No. 6527-MARon 81, 1881.]

mary Jurisdiction Court-After writing the above wo are officially informed that Judgment in the Pitman v. Keswick case will be delivered at 10 sim, to-morrow. There will no doubt bo a large gathering- present of those who are interested in the case, and that soetion comprises a large portion of our community.

With regard to a telegram concerning which we have already written more than ones, the following note is of value

As supplied to the Straits Times,-→ · London, March 17.-The House of Com mons has carried the motion against the Government upon the urgency of additional supply.

As supplied to Hongkong,

London, March 17.-The House of Com- ona has carried the motion for Urgency against the Government.

RETURN of Visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending Mar. 27-

Puropean. Chinese.

27 22nd, 112

23rd, 43

12

Thur.

24th, 24

412 500 416 450

26th, 34

496

"

26th, 35 27th, Sunday.

• Totals

275 Grand total, 2,979.

416

As inquest was hold at 3.30 this afternoon, at the Government Civil Hospital, by G. 8. Northcote, Esq., Acting Corader, and a Jury consisting of Messrs L. J. Lopes, J. P. Madar, and T. C. Muller, upon the body of a Chinese male adult, name unknown. Mon. Mar. 21st, The body was seen floating in the water, Tues.

>> Wed. by Lo Alau, a shopman, of Yau-ma-ti, near the Praya Wall there, and he reported the Fri. matter to the Police, Lo Alau had no pre- Sat. vious knowledge of deceased. The body Sun. was brought to the Hospital at 8.30 this morning, and the medical evidence went to prove that death had been caused by drowning. The face was much swollen, and in an advanced stage of decomposition There were no marks of violence upon the body, which appeared to have been in the water for three or four days.

turned.

Sunday.

2,704

Da Jamieson, Shanghai, in his last madical report, writes:—

THE CHINA MAIL.

Police Intelligence. (fore the Han, M. 8. Tonnochy,) Thursday, March 31.

the audience

SWATÓW.

England. It was of easy culture, and being went to Tai kok-taui, and in a matahod there duty; and this the opplause of the people among the imported white adult resident been filled, pending the near approach of a trus camellia, the treatment under which found the prisoner in charge of several was the voice of God. (Vox populi so population was 11,-10 males and 1 female. the general meeting. the camellia japonies, was now a generally men. The prisoner denied robbing com- Deis)

Acting

upon the resolution passed at the grown in conservatories would suit it, and plainant, but said two Chinese soldiers had This is the picture of the relation in which

Dr. E. T. Scott's report of the health of inst general meeting, for the furtherance of probably with a little attention from our done so. He said the soldiers were at the poet will stand toward his audience. Swatow for the half year ended September mancares for the conservation of the River Leading horticulturists as interesting varieties tioned at Sham-shui-pa. Witness then But beside all that we thus sið we cast in the Rower might be obtained as is now went to the station at Sham-shui-pu with our eyes on the stage,where this mirror is th, 1890, shows that the past souson head Whangpo, the committee drafted a me Bowers of the camellia. seen in the loaves of the las, or in the the prisoner, who could not find the two held up to Nature, what a fund is there of bean one of the coolest for many years at Horial to the representatives of foreign

this port,

and at the same time one of the Powers in Chine, and submitted it to a mon among the soldiers thorn.

hidden causing in all the bye-play aanong mildest, The health of foreigners has been general meeting of the mercantile com The prisoner, reserving his defence, was

Many a family circle, there, unusually good. There had been hardly any munity which was convened by the Con- committed for trial at the next Criminal has its private tragedy, behind its wreathed serious cases to deal with, and the ordinary sular Body, and hold 22nd April, 1880. Sessions at the Supreme Court.

smiles many more, happily, have their cason of anmaner diarrhes and fever have The action of the Chamber was then ap- comedies, though weeping over some mimie been less frequent and less severe than proved, and the Committee were requested tragis fate, quand même. And in incidenta unial. It has been a very healthy season to have the memorial signed and forwarded SUPREME COURT. ⠀

which transpire, how much of illustration for natives also, for, so far as the reporter to their Excellencies. there is of the truth of Shakespeare's mirror, can learn, there has bonu no soxious illness addressed to Sir Thomas F. Wade, as IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

On the 21st May a

letter

was accordingly vividly brought to our consciousness, as of an epidemio character, a airesmatanco (Before His Honour the Faiers Judge, though his genius pervaded such scenes.

F. Snowden Esq.,)

rathor remarkable, considering the extreme Doyon of the Diplomatis Body at Poking, We may recall the dira tragedy-fraught diet of Chinese towns and villages. He enclosing the memorial, which horn the SANDS. FORBES.

with a whole Nation's wou-of Lincoln's had not heard the word cholera used once,

signatures of forty-nine (sio) firins;" but The Attorney General, Fon. E. Lassination, while gazing at a play in the though usually during the hot months this beyond a formal acknowledgment of its O'Malley, instructed by Masara Dennys Washington theatre; or the more pathetic discases is epidemic amongst Chinese. He receipt, the Committes have no oficial

atory and Mossop, appeared for Mrs Sanda; and

of the young

who innocently tolls

presumes the amount of rain which fell information as to what has been déné re- Mr 1. U Hayllar, C., instructed by us how, at a theatre in Australia, while sup helped to produce this satisfactory state of garding it. It may be supposed that grave fainting husband with one hand, affair, by flushing nud cleaning out the political complications have lately to far the defendant,

alie gave his and to his brief candle was mufed out." decomposing vegetable and other matters Glovernment, as to leave for favourable Thus the feigned scenes are on the stage; which atau Into in auch quantities. There opportunities for discussing this matter, the sad drains of life is conducted by the was grievous disenso, opidemic amongst the believe t

but the Committee have good reason to audience.

that tho mammogial will be warmly representatives,

DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

and broke a plate upon which the rice was Messra Brereton and Wotton, appeared for porking her trils a pinch with the other, drains, carrying away much, if not all, the engrossed the attention of the Chinese

Una Kitchie, 24, of Japan, suaman, was charged with disorderly conduct on the 30th instant. Defondnut lodged at a board- ing house in Tank Lane, kept by I. Beltrão, and applied to his landlord yesterday for the loan of half a dollar, and the money being refused him he abused complainant served for his sapper. He was fined $1, in default to be imprisoned for four daya with This matter came on for hearing before hard labour, and ordered to pay ton cents Mr Justice Snowdon some time since, amands to complainant, with the albormative when objections were taken to tino Red of twenty-four imprisonment with reports. The matter was argued hard labour. Suntonces cumulative. fully on a previous occasion at very con

siderable length, and his Lordship now delivered judgment, overruling all the ob Michael Ryan, 29, and J. H. Blackhand,jections, one by one, which were put for 28, seamen, were fined 50 cents each, with ward by the plaintiff, and upholding the the alternative of twenty four-hours im Registrar's report in every particular. The i and creating a disturbance on the Praya ordered to be paid out of the estate. Central ou. the 31st instant.

CHRATING A DISTURBANCE,

China.

SHANGHAI.

cattle in this district, killing ne many as 90

whenever circu2..

allow them to press-

its consideration. The minutes of the public meeting of the community and other documents on

on the subject дреаг in the appendix to this reports Beumed In many instances where the interests of

China, and the large extent to which pork prisonment with hard labour; for fighting motion was dismissed, and the costs; Vice-Consul at Shanghai for Sweden and could only learn that the disease the mercantile community are at stake, the -

saturation with king of sine solution are

to

CUTTING BRANCHES AND ASSAULTING THE POLICE

When one considera the miscellaneous but always filthy food consumed by pige in enters into the diet of natives; who we A verdict of "found drowned" was re- consider also the fact that not only ordinary

but cooking,

pickling, and oven

destroy the larva of Trichina

in muscle, in

it is Chan Ai, 61, fisherman, was charged with that many of

of being in possession of a quantity of dried the other day by the Chief Justice--on not unreasonable to suppontoms of branches of trees, and also with assaulting

the cases of

of rapid i death, with Young Ashing, for murder, in which case collapse following on pain of a chewnatia P.C. McKay, while in the execution of his the Tary recommended the prisoner to mal character, and accompanied by sweat-duty on the 20th instant. He was fined 82, muray, has bon commuted by the Governoring, easitos, diarrhoea and vomiting, which in default three weeks' imprisonment with

are every summor reported as occurring hard labour, for, the assault. among the natives, are due to trichinosis.

We hear that the sentence of death passed

to penal sorvitude fer life. The case is that

our readers may remember, in which the prisoner above named killed a nian

PUBLIC GAMBLING

IN PROBATE JURISDICTION. (Before Hin Lordship the Chief Justice,

per cent, of the cows and buffaloes in some supported by the villages. Dr. Scott endeavoured to ascer tain the exact nature of the complaint, but possibly, from unwillingness on the part

re of (N.-C. Daily News.}

the Chinese to give information concerning Wanotice the one of Dr Christiernsson, it, was unable to get any reliable data. He Norway, amongst the passengers leaving somewhat like Cu. a steamer Seghalien."

leaving by the Saghalien this morning (23rd). We are informed that he goes to London to complete the arrangements for the proposed International Exhibition at Shanghai.

to-day (23rd), for Hongkong by the M. M. the animal atera, either prostrating infiuence of the Chamber is much streng

equally

at once and

В

or beginning ng fatally in a few hourally becoming worse,

with diarrhoea, thoned by the existence of representative Signor Cagli is also among the passengers which tally in a few days. The Chinese matters in the proper quarter. Although so, ended body on the Hone side to pross auch ate the flesh of the disessed animals with the Chamber has for some years past had n impunity, and some of them attributed the London Committee, would appear that a romarkable healthiness of this summer to regular organisation to represent the com- the fact that all the disease was amongst

bined interests of the Chiun and Japan the cattle, and that the human animale communities would carry more weight in.

Dr. Scott makes any question that might call for their inter escaped on this account.

ference, than the present small and isolated

communication with the London Committee with a view to forming such an association,

Japan.

(Guzzlion)

YOKOHAMA

an interesting note in his report bodies of delegates. There has been some

named Pang Aloi on January 18th.few hours after admission By no amount were fined $6 each, with the alternative of decessed.--Petition by the official admin- serious termination necurred yesterday the fir trees (on which thow lived exclu- and the opinions of ather local Chamber

of

A case of this kind was brought into the Gutzlaff Hospital last August, and died a

persuasion could I

prevail on the rela- While the deceased was, about 8.30 a.m. ontiyes to allow me

the take a specimen of the that date, walking along the street, the pri- muscles, and therefore the diagnosis must rest doubtful. Two other members of the soner was seen to rush after hinr and stab patient's family had died, a few days before him in the leg with a large butchor's knife, with the same symptoms, which hud ex which cutting and wounding caused his tended in one caso over three weeks and in the other over four. The man brought to death. The prisoner's case was that the deceased had been concerned in an organ-

hospital was reported to have beer ailing for about a month, and his illness, it was

of the abdomen.

Lam Atsun, 20, coolie, and three othors fourteen days imprisonment with hard labour, for gambling in an empty house in Pound Lane on the 30th inst

nt

Sir John Sainte.) Thursday, March 31. The following business was transacted to-day before the Chief Justice:-

In the gonds of Robert William Butchi- son, deceased.-Potition by James Henry Cox, for Letters of Administration. Granted.

In the goods of Pedro José do Barros, An accident that might have had a Fard of Mr Henry istrator, for Lesturs of Administration. (14th) in the shipbuilding Granted.

Cook,

Two large

boams of

wood used as In the goods of Achee, deceased.-Petierane fell; two Japanese carpenters were tion

by the official administrator, for Lot- inuch injured, one having a leg broken and tera of Administration. Granted.

one, sustained serious injuries about the In the goods of Lam Lai Chaug, decensed head. Mr Cook escaped with a blow on his Petition by the official-adininistrator, for side. The two carpenters were taken at Letters of Administration.Granted. once to the hospital, where one lies in

dangerone condition,

We learn from Captain Thompson of the Ella Beatrice that the wreck of that vessel

yen. The purchaser was a Japanese.

H.B.MS POLICE COURT.

Shasha, March 21.

a

de-

to a plague of caterpillars which visited the district during the months of June July, and Angust, literally covering and

of Commerco which have been taken are sively), and leaving them perfectly

ded

generally favourable, but the details of the nuded of leaves. The hill sides in many

for onough places looked as if a fire had passed over plan are not yet complete the trees and scorched them. The Chinese submission to the Chumbor.

In October last, n were very zauch afraid to handle them, za

communication was they declared them to be exocedingly pois received from the Shanghai tas guild, com- hous; and they are right so far, as he knows plaining of certam existing practices in of two foreigners who were injured by those connection with the purchase of ten, and insects. When crushed they axuded a glu- asking that the Chamber should adopt re- tinous fluid of a light green colour, which gulations proposed by the guild to remedy

the alleged abuses. The Committee

ap- an erysipelatous rash, which camed much inconvenience jo ter days or a fortnight. Committee, who had two interviews with One death was reported among foreigners;

the delegates of the guild to discuss the the births had been six, three Boys and question. An attempt was made to arrive at a system of regulations which would meet the views of both, buyers and sellers, which could be afterwards laid before

ised attack on him on the previous evening, said, began with violeut pain and swelling question young over to Yau-mah-ti (Before R. 4. fvwat, Asy., Assistant Judge.) | was sold as it Isy, at Tusian-mura for 820: was very irritating to the skin, producinginted three of their number as a sub-

He had intended to stab the man, but had [" not intended to kill him, else he would not have struck him on the leg..

جنت

Ir is said that in Kioto some persons intend to establish a company, called Kobinsha (Matrimonial Company), with the view of acting as a medium between parties who

about 1

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A BOAT. Hu Ayin, 40, and Chan Asing, 20, coolis, were charged with unlawful possession, o The two prisoners were found in the boat a boat, value about 86, on the 31st ist.

1a.m. to-day, by P. 0. W. Handa, and could give no satisfactory account of how came to be in possession of the boat. First defendant had been in gol Both defendants twice before, for larceny. were Lied 810 each, in default, the first defendant to be imprisoned for three

they

R. (W, W. H. Rowed), master S. S. Tun-. six, t. Alexander Sharp, Srd mate of the samo vessel.

The defendant was brought up under twe

TOKIO The vital statistics of the city of Tokio,throo girls, prepared by the health section of the Tokib-

WUKU,

G

aud

company swindle, the Japan Herald hearsly held upon the subject. What a stupid to be imprisoned for one mouth with hard for neglect of duty on Friday and Sunday Shinbun, contain much matter for serious tor General of Customs, au interesting ed that the ideas of the guild and of the Wir rogard to the Rodanow manufacturingish to matry, and a conference was recent months with hard labour, and the second suminonees, one for drunkenness and one fu, and published in the Nicht Nichir A. S. Deane addresses to the Inspeo the Chamber for ratification, but it

last He admittal the

reflection. The returns for Deocnibor lost report on the health of Wuhu for the half Committee were so divergent, that the

that some hundreds of dollars have been undertaking in this Choya Shimbun.....

sent from Shanghai, Yokohama, and Hong- kong, for the wonderfully cheap watches advertised. The same scare and exposure of the fraud is now being made throughout all Indis and Ceylon, Australia, America, and elsewhere. Tho rowspapers which

1

labour.

AN ARTFUL BOAMP.

published the advertisement and gave the thieves they let them go for brieat to put up a partition to a room in i

the

out want to

want to

of releasing their prisoners. Latterly some

defendant for

payment,

but was

ciLarges.

Captain Bewon said defendant was drunk on Friday as the steamer was leaving the wharf at Shanghai at about 2 pm. He took him before the Consul at Ningpo, and he (the defendant) promised not to offend again. Notwithstanding this promise, he was drunk again whilst on watch coming up the river, off Tungaha Lightship, at He was only in, on Sunday last.

Не саме shipped the Wednesday before. from Hongkong.

The defendant was vory sorry for his

are

Births,

Illegitimate

Illegitiraato

Males.......

.980

35 965

Fermales...

*

47 916 1881

150

400

300

.969

Abortions.... Marriagoa. Divorces Deaths,Males

Females

21

after

appear

your ended 30th September, 1880. He conference was broken off, and matters bogina by describing Wuhn as situated on the reznain as before. The Committee regrot Yangtze, in latitude 31 19 19 N., longi-that no settlement could be reached, but A LETTER from Vladivostock says that goods sent from Japan are selling at a good price.

Cheung Acheung, 30seanian, was charged

hide 118 23 E. (approximately), and hav- Polished rice realized 20 gm per fok. The with larceny by trick on the 30th inst,

ing a Chinese population estimated at about the autisfying themselves of the views of general body of tea buyers, they cold in severe and the thermometer Complainant, Ng Alo, a carpenter, gave

40,000. Judging from the experience he reluctantly came to the conclusion that it has himself had during the past eight would be useless to put the regulations degrees below zero. The harbor has been evidence to the effect that defendant en frozen for ten daya The police behave gaged him, on the 6th September last, very badly, and whenever ther

months, and from what he has learned proposed by the guild bofore the Chamber. front those who have resided here for some The correspondence with the tea guild in On house No. 8, Second Street. The price

time, the general health of the nativen does to be one tael, oue mace and nine cani

does reprinted in the appendix. communicated paragraph redforcing to it and Japanese in the streets at night and work was finished, and this occurred the Worship said he also was sorry for

the other hand they often arrest: foreigners

dareens, which was

not indicate an unhealthy condition of this

The attention of the Committee was was to be

paid directly

829 1,797 situation. The present year (1830) more called, by a letter from Mr Lind, the place in their local or editorial columns, lock them up, and then in the sportkus following day, when complainant "d to drunk twice, and once after having been by divoreos to either population or the rate attended by two native "doctora" to ad-a

We do not pretend to understand the tea when the Superintendent of Customs very the increasing danger to navigation from over, contrasts very favourably with 1879, Agent of the P. & Q. Company here, to are now remarkably sorry; while those they seek to extent inoney as a condition

Defendant hari admitted he had been sons for the extraordinary proportion borne generously institutet a free dispensary, the want of proper regulations for keeping to him. who, like ourselves, acted on the ordinary Japanes who were entrapped in this way come on the 8th. Complainant applied for

fairway in the lower reaches of tha lines of business have lost nothing and have repudiig enquiries Of The Ivussian and 10th, on which date he found the parti- | mised to amend, instead of that he got four new marrings word dusent

the matter to their Consul, and payment on the 8th and again on the 9th before the Consul at Ningpo, when he pro- f vi marriages. In this cao, three out of minister relief to the sick of this, neigh; weston again to the notice of the Chinese 1,000, This year no such tax ότι Authorities. On the representation of the now, yo toe, was committed, January 19th,authorities' on the subject. The soldiers tion:

Puppear to have a hard The soldiers in remotard the man of Korea dauka jaz may to take his trial at the March term of the to subsist have a thug ships Occation Ground and asked him for the money, out that lie had a grast responsibility rest. however poor it may be. Wives are there. Superintendent's charity has been needed. Consular Body, the Total issued a pro or to give him back the wooden partition, in hard, and he could not again shift for themselves as bent they may, fito The Chinese who presented themselves for clatation forbidding the anchoring of treatment were few, with the exception craft fairway of the river. Defendant aid that he had no money and lives on

The health of Tokio compares favourably of five or six cases of intermittent fever and The Committee also received from the had sold the partition.

mostly suffered fron eys diseases mortality, taking permanent and tem- or were the

Mr Seward, covering a set

Bet of rules pro inhabitants at 1,140, 1, Ports been

is shout or slight injuries. porary

This small sick rate. has posed to he adopted to regulate navigation 18 in London anden undoubtedly due to the mildness of in the upper reaches of the river These month and

nr sammer. comples with the absence of

Rules appear in the appendix. 19 in 1000, as against 17 in Norwich 25 in

27 in Manchester Boods. The health of the foreign communi The accounts of the Chamber show a

as satisfactory and ty

48 Dr Deane

balance of cane credit

1,639.71 on

Slat and Hull; 28

and 32 in New- could wish, From time to time some have December last. Of this amount Tis. 1,000 Sheffield: 30 in castle, Wolverhampton and Liverpool. The complained of a general feeling of malaise is on deposit with the Chartered Mercantile health of Tokiu is not due to ex- considerable gastric disturbance, accom Baak at 5% interest, and the remainder tept in one sense-the non-abuse of alcohol, panic at times by diarrhces, at others by with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in If the use of seat spirits ahould be in-

constipations--the axillary temperaturoshow- account current. troduced, the death rate would speedily

District Court, Boston, for an illegal s the United Staten ne transmission

of sotme or artifice to defraud the public by selling watches of a loss value than an

different manufacture from those advertised,

the accused being held in bond of 81,000,

to appear.

THE CARANDINIS.

monally.Japanese paper.

fares.

steamers will be known

I

qua

Defendant was sentenced to be impri- f word. His Worship quite agreed with him, with that of large towns in other countries. dysenteryheats of outaneous affections/Senior Consul, a copy of a despatch from

trust the prisoner as he had broken his

soned for six mo

months with hard labour, and as a warning to the defendant and and after

hearing the sentence made a great there, he sentenced him to one weeks'

he charge. disturbance in Court, and obstinately re-imprisonment with hard labour on each fused to be removed. For this conduct he

The defendant begged his Worship to was fined £6, in default to be imprisoned

De-allow him to pay a fino, but his Worship for three months with hard labour. fendant had been in gaol en four previous said the offencos were too serious, and occasions for larpany and obtaining goods he was removed in custody.-Shanghai by false pretences.

LARCENY OF A BOX OF PAN-DAGÜED!, Hon Asa, 20, and Chan Ayun, 18, haw- kers, appeared on romand from the 23rd and 30th inst., charged with stealing a box containing 240 fan-rangers, the property

the

OBSTRUCTION.

pre-

Courier.

Canton.

THE BIODERN DRAMA.

a

The

încrease.

toms,

man

and Ed Leeds and has not been as i

in

SHANGHAI..

otages

of

F. B. FeEDES, Chairman.

Quotations. HosOxONG, Mardi 31. OPIUM-Now Patna, cash,...8600 a 616

13

"

Old

**

Ola

casit.... New Benaras, cash.... 020

cash,... New Malwa, credit,... 700 Allowance, Taels.............. 40 Old Malwa, credit,... 750 Allowance, Taels...... 48

Exchange.

Wire, Demwad,

30 days' sight,..

4 months sighty:

Te Hamburg correspondent of the L&C. Express writes, Feb. 16th :--

A struggle appears to have arisen between the two great besimin Now Tock en en steamers, the Hamburg-American Stem ship Company at Hamburg and the Nordd, Lloyd at Bremen. The two companies up to the present time have maintained an The Carandinis' concert last evening, agreement amongst themselves, regulating

York. which was given at the City Hall, afforded the fares from Germany to Now

ing a rise of from 1.5 P. to 3° F. above the At the Banual meeting for 24th March, a real musical treat to lover of good music appears now that the Bremen Company has not strictly followed the conditions of the

March 28th. and refined singing. So far as perfect agreement, in consequence of which the

normal,—with a general indisposition for the following business will be brought for work towards the afternoon, the rise in

inward, together with any motions which ensemble, faultless intonation and anancia latter was discontinued by the Hamburg

temperature being

best marked at this time may be made by members in accordance Atong indications of the liberalizing THE CUSTOMS MEDICAL REPORTS.alsa. These symptoms continue from two with the rules: LAdoption of the Re tion are concerned, nothing was to be Company. The Nordd. Lloyd has now re- duced the fares 33 per cent., and the shares

We continue our summary of those re to six days, when they pass off under the part. 2.-Fassing accounts. 3.—Election desired. Madame Carandini sang har por of both companies have at once receded of the "Fuk Yut Wo" Hong on the 23rd tendencics of modern thought is the widen

influence of quinine. In these slight and of Committee. tion of the music as only a vocalist gifted several per cont., as the Hamburg Line of inst. Somu further evidence was given by ring recognition of dramatic representation ports, from last night's paper

latent forms of malarial fever Akan, t Bcountant

receiving as a salutary means of education and refine with a fine volco and of grast experience course will be obliged also to reduce its Li

The Gorman Steamship Company Fuk Tuk Heng, with rooyed in the

rigor and pyresja were wanting, the third From Shanghai Dr. Alexander Jamann stage being inork or las marked in every could have done; while her daughter's (Deutsche Dampfachi Rhodorei,) which the bozes of far-daggers from & P. & ment; and of the signs of the deepening

for the past year has been able to distal steaner from Japan. Witness identified conviction that the public Theatre may be reports to the Inspector General of Cisnase. The cause of these attacks is not to rendering of "Cherry Ripe," "Once again," ute a dividend of 11 per cent, has been the packages stoleu

of

and of

for the half year ending September be found in habits or mode the

living, property

constitated a morally healthful resort of 30th, that the summer was unusually mild, although the climate is in most cases and "I cannot mind my wheel," were named the King-ain, or "Lucky" line by Gram by which he was employed.

The first defendant admitted stealing the

I think one of well-ventilated apart- admirable specimens of graceful expression the Chinese. The board of directors have

sleep in an ordinarily wel

healthy. On the contrary, the the concurrent practical contribution to that ment. To this must be attributed the ab- the healthiest European settlements, could and pathetic singing. The duets Twine therefore resolved henceforth to adopt the box, but the second stated that he had both youth and age, the most significant is and no night was sufficiently hot to prevent blamed, it is in truth far from being un.

above named designation as its offcial name, nothing to do with the affair. the Lily" and Trust her not" were gerns and in future the King-ain Line" will be vious convictions were proved against first desiderated end by both the Laurente of sence of affections depending upon excessive be made here, a few yards more island at d of singing, and showed not only that the the title under which this company's defendant, and three against the second, England and his compeer in America. Both hant, and the low death rate. Small-pox at the back of the present foreign habita

The houses occupied by foreimers was prevalent among the shipping es late nation and they were both sentenced to be im-

imbued with reverent religious thought, we the month of May, and cases occurred from are for the most part situated on the river artistes understood, but that also they

prisoned for six months with hard labour.

may infer that it is hy a tentative and time, to time throughout the entire year. bank, on alluvial soil, and in summer when were capable of giving entire expression to

reluctant condescension that the author of The number of cases reached its maximum the river is high it percolates through the meaning of the words they sangan Berlin on account of the dances to be given THEKE is a great stir in the Court world of

In Memoriam and the author of The Pant in April. In May a lady and six children this light sandy deposit, the surface of accomplishment which is too often absent. during the. coming marriage festivities. To Alung, of 180 Queen's Road West, of Life have lent the sanction of their pure arrived from Hongkong, bringing whooping. which is in some places not more than Bank, The singing of Me Linden was in that un- The Emperor was lately present, in the was fined $10, for causing an obstruction on fame and ripe judgment to the educational cough with that. These children had from a few inches to three or four

White affected casy style of hallad-singing which of the quadrilles to be performed by fifty out and leaving a quantity of zistians in the fore, accept their set as marking a sure step of the disease, but as they were carafaily in summer and early autumn the basement Credits,

Hall of the Castle, at the rehearsal the footpath in Sutherland Street by setting mission of the Theatre. We may, there cousins in Shanghai, who, contrary to ad- fact above the level of the water. Conse- vice, visited them once. All the cousing quently, during the latter part of spring, is always acceptable. The basso, who has officers of the Guards, each of whom is not

public street.

of progress toward the firm of a reformed Drama, conciliating hesitating isolated it did not apread for some works. stories of these houses must be damp, which Documentary, 4 months' sight, a splendid voice, sang well; but too little less than six feet in height. A mot

by the married.couples, is being ar

doubt or repugnance, and assuring the Finally, however, it became epidemic. So in its turn renders the air of these apart India, Wire,

demand, * was heard of the tenor, Mr W. Sherwin, I by the wife of the Vice-Chancellor

veral cases of mesales were observed, but adhesion of the higher minds of the time.

demand, who has the rehearsals at her residence.

The age is earnest and passionate in its the disease did not becoms epidemic. Itments humid, and perhaps malarious at are somewhat quarrel-

can be occupied by foreigners some at quadrilles,

an adult, in whom, and

occurred i fame. The mental tension or the physical

according to

live on the grazed floor of edifices Sovereignis, an have to difficulty in making the sata. One pro

Lai Afuk, 17, unemployed, appeared on strain are alike intense and protracted. the certificate, the affection upper stories; necessarily, some residents Gold Lent, 991

varloty. posed aut of

of quadrilles that of the Diplo

Lam. Ataat, a stone- the mind are, therefore, the necessary Two deaths from cholera are reported, which are not of the best architecture, and in an atmosphere not conducive to health, matic Corps has fallen through because remand, charged, with two others, not in Relaxation of the faculties and recreation of hemorrhagic or malignant

custody, with ry, of 87 and some recuperative correlatives.*

there was no epidemio of cholers or to which I think the committee could not decide what dress

not to Union In. Soc. of Cton, 81,600 pề kh, outter, on the the gentlemen should wear. The Chinese

Lam Atsat, gare evidence to the senses by the acceptably prosented to choleraic affections, although, as usual at detailed are mainly plems above) Hongkong Bank, 95% prem

during the continuance of the

RE some people will have Cheda Traders' Ins. Co., 81,550 p. sh. Ambassador has no dress suit, and the re opium, at Yau-ma-ti, on the 25th inst,

Complainant, La

e approach and

it. W presents rare opportunities North China Ina. Ca, Tia: 1,100 share. Monz of Reuter's blunders arop up day by presentative of the St. Domingo Republic the affect that he lived at Tai-kok-tati. of Tragedy, Comedy and Opera, together hot weather, a

Was announced. The cause of for the

Tis 785 p. sh.. must never appear in uniform. Between On the 25th inst., at about 4 p.m., he was with spectacular and other minor plays residente mortanty among native the erection of a few highly san-angaze Ins."

47 per share, sales. day there must be something radically the advocacy of evening dress miform, returning home from Yau-m-ti, having aand in default of public theatres, the taste this yearly recurring mortality is only tary dwellings on the hills which lie quite Chinese Ins. Co.

i

described, but the symptoms onu close to the town. These are small, well H.K. Firo Ins. Co., $75 per share, azles. faulty to a service and, in a code which and national costume, these quadrilles have

theatricals." maken two agents, presumably instructed accordingly come to nothing. In this, aa bag with him which contained two arall of the time is shewn by the persevering veged paint to excessive consumption of raised above the possibility of foods, the China Fire Ins. Co., 8205 per share.” I allude above to the production of Bir more or less unripe or decayed fruit and drainage is perfect, and for business rela H.K. &W. Dock, 38-% prem., sales.

vegetables, exposure to the direct rays of tions with the town leave nothing to be de- H. C. M. S.-bost Co., pre

S'hai Steun widely in their interpretation. Thus writes ASTRETING of the members of the Royal men came up and her and two other Tennyson's Tragedy, entitled "The Cupe pen and the absorption of malarious red Ere long I hope to see some of them Coast St. Nav. Co., Th, 180, share.

after at Lyceum Treatre, Loudon,

the coonriod by foreigners.

Hongkong Gas Co., 888 per share. the Japan Herald in a recent issue -- Botanic Society was held on the 12th. The which in the purok, the beginning of the year, and is companies and other poisonous sallations from, the

Hongkong Hotel Co 875 per bare, People were foalshed by the receipt of Dr. Henry Alfred Pitman in the chair. The which he had in his purse, and the beg, ment from Americs that Mr Longfellow soil, which are condensed in the

SHANGHAI CHAMBER OF of Chinnie

China Sugar Rel. Co., $192, p. share, sales, Masque Reuter a telegram in the 22nd of February, donations reported included a quantity of from him. After taking the opium out is engaged upon the adaptation of his thy, crowded and unventilated ground-foor

back to complainant

of Pandolves the scene 'for the stage.

COMMERCE YEARLY REPORT when, in which multitudes

habitually sleep.

Do Debentures, 3% prem announcing that Mr Gladstone had given seed of three special varieties of the tea they threw the bag

to complainant,

the Laureate

The following is the report of the Com Chinese Imperial Loan of 1874, nominal. A burial return of foreignors is shown for notice to withdraw the Coercion Bill from plant just received from China; an interest One of the men said

of several are a smuggler of opiumn and must give Committee, un specunt of the great opposting collection of Tora and Chinese teas up." The men were not in uniform. This play has attracted the site of London society the hall year onded 30th September 1830, mities of the Chamber of Commerce, sub

(not including deaths among the Catholic mitted to the annual meeting tion experienced, and many were the com- varieties

botsentouses were on the focad în British territory, near the or Mr Longfellow's that of Basva, What an į (not)

The Last Report of the Committes was plaints at this mark of feebleness on the

ough boundary, and the prisoner and his comps assemblage of beauty of feature and grace religious bodies), showing a total of 39 In Samirger Ako Government. Matters were not table. Professor Bentley said that although in then ran towards the Chinese terri¦ of form is of intellectual man- borz. If we strike out 7 deaths from sodi- general meeting which wax hald at the (Taken of Meur Falzoner di Co.'s Premise,

womanhood, do we look upon; addition to the above,. 3 infants were still presented to the Chamber at the annual made clearer by the receipt of a subsequent tea had been cultivated in Chins for per- nion

of- that he bill had been have thousands of years, it is probable that tory Witness called out and some of his what wealth and

fancy, teeming

dontal asuses, thers remain 31 ascribed to offices of the Chatab on 8th March, kologram wadahira fins and

The

in early times the plant was introduced into. worenen came, one of whom arrested the hood! What amoen art thought, what disease. Of these, occurred among in 1880 receipt:

Dernative

of data China from India, it being really a

pregnant of prisoner, in Chinese territory. The prisoner what magnetiam our files from Hongkong

The first taligram

basen Upper Assam. All ted by Renter's Agent in S

All botaniste now agree did not touch complainant, but came up to confuent flooding of brain waves; yet all fanta, and of the 97 remaining, 8 were fur The Committes elected at that meeting

across the abords of common among adult foreign rosidents is thus O Grant, J Lam A-, & seaman belonging to and stekning yen to it entirehat many varieties of the tea plant are de bun with the other two men subject to the magic of the poet u wand as nished by non-residents. The mortality was Mesurs J. Hol Holiday, W. Howie, Do

rived by long culture from one cannon

to spots in males I Lovers

M.Ranger. females during the same Supposed to its real one. The telegrean as origin, and not only so, but that the endless I Hop junk, lying at Tai-kok-tani, testified sympa motion at length crown his so- and 3 females, as against. 28 males and 3 J. G. Purdon and J.

variation of teas known to odmerce dopand to hearing complainant calling ont "Rob

period of

Mr FB. Forbes was appointed Chair of 1873 Published in Hongkong shows that, in con--the age of the leaf and mode of bery, and going, with several others, to cars in the qumulative force of unrestrained female terest in chiefly with the exoto / an, and Mr E. H. Levers Vice-Chan

But Be our of the more on oquence probably of the obstraction Ross Bula members, the English Premier manipulation for their individual properties assist in stresting the prisoner,

Lam sui, F.S. 250, deposed that at Enviable lot and happy fortuna his! Nay, white population, these figurer are to be Mr J. Bell-rving having resigned his Ha given notice of a motion to summarily than to the variety of the plant from which

se further discussion in Committee, so they are gathered. The Secretary said that about 6pm on the 25th is, first and it is but the fruit of the eternal principle of still further reduced in order to represent seat on his departure from the port Mr. J. the Bill might be at once reported to although the tea plant had been so long second witnesses came to the Yau-ma-ti compensation, the just guerdon of devotion the mortality among white persons born in J. Kenwick was invited to take his place, the House. This was probably acted upon, under cultivation in China, it had com- Station and reported a robbery, upon hear to truth by the use of implanted faculties Ruropean countries, including of course the Mr C. La Gran and Mr F G. Habbe a870 at the Bill has since been passedequate paratively only recently been introduced to ing which Inspector Cameron and witness. In short, a recompense of fulfilment of United States of America. The mortality also left Shanghal, but their seat have not

who had no opportunity of exhibiting his

(Before the Hon. Ng (wy.)

Staat ALLEGED

ful power as a singer. The accompani-/ The married folks thero is the greatest

manta by Mister Linden and Carandiri were admirably played. The entertainment was artistically genuine meccss, and

merited better support.

HIORWAY ROBBERY, COMITTED | Pursuits, whether of pleasure; wealth or will be noticed that in one instance de certain season. Fe of the houses which Shanghai sight, private:

FOR TELAL.

These sre most

but

Dreams,

in the varieties › the

in presise ternus, vary so frequently and se

for docents.

in current politics, there was no "concert." pieces of raw opium, which he had bought cultivation of amateur

the from his shed

When about 40 er 50 chaung

him, and

from the Society's

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to

on some auspicious evening,

suppressed

applause.

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nominal

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H.K. Ice Co.'s shares, 8125 per share.

Temperature.

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F. B. Forbes. BAROMETER

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