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molasse sattle down in sugar außectured intare in, but they do let a little in. We steamboat wharf the defendant left thom, telling
always bermatically seal them to make suLEYA, them to wait for him. He never rotured, how- The Rangoon Chamber of Commerce having mosphors, Tho only differenebriseon "F and
the wet season Yo "P" angarisin theashand onlir. There might
Is there not molasses in the sugar in the I do not call theas bottles celically closed. prer, and after munining until 7 pm. they left, represented the macessity of bringing acre troops be a slight variation in the colour irrespective of
sample bottle No, if there ware it would be I did not expect to see the specimens in so nad oso back to the colony. The defendant into the province, Government have replied that the proportion of water, because you ooooot turn
sean at the bottom of the battle. There is one bad a condition as thoss in the bottles. I took a blankot of hers, worth $2, which he had the civil and military authorition at Eangoon aon. out the same thing every day. The quality va. I obtained parchasers. When I want to look at specimen which shows signs of molasses The consider the samples taken were rather low, not not relarzad. Bho want in search of him with sider the present foros adequate for present pegla rios from day to day. Water makes sugar more the samples I did not take the sample battle with rest are as free from molass as she mustas, but up to the master. Igen consider it possible Inspector Cradock, who found him on board the ospecially in the present improved condition of dark. The nature of the ungur italf wouki nism We did not take delivery of the sugar it is a different quality of sugar. It is a poorer that the master of sugar produced might get steamer denar. The man tried to cecaps na aftoire in the lately disturbed districts. affset the colour. We dry all par sagars in the week by week, but waited antil a customer cams. sugar, and floos, not appear to have properly into the condition of das sugar in the sampla soon as he saw them.
De way and give theu about the sun mannt. Customers come without difficulty, at first. We undergone the process of drying. It te more bottles. This kind of sugar is granulated out of Chan Ngana rom who was present at the I keep samples of the sugar manufactured for first began to experiance diffoulties with easto-moisture in it. I should say that being the vacuum pans.. There is certainly caolzesss time the prisoners induced the last witness to go about four weaks. I do not keep them longer mare about the end of April. Every one wanted to kept in a godowa and for acne maths in in it. The alternation of dryness and dampness with him, stated that the man indul her to because if I did I would have the room full look at the packed up bags then because there the bottles at Mr. Lammert's would not as might cause decomposition in the engar to snofond him a jacket and umbrella which she had of samples. I have not got the samples of the ware letters from Nagasaki saying the sugar was count for the differoses between the muster an extent that it might even lift the atopper, not soon since.
The prisoner denied the allegations but ba sugar in question. The sugar, was perfectly rot good and was not like the "Park was before. and these amples. I can swear the samples Whan sugar ons geta moist in this way it
Up to that time we had had no completate from could never have been of the same quality olanges its appearanes altagsther, and half said he had pawaed the blanket.
the same kept in different In default of ading two sureties of $50 each Was it the sort of sagar you could undertake to Monsen. HattarBald and Swirs about leaving the mustar. It may be the differoms in the dozen specimens
for his good behaviour for twelve months he was Lartyear's Now Malwa $540 per pion!, allea of Undersigned, Agents of the above Ball by sample at a distanso?-It is all socording the sugar so long in the godown. We had not us raw angar, or something wrong in the handling battles might darume diforint appearangos,
Cross-examinod hy the Attorney-General-committed to prison for six montas. to the sexand if it is ring the moist season to that time loft any longer than about a month of the sugar in tho rodnery. I do not think the it would deteriorate, en tout for long journeys For the Arst free or four occasions it was difference gould have been caused by formenting The air was somatides damper on the land, Beyors M2. N. G. MITCHELL-ISNES, would not do very well, becuase it would not arranged we should pay after dalivory, hat about in the bottle. I should say the amples are not when there was a hot sx than over the water. I arrive in us good state as at atating. The March they said we must pay cash. When the squal to the ranstar. They do not look as if they do any there are signs a deacraposition in the DRUNKENNISS AND UNLAWFUL Fussuasion. Williaza Johnson, epok, was charged with ngar in the ample bottle ja about the shuff we complaints began about the quality of the angat had gathered moisture in the bottles. The disaven sample of sugar, which I attribute to used to tara on at that time, but I think it bas I told Mr. Mackintosh they must make the sugar forence in the colour is not altogether dys to the their being put in the bottles while damp.
draakonnass, refusing to pay jinriskeha hire, Tho Attorney Gentral addressed the jury and unlawful possession of a crist, vathe $5, on bleached a little frous exposure to the light. Albsttor or people would not buy it. In the month pressuve of more moisture, 16 l probably due to angars binach when for battled unless they at May we had diloalty in getting castarastu, the procom of manufacture. Probably one did upon his case. He pat it to the jury that the the 2ith inst.
The pariksha ocolie said the man engaged are damy, url then they deposit che molasses and and it was left in the golowas. The oustomers nat undorgo so ranah oharoos process as the plaintiffs were bound to show that with regard to the colour vars fom top to bottom In the wanted to see the sagar before buying and they other. These samples my have been better those seven parcels of E sugar they had pro his vehidefrom Wuchsito Queen's-roud Coutral, same way the dien of engar varies from would not lot them. Ab Yon and some one from when the sugar was manufactured, but they were daped it equal to the mustar upon which it was and he refused to pay his face. He also doposed the top to the bottom of a sack in the Hing Kea hong went to look at it and they never squad to the muster. I have heard that soll. He submittal that they had failed to that he saw the defondant taxo a cornunt troza 1 quence of the mot tiling dove. Fins get the police to arrest them, but the compradore exposure to light will bleach sugar, but it done show that those even lots of Pagar were not so belonging to a soldier who had boss no- Bugar would have the game tundency, but I spoke abentit and got them off, When we got the not usually do so, and I should not think it inferior to the coatnot. Even their own evid-companying him. He was arrested with, the would not was madh. Tha sugar in the sttees of the 12th and 22nd May complaining would do so in a hermetically sealed bottle ence, he submitted, must fail to satisfy the jury enenat in his possession, and the instrument was sample bottle would remain as it is for a long of our not taking delivery we had purchasers; liks that which the master ia in. I have that the samples produced work equal to the identified by Corporal Davidson as belonging to
bat they wanted to inspect the buck. Messra manofactured tons of thousals of pions muster. The buyer of the sugar had opted No. 5 Battery Eastern Division R. A. His Lordabin-What I understand you to say Battorfald and Swing would not let them, and of sugar of that class and sold it, and it quantities of the engar which was not equal to
P.C. McDonald stated that the prisoner told muster, but want were the direcg him he get the cornet in New York, and he is that sngar put up as dry as that would last I then told Mr. Hunt we must have two bags has been kept two, three, er six months after the
of each lot. They brought fourteen hagy in the packing. All our sacar le manufactured in vaatanoes under which ho had done. not offered to sell it for a dollar. some time, but if damp it would not.
axious to have a monopoly of the Witness--Pat up in the dry season it would steam launch and I took two nad loft walra. Ienuta pans, and the grain in formad in the pans. was mat deposit polasses, but during the wet sousouzarained the sugar in the bics and compared There is another class of sugar which we allow one of that kind of sugar, and if he did it would.
i with the bottled sample. There was a great to granulate for a week or lon Jays, but not af not accept it he knew it would be sold by the Cross-examination continas--I dal: the wo differance; this is whits and those wors reddish, this class. I should any, as near as I osa judge plaintiffs. Therefore as long as it was anywherȧ ther dry what the attention is from 4 to 5; I shared the bags to the purchasers. They said that the master of sugar is granalated in the near the master he accepted it. He warned Mr
Mackintosh, however, that the Chinagen would if it is 89 to 93 or more than 90 I call it up. they did not want them. I went and spoke to vacuum par.
pot continue to buy the quality of sugar ho was and we often have it like that. I, anot til Messrs. Butterfield and Swire on the 29th May,
Yappah, Malay sau of the samer taraing ont, and he held it out as a warning to Dongis, was charged, ou remand, with having you what the saturation was in April and May the ramo day that the onstormers saw the sugar.
Mr. Mackintosh to turn it on! better in future. cut and wounded Chas Achi, saman of the same last as I do not kamp records. I would not ex- I said there was a great differance between tho
Unfortunately Mr. Mackintosh did not have vessel, on the 12th inst. poot storage in godown for wook to make a sub-sugar and the sample. They said "You must
antial diffarunca in the colour of sugar: tu a look after that, and if you do not immediately Mr. Alorandor Redger said-I am hosd angar hotter sugar turned out, and hence this action. The complainant, it may be remembered, was fortnight the dis might show: it comes ou take delivery we will sell it by auction." I said boiler at the East Point Sagar Retinory. I have a calls attention to the fact that the plain-ordored to get some soap from the detoadnat, and gradually and the longer it lies the worse it gets would taka sagar which was only a little baea about six years in my prosent position, and tiffs had kept no muators of the sugar, which the inter refased to give it big. Thay had a Bugar that I bosn lying there's month raight different but not sugar with snob a great differ about fourteen years in the sugar trade. It is tended, with all the correspondence, to show
with a knife about the groin and the left fore Iring six works would bare mora, and angue that when I had said a few matsaces tance told me able to judge of the various qualities. I know had been supplied irrespective of the quality arm. The wounds were zot of a serious cha haro e shade of diffones, sugar that had bancato na thaf. They were very short about it and part of my basiness to valus surer, and I am the the sagar turned ont for the defendantzel, and she defondant out the complainant had been lying two months still mars, bat to be of. They said-"No use talking, go away" she pluss of sugar in the mastor, it is not of a of the muster supplied. The correspondouco raster, and the complainant was discharged fram I cannot say how mach.
I said if the angar was to be cald by austion I kind largely sold to Chinese, but a small sunt ditted that sugar of an inferior quality the Cleil Hospital the day after his admission. What do you consider to be the use of a botilo mast and den two English merchants to look is sold to them- The gonerally accepted tast of bad bena supplied. Ho thought: Me. Mao The prisoner was aslead to lay mouths'
ar to the 80 VON SM- Sole P-People wish to have it and they got it. at each lot. On the 30h I wrote complaining that kind of sugar is colour and graic-that is kintosh's evidenes
You don't think there is mach use in it?I of the quality of the sugar in the baga delivered what is looked to in the market, and the lighter ples of sugar produced with reference to the hard labour, sud in default of paying 310 smonds shows the man what kind of sugar he is in gut. the day before. They replied the same day. the sugar the better the price. The gagar in the master could hardly be taken in the face of the to the complainant to a further two months..
evidence of the qualified witaseses he had called If it chargs in polvur he has to keep the colour (The letter was pub in on Tuesday. I then toolz mustar is a very good sugar of its elasi. in bis mmary, as we do. If you expose the delivery of the remaining twelve bags and aftor
upon the subject. He thought Mr. Mackintosh battle to the light it beaches.
this I went to the refinery with Mr. Lammert
somewhat over-estimated is knowledge of such sud Mr. Woolnough, and several bags from each
matters. It was a strong thing to ask the jury to believe that the difference between the muster We do not hold auraplyes responsible for the opinions lat wors inspecta I agreed to take two lots.
and the sample sugar was cossioned by the The inspection was finished at half-past eleven on the day of the suction. I saw Mr. Waddell
effect of its being kept in the godown, and in the aud Dr. Kora at the refinery. I asked them to
bottles. Against this there was the Yommrkable; telephone not to sell the two lata by auction.
fact that it was not the sugar which was kopt They did so, and the answer was "all right." I
ragest in the godown which was in the Can he rely on Last batle?-H3 can may "I did not bear sus anawar myself, but the man at
worst condition. The work was that which be good enough to give publication in your valu- had been kept the medium time. While don't want sagar much seuran than bais.”
ths telephone tali ma “all right" No question
the best was Das of Bat might be not say, "I want sugar as was asked as to whether I was willing to pay good as " You give your purchasar for the sugar then and there. The agar was
Do you make it a bargain, then, that he must koop his bottle in the dark P--Ha can please him- Helf.
Bat ba might have it in the saa all the time -Then we would say it was lighter,
Do you think it in of no use as a test 2-To a certain extent it is..
2. bottle sealed up and say, "We will deliver
Mr. Franois-Bot if I told yon it was net would that alter your opinion
Witness-I should say it was an inferior class at sugar.
The Attorney-Ganeral-W you look at theso; seven specimen bottles. In your opinion could any of those sugars have beau of the same good quality as the wuster P
Witress-No.
I beliore sugar stored in bags in a godown does deteriorato in quality -To a certain extent. These sugars worn in godown tim varying from a wook to six weeks would you say that stored in a good godown they would have gone off to that extent ?-No.
Those bottles are not sealed like the master bottle, but they have ground glass stoppers; beer in the godown longest. As to the state- of equal to that in the bottle. I took the bottle would they be sufficient to keep the sugar Pent that augne stored differred in quality in differont parka the bag, that could not apply you suzar of that quality for six months." Sith me and handed it to the tw Baglishmen. They should be. pose he comes six mouths afterwards and wants fr five lots there was a great differenca: in two And supposing they were not, would that nebere, as these samples were taken with a testing the sugar, do you consider you are bound to 4-notso much, and I said I would take then, alsanut for the difference if the sugar was kept in stick, which took the sugar right through, and liver him sagar the sama sa in the battle - though the Englishman told a mot to do as. thom six or eight montha?-Vo.
the apocimane raust have been fairly taken. The give the samples a little worse than the sugar
defendants could not be held responsible au long to allow for that.
Then I understand the sugar in the gatog was of batter quality than the sugar in the battle, eron although the latter be blúzskod ?--Yǝ..
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And it was all bitter sugar than that in the be?-Tus, as far as my rovallaction goes,
Then he shouit it have deteriorated a quickly, sapposing it did ?—It deteriorated dar- ing so many weeks.
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Bat you say that sort of sugar would not detariorate: it would blush-But here is difference between 'sample takes in November or December and a sample taken in April, there is
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Is that a fast that the suzir ia laga of took the samples cat of the bagi. Before MẸ batter colour than the sugar in that bots-Stokes guaked for permission for the two Euro- That is my opinion, and my instructions to the peans to go and inspect the sugar I had at skol Masses. Balterfeld and Swire to allow I want more than your instructions. Yother mysalf or any customma to, inspect the superintended it ?—Yes; 'I looked ai the sam- agar at the refinery. I had told Messrs. Batter plos.
fold and Swire at the end of April that they mast make the angir batter, as the customers were speaking about it I said this to Mr.sold. The lougout time I have kept sugar of had bean mpplied with samples of it, but they Mackintosh. I sold sugar, hers and tho was tomory seat it to Nagasaki. In January was gattier $464, $1.65, $162, $4.55, and some" $4.70. The latter prina was in Fa. braary. In March and April the pries, was $4.50 odd; it did not vary bore ten cost. There was asta considerable fall at the end of April and in May for good quality goods. The You say the sararia the bottlois nof so good na domand was not dull at that time. It waa ju the angs you stored inthegiora. Suppose yon May. You and my other friend tried to gainerant of dampne7S, had 100 sacks of the same angaras is in that but- admission to the rafinery to inspect the sigar de sterad in your gotowa in the mouth of April and failed. They told me when they cams would it oh saga colear much in six wacks, or de- back. I had not asked for an order for thom Fait molasse-It all depends on the quality; to inspect the sugar. The rassot, way I only If you exposa one big it absorbs moisture; if you, trok "two bagi when the fourtsan LEV 600 bags there is less surface.
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And if they were wrapped up in paper and By Me Francis-When examining thy sugar at the refiusry on iron instrument was stack lato sosied that would malte a difference P-Tes.
Cross-ptamined by Mr. Frands We mann eight or ton bags of sich lot and a little of the sugar brought out. The spesimams from each lot facture sugar of this class, which we call P. 1, it upon the evidence which had been produced. Amateurs do justice to the respectable ladies and were put into a battlo. I think Mo. Lammert or the tsohaicsi anmo of pieces. It is the that they had not done so. There was also the gentlemen by marking off a certain portion of chins Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$85 against FIRE on usual Term at Curreal
lowest sugar which we rafas. It is made from fact that before the sale of this sagar Lee On the theatre to be occupied by such women, se the cyrip that comes from the fsat boilings of Po intimated through Mr. Waddell that he was the pan; you cannot call it molassa as willing to accept delivery of two of the lots and that there shall be ao chanes of their taking visited Reveral cities where I have sesa saparate long as you can gat sngar from it. We do not the guarantors could not be held responsible for chairs amongst respectable persona? I.haru
anafastare large quantities of this sugar those.
Mr. Francis replied upon the case and Raid with seats for such persons provided in suy theatres.
-I remain, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, perhaps about 250 plouls a week. Westheimes
IN DEO CONFIDO. ship it of direct, and sometimes koop it in ge- referens to the last quastion raised by the down. After it has been stored in the godown Attorney-General, the buyers bad land every op
Hongkong, 28th January, 1886. I always take a sample of it before it lasrasportunity of taking delivery of the sager, and that kind in the godown is about three months had rejected the whole of it as below the master. I have kegs it three months in godown in the He submitted that there was no masonable offer wet season. At the end of that time it was not made snob as a commercial man could not upon, Bo good in colour as when first atoral. It was especially as there was no payment offered, and have never seen it so bad as to deposit molassa
have never had to condemn any sugar of this class on account of depositing mudasses, nor to consioun any class of Engar from that onazo on Mr. Francis Would not sagar menafastared in the wet season be more likely to abeceb damp than that manufactured in the dry season?
Witness-No, not if properly manufacturol in the lots of this sugar which had been turned prepare a list of specially atle Colonels for pro-Chiness Imperial Loan of 1834 B-5 per cent. As good quality of sugar can be turned out in ont. He thought that if the sugar had becomotion to Major Gamorala. This principle of the damp senson as in dry, I believe lost enrose interior in quality that bis customers would selection will not be applied to regimental com. Chinese Imperial Loan of 1894 ---5 per cent mar was unusually wet"
not take it the bayer would not have allowed it to manás, Those amples were taken from the works in go on from December to May without complsin-
THE SILVER QUESTION. papors and conveyed to the then an beard asteaning repeatedly and urgently to Me. Mackintosh.
WASHINGTON, 10th January, launch, put in those bottles, and kept in them It must be shown that there were repented and The Speaker of the Honge of Representatives about twelve months. Would that not account. urgent complaints from purchasers, and that this has appointed a Colage Committee, seven mem- for the diference between the samples and the as the reason I Ching refused to take delivery bors of which are in favour of the enspension Mr. Lammert said-I am an Gustionear and
master - No, it might have absorbed the damp of the sugar as the ground of the defence. The of silver coinags, while six are opposed to anot a surveyor of goods. On the 6th Jone last I went
sagar could not have been so inferior as to canso measure. Mr. Bland has nevertheless expressed ness in the lanzeh, bat it would not newaant with Mr. Woolnough and the heat witn393 to
for the difference in colour. I bays kept those complaints or the plaintiffs would not have his confidence in the Committee, and states that inspect some sugarat Quarry Bay. I saw 39781 samples of sugar in ground-stoppered bot been allowed to go on applying the sugar all be expects the bill for the suspension of ail ver lots in the godown and luspested taru. We fles like them over a year, and have found it this time without any complaint. They had coinage will be defeated in the Senate. He like- noka number of samples from saob lot with engar
maintain its condition. The differenas bolwoon the positive evidence of Mr Mackintosh wise referred to the heavy financial interesta skowars. We took the samples from diffront
the sagar in the sample bettise and the matar and Dr. Kern that when the sugar was involved. A resolution has been introduced for bags, and stuck the skywars in lengthways of
sould not have been caused by dampness alone. mixed and packed it was equal to the the payment in silver coin of ten million dollars the bag. The bags were lying oathair sides.
Sugar of the kind in the muster would contain a sample, and he thought the jury had no reason of bonds to be called in on lat February. All the specimens from one Tat were mirad By Fit Landship-The supala bottle was sont together and bottled and marked
quantity of fenit angar, which ander the in- for doubting that positive evidence. Two of
fuarco of dampness would tend to form into mo. Batterfield Swire bad called attention to the to the tice, uot kantat the rafinery. So na of the the seven lots were near the sample, ons
Lassos. Tabre is a certain amount of molasses frot that the sugar was deteriorating in quality 5109 azzar was kept at this refin wy and mat in anoarer then the other-P. 297 and P. 268.
in it. The magne might gut damp and ran, al as it lay in the godown, so that the burers had battle with a glass stopper. It was kapt for Las On Po said he would accept these.
though it might not be molasses altogether. The Dotice of it. It was only a matter of opinion on When we had finished the inspastionat was just
natural tandany of the engar stocked high in the part of the technical witness for the defence By Mr. Francis-Tha w'iom of the VP" su- paas bail-pret olevan nal thinking we would not gar taroad out in April sa May, when mired be able to get back by traire we want to the
godown would be for the molasses to go towards that the sugar could not hare deteriorated from the condition of the master to that in the sovou The buttura, and frat panked, was to the best ef kav ricollection ofies at the radnery and the clerk telephoned not inforlar to the sampla in the bottle in court. thas two Europeans had inspected the anger and
Do you not think that if these samples were sample hotties, as against the positive evidence that it was in equally good condition when pook Sager like that in the bottle pat ia has would accepted two lots, naming them. There was no
taken and dried they would not be very far off the auga: in the standard bottle?-No, they that it might have done so from actual observa- ed, and the positiva evidence of Mr. Maskintosh hardly change at all, it is Decembar sudur: sugar raply, but we supposed it was all right-tha men
ta ар of the esma quality mada in April would be more simply made a motion signifying that he had re-
One of moist from the beginning but there would has no pacted the raatter and it was faishod. I produse them might come nose it, but the others tion of sager in similar bottles in his effies.
His Lordship gummed up to the jury at other diffrones. I had a samols of this sagar the samplos: they have been in my possesion ever
would be a good dual darker. There is hore racisture and more molasses in it thau in length, and be pat two questions for at first, and look suapies every work. I tarned since. Mr. Woolnough left the colony a few
the gaster. None of the samples, if fairly dried them to answer. The Beet was whether the the samples out when they was about a month, days afterwards.
ATEATES IN THE HALKAN PENINSULA. old, but was able to compare the angar maDU-
By Mr. Francis-The scper is the battles would come up to the mester. If you took the Taiboo Suger Refinery Company turned out dur
ATHENS, 8th January. factured after that with the later samples, sis of the same colour as at the time it was motoro out of the sugar I sm of opinion that it in the month of April and May seven par
cele of angar mentioned in the fifth paragraph of
Tus Hellonic Government is now adopting a that. I had a continus eksin of gumptos the bottled, but it has got more asked. The bottles stored in bags would get damper or drier accord-eggel to the master, and if so did Li Ching & Co. Consul in Crete, who was obriezion to the Porte would become tough. In this climate sugar the petition of the quality known as P quality conciliasory policy towards Turkey. The Groeit have bean standing on a bookshelf in my oloing to the changes of weather. Mr. Francis said that was the cas for the wrapped in a papar parcel. It was a fine day The Attorney-General said that concluded the refuse to take delivery of it or say portion of it. and for whicas orpulsion an order hat beat isaned.
when we took the samples. It did not strike pis
Were they prevented from taking delivery of The Attorney-General, in opening the case, as necassary to close the bottles with sealing wax case for the defence. wait as position which Messrs. Gibb, Livingston round the edges to keep them dry. I did not evidence as to the samples of sugar, upon which Whether the plaintiffs had suffered any loss by
Mr. Francis asked permission to call rabatting it by any default on the part of the platalift. by Saves Pasha, has been recalled & Co. occupied as defendants in this suit was take any notice of what particular part of the his learned friend had not cross-examined his LA Ching's failure to take delivery, and it s
what panliar ons for martors, aud af ag the oodlie took the sugar from. though it was no daibt quita within the eight of
The jury, after a very brief ecusaltation, an- By the Attorney-General-The scoop bringewitnesses, and upon conversatko deposed to by the plaintiff to bring the action against them out some siz or sight inches of staff. Although Lo Ou, upon which also Mr. Mackintosh was
swered both questions in favour of the plaintiffs, in the first instance, hofors promading against the samples are mure oakod then whan thoy were. the principal debtor under the contrast, it was a bottle the colour remains the same.
and a verdict was entered for them for the amoant claimed. Brawhat unusual course. It pluned Messe
Have you any means of vatimating the pro- portion of damp that say i oborbe?—It I dry the sugar after it bas bain exgami I can tell to
• fraction how much ít he, absorbed. Have you made the experim ut?—I have not, -booknge it is of no ssiertifie va'ns chatover.
It might bo of somo legal ralus. Dil you keep upon the premises at Qantry Bay may sample of that “P” kazır?—I kant a sample for faur waska, and sfter that the sage we turned out varied ery Hal. I ceny the samples amongst the valves, olial on my gezera knowledge of 15 lack of ingres. In tell from ons wack to another whether it was in- ferior ar het BT.
about a meath.
whole time.
plaintifs.
Mr. A. Johnston said he was Chief Superin- Gibb, Tivingston & Co. in this dicet nosition, tendent of the Lee Yuga Sazar Refinery, and that wherass they had not the slightest desire tu
appeared ts a witness andər subpoena. Ea rapadiate their real liability ander the garanton had some years experience in the anger It made it absolutely recovery for them to dafenderuls, and had han anatomed to judge the the setion. It would not do for a quarantor to pay without distate selsim preferrarainst him for quality of sugar. He had seen the seven sample bottles of sugar in court, and the mustor pro- failure on the part of his principal unless theviously produced. In his opinion the sugar in principal actioscot in such a conrae other
wise the princing might turn round and the sample battlas was not oqual to the suger in the master. He was award that the samples
Domi would not
not cross-examined.
thja.
The Attorney-General opposed the applica
tion.
kintosh had not been cross-examined on these
His Lorvishin held, however, that Mr. Man
conversations, or had the sample bottles been produced during the hearing of the plain- Cows. He therefore admitted the robatting
evidence.
Mr. Mackintosh, re-called, said he was at the
what
POLICE COURT.
28th January. BEFORE MR. A. G. Wiss.
LETHAL WEAPONR.
Mogra
GERMANY AND THE SAMOAN IBLANDS.
LONDON, 1th January, Adrices from the Samoan islands state that marines have been disembarked thorn from the German corvette Albatros in order to protect German traders, and that the German com mander has lowered the Samoan ing. It is not believed at the Colonial Offee that Gormany in- tonda to annos the islands.
The German Government has disclaimed much
intention.
MARZIAL LAW AT CAETYAGENA. –
MADE, 11th January. Martial Law has been proclaimed in Car- thagena owing to an abortive attempt at out. break by the Republicane.
CONSTANTINOPLE, 2th January,
The Forte has countermanded its order for the mobilization of the second-class ratorve in Syria as well as the dopartire of the first laas reserve for Salorien.
ATHENS, 10th January, The Greek Government is granting furlough on a large scale to the Reserves, ostensibly for the Christmas holidays, but it is believed the Government is indirectly demobilizing the army.
SOFTA, 10th January, The Powers have agreed to the demand for simaltaneous demobilization of thy forces of Servia, Bulgaria, and Grasco.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.
(Post Masses. Fizootie & Cola Ragamala) January 28th. Thermometer Antenokar Thermometer-1.ams pra Thermometer-f.ak Thermematera (Wet bull) Thermor.eu) w. (Wet hull Thermometer-1 a,u. (Wet falijo Thermometer-Meriman... Therm ©MALOr=Minkusan (over sight)
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HONGKONG TIDE-TABLE.
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The insights in the Pabluemarked.with a sinus § -- }iza are how Low-Water Ordinary Spring-Vidon, and should be abtreated from the equebante giren storn
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
27th January, 1995, QË I PAM.
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INSURRECTION IN ARABIA:
CONSTANTINOPLE, 9th January, The latest news from Hedjaz states that the wiki 30,05 insurrection thers is extending, and that the rands are blooked between Jeddab sad Mecos
MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT.
LONDON, Nth January, Mr. W. L. Jackson, member for North Leeds, has been appointed Secretary of the Treasury in place of Sir M. W. Bidlay,
THE BUYPTIAN ABYY.
CARO, 10th January, The Khedive has announced that in view of the importance of the subject of increasing the Egyptian Army he will conduct the deliberations himself.
Monkter Pasha has expressed the opinion that only an Egyptini umuy exclusively Mazalman can pacify the Soudan.
4
Ounces.
Taikos Bugs Works every day, and he saw the saren luta of sugar packed. None of them, when packed, woro in anything like the bondition of Un Afan, painter, for being armed with an sayWhy did you pay the moper had been in the battles since dans last, and some that in the sample bottles. Some of it might be iron bar in company with six others in Holly deny 1 over broke my contract. I am
wood-road on Wednesday evening, was ordered not responsible to vob, and, I will not had been fa the godowe from less that a fort of a somewhat dariter colour, but there was reimburse you for what you have paid "The up to six weeks before then, but properly marked difference in any of it. He kept simples to find two sureties of $10 each for his good be- gusautor wireld then have the expense, the stored it was not possible for sugar equal to the at his office, and for the past two years he had haviour for six months, and in default was oom- trouble, and the risk of going against his prin sustor to have got into the condition of that in een ooting the effect of damp and light on mitte te gaol for three weeks.
the sample bottle. Storing.engar in a godown sugar kept in bottles. It was quite possible that Li Alak, goolio,, was charged with baing & cipal to prove a came which might have hid ta nous extant affect the enlour of it in timo. the sapta in the bottles produced might have rogus and vagabond. proved in the Best instance. They were therefore There wors no regalar gradativas among the goner of to the extent of these specimens PC. Miners met the prisoner and two other phased in the position of being obliged, without samples. some were worse, and some were bettor. below the mustar. He was surprised to find it
won in Mong Kok, and saving that the first questioning the possible liabilities of Li Ching & Cottey the issus. Mesirs. Gibb, Livingston & The way the sample bottles ware stoppered was
in such good condition. A single damp day hated expeared to have something up his sleave Co. had no wish to repadiate their legal and just not the nasal trade way for mosters to be bottled, would bring sugar of that kind stored in stop. ho searched him and found two swords there
The defendant was sentenced to three months' liability under the controot of guarantee in this but they were stoppored with ground glass stoppered battlos into the condition of molasses on-
bard labour as a rogue and ragabend. essa. Thair defazes was a very simple, and Pere to make fham air tight, and he had kept tirely. It was sugar of a kind which necessarily
DRUNKENNDES. samples in bottles like them for over two year contained molasses and was manufactured from was briefly this. They became gearantors that without their ever going off colour to anything the lowest syrup. He did not remember Love On
Alfred Loback soartan, was charged with Li Ching would take sagar of a ostaluality.like the extent it would be necessary for the mus
Po ever coming to him and saying to him that his drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Queen's- Li Ching deni let the sugar teaserell to his tor of sugar to have gone to become like the sam-ustomers were complaining of the quality of the soad on Wednesday evening. ander the contract was aucer of that quality ples produed. In his experience he had never
He was fined balí a dollar, sugar, and telling him to make it better. In There was a very necessary prizeiple of insann sagar go off colour to the extent tids would December he came and made some complaint of
LADCENY, which applied directly to contracts of gueras have to do to resolt the condition of the samples,mples, and witonestold him to leave it if he did Chung Ayaz, hawker, was charged with steal- too, and that was that the surety was not lu ħa Cross-examined by Mr. Francis--Witness had not liks it. He said no more, and did not producing 35 yards of clath, valse 8, the property of charged beyond the prociso terms of his engage
a shopkeeper named Lan Yen, in Bridges.stroot, ment. A contract of guarantee was one that ex-ben ouployed by the Lee Yasa Sugar Redning his master again.
Company four years. He was in englusaz by pro- Cross-oxamined by the Attorney-General-on the 27th inst. poed the guarantor to great riska Arranfession, but he and etadied the chemistry of sugar. The samples I saw showed no market difference ments might be ganz on behind his back between the principal and the person guaranteet He had bad nothing to do with the management of from the original sample. I had not the auster ivolting bita in liabilities never contemplated agar waking before became to Hongkong. The with me when I saw them, and did not compare by him and which he wald gerer bare Love Tuer Sugar Refaery manufactured large them, but I could carry it in my mind as I B
In this case quantities of sugar of the quality shown in the constantly dealing with thon undertakem had he known it.
Dr. Korn, to called, examined the seven sam Li Ching & Co. did not buy the sugar for thommaster, but it did not turn out any like the spe selves, they bought it to sell to other people, and cimens in the sample bottles. There was a fitple bottles of sugar produced in court. He said as long as the latter were willing to take the tle differing between the sugar manufastered the differanos in ecleur hetween the samples and
LiAyak, unemployed, was oberged with taking staff offered to them as "P" sugar it ansvar in the wol and dry seasons of the year. That the muster might arise first from the manner in ed Li Ching & Co's purpose to accept it whether which was manufactured in the wet son was which the sample was taken, as it differed in the Lot Chun and Chan I Su from this golony by! it was sugar answering to the sample or not, are liable to go off colour and deteriorate than different parts of the pile or bag. At the bottom fraudulent scans for the purpose of selling them, logrody, Walzer, Mabert, and Gray have been illed in a forest ten miles wath of Kandhday by but that was not what was vaarantee. The that which was manufactured in the dry season.it would be darker in colour, mors moist, and on the Sti inat.
Lam Chún said she was a widow and the de-dacoils, having been desartel by their guard. Mr. Francis-In there not a 'curtain amount of i containing more molases. the second pince real question was whether tho anger now in question was up to the sample in the bottle settlement of molassos in the sugar manufactured there was the probability of the exposure of the fandant had been acquainted with her late hus The Shans are threatening Mandalay, which
~ ungar tu carry tug it from the works which might band. On the 5th Jost, she met him in Taiping. (is mdok distarbed. Hs proposed to call evidence to prove that it in the wat saason.
Witness-That would depend upon how it have caused the absorption of moisture. The shan and he said he would get bor employment. Lieutenant Cookeran, of the Parl Madras In- bottles in which the samples are kept are not bad. Thore was another woman with him at the time, fantry, has beoz killed in an attack on a pagoda. Leo On Po said--I had the management of was manufactored.
But if it had any molasses in it, would not the bottles. In my experience they let very little mois- and they both went with him to Canton. At the near Mandalay, the I Ching sugar contract with Mossra
WAS 10.
AUTCHINSON.
STATION.
Yualls w Euphong- gang... Shanghal 50.94 15 30.57
30.1%
80.55
Wind wostock... 20.00
SEERS!
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pared to GRANT POLICIES on MARINE RISKS to all parts of the Wozid, et ostrent rates.
ÁRNYOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, 5th November, 1983. 1953
GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
THE Dudersigned haring bean appointed THE
Agents for the above Corpsey, ara propared to GRANT POLICIES against FIRE AND LIFE at Current Rate
PUSTAL & Co. Hongkong, 1st April, 1895. TRE
[608
THE MAN ON INSURANCE COM-
PANY, LIMITED,
HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG.
CAPITAL (SUBSCRIBED), $1,000,000.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LUM BIN Saro, Esq. BAN HUP, Esq.
Yow CRONG PENO, Esq. CRAN LA CROy, Esq. Q. HƠI CHUNE, Esq.
-
The Company GRANTS POLICIES ono MARINE BISKS to all parts of the World, rayable at any of its Agencies.
Contributory Dividenda ara payable to all Contributors of Business, whether they are Shareholders or not.
HEAD OFFICE,
WOOLIN YUEN, Secretary.
No. 2. Queen's Road West,
Hongkong, 14th March, 1881.
11001
MPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COM-
PANY.
The Undersigned, Acenta for the above Company, are prepared to GRANT POLICIES against FIRE to the extent of $60,000 on any
éne
FIRST-CLASS RISK.
RATES ON FIRST-CLASS GODOWNS RE- DUCED to PER CENT. NETT PRE ANNUM
FROM THIS DATE.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co
-Agents, Truperial Fire Insurance Company, Hongkong, th May, 1881.
NOTICE.
TEEN FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
The Undersigned, Azon's for the above Com-
teraperstars castintes low, the humidly is ligh, and the
The Bromster basison ? gradients are adressing. The pany, aro propared to ACCEPT RISKS on
The rescat.
W. DOBERCK. Hongkong Observatory, 28th January, 1886.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
THE MYSORE GOLD MINE.
MADRAS, 11th January, Last month the Mysore gold mine gavo 1,540
DEATHS OF GENERAL WILSON AND MAJÖK
Mannas, 13th January, Obituary-General Wilson, member of tha The defendant pizshed open the door of the Viceregal Council; also Major Hutchinson of the shop after it had been closed for the night, and Guides. The latter was killed in a frontier af taking up a bundle of cloth he ran off with ity fray. bat was caught.
THE VICEROY'S TISIT TO SUBMAN. He had been convicted of larceny on a provious
MADRAS. 15th-January. occasion, and was now sentenced the throo montha” The Visarey and General Roberts go to Man Weather hard labour.
dalay next week. CHARNIE OF KITINAPPING.
1 AFFAIRS IN BUZMĄĆ.
BOMBAY, 6th January, Four more Europeans, namely, Meers. Co-
69
On date On date at 10 am. at d pa.
Previona day.
4 p.m.
Barometer.....
30.02
30.13 90.08
Temperature w Humidity Direction of wind ... Forse of wind
56
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3
1
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0.07
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Pabroshels and to
1-Bangas reduced to 32 the level of the wem i fackes, toxika
1-TEXTERATURN in the shada ka degoses Fahrembris. J.-HUNT in percentage of laration, the humidity o
air saturare with moist are being 100
DIN OP DIE WIớ tai pointa"
onda of the When ourding to sufort Hote
"VAR "WATERKA: 3. biệu xây) O. latachod being rain + P.us: G. Suomy; &, hall; I ring, draconat; P. fassing thowwe, squsly; B, wain | B. Know: T. thunder, V. vidhiäty: W, dew (woff. -BA in inches, tents and hundrede.
W. DOBERAF. Hongkong Observatory, 28th January, 1886.
FIRST-CLASS GoDowns at i per Cont. Nett pre- mius per Annum).
NORTON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 20th May, 1881.
----NOTICE...
(15
HE OXINA FIRE INSURANCE COM- T PANY, LIMITED, Is prepared to ACCEPT FIRST-CLASS RIŠKŜ at 47, nett par Anunm, and other In- NURANCES SË Current Ratea
Angus at all the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, and at Singaporo, Saigon, Penang, and the Philippines
JAS. B. COUGHTRIE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 27th March, 1652.
17090
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
THE Tadorágned, Agents of the above Com
pany aca authorised to INSURE against FIRE at Current Rates.
GILMAN & Co. Hongkong, 1st January 1883. į
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