No. 5086.—Auguar 28, 1879)
Pakhol at the time these advices just to hand were written. It is to be hoped her arrival ~would change the sapest of affairs; tho xugat likely result of her appearance would ho to lead to the abandonment of manifestations „of hostilo fesling on the part of the Chinese to those strangers who are amongst them, and to a child-like and bland deolara ion that no steps of a serious nature towards the foreigners were ever intended. If so, it will be an undoubted verification of the truth that second thoughts are best. Bad no-gun-boat been bandy bero when the advices in answer to which the Midge left were received, the consequeness would have been more serious, than we care to indicate.
A CENTENARY OF A STEAMER'S COAST TRIPS Our Canton correspondent writes, under - yesterday's date:-
Whilst it is matter of satisfaction to all that eteam navigation is conducted with afety in China, yesterday was marked here by special congratulations to Messrs Blemsson & Co., and Captain Cars of the Ningpo, upon the completion of her one hundredth voyage between this port and Shanghal About twenty of the Chinese shippers had intimated an Intention to present a richly-embroidered flag to the Captain, and a few foreign residents were Invited to witness the ceremony. The co casion of such a ceremonial was very in teresting to one participant in particular, who could recall the period when steamers wore forcibly driven away from China. But to the Chinese themselves, the obango must be more surprising; and both they and the foreigners exhibited the utmost cordiality in wishing the Ningpo and her successful commander continued good fortune in the prosecution of the voyages in which so much perseverance has a ready been shown.
THE London Times (even Joye nods now and then) has the following in an aeeizu report recent date:
William Fenwick Hall, 24, lathrender,
was: convicted of a dreadful assault on a
THE CHINA MAIL.
His Lordship could not say the testimo-coln and the precise words without nials as to character were so numerous as
he could have wished.
His Lordship then said: I. have recon- sidered this case this morning. Last night I considered it and came to a certain decision; to day public justice requires that 1 should look this mattor boldy in the face, and I do It. The prisoner Leong Aho has been con- victed, after a long trial, of having knowingly taken into his custody certain anchors pre- viously by pirates feloniously taken, with- out lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lay upon him, and which authority or excuse he failed to prove. He has thus been guilty of a felony and has become Hable to penal servitude for ten years, but the law enables the judge to sentence him to term of imprisonment which he may think sufficient. I don't find any case in which there has been a lens severe sentence then eighteen months' with hard labour. But perhaps Mr Deane or some one can refer me to cases where there have been Smaller soutences than that.
Mr Ng Achoy, in reply to bis Lordship, said he had defended, a prisoner before Mr Justice Snowden, for receiving stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen, and the man only got three months Imprisonment. The Chief Justice: That must have been a very special case. The light sentence must have been the result of your elo. quence.
Captain Deans remembered a case of this kind some seven seasons ago, where a sentence of nine months' imprisonment was given.
and under a ke Ordinance it has been
Pollos Intelligence. (Before the Hon. O. B. Plunkėt.)
Thursday, August 28.
jo
THE ** FLORAL · STAR.”
His Worship, at this stage of the proceed lugs, decided on sending the mon before the Harbour Master, as he, himself, did not, he said, sufficiently understand ship ping matters,
le an extended one, which may furnish hongs have been instructed not to send any. novel data to the observant. The thermo- more musters to the foreigner in question metor fell from a minimum of 85 deg. and until his last purchase is paid for, leaving: 86 deg. on the 25th and 26th to 82 deg, this the original dispute unsettled. I have morning, at which it now stands. I am held several conversations with natives on hopeful that a recurrence of the rain will the subject, and even the most respectable follow the setting of the moon to-night and have changed their ideas and express the afford complete relief from the partial sul-most dangerous views. They now argue triness still perceptible.
Japan.
#JOGO,
Frederick Thorne, John Warden, John Darget, William Anderson and Joseph Reid,
that as foreignere refuse to entertain claime seamen of the British echooner Floral Star,
on piece goods once removed from their sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment on the 6th Inst. for refusal of duty, had the
godowns, Bo are they justified in not re last week of their sentence remitted by
cognising any such claims as I have men tioned. They further refuse to guarantee H.E. the Administrator, and were brought before the Magistrate) this morning again, The bigb price of rios appears to be co
the bulk in any way, but say the purchaser. when Capt. Girdon, Darlson, the mastor, casioning a good deal of hardship among
can opon every package at his own expense applied for the men to be sent on board.
the poorer classes, and not a little dis(Tls. 12 per hundred). To any firm largely The whole of the men stated that they content in places. The Osaka papers speak interested in the trade, such a mode of pro would not turn to, if sent on board,
of possible riots on this account in that cedure would be manifestly impossible, No- The third prisoner, Darget, gave as a city and in Kloto, where one or two parallel case has arisen in the sale of piece reason, that he had been told by the Chief wholesale dealers have been threatened goods to that which is now cited; the only Mate, that, if he went away from this harbor with a mobbing. There are rumours our claim which has ever been preferred has in the Floral Star, he would lead him a dog's rent among the people that a large quantity been for mildew or for deterioration on the life.
of rice is on its way hither from China, and voyage, but never for dishonest enclosure Reid, the fifth prisoner, stated that he it is argued that the present high prices can of foreign material; or in other words, if had heard the Mate use the above threaten-only be the result of the operations of rice-97-lbs. Shirtings of a certain standard have ing language.
gamblers, as they call speculators, the wes- been sold, the same goods have been de ther being on the whole favourable, and livered, and in no instance has a bale been the farmors rejoicing at the excellent found packed with cotton waste or other prospects of a good crop this year; this is extraneous substance. In a trade where the consumer's side of the question. The good faith on the part of the seller is no comparatively small quanilly of rice material to the welfare of all concerned as brought into the place from Hongkong in the tea trade, it is most important that
no suspicion should attach to any one con lately has all been consigned to Chinone; but they cannot be accused of having cerned in the business. The whole anything to do with the rise in price, question is of such gravity to all concerned, all that has reached Kobe having been that I trust the mattor will be seriously sold to arrive. In one case we know taken up and if necessary the active inter- of, on the steamer's leaving with rice onvention of the Chamber of Commerce board, the consignsees here were tele-invited. graphed to sell, which they at once did; had they held on till the vessel arrived they might have cleared a handsome additional profit. There are now two steamers and one sailing vessel on the way up with rice, but the quantity they bring is not likely to affect the markot price to any great extent. The retail price of Japan rice in Kobe, Osaks, and Kioto, now ranges between yen and yen 1.10 per to; that is, from yes 10 to yen 11 per koku, almost double its price last year. Only the poorest class will eat China or Saigon zice, both of which are inferior to the home-grown grain.-News.
The man received their discharges from the gaol, and were mirched off to the Harbour Master's.
AN UNFORTUNATS `SHOWER.
Shi Apak, a street coolie, was charged with breaking into a blacksmith's shop and stealing tools to the value of $4.
came out of the shop and ran off he was arrested by P. O. 188, who took him back to the shop; the tools were found tied up in a parcal, ready for lifting.
1
Rangoon. (Gazette.)
The opium farmers have, we hear, applied to the Town Magistrate to be allowed to hold the farms for two years on the same sam now realized is a large one, and if the shops were sold separately such a large sum would never bo pald.
man with a red-hot poker, which pierced the substance of his brain and was sentenced if they receive auch property without prisoner after his arrest offered money to der the verandah for shelter from the rain, terms on which they now hold them.
to five years' penal sorvitude. -
Da. N. B. Dennys, of Singapore, has, we learn from the Straits Government Gazette, been authorized to file a specification of a certain Invention to abolish or diminish the danger arising to the cocupants of carriages in the event of horses running
away.
At Bea
More recent possession by the prisoner could not be. The prisoner said he got no there goods honestly, but he gave evidence to that effect. If the anchors had been found in the prisoner's possession a year after a robbery, then if the Crown failed to prove guilty knowledge, the jury would be directed to acquit: but the re- cency of the possession after the robbery was of itself evidence that the man in whose possession it was was the pirate, and threw, and properly throw, the burthen of that not by this ordinance but by the com- proving innocence on the prisoner, and mon and statate law of England under which in former times hundreds of criminala have been hung and in this Court burglars and thieves have been convicted at almost every sessions,
Prisoner had no witnesses to speak to bls character, and stated that he had gone un- and when he heard the ory of "thief" ho walked away and was arrested by mistake.
His Worship sent him to gaol for three months with hard labour.
GOING HOMME
The
According to the Bombay Gazette it is now generally understood that His Excel- lency the Viceroy intenda honouring British Burmah with a visit in the cume of next year if the disturbances in the political atmosphere subside by that time. As no one can well realize the capabilities of this country until it has been visited, we feel sure that good will result to the province from His Excellency's visit,
Wan Atak, carpenter from Macao, wish- ing to return to his home went to a house in course of erection in Lyndhurst Terrace, yesterday and wronched off six window bolts valued at $2, with the intention of selling them. Bu Akwok, the contractor, saw pri- soner coming down the stairs and searched
The almost gushing communication from the Press Commissioner about the civilities him, when the bolts were found concealed in his waist-band; be gave him in charge,
Prisoner, after being duly cautioned, ad-showered by the Burmese Government on mitted having stolen the bolts to enable the dead body of Mr Shaw shows that there him to return to Macaoand also admitted hav. has been a screw loose in the head of some one either at Mandalay or Calcutta. The ing two previous convictions against him; and larceny, when he was sent to prison "effusive message" (sic) from the King is the first in April 1878, for house breaking actual truth about those ofvilities and the for eight weeks with hard labor; the second better reflected in November 1878, when he was sentenced which took place at the time between two to six months with hard labor for house- Burmese officials, and which recalls a celebrated saying from Alexandre Dumas when asked to subscribe a small sum-to breaking.
help in burying a bailiff:-
this short conversation
lawful authority" de., used in our Ordinance are used there, so that the provision is not without precedent In England. It has been onforced there, enforced here times without number. It is admitted that the man was in pos- sorsion of the goods, but it is alleged that the Crown failed to give any proof of guilty knowledge on the part of the prisoner. I am of eplalon that there was ample proof of guilty knowledge in the prisoner to have justified the jury in finding him guilty on the second count "Guffly knowledge" has been well defined to mean "belief," by Mr Bazon Hramwell In a case I quoted to the Jury. Passension recently after the theft, is possession varying from ́a day to a year and upwards. Mr Best, p. 434, says the recent possession of stolen goods ie auf- fiolent to call on the accused to show how ho came by them, and in the event of his not doing so, to justify the conclusion that hojits the thief who stole them;" and at p. 1298, Mr Bestillustrates this proposition, Who and what Mr Best was is known very wall oven in this Colony; be was well known in England as an eminent lawyer. 19. See Roscos on Evidence, 7th edition, Archbold's Common Law, 18th edition, p. 251,, and the remarkable case of Reg. v.. Wilson Deara and B., 157 and 26 L. J. M. C. 45, where stolen goods were found in the possession of a man openly When they got down to the Barbour offering them for sale, and be asid be Master's office, Capt. Thomsett was not in bought them of B. a person known to the attendance; they were therefore marched police, and it was held that it was incumback to gaol as they refused to go on board bent on the Crown to call B., and the man their ship. The case will be heard to The Chief Justice: I do not recollect any such cases, and I falled to find any record,
was convicted, and on case reserved it was morrow at ten o'clock, at the Harbour but I perhaps did not go very carefully held that the conviction was good. That Master's office.] through them. I understand then that case, threw the burthen of proof far more than this case does on the Crown. there have been cases on which sentences of If I am wrong, I am wrong in following less than 18 months have been passed and Sir James Fitz James Stephens, now one one where a sentence of three months only was passed. In the present case, the crime of the Judges of the Supreme Court in
England, to whom mainly is entrusted the A carpenter named Yip Alin, in return- was clearly proved against the prisoner. revision of the Criminal Law of England. ing home yesterday, had to pass the black He had the benefit of a most zealous and able defence; all points that could be raised He says at p. 218 of "A Digest of the Crl smith's shop on the way to bis house, and in his favour have been urged on the Jury minal Lawthe book which is the highest saw the door of the shop standing slightly and on the Court by the learned Counsel who authority on Criminal Law that I know:-ajar; he looked in and saw the prisoner "The Inference that au accused person has wrapping up a number of tools in a jacket. defended him, and I believe that no one stolen property or has received it knowing Being auspicious that all was not correct, doubts that the conviction was the necessary it to be stolen may be drawn from the fact be called ont "thief."
Defendant then result of the evidence adduced. In charg that it is found in his possession after being ing the Jury I especially fixed their at tention on the charge I have just specified, stolen and that he gives no satisfactory because it was especially important that the account of the way in which it came lato public should know that receivers of pro- bis possession." This is what I have said; perty piratically taken are liable to be nothing more, nothing less. In this case declared felons and to be punished as such, the Crown proved, as I think, that the having taken such precaations as shall the prosecutor. The prosecntor has been enable them whenever called on to prodnes twice tested in this Court and I bold him the seller to them, or to shew that they had to be a witness of truth. Now in this case at least an excuse for the possession of such the Crown proved by the prisoner's own articles by having bought then in the fair statement that whereas the robbery was far on the evening of the 20th the course of trade, from some one whom they soner had bought them on the 21st. may reasonably have believed to have a good right to sell the articles piratically taken. It seems to me that the prisoners guilt having been proved, it is important that his conviction should be a warning to THE Nation. (New York), reviewing recent all such receivers. i did not ask the Jury proceedings of the Representatives, says to consider whether or not the prisoner The House, making the proverbial misuse was guilty on the second count-la which of its idle time, passed on Thursday (July he was charged as having received the 19th) a bill directing the Secretary of the same anchors well knowing that they had Treasury to recoin trade-dollars, not been stolen-because, if the Jury acquitted deficient in weight and not "chopped" in
him on the first charge, they would proba- Ohios, into standard silver dollara; to coin bly have sequited Lim on the second no more trade dollars, and to reckon the charge, and I desired to render the enquiry as free from complication as possible. But recoinage apart from and in addition to the monthly silver coinage enjoined by the I must say that I should myself have had Bland Bill This is a measure which no dificulty in finding the prisoner guilty Becretary Sherman has publicly opposed,
on this charge also. It has often been said and which it may be supposed the Pre that receivers are as bad as robbers. I aident will be advised by him to veto. But think that sometimes they are morally it is by no means certain that the Senate worse. They certainly are greater pests act of killing is proved every seldom indeed, will adopt it, since Mr Bayard's successful to society, lf robbers did not know but the possession, shortly after the murder, stand against the admission of the Warner poor homeless friendless creatures as they by a man, of articles which had been on the person of the murdered man before be Bill
unally are where to take their spoil at
was murdered is often of itself held once, they would not rob. It is only when men bolding a position of respectability sufficient evidence not only of the robbery (false though it be) are known to robbers that but of the murder by the man in whose robbers can feel any prospect of gala from possession recently after the murder the ar-
The grain traffic of the Railway bas, we carrying on piracies, burglaries and thoftsticles are found.
bear, been dwindling away to almost noth- (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice, Sir as a trade. A greater service is rendered to soner, said And now it becomes my duty His Lordship then, addressing the pri-
ing of late; but this we learn is due to John Smale.)
society, its safety is better protected, when to pass the sentence of the Court on you, Un Akwai requested a fellow bawker bolders of stocks of paddy up the line re Thursday, August 28,
one receiver, holding his head high as a trader, is convicted on dos evidence, than Long Aho. The Jury, in finding you gulity, to lend him two water buckets, and, serving them for the Mandalay market strongly recommended you to mercy. It is on being refused, went into the street, which is now very bare of supplies and When ten such poor wretobed starvalinga as always gratifying to the Court to attend to picked up a large stone and threw it promises to get worse and worse in this thieves look when in the dock are canviated. such resommendations. You have called at his neighbour, cutting his head very respect. In fact from all we can gather, The root of the evil is the receiver's shop. Leong Abe, accountant in an iron dealer's He usually takes the lion's share of the two persons to speak to your character severely. When arrested by the Constable, there is a famine impending in Upper shop Praya West, who was, on Tuesday, splander. In the case of this prisoner his being good. I cannot say I am overwhelm prisoner said the stone had been thrown by Barma, where cultivation has been entirely found guilty, by a Common Jury, of having own entry in his own book gave the date ed by the weight of their testimony. I complainant's clanemen, and aimed at him, neglected, owing, in the first place, to the received into his custody, without legal of his purchase of these anchors, that date have taken all these matters into conside- but he it missed the mark and struck com-a ilical state of the relations between the authority or exonse, sight anchors which being the very next day after the evening ration and I shall pass & lenient sentence-plainant. had been piratfoally stolen, was now brought when the piracy was committed beyond the fear too lonlent a sentence on you. The up for sentence. The Jury had strongly Ly-ee-moon. It was so soon after the arrival sentence of the Court is that you recommended the prisoner to mercy, and of the anchors in this harbour as to preclude prisoned and kept to hard labour for a Mr Hayllar, who, instructed by Mr Wotton, the supposition that there was opportunity period of nine calendar months. I have appeared for the prisoner, had been allowed for any transfer of the anchors from treated you leniently, but I must add that time to call evidence as to the good char- the pirates to any one who, with the sem- so long as I sit on this Bench, I intend in acter of the prisoner, which as his Lordship blance of being a blacksmith, might have future to treat the receivers as nearly, if not romarked, was a very important element in offered them to the prisoner for sale. Such quite, as bad as the robbers, and pass heavy the case, remarking that he had been a recent possession justifies according to law, sentences on them accordingly.
The prisoner, to whom were interpreted tonished to find no reference to it made in and according to common sense would force the remarks of his Lordship which were the evidence laid before the Jury. He the presumption that the prisoner was ope asked that the evidence should be abundant of the pirates; but his book says that he addressed to him, looked considerably if the prisoner wanted to make out a strong bought the articles, be has always said he dazed as he was boing removed.
The Chief Justice, with regard to the case; he would not grudge the time re-bought the anchors, and his trade confirms quired to hear it. Me Hayllar now pro- bis contention, and the Jury bas found that question he had referred to, touching the duced two witnesses, as follows:- be received there anchors; but when he Press, continued:-Observations made in Choy Aknal, master of the Sun Fu, a entered the name of a man unknown as print until the conclusion of a trial are a I believe they brazier's and a blacksmith's shop, 314 the seller and wrote that he paid a certain contempt of this Court. Queen's Road West, raid he knew the pri- price which no one can contradict, these were intended to influence my judgment, soner and his shop; witness had carried on devices have been so often had recourse to and to a certain extent they have; they have led me to reconsider this case, and business for more then ten years, (in his as to be notorious; they have been so present place for five years), and had known universally adopted that the jury accepted I shall never be influenced by public opi my judgment is not what it was last night. the prisoner for ten years; he had always the fact that the prisoner had written what nion whather verbal or printed." That I said borns a good character. Prisoner was the appears in the book, but they, I presume within the first month after I took my seat terest during the past three days has been not know how to govern.
The most absorbing matter of general in-cannot help deploring the unhappy state of a naturally rich country whose rulers do accountant, not the master of the shop. believe--I certainly believe that those
By the Court-I have met him often in entries are not true. Les all shopkeepers here, and to that I have adhered. I don't the ordinary course of business. I have and others learn from this case hou.h I think the prisoner has to thank his friends, the excessively intemperate weather, the never heard anything against him.
believe they must have known it before I will make one further observation. The thermometer marking 981 deg, in my resid- QUIRKS IN THE TEA-TRADE. Pang UiSam, a doctor, residing in Ladder that whenever any article which has been paper in which the article appeared has suce on Honam and two or three degrees "Tea Inspector," writing to the N. 0. Street, bad known the prisoner for more stolen is found in the possession of any usually been so exceedingly fair and so
at present being talked of in Tos circles; than ten years; he had been friendly with man, he is bound to be prepared to show sealously anxious to avoid interfering with higher on Shameen, in the shade; but this Daily News, gives the following incident as bim; he had borne the character of an honest from whom he had it and that the article public business improperly, that I am only indication fails to convey an idea of the his information, he explains, comes entirely business man. He had never heard any came to him. without ground to suspect surprised at its having appeared, and I peculiarly disagreeable quality of sultriness from native sources:
that it bad been dishonestly come by; and must regard it as a mishap, and shall there that marked the difference of affect as com- thing against him.
A certain foreigner is reported to have Mr Hagilar said he had more witnesses, that if he fail so to exonerate himself as to fare take no further notice of it, although pered with the antecedent periods of the bought a chop of Congou last season. The but would not trouble bis Lordship with any article he admits to have come into it was able to be further taken notice of.
heated term of this relatively temperate usual course was adopted by the godown them; they were simply able to speak to the his possession the day after a robbery he
summer. I find but twelve markings above man of weighing every package as it came same effect.
most if not convicted as receiver be held
90 deg, since the 1st of July, as the maxi-in, and finding the weights ran evenly he The Chief Justice asked that they be
mam, down to the 23rd inst. On the 24th concluded all was in order. A percentage produced.
the thief or the receiver according as the
the maximum was 93 deg., and my baro- was then taken from the bulk, which was evidence tends to prove either alternative.
meter marked a fall from 20 deg. 83 min. to weighed and the packages opened and I had more carefully than usual con-
29 deg. 67 min,, at which it stood until the inspected by the foreigner and duly passed sidered this case with a view to inflict the
afternoon of the 25th, when it fell to 50 as equal to muster and then shipped off. minimum of punishment consistent with
min. and later to 64 min., where it stood On arrival in England, 100 pkgs. were dite effect on the few dishonest native shop-
steadily until yesterday evening, when it found to contain only broken leaf tea, which Mr Hayllar had nothing to say in addi- keepe:a in this Colony; but the justice of Okan Afuk and Tee Ataol, who were on fell to 48 min, and there remained the last sold at 8d. per lb., whereas the remainder, tion to what he had said already in his the prisoner's conviction has been im the 20th inst., the first day of the Sessions, night through; the wind being N.W. to similar to what the Exporter contracted speech in the case. It depended on the pugned this morning, and I have therefore convicted of burglary and assault, were N.E., but veering to W.S.W. this morning, for, sold at 18. 6d. per ib, and I am told evidence entirely whether the man deserved carefully reconsidered the whole casa, It now brought up for hentenca. A point accompanied by steady but not heavy rain that a certificate duly signed by four Lon punishment. Knowingly receiving any. is admitted that, under the first count, the had been reserved for argument whether daring several hours, the barometer not ris- don brokers was sent out to that effect. I Ling stolen by pirates was a serious offence; prisoner is technically guilty; but it is said the passage in which they were found was ing above 64 min. until after sunset to-day am informed that the native agreed to he had stated all his argument in favour that the Ordinance is an unusually stringent "a dwelling house," it being a common en- and now (10 p.m.) having touched 63 min. refund a portion of the loss, but kept pat of the prisoner in his address to the Court; one, I was aware that by English statutes trance to the different floors, which were According to former experience, at the ting off the payment. The foreigner is and the Jury, taking a particular view of similar provisions were made throwing the let as separate dwellings. The Acting At mouth of the estuary and in this river, a said to have purchased from him tea the facts and of the law, or rather accepting onus of proving absence of guilty know torkey General did not now, however, in- gals is likely to reour locally when the amounting to the promised sum, and the law as laid down by his Lordship, had ledge, on the prisoner. I am obliged to tend to press the point. A noils prosequi rotation has been in the direction of East naturally enough placed it as a set-off ound the prisoner guilty, but recommended Mr Flanket, the Registrar, for a reter was entered on the first count; and the by North to South West as in this instance; against the loss. The Obinsman declined Im to marry. He reminded the Court ence the 24 and 25 Vio, cap. 99, men were then sentenced to two years' imbut I judge from the protracted steadiness this method of settlement altogether. It hat the recommendation of the jury was a 500. 6,-whereby it is made a felony prisonment with hard labour.
of the barometer at the two successive lower appears that a meeting of the Tes Gulid for any one to pass off any counterfeit This aloned the Sessions,
markings that the diameter of the cyclone bas been held, and it is said that all the
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
RECEIVING GOODS PIRATIUALLY STOLEN.
FRISONER BENTENCED TO NINE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR.
Mr Hayllar sall he would not go further
with the case.
The Chlef Justice: Then you have no further witnesses. Do you wish to esy anything in mitigation ?
In murder the actual
Prisoner was committed for trial.
GINGER (NOT ANCHORS) Yua Abap, a hawker, for having two baskets of ginger in his possession on the 25th inst. which he cannot satisfactorily ac
count for, and which are supposed to have been stolen, was fined $10, in default of payment he has go to gaol for one month with hard labor,
UN AKWAI, HIS MARK.
His Worship sentenced prisoner to four- im-teen days' solitary confinement.
to be the thief. The law presumes he is (Before the Hon. the Acting Prime Judge,
J. J. Francis, Esq.) Thursday, August 28th.
· ́HOUSE-BREAKING AND REBISTİNG
APPREKENSION,
(Before O. V. Creagh, Esq.)
PUBLIC GAMBLING ; PROSKOUTION WITHDRAWN.
First official: Are we safe in asking His Majesty to meet the expenses for burying the British Resident?
Second official: Are we asfe? The greatest pleasure we could give our Royal Master would be to ask for a tenfold amount and bary ten Residents at once!
Upper and Lower Barmah Governmente, and, next, to the baneful influences of thoas lotteries which are being held almost daily in Mandalay alluring the simple cultivators away from their legitimate work to try their luck in the wheel of fortune. In too many inatarees, it is the case that these poor cultivators have sold off everything Li Askun, Üham Atak, Kwok ámo, Pan they possessed to indulge this newly acquir Aleung, Kwan Awal and Li Awal, charged od praving, fostered and encouraged by a with public gambling in a house fa Hilller depraved impecunious monarch, who only Street on the 9th Instant, and remanded looks to his present needs and not to the from time to time, were again brought up future good of his subjects. His old father, to-day. The Arst and second defendants knowing full well the uncertainty which had been admitted to ball in $200 each, invariably exists as to the success of the the others in $25 saob. The first five paddy arops of Upper Burma even with all defendants appeared to answer the charge the attention which could be bestowed on and were dismissed, the Captain Superinten. them, usually provided for periods of dent of Police having withdrawn the proscarcity by storing large quantities of grain la antiolpation. Thesbaw has been eating secution,
largely into the stocks accammulated by bla father without replenishing them and the outlook in Upper Burma Is, as may be Imagined, not a very bright one. One
Canton
27th August.
Our contemporary, remarking on this letter, eays:It is worthy of more than the passing attention of commercial men, when taken in conjunction with the notion of the Tea Guild in the matter, apparently after the avowod willingness of the "native" himself to refund a portion of the loss in ourred. The influence of the Guilds generally has often been referred to and exposed in these columns for years past, but their audacious attempts at obstructing foreign commerce in any way possible, is becoming more and more marked as wit- ness the action of the Swatow Opium Guild, which, luckily, is to be shortly made the enbjoot of onquiry in open Court. similar course should be pursued in regard to the matters referred to in "Tea In- spector's" letter. Such things must not be allowed to slumber, at least, if it is in- tended to maintain the independence and predominance of foreign commerce.
Quotations.
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cash,..... — New Benares, cash, 505 Old
cash,
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New Mulwa, oredit, 740 Allowance Taela,
Old Malwa, credit, 750 Allowance Taole,
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3/84 3/8
2214
4 months' sight, 3.8 Credits, 4 15 Documentary, 4 months' sight, 3/9 India, Wire, maçın
demand,... ... 222) Shanghat, demand, ...
B0 days' sight, Gold Leaf, 99, fine Sovereigns,...
Shares.
72 79+
27.40 5.35
Hongkong Bank, 55 % prem. Union Ins. Society of Canton, $1,800 China Tradera Ins. Co., $1,400 North China Ins. Co., Thu 1,350 Yangtaze Ian, Assoc, Tls, 710 Chinees Insurance Co., $285 H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $775 China Fire Ins. Co., $190 H.K. &W, Dock Co., 15% prem. H.K. O. & M. S.-boat Co., $4 prom. Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tis. 11 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tis. 93 Bongkong Gas Co., $70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $65 Oblos Sugar Refining Co., $158 Uhinese Imperial Loan of 1874, nominal
Do.
of 1877, do. Temperature. (Taken at Mestre Falconer & Co.'s Premisu, Queen's Road.)
Hongkong, August 28, 1879.
9 A.....
BABOMEFER-- Do. Do.
1 P.M...
4 L.M....
THERMOMETER—9 A.M..........
Do. Do.
1 P,H....
29 988
29.900
20.806
80
83
4 P.....
88
Do.
Do. (Wat bulb) 9.x. Do.
Do. 4 P. Do. Maximum
82 ***
80
Da, 1 P.M.
81
81
80
Do. Minimum over nizál
Shipping Intelligence. The following is corrected from the Intert London and Colonial Papers, &c.: VESSELS TO ARRIVE,
Left. Feb.
&T HONGKONG Name.
From
22, Grossfurst Constantine, Hamburg Apr.
8, Leon,
10, Spica, 21. Werra,
Twilight 27, Homewood,
26,
May
2, Alex Yeats,
5, Alexander,
11, Southern Cross, 13, Glamorganshire, 29, Joseph Hayden, 31, Newcastle, June.
8, Adolph, 6, Harrington, 12, Belle of Oregon, 12, Pampero, 28, Joachim Christine, 27, Pym, July.
3, Undine, 8, Glenrosa, 10, Oxfordshire (s.). 12, Nestor (s)
Glenartney,
Liverpool Cardiff
London
New York Penarth
Cardiff Penarth
New York
Cardiff. Cardif
Antwerp
Cuxhaven
Flashing
Cardiff
Antwerp
Cardiff
Antwerp
Cardiff
Antwerp
London
Liverpool
LOADING, FOR CHINA AND JAPAN FORIN, At London Steamers via Sue Ongal, Scindia.
Glencoe. Loudoun Castle
Belted Will,
At Liverpool
Sailing Venatis,
Langland,
Sarah Booth.
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