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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17th, 1881.
deem it due to ourselves, and to our many friends and supporters in Japan, to devote a few lines to proving to demonstration the actual amount of reliance which can be placed on the Japan Gazette, and what an honour to his profession the worthy gentle mui who is supposed to edit that paper really is.
Although the law generally affords a man protection against most injuries, it sometimes happens that such pro- tection proves quite inadequate to atone for the character of the offence. The imputations reflected on this journal were of that exclusive cha- racter. In France or Spain a duel would inevitably have resulted; in England the editor of our contemp- orary would probably have either been publicly horsewhipped, or sued for libel. Self-respect closed the door on all these remedies to us, and we simply denicil the charges made.
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The great Chinese Government ban. Wo beg to call the attention of the ker and negotiator of loans, Taotai | Surveyor-General to two or throe Hoo, it is rumoured, is in trouble with houses, in Queen's-road Central, itearly · the authorities at Peking.
opposite the Man On Insurance Office, which are in coturso of demolition. The front wall of one of these housos is supported by a number of weak planks and retaining poles which aro quite insufficient to arrest. its down- ward tendency, more especially in wot weather like the prosout. This wall, whon sufficiently saturated with water will doubtless come down by the run, to the injury of whoever may bo pass.
Tho Chinese Telegraph is expected to be finished as far as Soochow in two or three days, but it is not expected that it will be worked immediately Mercury.
Wo learn from the Agents, Messrs. Butterfiold and Swive, that O. S. S. Company's steamer Telemachus, from Liverpool, left Singaporo for Honging at the time. kong and Shanghai yesterday after.
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A Macao correspondent informs us that the Do Cereal caso, referred to in our issue of the 10th, was brought up Mr. Sheng, lately Customs Taotai ak Tientsin, and now
transferred to in court on August 11th, when Baron Washington, was requested to contri. do Cercal was called upon to pay the bute Tls. 20,000 to the maintenance of amount due to the Baroness for ali-, the walls of Peking bofore his demony, according to the decree of the parture.Mercury,
court, or to give sufficient guarantee for payment of the same. The Baron A grand review of Scotch Volunteers appeared and offered to pay the sum by Her Majesty the Queen will tako of $300 on account, which was ac- place at Edinburgh on Wednesdaycopted ou the understanding that there August 24th. It is expected that Her should be no necessary delay in paying Majesty, who will make a short stay the balanco, as well as all future pay- in Edinburgh, will be accompanied by ments due under the judicial decree. one or more members of the Royal family. Ilolyrood Palace is being prepared for their reception,
Without wasting time comment ing on the stupid references of the Japan Gazette to the Essays of Elia, and Charles Dickens' Pickwickian caricatures, or noticing the ignorant and vulgar claptrap which so not ably characterise our contemporary's The writer in the Japan Gazelle introductory observations we will is good enough to say that he has proceed to deal directly with the at- spared us a longer infliction of his tack on ourselves. It will be re- trashy utterances on account of our membered that the China Mail, in youth and inexperience, as he is announcing Dr. Stewart's resignation always ready to lean to the side of of the Acting Colonial Secretaryship, mercy and charity, and is therefore animadverted in somewhat strong willing to attribute our ill advised language on the cause which led to remarks rather to (journalistic) youth this act, and imputed motives of a and inexperience than to any natural dishonourable character to the Go-depravity of heart or disposition." vernor of this Colony, and indirectly In common politeness we acknow- to the editor of this journal. The ledge what may possibly be intended imputations against Sir John Hen- for courteous counsel, although what messy had to be publicly withdrawn, our forcible denial of certain charges those against ourselves, we promptly imputed to the Telegraph by the replied to, in forcible language, which China Mail can have to do with has evidently not commended itself natural depravity of heart or dispo- to the good graces of our northern | sition" is at present a mystery. At
In our paragraph yesterday refor- critic. We should, however, like to the same time we beg most empha-ring to the sale of the McDonald's Slip know on what grounds the Japan tieally to decline the consideration property, an accident in the press to the figure 3 male ps stato that the Gazelle can justify itself for stating which the Gazette wishes to show us
area of the ground according to lease that the strong remarks of the Chinton account of our youth and inexpe-
was 1,300 square foot instead of 31,600. Mail, consuring the line of policy
we are informed, on what we must pursued by Govenor Hennessy, were
consider good anthority, that the price probably only too well-deserved"?
obtained for the property was $85,000. In dealing with papers like the China Mail and the Japan Gazelle, the kid-glove style of argument would be simply so much labour lost. On August 1th at Parsco Villa, Robinson-rou, To be respected, a public priut should be truthful. Both the above-
papers named are notoriously deficient in that essential to journalistic stand- ing. The Hongkong paper we have already dealt with, and old storics ro-told are generally tedious; we will therefore simply examine the Japan Gazelle's claims, on his own showing, to be considered a reliable judge of our personal proceedings.
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rience. We regret that our Japan contemporary did not let himself out to the fullest extent, as the column on "Sensational Journalism in Hong- kong" as a literary production is feeble beyond all measure, to say nothing of its general untruthfulness and unfair tendencies.
Our opponent is evidently no jour- nalist. The references to the editor of this paper by name form a glaring breach of etiquette which only a novice could have perpetrated. As it happens however, Mr. Fraser-Smith is quite prepared to defend the posi- tion he has assumed and the language he has used towards the China Vail, now, or at any other time, here or in any other place; and we would point out to the editor of the Japan Gazette that it is no mere difference of opinion as he erroneously assumes, but ques-
IN the Japan Gazelle of the 8th inst. the experienced and accomplished editor of that most feeble of Eastern journals, takes Lij the cudgels in de- Says the Gazelle, "The China Mail fence of our highly virtuous contem- be it observed has never once either porary the Ching Hail. He further directly or indirectly mentioned tho distinguishes himself by making a name of the Hongkong Telegraph or "few childish and ridiculous comments in any way recognised its existence."tions of principle and fact, which we on recent differences between this If we were to say that the above are prepared to maintain before any paper and the China Mail; and, statement is correct we should be tribunal under the sun. finally, after applauding our contem-telling an untruth; if on the other porary for consistently abusing Go-hand we stated the case fairly and vernor Hennessy, and glossing over expressed ourselves in plain English his remarks with one or two glating to the effect that it is a foolish mis misstatements, he lapses into maud-statement, we will not say a stupid lin sentimentality, pilies our youthlic, we should offend our squeamish (which of course we are not respon-journalist, who has the impudence sible for) and trusts we will receive to inform us that we have adopted his remarks in the same spirit as a kind of Billingsgate towards the that in which he has written them." other two papers in this colony which He does not, however, enlighten us as calls for more than ordinary censure," to what was the "spirit" referred to. and in the very next breath by infor- We have no intention of wasting enee commends the Ching Mail for time and space, which can be very pursuing a lino of policy in relation much better employed, in specially to the Government of Hongkong noticing the independent comments which has actually excited a feeling of respectable journals who may something akin to disgust in the happen to differ from our views on minds of even the bitterest of the general and political matters, or who Governor's opponents. If the not may not agree with our mode of ex- altogether omniscient editor of the pressing such views. We never Japan Gazelle wishes to obtain hoped to please everybody, and we ocalar proof of how casy a thing it certainly have no particular desire is to err, we commend a perusal of to win the favour of the Japan Ga-| the China Mail of June 15th to his zette. As a matter of course, we are especial attention. quite well aware that newspapers, Our friendly critic elegantly ob- whose opinions are worth having, serves, with reference to the extract will not in all cases approve of the quoted above, that the shoe has somewhat vigorous style we assumed pinched in some way or another," in exposing the scandalous conduct and then prints our reply to the of the China Mail towards the Go-charge made by the China Mail that
We might have treated the vapid utterances of the Japan Gazette with silent contempt; we have preferred to allude to them with contemptuous indifference, Had our contemporary been acquainted with the real facts of the case, he could hardly have ex- hibited such supreme ignorance of circumstances which are perfectly well known in Hongkong. In con- clusion we have pleasure in assuring the writer of the article in the Japan Gazette as a sort of extenuation and excuse for our journalistic youth and inexperience, to which he so patheti- cally alludes, that, unless we are misinformed as to his identity, we were editing a public journal in days when his professional labours were confined to an anything but intellec tual agricultural pursuit, the usual occupation of persons of his class at home, sweet home.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A mail closes for Bangkok at Singa- poro at 4 p.m. to-day.
The Great Northern Telegraph Com-
Tho steamship Larch was docked at Abergloon the morning. The Norden will undock this afternoon at Kowloon to mako rgom
for tho China.
vernor of Hongkong, and in giving our columns had been used by Goy-pany's stomer Store Nordiske loft this the lie to the imputations published ernor Hennessy to traduce his sub-port for Shanghai this morning. in that journal concerning ourselves.ordinates; and for other equally im- We admit it We are, therefore, quite prepared to proper purposes. allow the public to form their own frankly; the shoe dil pinch, and wo views on the subject, so long as the took the first opportunity of repudiat statements published are fair, im- ing in no uncertain language our partial, and truthful. As the defence contemporarys' imputations; but the of the Mail and the attack on our Japan Gazette is greatly mistaken if selves in the Japan Gazette are not he imagines that a fear of retaliation, a wholesome dread of a merely unfair, and grossly untruth or even ful, but display a lamentablo ignor-policoman, would have prevented the ance of journalistic etiquette and the head-punching he refers to, had we ordinary courtesies which govern all considered that vulgar operation the branches of educated society, wo propor remedy for our injuries.
Tho C. N. Co.'s steamor Keelung reports scoing a nunbor of comfortablo and substantial-looking temporary houses on the otherwise barren and dosolate Dodd Island, when passing on the 9th instant. A large number of working poople were busily engaged at the site of the now light-houso.
The decision at Feking in answer to Li Hung-chang's memorial is known. All works of importanco as rogards the water ways of Chilli are to be left to Li, but Tso Tsung-tang is to have a small- and defined tract of country to experiment upon with his body guard, This, virtually, all the irrigation works are to be under Li's control.-Mercury.
At the Police Court this morning, before Dr. Stewart, George Blake and J. J. McBreen appeared in answer to summonses, for an alleged assault upon Mrs. McBreen, the wife of the latter defendant. The plaintiff was not in attendance when the case was called, and Mr. Mossop asked his Wor- ship to adjourn the bearing, which was accordingly done.
An inquest was held at Barrow on the bodies of the four mon killed by the boiler explosion recently at the nel of the City of Rome. A verdict cassol by over-pressure of steam. Evidence was given that Lucas, one of the deceased, was told not to exceed a pressure of forty pounds to the square inch, but that iminodiately before the explosion the pressure indicated was seventy pounds.
was returned that the accidont was
A party of enterprising Chinnunen has lately boon in quest of a suitable spot where to establish a Shamshoo Distillery, and has provisionally rented from Mr. Sharp a place behind the Gas Works, which, if we are not mistaken, was selected for a similar purpose some time ago, but in consequence of the representations made by the managor of the Gas Company, was prohibited by the Government. Preparations are being mule to commonce the work at.
an early date.
An inquest was held at the Civil Hospital yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Wodelionso, Coroner, and Messrs. Heaysman, Guedes, and dos Remedios, as a jury, to onquire into the circus tances of the death of a Chinese woman named Chong Tin Chan, aged 3 years. From the medical evidence it appeared the deceased had taken opium, a quau- tity of which was found in her stomach. The evidence adduced showed the de- ocused had attempted suicide on a
sister of the deceased, suggested that former occasion, and one witness, n the latter was not well treated, and had threatened to kill herself in consequenco. Although the cause of death was clear, the Coroner thought the contributory circumstances should be more fully sifted, and the enquiry was adjourned until Saturday afternoon noxt, when it will be resumed at the Magistracy at throo o'clock.
The Board of Trade have awarded their silver medal to Captain Edward Clements, of the steamship Khalifah, for gallantry and courage displayed by him on the occasion of his vessel being attacked by a band of Arabs whilst proceeding up the river Tigris, with a number of passengers on board. Captain Clements was wounded by a bullet in the arm and body at the com- mencement of the attack, and the helmsman and the rest of the crow having deserted their posts and sought refuge below, he succeeded with ono arm in steering the vessel, and was exposed during the attack, which lasted 35 minutes, to the fire of the Arabs. It was due to Captain Clements' courage that the vessel did not run ashoro, în which case all on board would most probably have been murdered.
According to home papers, the spread of small-pos in London has lately caused much anxiety. A remarkablo scone is to be witnessed on Finchley- Common, though it is not of itself suffi ciently attractive to draw much of a crowd. It consists of a group of large tents, and is nothing more nor less than a small-pox camp. Hithor are brought the patients from the parish of Islington, and already there is talk of the necessity of enlarging the ac- commodation. Fortunately this will not be a difficult thing, since Finchley Common is broad enough. But matters has to camp out its small-pox patients. are looking bad when the metropolis The arrangements for the moving of hospital-ship down the river have boen carried out. The ship, like the camp, is full.
A collision took place this morning between two steamers, which, as far as one of them is concerned, was of rather a sorious naturo. It appears that at about half-past six o'clock the Tientsin, Captain E. Robinson, started on her voyage to Chiukiang, and on
hor way down the river, when nearly opposite the Club, she came into col. lision with the steamer Paladin, Cap- tain Parker, which was shifting from the China Merchant's Lower Wharf to. Kin-le-yuen. The Paladin sustained very little damage, having only one of hor davits bent; but the Tientsin farod
worse.
She had her fore-yard carried away, and one of her boats, the fluke of the Puladin's anchor completely sweeping the boat away, and uprooting one of the davits. The Tientsin was
compelled to put back, and is now anchored near Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's wharf-Courier,"
The law is not always comprehensive enough to embrance offenders of every class. People may break the law and bo punished, but how about the cow, A four-leggod law-breaker has recently been reported at the Dorset Quarter Sessions. ViscountPortman brought bofore the court the case of a cow which " utterly disregarded" the pro- visions of the Adulteration of Food Act. It transpired that the proprietor of the animal had boon convicted by tho magistrate for selling milk deficient in cream, and had appealed against the docision. After careful examination, the Inland Revenue Department Labo