THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI-FRIDAY, JULY 1st, 1881.
CARGO.
Hongkong Temperature.
Por Sindh, sailed 30th June-For Continent, 1,418 bales Silk, 209 bales (Taken at Messrs. Falconer & Co.'s Register, Queen's-road).
Waste Silk, 27 hales Cocoons, 34 cases Pungees, 51 cases Silks, 15 bales.Pun, HONGKONG, 30th June and 1st July. jum, 7-3 boxes and 508-pkgs, Tea, and 810 pkgs. Subdrios. For London, 306 bales Silk, 5,098 half-chests and 150 cbosts Ten, cuso Silk, 226 pkgs, Sumteins, 10 cases Esscential Oil, and, 5,538 boxes Toa.
BAROMETER-1 PX
-Do... 4 P.M.... THERMOMETER-] PM.
29.950 .29.812
86.
Do.
PAL
-80
Do. 1 PM (Wet bulb) 80.
Do. 4 P.M. Do.
80,
BAROMETER —9 A.M.
THERMOMETER—9 a‚y.
86.
29.812
Do. 9 AM. (Wet bulb) 70. 86. Do. Maximum
Do. Minimum (over night) 91.
MAILS.
The following mails will close:— To-day, 1st July,-
For Manila, per Esmeralda, at 3.30 p.m. For Saigon, per
To-morrow,
Thornhills at 4:30 pm:
2nd July,- For Manila, per Salvadora, at 1.30 p.m. For Swatow, Amoy, and Foochow, per Kwangtung, at 5
p.m.
Assaulting a Chinaman in Newcastle.
Recently at the Police Court, Now castle-on-Tyne-James Collins, 30, à powerful-looking man, was charged with having been drunk and disor- derly in Derwent Place on Saturday night last, and further with baving assaulted Fin Bin Jie, a Chinese sailor, in Thornton Street, about half past seven o'clock ou the saine night. The prosecutor is one of the men belonging to the steamer at present lying near the works of Sir William Armstrong and Co., at Elswick, and his evidence was interpreted by a good-looking youthful Chinaman also
a finger severely cut in the operation. The interpreter had also one of his fingers cut in breaking the article apportioned to him. The unusual method of swearing in witnesses evokol even amongst the officials, prosent great curiosity and amuse- ment, and as the pieces were scatter- ed over the floor where witnesses and policemen are wont to tread, a crushing, grating noise was heard beneath the feet of those persons-- reminding the auditory and justices of the ceremony-long after the ill- used Chinaman and his friends has left the court,
The above case, we believe, is only the second that has been heard in Newcastle. where the Chinese oath has been administered, a native of the Celestial Empire having on a previous occasion been sworn in a similar way at the old Police Court in the Manors.
WALTER SCOTT'S SUNDAYS.-As usual, from Lockhart's farrago we cannot find out the fest thing we want to know- whether Scott worked, after his week-
sympathetic beast that can be merry), and concluding itself in an orphic hour of delight, signifying peace on Tweed- side, and good will to mon, there or far away-always excepting the French and Boney, John Ruskin, in Nino.. teenth Century.
Intimations.
MACAO STEAMBOAT COM. HONGKONG, CANTON, AND „PANY, LIMITED.
There will be NO NIGHT - BOAT" to or from CANTON on and after MONDAY, the 4th inst., and until further notice, the “POWAN" having to bo withdrawn from the line for a few days to be overhauled.
By Order,
P. À. DA COSTA,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1881.
TONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
H COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
During my absence from Hongkong,
For Hoihow and Hai- belonging to the same ship. The day custom, on the Sunday morning Mr. ROBERT COOKE will act as
p.m.
phong, per Hainan, at 5 On Sunday, 3rd July,-
For Saigon, per Octava, at,9 a.m. On Tuesday, 5th July,
For Bangkok, per Danube, at
5 p.m. On Thursday, 7th July,-
For the United Kingdom and Europe, via Brindisi; the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, India, Aden, Egypt,
prosecutor, in his statement, said that he was a sailor on board the ship at present lying in the river at Elswick, and had previously been a soldier. He
never remembered seeing the prisoner until Saturday night, when he came up to him and struck him. (The witness hore gestionlated rap- idly and indicated by a movement of his hands to his companion the manner in which he had been struck). The prisoner struck him on the
But, I gather, not, at all events, his household and hi cattle rested. I imagine he walked out into his woods ur road quietly in his study. Imme- diately after breakfast, whoever was in the house, "Ladies and gentlemen, I shall road prayers at 11, when I expect
you
**
all to attend." Question of college and other externally unanimous prayers settled for us very briefly If you have no fith havo at least manners." He read the Church of England service, lessons and all, the latter, if interest-
Malta, Gibraltar, and the Maur-shoulder, face, and head, and blooding, oloquently. After the service, one
p.m.
1
itius, per Nepaul; printed mat- ter at 2 p.m., letters at 3 p.m. On Friday, 8th July,
For Nagasaki and Yokohama, per Malacca, at 5 p.m. For Kobe and Yokohama, per Takasago Maru, at 5 On Thursday, 14th July,-
For the United Kingdom and Europe, via Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, the Austral- asian Colonies, Pondichery, Madras, Calcutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta and Gibraltar; priated matter at 10 a.m., and letters
at 11a.m.
The following mails may be ex- pected:-
To-day- -The French mail bear- ing London dates of 27th May.
On or about Monday the 4th July:-The Calcutta mail of 18th
June.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS. June 30, Jan Peter, Gerinan bark, 335, Ewert, from Whainpoa, General. -Siemssen & Co. July 1, Antenor, British stoamer, 161, J. T. Bragg, Liverpool, via Snez, 24th June, General.-Butterfield and Swire.
DEPARTURES June 30, Amoy, British steamer, for
Shanghai.
June 30, Carisbrooke, British steamer,
for Amoy. Jano 30, Cleveland, British steamer, for
Takao....
June 30, Freya; Gorman Corvetto, for
Singapore. June 30, Chateaubriand, British bark,
for Foochow
Manila.
Juno 30, Humboldt, German burk, for June 30, May, British 3-m. schooner,
for. Wellington, (N.Z.) June 30, Horseguards, British steamer,
for Swatow
PASSENGERS
AHRIVED.
Per British steamer Antonin, from Tiverpool-Mujor -Foster, Mr Doro. by, Me Rathbone, and Mrs Edwards, and 250.0hinogo. -
SHIPPING REPORTS. The British steamor Antenor reports bad moderate weather throughout, latterly N, E. winds,
came out of his mouth. Ile had not done anything at all to the mai. The prisoner was fined 40s. and costs for the assault, or one month's im prisonment, and a penalty of is. and costs for being drunk and disorderly would also be imposed. The fines were not paid, and in the evening the prisoner was taken to gaol, where he will undergo one month and seven days' imprisonment.
The Chinese Oath in Court. With regard to the above case the Newcastle Chronicle says:-The oaths taken by Chinamen in courts of law and in criminal proceedings are administered after a saucer has been
After of Jerciny Taylor's sermous. seriou if the weather was fino, walk with his family, dogs included, and guests, to cold pienie, followed by short extempore Biblical novelettes; for he had his Bible, the Old Tosta-
in
Secretary.
By Order of the Board,
D. GILLIES,
Secretary. Hongkong, 15th June, 1881.
D. K. GRIFFITH & Co. MANUFACTURERS OF THE LONDON AERATED
WATERS,
AND GENERAL AGENTS. 7, Beaconsfield Arcade,
Insurances.
E CERCLE-TRANSPORTS.
SOCIETE ANONYME D'ASSURANCE
MARITIME MARSEILLE.
The Undersigned, having been ap- pointed AGENTS of the above Company, are prepared to GRANT POLICIES on MARINE RISKS to all parts of the World.
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, 15th June, 1881.
ment especially, by heart, it having been his mother's last gift to him. Those lessons to his children in Bible history were always given, whether CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED....15,000,000 Franes. CAPITAL PAID-UT....... 3,750,000. Franes. there was pienic or not. For the rest of the afternoon he took his pleasure in the words with Tom Purlie, who also always appeared at his master's elbow on Sunday after dinner was oror, and drank long life to the laird and his lady and all the good company, a quaigh of whisky or a tumbler of wine, according to his fancy What. over might happen on the other even- broken, and the ceremony on Mondayings of the week, Scott always dined was witnessed in the Pilgrim-street Police Court by a crowded attendance of the public. Foreigners and Jews have often to be sworn, and a He- brew Bible is provided accordingly amongst the properties of the Now- castle bench; but a Chinese witness appears to have been a rarity not even dreamt about in Pilgrim-street, and it was found that, simple as the furnishing for the affirmation is, not a saucer was to be discovered. A
at home on Samday; and with old friends, never, unless inevitably, receiv- ing any person with whom he stood on ceremony. Ile came into the room. rabbing his hands like a boy arriving at home for the holidays, his Peppersing and Nustards gambolling about him,
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and even the stately Maida grinning and wagging his tail with sympathy." For the Usquebaugh, of the less-hon-* oured weekdays, at the Sunday board he circulated the champ gne briskly East, during dinner, and considered a pint of
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ITH Immediate Possession, at the "Blue Buildings," Praya One SECOND FLOOR.
One THIRD FLOOR. Three BASEMENTS. Also, one STONE BUILT GODOWN on the Premises..
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policeman was consequently sent to
claret cach man's share afterward. In purchase two China saucers, and on
the evening, music being to the Scot- his return one of them placed in the
tish worldly mind indecorons, he read hands of the young Chinese inter-aloud some favourite author for the preter, who, kneeling down in, the amusement or edification of his little witness box, attempted to smash it circle. Shakspeare, it might be, or on the edge of the box.. British Dryden, Johnson or Joaung Baillie, China, however, appeared to be of a Crabbo, or Wordsworth. But in those much more endurable kind than days "Byron was pouring out his Chinese, for the interpretor tried spirit fresh and full, and if a new piece again and again, with all his force, from his hand had appeared, it was sure to be read by Scott the Sunday for at least seven or eight times, without effecting a smash. When evening afterward; and that with such the saucer, however, did give, it was delighted emphasis as showed how with a sound that went like the loud completely the elder burd liad kept up his enthusiasm for poetry at pitch of snapping of a pistol through, the youth, and all his admiration of gening building. The picces flewin a dozen feo, pure, and untsained by the least directions, causing clerks, reporters, drop of litoury jealousy," With such necessary and easily imaginable varie- and policemen to bow their heads with a sudden and appreciable sense ties as chaticed in having Daddy Dia- of self-preservation, and no little mont or Captain Brown for guests at amusement prevailed in court The Abbotsford, or Colonel Mannering interpreter then repeated after the Counsellor Pleydoll, and Dr. Robertson Clerk (Mr. Wilkinson) the following in Castlo-street pach was Scott's habit- affirmation or Chitose outh You wil Sabbath day, wa perquive of eat shall tell the truth, and the whole ing the fat (dinnor, presumably not" truth; the saucer is cracked, and if cold, being a work of necessity and you do not tell the truth your soul merey-thou also, even thon, Saint Thomas of Trumbull, hast bine!) and will be cracked like tlie saiteer.” The second saucer was handed to the drinking the awoet, ubundnut in thic inaung of Mr. Sonthoy's cataract of prosocutor, who went through the bot Here it comes, sparkling." A same form as his shipmate, but being a more powerful man, lie succeeded at the socond attempt in domolishing the article, though at the expense of
·
For Sale.
JUST LANDED..
Ex S. S. "Glaucus" AND "Euphrates."
DASS'S-PALE-ALE in Pirts, Bottled
by CAMERON & SAUNDERS. GUINNESS'S STOUT in Piuts, Bottled by B&J BURK
For Sare by the Undersigned.
EÇA DA SILVA & Co. Hongkong, June, 15th 1881.
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FOR SALE,
TEW DOUBLE BARREL BREEUN-LOAD- ING GUNS, 100 Loaded Cartridg-
A day bostrewn with coronations and os and Bags with them, at $20 each. cops in wine; doop in libations to good Tape and foild memory a day of rest- to boast, aug inirth to man (as also to
J. SCHEFFER,
54, Praya Contral. Hongkong, 16th June, 1881.
A
For Sale.
FOR SALE CHEAP. First Class PONY PHAETON
by Lonny of Croydon.
Apply to
M. A.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" office.
Hongkong, 24th June, 1881.
FOR SALE.
VALVOLINE CYLINDER OIL. THIS Oil is a lubricant for the Valves
and Cylinders of Steam Engines, and is free from the objections which exist against the use of tallow or veget- able oils.
J. M. ARMSTRONG. Hongkong, June 28, 1881.
FOR SALE.
RIME GENEVER in Stone Jars;
PLANTEL BRANDY 994 at $6.50 per...
Dozen
WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS and KUM- MEL, Good NAVY Cocoa (reinil at 20 Couts per b). SALOON RIFLES and CARTRIDGES, Good REVOLVERS, RELOAD- ING CAPS, SHOT and CARTRIDGE CASES in Sizes, &c., &c., &c.
J. F. SCHEFFER,
54, Praya Central. FOR SALE. USTRALIAN WINES,
A FORT AND SHERRY,
of the finest quality, from Coolalta Vineyard, Branston, Hunter River, N.S.W.
Apply to
R. FRASER SMITH,
Club Chambers.
Hongkong, June 24th, 1881.
FOR SALE CHEAP,
BOWLING ALLEYS.
ITH BALLS, PINS, &c.,
W! Completo.
The Alleys are 79 feet in length, and were laid down about a year ago at a cost of over $600. They have seldom been played on, and are in splendid condition.
Will be sold a bargain.
Apply to
R. TRASER-SMITH,
Cnb Chambers.
Hongkong, 24th Jane, 1881.
FOR SALE.
"ASHERMAN'S BOOKS, for the use of Ladies and Gentle- men, Price 50 cents.
DE SOUZA & Co. Hongkong, 28th Jane, 1881.
FOR SALE.
Price.
Mercantile Directory of the World, in 3 volumes, com- prising the Continental, Fo- reign and British Portions $25,00 Grammatica Nacional de Aule-
to
0.75
Laws of Lawn Tennis Manual da Historia Sagrada
0,50
0.40
Select Phrases in the Canton
Language
afin
0.50
Firat Book of Roading Les
Sons: Part I
0.50
Part II
1.00
0.25
1,00
1.00
Dr. James Butler's Catechism Topography of China Gaia do Christão Evidence of the Affinity of the Polynesians and American Indians with the Chinese and other nations of Asia Descripção do Imperio da Chi- na, precedida de algumas noticias sobre os. Conventos de S. Francisco e de Sta. Cla- ra em Macao: excerpto do Vergel de Plantas e Flores. da provincia da Madre de Deus dos capuchos reforina- dos, composto pelo Padro Mostro, Fr. Jacinto de Deus, Lonte de Theologia, Primei ro Padre da mesma Provin cia, ex-Commissario Geral e Deputado do Santo Offeio- da Inquisição de Goa na In- dia Oriontal
1.00
2.00
Totroducção a Lingua Ingleza, com um Diccionario de Vo cabulos
0,60
1.00
"Ball Room Guide ...
Os Doz Dias do S. Trancisco Xavier ou devoção de Dez Sexta Feiras,. offerecida aos devotes do Grande Aposto lo do Oriento por J. F. Gou-
0,20
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