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SCOTCHMEN AND BURNS.
No. 7828-JANUARY 26, 1888,]
sentence of the Supreme Court to five! yoars' imprisonment with hard Intion and A propos of Burns and Barns calabra to be privatuly whippel. On the Slab Do camber 1887 at 7.30 am, I left them in tious it may not be out of place to give a charge of a chingang semisting of 92 Chi. shortexinuet from the recent work. - Friend. resuandong Fair pean, trok them to MacDonald, of the dever, if numewhat The Cattle Markot at Kennedy Town, where. they were to be employed filling in aswani superficial writor, Max O'Roll, with the Thoy matched two deep down to the placar that, had the writer visited Hong- Waolt complo was chained
together n the
kong and not Elisburgh on the 25th aukts a chuin.
The
di- Chupany was vidud tuto sic
an fleur in January, his impressions Abont Scotchmen Kango with charge of each. There were 16 men in each and thisir verente for Burna would be
with
THE CHINA MAIL.
, or is firmly convinced that he is, with hard labour in each case, all the pris under the soren of the Bylam Kongest, onere orcapt the first to ho whipped ones and it is hopeless for any misster to per- with twenty-five strokes of the ratten with- mundo any of his servants to register them in the East six months of theis imprisons, nelven, & course which is optional to servatamant by the Ordinance, while in his present um pleyinent. Every man declines sturdily, saying that he will bo waylaid and have his hond broken. Possibly be may not be
will explicit, but in that case he any lis To fuses to register until all the other boys sexistor likewise. Matters are thus brought ta privet deadlock, and what promises to Lembat
forged and borrowed trading estes so prevalent among now entirely anilified
by a
to the
THE UBOWN PRINCE
Hamburg
with the exception of No. in which been somewhat différent from the he read olunblo check on the personation Triad Society, and belonging him plot to asasinate the Cear has been dia mauger Holdera, tous, 920': horse the bertin" are the
there were only 12. The Buropean -Tot in ne of the gangs, but went down cords in the following pasangch :-- singly in change of acaparato offieist. The
WH
which
merite
of the mensura.
It is more far to be
Bettled
to show
of
were a fine of $600 or imprisonment with or
froid
Singapore, Hongkong, &c.) Frisia, for same routes tinere, & Blephan for Yokehasis and Biogo, via Biiddlesbro Sachsen, sa (Sub Line), for her unitat route: Else, a... Jabson, for Vlidiwostoos
ation; the furmer via Muutevideo. The
year is estimated at 4 per cent.
dla, for the P and O. Company's service on the river has been satfifactory during Sun Hemo, 7th January The Crown She is sister ship to the Ocean, recently the week, the wanson being taken into tone Prince, when thanking the Municipality of launched by the sand am The dimensideration. Our communication with the Potsdam for their New Year's good wishes, sions of the Arcadia are ---Length, 499ft. Far East has included the androl of the
and he hoped us pay a visit to Fotsdam breadth of beam, 62ft, and depth of hold,
Eastbourne, 6.87
from East India some time in the cammes. For all cool and will have Lloyd's highest authe: tinter; and Tobique, Davie, from
37ft. The russel is balle of Siemens-Mat and Olina Blestra, ... Madsen, front the TRIAD BOCIETY CASE,
ENGLISH CATHOLICS AND THE POPE. Inu. Akwok was convicted of buing a The Dake of Norolk's second visit to class. She will be fitted with triplu-expan Hongkong. The only coparture has been member of the Triad Society.
Rotho is anotheial. He gous merely as sion ongines of 6,000 indicated horse power, the Polyhymnia, K., Schaalar, for her against the prisoner, said that the Catholic Union to the Fope on his Jubilee. Wolff, and will be fitted up wit
Dir Justice Leach, in passing sentence the banter of congratulations from the also donstructed by Messrs. Harland and asual route. The Cassandra, a
with all the
to Singapore, Hongkong, Sa ind evidency against him was that he was
FLOTTO ASSASSINATE THE CZAR
lern appliance most fundern
arrived at aden with crank shaft possession of
St. Petersburg, 10th Saudary A Nihilist The Daring om ste sloop,
Jord
broken, and must repair. The vessels an bardon was
was on
Hesperia, B., Electra, he was not in possession of covered here and a great many arrests have power, arrived at Spithead on the ss., and Olympia s.., all three for their boys is such insignia. Ho bid produced no
no boon
sada. Saveral military officere nte 17th inst. from the China Station, and sube usual route: Glamorganshire, Plent com evidence to the contrary, and the jury came iniplicated in the conspiracy. In conso- Scotland postcases 'n' national literaturetion on the part of the servants. The in the conclusion that he was push abandonad protected visit to our commissione abroad.ar has had Yokohama Drepuale, a,, for Penang,
uss-sequently proceeded to Sheerness to pay | brokeshire, a.a., And rener belonged to No. 1 gang of of which the greatest nations might just question aʊe ceases to be no es to the in euaterly and in our tral of these articles race of tbis design upón his life, the Czar off. The During hoisted the pennant nt for Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, and
Monmouthshire Sheomess
omness in 1883. Tho Turnley Griffithe way in charge bo proud. On arrival at the Cattle market theo take only the great names, it may mer
The prisoner himself stated at the
Petersburg where La propceed making four
and as her arma tracy aud in this Court gag were tall off by man diferent safely be said that more orions than that. What has to
for rond- sublim potty that the teching and now-ant the lots of oven a day is promises in which thene were found the sorte y and will remain at Gatchina ment and her speed below the average desired in modern making near the Rope Works in company ¦ nover written, that Walter Scott was the nggad and sanctioned, shall be without hard labour, or beth a fino and ira- has been granted at commission in the 60th intention of the Admiralty to replace ships and Doris; 9.a, Raben, for the entae destin
matter-is whether a
a law of this Colony, punishments imposed by the Urdienneo to no D'OPAMANA COMACTANTO
COMMISSIONED IN INDIA. war vessels, it is not expected that she will Bombay, Jan. 11-The Duc d'Orleans be restted for further service, it being the into waste-paper
or by
She very cluan wanise at
malpractices it was framed to check. There risement; and the sentence of the Court Riffer with which he will is abundance of evidence. Every boy is was that the prisoner he fined $100 or three time at:
do duty for
with the nt Chakrata, afterwards he will Sir Frederick
Roberts staff. He is ex- witness to the pressure of the new bogus hard bour
Gree Baid,
upon the best.
pected to arrive in Bombay on the 7th Feb neck, have just concluded a contract to
REMOVAL OF THEERAW TO SATARA
and ongite a large steel steamer of of the head men of the Hyla Kong..
Choi Sz Tai atl Ng Afuk were convioled Bombay, Jun. The Bombay Gazetts 2,500 tons not register for the Ocean Stein-
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY is announced hears that Theobaw will leave
BRVO Ratnagherry body. The road-making consisted
མནྟུན་པ
ex intend to arite an es107,
precate any improper influence being made
Mr Justice Leach anid
Liverpool. Her engines will be triplu ox for Devana dobility, physical exhaustion, cavating and illing in, and
premature decay. The discovery was But how can one speak of Seo land with of to hindur the working of the clear case of audacious, robbery, in broad is, the hill ist of Satan, where the last pansion, and the stem is to be fitted with and p rued with pikes: some ware arced-
anil sue without dayoting a few words to Robert Borda
'Ordinance." declare that the fat daylight and on a public road. The value desceffant of die geost
They
resist of the jadestone bangle stolen was not great, Thon the climate of Rutancherry is said third contract which Mossra Scott and Cosaved him froy in Old Mexico; it.
at Sivajee once dwelt. All the latest improvements. This is the made by s shovels,
with
be to that the Ordinance is and others ergibars sond
a miserable existence and In their worship of their cent people,ad and all with bankota. Nothing happened uptil characteristic of the Scotch people,
registration rofused oma- certainly, only about five dollars, but
initlusential laure of Afternoon. about three o'nluck in
Fuates from. ist Lito
has become somewhat impaired We auderstand that Messrs Card and in Blouinsbury Squaro, London, WC will Co. Joseph Folies, Bloomsbury Mansions, 2 clique Scotland is above all things full of ex No. 2 just visited and had nearly got back to the main bod practical common sense, but it is steeped to yian Kervants employed for the was no doubt that the prisoners work to reimble that of. Burah, Theobowave booked within the punt three weeke early grave. We learn that the Rev.
gangs No. 1 and
his residenco there, doubtless bo- have also secured an important steamship pret in Tanglio. That may be so, and prisoner appeared to have used the most cauf. The steadily refuses to take outdoor tract in addition to the two P. and 0. eund the prescription, free of chargo, on cure of overpantry: Thers is poetry ut the
AS DI overy Scot. Vait the castle of the indeed we believe that they have told the intence, as to sized the man by the throat | exɖ: Las ur oven to drive out Satara being steamers which they coutrusted for ten days receipt of a self addrested stamped enve-
It is for thum to exerciso and I RAW two pri rieb, or the cattage of the pot, or step into their wat Davis. At the same time
truth, in this. Butit
ercise and pushed him down on the groand, and on hill, he will probably overcome his ago. Within the past ten days over 20.000 opo auners rouning away
authority on the side of the law, and the hill year hotel I
d also a Westerly direction. The road making portrait of th, and you will go the trust that tho Protector of Chinese will with a to that he had been armod refctance to garut, for he will not thon tons have been booked in: Greenock and
will with a revolver. Both were acting in cou be liable to come under the observation Port Glasgow wow going on at a place about 20
20 feet
to be in Edinburgh on the bo properly supported in whatever actioneert, however, and
so bath must take 12 Le Southeru division, recently paid panies Sir Nowell Salmon to China as I
the of trangers. Mr Propert, Onmmissioner Captain Willam Henry May, who accom f nut the son level. The other pangs were 25th of working about five feet above the level
One thing is clear from a consideration of found that they Every- theatres were empty.
greatest novelist of the century, that Thomas Carlylo lina nuves ben sarpissed is a historian and essayist, and that Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations can be con sidered as the basis of modern political
with No. 2 gang of which Tumkey Davis was in charge. We arrived at the pla 816 m., and the different gangs sot to work forthwith. Gangs No. 1 and No. 2 were 150 to 200 yards away from the other gangs, which were together and were en-conomy ployed in filing in the swamp. I was in
Bad No. L
wors in sight of
I pass over the Humes, Smelletts, and
daly
twen
198E
ganga other illustrious representatives of Scotch worthy, that this illegal action is pot the
BORBENT WISH VIOLENCE.
in this
typu
I of the Buzz erd in composite slog vidend of the Kingsin Line for the current
Mesara Scott and Oo, shipbuilders, Gree
general charge of thu' whole main literature, on whom I certainly do not sea, but that on the other band they do. of robbery with violonce this was very to take up his abode in a more healthy place Company, managed by Alfred Holt, of in the Paris Figaro," of a valuable rainedy
and No 2 vers in
ist ex purpose
I
had
the
whan
I heard an alarm given by "urnkey
graceful, bard,
wd
aust have taken all they could got
belit t
were
healt
}
The first duri
ne Ling
luutations
HONGKONG, Jastary 20
Old
Can the
anniversary of Burea's thinke necessary to produce this result.cursequences of their crime. His Eerdel Yogbaw a visit Preparations are in prosesptain, passed asya the Broad. Araw QEIDM-Now Po the two man lose bohind thront, "I made | nera, meetings, lectures were consocrated to primary mistako lay in not making regis.inBioted on them in the Police Phraents in Satar for the suitable reception of from Eastman's for a naval cadotaip,
of the ecs. I saw Turnkey Grifiths pursuing one
both old offenders and the whole business, and that is, that the had not taken warning from the pu dolebrating the anniversary. Din.
Court before. servante after | His Lordship had taken into
into consideration this fact that the complainant was not
I
are! birth.
18 FAS
the two companies fall in and counted them.
No. 1
I gang was short two men and No. 2
Burca; and that which was passing in Edinburgh was also
Fillage. Scotch
all tho compulsory on
the
time, Bay
ng four men, I then marchal than back sendo, in every little passing, on a anjalihe ist of January, allowing a reason theininred by the violence ofered to him, but has been conforced to six weeks' imptison-
at aree to the main 5 dies. I allowed the i squatted where they were Kanga to rozazi
It was a national com en union, Burne wrote in Soutelt, and in celebrat-
registration
de ox-King his hosesbold.
CORRCINO IRELAND. London, 8th JoTimothy Harrington or three weeks, ei the whole mass of domestic those cages must be punished severaly, maut, but was released on bail ponding the survante employed within the are affected The
men be sent to prison for three years, with such wholesale intimidation could not have hard labour, and that such ractive two have anticipated a general reluctance on rattan within the first six months of his been foreseen sithongh it was natural to whippings of twenty-five strokes with the
the part of the burrants to register.
imprisonment.
The Court then rese,
June 9, 1833, and came out of the Briton- nia in September, 1864, with a first-class cortificate, the rating of midshipman, and the prize for
or conduct. As a mildy he was in the Fictoria for three years dur- ing her commission in the Mediterranean Clarouco Fagot. He then served in the Liffey, went with her to the West Indies, was promuted in her. And as
and sent for policë asistative, and as wooning the aniversary of his births tlier celeby the Ordinance. We quite admit that science of the Court wis that both result of an A tiny Mr W. J. Lane, as flagship to Sig Robert Smart and Lord!
I had th in all together I went off four of bented a national file. His poetry reminds the turnkeys in pursuit and ale ure of the them that they belong to a nation perfectly Sikh guards. There were four Sikh guards distinct from England, a nation having a at the grounds. These guards are placed literature of her own. This is why his at the four ecenors of the ground and their memory is revered by high and low alike. du ios are to keep watch, to eco that bene The Setch could na more part with their After waiting for an hour Berns than England with Shakespeare, or goes by them The police eume and I then marched Italy with Durito. The Caclie tongue is all ther prisoners back
to the Gaol,ERTY
$
1
The assistant helps
eme in
to any one gang. The Sikh guards are armed with files, which are kept landed from the time they leave the Cant to the time they return. They are cach supplied
TAT
Scotch customs become
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Justice.)
Thursday, January-26.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MAGAD STEAM- BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. Amets. 1857, Dec. 81, Velve of 5 Stearners and žile
Tahts of Wharvek, ........
Do. of Chigon bousin...
De of Iron Liglated Sun Zeynic
To. of Coal and Starç
Io. of Machinery
Do,
furniture............
The hates in Public Corepanies.........
Fixed Deposits with Hoogkung rod Shang- Ini Banking Corporation............. Swairy Deltors,
Premium un Marino Policies agexpired..... Interest accrued to disk Dece
8:37000,00 20,000.00
(7,000.00
780.00
London, 9th Member for East Cork, has been arrested timidate law-abiding people. at Oork for inciting the malcontonta to in-
WEDOR OF A CỊAN LINER.
Inteligenco habuer recuired that the lan Ogilvie, which left Bombay on 18th Doomber for Marseille, has been wrecked in the Straits of Bonifacio. The passen gern and crew have loco saved,
RETURN OF LORD RANDOLPH CHURONILL
oub took first-class certificatos in and
guinery and 'second' in He was then appointed to the Royal yacht, and after Few
months was promoted out of her, in September, 1871, to his lieutenancy.
of
Hin next service was in the arcutes with the present Admiral Lord Bandolph harehill returns from St Dowell, in the Channel Squadron He 2,000.00 Petersburg on Tusaday.
then studied at the Royal Naval College 5,744,2 DISANTROUS OVELONE ON THE BOMBAY COAST. and had every relinquished from zoal obtaining a 6/116.18 Bombay,
Jil: January, The Cyclons laas followship, which he 239 week has been disastrous to merous for Aretic service, obtaining an appoint- 85,000.00 country craft; the atoane Acconde which | mont under Sir George Naves, and serving arrived last night picked up eleven natives with tho Alert in the oxpedition of 1876 800.44 miles from
Bumbay; their craft
(medal). Un hie return he qualified for 1572.48 foundered, five of the era gain down with torpedo duties, had curmand of the tender 4011. her and the survivors tied themselves to to the Vernon, and in August, 1880, went 54,174.81 floating wreckage and drifted avons for to sea again as first lieutenant of the shree days. A Muscat vessel has rescued Inconstant, carrying the flag of Lord Clan- $1,000,06.00
seven out of a crew of eleven near Basein. willism in the Detached Squadron He was pad charge of the Folyphemus, out of her to commandor, Govornament has since
43.000.00
dying rapidly They all remained perfectly quiet in the more and moro English every day, but each (Before the Hon. Hassell, Acting Chief of Paishan, con interval before the police came, and I had year.o
af Robert Barns year only adulto the glory. no trouble with them. The
turnkeys were Dis still pursuing the men when I left and they poema hays run rapidly through many editions--they have reached more than a returned at farant times after I got back hundred up to now-the l BEUTY O
of bis Nout of this onearied prisonera were re-life is retold every year, and his portrait is The remaining case in the calendar of the scued. The tarahoya wore raad with still in great domai The popularity monthly Oriminal Sessions was tried to-day: shur words, I and my assistant bed ench Earns still enjoys in Scotland may be It was that of Fung Akwai, who was charged.
revolver. karping general control and is not attached from the fact that in ene single with enticing ang Li Afnk out of the Colony
thu for the purpos Edinburgh there are twenty
of emigration on 20th Dec. and portaaits of the poet sold annually. last, Prisoner, who was defended by MrCash on Current Aunt with the Hung
Whilst the English law the house which Edward Robinson, ins ructed b
dby
kong and Bhanghai Banking Corporation, Mr Deunys, Carlyle inhabited for so many years at pleaded not guilty, and the hllowing gentle Clula to go to ruine, the Scotch tato a on wore sworn as a jury ↑ J. 37. do Ro- pride in showing the stranger the little clay zatio, J. A. dos Remedia. A. M. P. dous Cottage where Barns first saw the light on
Remedios, J. W. Croker, W. C. Murray, B. Witte nad C. A. Herbst. the 25th January, 1750.
Hon. E i It is with real-regret that I turn from conducted the present. The Amount at Credit of Equelantion of Divi the subject of the
was to the effect that the prisoner, ave a boarding-hunase keeper, had induced the his life and his worAyrshire. Ploughman,
Few posts have united..
she has, delicate pathos and comic complainane to go on board a ressol that force, paro rêverie and the sense of the was about in leave the Colony, by get-
a box belonging grotesqne. But after all, I should but dating him to carry a what has been dono qver and over again by poraon who was going with the vessel, and
in numerous biographers, tho chief of that the complainant was detained on 15t, Dec. 31. To Amount paid for Extraaniny - "perty whom aro Carlyle, Chambers, and Professor board until the vessel was under weigh Shairp
He jumped everboard and was picked up by a sampan.
with 10 rounds of ammunition.
ho caso wis reinanded till to-metrow at 10 o'clock.
now
CORRESPONDENCE. SMALL-POX.
· AB
Longfellow has said that what Jasmin, the author of the The Wind Giri of Castel¦ Cuillé, was to the south of France, Burns was to the gunth of Scotland: the represen- tative of the heart of the people.
To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.*
January 25. --With a view of preventing the spread of the loathsome scourge which is upon us, I would ask whether measures have been taken to thoroughly disinfeel the houses, clothes, goals and chattels of the person's attacked, what su porvision is exercised over the use of chaire and ricinhas by infected patients,-whether how-to-head visitation is made in the frightfully overcrowded native town for the dotection and isulation of email-pos cases, I cannot be think that had energetis means been taken to cope with the disensy at its first jubet,
the suffering and huch of
As we intimated the other day, the Goy morttitty would have bear prevented." The disease was apparently imperied by landing ernment of the Straits Settlements is now patiuata i fested with it from shiptranrd endearouting to enforce the provisions of
this was & moet many weeks wisjustifiable
ar Ordinance for the registration of domes Sach
persona should have beox introduced into a tie servants similar to the one which, a now City so notoriously overcrowded and in-
a dead letter here, and which it is pro- na Vickria. It appears to me that Bitary as the nutantin regulations if they suction posed to abrilish: The Ordinens, which such a conrae-require amendment, and I came into fores on the 1st January, mat hope the leeson we have
ton, ecoina bo
Dever
go.
BOYCOTTING AN ORDINANCE IN SINGAPORE.
be taken to heart. Oh been taught will į with stubborn opposition on the part of thje j
mat,
beca
Tiabilition.
amount of Capital; 40,000 shares of san but at frestit of Depreciation and In-
fully and
500,000,00
den Feud. Bundy Creditus..
€0,000,00
Amount at credit of Trofé nad Loss Aus
to A
Pret and Lora Azconat.
Dr.
Mr Robinson, in addressing the jury, said the complainant was asked to go on board the vessel for a lawful purpose, and from curiosity or some uther cause had delayed in teasing the versel, the result being that sho was under weigh before he was aware of the fact. There was evidence what ever to show that he was being taken. away out of the Colony, and in point of fact he was not outside the waters of the Oolony when he jumped overboard.
The fury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was dia charged.
SENTENCING OF PRISONERY. (Before Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, and Mr Justice Leachy, Acting. Paisne Judge.)
HRACY CASES.
poirs to Steamers ;--
CONSPICUOUS LIBERALITY. Bombay, 8th
8th January-A resolution records n
Now Berea, chah, 485
cach
Old
Now 3law, chub,.. 510 allowance, Old Malwa,
Nome 550/60
Allavarice. Trale ...None to 16: Persian, Oily, cash-000/640 Allowance,faels... None Persian, Paper tio) 640/660 Allowancu, Frels... None to 16
Exchange.
HONGKONG, January 26
On London-
Back, Wire,
On demani,
30 days' sight,
months sight,
8/1
ary, 4 moithai s
Ou Paris
On demand, ..
9.92
Credits, 4 months' sight,
4:01
On New York
On demand,...
Credits, 60 days might,
On Bombay
Wire,
Qu
On Calcit Wire,
100.000.00 of liberality or a conspicuous instance ram, from November, 1881, to May, 1881
Sir Dinshaw and was then re-appointed to the Royal Potit, who has offered Marechjee
to convey yacht--his last service. He put in three 200.00 [D
with her, was advanced to be present Government his property, the Elphin- mnk in May, 1887, Clepenit May is son of Hydraul & Pro
Preas in exchange for Elphin-nk it en,060.36
stone Arts College
lege buildings and adjoining the late J. W. Seaburne May, Esq., und he will $1,000,040.50
then
1 convey tu Glovóru- | married in 1878 the younger land, which he
daughter of ment for purposes of the Victoria Jubileo W. J.
d. Marrow, Esq, of Princess Park, Technical Institute: The value of the pro
the pro Liverpool. is estimated
President Carnot received, on the 19th BAXOMETER three Inks of rapecs. Government
Dew accept the offer with gratifica inst,, the Chinese Minister to France, tion Sir
Low Sir Dinshaw has alas offered a sim his Excellency,
Shui-fun view of the commercial and political of Rs. 1,20,000 towards the foundation oË In
lying-in-hospital in Bonbase
sportance now being assumed by Thibet, the Royal Geographical Society has deter
Kiszych...........$ 1,607.06 Hono Ase Cloud
2,063.40
B1.76
Kantianga
89,20
Faldiak,
9.57
64.72
$20,499
2,750,00
To Whurres
Fece,
To Directs and auditors" To Balance to be appropriated, viz, Dividend a 7 per seat, on,
$900,000,000
$58,000,00 The carried to Depreca
tion and Insuranone Fund, 10,000.00 Banco to be varied to
new Account
3,030.50
€9,90.50
$92,010.18
1887, June 84, By Amount brought, forward,
from last account,. By Not Earnings of Burners, By Interest an Investments, .
$ 0,001.08 81,380.07 *0,667,81
$92,348.46
Depreciation of Lasurenço Fund
1x, Dec. 31, To Ralance,
Dr.
Lau Âu, Man U Kan and Yau Afuk, sko were convicted on a charge of piracy, were Amount at Crodit.. first placed in the dook.
bare
in a very light and airy Chinese; and we gouy the latest advices regarded in a way, judging from what occurred last eum that a lugne of boys has succeeded in
and we may be thankful that we preventing all the Chinese servanta from escaped a vistation from it
The duties of Health Ofices are of the anat responsible gistering. Unless therefore the Singa. kind, and I think his judgment sheld bopera Government can break up this league, fortified by wrong regulations as to dealing their law will becows inoperativa. Mean piracy. with infections diseases on shipboard. Too
مو جانی
By Amount brought forward from Prot and Loss_afe for ball-punt, ending 50th Juno, 1897,
Fyzcalzation Dizident Mond
much should not be left to the judgment while residents are complaining leadly they commilky enough proved hints, Dec. 31, To Balance, ··
RAILWAY BETENSION TO KANDAHAR D The Bombay enquiries past few days, mainly in regard
which have been mado during the of that core of which have hitbart
Gazette declares that the mined to publish a work on the geography ntry, based on the revent travels
to the sup-
of
nativo
ਹਰ
of the Indian Servey
confidential oficial docu-
ply of railway stores, confirm the impression some of the that despite the context statements which boon tre tod have been made
the contrary, the Sindments. The compilation and editing of the Pishin Railway will be carried to Kandahar work will be placed in the hands of at no distant date.”
RAILWAY SCANDAL.
Madras, Jan. 8.-An outrage was com mitted on a lady passonger on the Railway
specialist, who will be e paid by the Society and the book or pamphlet will be published
as one of its miscellanecos papers.
HE
Hung Buan the
in the Mudras Presidency: an Ohristmas Minister at Berlie 18th FORE and uron
Ere.
THE S. 8. ALMORA ASHORE. The British India eteanor Almora from London tan ashore car the Nyman. Flat, within & quarter of a mile from where the company's as. Mahratta and Areat were $100,000.00 feat some time back. The dimora is not in langer. She is being lights, od..
-$190,000,00
$130,000.00
A STEAMER STRANDED.
be
new Chinese paid his first official visit to the Emperor on handing his credentials to his Majesty expressed on behalf of
of the Chinese Emperor. and his mother beat wishes
their
for the speedy recovery of the Crown Prince. The Minister win nocompunted by his suite, and was driven in State carriages to the Imperial palace,
by order of the Emperor. furnished The letter off the Chinese Emperor was
irst
Suez, January 10,The steamer in read by the Minister himself in the Chinese 20,000 caster, outwa d-bound froin Liverpool to language, and afterwards by an interprster $100,000.00 Bombay, has gone ashoro on the Stabaly | 10.
in French. The **** | Feet and is reported as leaking badly.
..$10,000.00
$40,000,00
Commarter-in-Chiet
reply of the German Em-
its French, his satisfaction
petor wishes
About the
Prince's health
thThe life of my with
son fa la God's had the Crown
On demand,
On Shangha
On demand,
30 days' nig
Gold Lost, 100 Sovereigns.
32.80
30.247
Temperature
(Taken at Messrs Falconer & t'a kremiter, Queen's Road,
9
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30.29
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4 P.M
30.18 30.18
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METEOROLOGICAL, REGISTER.
274
Barometer
Habidity
P.M. TO-DAY.
Temperature
37.10
61
718
Direction of Wind KAS
Force
Weather
Hongkong Observatory, Jan. 25, 1998.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
JANUARY 25, 47.3.
Toko 30,04
Torigierature,
Humidity.
Wind.
Weather,
The Acting Chief Justice said there could be no do bt that the prisonera com charged, and they also committed a secund mitted the få ney with which they wate
1. wag dearly
(From L& Bapred, Dec. 20.)* second Gae, although
Vico-Admiral Sir Nowell Inn, K.CÈN and discretion of a single individual whon about their serrauts leaving thein, and
that charge was not gone. into, within a
accompanied by hie Stoffll leave Box was recently built for the Government by Nagasaki..
The new torpedo cruiser l'orpoise, which 'nstock. 30.42 a grave a resalt is at stake.Yours,
fow days
after the first ono. They had Euola inconveniene is experienced. The the iepudence, too, to come into the 1857 June 30, By Amount at Credit, 300.00 land on the 18th proxime for fongkong, to
Messts J. and G. Thompson, of Glasgow, Shanghai 30.48 37 91 ARGUS.
watere of the colony the crews of
with
Take up the duties of (Thure can be no question that the psi- following extracts from the Singapore Free the pirated juuks battened down in
has been solvoted for service on Amuy and which has on the China Station,
China tion of Health Officer is a very responsible Press will give some idea of the position of
The Hug of Vice-Adiniral Nowell the kina Station, in the place of the Wasp, Hongkung 30.09 63 72 He has to safeguard the port, while matters -
the Fold
their yousel.
Salmon, K.C.B., the new Comander-in and will Be the first of hur
is one of the pair vossele of the Archer type, Haiphong, 30.08 64 81 st 4 Chief for
class to the
bedes-Bolinao... 20.94 81 China Station, wne boiled and
NW 20 patched on
e designs of Sir Nathaniel JANUARY 20AY 10 SM- West India Dock.os. the 17th inst.
Oficial notification is
el director of naval con- Barnsby, the is given of the struction, and his Paymaster Reginaik B. Rig She is
is a larger
កែវ៣.
he is also expected to do so with sa little
of both
*
From the Jotters, which continue to be
C430 in
hits Lordship in tended to
a punishment that The beature.
prisonera w re Fr penal servitude for life j
ibut
obstraction to trade as is consistent with sant to 18 on the subject of the intraduc such safeguards to health. Mistakes may
Frode and Loss a/s far hilf-year ending 20th June, 1697.
| 3,4 0, X
F. Haynos,
•Acting Rescalony We hive compared the, obave Statement with the of giving them a long sentence of im- oches, and Securities of the Company, and
early the wine to be correct.
A. U'D GOURDIS,. JAMES . COX, Hongkong, 4th January, 1958
have been vinde; but it must be borte inition of the Domestic Servants' Ordinance, atement, which would be merely making i
mind that
-pur is an anoual visitor to the Coast of China generally. In Canton coming into operation of
it has become sufficiently patent that the
has been for three decaties. We do
do not
that
meneure is
compara
think that the Sanitary Staff of the Colony to attempt the engagement of new servants/ment, but in addition to that he would take segnal to the present occasion: a house since the first of January. From the tergadegutof the
and a
nor the
means
to be looked upon with diatastage of the o
Auditore.
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MATL
30.19 04
hauled down board: f.MS. Ient, of stool reign service. She was built Manila... 29.01) 841-81 RNB 21 c 10,63
uta-
2 of 1,03 AVPostuck. 30.35 14 90:
are engin
knots:
her at e
la arned
[4]:00 [0.04:
pointnisad
more powerful Tolio 30,2 bye, us secretary to Vice Admiral Sir Noshiban the Wasp in overy rispeet Her ki. 30.58 well Salmon.
V.D K.C.B
the date
andra Shanghai. 10.33) 37 100 of arrival of Sr. Noweli Salmon on
Amoy 30, 19 6870 ENT 3 b China Station.
th
Kongkong 30.27 59 73 R The subvention by the Metropolitan Go-4-inch a breech-loading miss our of Haiphong. 30.19 61 34 mus
uf Francs to the Budget of Indo- which arueried un sponson portfo vornment of
tro and Bufinno, 30.03 77EN China is to be twenty millions of francs for aft and tendships, the whole bay
Manila 30.02 80.28 w amount for this year, the result having been mounted with eight moti 1838. This is ten millions less than he mounted on Vandings. She brought about by naerica of
of measures affect and
quick-firing guns, and five tubes
of the revetiuo.
The barometer has risen and gradients for N.E. winds are steep. The temperature is rather low, the humidity high, and cloudy
W. DoBzOK, flovernment Afrotomer Bonkers Observótory, January 20.
it is said to be more severs this year than it being attended with exceedingly serious thom a burden on the Colony, his Lordship
intended to inconventsuces to those employers of Chinese tively short
to sentence them to the short period of the Colour domestic servante, whe bave lind occasion
of seven years' i
s' imprison
visitation,
of the powers conferred on the to-hones
à close supervision of chairs and rickslins, would be too much of the Ordinance it is certain that neither Cour recently by ordering them to he for the existing staff. There, we think, the the Attorney-General who drew the Bill of their imprisonment, receiving each time
twice whipped wibin the first six
months
The P. & O. steamer Bengal arrived last Governizent ought to
to have adopted energe
members of the Legislative Council | 25
25 strokes of the ratten It Was anfortou- the measures. Anything, however, which who discused its clauses in the Committesats that the law trade thean uses be dealt night with the English nail of 23rd Das
of a
had any conception that the Ordinance was to be attacked by an ille. with here, making an additional burden on We take the following telegrams from curing coruonies, and by an increased estimate charging Whitehead torpedoes. The total weather provaise 2 d
Ordisure, ha might Something have been done as ta gal combination on the part of the Chinese Ciro rates, instead of providing for the exchanges; →
There is as tars, whose methods in this cese are precies. authorities to be dealt with. However, the offenders buitg landed aver to their own
is now considerable activity in cost of the pesael has been about £97,000,
| She is fitted
with he obtaining greater and more efficient
electrio BOASTFUL SPEECH BY FACE FERDINAND. Portmoon Dockyard; t
1; the Imperisuss, twin- hospi and attendance. Try parallel to that which at prezentare hd prisoners had been tried here, and they ceising his officers at the New Year, take the pince of the fudacions, 28 Bagship tal accommodation
London, Jan. 17.-Prince Ferdinand, re-screw cruiser, is being brought forward to
lighted throughous
The the National League in Ireland, must be punished.
ting feet will ba lowed
Chinese coasting Atkinson bus had 200 much
ich work a
owed by aibility thrown upon him and the medical in its interference with the ordinary conra
1
pressed a wish that events may shortly force on the Chin Station. It is expected she ented by a new Germs, steamer, which stuff and requirements have to hear the of law in that portion of the United Leung Afat and savanthers were con- would then see that her Prince v prepar- March, However, the Porpoise, twin-scrow Hanburg, on account of on old China tra, and hundredths. PROGRA
Bulgaria to defend her rights, and she will not be ready for commission until was built by Measta. Blohm and Fees, at strain, instead strait ead of additional arrangements - Ordi
enta dom. It is now over a fortnight since bring trade to meet any emergency that Ordinancs begun to operate. To be put voted of making piratic attack on the ed to die for her,PEAN SIZCATION cruiser, for the
Bane station, will be ready der Herr M. Jebeen, of Apenondo. may arise. It is believed by many that in forcs, we had abnost સોd but that Kum
juale the 8th December
new steamer, which i PEAN
alkut the same time.
The trini trip on fishing the drains would have effected fast the very point we complain of Nei last, and stealing the
6 cargo,
con ship, famed the Fahrenheit. A Festh, Jan. 5. —AL Tisza, speaking here Judgment has been
hy Pre 1,200
the zome good,
in the absence of rain batir is the Ordinance put into force nor, ac The Acting Chief Justice and there could against this suggestion the authorities turn for as we can see, is there the provision of he na maquer of doubt that all the pri- given him hopes of a peaceful issue to the arising out to cousin testame relative of the owner, nad will make her 5. Forsy 7, WIND, recording to Beaufort to-day, and his recent visit to Vienna had sidout of the Admiralty Deurt in the notion instant, gave splendid results. The Else gidity of Air Faturated with mainure being
will be commanded by Captain Jebsen, a dost car. Perhaps this theory that the any mohicory srpen were engaged in the sacre piratical threatening aspent of affairs in Europe.
whatever for the applicati
Sawyer and the steam- drains have any connection with small-pox of th
of the penalties
expedition.
It seemed en extraordinary
ATONG OF PEADE 28
er Palinip BP.
The arguments in the case ward passage is South American porta Seale wards the end of last
at week, Kirty servantchad thing that the youngest of the eight who St. Petersburg, 7th:
Russian Guardsmen sidont, i in
formed in 1860 at F
and conson.
we feel eare that the scarcity of water and regi
Sing
THE
¿
American
can:
•Tha
1. BABOMEZES, rodnced to 35 degrees Fahren. half, and to the level of the sea in lus es, tentha
The 2. TeuresAToRD, in the study in degranný
19th
3. HUMIDITY, is percentage af saturatiet, ile
4. DIRECTION OF Wine, te two potulen
steamship company sched clonde, a drizzling, rein, tog, ploty
may be sneered at by all concerned. Buttered. But who were these 7 Thirty- was put down as being twenty years of age, series of time. JamaryThe first occupied three days in hearing The Pre-charter by the Hamborg South Ameri- 6 BrazA OF WELTHEN, b bac xky den are clements is ware Malays (eyces, kebun, &c.) aud and who judoing fix this appearance was have been already dismissed to their honics. firing Judulent, held that the pang Flensburg, several of A hai, & lightnine, o "vercast, caring shower, Pontedly stated, we are now in the way of one the servant of the Assistant Pru-youngest band. He was clearly the van weka before the usual date the ground that the great light at the hose steamers are employed ise y sinally, rela; s mnow, a thunder, ↑ Vistbäily,"
the abiadunce of Swar-hilth in the presont, epidemic, as they were in four were Chinuas, of whom two were probably not muca innre, acted as the This is s that of the fover. Indeed, as we have re-orvants of the Protector of Chinese, and laud
Wouder
uf the
ཐ།
DE WILFRED BLUNT'S SENIENCE.
the
getting puidusios; and the wonder is that tector, that is the official chart and it he had adhered to it he might mo ting of the English Home Role Union Patty uilcer wis book, passage to China in to 20, so that the shareholders lost £60 GE-] the authorities to make all reasonable pracole Chine render, as the star the jury to believe that he had at Woodford in October last, has been con days before she started on her ill-fated soy: Four years did
of the Ordinance.
This
leaves the
prisoner
told
cervant registered up to the
the have
got
alf the
and bald good
11. Baix, în luchan, fentie and hund cdale,
SUN AND TIDE TABLE FOR HONGKONG.
(From The Hongkong Almanzels) JANUART
was solely t Sauer
tu blame,
chiefy
quasting Lind: vader the Mania of yese 1 was burping so dimly as to be almost fetia Ausator, Septima, Decima, Prator, man of the 1 t. and be seemed to
to London, Bth UNTENANC
The sentshes of invisible. January with the be
We the
· most activa and energetic. The two months' imprisonment passed on If we geved at Sheernors from reduced the value of its shares from £150. Denieros, Tritos, Tatarios and Pemptos, las wu have not begun with them earler. working of
A letter inst an ingenious story at
at the Wilfred Blant, for being present at the a Bust being the dis it may be as well for
Wasp, left her a
and
Singapore a few the paid up capital. The cotapany in for- parations for the next outbreak, if they time ulinded to in accordance with the banna captured by the pirates and kept fired an appeal, sud he was our toyed to age to Hongkong, states that the Fap was dividends, but anfurtun ly neglected to are too late for the present one. Nearly terms a
of the Ordinance and there is strong against bis
The subsequent will, but
ent-Galway yesterday. On arrival there was a good sea-vessel in every reapret, and such form reservo funda Now the stommers of was strongly urged the presumption that his registration was either of three weeks
contractoted all since
statements ho had found to be s
bas large crowd assembled at the testimony from a man who sailed the company are old-fashioned, and meat adoption of
dast the porginal direction of the master,
made. There was.one were made, o prazums, gestions wer
the nation
favor.
Day of Morn ur, however, to
Lordship conduct took place, The police were at the
the minds of some pe Sanitary Board or the Medical De, y
and it was that obliged to charge the crowd and several people to her value as correspundits
deorward, Math JE MET H. MA Department
particular wasks before that. But somehow the
instance,
This intimidation is when tea consideration, and
Junks ad persons received injuries. was made on the the people to thugs are natduce the euggestions over intorious and is ever. Tiniversal. It
te being driven down below
NEW K. 2. Me get farther thin anggestions. There intist uut my applied in hura who
Ee exhorted the others i actually violently
to wudera.
Londo
6th Jangury Lo something in the routine work of ad seeking fur employment but to thoso why tion On this scecent his Lordship spand Moan, why eat as asses ativo Richard He was on the bridge lash dar and night
work in presont the whipping which was gring Winchester 1850-85, has been agaio
B without way immediate on of asking order to be indicted on the other que elected by injury of solusi pais performance of the real work demanded for a change of masters, Every buy-sentence was fiva years unprisonment®
of vestia, measury. Similar fadure pl the timidation in that had clean which hing in atation and a considerable amount of riotous | most atat rest fears which have stiach inothem require new engines, so that their
an emergency-lo CM].
ora
topp
the Hylam com
are
WINCHESTER?
Mr A Tottenham deseared,
qualities
alcation £list- Adamsan was one of the best and most care- fal affeory?
it was possible to serve under.
a voyage from England to Singapore.
There
dire wo heat, Ingombed in the sun Wolf Bellas, a steamier nacted the drez,
BON.
Sela
0,16
6:43
3.43
6.36
0.42
8.30 7.37 914 820041
5.45
29 0.48 93641
The import of Russian petrolen into Germany from Ialtic porta fa rapidly me
Russian, Rapatha import company bas reading. Already at Stetxin Gerinari sud established cetublishing at a large sapotha gurd in the 30 10.20 357 8.41 0 tended by the said company. The trade Mogu--Full Moon “92, da, för, morning-
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