WATSON & Co.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH, 1881.
little colony, although they doubt have to bo over-ridden before the will arrive at home in good time to ganised a LESALE AND RETAIL: less sent all the assistance within Miceneso can be induced no shine-re-open-the-celebrated Blockade ques-the country
DRUGGISTS,
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
AND.
Manufacturers of the following AERATED WATERS, viz : SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA,
AND POTASH, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
7 AM, to 7 P.M.
"SHIPS' MEDIGIENE CHESTS 'REFTIER, PASSENGER SHIPS SUPFLIED
Prompt Attention given to Const Orders.
poly"
$
eminently in trade. However, the tion, case is far from hopeless, and as we have hundreds of Portuguese in
The cricket season at home has Hongkong, working hard as artisans opened most auspiciously, and al- in various branches of manual labor, though no Australian or American as engineers, printers, etc., etc., there team will try their strength during seems no reason to doubt, that the the year against English cricketers, same satisfactory result could in time the great matches promise to be as To attained in Macao. This is a con- exciting as ever. We have to note summation devoutly to be wished a remarkable record made at Alveston for and we can only hope that the on April 18, in a match between a Bristol Club, the "James Thorne," Lisbon Government as well Senhor Graga will now avail them and the well-known Gloucestershire selves of the golden opportunity Club "Thornbury." The James before them, of rendering the ancient Thorne" went first to the wickets port of Macao something more than and were soon disposed of for the a vast gambling hell, a disgrace to small total of 42 runs, whilst their the civilised country of which it is opponents, forthe loss of three wick- an off shoot, the bye-word and scornets, amassed the extraordinary score of overy respectable community in the far East.
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their power, and the "Gem of the Sea
was gradually, but sure drifting to irretrievable ruin at dependency of the Portuguese crown, when the tum of the tide," which they had been waiting for so long and so patiently, came at last. The departure of Viscount Paço, d'Arcos, and the accession to power of shrewd, sensible Scutior Green was the first sign of a change for 4 Deliveries in Town and Harbour from better, and lately the good gifts have been following each other in rupid succession."Farming" and "Mono- "have proved important factors in providing a handsome revenue for other settlements besides Macao, although as English colonies gener ally throughout the world were evidently established for the sole purpose of placing us in a position to be able to preach to our neighbours the true principles of morality, we may not be able to approve, from a moral stand point, of some of the shady dodges adopted by foreigners for raising the needful for the nationaled that the Perseverance Lodge mects exchequer. Truly enough there was a time and not so long ago, when even virtuous Hongkong did not disdain- to fill its almost empty coffers by ministering to the vices of the com- munity and although nous avons changé tout cela, the recollection should induce us to view with some slight degree of leniency, the resolve taken by the Government of Macao, Correspondents are requested to forto grow rich immorally rather than ward their names and adttresses with all to pass out of existence respected, communications intended for insertion, but not latnented. not necessarily for publication, but as evidence of good faith.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG. SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
SHANGHAI.
CANTON.
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE DISPENSARY,
Foocnow.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 16TH JUNE, 1881.
An over increasing wave of good luck has for some time past been steadily flowing in the direction of the neighbouring Colony of Macao. So substantial in fact have been the prizes so unexpectedly evolved from the wheel of fortune, that for the first-time since the abolition of the disgraceful coolie traffic in 1874, the Gaxarumont of the famous Portu- guese Colony can claim to be in an almost independent position, so far as finances and a fixed revenue are concerned. From that day so fatal for Macao's transient prosperity-on which the fiat of the great European powers went forth, that the in- famous trade in human beings should cease, and that tho hateful barra coons be closed at once and for ever up to within a very few months,
The Fap-tair monopoly. was the first grand coup to support a govern
ment, and maintain a province in a
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Members of the Craft are remind-
this evening at 9. o'clock.
San Francisco dates of 23rd ultimo, The next American mail bearing may be expected here about Monday next, the 20th instant.
be
The next French mail boaring London dates of May 13th, may expected to arrive to-morrow, the
M. M. steamer Fangtsé.
17th, per
The British steamer Marborough Liverpool to the Babuyn Islands, spoke the barque Cambay from in latitude 15, 30, and longitude 114 W. She desired to be reported
"all well."
of 674 runs, E. M. Gracemaking 228, W. G. Grace 196 (not out) and J. Cranston 174 (not out). This makes the celebrated East Melbourne versus Tasmania score of 742 look remark ably small. Shall we see "Victorian” once more on the war-path?
being vanqui At San Francis member of Congress, and passed the famous Bill respecting negro children still in force in the United States, and known as the Moreno Bill. Ho was the first to establish the direct steam service between America and China. On quitting San Francisco he went to the Sandwich Isls wher heas made Prime Minister: Ecars letters of introduction amongst others, Garibaldi, Bisme the Pope, and the late Lord Beacon- sfield. This is a very fair circle of acquaintances to make. It is nearly perfect, and would be quite so did it include the Tichborne claimant, the Giffin, Mr. Parnell, and Herr Most.
from a recent number of the World. We take the following Naval items
tile Mr. Edmund Yates, who under They are from the pen of the versa
the nom de plume of "Atlas" hag gained quite a notoriety as a high-life Fossip-monger:---
According to Dutton Cook, the
Can it be true that Whitehall. well-known dramatic critic of the World, the celebrated American trashortly to lose the services of Ad- is at present performing at Drury gedian, Mr. John M'Cullough, who miral Sir Astley Cooper Key and Vice-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart ? Lane, in a revival of Sheridan Vacancies in the appointments of Knowles' play, Virginius, has proved either senior sea lord or comptroller a complete "frost." Here is Mr. Cook's opinion of Alfierica's greatest trui
actor:-
of the
navy would be seriously feit just now, the distinguished occupants af each having shown themselves to Mr. M'Cullough is a robust actor The selection of a successor to A be possessed of special qualification self-conscious ad supremely confi dent, but of an aspect so unheroic miral Key would be attended wit and unpoetic as to be suggestive much difficulty; for he combines His bearing is energetic and inanly, derable scientific knowledge and much more of comedy than of tragedy. high personal qualities with consi- but homely and undignified. The great professional experience. might play Job Thornberry tolerably, to my thinking he is an unsatisfact- ory Virginius. He owns a powerful but unmusical voice, and strains it to the utmost; now he rants in the
I was the first to announce the intention of the Admiralty to give an effective little armament to the stem-pinces attached, to men-of-
sort of shabby-genteel respectability; and admitting that a revenus derived from a direct encouragement of low gambling houses has a nauseous odour about it, Macao had a precedent
The Achilles, which arrived yester even in these days in Baden-Baden day, reports having spoken two Brit and other states of the German Con-ish gunboats on the 10th instant old periwig-pated' fashion until his way, and authentic intelligence now federation, and has one still-in Mon- steering a N. E. by N. course, which speeches become inarticulate and reghes me that those craft which unintelligible, and now he is inaudi vay in length from thirty-seven ble from foreing his base tones to pro- fest to forty-eight feet are being each ceed from unnatural ventral depths;fted at the Royal dockyards with a his clocutionary method indeed is seven-pounder guairo tonfelt altogether unskillful. His acting a Gatling machine gun, outrigge, lacks nature, impulse, and spontanie- and Whitehead torpedo gear.
a
are most probably the Est and Tweed now on their way to this port Singapore.
from
In our list of departures yesterday we erroneously showed the Leping as having left for Singapore, whereas
of over-elaboration and preparation, that gunboat went northwards toy, suffers from the sense it convoys. Shanghai, from which port she will take her departure for home on the arrival of the Swift, expected shortly.
It was
We are glad to see from recent home papers that the test pier which was erected at the Tay Bridge has erected a little to the east of pier given great satisfaction. No. 31 of the old structure almost in the centre of the channel. It consist ed of an iron caisson filled in with concrete and sand, and was sunk 26 feet under the bed of the river. The object of the Engineer was to asce tain the effect of sinking a pier in a load equal to seven tons per square substratum of sand and mud A
foot was applied to the pier, and under this heavy strain it gave no evidence of subsiding.
aco. Forty thousand dollars for the Opitum farm was the next hicky windfall; then came sixty thousand dollars for the old Custom House, and, as a crowning mercy, no less than one million and fifteen thousand dollars for a three year's monopoly of the Woy-Sing lottery. Should nothing unforeseen transpire during the next for years, there is every probability of the revenue-derived from these questionable sources be ing doubled or even trebled, as the speculations, so far as the farmers are concerned, are reported to be. highly remunerative. With special reference to the Wey Sing, we cannot see that this particular lottery, because it happens to be in hands of the Chi- nese, is one whit more reprehensible than that conducted under govern- ment auspices at Manila; and if harsh term is doserved by the Macao authorities for protecting, fostering, and living on this species of gambling, the Colony and its inhabitants were Manila is equally a black sheep. fit subjects for pity and commisera-
Should the Home Government tion. Trade stood still so far as the not require a slice of Macao's. good Portuguese inhabitants were con fortune, the surplus coin can be ad cerned, the whole of what little bus-vantageously laid out in many local incas there was in the city, being in works, likely to increase the prosper. the hands of the Chinese; a masterly ity of the Colony. Macao Harbour inactivity reigned supreme through sorely needs seeing, to, and if the out every grado of society, from the Government would only pocket their lowliest member of the national bat-pride and engage a practical man, talion to His Excellency the Gover nor himself; in the day time the streets were as much deserted as the ruins of Babylon the great; but the military were at their posts in all the pride, pomp, and circumstaped of war, whilst women and children were starving at home, and ashamed to face the light of day in their poverty, and nakedness. The gloomy old place, sufficient experience from the miser-merchant up in English waters with its numerous Churches, magable past, to be well assured that near Gibraltar, alleging that she was nificent ruins, and deserted palaces, the only prospects of success their a smuggler. The boats of Her Ma- was quicscent in its wretchedness; colony possess, is in the establish-jesty's gunboat Express, witnessing whilst other neighbouring settlement of as many various branches of the capture, at once went to the as- ments were striving and advancing commerce and manufactures as may with the times, Macao was content-be available. The objections which edly starving on the recollections of native born Portuguese have almost its former grandeur. The Lisbon invariably shown, to engaging in the Government had probably enough majority of commercial pursuits have to do at home without being bothered long since pussed into a proverb, and with the wants and necessities of the many absurd caste prejudices will
outside their own officers, to under- take the work, the approaches to the anchorage in the Inner Harbour could be quickly improved, and at comparatively trifling cost.
A commercial prosperity is the only road to permanent stability, it is to be hoped that the Governor of Macao and his advisers, have gained
A question has lately arisen be- tween Great Britain and Spain which may ultimately lead to grave compli- cations, and which has a special interest for our mercantile commun- ity, in so much as similar proceed- ings by the Revenue cruisers in the service of the Commissioner of Cus- toms, Canton, forming the so-called blockade of this free port, have at various times given rise to much comment. The facts of the case are as follows:-A Spanish guarda costa recently took possession of a British
sistance of the merchantman, and forcibly released her from the custody of the Spanish authorities, on the plea that the capture was illegal, the ship being in waters under British jurisdiction. The Chairman of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce
His efforts to impress are too mani fest; his points are blunted, so to speak, and rendered unavailing by his dwelling upon them so heavily and so long; his manner is ponderous and monotonous and his accent is rather Hibernian than American:" for the artiste who came specially This is not altogether satisfactory across the Atlantic to extinguishMr. Edwin Booth.
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The Liverpool Select Vestry have had recently under consideration a proposal, advocating the establish- ment of "a retreat" for habitual tes powers to send inebriates to this drunkards, and giving the Magistra haven of rest compulsorily Drunk ard's retreats, (ie. public houses) were so plentiful in Liverpool the last time we visited the Mersey, that the Vestry will probably agree to nega- tive this somewhat original idea.
Mr.
A most romantic history is given in a recent number of Le Voltaire, of a gentleman well known in Hong- koug, Mr. Colso Cesar Moreno," the Plenipotentiary Minister of the King of the Sandwich Islands, who arrived in Paris a fow weeks ago. Moreno who stayed at the Stag Hotel, during his visit here a couple of years ago, and who will be remom- bered as the promoter of a certain celebrated telegraph.schome, and as the author of one or two socialistio letters which appeared in the China Mail, is ovidently a person who has seen the world from many different standpoints.
The almost forgotten idea is being
revived of abolishing the post f Admiral-Superintenden at the Royal dockyards, the department of the comptroller being in four of the supersession of naval offiers by civil- an officials. Whether sili a change would promote efficienc ad econo dockyards is at least doubtful, ant my in the administration, he would certainly be resented by the service generally. Because a depart ment is of opinion that admiral- superintendents are inclined to rather independent action, it ought not to necessarily follow that they are to bo improved off the face of the should be considered opportune for official earth. If the present moment attempting administrative revolutions. at Government establishments, the question may be referred to that committee which will shortly be constituted to entertain grievances. and suggest reforms both at White- hall and the dockyards. The scope'. of the committee has, at any rate, not yet been determined.
From the date of our first settling in Hongkong up to the present day. the turning up of the earth for building and other purposes, has invariably been the case of a great deal of fever and sickness, wherever excavations have been in progres Without going into the scientific why or wherefore of this, as answers our purpose sufficiently well to know that such has been the case we should like to be informed if it would materially retard progress were some regulation passed by tho Born in Italy, ho went as cabin Government, forbidding any excavat boy on board a merchant vessoling in thickly populated neighbour bound for Sumatra. At this place boods during the three hottest months. he managed to ingratiate himself with of the year. There is onough fover the Sultan, who gave him his in the colony under ordinary circums daughter in marriage... Ho then or stances without having the atmos