged. named this morning fully occupied in sleep. ing the sleep of the just. One or two expor iences related to us, however, will serve to show the extent of this natural phenomenon
Chan Aluk, ponvicted of stealing two the counter part of which will doubtless prove to be some terrible disaster in Manila jackets and other artistes from a dwelling house, was sent to 5 years' penal nervitude. or Formosa. The shocks seem to have been He had three previous convictions against felt more severely, on the lower levels him, the last being 2 years' hard labour for a similar offence. He had only been four that in the houses up the Hill; and while days' out of gaol when he committed this those in the upper terraces sallied forth offence. Bls Lordship, In sentencing him after breakfast for an explanation of to 5 years' penal servitude, said it would be the strange noises and usual commo-useless to give him a light sentence. tions, residents in the lower roads seem to have had little difficulty in coming to the conclusion that they were "doing" an earthquake experience of a very marked kind. In one case the affect up the Hily was simply to disturb the occupants, and by the violent shaking of a door, puzzle the inmates. In another a pet bird was dis covered fluttering about in a very perturbed state, and thieves or the perambulations of the hob nailed "night watch" were credit.
Kwok Akow, also found guilty of stealing earrings from the person, 9 moncha hard labour.
It
honour too, and that when he was young he 13.-It is untrue that the unbecoming had never been taught the sinfulness of a language avut the millions of dollars that doctrine, I fear, has very considerably of paying again was made in Mr Stewart's lie, or something to that effect. This his government had paid and was capable length he meant to 'go); but the issue is any but a large scale of operations. An fuftueused Mr Ho Aloy's "statement" published in the "Wu-ahih-chan Affair impartially Considored," and may account, to some extent, for the many inaccuracies, and misrepresentations misstatements, which crowd this precious little volume from beginning to end. It would require a larger apace, Mr Editor, than you could afford mo to expose all these misrepresenta tiona, I shall content myself with pointing
out a fow of them.
understood at sil
itself.
Two Hundred and
tends, no real dishonour to us in coming to terms with this Prince (although I look upon the threat to shoot Major Cavagnari at Ali Muajid as a reflex of the Macnaghten tragedy, and significant enough of the not confined to Afghanistan and England, drawing room is friendly way?"
but extends to the subject races of India, was uttered in the garden near the new house, in the presence of Mr Stewart and arm the Christian-like standard of myself, and in a manner which left the policy suggested by Lord Lawrence is not impression upon the minds of us both, that mischief was intended and that Mr Ho forty millions of people, within our fron
tiers, and innumerable races without, are Aloy was in the secret. The events of the willing to judge from their own stand. rame evening only showed too clearly that point how we deal with this mortal affront, our impressions were not unfounded, The and I claim support for our policy on the next appearance of Mr Ho Aloy was in the score of the safety of our Empire alone; Mission garden between 6 and 7 F.M, walk-
and in connection with this permanent ob- 1.In his "statement," Mr Ho Aloying about complacently while the house was ject 1 express my fervent hope that the omite all notice of the crowd of half-stripped being destroyed by the mob, and his tests. savage looking roughs, who accompanied mour oven here is untrue, viz that the into Afghanistan, once they are tra versed by our arms, may remain for over the mandarina inte Mr Stewart's house." military officers and the soldiers were in our possession, whatever may be our In page 18, however, though he seems to golog about the place quieting the people." struggle hard to hide this fact, he is forced Both the civil and the military officers who ultimate policy with respect to that country
admit, after a fashion, that other trouble were present did not make the smallest some characters, besides the floial at effort to quiet the poople or prevent the tendants, and the dozen directors of the mob from destroying the property. Ju temple, were present in the house, and very truth they appeared rather to super- gave the Magistrates, be sage, considerable intend the destruction of the mission on the Dreadnought will find its way into the dificulty.
perty. As for the soldiers many of them 2.-It is untrue that "Mr Wolfe on hear. were seen to join the rioters and encourage list of commissioned ships of the Royai-HINT-FOR QUARTER DAY.-Soine one hal ing the name of Liu Yen Lin, instantly them in the work of destruction. Mr Ho Navy, and when ehe does she will be one suggested that if the inventor of the phone. having given bis atatement in extenso boldly of the most remarkable models of modern graph would bring a little machine to ba broame greatly exalted." It is equally affirms it to be the truth, and denies, in a fighting-ships that has ever been sent to sea,attached to the front door, which would Wong Achoy, convicted of receiving auntrue that I indulged in the language declaration which be made before a Magis. She was begun to be built in the early days say, when the landlord called for the rent, pair of earrings, well knowing them to be attributed to me in page 11 of the statement, stolou, nes sont to 9 months' hard labour. in reference to Lin Yen Lin. I was 2101 trate in Hongkong, that he ever on any of turret-ships, about the same time as the "ome again next month," it would have a even aware of bis presence in the honse, cosion, directly or indirectly to Mr Wolle Thunderer and the Devastation, of which good sale. So it would; and if he wanted a name for it he might call it the Post- or to anybody else, represented himself as she is an improved type. Owing, however, Bis Lordship told him that the receiver was noarly as bad as the thief.
nor was be seen in the house either by Ar the legal advisor of the Provincial Govern partly to the loss of the Captain, and partly ponograph-Judy. Stewart or myself; I did not hear his name
GOOD AT A BARGAIN.-Doting Mother: meationed till we were leaving the house, meat of Foodbow, I affirm, and am ready to the uncertainty existing as to the success
"Tes; I shall be happy to give you the was suspended for some years. when at Mr Fraser's request that the to prove it on oath if noossary, that on of unmasted turret-ships, her construction trustees might attend, Mr. de Aloy asked the day of the outrage, and before the exa-
was changed from the Eury to the Dread-wages you ask; but I shall expect you to one of the Chinese present, to send to the mination of the ground, Mr Ho Aloy enought, and about four years ago she was love the dear children," Nurss: "I shall temple for Mr Lin. On the way through presented himself to me as attending on the the garden Ho Aloy asked me if Mr Lin occasion as the legal adviser or representa again put in hand. As she floats at present be very happy to do so, ma'am; but, of were known to me; I said "Yes; is he not tive of the Chinese authorities, which I she is a complete museum of all the latest sourse, that would be an extra."Funny a man with a pookmarked face"? This is understood to be the Provincial Govern and most approved inventions connected
Bie unbecoming language about with naval construction, Revolution indica- HOW THEY NAME IT.-The horny-handed ent fabrication page 11, that I had used the millions of dollars that his government tora, engine room telegraphs, voice-tubes in workman calls it "pay," the skilled me- abusive language towards Lin-yen-lin. I was capable of paying was expressed in the all directions, electric lights, torpedo gear, ohanie wagca," the city clerk 'aalary," the have expressed on several occasions, both presence of Mr Stewart and myself. Indeed, hydraulic loading apparatus; in short, every-backer income," a landowner revenue," to Mr Ho Aloy and others, my frm convic.fr Ho Aloy's ambition very properly sathing that has been "devised during the lasta lawyer "fees," a burglar "swag;" but it
This concluded the Sessions, with the exception of Newman's case, which will be pecial Jary, on Tuesday, taken before a the 3rd December.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
23rd Nov., 1878.
V
The evidence of Mr McCallum was taken, and be totally repudiated any liability to the plaintiff
The evidence of the plaintiff having bean
torbulent charactor.
A MODERN IRONCLAD. There seems at last to be a chance that
Her name
ten years to reduce labour and to minimise
Folks.
all comes to the same thing at the and of the week.-Funny Fails.
YOUNG AUSTRALTA-Aunt Mary: "Who first conquered England, Felix Feliz: The Australian cricketers, Aunt. Mel bourne Punich,
Quotations.
HONGKONG, Novembar 23, 1878.
he could most readily cscape from; another/read over to Mr Vernon, who was too lil to continued to rush into the house, and at the exercise of the high moral qualities suu | trained; thore are directors for laying the OPIUM -New Patna, sash....$580 fancied that the stability of the world had attend yesterday, he stated bis defence tempted to olose the hall door and called to love of truth which he displays.
a
to the action. He acknowledged his in- come to an end with the present adminis- debtedness of part of the amount to Mr tration in Hongkong; and yet another, of Siegfried, but disclaimed the right of Mr de Lille to pay it. At the same time he said, more practionl turn of mind, east his eyes Mr de Lille had paid it, and it mattered little ticular piece was to give way first be-egfried. Ho considered it was an insult, he said, for Mr de Lille to pay this account
Mr Stewart's servants to shut the outer I have no space left to Bay much charging gure and torpedoes; there are a
door, so as to prevent others rusblog in. Ou this, I was attacked by the mob in the house, and assaulted as was correctly re- ported in the Foochow Herald Mr Stow they attempted to close the doors.
on the ceiling and speculated which par- to him whether he paid Mr de Lille or Mr urt's servants were also threatened when absolately untrue that the pices of land in means of the revolution-indicatore and pea
fore the grand crash came.
od with the unusual disturbance. On the (Before His Honor Mr. Justics Russell) all the foundation Mr Ho Aloy had for his lower levels, several residents were rudely shaken out of their slumbers by the first
De Lille v. Fairclough and Vernon, $185, shook, which seems to have been short,
tion that Lin-yan-lin was at the bottom of fires to something higher than legal ad all this trouble. Hundreds besides myself viser to the Provincial Government of the danger, by preventing the unnecessary sharp and decisive” as a preparation for theThis was a claim to recover $136 alleged to have been paid on behalf of the defend- next. Then the character of the second arts. The case had been adjourned froin are under the same conviction, and I have duchow. He will not be content, it is exposure of officers and crew, all find a place Mr Bharp appeared for the reason to believe that the authorities them reported on good authority, till he is pro- on board the Dreadnought. She may be sensation-that of oscillation, gentle and yesterday.
may we expect from Mr Ho Shen-chih, structure defended by 14-inak armour, undulating, as contrasted with the first plaintiff, and Mr Dennys for the first de-selves are aware that he is a dangerous and moted to a Foreign Embassy! Then, what worked almost entirely from her pilot tower,
fendant. Mr H. Vernon appeared meet
batter known as Ho Aloy, who I under and covered by a conical rifle-bullet proof 8-It is untrue that "Mir Wolfe en stand, was expolled the Christian commu.
roof of steel plates. From this tower are not shock-is universally described as very the claim in person.
quired who were the persona standing in 'nity in Hongtong, and who, no doubt, in only the telegraphe and Foios-tubes com- marked, in its emphatic effect upon the laws
the ball, and that on hearing Lin Ying-Lia the event of his advancement to the post of municating with the engine-roomas and of gravitation. One saw his walls actually
was amongst them immediately left the Ambassador Plenipotentiary will do credit torpedo-rooms on the port and starboard room" (p. 11.) I went out, as the crowd to his native country and government, by quarter, but there is an apparatus known as away to and fro, and wondered which door
Elliot's director, by which the guns can be
torpedoes, and electric apparatus for dis-
and many inaccuracies are no doubt founded and repeater; and the speed of the engines, on ma paraphlet ses remarks steam steering wheel and steering telegraph upon the raisrepresentation of Mr Ho Aloy's as well as the heel of the ship in a seaway statement.Fair Play" assumes what is can be ascertained, without the tower by question on which the new house was built dulam apparatus. Verily the Dreadnought 4.It is most untrue that I pushed the | did not belong by right to the Missionaries, is "fearfully and wonderfully made."-- As will be without his sanction. He (de Lille) had a poople about, "attempting to clear them but was an encroachment on their part Broad Arrow, readily understood, however, the whole little money and wanted to be King. Be out of the house." The mob who accom. Now, the authorities and gentry were invited (Mr Vernon) had no release from Mr Siegfried panied Mr Ho Aloy and the Mandarins
· tremulation did not last many seconds; and and did not know how he should defend into the house, were watching for the Mother Earth had recovered her accustomed the action if Mr Siegfried were to see him slightest excuse to attack any of us. This
TAN EXPEDITION, steadiness ore any of the above ideas had fried to be an honorable man, who would door, also, later in the day, when H. M. for the amount, but he belleved Mr Sieg-was seen when I attempted to ahat the
Lieutenant-General Crawford Chamber- taken definita form. Fortunately a gentle-not apply twice for payment. Mr Vernon Consul made some efforts to prevent them was there no objection raised against Its lain, C.8.1., Bengal Staff Corps, is mentioned man of our gequaintance happened to be went on to say that be was quite agreeable breaking in through the door and vene erection till after it was finished Fair for the command-in-chief of the force des- to pay what he considered his portion of tians, several of the roughe rashed at bim, Play" sees something in this reasoning, but tined for the invasion of Afghanistan. A awake reading when the Barthquake or the amount, viz., $25, and judgment was and would have strook him, had not his it must be first proved to him that the pee-better selection could not be made. General ourred, and he has given us what may be accordingly entered for the plaintiff for this own cervante promptly protected him. plo were aware of the construction. The Chamberlain obtained his first commission termed a circumstantial account under very
5.-It is untrue (page 12) that Mr Stew days of miracles have ceased, even the Misas ensign in the East Indian Company's With regard to the claim against Mrt was not molested at all; he was atsionaries cannot cause a large building to army in 1837, and two years later joined Fairclough, His Lordship said he must tacked and struck while attempting to pre- spring into existence in one night, while the army of Afghanistan, and remained in non-suit the plaintiff; it was entirely a debt of honour, but there was no doubt vent the mob breaking in to the Girls' people are asleep in their beds! The truth the country till its evacuation in 1842, He
Sohool.
is the house had occupied nearly four served afterwards in the Punjant campaign whatever but that the money had been paid. At the same time no one had a right -It is untrue that the Magistrates made months is its erection, and that as it was of 1848-9, was, wounded, mentioned in to pay an acount for a person without bis any serious attempts to o'ear the house known to the directors and to all the people dispatcher, and given the brevet of major. been aware of it. With respect to the other of invalid artillerymen and his own regiment Proission and then sue for the amunt, and compound of the rioters. Mr Fraser the city, even the authorities must have During the Mutiny he, with only a handful frequently urged them to do so, and foreign houses on the ground, they have of irregular ouvelry, disarmed without It is true that they refused, on the ples, stood there for the last 25 years, and they bloodshed two native infantry regiments at that they were powerless. It was patent were to existones when the lease was made Moolian. This was a most wonderful feat, that the mob was there with the appro in 1887. There were no native houses lu and great skill, tact and courage were bation of the Mandarins, and that it was intended by them to intimidate Mr Stewart
existence on the grond when this lease was
of this.
favourable conditions. He was sitting read ing, when he sustained a sharp shock, which had no sooner conveyed to his mind the impression that it was subterranean, than the second shock swayed him backwards and forwards in his chair as if he had been at sea. There were four or five oscillations dur- Ing the second shock, and they proceeded from N.E. to S.W. His lamp swung as if
amount,
ae would not allow costs.
to bring their charge of encroachment agelast the missionaries into the Consular
when the house was being put up and why Court, but they refused to do so. Why THE COMMAND OF THE AFGHANIS- was not this charge of encroachment made.
?
it had been on beard ship, and the ringa trading an Yee On, appeared to pass their and myself. The mob seemed well aware made, and it was understood by all parties He afterwards did good service against thei
IN BANKRUPTCY. Wong Yon Nan and Tang Sik Ling, his bed-cartaics tinkled se if a strong wind dual examination, and were ordered to were blowing upon them. This scourred as come up en nearly as posible at 3.13 a.m., and, with
minor variations in detail, it pretty nearly
describes the sensation which must bare
the town.
the 10th Dig, for their
dicobarge.
IN PROBATE.
In re the state of La Mai,Mr Wotton
Ami, which was graffted.-
THE WU-SAIA-SHAN OUTRAGE.
THE REVD. R-WOLFE'S REPLY TO -*' FAIRPLAY'K” PAMPHLEË,
the land under these circumstances, but to
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H.K. & W, Dook Co., 917 % prem. H.K. 0, & M. 6,-boat Co., $13 prom, Shanghal Steam Navigation, T. 17 Caius Coast St. Nav, Co., Tia, 93 Bongkong Gas Co,, $95 Bongkong Hotel Co., $65 China Sugar Refuing Co., $180. Chinese Imperial Loan, £108
Do. of 1877, 107
Temperature.
displayed by Chamberlain on the occasion. that the missionaries had a right to erect Googaera robols. In 1887 he was appointed houses on the spare ground. This they Brigadier-General at Morar, and on vacating 7.--It is untrue that I made a contra have been doing at intervals for the last 26 this two years latter, on promotion to the diatory statement as to the nature of the years and no objection had ever been made rank of major-general, he held several Assault made on me, and that I was re-against it. Fair Play's" marke are temporary appointments till given the cata minded of the same by Mr Ho Aloy.. therefore lacorrest, and the legal gentlemenmand of the Oude division. His career has 6-It is untrue that the, Prefent had have been misinstructed and have given teen remarkable, When only a young been experienced on all the lower levels of applied for probate on behalf of Mr lo dispersed the mob at 12 o'clock, as stated their opinio tador a misrepresentation lieutenant he was appointed to the command of a regiment of irregular cavalry, Skinner's by Mr Ho Aloy, (page 13.) The Chinese made to them of the facts of the case, consular interprotor, earnestly requested We have not heard any description of the
It is also a mistake on the part of "Fair Horse, now the Ist Bengal Cavalry. These me to persuade Mr Fraser not to inspect Play "when he says (page 20) with reference loved and reverenced him, and he carried effect, if any, which was caused on the water in the Harbour; but while we write
return at once to Nantal, and that mis to the alleged modus operands of the mia them through the Mutiny with their loyalty chief was intended. The Prefect and the Bionaries in usurging land, that when the untainted. He was notorious when a young the following has arrived from a trust-
other officers were most auxions that the Premises were let to Mr Wolfe there was no officer as one of the best horesmen and worthy and accurate correspondent in
examination should take plade, at opos, wall surrounding them." The premises swordsmen in the army, Active, energetic, Canton Just a lite. We have had a
and the Prefect did, I believe, about 1ers surrounded by a wall, just as they are and clever, be soon learnt how to deal with o'clock enter the room and ask Mr. Fraser at this moment, when the lease was made la European troops, whom he first commandea shook of earthquake here this morning
to inspect the land, stating that the crowd 1867. It is absolutely incorrect that there when given the Morar brigade. He can tisa was over a bamboo fonos put up by me or his pets well as his sword, is independent, (Saturday), At about 8,18 am, my wife.
was dispersing..
Queen's Road.) Foochon, Nor, 14, 1878,'
9.—10 36 untrue (page 18) that I made by any other of the missionaries of the straightforward, and a good disciplinarian (Taken at Msirs Valooner & Co.'s Premises, ples that children intruded into the grounds Morcover, ho personally knows there i awakened mu suddenly, and I became con
DRAR SIE-May I beg the favour of a an attempt to turn any of the directors of and that it was afterwards replaced by a well, and is well acquainted with the
Borerone, November 28, 1878. anions of a swinging movement about my space in your dalaman for some remarks on the temple out of the hall. bed which continued for more than a minute. pamphlet entitled "The Wa-shih-ahan 10.It is untrue that the whole discus. wall. The wall in question was in calet- Afghans and their country,Army and
9.... enco 17 years ago when I arrived in Foos Navy Gazette. chow, and it had existed several years pre
1 R. M It seems to have awakened my wife, so that Affair Impartially Considered," &, &o., sion was carried on in a peaceable manner
"Fair-Play. More especially with (page 14). The place was surrounded by riously, and inclosed the small piece of
42. by how long the shook continued I am una reference to the "statement made therein the mob yelling and throwing stone land in dispute which has been rented by AN ORPHAN,An old darkey was en-. able to say. I might mention that the by Mr Ho Aloy concerning the outrage of set a few grains of sand like the size of a the late M Smith. I have also to deny deavouring to explain his unfortunate con Dscillations for the sensation was more the 50th of Augusti str Play" anda res" as Mr Ho Aloy so very characteristi- that the Missionaries ever consented to as dition. You see," remarked Bambo, "it
And I declare that the fault with the report of the proceedings cally puts its. of that character than a shock) was connected with the outrage that appeared account given in the Fooches Harald of the cept the Telegraph Office in atchange for was in this way as far as I can rememberi in the direction of East and West, My in the Foochow Herald, and describes it as 8th of September with reference to the ex-Wu-bi-chan The Missionaries had no Fast may fadder dled, den my mudder observations have been verified by Dr 3. being so full of tragonracies and exaggers amination is entirely" correct. Fair-play power whatever, if they desired, which they married agin, atid den my mudder died, and atlons that it cannot be relied upon, and does not seem to concur with this part of Sid not, to accept anything in exchange sud my faddes married agini and somehow with a view, apparently to correct these Mir Ho Aloy's statement, for he sage (page for the fission property on Wu-shih-sban, I don't seem to have up parents at all, nor
unctyracies and exsprorations he pays 87) "there was every probability that the and they have bed express commands from de bome; uns aufân,"
Chalmers and Mr. T. Sampson, and they May be worth a note in the Chins fell, an
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