No. 6705.-JANUARY 21, 1885.]
gaged in the Nile expedition. Thus there A Most invaluable discovery in the art of word 7,000 troops for maintaining order and telephony has just boon mado by M. Van British authority in Egypt, and one would, Itysselberghie, a Belgian savant, who has, hare imagined that this furce was sufficient after along and arduous series of experi- for `auch purposes, and, if necessary, to monis, proved it to be practicable to us spaca reinforcements for the expedition, one and the same wire both fɔe telegraphie without more troups being asked for from, and telophonic communication siter), home. In view of the rejection of the tanaously. If between two sistims, say 200 British proposals for nettling the Egyptian financial affairs, this announcement that two more British regiments have been ordered
THE CHINA MAIL.
Roses' by the Mease, and Masters Lam- mint and Mr Caldwell,
Signor Cattaneo accompanied the ladies and Mr Erower's songe upon the piano, Mosars G. Lammort and G. firimble companying to other songs:
. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. A meeting of the Logislative Council was hold this afternoon, at which all the
notabers were present.
MINTEN
THE ARMAMEST OF LY-EE-MUN FORT.
miles apart, there exists a telegraph lino, it in feasible to establish between those, two. allies telephonic commeatua wint the erection of a second wire and without inter to Egypt is a little disquieting. It looks afering, with the totograph communication. if England deered it desirable to strengthen Tho telugraph clerks can deyatch and re-
gaivu their messages in the ordinary hor forces in Egypt in view of possiblu
by means of the ordinary aggreratua," and complications with the European powers. while they are thus sing the wito two other This must be the case, or the Mahdi has sons can converse by telephone, and hoon discavored to be a indre formidable other although there is only
neither spention will interfere with the ono wire for autagonist to deal with than was anti-joint cao. Telegraphic currents, as a rule,
ĐỂ
for Buddon currants, through gradual
the unployment of electro-maguets and con- tousers, has been feandro lice to ale telegraph currents, whilst the very minatu the telephones from the effects of the
phones have no fathastico on the telegraph crossed with success, was made between erect old 40 pounder guns, which had been instruments, Somo months age a trial, Brussels and Antwerp, and subsequently absolete for nearly 30 years, and which an equally successful trial was made bewere utterly useless against modern ord tween Braaaala and l'aria. The inventor empluye no special apparatus, ho merely modificas the telegraphi dirait in such manner as to tunder it silent witty regard to the telephones.
-
A LEPER DRIVEN NO STRAL
.
THE TROUBLE IN CORLA.
8.
kung. He did not think that was any
issued by the Gorean fiovernment, which passed; the Directors lead not take instant The Shen Pua publishes a proclamation reason why the riotion should not be we translate below, entirely exonerating action, but proceed with all convenient the Japanese from all dame or complicity speed, and he thought they would be
who are all conderined to death. The in the Seal tragedy, and attributing the titi din waiting till they got the informa whole trouble éu certain native conspirators, sion they desired to have.
After two or thres unimportant questions
opposite the end of Bonham time expired, however, he was disably bu zniakud. If in the prosont state also said that under the Deed of Settlement
her
own risk.
without theso in turn being reinforced from reversing currents employed for the tele- was bended to cover the Nino Pins, powder in a box. He also found the book banished on the 9h prisoner had been protext of mooking pretection, obtained the Ciant for the metica to be carried both
it is singular that reinforcementa cannot bo despatched to Lord Wolseley from the 7,000 troops engaged in garrison work,
England. Suskim, the port on the Red Sea to which one of these two regiments goos, in already held by British troops, and it has been stated that General Wolseley intends to withdraw his forces from Upper Egypt vid that place.
****
ank
on
which it
nance.
was intended to
--THE LAND LAWS
November, 1881. Hə
A JURT SAGREEINO.
under the Deed of Settlement and the Hongkong Ocilinances, and it was therefore declared in ba lust.
Tho mooting then terminated.Shang hai tourier.
had good reasons for not prosecuting tha The following jury was empanelled! men for piracy. If they were really con- Mesars C. . . Idermann, J. M. V. de to have them tried on that charge. Of de Remedies, and C. F. W. Peterson. cerned in the piracy it would be desirable Figueros. . . Bates, J. Olson, &. F. course that could not be done here, if the act was committed out if til juriste inn.
The Actorney General said there were difficulties in the way of doing that, and as entered the Fo Loung tea shop, No. 370 Choang Aip was found guilty of having did not know if he was in a position to Queen Road Central, on the 7th Juntant, prove the piracy.
and stolen a blanket belonging to nuo of
of Caren has been reinstated in his had been answered, the Choieman explained Inspector W. Quincey maid that ca tho the coolice employed in the shap
WO imaging that the Chinese tas in case the Company could not be 6th December, in consequence of inform The prisoner said the last time he was Shan Hai Kean was cut short by a prolibi. taken to register it it houd, the same as the general, whoso attempt to carry him off to registered in Hongkong, stops would te ation
receivul, he went down to the Pays convited his was sentenced to two youta in company
with a party of poliec. inprisutan,
Three months before his tion frois bus Garornaut, will most prob. North China Insurance Company and the On
arriving
Yangiss
Insurance were registered. Bo- Strand West, tu sasa Hakka junk just charged from the prison because he was a the Japanese, he will certainly do so at the motion had to be carried by a thros
of the atlair China makes any difficulty with leaving her moorings off the Prays. He spor, prohibited from stopping hor and and his party engaged.
flures
sumpad and old if he was seen here again be would ho
fourth's majority, and under the Hongkong The minutes of last nooting were read gare pursuit to the junk, and overtook and arrested Hoked an inspector for money and confirmed.
With regard to the trouble which occurred Ordinances it Earl to he carried by a hoarded it. The fourteen prisoners were on to pay his fare to Canton, but was refisse, generally are not aware of the circumstances at the Selangor meeting was declared to be on the 6th instant at Seoul, the poople majority of two-thirds. A singlar motion board. He sked them where they were and he was put on board the Kowloon bound, and they replied they were going to launch without having his fare paid. We connected with it; hence various wifounded ontried, but when the mattor game to he Yau Ma Ti. He then made a search of the he got to Kowloon City he was taken before facts of the caso are rually these. The the resolution was mall and voil, and it
hours her boon promulgated.
into afterwards, it was found that The lonked cipated. If the lattor be the position, then monce suddenly, and the substitution at the next meeting ho shouldjask if it were) of, percussion caps, leaden balletă ari ready something to live, as no one would living gathered their entites together win recorded in favour of the resolution, only
The Hon. T. Jaskan gave notice that beat, and found 14 rides, loaded an epize Mandarin and charged with chanting, politivus ufficer Vir Chitz, and others, hav-élierefore fell to cho
18 pouches, och containing quality He was obliged to come back here and doing
ground. true that the fumils of the Colany were at I made cartridges: 6 revolvers, a swords, aupthing to do with him because he was a seize upon - and reinovo the king?"they votes against it. The majority was inauffi
A vote was then taken. 461 votes were ovil designs zverody in view, attempted to the shareholders pressut voting, and. 448 present being spont on the construction of keg of foreign de gunpowder, also a las feper. He acknowledged two went into tha
fort us by Lyseo-mun Fass which of gunpowder, a box of lealen ballet, a house with the intention of stenting. alghtored his Minister, and, under the
gingell, a long shopper and sotas lou Ili Lordship said
sistance of Japanese troops by means of produced, containing a list of the ones of would reserve sentence.
forgat Degroo. The Japancao Minister, these names corresponded with those of the the crew numbering 4 man. Name of
misled by these misrepresentations, march ed with soldiers to the Palaco, animated prisoners. The junk had no unme itself, Chen Apy was changed with stealing & disturbancs. The assassins of the Corean by the excellent wish to put down the And she had no license, nor gloannes paper night paas frian Wong Ayu, on the lat or anchorage po He further found four ultimo, Couzabuant alloyed the theft took Ministers) belonged to the conspirators, bags of rics, all marked with linked circles place in Aberdeen Struct. The evidence the Chinese troops entered the Faluce resist the muptation. Moreover, 1 wished
A BATH IN THE DEAD SEA. and were not Japano uldiers.
When He took the boat in tow, and arrested the against the prisoner was not very conclu to capture the uril-loons the Japanese to test the buoyancy of the water; o I The heat was terrific, but I could not. urtean prisoners. If afterwards
wis went rosive. bags of ries bearing the same aack as that found the prisoner guilts, but one of the ready despatched oficials of high rank is. I substantiated the statements of those sley No. 82 Praya West, al thero mw 112 The Foreman of the Jury said the Juryo deachai
dispersed, and made good their retreat threw away the umbrella upen which most The Government has albathers rely, and, distabing, boldly waded on the bags found in the prisoners' junk jurynen saithe jury found him not guilty to effur apologies to Japan] and settle who avaintain that it is impossible to sink The maste of the shop resisted the lawfai Ly four to three; while third juryman the affair. Such, inticot, are the full facts in the water, by throwing myseli recklessly acrest, and they had a strugglin. After a said they found him not guilty by tire of the master. The current ramours are in with elisel over. Not only was it reating the unster he went to cargo beat to n N. 574, mured apposite the shop, and His Lordship said this was most antis the people to boil over with anger and to gain my footing, se lightly did I Boat on
with exaggeration they hav found another 39 bags of rice bearing the factory. has aid prisoner was railty, and barber thoughts of revenge contrary to the surface.
a caused impossible to sink, but I could scatenly ro- sime mark, the Institution, must, we regad to say, beacts. The conveyance of land was at pro-
Bo others said he was not guilty. Thoy
I had been waned about Inspector Quincey then said he he had must decide whether or not the prismer the good will which exists between the twu getting the water into my eyes or month, chesuit as a failure, né least as regards the sunt surrounded by many difkuulties in much experience of heata and junks in the net taken the pass, the wonki ask them tentatries: Generally speaking, in opening bat coală riot help it. Bah, what, Pextse, 15th January:-The agreement procesis of the ontortainment. We alicuid connection with titles and dooda a cont which
harbour, A bout of the description put their verdiet in writing.
ports for commercial purpases, arrived at between Corca and Japan pro-
which the prisoners were found would an indemnity of Ts. 500,000, nud lint about 810. This result is certainly altri. j drafted, and this he begged to lay on tally be manned by five or six toon when Jading the prisoner not guilty by six to Legations--the two countries being on vides that the former country shall pymagine the total receipts would not excued 20tion with the polition a bill had been sal
ecgaged in ordinary trade, and wonk Japan stall keep a garrison of fiftum batable, not to any shortcomings of the table. It was a matter in which every one two or three villas, a couple of 208. His Lordship said the jury were doubt hundred soldier porusently at Sooul.-perforcers, but to the inefficient manner in
rolors and awords, provided these wore ess right in thinking there was not antici N.-C. D. News.
orlo bad purporty in the Colony falt a very allowed by the Harbour Master. This ent evidence upon which to convict the pri which the whole basinews was managed, great interest. Ho tuen moved that the class of junk was usually card by wait
souer, but bad they known the prisoner wond carry frmetoon man of loro. The ought
However, it was con- diffrendy. they call a 'gles dinner' at the Criterion, day before the date of the performance, was
be printed and cirenlated among the mem- ils of this bat and every thing on bundy to law to slow the judgment of the were man, and who outrid fourteen ra, The ideo, says Trail, is a good one, and alu a toera apology foc a programame, buing bed of the Concil.
jury to be warped by the knowledge that ought to prove popular. It is
puro prisoner lind previous convictions kind of very incomplete, and giving no particulars Evans (in its bost days) radicions, the only to the vocalists and performers.
against him. differancs being that the experiment is being tried with dinners instead of suppura. That a good concert can be organised, and a good, paying audience attructed in In answer to a memorial from Prince Cau, the Temparance Hall, has been proved, the Dowager Empress has promulgated a over and over again, at the congerts which decree commanding the Viceroys, Gover word for several years organied at the mors, and high officials of the Maritimo coramencoment and conclusion of the wia- Provinces to abstain from the topte of the tor senson for the benefit of the Institution Franco-Chinco Imbroglio, in their inter- course with officials of other nations. Any by Mr J. G. Williuson. Co kerts at the one breaking the orders of this decree will Temporauve Hall are naturally of such a be handed our to the proper hoard for se- vere penaltios.-Shanghai Courier.
We have often noticed, says the N. C. D. Neon, how ignorant Chincas olleen are of the locality in which they live. Yoster- day we saw a young Chinese girl of about oleven years of age who had lost her way. Her only recollation of the place she bo longed to was that thore wire a lot of shope on the side of the rond.?
CONCERT AT THE TEMPERANCE IFALL.
The Hon. W. Keswick said he bed a tition to present to the Council. It rug from the solicitors in this Colony, and was must of die resitiest
also signed by
THE concert givor. at the Temperance Hall and owners. and prayed for legisla last orning, for the benefit of the funds oftion by way of improving the
and
ropleto
The jury then wents out their verdiet, ut territorial hubs, nudlignaut, nauseating mixture it is
could not eradicate the esuart from my pyes or the deadly tante from ing mouth for a torms of friendship with each other-Jong time. should there be the affair is to be settled according to its as I merged, b'inking and dripping, from be any unforeseen obcurrence, Uh, I hate the Dead Sea, I blahberod morita und the principles laid down in in the water, on preceded to ecipe tho terational las. Bat people and moraline incenstration from my body. chants why det like the Japanese at the worst supantion was an owful
MERS Spiera & Pond have atarted what The programme, which was only issued the petition mu danit bill which acompaniet it sangglerɔ, and when used for that career they would probably have might be teppte to take advantage of such smarting and burning about my ankles, for:
THERE have been Bolas severe snow-storms south of Shanghai recently, and the Fun
This way secunded by the Hon. T. Jack- sou, and carried
THE BANKERS HOURS KVIDRNUŻ ORDINANCE, 1881. linarice was had a third time, and finally passed.
This
NIGJIT PASSES, ⭑
The Attorney General introduced a bill tunaond ordinance 14 of 1870, by adding thereto the words: Provided that the
AT1000
evidently synipped for the
good piracy, In questioning the tnspector, the seventh prisoner incidentally admitted he and his Cananious wore salt smugglers. They had pr licenso because they had smugglad salt into Macao twice.
Prisoner was then discharged.
'I BNRW HIM WELL."
EXTORTION,
and
pportunity to pay off their gridges and I had now been five days in the Sublic, and press that Fordings of dislike; a possibi-my ankles were nowhat chailed fra it which cannot be too strictly guardest wioding the spurs. Mr. Floyd Loid of aginat. Put now the circumstances of the bringing fort
furt tar cadets down to the whole caso are set forth and undis kaw Dead Sea once who had pour animals, an to all. Any man who has injured the bui Japanese or the Japanese Legation is guilty sequently become very sore from
the long rido. Taoy would of having violated the laws of his country, paid for the privilege by walking all the
bathe, and of having rejoiced in the creation of ten miles back to Jericho. authorities are empowered to arrest and to be very sticky for an hour or so. disturbance. All such persons the local sore to sit in the saddle. My hair proved They were too
i don't execute without further orders from the think I over got so thoroughly salted down Government, in order that an example may before. Nevertheless, there was no salt
I be set to the rest of the people. Those visible at the north end of the sea. It is desperadoes, who knowing the fate in store at the south end, where there is no Jordan for them, have retired into concealment, to partially purify the water, that the famed are to be traced and captured at once. A mountains of litoral rock salt are to be proclamation for general information.-
Onlinary sea water line about 4 per N-U. D. Nees.
cent. of salt in it, while the Doad Sua has Bome. 26
per cont. This percentage is fixed- and steady, despite all that the Jordan and other streams can do to heal the waters, Jerusalem Correspondence, Boston Herald,
THE PERAK TIN MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY.
roports the hills all the way up the cusgt i classical ceart in which the bust 2.7 / Colony without auch notification za las catles and samo powder. As the junk having unlawfully obtained a silver watch, the 16th January at the offices in the Nan-{ covered with snow. The Talu, which has amateur talent is ongaged, or a araneta said the ordinance would in fact inch cumployed in salt smuggling and robbin bangle, pad a sun of money, from king Road. MWV. Drummond, the{
been running on the Shanghai-Foochow line, is now laid up sal will nos be sent to sea again till the re-opening of the northern trade. It is probable that she will then bu pat on the Shanghai-Tiuutsin route. The Nunting goes to Fooshow in hor place N..C. D.
News.
A PARIAN newspaper makes the singular announcement that a syndicate has been formed, of which Mr J. Gordon Bennett and Mr J. Mackay are at the head, to parchase the Island of Cuba from the Spanish Government for £20,000,000. It
Beam.
Chun Afak was found guilty of snatching In reply to his Tordshin, the End L. Yau, wits al was walking s pair of silver sacrings from a woman pector stated that there was
clang-Upper Lascar Rov deal of salt winniggled from Yat- Ti to the mainland of China,
Priscaur said the vastable knew him, Inspector of Nuisances Cleriltow said he wore all gatust hit because he had was formerly in the Chatou Customs for refused to become informer.
His Lordship said the prisoner had one ue, and he was acquainted with the various kinds of janks and busts of theenth roth when he said the police variable nature that anluss the programmierer in Council ung from ine to time on the junk
Chim so
know him well, because he had baou con- On the ich January, he was rieted ten times. Soutance was reserved.
an which the primere conveys some idea of the nature of the en-
were arrested by Inspector Quines. It -ny order declare that the provisions of the was a boat of from 100 to 50 picats capa tertainment and the entertainers, the puberdinance which relates to right passes city. If engaged in honest trading, she his generally are quite in the dark as to shall apply to the whole or any part of the four rittos, and, nas be, & reviver, Cohen as chair eolica, worn charged with in this company was held at Shanghai cu
would useally carry tiro ut six raca, three Chei Alin, Jatoly employed by Mr O. C. Chu Akwal, Lam Asin, Chei Als, and whether the performance is to bu
A special general meeting of shareholders been specified,' The Attorney General was uued and armod, she would be em- Iree and unsy. The performers themselves the provisions relating to night
other junke.
romat named Ip Ackeri, by menaces, un Chairman of tlie Board of Directors, pro- the 11th ultico. are equally in the duric as to the nature of which were contained in the Ponce Pre-at hi jak was attacked by pirates while evidence was to the effect that the sum
Dip, master of the St Lee junk said
Mir Maskean prosecuted, and said the Wheeler, E. U. Arbuthnot an E. G. Low
Bideal, and there were present G. H. the entertainment; one is asked to come sorvation Ordinance of 1844.
proceeding towards Magno, with a cargo of
(Directors), R. B. Wainewright, A. Lind, 159 bags of rice, on the night of sound by the prisoners in her room, in Brand, L. Fila, F. W. Lemarchand, D. plainaut, who was amal to Mr Consen, was D. Kere, W. Judd, H. A. Ritshic, W and sing a song at a sailors' gathering, and
Decomber in the Ganton river. The nolien was seconded and the bill him and his erow down below, re-wipany with the house boy, who, she Jones, H. H. Joseph, T, Latham, R. M.
The pirates of course selects his music accordingly and comoa in morning costume; another comes notice that he would move the end.read- his mercant property to their own bat and thereupon locked the dyer of the room and Le Chong-yu, representing 3,209 shares i Bolinao ...)
moved the whole of the cargo and
Prisontra said, was her adopted ann. Int A uf
Camp decamped. All the bags were darked the
and by meranes and threats compelled her and 953 vatsa, to give up her watch, a jade bangle, and same as that in Court, and he identified
Manila.... 30.0: 80, 0 ̊54 Mr R. E. Wainewright explained that Haiphong 30.2459.676 chopper, ane clothing and variety of
somis monicy,
Hongkong
slinrahollars desired to have the Hongkong 30.28 67,862, ENH other articles in Conet as bis or person to get a lamp which he said he wanted them on this occasion
Complainant said the boy came to her Company registered, and ho represented Amog... 30.31 0.063 NE the junk on which the prisers were These articles were discavoted on board.
le pointed out Shanghai: 30.4238004 ENE to take away with him, when the prisoners chat it was obviously far the banest of the Nagraki, 30.35 -A arrested. He identified the third and
locked the doo, nad then demanded 30. shareholders that the Company should hu Postook 30.18 4.9- twelfth prisoners as being the two men.
When she said she had no tuiny the frat
No
prepared for a full dress en.cart. opportunity is given for rehearsal and no one knows what incongruous element will be introduced during the performance.
The concert úpened with a pianoforte is added that Germany will participate duct by Messrs Laumert and G.
passes
read a first time, and the introducer gave
ing at next mouting..
DEYESTION OF PERSONS BANISHED.
The Attorney General moved the second reading of a bill to anent Ordinance of 1582. The sumended hill will enable persons
24th
pell, I'
T. L Wheelock, I. Francis,
was played carefully banished to be detained in custody by the who had driven him below ng the night of toner said she must give up her witchgistered, and he moved the following |
cold. The Moss grown Dellavery. named Abdulrahman was charged, on se mand, with being in possession of inst-pretty Minstrel melody, was rendered by ruments for counterfeiting coin. The Master Fritz Lammert, the chorus being disa were produced in Court, one he song by Messrs. Brower, Caldwell and ing & ast of beautifully executed copper Osburns. dies of a Mexican dollár dated 1880, and
the other a set of stoel dive for Straits
The fourth item, Sweet Mignonetto,' was
10 cent pieces, the latter having been apung by Mr Haly, a leading light of the
parently much need The prisoner adiit ted the possession of the dies, and was committed for trial at the next Assizes, Straits Times.
Tan Moniteur de l'Armée naerts that the
Gost Templan, who has a good teno:
voice, bat wants training.
The vocal trio, "Ye Shephards tell me,' from the Wreath, was taken by Messrs G. & C. Lammert and G. Caldwell, and
Kropstacbook repeating rifle has proved was one of the beat things of the evening itself very efficient during the resont opera- being sung with great tæta and in very tions in Tonquin. It is practically not a good time. No. 6 was a motto sug, sung repeating rifle, bat an attachment, by by Mr Coulbourn, which, though inculcat-
Police until the actual time for their banish-
ADJOURNMENT.
The other motions or the Order of the Day' were postponed, and the Council was adjoamed until Wednesday next, at 4 p.m.
SUPREME COURT
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Six G. Phillippo, Chief Justice). Wednesday, January 21.
of this naocu
EQUIPPED FOR FIRATICAL PURTORES,
tho
pirney.
Fre.
and
Potion—
In reply to his Lemsip he explained demanded here was not Pposed the resolution, pointing out that it ;
the
about
her
bas
of
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
AT F.M,JANUARY 0.
Station,
REGISTER
Fusperature
Wint
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10 b
ย
AT 10A.M.-JANUARY 21, Bolinao.... 30.13;80.0|- Danila- Haiphong
Hongkong 20.90 68.376 RNE Autoy...........10.30 52.0:9 W Nagasaki 30.41 NË Shanghai 10.36.0,85 S8. Watck 50.08 3.4-
The barometer has fallen,
mad
悲
0.02
(tradier ta
2. TEMPERATUNG, in the shade in degrees,
3. Huniory, to percentage of estoration, tho
| Lordship said the reason they had not been 4 quarter of an hour before the Johnзou'and Stoken answered on the vahinidity of air saturated with moisture being
Bin Britney was committed it was Property as hush money, but from fear of the taken advantage
if
not
100.
4. DIRECTION OF Wish, te two points. 5. Force of Wine, secording to Beaufort Seale,
tached clouds, a drizzling rain. Ing. 9 ginomy, 6. STATE OF WESTK. Lluc sby, eão-
which an ordinary ride can be used either ing very good moral advice, was somewhat charged that they were found within the curtain resepas, the Government dit me to go this place a month after complain. belonging to the Colony has hoenme, or squally, 'r rain, a suce, i thouđer, v visibility,
The O'Malley), they red at the Him. Bila- son, prosecuted.
weut to
hail, fightring, o overcast, p passing showers, ic dew (wet).
$
7. Ra, in inobe, tonths and hundredths,
Quotations. HONGKONG, January 21.
The following gentleman were empanel.punished; it was becausa the gentlemen of tip the watch and bangle, and tho firat pri-uffice in & As soon as we have OPIUM-Now Patna, cab, 5972:
far the
hin the note and stated that it Counsel's
Old "
cash,... 500 New Bonaros, cash,... 592495 Ola.
cash,.
in the operation, through the well-known Grimble, which banker, M. Bleichrider, and has the transfer will be followed by a great in and in capital time. The song Loved and
I gold fugerings. She said she had That the Company be registered under crease in the growth of tobacco produço Saved was then rendered by Me Dment arrives. It was read a second time, shippeil 150,bag of rica for Hongkong via did not give anything they would kill her 1905 to 1891 m. Company with liability: Hui Ho Shang, & dealer in rice, said hot watch; the ärel prisoner said if the the Company's ordinances of Hongkong and sugar cane.
Caldwell, who was not up to his usual form, and will be considered in Comunities at the bag in court and also the ice itself as
Macan in the Su Lee junk. He identified and boat her. At this she became frightened limited by shares.
as the house was on the hillside, far frota
Mr Lomarchand seconded the motion. Ar Singapore, on the 9th inst., a Malay having best recently laid up by a severu pack mecting.
The Chairman, in a rather long spre being part of the risa shipped in tau Su the town and in a lonely situation. Sho
then group her wateli, and-a-86-note, the third
prisoner,
Batistied unrise to
to tako steps just now for the and not allowed to send ties to Hongkong direct, locked the door, and the four prisoners Caltivation Company desire to register that turu and humidity have risen. that according to Chinesenstom na hangle and then the second prisoner that the Directors of the Perak Sugar indiente mederate winds. The tempora-
bangles Ste
gave bun registration of the Combany. He explained and therefore he first sent itt Macno.
want to their quarter. Next morning she Company in Hongkong, as a Company with This completed the case for the prosecu-
reported what
"had.
onsured in her master, liability limited by shares, but it was not
W. DOCEREK, The jury, after houring the detonne of who gave a note, which she took to the
certain
Nowrument Astronamer. Whether the Company could he FO 19, win allegut this charge fra Senral Police Stativ Her property was gered, maless there were a Board
anghang Observat vy, January 21. fond in the antiq "bugs". Brengir by the Tuason of the junk
Directors in Eluggong and an office theru, In reply to and the rice merchant because they had said the boy was 18 yolla
to his Lordship
1. BAROMETER, redzcel to $2degrees Fahren- complaint The
They had writton to Mesars Sharp, Johnson brit, and to the lays of the sea in mehes, tenths been refused a loan of 2, found the
tal all,
and she and Stoles
#H prisoners guilty unanimbly.
slupted him as her son last June. Beliad and ether points their opinion on these and Inndredths.
1 other points, and
thom to requesting Prisoners were then sentenced. His been in her room on the night in question get the opinion of Counsel. Mazars Sharp, tetas, Fahrenheit.
defendants She did not give up her inst., sad in their letter they said Wahave The January Criminal Seastona tras open- beanies if a
charged with having committed piracy was
of your suggestion that. but in Chinese jurisdiction. Ir threats of violence and murder would have been more satisfactory to Hi
The iny next gave evidence of a carrobo-lol's man shond is taken, and we leave prepared a short case for the Attorney Lordship the prismus had been tried by plainant's room that night, as he was afraid substance of your letter. It will, we believe, rative nature. He did not leave the com- General to advise upon, embodying the the Chinese authorities on that
charge; but, Hang Asam and thirteen others were
out on account of the prisoners. Ko bo the
Do the first time thust any Company not as formerly or as a repeater. It resembles inappropriate to the occasion. The piano certain junk of vessel equipped for the pur-thon his Lordship canid have no sympathy Prisoner
Colony of Hongkong feloniously on board a confessed to bring salt sauugglers, and with it went hore.
take that view of the case. Prisoners had
Ho did not sleep on the sought to become, registured the Gras rifle, but has a shorter rauge forte dust which followed was played by pose of piracy on the 26th December.
hability The length is less than that of the Gras by Messra G. Lammert and Grimble, and waa
Company, and we Prisoners assorted that the witness slept enquiries by
we have supplemented your Prisoners pleaded not guilty.
for according to their own acia the amah's room every night. whatever, G centimetrca, and its weight 200 gram-
Counsel asking
to advise why- count they thought nothing of breaking the mes greater
ther it is necessary that there should be a The powder usod for the succeeded by a song by its Fraser Smith,
laws of their own cinntry. It was 3, saners, said the second prisoner gave him the Company need have even a registered Inspector Quincey, who arrested the pri- Board of Directors in the colony, or whether cartridge is of a special description, and It was a dream.' This sweet little molody
instracted by Mr A. B. John- the rifle can either fits nine alot in
however, for that they were going to he succsesion without loading, or single shots, was most fastingly rendered by the fair
led na aury-ffesats Chow Dari Tong, the jury believed that they were done was the same as ho hat received from the As soon as that epiaion arrivo, Mr
soner gave reloading after each discharge. This rea roualiat and brought forth the first encore A. J. Ribeiro, Max Krabbe, A. A. Botel-
wo will forward the same." pon has been adopted by the Infantry of of the evening.
purposes of
of piracy outside Hong the-Marine, and the Minister of War bus
The singer respond-ho, H. B. Coombs, Yau. Sz, and J. Mul wally exgaged in sugli saree, they second prisoner sud he got the watch in Company, and there would be nothing
that kungi A
although they might be or as has money because he had caught Drummond said, it could be used for The this Company as well as for the Sugar 961t yet that her and the boy in urrente delicte also armed with it the 6,000 troops now ed to the applause by repeating the last doon. starting fram Algeria as a reinforcement varKO.
The following gentlemen were called, but were also ready at any time to commit.
being well rammed and
ed, they lieu of ready
money, for the Army in Chira,
to pay for it, whereas if the motion asked to stand aside by the Attorney Mr J. S. Brewer's song 'Oh, go hear GeneralMeurs A. F. dos Remeding, J. pray as well. And the jury must had frequently caught the boy in the Directors would have to incur the same First prisoner, in his defence, said that he that had been proposed was carried, the havo the wild wind blow' was rendered in the V. Figaoirede, E. M. V. dos Remedios, S. loved the pridetice of the master of the aul's room. Un the night in queation expense and go over the same ground as come to that conclusion because they be Kervedios, and R. F. de Souza. UNDER the heading How a Treaty is popular base's best style and produced a
jauk, who said they, the prisoners, piratical- ha aught them, and he kaucked at the the Sugar Company had Signed Under the Republic, the Figaro, warm insere, when Mr Brewer sang Our were toracy General said the prisonersly attacked hate two or three days, before dosr. The a:nah asked hha not to make a simply be paying for the dome; it would
charged ander section of which lately reproduced some extracts from Jack's come home to-day,' which was ac 2 of 1868, au dimace for the suppression they were found in this hariot. If the wise or toll the steward; he could look over advice twice over. The Direcines word that. She would give him money to buy favourable to the registration of the Com Admiral Lзepos" report relative to the defeat companied at the end of each verse by a whosoever should be found on board a junk have given them a very heavy sentence, be-astor, and the amah ther said ole had no they received the requited information i
piracy, Bd the
action provided that i prisoners had becii tried piracy an. He replied that be must tell his bany at the earliest date, surd và Boon as Bank, Wire.
convicted before his Lordship, he should st sustained by the French at Tatashi in the full chorus from the audience. The tenth in this Colony equipped for the purpose of cause ofences of that sort must be put a plodge that she would give him money to take action in the matter. Next month but she could give him her watch from Hongkong they would be prepared piracy without being able to satisfy the dun. As it was he would give them the beginning of October, now gives & graphic item, the song "Tis known to me," was given Court that they wers en bord the junk higest punishment which it was in his the next day if he would not tell and a meeting would then be called: by Documentary 4 months' night, 9/74
This Mr Haughton's raport might be account of the manner in which the ill by Mr C. Lammert, and was followed by without having the knowledge that the power to inthist for the charge upon which he agreed to do. stared Norodom, King of Cambodge, was the gem of the evening, the socul duct junk van equipped for piracy, deild be they had been convicted. This soutones of looked, nor were any threats of violence that time they would have the information india, Wire, froad by M. Thomaor, the Governor of Why do you watch the lens, love deep," real question the jury had to consider was scued with hard labour for three years.
of felony. He approbanded that the the Court was that the prisonses be impri the money through fear,
rsezl, Tho amah did not to give from Cochin China, to sign the treaty which most tastefully sang by Mrs. Fraser Smith whether or not the prisoners, supposing it
of registering the Company Shanghai, dean they ha
had offered to kill ber, placed bis dominions in France's hands. and Miss Stopani. The latter vocalist he was provert that the number of man and
could bo sould easily bave brought every one in the of the Company decided upon. Under Gold Leaf 99) fine....
90 days sight, private It is the old story of the Bando Treaty all
arms carried by this junk' was ont of all
house by calling out gave life, The other theso circumstatocs the Board of Directors S170reigūs, over again. Taking advantage of the disa remarkably rich soprano voice, which, proportion to that required by a juck of the
defendants made the statements, and deemed it desirable to sortent caused at Phaum Panh by a fire, though not at present very strong, Kives trading, are equipped for the purpose of played at the ad maliciously change their story, but these persons know nothing wait in few weeks
saire size and description ong ged in
Ameer Khan, en Indian watch can called the cook and house soolie to support that had been pro all th
the resolution toohey preferred. which bad destroyed a certain amo
Temperature. ix anont of property, M. Thomton made his appearance things. The duet was vociferously encored, the junk was overarmed, he would bring at the Dock, by striking him with a stick ratura, they declared that they found un had decided to take this purse must, he
of promise, if properly trained, of great
of with unlawfully, and maliciously causing about the affaiyoticed, and, on their the reasons he had givaa why tho other the or not. In addition to proving piracy or
Taken at Mesra Falconer & Co.'s Promises, сотрану with several gunboats and a body of troops,
grievous bodily harm to another watchman.
had cleared the ground for them; and and, laying the treaty before the unlucky the applauso being acknowledged gracefully evidence which night prove to the ad sad breaking his arm. There was no evi-nimously that the arah had given up the thought, fairly commend thaumclves to the
The jury then
Queen's Road.) HONGKONG, Jamury L three days On the thing it within bat no response accorded. monarch, insisted on his
junk was concerned in a Mr Osborn occurred naur Hongkong, but out of its ju dence of any malicious intent and the jury money and articles through fent; and that judgment of the shareholders, as reasons
a piracy which day, 18 Norodom
Yoturned a verdict of not guilty, The From the stap into the country then. Bang Jack's Yarn, but whether risdiction, two or three daya previously,
nity of extortion, prisoners were guilty marched to the
and that some of the prisoners had been Friday next, the 23rd urst, at 10.50 a..
thas were right and proper to act upon palace, and he was in a hurry to get home or for some
Bis Lordship said he quite believed that under the circumstances. Thomson, with his staff, made his way into other cause, the spdg was utterly spoiled fed that that would be ELUTE engaged in committing t Be The Royed bedroom. Threats being of no
apprehend-
prisoners fading this man and woman had he avsif, a body of blu-jackets, with fixed by the way it was gabbled over. This was show that the junk was quippod for the
minbelived in this houso. they had taken quexpressed his willingness to answer any
might be put to hin. advantage of the pueition, and tried to make Mr Wainewright priatel out that tho bayoneta, was brought into the bedroom in the more the pity as Mr. Osborns can sing purposes of piracy. He then summarized (Before the fan. J. Russell, Prime Fudge.) auch profit of it as they exld The jury only reason the Directors sected to have which the King was lying, and Norodoma,
Tho evidence given below, and called his
vory propor view of the case to oppose the motion was because they seized with panic, appended his seal to the wall when he likes. The last item in the per- first witness.
Mr H M Baily prosecuted on behalf of He should consider what punishment he expected to have, in a tor weeks, the fatal document Public Opinion
formance was the vocal quartette, the "Two His Lordship said he supposed the Crown the Attorney Qustral
should inflict on the prisoners,
oprain of the Attorney General of Hong-
of
The
honest
evidence
that
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had taken
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