siderable force to drive them out.
With
THE CHINA MAIL.
Tier
sanctioned thera in the past. I beggentleman is subject to disallowance by the Governor Petition can bo prezented to the Governor On the 13th, inst nt 7 p.m., he was on tha in favour of the amendment to signify their in Coune 1.
after you
have served some portion of your Page, when the prisoner and some other nssent to it if they approve of it. Tho The Council of 1870 certainly Dover Punishment.
mon came up and coized him by the queue, His Lordship, addressing Commodore arm, and leg, and robbed him of $6 from amendment is that the report be amended intended that a system of quackery should
bo fostered and perpoinated by the Goy Morant, said,It seems to the that in this pocket. The prisoner also stabbed him to the extent of substituting 10 per cent, instead of 9 por sout, as dividend. Gentlement; and if they did en intend, the case considerable blanis attaches to soutie in the sight arm with a knife in the strug-
i favour of this will ploska signify so,
all the men then ran away but he Council of to-day are not bound to throw Chinese coal dealers who sent to have No voted for, and two against, the to the winds the experience of the past received the go from the depositions 1.0. 121,
It seems to ща saw the defendant stopped by Lau Chong,. thirteen years and follow blindly in the s far I can gather Amendment
footsteps of their predecessors. The Ordin- that they deservo punishment even more ance onacts that the treatment of the sick severe than these men shall be carried out in a proper manner, and we know that for thirteen years the only relief available there for afforing has had to be sought at the hands of ignorant quincke.
EXPERIENTIA DOCET.
No. 6730.—FEBRUARY-20, 1885.|- Tas following is the result of the Volunteer rosent the capture of Bhamo, by the Chi- the Chineso vorsela before thoy, vora o Artillery competition with the 'pe ganges, and is said to have despatched a con- served, when a heavy fire from small arma which took place at-Belchers Bay, on Bhamn itself we have no partion far concern; was directed against them. The men an Monday last.
but this now struggle intensifies the dis- board the torpedo boats were well protected order which has reigned for some time in however, and only one man was wounded. Barmah, which threatens to destroy the The greater part of the craws of the vessels trade in Rangoon, and which will, if na- checked, stir up sympathetla daorders blown up succeeded in gotting ashore in
The Chairman :-The amendment is our within the fadian Empire itself. The pro- ceedings of King The law can never be their boats under cover of the fog, tried. I propose a ballot on this subject.
After preparing the list of votes which indifferent to us, but the misrule of Bur- soms are said to have perished with their
each shareholder present was entitled to, mul is all the more dangerous waen, as at
the Chateman said-I am sorry to occupy you so long, but it is necessary to make out present, the French are stirring up trouble on the borders of Siam.'
the votes which each one has.
Monsra Rocha, A poll was then takon, Carvalho, Murcus, Polishwalla, Devjes, Cohen, Abdoolally, Taylor, McCulloch, Gomes and Vinia voted for the amend- mens; and the Chairisan, and Mosare Bain, Coxon, Gourdin, and Maclean voted
The Chairman
The conditions were --cich man two rounds plugged shell and one round schrap- nol; the highest possible for the former being 10 macks each shot for a direct hit, and for the letter 15 for a shell bursting 20 yards short of target and 00 feet abovu plane. In the case of than the shortest time in laying the gun to give procedence.
The range was 1,100 yards.
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Part of the French squadron have now returned to Keelung to coal and provising The Aspic, after coaling, is to proceed to Saigon.
A CORRESPONDENT of a Home paper says Mr Vanderbilt has been prossing General Grant for the payment of the 30,000. | HONGKONG IOB COMPANY,
LIMITED. cheque leat him just before the failure of
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Commodore Morant :—I quito agree with you, my Lard. They will not be forgotten, or your remarks about thom.
flis Lordship:—It has often been ro- marked that if there were no receivers there would be no thieves,
Commodore Morant:-I think the re- esivors quite deserve as much, and I hope they may get it. Both the principals of the Chinese Grm are now away from Hongkong: as I have been informed by the detectives His Lordship-I apprehend if they had been here they would have been brought
Commodore Moraut :-I think so. Prisoriors wore then removed.
Grant and Ward. He na loviad on the The fourth ordinary annual meeting of for tho metionid :-The result is, con- (Before Sir George Phillippo, Chief Justies, Lacy are at Cantou.
guneral's personal affects, which will be sold under excention, unless the case be settled. the shareholders in the Hongkong Ico Com- The serre includes bis swords, his keep-pany, Limited, was held this formaeon, in sukes, the gold box presented to him in the slices of the General Managers (Mesur Londou, na simular gifts. Mr Vanderbilt Jardins, Matheson & Co.), Those prezent will afterwards have General Grant's licens and farms in Philadelphia, St. Louis, and were:-The Hon. W. Keswick (Chairman): elsowhere to procect against. The goueral lessis W. N. Baile (Manager of the will yield everything without a murmur. Works); D. McCalloch; M. B. Polishwalia; He has made arrangements to write articles A. Gourdir: S. R. Marcus B. A. for the Century Magazine, upon the proceeds Carvalho; R. G. Vania; R. Dovjes; A. Abdoolally V. C.da Roéha; O. 8. Taylor; of which be can live. His friends recently G. S. Coxon; A. S. Cohen, G. B. Goes began a movement to wave him is paying Mr Vanderbilt, who now offers to accept and H. C. Maslean, who acted as clerk of 100,000. Zols. in full
General payment. Sherman, Mosses, George W. Childs, Uyrus 20 Bargt -Major Denson 8
Field, A. J. Drexel, Hamiltos Fish, and others will contribute to this fund, and then Last night, a most successful concert was have General Grant's property bought and given in the Temporanee Hail under the placed in trust in order tostcure it. General auspises of the People's Concert Com-Grant has aged rapidly in the past few mittes. The entertainment was principally intended for the Rinsemant of our nol-
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diers and sailors, who mustered about 200 strong. Boxidos these there were he twoon 20 and 30 civilians present. A capital proge was provided, and, under
months. He continues lame, and in other wise seriously ill.
tienen, that 75 votes are in favour of the amendment, and 31 in favour of the uri! ginal motion. Consequently, Mr Taylor's estes. I should now like to consult the nendaent is carried by a majority of 41 gentlemen present how far we ought proceed; whether or not it is necessary to witiniraw these acomiats now, and have the amended and submit them to another meeting of shareholdere.
to
counts that will requise a fresh statement.
Mr Taylor:-There is nothing in the ac: There is nothing to alter except to declare
1
Friday, Feb. 20.
MENTRACING OF ramosis,
THE EMBEZZLEMENT OF GOVERNMENT STÖR EB. William Ronry Foulkes, who yesterday
kudul guilty to having sumbezzled tons of coal while he was employed as a store at the Kowloon Naval Stores, was first placed in the dock....
Being ake what he had to say why sentence of the Court should not be passed pen bim, prisoner-handed in the following of the Canet (We E. J. Ackroyd) :-
To the Hon, the Chief Justice.
up
Chan Akin, guilty of burglary, was non- tonced to three years' penal servitude.
Ohan Ahoi, who pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, was sentenced to two years' hard labour.
money.
·He had not recovered his
Four previous convictions at the Police Court and one at the Supreme Court word proved against the prisoner and he was now comunitted for trial at thỏ next neo- sions of the Supreme Court.
MR GLADSTONE.
No more in-
Not the least remarkable of the remark- able events of the past year was witnessed by its closing days In the month of December, 1834, Mr Gladstone completed the seventy-fifth year of his life, and celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his Girat ammption of office. teresting enreer is recorded in our political annala.Mr Gladstono, us everyone knows, entered public life nan Tory of the most inflexible and reactionary type. Be wa converted slowly, but thoroughly, to sound economic doctrines, and even when ho attached himself to the Peelitas, after the gront disruption of the Tory party in 1846, Chung AI and Chung App, canvicted of he was still regarded as retaining in full measure the beliefs and prejudices of his boing concerned in a burglarious attack on
sarapan at Hung Hom, were each-san-outh upon nl questions excapt_show_ul They were told that if they had beon which elapsed between 1848 sud 1858 it charged with the more serious offence of was with many, perhaps with most, political robbery with violence, hoing armed, they observers a matter of doubt whether Mi Gladstone or Mr Disraeli would ultimately would probably have been found guilty and received a much more severe sentence. be chosen loader of the Conservatives in the House of Commons. There are many reasons for thinking that the Lord (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Puisne Judge.) Derby would have preferred Mr Gladstone,
and it is cortain that he would
have paid Lum Ass, the man found guilty of rob almost any price for his support. Whon Palmezaton's bury from the Naval Yard, was sentenced Mr Gladstone joined Lerd
to five years' ponal servitude.
Ministry in 1859 he was looked upon as Lura Ataz, who was found, on the morning the representative of the extrame Right of the 12th Jan, in possession of a telescope, in that heterogenaue Cabinet. The speech which had been taken from the Military in which, a few years later, he first de men on the previous night, was sentenced making use of the celebrated flesh and Bia Lord-blood argument, cime upon any with
The notice calling the meeting having dividend of 10 per cost, instead of 9 per statement, which was read by the Registrat tenead to seven years' penal servitude. fiscal and foreign policy. In the ten years
the meeting.
been read,
a
The Chairman said The report of the Tes Company, Gentlemon, which is in your hands, shows that the receipts during last year have dinnished 5000. It is known to you all that the price of ice was reduced, and that reduction was consegnent upun threatened opposition; and, further, I should add that it was in harmony with the original GENERAL Camperon, before quitting office, intention of the Ice Company. When it was formed the promoters-I myself was bore made a speech to the heads of departments, at had in view the supply of and he subsequently was interviewed by a good ico at a reasonable price for the bencât representative of the Bénement. Generat of all, while at the same time the Ivo Coma-
My Lord: I wish to urge in my defence that at the time I committed the offence with which I am charged, I was heavily in dabt, through illness which had occurrec unforeseen ozpenses in having to provide in my family, and I was put to great and medical assistance.
cent. The accounts will remain correct, You will simply require to carry forward s reserve of 80750 instead of 87000; that The Clairman hink that can be w ako the reserve up to $30,030 done. I declare now that the report is passed. difference of $1 per share on 1250 shares, I can only regret that for a or, for a sum of $1250, that there should have been this opposition to the recom ! A writ out against me for $85, and mondations of the General Managers. II was quite unable to obtain the money to mentioned, gentlemon, the purchase of the pay it, although I made every endeavour property. Perhaps, it is a purchase which to do so.
I know that in having to go to gaol, will not be approved of by the gentlemen who
to the Company, but it is a purchase pocis, after serting for so many years in
∙lato
the genial presidency of Mr Swales, this Camponon, in his speech at the Foreign Pay as a commercial undertaking should seem to have taken a view ao antagonistic should lose my situation and ruin my pros matared at Sanely Bay by a band of armus!clared in favour of an extended-Aug was gone through with apparently great fice, said he would have buen sat:slied bo considered also; that is to say that the which I can strongly recommend that they the employ of the Admiralty. The temp to three years' penal servitude. satisfaction to the audignac, who bestowe with the occupation in Tonquia of the delta intention of its being a money-making coushould confirm: aud I Rişall be very happy | tation to raise the nonoy I required, in the skin said there could be no doubt prisoner the effect of a thunder-clap.. And if, five...
af tho Rot River, but his colleagues were ecrn should not be ignored, but the pri- if the shareholders present will propose & only way that was suggested to me, was too
upon
their applause equally, and ungrudgingly. Mra Ciritton's performances on the organ arī piano, and her randering of the song the Lost Chord, while she accompanied
the
organ,
beon
were exccod-by Germany. The Chancellor has:
have a
ahareholders to
of ice.
bject was that the Colony should the performers but upon an sxpedition to the heart of wary ofl and cheap suppy f
China, and upon the permianent occupation of Formess. In his conversation with the make these romarks because I understand newspaper raportur General Camponon ex there is a desire on the part of sosto of the
the y rogiru
per cent. pressed his apprehension that M. Juice alar Ferry allowed himself to be deluded by dividend which the General Managers re- Prince Bismarck. For Bore years past commond as bring too small a return. The as a facts are, on looking back to the first year saic) France has
of the Company, that the profits of that year gut up a quarrel between and were 220,635, a 10 per cent. dividend was a Italy.
is now involving us in a quarrel paid, and 80,250 were carried to rosorve with England. I have uvor been of the resoud year the profits were 824,680,
we had do
12 to keep
was paid as dividend, and per cant opinion that all
30,000 were carried to reserve; the third quiet, and pruire ourselves for fighting,
year, which was last year (1889) 223,643 nob at the four corners of the globe, hab ia
were the profits, 10 per cent, was the divi Europe, and you know against whom. It
dour,
und 89,000 were carried to reserve'; with that object that our excellent army
herself ou ingly pleasant and artistic, and would have earned her much applause in more discriminating audience. Among the gontiemen Mesars Scost and Gritton wera the most successful. The singing compe tition, in which nearly all branches of the
to
was
11.
confirmation of the act of that purelise by the General Managers.
Mr MaCulloch: I her, Mr Chairman, to propeso that they purehuag bo sancliged At the same time I beg to remark that I think the shareholders here have every confidence in the Goueral Managers, and that this is simply:
question of dividend. Mr Polishwalls seconded. The notion was put to the meeting and carried unanimously, Mr Polishwalla proposed, Mr Gourdin seconded, and it was agreed that Mr T. Arnold be re-elected auditor.
The Chairman :-That concludes the
as one of the men who attacked the and twenty years ago, few persons would strong to be resisted, and I was a party totaled, the recent pusiassion of the have credited the prediction that Mr selling about 90 tone of coal In doing this telescope was enough to convict him and Gladstone would become the recognised I never intended to keep the money. Tonly if he had been charged with this offence, he exponent and the most skilful propagandist took it as a loan, which it was my firm in-
of Liboral principles, fewer still, parhaps, tention to restore 28 8000 as I had the would probably hava been flogged.
could have bean persuaded that he would show himself a doxterans and successful IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
party leader. The anbtlety of his intellect (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Puiane Judge.) and the ingenuity of his dialectic had been so often exhibited, that people had come HONGKONG HOTEL CO, Bw. H. GRITTON,thought with the rest of the world, and to took upon him as a man who rarely
means.
of
I have now served the Admiralty for a period of 13 years, and during the whole of that time, I have con
the satisfaction dusted myself to my employers, which the characters I prc- duce for your inspection will
sufficiently prove.
$320,
no one
own,
And
Mr G. E. Bowlers, from the office of who, when he arrived at the same con- clusion ва his fellow men, roached it 'I wish to express my deep contrition for Messrs Wotton and Deacon, appeared for
through ceiss could travel Tho
of his business of the mooting.
by 'n the crime which I have committed. At the plaintiffs,
-road which Mr Oresley said the defendant cam toateat to be discovered of his many powera Me Tayler--I have been asked by a the same time, I will res distress in my the Hotel on the 22nd September, with his was the one by which he will, parlaps, bu sufficiently strong body of shareholdera to that had it not boon for the army and navy wero represented, afforded been vryaingal, wIZE SU Pigallised that fast year (1881), 818,485 were the profits. bring up the question of the price of the family and the straitened circumstances in wife, children and ablak, and occupied a heat remembered--the power, namely, of much amusement. Gunner Stephenson of it cannot, without serions incunvenience, We propose 9 per cent, as the dividend,
ico, which they think ought to be raised which I was thoroby placed I would never parlour and bed room until the 10th No again to two cents per pound. I have no have dreamed of acting as I did. I have vember. No arrangements were made as to persuading, inspiring, and controlling the the Royal Artillery, was awarded the first he dislocated to take part in distant and that $7,000 be carried to reserve. Tite
a wife and two children entirely dependezt the rate of charge, sad vitness aent defen-judgomont and the energies of great minance prixo, and Marlic, of the Marines, the puditions. As regarded the foreign policy return is a very fair and proper one for sympathy with the proposal, but I have of 1: Furry, the General described it such an undertaking, seeing that in addi- heen specially asked to bring it forward. I
ນາ support, and
dant in a bill for this accommodation at the of men. awarding sen- second. At the close of the entertainuqul was politique trompense, which placed Franco tion to the 9 per cent. there is an ace will read their reasons
use I earnestly entreat your Lordship to rate of $175 per month. Defendant comL The reduction in prine was rande in view of n take into your merciful consideration the plainted that de charge was too lugh, and Mr Swales announced that at the next cat the morey of Germany, which Gambetta, ation t the resurve, a reserve which we cert, which will take place a fortnight were he now living, would strenuously op. lupe will prevent any interference with the threatened opposition. At the moment there sxema no
fact that they will be left wholly without witness reduced it to $160. As to China, an expedition against le supply, so long as the cost of the ice to prospect of any oppaition, The put man's wuching
Defendant explained that he came out maans, during my confinement. henes, a silver watch will be awarded to the her now sublbo & far thore formidablu the public is fairly moderate. There is
I, therefore, throw myself on the mercy here as manager of the new Glass Works, winner in another singing competition. The England were allies, whereas they were necel Mana-era are right in coudinding that panics. The prerust Cumprop har gal reserve, and stated, and also un account of my previous came on board the stoamer, in which he wise or unwise, but there will be no serious fair than it was in 1800. Then France another reason for which, I think, the Ga- The total inema from ise would not supert tim com of the Court, hoping for the reason above and that Mr Saple, one of the partners, to be surveyed as a whole, may be adjudged
-
Song I love the Lasses,' DIT Scott Boog......ir Watb.
RISTRAMO GOSPETITION. Build-thetic] Phu tius, my laro fer,
selesion on the Piana (Huarcous), Ping The Old Tickmile,*........ Being Old lather E
riode) Bemarkody minding the
Mr Grition. Mom Vrittan
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Scules,
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puso.
put its fout down with fra stamp, and
with
to that ragard
property in the condition
khowa hut a reduction in price does not merease the Pulsumption. Consumers do not object ta 2 noita.
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His
rooms
years ago, so as to be near her Majesty maka Mr I. Conway, the English manager, should be paid for hy the Company, if thore year at least, the price shoold remain dook beside Foulkes, anything to say, he ended the parties to settle the matter of
the committed aliould thereupon agitate for
that thu Havre shipowners had charged him
We
it intact for the
affitude assumed towards shear by Mr Con- I offer them to the shareholders who have
the same.
Mr McCulloch-From your experience during 12 years, Mr Dain, was to two cents an excessive rate: I menit to say, would it be a hardship to any one? would he a hardship to any one,
Mr Bain-No, I don't know that it
Mr Taylor :-If we raise the price of ice, Mr Bain-Exactly so; I am almost cer- that were done there
селораму
Police Intelligence. (Before I. E. Wodehouse, Exp.) Friday, Feb. 20.
ÁSKAULIS.
Mr Gladstone. has no reason to fear the
vardict which history will pronounce upon
the
superficial inconsistencies of his long career, when the passions and prejudices of contemporary artisanship have cleared away. His atatormanship, when it comes
who is himself
following is the programme —
now in disaccord, and he believed that the 9 per cent, should be the dividend this in a malicieully strong position to later in uncassition
good character that your Lordship will to defendant, arrived, and told him he had
lenient sentence." sccured for him at the Uotel, his controversy as to the genuinences of his Mares, on the Organ, Gitton.
Government of Pekin was secretly onemur-year; we have bought it is not mentioned that could not be started with way pro-port of sucoses.
-I ans afraid myself that people who have pleased to pass song-- Butay day will come again. Garton aged in its resistance by England and Ger- in the report, boceise it requires to be cheen in the habit of paying one erst and a
agreement stipulating that he should be patriotism, the intensity of his salf-devotion, Bong-Empress of the Watic Beales
this statement
his thorough knowledge of his craft, the were provided with house accommodation. He Boug The Villagh Hacktail raarden.any, which supplied them with arms and armed by the aliareholders before it half will very strongly object to as incause several curtilicatea, due of which
Ice-house becomics legal--the property in dficers. The quality of the Chinese
admittted that what Mr Greeley had loftiness of the standard which, both as soldiers had improved; they were well Lane, the Ice-house. The tenure under feat, it time that the Oo ay ay will be it given by Commodore Cuming, which said as to the time he lived in the speaker and as worker, he has consistently which the Ice Cumpary possessed it was year, it seems that the Company will be in set out that prisoner joined the Naval Hotel was correct, but added that he had maintained. The vulgar slouder af bis less armed, and had European drill, ano. ín a
position to pay a dividen i of is her cunt Yard Folico Fures on the 16th De said he would not be responsible for his scrupskus opponents, that ho in the willing protracted coudat night besore formidable. satisfactory; there w & no title to it.
cember, 1872, and was discharges at his lodging. He was quite willing to pay for slave of a reckless anlation, will not be THE Victorian Cricketers Association he was the only representative in Flows fore, think thu naller ought to he left over town request on the 17th March, 1873, thus bia.board and the chita he had signed, but or completely discredited than the
We wore there, in a measure, as squalors un cent and a half cuts and I, thro-cerat kong of the old Ice Association, which for another year.
having served a period of 10 years and three
he was not responsible for the ledging, as equally unintelligent estimate of critics Mr Bain-Me Chairman and gentle months. During that time his character he had not engaged the rooms. Me Greeley who, like Carlyle, can see nothing more headed over the use of that property to the has disqualified the Victorian contingenti prosent Ice-Company. The Goverumt men, in support of Mir Taylor's remarks had been very good. There were also two should have gone to Mr Sayla fix that, or English people than the triumph of an: no- in the bold which he has gained upon tho Ir is stated to be probable that the marriage of the Australian Eleven for their action were not satisfied with leaving matters think we should have another yer's certificates from Samuel D. Walls, Inspector to Mesars Russell & Co., the agents,
trial of the reduction, because for the past General of the Naval Hospital. One of
Mr Greeley said that the defendant usually clever demagogue, of Frincess Beatrice and Prince Henry will refusing to play against the Englishmen at they were, and we arranged to purchase the year trade of every kind in the Colon these stated that prisoner had serve as police had told him that the Campany allowed the unconscious victim of the de'usions
лая has been very dull. That we are all aware consta
constable at ths Hospital Έντα
which he spreads abroad. Mr Gladstone's not take place before July. On the other Melbourne. The sister borly in Sydney, property for 812.500. The ground rents of. I think the Colony should bave - July, 1879. to the 12th March, 1880, to the fendant denied this in tolo.
him 880
a month for his quarters. Depersonal disinterestedness has been display We receive ontsile however, was the first to bring the grosdy $125.40 per annum. hand, it is also said that the marriage is ex-Australians to their scusos when it dia- the Teu Co.'s own use of the premises, $82 other opportunity of enjoying the reduction entire satisfaction of the Inspector General,
Lordship naked Mr Gresley if he had ed again and again in the course of his pened to take place at St. George's Chapel, countenanced the attempt made by Mur- per month as rent, sogon will see from that tout cont and a half, till we see what she and the other that prisoner had performed aver asked for payment from Messrs Russell public life, and is part, it least of the
& Co., or from the Windsor Castle, about the middle of April. och and his comrades to play a witch at
40cret of the
which that the purchase is a gond one, an excel it will ba, From my own experience his duty with eobriety and satisfaction.
power
ho wielda Nor partnera. is stated that the Princess, after the mar Sydney a week prior to the est English on the expenditure of some money upon is in the interest of the Company, for another from the Naval Steros, was then placed in the fandant remarked that the bill as presented demo It
can be even further utiised during the past 12 years. I depredate this
Henry Brown, who also pleaded guilty
Would it be easy to select a worse instavog changing backwards and forwards. I think yesterday to having stoku 30 tong of cel
Mr Gresley said he had not. riage, will occupy Frogmore House, where engagement in New South Wales, An by
After some conversation, in which de. of the excessive influence which it is often assumed that mene rhetorio: possesses in Prince Albert Victor as hora twenty-one efort has been made by the Australians to think it is desirable that the property
to him was set correct, his Lordship rocom.democratic governments. Mr Gladstone is Asked if he bad
doubtless a great orator, and a debater wil when at Windsor Castle.
the scapegoat for all the trouble which bas are funds sufficient to do it, but I should arison between the two teams. The sub-like, in addition to the purchase, that we
call said:-Nothing, my Leed. I throw way of Gourt. Es had no doubt if they went comparable fertility and skill. But he
self on the mercy of the Court, Ar the French Academy of Science on Dec. terfuge has sigually failed; and Mr Justice should have our reserve fan intact.
the right way to work, the matter could be would not be what he is, and could never caunot contiane to keep it
From his word, it secuns he joined the settled. He would adjourn the case for w
have acquired a tenth part of the authority 30, M. de Lesseps proposed that a com-Williams, president of the Victorias immediate future, but if we can add to the
Naval Yard Police Force on the 2nd Des., wack.
which he possecked,
as if his rhetorical faculty. mittes should be appointed to report on the band the statement of Boyle, Blackham, reserve, we shall have a reserve intact and Cricketers Association, characterises as
1879, and was promoted Sergeant on the
had been his only, or even his main, equip S0th April, 1881, und served as such until
ment for the work of politics. Apart alty utility or inatility of quarastina regula Palmer, and Scott that their
heir refusal to play the property to boot. I hope theso rs-
25th January. Commodore Cuming atacad
gether from his special aptitude for finance, mited. M. de Lesseps recommended that nst the Englishmen was owing to the tourks will be taken in the spirit. in which it servas to the we court uppalties tions. In case their inutility should be ad-"]
his character was exemplary; and Captain
there is no statesman of our time who hat Michaelson, of A. Company of the Indis
equalled him in width of knowledge, in way. The whole dispute lion in a nutshell. expressed opposition to the dividend pro- 'tain that if
killing Fusiliers, on the 27th October, 1879, happy to winer Auf-
grasp of detail, or in constructive and legie. the reform of an antiquated custom which Me Conway offered the Australians 30-perused shall
fative abilityThe generation which bas since the invention of steams, had done cent. of the profits of two matcher. The questions time may be put to me with re-passition site. The price stated that he had unch pleasure in certify
Tion-com-
noquiesced in bie nacendancy can never be satious damage to trado. He also stated fatter demanded balf the
profits.
Ir gard to the working of the Company, and of ice during the past year has been one ing that Lance Corporal Brown,
ecat and a half; in previous years it was missioned officer in his' Conway then suggested arbitrations as a with regard to the property acquire will not two cents, and so long as it was two units, in his habits and a smart soldier, and saulting a boa man named Fung Achoung itself to the charm of a mors master of Choi Afuk, a cual coolie, was charged with fairly reproached with having submitted La steady to present to the. Government a patition way ont of the dificulty, which offer was Mr Taylor
with an iron shovel, on the 10th inst.
words. there was a feeling as an dissent from calling for the abolition of quarantine rega declined. If we don't get half the profits be taken with bad graco, if
pany would be started. Thion cona-one whom he should have much pleasure in trade of the recommending to any position of trust.
That ascendancy, after all that has been lations, which are powerless, in their we won't play was the constant cry of thin views expressed by the General Mana. Colony is not sufficiout for twe romanies; Lacut-Colonel Guedes and algo certified No. 48, and defondant was in his employ, sald and written to account lus. I: or to
Coraplainant was in charger of coal bout estimation, to prevent the propagation of Murdoch and Co.
The Aut
Australians By gers. I think myself that the shareholdera
would mean starvation for butl
Thero
that Brown had one epidemics. M. de Lesseps withdrew hit they were inaulted when Mr Conway, ou of this company should never have allowed
standing on the boat and was told. by con- menon in political history. There have, of proposition when some of the members re-behalf of the Englishnion, offered that the dividend to fall below 12 per cent and is ample trade for one, but not enough for nad s second class school certifcuct badge, On the 10th inst at 3 p.m. defendant was explain it away, remains a unique pheno
two. The price of icu in India and Southern His Lordship askel Commodore Morant, plainant to ferred him to the Academy of Medicine.
£20 pur man for each match, as it affected I should have had auch pleasure in propos- | porta kong from one deal to une sout and who was present in Court, if he wished to fendant and out of the way. The de couras, beca instances in our own and other:
became angry and threw shovel countries in which power more absoluto ini but I wonder how theying & dividend of 14 per cent. this year
half; meget it here at one cent and a l
Half,
which he had in his hand at complainant, form ims been retained by a s
a single THERE is apparently a uplendid opening for must have been aggrieved and their feelings for ano
man for Bay anything to the Court." one thing, and that
when the Compa which I consider very reasonable, because Commodore Morant said Late Police hurting his face.
a longer tims. But the full measure of Mr Australian was originally started $30,000 was spo- a lawyer in Palmerston. The Northern wounded when the South
Dafendant was fined $10, in default one Gladstone's authority with his fellow round, whereas in Hongkong in is only nud I Ferritary Times kaya:---Po trust that before Cricket Association gave them £450 to play ken of as a reserve fund. 330,000, I sub- the South ice is . quired all the year Sergeant Brown confessed his crime to me.
month's hard labour, and also have reserve sufficient to provide required for five or six months in the there
De rosson to believe that against Shaw's team at Adelaide. They mit, is a
be bound countrymen can only be properly estimated As we can havƏ
was ever anything of the same next Circuit Court another lawyer will notted quite £350 out of that match, and against any casualtion
over in two sareties of 85 each to keep the when the peculiar circumstance under be settled in Palmerston;'
Fort occurred to him before. If your peace for six weeks. In default to be fur which it has been acquired and maintained Ws believo were insulted to the extent of £100 more dividend of over 10 per centum with year. thoroughly that there are a low rings of by the association than by Mr Conways reserve of 830 000, I think it would marks are very sound, indeed, and previous got character I should fool ob
Mr Gourdin-think Mr Bain's re-Lordship would take into consideration his her countritted for fourteen days:
are taken into account. His position has been achieved without any special ad- Chinese in Palmerston who will stand ot Is there any difference between receiving give more goueral satisfaction if the divid think the price of the ice is a matter of gied, and make a difference between these Li Atak, a coolie, was charged with as. nothing to put an obnoxious countrymen a lump sum for their services and taking and were made 10 per cent, and the re detail which should be left entirely to two men. One was actually in charge of the saulting Un Yau, a watchman at the Tung force of intellectual and moral superiority, vantages of birth or wealth, by the sheer out of the way, or for that matter an Euro much per man 1 Mr Conway, in offering the sorve reduced from $31,220 to $30,000 the General Managers. I am anro they are sterwe, and served in a responsible situation: Hing Theatre, with an iron bar on the 19th and in spite of opinions and propossessions peau either. As they are wealthy enough Australians £20 per man for their services,
for the test interests of the There is this mitigation in Brown's case ust, Defendant came to the theatre on in matters outside the range of politica, to engage the only counsel, in town to ap- did so at the special request of the English | 10
10 per cent, if any one will second it. pear for them, the accused, without legal Claron Before the £20 per put was
Polishwalla seconded Mr Taylor's left entirely to them, Bssistance, stands in a very critical post-offered the Kleven had refused to play for motion.
guilty party.
be admitted without a ticket. On being are repugnent or unintelligible, but which The Chairman-You move an ́amend-
Mr Taylor That is quite my own food- His Lordship-And he did so on the refused admittance he struck the watchman ties. We do not intend by these remarks their respective colonies. Some of the
ing. I only brought forward the matter, ground that there was some other man in on the hand with an ima bar with which anything unpleasant. Mr Boresford is en alleged they were unable to play through went to the report.
trouble. Mr Taylor: No, I move an amendment because I was asked to do so.
he was armed. that the dividend be 10 per cent. but it serias strange that they
No other remarks being made, the Chair- Commodoro Morant :~He did so on the Defendant was fined $10 or three weeks The Chairman-That is su amendment unounced that the dividend warrants ground that there were other men in trouble hard labour.
would be issued on Monday, and the meet- who rem not guilty. to the report. The regular way would be ing separated. that I propues the report. I hope some gentleman will then second it and before the motion is put tv the meeting, you wil propose the amendment in the spirit of the remarks. That will make the course re-
from your amendment.. I now propose the adoption of the report and the passing of the accounts as laid before you. Will any gentleman second that?
Mr Gourdin :~I beg to reconil that.
'
their amateur status.
gazed to do certain work in prosecuting illness; ouger for the fray and the gate by his clients. We are als sure that Mr money if the New South Wales As Beresford would bare po hand in any case sociation had given its patronage to ↑ in which he thought auch unfair methods nlatch they wanted to play a week earlier were practised. may not in these times then the opening match of the English of Press coercion my what we think, but Eleven of Sydney.
and does it with the material supplied him were
debarren from the
privilege of
we are not thinking. We have thought a great deal
む
certificate.
I wanid moge that the dividend be made working and I moyo that this matter boi that he acknowledged to me that he was a the afternoon of the 19th end demanded to which to a considerable part of the nation
over some of the mass brought before the The Destruction of Chinese Men-gular. It does not debar you in any way
Court lately, and recent proceedings show
us conalusively that unless other legal as sistance is soon obtained to combat Chinese
perjarera no man will be safe from having
of-war by Torpedo Boats. *, The French gunboat Aspic, Lieut de Jon-
false charge trazapet up against hin, and quieres, conimauder, arrived to-day from
reign of terror for. Chinese outside there Sheipon Roads, which she left on the 16th
CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr Gladstono Los never hesitated to arow.
A lae convert to the Liberal creed, or, at least, recognising only late in life that ita fundamental doctrines were implicitly ins volved in his own political faith, he has for - nearly twenty yours controlled the
and Cotermined the fortunes of the cy
His Lordship, addressing the prisoners, CHARGE AGAINST À NAVAL YARD POLICE- said-It is always a painful thing for the
MAN.
party. Twice at least during that paried Frederick John Morris, 22 years of age, Court toscatwoman like you, who have borne
in 1968, when he declared in favour of the good characters, forget themselves, and com Naval Yard Police Constable. No. 10, p disestablishment of the Irish Church, aud mit crime of this sort, because the crime you | peared on a charge of being drunk and in 1876, when he began the
crusade
against THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.
have committed is such that it cannot be neglecting lse duty on the 31st of Decem. Lori Besconfield's Eastern
policy-his To the Editor of the CHISA MAIL" passed lightly over. You were both of you ber 1884 at Taini Tas Tani, British Kow. individual initiative has, as far as we can
placel in positions of trust; you were placed loon.
changed the course of history. At Hongkong, February 20th 1885.;
Judge, Inspector Lysaught, of the Naval Yard the present moment, and SIR,When you wrote your article of in that position for the purpose of
protecting
mublle insist on Last efening on the Tang Wa: Hospital, it the goods that were entrusted to Police, was examined and stated that on and failures for which the blenders had not apparently occurred in you that your oare; and the law makes a great dis the night of the 31st December last an holding others responsible, his Ministry
extensive robbery wis dommitted from the maintained, not only in offce, but, to all
the fact
rings will prevail in Palmerston, Wu be-inat. The Asc was one of the vessels.com the report be amended to the extent of 10| Wä Establishment did not exist, and the and a case of larceny coinmittsa das un duty at the time and in the course PA
Mr Taylor. then formally proposed that when Ord. 3 of 1870 was passed the Tung tinction between a case of simple larcenyl Sheds at Kowloon The defendant | appearance, in the confidance of the people.
lieve, any we know, that regular caucus
per
cont.
On this account.
you.
under
the
in which
have you
is to
that o
he is at its Bolonga as dividend being substituted for Legislative Council ia launching the new instauons
enterprise evidently had grove' misgivings leged that both of you were concerned, I of the investigadots stated that he was need, ie gouer is guva uni terely ta guvraed by the one etings are held by there scoundrels to prising the French squadron which suo per cent. an and perfect plots to consign innocent ceeded in destroying two vemols of the Mr Polishwalla again seconded.
ns to the practicability of the arrangements any diference a men to prison. We hope to pillory some Chinese foot off antien on Sunday last tiernen, that I think some deference ought
The Chairman I could remark, Gan-made,
as to the punishment I should first time the defendant had been charged knowledged genius who is to be found in the of them yet.
The punishment provided by with drunkenness. Os the 4th Oot. Le English political arena, Nor are feelings ount they placed the control award to At the time of the attack upon the Chinese to be shown to the experience and general of the arrangement in the hands of the law is ponti servitude not exceeding 14 year was fined $20 for the offence.
y any means confined to his of this kind by a Taking the whole facts into ceraideration, AFTER as examination of the attitude of reasels a thick for prevailed, and this as views of the General Managera in a case of Governor in ouncil, and passed eluso
The case was femanded till the 24th own followers. There are not a few in the opposite camp who would, a bant, be this kind. It has not born without eusi XVI empowering the Governor in Council the punishment I award to you, Whi Honey inst Russin on the Afghan frontier, the Tints counts for the escape of the three Chinese deration, due thought, and in the best. in with the advice of the Legislative Council, Foulkes, is seven years' penal servitude
Borry that he pountry should Jose the proceeds Eventsare leaving Lord Duffer-cruisers, and also for the eary destruction terests of the Company that the General to declare the incorporating void if the and to you Henry Brown, taking into
beneft of his anrivalled experiece and his In very little leisure for a general kurvog off of the Chinese frigate and corvette The Managers have proposed par cent and treatment of the sick, waro not carried out account the difference favour by tao mand, charged, with others not in custody, i ready to continue in the mārciņa of the in position, and the Chan Ahing, a hawker, appeared on re-world-wide reputation, no lut g as he is I think that as
as the success in the past has in a proper manner roommendation in your his now work while his attention is torpedo hate which succeeded in blowing tot been disheartening under the manage all the arrangement, then made as to Conimodure, five years penal servitude with stealing 36 in silver from the person State. The death of Lord Baconsfield, re- I moved the only antagonist who quuld com, Frontier Commission, the troubles, which up the two vamsels were under the direction cent and under the advice and considera the work to be dona and the manner of Df course you both understand that if you of one Cho Kwong, and also with stabbenete with him on leval tevins, and unti Med have been threatened for me time past in of the eccond captain of Admiral Courbete General Managers, that it would be better assurance given by the Government of the portion of the sentence will be remitted
tion that the Company has had from the doing it were necessarily tentative, and any sonduct yourself well that a considerable the complainant, on the 19th inst.
Cha Kwong, the complainant's, evidence Gladstone retires from the soun the extreme cast ura becoming acute. The fagship, the Bayard. They nagcseded, it you could see your way to adopt on this day as to non-terferance could only have and if you have anything to urge with wat to the effect that he was a cook, living i personality will remain the dominant factuu Mandalay Government appears, from our Tadian telegraphis new. morning, to under cover of the fog, in getting close to cosesion their proposals, the smearyou have been conditional, because every regulatigard to the clemency of the Crown, your in the Kwon Yu Tong ahop, Praye central in English politics,
claimed on the north-west by the Afghan
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.