No. 5012.-JULY 31, 1879.]
A Goon story is in circulation in-Bombay, which relates how a sturdy Yorkshireman, under cross-examination in the Digh Court the other day, disconcerted a leading member of the bar. The latter prefaced a question fu the following cool and cynical manner, "Now, Sir, you see an honest, straightforward sort of man" when he was interrupted by the self-composed wit nees replying, in the broad Yortétirò dialect which lent increased pungency to the rotort, "Well, I think I'd say the same of you if I weren't on my oath." The Court was convalsed with suppressed langhter, in which the Judge shared, and the incautious counsel was visibly thrown of his balanced.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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after three o'clock that afternoon I heard on the 30th inst., was proceeded with. He was thought ho probably intended to pay drawn. The second charge, of having two for the paper with which they have hitherto visit to his family house. A little mace of prepared opium in his possession been beguiled. Private enterprise has been driven out of the field, and the sullen resent- from A s'reet ecolio something about P. C. Thomas Campbell, worn, at les:ment of the sufferers at the injuries sus- the prisoner. In consequence of what I sonrobed honau No. 14 in Hung Haintained at the hands of official traders will
beard I sout may partner to the Central the defendant was in the front rooms of the not permit them to give much assistance. Police Station. Very soon after, the pri- hanno. I showed him my warrant and told Nor can foreign traders be depended on if zonor returned to my shop with a Chinese him I had come to look for prepared opium, such a plight as we conceive should occur. Sergeant interpreter. Prisoner told me that, when be answort Thor is one here," The whole state of trade is unsound and the as he was coming out of Sassoon's godown I found a touch covered over with a mat, instability of the paper currency is shown be in Zetland Street, some robbers molested on which was a latape su opium pipe, and by the stendy reaction of the most low reche malim, threw peppar into his eyes and a small quantity of props opium, Foreigners are less under laws than the Ja An wrashed the money from his bands and Defendant saw mo taka the opium from panese, and we know of but one opinion
threatened to kill him. Ho shewed me s
about the future of Japanese finanso under alight cut above the wrist, and further said Defendant admitted having the opium the present conditions of what, in truth, is that when the robbers had run away ho got produced in Court, and caid he sometimes arrested, development. So much that was up to pursue them, but was so much boston bought prepared opium from chops in entirely good might have been done-by-the- | that he fell down after going a few steps. Hongkong and boiled down the ruas for rulers of this nation if they had but known, Being unable to walk baget tone cold womixing it with proper had been rigirtiy guide, but the progress
ed oplein.
India was carried out.satisfactorily, and | vellous, especially the 'lattor. seven extra voyages were made to supply loudly applauded at the conclusion of the the requirements of commerce. The regu- larity of the strumors was slightly interfered fantasia. He reappeared, the audience du with by the outbreak of yellow fever at manding an encore, and gase The Last Sound within atal authorities, Reso of Summor with great depth of ment made p stal the
teatrera touched once in every two voyages expression, the concluding cade za being during two mouths at Vine nt, and on one masterpiece of exccution,--The last por occasion Buenos Ayros was substituted for
lonte Video. With these excaptions theformance of the Opera Company will communication on all the routes was regu on Friday evening, when the business larly maintained. Attention was drawn to the new contract made by the British ger, Mr Rollings, takes his benefit. Government with the P. and O. Company attractive programine is announced.- as satisfactory, iuguring the maintenance of the friendly spirit which exists between the two great mail-carrying compaules, The number of poserde who travelled ma Cr the newest schemes for opening up | 111,806. The value of treasure carried was
Central Afrios we take the following inte- resting note from an Indiau paper-
Thero was an expedition, undor patrou- age of the International Society, and with Mr H. M. Stanley at the helm ; a second ex- pedition was to start under Italian colours ;
and the other two were purely Huglio travelling compaules. Mr Stanley's expo dition is still trying to start; but, according to the latest news from Africa, the others named bave collapsed. Mir Stauley, after
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6.204,531,278, and the merchandise chipped
consisted of 5,689,404 packages, amounting to 392,658 tons of 4000 kilograms, a large inozouse over the preceding year,
WRITING with regard to a question that has also in its time agitated our commercial consciences here, the Bombay Gazette has
the following:-
The report, which has already appeared in cur columns, and tho accounts, were taken as real
went cu this account would continue to
the mat.
His Worship dispired tho caso.
Japan.
HIOGO,
Quotations.
THE CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED The thirteenth ordinary meeting of share. to carry him home in a chair. On the way
in a right direction has been small and irre- holders-in-the above Company was held homo he met an Inspector of Police and
qular, and the development of evil tendencies au Inspector of Nuisancos, one of them bad
is alarming to all onlookers. And there is at the head office, this afternoon. The the knife produced in Court. They took him
no sign of amendment. The paper issue, Chairman of the Company, Mr H. HI, to the Central Station, while there he was
already excessive and unmanageable, in- Nelson, presided, and there were present replied that he could not.
asked if he could identify the thieves, and
ercases almost daily, the liabilities of the I examined his
Gaverument to the nation have become Messrs Meiver, H. J. Arnhold, E. E. person and could see nothing the matter
Our readers will, we fear, be inclined to critical; and abuses multiply and flourish Sescou, Irvine, T. B. Cunningham, with his eyea of any signs of his having grato at the large unmount of space dekte groen bay trees. Smith, E. F. Alford, D. R. Crawford, might have been done by a finger nal. I question. We regret that the necessity of should be large, the difficulties the empire
been heaton. The Beratch on big arm
voted in our present issue to tho cholera. If happily for Japan, the growing harvest Manook, J. Y. Vernon, It. Descon, Reiners, asked him why he could show no marks writing so fully ou the subject exists, but has to face, and that soun, are still serious. making some preliminary arrangements at will arrive in Loudon in two days less time Bottomley, Anton, and W. H. Kay, rubbed. He gave no answer to my quer receive attention, to the exclusion of this crushing, because the whole course of the Under the new contract the Indian mails H. W. Davis, Hayllar, Woodin, Heaton, why he did not call out while he was being a less lugubrious character will henceforth ally fuil the diffulties will be instant and if he had been so badly heaten, and think we may safely promise that topics of But if, unhappily, the harvest should parti- Zanzibar, was to proceed in his steamer to the than at prosent occupied, conrequently the West Coast, and thence pioneer his party days of departure from this side will (Secretary).
tion. When I explained to him that his unpleasant subject. We have always be Government policy has been to bring what up the Congo River. He has found many shortly have to be rearranged. Wo under-
fingers would have been cut instead of his lieved that there was more talk about the should at such a time be the nation's meia- dificulties in the way. The King of the atoud that with this object in view the P.
arin had the money been taken from him, cholera than the real facts of the case was stay the trading classes, to weakness and Belgiana, who is at the boud of the Inter- & O. Company have already asked the local
be replied: My throat was.ae choked up ranted. The disease is no doubt very bad dependence. national Society, wished to employ Belgian Chamber to state which day of the week
with the pepper that I could-not-call-out in Osalis, and deaths thero bavo bogu The contingency we have pointed out officers chiefly, but the fact in that. Belgians they consider would be most convenient so
Immediately sent for his uncle and ex numerous. But as we have before remark deserves consideration What in a time of are as little suited as Frenchmen for a work far as the Bombay commercial community ferred to the fact that the amount of promis suspected the prisoner had not ben telling of deaths daily, oven under ordinary eirment trading and transport monopolies ?
The Chairman, noticing the accounts, te plained matters to him..
At this time 1 ed, Osaka is a large city, and the percentage scarcity would be the result of the govern- of this kind. Not only do they succumb fa concerned. The Chamber has accordingly collected was lees than during the previous me the truth, and I told his uncle no. 1 fur- cumstances, to the climate, but they are soon disheart the matter under consideration, but there year it would be satisfactory to the sharether told him that I suspected his nephow especially in summer.
is neccssarily large, more The traders are hampered and prevented in ened also at failures, The result is that is a strong feeling in business circles la holders to know that this was not in uf stealing my money; prisonge pre water, want of drainage, filly cesspoole, the coast are only such as are afforded by Green fruit, impuro every way, and the means of transport on Mr Stanley has been a long while making favour of naming Fridays during fair consequence of any real falling off in gent. flis uncle replied "I will make the inordinate use of ice, and an apathetic the small and unequal feat of the govern his preparations. He has managed, how weather, and Wednesdays or lineadora for business, the actual business of the Cou- enquiries about it; if I find that your money disregard of the coiniuon rulos of health, ent line. Things may, for a time, go on in ever, to collect some hundred natives of the moon. By the maile leaving on Zanzibar coast, under promiss of taking Monday business men In Bombay have for any having been larger, but to the rates has been taken by robbers I can de no cannot fail of bringing on soino such for a fashion as at present, but a time of dearth them to England. Their immediate desti-years been practically deprived of Sunday to go out of block risks. The Intereat ac make the money food." On the 10th inst, and it is bardly to he wondered at that national stores of bullion, and tho govern- being less and the Directora living decided thing; it my nephew has robbed you I will of disease as that we now have among us may eme. How would it be met, by the uation, as we have already hinted, will be as a complate day of resta grievance count showed a conriderable increase on the West Coast of Africa. The reason for which it is now hoped will be removed.
tro friends of mine came to me at prison- there is so great mortality as that we hear munt monopoly of coast transport; or in gotting men from Zanzibar is that the West The fact of the matter ls, that the mails the previous year's, and no doubt as time er's request, and effored me on his behalf of in Osaka. Iu Kioto, cholera-if we may what manner? The question concerns thirty- Const nativan, 28 Mr. Stanley knows, would must be timed to arrive in England on show a progress satisfactory to the share. $500 to compromise the affair. Prisoner was call it so: the Japanese themselves say the five millions of people, and is urgent, nover do the work he wants donor in the Saturday evenings, so that they may be holders. The profits on investments re- took place, he has done nothing in the failed to appear in some suction of the still in my employ, but since the robbory disease is an old enemy, that has neror gouras of another mail or two, wendy delivered simultaneously in London and inferred to in the pecounts were realized by shape of work, although remai ing on the country every year for centuries back in hear that Mr Stanley's expedition is at last the provinces. Against that requirement the Chinese Bonds of 1877, which were sold premises till yesterday, when he was ar Kioto, cholera has made comparatively under weigh. In time too, he may be suc of the London Post Ofice the convenience out and the money invested in the Chineas rested in virtuo of a warrant. Prisoner littlo headway, considering that the city OPIUM cesful so far as success lies-iu draining of the Anglo-Indian communities will welgh Silver Loau. Tho shareholders would see owed me Tls. 40 which I had lent him, and contains a quarter of a million souls. As the Upper Congo of nearly all its ivory, but little.
with satisfaction that the Directora recom- alzo Tla. 30 wages which I had paid for Kobe itself, we firmly believe that the and in bringing home a round sum of
mended an increase of interest, 'The money and some notes for a new book.
A Post-allico Notification issued at Home Directors felt that they were indobrod when he got his share from a money loan been represented to be. But we have the hiru in advance; he promised to repay to discuso has never been half so bad as it has The International Society," which con. slats, by the bye, of the King of the just before the present mail left states that the shareholders for their patience in this office in which he was interested.
official figures, which cannot lic, and wo Belgions and a fow Bolgian and British from the 1st July the charge for patterns matter. I would bare been dealt with or samples of merchandise, as well as for before had it not been for the importanco
without a word of coinment, favourable or shall just let them speak for themselves, merchants, has lately taken another and perhaps more promising scheme in hand. commercial papers, addressed to any of the of building up a reserve fund, which now
unfavourable: The total fumber of casos Under the Society's auspices, a Mir countries or British Colonies comprised in reached $365,000. The importance of ibis
in the two towns, Kobe and liigu, frour Carter, a gentleman well known on the the Postal Union, will be the same as the fund to a company like this was very great,
the very ontbreak of the disease up to noon Persian Gulf and in Turkish Arabia, is charge for printed papers, but with the and it was very satisfactory to find it in this
of Alonday, 7th July, was 605, going to try what can be done in Africa proviso that the lowest charge for a pattern position. The return of 25 per cent, le con-
428 were intel, 28 recovered, and 119 are with elephants. Hitherto, transport in or sample packet will be id., and that the tributors would no doubt be very satisfactory.
still under treatment. The retary of cases tropical Asia has been carried on by means lowest charge for a packet of commercial Of the amount brought forward, about
for the 24 hours.ending noon Monday was of porterago alone. Mr Carter took four papers will be 21d. From the same date 461,000, the newn less amounted to
Oll cases, 140; new ouses, 16; cases in Indian elephants to Zanzibar, and was to postcards addressed to the undermentioned $20,000. The business for the three months
one of the others, Aa snot 8 he had which there was a doubt as to the nature proceed at once into the interior to make places, forwarded via Brindisi, will be liable which had already passed had been, be done this be throw himself on the ground, of the disease, ; total, 174. Of these, 5 experiments. It is hoped that wild cle to a postage of 2d. each instead of 24d., happy to state, very astisfactory indeed, and lay there; the man who got the parcel have died in Kobe-the Uji gawa, the little phants may be tamed and utilized; and if viz., India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, and the losses almost nothing. Any ques- went up the lane, the two others came past stream that runs between the Post Office elephants are found to answer, if the coat Hongkong, Labuan, Japan, French Settle- tions that any shareholder had to put home and went towards the west. Neither of and the Telegraph Office being taken as of their keep is not too great and they oatments in India, Netherlands India, and the would be happy to answer, and any re-them took any notice of the man lying on the western boundary in the district in tropical Africa will simply be revoluing an impressed stamp of the value of 2d. from any shareholder. He concluded by that the man lying down had been taken and the Minato-gawa on the other, and in- Occasionally make fored marches, transport Philippine Islands. As no postcards bear marka the meating would be happy to hear the ground. I was under the impresion bounded by tho Uji-gawn on the one side have been issued, the ordinary or foreign moving the adoption of the report, which sick. He lay there a little time, and then the district to the west of the Minato gawa poatends now in uso must be employed was seconded by Mr Reiners, and unani got up and walked a short distance, when he in other words, in Hiiogo proper. Seven When it is desired to send a postcard to any mously carried. of the places above mentioned, an adhesive
Jay down again. I saw him get up have recovered, and there were still at noon. stamp being affixed to the eard to make up
down opposite the Lock Hing shop. I them in Kobe. The people of this neigh again, stagger down the road and fall on Monday 149 under trentiaent, 25 of the amount of postage required.
heard him say he had been robbed of bank bonrhood, and of Yokohama and Tokio, time and went home. I do not know the there are any serious grounds for aluru. nates, 1 took no more notice of it at the muy now judge for themselves whether four men, never having seen them before, but could engnise the min who fell down if I were to see him again; I have not seen
tlonized.
A RECENT despatel from San Francisco has aroused anew, in the commercial and travelling community, the feeling of alarm occasioned in former times by tho want of vigilance displayed by certain navigation companies in maintaining the sanitary MISS CLARA STANLEY'S BENEFIT: condition of their vessels. The steamer China has just left San Francisco for The prima donna of the Opera Company Hongkong, via Yokohama, and among its now in our midst took ber benefit laat night, passengers were seventeen Chineso lopers, who had been for several months in the when the Opera was under the distinguished special California hospital, but who have patronage of General Donovan, Colonez been forcibly expelled by the State autho- Geddes, and the officers of the 27th Regt. rities. The Chinese attacked with loprosy bave been hitherto sent on hoard marchant Inniskillings. The compliment was paid vessels, and not upon the Pacific Mail to Miss Stanley of a house romarkably Company's steamers. Their presence on well filled. The Opera select a was. Do- board theea steamers is a serious danger to
Melver, and Mr E.E. Sassoon to the Board, The appointments of Mr Arnhold, Mr were, on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr Anthony, confirmed,
The retiring Directors, Mr Nelson and Mr Arnhold, were re-elected, ou the motion of Mr Melver, seconded by Mr Bayllar.
The retiring auditers, Bir H. Smith and Mr T. G, Linstead, were re-elected, on the motion of Mr Arnheld, seconded by Mr Deacon.
Mr Deacon proposed a vote of thanks to the officers of the Company.
There was no other buaincas,
SUPREME COURT.
the travelling patrons of this line, which is nizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment." ~ IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION,
also frequently preferred by English mer
J. J. Francis, Est) Thursday, May 31st.
CIAN CHO t. Glish KWONG,
Straud, stated:On the 7th July, about 3 Ung Aisua, barber, living in Bonham 'clock on the afternoon, when going along the Queen's Road, I say for Chiname standing, in a crowd, in a-lane on the left hand side of the road; this was stile cges and, to the eastward of the Clock Tower, Ons of the warn was dressed in white clothes and had a parcel wrapped is a handkerchief, which I saw his hand t
bim since that day.
The prisoner was at this time in the dock with a number of other prisoners. Witness, at the request of his Worship, was asked to scan the prisoners in dock and pick out the man he had seen fall downon the 7th of July, Witness picked out the prisoner, and said, That is the man, I am quite cuilaid of it."
Examination continued:When I re tioned to my acquaintances what I had turned to toy home on the 7th July I teu-
HOOD.
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ton,long Bank, 53% prem. Union Ins. Society of Canton, $1,300 China Traders' Ins. Co., $1,600 North China Ins. Co., Tls. 1,250 Yangtazo Ins. Assoc., Tix. 710 Chinese lusurance Co., $280 R.K. Fire Ins. Co., $735 China Fire Ins. Co., $175 H.K. & W. Dock Co., 4% prem, - UK, Q. & M. S.-boat Co., $5 dis.
Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tis, 11 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tis, 90 Blongkong Gas Co., $70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $65 Chian Sugar Rolining Co., $137 Cuinean imperial Loan of 1874, nominal.
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Surprise has been expressed by more in one person in our hearing, that no cases of death from cholera have occurred amongst the Chinese. We have made on- quiry, but cannot learn that a single cano of the kind has occurred in Kobo learn, however, from yesterday's Psaku Nipps, that one person of this nationality bas died from the effects of a disease "Faid to be cholera. We are not surprised at the exemption enjoyed by our pig-tailed brethren, any more than we are at the escape from its attacks which has been the (Tukon ul Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, both cases are probably nearly identical.. rule amongst foreigners. The cues in
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Miss Stanley was exceedingly well suited (Before His Honour the Acting Puise Judge chants and tourists as being a shorter route with the part of Marie, looking it to perfec- from England to China and Japan than tho
The Chinamon, like his western neighbour, old one by the way of Suez and the Redtion and making the most of the many
Ching Awal, the first witness, was re- indulges in a much more solid and sub- Sea. It is unfortunate that this despatch situations the character offers for a display
called and asked by his Worship why he stantial rogimen then the Japanese; his should have been received at New York so of light operatic acting. She was eminentis was a foreign attachment suit follow the prisoner, when he explained—I could | he is therefore better able to resist the PunMOMETER-9 4.0....
had been so long in taking stepa against physique is naturally more powerful, and soon after the election of Mr. Hart to the presidency of the Pacific Mail Company, ly successful in the air "Friends I Adore" ing on an undefended Chinees case in not get the second witness Ung Akan to attacks of disease than the weak and for his oneanies have lost no time in spread and the "Regimental Refrain," being loudly $1435, the balance of long current accounts inst. ; on that date I sent for Ung Akum to stamina, and in any cites has a pre- which judgment had been granted for consent to come to the Court until the 28th slightly-built Japances. The falter bus no ing abroad the mischievous impression that
come to my shop, luspector Lindsay was disposition to sickness. Discaso gen. the fact that the Pacific Mail Company applauded, aud receiving a special curtain between the parties. would now be obliged to carry Chinese call. Mr G. Claremont a Sergeant Sulpice Mr Ny Auhoy appeared to watch the case Ung A Kun came to my shop on the in like manner, diseases of the kiud under Mr Russell appeared for the plaintiff; waiting in the shop and took him away. erally attacks the weakest part of the body; lepers at every trip was owing to his woll-scored another success, his make-up and act in the interest of the garnishes. The avid-third day of the sixth moon and bought consideration attack the weakest members kuown mercenary spirit. Mr. Hurt's enemies shrewdly ask whether the company
ing as the crusty but kind-hearted old solence however was not complete, some of the two balls of opium; he heard is talking of the human family. We have no Dicaus will not lose in ordinary passengers as dior elleiled frequent and hearty applause, witnesses having gone to Canton, and it was about the robbery, and then told me what at hand of getting at a statement of the arx, it will gain by the leprous and other The Tonio of Mias Agnes Draoger was a
adjourned, to be taken up another day on he had seen on the 7th just,
age, Mo., of those who have succumbed to the contagious Chinese, and there is some talk
24 hours' notice.
The uncle of the prisoner was called and cholera, so called, but in nearly every fatal asked if he had told complainant, Ching case that has come under our notice the Awah, that he would be responsible for the victim has been of the worker sex, or of a money that bad been lost if it were proved tender age, or else a person well advanced that his nephew had committed the robin years. bary. The uncle answered that he had never made such a statement,
of circulating a general protest, not only in decided improvement on her last imperson- the United States, but also in those Euro-ation; there is still room left for further pean countries which patronize so liberal-improvement, and more fire is wanted in ly the American route to the Far East, both in coming and going.-American her acting. Mr Rollings was a capitel Correspondence.
Hortensius, and entered thoroughly into
the humour of the character, The Mar- The annual meeting of the Messageries chioness de Bergen elt of Miss Hoctor was a Maritimos Company was held on the 29th careful study, bor change of demeanour, ult., and the report of the administrator from grave to gay, being done in a delicate- was in every respect most satisfactory. The dividend for 1878, as declared, was 35try skilful mannes. Her make up was good. per share, leaving a balance of 40,819fr. Miss Hoctor is, undoubtedly, one of the 96c. carried forward. The net value of the ablest members of the troups; and works fleet was placed at 57,760,810fr. 960., after
all allowances, including the elimination of hard. Mr Everard who doubled the parts of
two steamers, the Hooghly and the Danube, the Corporal and Duke de Grantete deserves Ono new vessel, the Congo, was added to
82c., an increase of 140,791fr. 89c on those
the company amounted to 22,944,516ft. 88e, exceeding the account of the p-coad creditable. manner,
Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. O, B. Plunkel.)
Thursday, July 31st.
ALLEGED CURIOUS THEFT OF $1,048. ed with stealing $1,043 the property of his Obing Kwong Nang, shopman, was charg master,
Ng Akwai sald:-1 am master of the Ui Un Oplum shop, in Winglok Street. The prisoner was a shopman in my employment, he used to purchase opium for me, his salary was $5 per month. I did not pay him any regular commission, but agreed to give him a bonus of $8 or $10 at the end
of the year. Prisoner has been in my
FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED, (Japan Gazette.)
Complainant persisted in his former statement that the uncle had promised to make good the amount lost if he wore Japanese traders say that the stocks of but added:"If prisoner is convicted, 1 port the daily drafts which will be de satisfied that his nephew was the culprit, rice are short, and barely sufficient to sup-
would not nek the uncle for the money.
until October next when new rice should be any questions to put to his late mastor, there are grounds for the apprehension, but Prisoner at this stage was asked if he had harvested. We are sorry to say we fenr.
Aud said in reply." He is bringing a at the same time wish to guard our readers false charge against me."
from accepting the current dieta without day next.
The case was theu adjourned till Wednes-qualification. There are no statistics of the stocks of grain in Japan. All that can be said with some certainty is that the stores are smaller than usual.
BLEACHES OF THE OPIUM ORDINANCE,
*
the flost. There were, on the 21st Dec.. a good word for his careful agting. In the employ about four months; he was secured
If, unhappily, two miserable occurrences two ateamers in course of building at former character ho had little to do, but did by his uncle, who is an opium purchaser Lam Akwai, coolie, was charged (1) with ¦ should come to pass-a short stock of old Ciotat, tho Oxus, 6,410 tora and 600-horse that well, His Duke was a really sound im-in the Li Tai Shop. On the 7th of selling prepared opium at Hong Haul on rice or a deficient new hart the cyil power, for service from Marseilles to Shang-personation, and showed that this gentleman in the afternoon, I gave prisoner $816, of pe pared opium and preparing utensils mity. Rice, grain, beans, pulse, on 02
the present month at about two o'clock the 29th inst., (2) with being in pozsosion would attain the proportions of euural cala, hai, and the Saghalien-the latter not very forward state. The various stores-who has hitherto, in Hongkong, played and gave my Accountant, Sam Aton, in- on the 30th twat. and stocks were valued at 12,376,689fr. female characters-is p-szoused of a goud told him, prisoner, to go to Mesara Sassoon he had purchased prepared opium from Nido or ten years ago. Japan wines of the would have to be imported in vast quanti- structions to pay him $233 more, and Kung Ato, an excies officer, stated that ties, and would have to be paid for in bullion. of 1877. The mechanical appliances, work-ides of character seting. Miss Morton & Co. and purchase two chests of opium. the defendant on the 29th Inst. shops, and apparatus are put down at (Corporal Cane, 27th Inniskillings) made a saw him place the money in a whito
predicament towing to the failure Defendant denied ever having sold opium crops, but was actually much better able to 15,123,059ir. 21c., an increase of 28,420fr. very good Duchess, and very ably led the handkerchief and put it in his pocket. I to witness or to any ou siders, and said: bear the strain than she is now. For the 730. The cash and bils to the credit of choruscs, which were performed in a highly instructed him to go and make a ready. 1 am keeper of a coolie lodging house, and dreaded contingency she is now cutirely un- money purchase of the opium and bring it lodge six coolies, who work in the docks. prepared, and the result of the crops, always The Opera, on the back with him; he had no letter from I prepare the second-hand opium and sell an anxious matter, is a double anxiety now, ing year by a ao leas rum than 4,961,466fc. whole, was well-mounted, and was the meat
On July 6th the prisoner had it to iny lodgers; the utensils and opium because, as the Government and nation 410, caused by the non-employment of capital in repairs or paying off debouturca. even performance the company has given for opium. Before I paid prisoner the second charge,
paid to losses Sassoon the sum of $2500 in Court are my property, I admit the would quickly find out in a time of trial and The shareholders were reminded that next since their arrival here.
adversity, private enterprise which might be Between the first money on the 7th instant, I told him His Worship said that, as there was able to supply all deficiencies of food by im- year the loan of 10,000,000fr. would have and second acts Herr Werner, the talented I was going to give him money to go and nothing to support the evidence of the portations from other countries, is now in a to be repaid. But this was intended to be done out of the avaliable resources of the bandmaster of the 27th Inniskillings, per- well, 1. shall be back in a few minutes. and reserve judgment on the second chargement monopolies and official trading jobbe buy opium with. He answered: Very Excise Officer, he would dismiss the first, crippled and despondent state. The govern Company, without the neocasily of a new formed Lazarus' Clarionot Solo Ma Nor- I want to go out on private business for a until the result of the repent appeal to the ries have sapped the power and resources of Wppen to the public. The rraarved fundmandie" in a style nigh unsurpassable, short time. Be went out, returning to the stood at 8,640,985, 89c., being 209,776fr.
shop in about a quarter of an hour.." X paid him the money and saw him go away down to further addi-223,2cfr. 05., raising it to tensive European reputation, excelled him. Winglok Street, in an entirely different 3,804,186fr. 440. The line to Cyprus was self last evening, his tremala, etacasto, and I direction to Mesers Saunoon's premises. I took no special notice of his "going amsliness of the trade. The contract to pianissimo playing being something mar-that way she had done so before; Ilarly charged; the first charge was with
480. raore than in 1877, and it was proposed Herr Werner, who is possessed of an ex-
to be discontinued in consequence of the
Chief Justice to made known.
Defendant was admitted to bail on his personal recognisance in 3100. The utensils to be retained until jddgment is delivered.
Lee Alum, hawker, was brought up simi-
the trading community, which has been dis- heartened and even beggared by the notion of official speculators trading upon state money. If any crisis should occur the Go- vernment will have to bear all the burden of the latter will clamour for coin in exchange responsibility for feeding the people, because
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Ehipping Intelligence.
The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers, &o.n
VESSELS TO ARRIVE,
AT HONGKONG.
Left. Nums.
Keb.
From.
22, Grossfarst Constantine, lamborg Mar.
28, Adam M. Simpson, Apr.
8, Leon, 10, Spica,
21, Werra,
26, Triton,
26, Twilight 27, Homewood, May.
2, alex Yeats, 5. Alexander
11, Southern Cross,
13, Glamorganshire,
31, Guinne 29, Joseph Hayden, 31, Mannering, June.
1, Gorm (s.) 3, Adolph, 4, Joachim Christian, 6, Harrington, 7, Vic bris (1) 12, Belle of urozon,
Cardiff
Liverpool Cardiff London Hamburg
New York Penarth
Cardiff
Penarth
New York
Cardiff
Cardiff
Antwerp
Liverpool
Cuxhavon
Cuxheven
Liverpool
via Cardiff
Flushing
Liveron 1
Cardiff
QADING FOS CHINA AND JAPAN POUTS. At London.-Steamers ela Suez Canal. Viceroy.
Patterdalo, Oxfordshire.
Bailing Fesive.a
Douglas Castle. Langland. Belted Will,
Ulysses.
Kvik.
Sarah Soolt. Chinaman,
At Zervoal
Prism.
At Newozzile. (N.S.W.)
J. A. Berdian,