A. S. WATSON & CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, GENERAL CHEMISTS,
AND
Manufautarers of the following AERATED WATERS, viz : SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA, AND POTASH, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE,
AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE. Deliveries in Town and Harbour from
7 AM to 7 P.M.
SHIPS' MEDIGIENE CHESTS REFITTED, PASSENGEL SHIPS SUPPLIED.
Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG. SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
SHANGILAI.
CANTON.
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THE
Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 16TH NOVEMBER, 1881.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16mm, 1881..
parently a respectable kind of man and coal dealer, and had he been contented to stick to the black dia- monds and reasonable profits, there can be no doubt that he would have been a wealthier, wiser, and moTMá contented member of our comm
community than he is at the present time. However, as he stated to Mr. Justice Russell, he saw people making such large fortunes, and thought he might as well have & slice of the good things going round, which ap- peared to be acquired so easily. We conclude that the tout who negotiated the transactions told him all about so many people making money; at any rate, Mr. Chuk Hin became the purchaser, but not the possessor, of four shops near the Chinese Recrea- tion Ground for the flea-bite of $36,000. Of course this Chinese speculator did not possess anything like a tithe of the purchase-money; but by borrowing and scraping he succeeded in raising $3,000, which were handed over as purchase-money The transaction had never been com- pleted, and the shops had not been handed over to him, as he had no money to for them. As a matter
pay of fact he was induced to believe that if he bought the houses, he could easily re-sell at a profit, and in this he was grossly deceived, and the result is that he is at present minus both houses and money, and likely to remain so. The case of Mr. Chuk Hin is only one out of dozens of a similar character, which are to be met with throughout the colony.
The case of Marques v. Vieira, which was also heard before Mr. Rus. sell on Friday last, presents another phase of this interesting subject, which deserves special attention. Mr. A. Marques, described as a broker, but probably better known in the colony as Professor Marco Vitz, sued Mr. A. Vieira for the sum of $190, as brokerage for purchasing a house for the defendant in Wing Lok Street. It was the same old story over again, with a little variation. Mr. Marques told Mr. Vieira of a property to be disposed of for $19,000, which he was sure he could resell for $25,000,
the spider and the fly is just ne ap- There will be a Meeting of the Per- plicable to rogues and dupes in Eng severanco. Lodge of Freemasons this land, as it is in Hongkong. We evening at 9 o'clock precisely. have often considered that some practically defined plan of licensing ton went on board the steamship The Chinese Embassy for Washing brokers, thus ensuring for-this-im-Oceanic this forenoou. H.E. the Minis- portant branch of our commercial tor, accompanied by a numerous suite, system a responsible body of men left Peddar's Wharf in a steam launch whose integrity and good faith could at. 11.45, the embarkation being celo- bo rolied on, would lead to beneficial brated by the customary pyrotechnic results to the mercantile community display. A large number of Chinese, generally. This matter has been influential and otherwise, wore present mooted before, and although it has
on the wharf to see his Excellency apparently not coincided with the
embark, views of the authorities, we considér it, especially after recent house-pro- perty proceedings, well worthy of serious attention. We respectfully commend this suggestion, or some other carefully devised remedial measure, to the consideration of His Excellency the Governor.
The Hudson Surprise Party, says the Mercury, will shortly visit Shanghai.
The steamship Romulus came out of the Cosmopolitan. Dock this morning.
We regret to bear, says the Shanghai Mercury that Mr. Shorwin, manager of the Carandini Company, who visited us last spring, died at Sydney, a wook after his return, from enlarged liver.
A tologram dated London, November Lith, which came to hand yesterday, statos that M. Gambetta has been elect ed President of the Council of Mini- sters, without a portfolio, and that M. broyinet has received the appointment
of Minister of Finance.
It would appear that real grounds exist for belief that the Fenians are actually endeavouring to create a civil war at home. An important seizure of arms and documents is reported by wire as having been made at Bradford, a town which has long been notorious. for its Fenian proclivities,
We have had occasion more than once recently to speak in rather severe terms about what has gene- rally become to be known in this colony as the
"house property We were convinced from the beginning that this so-called commercial movement, which was to drive all the foreigners in the colony to the Eastward of the Club, and to leave the Chinese in undisputed and happy possession of the best portion of the city, had no solid basis what- soever. Evidence was not wanting to prove to the most bigotted of sceptics that the house mania was a mere bogus business, floated for the express purpose of deceiving and de- frauding a number of ignorant dupea, by a coterie of the most unprincipled rascals in this hot-bed of rascaldom. As a duty we owed to the public, we fearlessly exposed the illegitimate and the last-named gentleman, evi-hear that the "dark blue and silver" character of a number of trumped-dently placing great reliance on the up sales which obtained publicity persuasive eloquence of the learned through the columns of the public Professor, accordingly became, nomi- press, and gave warning in no un-nally, the proprietor of the desirable certain or indefinite terms that the tenement at the figure stated. We houses of cards which some gentle- presume Mr. Marques, who is evi- men-with an abnormal amount of dently a gentleman of great resource, faith in the probability of house pro- and some considerable enterprise, perty increasing in value to the ex- received a commission from the. tent, in some instances, of three or Chinese owner of the property. How four hundred per cent. within a few ever, after the house in Wing Lok weeks without any apparent cause-Street was supposed to have changed were hopefully building, would come hands-it was never actually trans- tumbling about their ears some fine ferred, Mr. Vieira only paying $1,900 morning, leaving them poorer and bargain-money-it somehow or other it is to be hoped-wiser men. We have reason to know that the warn-
The China Mail, expatiating on the subject of jinrickabas, thinks it highly advisable "that sleigh bells should be attached to every vehicle of that dea cription" at night time. Can rampant folly let loose in our midst suggest plague of jincrickshas is surely bad anything more idiotic than this? The enough already, both by day and night, without the addition of sleigh bells In older days professional fools used to be decorated with cap and bells. Luckily for our contemporary, who has un doubted claims to this adornment, the old custom has censed to oxist.
Joseph Maxwell, Esquiro, a gentle- man from Australia, who in his sober Inoments follows the business of a com- positor, made his third appearance at
the Police Court within the last month yesterday morning on the old charge, "drunk and incapable." Joseph had evidently gone astray, as he was found lying in the gutter in Queen's Road most helplessly drunk by a police con- stable who took him to the Central Station in a jinricksha. Interrogated stimulants, Joseph admitted the soft by Dr. Stewart as to his fondness for
happy when the magistrate in his mil impeachment, and looked perfectly dest tones let him off with a fine of one dollar, or four days' imprisonment. Wo shall doubtless hear of this gentleman
again.
discover her whereabouts, the search for her was abandoned as hopeless. Thirty-eight years had elapsed since
tection of metal substances, was crais- with an electrical apparatus for the de- her loss, when an Erio boat, provided
ing about the lake one fine morning. Suddenly the person in charge of the machine observed unmistakable indi- beneath the surface of the water over cations denoting the presence of metal which the boat was at the time passing. The boarings of the spot were at once taken, and on the third of last month a couple of divers were conveyed thi ther and lowered into the lake. They alighted on the deck of the submerged schooner, and succeeded in penetrating into its held, whence they extracted and brought to the surface ous. of the long missing copper bars. The entire this successful feat, who can doubt that cargo has since been recovered, After it is reserved to electricity to solve all the old-standing mysteries of sunken Spanish and Dutch galleons, British treasure ships, and piratical hoards that have defied more human ingenuity and perseverance for so many years. past,
THE STABBING CASE, The inquest on the body of Thomas Findlay, who was fatally wounded on beard the British bark Helen Marion by John Perry, was resumed yesterday afternoon at the Magistracy, before the coroner, Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, and a
jury
composed of Messrs. J. McCallam,
J. Dickie, and P. Sirith. Further ovi-
dence was taken as follows art
P. C. Herbert Servant, No. 4, said - At 4 p.m., on the 13th ultimo, in con sequence of instructions I received, I went with the Captain of the Helen Marion to the Canton Wharf, where, in a small boat, I found the deceased, whom I conveyed by means of an ambulance to the Civil Hospital, He told me his name was Thomas Findlay, a seaman of the Canadian bark Helen Marion; he did not say his age, but I believe him to be about 28 years old.
Inspector Mackie said-I am în charge of this case. All the witnesses who might be able to give any evidence as to the way the deceased received his nobody left who is able to give evi- wound have left the colony, and thore dence as to what took place. The pri having inflicted the wound on the de- soner is in custody on a charge of ceased, and has been before the Police Magistrate. He was arrested on the 13th ult., and the case had been under from the colony of those who were able investigation prior to the departure.
to give evidence as to what took place.
The Fu-you arrived safely at Canton We learn by advices received from yesterday morning at half past ten Shanghai this morning, that in all The damage to her bottom is stated to probability we shall have the famous have been confined to the bulging and race-ponies Rose and Shamrock, which the cracking of one plate, or perhaps so distinguished themselves at the re-two, but cannot be extensive on ac cent Shanghai meeting, at our ensuing count of her comparative tightness. Races. They are coming down, so we
An inquiry into the occurrence will be are informed, under the management held at Canton before the Commisis of that astute trainer and accomplished stoner of Customs, so far as regards the the time, these licensed pilots being jockoy, Mr. C. H. Hatchings. We also certificated Chinese pilot on board at will be near winning the Hongkong amenable to the Customs authorities, Derby. Fuller particulars on this sub- but we understand that the captain is ject later on.
competent to elect the port of registry regular inquiry shall take place, and, if if he pleases as the place where the
that is so, it will be Shanghai, under any circumstances, the ordinary method of holding the enquiry at the first port of entry could not be adopted in this instance, as the persons necessary to the composition of the Court were not in Canton at the time.
early this morning to take stock of mat- We wont down to the racecourse
ters gederally. Although the weather was beautiful, very few "sports" lodged an appearance, and training business was confined to walking exercise. About a dozen of the griffins were in the enclosure, and they look a really promising lot of ponies. The two old racers Dauntless and Lord of the Isles were walking about, looking woll, and apparently quite recovered from the appeared to lose its desirable chalaineness which prevented them show-panies. Some time back he was asked to effect the sale of a mining property, ing their best form at our last races.
racter to speculators, for it is on re-
The Coroner asked the jury whether they had any questions to ask when,
Mr. McCallam said-I should like to know what has taken place before the magistrates.
The Coroner I do not think we can' do that. The man is in custody on a A friend, says Fact, sends me an illustrative and instructive anecdote charge of inflicting the wound, and the anent the promotion of mining com-
most we could do would be to incorpo- rate all that has been done in the Police Court with one proceedings. That would not do much to help the case, as it is
ing was accepted in many cases; cord that even Mr. Marco Vitz's The maatsheisialready erected present He introduced the matter to a certain only liearsay evidence, and not like
quite an imposing appearance in the enclosure, and we are glad to be able financier, who took it to another, and to state that Mr. Tripp, the worthy so on in the usual course. After some C.C., who has been working very hard time, matters began to take a definite lately, bas effected a wonderful im- form, but by then the original price provement in the condition of the
course.
bearing the evidence from the witness's mouth. What we had better do is to return au open verdiet; we know that. a man is in custody, and therefore we should not be assisting matters in any way by taking this hearsay evidence. It will be better to simply return a vordict that the deceased died from in- jaries as stated by the medical evidence. T do not think it would be regular, or fair to the prisoner, to return a verdiot as to what took place on board the
P. O. Servant said the deceased bad made a communication to him, before ho conveyed him to the Hospital.
but it is equally certain that there were other wise men-wise in their own generation-who knew so much, and had such great faith in their perceptive powers, that they allowed themselves to be beguiled by the specious promises of enterprising un- licensed hawkers--brokers they call themselves, but we are not inclined to be so courteous as to classify these gambling touts with the members of a respectable and honourable pro fession-with the result that ruin the victim of his own inordinate temporary and comments thereon, to A gets a note from financier Zsaying ship upon hearsay evidence. and beggary are to be found within many homes, which were previously abodes of comfort and happiness.
The victims have generally been ashamed to publish the story of their delusive investments, preferring to pay for their folly rather than to acknowledge how they have been so egregiously duped. With many others, however, it has proved a case of necessitas non legem. Of this last named class was Mr. Yeung Chuk Hin, of the Sam Yeo coal shop, who had the questionable privilege of figuring before Mr. Justice Russell
had, as the matter passed from hand. to hand, risen from 10,000%, to 70,0001, the ultimate purchaser being a Limited Liability Company, and the vendor, to show his confidence in the future success of the undertaking, agreeing to take half in cash and half in shares. Just on the eve of completion, fiuaueier
tled with everybody, but if you believe that a difficulty had arisen at the eleventh hour-"I thought I had set-
me a Mr.
frequent excursions " from corner to corner in jinrickshas" failed to find a purchaser. The bubble, exposed in the columus of the Telegraph, had burst, and Mr. Vieira, got out of his dilemma-like a good many more→ by paying. Instead of clearing We would remind the North China $6,000, as he fondly hoped and be- Daily News that the name of this paper lieved, he found himself a loser of is the Hongkong Telegraph, and that it $3,500 by the transaction. There is journalistic etiquette, recoguised all can be little doubt that Mr. Vieira, the world over, for a newspaper whon like Mr. Young Chuk Hin, was made it takes an item of news from a con- passion for large profits and quick Daily News of the 10th inst. "the late state the name of such paper. In the returns; in fact, he was thoroughly sub editor of the China Mail writes: duped, and in such a manner that we notice that some of the Hong-
has just turned up who he has little claim to public sym kong papors are sorely grieved at the puts in some pretension to considera-
tion. "Mr.-
by the way, was the pathy,
prevalence of Sunday labour in that
of, and in reality the real, vendor. The responsibility for what has colony," and then quotes a paragraph undoubtedly been a commercial as from this journal as "from one of our The Oberland Mail is responsible well as a social calamity, for perfectly contemporaries. It is not true that for the following: To the systematic understood reasons, must rest some some of the Hongkong papers have treasure-seoker a hopeful prospect is where. It would appear to us that beu eren discussing Sunday. Jabour. oponed out by an electrical achieve it fairly lies within the province of The Telegraph is the only paper which ment lately reported from the United the Government by legal enactments has dealt with the question for months States. It would appear that, daring to prevent any possible recurrence of past, We are not particularly anxious the summer of 1843, the sahooner Ver such scandalous proceedings. It is to be quoted by the N. O: Daily News; milion, laden with copper bare, foun- human nature to be attracted by but, when paragraphs are taken from dered in Lake Erie daring a heavy
our, columns us a matter of right and gale of wind. Her cargo was valued In the Summary Jurisdiction Court undertakings of a speculative cha-custom, the Telegraph should be men at 60,000 dols,, and its owners spared on Friday last, as defendant in anracter, where the prospects of im- tioned by name. We particularly note no pains or expense to recover it but action brought by Mr. Chun Hoi to mediately becoming rich are speci- that extracts froin the China Mail are in vain, The Fermilion had gone recever the sum of 8766,40, moneyously laid out by the tempter, and not stated to be "from one of our can-down in the deepest part of the lako, lent. Mr. Yeung Chuk Hin is ap it is well known that the fable of temporaries."
and, after several fruitless attempts to
The Coroner I do not think it advisable to take that evidence, but it would be bettor to return an open verdict
Mr. McCallum Then you will not call the person who heard the statement of the deceased in the Hospital?
The Coronet That is not evidence, though I believe it is in my power to call him, but I don't see that any ad- vantage is to be gained by doing so. It
would be unsatisfactory to return a verdict upon such evidence, and it will with by the proper authorities,
be better to leave the case to be dealt.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the effects of a wound in the chest, as stated in the medical evidence.