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HONGKONG, 26тu August, 1881.
HAVING assumed the role of impar- tial critic, and having adopted the motto "Fair play is bonnie play," we have on several occasions had to administer the rod to the conductors of the local Press for their vindic- tive vituperation in their untruthful and cowardly attacks upon Her Ma- jesty's Representative in this Colony. In this respect the sinner farthest down the classic hill has probably the most to answer for, but it is our intention on the present occasion to show how the little Jove on the top of Olympus performs some of his sleight-of-hand tricks. On the 11th of June the Daily Press published an article headed "Honolulu, From a Correspondent." The article con- tained no news of any particular interest, and was simply written as a nail upon which to hang an attack upon Sir John Hope Hennessy, as the following extract will show:-
At last the small-pox is beginning to abate, very much to the relief of the com- munity. You can have no idea what a se- rious effect it has had; business and social life has been brought almost to a dond lock and a large number of lives sacrificed, and for this, I feel constrained to repeat, Governor Hennessy must be held respon- sible as there can be little doubt his action was the indirect cause. However, there is this hope that our loss may be your gain; for, unless he is more blindly pre- jadiced than one can suppose a man in his position to bo, he has now got an insight into the "ways that are dark" of his friends the "leading Chinese" that will surely make him a little more careful in future.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-FRIDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 1881.
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A new feature has been introduced into. the Irish question, a telegram from London, revolutionists in Chicago have issued a dated 24th inst., announcing that the Irish proclamation warning people against a dynamito plot and to avoid patronising ships carrying British colours after the Ist of September.
Press" office. Now, we would ask, is there one man in this Colony- matter how much he may be opposed to His Excellency's administration of the Government-who would uphold such tactics ? Wo think not; in- deed, we cannot believe that, outside a very circumscribed "ring," any individual could be found capable of nated with gaily-coloured lanterns last The grounds of the Mosque ware illumi- such a dastardly act even for hire. night, on the occasion of the conclusion of We remember reading, not long ago,
the fast of Ramazan. During this fast, in one of the half-yards of matutinal which lasts from the first streak of dawn milk-and-water which regularly ap- particle of food or drink of any descrip- till the stars appear in the evening, no pear in the Daily Press, the operation, or even smoke passes the lips of the tion of writing a letter and signing Faithful. one's name to it described as "stab in the dark" but we cannot find an appropriate term to apply to the act of writing and publishing an article under the same roof, said article being given to readers as the production of an Atticus over the sea. It is a great shock to our faith in human nature to find a journal of such eminent respectability and high moral tono descending to such vile practices, and we shall be shortly Forced to the conclusion that there must be some truth in the old saws that "most people are honest until they are found out," and "those who preach most, practice least."
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Occidental and Oriental Com- pany's steamer Oceanic was docked at the Cosmopolitan Dock at 10.30 this morning.
We are informed Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co. have received this morn- ing a cablegram from Amoy to the effect that there are strong indications of an approaching typhoon at that port.
The following telegram is published this morning by the Hongkong Gov. ernment, received last night from Manila" Another typhoon is rag- ing in the N. of Luzon; its direction seems to be W, with a slight inclina- tion to the N."
This morning at about seven a.m., Inspector Lindsay, with a party of Polico, by virtue of a warrant, broke into No. 34, Gilman's Bazaar, in which 19 prisoners wore arrested for keeping a gambling house. Two of the prison ers were severely hurt. throughou fall from a great height while at tempting to escape, which necessitated their being removed to the Hospital.
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The Band of Hor Majesty's Royal In- niskilling Fusiliers will perform the follow- ing selection of music in the Botanic Gardens this afternoon:- Karch.........." Prince_Arthur" Overture. "Light Cavalry"...... Lancora... "Connaught Valso.. Selection.. Polka..
.Horvé. ..Sappé.
D'Albert. "Pomono".
Pirates of Ponzanco"...Sullivan.
........... Waldtoufel. Drink, Puppy Drink "... D'Albert.
people had a lively quarter of an hour one At a shop in the Central Market the day this week, when, on transferring a basket of egg-plant, they turned out a snake amongst the vegetables who resisted capture and showed fight for fally fifteen minutes before it was caught and killed. As the reptile erected itself, Inspector Orley gave it a blow with a stick which crippled it, and it was soon despatched. The snake, which came from Canton in
the vegetables, measured four feet eight inches, and was described by the Chinese who saw it as deadly, It was sent to the City Hall Museum.
A rifle match will take place to-morrow between a team of officers and non-coms. of the Royal Tuniskilling Fusiliers on one sile, and of police and civilians on the other, to decide upon the selection of a team to compete with the marksmen of Shanghai. The competitors are to be on ing are the names :---- the ground at hali-past two. The follow-
Lieut. J. F. Charley. Lieut. H. Young. Sorgesuit-Inst. Barnes. Colour-Sergeant Mond Colour-Sgt. Framingham. Sergeant Langdown. Sergeant Kearnes. Corporal Marrin.
Inspector Cameron. Juspector Fleming. In poctor Thompson. Inspector Quincey, Constable McKay. Mr. W. F. Whitehend. Mr. C. S. Sharpe. Mr. W. Duumio.
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THE TELEGRAPH LIBEL CASE.
This case, which occupied the Court. the greater part of yesterday, was re- sumed this morning. After reading the article containing the supposed libel, Mr. Francis addressed the jury, saying that the article alleged that the plaintiff, together with Mr. Bain and Mr. Robert Smith, the sub-editor of the China Mail, had entered into a con- spiracy to injure the prospects of the defendant's paper, and that the plain- tiff bad told a lie in a cortain letter he By latest Lisbon papers we notice had written to Mr. de Souza, the prin that Senhor D'Aguilar has been urgingter of the papor, in which he advisol tho Portuguese Government to use
him not to carry out his agreement, every possible mans to maintain tho most friendly relations with England, business which did not concern him. and with having impa lently pried into
African problem, and of securing a as the only way of railising the great Nearly the whole of the article wis charge as liballons. The lowned counsel said he admittel that certain prosperous future for the vast Porta. gusso possessions on the Zaire.
statements in the article were defa- atory unless they could be cx- plainel, and he proposal to prove that the facts statel in the article were trus and that the inferences drawa,
We are rather surprised to note that various of the Lisbon newspapers huva lately been prosecuted for rather freely criticising this acts of the present Gɔ- vernment. This action on the part of the Government has caused quite a sensation, as a great deal of licence has hitherto been allowed the newspapers, although freedom of the pross as under- stood in England is strictly defined ac- eording to Portuguese law. the most prominent papers prosecuted is the Seculo, a journal with semi- socialistic tendencies, edited by De. Magalhães Lima, a man of great ability, who has been compared in many re- spects with Alfred do Musset.
from those facts were not unreasonable.
About the beginning of June Mr. Feasar Smith was taking steps for establishing the Inghany Tegraph. H3 applied verbally to Mr. de Souza, for an esti. mite us to the cost of the printing The learned counsel read the corres. One of
pondence, which was to the following effect. Mr. de Souza wrote saying he could not print the piper for less than $200 a month. Mr. Fraser-Smith wrote in reply that he could not for a moment entertain the proposal, and that he could not give him more thrun $125 a month for the first six months. When the paper had had a fair trial ho might afford to give him $200, but at first he anticipated loss besides the hard work. He (the writer) felt so confident of ultimate success that he should sand home for appliances to print the paper himself, and believed Mr. de Souza was making a mistake in putting his estimate at so high a figure. Mr. de Souza replied saying that he was preparo to reduce his agreement to $150. In consequ- once of this, the learned counsel said, Mr. Smith drew up rough memoranda, and sent them to Mr. de Souza. On the 3rd June theso memoranda were return- od with somo alterations in Mr. do Souza's hand-writing, and Mr. do Souza asked defendant if he agreed to thoso
Now, had this been a genuine ex- pression of opinion from a corres-
Germany has contributed to the pondent it would be the bounden Electra-Technical Exhibition at Paris duty of any editor to consider and the model of a new and important weigh well whether such a grave signalling apparatus, the invention of charge as this-business-and-sociala railway official-at-Elberfeld, which is life has been brought almost to a intended to dispense with intermediate dead lock and a large, number of block stations, and to allow trains to lives sacrified, and for this I feel follow each other at closer distances constrained to repeat Governor than hitherto. The device, which has Hennessy must be held responsible,"
boon tried and found to work excellently, -should be published upon
is called an electro-automatic block ipsi dixit of any one man.
station tolograph, and is so constructed But this
as to rogister situaltaneously by whoel. proposition is outside the pale of con-
prossaro at two stations the passage sideration in this particular instance, of a train at a point equidistant from asthe whole article, from the first line them. The invention promises to be of to the last, save and except one or two great importance, and will at any rate print paragraphs cut from a Hono- deeply utorost all railway ouginours lulu paper, was written in the "Daily who visit Paris in July.-Times.
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alterations to kindly return the thing to him in order that ho might have olean copies made out. They would soe from the alterations that at Mr. Souza's own offer, and no suggestion of defendant's, that he supplied the office. On the evening of the 2nd or 3rd Juno, while these nogotiations were going on, Mr. Wicking about six or seven o'clock, wont to Mr. do Squza's, making most anxions inquiries as to whother it was true he was going to print a newspaper for Mr. Fraser-Smith Mr. de Souza would tell thom that he first saw Wicking on the evening of the 2nd June as they were closing ac- counts. Mr. Wicking said," I hear you are going to print tho Telegraph" He then asked Mr. Do Souza to show him all the papers about it, Mr. de Souza never applied to him for advice, and since the death of his father he had only asked him for advice once, and that was advice which he was not particularly grateful for. The amended draft Mr. de Souza gave to Mr. Wick- ing. The result was the following letter, which was reproduced in the article-- Agreeable to your request I have looked over the agreement which Mr. Fraser- Smith submits for your approval and sig naturo bat not being sufficiently well acquainted with the details of your busi- ness I cannot form a fair estimate as to what will be the cost of providing the paper in question, but with the hope of getting you the business in question. J. consulted with my friend Mr. G. M. Bain, who read the agreement, and without the least hesitation said it would cost you at least $350 to $400 a month to carry out the agreement which you are asked to do for $150.
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Under these circumstances you will doubtless point out to Mr. Fraser-Smith your inability to undertake the matter.
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Governor for the purpose of enabling him deliberately and maliciously to traduce one of his own officers. That of course was at once and promptly denied. A day or two aftorwerds Mr. Beale, who was negotiating to join Mr. Fraser-Smith on the Telegraph, was told by Mr. Robert Smith that the advertisements in the Telegraph were dummies, and Mr. Beale wroto to Mr. Fraser-Smith that until he was satisfied on the point he refus- ed to join tho paper. He had been satisfied, and had since joined the pa- per. Mr. Smith when reforred to for his authority for making such a state- mont, gave no reply. Then the jury must all have heard the report circulat- ed that His Excellency had taken 60 or 50 copies daily of the Telegraph for the purpose of keeping it up. Mr. Fra- ser-Smith was informed, although he did not know what truth there was in the statement, that this report had ori. ginated with Mr. Bain. At the outset Mr. Fraser-Smith found, from the infor- nation ho could get, and from the pa- per before him that Mr. Wicking, who had no interest in Mr. Souza whatever, or in the Telegraph, was deliberately working to prevent the starting of that paper, volunteering his advice to Mr. de Souza and patting before Mr. do Souza on the authority of M. Bain, an estimate of the cost of printing which was utterly fallacious. An ex- tetact from Mr. de Souza's books for the month of July showed that the for that mouth that article it was stated at $134.
was $151.30.
That was the first hasty estimate Mr. Fraser-Smith got when he asked Messrs. de Souza & Co. for it. The learnod.counsel referred to the nature Now that letter was false in this songe. of the legal proof required to establish It was true that the piece of paper
a charge of conspiracy and argued that which Mr. Wicking had looked over,
the defondant was fully justified in in- and about which he took Mr. Bain's ferring from the facts in this case the opinion, was handed to him by Mr. de existence of the conspiracy alleged. Souza, but it came about because Mr. Bona fide believing that, he placed his Wicking inter fered in a matter which
defence before the public, who were his clients, and to whom he has beon did not concern bim. Ho submitted that if they proved that, Mr. Fraser-traduced and villified. Under the oir. Swith was perfectly justified in stating cumstances he would ask his Lordship that Mr. de Souza never requested Mr. to lay down that the publication was Wicking to look over his agreements, privileged and justified. and nover solicited his advice; his let- tor of the 7th Jane was one of those half truths which Were sometimes worse than doliberate falsehoods. Mr. Wicking informed Mr. de Souza, on had a conversation with Mr. de the opinion of Mr. Bain, that he could Souza. While I was talking to him not do the work he was asked to do Mr. Wicking's boy came in asking Mr. for $150, under $150. Mr. de Souza took fright, and then wrote a letter
de Souza to go over to him. I said "You had better tell Mr. Wicking to to Mr. Fraser-Smith, datel the 7th come here." Mr. Wicking came at once. June, to the effect that in his desire to I asked him what business it was of his get business hy hul mule his estimate interfering about the paper, and said I so absurdly low that ho could not presumed he was acting in the interest possibly carry out his agreement with of the Caiur Mail, and he said "No, oat loss, that he hal boon inform I the only of do Souza," I showed him a work could not be dons under $100 a copy of his own lettor which Souza month. The defondant replied that Me. hd forwardel to me and asked him if de Souza was legally bound to carry that was his estimate. He said it was, out the contract, but by was quite and added "I took it to Mr. Bain for willing to give him a guarantee that if his opinion." I said it was an idiotic any loss onerrel hɔ would mike it up estimte. He then added that he had to him; on the strength of the agree strongly advised de Souza not to mat mals, he hutoutsrelinto arran
have anything to do with it, that gañouts for the publication of the it would simply ruin him if ho paper on the 15th insty that in the undertook it. Mr. de Souza thon said, ovent of Mr. de Sazi failing to carry "I don't want to make any money out out his contract, he would at onca také log prosadings, and that as far as Mr. ruined." Then Mr Franco said to me, of the contract, but I don't want to be
Sar's frieals, Messrs. Wicking "I am Mr. Souza's uncle, and Mr. ant Bun, were concerned, he would Wicking says it will be ruin if we take have an opportunity of dealing with the contract." Then Mr. Wicking them in another place As they saw turning to de Souza, and said “I advise Mr. Fraser-Smith hail threatened bogil you to have nothing at all to do with it." proceedings. Mr. de Souza then applied I said, addressing Mr. Wicking, "If for legal advice, but unfortunately in ho does not carry out his agreement I tho first instance did not bring the shall take legal proceedings, as I don't whole of his papers with him, al so wish to look a fool before the com- the advice on the papers as they then munity, having extensively advertised stood was to the effect that though he tho newspaper." He replied, "Ob, was bound to print a paper he was not that will only ruin the young fellow," bound, dowa to the particulars and I thou said, losing my temper alightly, details which were include in the that I considered his interferonco un." written memorandum. Of course that gentlein inly and uncalled for, that his was very soon put right, because when so-called estimate was worthy of the the whole of the papers were put for- man that wrote it, but that I would ward, it was clear at once that Muarantes do Souza and Company, in de Souza had absolutely bound him- the event of their showing to me self to take the work for $150, and after the conclusion of the contract that that he was required to carry it they had lost a single cont by their out according to the torms of the agroo- transaction with me I would make it ment, many of which ho had himself good to them. "Mr. Wicking then sug- suggested. After this a couple of arrested to do Souza to undertake it for ticles appeared in the Telegraph com- a work, I said it was simply ridiculous menting on the emigration papors to talk about that, and thon he repeated which were published in connection his advice to de Souza to have nothing with the case of the Glamis Oustle. On whatever to do with it. He did not the following day, commenting on those say "at the price named." Ultimately articles, an article appoared in the the publication of the Hongkong Tele- China Mail distinctly charging the graph was commenced under the terms Telograph with having lent itsolf to the afterwards agreed upon and has been
The defendant was then called and gave evidence of his negotiations with Mr. de Souza to the effect stated by Counsel in opening the case. He said