leave of absence, has only granted what you have earned, a shot hólklay and an escape from perhaps raiber a severe suniuer. I hope the members of this Council will join with me in wishing your Excellency a plásant um innie ant full enjoyment of the baliday which you have earned (Applause.)
His EXCELLENCY-1 am much obliged to my hon, friend and the members of the Council. The Council was then adjourned sine die
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other's houses in order to "aise the wind."
like to know.
The Weather has been very fine for the past week and frosts have again set in; we have had a horrible wet and inclement winter, so let us anticipate a fine spring,
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we are apologists for such revolting treatment, but we wish to point out that it is not mere vin dictive cruelty which prompt a sentence of this kind, nor is it the desise to keep the per Harems supplied with a necessary class of ser- wants. There is at the bottom a logical train of thought which, from a Chinese puint of view, originally prompted and still approves of the law
question.
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If there is one thing more than another which a Chinaman desires, it is to have wake offspring who may perpetuate his boe and so provide for the due ininistration of the family sacrifices. "To fail in that not only jeopardises his own future
happiness, but that of his parents and ancestors. Among alie victims were a father and lis only son, so that not only did the father lose his life, but at the same tinie his hope of posterity was
ther on the general ground that it being were due
the subordinate members of a family volved the guilt of the head.
in-
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GOLD IN CEYLON.
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MAILS EXPECTED.
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the 25th February, and may be expected here on The 1 & 0, 8, N. Co.'s steamer, Deccan, with the next English hail, left singapore on saturday,
THE INDIAN MAIL
The direct steamers, with the next Indian mail,
left Calcutta on the morning of the 18th February, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 7th instant.
:
THE AMERICAN MAIL
American mail, left San Francisco on the 18th The O, & O. steamer Gaelic, with the next
instant. February, and may be expected here on the 19th
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
The steamer Oven, from sydney, vid Free- mantle, WA, arrived at sourabaya, en route for Hongkong, on Sunday, the 19th February.
The steamer Nelson left sydney on the oth February, and is due here on or about the 3rd Instant.
Cooktown on the 15tli February, and is due here The E. & A. & R. Co's steamer Menmuir left on or about the 3rd instant.
The 0. s. s. En's steamer Agamemnon left singapore on the forennon of the 25th February, and may be expected here on or about the 5th instant,
the 26th February, and is due here on or about the 6th instant,
The steamer Glamis Castle left singapore on
The steamship Gleneagles left singapore on about the 7th. the 1st instant, and may be expected here on or
The E. & A. S. & Co.'s steamer Tannadice left Sydney on the 18th February, and is due here on or about the 12th instant.
Consignées.
DAPHNE, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, are being landed at their risk into the Gotowns of the Under-
the Wharf are at liberty to do so. signed, whence delivery may be obtained..
Consignees wishing to receive their Goods on
NEW JAPANESE RAILWAYS,
tant line of railway in Japan will soon be a fait which have arisen in Ceylon between the Go- We are glad to observe that a new and inpot- In the midst of the many important questions accompli. For some time there was reason to earying out of public works, and the proposed the principal changes in the Rules of the House vernment and the public touching the institution fear that the projectors would adopt the planį taxation of the planters, there is still that same
of Comuttons which have been under the consi-the gid instant. common in outlying districts in die Western energy for enterprise which has made Ceylon so deration of the Cabinet. The proposals have noi parts of America, and contruct a railway of cheap prosperous. The search Eur new products is con- and inferior material, trusting to subsequent pro. tinued with unabated vigour, and naturally that yet been finally settled, and probably some mo fits to improve it in time.
gold takes up a prominent position. Accor-difications will be made before l'arliament meets. This course, which ing to the latest accounts, very good samples of It is proposed to limit the number of occasions on was advocated by several native journals, is said quartz have been obtained from some of the which the principle of a Bill may be discussed. to have been followed in Yeza, where a time of districts, and hopes of ultimate success are being At present a debate naay be raised on the principle 23 February. Since the publication of your kist effusion from
railway has recently been constructed between occurred which tends to show that there is of a Bill on the introduction and arst reading
considerable raised. Nothing of the present has this post, your remiss correspondent has been
working in Japan are two; one between Yekoha- ing the auriferous deposits of Australia and second reading, the motion to go into Commitee, Soppora and Otarunai. The railways now in gold in Ceylon in quantities at all approach usually, but not necessarily, taken together-the awaiting the appearance of further information
cut off, and therely both he and'ail his race concerning "The Clubs Rumpus," the possible
were involved in a fate which was the worst "Ningpe Pariah,” and other
ma and Tokio, and one between Hinge and California. The utmost that is anticipated" is, inauguration of a
the report, the third reading, and on the question that could befall them. The emg was one Obsu on Lake Biwa, passing through Osaka
as a correspondent puts it in a letter we stattling itetus; in the absence, however, of any
that the Bill de pass. In future the discussion of more inferation on these stirring points, I deem deal. Nony, it is a well known principle of about eighty miles. These lines were construc-
not merely against the living, but against the and Kioto. The total length of both is published recently, that the outlook for gold the principle of a Bill will be confined to the
is becoming more tangible, and that in the dis- introduction (when, if leave be given, the Bill is; it may duty to your readers and selves to treat
tricts prospected it will be found in paying quan Chinese law that pauistimet shall be as far as ted under the superintendence of competent tity. It is, of
to be read a first time, as a matter of course), to you to amolber nilable of Ningpo news.
The steamer Meath, from Sydney, &c, left Port Society has again rested its accustomed for the crime committed. A life for a life has materials. They would, we believe, be consi
possible commensurate with or the equivalent English engineers, and of the best English reefs may he struck, but we carrot too strongly regard to the power of closing debate it is pro-bruary, and is due bere on or about the 3rd instant. f course, possible that really valmble the second tealing, and the third reading. With Darwin, for Hengkong, on sunday, the 19th Fe calm; the Chub franza has more less subsided,
aways been the demand in cases of homicide by dered first-class lines even in this country. The
ge, as we have done before, the necessity for posed that the speaker for in Committee of the and sur noble agitators of reform and advance foreigners, and, rice versa, the Chinese authomaserie had to be conveyed from this country, great cantion in entering on gold mining gpers whole use, the Chairmant may, on his own have quietly but victmniously withdrawn from the rities have geatrally been willing to tender one foreign engineers and workmen with high sala
tions. It is hardly likely that the public of Cey field of battle, preferring the Peace with honar life for ever victim lost on our sile. With them ries hail to be employed, and the cost was, ther
motion or on the demand of a certain namber lon will be carried away because gold is found in of members, put the proposition that the question is the "Peace at any price” principle, which I understand was unsuccessfully urged upon then.hut there is supposed to be in some way a panese have had the courage to constract their always a danger that hopes, will be raised ton
the object of punishment is not to deter others, fore, comparatively great. Fortunately the ja-paying quantities, for they are ton shrewd busi then before the House "be now put." On this ness men at the same time, however, there is question no debate is to be allowed, and it is at Public Entertainments such as "Penny Read debt ve ne a liability incured in the book of new line in the same sound had though fashion, high. When that is so, if failure results, or jority, except in certain stated cases, will be ings," Calico Balls, Musical and Literary Soins fate towards the family of the victim which can and we were glad to be able to announce in our
ince to he decided by a division. A simple ma- thugh mouted from time to time, have neverthe be paid only in kind. Until so paid, the manes less hitherto been conspicuous by their absence of the deceased can never be appessed. The Brinker, and Co. had been commissioned to
last issue that an English Grai, Messrs. Malcolm, ing expenses, the corresponding depression is he now put. The excepted cases will probably if the quantity found only just pays work suficient to cany the motion that the question The Chinese New Year has heer tided over
most disastrous, by the natives without the necessity of cuflada is even carried so far as to faster the he procure the plant in this country for the first
At present we must there include the second reading of a Will, and Votes grations, cat or small, by which to raze each for an unredressed war; done by some of its
lief that a Nemesis often hangs over a family portion.
is nothing to indicate anything like a desire supply for an unusual character, such as votes The new line is in many respects different before the experiments and prospecting will be
to rush the affair, and some time must clapse of credit or votes for extraordinary naval and members in a previous state of existence. If from its predecessors. The latter were o Most of our spots spent their holiday aming the equilibrium of destiny has once been upset stracted wholly by the Government, the former le enough to form a basis for operations of two lo one will be required for closing a de- military expenditure, and in these cases a majoity and one gentleman' distinguished lúmself by
no matter what length of time has elapsed, or is due to private enterprise, assisted by Gove the mines,, These experiments must be con
or for abandoning the idea of profitably working bate. Certain classes of Bills are to be referred bagging three brace of leak in a slay, what changes have taken place, it can only be mentgaarantees and saw lots more. Where? Oh, wouldn't you righted by an atoncinent corresponding to the ly short, while the new one will be several
The all lines are comparative tinged without abatement, and we might again
to large selce Committees, partly nominated by urge the advisability of the Government stepping an; and with regard to these Bills the stage of the Ilouse and par.ly by the Committee of selec- There are at present in pot the German brig original crime and sooner or later such attone-hundred miles in length. The privileges granted
·Hermman and also the German schooner
ment must be made. In this particular case the by the Government are very extensive and valu
ia to assist in arriving at a really true and accu- punishment, in pursuance of the above principle able but Japan is not a country with capital, The subject is one of more than ordinaim will be mainly Büls on the principle of which no rate estimate of the extent of these gold deposits. Committee in the whole fouse will he dispensed Johann Cark The former, with coals from Keeing, suack the Kestrel Rock im entering and with his victin and as the latter can have no enterprises without some assistance from the systematically; yet great good would be done by volve questions of administration rather than The Bills to which this rule will apply must be such as will put the offender of a level and the people are unaccustomed to move in potance, and, although everything must be done great difference of opinion exists, or which in- is making about a foot of water per hour; she is, however, discharging her urge safely in the incal heirs to minister to his departed spirit so authorities. The decree author sing the forma
consigaces' godinens, oaly 45 tons having had to
some extensive experiments, especially with the policy. The House itself will have the opportu neither shall the former. Many other instances tion of the company, under the title of the be jettisoned outside. The latter vessel is from
of the application of the principle of espai Nippon Railway Company, grants permission
assistance of the Government.-L.& C. Express.
nity of discussing the details of such Bills, and of Taiwanfos with sugar. There are also in port
yalents" might be quoted from the criminal to the association lo constidet a line of railway
making amendments on the report. It is pro- the lurchas Dong Yuru and Bong Fut from
Jaw as for example a prisoner condemned to from Tokia to Mayebashi, ve Takasaki, and
posed to facilitate proceedings in Committee by AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN LLOYD'S banishment or cven Hankow, and Nus. 70, 74, 77, 94, and 95 from
death is sometimes thence through shirakawa, senday, and Morika
providing that in Committee of the whole House STEAM NAVIGATION CO. Shanghai. The Tane Woodburn left on the Toth pardoned altogether on the ground that tie has
to Awomori, at the northern extremity of the
no member shall have power to move more than for Bangkok, and the John Potts on the 16th for vices, but if his crime has deprived another aged glance at the map of Northera Japan will an aged father or mother dependant on his ser-
main island, nearly opposite Hakodate.
once, during the debate on the same question, FROM TRIESTE, BOMBAY, Amoy, with sugar.
A Russian gentleman, name! Myer Baukano- that the Chairman do leave the chair, nor to either that the Chairman do repost progress, or H.IGM's of left us on Saturday last, parent of the services of an only son, such a plea show that this route will act
COLOMBO, PENANG, AND having favoured us with a visit of over a week, if it had so happened that the deceased had an- will no longer be effectual. And so in this case,
vitch, who has just arrived from Smilla, in the of communication for the north-east of province of Coborno, in southern Russia, and speak more than once to each separate motion;
SINGAPORE. and on sunday B.M.s. Sheldrake came in
the country, between the central range of who was an eye-witness of the scenes de
and that no member who has made one of these from Wenchow and left again on Tuesday at
other son left, the penalty of multilation could not mountains and the sea. Mayebashi gives its scribed, has supplied the following narrative to question. A resolution to this effect was placed noon. The Chinese Lan-vessels Turn Kaiand
have been imposed, although all other circum- name to a particular kind of silk, and is the centre
motions have power to make another on the same THE Company's Steamship stances had been the same, but the sen or sons Tai Chi are also in
of the principal silk district in the country. The the town of smilla, of whom there were about the Press Association :-"For years the Jews in Justi.
on the paper by Sir Stafford Northcote in 1879, pita, and, wilt lap a most important district. would tave shared the banishment of the mo- first part of the line will un, therefore, across
2,000 families, have lived in a state of terror from
and the Conservative leaders are, therefore, com fertile plain which surrounds the ca-
the insults and indignities which they have had
mitted to this proposal. No member is to have the power of moving the adjournment of the to suffer at the hands of the Christians, and from The remainder of the line will pass through
House before the orders of the day or the motions under any circumstances, become heirs to her it reaches almost to Yeza. It will In the gent
a system of robbery and perscention which has As to the daughter, her children can never, populous provinces, large towns and ports, until never been checked by the authorities. sa pre-reached; but a provision will be made for enabling on the paper, as the case may be, have been carius has been their personal safety that many matters of extreme urgency to be brought before- Moreover she was betrothal and, therefore will doubtless be connected with the large their wives and families out of the town to the father, so the principle does not apply to her case.unk line of North Japan, and in course of time of those who could afford it have had to remove the House without notice and without delay. It practically belonged to another family, and to towns of the west coast. It is provided by deprive them of the right to claim her would be
remote districts and residences of friends. The
will be propose that when supply is put down the Charter that all lands, houses, &c., along the punishing the innocent. Had she not been be proposed route belonging to the Government, monthly fairs, when large numbers of farmers.
outbursts of terrorism occurred chictly at the House shall forthwith resolve itselfinto Committee, as the first order of the day for Monday, the trothed she would have shared in the banish shall be let rent free, or salt at a reasonable
without allowing debate or ameminent on the ment of her mother, The family property is con- price, Those belonging to private individuals
peasants assembled in the town, and the im- mediate cause of the fierce persecutions of the question that the speaker leave the chair. It will scaled for the beneit of the family of the vie
shall be purchased by the Government as for public use, and then resold to the company. tims-Shanghai Courier.
last few months arose from an incident at one of also be provided that after a certain date (pro- These binds are all exempted from ordinary tax-
these fairs. A Jewish dealer had bought a corbably the 1st of July), when supply is put down on any day, the same rule shall apply. Provision ation. Fight per cent per annum on the sub-
for twenty-five roubles, and a farmer who had been bargaining for the same animal heart of the complete control of the business on Government will be made for giving the Government more scribed capital is guaranteed by Government
transaction, and came up to the Jew, asking how until the whole has been completed: and it is fur- he dared to buy it. Many of the faraiers about nights. At present orders of the day must be thier guaranteed that in case the profits in the
were inflamed with drink, and they gathered put first; and if the Government desire to bring work in of any section do not reach this amount, round and threatened him. The few admitted
on a motion for leave to bring a Bill, or any or fifteen years according to the position of farmer have it. The fariner and his companions
other metion, they must first move the postponc- the section. The work is to
ment of the orders of the day. This often leads to discussion and waste of time. In future the then attacked and brutally beat him, and the dis- of Korean foreign commerce, but from the repast Works, and must be commenced within six the neighbourhood, a mob assembled, and the the superintendence of the Minister of Public turbance arousing the attention of the people in both of imports and exports for the half-year 1881). Provision is then maile for the effective Jews. The drinking-houses were thrown open, we refer to it appears that the aggregate vahe months of the date of the decree (November 5th, townspeople incited the farmers to attack other endling on the 31st of Inst December, only control of the whole by the authorities; excep amounted to 1,130,194 yen. These figures supply tional privileges are retained for officials tra-
and drink was freely given to the fanatical populace. Large numbers of the townspeople a good idea of the petty business of the place; velling on Government business, for the con- went round with the mob, and pointed out the but small, as the trade is it seins diminishing veyance of cereals in times of scarcity, for carry quarters where the Jews lived. The public drink- with starting rapidity. The imports and exposing prisoners, the mails, war material, &c: ing-hottses kept by them were first broken into, for the period covered by the report are 138,054 Finally, the company's charter is granted for and the casks rolled into the streets. some of yen less than for the first half of last year, a reset hardly anticipated by those native writers
ninety-nine years; the Government having the them were smashed, and the people drank the who have strongly and consistently advocated the ty
option of purchasing the whole at the end of
raw spirit. out of the streets. These acts were policy of preserving a monopoly of the trade.
years. This comparatively large decrease is principally this document. The privileges of the company wrecked, goods of all kinds being thrown into the It would not be difficult to point out flaws in and places of business kept by Jews, which were followed by the breaking open of the warehouses
goods valued at 125,898 yen less than during the apparent in imports, the Korcans taking foreign-freedom from taxation, lands and tenements
strects and trampled upon in the instad orgie which preceding year while the exports only decreased by 12.156 yen. These results will hardly be considered satisfactory by believers in the "balance of trade" theory, more especially as the exports from Korea exceed the imporis by nearly 16,000 yen.
The compilers of the report of the Fusan Cham. ber confess their inability to account for a falling off which cannot be concealed, and content them selves with remarking that "the decline in trade is owing to a diminution in the imports and ex- ports," a self evident proposition it was hardly necessary to place formally on record. to the particular articles in which a decreased However, the document refers more in detail
imports, and rice in the list of exports, show the business has been transacted. Shitings among
ing the right to the use of a certain burying regards cereala when the bountiful harvests in most notable decline; nor is this remarkable as ground. The prisoner's father had died and his this country for some years past are brought to coffin had been placed on the disputed ground, and as the prisoner refused to remove it, falling off all round; copper, lacquer-ware, silk, recollection. There moreover a general seems a lawsuit was brought against him in which he matches, &c., all exhibit a decline in the import was defeated and ordered by the Magistrate list, while hides, bones, gold dust, silver, &c., to find another place of interment. smarting make an equally unfavourable show among ex under the wrong treatment which he ima- gined he had suffered at the hands of his opponents, he watched his opportunity and grent value than 100,000 yen, and therefore the with the help of some confederates he attacked report reiterates that to shirtings and rice must
The Pirates seem to be keeping pretty quict just now, and the authorities would seein to have dropped them like hot cor's-Shanghai Mercury,
SHANGHAI PAPER HUNT CLUB.
Programine of a Mecting to be held, by per mission of the Stewards of the Race Club, on the Race Course, on Saturday, the 4th March, under the management of the stewards of the Paper Hunt.
All Ponies entered to be the property of Mem- | JAPANESE TRADE WITHI KÖREA. ers of the Paper Hunt Club, and to have been filen dhuing the past season, either with the Paper Hunt or with the Hounds, and to be ticklen
Club or by Visitors approved by the stewards. A. BALF-MILL RACE; sweepstakes of $3 each;
and
Notwithstanding the exultation of many of the at this Meeting by Members of the Paper Hunt Japanese over their monapoly of trade with Koren, the Government will make up the deficit for ten he had bought the cow, but offered to let the
the half-yearly report of the Fusan Chamber of Commerce shows that this satisfaction rests upon a very insecure foundation. Fusan is the centre
over Jost. 7.5.
extra.
for all l'onies qualified as above, catch weights, A STEEPLECHASE, Sweepstakes of $3 cach: for all Ponies qualified as above, over the usual steeplechase Course; catch weights, over tost. 7lbs; winners of a previous steeplechase zollis. A TWO-MILE PACE, sweepstakes of $3 each; for all poines qualified as abure, catch weights, A STEEPLECHASE, Sweepstakes of $3 each; over the anal steeplechase Course, for all ponies qualified as above; previous winners of aflunt or steeplechase excluded, catch weights, ever A ONE MILE RACE, sweepstakes of $3 each; for all poines qualified as above; catch weights,
cover lost. 7hs.
Jost. lts.
over lost. 7Ds.
The first race will be started punctually at 2 o'clock pm Entries to be made to A. K. Bur- kill, Esq. Hon. Secretary, before 4 o'clock p on Saturday, the 25th February.-Mercury.
CHINESE LJY,
The Peking Gazette of the 23rd January con tains a long memorial from the Governor Gen- eral of Shensi and Kanshu reporting the trial and conviction in a case of murder of a peculiarly atrocious description. The, prisoner, a man of the name of Liu, had had a long dispute with some distant relatives of the same surname touch-
and killed two of them, wounding some others.
condemned to suffer death by the fing
and the prisoner has according been
be under
No Claims will be admitted af r the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining after the 8th instant will be subject to rent. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be Countersigned by
MELCHERS & Co. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1883.
Entimations.
'HONGKONG RACES, 1892.
NOTICE.
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KONG RACE MEETING OF 1882, PAMPLET FORM, REPRINTED FROM
THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "
is now in the press and will be ready in a day or two,
ing the business on their own days. Government will have absolute power of arrang-A
sent system, immediately after the opening of the Some changes will also be proposed with regard to private members Dill. Under the pre-IN session, every Wednesday up to the end of July is practically appropriated. In future no member will be allowed to fix the second reading of a and, probably, after a certain period of the ses Bill for any day a month beyond its introduction; sion. Committees on Bills which have been read a second time by a certain proportionate majority
offical business being taken after half past twelve. will obtain precedence over second readings. A proposal will be made for the modification ofthe half-past twelve rule-the rule which prevents
free, the & per cent guarantee on each section ensued. Drawers and cupboards were broken "It is not to be applied to the introduction of Bills,
RAILWAYS IN COCHIN CHINA.
PRICE: TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER COPY, As only a limited number will be printed orders should be sent without delay to the
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" OFFICE, No. 6, Peddar's Hill, Hongkong, 1st March, 1882.
or to the appointment and nomination of select Committees. In future, a notice of opposition, RECORD of AMERICAN and FOREIGN to be effective as a block, will require to be given by a certain number of members-say (en-and the rule also will be made inapplicable to the report and third reading of Bills.
SHIPPING.
Agents, ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, 13th June, 1881.
[3
PUBLIC
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
FRASER SMITH,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
R. ACCOUNTANT, ARBRITRATOR, AND
has THIS DAY Removed to No. 6, Feddar's Hill.
All kinds of COMMISSION BUSINESS executed in London and Sydney. on the most reasonable terms. Special Agents
scem in some respects excessive, Notwithstan ding this, it is matter for sincere congratula-
inta and ransacked, and in ane te house alone tion that a work which we cannot doubt will kept by a man named Berkowich spirits to the have an important and beneficial infuence on
value of 50,000 roubles were spilled, carried off, the future of Japan should be commenced. We of the town joined the mob in their attack, while or consumed by the mob. Many of the populace have returned so frequently in these columns to the condition of the ordinary means of commu-
others, including even the police, incited them to nication in Japan that we need say no more on houses and plundered them in sight of the authori
continue their violence. They broke into many the subject at present.
A CORNISH ENOCH ARDEN CASE. certainly not dispouse with the necessity for im
The new railway willies, grassly illtrenting the inmates in every ins tance. One house was that of an old man named proving lese. The produce of a district must be Abraham Miller, who was much beloved and re-blance in some of its more romantic and painful An episode in domestic life, having a resem collected along the route of a railway, and for spected by the Jews. He was over seventy years of details to Tennyson's story of Enoch Arden," is this good roads are necessary; and thus the new ways than one.-L. & C. Express. undertaking may work improvement in mere age, and liveal with his wife, son, and daughter-in-at present engaging the attention of the inhabit law, andtwo grand children. When the marauders ants of Helston. A woman named Lavinia Allen attacked the house allthefamily took refuge at the was married about twenty years ago to a maN top of the premises and tried to bide themselves, named George Lory. After a time some unplea They were discovered and fiercely attacked. The santness arose, in consequence of which Mr. old man and his son, driven to bay, killed two Lory left home and went to New Zealand, of their assailants, but they were soon over- leaving behind bisavife and children, the issue powered, and dragged down the stairs and cruelly of the marriage.
dren, was afterwards brutally murdered. I speak obtaining some information as to his where maltreated. The women were outraged, and
In March; 1880, advertise- ments were inserted in the Australian, New every member of the family, including the chil- Zealand, and American papers with a view of and, from what I saw and know, I solemnly de- Chancery for the division of certain freehold pro- from my own personal knowledge of these facts, abouts, as an order had been made by the Court of
perty among members of the Lory family, Mr. and young girls outraged by the mob. One gid, George Lory being one of the members entitled T whom I knew, ultimately died from the effects of to a share. These advertisements resulted in es- horrors of a like nature came under my observa- but alive, near the town of Launceston, Tas this revolting treatment. Other and unspeakable tablishing the fact that Mr. Lory was not dead, tion; and a woman who was enceinte died from mania: In the meantime, however, Mrs. Lory the effects of these diabolical outrages. It is im- had formed an attachment with a man named possible for me to give any idea of the number James Colenso Arthur. About five months ago of Jews who were killed; but the whole of the the pair left Helston, and, after an absence of two 2,000 families were attacked, and numbers were cr three weeks, returned to the town and an
Notwithstanding the troubles in the north of appear to keep in mind the advantages of making Africa with which the French are beset, they still
cadway in the Far East. Ever since the in- dignity to the flag our neighbours have looked on
ports: None of these articles were, however, of saigon.as a basis for energetic action, and are clare there were not less than fifty or sixty women
bulk of the decline be
attributed.
tween the Japanese and Koreans do not seem
of
One of the two who were killed was his chief an- Altogether, the present prospects of trade be- tagonist and the instigator of the opposition which had been offered to ins using the burying ground, particularly bright. The volume of business is but not satisfied with what they had done, he and Japanese who flocked to Korea, and unless a admittedly insufficient to support the numbers of his confederates proceeded to the dwelling-house change takes place, which the report of the Fusan of the deceased, which was guarded only by a woman, and brutally put to death his only son a
Chamber in no way indicales, the Settlementsolving France with China. The plan they are killed, especially in those cases where there was nounced that they were married. Arthur went boy of tender years with the avowed object of
atust soon lose the greater portion of their inha- cutting off his posterity. As the three individuals
bitants-Hiogo News. who lost their lives were members of one family, the case came within the special law which pro vides an extreme penalty for crimes of that The question of rewards for officers; non-com- description,
missioned officers, and men of the late Transvaal Field Force is to be gone into on the arrival of cess, a fate which need not excite much commisera- Sir Evelyn Wood in England immediately, and
pro tion in view of the cold-blooded nature of his the Government will most probably accede to offence. But the punishment does not cad here. General Wood's wishes in the matter, and call The prisoner had a wife and also a son and upon him to recommend to notice any officers daughter, both under age, and it is the way in
who may be considered to be entitled to recogni. which they are dealt with that forms the peculiar tion on account of their services-London and feattire of the case and the one to which we wish
China Expres. to direct attention. Although admittedly imo- cent of all complication in or even knowledge of the crime, the wife is to be banished for penal servitude on the frontier, while the son is con- demned to suffer mutilation and thereafter to be to serve as ennuch in the Imperial Palace Seking, The daughter, on the other hand, who was engaged to be married, is to be handed Loxerto the family in question-to-be-married when
she comes of age.
The fate of the son will strike most people as a picce of wanton barbarity. Being strictly in accordance with the law, it will, doubtless, be carried out, though so far the sentence still awaits Imperial sanction. It will not be supposed that
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evidently determined to carry out the original through Annam. The course they are pursuing project of making their influence felt directly al: is calculated to accomplish this by means for more satisfactory than a warlike expedition. The latter plan will make enemies and cause no end
expenditure in men and money, possibly in now adopting, however, will, bring them into
Sole Proprietors of JOHNSON and ATKINSON'S friendly intercourse with the natives, and while any attempt made at defence. The houses into live with Mrs. Lory or Mrs. Arthur, whichever Automatic Machinery for Casting and Finishing tending to open up the country and give outlets nearly all cases were pillaged, the only class of name she may prefer to be known by, at the Printing Type, and Manufacturers of JoHNSON'S for local manufactures and. produce must Jews who escaped the fury of the mob being the New Inn; and, presumably with a view of Patent Hard Metal; patented April 5th, 1854. Increase of trade cans, of course, increased assembled and armed themselves. These were. was forthwith made to transfer the license to plant at specially reduced rates. spread the French influence in, all directions, butchers, who lived all in one street, and who strenthening his position in the house, an effort
Estimates for Newspaper, Book, and Jobbing wealth, and whoever conduces to this must not seriously attacked, and when there appeared him. The ease was adjourned more than once naturally make a good impression. The to be a probability of an organised battle between | Governor of the colony, from what he is doing, is the mob and the butchers, a few of the soldiery but eventually. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur attended the diery court and produced their marriage certificate, upon make a colony prosperous, and the railway works by diverting the attention of the rioters. The New Year's Day a child was born to the land. undoubtedly possessed of the right capacities to made their appearance and prevented the attack which the license was granted to Arthur. On which are authorised show that the Government reign of terror in smilla lasted on one occasion lord and landlady at the New Ian; these to grant every reasonable aid to for thirty hours, there being no attempt on the to relate, on the same morning as the child are prepared
and, singular of opening up new enter part of the police or the military to quell the dis was born letters were received by a Mr. prises. We had occasion not long ago to write order. A number of the Jews escaped to Kiev, Dale from Mr. Lory and his solicitors, Messrs. Rev. J. H. Mahoe, who holds the appointment regarding the false position which was taken up a large town some little distance off; but hundreds Douglas and Collins, Tasmania. In the letter of traveling missionary under the Hawaiian by some public men in saigon when they decried of them remain in a state of destitution and des- Board among the natives of the Cilbert Islands, British successes, and the advice we then gave pair."-London and China Express.
written by Mr. Lory he mentions that he has in- structed his solicitors to attend to his interests in now on the Island of Kauai, gives a detailed ac to work energetically themselves instead of count of his observations in that field of labor. grumbling seems to be adopted. Energy is the
the Chancery matter, and intimates that he There are over four hundred Gilbert Islanders cause of success, and if the Government of saigon
will send to Mr. Dale a power of attorney to act Wife (who has been "sitting up" "Well this for him. At. the same time he asks to be men women and children-ou that island, em- would only admit foreign capital as well as French is a pretty time to come home! Four o'clock "informed whether his wife Lavinia and the ployed as laborers on plantations under contract. their desire to raise their colony to a high position Husband (who has taken nothing but one glass children are living, as he has not heard from in the warm climate of their own native istands the Far East would soon be realised, the pandanus, with fish, and the sudden change they continue in the megnanimous course now their food consisted of cocoanuts and the fruit of are going on in the right way, and we are sure if "Whistons compound spoken of by himself as home for years, adding that he has written to *Whiskenwarra; "Wha',incan, "madam, by his wife and other relatives several times, but in diet was bad in its effects on their systems. pursued every success will attend then. They 'appens, curiouslcnuff, I pash'd Trinity, madam, stating his intention to come to England this forblock ? Unfort'nly for you, madam, it sho had not received any answer. He concluded by But these troubles are now passed, and the geu- have commenced at the right end, and no doubt, eral health of the Gilbert Islanders has been
and heard it suike one (bic) sheveral times, year. Thus matters have become very com- good the past year
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