No. 5510.—MARON 11, 1881
OKINA SUGAR REFINING COM-
PANY, 'LIMITED, >.
MERYING THIS AFTERNOON.
w
The ordinary, annual meeting of the Shareholders in the above Company mas held at the office of the General Agents, this afternoon at 3 o'clock, for the purpose of receiving the repute of the General Agents together with a statement of eo counts to 31st December, 1880.
There were present Hon. W. Keswick, chairman, who presided, and Mesure A
André, E. B, Belilios, A. Coxon, E. Smith,
Foster, M. Grey, H. Dickie, Macgregor and Mollallosh M
THE CHINA MAIL
Jack and a Mr Lamont, who worked the establishment for their own account until
Thoir operations resulted in very consider able lossen.
it can be worked suscessfully, but we trust (the death of the former in August, 1878, and that the annual police, lighting and contract was made according to plaintiff's and soarched fastened to a bag round been identified as the property of a servant
Wong Ahong was charged with the un-
The Chairman said, Gentlerden: The receipt of your letter of the 50th instant,ing a time, the licence form, contain recent meeting of the Legislative Council, without any promise, and told him to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard!
report, with your permission, it will be
OUR BOYS
stated that he had nothing to us, but
AMERICAN MAIL. TELEGRAMS.
convenient to take as read, and I hope you toh loss and inconvenience to the Com- and it is to be noticed that the words "One portions marked in red ink. We do not own the defendant's shop for pay-Kennedy, was charged with stealing a fan.explosion at Salford, it is intended to
na piouser
£
WAS
up
mont.
SUBFICIOUR CHARACTER.
value. I believe, will be more marked nications on government plusiness to Messrs completed in about two months, and the cation animus against Air Keswick, the of the shin America, the defendant claimed Leued to nix weņka' imprisonment with hard who shall give informatio
par- an-
costly property may not be longer anused
be here noted that the ground rant on the voyages to Saigon and back, in February, P. O. Duncan, No. 21, supected the man of first witness. The prisoner was standing and with the view of ascertaining whether
Distillery premises in 8763:62: per annum, March, and April, laat year; when the by the way he passed by lum on the road, na corner, and the knife in Court was
finding on his person 13
found on his person. The jacket had also that His Excellency will reconsider his
water rates amount to $300.
version Mr Ray
who noted as broker, Iba of copper sila decision and, in the meantime, we have to
Finally, it is very doubtful whether our intimated that if the voyages were success-hia waist. Frisoner would not say where of first witness. request that you will be good enough to After Mr Jack's death, the manufactory operations at the Distillery gut be carried fuil he ought to receive a present, to which he got them. Prisenor was coming fram
remained in disuse until we bought it, on under the burden of su honvy a tax
Some farther evidence corroborating the defondant tansented. Defendant on the con- the direction of Aberdeen. There is a veslove was given by Wong Afat, & cook, note that we pay the fee under protest."
The next letter also from the arm to except for about two months during which For the foregoing reasons, which might trary, asserts that before the first voyage sal there now being recoppered. The nails employed by first witness, and Chua Atai, the Acting Colonial Secretary dated 80th we worked it in order to test its capabilities. be easily multiplied, rospectfully submit began the plaintiff himaolf asked that a found on the prisoner are of the kind usoda coolfe employed in the house No. 32, in tion of clate the 28th ns to the payment of ultimately developed into the China Sugar tice, policy, expediency, ar publia necessity, goad voyages, and that he assonted generally The boy now said he got the nails from August, directing attention to their intima Iz 1876, the Sugar Rofinery, which that the Governor has no groula of jus- prosent should be made to him if he made in corporing vessels.
which the prisoner was arrested. “
Defendant having heon duly cautioned the 32,000, and anying that they would Relining Company, Limited, commenced to suppers his decision: and if our case without specifying the value or nature of the water at Aberdeen; he was taking them feel obliged by his favouring us with the the distillation of spirits, in its own pre ended there, we think we should have made the present. On his return from the first to Aberdeen to sell then
admitted two previous convictions, (throo document without further
delay,
na ita non-mises, under a licence, in which a fee of ont one sufficiently strong to demand your voyage plaintiff soonis to have proposed Fined $5, in dofaalt three weeks hard were proved against him), and he was doin receipt has
nitted for trial at the next Criminal Sea- done eased and is causing much loss Dollars One hundred ($100) was then and Lordship's interference. But we foel bound that the present should be a watch; he says labour.
Company its
has since been annnally paid.
in the interests of the Company we re- that defendant asked the price, to which ho
sions of the Supreme Court. The Acting Colonial Secretary writes, In 1875, a new condition, No. 5, having present, to go a step further, and we ven-replied 8150 to $100, and the defendant August 31st to Mears Jardine, Matheson bean added to the licence, which limited certain marks which fell from the Go dant, on the other hand, states that plaintif & cents, at the Oriental. Sugar Refinery, on NEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE
ture to direct your Lordship's attention to athorized him to get it at Noble's. Defen- lawful possession of 9 taels of sugar, value & Co., the letter is worth giving in f
15 full
the sale of A Gentlemen,-I have the honor, by de- quantities of not less than thirty-six (36) vornor in the coarse of his addresses, at a naked for a watch, but that he put him off the 1st instant, and was fined 31, in default aire of the
the Governor, to acknowledge the gallons at
now condition, was reprinted in as they appear in the report contained in wait until the charter had expired, when labour stating that the most-receipt of the License the Government Gazette of the 26th May of the Daily Press newspaper, which acctm- he would give him a present without pro- to distii spirits, has caused and is causing that year. It is to be found at page
260,
panies this latter, and Usporially to
to those
ourge of the a watch. In the
THE IRISH TROUBLES will agree with me in considering that it
month,
May, the bill was pre-
London, Jun 22.-In consequence of the indicates, as our third annual statement,
hundred Dollars were still allowed to enclose the Government Gazelle, as this re- sented st
Hong Shang Lam, house-boy to Mr J. satisfactory development of a valuable in-
In reply, I am to inform you that Hie remain aruong its printed mattor.
port was a good deal inutilated in the mont It would seam from defendant's
materially strengthen the garrison at Man- stry. The profits admit of a dividend at Excellency signed the license the same day We believe that the new condition had process of transcription into that organ, and sccount that it had been brought before but nel shirt, value 82, the property of his one--
chester, the rate of 12 per cout, on the capital, and that he ascertained the company werò pro- its origin in certain complaints which had much of the matter we refer to being that he refused to pay it. When it was player.
Mrs Kennedy proved the theft. The boy volunteers at Newport, Isle of Wight,
London, Jau. 2-The cominandant of · wo purpose plasing 372,00 against coat of pared to take out the license on the condi- been addressed to the Government by the obviously unfit for a sober official record, again prosented the plaintiff accompanied Mrs Kennedy proved the theft. The boy
has extension, The Swalow Refinery
tions prescribed by the Governor in Coun-military authorities about the retailing of was suppressed. The accuracy, however, Mr Noble's chroff, and the
the defendant's no- worked for a few months last year and had,cil, but that, as some ambiguity appoarod spirits to soldiers and others by our pro- of the newspaper report is beyond in-countant paid the price of thywatch 3160. had not left his quarters. She had occasion on warned that an attempt would be
the
and decessors in I wrote a
annory thors, of course, 'n few exist in the correspondence,
1.to go into the servans' room and found the mode to blow up the enterprise, of cours
Hongkong Distillery.
The defendent swears that hes at Canton ("dificulties to overcome, but still the roult private noto to Mr Macgregor; waking an istillery premises being then under con- the Governor's threat, ill timed as, under what had happened blamed the nccountant. He said lio had taken it because he was Lengun of the United States has issaed a
nIn February Inat, the purchase of the We do not protend to lay nimel stress on at the time, and at once on being fold of boy wearing une of Mr Kennedy's shirts. precautions have been taken accordingly.
Boston, Feb. 4-The Irish national Land was a small profit; and this year we have enquiry, which fin now been answered. Condemenced well, and prospects seem good tirely
I um to add that His Excellency on sideration, the vendor, at our request, the circumstances, it was, to add a naught for paying the bill. Plaintiff saya de-cold The Wanchal works have been fully em-pum approves of my having written the applied to the Government for permission to the amount," and thus, increase the les fendant was not at Canton. At up rate his defense, the boy said he had a flan- proclamation to the members of the League
and the American people, in which yinputky. ployed, and have given ut a high class and
privalo note to Mr Macgregor, one of the to carry on distilling operations there payable by the Distillery to Deliars Twenty he was not present when payment was nel shirt which he had sent to the washer and aid for the Irish in called for, had 131 most suitable description of sugar for re-partners of Moses Jardine Matheson & temporarily, for the purpose of testing the thousand (820,000), because, difficult as we retundly nude. Had he been present, and Bin, so he was wearing his master's--
Co., as ita manifest object was to clear faing purposes. The Distillery has an-
establishment, and his application was admit it to be to tell whether His Excel-acquiesced, it would not
be in his power
The prisoner was sentenced to two months' which England is bitterly denounced.
Landon, Fob. 5.-The British Govern swered expectations so far as enabling us to
an ambiguity in a letter from the Company granted upon the payment et a licence fee lency's public utterances represent a settled now to repudiato the paymont, and the imprisonment with hard labour, 120 Land
dont ellera a reward of £600 for the dis- o alve time; to a tate up molasses. to more advantage than letter now under reply, His Excellency has dire ($100) per annum, for the period over
; but that looking to the calculated at the rate of Dollars One huu conviction, or merely reflect a passing feel- plaintiff would be entitled- to judgment.
covery of the perpetrators of the Salford ing, we do not think His Excellency would The steps defendant took were these selling them, and in process of time its
as given directions that, in future, all commu. which the experimenta lasted. These were care to venture on a policy of direct confs when he went to Mowers Birley to settle the Leung Atuk, coolie, was convicted of trago £100 and free pardon to any doutaibating
accomplice not our earnings: You are
being the actual perpetrator, we cannot resist the conviction accounts with them as agunt for the owners bring a suspicious character, and was seri- bus aware the usual license fos of 8100) Jardino, Matheson
& Company must be purchase of the property having been con- that the
Edinburgh, Feb. 5.Three policunen un was arbitrarily raised to $2,000, and,
conducted afficially.
cluded
by us, we on the 15th August, senior partner of our firm in Chine, as a return of the $160 Mr Hassell most prolabour, as a rogue and vagabond The were shot,, one seriously, while arresting considering the exaction contrary to the
"I am to enclose the Liceman along with wrote to the Acting. Colonial Secretary evidenced by his remarks; moro especially|antain, and deducted it from the money was convicted, stated that this morning. One man cominitted suicide. It is supposed
perly treated it as
As an advance made to the polico constablo, on whose complaint be
two men lurking about the Custom House, pirit that governs taxation, the Generala duly certified copy thereof."
applying for a livene to enable us to carry lust portion of them in which he referred Agente addressed the Secretary of State for Messrs Jardine Matheson acknowledge on our operations there.
about 4.45, he met the prisoner in Staun- to the Public meeting of 1878 as Baving due to him for wages, dednoting the same,
letter are placed on the table for the incontents of which," they say, "shall have reply to our application, we ventured to altogether untris, unhappily prevente His defendant for the lure of the ship. Thus was going to get some tea. He hai no pass
Colonies on the subject. Copies of the the above letter on 7th September," the On 19th August, having received no been got up by Mr. Keswick, a statement sum from the total ainuent due from the ton Street, coming along in a rather hasty to mon are. Irish Americans. They are manner. On being challenged he said he suspected of rebberies and the wounding of
the night, persons during the formation of shareholders. A reply, our careful attention, but do not seem
from our
request that it might receive the Governor's Excellency from giving to any business in the payment for the watch was thrown on
London, Feb. The principal altera the Seastary of State, lias not yet been uite any special comment." They re- carly attention. On this same day, the which we are interested, impartial cunnidu- the plaintiff, and the defendant was re- er light. A housebreaking implement was
that Acting Colonial Secretary poived. I propose, gentianen, that the remind the Colonial Secretary however,
ration, and that His Excellency's feelings abursed $160 Tho plaintill saw de found on him, now produced.
adopted by the Commons are that a motion port and sooounts is presented be adapted they addressed him on 26th August in it was under consideration. On the next have, in the present caso, duniaunted his fradant and emonstrated, and, the defend-
for urgeriey must be made by a Minister, and passed, and, as usual, I shall be happy timating that they paid the fee of $2,000, day we again
ant gave him 80, as the defendant explains exacted from Company,
the
under not the 24th of pressed the matter, and on judgment.
who must take his reasons, and that the to answer any questions put to the chair.
protest,
Jacob Cohen, a German searoon, WAS direc
We now leave the matter in your Lord partly in settiomant of the claim, and partly
for such motion, must con- to prevent the valuable pro- and merely to
tion of
of His Excellency, inforned Mr Coxon seconded the adoption of the
performance of his perty from remaining longer unused, and new licenco would
be granted, subject to your Lordship will afford us
that it was in sanient with hard labour, for being dranks of three to one in the House, for
least three hundred members. A modifica- report, which was carried unanimously, expressing their hope that the Governor the payment of a fee of $2,000 for the as the circumstances seem to require.
would
1 be pleased to reconsider the decision, ensuing twelve
This lattor, in triplicate; has been for- Whicherent of the
the Sponker intended to use the powers seconded the re-election of Messrs F. D.munication; no reply has been received,
conferred upon him only for facilitating The Governor's decision to increase the Sassoon, R. Belilios, and A. André a and they should feel obliged by his inform
particular business, which ought to be de- fee twenty times over, thus curtly express
dlared urgent members of the consulting committee. The question, involved, is important, and that surprise been lessened by His Excel- ing them whether they may expect one. ed, took us completely by surprise: nor has
The most extraordinary precautions were Almost they thought it our duty to press for its lency's subsequent refusal to reconsider the soling the letters out of their chromo had been arrived at after very careful
matter, on the ground that the
the decision Taking logical order to make the narrative more
consideration
all the circumstances." connected the answer to the above was une
His Excellency's reasons for his action from the Acting Colonial Secretary (dated are, owing, to his reticence on the subject, 16th
Whatever September) stating that he was in-only matter for conjecture. structed to inform Mesara Jardine, Mathey may be, however, it seems difficult to theson & Co., that the decision the believe that they can outweigh the follow- Governor in Council with reference to the ing manifest objections to his policy. license was arrived at only after à very In the first place, the course which had Mesars Jardine, Matheson on 31st Dec., cureful consideration of all the circum hitherto buen adopted by the Government, 1880, spain wrote to the Acting Colonial pared to re-open the question so settled for since the Ordinance came into force, and "Bir,We have the hotour to recall to the current twelve months."
which had been followed by Governor your remembrance the fact that, on 29th Another point was raised on 7th Sept, Hannessy himself in our own case and in October last, we wrote to you, giving cover The correspondence in convection with by a letter to the firm from the Acting that of Mr Jack, led us to infer that the to a despatch and enclosures, in triplicate, Colonial Secretary, referring to Mr Dichie's if not settled, was certainly addressed Honourable the the above question, laid upon the table at application of the 12th of April precoding subject to violent oc sudilen, Ruetonius. Bul of Kimberley, Her Majesty's Principal the meeting of the Company this afternoon, and the fee of a hundred dollars which he The fact of the amount having been actually Secretary of State for the Colonies, which is really the conclusion of a series of letters closet for the renewal of his former placed in print, in the form of licence, lent we requested that His Excellency the Go-
heense.
The Colonial Secretary had the strength to this conclusion, and couse-vornor would be commencing as far back as August 12th, honour, by direction of the Governor, to quently it never occurred to us before
I be good enough to transmit "Notwithstanding the lapse of more last year, when the firm wrote for the return the money, and to say that His Ex-purchasing the promises, that the Governor than two months, we have not yet received Company to the Government, point had been pleased to forego all had it in contemplation to effect so un-knowledgment of this communica- property of his uustera. It might happen He Defondant said no such man was fed yesterday is simed by Parnoll on behalf.
cellency
connected therewith,"
portant a change; elee our intention to
andi, while Moms Jardine, Mainoson, & Co. prola, Bur dates might have been abandoned. On action of the out, and after maengbords,
to say that "without some other hand, although His Excelleno the
ty of there being any un-aight be, an inducement to forget the some words struck complang down to Ireland immediately.
a blow, Irish race at home and abroad. Dillon goes with necessary
in the settlement of the obligations to a master too strong to her stairs defendant followed and struck com- this did not feel at liberty to had boom made aware of the
TH- which he returned. After e granted important questions which we felt it to be sisted. Loril Ellenborough safi in Thomp
Four hundred extra police were on duty. Secretary of State.
ung shall be allowed to have. an interest head. They both
then rolled on the ground We shall therefore feul obliged by your contrary to his duty" and again he says, and word separated by the first witness (Mr stats na usual today. The names of the Tu expelled Home-Rulers will take their informing us whether our representation There would be no security in any depart. MeBroan). Defendant stated that he was
the
|
informed ùs turt
that
PRUNK AND INCAPABLE,
tions in the Gindstone resolution, as finally
month, we were that a ship's hands, with a respectful re redress present. Plaintiff declares to give him fined 50 cents, in default seven days' impri- majority voting i
Mr Dickie proposed and Mr McCullook at which he had arrived. To this com Governor in Counts, as fixed by the
Carried,
On the motion of Mr André, soconded by Mr H. Smith, blessrs Arnold and Bovis were ro-elected auditors.
The Chairman stated that the dividend warrants would be ready to-morrow.
There was no other business,
of the
ot
way it is taken of the watch. and incapable in Lascar Row, on the 10th tion is also introduced, making it clear that warded to the Acting Colonial Secretary, be given in favour of the Judgment must instant,. He had been in Gaal before for a
similar offence.
ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.
defendant. The in accordance with the Official regulations, 330 now claimed by the plaintiff is part of the but, to guard against the possibility of price of a watch which the
the plaintif says the delay, we have thought it prudent to send defendant promised to give hit if he
ho com- Foi Atang, described as a cook, was a fourth copy to your Lordship dirvet.
ploted the three voyages successfully, charged with stealing from the person of a taken in the House Inst night. We have the honour to be, your Lord- Whether the defendant promised it or not, hawker, in the Fo Lok Theatre on the every door leading into the lobbies and cor- ship's must humble and obedient servante,
I am of opining that there is no considera 10th, one dollar in ten-cent pieces. The riders was watched by detectives. Forster's tion to support such a promise, even if the offenco was plainly proved by the com-office, the Speaker's house and Gladstone's plaintiff was intended to he a contributor to plainant and a man who was with him at private residence were guarded by police,
whole price, which is
is not proved.
The the time. Defendant admitted having been The lobby was cleared from an early hour promise set up by the plaintiff was to give in guol beforo. He was sentenced to be and strangers were not allowed to enter him a very expansive watch if be, as he, ex imprisoned for sixzmontha with hard labour for venglish members of the Con-
hours, and to be exposed in the stocks for six good bu-
Jardins, Matheson & Co., General Agents, China Sugar Refming
Company, Lt.
To the Right Honourable THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY, Hor Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Coigntos
London.
THE LICENSE FEE OF THE DIS-tanges, and that His Excellency is not pre-of levying a uniform rate for such licences, Secretary as followe
TILLERY,
CORRESPONDENOR WITH GOVERNMENY.
ent that the Boenso" which has been
this Company, for distilling, specifics for
granted to Mr Henry Dickie, Manager for
only the premises situated upon Marine
object
siness for the defendant,
did n
118
As
his
(Before the Hou, Ng Choy.)
ASSAULT WITH AN AXE.
The only
hons who voted against Dillon's suspension
wogo Cowan (Radical and home Ruler) and Labouchere (advanced Liberal). They also voted against Famell'a suspension, but nok- against Finnigan's.
presses it in pidgin English defondant hours in the vicinity of the Pe Lok Theatre. was charterer of the ship; the plaintiff,
II.Eu- ༦
agent it was his petindes do onera
was bounden daty to do the beat he could to perform the services master the owners, through the ship's agent,
The Home Rulers expelled from the or through himself, contracted to render to
Hone
Lose yesterday held a meeting last night the lurer, the defendant. By so doing ho Tong Achoi, 30, reapian, appeared on re- at which they decide to issue a manifesto would generally best serve his employers' mand from the 8th instant, charged with an-
to the Irish peopfo deng
denouncing the conduct intorcats. For this he received the proper sulting Chun In Tong, & with an of the House, romantration, it must be anunted, for the axu, on the 7th inse. The complainant, Boon widlines, but advising the peoria to of constitutional way of wages, and he cannot enforce against Chun In Tang, gave evidence to the affect action. In the expectation that the Home- the defendant a promise to remunerate him that on the 7th instant, about noon, he went Rulers night carry into effect their threats for doing something within or beyond the up to the Shua Loi Koi Club house in Circu-
to proceed to extreme measures, yesterday acope of his duties, his whole time and lar Pathway to look for a friend. When 180 policemen were stationed in the vicinity thought and labour being, so to speak, the there defendant asked him what he wanted of the Commons.
and complainant told him he was looking for The manifesto to the Irish people publish- we have reason to feel that if the interests of the charterer and Koi
Lot No. 231. It is the desire of the Com-enclog Mr Dickie, the Manager the temporary licencs were being conduct our duty to submit for the decision of the son, Havelock, and Campbell nainant with the lintehet produced, an the near the house of Commous yesterday..
and therefore returned the
Company, was liable for, at any rate, pany to carry on the business of Distillation the portion of the year to this date. Shruti also in their premises situated upon part of His Excellency see fit to refund the pra-rata
boz
which the experiments for which he
he carefully concealed his intention of raising the ice until too late to provent the completion of the contrint. In so doing,
ed,
wart
began Byrne, Corbel, Gray,
known as the Hongkong Distillery, and we of the current year, they should be prepared of that good faith which his high office and, if it has, on what dato it was despnich- ; legally let thesolves cat.in whole or in by a friend, when complavended aro-Dillon, Parneil, Barry, Biggar," Inland Lota 749, 781 and 782, hitherto aum, pertaining to the unexpired portion we think His Excellener showed a want has been forwarded to Lord "Kimberley, ment of life or business if sorvants couki rying the batelet, which had boon Home Rule, members of Parliament suspen- "In impport of the views W SOBç- ftien beyond their wages tu eiremastances of that he out the complonant. Defendant, Bul. Talor, y, Dawson, Fin- was fined $5, in default to be imprisoned for Art Redmond, Sexton
then in that age, Mr Henry of, the matter takes a loftier flight, when on tull aga refer, it would suem protable tended for export, and as there is no reinark of the much a promise than the daya
To the above letter no reply was received
to request that the matter
On the same date the Acting Colonial
Secretary wrote to state that the question
of the licenso was "under consideration." proximo.
administration to
watch on
PRESENCER
Power,
O'Shaughnessy,
to be informed whether the License, to receive it.
deiendo now issued in name of Mr Dickie, aan be
to beat him, and that it was by Accident Promises to pay seamen remupern transferred so as to enable the Company to expired period dating from the granting of
The pro-rata sum of $6102 for the ur In the next place, this material change
Loanry, Leahy, Medar thy, MeCoon, Mamum, Metyea, Nelson, distil in the last named premises. If not, the new license, was accordingly returned notice to us, or our being afforded any op- the liberty of directing His Excellency's Ponke, U.B.C. 7%, and Harris r. Carter 23 ton days with hard labour; complainant and
was carried into effect without any previous cessfully urged upon the Governor, we take danger are wholly void-Harris. Watson
Thomas P. O'Connor, .we beg
Thomas
Mahon, O'Sullivan, Governor will that His Excelleney the
grant a License to this Com, September 15th by the Colonial Secretary,portunity of being hoard. We r for 1880, pasacd by the Imperial Parliment, contrary to public policy and a court of law householdora of $25 each to be of good | Southwick, A. M. Sulli D. Sullivan,
1 of the Spirit Act, LJ., Q.B., 295 this attention to section
205, All such promises are defendant both to and security in two John O' Tho ita receipt acknowledged by the firm as a palpable injustice. pany, authorising them to do so, or if it September 18th.
the Governor's decision we do not know,
grounds cannot be g
be granted in name of the Company,
which restates the principle, non which will not sauction them. I cannot conceive behaviour and keep the peace for three Malloy, Richard of their
281.92 being satisfactory disposed but from a hint let fall by him at the table the Home Authorities have uniformly acted, a better illustration of the danger of giving months, in default to be committed for four O'Donnoll and O'Kelly. Dickie,"
of the Lau
Legislative Council, to which we that no duty is oxigible upon Spirits in- any countenance to ach
It is understood Dillon goor to Dublin as- October 29th Mees Jardine, Matheson & to endlose to the Acting Colonial Secre- that it was inrinly based on the prosperity authority under
plaintiff, who stated that the Que
pecially to attend the meeting of the League the Governor cau defendant protised him the until the 19th idem, when the form again
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER ALLEGED FALSE this evening, when it is expected he will wrote, calling attention to the fact, and try, a letter, with enclosures, to the Secre- of the Company. But the prosperity of the levy taxes on Spirits consumed in the occasion when he went on board to make
make a statement of the further course of of S Stato for the Colonies, which venturing, as the delay was beginning to request that the Governor will be good Sugar Befining and nut to Distilling, as we that it was never contemplated that an the plaintiff had taken on board in larger yesterday, charged with obtaining a fado
China Sugar Refinery Company is due to Colony, the conclusion seems irresistible some arrangements about passengers, whom Cheng Tuk, 20, appeared on remand from his party. cause serious inconvenience at the works, enough to transmit. They add, "Hi Ex-should have shown His Excellency had he auditional source of revenue should be pro live the defendant. That is, he was under falso pretences, on the 9th instant, at the conference to-day, but it is now be-- The Home-Rulers will send out another numbers than he bad any. right
to do to bangle, value $29.50, from U Tak Win, manifesto to-night. There was some split. Excellency early attention y receive His cellency will observe from the concluding allowed us a hearing, and the Refining of vided by the issue of licences to distil, but
forwarding a fourth copy to the Secretary the Colony pornit the fovernor to tax. We try should be carried on under strict superance 8 of 1879 section 6to earn a gratuity, tor of the Wing Fuk Choung coffin shop, paragraph of the letter that we purpose Sugar is not alt industry which the laws of that it was merely intended that the indus-breaking the law of this Colony-sco Ordin Evidence was given by Ou Sin Chune, mas-lieved to be healed. of State direct, by the outward Mail of 3rd believe it, moreover, to be a novelty in fiscal vision, and that nominal fees should be though a the risk of a heavy penalty to to the effect that defendant came to his shop morning the following special cablegram Boston, Feb. 5.-The Globe printed this The letter to the Secretary of State we manufacturing the prosperity of any exacted, sufficient to cover the cost of himself. It is entirely ountrary to public on the 8th inst., and after looking at some from Paruall
concern -ia
printed forms and other anal expenses interest that such promises should be collins selected one for which he agreed to a lump sum,
London, Feb. 4-The Government or without regard to details, and the Governor, incident to the administration of the Orenforced, and I give judgment for the pay 884 On being asked what name to pasted that the blow struck at the Land when he axed $2,000 as the licence fee, dinance.
defendant, with coats.
put in the bill, defendant said his name was League by Michael Davitt's arrest would be never having applied to us or to any other "As we are desirous that a copy of this
Cheng
In Ki, and that he was second son a crushing one, but heavy as it is to us per- legitimate source for information touching letter should be sent to the Secretary of have been in complete ignorance of the part will be good enough to transrait
of Cheng lu." He did not take the coffin sonally, we have already indications that it the affairs
of the Company, muat necessarily State, we have to request that the Governor
away; but said he would send for it when his will recoil upon the forces of landlordiam, one, and, by the Governor in Council to the China the future to bear, in the prosperity of the required by the official regulations.
nother, who was very
ill, was dead. De The Irish people, instead of being in- Police Magistrate.) reply to
to these three letters, the Acting Sugar Refining Company, Limited, of which
Company Hia
What figures, vr
triplicate, as copies, in what basis of
Friday, March 11.
evening witness lent him $5, a jacket, coat salves, for the coming struggle, and as Colonial Secretary had the honor, August we are the General Agenta, to carry on the
culation,
Excellency has been pró-
and cap. Defendant had not returned since stranges reach me from all sidea that there 24th); by direction of His Excellency the distillation of spirits in premises, known
This was the reply received from the
Ука.
LARCENY OF STORES
he loft on the evening of the 8th..
will be no flinching among Irishmen în Governor, to inform you that a naw hcense as the Hongkong Distillery, recentlyceeding on, we do not
were, they must guess, but Acting Colonial Secretary, whatever they
The case was farther remanded till the these arduous tirees if they are destined to will be granted, subject to the payment acquired by the Company
must have bezu
Wang Afat, 30, a coolie employed in the I have the honour to inform you that,
15th inst, bail pa
fall, Poor Davitt sloeps to-night in Milbank of a fee of $2,000 for the ensuing twelve
na befure. untrustworthy if deeply regret to trouble your Lord
they fed to the result in accordance with your request, your letter Wellington Barracks, was convicted of steal-
convict prison, after his first day of penal of the Blat ultimo (received by me on the ing twenty-six ounces of tea, value 40 cents,
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL FOR BURGLARY.. toil Ro arrived in London early this As a matter of fact, the
license fee imposed by the Governor in pay, done, and when bar to
Lum Akwai, 24, carpenter, appeared on morning. Several Irish members of Par- Conncil on your Rum distillery, has been be imprisoned for six weeks with hard lamand from the 8th inst., on a charge of liament waited up all night in order to being on enclosed premises for the purpose salute him on his arrival, but he was takon transmitted to the Secretary of State, tran
of comma felony on the 7th inst
Becketly !! Your letter of the 28th October (which
Away B privately brought before and also
and ordered ith having burglarious imple- magistrate for
bank yesterday.
On the following day, August 20th, the firm again
wrote, remarking that they "mew
of no reasons why our application should give in full
Polica Intelligence.
not be accedod
Hongkong, 28th October, 1980. and the delay was to, ausing much inconvenience and, if pro-
My LOR,We have the honour to lay longed, would probably remit in serious before your Lordship, the following cir loss, they should feel greatly obliged by Fin cumstances, and the enclosed correspond. Excellency's grauting the license at the ence, rolating to the granting of a licence which Distilling has borne, or is likely in in anticipation of His Excellency's comp Before the Hon. M. N. Tunnochy, acting fendant dined with witness, and during the timidated thereby, are firmly bracing thom
earliest possible moment,
wo enclose
#month: 65 xed by the Governor in hip with this matter, but our duty to the Tived at by the Executive history of the 3rd instant), complamiug of the moderste the property of the members of the A. Com-!
rofining
of sugar
of
It is
buur.
PEXING FOR HIRE AFTER HOURS Four different cases of chair-coolien
were
A
Council
Company leaves is no choice but to sppers Distillery has, as already pointed out, been Mesers Jardine, Matheson & Co. answered against an act of the Government which We hitherto invariably disastrous, this intimation, August 28th, and the follow deem to be arbitrary and oppressive, ing are the chief paragraphs in the report
Previously to the your 1, the distills beyond all question that the distillation Met behalf of this Company, we respect. tion of spirits within the Colony had been OK Spirits in this. Colony na nover been Governor regrets he did not, owing to * On
fully protest against sudi an enormous forbidden by law, but in that year the profitably conducted as an independent
meute in his possession. Mr George Stain- straight to Milecom The howls, industry exaction and venture to express the hop that? Bir Excellency will be pleased to replace as an industry in the Colony, the Sugar Befiners, with a constant supply edged at the time of its receipt) has also before the Court, and in each case a fine of and Road. m the night of the 7th instyly of gentlemen in the world, y our position as an oversight of his, causo to be acknowing for hire at an unauthorised ply-hell gave evidence to the effect that he was cheering and signs of uproarious joy with having recently found a
aarplus molasses, which enables us, been transmitted by him to the Secretary fifty cents was imposed Hongkong Distillery was built and Or The fee for a distilling boenas has, up to dinance No. 3 of 1868 was passed to enable or makes it worthwhile, to carry on of State."
to the en Litre, besh fixed at Dollars One it to be worked og
the manufacture at all The profit hundred ($100) per amrun, and no intima
lation we are unable to state, ne Sion has been given in the Govertiment made "swful for the Ginance, it is formerly made at our own works by distil respondence on this subject up to data.
in Council, ions were ponduoted on comparatively so
our opera Gazepte, or otherwise, tent urease from time to time, to great hosnces for the mall a scale that the necessity for special Distillation, Reatifying and Compounding
by omanfer the matter.
upon it
By section 3
think fit. its
this
Bales.
The above contains the whole of the cor
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY, JURISDICTION.
Snowden, Bag.)
ATTEMPT TO KUMMIT SUICIDE.
house agent and resided at No. 9, Holly-which the British House of Commons, the
first about 12 o'clock,
witness was aleer by a noise in the aroused from grosted the nowa of Davitt's rest," made yard adjoining his up the most brutal and painful scene over Witness Chu Kwai-humm, 39, mendicant, was chars the act of climbing over the man in witnessed in the chamber. We are doin
got ap and
gate. One of our utmost to mitigate the horrors of Police colla on the 11th inst. He was slag foot and drew him back to the yard, but him. To-day a strong reaction has set in
witness' houso-boya got hold of the man's vitt's confinement, as
as he is 1
is in very delicate health, but we greatly dread the result for yard
houss.
ed with attempting to commit suicide in the
charged with mondieancy, and was ordered in be sent to his native place by the Police before witness could get down to the
suicida, defendant was discharged with a caution.
UNLICENSED BOARDING HOUSE
Tong
& servant in employ of first own freedom was the precedent of yesterday.
one touching
it was contemplated. We take the liberty of pointing out that, of Spirits within the Uolony, to such per and accurate calculations never arose; nor when the Executor of the late Mr Johnsons for such considerations and upon such an we give the results of the two months'
the man gid away from the box. Witeks after the first excitement. The Radicals of syplied for
for permission to work the conditions and for such periods se he should experimental working at the Distillery, an (Before His Horny the Puisna Judge, P. is regard to the charge of acting then saw a man on the party wall separating England will yet discover the mistake ther Distillery, for short period, to test
much of the produce was shipped to foreign
his house from the
on made Afterwards,
in condoning the capabilities, hits request was granted pleted in the early part 1870, and in
The erection of the Distillery was comports, and we have not yet remaived account
Friday, March 11.
going to the Police Station, witness saw the Speaker of the House autocracy of the Commons. and al- payment of a
calculated
the rate of at
prisoner, but could not say that he was the lowing liberty to be trampled in her Dallara
Own In the next place, we have to point out IMPORTANT DECISION AS TO HOW THU LAW One hundred (8100) per annum, February of that year, a Joint Stock Com that the producing power of this manifa
Chan Alai, baker, appeared on a amaze was like that of the prison the ad to make head against English democracy
man that he saw O the wall,
though Whig and Tory tenitorialists must be form
his temple. Sooner or later the coalition of "the customary foe, and we submit, for the pany was formed to work it, to which Go-
REGARDE FLUMSEAWE consideration of His Excellency, that the vernor MacDonnell in Council, under distory has not been increased since the
MOONEY I U TIN, 880-This was a mans charging him with unlawfully keeping cretionary powers vested in him by the
The prisoner admitted that former ownere deased working it.
and they will then and how fatal for their again, Dasrly the whole of the manufaasim by Capt Mooney, late master of the boarding house for seamen, without a man was on complainant's premisOH): nant ass notorionały lain dormantan dinanos, granted a licencs for an angultured spirit is intended for exportation, being half the price of a gold watch, which spector Corduran gavo evidence to the effect witnean, deposed that at about midnight on S, PARNELL. (some time, from the admitted Insbility
schooner America, to 1 recover the above sum
license from the Harbour Master. In-
Atur, & outer to work
of Dollars fee that by the imposition of the merested 100 has been invariably charged for all mich and it is greatly to the benefit of the Colony he said lind been prosented by the defendant that the defendant was master of a shop at the th instant, he was awakened by PARA TROGLIO
to increase its foreign trade and connse (the charterer of the vessel) to him an a No. 22 prohibitive, fences until August in the present расте
Yations. An
22 Upper Lascar Row, and that he industry
воде иле 5 his head, and on- inflored The form of licence ined by the Govern of p
of this kind is capable wamshaw and the price of which he after Lopt a boarding or house for desti-
New York, February 5,-A London dis Calling out and receiving no answer, got up, and patch states that the King of Ashantee b qúpany, sitar they have sequent mant had, for many YOSTE PABy contained of supporting a considerable number of wancia found charged by defendant in hisi tate.cht William Drew, a seaman, to get over it. A fellow servant wak-witharamunition have been ordered to the fold them four or five saw a man running to the gate and trying declared war against England Stores and and the of the The
for the defender cure now gave judgment Szive: employment, to capital matter By: Among its printed of a building which but for the Company's:
The Hongkong Distillery
His Lordably, in pronouncing judgment, the house about 33 days and paid five cents pulled him down into the yard, but the special o Company could enterprise would have stood empty, and said: The plaintiff in this case, who was a night for his lodgings witness had seen man took out a knife and flourished it and take immediate and affective mansures to il council to-day, and it was decided to and to the prosperity of the to be meche top its way, and, after re- probably have fallen into decay last year the master of the ship America, the defendant in the house but did not witness let hini goy nil he ran up a ladder protect the British settlements on the west coilses of the Distillery will be al. praded and heary losses on ita consignments It is also further to be observed that the sues the defondant, a merchant in Hong know whether he slept there. The case and got on to
to the
party wall Witness was coast of Africs. It seems the King of Ashan- was remanded till Wednesday, the 16th Lust Learn prisoner was the man, as he saw tee sent a special Embassador to Cape may not be sisaldared one Court, within three years of its incorpora- nessly e per cent of capital invested, and price of a watch, which the plaintiff says he ball whether the exteman of transit the love of its entre spital of that the Antances of the Colony, which as, bought relying on promise of the defen-
demanding the Governor to belonging to
to one of the witness's fellow surrerider one sot contrary to sound polley, Dollan Oro hundred thousand (6100,000) | according to the Governor's latest utter- dant to make him a present of one, an
nervante
Ashantes tribe. The Governor declined, and it is calculated to restrict in- and an additions, count of nearly Dollars antes, in a specially flourishing condition, engagement which the defendant after the
28, gave evidence the King stones declared hodalities The Lau Asan, P.0. No. 238,
gave kage 2 do nos demand the imposition of so serious purchase was made, repudiated. The circum-
mmotuary: hardship le being
An industry, which, if suc- the amount of the
a
charging
PEDOSTOLA And, under this or 23 apcumbed, and as wound in by the amount of the fee as now fixed, represents / Zeng, to recover $80 being liat of the cost being admitted in personal security of his face by light Prisoner had on a facket Coast C Gamin, a refugee chief of the
so will take out stipense on the terms
The buldim and machinery then came a fax on a concern which already bears its stances are shortly as follows The defen
* their mortgagões, a Mr- dus thare of the public burdens. It may I dant chartere's the Amunca to make three
dave intimated to ung in order that 14 linger, Aar
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION. Ng Aon, a boatboy, was charged with the as to having areated the prisoner on the Governor applied to the Governor of Sierra unlawful possession of a quantity of copper night of the 7th init in house No. 32, Leons for reinforcements, which are being nalle, on the Fokfoolum Road, yesterday. Hollywood Road, which adjoined the house pashed forvARIL