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MAIL SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST S1T, 1890.
"and its afluente shown for any work which interferes with ? taboine are not leas cosmopolitau than those lime le time reported from misaon stations; morals and pucis? The Chinese maintain, the step takes bears will tho character of an as of
strong convictian and honesty.roundings or the gamblers, by mesas of detectives that intirea Were Told that it would be so,
th
10
THE BRITISH MINISTER AND THE But there is another theans by which the of the disasters cours the law of one for Chaber of Commerce, in which there is no of mature Christians altogether. The casos a question remisius, brunot the Hongkong water-pass the wonder is that they bars. Bot
defence of the public wrought more wholesale destruction. "CHUNGKING! ONVENTION
There is no apparent evidence of spite. for the zomyotiling could be met, and that is by the himself comes into play and small respect is distinction of nationality. The interests of of persecution bravely bone which are from ernment in something.
Customs dilution roand, the Colony to prevent The diplomatic labours of the Triti spching of the West Biy
of capital
in the
the interior show that there must be angegilags conll, at the Colonial Gingernunt self-preservation 11 has been said that this
Af purpose dspuld then be the course the neighbours deeire the waters Minister at Peking have at last berne game to straw. Davig
establish roze syejem of unpleasant explonnage work of devastation has baur sales and that any of the converts, but the tangible fruit, and Bir Joux WALERAS has water to the whole way from Hongkong to take. In the case of the railway at
ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND ITS
in Hongkong and at the o
But basil-bal "open ports are per- I would reader, the visits to these gambling hou es concluded a convention of which possibly lie of Canton to Post with not more than one Tientsin, the occupants of the land on one
DANGERS.
The wab on the west side of the line Las hape hardly so favourable to honvalt. But les agmeable, and at the same time put on- may feel proud. If such be the say, he whipaient. To Wuchow steemers of side stopped up the outlets for the water in
Christin of will find very few of bis countrymen in the moderate draught could send all the fear ordor to keep the food from their own doors, Some months ago we drew atfention, in however this may be, ani Chinaman, whether players on their guard. Thusia detective might boen tailly falling, and that on the sent mids or pagan knows that it is wrong talte the nars of Hangkong vators, and a mean steadly rising ever slow the line was broken Far East who will share in his satisfaction, round, and during the months when the while the temple on the other side cut the coupection with the introduction of the take his wife up to the Police Station of their gains or losses, and thens returns might up, partly parbeps from other core but ver electric light into this Colony, to the danger
she ปล bren track three t
times in the published wookly with the name of the gamtainly in part also brangs of the breaches made The task before Sir JouNWALSHAN WAS vers full probably much farther In the embankment in order to secure a passage of overhead wires. Whether vaderground | by a policesun when nothing of the would deter many persons from freqposting policy of the pupil, it is by no means prop
blers la the Goverment Guille. I think this Whatever we may think of the wisdom of be hich had inundated their wires are much safer way, perhaps be doubt. chest
kind bas occurred.
That perfectly simple and straightforward He upper reaches, where is might be necessary for the water
lands Similar occurrences might be ad, as they bring with them the risk of -bad merely to insist upon the provisions of to use native craft, the progress of these
accidentally come clame 1" of Section II of the Chefso Con would I greatly, accelerated if towage by expected in other parts of the untry, and communicating the current to gas or other such confluet sinuld have been attempt places where they camet dorive good and must that it was altogether usstore or dislated by
Hongkong, 14th August, 1890. veation being carried out, and the Upper launches wore parmitted. The average rate it is seldom that year passes without pipes with which they may Yangtze team Navigation Compray, Emit
Hoods is one of the provinces the loss to the
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK ed, would him i cadeavoured with shelt new up stream is about twenty miles a day, proprietors of milways might possibly le's the Lighting Company we believe eve
In his sketch of Hong kong, published in the COMPANY, LIMITED steamer to make the ascent of the river from made chiolly by the laborious process of rather considerable item. In the case of the caution has been taken against danger in
· The following in the report of the Directors to Ichang to Chungking. I, us some sucking or pling, which neesstaten large Tongshan Railway the loss, it is said, cannot rectaen with their overhead wires, and Times of facia, ft. B Bus at the
Z
of progress of the native passage boats
in contact, and then may convey
attempted a fustain niocal injury-Yours faithfully,
X, A.
indeed remarkable..
over it-inki houses. To those of the Hongkong Wet-
DISORDERLY HOUSES.
עו
every pre
TE
I
spirit of antipathy towards the railway or the füreigners who conduct t
THE CHINESE VIEW OF ADMIRAL LANG'S RESIGNATION.
„À Correspondent, writes from Thatşin to the N. C. Daily Newe as follows :-.
Your article of the 3lot of July on the resigna- very able and stallent, and it is only fair that the Chiness side is also heard from before finel judgurat; is passed on the case. That the Cap
simists: prodiered, the Kuling had heu frews. The use of stooin launches is loss an Ti 15,000 per month, while the risk of accident is no doubt smallton to a grievance under which surne of bisbe presented to the vidinary half-yearly smiting tion of captain Laing from the Poi-yang may in
recently been received
street or district.
to
of shareholders to be held at the clees of the GENTLEMEN,The Toolors bate now to Habrsit Company as the 25th August -
the half-year ending with Jane.
is an officient, honourable and capable officer sue their report with antalement of atovurte for The total recipe for the six months are $702,463.69, in ovary way, I de ant, for a moment, 'disputa,
to which has to be added is halance brought forward memorial to the Throne of his engagement to appropria 1185,689.32 was is what I propose to bring forth. In Viceroy large, refer prging intorest, dar and but what his real position in the Chipses ziery
29968.00 $169,861 36
from last nagount
Directors' ter00,00 Auditem'. [hos
400.00
conferred by the Chefdo Convention. After son of steun tonage. But if the Vicer respect of primate profit from the resultant received of entries in the official registers there are disorderly.entioned live in the leaving avnble for appropriation $164,185 becaie generally addressed
*
pal la comparison with the enormous losser tuflicted on the country from year to year by the goods.
THE DAMAGE TO THE RAILWAY AT LUTAL
THE BRITISH MERCANTILE MAKINE UFFICEES ASSOCIATION."
iu
triciona
and
stus
firme:!
Tenth Avenue when an electric gistrar-General, but beyond a caution
touched the back of his neck.
metal
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CAPITAL ASTOUNY, JANUARK to Juse, 1890, ABBETH.
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six mont
$
great and powerful as he is, would bara thought thrim before daring to force un adviser on him. It is obvious then fast. Captain Lang bore the same relation to Admiral Tiog as Mr. Denny did to the Prime Minister of Corns!
seems, however, impossible to completely countrymen in tins Colony labour, Public crushed to pieces on the rocks it one of the dually moresang tu the neighbourhood af Cost of repairs may be pat down at the least climinate the elemout of risk from the sist numerous rapids, it would have been their Canton, and if official restrictions were feat is 50,000 Lattle protection for the of this illuminant. Some interesting statis. Prostitution, be says, is not located in one misfortune and no one's fault. But they were moved would speedily become general on all works can be expected from the Authorities Lies of the victims of the electric wire lace Jupinase, and eve Chinese houses ist
from New
New York. The in streets where respectable úiddle class acting strictly on their legal rights in build the waterways. The concessions: unde in While the present system of decentralisation Board of Trade, 14-appairs, resently applied
Daily to the house ing the vessel for the purpose, and they should hammedis neighbourhood of Canton are prevails, each petty official and each village to the Government of the United States for foreigners and Chinese terciants reside.
and hamlet being left to do, what sermin gund an official return of the fatal casualties that instance, lu close proximity to b
of foreign officer as naval adviser to the. Pe Fare been allowed to make the trial; The something to be thankful for, and it air then own Juden. It has oven been have resulted, from elvalvíc currente in that cupied by the firrus of MeAura. Cowasjer Pallonjen & Co., Messrs. Tata & Co., Mesera.
yang quadron Captain Lang was called Brign Tung-Yuen, in their memorial to the lot be unreason ble to aryact that the bane-
dier-General Lang. That's Brigadier General Throne on the now Convention, admit theright acial offects will lead to the chil, extensuggested that at times breaches in river country. No complate data having as yet Talati & Co Blesses franjee Hormusjee and from this bays to be deducted
banks are intentionally ends when there is a been collected, the request could not be com- & Co Meats, Jaitably Peerbhoy & Co.
is not an Admiral in plain and that a plied with in full, but a transcript has been and several other smaller places of business,
4.200.00 val adviser in zet Commusader of the on
is equally plain. How Captain Lang quoting the article in the Convention seter, of the Two Kwang takes any interest in the
houses. The InDnagers public calamity. Whether there by any found the Health Department of the Municipality of cost of the
AN Admiral ring to thioy go on fo ramark The subject and desires to cure the traction for thapur not, it is inevitable that while of New York relating to such occurrences in same premises where they do their business, balf-year of 5 per cent, or $76,125, be paid to the bat it is certainly carrying arts too far The directors recommend that a dividend for the Lang is inszplicable, perhaps through caurtesy. anding of the Article is this perfectly clear, role for his own provinces intead of allow the prosent by stern continues, and the great chit city during the tires years 1837-9. There and consequently the shouting of the weinen starabol sern, and 1- Bones of $100 to contributing aad them arz ub prima faris ground for it to be diverted to Tonkin, he will hate Fivers in the later jar of their course run were thron in 1887, five in 1888, and eight their efter oustomers, their lord laughter and shareholders; that $16,000 be written from the naval adviser in gallien pus in makand Tapnében, S.000 from the vale of the Fat Fishnet have boon tho equal to Ting whe way ihsating it or for placing obstacles in the to revise, bis firent aystem and allow Foods on aluguer level than that of the surrounding 1889. The victims are not contined to elecloud tail, are an intolerable nuance for of the New Dock, S, From the value of Stal advisor in position, Captain Lang could way ita accomplishment," The objections along the river on ferhis as suya country, disaaters from the giving way of the
employer if the Electric Light their immediate neighbours and make night and the balanes, $36,758.3 carried forward to now appointed by Imperial Deared as the Admiral of Power Companies. They include a a vlerk, hideous. Such a shameful
the Pei-yang naval forces, Trize, the literal By on amiable arrangapout with the subscribers
· they urged were that as the course of the those worded by the French Trade can-banks must be of frequent occurrence. With a pedutor, a buyer, a lor, an engineer, M. SHROFF says would of affairs, cost.
tolerated foto the fand in acila, the Criest opinas bis translation is Major Gen ral, hus it being the Yangtze in Everhuen is tortuous and fut! dot possibly fleurial when there is a lekan
11, 1⁄2 proper system of river conservancy all this a boniter, and a reman: The poddler af jaggell rocks, if a steamer were to make station eycry few miles and duties are could be altered at a cost which would he was found dead on the pavement in Broad day in Bombay, and he considers it a grez been sold to HM the King of Sham, and the suit bighest military rank of both the way and
apon the otherwise admirable the toyage the native craft would inevrottolled until the amount is so much
tolded a wire banging labas from one of the that it is high time that the members of The working of the New Dook less proved trb of Viceroy Lt. Far from being s. Admiral Ting PARKA Was He is supposed to have invertently tration of this rising Coony He; long pending between the Arabbishop of Man and the navy in China,the term of Admiral is not in- the Company has thereby been & ally spitled, which appliesblo, People, as arala, underrate the pawora Hegats any he cuando gratifying to the sharehol fera of Admiral Ting and live is under the thumb he ran into and destroyed, while the hat value of the goods
overhead networks, which had come in con- Conned should take this matter. band and satisfactory, amber of vessels having book pl men ongagod in the traffic being numerous,
tact with an oleotrie wire. One was struck order the nefarious trade to lie located within it during the mouths, but in many gases the can memoristise the Throbe independently of the RATE WASsch could have been docked at Aberdre, de Vinery and can offer his humble opinion to his troubles would be sure to result. The ob
dead while engaged in the simple act of out in certain otrosts only, and he expresses his the dros there were copied for a good part of most august Majesty with n rasalting the
another jections were simply puerile. If the steamer
Board of Admiralty. The ugg gent of Cap- through ting a wired a cellar of a house / surprise that the Parsee residents du. not the half-your. W. A. PUEDES, Chairman. stumbling 01:
Lala ang naval advice to the Pei-pang We believe cou A haruh into native craft through towa
agitate in the matter." The labourer was at work in a shaft in plaits have from time to time en
Squadron was really a enneossion on the part of negligence of default the owners would have of a railway a futúl is a regrettably in The destruction the populace of a pari
Aberdoor... wire addressed to the Police and to the Re Trains of Sbertoon Dock, as por last
|Admirał "Thir, who knowing his own defiojanioles had to bear the cost, but this was in the highest dust of the docde in the North What The mercantile marise officers of stated to have been standing on an iron to the keepers of the disorderly housus ao value of Rosie books a
c. Requiescad complacently in the wishes of Viceroy The
utatement sou
150,000,00 | Lind he objected from the Úrat, the Viceroy, degree" unlikely as the ascent would have
wwning in
in the street, Flen: he beau mundo with the utmost deliberation and was the motive which led to the not? Was are to be congratulated on having formed themselves into an Association for the pro-
incautiously to their veh
behaviour nothing has beur doné, bei
per last statement
674,131.10 cantion, and exceptional care would naturally holic to the railway itself, or did the motion of their professional intercete. The grasped an electric wire with a like fatal re- Some time ago the Government had under · Leas smount writs off Inst
peuple honestly think, the course they took Assoustion has been in existence now for
sult the buyer was simply handling its consliteration the expediendy of order- have been taken to avoid collisions of any would in some way mitigate the effects of some little time, but it was only on Tuesday live electric wire. The number of deaths is from the centre of the town, but so far nu Tokunat expended on New Ses
show case whi
which happened to touch
of the removal of this Sir JOHN WALSHAM bad-the cards in bis the flood, either as regards preservation of night lost that what may be called the serhat, alarming, but when it ja thing has transpiral ss to the devising To amount expended an arton. hami, and ho had only to stand on his night, property, or the comfort of those whose who has accepted: the Presidency: je soms six or seven times as large state of affairs is certainly tal
address was delivered by Captain ABHTON, WH
ideacy. borne in mind that the population of Now any arrived at. The scandal of the present sion to moulding shop during Ww.do
u do not think the members
as that of
5: of Hongkong and that of having the ill-natured things a Supposing, however, that it seemed to the of the 2nd instant, to which
of overhead wires in a strese number fail to attract the attention of an paper we are indebted for most of our them that Captam ASTON SUCme to times greater than hero it will be soen that gent visitor, who takes a stroll round, thài Foreign Office politic not to stand too in information regarding the foods, we and pate. Im the contrary, no u can in the proportionate risk in Hongkong will be. Indiae who live in the neighbourhoid who To cost of new deck as por last statement,
town in the evening. It is not alone the sistently on those rights, surely Her Mazku
to the pathise with the
the general idea on jesty's Representative ought to have smiled
the alie Association
19 founded, though its not infinitesimal, but vertainly small. As object to it, though they enfor the must i
to additional experience of electric. lighting is
Faunoyance, Europeus also comp's In one of these we are told that the sub criticism in points of detail. If we venture danger frota contact with the wires will no town without being acco
art of the part sation for this surrender in some other fa
on a little criticism we trust it will not be "feet abová bighest water rudaing north considered a
texdeclared the safest uicans of illumination, friendly. And in from Pongku to Politing and buta pross some urries that in the President's Just as the railway, with its occasional apt
And in the first place we must ex- as a dam to stop the water from reaching addreed no mention was made of the Sunday paling dismalers, is on the whole the fest the so. The embankment was of course labour question. When this was being dis means of revelling The great railway
An extmordinery muling of the shareholders and legislation was gnate, Sir EDWARD WILLIAM WATKIN, agitated for, we
we suggested iz, the cessation LL, WIZJ
Sunday world is a of
railway
carriage, but the the Ollices of the General Managers, Mosure.
Renter, Brockelmann & Co. for the purpose of To sundry Antors (*): confrming the regolation pissed at the meeting. To cost of material on hand
on steamers, which show a clean slate so far Company. There were prosent :-Messrs. R of the officers and
As Fuhrmann (Chairman). CE Rowles (of Me. the right s navigato the Upper Yangte from the Bood, Bot. when the water bad whom the busting system has formed, compared with keromne plectricity must Wölton & Deacon's, solicitors to the Company shareholders for paid up capital.
bears hardly as she lives of passengers are concerned. the inside of the embank Such an organication has not
Hohoke, Yang Shoe shing, C. Klingsson, Los reymonta 2,148 28. d ment the drowned out people seeing that ut, so far as we are aware no action has possess a considerable advantage iu point of R. NObly Len Kwang Peo, G. Wiolur. H, By Admiralty loan 1,000 De. 08
keen talren on this question the Jubaniety, and even when compared with gas at (Secretary)
that the latter also BAIEMAN Gentloh, this meet- found to place in the Pre sobered t
Alfaddress
Victimus_by__auffocating ing convened for the purpose of confleming A and explosion. Bill it is well to bear in the protal resolution passed at the reeling held con his address was that maht not to be allowed to possess point of being installed in Hongkong, that propose for confirmation the following resuls By Hougang Land lavestment & Agency orticcatee. The law which fails to it does carry with it a not considerable tion That the Company he wond ep telan Company Limited, lown on mortgage ni
atarily under Cho procia na of the Comper aundry preditors
7 per cent. he terme ao iniquitous law risk and that it is important exercise. Orduaanoes 3F65 to 1-86, and that Fredeticky balance of proft brought tha
Alexander Alfred: Buzing Broekelmano" and objects altogether to the competition cantion in regard to it.
Ernst Richard Fahrman beeappointed lipida. (By pront "tors of the mid Company with liberty for either of them solely to exercise all the powers of the joint liquidufino.
"kind with either native craft or boatraen,
homes tallen destroyed In the Chinese
two directly contrary tepe
a
need be afraid
Bid about
fail-
there is
is many
if
84,000.00
Wail during last six months.
$614,131.J
1,629 46
and cannot
-$web-six-mostlinyama intelli-To- romering rook round dock
Lead,..
Now Book.
B09.11
50.00
egy aranuts writion
Cozmopolitan.
himself of the opportunity to secure coupressus for the cutting of the embankment constitution, and objects may be opened farther were of neutralising the they cannot pass through a tha. Ta value of Coaiapolitan Dock,
diretion. The desirability of obtaining the tatal embankment or the railway" four-natured or otherwise than debt be discovered, possibly it may be
vight for british merchant, steamers to navigate the affluents and upper reaches of the Chukiang has now for some years occred attention, and the matter has been urged
THE NARVEL BAY TRADING COM-
PANY, LIMITED. .
por last tulemont...
Less extunt writion, off last
259,265.97
9. ball......... 19,300.00
Tag. Lantics, and Lightare, To value of fiat Fisk, un par la stato.
meab To valuvy 3 atcom Isnubes, 1 steam fighter, cargo lalitor.
And boats as per hautement 1,481.82
ches inɛf six months
both by the Freas, the Chimber of: Com constructed with a view to this contingence cussed many months ago that the chlaims, indeed, that the safest place in the of the sboratum pany was-hell-on-the-albinsteinamaaut. w-ties off laun..
merce, and by Sir GEORGE BOWEN, when Goternor of Hongkong. Tac importance of
**and ample flood openings / word annde in
Fect
have hem a filling offset to the surrender of
the line. These, however, the country work on board so 18 to protect their patches of ground on the
on the part of
foreig abipe in
in barbour, Cunard Company might perhaps more
this concussion is considerable, and it waswople on the far side diligently stopped up might be brought about a propriately claim the honour for their held on the 4th inst. for the winding ng of the
with steamers. But no, Sir Joss WALSHAM
was either too apathetic or too weak to gains. this right for the Queen's subjects; he was quite content to make an unconditional sur- render. Opportunity may wait in vainan, such a diplomatist, Ruruar has it that i Excellency is about to retire. This is surely the best thing that he can do. Thes
PAKHOL AND THE TRADE OF SOUTH.
-WEST CHINS
In his report on the trade of Pakhi for 1880 Mr. Allen, Âding Consal, refers to
coumula
·
it, only wanted an
cut the railway Way" wea Thur costenimg
violence to the
Betwton two fires
#betweenthe
ever, minimized by the offg the company, reasoning with the people and pointing out that before breaking the
lambankment it sure better firat la segon
the impediments to the free course of the water which had been created by the block-
transit trede in Tonkin has been published, were housed. It further stated that yo
JAMES LIABILITIKA,
5,609.06
046, 12:16
331,365.07
2,206,30
199,106.28 -308,644.34
Bearing those tants in mind lot, ne ratiow again the Hongkong incident in a new light- in the Chinese light if nas likes to call it so. Adroiral Ting sot out for. Hainan with four draisers, of the Admiral's flag wa haute down, becanes the Admiral had gone. Supposo the Admiral's flag were left dying the public would have been led to believe there were two Admirals on board the Pei-yung squadron and 678,891.76 there was only sne. Captain Lang ought otherwia and complained; the Vloeroy valuing hin | sarvioan tried to please him without coming into conflict with Adiulia! Ting;so ha orderanlike dying of tag with four instead of tive colon.ra÷Vigomy Limo do, mány things, but he could not makə Captain Lang sa Admiral wilbout the Throne's Banction and the throne had already appointed Ting as the Admiral Captain Tang ahee to consi lur the attempt on the part of the Viceroy to plesss him as off and being so offend and he resigned. . At all times orders were irrned in Admiral Ting's name, so Captain Lang had 36.481.89lly no authority to be deprived of "As a covul adviser Captain Isang did his duties faithfally, he brought the foot into stape, $9,6,8 họ disciplined the men well, he murd
***** | the squadron in perfect manner, and in all thera 10. he was well seconded by the Captains and officers, ,1,569,600 00 | some of whom had rossired their sumtion at | bons and bad served in the British navy. True, the valuable services of a very paluable officer rá lost to the Chinese navy, pavartheless the navy will stand. I do-uot say it can, at once, be--- matched against the powerful marina in Europe,
officers, she will grow strong and mighty. A ussy is not built in one day, China cus afford to wait.
Tour article says China dons not treat ber foreign employees with consideration. Alan ! abatreatstham only too well. Any one but à neval 169,901.35office would have sudarstood the round-about way of the Viceroy to please him and no one but $2,866,109,99 a naval officer would have shows su great an amount of welfarespect. For that raven I admira. Adenira ng and who do not! I'bers. are, however as the world, says some for- 310,705. guars in the Chluess Government employ who 31.706.17 ATs entrusted with unlimited power which they | 846.10 | 165 and`abass as they please, who amasa gres? 1,400,35 | fortunes and live upon the fat of the land, and who, though' xwverely criticised and scoffed at by 12.03
bath for igners and Chinese alle would not ex. 500.00 change their places for any other high and hon 527.00 ourable position. I. for my part, casuot boljers 3,77.39 foreigners in whaterer service they may be, are vo devoid of all honour. Wate there resily anch 502.14 593.69 men they are not fit to stand on the same: Lorel 139,803.82 with Captain Lang
51 17. SA. (à 3/4) 195,403,40 By Admiralty-les-exclatge sooonnt, di
at on 80th June, 1990, at credit of this tore pa bolwenn ex. 80, and demand
out erevansh Captain ASHTON INnd now stunt the ulceris light is on the fou the fourth of this month; and I now beg to 13,728.37 fatill, ander her present Admissi, captain sod
A TRUMPED UP CASE.”
The wee fried in the Supreme Court act week in whith a Chinese schoutmaster sanght recover damages from a Police Constable
DE DORNTE FAUGIAU.:
The motion was carried unanimously.
forward from fast soccost
300,000.00
310,585.91
£68,03
BEVENUE ACCOUNT. To cost of labour, material, and, working espanske at the company's three patsblish. mantskog
Tintoret
To Ereitenracion | .......
Foon, claries, stationery, wind,
a. at kond office port
ment and Agonay Co., Limited, losa ........... To samiry legal expraven To drawing ofion stationery, and instruc
musts for your To telegrams..... To profit
ith Britishers on British ships, very good thing in its way: en ships should be officered by Sete thing which in the Eriton must dreire, But attempting to bring
about
THỜ CHAIRMAN-I may as well waution that Terelusion law i would be well for illegal arrest and assault possesses some as the General Managers hava been appointed the competition of the Tonkin route will the "ing up of the food openings." In the other consider the
This idea of interest from more than one point of view. liquidators be such a large majority of the cost. trade now carried via Pablo. The pject are at the affair isrepresented as "a tremen exclusion on the old be briefly stated. The shareholders the rent with which Pikhoi was established as a dove ancerailway renouest, and it is stated or lunch is founded on tropping their chestate, woocompassed by excise, officers, forty your to one, they will socept, the op treaty port was to top the south wese pro- that there was no foundation for the allega unexpected place, but which whenever went to the plain, 's houss, armed with a pointinent, believing that it will be to the vinces. The zunual value of its foreign tion that the railway embankment was dam pa
him but in consequence of the remark muda.i British shipping to s considerably The plaintiff was indignan at laving his by one of the shareholders 26. the last mouling, trade now exceeds £1,000,000, and it is esming back the flood, as thoru was at the fat gain Perringe mure. loss than warrant, to make a search for illicit opium, interest of the Company that they should do To stamp duty on Hengkong Land Invest- more than half of the carrying trade of the domicile invaded, and had to be pushed as have dimoted that the accounts to audited. To drawing ones expenses and salacios... timated that about half of this has been a temporary difference of level of only 15 m whole world. Would those who advocate aside in order to allow the excise officera to I may as well mention that sings the last meet- diverted from. Tenku since the imposition ches botwbon the one side of the milway and the exclunge of foreign officera advocate make the search. The opium was found, ing calls on a further one hundred shares Late of Frezen dation in that country. Efortable ether, while the only properly, which was also the excision of foreign curgo. If we and as the plaintiff was creating a distart benu paid. are now being unde to get that trade back in jeopardy and could bo protected wad some try the
The meeting than o osed. margo of No exact statement of the dura levied on the mud huts in which certain camp followers FRA VORT monster nations it does notare al calling out "Tu" he was taken injustice that for-into custody bug with his brother, the
By groan earnings of the company's thres opum After being hailed out hould endeavour to have a hand in the Police Station in the HONGKONG KIPLE ANNUÇLATION,↑ establishments the working of our ships. Again, it may be be
ja je na Bytowage, molt vermings in middle of the sight with his wife, who, he The 13th competition for the Faki Challenge By tranfer foes Bo far as we are aware, but Mr. BAPPER, 14 thero is reason to appose the food wee naked, whether merchant seamen leged, Had been rezulted by. Life constable. Cop took place at Kowloon on Saturday, the 16th Br bonus oó pre nja, ko: Commissquer of Customs at Mengtra, în ronde partly a pretext for an outbreak of any more need
thai,other trades his report for last your mentions that on "entity, to the railway which the common-
foreigner is free to The statement was that the coustable bad inst. Mr. E. Bobuson the up for the most articles, the, dues are light, în only a "ders of the troops at Laita were not di land in England and engage in any business struck her three times in the chest. She was first time. The following are the scores made
be
the conditions seut kkeaton complying with-
hospital forexamination, and was
towa certain line of goods reaching 5 per cent of pleased to sen gratified. But the aunt uider which dative bura Englishmen sink found to have nothing the matter with her. Mr. F. Robinsou their value. In addition to this lightening is self contradictory, as well se being to What special gap have the mercantile ouring Un the facts of the cise as presented in evid- of dues, the French are also improving com- contraction to the other account published officers to have so exception made in their ence a verdict was given for the defendant, the F.C. A. Wilson, munications. A railway is being built from by the same paper for we are told further as Some time and the question was plaintiff's claim bang dismissed, with costs,
raised
as to the expediency vf allowing. ToeJudge, iu stating Phit-lang-thuong to Langaon, which, tough on that Furlons attempts had been made foreigners, to
his decision, said he did Es pilole in Br qualify
British
annatruth, but he trains by placing obstacles on the rails, the to so constituted a danger to the state; be thought he had just lus head altogether -navigability of the Red River: has now been object being apparently to to possession cause in time of war the fore he objection being very charitable view to take EC. W... Warnock
pilots wight over the
This strikes us s over matter take service with the enemy. The conclusively demonstrated by the ascent of of the enbaumann, the only dry ground advanced by Captain Asazon to foreigners of the plaintiff conduct; for the case two steamers to Isokay.The problem
allowed to quality s
amorcantile, has been, and is," says Mr. ALLEN, har best
is based on to carry goode from the Tonkiu Gulf in the "now encatoped.
compete with adoped up one from beginning to inland waterways of Kwanga, which seter apply a sumcount motive, without import British officers. They do, undoubedly.com- the time the peto, but unless we are wich mistaken the and prolly
tered his house,
and proferun
no tlibok
designed primarily for strategic purposee, for several days previously to wreck the waters, but there be suggestion was that to engige plaintiff in giving bie Lient Carly, A
cannot fail to largely develop trade; and the
wished to
in the country. For which some thousand perficere potirely penis, on a perusal of the evidence, to have
of men, women, children, and cattle are marine
This is itself seems to rods,
Barely,
[been
was no doubt angry a
af
ha
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We all bara te or less juice in us and in 1709,43.68 ought to ho sold according to its worth. As China always page dearly for juice of all qualities. aba han noguired a perfect right to toss aside the sucked winds if she thinks
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On this the Daily News comments as follow- 997.61 Our corespondent's latter is founded on a com
plete raisconception. Captain Lang was neither 2702,468.66mval instructor zor naval adviser to Admiral Ting. Indeed is a quite recent nombar of the Peking Ganette ho is called, tho Deputy Com mander-in-Chief" of the Priyangquadron. When at Lord Salisbury's solicitation to rejion the Chinese sarvíce, he stipulatod and agreed dis- actly with the Viceroy Li that he was to be in A weiter in the Chinese Times of the 9th install aspects Admiral Ting' equal, with "the
D. GILA. Secretary.
THE DAMAGE TO THE TONGSHAN RAILWAY.
in an article describing the journey from Tongay sa it is called in ommmerplal parlance. The whole executive was to be in his hands, but shan to Tientelu saya paky P Admiral Ting, te sve" the face" of the Chiasse, Perlaps a few words in regard to the effects) was to be bie nominal equal All orders from of the food upon the railway and of the railway the government or from Li to the squadron apon the flood, may not be cat of plass Notice were to be addressed jointly, to Adikirals Ting bau already been taken of the numerous brewebes, and Lang, and all despatches aigued by them in the lion to the wulh of Lutai. Abore Lutai jointly; and these stipulations were carried the damage consists of twenty-one branches made out until the incident in Hong bong, The by natives (remi" villages west of the live, who ignorance and utterly unasilorlike besring d to the number of 100 or 300 get to work | Admiral Ting, who to this day hardly knows the Last Wednesday and out opening in the how of one of his ships from the storm, were char- 4ft to 30ft. de dit in width. Probably they tank he had been persuaded to assume, of licking
foreigners · were coming down the canal, for hbo the first to allow that he was well wounded
ways gire access to South-west. Chins in tinc enmity to the railway on ite own accompetition will have to be met in the furger, but that caund just cause for We do not hold persalves responsible for the opinionej ballast in fwenty-one placas". (akring · from fally borne by Admiral Láng in là zeal for the
and
e had had several weeks to recovOT
confines himself to the probable effect of the tang dry land available without much regard without any aid from the Weapons Pacing false evidence before the Court after TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS,"
from
Pakboi is, in straight line, only some it,. We are not converted to defend the ask the members a Hegde the word the Fast: Carey on high time some potion should be taken of this sita, lepers, and Hitings were conducted, and cause he was the executiva of this squadron.
Beventy-five ruiles distant from the greek | zion of phe peasantry, still lose the inaction of made heatles Foreigners the church. We should think it must where tens of thousands of dollars are lost weekly meót nođer the rails and not make a pass-hunt, Captain Lang, must have boos: called
ber Cousidered any general. Mr. ALLEN expressly leave the When a large number of people are drowned. ture, 6 has been in the past, by the justification or palliation of his conduct in THE KOWLOON GAMBLING HELIS. received warding from quick salling boats that the Priyang squadron into shape, and hs, would Red River route out of consideration, and out of their homes they will naturally swachh Billst officers with their own
SIBI see by your oulaas this morning though they were seen at work at a distance of by the captains and offloors" who had received Logon milway on the trade of Pakbo to the means necessary to gain possession of Looking at the maller entirely as it may his excitement. The tale about his wife be that one more man has come to gried through about 2 they estered in boats and disappear their education at home and had served in the fresrenting the gambling saloons at Kowloon ́ed behind the flooded koolang to tas west on our British quoy." If he were merely naval advisor, the officers or interests, we would ing struck three times in the chest is so in- City. The rusfter is becoming serious, and it is rearer approach: The line was intact so far as he would not require say renk at all fit was bo
Jave
re not credible as to carry its own mistakemmelnding.
eron var borders Publis gambling is pro re passed over the brimobes stepping on the responsible for it, that he sad our government Ther Association, ¦ The
is a teacher
in a London Linted in the Colony, but just outside its borders, rails and sleeport All that had bean done insisted that he should have equal rank with his meant that
and is or was a deacon the Chinese bave eat up large establishment to cal sway the ballest and mud embank colleague Major Goral Ting. The suggestion
point of the West River, but the fand the Authorities who failed to keep them in earriage over that comparatively short space check, bas judging by the soodunts before o
to be excluded We take it that
China cors
be more
Mission
Would told
Phool:
by an apologist for the
Costs more than does the further carriage, we are compelled to discard the theory of ow is formed mainly for the promotion of the be very annoying to the directors off by the residenta here. These garbling helikeepers age for the water to get away to the Admiral through courtesy" is altogether too for some three hundred miles or so of water tremendousanti railway excitement and
on the the mission to find one of their schoolhouses have found their profit in attracting the people The fact that further south at aberi distance ahildish
There is too much reason to fear that this there are way as far as Po-se, at the head of the us we think to pity the Chinete Times should frisk of mercantile marmnumber of successfully searched for illicitoplum opium of Hoegkeng to their dene, and not only provide the railway itself in flooded, would almost ineline
free lannau but fren refreshments for those one to regard the action of the destroyers dies of Admiral Lang is a part of the reac vigation of the same stream Mr. ALLE have published, such an ides abroad. Our Loreign vessels trading on the same run, and woking. considered by them' casential frequenting them. It would be bad enough if unjustifiable, but even at so short a distance the tion against foreigners that is going on in
then to see tha naturally anticipates thas when the Laugsen contem; orary being on the spot is of coone the competition of these must necessarity;ly immer by the demonture the possessed of money went and, lost it. for differstips of level between the water on the west thins, and we should not be ai all surprised to
affect the term which milway is completed, while the lead route; ai a better position than we are to gauge pa-
the owners of British cut in court by
we are that would mean theimpoverishment of the Colmynd on the cast of the line was then when the lusra that the departure of Admiral Ting from in the bat it is far worse than that, for men in places bresobes north of Intal were just opmed. I foot: Hongkong to Hainan, and the subseqani inalt from Peakout to the West Hiver remains "pur feeling respect of the rallway, butt, bele byable to vive their officerer Guna Had in an article which we should of trust are lured over and gamble with money, the water on the west washing against the stops to Admiral Lang, were pre-arranged with the:
Foline to
to invite the foreigner what it now is, such tende as Pakipi, kas wa belived there has been no generat kostility to unite with the British flees for their mube sorry to think inspired, that nothing betwhich is not their own. It was, thus that poor ballant and that at the east sido unt reaching intention of getting rid of that gentlenian To diverted from Tonkin in the last few years evinced towards it, and it by a fact that not tual beneft rather than te koop him outside ter should be expected of native Christians. Gray me to grief; it was to this temptation within a host on the rod store. To stand shoro have a man of strict integrity in such a position Uni Barraden succumbed; and the ratepayers a brewshi wad use the forea with which the water is not at all natinfectory to Chinese officia will be re-appropriated by the latter. long ago a petition was presented by the as an undercutting doment The interests It is undoubtedly the fact that when have now to suffer by these mer belug withdraws rushes through towards the net inclined Adpaired Ting found it sure dificult to all the Lof both are identical and those interest Chinaman applies to a European fox from the wags parning alaus to be kept in confae us to think that, though this work of des officers, berths with the cousins and noise of lis The competition of the Doaku touto could mitives for the construction of a line from would be better promoted by union than ployment it is not deually considered any mint a pebid expense. Many others have lost traction was by no mean the best and wisent owe opondents; and Admiral Lang's strictness be not by the construction of a railway from Thentein to Thu
by divisions The German would appre-ecial rommendation that he should de most material cums atri olliori sgain have course to adopt in order to from themselves from was Invinvaatent in many ways, which will be Fikhơi to Naoming, à scheme which receives Whatever the motives, which led to the crate an msh as the Englishuman sacara iniself Christian, it is not pe-imbibed the the gambilag mania by frequenting this calamity, it was certainly the set natural widerstand silboat detailed explanation. The Mr. Azzar's support, though he does not sug, cutting embankment, the event is note improvement in his pay and position, and if cessarily an object on, but it is so well known this plane thing in the world for the people to do They high omials, too me beginning to think Can to stop be put to this aval ? It is not sig uw the water dally, riang higherion their lands; that they can get on without forsiga as gest that it is at all likely to be carried isto) worth
nga langwer railway auterited to 00-operite in the endearing to
those are the objects aimed at he might well that amongst those calling themselven
is there is a large proportion of on how Chine is at liberty to lioutoons many they saw the milway embankment stand seitation or persistenco lo uew way. The 1, "contend with attain them. The British marcantile maria
gamblag, done on her own territory as the barrieråbretched along the country so far na the Board, of Admirsity, we learn, has gone into to use "slang pleases, and it certainly will please the Chines lere can reach; they how that every foot of the utter confusion luce the Marquin Teing's tot 4 floods along the Offers Associati
tlier maket:en--- Autoerales to drar a revenge from Hengkeng, webankment was a binds to the flow of the death there is uobody 20 In Faking. lines id Lingvvaj rivira Bnd whenever was study the cosmop
think itwell to keep clent thing you be more acceptable, probably. Ent dood water to thy son, so they opened it to let the who takes the least interest in it, or ouros tha
མྰ 「i
Effort Buch a milway would be an excel "prise lant thing for the Southern provinces and. The cou
prove a very prof
Would
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