No. 6027-OCTOBER 9, 1885.
A BER:ods trouble has arisen in the vogela. | Trz neighbourhood of Yokohama (says the -ble and fruit markete here, and consumers Japan Mail of the 28th ultimo) has been must not be surprised at some increase in the locals of considerable seismic activity the prices charged them for almost all kinds during the mat few days. On Saturday at of vegetables The diflealty did not originate noon there was quite a strong, shock, hang. ing lampa svinging for twenty minutes bere but at Canton, from which port Horg: after it had passed; at half-past tweiss kong usually draws pɔmo alty tons of yege- yesterday another shook was felt and this tables and fruit daily. The total consump, morning at half-past five aloepars were
roused by another
THE CHINA MAIL.
of Shan Tak to Canton.
writers from the paths of fool to those Returning to where the north-west river is rests with the people, and in these districts yeara agn, 3,000 sels were borrowed on the defondants found out that he was likely to ment has been again broken, acessitating a Taight get the business themselves and this of exaggeration. Mr Pearos's plain, unvar- connected with the west river by a narrow thero and no embankments on wirioh the land as security. Of that sums only 700 bring himineas to the concern which would
milo abore the market town of Wong Kong far
avo the money which they would have to Funds for embankment repairs are deriv farther mortgage on the fields. nished statement reveals a sad stato of channel, which leaves the fariner about a work of restoring the brashes han advanced tuels have been paid off, and the embank-ealing a profit of 67,000, and thinking thos (4) Fiusily, if the question be asked, whatig him na his share they dismissed him. has hitherto hept the people from actual Defendants dented that plaintif had affair. Thousands of people are houseless, and enters the lafter a little below. Po Shui,
Kwong Lind small town within sight of the (6) Government Grists. Buni more ore almost destitute of clothes the want river was natended as far used from three courses,
(b) Donations of the Benevolent Bochoty starcation, the answer in the employment orer said he could bring business to up to the present time of oo large a pro- the amount named, nor did they think it the only covering they posacas being a few shit Hing pass. Our investigations onded
f) Levies pro rata on acreage enclosed portion of the destitute population in the possible to have no go, with the small ca rage. Thle in itself is dismal daugh, but at Sam Chau in the Ko Ming district, from and perhaps of a low private individuals.
and protected by the embaakpants. About work of monding embankments. Whilst on-pital at the command. They also denied when the prospect of famine is superadded which place the return journey was by way
It will thus be seen that many miles of three-fourths of the whale amount required gaged in it each person employed received on that plaintiff was entitled to any share in the outlook becstres gloomy in the extreme. Even granted that the October harvest is territory were traversed in the oauree of the must te misal from the pro rata Levy. The some of the banks one shlug or pint of rise for the profits of the business as he claimed to
inquiry. Local officials bad gentry and Government grants, though not inomsider every 25 tam or burdens of soil barried, and tave.
His Lordship said he thought dofondante gathered, the harvest produce for the entire responsible persons in charge of the work of uble, supply but a small portion of the same each earned on an average. five pints per An enquiry was held this afternoon be year will be only one third that of an repairing the embankments were asked to Rooded,The donations of the Benevolent day. On other soil-ourriere were paid in story the more, probabio of the two, and: tell what they knew regarding ifio cardi- Society seem to be confined to Ko Ming and money at the rate of 1 onsh. 3 cash and 3 therefore gave judgment in their favour last three days. besɑ suspended, owing to fore Mr E Mackean, Deputy Coroner, faverago year, which means that, the priotion of the people in their vicinity, at the Ro lu. where the Government Grants are cash por burdon according to the distance without casts, Heve no reason for not Mr Wotton appeared for plaintiff, and of rise will be proportionately higher, and same time the poorest of the people were smaller proportionately than elsewhere. In From 2000 to 3,000 persona have been allowing the costs to follow the verdict. Goorg, R. Goodlat, and A. 1. da Sipa, that at a time too when the poor people have everywhere interrogated in to the means Ko Ming, where 10 embankments are broken, employed at the same time in wedding
When the inhabitants of particular villages have been as under shipments of the denbora in Canton which concerning the death of Choung Asing, who peat their all in their endeavours to obtain they now have of gaining a livelihood. the dauntions of the Benevolent Society use brecally and the amount of work to ho Mr. Caldwell for defendants. they will not accedo to, and they have conse
and If they meaged in obtaining some rice where distress, endeavours were made to fallow quently stopped buying. It does uos com was picked up on the 7th iust, by the Po. this small portion of the annual ingathering. or hamfeta were reparted to be in t
lice, un the Prayá, in a dying condition and with to keep soul and body together, the up the investigation in 80s villages w
hamlete. very clear at present whether the daty or squeeze referred to is levied with the sent to Hospital, dying on the way.
The body was viewed by the jury on the report of Mr Pearce shows that it will be
tion of the Colony is about seventy to a day, of which about twenty tons are drava from Matao, Kowloon, Swatow, &c., by far the largest supply, however, coming from Canton. This supply has during the
ANOTHER HOMICIDE IN HONGKONG,
tax or squeeze having been lavied upon the
and a jury composed of Meners F. E. 0.
unauthorised imposition of the subordinate tiffivials, but we believe the Government are making enquiries into the matter. Some ton years or so ago something similar or curred, but was rectified upon representá- tions being made to the proper quarter by the Registrar General, then Mr G. C. Sait
con-
3 To Chuls
4 Tai Sho
i
1 Sam Chau embunkt.760 Ti, donation, 2 Bheuog Po
710
"
230
4).
i474"
40
.130
2-135
$2
684 986
6
Toun
Ohaz
6 Nam Ngon.
7 Siu Ling
4
done at one of the largest openings was sat
Friday, October 9,
11. DOSMAN V... SCHMIDE,--895,35. JUDOBLANY_ Plaintiff koops a dry goods-store, and dò- fendant is a police constable. It seems
guilty
of impro
her
Dr Marques deposed that the body of dany foeling for the infferings of.their fellow of instances, the embankments properly:ṣo { takon at various poiale. The largest communest kind of shell fish and shrimps My Sahmidt purchesed, in one day; goods It is to be hoped that prompt action 7th inst. at 10 am. He and on the oreatures will contribute what they san to are at considerable distances inland from koowa ds the Fung. Lok embankino band or water in the faida hos randered the to be sont into her husband. Defendant,
It
down as amounting to 125,00) days' work.†
The work on the embankments is now al- most completed, or entirely stopped for want of funds, and as an interval of at least six weeks must elapse before any harvest No pains were spared to obtain nocurate
can be gathered, the people are beginning to feel the savereat pressure of want. They that for some time past defendant, who is an inquiry of this kind will be appreciated
are not absolutely without resource. Grass married, has lived separate from his wife consent of the Viceroy, or whether it is 7th inst. bat no evidence was then takea,mpossible for them to robuild thoir houses information The difficulties of conduct
"9 Pak Hok
and wood may be out on the bills, and from in Portuguese) and children. He alleged Inspector Mathieson stated that from the or purchase clothes, To be houseless and by those who know from personal contact not properly clothed hit the cold weather, with and practical experience of the Chi-
10 Sau Lat
40 cash to 10 cents per day saob may be that his wife had been. earned by a limited number of persons priety, and had continued to visit evidence he was able to produce it appeared
imparting a knowledge of what ther
Sume idon of the expense incurred in re- where the mountains are near and the sup mother and sister against his expross amoort of distress which it is impossible to ceive to be Ineta.
storing embankments may be gathered from that the deceased had died from the effacle which is nigh at hand, will entail ans, their mode of answering questions, and of a fall or a kick. He had a man in charge,
If should also be stated that in a number the following figures selected from the notes ply of fuel good. Many draw the principal ordure, and his wife alleged that he had ill- part of their food from the water, taking the treated her. While they were lying apart, but did not think it would be necessary to describe. We feel sure that all who have
called, which protect the fertile rice land bankment in the Kwang-tang provines is to bail far conges. When the depth of to the abure aunt, and ordered the bill produce him unless a warrant was issued. ceased was sent to the Mortuary on towards the relief of the afflicted. We can the rivers. Filde which, la, between the has been stated that to walk round it con- groand useless for sultivation (in front of repudiated the debt; hence the nation. embankmeat and the river, though shut in | piss three days and is a journey of more
one opening in A large embankment it is This morning his Lordship called up do The imagine no moro deserving cause for charity by smaller banks on the side nearest the than one hundred miles. The fields it pro calculated that 1,000 Chinese cores are thus fondant, and told him there was nothing in will now be taken in the matter as the mortem examination the same day.
Mir Pebree's remarks as to the embank-ver, its not good rice laai, brit comprise tepte lie in tires districts, Sam Shui, Sz U, Losty the people are removing from the vil his wife's conduct which justified him in body was that of a man of about 35 years. question is a serious one tu Hongkong. There were some marks or braises, so the
.feet, ite Cabbages, turnips and other fresh vegetables right side of the chest and on the left side ments are grimly interesting as showing the the as-called 'sund tiefde,' which have it and Ko-In. The height of the embankment ages to towas, and many to Fatsher and Bonding his wife away from him, nor sins":
is in some places 29. English
thero any reason for his not taking her utter incapacity of the Chinese Government various times been recovered from the river.
When the land can be culticated again but back. They had laid suis quazrole, have already gone up 25% in the markets, of the forehead; there were also bruises on the right elbow. Opened the abdomen,
oranek
This land though regularly al-In the Ko La part of the embankment alone tivated is often foundated. Tite people and every day that passes without further which we found full of blood and a portion to strike at the root of the whole evil, Truls and were at first reaches for fish a wide measuring through the centre 14 feet. Canton in hope of finding employment.
ruptured. The
China's Sorrow' is China's maadariqate.'ont from it so more than one crop in the thirteen breaches have been made. These not this year small land-owners often seek but instead of separating his Lordshi
sxpect shipments will further enhance the price of of the splees. It was clear that death re- Wè reuently read the Tioeroy's memorial on year, and its marketable value is not one in length, The Tai Hing bank in the lower neighbours who have eient money to There were no doubt faults on both aides, are each from sixty fest to five hundred feet to sell their fields to their more fortunate thought they should have made it up. was enlarged,
purchase.
Defondant had proved nothing whatever sulted from hemborrage caused by the run the subject of the floods, from which it was half that of inferior vrae land within the Sam Shul district in 26 feet high and about
Whilst there is no actual atarvation, and against his wife which would prevent hita To break through 15 feet through the centre, and in this ture. There were no external marks on left side over the splenic region. A kick made to appear that the mandarice, great embankments proper,
these latter the water must pass orer the
Alowing few marks of privation or anffering, had reasons, no doubt, for not wishing his or blow might have been received in the and smell, are rushing fast-haste throughout and fields' and sweep away
measuring in longth 1,130 feet.
the state of things in the villages is yet as wife to visit her mother and sister; her side without leaving any external mark. A
though poou- Kai Pai embankment in in the Taing Visual as can well be imagined. Thousands mother had interfered too much, but it tainmous at the Theatre Royal, but nevor-fall, 34 denessed struck his side the provincs, having buckled on the armour smaller banks. Sand fielders of the bankment there was a broach made the people on the whole appear to be healthy, taking her back, and their living together, Bo. theloos there was a very fair house to Bgainst svine hard substance might havá of notivity and energy. But what a different og Gary hundreds of acres, are left out district, and is a bank of about the same bave no tiongen and no clothes, except the few would be better for him; his wife and
account in this report because lying out-height and broadth as that called Fung Lot. pieture is the reveran of the raedal za show side, the ambankments properly so called. In it two breashes have been made, the rugs they are seen to wear, and their une children, if they were to live together again.
Defendant said he had not source of subsistence, embankment wounding,
not sent his wife is no longer available. Should the harvest, Schmidt, who was in Court, was then unoortsin that there enn be po good standard In the whole of Kó lu out of 27 cantanks which depends on the rainfall during
Mra in the rsport bofore us. The poor wretched The ordinars yield obtained from them is so joint length of which is 1,100
for the constraction of embankments when
these alimentary necesarios.
The wosther last evening was anything
bus propitious for the Mascottes enter
spleen
the
witness the performance of Offenbach's well known and favourite opera the Grand
caused the rapture,,
bricklayer, living .Chúa Aming Yan-ma-ti, decine, said that on the 7th
at
i to buy some good. After 8 am, while
bed.
01
year.
ibe
fvel.
Duchow. The representation of this opera, ist at 7am. he came over from Yau-ma Bufferers are actually being mulcted to pay by which to g5 109 of produce this ments 24 wers broken, Kó Ming has present month fail, famins will ensue. With called up, and addressed by his Lordship in by the Company on their first visit was one on his way back to the lunch, their few remaining ossa aro almost a matter mede do not apply to the water fields of of the repairs dous to the embankments planted orope; the produce this year will. at her husband, Hali her he thought DEF-
through Wing-kak Street, he saw two men beating and kicking deceased know derased, Choung Asing, who
proportion,
whilst at Sz
orazon the
The anture
not only coun), bat on improvement on the him in the Hon Les chandler's shop to the other officials, and it is to he hoped other districts, water covers the
ground.complete. Ia K6 Iu and that the appeal lately made to the foreign (she must clearly understand that her fans
of the most successful of the series and the manner in which ite piece was put upon the stage, and performed last evening was
former performance. It is one of the operas in which is Eva Davenport is particularly proficient. Her study of the part of the Grand Frichess has evidently been most careful and intelligent and has resulted in a really fine representation of the claracter of the capricious but charm ing Duchess. Miss Davenport was in splendid voice and particularly rendered the 'sabro song and Say to him most artistically and effectively. Mr Farley wan
hands of the local
the weather entirely favourable for the late mach the same strain as he had addressed this best be miserably inadequate to the husband was perfectly right in ordering har season must necessarily prove a fiue of great mother had interfered too much. If she aeede of the people. The approaching winter not to go to her mother and sister: har hardship. In view of these facts itis hoped did not cluese to live with her husband, be planted, and not then if the rainfall-je Ko Ming, where the management is in the and native communities for further help band would not be responsible for her debts,
gentes, the banks are built in rolloving distress will not be in vain. A Chinese acre of water land in Kup with a view to keep off the watuma rius The nemal mode of reckoning among Chinese excessive. Ming. selle for about two taele, whilaf in but not those of the ensuing spring. The the adjoining district of KC Iu, where the money obtained has been expended in this for work of this and. land though dry is poor and fields are cheap, temporary and incomplete work, and four the price is from six to ten teele par Chipese tires as much will be needed in order to raise the banks to their former size Finally it should be noted that in none and strength. Throughont 6. Ming and ground remarkable for fertility in that lages protected by the naveral embankments of the districts under consideration is the K6 Iu, and in parts of. Sz Ui, the vil respect falling greatly below the adjacent were found to be taking measures to pledge nual grain yield in Shu Shui, Kó fa oboin the money neccesary for the great and Se Ui
tored in Uke For the same reason statements here not a bank remained intact. He of life and death to them! The Provincial the Ko Ming district. There, and to a cer- differs widely in different districts. In military official has undertakeli was his countrymau. They were beating Commander stands out as a noble exception tain limited extent in the 1r lands of Saus Shui, Taing Ua and 8% Ui, where an control, most of the repairs are every spring and summer. It is only at the the Deceased ran out of the shop to the water that his merits still be properly recoguised, end of the summer rains that the land can side and the two men parausd him.
The men were His Afat and Chau Ayun. Thoy while at the same time the incompetency, if chased bin as far as the steamboat wharf, nothing worse, of his superiors and inferiots when deceased fell down. The two mon will be treated in a manner befitting then ran away. Witness followed to where deceased fell and the lattor told him to go suck wofal condust, The only fiasi remedy and tail his brother, so he went to Sai-ying for such distress as the floods have caused poon to see Chun Laing, the brother, and in the Kwengtung province this year is sera for the worst fields.
old him that his brother was killed. He
Deceased the erection of proper embankments, which then returned to Yan-ma-ti fell on his left side. He atooped down would necesitate the employment of skilled ini a squatting position, and then engineers. No amount of patsking will over gradually fell over He knew Cha
tloods. They will always succumb before and over and again brought down the
Street, West Point, house with his clevor and amusing delinca inst., between 8 and 9 a.m., 1-was loitering and its results are enlisted on their side an The Government is to blame for in Wing Kuk Street, as I had no work to allies. do. I saw two men fighting and I saw
CORRESPONDENCE.
WHY? To the Editor of the GHINA MAL'
Hongkong, Oct. 9th 1885, S-Boing a man of an enquiring turu
and she would have to live without his as Bistance. And if she chose to live sepa rately and there was sing berself properly. to suppeão. that she was not behaving her children might be taken from her. There were no doubt faults on both sitten but sho e had no right for every little quarrel or unpleasantness to take away the furni- tare and ren to her mother The fair never intended to give a woman the right
unpleasantness,
to live seperately because of every little His Lordship again suggested that the on around me, I have noted a circumstance parties should make it up, and that defend- which happened in this Colony on the 7th
again quito 'at homo' as General Boom. Court and identified), (brought into render the embankments a mutali fur the rich districts of Nauboi' and Shan Tak. their äelds. By that means only can they of mind, and also an observer of what gues
tion of the bombastic offcor. Mr Tyrrell
living in Third
The annual
Cheong Ami, a cool: On the 7th their treacherous foe untiį engineering skil' every from 300 to 400 patlies for cullay required.
to men to beat the deceased and said. I esrving of our sympathy as being the vie anything happens I will be responsible. of comidersble life and interest to a some- They beat decassed all the way till they tims of an evil which, as it lies beyond their what insipid character. As Fria, It got to the verandah on the Praya. When power, it is almost hopeless for them to at- he got to the verandah deceased stooped down bat gos up again and walked as far a tempt to remedy. the-Woo Bang shop, where he stooped and lay down on the ground. I reut up and looked at him. I could not tell if he was
dead
acre.
THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION.
Starting with the best data obtainable, 3. PRESENT CONDITION AND RESOURCES OF and relying on information supplied on the spot, and tested as for ne practicable by per- This may be judged of approximately by
folowing are the most significant.
mitted,
BECOND OF AUTUMN PLANTING OF RICE,
the second
persons
eil. The Hon. the Colonial Treasurer was ments. inst. at the meeting of the Legislative Courant ought to pay the plaintiff by instal
Defendant said the way he was situated in the midst of business, when bang wort the Mail gun, and off bad to rush the Post- just then made it impossible for him to do uch. He was at Stanley, just now, he then atrick me, what is the use of a de-
It
ENQUIRER [We presume that the Postinastor-General would aaswer that, when an English mail. arrives, all minds ought to be on duty. Anyhow, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the rail in question was delivered five or ten minutes after it was
for
plaintiff
Hie Lordship advised defendant to sne Captain Deans about the matter.
Defendant said Captain Dears already know all about it
His Lordship advised him to see Captain Denne again.
took the role of Prince Paul, which on thù, them and Chau Ayun push docenied out in the state of the ombankments, not the sonal observation, the following particulars a variety of circumstances, of which the master General, to deliver the mail, could not take his wife and children there () The appearance of the villages. They puty, or does the Fosiaster General as it was not fit at present for anyone to live previous preformance of the opera was the street, and then Chau Ayun incited the people, who are therefore all the more de-concerning the distressed districte are sub
are much the distria when the relief think such a simple thing as the delivery at (the Inspector's wife and child had had to undertaken by Miss Thompson, and impart
E-PROSPOTS OF MARY SITE FROM THE parties visited thedistricts in July and August of a unil cannot be done without he is go to Hospital a few days ago; and he had Last. Where beams and other materials rushing round the office like a coolis.. I been sick limself); and if he had to houp Not less than four-liftta of the arable land equid he recovered from the ruins, ragh the deputy is no use at the Post Office /bia wife and children-in town it would cOBL in three of the districts referred to has been a attempts have been made to construot there then the Treasury might save a few dollars him 525. He therefore could not do mash second time flooded and the first planting of inte a Vernon Reid war decidedly successful, and
ehelter large enough for two or three by transferring him to some other depart to crauetrunder. Of thess wretched-met was in very good voice. Mise Seymour
Yours, etc., souters and the Harvest Prospents of plants new in the fields are the second plant shelters the corners of broken walls general-
The folds stiflooded made all that was possible of the part of
REPORT on the Prasent Condition and Rethe eccond grain urup destroyed. The re
ba- ing of
& crop, Manda and sang no plantingly as she al.
the People in the Flooded Diatriots of the districts where rigo is now growing should 5 torin two aides, the remaining portion Li Shing, deposed: I am accountant of Kwangtung Provinon-liy the Rev. T. ha divided into tiro olanes, this wing made up of old roof timbers not nailed waya dosa, dividing the inevitable bouquets"
but placed lengthwise and across with the "W. PEARCE.
have and these which are not been replans broken wall for a support. fuo few in with Miss Davenport. Mr O'Brien again the Woo Song shop. After 8 a.m. an the 7th inst. I was sitting in my shop. I saw
During the past fortnight, in accordance ed. Batween these two classes et rice fields ofaners only are regidar wooden shantice asumed the role of Baron Fuck and gave deceased and another man seizo hold of with the request of the Committee of the a marked contrast is observable. Where the erected on the sites of the former mad a clever rendering of the part. The other each other and deceased fell down Kwang-tung Inundation Fund, I have made original plast remains, nothing can be more house. In still fewer instances (certainly members of the company were cast for just outside my shop. He fell ontly, spesial investigations to the districts border promising than the appearanes of the delda. not one in teu) have the houses hear the same characters as on the previous this face dowawards. I'did not seeing on the maja water-ways of this Pro-Assuming that the rice can be stored a rebuilt, though maDy may be reconstructed landed.-Ep. (,,M.}.
other man strike him.
Deceased vinee.
In June last, as is well known, good condition, the yield this year will be by the end of next year if both crops are I told the these districts were the scens of widespread fully up to the average. In some situations, performance, will the exception of Miss had a hes in his hand.
From Thompson, who appeared as Charlotte and man to lift him up, but he ran away devastation from ficod. At the beginning where the flooding of the land in June Icatum three of the districts accounts of the and I pureted him as far as Queen's Rond of the present month reports, the truth of helped to Fertilize the fields, tha orops will
were be above this average. Wo may instoner a published. Of the remaining two it was gave valuable assistanos in the Latter where I lost him. I did Bot see deceased which there was little reason to do the wide tract of gently thaniating onuntry, ascertained in the course of the investiga-tremely suxious to get as the true facts defendant and his wife to make is up, and
received in Canton and Hongkong to Song in company with Miss Carrie Hubert, use the boe or strike the other man.
Hadjes Shab, Miss Stella and another lady, The more while on duty on house of I went up planting of rice seriously damaged.
P. C. 604: On the 7 th inst. effect that much of the low-lying land was
I-saw a-largoj again submerged and the second ar autBER /*""feled by the Shek Kok embankment and tion that over 8,000 houses had been de regarding the origin of the first draft of the plee told Mrs Schmidt that he did not think in the two dietriuca of Fa. Un and stroyed in Ko Ming and nearly as many in | Reply to the Governor's Addreza, concernit right f. x ber to be going to the Sailors" T'eing
Ja. Hors raay bắ“
ing which the Aferent tipizious," "I am one elas
Press and
and yourself Club we hear of Miss Hubert's voice, the more crowd in front of house
and found deconsed in
looks remark reosnt inquiries have been directed to cane and roos crops. The sugg ground, bleed
My we like it.
The cost of erecting one of the poorest seem to entertain ing from the uth and head.. He was certain the facts of the case. I have enably promising; the sugar cane is said by mud houses is about $20. Bricks for the prepared to pay over to you, or to any one Signor Valenta again conducted and pre-alive but insensible. The hos produced was deavoured to discover what prospects the the furmers to be better than in ordinary walls are unde and the walls built up by you may name, the sum of $100, to be have of a rive harvest from the second years; whilst the root crops are likely to the would-be cogapants; but a skilled work devoted to charitable purposes, upon entis
Field.
man is required to do the roofing and put is factory proof being produced that the ori
with
the
to 2
D.
umber of fallen houses have already beßL
the roof
A CHALLENGE. Tthe Editor of the CHINA MATL
Hongkong, 9th Oct 1885 Sta,As I and many others are ex-
10
His Lordship then addressed. Flaintiff, and told him he had no husiness to supply a policeman's wife, in one day, with 20
financi many articles, viz: 86 yards of yards merino, one piece of silk, one D bralia and four pairs of slices. He had no right supply other than necesarios. Ed would give judgment for 821 only, to ba paid in instalments of $3 a month.
to
His Lordship concluded by again advising
Rest, either with her sister or any
THE COLONIAL TREASURER 4. GEORGE
LEMON,-$16.
This was a claim for burial fees for fa-
sided at the piano, with a small orchestrallying by his side. I took him in a chat and also the state of the root craps | produse at least as mnoh as the neural.
to the Station and thence to the Hospital, at the poorest of the agricultural "po- This state of the fields here and in other the door and windows, his wagen was entirely the work of the oficial men- who died while on the way from defendant's
largely pulation
rely in times of esarcity, portions of the country inspected potuit from 3 to 4 taels. Tiles for amounting ĺginal Draft of the docuinaut referred to terring Charles Sweeney, a destituto segnan
to whom the present has hitherto been great hit. Particular pains have been taken about 10 am on the 7th inst. be was condition and-resonroes of the people whoghtening outlook for numbers of persons taels and wood matericia to teals for each hars of Council. My cheque for the boarding to the Hospital and was buried by
to build, and meantime crowd as beat whenever required.-Youre with my card, poor to
FAIRPLAY view. with the dresses in mounting this opera, From information received he had ressos janndation have been collected. Thess are however, forester numbers have house. The people are consequently too amount above named is at your disposal order of the Police, Mr. JA. Carvalho
main, into the ancestral temples or the likely to prove of goneral interest and are drowing grefs on replanted land is already they can into the low dwellings that re- now submitted for the information of the beginning to suffer from lack of moisture, ahelters described above. The Lieutenante
I the period of of if having past beyond
at the Provincial Commander-in-Chief in- public
Detailed investigations have been made growth whos rain is needed. Should timely finds that great numbers of the people in five districts. Two of these Teing Un rain fall during October, there will be a par- spent both
slept on the ground outside points to
Chads
instructed
bira
as before constituted.
but he died a on the way. The blood on the on which On Saturday next the Company will give head was from a small scratch.
PO 133, deposed that--Certain Ásze,
the particulars regarding present The Royal Middy,' and oxpect to make a
make enquiries in this so. Buffered most from the effects of the Jane dark. and they are said to be remarkably to believe that Hu Afat with several others had killed deceased. They were employed tasteful and artistic. Miss Davenport's
at the Hon Keo shop and had been quarrel. dress, designed and made in Japan, is ing about emigrants. Deccased had lived at No 71 Third Street, Ho had looked for
ablo te uniqua of its kind. Nous verrons.
year.
Still
such
Tur pects io
SUPREME COURT
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
and Mr.J. White, the sexton, attended on Mr. White, in giving behalf of the Treasury, Me evidence, said the chim would not have been inade against defendant, if defendant had gozio to the Harbour Mastor and Mr
docensed Taster and explained that
believed to be perfect work of art and Hu-Afat; but had not been a to find and am Shui are on the main North River. tial harvest on the replanted land. The mauls. Thend day on the embank-Before His Houver E. J. Ackroyd, Puisie / dostitute. Defendant esid the man was dis
Dramatis personæ Mr and Mrs A: Kuo, 1,30 3.m.---Mrs. X., after eyeing her lord with a kind of a Crown-Promontor exch? pression in her eye: What's that on your shirt frout, Jonadah ? Mr X., aspecting that some of the more important ingre dients of wine jelly had escaped his nether ip, to an easy off hand way: Guess, I crushteronquiter. Mr X, unwinding. something very unlike a crushed mosquita
What is That's b-bib-bib-s ba-ba-basi Mre,
KWANGTUNG INUNDATION RELIEF FUND.
the.
three-
house.
rise plants now in their fields.
Judge)"
JUDGMENT.
This suit, heard on the 9th instant, was
obarged from the Belle of Oregon, with 67.32. and lived with defondant from the 20th till the 29th June. He denied the debt. Hiz Lordship Baid he would look into the
Police Intelligence.
(Before E. Macken, Dag.). Friday, October 3.
tion were felt, and to the three first named saw in planted land. Men whom we in which the family rioa is cooked. · Oxyn | tion A of Inland lot No. 93 (hopes and shop of stealing a hairpiu, value 60 cents, from
South
and
23 that Mr XP Mr X: Oh that!] handed to us by the Secretary of the Kwang the rost part by peacach man cul ba here stated that not less than one-third issue pledges at higher rates than four tein damages should be the difference between Defendant was sentenced to thros months.
LARCENT BY AN OLD OFFENDER.
A navigable channel élled the North-west highest fields, from which the waters retired the
the guard
Thursday, Oct. 8, (6) Another circumstance which Chau Agan, declared, said he was master or Sz Ji river passes through the third of soonest and which were replanted ust more A NEW danger.--Scene, a mustrimonial of the Hon Kee chandler's shop Wing the five districts and. has a buures maid-way than a fortnight later than the ordinary first extreme poverty is the shifts to which the WONG RUNG 2. YEUNG GEO CEOW,-$1,000.ign. sanctum in the Far East (not too far) say nothing unless he liked, he said he remaining two districts are on the great fifths of an average en ouly recently put over goods could be turned into money brought by the plaintiff (compradoro to Kuk street. Being cautioned that he need between the north and west river. The planting, may be eorps. The greater part of people has been driven in order to buy the
the replanted rice has been knew nothing about the affair; the wit West River and its branches.
These five districts, Sam Shui, Tating Un, in, and the work of planting i
is still
going on have been either pledged or zold. There Melchers & Co.) to recover from defendant asses were bringing a false charge against him.
Sz Ui, Ko Inspector Mathaison stated that this was reference" and Ko Ming, will be seen by us the water from day to day drains off frozen inaludo in places agricultural im 1000 as damages for loss sustained through to a map of Kwang-tung to lie of the ground. From one-fourth, to two-fifthe pisments, the ploughs and the oxen which defendant and Toung Eun Chu failing to
TAROÉNY FROM THE PËRSON, all the evidence,
The jury returned a verdict of man. Very centre of the great water system of of an average yield may be looked for draw them and the most necessary houns-complete a contract, made in Beptowbar under favourable conditions of mulature
to hold utensils, oren to the large leon pote 1881, whereby they agreeil the Province.
purchase sac. Found from recently
Fung Aming, carpenter, was convicted slaughter against Hi Alat and Chau Agus. In them the worst offe
effects of the Inunda-
the set of setting out ride in the hare heen sold in Lo Iu for a tasks each. No. 1, West Street) for $6000 8600 was Wong Achi, a married woman, on the 8th
arup they the relief work of the Committee in July fields when asked how large
instead of 10 treis, the haud pristights of past her failing to complete their bargain Market at 3.30 p.m., when the defendant In ko bargain money, and defendant and inst. Complainant was in the Western and August last was almost wholly confined, expected to get, invariably replied one-fifth, Ming we first, learned that she -The smallest of
of these districts has a length or thereabout, if there is rain.
some of the people were in the pawn shops the property was sold by auction for 83,760,
one hand took the hairpin from her head The people themselves well express theThe buildings 15 may be here rezarkod and then repurchased by plaintiff for 93,200, came up, and taking hold of her hand with The accompanying report, drawn up by of about twenty miles from serth to from his hirt-front stud, freezingly; the Rev. T. W. Poarce, and which has been and an average, brendit of twelve tiles, condition of things as regarde the replanted are filed to overflowing with goods and Plaintiff thereafter brought his action for with the other, and ran away. He was Tho land in the five districts is farmed for lend when they say of the harvest, there is one of them have little more money to damages. At the trial Mix Map, on be stopped by a constable, having in the mean-
It should however advanse, Some of the shops now refuse to half of plaintify argued that the measure of while thrown the hairpin sway. is some ground for hope.'.
partner hard labou A black hair, you wretch Mr Xtang Inundation Relief Fund, appears to divided into atall plots... N-a, a bu-bi-baccillus, dear, a coma fully justify the farther appeak lately made crates his own land on an average about of the land in E6 Ming and certainly not loss (about 35 cents) for an article which in the sum which defendant and his part
6 acres (Chinese), 1 aore (English). Not than one-fourth of that io Sa Ui and Ke Lurdinary times would be pledged fur ano had agreed to pay, and the amount realised bacillus Air's full of 'em, dest. The to this community, Enzopeau nad Chiveso, barometer fall with a dull thud, and then
su additioun acry or two (Chinese), for covers it to a considerable depth, precluding in order to buy rice plants for the other fondant argued that the measure of data Chau Achiu, carpanter, with four pre- there was a breeze in which us coma Las for the relief of the continued distress of the equently the peasant farmer cultivates cannot be harvested this year, Water still. Some have sold part of their land | by the auction. Mr. Wotton for the des cillus cantd have lived.--Japan Mail enfurers by the feuds in the neighbouring which he pays rent to the owner either in all atempts to onltivate: Shui most of the part and to pay their shares in the ages should be the difference between the vions convictions woorded against him,
In Traing province. Mr Pearce deservesgreat credit for On this occasion the places of the Com-embankments are repaired and the fields embankment levy. The Provincial Com-actual value of the
mander-in-Chief winsly compelled the ped-by plaintiff himself (who, ingemalenduitted charge of stealing..a loaf of From Further information received by the haring so readily undertaken, at the invitation mittor's former relies operations were reached within covered with growing grain of the ple to plant again even on the most un-dence, said he thought I was worth bread from the shop of one Fung Atang on
of the Committee, the task of investigating by parsing through portions of the his first or second autumn Planting. The one likely land, and whilst womout ware ghief- $3,000), and the amount brought by the thesh
both which have harvest produce in the Eva
to be decided by his Lordship, who the true state of affaire. The request of thy bein under flood, though not to su great an taken together will perhaps be one-third Int in Bertor at the watere refire, the room cuction. This was reap the any question
the
(e) be
щого in three leas than one third the page on the land has been already alluded gave his award in favour of Mr Wotton's Const. of Japan on the 13th ple, it appease than he set out at once on bis difficult la. and with is districta.above mentioned that of a fairly good year. In two it will The method of raising finde bu sint. after quoting from Maine on Damages, for four week for stealing an overcoat from
Thore is a ronis well known to foreigners harvest produce of ordinary seasons,
and is only nerde to be further explained argument, and entered judgment for plains being half of the difference that on that day the ship encountered a ty i bours, and that, too, as a time when there as well as to Chinese, who wish to shorten FAIL OF THE EMBANKMUNTA in order to show that the.
must be le
halt great with the journey to the northern parts of Kwang- tung, from anton to Fak Nai la the Fa Un
by District and thetice sverisud to their Kok, in the repair of the embankments. In three straits, Thote of interest paids
TIN CHAE KAMAK. LÁI THAT TONG AND OTREES, $1000-UDGMENT. on island to the southward of Referenitate diffout an moderaking. it will be town of bone importance is the Fe "Un of the disiniais this all-important work has exactly dat het demanded by
Maintiff in this cage climat $1000 as Light; and the most easterly of the Line Agreed by all that the work which Mr Diseries on the main north flyer Along been pushed forward vironsyringe middle clays
this route inquiries were commenced, and the to Ching, the popular provincial Com ferset on the mortgage in choten group, and in the store the osptain Pearos so readily underlouk to perform has villages, delds, and embankmente inspected, mander in Chist of the forces, having teel for the first month 1 fan 22 cash, for damages for witwfat disatiest and for 1282 fau or 67 cashy ooruning by an agroombent dated 27th May, mates, on well is a portion of the cow, been executed in a most thorough manner. Proceeding from Shek Kok, the north river taken part in the management of embark the ebond month 3 fait or 55 wall, for the services rendered. Plaintiff dileged that
was tallowed in its course to the place of its ment restoration. One this Lionteannts is third month ere drowood Fire of the latter however. This report states the plaiz fagfs, dissovored juration with the Ny i us worth-west river, to be found with a few soldiers at every spot thus in regular rates without reduction. dufendants entered into partnership, with
It managed to stick to
hopeless to sapest that the people capital of 81000, divided into four weather permitted, got out a boat in which after patient and careful enquiry, and in it from this point a course was taken up the where work to gang on. With a military bene radeon their fields. Thus when shares of 8250, and plaintif war takon
Kwan Apun, residing at 22 Lyndhurst they left the wreck, and ultimately landed on there is an satire ambos of seisationalism, middle stress to the district city of Ez UL offloat is sameiated one of the acghbouring one of the Eo Ming embankments bruke are on a manager at 98 per month, with Forraco, was convicted of kecfg ney geatry, and the two have fit soatrul of the
bare in the profits In his evidence, le for, the sole of Taz-la lottery tickets, and Tanegashimaa Them i man have now arrived
or what our American friends call • high- *** A Chinese xere is squivalent to shout one operations In Ko lu and King, on the
alleged as the reason for his dismissal that I was fired 8'0, or one month's hard labour, other hand, the entire maungiment of affaire • des China Mafi, 19th July, falado, which is too often apt to lead | sixth of an English ser.
Japan Mail in regard to the unfortunate
nestastrophie which has overtaken the Ains
rican bark Cashmere, whilst approaching the
money or in kind." bor
Committee was no sooner conveyed to him exteat as
phoon, in which she was totally dismissed werevensons of domestic nature which would and afterwards became water-logged. This have deterred most people from entering en
an
the ships
and when the
in Kobe, the port which was the destination of the bark to whỏch they belonged, t
disastrous neque
in his
The next point, which calls for notion or to that mothed, mud ore 10 lot of
Beets
the acound The in
for
one
the 9th inst. and was sentarged to three
nard labour, a
Chung Ashek, hawker, was sent to gooi
solothes,dealer's shop on the 8th in
WEIGHTS AND MBANUZEK,
Lee Chuu of 76 Wing Lok Street, Tung Kai Ching of No 143 Prays Central and Lee Yok of 145 Trays Central were vil Convicted on summonses" taken out by George Orley, Examiner of Weights and Measuret, of having in their stops falas mahaures or Bonies,
fined 25 orch. Defendants wore.
TSH FA DAMALING