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No. 8138. FEBRUARY 4, 1889.}
cretion.
CORRESPONDENCE.
4.
SUNDAY WORK IN HONGKONG, To the Editor of the CHINA MALL."
Hongkong, 4th February, SIR,Abuut twelve months sinco
A
minent was started and a petition gut up, which was signed by most of the REFERRING to the telegram in the Corleo Captains, officers and engineers of the papara announcing that night persona were
vesels frequenting this port, as well drowned in the wreck of the Priam on the
of the morabera of as by a number coast of Spain, including four pass tigers,
the business housse in Hongkong, to pro- the Singapore Free Press saya: We are in
fest against the enforced Saoday work on formed that the brother-in-law of Mr Aboard vessels in the harbour. L. Donaldson, who was a passenger ou board the Priam, is among those savod from that unfortunate vessel. Nothing is yet known as to who the other passcogers
THE CHINA MAIL
XI. The owner of avery licensed steam- THE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-INDIA. Fighting with the Ram aborigines, in N. Saman, the 6th inst., state that the situation
NAVAL COURT OF ENQUIRY.
Formosa, still continues. Our troops are there has become sorious, the Germans hay- It did not profess to interfere will the
Finding of Naval Court held at Her in the main succesful in the actions withing burned aomo houses belonging to Ameri. existing rights of the Opium Farmer, and launch shall cause the licence to be frantort
Brilanuis Majesty's Consulata "at Tutagni thesa envagen, and lately captured sight of there as well as American flags which he submitted that it would take very express and exhibited in a coupleurous part of the
- the 15th day of January, 1889, to inves-thom, foar of whom wore at once beheaded, wore flying over.them. They have also made words in the Ordinance to deprive him of cabin, so as to be visible to all persons on any privilega ho held under Ordinanes 1board tbo said vessel."
Hoavimitted that in judging and XIIIf the owner of a licensed steamrigate the circumstances attending the and the other four sent to Taipeh for the prisoners of some Americans. In addition of 1884. colermining the scope of the later Ordin-launch wish to employ his versel for por-wreck and abandonment of the British Governor to exainine. If found to be this German boat's crew have committed and Lieutenant of a British man-of-war at tie it must be borne in mind what was poses other than for the greyance failing ship Anglo-Indis, cal amber ringloaters these vill bo beheaded also serious outrage by firing on the Usptain included in Ordinauto 1 of 1884 sud that passengers within the waters of the Colony, 72,908, hetween Nam-kam and Paka Shen-1ao.
Ватов Coast of News.) the later Ordinance was to dank with ur to or from Hongkong and places without Points on
when on a voyage irum Bhanghai te Iloilo, rigged 1,49 tons registered tonnage, The gl-Zuid was a sailing vessel fall
official mabur 72,303, builtet St. John's about 1877, and belonging to St. John's New Brunswick.
the North-weat
what was entirely outside the earlier one the waters of the Colony, the licence and Formos, on the 6th day of January, 1889,
up, 3
be delivered to the Harbour Mastor to be retained by him during the period of such employment.
PROPOSED VOLUNTEER NAVAL BERVICE...
3-Briefly stated, the conditions of ser. ice in the Volunteer Corps would be that Mombors will, for the benefit of tite Ciclong, andertake to attond drilla at least once à onth, and in the case of threatened war place themselves at the disposal of the -The organization of the Corps would Government without reserve.
(Translated by N.-C. Daily
MOHAMMEDANISM IN CHINA. Rev. II. V. Nuyos bains to a conclusion in the February Chiness ecorder his paper on Mobarizedanisma in China. His con- clusion as to what is likely to be the influ- ence of Mohammedanism in China ere sam- med up as follows:-
Christians.
Washington, 20th January-Secretary Bayard has received advices that the Ameri cans who wore noized and made prisoners by the Germans in Samoa were immediately released, and that all is now quiet there.
(London & China Express, 4th Jan.) At a meeting of council of the Royal Colonial Institute on the let inst. Mr
follow. Paul Chater (Hongkong) was elected a
#ho
Tho following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :-Lieu. A. F Vans Agnew, to the Myrmules, to date
behind. It is said in Canton that to avoid missioned undated; Lient. P. J. Hodges,
Tau N.-C. Daily Necs ways:-We are glad Ir is practically cortain that the Committoo! to hear that ten thousand dollars have teen on National Defence, of which Lord Aar voted by the Hongkong Government, furtington is chuirman, will recommend an the relief of distrosa in North-Chinn immediato and large addition to the navy, H.B.M'e Consul-General, who has received They will propose especially that soveral a telegram to the above effect, has alchien now ironclade should be begun at once, requested to notertake the apporticat and that a number of fast and partially pro of this fund to relief agencies at his is tocted oruisers, armed with heavy guna, should be added to the foot na rapidly sa possible. The fionncial arrangements made The Registrar-Gonemi's returns for the Losary by the additions to tho navy fourth quarter of 1688 show that the total will disorganise the Chancellor of the Ex Admitting for the moment that for two or number of births was 511 and of deaths center's na hus. In the course of three years there had been no trade in what 1247. Amongst the British and Foreign the next ten days or au thres more vessels he might call half boiled opium, but that will be added to the number already at the for some reason te another such a trade did demand for partially community there wore 70 births and 39 deaths, and amongst the Chinese 441 births vel ports waiting for their guns. The apring
It appears from the evidence riven A noties to the following effect is publish.before this Court that she sailed from and 1,208 death. The birth-rate for the Nile is coming round from Pembroke, the boiled-opium which might by huished.
(1) Mohammedanism in China does not British and Foreign community was 26.18 Melpomene from the Clyde, and the Sans-off by the buyers in a way to suit tho
Shanghai in the 3rd January, 1849, in and the death rato 14.59 per thousand; and pureil from the Medway. More than six-particular tastes of consumers, would noted in the Government Gazette
1.The subject of kooping up a supply of ballast with a crow of 23 bands all told, ting. The Molamedans of to-day, in seom to have gained its numbers by prosoly. for the Obines the birth rate was 0.82 and teen ships, of which half a dozen are the Opium Farmer by virtue of his pri
our-sleds, will then be practically ready vileges be at liberty himself to prepare properly equipped Guard Buste to assist and that from the evidenco of the Boat-general, trace their descunt for kundreds of The postage on parcels for Hongkong, the death rate 26.91.
for the penunt, or might have been modo opium to any restricted extant he desired, in the defence of the Culony, and of raising awain and & svorion (which however the yean fruse Molankiedon families: They Degion, the Straits Settlements, and the Court rogarda as insudiciout,) that the last ve multiplied by a natural increas. They Cape of Good Hope has been rednend from SATURDAY'S Governanzat Gasste ennetaan if it had not been for this lamentable and export it in that state, and would ho
nt have been absolmely entitled under a Voluntour Corps to man then, is reviv
land see was Video Island W. N. W. niso optimus add largely to the number the commencement of the present year. fe Ordinance 1 of 1884 to enforce that Ordining the attention of the Governsent.
-It is considered that if this corps con- the tables and papers in eonnection with delay in the delivery of their ordnance.
about one mila; the ship then steered a by purchasing, in times of famine or other Messrs Larrinaga and Ca. give notice the examination of the first class of the
are against anyone slac who attempted to de the same thing? Ho submitted that Misted of 40 ve 80 membors, these would course S. W. by A whigh.course was steer-calamity, large numbers of childron, whom that to those exporters of goods from tha Central School. The winner of the Mor
d until abu streck at Mollow 8 miles thus bring up secording to the doctrines of Clyde and Liverpool to the Straits Settle- rizon Scholarship is Abdoul Hoogen, with
the Opium Farmer had the exclusive right probably be suflicient to act as a nucleus of preparing opium in any dugree, and that the emergency arising, it is thought N.. by E of Paken Point in thick rainy their rolig os. They have been known in a ments, Manila, Ileilo and Cabu 1379 marks out of a possible 1900, and of
weather with a strong breeze.
single fuming to purchase 10,000.
confine their support to steamera belong- the Stewart Scholarship Wong Ping, with
if any necessity arise which made it desira. that a further supply of Volanters would
That Thomas Murray, the Boatswain,
(3). They hold to their religion vory tening to the 'Comparis Trasatlantica for 670 marks out of a possible 80. Tao
ble for him to half-boil opium or sell it be forthcoming who, in a short time, would
who was acting sa Socond Mate, with eight aciously, not necessarily to its doctrines, but the first six steamers 1889 they will Tuantri was closted to the Belilios
it half-boiled he was perfect justifed in acquiro sufficient profiol nay.
Ordinance 22 of 1887 was passed
mon put off in a boat un lor the Captain's they de nut easily leave their sost. The allow a rebate of five per cont. on the Scholarship. by examination bald by the
doing so. Trustees in June.
solely for the purpose of regulating the sale.
orders to lay out a line and bring busts instances are rare where they become freights contributed, and to those who through the surf, that they were at unce
On the other hand, they sayport them for the whole year 10. per opam not
attacked by the natives, stripped and drielt so loosely on their foundations of cont, will be granted. Shiptonts by Be and purolas and custody within the Optom Farmer's privilege But, apart from irduanes 1 of 184, if the
dering any further astiaiucs. ven inland, thus being provouled from rou- | doctrine, that they find no difficulty Deean Steamship Company's steamers will
in going through all the forms of Chi- not invalidate claims. to be interprated on its later ordin
That the Captains and the remainder of nose ritual when they are appointed to own merits, the opium with which they
the crow sdoing how the above boat's crew
office. They can worship the tablet of the were dealing in this case could not be do After acribed as taw, crude or unprepared. Ito autewkat on the lines of the Royal had been received, put to sea in two beats Chuperin, and justify the net to their non- An absence of several months from the might be described as partially prepared Naval Volunteers' and the Royal Naval on the afternoon of the day of the wreck, ciens by-puiting the picture of the prophet Jan. 1, and to the Rambler when com
Crada simply meant ancouked. Artillery Volunteers, and they would bo Colony, I was in hopes that there would "plam.
vided for the defaurs of the Colony. improvement in that the Legislatura had omitted to provide / required to serve in the special vessula pro-rado aothing further has been heard of difficulty they cui conforms to almost any of to the Cockchafer; : Lieut. Allen T. Hart linse been some
the Chiave custas, except the eating of sud Lieut. Philip D. A. de Saumarez to That after the vessel had been abandoned respect, to enable the crews of the vessels for partially prepared onion that was an
the Impérieuse, additional; and Sub-Lient. pork. to have their day of rest, & boon which is omission which their Lordships could not from the Governce, and an allowance to
(5). There does not serai to be any Crawford Mastachian to the Firebrand, to the natives of the Island. only denied to theur in the British porta of sopply, but he contended that randing the
special antipathy against them, on the part daty Jan. 2; Captain Edmund J. Church, That the Court having regard to the of the rulers or the people, un arceant of. to the Fictor Emanuel, to date December The Comptroller of the Imperial Bonas Hongkong, Singapore and Pesang, those later ordinance in the light of the earlier help towards providing themselves with the by the crew she was lasted and burnt by held at Peking has sent an order to the being the only parts in the Baat, I batreve, one the opium in the case was clearly within authorized uniform. They would be ex- of their duties, and to give a proper atten Wan-hwa' firm of jewellers inside the whore there in no restriction on Sonday the privileges of the Opium Famer, and if it pealed to acquire a competent knowledge circumstances above stated finds as fol- their roligious belief. They have often 27: George W. Whillior, assistant par held office and hava had many favors master, to be secretary to Commodore Thera appears to be but little was, there could be no conviction obtainedition to the drills of the Corps. They will;
(1) That the evidence is unsatisfactory granted them. The contests or rebellions Church, Hougkong, to date December Toung-won gate to detach twenty skilled labour.
in respect of it, axcept at the request of the workmen to make a magnificent Court crown chengo in the matter as yet.
Opium Farmer, and the appellant had the receive the pay of the rank when endled out There can be no more vecessity for Sun
Sir Richard Veany Hamilton has gone to to the way in which the navigation us concerned have been more liko immensa or tiara for the Imperial bride. These have boon coming to their work in the precincts day working on board ships in Hongkong full anthority of the Opium Farmer for the actual service, and provision will slaa ben not sulicient to warrant any Suding as in which they have been from the tune 10
about their religious belief. The question when Sir Arthur Hood retires, as he must The men of the Corps will be provided pairs we saved. with uniforms at the Government expone, have conducted themselves properly, and is The tiara is in thres stories, the ground-work land or American Ports. It is impossible for the cotting aside of the Magistrate's
(2) That the master and crew appear to has been aboat dominion, not faith. This do soon, will probably move up a stop evident from the fact that when, in higher. No more popular, appointment being of gold, the cap being of Siberian that the officers and crews of vessels, who judgment and for costs.
The Attorney General, for the respon
Whether a cap- ono part of the country, the Molina-could have been made. ed with strings of pearla several hundreds in place, can over cumbine togather with aufl. dent, said the Court would not take upʊnaud, when on service, will receive pay a used their utmost exertions to sive lifa. winter sable fringed with vermilion garnish-are coutinually changing from place to
Officera and men will be required to con-have been maintained on board.
(3) That proper discipline appears to cednie are engaged in a blody reballion,tain afloat in the Sphinx and Achilles,
these in other parts of the
Devonport and Pen- naraber, and topped with the feathers of cient power of themselves to put a stop to itself to enlarge the strictly legal and pre-cording to their rank
niese nanisted by the cise application of the words of the statute, form to such Regulations as may be mudy
Commander-in-Chief twulea yours of broke, or, finally, the goldon pheasant. It will, it is said, take this Sunday in sincerely heged that In this case he should submit it was parti- from time to time by the Governor, and, direct the attention of the Board of Trade the rebellion in the North st, and thes on the China Station, everybody liked
(4) That the Oart desires especially to molested. During all the are not captain a xhere government. Iu ten days to complete.
when on actual service, will be subject to to the fact that this vessel is not the first one in Yunan, which covered the same Sr Richard for his kindness and courtesy, the mercantile community will do all in cularly nessary for the Court to confine their power to further any measures which itself to the stret principle of it mind, the provisions of the Naval Discipline that hen bean booted and barut out the period, Mohammedians of the wutskirts of and respected him for his soility and
as his learned friend had suggested, that
canst of Formcan, and clit steps should be Pcking and inter the very adow of the straightforwardness. To interview their the government may propose to adopt in tion, because it hat this respect.
Any Voluntoer may, except when on taken to induce the Chinese Government Imperiai palace, lived withon the least ap chief at Whitehall will no longer bo such 3 double aspect to chesu
actual service, quit the Corps, un giving to make a serious effort to put a stop to pouranes of molastation. The great clan terror to some officers as it has been now there was
tou days notice of his intention, and this practice in the future.
fight about a silver mine in YuDuD could for a long time. ordinances. On the one side they had to read the terms between the Gure delivering up any property belonging to (Sd.) FREDE. S. A. BOURNE,
never have been drawn out into an eighteen ment and the Opium Farmer, and if the Corps which may be in his possession.
President. yoral blondy contest, unless there had her the Court were not guided by strict inter
romothing morethau intsilver imineatataks. pratation there might be a tendency to
So, in the North-west, & contest about the enlarge the terms of the ordinances, if they werofound to be incompleto, in favour of the
spoils of war, or the cutting of a few ban- bus, was indeed the match which set fire It is related of the Chinese defenders of Opinm Farmer. These ordinances bad to
to combustibles, but certainly did not a corlain tann that, not having sufficient be construed primarily for the protection
furnish fuel for combustion to the flames of guns to defend the whole extent of their of the public, as they were in the nature of
that fierce contest which raged for twelve penat ordinances. He agreed with what
youre, and was only quenched at last in had been said, that the real interpretation
Firera of blood. The contest was a contest of the later ordinance turned upon the
for power. interpretation and proper applicatim of the terms of the earlier
were.
The otheers would receive commissions
and although exreful enquiries Ive been
them.
of the palace overy day since 2nd January. than in any of the Australian, New Zea-possession of the opium. Counsel moved/made for officers and men disabled conducted, more especially as no log books dan fights than on acceant of any question the Admiralty as. Second Ses. Tord, and
Iz is apparent, says a home paper, that the age of steam is fast merging into the Age of alectricity so far as motive power is Conocrued. And the reientists now predict that by another great revolution the age of iron will pass and the aluminium ago succe- ed. The rare and costly aluminium, worth until recently fire dollars a pound, is to be produced much more chaply in the future, The common clay contains all the elements out of which it is made, and clay is found distributed by sy hundred times tho plenty of iron. Therefore when the cesses of smelling it are poricoted, alum inium must be more plentiful than iron and steel. When this occurs housen and ships will he built of the new metal.
It has equal or greater tensile strength with iron, with hul one-third the weight, never rusts. and is en ductile that it can be drawn into
The vast in a steamships | the finest wite. of today are of enormous weight. The aluminium ship, with only que third this waight of huli, will carry proportionately mare of freight. The lighter susterial will enable the construction of bridges acre now inaccessible spaces. It may also aulve the problem of the flying machine and serial navigation. There will be no limit "to the application of the beautiful, white, incorrosive metal to purposes of ornamenta tion as well as use; and good authorities are of opinion that we are close on the ove of the coming aluminiuta ego
I was pleased to see that the crew of une vessel had availd themselves ao largely of quist Sumlay as to put in half their number at the seaman's church. -1 am, sire, yours &e.
ONE OF THE PETITIONERS.
SUPREME COURT
IN APPELLATE JURIDICTION. Befors the Full Couri Monday, Feb. 4.
LEDNO HI, APPELLANT; THE QUEEN, RESPONDENT.
the
be borne
Не
Betvica
Act.
Tho drille will comprise the working of the machine gons carried by the vessels provided, as well as Rifle, Pistol and Cutlass drit, sa carried out in the Royal Navy; in addition to this, the officers and petty officers will be trained with a view to rendering them capable of taking - mand of any vessel in the service of the Corps.
ordinancer LWO
EXECUTIVE COUNCILS.
H.B.M's Art Corand, PRICE V. LIVES,
Lieut., N., ...S.
Cockchafer.
JUAN LEWIS,
master, 9.8. Fekin.
&. B. MARWOOD,
Assist, Paymaster, B.N., H.M.S. Cockchafer, Gerk of the Court.
Members.
THE DISTRESS IN CHINA,
(4). Finally. Wo can never be ears how much the Muhammedus in China may be influenced from without. So high an
Among the vessels of the French Navy. to be put in commission during the first quarter of 1889 are a transport steamer of tus Annamite typo (5,300 tons) for a v voy- ago to Indo-Chinn,
ramparts, they made a number of wooden dammy guss and placed them in the spaces that would have otherwise been left vacant. According to a high authority on the sub- jest of volunteer artillery, Mr Stanhope appears to be smulating the Chinese general. There is, indeed, a distinction
Police covered the whole ground. The meaning young local Debating Society to know that Relief Comaritter was held on Monday authority as Dr. S. Walls Williams states between the two cases. Mr Stanhope
in the 1884 the Singapore Debating Society held their annual banquet the week before last, when
nar-
contended that the words prepared and It may interest the members of our This is an appeal against a judg. unprepared in ment
of Mr Pullock 10 the Court onvicting the appellant of being in of the word 'prepared' possession of raw rade or unprepared ordinance suust be construed a
ther construed it the more broadly ly instructed by Mr Caldwell, ap re quantities than ene chen. Mrrowly as possible, and the more narrow- peared for the appelfaut, and the Atturney would they construe the word unprepared
in the 1887 ordinance. As to the meaning General (Hon. EL O'Malley), instructed by Mr Juhan, Crown Solicitor, for the uf the word crude which was used in
the latter ordinance and respondent.
Former, he submitted that the general effect of the deânitions of that word was something which was in process of being prepared which would apply to the opium in this case.
Mr Francis, after reading the case stated by the Magistratu, said the admitted facts ou both sides were as follows. The appel lant was found in possession of 1160 tals of opian pasked in tins, and the Magistrato had funnd as
80 nur.
not
not in the
the
The Rev. Mr Muirhead that the Inst great rebellion was largely having learned from the Intelligence Do.
partment that the British Army-using the tarm in what is now its only correct appli. cation, that ia, to Include both the regular and auxiliary forces-is short of field guns, and to fill up this great gap has issued to volunteer artillery corps a number of old The P. & O. stemor Shannon, with thegnes from the War Office luarber-room Englishsil of 4th Jan, urrived on Satur day evening. The following telegrauis aro from our exchanger
THE MOLTER INCIDENY.
DEFEAT OF CHINRUE DACOrrs.
Mandalay, 16th January, 200 Chinesa dacoits, including deserters from the Arms. who have been raiding the country north of Bhamo, were attacked on 9th iu a dense jungle at Nansen Chotsug and completely dispersed by Mr Segrave, D.S.P., with 40 kille and many wounded, 3 ui su Tulico were wounded and Mr Segrave vas grazed by a ballet. The dacuits were hell art letter was found on the leader addressed in Poh Sah Moguung offering the services of the band..
These weapons no doubt are real guna and will shoot. The objection to them is that they are not field gane.
Captain W. H. Hall, who has had a long innings at the Admiralty as lead of the utalligence Department, is going through a short course of gunnery, preparatory to commissioning the second-class cruiser -Captain Severs for the Caina Station. Hall'a appointent was originally dated Jau. 1, but wo bear that the Severn will not hoist the pennant until Feb. 1. Captain Hall, when he went down to Portsmonth, wanted to get the Dockyard to surape off all the black paint, preparatory to painting he white for the China Station; but the Thook-
A meeting of the North-China Famine
the 28th, alt. was unabimusly invited to become a ment-
Ho accepted the fomented by Turkish securics. her of the Committee,
It invitation, and attended the meeting. about 180 sat down to dinner, including was brought to the notice of the Committee
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL members of the Executive and Legislative that doult was felt in some quarters in Councils. In view also of Mr Francis' re. London whether the circumstances wars ranted the u, oning of a Mansion Houso marks on the functions of the Executive Fund. It was undzimously deaded that Council, it may to interesting to read what the extrems distress por existing over nothing short of a very grave national a member of the Straits Settlements Excou-a very wils are in the North of China is
calamity, and fully justice the opening of London, 8th January.The indignation tive has to say for that body.
The Hon A. M. Skinner, in responding Maurion House and in England, and against Count Herbort you Bismarck, a fact that that was their Lordships, as his learned friend aug Mr Francia in reply submitted that if
to the treat The Executive and Legislative the raising of the largest pussilde aum for account of the Morier incident, is increas
the auccour of the distressed districta, and ing. in the ordinary kena oprepared opium, Bests, construed the ordinance of 1881 in Co nolle,' said
abel.
sona ngreid upon gram to London THE Singapore Free Press of 2nd ulto.
UT ruda oc entirely unprepared saysEarly this morning, Captain Gustar But, held that i had undergone some the most limited passible way, they must
On habalf of the Exacative Council, he expressing this plainly. A quantity of Waage of the Norwegian ship Birma, no process of preparation, having been deal precisely in the same way with tenderad his best thanks for the kind way avidence was brought under the consider.
uther urdinance.
is which they had drunk the health of thattion of the Committen by several of lying in the Roada, was awakened by an
boiled for a period of From balf-an-hour to Un
Their Lordships reserved judgment. interesting bady, but he was sorry to say munters, and many important facts were nusual scuffling and noise on deck.
Although it was set aside an
that the acoustic defecin and the extreme mentioned by Mr Muirhead, who stated going up be found an excited group of
fougth of the room had deprived him of that the presunt farine was already sailors near the Forecastle in the midst of relurant by the Magistrate, there was a
SPOON COMPETITION,
hearing the remarks of the Vice-Presidus, greater, and more widespread than the mounted police. 30 of the marauders wore whom wore the mats and turpenter Easily considerable amount of evidence put before hiu, to show that the appellant was in pos
Below are the details of the Rifle Assoae heard him say some very compli- famine known as the Great Failue of engaged in interviewing a snake of tre aration of the opium with the full know
ciation's Spoon Competition the radit of but mendous dimensions. The formidable rePledge and consent of the Opium Farmer which we gave on Saturday.
mentary things, and complimentary things ten years ago, tile was trying to hide behind a spar lying with his full licence and permission, and
were not what had heen always said of the A sum of Tis 1,000 was authorized to bo Next week the spoon competition will
body which he represented. They had given to Me Muirhead to forward at once alongside the bulwark, and the hands on that the certificates which the appellant take place at 600 yarda under the asme
From ita
bera classed as a Star Chamber, and sata Monkdoa. dock were trying to kill him.
Since the Committee meting, lettera lurking place the snake made a spring of hold were, whether regularly or irregularly conditions, except that those members who deliberately and kuopingly granted to bim
tiva. Council now premont vore mes in have been received by the Chairman, from NEWS OF STANLEY AND EMIN PASKA eight or ten feet at the carpenter, who by the pium Farmer; and the contention shoot with a carbine will be allowed 11 Inquisition. The incimboa of the Execu
London, 16th January-Laitors fro ra clear, but it was not long before it was
place where a branch of the District Grand Mr R. W. Mansfield, H.B.M. Acting the appellant before the Mahols instead of 10, as the Corbin is by no. pinned to the dock by a harpoon or listras that this opium, which was neune so reliable a weapon as the Martin Ludge sat, and, lits ita members, they had Cousut at Chinking, enclosing a report, Stauley, written from Bome and one writ-
gistrates
rifle at that distance," ter' wielded by the mate. The spake was found in his possession, was not raw or It has been suggested that as the Associs to keep tlie secrets of the Executive Coun- The Uoutlee have authorised the sum of ten from Banalys to Tippoo rib, dated 17th at unca ascure, and is now safely fastened crude opium ander Ordinance 22 of 1987.
1997 ti bas 33 Ladies amongst its members cil, which were taken under vows and exilis, Tia. 1,00 being sent to Mr Mausfeld by August, have keon receited in Brusseln.
17 Other From these letters it appears that Stanley down to a belaying pin on board the Birm but was boiled or prepared, within the they might be induced to take an setire
and which fortsde him to divulge any telegraph for distribution at once. The snake is a specimen of the Python meaning of Ordinamos of 1884. It was retimulates, known also by ft Malay name therefore absolutely and ea irely within part in its concerns, and already three thing that had passed, but he would say that claims for belp are under consideration, bad laft Emit Pacha en Nyanza eighty-two) of Ular sawah, and measures twenty feet the privilere of the Opium Farmer, and spoons have been promised, if the Ladies will the Fxecutive Conneil endeavoured always to but the sum at present at the caramand of days previously and arrived at Bomo with shoot for them with moo fifles at 100 yards vary out one high design, and that was to the Coon Lee, is utterly insuficient to two hundred of Enio's men all well. He four inches in length. The anake was was in the possession of the appellant with weighed and was found to be Selbe. in
Civil Services were brought up in those
NOTES FROM NATIVE PAPERS. weight. The reptile is said to have been the Opium Farmer's full knowledge and age, und we understand that such a cuma- represent the Cisil Services in the best pos- moet ons of there.-N... Daily News.
consent, and nobody but the Opium Farmer petition is likely to take place at an early rible way, and he was glad to hear that the brought to Singapore by a Chinaman who had muy or could have any possible ground
Scores. Total. reacts which he was enabled to catch, and
The climate of Formosa is a very warm wished to sell it as a Now Year delioncy.
with them the name of the Governor was one, and snow in winter is very rare in of complaint Broadly, the question for
.3532856416 40 There was a great deal of haggling ever the decision of the Magistrate within Mr R. Drury...... 2543433455 38
Mr D. Wood....
given and properly received with spplause docu. Last winter during the 12th moon
Guro, January 20th-The Egyptian Gov- thep and some delay occurred. dating which of the two definitions did this opium Mr C. D. Wilkinson......0235454455 37
and honour. (Applause). The Governor some now could be descried on the less ertmust have receivel nawa which tends and the Executive Council had, bo was aute, which Sasko effected his escape from come? The arguments submitted to him Mr.A. Shelton Hooper...2645552219 37 the bos which he was kept prisoner and swam a distance of half a mile til he reached were mainly intended to show that the Ar W. Jackson.4335433335
Mr G. Foed epiam must necessarily comes within Ordi.
..555332 535 36 nango 1 of 1884. Their Lordships would Mr Edgar Shepherd.......2425425444 30 remember that up to the passing of Ordi.
L. I A. Martin, R. N...2453218245 36 THE Republique Francaise has an article in Baucu 22 of 1887 there was no restriction Sgt. Major Merson, A. 2256522452-36
or circuls-
Mr F. G Collins 2455223435-23 tion in any way of
the firma."
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36
which it compares the respectivé positiora | whatever on the sale. Prepared opian, Polico Cretable Sinclair..0352455224 32
of France in Annam and of England in Burmah and Thibet. Referring to the when the only Ordinance that was in force Lieut. Bayous, H.N......0025552413 30 argussout that Franca ought to have made was Didinanco 1 of 1884, which dealt solely Mr E. L. Woodin..........2504843252 30 use of China to claim vaasaingo towards with boiled or prepared opium; and by Mr E. J. Moses. ....4242335322 30 bor of Annam, as the English have called in that Ordinance His Excellency the Go Mr J. W. Kabls.
......333233532 26 China's co-operation with reference to remot was authorlaad to grant to any Inep Quincey, H.K. P...4222305023 93 Bungab, it sinius that the positions person or persons in the Colony the G. F. Rivers.... 0239994020 20 are not analogous, and that, althungh the full and are privilege of boiling and Mr J. M Forbes.. 200149823 18 Fazalage claimed by China on the part of propasing opiums, exclusivo of drou Mr J. Willmott... ..(000254222 17 Annan la of the most shadowy character, opium, and of selling the opiam so pro Mr F. W. Crass...... 0020205300 11 consisting only of sending an insignificant pared. That being so, before Ordinance 23 Captain Calder.002232020 - 11 tribuin every two years, the Chinese wore of 1887 was passed, snyboxy could be Mr E.-R. Hope.000033 003 gradually ao encroaching upon the fune-in possession of crude or unprepared tions of government a to obtain a uplum, bus the Opium Farmer had the ex dominant position in the country, and this clusive right of boiling or preparing opium the French were justified in preventing and selling it, and only persons holding a The hinese, the contrary, had no special interest in upholding their position in Barmah, and hence eastly agreed to allow, Great Britain to
rec inwended Emin to stay quiet for a few months as to sciable him (Stanley) 'to fotch up the men and goods ho had left at Yaubunga. Stanley intended to start for Yambunga on 28th August.
Oil
the furtherance of the interests of the Civility mountains near the coust, and this to prove that Emin Pasha bed met with no
was considero extraordinary, But his rovere up to the beginning of November. Service at heart, and,
dike noticed in the paper
NEWA FROM AKARTOWEL. .two year during the 19th moun, o,
Suakin, January 17th-A spy who wie (Struits Times) theother day aume unfutter unha ago, anew had already fallen on ing allusions to the way in which the Gorthe higher mountains of the uterior, or despatched by the Egyptian Government ernar brought in the New Year time as back mountains. The oxpedition which to the Equatorial Provinces has just re compared with another Colony; it was called lately, under command of General Cheng, turned, having left Khartoum last Christ a momo for his Excellency, and the aug attacked and subdued the hatlarto im- He states thus Layton Pasha is gestion was that His Excellency should hare pregnable enrage village of Kin Hai Brt in doid, but that the reported earrender of followed the French plain by wishing in the North Formosa last month, are said to have Burol-Ghazal to th dervishes was merely Governmet Gazette a Happy New Year to all found a foot deep of snow on thessa rumour, and thus the garrison still holds officials over the Copy; but te Guvernor
moantalus. The name of Yüheshan, or had dope Bore practical thing. Instead Jade-stone mountains, given to those bills of following the gonoral suggestion of the long ago, zooms to point to the presence of Sukin, January 19th-According to press to wish 150 Service a happy new now more frequently than is generally bazar rameurs bare the dervistes are coa- Fear, His Excellency has acted owe presti
supposed cally and his good wisbes the the form. of that genial suggestion for which the about the wreck of the British sailing-ship left Khatam for Osmats Digna's forces.
A letter from Formes gives some has Du Dongula. The Lahdi has declared that We will attack Egypt Reinforcements have Civil Servants are indebted to my Hon'ble the Anglo-Indiu lately destroyed hero, Iriondo in the other Council. under This occurred at a place called Augemo- stand that this alludes to an adjustment king, or in Mandarin, long-man Kia Daigorouki has started for Teheran.
St. Petersburg, January 17th-Prinos, of the official calories to make up for the fall Dutchman's Bay, in the jurisdiction of herthange.]-The Executive Connoll was the District Magistrate of Sin-tik, or Sin- ohuh Hien, about 20 from Tamani. Only
THE MAUDI TO ATTACK ZOYPT.
contrating at Khartoum prior to an advance,
yard authorities not authorising the ex- pouditure, Captain Hall gut labour from the lue-jackets of the uke of Wellington to scrape his ship. She is a useful adip, 300 ft. long, and with a speed of 18 knots.
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REGULATIONS FOR PASSENGER
mitted that while that Ordinance was in for steam-veanals of less than 50 tons bar-
I-A fee of two dollars
that
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RESIGNATION OF THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER. OF JUBIIOS3, Berlin, Jaoumy. 14th.--Dr De Friedberg,
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He sub. Grzeltej have been added to the regulations | Exgoutive Council to begin with; for it had ine of the 10d up este und sound Minister of Justice, who was a confidant of id Leaf, 100 fine,.,. an the might fores alone, if anybody had without the ] den sarrying passenger and half for { but it had this. fnpotin-it gave counsel known. Me Bourne, Acting British Cou. His name appeared in Professor GoTcken's! consider fit in that country. Referring to Thibet, the writer observes that--Ching is through any course of preparation however the exsuination of a Master or Enginear of It the Executive Connell's functional, in a letter to H. B, the Governor La lettera. undoubtedly there at home as the desired slight, had boiled it to any degree what stem-launch shall be payable to the Bar advise and only so advise, it is none the Ming-chuan, observed that the antives had
St. Petersburg, 18th Jamiary.The Noroe to be in Annam The English acknowledg- aver, that person, would have been violating { bour Maater for the Sovernment, and such leas a responsible duty, Bacon has said bosnted, robbed, and sat fire to the BBP Fremix states that a Bokbarin mission
que of those excellent ed this suzerainty. at least impliedly, the privileges conferred upon the Opina Muster or Engineer, shall, if he obtains a somewhere, I think in que
the Beoing that it was to her (China) that they Fermer by this Ordinance, and would tave certificate, prodaca three copies of a photo-littis essays, That the greateay trust; be possibly the missing men wight have been expected at St. Petersburg charged with the addressed themselves in an international violated the Ordinances itself, than subgraph of himself, one to be attached to his tween man and man is the trust of giving killed by them. The Governor, then sent minion of inducing Busia to give back Ba convention to cause Thibot to be opened to jecting himself to the penalties thereunder; certificate of competency, one to be attack-gumol, That is the duty entrusted to the the Tamani District Magistrate with 200 markand in exchange for a large Bokbaran THERMOTE them; but, notwithstanding China made and he submitted that, that being so, if sod to the licence of any vessel to which he Executive Council. There is another passoldiers to Ang-mo-kung. The antives, old frontier provinca
TRE DEBRANI IN THE NIGER TERRITORY. there, a resistance such as the bad not against him this Ordinance would have may belong, and ene for record in the Barrage of the same writer, written in that this offcial that so far from harming the
London, 13 JanuaryMajor Ulaude made in Burmat. These difficulties will, boon and must have been interpreted as bour Office and when a Master or Engi higher strain which seeus limont to fustify seamen, they had supplied thein with food no doubt, not force the English to any afecting unium iu any stage or degree of nesria transferred from one stea-launch the theory of his writing Bokepare
cil Commissjoner in Wast Afrisa te coup the charge of looting aud burning tho sotion similar to ours in Annam, sueing preparaten, therefore, when their Lord- to anothar ateam-launch, be shall produce There are those that are in stars fast and attended to their wants, and denied Macdonald has been appolated British Spe- photograph of himself to be attached to and sincere, plate and direct, nos crafty vessel. An enquiry, was teing held on the rate with the German Contohaiquor and that Uhina, elok of the experience she has ships came to construe it they must neces
as the licetios of the vessel to which he is to and involved, lat Erineva abure sil draw to sit into the giruumstances of the wreck inquire into the diferences which have made of an ill-advised, sterile, and costly arily give the term prepared opium
themselves such nature timing, he
the Tameni and Bit-chch Blagistrates.
arison in the Niger territory with Germany, intervention against as in Tong Kiog, used in this Ordinanes the signification be transferred.
by th X-The certificate granted by the Bar- sail he hoped thom who ruled this Calony
Last month a large junk #ili talograph would not be more willing to arguse they would have given it if such
brought before their bour Master to the Master or Engineer of should be like the Frinces he had quoted herself, on servant of Thibet than on case had been account of Buemah, to a confist of the Lordships Therefore he submitted that a steam-launch may, with the approval of from Bacon, they should endeavour to draw on Tri-peh. Nomos aughs Loudon, Jan 19.M: John Wilson, the same kind with Purves which, life under that Ordinamos sa it stuud, before the Governor, be aspended or ratioalled to themselves betales of thet kind, and he raw do lavding her ergo a Fgkong Gantor sandidat, alba.
quvurai” tone. of telegraph pulea, by the Harbour Master, if it shall be pro hoped that they would sacred in finding in 33 poils if wire, and a number of Inaulstore, the oven division of Lanarkshire, having England has, with her, what we have not the passing of andergone any ved to his satisfaction, after dus enquiry the ranks of the Civil Barvice of the Colony wego nil barat, the ship being at some dis diutusend Sie John Pendar, the Unionist that is to say the material or slige of opium which Immonen establishments in the Far Easts degree of boiling, however all, neces held by him, that the said Muster or not a few verasd in such ways as had been taues from shore, with which the only pork quididate, by a majority of 1,070 votes. Prestige which has not beso diminished fo sarily came within the terms of that ordin Engineer has been guilty of incompetency described. He had pleasure in returning munication was by means of bamboo rafts. the eyes of the Chinese by any reverse in arce. The Ordinance of 1887 professed on or negligence in the performance of his thanks for the way in which the toss had
been received (Appiauso).. the face of It only to deal with reude opiumi, - dúty sa Master or Engineer. Europe.
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