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when, after some further evidence, Mr Wainewright summed up the case on behalf of the Galld. The Tactal reservad his decision, which he announced he would communicate to the parties through the proper channels.
You Kiang; Danish, J. V. Petersen; Dutch, Dr. Fook; English, T. B. Glover; French, V. Pignatel; German, H. Iwerson; Japanese, Siga; Norwegian, H. M. Flets cher; Russian, A. E. Olarovski. A. corria- pondent in the N. O. D. News gives a list of the toasts, by which it appears that the AN Interesting rifle match between the health of the illustrious explorer will be Shanghai and Kobe Volunteers took place proposed three times-first in English, next simultaneously in each port on the 15th. in Chinese, and finally in Japanese. The The Shanghai team consisted of the follow- same writer says:-The U. S. flag-ship Richmond is expected here in a few daya, ing shots, and we append their sooren :→→→
and we will doubtless have the Admiral's Private Williama...79 Sergt. Glas 69 band to add to the festive occasion. The Lieut. Tucker......79 Corp. Johnston...68 French flagship Armife and the English Bergt. Lanning......70 Priv. Ambrose...67 flag-ship Iron Duke, it is thought, will siso Priv. Vincent...... 70 Malherbe...58 arrive about the time of the proposed The total score was thus 560, giving andinnor, and I learn that the Frince of Savoy will be bore shortly in his corvette average of 70 per iman. Seven shots at We will doubles have a brilliant time, oach of the three-ranges, 150, 200 and 300 and Nagasaki will show some of her old yardı. In response to a telegrain, a fashioned bospitality." nonpoing the above result, a message was received from Kobe to the effect that the Kobo team had scored a total of no less than 631, the higheat individual score being 83. The News hears that there will be a return challenge.
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THE World, or Atlar rather, in the World, refers to Dave Carson as "the 'Pony' Moore of our Indian Empire, even to the display of diamonds in his short-front," and tells us that "Dave, who is really an Iberian Jew, never performs out of Hindustan, where he is Ma James Parker, who has for five years a great favourite." There are thousands, we filled most satisfactorily the second clerk may inform Allee, who were never in Hin- ship in the Magistracy, vacates his appoint-dustan,--some at the time of their enjoying ment as from to-day, and proceeds by an his quips and cranks many thousands of early steamer to Porak, where he undertakes miles away from Hindustan-who have the assistant commissionership of Polico. laughed heartily over and over again, year Mr Parker, during his seventeen years in after year, at Dave and his nonsense, and China, bas held various public appoint admired the artistic excellence of his several ments, and in Hongkong was for several companies. What Allas' means by his years in the Registrar General's Office native version of 'Champagne Charley'" is under the Hon. C. V. Smith, the present more than we can make out. The Ben- Straits Settlemente Colonial Secretary.galee Baboo" is his cleverest song; the air By his invariable courtesy and willis purely a Hindu one, and the native ingness to saint, advise and oblige, song from which it is taken, may be Mr Parker has made himself singu- heard any night in the native Bazaar in larly popular amongst those who bave to seek redress, advice or information at the Magistrasy. By his departure the clerk ship of the Government Fire Brigade becomes vacant, and masonically the Secretary-ship of the Victoria and United Service Lodges and the high position of Scribe E. of the Royal Arch, Vistoria Chapter, are deprived of their present incumbent.
We have received a printed copy of the Rules and Regulations for the receipt and transmission of telegrams on and after let April, 1880, issued by the E. E. A. & China Telegraph Company. The Singapore Manager states that in order to acquaint the public at the earliest possible moment with the alterations which have been effected by the recent Telegraph Congress, the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company has Issued its Revised Rules and Regulations for the receipt and transmission of tele- grams on and after 1st April, 1880. Merchants and others have now six clear months in which to correct their codes, so as to bring them into harmony with the requirements of the Convention." It may be possible to comprehend the meaning of the paragraphs in time; we cannot say that
THE CHINA MAIL.
1879. The position of the Society for the present year as far as it can be ascertained, is as follows:- Balanos of Working Acount....$352,471.27 Add-Estimated Premium
earned since, less Reinsor andes, Return Premium and Charges...i
CHINESE CUSTOM,
smoke coming up into their house. The ticket, 4 pieces of silver, 4 boxes of matebes, Exchange on the American model was door was looked and I asked him to open if. and 200 cash, (total value $1.20) from Yip introduced to the notice of business mon, I went inside the house. The first witness Mok Li, a coolie, both offendes being alloged about fifty of the most important mar and others cams in to have a look at the to have been committed at the Race-Coursa cantile firms signifled their approval of the house. I saw charcoal burning on the on the 20th inst. The first complainant is scheme, and their desire to become sub-. ground, and there were four jars, two on a coolie employed at the Raso Course and soribers. the fire and two on the ground. I saw living at the Grand Stand; second coolle By the steamer Glencos, which leaves .$245,000.00 no danger, and I went away leaving Itves with him. The prisoner had broken Shanghai to day (18th) for New York, the jars just as I found them. About open their boxes in their absence and was Colonel J. C. S. Colby, formerly United. $697,473.27 2 p.m. I went back and found defendant found walking off with his balky booty by States Consul at Chinkiang, and family, Deduck-Estimate of Losses and
putting out the fire. I told him he would P. S. Ray, who apprehended him. He was take passage. We are sure that we are Clain known to date,...$100,000 00 also have to wash the ground. The door sentenced to three month imprisonment only giving expression to the feeling of all
was then upon. The jars were just as be- for each larceny, six months in all.
who know Colonol Colby, when we say his Credit balanco......$437,471.27 | føre. I could not see the contents of the
departure from China is to be regretted; jara, but he told me there was quicksilver
and we trust that he will arrive home Directors.-Owing to the resignation of in them, He then took away the jara In a case of assault (dismissed) Kwang safely. We feel sure. also, from the Co- the Hon. B. Lowcock, on leaving the to his own house and cleaned up the place Aying, wife of the accused Chan Ho Tsing, lonel's well known abilities, that we have Colony, the Directors elected the Hon, H. and gave me the key. I looked the door a hawker, in evidence said of her husband, not heard the last of him. B. Gibb to hil the vacancy.
and went away. I heard nothing more the accused: "My husband is a good man. till the morning of the 19th, when I was The worst thing about him is, he has a told that one of the children of the first lover. 1 am not a bit jealous of her." Of witness was dead. I saw the child in the course the man who got anch a splendid looking glass shop. I tried to find the character got off. people belonging to the shop, but have not seen them. I am not in the habit of let- ting empty houses for this purpose: He has only been in the lane for a month, I don't know where he came from. I saw the master and all the people of the shop at 0a.m. on the 15th,
In accordance with cisure 109 of the Articles of Association Messrs. H. Doppins and H. B. Gibb retire, but offer themselves for re-election.
Auditors Mr Geo. O. Scott having re- signed, the Board appointed Mr R Innos "to audit the pressut Accounta. Mr J. H. Cox and Mr R. Innes retire, but offer tremselves for re-election.
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P. RYBIE, Chairman.
OBSTRUOTING THE PRAYA.
Lo Akat, shopman, was fined $2 for obstruoting the Praya, quite blocking up the street with about 200 bags of sugar and all the apparatus usually employed in weighing and packing sugar. Some thirty men were employed and passage was impossible.
similarly fined for a similar offence.
Fok King Wan, another shopman, was
DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.
Thomas King, an American, engineer unemployed, was fined $1 for the above
The Coroner said it was rather unfortunate offense.
that they were unable to discover the usual one carrying on a trade in a deadly article practice of the trade by the Chiness. Every was bound to use proper precuations in His Worship then read ex- such work, tracts from authorities explaining the law bearing on this subject.
The Jury returned a verdict of culpable homicide against Fang Atung, the man who boiled the quicksilver the deadly fumes from which were inhaled by the deceased.
The Coroner remarked that the verdict delivered against this man Pang Atung, amounted to a charge of manslaughter.
By the Jury do not know that the CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE. vapour of quicksilver is poisonous. The yearly meeting of the shareholders been unable to find any one who carried on -Inspector Thomson stated that he had, of the above Office was het at the head the trade of looking-glass maker. Every office this afternoon, when there were pre-one whom he had asked said it was not a
it. sent the Hon. W. Keswick, (chairman) usual trade in Hongkong; they had not seen who presided, Hon. P. Ryrie, and Megars Dalrymple, F. D. Sassoon, H. H. Nelson, A. P. MEwen, C. D. Bottomley, J. C. Remedios and D. Ruttonjoe.
The Chairman said :-Gentlemen, the roport which is now submitted to you, and which, with your permission, we shall con- sider as read, states so fully the results of the business of the office 1878 that it seema to me superfluous to add anything to it. The not gain is large, and i have no doubt will prove satisfactory to the shareholders. The year that we are now in, iflice 1879, commenced with some savere losses, and unfortunately they have recurred at futor- vale, the total loss of the Argyll last month affecting us to the extent of £10,000. Calcutta, and now and again at the After making the fullest provision, how- caima, we have native theatres, which are great things in ever, for all known their way. His "Dak-Gharry" is almost $162,000 at the credit, and from some agencies the returns are only to end of July. as good as the "Bengalee," but like it has The amount of premia collected is less than Civil Hospital this afternoon before the the disadvantage of not being readily enjoy at the corresponding period last year, which Coroner C. V. Creagh, Esq., and the fol- I understand is likewise the case with other lowing gentlemen as a jury; viz, Mesara ed. or appreciated, far less understood, by local offices, and is attributable to the geH. Matchett, G. W. Butt and J. Lamke, anyone who hasn't made India his home and neral depression from which trade has
on the body of one Foo Chow Min. The come to know the character thus taken off. suffered, and also to changes in the chan
nele in which business formerly wed. following evidence was taken. We are informed by authorities more trust-I trust, gentlemen, that you and all our worthy than Atlas that Carson left England on the 22nd September with a now troupe of seventeen members, the largest, we think, he has ever brought out. Whether he will extend his tour this year as far as China, we are not aware. It will probably depend upon circumstances.
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shareholders will continue to give the of the utmost support, and from the retu:na which for so long a series of years the office has made, you may feel confident in ob- taining a satisfactory rosult. the report and accounts. Mir, Ryrie secon- The Chairman proposed the adoption of ded the motion; and it was adopted,
Before putting this motion the Chair man called for any questions, but no shareholder had any information to ask for.
Mr Ryrie proposed the declaration of a second dividend of $104.80 por share and Mr Dalrymple cconded the a second return on contributions of ten per cent. propositi n; which was carried.
Mr Rutton jeu proposed and Mr Remedios seconded the reappointment of the existing Consulting Committee, Messrs Gibb, Ryrie, Sassoon, Dalrymple and Manger. Carried. Mr Bottomlay proposed, and Mr Reme. dica seponded, the re-election of Mr John Robinson, and Mr A. P. M'Even as audi. The Chairman stated that the dividend warrants will be ready to-morrow.
KEMARKING on the recent venture of the Miten Bishi S.S. Co., the Hiogo News says The departure of the Mitan Bishi ateamship Niigata-maru for Hongkong in augurates an era in the commercial history of Htogo, which is worthy of more than passing notice. The Niigata-maru carries a considerable amount of cargo and several passengers on this her ploneer trip, and we confidently look forward to the ultimate development of a lucrative carrying trade for the enterprising company who have established the line. They certainly de serve to succeed, and we have every con-tors. Oarried. fidence in their eventual success The records of the Custom House afford every prospect of a remunerative traffic in the
the
THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE PRAYA.
INQUEST.
An inquest was held at the Government
Mr George Bayne :-I am a foreman in
Surveyor General's Departraent. Yea terday afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock a number of coolies, of which deceased was one, were engaged swinging a block of
the roadway on the Prays to the new wall granite by moans of a travelling crane from being erected there. I am not in charge of the work. The deceased was employed by a contractor. On swinging the crane into its place the whole structure over balanced and fell into the harbour. De ceased had hold of a corew that works the rear balance. Ho held on to this and was be bad let go he would have been all right. awang right out on to the coping stone. If The box on the back with the balance fell on bim and crushed him up against a sep. ing alone. I was about 25 feet behind him when this occurred, When I went to him he was quite senseless and blood was flow. 1ng from some part of his body; I could not tell what part, he was so doubled up. One of the masons present got him out while I went for the ambulance. He was alive when taken up, but died before the dead box arrived. He never spoke after By the Jury:-The back balance box is The box was not in tale instance run to its full extent. De ceased should have screwed it out before.. the stone was rated from the ground, but he had not done so. I believe the cause of the accident to be that the crane was swung round too quickly while the balance was not pulled far enough back. One coolie stande on the crane and takes charge. He was standing on the top and was thrown into the water. The stone was not un nanally large. No accident ever occurred
Dr. Wharry-I am Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital The body of deceased was brought to the Hospital yesterday about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, It was Tovoutly doid. It was that of a Chinese male about 17 years of age. The right-hand and upper left arm were crushed. There were several severe abrasions on
the accident.
Bec.
SELLING SPIRITS WITHOUT A LIORNCE.
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(Courier.) ing at Hakodadi on the 1st instant for Shanghai.
The M. 4. Dizon and Willis wore load-
H. M. S. Magpie returned. to port this afternoon (14th) from the mouth of the Yangtse, as it was found impossible to-con-- tinue surveying operations owing to the dirty state of the weather outside.
A telegram from Adelaide, dated the 19th September, in the Northern Territory Times, says: Opening of Sydney Ex- hibition, a splendid spectacle; the weather, which had been bad for some days, turned out lovely. Lord Loftus performed the opening ceremony, and made a short bat appropriate speech. The Prince of Wales intends to visit Sydney before the Ex- hibition closes."
H. M. S. Modeste arrived in port to day (10th) from the Chusan Group. She is going to make an extended stay in port. ** Wo understand that the British barqan Franz Klamperyer, kemper of "The Pelham was arrested yesterday (15th) for International Café and Restaurant," Wel debt, at the instance of her master, Captain lington Street, was charged with soling sckford. spirituons liquors in loss quantities than We note the arrival of O. F. von Möllen- two gallons, without a loco, in condorff, who has been for the last three years travention of Ord. Nɔ 11 of 1844, Acting Consul for the German Empire at
22. The fence was alleged to Tientsin.
He takes his brother's place have been committed on the morning of the hore as interpreter at the German Con 16th inst, shortly after midnight. Ser; sulate General, and as German Assessor at geant Toomey had the cas, in fand, and the Mixed Court, till the arrival of Mr C. when the case was last before the Court, had Fiendel, who je now at home on leave. called P. C. Grieve and a sailor friend, both of whom were served with brandy to the extent of three glasses. These witness s were now recalled to allow Mr Stephens, who appeared for the accused, to cross-examine them. Mr Wotton now appeared for the prosecution. The case occupiert the Court some time to-day, and stands further ad- journed until to-morrow (Wednesday) at
ten o'clock.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "*Cuina MAIL,”
"October 21st. Six-Although as a Chinaman I may be
disqualified from venturing any opinion on question of Chinese social life, because, you know, foreigners in Hongkong under stand Chinese affairs so much better than
remark or two. we Chinese do, I beg of you to allow me a
We note that Mr O. L. Simpson, Iste Commissioner of Customis, Chefoo, has been transferred as Commissioner to Kiu. kiang, and supersedes ir E. T. Holwill, who has been acting as clock-in-charge since the departure of Mr Commissioner Kopsch. He leaves for his new post by the Hankowo to morrow morning (18th.)
Japan.
NAGASAKI.
(Rising Sun, Oct. 11.)
The gun-boats Sylvia and Hornet left here on Monday last, the former for the Gotos, and the latter for a cruise, from which she
returned on Thursday. The German Cyclops also left on the same day for Tientsin. The Hart arrived from Yokohama yesterday. Men-of-war in harbour-Hornet and Hart expected-U. S. tag-ship Richmond, Frenoh flag-ship Armide, and Russian gun-boat
The philosopher Chwang Teze once woke | Tongous. up and said he had had a long dream in A report was in circulation in Yokohama which he dreamt that he was a butterfly, to the effect that the Vigilant. had in some but when he awoke, whilat believing him-way come to grief. We are able to state. Alf to be Chwang Taze, it occurred to him that she arrived safely at Chefoo on the 8th that he was after all but a butterfly now and left again on the 18th nit. dreaming that he was Chwang Teze,"
This shows that Chwang Teze was at any rate a consistent thinker,
His Lordship the Chief Justice lately woke up on the Bench and said he had had a long dream in which he dreamt that for over fifteen years he was residing in Hong kong as Attorney General and Judge, and that all that time he fancied that the Slavery to which the English Slave Trade Acts referred was one thing, and that the bondage in which Chinese domestic servants were held in Hongkong was another, but now, believing himself to be the greatest anti-Slavery champion of these latter days, Sir Wilberforce IL, it did not occur to him might have really been awake during the last fifteen years or more, and be dreaming
time has yet arrived for us, but we live in present, and a much more promising future," the Consulting Committee, remarking that filled with atones. Stones are also placed for a moment to think that possibly be
hope, and may have a word to say by and by.
In connection with the Chief Justice's re- marks yesterday that "it was very curious, but so it was, and in this Colony it had been remarkably so, that there seemed to be regular tides of crime; in this Colony there had always been tides of crime; there was at one time a tide of burglaries, then a tide of ring snatching from women's cars with violence, then a tide of attacks for purposes of robbery with great violonce such as created a great noise when he (the Chief Justice) was absent from the Colony,
Mr Nelson proposed a vote of thanks to the Company was working very satisfactorily, and that the shareholders could not but on top of the box. feel much indebted to them for their trouble.
THERE is room for speculation, says the Borabay Gazette, as to what affect news of recent events at Kabul will have at
The Chairman said the general agents and Mandalay. The relations between our the Con ulting Committee would continue Government and Upper Burmah have not to do their utmost to keep the Company up been of the most friendly nature for some
to its present satisfactory position, bat time past, and it may be doubted if intelli- they must be well supported by the share- gence of the Kabul disaster will not induce holders. Theeba to indulge in some sot of hostility which will necessitate British interference in that quarter. Fortunately he bas a little affair on hand already, which may prove THE POISONING OF FOUR CHILDREN. before. sufficient to engage his attention. We are in- formed that the difficulties between the Bar. meae Government and their recusautsubjecta
There was no other business
THE INQUEST.
The inquest in connection with this sad
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This shows that His Lordsbip in at any rate not as consistent a thinker as Chwang Tea
A CHINAMAN.
We hear that the duplex system of tele- graphy, by which messages can be sent and received on one wire, at the same time, has just been successfully introduced upon tha Government lines between Nagasaki and Yokohama.
Mr E. B. Paul, H.B.M.'s Consular As-
sistant here, took passage in the Oceanic yesterday for Londen, on leave of absence.
OSAKA.
The Hingo News correspondent says every- thing continues very quiet in Osaka. Cho- lera is not quite extinot yet. There aro three or four deaths from this source every day.
Iron safes, in large numbers, are being manufactured in Osaka and Sakai. They are not badly put together, but I see the makers are pirating English makers' names and the British coat-of-arms. The spelling of the proper names abounds with errors, and the fraud can therefore easily be de- tected--by Europeans, whose eye, however, P. Bis Lordship was wrong all the artiola is not intended to catch. A these fifteen years regarding this one point, strong protest ought to be entered, by all and set it right only now, may there not be dealers in imported safes, against such other points too regarding which he migh fraudulent practices. consistently reverse previous decisions? I. I think it has not yet been mentioned in like to see an English Judge who is oon- the Hiogo News that several trains on the sistent.
Kobe-Kioto railway are now being en- giueared entirely by native drivers; so far, without accident.
Uhina.
SHANGHAI,
(News)
The P. and O. steamer Ancona bas at
on the Irrawaddy above Mandalay is as far ease of which we gave particulars yester- from settlement as ever. The villagers on the advance of the Burmese forces simply day, was resumed this afternoon at the ran away to the Kakhyen bills, and sent Magistracy, before Mr Creagh, as Coroner, any villages on the banks of the river this tide was sweeping over this Colony, of which are hostile to them. The Burmese J. P. Lembke, and M. C. Grote, The fol-peared to have resulted from coueursion of
the brain. obild-stealing and connected offences, a do not care to advance into the Kathyen lowing evidence was given:-
jungles, where they would most likely fall
Dr Marques:-On the 19th instant about U Aman-I am a stonecutter, employed tide which he hoped to be able to stem, into some ambush. They therefore content half-past eleven, a girl, Lee Yow Sing, aged on the Fraya Wall.
Deceased was my we may add another interesting fast which themselves by conspying the villages on the 10, and a boy, Cheong Akow, aged 4, were daanman, and was also employed there probably not many of our readers have banks of the river from which the rebala brought to the Government Civil Hospital, Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock weather on her passage up from Hongkong. litterateur, a clover diplomatist, and in
then there was a tide of murders; sud now / threatening messages that they will burn and a jury composed of Messrs E. Georgs different parts of the body. Death ap. length (14th) managed to cross that for
noticed. Not only criminal matters but nearly all matters of newspaper interest
come not singly but in battalions. Fires
men going home, and these are misfortunes too, always come before us in (wos and threes. Accidents and sudden deaths are pe culiarly susceptible to this rule. Of this olass for instance we published last night the death by falling overboard of the mate of
a vesel in the harbour, and hard-working
have made their cacope.
27th October:-
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the box.
THE NEW CONSUL-GENERAL FOR SIAM.. Siam has to be congratulated in the British midable abstacle the Wousnug Bar, and Government's choice of a successor to Consul come up to her moorings at Shanghai--but General Knox. Mr William Gillord Palgrave, not before she had discharged the greater who, Reuter states, has been appointed Re
sident of Bam-though why that should be, part of her cargo below the bar.
The steamer Amy, Captain Drewes, substituted for the title of "Consul General arrived on 14th, having experienced rough does not seem clear-is a distinguished
1 examined them immediately. They were deceased was working near me at a craze lobering under great depression, as if they when it capsized and threw him down. He She reports that she left there on the fore private life a charming, genial gentleman, noon of the 8th instant, and for three days. He is the son of Sir Francis Palgrave, and was standing in front of the balance box in had sustained a severe shock. They com UNION INSURANCE BOCIETY OF CANTON plained of a pain in their chest.
I assisted some other experienced strong N.E. gales and high sea. like his elder brother has made his name in Bothar of the crane. Report for Presentation to the Shareshewed symptoms of poisoning. The boy coolies to get deceased cut from among the Had to lay the steamer to for twenty-two literature. He was burn in Westminster, generally come in twos and threes; shipping holders at the Sixth Ordinary Meeting, to died at 4 o'clock and the girl about half-past stones. He died immediately he was taken hours, the scas breaking clean over her, Jan. 24, 1826, and received, bis education at I made a post-mortem examination, to the Hospital. I am quite sure deceased washing away the deck cargo and moveable the Charterhouse and at Trinity College, casualties never come singly; even leading be held at the Society's Offices, on Monday, Both the children were well nourished, works the back balance screw always stands / half-speed for eight hours, through the ven 1846. He was appointed in 1847 a second was standing on the crane. The man who things on deck. Un the 10th had to go Oxford, where he took first-class honours in and neither of them bore external marks of The Directors have now to submit to the violence. The lungs were congested in both on the crane in front of the box. The breaking over the vessel. Afterwards bad lieutenant in the 8th Bombay Native Shareholders the Report on the business of cases. The liver also was congested. The back balance screw is outside and behind variable winds and fine weather, followed Infantry. Leaving India in 1853, he (Witness now admitted that by strong N.N.W. winds and rainy weather travelled in Arabia and other parts of the
to port.
Turkish empire till 1863, and on his retorn the Society for the year 1878 and for the bile was extravasated in the small intestines. six months ending 30th June, 1879. i did not find anything abnormal in the deceased was standing on the ground. It
Pootang Point, at its present rate of ex. to Europe received the gold medal of the I found a 1878-The net Premium collected for the stomaob, brains or kidneys.
Wes another man who was on the crabe) tension, is bidding fair to shortly enter into French Geographical Society. Mr Palgrave The man standing on the crane is in charge year, after deducting Returns and Re-small trace of mercury in the lungs. From of it. The stone that was being lifted was rivalry with the Woosung Bar as an obstacle was sent out by the English Government
these symptoms I conclude they both died insurances, amounts to $919,810.35.
It will be noticed from the annexed of mereurial poisoning. I also examined rather heavier than the others lifted by this to navigation. It is not many days sincera on special service for the release of Consul Me Creagh has before him just now these Statement of Working Account that after the bodies of the two other childrell. One crane. The stones are not all the same large ocean going steamer narrowly escaped Cameron and the other prisoners in Abyssinia, several "Crowners 'qubats," one man providing for the payment of $143,055,15 was brought into Hospital yesterday about e, but several stones as long as this one grounding on it, and the chances offcollision in July, 1865, and remained in Egypt, by once threatened to capsize before, but has at this Point are becoming more frequent, to England. He was appointed Consul at found drowned; one suicide by hanging; an Interim Bonus, Dividend and Reserve 4 pm.; the other boy was brought in. On have been moved before. The crane has between passing vessels nearing each other order, till June, 1866, when he returned
Fund declared last May, the balance at Sunday last, the 19th instant, about noon. four children suffocated by fumes of Gredit Is $161,940.48.
Both were dead when they arrived. I held never actually gone. The arans is the pro- 10 consequenes of their having to give it so Soukhoum-Kalé July 28, 1866, at Trebizond boiling quicksilver; one man killed at the Of this amount the Directors propose to a post-mortem examination on the bodies perty of the Government and is worked by wide a barth on the one hand, and the May 20, 1867, and at the Island of St. Police Hulk, Soochow Creek shallows, etc., Thomas, February 18, 1879. Mr. Falgrave the contractor. pay & Second Bonus of 5% on Contribuyesterday. The symptoms were precisely
The Jay returned a verdict of "accid. on the other. Yesterday morning (14th) is the author of a work of great merit, Frays accident yesterday, in all seven tions, a Second Dividend of $81.25 per similar to those of the other two children. ental death, The Coroner concurred in the steamer Patchoy got ashore on the entitled "Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1962- deaths (eight including the mate) out of Share, and to place the usual propertion. The right mig in both cases an enlarged, the verdict of the jury, and said it was quite Point, and in consequence did not get away 63); 2 vols., 1865, which has been transla
vix: $6,853,88 to Reserve Fund, which will the left much congested. Death in these evident that no one but the deceased him- the ordinary course of Nature, all within a
absorb a sum of $68,171.03. This leaves a casse also resulted from mercurial poison self was to blame.
The prospectus for the formation of the ted into French by M. E. Jonyeaux. In day or two.
balance of $83,769.46, against which there ing. The fumes of mercury would produce
Shanghai Telephone Company has at the preface the author states that at the are claims and losses still unpaid, estimated those symptoms. Vapour of mercury would
length been issued by the promoter, Mr O.time of the undertaking he was in cornen« C. Soune, sub-engineer of the Great Nor- tion with the order of Jesuits, an order wall at $52,000, thus closing the account for act on the lungs, the metal itself would act
on the stomach.
thern Telegraph Company. Similar com known in the annals of philanthropio daring t he is also grateful to acknowledge that the panies formed in several of the great com. mercial centres of the United States and necessary funds were furnished by the Great Britain appear to have been singa liberality of the present Emperor of the larly successful, and we see no reason why French. His subsequent works are:-*** the proposal to establish a local company Essays on Eastern Questions, 1872 and Hermann" Agha: an Eastern Narrative" should not meet with approval. As an
We observe that a movement was in pro 1878. KER grem In Nagasaki to entortain Professor The outtura of the business for 1878 Nordenskiöld on his arrival at that port, will doubtless be satisfactory to the Share and that a dinner is to be given to the ing to 8431,226 18, divided as follow
holders, the net profit for the year amount Return of 80% on Contributions, $274,158.20
Police Intelligence. (Befor the Hon. C. B. Plunket). Tuesday, October 21.
EXTENGLYE THIFT OF GODLIES' CLOTHES,
Lee Akim-I am employed by the landlord.: of the lane as a watchman, to look after the unoccupied houses. On the morning of the 17th the master of the Tai Chan, a looking-glasa distinguished explorers The Awing Sun
shop, asked me to lend him an empty house Chin Atong, coolis, was charged with gives the names of the gentlemen forming Dividend of $191.00 per share... 88,950.00 to boil soms quicksilver in as he could not (1) stealing jacket, a pair of trousers, a
Placed to Recorre Food 41,192.08 do so in his own shop. I let him have the handkerchief. a pair of stockings, a pair of example, we may alte Manchester, where in a novel in 2 vols., 1872, Mr Palgrave
key of the ground floor of No, 21, which garter and 800 cals (total value (1.50) little more than a wook, as stated in one of asted as British Consul in Manila for twelv $413,226,18 was vacant,
About a quarter past 10 from Foo Ayan, and (1) 3ackets, 3 pairs of the last mall papers, after the subject of mouth, after which he resigned the appoint o'clock I heard people say something about trousers, 1 bag, 1 parse, 1 girdle, 1 pawn establishing Lancashire Telephonilement.—Straitą Zimer,
the Committee, one having been elected
from sach nationality, as follows -- American, W. P. Mangam | Chingre, Wong