THE CHINA MAIL.
The first defendant was fined $26, or six weeks' hard labour, and the others $5 eneli, or seven days' hard labour,
(Before Frederick Stewart, Eng.)
ASBAULT ON À CONSTABLE,
Kwok Tai, fireman unemployed,
China.
SHANGHAI.
(N. C. D. Necs, }'.
GREAT FIRE IN SHANGHAI,
(N. C. D. Neus) "Curio-Street, which is eitunted between
It is rumoured that the Tactai of Shang the North Gate of the city and the thorough- hal is in very great disfavour with the fire leading to the tea gardens ins Viceroy Tso Teung-tang.
We have not again boon destroyed. A fire broke out
there beon informed as to the cause of this, yesterday afternoon' (13tla) akut four the famos sprend with great was beyond the fact that on u protège or adher-
nas column of Baoke, was
and
done
No. 5826 MARCH 20, 1882.]
THE CHINESE INSURANCE CO. FOLEY, P.O. No. 1, an old and faithful public a somewhat doubtful ovont. As the plot grant satisfaction in every respect. She
The following is the Report of the servant, leaves for home to-morrow, and was unravelled, however, and Elvino and has now become the property of the Occi his departure was thought to be a litting Amino warmed up to their work, succum dental and Oriental Steamship Company, Directors to the Eleventh Ordinary Meeting Occasion for presenting him with surae sub became more assured. As Elvino Signor and is intended to run between here and of Shareholders, to be held at the Head San Francisco, Hor general appearance fice of the Company at Hongkong on stantial proof of the estan in which he is Vanzetti Unserves the highest praise. He held amongst his brother officers. Ao was in capital voice, and the grace and cubraces all the symmetrical character Friday, the 24th March, at 3 o'clock p.ni.
The Directors have now to submit to the
A cordingly a large gathering of the members force which he throw into his impersona.istics of the well-known vessale of the of the European force assembled in the tion of the lover in his coating, his Waite Star Line; four mats, whip Shareholders the Eleventh Annual Report ordered to pay a find of 50 cents or sufferent of Li Hung-chang tho Tuotai is obnoxi- rapidity.
of the Company to 31st December, 1881.
The Net Provais earned during the year, Oduna Singh P.D., in Queen's Road on Sa The redoubtable conqueror of the North in the extrane, The North and Northwest two days' imprisonment, for assaulting us to the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang. on seon rolling over the Settlement, and the spectacle inside the walls was striking billiard room at their quartors to-day to do jealous, and his reconciliatory passages rigged in theco, and the fourth, in de- honour to Mr Foley. Sergeant Haggarty in elicited the warmest approval of those fault of a better definition, Tappropriately less Re-insurance, and. Return Premis tulay, and was also ordered to pay 60 wost in credited with the intention of Gains were blocked up by a stron of nativ
These provide of amounts to 213,718.00, and the paymente cents as amends for tearing the constable's uprooting figger. The
destroying tho influence of
miscellaneous articles of: factive sail power, in the event of any for claims and losses to 8161,997.13, and uniform.
said to bu bont of his great rival, and 20 ga gotting rid of all the officials in his own
We and breakdown of the machinery, fully equal to after deducting the working expenses and the 12% Interest already paid to Share- ship. She has
owe their position to the Tho walls wore who provinces, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF BRANCHES, that of a frothadtion for 1000, in three holden, there remaing a balance of 8677.42
dense e throng of steerage accommodation
favour of Li, He must be very powerful; tives, walle underneath there was scene Ho Afat, & farmer, was convicted of indeed, if he hopes to be able to unitate of the wildest confusion. In a very short
171 his possession, unlawfully, a"
a partizan of his own to the Tadtaiship of
a fow appropriate remarks presented him with a handsome purso containing twenty. Mr Folay briefly, but two sovereigns. feelingly responded, and all prosent wished the veteran constable a happy and pleasant passage home. The purse
kong Police Force: To J. Foley
named the
proscrit. Indeed, be more than once lost all his stiffness, and it must be said do servedly carried off the honours of the evening.
ond
unrivalled,
the
and
with a s
14
éh sides of
honso, and
and the sight from this point waa eligible offer themselves for repayment to suffer seven days' imprisonment
all events in recent years, PUBLİ, with hard
labour.
at
If The
Tho really intends war to the death with Li and magnificent.
almost building was deserted, and the open caments afforded Auditora.-Mr Henry Smith and MF L.. Hauschild have audited the Accounts, and
Lam Aass, coal coele, was food 83, with his rty, it is for probable that has uninterrupted rovion of the burning
were said to ing their ze oleation an Auditor for the sonment with herd labour for unlawful buvo dug for him i vlees nie, mis tuin is sheet of fire: The hotiscs on
in Hanes, which way were wrapped in too troublesome at Peking last seemed to pour out of the windows current year.
Hi was fined 82, with the option of seven And it locks se il le were avalking straight caecades. Gangs of
Like WM. REINERS, Chairman.
days' imprisonment for damaging trees, on
i firenten ruslwa na fest Hongkong, 24th March, 1882.
the 10tle instant.
пи crowd would pornit in and out of the It is currently reported anfong the Chi- nese that the Cotton Gouda Guilds pro-replenished over and abon nt to
Clate carrying their useless water-buckets, this and Tientsin to all dealdis and brokers to the confusion by beating every one in. hibited the use of the telegraph between
creck; bouring the soldiers on guard added
Law Notice.
HARD UP FOR A DRINK.
James Sanda and Cornelius Mcrey were arrested by P.0. James about 11
into it.
will of all with whom he has come in von-acquitted herself had more been given her in a subdued shade of rich olive-green IN THE VICE ADMIRALTY COURT privatos in the Royal Inniskilling Fasiliora in pico-goods. Any Chinese dealer or their roach over the head with their woodun
that the role had been filled by another. on
the main
the East he has enjoyed excoptional health, art; and one could scarcely help wishing | sleoping we large, sury, perfoc
The worthy Signor's forte lies, we believe, ventilated,
nished and uncli provided
not having been a single day in hospital through sickness.
the
úarl
OF HONGKONG.
Police Intelligence. (Both Magistratex sitting.) Monday, March 20
THEFT AT THŔ XATLONA' HOME.
inmadi with hard labour.
pro
the
presence.
"Torrent
moment
uf
An enomous anoint of damage
mado its
of
buckets wora
i got
Signors Pinelli, in the part sections, and is provided,with all the later which is carried forward to the current having of freshly-cut branches on the 19th Shanghai, as, we believe, this important spaco of time the flames had burn their of Amina, the Sonnambulist, was acute-improvements in this branch. The accom. Year
Directors The Hon. E. R. Belilios and quantity boro the following inscription "Hong strength as she proceeded, so that the last unique and perfect description, and if Mr T. G. Williamson retire in rotation, but instant, and was fined $2, in default of most is one that has beon left to Li's dit way to within a hundred pacen of the guarti-
what weak at the outset, but gained modation for saloon passengers is of the
most
is certainly unsurpassed b part of the role sasigned to her was most that of way ship adpara ly sauna profectionis a token of respect from his brother con- erisitably filled. The scene which followed him, diately forward of the test and stables and friends on his departure from the discovery of Lisa's deceitful conduet. boilers, so that it is in the quietesti tlie Directors have pleasura in' recommend. Le alternative of suffering ton days' impri appointment to Nanking was really street, which presented tha qarance of
of the ship The aaloon beau- Hongkong." Mr Foley has been a residorit was very powerfully rundered, and at its titally and most artistically locoruted, and
forms a most
charming apartment. The in the East for more than twenty-seven close the fuir prime donna deservedy shared elling
has tho appearance of onb the relievos years, and of that period has served twenty the enthusiastic plaudits with Elcino. As
so delicately and yours and six months in the police service, Lisa, Signora Bilini had merely an opporta most novel and pleasing impression on the
harmoniously celou so
that they leave a during which time he has gained the good-nity of showing how wdl she could five mind. The sofas at the sides, upholstered tact. He holds the Canton medal fur 1807, to do: her fine voice was seldom heard velvet, are luxuriously comfortable The ane-peated revolving stairs are quite a
A sitting of this Court will be held too'oleck on Saturday night, at the back of broker using the telegraph. For business t
wards the discordant braying of a trumpet having taken part in the operations which Signor Corti, an ilouts Rodolpho, was not new feature in the furnishing of aluumors. thon took place as a private of the 60th
success, his vocalisation and his powers The Indies' cabin and thd smoking-town, i kurrow, nt 11 In ve The Wong The National Hotel, et the instance of the Pulfiores subjects himself to a hoovy 'fing, incited the firemen to renewed exertions.
proprietor, John Olsen. The defendants Bid to be $1,000, or the usual penalties
of what rank we were not were found
Hotel which the Guilds impose upon their con- and a mandarin- of wh the proprietor of the Holel by Regiment. During his long residence in generally being nitogether unequal to the are on the saloon deck, and are nonlels of Cheong Hoi, junk. The steamer Chine.
to dover appeared upon the artistic decoration and furnishing. The
tunacious members." This, if sitting in a window at the back of the
true, "goon able sabins, acionolating 60, are all
taisce and when asked what they wanted, very far to explain why the line between to the fire had been burning ever ha
this and the North has been unprofitable hour to keep things lively by lus
by lus inspiring said they would like something to drink.
I like set in the back We sincerely hope that HE in flung-lid been done, when the French fire-engine lightly with electric
and elegantly fur
The proprietor gate was broken, the second defendant con- chang will direct a strict engany to be in another department. Signora Bertolini bells.
fessed to doing this. They wore told yade into the truth of the rtnnour luck stationed upon the other to crack. Appearance, and, Four thronus and lavatories, In connection with the addresses given to deserves inuch praise for her careful ren for the convenience of saloon
beautifully
tálod azul arranged,
orded are
could get
tno drink and asked to go way, but we now give, and we have little doubt he Passengers Sir John Pope Hennessy on the occasion of dering of the part of Teresa, and for the Provision against fire is most complete, and scaunan, was charged with stealing 6 fron was called for.
James Howard, an unemployed English this they refused to do, and the constable will do so. It would ill consort with his was at last got into play. A thin but dignity that a trading guild should be able Dentually effectual streams of water was his loving the Colony, the N. C. "News effective aner in which she brought out an outbreak in any section of the ship can A. Anderson, aman, on the 19th insert.. The constable said when he came on the to prevent the Chinese from employing the directed towards the western side of the Conflagration which had spread consider- The complainant said he was a season on
which he may be said to have been ably in the moantina--and from this Jino remarks:-Before Governor Hennessy's de-all the points in a somewhat important, at once be brought into subjection through
scene the defendants were cursing and both steam and water. The board the Onealu,
and was at parture two addresses were presented to him,
Canes were of the Empire The agency though zuiner, role. The other characters life-saving appliances are also of the most siding at the Sailor Howe. Vesty swearing, and on the way to the station, the introducing into the interior. home
Yesterday they used obscene and abusive language. one by a deputation from the Chinese cos(Alessio and the notario) were fairly repre-approved order. Two large fo-rafts are about 11 o'clock in the forenton ho went The Magistrate, found them guilty of
It would be very interesting were we able very gradually anhduodadily though munity and the other from the Portuguese sented by Signers Patierno and Brunotti, stood on the deck houses Forward, but with the defendant, who resided in the disorderly conduct and fined each, $2 with to trace the origin of any one tumour which no use the dense crowd which Ind collected in the gateway prevented the free rendy
for iramediato uno, and sight largs same room, and returned in about aus
How does it arise in the first instance Wange of the water carriers, and a great Civil Service employés. The former praise who assisted most assiduously in the lifeboats bang in their darits, with slightly the worse for liquor, H., the alternative of four days' imprisonment 28 obtained currency among the Chinese,
portion of the water was spilt before it his generous treatinent of the Chinese, a choruses. The improvement we have al fittings complete, and ready for service atoly went upstairs, leaving the defendant
pirposely invented and set afoot with n definited object in view, or
As far as she burning houses. As a spectacle, or is i state of things which, it says, has, hovor
on the shorteat noties in case of need downstairs, and went to bed with all his
alimply the INBENAIRLY DRUNK.'
There is
the conflagration, was well worth seeing. before happened and his financial ability, rently tied in the chorus has been The Arabic is built of mild stool, the ductile clotheson. At that time hohad six one-dollar
an of
a report which enriched the Triusury every your steadily maintained and with one marked quality of which insures the maximum of notes in his trouser potket for certain, bat dil tert Joyce, sur luigplayed as in now, industriously circulated among the The bright orange-coloured hazo, presented
a beautiful contrast to the pale blue of that the press. Regent has | classes, official
has He Queen's Bead Central aliout midnight on consequence of the many blessings which exception, the chorus was creditably sung strength stul durability. Her dimensions how much more he was unable to
up in
in the air, losing he has been the means of procuring for or on Saturday night. As the close of tho are Length, 40 fout; breath, 42 feet awoke at four o'clock in the afternoon and the 18th instant by a constable, thus been poisoned. There is probably nohy and myriads of crimson sparks floated themselves in the dense 24 feet; and the grows register tous found his money missing. The defendant, proving himself to have been in a drunk foundation for it whatever, and very likely Blackness of the smoko-clouds that rolled
nobody knows anything about it ir Peling beavily bestowing on the Chinese, the trainers of performance the leading actors were called nags 4,363 tons. She has twe double- who knew of him during money in his and incapable condition. He was fined 25 The Shen Fas which is a very well-informed to the westward.. It was fortunate the adtress worn constrained to bronk, out before the curtain, and Amine was com-cylindered ongines of 450 horsepower, possession, lo had reason to think, had conte, and given the option of suffering one
critical the wind shifted, the Bron
day's imprisonment.. into verse in commemoration
newspaper, has taken no notice of it; our He is called grant and lofty, a pillar of plimented upon her success by means of built by Mess 8 J. Jack & Co., of the Vie stolen the dollars.
taria Engine Works, Liverpool, the storm Haury Grastin, who iso occupied tho
own Correspondents at Tientsin and the Capital have not made the most distant it appear that nothing could have inter- the Stats, and possessing a high character the inevitable bouquet. The Scenery and for which is supplied from three sliptical name rooin, said be aw the defendant go
reference to anything of
wore matching of the kind, nor h
swiftly boilers, in London-which is known in
working ab nominal pressure of to the complainant's bed and take suide Lau Sam, in whose house, No. 18. Jar- terene at least, and so on dressing of the piece were cruditable, inclu- in the to the square moli, but teated by nowy out of the former's pocket, about dine's Bazaar, ácting Police Sergeant he subject been mentioned 13 tho private stearily down the strock, and 83 we through sixteen nts. The free says thatding the bridge scene; az the arduous the Board of Trade to this without knowing that witness Iran one pair of scales, two pipe bowls and some solves from the North. Yet the rumour 19 of the disastor we are not accurately in- nlrosdy double
half past
He Smith found 8 boxes of prepared oplum, telgranus which we constantly receive our yesterday after mon it was noticed, thust, as a special act of duty of conducting and accompanying was, and expable of bearing, even
current in this neighbourhood, and it fa sourtesy, Excellency insiste on nc.
soon him, and acted all through in a very
other opinn utensils, was fined $25, and carrer suspicious manner Witness did not men- companying the deputation to the outer well done by Signor Cattaneo.
Donizetti's grand opera, "La Favorita" is and 14 knots an hour. The crank shafts are tion the matter to the complainant because given the option of malforing six weeks' in. [reasonable to suppose that Rod believe it formed, though we have heard it stated
fcalousy excited by prisonment with hard labour, for rotailing
almost
absolute olsteel, and so constructed that the risk of he thought the defendant had taken the prepared opium without haring a permit power, of an atabitionze and strong-minded up. The destruction to property Houst
have been very great, na but low
low effects, woman, and the startling indicitions of from the Opium Farrer,
perfidy in the Palace that have recently comparatively speaking, were rescued. The eurishops in the city are unfortunate, the been brought to light, both combine to lund som colour to it, and it is ever possi- Fury same street having been similarly The Chinese, as is their wont, turned out ble that those two things, joined perhaps 1 od in the month of October 1876. with details of which we are not in posses in thousands to witness the sight, and some sin, may have detually given rise to the dozens of foreigners ware to be seen saing raniour in its present shape.
The Rev. W. L. Graves took a temporarying with the crowd both on the walls and
in the streaming streets. farewell of his congregation yesterday evening
In a succeeding issue the N. C. D. News He expects to be back from
gives the number of houses destroyed at Peking in about five weeks, Bishop Moule 300. having kindly consented to take charge of the Cathedral in the meantime. The Dean's Li Tai and Chan Sui Kan were charged
The following is the account given by the are, we believe, still a mystery. at the instance of Christian Fulling, chief oventa officer of the Fy, with the theft of rice.
Another proof of the true policy of China Courier: The fire that broke ont at the Both defendants were tally-nen on board recently been forthcoming. The Hain Pau (18th) destroyed over one hundred houses
with regard to the opium-question has north gate of the city yesterday aftemonn the vessel which was sorts of bags-gonny bags and mat baging the growth of native spium. Hitherio by the destruction of Curio atest," one of discharging rice in two of Friday last contained an article alvocat and it is difficult to estimate the loss caused The chief officer saw two gunny bags of rice the officials have contented themselves with the richest portions of
terms their bond On
with tens of thousands of dollars.
Mus
one this statement
His
he
In
individually. The adok leave of them
address from the Por-advertised for to-morrow, the 21st.
acknowledging
tugueso was less flowery. In
it Sir Popo
From
one of
could not refrain allusions to his prede cessors in office the bad taste of which have
so much to damage him in done so
in the
It
A
eyss
THE STEAMSHIP ARABIC,”
The following details, part of which we of Englishmen who have kept aloof from have already reproduced from the L. & the potty aquabbles that seem inevitable in Express of the new steamer drabic, which small community like that of Hongkong arrived in harbour this morning, may be
of Newcastle instructed that the Duke's
Sir John Bowring to appoint Mr interesting :-Built by Messra Harland and D'Almada Castro Colonial Secretary of Wolff, of Belfast, to the order of the White the Island, and that Sir John did not do so. Sir Pope told the depatation who brought Star line this vessal, launched six more the address that he would havo carried out ag, has already made three trips between the orders of a wise and"
good nun like the Liverpool and New York, and has given Duke of Nowenatle. Surely there was no need to draw this contrast between himself and a dead Governor. We notice that only me merchant, the Hon. P. Ryrie, is men- tioned
as having been the Governor off.
THE GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOLS.
The folowing letter and tabis with regard
Our contemporary ought here to have to the examination of Grant-in-Aid Schools
added that Mr Ryrie acted inore in his official acpacity of senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council thare ne amer chant."
ACCORDING to the annual tea market re-
appear in the Gustte .....
-EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT, Hongkong, 27th February, 1882,
depth,
uch greater pressure than the maximum official require ment, Her average speed is between
a
an
with
wrong.
Bily.
NO PERMIT.
THEFT OF AS UKBRELLA. Chan Wong was convicted of stealing an umbrella from Chun Ching, on the 18th inst., and having thres previous convictions against him, was sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour, first and fast fortnights in solitary confinement, and six hours in the stocks at the scene of the offence.
THEFT OF RICE,
the
that at a
101 Quand so saved there. At one timo
Toned. The famos
stood in the
the upperstorey the air was hot with the aproaching fire. Of the origid
the usual upsetting of
that the
a
a breakdown is rendered a remote contin-money to look after it; the men being great genoy, the more se, as the engines are two
two friends distinct engines, so that in the event of one William Blood, seaman, entered the being disabled it it is a
it is a simple matter to dis- room about if past one on his bare feet, connect them and continue the
the passage single engine, at a slightly reduced speel. fentiant jump got inside he saw the do- peed.fendant away from complainant's bid She is stoored amidships by steam, and has and put something in his pocket. At the in addition to the approved ordinary com- time he did not suspect that anything was passes and sounding appliances, Sir William Thompson's patent compuses na- The defendant whers searched had in his thing. Special precautions have been taken possession one live-dollar mots and some for effective look-out, a bridge forward | cents, and averred that the money had been being provided for the men engaged in that given him by racions men. He had gut important duty. Har grew conmsts of 120. his note by changing four notes and one
silver dollar for it at the Welcome Tavern. officers men all told.
Foter Joyce, seaman on board the Gendly, sail he knew that the defendant bad money previous to the 19th instant, he having given to him live dollars suue uine days ago. He als
saw the defendant re- tarn 830, to James Dalton, a shipmate, on in thrown into a boat alongaido. This lost sighing over the spread of enltivation, and feared tinut several lives have been lost. the same day. This money Daitem handed to had nothing to do will now poked in that the defendant keep while the formue was in a state of intoxication,
Another fendant to have had money in his presession
No.
•
way
The prisoners were suntended to two the imprisonment with hand labour
each.
It i
We now find that the ruit Wōre stili muoking, and
of the
city visiting the
the scene to-day we noticed
will
be
No. 48 of 24th January last, when I recom- inended to redzee the grants (under Rule 7) to two-thirds or three-fourths of the expenditure incurred by sach School de this racunarendation has not met with the oval of His Excellency the Governor, approval of His in I can under the circumstances only recon
that the Granito, be
the official to be paid as per tubien
organ open y recom. crowd of workmen and persons, interated Sir, I have the honour to forward under enclosed, but that nudice, be given to all the
mending it a bold step, considering the in the firs were busy fossicking tanong this enclosure the usual Tabulated Summary Managers of Grant-in-did-Schools that stopa
the present critical condition of afatias with debris to recover what things of value thero of the grants earned in 1881, by the
The defendant said he went upstairs about
regard to the question at issue. It is clear may be buried under them, and also, we view of Mosara Lattle & Co., the quality of various Graut-in-Aid Schools, amounting to will be taken to introduce in the Grantinious to the 19th.
All Scheme the following Rule, which
CORRESPONDENCE. that the public opinion in China is being are informed, to discover the remains of $10,166.01, which sum exceeds the sum
dinner-time to awaken the complainant, China tea is steadily deteriorating, The only provided in the Estimates for 1882 byo introduce into the Scheme, as an addi-
of rewith
His Excellency the Governor but changed his mind thinking that Auder- beg His
carefully trained to aprove apiųm
um the missing persons who are supposed to THE PRESS IN CHINA.
cultivation and the
When bavo beon entombed in the ruins Soon demand is for fine tea and this conscquent. $1,066.01. But as the sun of $240 has
son was too druk. He bought a looking-
thrown off altogether. A case in
the fire first broku out the greatest of
con- glass from the accond witness who was lying
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL" enly on its scarceness. "That the former already been paid, under C.8.0. 482, for re-tion to Rule No. 9:-
"No grant will be made to any School in his bed, and then went d
ents to us as we write. Between fro
fusion prevailed among the Chinese who wards to Masters of Government Schools,
downstairs. again.
March 20th, 1882. hsing (or Kashing) and the sea there lies
seemed to have
to have become paraly d by the ont when the the abipper in one class of tea is already Account, the trial oxcess of expenditure two-thirds of the expendituro incurred by third witness came in. He protested bandier's monograph on the Press of China sherlthy store; was long it fav dames would spread beyond the wall and: alternative is being gradually forced up and debitod as usual to the Grants-in-Aid for any one year to an amount exceeding He was just loving the
Sin, As you! lave considered M. Car-stretch of land, which, from its marshy as chief of the French police, hearing that the and rapidity with which the flames spread. The the School during that year. But in cases he did not take the money, and pointed out of sufficient interest to reprint, you may agricultural purposes. For apparent. The produce of Bhautara after over the a proved in the Estimates where rent is not actually paid the rental that the third witness had just finished two of silicon tallet me to state that it is
destroy property on the French Concession, steadily declining in the London market amount to $2,200.01.
This excess is cansol by the increased of the premises occupied by the Solol ayouths' imprisonment fur from ten-pence per pound in the beginning
be valued by the Government Valunters and admitted having suffered four months
in fact full of inaccuracies Sothe time ago, however, someholly com- requested that the "Torrent" should be in of 1880 to five-pence in 1862, has now number of Grant-in-Aid Schouls, ton new
to end, enough I should ceived the happy notion of planting it with readiness for netion. Numbers of Chinese a sus equal to the valne of the rewel of prisonment for cutting the tackle of the P. Schools Javing been brought under the pro- reached
a point where its value does not visions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme in 1881, the premises included in the expenditure of & O, steamer, which he was discharged from think to make old Tarrant turn in his grave. the poppy: and it is one unit poppplickt, came from the city and implored the aid of cover fraight daty and packing charges. The number of Grant-in-Aid Schools has the School,"
the French Pompiere. The many miles in extent, covered with towers the My having been an occasional contributor
"Torrent," the middle of Novemborst. mix.x6
eminently adapted, kad quality
under Boilis The
of wretched
team is at
the able direction these
and and I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most
of M. Bottu, then The Magistrates imposed a sentence of for nearly two decades to many of the papers to which the length bevorning patunt to consumers, who risen froth 27 in 1880 to 37 in 1881,
eighteen months imprisonert with hard published in China during that time may yielding must satisfactory returns to the proceeded to the sceno of the conflagration, As regards the excess of amount of grant obedient Servant,
A vill no longer allow such rubbish to be i
M. cultivatera. E. J. EITEL,
me for correcting a
and was planted on the creek, while the Cordier. It would occupy too much as posed upon them, and their production earned by curtain of thees Schools uver
We regret to her that typhoid forer has firmon went inside the city and cut away space Inspector of Schools. diminish, oven if it does their respective amount of actual expendi
to
pont out even the errors and de ita appearance amongst the foreign the fire with tho tenements near the wall; must necessarily
the buildings that threatened to connect while a little that I now know
community in Bougkew. Several vases and so limited the conflagration to the ant. I fear the subject would not be of sough general interest; but a philosophical history of the Press of Chinn, showing the induction it say be supposed to haval exerted on our relations
not cease altogether. Medium tens are turu, I have solicitud the attention of the The Honourable M. S. TONNOCHY,
Government to the matter in my Letter
taking the place of common,
our-
responding losses to the brod one
teas, though eagerly sought
commanding the
anch
are
pre- Indian from
of Ind
cented by the comportionate advance |
10 short supply," The Rev
ther
realised;
whore they are
remarks that the Chinese Government may
-
yet ate the folly of handicapping the tea
interest by imposing upon it duties which it
cannot possibly bear, and compete with the
Nume of School.,
lightly-taxed Japanese and the free-grown Baxter Vernacular Sairingp'un School (Girla) ........
a similar Indian teas. With regard to Bilk a
Daxter Vernacular D'Aguilar Street School (Girls) state of things has existed. Silk, owi
owing to
the careless and badly organised methods Baxter Vermeular Hollywood Road School Girls)
of preparation for export, has only realised Baxter Vernacular High Street School (Girls).....
St. Stephen's School (Boys).....
shout half of its intrinsic FAİZ us. St. Stephen's Schol
state of things is beginning to be
"G. M. 5. Barter Memorial athöVI ((STB)
Saving'an School (Boys)... through foreign exportera buying the co-. M. S. Sheang-wan School (Boys)
a. M. 8. Sarangpun
L.M.
toons and reeling them in Shanghai with an M. S. Hollywood Road School (Boys).. exactitude which the native method could L. M. B. Wantsal School (Boys)..... not socomplish. It is only by encroach. Yapingshan School (Mixed). ments like these that the Chinese will be + M. K
made alive to the necessities of the M. S. Wantsal School (Girls)..
situation. If the same method could be L, M.-S. Staunton Street School, No. 1 (Girls),
L.M. S. Staunton Street School, No. 2 (Mized).
adopted with regard to tes, there would no L. M. S. Yaumati School (Bolar Street)
doubt soon be an appreciable
improvabant
in the quality of this extensively used article.
LA BONNAMBULL
The third subscription performance by
St. Paul's
School (Boys).. St. Paul's
School
Mission
(Rose Mission Lyndhurst Terrace
St. Paul's College the Italian Opere Company was given at Rasel Mission Day School (Boys)..
Basel Bission Boarding Beboel (Girls).. Berlin Foundling House School (Girls). Diocesan Home School.....
ge Mission Lyz
Lyndhurst Terrace School (Girls)......
the City Hall on Saturday evening, whoa Bellini'a "La
u'a “La Sonnambala” was performed. There was a very large anclients, and every Indication was present to show that the
Catholic Mission St. Joseph's College Anglo
Chinese School (Boys)......... Catholic Mission St. Joseph's College
Portuguese School (Boys).
Anglo-
Catholic Mission St. Francis English School
(Girls).
Class of School.
Mated
I
Acting Colonial Secretary.
tendance during |
No. of Bahoula ez-
Average daily at-
Total passed. amircil.
School year.
labour.
(Before I. E Woichèuse, Esq.)
A DEMONSTRATIVE TAR
Ho
very from
William Argue, on board the American ship Oneida, entered the City of Hamburg tavern yesterday afternoon
and made n die
in
a
a drunken
be
years
not, no grau beingable to tuzive upon it
would probably bring to light many more, have occurred during the past week, but no fhern end of the stroot. Thuir esurte
the
deaths have, as yet, buen reported."
(Courier.)
were
principally directed to the rear of s small joss house. The stream of water directed on this and the other portion of tho berning buildings nearest the wall haci
the danger with tha editioon autaide the wall. The
A disturbance occurred this morning (14th) The
turbance, and when cautioned by the bar to wall is its effect in correct it at the Kingpo Warf butweon some of tho ‡ the effect of ∞rtingals sing the flames, and
one
of
communication
193.49 used thon in sue areatening manner latter times) light be rendered very' to do any more work. On this big asnd of the street. A petty mandarin, we
he showal fight, challenging the the Government of this Colony, would be natives which most assured the dimen- removing Hakeuper, He then retired, but shortly of great value and interest, while à narrative sions of a riot. It appears that sonic coolics Trench Buzine and firemen left, at hal afterwards returned with a
R brick
iv of sumus of the vagaries of its inductors were cugaged carrying timber, and for some hard and a sheath knife in the other, a
her, and in the early days (possibly even in these reason they dropped their load, and refused past seven in the evening, but the fire wea
mging fiercely on the
the upper and northetzi that
one of the godown-keepers and o bar-keeper evacuated the premises, arising.
cortaineil,
understand, had supplicated foreign inter- I should not have troubled you with any carpenter incited demon- policeman was sent for und the
mob to attack, the. free glab,
avention in this matter, đur
and so did a large 349,00 strative seaman arrested. Though the de- remark on M. Cordiar's paper, but that coalios, and the reentle was
of Chinese; several of the persons referred to in it are ing which several heads were broken, fondant, admitted being
but frank, and
nurabor and
a few officials 383, 10 tested that he had no intention of ang still living, and it would hardly be just that four of the aforera wara taban to the regarded the efforts of the foreigners with
sullenness which abewed that they looked pass Hongkew Police Station in charge ed the knife, bua was fined 85, and 'offered the such a miss of mis-statements should geant Skinner. Three of the natives were upon the laudable exertions of the fireman :
Ser- 264.7 alternative of suffering fourteen days' im. unchallenged on man so well known Laken to the Hospital to have their wounds in the light of an intrusion.
will, like
like myself, feel gentleman surprise that a 468,30 prisonment...
231 23
40
24.09 20.47
168.47 27:59 211,59 49.00
Athe
74.28
98.56 51.79 32.86
20 25
+2126
81.36
antsimony for 22*98688856*6A6 8 8 8 796s
3 §
12 24
156.85
421.94
37.56
274.06
38.06
239,56 234.88-
31.66 29.60 45 64:41
6261
71.56.
61 $5 71:24
I | 31-80 || 36
33.50
48 43 41
20*7
SHORT OF FUNDA,
pro-
for his painstaking research, and whose orn-dressed; and the others who had been in- tributions to the
John Owen, John Sheperd, and Marens both whilst foreign literature of China, füred had their wounds treated at the
Matalion, samen on board the German 142, 13 barque Orient, were discharged on the un-
358.41.
GAMBLING,
he was in Shanghai and since Police Station.
his return to Europe, should have been of
on which he might have
8
NINGPO.
hes
Be the.
this is not
Commercial.
March 20.
great value, should discourse in such a care- derstanding that each paid 50 cents to less way on self. The writer speaks.)
March, 13th, 1882. A steady business has been done in Chen Yau, whose eating-house they en bettor informed 447,56 tored yesterday and partook of some re of one of the Shanghai papers having been I understand that the Taotal of this dis Bengal Opium during the past fortnight. freshments, but for which dill not "furnished with articles remarkable for trist is going to be, or has been, promoted In view of the approach of the torab- 393.24 pay
One of the men exp
the hattheir style." Whether this is meant as to the position of Salt Commissioner at worshipping season, the native dealers ap Lar by saying that one of them invited the commendatory or the reverse, I am unable langchion. I also understand that he is pear to have been induced, by the lower 221.50 others to have some refreshments, hot to make out, but I must certainly admit that not Tere desirous of the promoth range of rates, to oporate freely. Chtil the. anat when the time care for paying tho mousy the article now under notice is remark-cumshaw is less close the rates fur bath kinds kept firm, but 17.90 409.90 he found he had rione, and the others being able for its style," after making full allow-lieved; it's a canard. 22.05 112.05
in the same plight, they tried to clear out." anco for the language not being native to The Chief Pirate, Wang-King-May of 37.40 376:49
the writer or for its being a translation. Taichow Islande, hat in the lay the come weakness is now musfested in that
last few months $7,52 801,62
M. Curdier tells us that thủ “ cosmopolite during his son
sonnambulanos
lanos incranaud the for Benares. The day's rates are given at 30.41 801.41
Eight Chinamen were charged with public Journals were “under the influence of number of his followers. He has now about 2585 to $580; and 8375 to 8577+ for BB.
the united English. Who the 14 united 400 men. Strange, is it not, that he could IV 138 111 100 101.05 1.850.08 gambling on the roof of house No. 66 English" may have been it would be dif- not be captured in a day? The question
The receipta for the month remain, 64 Hon. Ng Choy appeared for the first prins to say, but I presume I may consider would naturally arise, would it nos be the 90.00 181.80
myself
Best policy
for the officials of this district last noted, 4495 chests, against 3,675 obesta to capture him and his followers at Tuspector Perry said that this morning
at once?
•20,00 17 62.00
at half-past seven he went with a party of
Good judgment would so dietate. If I wore to the corresponding date last year. During
Commander in Chief of this Provinoo, the interval some 1,300 chests have best 69.00 police on to the roof of hotes No. 66
·20.00
Market Street. They got on to the roof.
I should dislike to acknowledge than suy taken by the local epusunters, száinss 800 from the hill side. When about two houses
with so few a following cual so long chests at the corresponding period last 20.00 -100,000
off the gamblers took alera and halted, one
defy the law and put at defiance the military year. This, with the exportatique; lestes 30.00 190.00 Jumping
the available supply computed at 2,400 by a colonial Jehu, and of course cains to a and others going street, and into the
The Che Fo> of Ningyo, Ching Tai-Si, chests, against 3,200 chests same time last 18.00 186.00 down the smoka hole, witness foliowed those all stop. The road, was not wide enough
Go back,
ja ordered to Pekin to see the year. Of this last quantity 1,100 chosts 35.67 371.67 who went down the spokehole and arrested for two vohioles to pass,
It is to be hoped that he has were Benares, of which kind the present yourself, replice the colonial.
The Te-tai, or Admiral of this district, is BENAR mall business has passed
a
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& A 2 E EETEER
Catholic Mission Bridge's Street Foor School IV 10 18 Catholfo Mission Bridge's Street Puor School
Portugueso (Girls)..
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Company has fairly earned the hearty up-thonie Bission St. Francis Portuguese School port of the public. It may be admitted, however, that the operas which give the greatest opportunities for the display of the abilities undoubtedly posed by Signor Citect and Bigtiora Siling are those which are beat calculated to thaw the
Catholic critical iciness of a Hongkong audience. St. Paul's College Hongkong Public Sabool (Boys) IV During the earlier part of Saturday's por Victoria School (Boys)
Vistozza School (Girls). formance this was probably too apparenti Tang Lang Chau School (Mixe fur the absence of the gifted baritone and Grahame Street School (Boys) the slightness of the role filled by the io Graham Street School Girls) pomplished contralto esemed at first to Saivings un School (Girls). Sayings un Bohool (Boys), render the acceptatics of Le Sonnambula"
Missiou Cathedral School (Boys).
• a & BASAHSAAS
BRESHENER
25.40
39.97
63.45
29.23
250.40
Market
ONE OF THEM.
WHer Troops was in New Zealand hs was one day driving along a narrow road, high-banked on either side. He was met
of the men-one man he had crieil
Go
power,
Dares.
20. af Praisted on the couf. The others back and let me pas monoy enough in hand to do it properly stock comprises a similar quantity,
314.45 were arrested by different constables. The you know who au, sir? I'am Anthony 186.73 first defendant hand corded the house for Trollope." "Are you? Well, I know yon 13.01 99.41 more than twelve months, and gambling were some darned fool or other The Solonial stood on his dignity, and would not 30.83 257.83 had gone un at the place for some time,
Evidence was led at great length. give way to the man of letters.
to go back to his old, paition at Enkian, in this kind at 8405 to 8486, but the day's The Laotai and the Total aro both good quotations in giron at 2476 for best. officers, and they will be missed most by further receipts the stock in computed those who know their best. Merry
about 3,400 chenta