quality of the two kinds of cake is the same, I am not aware that anything bosidon the soode of Camellia oleifera enters into the composition of theso culcés,
2-Fish Foisoning-On the night of the 16th of Septembar soremon wore observol to pat into a vo fish tank in one of the city markets a substance known as Cè'a teai pinj The fish were killed almost immediately. The matur coù- Cha taai ping is used by the Chise taining the poison was restored, and a supply of hair wash, and as sony for cleansing both the fresh water put into the tank. The only at preson, and clothes. It is also used for the rial available for aralysis was the dead tish. eradicativa of earth worms from the soil in Thoahov data-derived from the depositions which plants in pots are grown. In the gardens of the witnesses who gave evidoneo, at the Ma we also use it for oradicating ourth worms from gistraeyas obligingiz plaend at my disposals Inves. For this purpose the cake is urushed by Mr. H. E. Wodelnuso, C.M.G., the senior and boiled. Ti decoction is then, dünted and Police Magistrate.
poured on this grass when the works come to the In this case two questions were referred to surface of the ground. As a rule the final! on by the Court for consideration and report worms dis, but the larger suns ufter a time- 1-Can the active principle of Cha teri ping vascvor. After being picked up from the gras -be detooted in the dead fish ?
tias worms are often given to fowle and dholas 2-Am (ish destroyed as above it for human which devuur, the readily and apparently consumption P
turivo on them, experiencing no inconvenience from the effects of the Cha trai ping with which the worms were killed"
Before giving an opinion on these two points I wrote to Mr. Chas. Feid, F.L.S, the Superin kendout of the Botanical and Afforeslation Department, enquiring if he could give information concerning the preparation and uses of this poison, apovial referencs hoing made to
Botanical Gardens, Hongkong, September 20th, 1887.
AFTENDIX A.
Extract from a stoorandum on fisk-prison- the possibility of core than one plant cateringing agouts, received from Mr. J. H. Storart- into its composition.
I append as an Appendix to this report, an Lockhart, the Registry General -
"In ponds of great dimensions thass drugs extract from Mr. Ford's later und also no extract from a memorandum font le me by more than one is mentioned) are often used for Afr. J. If. Stewart-Lonkbart the Registrar killing tah and shrimps, and uro so powerful that General, of whom I requestal assistance in not a single flah can escape. The fish so caught obtaining the opinion of the Chinese tish offered for sale, and thewriter has anyar heard merchants as to the suitability or sherwise non single instanes in which any one has suffer- an article af det. of fish destroyed by Che tail from eating fish obtained in this way. Ch'a fu
is sometimes used for killing earth worms." ping or Ch'o jà us it in sometimes termed.
Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 2lan September, 1987.
It will be aen from fr. Ford's account Appendix Ajol its preparation that the seeds of
Camellia oleifera, Abol, of the Natural Order! Fernstroemiacono, minus the oil,ace the seasonsti. front; and the practical observations he rakagua to the uses of the substance for the dustynatian of low forms of animal life without doubt preve
'OPIUM-SMOKING.
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miviled abroad. The present system is based on no consistont principle. If a person domiciled in England vests his money in buying past- oral and in Australia, and stocking it with sheep, the sheep upon his death are liable to pay Legacy Duty to the Government of this country, but the land payn ac contribution to the inglisk Exchequer.
ID Your Memorialista contand that there is
buy a particle. The Chinese opium smoker is also well aware that he is indebted to his own countrymen for the obesp apitun ho uow smokes which in the interior does not cost him more than a tfth of what the foreign dors, and that Opium-smoking in China is but imperfectly produce in curtain districts is but little inferior that it is poison altheagh only al ons andersteel by the ordinary foreign resident to the foreign, capesially when matured by sga. Confirmatery eyidance on this latter in will all that is really known, aloat it is what has The smokers who uno exclusively the foreign be found in Mr. Lockhart's memo. (Appendix H) been said by soo few missionaries and destors, opium are becoming tower every day; they
The only recorded description of this fial-poi- who doubilees inso seen much of the evils o bagin by mixing, with it a very small portion no saalogy balwen the liability of parson, accessible to me is that given by Mr. Hugh sulting from toessive indulgenes in the are of of the native opium and gradually increase it resident in this country, to pay Income Tax in until in the course of time they diagonsa with respect of income derived from property situato Mellona in his anual report for. 1852, and in the pernicious drug. Thus reports and con. the foreign. Since the increase in the duty on abroad, and the liability of the persons entitled paper by the same author in the Pharmaceutical elusions are no doubt correct enough as drawe Journal (B Vel XIV. 1. Mr. Mallum from their own experiences, but ne uro decided opiars and the assumption of the Hongkong to the stato abroad of a person who digit de- refers to its us fish pon, aut states that italy of opinion that these gaztienen are not in Government of the ofles of lekis collector for miciled in the United Kingdain, to pay activity antlers due to the glucosion saponins position lo obtain a thorough, trustworthy, and Chis, the change is going on more rapidly then Leguey Thaty. In the former ease the which exists in the sends to the test of about unbiased knowledge of the effects of epiazu ever, and the rising gerorations will all smoka Income is probably sport in this country. 10 per cent. He sends aise nontain atkal smoking upon the masses generally. We have the native drug. The England for her Find ant there is no hardship is requiring the per mt. f a fize: oil.
wes it stated somewhere that the average term neas in protesting the China opium revenue persou spending it to contribute to the reveque The action of saponin en man he been but of life of an opium grooker after he has required can send her Indian product home and guasums of the country whore Government protects him little studied, but Mr. Wynter Blyth is of the habit is about eight years, which I think is it bersalt, as there will no longer be a demand and his property. But, in the latter case, the opinion that it is an undoubted poison and cap just as correct as it would be to assert the same for it in China. But the enlightened heads of tax is imposed upon the capital, and the property abb of endangering the life of man.
about a heavy whiskey diloker. Missionaries the British Government will never be able to stared tas baon noquired under the protection of The attempt made by as to discover the pin and medical ment only come in scntact with utters in their trus light simply from their igaorange of the subject-B. J., in Shanghai ole in one of the listen sout to the Laboratory thus ucforianale wretch who are in
Mercury. 1 Police proved a failury,
great teasere given up verything else for With regard to the question us to the ugo, as the opinœ pipe, and of this class there are bo human food, of fish destroyed by Ofen laut pity. I youd stonht a very great maay. But the well-to would invite atleting to the following considerado, respiciable oquem-smoker is an individual that neither, he medical men or missionary hos much intercourse with. Of this class there are also immenso numbers of both sexes, and many of them take their apinm at regular timen, gron- erally of an avoxing, very mach in the same way a foreigners take their wines after dimmar, or their grog before going to bed, and the offect the cue is no more serious than that of the other.
tion:-
1. Le chence of any record of such fish
ayting injuriousy. 2-The opinion of the Chiness is to their
harmless aatura
3-au fact that birds ato pot affected by
worms similarly destroye
of
EFTECT UPON COLONISTS OF THR ENGLISH LEGACY AND" STOCÈS-
SION DUTY ACTS.
the laws of stother conatry, and moy, very likely, never be brought within the jurisdiction. of the gentry which taxes it
Ou 216 inst.
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Kolding forth na one who knows ho aspe his subject; the deat trac Visions of a fular rony, When the hated forsign race Shall have loft Cathay and vanisbol In a general bankrupt cout, Every forsiga tai-pen haniebai, The Cancian quite played out. Further, pirsys, the fancy talon thro Thon forkert at thy feel
Goodly pickingt: China makes thos Adminul of all kor feet:
Sphinx-like restero! thou whose inlad in Quito inscrutable to me,
Do not think your master bliad is To the charts of mystery,
What if thou dost shirk the duties,
"Tis the nature of thy kind,
I rovere the mystic bounties
Of thy protopinemt mind
*
✩
*
Ent, Wang Erh, confesion take thea! Nover wort thue bold before, Wretobed Pagen, I maat wake thes Sinor thou hast begun to moto 1
TUNG CHIA, in Chinese Times.
REGISTER.
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Nagas
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24,72
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31 nila......
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g from the Paolic. was when a typhoon is anyone in 120 China est, as W. DOBERCK. Hongkong Observatory, 19th July. 1888
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An Importaut Discovery is announced in the consider the question of introducing into the Paris Figure, of a valuable remedy for nervous Imperial Parlimonta measure to exempt personal debility, physical exhaustion, and prematura. property not situate in the United Kingdom decay. The liscovery was made by a missionary from Liability to pay Logany and succession duty in Old Mexico; it saved him from a miserable In witness whereof the said Council have existence and an early grave. We learn that caused the Commns Seal of the Royal Colonial the Rev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions Institute to be afixed hereto this twenty-second Bloomsbury Square, London. W.C. will send day of Noveatur, une thousand eight hundred the prescription, free of charge, on receipt of a will leave for the above places TO-MOLROW. and eighty-seven in the presunto of
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I can scarcely imagine, ecusilering the ra
Exchequer :- pility of the action of the prison, that fiah killed | It is really not the smoking of the opium that
1.-That your Mourialists are desirous of by saponin wacki have absorbed steteat of the case ouch trouble, the transbla hegins inviting the attention of Her Majesty's Gowser. glacoside to render the objectionabla S where the means to precure the drag end. Boment u the effect upon Colonists of the article of diet: devertheless the protica of des.long as a man has the wound to procuro his re- English Legacy and Sucation Daty Acts. troying them by such means is one that the Go-gular supply of opin and to tivo moderately 2-Your Memorialists desire to point out that vernment should, for overal reasons, in all in well, there are bas littlo apparent deleterious the Duties payable in the United Kingdom upco ita pasar to poveat.
effects from its 182. All over China, at the the death of persons possessed of property are of -Sappoint Administration of u Stupefying present time, the habit is indulged in by nil twoolasses-first, duties on Probates and Letters ding. This was the man of a Chinese gantti, 19 classes, from the very lowest of day laborers to Administration, and, sadly, Legacy and years of are, who on the 30th of May was admit- the highest offeinls. It is on the polic class Succrazion Duties. Dads of the rat olus: a iet into the ospital "under his induence of u that it tells with the greatest soverity, payable only on personal property, which was
ratio poison.
In his most prospectus ofronmetanoes the coalie rithin the Cuited Kingdoza at the time of the The Magistorial aquiry olisited the follow has hat pranions little left from his day's death of the Testator or Intestato, and, conas Ing particulars-Between 7 and Bum, ou the booar after his day's wants are satisfied, and quently, they are not payable on property of the
Whether in regard to Legacy and no- 17th of May, the boy-then residiur in Canton one would think that he would be hardly dicended which say Lave been brought into the ssion Duties, in the paed of a person who with his parents was sent by his father to pay willing to part with it for opium. It is with Kingdom after his inth, and been administere ales domiciled in England, his personal property A sum of money to a certain shopkeeper in the Chiness coolie just the Mme as with the by his Executor or Administrator by virtue of situate in England and his personal property City: The lad did not return to breakfast, and artisan and labourer in other parts of the world; the Probate Letters of Administation (Sestane in a Colony ne stike liable to the suspicion ring arcased, his older brother luft stier their day's work is over, something must the Attorney-General Hope, 1 Crompton English Duty, the latter property being als for Hongkong the see areuing out reported be done to while away to evening. To the Meesca and Roscoo's Reports, 530). The liahle to the Colonial Duty, if any. the occurrence at the Central Police Station. A Europeas, the grop-shop proves the most allur domicile of the deceased is a matter utterly in-
Whether that liability to pay double Duty reward was offered for the racovery of the hay, fog, so accordingly there he goes to spend the material in determining whether his estate is and other anomalies of the present system can and on the 20th of the sa suntha Dotective proceeds of his hard day's toil in drink. The linble to these dating. As regards the duties of he put an end to be the adoption in all parts found him in caints of inserstbility on board & Celestial maast also have smokers to spend a the second lass, Succession Daty is payable upon of the Empire of the principle that the Insality On steamer that was about to loare Hongkong for couple of hours in dolce far niente end divest bira real estate, irrespectively altogether of the of the Estate, and not the domicilo of the Testa- Singapers
self of the few cash as may have, an he resorts to domicilo of the deceased; if it is situated in tas When the hoy was dischargot from the Ho the opizm shop, where he lays himself down to United Kingdom it pirs duty, although the tor, should determine the liability for Legacy pital and examined by the Magistrate he stated anke, gossip and war the current news of the doctased may have been domiciled abroad; while Succession Duties ou personal property, as thot se he was passing along one of the streets day. This sort of thing goes on until he begins if it is not situats in the Kingdom it does not of Canton a man, whom he had never seen be to feel a sort of liking for the pips; if par daty, although may have bal an English, fore, puffed some smate into his eyes and rubbed ha dose not get it in the evening a sort of Scottish, or Irish domicile. But, as regards his haud once down his face. He at once beonma vagna uncomfortableness co ever him, the duties on personal estate, the domicile insatsible and remained oblivious of everything and he turns to it at the first opportunity for of the deceased is all-important. If he that took place from that day (the 17th until the comfort which it surely brings, and restoras domiciled in the United Kingdom his personal the 20th, when he regained his senses and found him, for a tine. At this stage there is little or estato, although situate abroad, is liable to my himself in the Hongkong Oivit lospital. ne difficulty in laying it aside. bot by continuing duty the Attorney-General . Napier, Ex Dr. M. T. Yar, A.M.S, then the Acting the habit becomes daily more confirmed and chequer Reports, 217). If he was domiciled Superintendant, was of opinion that when he dificult to leave off. There ea erry often shra, eren although he may have died in the exfund the boy he was recovering from the extenuating circumstancos in the acquisition of Kingdom, it does not pay duty, even although it effects of a sardolie poison; but I failed to detect the habit. It is well known that upium relieves was in the Kingdom at the time of his death free questions, I beg to say that I bave received snob North China Insurance Fls. 285 per share FOR SWATOW, AMOY, AND TAMSU!dress in full; and sure wilt ka sive Inf the any poisonous principle in the material extracted pain, and in many diseases it is the modern Thompson e. the. Advnosto-Generad, 12 Clark from the lnd's stomach soon after his admission practitioner's about anchor, only he does not and Finelly's Reports, 1 Wallace . the Attorney-|
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My answer to his second question is Memorial from the Royal Colonial Institute.
also in the main in the affirmative.
He is alcaping--well, don't wake him, Let another take the chit;
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F. L. WOODEN,
Superintendent. Hongkong. 18th July, 1885. OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM BUP COMPANY. TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE: FIA THE ATLANTIC AND OTHER CONNECTING STEAMERS.
Caming, Commander, will be despatched for OVERLAND RAILWAYS, AND the above Port on the 21st icat
For Freight or Passage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agozta Hongkong, 7th July, 1898. DOUGLAS STEAMSHUP COMPANY. LIMITED.
FAILOONG,
F
FTHE
[78 Steamship OCEANIC" will be
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong 19th Juif, 1889.
11254
CASSANDRA,"
despatched for San Francisco, vit Yoko- haus, on SATURDAY, the 29th July, at THREE PM: Connection being made ad YokohamEL with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Porta
All L'ARCET PACKAges should be marked to
Company's Oce util is . the dny pre- | sioni to`sailing.
First-class Fares granted as follows- To San Francisco.
$200.00
To San Francisco and return, 350.00
available for 6 months.
To Liverpool.... To London
325.00 330.00
To her European points at proportionata
rates. Special feduced rates granted to Beers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the Imperiat Chingas Custway to be obtained on Passengers, who have paid fall fare, ro yunbarking at San Francisco for China or Japan for vice versa) win one year mouths will be Alloyed a disgan. v 1 This aftance dons not apply to through fares from China and
FOR SINGAPORE, HAVRE, AND HAMBURG, VIA SUEZ CANAL AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, and BREMEN.} THE Stanship
Captain H. C. Thomsen, wil be despatched for Jawn to Earope the abore Parts on MONDAY, the 23rd inat., at TER A.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & So,
Agents.
11313 Hongkong, 11th July, 1888.
"SHIRË" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR LONDON AND HAMBURG. THE 'Stestup
THE
"HERIONETHSHIRE," Dowling, Commander, will be despatched for
the above Forts about the 30th insthat!
For Freight or Passage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co,
Agents.
{18 Hongkong, 11th July, 1858, STEAM TO YOKOHAMA VIA NAGA- SAKI AND KOBE.
Hongkong Hops Manufacturing Company, Li-will
mited-$84 per share, sallers.
(Passing through the INLAND SEA).
E P. EO. S. N. Co's Steamship
"BOKHARA,”
Consular Invoices to accompany Cs:go des tined to its beyond San Francisco In the United States should be sout to the Company's Oleos, addrossed to the Collector of Custotis, San Francisco.
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For further information Lo Froight or Fnasage, apply to the Agency of the Com pany, No. 50A, Queen's Road Contral.
G. D. HARMAN, Ageat. Hongkong, 12th July, 1898.
NORDDEITTSOUER LLOYD.
NOTICE.
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STEAM FOR SINGALORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID,
BRINDIST, GENOA, ANTWERP, BIEMEN, AND HAMBURG. PORTS IN THE LEVANTE, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC PORTS;
ALHO,
LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BAL- TIMORE, NEW ORLEANS,;
leave for the above places on TUESDAY, GALVESTON, AND SOUTH AMERICAN
Yangtze Insurance Association-Tla. 97 per TE Company's Steamship into the Hospital. In this intenon a special administer it in the form of smoke, but either General, Law Reports, 1 Chausery appeal Casus, Upon the death of a person consteiled in England China Insurance Company, Limited-$155 per Captain Road will be despatched for the above search was runde for Atropios the active priași-as morphine, landanum, co pills of raw opinm. 1), ple of Dutura albe, Naes, the Nha Tezng fa of The Chinese are also well aware of its medicinal
A.M. his personal property other than settled per On Tai Insurah Company, Limited—Tia. 148 Forts on SUNDAY the ad inst, st Nive -It may be observed that there are no monalty pays Legacy Duty, whether it be situate Chiness Materia Medies.
qualities, and if they medical uno fails to relieve words in the Legacy Duty Acts referring to the in Eugland, in the Colonies, or abroad. In the Canton asurance Office, Limited-$77 per A number of men were charged with kidunpeir sufferings, which he vary offum docs, they dominile of the deceased, and that the doctrinae of settled personally, which is subjast not
share, sales. sáng this youth, but the case fell to the ground almost invariably resort to the opium-pipe new prevailing on the subjret has been stab to Legacy but to Succession Daty, the liability Hongkong Fire Insurance Company's Shares through lack of evidonos.
for tomporary rolef. We have been told by lished by a series of decisions, some of which were
¥347 per share. A perusal of the cases of poisoning by Dature many cplum-smokers that it was through illness inconsistent with earlier decisions. The principle of the property to Duty depends not upon the oited in No. 8 of Notes on Chinese Materia, Me- they acquired the habit, and after they had once therefore, that the domicile of the Joceased, and domicile of the Settlor, bat on the question who Chins Fire Insurance Company's Shares--$77
ther the property is vested in English trastos, Der share. dica I would ad on to imagine that this boy had taken to it they could not leave it off, if they set the locality of his personal property. Is to been drugged with sons agent allied in its phy-did, thur old complaint would come back again. I determine its liability to pay Legacy Duty, and can only be recovered by an action in Eng-Stasite Marine Lusurance Company Limited (Taking Cargo at through atos to AZTWEEF, Application.
lund.. ciological nation to flisasily accessible poison; have known others who sucked opiam regularly ennnot be said to have been ever discussed or With rogard to the third question, I can only and that the somewhat extraordinary symptoms for several years, then throw away their pipes expressly sanctioned by the Legislature. re-counted by the victim might bo referred to -sud left off the habit withent any trouble or BB- 4-Iu a large number of the Celouies, for say that the great change which it contemplates the hallucinations to which partous as subject riona consequences. Opiazu zeins to affect difinalanes, in New South Walas, Vistoria, Queens could only be effected if it most with the appro ral of overy Colaial Legislature as well as of in the early stages of poisoning. by drags of the forsat individuals very differently; some persons land, South Australia, Tamaris, and Now the Imperial Parliament, and that that change is
mydriatic class
acquire the craving after indulging in a tes Zealand-Aots have been passed imposing duties nue which I should certainly not accept without The remainder of the acalysis wero of minor pipos daily for a wosk or so, others again will on the estates of deceased pareous; but in nono the gravest consideration. importance, and call for no special remarks. continue to smoke regularly from ten to twenty of these Colonies has it, so far as your Momo- And in answer to the fourth question, I am days Enfore their systems become thoroughly rialists are aware, been declared, either by ex-
personal property not situate in this country now Assistiot Apotheory, Mr Wunder its infinue. May persons sucks off press legislation or (with the exception of the carafuly not prepared to take steps to exempt Malain Watson, entered on his duties on the and on for several years and never allow them case about to be referred to) by judicial decision from Legacy Daty. Such an exemption would 25th of Septentior.
estres to become slaves to the pipo. As soon as that the duty is payable on the estate situate The appointment, da ti Civil Modical Staff, they began to experience the desire they lay it without the Colony of a Testator or Intestats manes heavy loss to the Revenue, while the com of this officer who hold the Maja Diploma of aside for a time to allow their systems to become dying domiciled in the Colony. It is indeed pusation Enggested by the Hon. Member-viz. the Pharmaceutical Ecciety of Great Britain, therongbly clear of its influence and so get rid tran that in "The Queene. Blackwood (7 Victis subjection to Legacy Duty of the personal places the Department so far as the Analytical of the craving. To acquire the habit a Low Reports (Law), 400) the Supreme Court of Property situato in this country of persons and Pharmaentical work is nearned-on that it cannot be left off without a foaling Victoria decided that the personal estato in New demieiled broad-would not only not make ay proper footing. To provide quters, for his no- of undefined want it requires to be taken South Wales of a Teststor who died domiciled that loss, but might involve us in very awkward I have done my best to answer these questions commodation I vacated my s at the West regularly at the same hour for a number in Victoria was liable to the Victorian Duty: controversias with foreign overamenta eal of the large budding, and puding the up. of dage consecutively. With some countity bub this decision was reversed on appeal to the explicitly as I nould. hat the discussion of a intment, and for un monts after the actions the moderate use of opium sentes to Privy Couuoit (soe Appeal Cases, 62). Indiffent financial problem like this is plainly rival of Dr. Atkinern, I rosid in the quarter produce ao perceptible efforts, while with others consequence of this decision of the Judicial sel apart for the Superintendent. After this Eere is no doubt but that it produces a very Committee the Supreme Court subsequently de quite beyond the Boope of an answer to a ques
The Yasen e. Smile," 7 Victorian ion in this House. removed to quarters 81 1 East ord of the Civil pleasant soothing sensation, so much so, that rided (see Hospital, and am at present lodged there pending when one experienced the temptation to repeat Law Reports (Law) 404 that the estate in the construction, in connection with the Iospital the experiment is very strong With such in Victoria of a Tostater who died domiciled in extension scheme, of the new Laboratory with dividuais it is very easy matter to become con- England was liable to the Victorian Duty Se THE SIESTA OF WANG EBH, THE TING-CH'AI. quarters attanhod, which will, I understand, bo firmed in the habit, and they are lost for want of in New South Wales it has been decided that complated during the course of the present year. bhs moral courage to lay it aside, but contiane domicile does not affect the question of liability I avail myself of this opportunity for stating onward to their destruction just the same as the to pay the duty, and that property in the Colony that the Student Apothecary, Mr. U 1 Kai, habiteal drunkard. With all its attendant evileia fiable to pay it, although the Testat dise continues to make satisfactory programs with his cannot as whereia spiam-smoking te one domiciled elsewhere (see in the Will of Ruther studies. I have the honour to be, Sir, your partide wore if it is even as bad as whiskeyford, 8 New South Wales Reports (L) 178).
5t follows, therefore, that if a person dies drinking. That both need to excess are great evils is apparent enough to any one who has domiciled in England, leaving property in givan the subject a moment's nusideration England, and also personal property, say, in But whatever the opian-smoker does, he does it Victoria, the property in Victoria pays duty in a quiet way, not like the confirmed drank twice over; onco to the Government of the and who drials to excess, rolls in the gattor, Colony, and once to that of the United Kingdom. Bghte, not unfrequently commits worder, is This is undoubtedly a hardship on the persons often taken before the magistente, fined, and beneficially interested in that property. The Extract from a letter received from Mr. Chas imprisoned. The magistrate's office is a place present state of the las, moreover, places Hord, P.L.B. Director of the Hongkong Do where the apim-smoker is seldom or wevor Colony at a disadvantage, for if the Testator had Banical Carlous
seon unless in his last extremity he has been been domiciled in Vioteris, instead of Bagland, "In reply to your enquiries desaing the taken there to account for some article ba has bie property in England would not have been preparation and us, of Dh'a tai peng, I have riolen to abtain the wherewithal to satisfy his liable to pay duty to the Government of Victoria. 6.It is obvious that the present stato of the much pleasure in being able to furnish you with craving for opium. The game be with drink, sare information.
it has wrecked many well-to-do homer; nummer.iaw may perhaps sometimes deter persons "While on a Betapical tour in the Kwang as instance ste kuwa where the opium domiciled in the United Kingdom From making tung province, from which I have just returned, smokor, open well-to-do, by neglecting his investments in a Colony, as they may think that I had 25 opportunity of inspecting plantations of business for the pipe has lost it, had bis pro- the fant that the liability of an investment in the shrao from which the material is obtained,perty sold to keep his wife and children personalty abroad to pay datles to twa Gorecu of geing mills in which the article is prepared from starring, und finally had to bug from door ments may utweigh the advantage of the higher and of receiving loformation on both the culti to door, bas still alioking to the epiniz as long as incomo to be derived from an investment in a vation of the plant and the preparation of fefe lasted; nch cases are unrous, but I think Colony, instead of in this country.
7-Executors may sometimes, from the pre- oil from an intelligent and courteous old Chi- mot more so thắn through drink. Did the nesa gentleman.
laws of the land allow it, tha drunken wretch wont state of the law, be plaoad in a difelt "Casalia oleifera, Abel, is extensively grown who spends his money for raw, beats hig prudtion, as it may be foubtful whether the ionth Chins for the production of seeds wife, and starves bis little children, would domicils of the Testator is English or Colonial, which yield a valuable ci kaowa as tra call them to obtain money to buy his favorite and they will, in that caso, have to decide whe Ch's tsai ping is the refuse malter lett after the beverage with just as really as the opin ther they ought to incur the expense and risk of oil has boos expressed. The preparation is very amekor. There are extreme cases it is true, resisting a claim for Lagaay Duty made by the simple. The goods are collected in October or but I do not think there is a cast in either that English revenne authorities, or to pay a alku November, dried and takes to a mill, where they has not ila parallel in the other. Only the which they may believe not to be well-founded zra crushed in a circular mortar or trough by opium-smoker has fewer murders and other bein- 8-Your Memorialists believe that the proper pestle drive through it by waterpower. The seeds; ous crimes to ba isid at his door. Some mission-principle in tlust the liability of the estate of a after being crashed are steamed and then the arins say that oping-smulding in a great draw doccased person to pay duty should (as in the uzana is placed in a powerful prean which ex-back to the spread of the gospel; the same might of Probate Duty) be determined, not by bis proses the oil. The refuse, after the extraction be said with oqaal propriety of intemperance, domicile, but by the locality of his estate at the of the oil, je the article known as Cha tai ping. But in China I do not believe that the fact of time of his death if it is within the jurisdiction, It is produced in cakes weighing, when dry, foreigners having introduced opium at the open it should be liable to pay duty-if it is not about 3 ons, and 31 ks, spectively. The sorts has any effect on the spread of Christianity within, it should not be liable.
B-The adoption of this principle by the Oplum is now cultivated over the whole Empiro,
• Camellia Sasuaqua, Tiuab, Juder Flera Bin and the home product is far greater than that Parliament of the United Kingdom would entail sip.82..
imported. Alf the Chinese know well enough little, if any, loss to the Exohequer. If the ↑ Poisons (1884), p. 421.
Note on Chines Materia Modica, by . Ford, that what the foreigner brought was the drag Exchequer would lose the income it has hitherto F..... Ho Kai, M.B., and W. E. Crow 8. Datura and not the d to cultivate, and every Chl-drawn from the property, situate abroad, of par pase knows equally well that the foreigners soas dying domiciled in thle country, on the Toxicologists will be interested in the disory brought the opium beosase it was wanted, there other hand, it would gain by taxing the property last year, on this island of Dziura Stramonium. Linn, being demand for it, and no one was forced to situate in this country, of persons dying do “a spomine hitherto unrecorded from South Chins.
most obedient servant.
WM EDWARD Crow, Government Aurlyss and Apothecary
Cisl Medical Department. Dr. P. 8. C. Ayres. Colonial Surgeon and
Inspector of Hospitals.
APPENDIX A.
siba, Vees, in China Zavies? vol. 2 VI. p. 9.
*
Me to change the state of things.
*
You, Wang Eth, now thon art dresing, Proof, the smile upon thy face Oleaginous, unmeaning,
Like the smile of all thy rece.
What is there, Wang Erb, that plasses
is thy aren? Kent wost at cards?
izoenwet them of future aquaares,
Or of getting round thy perde? Daily at my desk attending
I observe thy stolid mies,
But I'm far from comprehending What that stolid look may mALD.
Ja it wisdom? Tell, I pray thee,
Art thou one of Olcott's growi Fada double? Dons it pay then? Hae Nirvana come in view?
Tell me, when I see theo gasing By the hour into sp
Does it man thy spirit's raising Hades in some other plane?
Or art merely sadly thinking
Of thy far of avering
Is it baply that a sinking
P
In thy stomach thou dost fool?
When we my verandah walking.
At the hour whon twilight blemis Day with right, I tear theo talking
To a circle of thy friends.
Art thou earnestly explaining
What Gautama taught to me Ken's doctrinal Art proclaiming
Of the Lctur and its Gem?
How the Dewdrop in the ocean Softly sinks and is at rest- How a worldly Efe's commotion In but vanity at kost?
Or is th-alast for me
!
Timo kely-that thy mind (Now thy wastor is not mear theo) Bati sction grime doth and
Inetren of malorisikopa Poured on that same zoster's head,
the a string of pleasant flotions
As to what he's done and said;
A. S. Watson & Co, Limited-00 per cout, the 31st instant, at DAYLIGHT.
preminus, buyers.
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.,
Limited-$483 per share.
Singapore Insurance Company, Limited-$21
per share.
Chinese Imperial Lown of 1884 B-5 per cent.
premium, now.
E. L. WOODIN,
Superintendent. Bengkong, 18th July, 1888.
STRAN TO SHANGHAL. THE P.&O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamship
"MIRZAPORE," Chinese Imperial Loan of 1581 0-9 per cent will leave for the above place about 24 hours
premiam, nam Chinose Imperial Lins, 1886, E-11 per cent after her arrival with the outward English
premnícm. nom.; saka.
Socisté Francaise dos Chartsouragea di Tonkin
-40 per cent. prem., salos. Hongkong High Level Tramways Company,
Limited-10 per orat: prem., nom.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE,
(PAR MEISER. Falconer & Co.'s SonazeTRA.)
July 1stk.
Barometer- rt,
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Thereford V. Man ve da va chiqinəmi Theriometer-é aim. (Was bulh). Thermometer) vs. (Wok bold) Thermometer-47,14. (Wat bulb),.... Theonster-Kadan ottima T'hmon\+^_-15 İnfram. (over night).
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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
Barometre
Mails.
n
E. L. WOODIN,
Saporintendent Hongkong, 18th July, 1888.
FOR NEW YORK. THE 3/3 L. L L American Ship
WANDERING JEW," Nichols, Mater, ahertly expected here, will iced here, for the above Port, and will have a quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
FUSTAU & Co.
11066
Hongkong, 1st June, 1888.
FOR NEW YORK. HE OS L L L Americas Ship
THE
"C. O. CHAPMAN,”
Highborn, Master, shortly expected here, will load here for the abors Port, and will bare quick deepatch,
For Freight, apply to ̈ Hongkong, let June, 1889.
PUBTAU & Co.
FOR NEW YORK. HE S/L IT British Ship
Pravion day
On date on date
at 10 cm. xt 6 patla
at i pad
29.7
FYS
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Tamperstars, my car
67
65
29.70 THE
Fumidity
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8.8.E.
5.9.E.
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W. DOHEROK.
Direction of wind Force ofwină ...pan Weather is
Hongkong Observatory, 18th July, 1888,
"NYL GEAU,"
PORTS.
AT
THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL
BOUTHAMPTON TO LAND PASSENGERR AND LUGGAGE.
N.B-CARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGË BILTS OF LADING FOR THE PRINCIPAL PLACES IN Russia.
NTHURSDAY, the 2nd day of August, 1888, at 10A.M., the Company's Steamship PREUSSEN," Captain C. Pohle, with MAILS: PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO will leave this Port as above, CALLING AT ČRNOL
Shipping Orters will be granted till Noor, Cargo and Specie will be roosived on Board until P.M., and Parcels until 10 AM, on the Tat August, 1888. (Parcels aro not to be sent ou Board; they must be left at the Agency's Oos). Contents and Value of Packages aro required.
The Steamer has splendid Accommodation and carries a Doctor and Stawardees.
For Further Portionlars, apply to
MELCHERS & Q., Agents.
Hongkong, 7th July, 1888..
FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
THE 3/3 L. L. L Danish Barque
“HYDRA,”
C. Christensen, hlaster, will load here for the abere Port, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
MELCHERS & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1888.
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THE
Captain W. B. Batler, shortly expected, will load here for the above Fort, and will have quick despatol.
For Freight, apply to
SIEMSJËN & Co. Hongkong, 14th July, 1888.
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FOR SAN FRANCISCO. NHE AA I British Bark
"EJ. SPENCE"
Gill, Master, will load here for the above, Part, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1888.
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