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HONGKONG, 30TH Jur, 1881.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-SATURDAY, JULY 30TH, 1881.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The stoamship Danube, and the
American ship Astoria aro booked for the Cosmopolitan Dock to-morrow,
A mail is announced to louve Singa- poro for Bangkok at 5 o'clock this evening.
and when the inspired organ of the
It has been currently reported in "princely house" intimated, in ful the colony that a powerful opposition soine phrase, that the whole of the has been organised against Mr. F. shares of the proposed, company Bulkeley Johnson's Tramway Com- were to be offered to the public, and pany, in consequence of the repudi- that no appropriation was to be made ated amalgamation, so that what to the favored fow," we not un- ever prospects of success the project naturally concluded that "the pub-onec had, would seem to be seriously lie spirit and a desire for the im- threatened by what appears to have provement of property generally been a prejudiced error of judgmont. was," what our American friends call, "bunkum"; and that the speculative aims of the whole body of promoters were too apparent to require further consideration. The amalgamation of the
with company the Hon. P. Ryrie's high lovel scheme (a measure generally con sidered impracticable on account of the immense cost of preparing a road up the face of the hill, and our utter poverty in Engineers practically ac- quainted with an undertaking of this character), puzzled us considerably; but not for long, as the shabby re- pudiation of this arrangement which soon followed, secured for the com- pauy more than one powerful op- ponent, and safely led us back to our old starting point. The community are now so thoroughly convinced of the real motives of the promoters of this so-called Tramway Company, further elucidation at our that any hands is quite unnecessary.
A-hotel at the Peak would be about the greatest boon the inhabit- ants of this colony could well receive, and there can be little doubt that a hotel would soon follow the inaugura-
within thirty-five minutes after the Line of publication of an improved method of com- munication between the heart of the city and the higher levels. It may be admitted, however, looking the matter straight in the face, that there is no possibility of any system of tramways, or milways, running from town to the Clap, over being suffi- ciently patronised to prove a paying concorn, and this is an all important The prospects of the proposed point in considering a question of Tramway Schemes for Hongkong this kind, as philanthropy is not a and Shanghai would appear to be flourishing plant in Hongkong. very much under a cloud. In Shang- Therefore the tramway scheme ad- hai, the determined hostility of very vocated by the Hon. P. Ryrie, and numerous and influential sections of Mr. A. F. Smith, would appear to the different communities constitut-have no prospects of success what- ing the foreign element, to the pro-ever from a mercantile point of view. posed innovation, and the indiscreet To a lesser extent the commercial discourtesy of the promoters towards II. E. the Taotai, have apparently relegated, what looked at one time a settled thing, to the remote regions of an uncertain future. Although we have no positive information as to the decision arrived at by the various Consuls, there is reason to believe that it will not be in favour of the proposed tramways. We have scen it stated that the Consuls for France and the United States have
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Shareholders in the China Traders Insurance Company, Limited, are re- minded that the Fifteenth Ordinary Meeting will be hold in the Company's Office this afternoon at half-past two
o'clock.
A new steamship, the City of Rome, for the Inman line of steamers to New
York. was launched at Barrow on Tuesday, June 14th. Previous to the launch the boiler of a donkey engine burst, killing thrco mon, and injuring ten others. The City of Route, next to the Great Eastern is the largest, vessel afloat.
We are informed by the agont of the P. & O, Co., that the steamer Zambesi with the taxt English Mail loft Singapore for Hongkong at 4 p.m. yesterday, and the deaca from Bombay leaves Singapore for Hongkong at
p.in. today.
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After repeated delays and a mass of legal advice on the subject, the case of the man who assaulted Mr. Tonnochy in the gaul will be again investigated this afternoon by Mr. Wodehouse, when it is to be hoped the rascal may be awarded the full desserts of his
crime.
The Annual cricket match between the Oxford and Cambridge Universitics was concluded at Lord's on June 29th,
and resulted in a hollow victory for the Oxonians by 135 runs.
How many
cions that something was wrong, and mado inquiros at the proper quarter, whore wo were courteously informed that the sontonco of the Magistrate was six weeks. This will afford our contemporary another opportunity for an apologotic paragraph.
While many residents are fully aware of the capacity of Captain Deane for a seat on the Logislative Council, it can not be questioned that, so far as the Police and Harbour Departments are concerned, Captain Thomsett would havo reprosented the most (sic) im- Treasurership, however, will probably portant interest of the two. The
be occupied by Captain Deane only for a short time.--China Mail.
An absurd recommendation appears in the columns of our evening con- temporary that mombors of our local police force should be mounted on bicycles when employed carrying messages and letters. As there is a thorough and completo system of telegraphic communication between the whole of the polico stations of the colony, it may seldom happen that policemen are required to carry mes- sages or letters, and consequently little or no use might ever be found for the employment of these machines. If the extreme old age of the China Mail beginuing to tell on our contemporary's (established in February, 1845), is not
memory, it ought to be within the re- collection of that organ that a few years ago a collision occurred between a policeman mounted on a bicycle,and His Excellóncy, Sir Arthur Kennedy's car- riage, in the Queon's-road East, at No. 4 Police Station. The excuse given by the constable for his share in the busi- ness being, that the station-house, which is a corner. building, projected so far out into the roadway as to prevent him from secing the Governor's, ap- proach in timo to prevent a collision; and the result was that the front wall of No. 4 was takon down and rebuilt about five foot further back. An order was thon issued we beliovo forbidding policemen to ride bicycles in the public street, and it is scarcely to be expect- 870,120ed that that order will be now cancel. - 758,461 led; and besides, as the China Mail is 1,484,433 in favor of the tramway, why not 981,698 send policemen by that conveyance 1,093,030 when on a land journey. 1,210,179 336,500
[Our contemporary's logic, like his grammar is rather shaky. The public will have no difficulty in fathoming the motives which led to the writing and publication of the above senseless paragraph. We think there is some- thing more in this case than tho now notorious cacathes carpendi.-Ed. H.T.].
We take the following return of the Export of Silver from Southampton to
China and the Straits Settlements from the London and China Express of the 24th June :-
Year.
1874
:
1875
1876
1877
1878
1870
1880
China.
Straits. $1,658,855 £1,484,851
723,894 1,273,757 1,764,875
1,479,819
466,537 693,523 1881 (to dato) 612,930
Before Mr. Justice Russell, sitting
CORRESPONDENCE.
[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for the
Hongkong Journalism.
To the Editor of
in Summary Jurisdiction in the Supre-opinions expressed by Correspondents]. me Court yesterday, the case of Xavier. v. Fukeera, for $200, disclosed some curious speculations in regard to Sweeps on the last race meeting. Mr. Mossop appeared for the complainant,- and explained to the Court that the ac tion was brought to recover money paid and received on account of security to the Cosmopolitan Club against possible losses on the Race Sweeps. It appear ed that the sum of $600 was the amount guaranteed by three of the members, in the sum of $200 each. The defend. ant in this suit was one of these three
guarantors, and as he was unable to deposit that amount himself he borrow- od the money from plaintiff on the times during a month understanding that he was to share in does the China Afail as the word the profit expected to accrue from the "gubernatorial," and what does that sweeps. The transaction unfortunately estimable journal mean by its, alas, proved to be a losing affair for the club, too frequent repetitions of that extra-and defendant declined to meet his alleg ordinary term? This is a conundrum, to which wo do not expect an answer.
prospects of the China Tramway Company would appear to be scr- iously jeopardised by the great un- certainty which exists as to the ac- tual amount of support which may be relied on from the foreign and native communities. Well managed Tramway Companies at home, with An anti-Chinese meeting was hell on everything possible in their favor, June 18th at the Haymarket roserve, seldom make lucrative returns. In Sydney, at which a resolution was car- the face of this incontrovertible fact ried holding the Government highly (we have figures to prove our state-calpable for their negligence in regard to the Chinese question, and also con-
troduction and spread of small-pox.
ed liabilities to plaintiff on the plea that should the transaction have proved suc. cessful he, the plaintiff, would have shared in the profits, so he ought on tho. other hand to take a share in the losses. A deal of conflicting evidence was taken and His Lordship having summed up expressed himself to the effect that the
"THE HONGKONG Telegraph.” Sir,-There is an old saw to the mildly), should have good memories, effect that prevaricators (to put it
I would recommend to the editor of and on the strength of the proverb the China Mail a work by one Stokes. Some days ago the evening paper au- nounced that a Mr. Vawdrey was pass- ing through Hongkong on his way to Japan, and stated that that gentleman had frequently written to the Mail over the nom de plume of "Observer" and
of "A Straits Journalist." This Mr. Vawdrey beats Sir Boylo's bird al- together, for, not content with having passed on to Japan, he again appeared last night as Observer" with his latest edition of bathos from the Straits. It has been truly said that
fool can any get into a difficulty, and it is equally. true that it takes a clevor man to get well out of ono. In the article by "A Straits Journalist" which you handled so severely, the writer stated that he had not been in Hongkong for
four years; and in an apologotic par-
declared their intention of opposing ments should they be called in ques-sidering them responsible for the in- gambling transaction, and non-suited agraph in the Mail it was stated the
the scheme in their respective settle- ments, and, if such is the case, the entire project had better be abandon- ed, as it stands to reason that half measures can never achieve success, the more especially when the op position, even amongst the English and German communities, is known to be of a powerful and determined
character.
whole affair seemed to savour of a
the plaintiff.
In a recent issue of the Times we
The sales of house property still continue throughout the colony. We note that at the close of the morning have just been informed by. Mr. Ma-sitting of the House of Commons on home, a Parsee broker, that 8 houses in Shelley Street and Mosque Junction, Inland lots 341-842 and 392, the pro- perty of Mr. Taufer, were recently sold to the Chinese for $10,500. Also that Lot 52 comprising & houses in Wolling- to Street changed hands yesterday for sellers in this case being Chinese.
of $31,000-both buyers and
the
sum
tion), by what magical process are tramways to prove a profitable in- vestment in a place, and amongst a people, whose domestic habits and commercial necessities, are altogether unsuited to such a mode of convey ance. We shall be curious to see the Company's prospectus, so that some idea may be formed of the calculated cost of laying down in thorough order It is an old saying and a true the whole of the necessary plant; one, that a house divided against it- also the promoters' views as to work self cannot stand. The introduction ing expenses, and estimated returns. of a tramway system into Hongkong, There is one heavy item of expense, although promoted by goatlemen of which so far as we are aware has proved ability and high position, wo
A recent purchase, of which wo ap never yet been mentioned, but whichpend particulars, gives some idea of the have never been able to regard as a the gentleman who does the statis- fabulous valuo of ground in the city of movement of a serious character. tical portion of the work, would do London. A plot of land, formerly the We were willing to believe that Mr. well to include in his tabulated state- sito of Allhallows church, at the corner F. Bulkeley Johnson and many of ment of estimated cost. We allude of Bread-street and Watling-street, and his supporters, were really anxious to the royalty to be paid to the Gov- having an area of 3,270 ft. super, lege- to obtain permission to lay down
thor with the reversion to the buildings tramways for the benefit of the
thorcon in 78 years hence, has just been sold by Messrs Jones, Lang, general public, although the access ity for, and the advantages to bo gained by the innovation, appeared of so uncertain a character that vo could see no possibility of the move ment ultimately succeeding. When it was publicly announced that Mr. Ng Choy had, as a consideration for abandoning his especial scheme, been put on the Directorate of the China Tramways Company we certainly lost a certain amount of our faith in the professedly, patriotic principles of the enterprise, for obvious ronsons;
Friday, the experiment of lighting the House with the electric light was tried. Twelve square lamps for the electric lights had been inserted in the glass roof, and soon after 7 o'clock, when the House was cleared, the new light was brought into operation. The effect
was on the whole. doubtful; there was a difference of opinion among tho mom- bers and others, as to whether on the
It was con.
writer left Hongkong eight or ten years ago. How is this discrepancy to be accounted for? I am au old resident
here, and can answer for it that no gentleman of the name of Vawdrey has been on any Hongkong paper for the last sixteen years; and when the question cropped up at dinner one night this week a friend of mine who
has been in the Colony over 20 years,
offered to stake, on the strength of his memory alone, twenty "Banks" to as many beans tliat no person of the name of Vawdrey had over beon “res- ident" in this colony (in the proper acceptation of the word), in his time.
whole, the skilfully applied gas light from the glass roof was not softer and less trying to the eyes. coded, however, that in one respoet the electric light was an improvement on. the gas, inasmuch as the rising temperatura always noticed in the ernment for the use of the roads of
House after the fighting of the gas the colony, should the tramway
above the glass roof, was avoided last scheme become un fait accompli. In
night. The electric light was severely London, New York, and other large
tested before the Ilouso resunzed busi- noss at 9 o'clock, but it was thorough cities fabulous amounts are paid to
ly under control, and the House trans- the various municipalitics for the
acted the business of the evening, sit- privileges granted to Tramway
Wo observo in the Ching. Mail'sting indor the now light. It is intend. Companies, and we do not see that the Government here would be justi-polico intelligence of yesterday, thatod to make another trial on Friday him by the evening-print.
Dr. Stowart is reported to have sont- next. Alterations will be made in the
fied in granting the promoters of any private enterprise of a purely spéculative character, valuable pri- vileges, in many cases in opposition to the wishes, and detrimental to the interests of the lieges, without receiving some adequato return.
al Co., King-street, Cheapside, for £43,200, over £13 por foot super, or at the rate of half-a-million por acre,
orced Chung Acheung, a coolio who lights in the roof and additional lamps was convicted of causing an obstruction will, bo placed under the galleries, in the street by gambling, to six where there are now gas jets. Tho ex- months' bard labour, as a rogue and periments wero carried out in the pres vagabond. As the full ponalty for onco of Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, First Com- this offence, (5 George IV., C. 83 Soc. 4), missioner of Works, and a large nuin- is only three months, we had suspis-ber of members and visitors.
As you did not notice the paragraph referred to, I thought it possible you in last night's paper too good to be may have missed it, but there is one overlooked. In it Captain Thomsott is recommended for a seat in the Lo- gislative Council, and a more palpable Sup to Cerberus" was never thrown. Any man who knows Captain Thom gett must be well aware that he has quito enough work on his hands already; that he has no desire to figuro in the position mentioned; and that he will be one of the first to see through the vory thin brown paper plaster offered
am, ofc.,
W. W. Hongkong, July 30th, 1881.
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The Into Lord Justice Thesiger left his chief clerk a legacy of 1,000 guin-
Cas.