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Tuk hem of Messrs. Firmin-Didot and Co. of THE Journal de St. Petersburg réfers to an A COMPANY of "The Duffs" proceeded this mor Paris have brought out in the French language article recently published by the Paris newspaper ning to Kowloon for musketry practice. an abridged edition of the "Ceramic Ant, of | Le Parlement, maintaining that Anglo-French
THE Moorhen, 4, composite screw gunboat, Japan," by Audsley and lowes, for sale on the intervention in Egypt was preferable to collective Continent. It will contain plates similar to the action of all the Powers. The semi-official Licu-Commander Janies II. Corfe, arrived at agnificent ones that accompanied the English journal, in reply, asks whether, in regard to some Shanghai on the ith instant, vil ports of call,
other point of the Eastern problem, it would also last from Ningpo. *be found preferable that two Powers other than AN earthquake causing great destruction and loss France and England should, on their own initia-of life has occurred at Costa Rica Central Amė- tive, take joint action without the collective inter-rica; four towns have been destroyed, and several
thousand inhabitants have perished.
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return to Hongkong next October. These statements were accepted as ford fide; there was no reason to doubt them in the slightest degree. Judge then of the astonishment | which prevailed throughout the Colony on the morning of Thursday the yth inst, when a rumour was circulated, upon what was considered the most reliable authority, that A CHINESE hawker was charged this morning Her Majesty's Government had formally before Dr. Stewart with being in unlawful posses- recalled Sir Jos PorE HENNESSY from
sion of a silver watch, which Mr. Alabor, ànvention of Europe, Hongkong. After instituting inquiries in assistant to Mr. Lammert, identified as one of various quarters likely to be well informed forty watches stolen from a trunk in his house IT is complained at the Vatican, says the ALONDON telegram of the 13th states that the
which occasion Mr. Alabor's boy and the watches No. 22, Stanley-street, in July of last year, upon disappeared simultaneously, neither of them turning up since. The defendant averred that he redeemed the watch from a pawn-shop in ' Macao, the pawn ticket having been given him by a lamp trimmer on board the 'hite Cloud, whore, however, lie was unable to find, although allowed out on bail for the purpose of hunting Dr. Stewart fined the defendant five pounds or two months' hard labour.
him up.
on the subject, we were almost forced to the conclusion that the reported telegram had actually been received. In our issue of that day we wrote -- It is rumoured in town this morning that Messrs. Jass, MATHESON, & Co. rercivert a telegram from London late last night announcing that the | Governor of Hongkong had been recalled. We give the rumour for what it may be worth, although when it is remembered that the Secretary of State for the Colonies We of course do not expect cultured or even in- must have known for some considerable telligible criticisms of operatic performances in time past that Sir Jons POPE HENNESSY WAS our evening contemporary; but idiotic saggestions coming home on leave of absence, its of the kind" bodied in the notice of "Tutti In truth may be fairly questioned,
Maschera" come upon us rather as a surprise. The
"signor Ciocci," says the critic, "whose voice is report of His Excellency's departure
one of remarkable power and richness, as usual, from Hongkong would have appeared in
was at once at home with the audience, and it the London papers yesterday morning was much to be regretted that they were not Is it not possible that Mr. Kiswies who gratified in their clamorous demands for encores. is said to have sent the wire above referred in another role he may be able to respond," to, may have made a wrong inference? The clamorous demands for encorer" by the This seems the only reasonable explana- audience, never had any existence excepting in tion, if there is any truth in the rumour,
the vivid imagination of this barrel-organ critic which we very much doubt."
On the evening of the 16th, the China Mail came out with a sensational article headed Rumoured Recall, of Governor Hessessy" based on the telegram said to have been received by Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., and couched in such decided language that it was generally believed and no other reasonable infer ence could possibly have been drawn from the style of the writer-that the
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HONGKONG. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1882.
being employed to impele the proposed monster Standard correspondent, that secret intrigues are
Spanish Pilgrimage. Cardinal Jacobini has demanded explanations from the Spanish Go. vernment, which he accuses of listening to sug- gestions from Italy on the subject. The Madrid been made, and that the Pilgrimage is perfectly Cabinet has replied that no such suggestions have free. It is probable that the circumstances may give rise to a quarrel between the Vatican and the spanish Coverament, a result which the Carlists are striving to precipitate.
ally against the insecurity of life and property Italian Consul at Tunis has protested energetic. prevailing there, and the Bey has been held responsible.__
From information received from the north, we believe there is no foundation for the rumour last few days concerning the death of the Em- which has been current in the settlements for the
peror of China.-Courier.
IN-a debate in the House of Lords relating to the North Borneo. Company's Charter, Lord Gran- ville defended the policy of the Government as
vantageous to British interests,
A WAR would appear to be in progress in South Africa between the natives and the Dutch settlers. A report that the natives, under the well known chief Montsima, have repulsed the Boers with heavy loss, has been wired from London.
MANY of the shining lights of the Conservative being in accordance with precedents and as ad- party have been delivering their souls in public during the last week. Mr. W. H. Smith made an excellent and temperate speech at Exeter Hall on Jan. 30, and on Feb. 1 Lord Lytton addressed a crowded and enthusiastic meeting at Manchester. His lordship, with characteristic self-gratulation, took credit to himself for the absolute success of his financial administration during his tenure of office in India, and entirely refrained from any explanation of the little mis- take of nine millions for which he and his ad-
Tus case in which a Chinese carpenter is charged with assaulting Police sergeant Hanson, with intent to commit a felony, near the Peak on sun- day evening last, was this morning further re- manded till the 23rd instant, sergeant Hanson time. He paid, however, a gallant and well-being still unable to leave the hospital. merited tribute to all that sir John Strachey had endeavoured and accomplished for our Indian Empiro-Overland Mfail.
MESSRS. Gibb, Livingston & Co., agents of the Ben" Line of steamers, inform us (Shanghai Mercury), that they are advised by wire from New York of the steamer Benlarig's arrivat there on the 6th instant, 58 days out from Amoy she left Shanghai on the 29th December, and Foochow and Amoy on the 5th and 7th January respectively.
LEUNO Kam, captain of one of the Messageries Maritimes Company's lighters, was sentenced this inerning by Dr. stewart to three months' im- prisonment with hard labour for stealing a quan- tity of old copper, valued at $27, the property of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company. The lighter of which defendant was captain was in dock to be re-metalled, the agreement being that the old copper was to become the property of the Dock Company, and it was some of this, which was found concealed in the hold of the lighter, that the defendant was convicted of stealing.
It would indeed be a matter for sincere regret ifvisers were generally held responsible at the the Italian autists countenanced a stupid habit which may be right enough in the concert room or music hall, but is simply ridiculous on the opcratic stage. signora silini and signor Corti were unwise enough to repeat a portion of their scene and duct in deference to the loudly ex
A WOULD-BE alchemist named Li Afuk, who pressed wishes of the audience; but it is to be heartlessly swindled a compatriot out of his jacket, hoped the audience will be more considerate, and which he persuaded him to take off his back and the artists more dignified and artistic in future transfer to him in exchange for a nugget that he formances. Operatic singers are worked suf- represented to be gold and worth a great deal, ficiently hard at rehearsals and in public per
but which proved to be nothing but brass, was formances, without being called upon for repiti-this morning sent to six months' hard fabour by China fuil which has for a long time been performers, but when it entails a lot of extra and
Mr. Wodehouse, during which period of enforced retirement from the vanities of the world he will generally known in the Colony as the re- unnecessary labor it is too dearly bought. We have leisure to prosecute researches for tlie phi- cognised organ of the eminent East Point trust that Hongkong audiences will never grudge losopher's stone, and possibly be able, when he firm, was presumed to be speaking authori- warm plaudits where they are merited; and also
re-enters society, to transmute the other six brass tatively. Not only was Governor Hrs-press a hope that out of consideration for the nuggets which the constable found in his hat What can be the matter with Reuter? Essy's recall discussed as a matter of affists they will never encourage the pernicious when be arrested him, into the precious metal. Telegrams are arriving from London al- fact. but it was broadly stated that His system of encores in Italian Opera.
Mr. Li Afuk has in this instance, without intend most every day, of more or less general Excellency had been aware of his dis- PROFESSOR ANDERSON appeared last night, foring it, femished an apt illustration of Lord interest to residents in the Far East, and grace for some considerabile time prior the first time in Itongkong, at the Theatre Royal, Bolingbreke's remark, that he who is, acutest in as a matter of fact we publish in this issue to his departure from the Colony, and City Hall, and gave an excellent entertainment deceiving others is ever the most ingenious in
outwitting himself. no fewer than four telegraphic despatches dat "the words of confident assurance of legerdemain to a much better house than he on different subjects, which would certainly which characterised his latter-day utter-
could have hoped for, when it is remembered that seem to indicate that the eyes of the worthy ances were more forced and melodra- on the previous evening so large a portion of the THE St. Petersburg correspondent of the Stand. telegraphist are wide open in the interests matic than accurate or well founded." Community was present at the Italian Operaard wires on the and ukol leam that on the
We were glad to see a numerous audience, as of his clients abroad. It is doubtless in- The following morning the Daily Press fol- Professor Anderson's entertainment is well worth Teheran by the representatives of Russia and 10th (22nd) of December a Treaty was signed at teresting to know that the insecurity to life towed suit in exactly the same strain, and attending, his "patter" easy and interesting, and Persia for the settlement of the Central Asian labour. The complainant had left the coat on and property in Tunis is so great that the the story of Sir Joux PorK HENNESSY'S HE HONGKONG DIRECTORY Italian Consul has found it necessary to recall, understood as being given to the THE
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Akhal Tekke sasis, to within sixteen versts of seraks, which town, however, remains in the hands of Persia. Part of the ceded territory in the Atrek district is to be held by the Shah for
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LAUNCH OF THE ↳ THAI-PING!""
The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com. pany's steam-tug Fame test Peddar's Wharf about four o'clock this afternoon, conveying a fairly large number of interested spectators to Kowloon Docks to witness the launch of the new paddle-steamer Thai-ping, which has recently
his tricks, if not absolutely new, were nevel and well executed. As a palmist he exhibited great dexterity, his coin catching" being a remark. ably clean and clever performance; and his card tricks were probably as good as any similar ever witnessed in the City Hall. The. Professor
Pandora's Box, from a common felt hat; the principal items of last night's "show" were
mysterious growth of flowers; the flying canary and cage; the production of bowls of water and gold fish from empty cloths; the magical clock; and the transmogrified umbrella. In the latter portion of the entertainment the Professor was assisted by Mrs. Anderson and a merchant well known in the Queen's-road in a clever mecha "Indian Basket Feat," which was very smartly A TELEGRAM from Pesth, the capital of Hungary, been built to the order of a firm of Chinesemer nical deception called "The solid post." in the donc, and "Hehending a lady," Mrs. Anderson to a London paper, on the and ulto. states that was also the victim of sword and knife, but will no doubt have sufficiently recovered by this fact that Count Andrassy vehemently attacked Perak, in connection with the mines in the latter an immense sensation had been caused by the chants in Penang to run between that port and evening to undergo the operation again. The the Austro-Hungarian Government in the pre-
district. gentleman who conducts for the opera company vious day's private sitting of the War Committee
The Tharping, so named after the principal presided at the piano, and, when opportunity of the Hungarian Delegation. The Count blamed town in Perak, is a paddle steamer, built on the com offered, added to the enjoyment of the audience them because recruiting in Bosnia was begun posite principle, with iron frames and teak plank playing numerous lively morceaux. The before the recruiting in Dalamatia had crided.ing the topsides above the water line being con. performance will be repeated this evening with He further blared the Austrian Administration structed of iron for lightness and durability, she in Dalmatia, and did not shire Count Kalnoky's with an awning deck right over her guards fore is of the ordinary American river-steamer type,
in respect to the assistance granted by his subjects ber of native passengers. The European quar views that the Prince of Montenegro is innocent and aft capable of accommodating a large num to the insurgents in Dalmatia and Herzegovina. ters are placed on the awning deck, with galleys, He compared the Montenegrins with wolves who bath rooms, &c., on the guards, and are most are to be exterminated by civilisation. These attacks, made by one of the most intimate friends complete and satisfactory in every respect. eration in Bosnia, are regarded in Pesth as a length over all, 160 feet; on water line, 153 fects of Minister Tisza, against the Austrian Adminis The principal dimensions of the vessel are:--
a partisan of Count Taafe, whose appointment and stroke 5 feet. These engines are the largest vonian hegemony in Austria. Count Kairoky is gines are diagonal compound surface-conden
sing of 100 horse-power cylinder 23; LP. 451 caused Count Andrassy's resignation.
the addition of items.
that the much be-lauded Boers have re- ceived a serious reverse at the hands of MONTSIMs and his black warriors will pro- The serious character of the rumour bably give satisfaction to patriotic Britons, leaving the damaging imputations of the who believe that GLADSTONE's leniency China Mail on our absent Governor entirely towards General COLLEr's conquerors was out of the question-cannot be overlooked, more Christian-like than discreet, a mis- and, in fairness to all concerned it should taken policy which could only lead to fur-either have been authoritatively confirmed, ther serious troubles. The news of a ter or promptly denied. For reasons which rible earthquake at Costa Rica, one of the we detailed at length in a leader on the small Central American Republics, causing subject on the ith inst. we expressed our the destruction of four towns and immense conviction that the report of Governor loss of life must of course possess a great HENNESSY's recall was without foundation, a interest for the whole world, as one of the mere canand circulated by His Excellency's greatest natural calamities of modern enemies for special reasons of their own. times. And the knowledge that the char-Believing in the possibility that the name ter recently granted to the North Borneo of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. had Company by Her Majesty's Government, been unjustifiably used as an authority for about which so much has been said and the rumour, we gave that firm an oppor- written lately, has formed the subject of an tunity of setting themselves right with the THE funeral of the late Pascal Martin, an Ameri- important debate in the House of Lords, has public through the medium of our columns, can citizen, and 1st Assistant in the Customs, a special commercial interest for the mer-Our polite note to the Hon. F. BULKELEY took place on Monday afternoon at the English cantile firms in the Chinese ports. All these Joussos on the subject remains unanswered, cemetery in Chinking, and was attended by the hems of news, telegraphed by Reuter the so it is only fair to presume the hon. gen- Customs staff, the Consuls, and the mercantile other day, bear witness that the manipulator tleman has no desire to repudiate the by the Rev. M. L. Taft of the Methodist Episcopal body. The services at the grave were conducted of the wires is on the alert to keep his general belief that he is solely responsible Mission of Chinkiang. An inquest was held at Hungarian declaration of war against the scin-depth, 10 feet; and a foot beam. Her on- the important events now taking place willing to allow the community to believe the Court was composed of E. J. Smithers, foreign clients thoroughly posted up in all for circulating the report and that he is nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th instant and throughout the world. Such being the it is on his authority the announcement of Esquire, United States Consul, Acting Coroner; case, the Hongkong public, or at least Governor HENNESSY's recall was made the Rev. spencer Lewis, and Messrs. A. E. salter that section of the public which subscribes public.
and J. J. McGrath, jurymen. After the exami- to Reuter's telegrams privately, or through Can there now exist any doubt in the nation of several witnesses, including Dr. White, THE gold casket voted by the Court of Common the medium of the Chamber of Commerce, minds of the public of Hongkong, taking who described the deceased as of a weak and Council to Mr. Gladstone, in which it is intended have surely some cause to complain of the facts of the case as they stand, that the as follows In the matter of the inquisition right hon. gentleman a short time since, has been nervous temperament, the jury returned a verdict | to place the illuminated address presented to the neglect. The recall of the Governor of reported recall of Governor HENNESSY is upon the body of Pascal Martin deceased: We completed, and sent to Mr. Gladstone in Downing Hongkong-especially when that Governor utterly untrue!, Is it not a matter of posi- the undersigned the Jurors summoned to appear street. The design, which is of pure classic char is one so widely known as Sir Jous Pore tive certainty that any such action on the before E. G. Smithers, Esq., Consul for the United acter, with the severe lines broken by Tuscan HENNESSY ought to be an event of sufficient part of Her Majesty's Government would states and Acting Coroner for the Consular Discolumn's at either end, is a trophy of some ten to an anxious community! importance to be wired without loss of time have been telegraphed by Reuter as soon trict of Chinking at 9 o'clock in the forenoon on inches in height by twelve in length, and ap the vessel, her boilers, and the whole of her
as it became known! We have yet to
the 6th day of March 1882 to enquire into the proached from either side by silver steps, with machinery, have been constructed by the em His Excellency left Hongkong by the learn that the representative of the cause of the death of Pascal Martin found dead figures in gold at the four corners representing ployés of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock steamship Cathay on the 7th inst., bound" princely house" in London is on such duly sworn according to law, and having made Law. In the front is a monumental tablet, bear great deal in favour of the capabilities and at the Custom House in Chinkiang, having been respectively Eloquence, Justice, Industry and Company at Kowloon Docks, which says a for England via India, as he himself pub-terms of intimacy with the Secretary of such inquisition after inspecting the body anding upon it the crest, arms, and motto of the Pre- THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY
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Thai-Ping, is a beautiful model, and for strength, THE LARGEST LIST OF FOREIGN | sence. To the Legislative Council of the his lordship's State secrets. What a con- and all do say that we find deceased was named
finish, and general completeness would be a crèdit RESIDENTS IN THE EAST, Colony, to several deputations of foreign trast there is between the ominous silence Pascal Manin, was born in China, and that his
even to the best shipbuilding yards on the Clyde. and native residents who called at Govern-preserved on the subject by our simple-parents are citizens of the United States; that he
On the arrival of the Fame at Kowloon every- ment House to bid him good-bye, at a minded contemporaries in their later issues, was aged 31, and that he came to his death on semi-public dinner at the Tung Wah and their bombastic utterances of a few the 5th day of March 1882, in Chinkiang, China, Hospital, and to many of his private days ago! What can it all mean? We band. That the deceased was suffering at the from a wound inflicted by a pistol in his own friends, His Excellency had distinctly given leave our readers to form their own con- time of temporary aberration of the mind. All out that he was only going home for six clusions. Our views have already been of which we duly certify by this inquisition months, and that he would in all probability plainly expressed.
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has in its centre, supported by the City dragons, | thing was found to be in readiness for the launch, the following inscription:"To the Right Hon. the vessel being gaily decked with flags.-Tho W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister of England, as christening ceremony was performed by Miss the citizens of London, and of their appreciation over the steamer's bows as she gracefully glided a token of the estimation in which he is held by Caine, who broke the usual bottle of champagne of his high character, rare genius, and varied gifts, from the launching ways into the water amidst the
so long devoted to the service of his country."
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