No. 5013.-August 1, 1879.}
bridge; deacon, 1862 priest, 1863, by Bishop of Norwich; curate of All Saints with St. Julian, Norwich, 1862, 1808; in- cumbent of St. Benedict's Norwich, 1863- 1865; secretary of the Irish Society, 1866, 1867 rector of St. Michael Coalany, Nor wich, 1807-1871, appointed colonial cha plain, Hongkong, May, 1871; author of various published sermons, reports, and
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Ir will be remembered that some couple of months ago, or more, we spoke of Miss Weston establishing in Hongkong a shore branch of the Naval Temporunce League. Wo have not heard yet that anything has - been done hero-yet-bat-we-observo-that at Shanghai a mecting was hold the other evening at the residence of Mr W. S. Ewen, for the purpose of establishing such a branch at that Port. The attendance included Rev. E. R. Palmer, M.A., Messrs David Cranston, W. S. Ewen, M. Logan, J. M. Wilson, E. G. Wilson, T. Gibbons, and nearly a dozen members of the League from the English gunboat Hornet. Mr Cranston was voted to the chair, after which he read his "commission" from Miss Werten appointing him organizing agent of the League in Shanghai. He explained it was Mind Weston's wish and meming to form shore branches in all parts of the world, wherever ships of the Navy are stationed, so that the men who are abstain ers may find friends and helpers in every
port; he concluded by asking for sugges.
London, June 22.-A dispatch from Ber- lin announces that in consequence of raide in the Kuldja territory by Chinese soldiers, who are ravaging the country with fire and sword, a large Russian expedition will be dispatched against them. As the raiders are likely to receive the support of the Chinese Government, war may supervene..
THE Public (New York, June 26th) says:----
since the recent election that the Pacific There are persons who have believed over Mail Company would cease to exist before long. The question is often asked why business men of New York, who considered the independent existence of this Company of vital importance to them, did not take all the necessary measures before the last clection to sustain and control it. In effect the con- cern has been begging somebody to buy it for a long time, and the Pacific Railroads have at last consented.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Police Intelligence. (Before 0. V. Creagh, Esq )·
Friday, August 1st.
LIGHTLY FUNISHED. James Saunders, seaman, British ship Agnes Muir, was charged with being drank and oreating a disturbance. In the house of Chan Aking and damaging property to the value of 50 conts, and also with assaulting P. C. 179, and breaking a police lamp. GOVERNOR Dessy, we read in the Japan rattan shop in Queen's Road Rast. About Chan Aking, stated:-I am master of a Gazette, (July 26th) is being most hospit-10 o'clock last night I was lying down on ably entertained by the people of Yezo; my couch when the prisoner and two other banqueta, dances, races, visits to this place Europeans came in; they were all drunk. and to that placo being the order of the The prisoner broke so earthenware pillow day. His fame as a lecturer travelled with aud alapped my face, besides throwing the him, and the simple country folks requested stools on the floor, and breaking them. I this great orator to address them, a request took hold of him until a lakong came, which of course he was only too ready to when I gave him in obarge. comply with. This time, however, he was safo-there was no Japan Gazette reporter present to note down the number of figures thrown at the heads of his audience; and we can well believe that these comforts of which Mr Hennessy seems to carry a liberal supply wherever he goes-were distributed indiscriminately and with the greatest ad froid at Hakodate. How the address was received or what the people thought of it,
report sayeth not.”
Witness, in answer to a question by the prisoner, said: I was inside my shop and did not strike you on the bead.
had arrived but a few days from Niigata: all he possessed, including $600 in notes, were in the Central, and either burnt or stolen. A lady boarder lost upwards of a thousand dollars worth of property. In fact every one in the hotel lost pretty well every- thing they possessed.
tions and help from those present. The we notice in the American cablegrams of corroborative evidence, and said thelukong'aversation they then had appeared to have interfere with the persons who were dodg- the United States. This idea of the num
June 24th and 25th, sad accounts of the
labours of the Naval Temperance League,
and particularly the prospects of the pro condition of the Empress Eugenie. Abim; the two other men got away,
London special of the 24th says:-
Notwithstanding the temporary allevin tion of her distress which the Empress En. ganio experienced yesterday, a relapse took sions are now entertained in regard to her place last night, and very serious apprehen- life. During the visit of the Queen yester day she persuaded the Empress to endea- your to partake of some food, and this gave temporary hope of her recovery; but to-day
posed branch in Shanghai, were thoroughly discussed, and a Committee was formed to carry out the work after the manner of
The defendant stated:-1 went out for Miss Weston's own excellent suggestions.
a walk last night and got a little the The work will be extended to ships of the
accidentally touched the complainant, who worse of drink. While walking along I American Navy and merchant vessels,
was lying outside of a shop, with my Mr. Cranston was elected President; Rev.
foot; he got up and struck me with a J. M. W. Farnham and Messrs. Ewen and
berich; some other men also came out of the shop and began to hit me with stools. Logan, Vice-Presidents; Mr. J. M. Wilson, the paroxysms of grief which she undergoes (No marks on defendant to bear out his Secretary; and Mr. E, G. Wilson, Treasur-not only continued but became more fre-statement). I struck some one, but did er. The next meeting of the Committeequent and severe, and gloom hangs over not know it was a policeman. --- was to have taken place on Saturday oyen-
ing last, at Mr. Ewen's residence.
the house.
Prisoner was fined $2 or five days' hard Later advices showed that the apprehen-labour, and was ordered to pay $1 to com- sione rospecting the condition of the Emplainant, and $2 to the constable as amende, press became still more grave. Late reports or suffer an extra ten daya' hard labour. from Chiselhurst give cause for well-
any sleep, save that induced by opiates,
since the news of the Prince's death, and she is daily losing strongth because of sleeplessness and grief. Her mind wanders and she talks irrationally at times, failing to recognize those around her, and unless some favorable change takes place, her death is almost inevitable.
We are singularly free in Hongkong, or grounded fear that Her Majesty will not have been for some time lately, of indivi-recover. She has been unable to obtain dual or collective specimens of the genus swindler. Calcutta, which has always had a notoriety for that pest, retains her unen- viable preeminence. The Commissioner of Police says:"As might be expected in a town like Calcutta, into which a constant stream of foreigners pours from all parts of
The body of the Prince Imperial was ex- India, numerous are the cheats and sharp-pected to arrive at London this wook, pro. ers always on the look-out to trap the un-bably about July 28th. wary;" and he gives inter alia the follow- ing illustrations of his meaning ----
The
AN UNSUPPORTED CHARGE. Charles Nelson and John Lucas, unem- ployed seamen, were charged with creating a disturbance at the U. S. Consulate.
P.C. 56; James Charters, stated;--At about 3 pm, yesterday I was called to the U. S. Consulate to arrest the prisoners. Consul charged them with having created disturbance and said he wanted to break them off coming to the Consulate and annoying him. When I saw them they were sitting outside the Consulate, and were quite quiet and perfectly sober.
Colonel biosby failing to appear to press the charge, the prisoners were discharged.
with three feet depth of hold, built of oak' the case. On the 27th May 1879 Smith, Kiær About eleven o'clock last night, when the and hard plus planking. It is so con- and partners of the Oriental Sugar Refinery, Bottlement was enveloped in darkness and structed as to be a boat within a boat, between whom and the plaintiff there was almost deserted by its residents, who had having nine air-tight compartments or cham- a written agreement, leased to the defend gone to an evening's entertainment is the born on each side, and will float the craft ants the Oriental Sugar Refinery and all Bluff Gardens, the bell of the Catholic even if the boat ships a sea and to filled machinery do, in use there, for two Church disturbed the prevailing stillness, with water. It is sharp at both ends, has months, with power to renew for another and rang out in clear, full tones an alarm of a shifting bowsprit, and by a unique two months until cortain events happened fire. The col of its first notes had scarcely We hear that a fatal accident. occurred arrangement is so constructed as to "bail" which have not yet come about. The same died away be re a regular chorus of bells during the fire last nights Before the flames Itself.-Boston Herald.
day the defendants advertised this fact, and joined in waking up the inhabitants from had taken full possession of the eastern end stated that all communications connected their peaceful slumbers, and in disturbing of the hotel, some dozon or two people at with the business of the Refinery should be the pleasure seekers on the Bluft. If the tempted to save the tables. They had addressed to them. From that date the settlement had been surprised by an in- managed to get one sideways on to the large works were carried on with more vigeur vading army the people could not have got window sill, but just then, for some unex- and energy than had previous'y been the wide awake quicker. Lanterns were bob-plained reason, several of thoas holding it case. There was a great revival after hing up and down in hundreds as their let go simultaneously. It came down with the defendants took over the business ownere-trotted-to-the fire some to assist, a crash upon a Japanese-mau-of-war sailor, Salarico and wages were promptly and duly others to see what they could steal, and the who had been rendering assistance. The paid. ut there was no change in the stoff; majority to look on and speculate to the poor fellow was apparently dead before ho and there was nothing said to them about any origin of the fire, the amount of damage could be got from under. change of masters having taken place..likely to be done before the flames sould be The management was the same, Me Taylor mastered, who was insured and who was continuing under the new regime as under not. Members of the various firo brigades THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS ON the old, the only difference being that from left the scene of festivity on the Bluff to
CHINESE EMIGRATION. the business, whereas before it was not, corps. And the unusual commotion was not in the Journal des Débats on Chinese emigra- that date money was available for working don their uniforms and join their respective
A long and exhaustive article has appeared and that Mr Williamson, of Messrs Adam confined to the shere. On the water the tion. It deals with the question from a. son Bell & Co. was frequently at the barry and bustle was almost as great. De-broad point of view, and holds up the many works. But no other change took place attachments of men from the various ships of excellences of the Chinese labourer. Daly that date down at the works. They had been war in port were instantly told off to do since 1859 has a legal sanction been accorded slack before, but it was not shown that battle with the fiery foe, and boat-load after to emigration by the authorities of Kwantung, they had actually been stopped. Then the hoat-load, armed with axes, pikes, ropes, the province from which most coolies are defendants sold the machinery in December &c. were speedily landed at the hatoba, a taken. And the present regulations under and their lease expired on the 29th January, contingent of forty men from the Modeste which it is conducted date from 1888, under Neither when they sold the machinery nor being the first to arrive on the spot. Tak- the treaty then entered into by Sir Rutherford. when their larte expired did they give the ing it altogether it was a busy Bosne, and Alcock, M. de Bellonet and Prince Kang. plaintiff any tice that his services were notorious for the confusion which prevailed. Speaking of the numbers of coolies in foreign P. C. 179 Tío Ases :--Last night about no longer required, and there was no Japanese and Chinese coolies were running countries, the writer quotes from a memorial ten o'clock I saw the prisoner with two advertisement Inserted in the papers, the way with boxes, parcels, curios, anything of Wang, Caverner of Fahkien, published in other men in a shop in Wanchal. They old one simply being withdrawn, Mr in fact that they could lay their hands on; 1874. In that document it was stated that were all drunk; the prisoner broke my Taylor left the keys with Mr. Kerr iu some one way, some another, jostling and there were 30,000 Chinese in Siam, 100,000 eop and gave me a severe blow on the February, but in that he could not have been tumbling over each other in a most india- in Singapore, 80,000 in Sumatra, frem nose and month (shews out on both lipa), soting as the agent of Messrs Adamson Bell criminate fashion, but bent on securing the 200,000 to 300,000 in Californix, and 10,000 and also cut my leg with a stool; I arrested & Co. as they had then no connection with prize each bad obtained. A large posse of in Nagasaki. It is said that these numbers him.
the works in question, Plaintiff shortly police arrived soon after the first alarm, but are undoubtedly exaggerated, as there are Loung Aho, district watchman, gave after this saw Mr Willamson, and the con- made no attempt, so far as we could see, to certainly not more than 130,000 coolies in face was covered with blood, Prisoner been concerning the probability of employing down dark alleys and round corners bers being too large is a mistake on the part was very violent. He assisted, to arrest ment for Kerr at these works turning up in with sundry articles in their hands or on of the Journal des Debate, for both Sism the fature, Mr Williamson being sanguine their shoulders, and the consequence was and the Straits have many more than ora Inspector Rivers said that prisoner was that they would be re opened and that if that quite as much property was stolen as estimated, while just now in Sumatra the oreating a great disturbance, the whole of they were, Kerr would be employed there as was burnt-a usual oceurrenco at fires in tobacco estates, and Government works in Wanchai being in an uproar.
before. Even had this been the case Yokohama. Then the engines came, rush- Atchin give eployment to quite 84,000, this name question as to who was to ing up one after another, to find when they if not more. Our contemporary goes on to pay him, or whether he was to be paid for arrived that there was little or no water. Bay that 60,000 are in Cuba and Peru equally have arisen. The plain iff never extract a stream from the sea and the Chen Lan Pin is alluded to as now watching the time he had been banging on there, wight The steam engines thereupon proceeded to engaged in the latter country to dig guano. claimed his wages-from Mr Williamson, nor creek, and the others from the various wells over the interests of the emolies in America, any payment on account of his wages; and in the neighbourhood. In the meantime accredited as he is to Washington, Lima, he (bis Lordship) was of opinion that the fire had obtained a fast and firm hold and Madrid. The riots which sometimes some time early in the year the plain- upon the lotel. It erept from one room to take place are traced to the ill-treatment tiff must be taken to have known that another, devouring everything in its way, some of the emigrants undergo, broken faith, Fobkien and the defendants' connection with the works Within half an hour the roof fell in, and and other similar causes. had consed. He attached no impor. it was then that the flames seemed to be in Kwantung are the provinces which furnish tance to the momo. of wages due to their glory as they leapt high into the air, most of the coolies, and Amoy, Swatow, and himself and the other employes at the illuminating the whole of the Settlement, Canton are the ports of embarkation. Macao, wurke which plaintiff had made up at Mr and bidding defiance to fire brigades, seamen which was formerly the depot for the trafo, Williamson's request and given to him and engines. About twenty minutes later is now ruined. The Chinaman is described because the special object with which that the front wall came down with a crash across
as sober, hardworking, and economical, with had been asked and given had been Main Street, and for a little while some few wants, and satisfied with small profits. explained. It was clear that there was no unxiety was felt lest the German Consulate His constitution adapts itself with wonderful express contract between the plaintiff and should ignite. This threatened new danger facility to all climates, and this is his defendants; but he held that there was au was at once attacked, and streams of water greatest natural possession. The work dons implied contract, acquired by Adamson kept directed on the building and the burn-by these men in Amerien includes the Bell & Co.'s continued employment of ing mass at the foot of it until the danger Pacific Railroad. Moreover, the advent of Kerr at the worke, from which they could was over. Though thwarted in this direo- them is said to have afforded their stronger have dismissed him, and by their benefit tion the flames still continued to born most competitors, the Irish, German, and Ameri- can miners, a good plea for demanding from his labour. No proof of any actual persistently towards Messrs Sargent & Far- requet or promise had been given; but sari's premises until they seized upon the higher wages, and has really been beneficial the action of the parties was equivalent roof. By this time nothing was left of the to the whites, in law to establish an implied con Central Hotel but a mass of burning beams
The antipathy in which the Chinese are tract. It had been alleged that, as the und einders; and the fire had communicated held is not universal. They are sought after plaintiff was under an agreement with with the unoccupied premises next door in in Peru and Cubs, and when the working Mesara Smith, Kisor and others, be could not the opposite direction, which were also soon classes object to them, as in California, rich make a contract for his services with any gutted with flame. Measrs North, Thomp- citizens are always willing to employ them other firm. But Mesars Smith, Kier and son's chemist and druggist store was Bow as domestic servants. Fear of their becom- others, if by their sction in the matter in imminent danger of being consumed. ing dangerous rivals in the labour market is they had not nullified the contract, The manager of this establishment and at the bottom of the hatred which exists had given him the right to do so, inasmuch his staff seemed to be the only persons towards them in countries where they as they had disposed of the worka,their who kept their wits about them in salving compete with the white labourers. The means of employing him. Messrs Adamson their goods, Without any unnecessary book published at Canton in 1875 ("Cheng Bell & Co. took the plaintiff over with the hustle, yet with admirable celerity, the ti yu ton chou"), relative to the ill-treat- machinery and all relating to the Refinery; bottles of chemicals, drugs and nicknt of the Chinese in South America, is there was a promise by Smith, Kizer & Co. nacks which comprised the stock-in- cited as proof of what their condition was that they would do all they could to get the trade of the shop were removed, with in those countries. Mr Edward Jenkins's same hands to work the concern for the little or no damage, to the stone godown at The Coolio" is also alluded to. The lessees. It had been said that up to the the back. Mr Fitzgerald, the sodawater peaceful invasion of vast numbers of Asiatics 21st December last the plaintiff was in the manufacturer of the firm, also removed his is simply one phase of the law of supply and service of Smith, Kier and others; and machinery with equal promptitude, losing demand. Their services are needed, and, as that Messrs Adamson Bell & Co. simply nothing but eighty dozen of mineral waters, a natural consequence, they will continue to found the money to pay his and the which the thirsty Jack-tars swallowed to flock to the industrial and agricultural other men's wages. But in point of law their wash down the smoke which had accumulated centres requiring them. They may be advertisement, their acceptance of plaintiff's in their throats. Having secured their directed and governed, but their advent will continued service, the benefit they obtained goods Messrs. North, Thompson awaited continue in obedience to that same law of from his labour, the fact that they could calmly the approaching catastrophe; for at supply and demand. have sent every one away who was there one time it seemed as if their store was and filled the place with new hands had certainly doomed to destruction. Fortun- they chosen or thought it advisable, implied ately, a small passage, some three feet wide, a contract dating from the time they took separated it from the burning building and over the works. Now did this contract so enabled the firemen to cope more sucoess terminate 21st April or when? The defend fully with the fire, which was eventually auts say the plaintiff's contract, if there ever completely overcome before it obtained a was one with them, terminated when the strong hold on the store. In the meantime worka stopped. Now he had always held, the firemen had been successful in staying and the rule applied as strictly to cases the progress of
flames in the opposite where the contract was one implied by the direction, but not before Messra. Sargent & law as where there was a distinct agreement, Farsari's and Mr Brett's premises were that engagements of all such employéa as gutted. The proprietors of these establish- clerks, engineers and such like, ware to be ments were not so fortunate in salving their taken as monthly hirings terminable by a goods as Messrs. North, Thompson. They month's notice or by a month's pay in lieu had no strong godown to put them in; of notice. It was, of course, for the em and though a considerable quantity of sta ployer to dismiss the employe; but in the tionery was conveyed into Messrs. Kelly & early part of the year the plantiffs must Co.'s yard, still a lot was burnt and more have known that the connection of Messrs stolen. And Mr. Brett was not even so for- Adamson Bell and Co. with the Refinery tonate as Messrs. Sargent and Farsari in bad ceased, and after that have bee a wait saving his chemicals and drugs. He had ing more in the hope of securing re-employ-nowhere to put his wares, and so they were ment when the work were re-opened than recklessly smashed or stolen. Indeed, it under any impression that he was in their seemed a great pity that the numbers of employ and entitled to full pay. On the seamen who were standing idly by were not. 28th of January, when their lease of the utilised in salving the furniture and wares premises &c. expired, they neither discharg. of the burning and adjacent buildings, which ed him nor gave him notice that their they might have done if properly managed, responsibility for he wages then ceased. Their officers cannot be blamed for permitting He would allow plalatiff his wages up to them to remain inactive when they could the 24th January, and one month's wages have done so much service, as there was no additional in Heu of notice. No cos's person to inform them what to do or where on either side. There seemed to be to take the things. Sometimes Jack went no dispute about the facts, although diffe- exploring on his own account and con- ront inferences had been drawn from them,sequently did more harm than good, as was Mr Dennys asked whether his Lordship the case with Mr. Geffeney's premises. deprived his client of his wagen accruing Fearing the fire would extend to his store after 28th January on the ground that her. Geffensy set about removing his goods, but the uncontrolled assistance he received must have known then that their counec- tion with the Refinery had ceased.
was of such a character that his goods were His Lordship replied in the affirmative. taken where he has since been unable to find He had no doubt the decision would satisfy them; and much of his property wae most neither party. He would be quite willing wantonly destroyed. to grant permission to appeal, and would facilitate the appeal. He would grant leave How to either party to appeal without the formal application; that would save trouble and expense.
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A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE AMERICAN
CONSUL.
His Lorship told the man that he could only sue the Copaul civilly.
Nelson said that he could not do that, boing without money. He thanked his Worship.
The Magistrato informed him that the charge which had been brought against him would not interfere with his getting board and loding in the Gaol until he found employment.
Sin W. Muir, Lieut-Gen. H. W. Norman," At the head of a gang of sharpers who and Col. H. Yule, have addressed a letter to came to Calcutta about this time last year, the Times appealing for subscriptions to the
When the defendants in the above case was a descendant of the great Maharajab Runjeet Singh, one Shazada Kurrom Strangers' Home for Asiaties. They say: had ban discharged, one of them, Nelson, made the following statement to His Singh. This Kurrum Singh has been Outgoings are in ordinary years barely Worship and asked him for advice. I am wandering about India for some years past, covered by the receipts from inmates, added a British seaman out of employment. I am being a gambler and cheat from his youth to enbecriptions (including a contribution of living at the present time in the Gaol, being upwards. His arrival in Calcutta was ex-2001, a year from the India Office). Bata destitate, and have been there the past pected by the police, who at once took his this year, in the absence of the special aid three weeks. As things are dull amongst photograph. He then went off to Patna we now solicit, there will be a serious British ships I went to the American and Benares, and at the latter place was deficit; for the building requires extensive Consulate-it being a public shipping office convicted of cheating. Another member painting and other repairs, estimated to cost to apply for work. I had been there of the gang was sentenced only the other 4001. During 1878 the Home gave shelter before on the 18th of June. I was quite day at Alipore to seven years imprison to 514 natives of the East, of whom 63 were sober and quiet, and have not tasted spirits ment, for extorting Ra. 2,360 from an shipwrecked mariners or persons otherwise for more than a month, I consider that I Indigo merchant. Another kind of rascal destitute. They are classified as 110 lassars, have been badly used, as the Consul could known in Calcutta is the commercial 241 firemen, 103 cooks and stewards, 30 not have proved the charge he made against swindler: often a European. He opens a saloon servants, 15 native doctors, two me. I have been locked up sinco 3 p.m. broker's office, buys goods at short credit, Indian conjurors, thres carpenters, one yesterday, and would like to bring a charge sells them by anction for cash, and then, magician, one arah, three travellers, one against Colonel Mosby for having me as a rule, disappears. & Mr Whittenbury bas goatherd, three claimants, and a Chinese detained on a false charge. lately been carrying on this game under the pastor of a Christian congregation of Chinese style of Selby and Co.; and has been sentenc coolies in Demerara (himself originally a ed to imprisonment for two years and a half.coolie-emigrant), with his wife and child. There are several Whittenburys left, says Omitting count of 30 who remained in the Mr. Souttar. The religious swindler is on Home at the year's end, of two who died the look out for well to do strangers, whom during the year, and of 125 lascara or other he will ask to help him in some religions asa-going folk who returned on the vessels ceremony or to fulfil a vow. The ceremony which brought them, nearly every one of begins with a bath in the Ganges, but the the number mentioned found employment or good-natured victim finds that his orna passage by aid of the Home. Their deposits ments are stolen. Then there are mook with the Home during their sojourn there auctions, especially of cloth; giltiwallahs amounted to 2,2434, in cash (one Chinaman who pass off, as gold, bara of gilt metal; having put into the superintendent's hands tupka wallahs, who pass off brass beads for as much as 66%), apart from valuables in Ll Achung, coolie, was charged with gold. The tupka-wallahs work in gangs; one the shape of watches and ornaments. Their stealing one jacket, a basket, and some drops the beads, an accomplice picks them contributions in payment of board and cooking utensils, value sixty cants. The up, the two quarrel, and finally a passer by lodging amounted to 1,118, All who have man could give no good account of himself; who is asked to arbitrate, is persuaded to been in the East know the old cant that he said he was an earth coolis, without buy the beads. Other strange people come there is no gratitude in Asiatios, and no regular employment; he had been living in to Calentta. In the early part of last year, word for gratitude in Asiatic tongues. All an optam house for the past three or four there care two European perverts to Le who have been long in the East should months. Sent with a constable to point lam, Harvey and Deane by name, alias know what more cant it is. Those who out the house, the keeper of it said the man Abdool Rahman and Abdoola. One were administer the Home speak in a very had never stayed there. Prisoner was the Arab dress, the other, Deane, figures different tone. Let us quote one foot. sentenced to three months with hard labour as a faquir with long matted hair, and. During the last year, & party of seventeen so a rogue and vagabond. nothing but a blue cloth round his lions. destitute persons, who had been sent to the Both were narrowly watched by the police, Home by varions Consulates, and for whom
THE VALUE OF A HAIR-PIN. and thought it best to disappear. Mahom employment had been found, came forward Cheung Atai, abog of sixteen, was charged ed Suffi, a Persian, and Ahmed Effendi, son receiving an advance of wages, and with snatching a hair-pin from the bead of men of Bagdad, also visited Calcutta last voluntarily paid to the Home 32..128 in a young girl on the 31st ultimo. year. They put up at the Great Eastern part recoupment of the board which they The Magistrate found the charge fully Hotel, said they were officers of the Tur- had enjoyed, leaving the Home with ex-proved, and sentenced prisoner to six kish army, and collected subscriptions.pressions of gratitude for all that had been weeks' imprisonment, the first and last They have since been deported as vagrants. done for them. The bankers of the Home two weeks in solitary confinement. Last October an imposter, calling himself are Messrs. Barclay, Tritten, and Co., 54 Count G. M. M. Yois Li Fez arrived from Lombard Street, and cheques may be sent Rangoon. He had instructions, he said, to them or to Lieut. Col. R. M. Hughes, from the French Government for arranging Strangere Home, Limehouse, E., to whom the transfer of the Chandernagore Settle also post-office orders (P. O., Limehouse, E.) ment. The Count has since disappeared may be made payablo. suddenly in the direction of Bombay.
Tax following telegrams from American papers have escaped our attention till
DOW
LOUIS G. Goldsmith, a Danish sailor, about 49 years of age, who served in the Union army and navy in the Rebellion,
À ROGUE AND VAGABOND.
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDIOTION, (Before His Honour the Acting Fuime Judge J. J. Francis, Ex.) Friday, August 1st.
KERR v. BELL AND ÚTHÉLS.
GREAT, FIRE AT YOKOHAMA, DESTRUCTION OF THE CENTRAL HOTEL.
proposes to sail across the Atlantio from
His Lordship gave judgment to-day in Boston next summer, accompanied by this case. It was a suit for $800, brought London, June 23,--A Faris dis, atch says | bis wife, in a boat 18 feet long, ca a trip by T. Kerr, an engineer, against Messre Ferdinand De Lesseps in a lecture at around the world. He will go to Copen Adamson Bell & Co., that sum being, as be Amiens stated that the first sod of the hagen, Norway, Sweden, by the North Sea alleged, amount of wages duo him as en- Panama Canal would be turned January to Scotland, by the Mediterranean to Alergiueer of the Oriental Bugar Refinery, he 1, 1880, and that with 40,000 avvies, audria, through the Suez Canal to Adon, being engaged by the defendants who were (Japan Gazette, July 24). Including some Chinese, and 15,000 Bra across the Indian Ocean to Indis, through lessees. The case was beard on the 29th and For the second time this year the Foreign zilian negroes, work would be completed in the Straite of Malacca, thence northward to was then reported. His Lordship now,stating Settlement of Yokohams has been the scene eight years.
Singapore, Hongkong and Yeddo, and the case, said plaintiff's salary had been duly of a large conflagration, resulting in the London, June 26.-The Indian] Govern Bually scross the Pactic to San Francisco, paid him ap to the 21st December; he had total destruction of the Central Hotel, where ment has received information that Abdul which he expects to make in the fall of not been paid from that date to 21st April the fire broke out, an unoccupied store next Rapman, pretender to the Afghan throne, 1881. From the Golden Gate he will come 1879, and so claimed for the four months at to Messrs North, Thompson & Co., Messrs who has hitherto lived under Russian praat to Boston by rail. The bast is being $200, or $800. The defendsats said the Sargent and Faraari's stationery store, and taction, has invaded Badakhan, and that built by WV. H. Smith at City Point. It is man had never been in their employ. He the partial destruction of the premises coeu
eighteen and a half foot long, alx fost beam, | then reviewed at some length the Zaoth of | pled by Mr Brett, Afghan troops in Balkh bave revolted,
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By two o'clock the victory over the flames was complete, and no extension of the fire was apprehended; still the engines kept pouring a constant stream of water on the burning mass. It was a very fortunats (Taken at Meairs Bulconer & Cols Premises, circumstance that the night was perfectly
Queen's Road) calm, or we should probably have had to gaze on the blackened remains of the half Borerons, August 1, 1878. of Main Street this morning.
The less, we believe, falls chiefly upon: the Scottish Imperial, Staffordshire, Queen, and the Labook Fire Insurance Companies. But perhaps the greatest sufferers were the. manager of the Ceftral Hotel and his board ers, many of whom escaped with nothing but what they stood upright in. One gen-
leman had collected a great variety of
curios, of considerable value, which he kept in the hotel-they were destroyed. Another
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