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the facts, only st The jury were absent on their return into court oner guilty The prisoner had d why sentence should not be Judge, who was much affected, prisoner's counsel that Sir E. M. Batow HM's Minister, would have to review sentence, and then, in a voice broken by otion and almost inaudible, sentenced the to be hung 7 in the Consular geol at the time by the proper authorities. All ent in court were visibly affected.
Kobe, 4th February. The sentence on Mrs. Carew has been com- fed by Sir E. M. Satow to penal servitude
hard labour for life.
LI.
THE EMPEROR AND The N. C. Daily News publishes the following telegram:
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to his ship, which was lying we harbour, hired a sampan at the Ewo Road jetty It was raining at the time, and on getting over to the Pootung side the sampan man objected to going any further and wished to land Cap- tain Corner at the New Dock. He, however, insisted on the sampan, man proceeding, but on reaching the Eastern Wharf the coolie ran up: alongside the pontoon, jumped ashore, and called to some other sampan men who were lying alongside. Captain Corner also got arrest it, even were the means immediatel ashore and was immediately assailed by three available which from the unsavouri men with bamboos. He defended himself as subject is surely th well as he was able with his umbrella, and point to instances finally made his escape to the house of supplied by the Mr. Bentley,
the wharfinger. He Was
his teens. Now then bleeding (profusely from a very severe cisely this danger scalp wound and was suffering from other threatened in this year severe injuries to the arms and face, besides be-eight hundred and. ing almost exhausted through loss of blood. of our fellow-residente His injuries were attended to as well as possible of the workers who cause our *The charge against Miss Jacob will be at the time, but he was unable to get across the machine to move so smoothly. withdrawn to-morrow. Mr. Lowder, the prose- river to obtain medical assistance until the fol- the Council Minutes that a meeting was cutor, wrote to Mr. Scidmore, Miss Jacob'slowing morning. We are glad to say that on such a date, that certain subjects were dis- counsel, to this effect before the verdict was
Captain Corner has not sustained any injury of cussed, certain reports received, certain given in the Carew case.
a permanent nature, and he is to be congratu-signed, and then that the Council adjo lated on having escaped as well as he did. The average man neither knows now cares An assault of this kind is fortunately of more than this. Of the hours of hard very rare occurrence here, but it serves the worries, troubles, interviews, and miscel to show the need of the adoption of some laneous bother—so admirably portrayed by The such system of supervision as in Hongkong, Rattle he is blissfully ignorant. He grumbles viz. A policeman should be stationed at two if the roads are muddy, the trees misnam or three of the most frequented landing places the police asleep, and in general exercises after a certain hour at night, for the purpose inalienable right of the British citizen to growl of taking the numbers of sampans hired and on every possible occcasion. But that anybody the destinations of passengers. If this were
has been sitting up night after night for weeks done the detection and apprehension of the together for his benefit is a consideration which perpetrators of an outrage like this would be a does not often come home to him. Yot such it simple matter. As it is, in this case they are is, as many a working member of the Council likely to get off scot-free, as no clue to their of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Ching identity can be obtained.-N. C. Daily News. Association, and of many other admirably
managed associations and committees testify. The amount of good work the past by such agenies as these is incalculable. because in the main all of them have been led by men of standing, commercially socially and intellectually. It should hardly be necessary to insist upon the fact that if we are to go on as we have hitherto done we shall need the same class of men. The proposition is too obvious to require proof and yet the tendency at the present moment is to iguore it altogether, and to commence that fatal descent which is so easy, so tempting, and so disastrous. Probably few of our readers have time to take note of village politics at home, or even of the municipal management of some of our large towns. If they had they would need no further warning as to the of entrusting public affairs to partie
Peking, 29th January, Reports come from the Palace that H.E. In Hang chang is in high favour again with the Emperor, with whom he has had several informal audiences. Li's enemies are greatly disturbed, as it is believed that Li will be specially honoured at the coming New Year. It is expected that he will be made Senior Vice-President of the Board of War, under Prince Kung,
High Commissioner the combined Peiyang and Nanyang Coast Defences and Superintendent of Trade. These offices are to be separated, it is reported, from the Chihli and Liang-kiang Viceroyalties
or
I given to La with headquarters at Tientsin, his new office discharging the functions of the former Admiralty Board. The decision rests the Emperor, who has declared his inten- tion of governing in future, and shaking himself
rom the influence of his former advisers.
COLLISION IN CHEMULPO
HARBOUR.
ECHIGO-MARU IMPALED BY THE
"NARCISSUS.”
THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRS AT SHANGHÀI.
در میباشد و
parties and men of straw
the parish council, and the co
Shanghai is at the present moment on the brink of a precipice. That the edge is con- cealed by a heavy growth of municipal income, of value in local stocks, and what not, does not in the least alter the condition of affairs. The signs of its presence are but too plain to all who can look below the surface. People who might deny the bare statement which opens these remarks would willingly admit that we are at present in a state of transition. Now transition stages are always more or less Nagasaki. 30th January.
dangerous from the uncertainty as to the turn A telegram received at the local office of the affairs may take when the changes have put on NY K states that the Echigo-maru collided their permanent shape. A transition may h's British man-of-war in Chemulpo Harbour result in retrogression instead of progress. It Tuesday last. The definite particulars are is the evident danger that we are, at this t to hand, but they are expected by the juncture, open to the former as well as Sendat mart that is due here to-day from the the latter which calls forth the present port. We learn, however, that when warning. Progress is in the sir and ex- the harbour the Echigo-maru managed pansion in every public department. More work t the ram of the Narcissus the and increased responsibility follow as a matter man-of-war in port and tore a hole of course. What is not quite such a matter of the water line amidships, 13 feet course is the question whether we can depend Xtent: She was rushed ashore and in the future as in the past on the public spirit pure; nor the most
of the best men amongst our residents to carry us triumphantly through our difficulties. There are evident signs that we must not too hastily answer this question with the emphatio affirma- tive that we should like, and it is to secure position that we refer when that at this juncture we stand on the of a precipice. For is not the of finding suitable men in sufficient nu serve on Councils, Boards, and Co matter of everyday discussion Tha republic has been well governed plain from the title Model Settlemen it has done its best to deserve.
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by to save her from sinking. Her om was full of water and her fires out ned. The Echigo-maru was from Chemulpo to Kobe carried the Korean Minister to attend the funeral of the
understand that
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