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No. 6497-May 21, 1984.)
Glencyte was engaged till at £5 and would probably get away, the sanio night. The
We interprat to-day's telegrama suveying Mr Gladstone's statoment that the Govern
THE CHINA MAIL.
Depack and Glenelg were engaged at £3 and ment would adhere to their original pro. The mesango further announces that public. These facta imply: L, the Chinese belof THE FOREIGN TRADE OF CHINApicals, valued at 2 millions of tele, and directors at anoo decided, in the interests
the former would be the second stoomer to levo. about Tuesday next. The Renalder and Chance were offering to take freight at £2 10a and the Port Philip at £2 per ton, Freights were declining
An indication of the growing importance of
E.
por-
of
·IN 1683.phot
tagli,
about 2,000 tons of refinad sugar, to the of Egyptian affairs, or at any rats is anxious and cight twelve centimeter guns. Krupp: life.. I, on my park, regard as a postat hook a marked increase in the quantity in in the Woolton, trade has been the largo mediato work at all the chief places in whi
is te depart to-morrow, fakes a full cargs of
Colonies. At the present moment, we un- derstand, a total of about 4,300 piculs of refined sugar are being turned out daily by the three refining establishraonts in the
Colony,
In reply to an enquiry we are glad to be able to announce there is a clanes of the ize of the revised or consolidated or dinates being made in a your or two. In
the meantime say lawyer hare is prepared England to rostore that partnership to
Tre cultivation of the poppy is undoubted- ly becoining inore prevalent very year inchins, zs may be gathered from the follow- ing excerpt from the roport of Mr. H. E.
Tiontain, for the year 1883-
1882,
to warry out the law on any particnlar France. The finances of Egypt undoubtHobacu, tho commissioner of Customs at Herve from very much surprised to oh-aay be added, as a matter of interest, that Ninepo. The consumption of Korosone and it will start with the excellent ropa-
point to the beat of his ability provided heedly require an immense amount of discus- receives liberal remuncration. The comision. Tas debt for such a country is an munity should not be impatient; the re.verwhelming ono, Even when reduced vision was only commenced about two by the Law of Liquidation, its bonds will amountto 95 millions of pounds sterling, and every resourcu is mortgaged up to the hilt. The liabilities on account of the Alexandria
years ago,
in
chartered by the Indo China Steam Navjonassacres have also still to be mot, a fost-shilst those from Honality however, present ye? The prisoners are poor mea duce its bales for 1881 by some 7,000 cheats, in Black: Tes of different kinds is commented! There is one point worthy the considera
ing debt of a couple of millions has to be taken up, and the country is in fact in aut slate of completo insolvency.
the
a
ing docked at Singapore, and the damaged gistrates at the Police Court to-day wore bou of its garden spsco taken up with lack of proper help, to put forward evi Persian Opiam ruled almost as low as that from the export of the year before. The horefore, be local boards of directum to:
or less
ia
TELEORAMS received in Shanghai on the 16th | troops when they reach the Mile, as he has by the House of Commons when brought may be after decomposition, as their soula doo; arid plain lits "sued to recovar it. Í
It is well worthy of note that Colten legislation which would have given the new instant from Henkor stated that the armed gun boats at Khartoum,
on a tons of damit. To is doing laser have to undergo a similar namishnet Proof was led and Indgment given for Yarn and Throad hays becento, next to bank advantages not enjoyed ser led
loss confidence among the ix foll. All facts are not only admit plaintiffs with costs. depositors, and suficiently explains the ted but insisted on by the Chinese Govern
Grey Shirtings, the must important of the Probably, had the bill bean general, that articles alased under Cotton Goods in our is relating to all banks, it would have Anbsequent action taken the directors. went.
Returns. The import in 1878 was 108,000aed. When the bill was jacted the
· pas- feeling in London is strongly in favour of in a life creafter; 2, the belief that the position as a basis of discussion in the pre- the course adopted by the managemout of condition of the life hieroafter deponds on
the life in this body mack-th the status of Trade of China for the year 1883 is by Alr. 223,000 piculs, valued at 5 millions of object of liquidating it and commencing a The following report on tie: Tomen since en tu domu has increased stand-of creditora and shareizolders alike, to bring ly each year until the import now sounds at the old corporation to a stop, with the posed Conference on Egyptian affairs to the bank ---Ifogo Nets.
the body.
B. Draw, Statistical Secretary of th mean that England insists on the financial
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Mr. quotes many nazice of dead
In the current yese tko domand now bank under conditions infinitely more position of Egypt only being discussed. A TIE ner Obmose corretto Nin-Thiarrived sama who baya ignored this dogma."
General Taking values as the criterion, appears to be further increasing. Ro-favoural to Business.
This step mat recent advice informed us that all the at Shanghaion the lith instant from Europe Mr F. kindly produce my authority who the Import trade as a whole has actually ports from Kinking and Swatow.) It is with the warm approval of that gold Powers had expressed their willingness to he was flying the German flag and was enlightened the world, with selentide proof doclined, while the Export trade has for point werthy of investigation at the dif- | public opinion in the Caty • ***
against this dogman A statomont of doubts many years made no advance. A single feront ports, Where does all this Yarn get The new bank will commence business take part in the Conference, but France brought out by a German crew. Thorensclis are no proofs, nor can names serve as such. cirennstance explains a large part of the mede jute cloth, and what are the causes under the most favourable sup tho sugar refining, industry in this Colony, interpolated the condition that the discus of the following dimensions-length 277 Wo may object to certain formulations of falling off of the Imports; I refer to the woollens.The amount presented by of the directora os and rectitudo
of the great demand for it?
the first place, the. low value of Miniwa Opium. The valuation is afforded by the fact that the Chius Näetxion should not be limited to the financial feet; beim 38 feet, depth 23 feet; dispica, this dogna, but to ignore the idea itself or of this articla in our Returns was H.The Woollens in the value of the trado indicata liquidation havé ening for them the implicit
the corporation is. ment 2,240 tons, engines 2,400-horse power, file undertaking.
attoripta denial of it will always remain a gation Company's steamer Woong, which situation only. In other words, Franco contracted speed 144 knots. The anaamiont hereaftor and ils correspondance to the difference alone, when applied to a large goods. Lastings alone among the chiot far greater importance, of the pablic. Tha The idon of life par picul lose in 1883 than in 1882, and this an exceptionally smel unprt of these confidence of sufrelolders, and what is of wants to have a voice again in the control consists of two twenty one contiraeter guns, moral and religious disaster formed in this quity at 36,218 pious, accounts for 2 kinds of Wollemi calibit a roally large new bank will step at once into a business
taels out of 4 milliona
importation in 1883 as compared with pro connexion almost unequalled it will have manufacture, of which one in placed at the to lessen somewhat the present supremacy bow, one at the stern, and four on either and superstitions about it are as
OVERY
TDEOpOf Malwn there, heading years. The meat nosiconble feature offices, managers and staff ready for im healthy human mind Doctrines different. of England in that country. Franca lost side of the vessel all being on deck, where from it as the idea of right le frou, the con-ported. This ingresso in due to its low demand for the Szechwan market. banking is to bo dona: these officials have her partnership in the control of Feypt the vessel against the attack of torpedo tradicting laws of dieron cunts or touched lower Eigires than have ever been ported differs but littlo from that of pre-which a period of adrosity, involving an
also some milallicuses are placed to protect
Metals The total value of Metals in the immense advantage of the experience price, this kind of drug having, in fact, when her feet steamed out of the boats. The Yossel is barque rigged and she of priestera M 1 known before. The average price of Malwa ceding yeats. The falling of in the import usual difficultive, with a capital locked u harbour at Alexandria, leaving the British carries one torpedo boat, two launches and may appropriately compare with the stay
of the legal profcasion.
per pical during the year lins heon accord of Lead is remarkable, amounting to 25 and other oppressio dawbacks, confers: ironclads to face the Egyptian forts and to six other boats: No Thin sigailios The
Yours truly
ing to nur statistics, H. s. 334. This low por cont, of the total quantity imported in instead of a capital of £1,000.000 as before jewel of the Bouth..
P. FABER
prics has been due--as I an informed on
it will have paid-up sum of £2,000,000 exact satisfaction for the massacre of Euro-
xcellent authority to the competition of
Sundries.- The import of Raw Cotton(whether with any additional liability or peans that took place within gunshot of
Chinese Ogizm, together with its improved has increased every year since 1880, when hot upon shareholders is not yet known), or THE ALLEGED MURDER IN CHI quality, and to the large crap of Malwa of it was 87,400 piculs, until in 1885 it was $11,000,000, equal to the full cipital and them, and we assume there will be
NESE TERRITORY.
the banor 1881-82, viz., 70,000 ehcats.
211,390 picula. The coricus failure of the reservo of the Hongkong and Shaughat no particular moiety on the part of
To the Ilitor of the Guna Mar Last year's top (vić, 1882-83) was alej s
Nalivo crop in
in Mid China is commented on Banking Corporation it will be freed from Hongkong, May 21. gor one, amounting to 50,000 elrosts. It in the Reports from Ishang. Shanghai, and the embarrassing restrictions of the shactor: Sin, was
i your report
the trial of two tho natives of India hate last so heavily in Oil ha gruntly increased at the Yangtze tion left behind it by the Oriental Bank Chinese for murder said to have beor coin Malwa for the last two years that they are ports, while at the coast ports fem Shang Corporation mittel in Chuese territory, that the Crown alleged to have grown this sonsus (1889-94) ai to Focehow the import figures are less There is no doubt that all the shares of Native drug was in ample supply not Solicitor had not appeared to watch the considerably sumtier crop-40,000 chests than in 1882, owing in some ports to large the Oriental Bauk, Limited, were subscribed withstanding that rivals from Shansi case for the Orawn, and that the prisoners-in order to enhance prices.
accumulated stocks, and in others to the for at once in London; but it was neverthe stringent manner in which the culture of tomary in cues of murder whore prisoner Benates is due, as stated in the Shanghai this oil. The import of Alatches and Needles port of the constituency of the soveral consul, owing, as dealera nesert, to the had no legal defender. I believe it is cus
The decreased importation of Fatus and praibition by the authorities of the uso of less considered usessary to invite the sup the poppy in that province has buen is too poor to pay for legal assistance for Raport, to a very short crop (season 1889 has fallen off, und that of Window Glass agencios. When the measure of this support probibifoci of late. The yield from Shensi, the Government to pay counsel to defond 83) in Bongol, a etrcuatance which has has increased greatly.
is known it is probable that the shares will The damago sustained by the Glencars,
Kasih, and more particularly. Chibli were him. Why has this not been doan in the compelled the Indian Government to re EXPORTS Black Tea-The year's trade be apportioned equally.. extra-plentiful sud z
Yennan were beyond a doubt, and unable to engage sol The consumption of Pains and Benares in tipon at considerable length in the Reports tion of the directors of the new haut, that tion Company, in the sallimion with the
fully up to nonage. This can in no citura; and they are in an exactly similar China has also, it is believed, been unfa from Hankow, Kiukiang, Shanghal, Foo is, that the business of a bank is China doubt as to the extensive production in this position to a man being tried on capital sourably atected by the conduct of the chow, Tamui, Amoy, and Canton. The and Japan must in grant measure depend Rajah Brooke in Penang Harbour, has turn.
Province, as late in last along the banks of the ping t country charge at the Criminal Sessions. I boljevo dealers in pesaing of as Bengal Opiuur dangers that beset the crado and threston upon its local influence. A paroy Loon ed out to be more serious than it was
between this I am right in thinking that on the evidenes spurious mixture of the two cheaper kirds, its future are out forth with convincing directorate is too exclusive. However able port and Taku oven, was gay with alterna thought it word be. On this steamer be. Most of the casca brought bofure the maing patches of red and white poppius in acting as a jury, decidus as to whether or Bengal drug have ranged at a fair average earnestly to be hoped that, sich wanings they cannot to ospered to be divas posted in given at the present trial, Gerornment, vis,, Chinese and Malwa Prices of the fores in the Fuochos Export, and it is the members of the London board may be flower. Every hamlet, and well-nigh every the we shall be rondital. If, there-figure during the yent
will be headed. The total export of Black the continually changing conditions of bus plates in the bows taken off, it was found of a trivial nature and of no general in-
it may be said with truth, had inoze fore, the prisoners Bru urable, Brough
At the beginning of the year the price of Toa represents a falling off of 23 per cent, iness in remote contron. Thons shpiald that her stom was broken.
Wo under-terest.
Several charges of petty larceny poppies Prices for sinkable drug ware deuce, they might otherwise obtain, jus ef Szechwan. The import at that time hid decline has been continuone dined 180. stand that the neura will be detained were proved, the culprits in those canes Hoan, Tle. 210; Yunnan, Tis. 220; Kau- that the men have had a difficulty in got of 1882 83 ostried rates up till the pice Naivo termen as well as for Foreign ship reposts sad hand and fast regulations a quotedShanel, Tis. 150 per picul: tics will the guined. It is evident fair to be large, but the failure of the crop has been a very good one indeed for China and Japan difors in mong import ent support and strengthen the management in Green Tea-The Green Tea wason 1833 certain places Basinoes in India, Australia, some time yet at Binmpore hefore the re- being sent to ganl for seven days' hard sub, Tis. 240; and Chilli, Tis 200. These cing their witnesses to come forwned. This reached a par with Malve pairs are offoetod
Labour.
values, it will be observed, are considerably difficulty, I imagine, would not have been In the port Reports of 1883 there is not pers. This unul and most welgeplicable to one place may be tampretive of The most important case decided was one cast but conduce to an extended use of after their interests.
under those of the Todian article, and experienced if they had a solicitor looking ranch said respecting Native Opium, bat experience is attributable to the slingas businuse in anothee. This mug The Government torpedy boat No. 8 was which in been several times before the theorem pire."
I sincerely rust that what remarks are made concerning it eva
suggestion is. of the quantity, experted to the United endorsed by many persons who would have Government will look te this, and provide firm the impression that it is not anuually States-the chief consuming country for ore faith in the progress of the bank's taken out to-day for a run round the island, Court, ou rexnand, since the 12th inst, qud
a remedy. I will not at present say nay getsing either less plentiful or less cheap this staple and to the consequent risc iu business if the London board should ex and succeeded we hear in making the the decision in which, it is to be hoped, A conAMPONDENT, 'flaug Warily, writes to thing as to the merits of the case, as it is The paragraph in the Tientsin Esport bo pries there, which lock plass in the latter ercise i gurend and comprehensive, supor circuit in the astonishingly short time of will have a benoticial ofeet in decreasing the NC. D. Nes as follows: Singing on the Government to extend the particularly interating in this connexion.
still sub jadice, but will content myself by ginning with the words Native drug' part of the year 1883. Early in that year vision of affairs only, and trust to local the Act against the importation of Tea nafit boards for the promotion of business about one hour and a quarter. The dietas gambling amongst the Chinese, which notice in your columns this morning a report same assistones to the man now on trial as is The quantity of Szechwan Quum passou for human food went into operation in the fabroad. tance is calculated to be twenty-seven is so ria sa the Colony. In this case a of a case against Mr. B. D.. Benjamin be-given to those who may appears before through the Customs at Jchang und Hankow United States, with the effect of reducing railos. As the boat came through the mua mwod Tang Achap, describing him fore the British magistrate. But is Mr.Suproma Court.
july of their own countrymen in the bas, on the other hand, fresa some unax very considerably the export of common The Crown Solicitor planed resou, besa considerably less than Teas from Chinn to that country. The harbour from the West like a 'streak of self sa a tailor, but well known to the Police Benjamin a British subject! I have always mightat least seo that their requests as to the it was in 1881 and 1882.
anallaces of the caport has also been one lightning' the gangs of phlegmatic coplies us the chief agent in the Colony of the understood that ho was born at Bagdad, and production of qvidence, are complied with, Cotton-The trade in Cottons was in part to the difficulty which owing to on the Fraya stared in open mouthed as Tes-fa lottery, was charged by Inspector British subject. If this is an it would seem
that he has never been naturalized as aʻ
JUSTITIA. für Erom good in 1839, and it has tho Gnancial distrust prevailing early in the
beon OVEN WOZHO in 1883. tonishment and many were the admiring Matheson with keeping an agency for the clear that both magistrate and prosecutor
Thure year--tho tesimon encountered in thoir editieulty in accounting for this efforts to obtain advances. The export of ayaha ejaculated.
sale of Tee-fa lottery tickets at No. 70 are already hable to an action for false im
The great echling To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL"
of distribution are Green Tea to Great Britain has been prisonment. Whether the accused raises Caine Fond. The evidence of informers the point, or not; and whether he has been
Tiantain, Chinking, and Hankaw, and the slightly largasay, some 700,000 lbs-than Hongkong, 20th May 1884
to- Dean St-In perusing your account of persal of the Reports from these places, as in the season provins; but the export A TELBORAY was received by the agents was taken, proving that paynents for registered or has appeared in the British the holiday making of the news Lodge wall us the Shanghai market reports, is con- the United States is only about. 11,500,000 haro, Messrs Jardine, Matheson, and Co., tickets in the lottery were received by the Court on previous occasions either as plain- caked Duke of Albany, I noticed your vincing as to the unfavourable conditions 10s, as against 18,000,000 s. for the sex- announcing the departure of the B. S. defendant, and papers given to the par- of a British ambject, matters nothing. Hither the four exiges now existing in Hongkong with a heritage of Sundial distrast and fine Moynes and Tankai chops in New which have provailed in oua shape or another son before. The rise in values during 1983 of report stated that it was the union throughout the year: The spring opened has been very marked the quotation for Bank, Glenogle from Woosung for London at 4 chasers which, on presentation to another be Is a British subject, or he is not. This
Pecait me.to inform you and your nu p.m. yesterday,
simple fact, whichever way it ho, cannot murous readers that the Independent Order banking dilicuiries from the year before, York in January as 21 to 24 cents, and agent, who was to be found in the streets, alter by any number of admissions of Good Templars has only three lodges By April, however, the demand for Pioco in Decetler, for similar: Tuas, 29 to 30 The S. S. Opuck, according to the latest in this instance in Taipingehen, wero ex-being a British subject. If he was not working hereunder the charter of the Grand Souds became considerable at Teatein, al comts. In Lonitor also the rise may be redits, alvicos received by the agents bere, was exchanged for Tsé-la tickets. The defendant horn a British subject he can only make Lodge of England; they are the Hongkong though at Hankow the development of acts-estimated
fully
10 to 15 per cent. on the regular method of posted to leave on the same taxe, but no in. when arrostod had a number of small baturalization, and in that case, be abos Lodge, Victoris Lodge, and Invieta vity salt lagget. In May Tientsir's face fine und 20 to 20 per ounb, on common lain, Wine, telligence has yet been received of hor parcels of money, amounting in all be able to prove it by production of the pro- Worthy Chief Templar of the Naval Dis uspresition cansee general torrut, and furn cutrage shown by ainty importata in 1883
was chocred heavy rains; in June, at
by Lodge, under the direction of the Wuch ang, opposite Hankow, an aburn of the Ainorican Graert Tua market for the Shanghai, demand
Tho year lins been rumaarkable in departure. Last year the Olenagla left $128, upon his person in a bag and per papers. If he is not a British subject, Woosung at 12 s.m. on the same date, and amongst those was found some marked British Court should deal with his case, that act as if eximeted with the I. U. G. T. an-
matter how much ho may prefer that the No other organization has the power to-time stopped business. In early smerin holding on in thele stock through Gold Leaf 99f fae... arrived in London on the 20th Jue; thus monoy which had been paid to the defen-Court has no business to entertain the class it has the apetisi saket on of the Erg-
more favourable for activity periods of slack demand. course which Sovereigne, In the consumption of Piece Goods, tho has strengthened confluxes, pad tended to Amaking the passage in thirty aix days and a dant for tickets by the informers. Tha for a mom ant, and ought not to have issued
Temperature. a warrant or caused his arrest until properly cutive of the Offer at the Pert, and there. spring crops or Shantung, Chibli, and check the disposition natural in duil times defenen set up was that the connection satisfied on this point. Suppose that the bone culled by the Tor At the same time the apprehension of point of fact, the quantity of Green Toa
Honan having been successfully harvested, to furen of Tens at public auction, InTaken at Messis Falconer de Co.'s Fremises,
Queen's Road,} is not recognized by the 1. 0. G. X., nog war between China" We have received the first half of the between the defendant and the agent who accused should become a bankrupt I would it be under the circumstancça, as I
and France had sold in the latter half of 1883 in New York
HONGKONG, May 21. brary edition of the lato Mr James (dolivered the tickets to the purchasers in the trustee should find legitimate understand that ils leaders and original powerful infius820, Instile to ucapan- 50 per cent, of the quantity this disponed: now become widespread and gained in the manner referred to represents but false imprisonment the stroot was not proved, and that a street right he tot consider this a most promising reply expelled members of the Order, and
exercise throughout the remainder of the Silt. The export of Baw Silk has been nage. It is essentinily a new work, and is is not a place within the meaning of asset. If the British judge has no jurisdichas no axthority, whatever to claim allele enterprise, which it continued ta of in the year before tion, dessieurs Huang and Assessor will glande to or with it.
As far as Temperance and teetotal year, hanging like a dark cloud over the about the same as in other recent years. Fresumably have to wrestle with this cause the most complote as well as the rost legibly the ordinance; that the actual dealing took
plass in the streat and that money is uotefiebre. Ultra tires me two little words very ism is concerned it is to be hoped that land, checking importations and using the The great arent of the year has been the printed dictionary that has over come
they will bring in many to the prac. Native merchants to reduce their business fulars of the famous speculator who bad ill understood is China. -under our notice. In it are found popular instrument of gambling, Wing British judge may have had pronƒ of nation they labour under a great difficulty when Of course the tico at abstinence from intoxicants, but
within the narrowest possible limits. In buon for several years accumulating a hy
heavy and promotedrais,
niss, stock until it reached 14,000 baler. The acientific terms, words used by old English were called to show that the was of Laoney slity, birth, or naturalization before issuing authors, and other additions at found in pair to d-fendant were intrusted to him, the warrant, and if so the case is a leg they attempt to initats the proceedings of dovadate the untire Yellow River region, joacaca if this operator has probably been the majority of works of the kind, and so a trader, with which to buy sundry proceeding, and is not similar to a case ocity so widely spread as the Good Ten-rain the autumn crops, drive the fariners injurious to a healthy trisu. Lust May it plan, whose banners are now exhibited from their lands, and interrupt communi seemed likely that the European crop of over the greater portion of the civilized caticus, These events, described in the Silk would bo sutall and that prices in This condition earth, and will render themselves liable to Reporta from Chinking,Cheloo, and China would be high. censure from the R. W. Grand Lodge of Tientsin, provod very disastrous to the en.would have enabled the holder referred to the World if they undertake to use any of fire. Piece Goods trade in North China, to have realised profits; but as reports of the signs, words, or rituals of the 1.0.G.Taxcopting at Newchwang And Shang good European crop came in and prices Ho therefore used the defendant the full amount of the penalty, 8200, in default,
Let the work in Temperance, but don't hal, at Hankow and the other river parts, hero fell, the operator found it difficult be nialed as to their connection with the well as Tautain, the closing months of longer to gat the support of the banks, The money
Indipendent Order of Good Templars for the your witnessed general bnancial depres puro especially as the quality of Silk 20 Tus Tientsin correspondent of the N-C. Dix montiu' hard labeur,
they have nothing in comunnu with the on, owing to the collapse of values, which long held was believed to be all the tinie Order.
had beon unduly inflated by an era of deteriorating Prices during the season News, writing under date of May 12th, fund on the defendant was confiscated.
The defendant is believed to bo the chief gives the following particulars of the signing
No doubt the Visiting Deputy Grand extravagant speculation on the part of the have manged from Tis. 150 and T. 465 was signed agent in Hougkong of the proprietors of Till gostarday evening many good people have les attention saled, in this battur estate, in shares, and in Nativo saring and 1 refer the reader to the Shanghai and of the ConventionThe Treaty
Worthy Chief Templar of this District will Chinese, principally at Shanghai, in red to 776. 360 and 26. 305. tespecting Wilk yesterday at 3 pm by the two Pleni. the lottery, who livo in Kowloon City, and thought that ignorance is rather the cause from other sources of a
more oficial anufacturing enterprises.
Canton Reports. potentiaries-Captain Fournier and was found that after his arrest, on the superstition and that vice ia mover caused nature, and will reply to the statements retard portious, even despite low abundant. The Reports from Takow, Nagasaki. 30.03 W
The effect of these circumstances has been. Sugar The Sugar crups have been most 12th inat, no Tae-fa gambling has been ignorance alone, but principally, by evil which the leader of the Duke of Albany Hung-ebang-at the Viceroy'a yamên, in
passious which may be combined with igno may have to make in a becoming and con- the presence of M. Frandis, French Chau going on watil last evening, when one of rance or perhaps not unfrequently with winding manner, the' I, for my own part, car Bul; M. Brière, Secretary to Captain Your sizure was inade by the Police of the appetites in human nature when not kept LG G P in a shade of repentance and totalsbolow even the already low totals of the 1882 it rose to 272,000 pieutia and in Manila 20.9385.573; W
the branch establishments reopened and a some degree of intellectual culture.
passions are the promptings of the lower only imagine that the new idea was brought fort by those reunoitant brothers of the under the control of the higher faculties, with rosson, conscience, good taste, etc.
GOOD INTENT. Mr P says China affords a striking The dottrine of hell was esta), but the Government of proof of the absurdity, etc." China would never admit it.
This appeat
half.
Stormonth's dictionary of the English lang
far 23 words are concerned the dictionary stated that he did not believe the withsenes articles, shots, kilka, but Mr. Wisc
is a finished work of reference. The second. half is to be issued in a few months. Messes and considered that the case was prove),
Kelly and Walsh are the local agents.
nier: Mr Detring, Commizajuter of Customis, Canton; Mr H. Hobson, Commissioner of Customs, Tientsin: Du Kien-chung, who played & prenisent part in the negoli ations; Im Fêng-in, Secretary and Inter
okets &o. found thero.
Baxos Maclay, now of Sydney, the wall Lowa Rastian anthropologist and explorer of Hey Guinen, his, it appeara, baou united
tiff, defendant, or wittens, in the character
bueli
Bluut
ground for an action for
before the Judgo's substitute,'
CORRESPONDENCE.
of
To the Editor of the ¡Cursa Mazu!
Hongkong, May 21, BIR,Allow me a few corrective somarka 11.the lottor signed' Pakeha' of yesterday's iraus of the China Meil. Mr. P. SAVE! The musin cause of vice is ignorance, the main cause of ignorance is superstition.”
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Hongkong Observatory, May 21.
manufacturing costia Manchester, andincon Swatow, and Kingchow are specially sequence we and sot in all cases, but im worthy of examination respecting Sugars. respect of many of the leading Cettona, and The axport of White in the four year 1078- may equally well add Woollens import 81 1 was on the average, 157,300 plouls; in year 1882. Grey Shirtings and White Shirt 1881 to 404,000 piecls The corresponding Hongkong 29.8781.31 ings, which reached their highest import amounts for Brown Sugar are respectively. Amoy..... 20,8373.081 figures in 1891, have lost 24 per cent and St 696,700 pils, 767,125 picals, and 943,600 Frochow per cont, respectively of those figures. The pienis. import of Drills has fallen off 44 per cent.
hanghai. 29.8261.007 SE Wostock 20.7550,5 Nagasaki. 99.95)
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preter to HE; Chang Yün-kran, Taetai in marriage to Mis. Clark, a daughter of to Chinn against rewards and punishments (Before the Hon. Kussell, Acting Cian and not solely to the general cauci cited vousets being of nizo and horse-power pro- perature has increased here, Gradients
of Wuhu, recently called up to Peking; Sie Jolus Robertson, who is said to add to Chou Fuy Customs Total of Tientsin; and great personal attractions the spiritual charm
Chang, Tsotsi of Nanking. His Excelloney entertained the party at dizuer afterwards, and the healths of the Emperor of China and the French Republic were drink with
bonours.
of being a Plymouth sister.
aftor death is most unfortunate. A few
Other mistakes of this kind. There is a facts may suffice to save the world from temple situated in Caston and in overy walled city all over China, commonly called
the Temple of Horrors. It is tan
emplo
Justice)
Wednesday, May 21.
SENTENCING OF PRISONERS.
above.
SHIPPING - Cousiderable additions to since 1882, a decline so great that it must their flents have been made by all the load be ascribed to corain special causes i in part, ing steamship companies, many of the new
viously unknown. in the costing trade. Tan informed that the falling off in the Owing to exces pf tonnage, ratos of freight consumption of English Drills which, as is ruled much fewer than in provine years, well known, has been going on, must be and were alocat uniformly unremunerative attributed to two causes sirst, English The supply of locally-owned manufacturers, doubtless as directed by fully equal to the pract requirements of steamships is
lality of 14-16 Drills until it was in many their customers, gradually lowered the the trade
REVENUE-The Revenue has fallen off
LIMITED
The Barometer has fallen. The Tom licato moderata S. W. winds.
W. DODERER, Government Astronormer. Hongkong Observatory, May 21,
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
Prepinis On date. Vsi auta.
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W. DOSERCK
Government Astronomer,
Says a San Francisco paper: The Ocean
This morning the incu found guilty on Chronicle is a scat little japor published at of the city god. In this forple the torments gay list, were brought up and
tenced. sea on board the ship Frank Peleton and manner. This is not merely ignorant popo-bank deposit receipt and ohor articles of hell are exhibited in a most disgusting Tam Ako, found guilty of stealing two udited by the master, B. P. Nichols, who, lar superstition, for the highest function from the use of Bergeant Maxwell, of 80s a more fag, one-half being Chins clay ff. 6. 798,915 Shanghat's share of this being a practical printer, does the entire arise of the Chinese Government have to If the report telegraphed on the 19th in- labour on the Vessel during her various voy repair to these temples is full atate to wor the Naval Yard Polico, was sentenced to second, at the same time American goods amonat is II. 1. 53, 575; Fouchons,
ages. The paper is now in its thirty-intli ship officially before the superintendoit of
were being pushed into consumption by Hk. T. 193,034 ; and Chinklang's [k. Tha seven years penal servitudo, stant to the effect that the British Govern coleure Captain Nichols is well known file infernal, regions on fixed days of the the chat gay 1 July ball, was soutenced pure Colton, they ousted their above 78,032, and Johang af very nearly H. Tts, Wong Sing, the man who escaped four America houses, and, being composed of 119, 100. Swatow shows a gain of H Tis. ment has resolved to send an expeditionary on The Chica sad Japan Coast; Ida veshui, pear. Outside of the city-gate of every
Damed rival. A Shanghai, the delive. 40,000. to two years hard labour. having been in Shanghain short time ago; walled city all over Chins there stands an force to relieve heral Gordon and the we believe she sailed a few months ago from altar whereon the mandarins of the city annexed a thanket and other articles in a ten than any recent your excepting TAX PROPOSED ORIENTAL BANK,
Chan Tuk, a middle aged celestial who is of American Drills in 1883 word garrison at Khartoum be teao, England is Yokohama for the United States.
kave officially and with great ceremony to house in Hing Los Lune without the diminished consumption of Drilk-Le,, all 1870 and 1881 It probable that the about launching on another little war
offer sacrifices to the hungry ghosts of the owner's leave, was awarded three years finds together as shown on toge which will probably cost a million or two of The newly-organised commempial company
departed three times a year.
8 of the
Japan Gazette, May 10th. Dopsited souls of males and females reponal morvitude.
Fourteen days ago we had occasion, in A batch of four Chisamen, guilty of rob- Returns, has been compensated for to Bouie connection with a meeting hbid in London, money and may rewitt in a heavy loss of of Timor zud Macao, with a capital of coive hoppars and sacrifices from the Em.
T.Cuths, that T-Cloths have been Oriental Bank Corporation The resolution in rank or degraded even sa nouls. Their hundred miles inland; the relieving force. Portuguese commercial entorpcies in the happiness in the other world is thought
found preferable for some Drk, as the latter buve been deteriorating and with the support of the treasury, for and handrodis.
purposes to to apply to parliament, pader the sanction heit, and to the level of the sea in inches, triba 1: BAROMETER, Taduced to 88 degrees Fahreh- is quite likely to and he bulk of the Far East, has not received the support of to be in correspondence therewith.
the Portuguere Government. It appears hordes of the Mahdi opposing its ad- that the Portuguese Government have no ran to be left without ollapsing who could
The import of Sheetings reached its high special bill to enable the corporation to It causes a feeling of horror to any China
est figure 278,000 pieces, in 1880; the next register under the companies acts with he and tenths, Falirenheit...
2. TESDATEN, in the abad in degrees, vance; and the arch will be at intention of assisting Macao to regain that offer sacrificon to his departed soul. It is
year it fell off nearly 11 per coot, tu 783,000 same Inflation of liability as before, in- all events until the Nite is reached, foreign settlement in the Far East. They lima to out off the sacritices to the anece rented by Mr H. M. Baily, instructed by of Drills, the demand is now for a good entertained of the passing of the bill, which
3 HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, the glory
which
once belonged to the premier the most appalling fegut punishment
In this suit, the plaintifs were orisalid in law and the impalagi naive of liability for it issue, was estrid hamidity of air saturated with moisture being.
a high as $40,000 pieces. As in the case unamously
and across burning deserts during the most lately refused to grint a subsidy to the tors of a rebel leader, a patricide, Se. All Mr. D. 1. Caldwell. They proceed article, and as the English sending would fren the corporation from the rigid,
grest xpectations were 1 trying season of the year. After the Blue Funnel steamere to call at Lisbon and experiences of Aral fighting before Macao both on their outward and howard parts souls without their proper scriparte by leave of the Count
bitter cloth they are selling more, whilst inflexible rules of a charter inimical to Be fees, it is believed, toru into
Plaintiffs carry on business at No: 74 this competition has lessened the constimpness on a profitable scale under the changed. tripe-Straits Timer
hungry ghosts. Suakin, a fotos double that under General
in the inviable world. It is well known Terris Etrest, when defendants and vacil what horror the Chinese have of decapita to have their office, the latter are now in in uf American. In fact, the process is conditions of the present time. It is stacked clonde, d drizzling rain. J fog, glem Graham will probably be
be considered
reces. We are informed a tulograw lins boon, tien or other mutilation of u corpse.
It is Canton, Dering the course of three years an in Drills, Fins T-Cloths and 12-ras throws out on its sed or third reze is dow (wet),The lettere are repeated so indi just the reveren of what his hongoing known by telegrams received that the boil, ghtning, o overcast, piparsing showere, sary to ensure success. Ceneral Gordon received stating that the private act applied every year in solse part of China, tú duca zawy opium to the volae of over 8521,000 atinga ero alao uwd for the sumo puring; and the mumiso in that the parliamun-into any increase over the average of their
a legal punishment, carried out almost defondants purchased from the plaintitis
qually, rain, woudce, inbility may be expected to aid the British for by the Oriental Bank was thrown out pitate culprits even after their death and it Thers is still $1,950.33 of the amount
life Khartoum is between four and fito, $1,000,000, whose object is to promote peror and officials. They may be raised house at night, were sentonood to extent by the noticeably large impart at to refer hopefully to the prospects of the Hongkong Observatory, kday 21.02
of
two years hard labor.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION..
SAM-KUNO FIRM V. KUISHING PIPY, 315,280.33.
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5. Fence or WIND, according to Beaufort
G. STATE OF Ware. bluo sky, a de
and the train the faster has much tar sistance, the bouk used for was really signification. ineregsed of lake years,
equivalent to an application for exceptional
7. Ruy, in thebos, tentha and hundredtha