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Ws are informed by the Agents, Messrs, Melchers & Co, Austro Hungarian Lloyd's Steamer Aghaja left Singapore this morning, and may be expected here on the 27th inst.
AN Emergency Lodge of St. John, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemason's Hall, Zetland Street,
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of the story. if anything can be described as worst where all is so bad, is that the crew, so far from protesting against the action of their captain, seem to have concurred in it, and even aided it. The record does not tend to maintain the tradit- ional reputation of the British sailor.
THE Chinese cook on board the American brigan-
Line A. F. Clayton, was charged this morning before Captain Thomsett with assaulting William Clanfield, the carpenter, on board on the 18th instant.-The complainant deposed that he had. occasion to tell the cook to get another bucket instead of the one he was washing salad in, when the latter became insolent and tried là strike him with animo shovel. Hetook the shovel away from him, when the cook bit him. When he did this the carpenter struck him. In answer to defen-
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ACCORDING to the Madrid correspondent of the libelled by the accusation of having assaulted unusual noise in the one could be distinctly heard Daily News, who wires on May 12th, no in Mrs. Rousby, and by being termed a confirmed in the other. Opposite these rooms, only about woman-beater, and being thereby compelled to telligence in the Foreign Office, Madrid, confirms take an action against the defendant, any delay ive feet apart, are three other similar rooms, also the news of the reported outrage on the British would be very injurious to him, besides pro occupied by boarders, and in which any noise in Minister in the streets of Tangiers. Moreover, tecting what, from Mr. Baadmann's point of Mr. Gaine's room could also be heard. at the end of April the British, French, Italian, view, ought to be put a stop to, advantage | learn that it is believed the group of ruoins in and Spanish Ministers left for the interior of having been taken of his passing though here question had one or more boarders in them afte
to libel and do him professional injury, and the time between 7 and 11 pan. on Saturday, Morocco on an official visit to the Sultan in his he would therefore ask his lordship to fix a capital. Sir John Hay often visits the Moorish day, an early day, for the hearing of the case during which period the alleged robbery Prince, more often than any other representative, allowing sufficient time for the necessary notice is supposed to have been committed, and it and his personal intence in Morocco has been being gives to the defendant.Mr. Fraser-Smith seems strange, on the theory that the Chi for years the object of the greatest jealousy to hearing of the present motion until Wed-se
asked his Lordship to postpone the further
servants of the Hall were concerned Halian and Spanish diplomacy, which showednesday morning, as he did not receive a copy in the affair, that no
unusual noise was their animus at the Madrit Conference in 1880. of the affidavit until late on Saturday night. He heart, as the lid of the box, i medium sized The main object of the present visit of Sir John would be able to prove by witnesses that camphor-wood one, could scarcely have been the statements in Mr. Bandmann's affidavit Hay is to plead in favour of the Hebrews, who
were in the main false. Mr. McKean requested wrenched off without attracting the attention of are still badly treated in Morocco. The Spanish his Lordship not to postpone the hearing of the anyone in the adjoining rooms. The Hall is closed papers express alarm at the rumouredd establish motion, notwithstanding what Mr. Fraser-Smith at eleven o'clock, when the boarders retire to ment of a British factory and fisheries south of bad said, as would delay the case very con rest. It is thought an attempt would not have siderably. Mr. Fraser-Smith submitted that as the river Daiah, in territory where the Sultan of he only received the affidavit late on Saturday hees made on the box after that hour, when Morocco has not a shadow of right. The real night, he had not sufficient time to go into the all the surrounding rooms in close proximity cause of the rivalry is that four-tisths of the trade matter. Mr. McKean persisted in asking his were occupied. We hear that Mr. Gaine Lordship to appoint a day for the hearing TH: Handmann-Beaudet Combination adver to prove that the affidavit was in the main before going out on Saturday evening, and of Morocco is în British hands,
of the case, then if the defendant failed. Says he did not lock the door of the room tised a performance of Shakespere's live act false, his Lordship's order would stand.-Mr. left the key in the lock on the outside. The comedy “Much Ado About Nothing" on Satur
Fraser-Smith asked his Lordship to refuse Mr. Manager, however, as already stated, found the been settled. The Chief Justice said he thought Gaine should have been so imprudent as to leave application until the other matter had key on the inside. It is to be regretted that Mr. Mr. Fraser-Smith was entitled to what he asked; and said he would adjourn the hearing of the app. cation until Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, His Lordship told Mr. Fraser-Smith that he could meanwhile file astidavits and send copies to the other side. Mr. Handmann was present in Court.
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McKean's
THE OFFICERS OF THE BUFFS AT
THE GARRISON THEATRE.
so large a sum of money as he says he did in a box in a room which he did not intend to occupy for 13 hours, not even adopting the precaution of locking the door. Had he placed any money he had in the hands of the Manager, who keeps a safe in the Hall, it would have been quite secure. We hear that he represents himself as penniless in consequence of the alleged loss. The Manager reported the inatter at the Central Station yesterday morning, and it is now, for the zealous guardians of the law in the Colony to
tective Sergeant Quincey and detective Inspector case and surrounded by considerable mystery. De- Perry, together with Inspector Lindsay, have been investigating the matter, but, so far, without any
day last for the benefit of Miss Beaulet. What they actually produced was an emasculated apo- logy for that most charming of all comedies, in the shape of a few of the scenes indiscriminately strung together, and compressed into three acts. Anintelligent critical notice of such a performance is quite out of the question. Miss Heaplet as Beatrice and Miss Fergusson as Hero were favour. ably received by the audience, but the efforts of the other performers were generally greeted with derisive laughter. Herr Bandmann, if he had locked younger and more graceful, and had not been dressed in his lago cóstume, and had more- over been better acquainted with the text, might chiefly of the soldiers of the garrison. As this Maravel what would seem to be a very curious have made a fairly good Benedick. As however the "young lord of Pafun" had, to put à mildly, a paunch, was got up like Othello's ancient, and
he was not a distinguished success. His Dog-
Herr Bandmann delivered the lines "O that he
A theatrical performance by the Officers of the Buffs was given in the Garrison Theatre on Saturday night, to a crowded house, composed performance was merely a sort of semi-private dress relicarsal of the public entertainment ad- vertised for this evening, we are not quite certain
dant, witness said he did not beat him (defendant, scarcely knew two consecutive lines of the part, that we are justified in criticising the enter satisfactory result. They have, of course, formed first, nor did he kick him.The captain of the berry was even worse than his Benedick. Who Prising amateurs; however, as we were specially opinions of their own on the subject, but these arc
R. F. Clayton corroborated the carpenter's state- ment, and said he heard him say, "See how the cook has bitten me."-The defendant was
sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour.
were here to write me down, an ara! but mas- ters, remember that I am a ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that i As émente occurred between a number of rattan am an ass" the audience literally screamed with scrapers and jinricksha coolies in Queen's Road | laughter, an honor which the "tragedian" ap- East yesterday. I would appear that a fightparently did not appreciate. With reminiscences having taken place between a 'ricksha coolic and of Phelp's Dogberty in our mind, it was hardly same rattan scrapers in consequence of the ends likely we should appreciate the sledge hammer of the raltans the latter were carrying striking the humour of Mr. Bandmann, As the character of driver of the two-wheeler, the jinricksha coulies. Don Pedro was cut down to the dimensions of a attacked the rattan scrapers. Stones, bricks, scoring, and the other gentlemen were merely foils to the "star." We were glad to see such a satisfactory attendance.
invited to attenst, ând actually found much to praise and but little to find fault with, we inay perhaps be excused for brietly reviewing the dramatic efforts of our military friends. After a capital overture, played in first rate style by the excellent band of the Buffs, the curjain rose on the Pantopolo Anaxandrian and for half an hour the audience were convulsed with laughter at the amusing vagaries of Lieutenants Holme and Somerset, in the comic sketch "Catching Merataid." The former gentleman as an itinerant showman, and the latter as his clown
Arrangements have been made to publish this evening, at 3.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting taking their comrade's pari, went in a body and super, Mr. D'Orsay Ogden had no opportunity of were truly funny, and although the sketch is a in which the moncy received for aerated waters,
The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 Sub scribers in the central districts who do not receive
brethern are cordially invited to attend.
poles and pieces of tire wood were thrown freely about. Chinese Police Constable 313, with the aid of some Portuguese, arrested four rattan scrapers and one''ricksha coolic, who were brought up this morning before Mr. Wodehouse. The 'ricksia coolie said he had had nothing to do with the fight, and was beaten all over.--The
SUPREME COURT.
not for the general public. Mr. Caine, unfortun ately, does not know the number of any of the notes he says he lost, nor the Banks that issued them. They were composed, he states, of four $50, ofie $25, the remainder, being notes of other denominations. This, we understand, is not the first time Mr. Gaine has reported him-
Yesterday morning between eight, and nine self to have been robbed in the Colony, o'clock, while the European steward was at Church,'an attempt was made to force open the lock of the till, on the ground floor of the Hall, piece of ridiculous fooling it certainly served the &c. is kept. We have examined the till, and the purpose of causing a vast deal of amusement.
marks of a chise), or other instrument, are plainly It was, however, in the well known and popular visible around the lock. The would-be till breaker farce Little Toddlekins," so closely identified was doubtless disturbed in his operations. When with the name of the late Charles Mathews, the steward returned from Church, he found the that the officers of the Buffs showed their key would not work in the lock of the till, and it truc meitly. Mr. Holme is a capital actor,
was this that drew his attention to the attempted possessing unlimited confidence, and a quiet theft. He had to send for a Chinese lock-smith to
smills the success of the piece rested almost some one connected with the Temperance Hall entirely on his shoulders, and it is no mean is on the annexing" war-path, and we hope, compliment to say that he came out of a trying ordeal triumphantly. Of course we are criticising amateurs, and from an stand point. Mr. Hohne is doubtless rather
their copies before FIVE O'Clock will oblige by. | WE are inloned by the Superintendent of the at once communicating with the Manager.
[P. & 0. S. X. Co., that the steamship Khedive with the next English mail, lek Singapore for Hongkong on Saturday, the 17th inst., at 8 a.m.
We note from home papers that it has been ar- ranged that Mr. Campbell Banneraian, Financial 1.Secretary to the War Department, will succeed Magistrate bound all the defendants over in $5 culor, and Robert Fraser-Smith, editor and profund of burnout. As Jones Rubinson Brown | open the tilt and put the lock in order. Evidently
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1882.1
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personal recognizance to be of good behaviour for a fortnight, by which tipe both sides will, no doubt, have cooled down and forgotten their title difference.
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THE "TELEGRAM" LIBEL CASE. In the libel case in which Daniel Edward Bantmann, the well known tragedian, is prose
prictor of the Hongkong Telegraph defendant, Mr. F. MacKean, instructed by Messrs. Brereton Wotton, on behalf of Mr. Bandmann applied this urning to the Chief Justice, the Hon. G. Phillips, that a day be fixed for the trial of this to make in the case against Mr. Fraser-Smith. case. Mr. Mackean said he had a special applica- The prosecution was a private one, and he would ask his lordship to do, what he was fully en- titled to do, namely, to adjourn the case to a dity, sutiicient to enable the usual five days' notice to be given. The following affidavit had been sworn to by Mr. Band-wann, which he
would now read :---
In the Supreme Court of Hongkong. Criminal Juristfiction.
REGINA V, ROBERT FRASER-SMITH,
1, Daniel Edward Bindmann, at present of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, make oath and say as follows:-
amateur
stiff and awkward, faults which were more discernible on Saturday on the very small stage.
of the Garrison Theatre, than would be the case on such a stage as that of the City Hall As Barnaby Babbicombe Mr. Somerset showed a just appreciation of the par., and displayed character acting abilities quite up to the
average standard of aspiring amateurs. Captain Howarth was quite at home as Captain Littlepop, and Lieutenant Jarrett made a slashing Amanthis. arrived in Hongkong on the 6th day of the characters of Anale Babbicombe and Susan June instant, from Shanghai, having previously advertised in the local newspapers of this Colony,
were adequately, filled by Mesdames Dackhouse my intention to give performances of certain of and Pears, both these ladies materially assisting Shakespeare's plays at the Theatre Royal, City in rendering the representation a great success. Hall, Hongkong, aforesaid on the 6th and 7th | We shall await with interest the appearance of days of June, 1882.
The advertisement of the intended perforanthe Buifs in a piece where they will have an op ances appeared in the China Mail, the frong portunity of doing themselves justice. We feel kong Daily Press newspaper and the Flongkong convinced from our experiences of Saturday that Telegraph of the 6th and 7th of Jung instant.
3That on or about the gh day of June amateur histrions,
they can bring together a very good team of I caused the advertisement in the long- hong Telegraph to be withdrawn.
for the credit of a respectable and useful establish. ment, that the whole of the mystery surrounding the alleged robbery from Mr. Gaine will be cleared up,
COMPLAINTS OF ILL TREATMENT BY THE CREW OF THE STEAM- SHIP ARABIC,“
As the public will remember, says the San
Francisco Call, the steamer Arable arrived here on Sunday, May 7th, having on board 1,184 Chinamen. No signs of small-pox were disco- vered, and the vessel was allowed to dock at the lowing day. Everything was then supposed to wharf of the Pacific Mail Company on the fol
in a satisfactory condition, but during the last few days rumors have been floating about the city front that there was great trouble an board between the officers and crew, They the many
and conflicting, some justifying
were
Mr. Trevelyan as Secretary to the Admiralty. A LONDON contemporary authoritatively states OUR Macao contemporary, 17 Macane, in that Mr. Parnell has asked and has received it's issue of the Sth instant, takes us to task from the tome nice police protection. The ASTONI-CUTTER was up this morning at the for incorrectly reporting two accidents hon. gentleman believes that his life is menaced Police Court charged with stealing a bag con. which happened in the neighbouring Co. by the agents of a Secret Society.
taining $105 yesterday. The complainant, the Jony a few weeks ago. We received We note that the Secretary of State for the Co- master of a carpenter's shop, had received the from a trustworthy correspondent in Macao lonies has granted Mr. William McKinney, Acting dollars from a shap in exchange for notes. Find particulars of an accident which happened Fourth Master of the Government Central School, ing six of the dollars bad, he placed the remaining at the silk factory there, resulting in sever- an extension of six months' leave on half salary rog in an unlocked drawer in his house, and al people being bully hurt; and a report commencing on the 4th proxùno,
took the had ones back to the shop to be stating that two of the boys at St. Joseph's Ir is notified in the Government Gazete that His exchanged. Upon returning, he found several Seminary hal falkın from the tower of that | Excellency the Administrator has recognised, pro-
mcu in his shop who were asking the price of tubs, institution, sustaining serious injuries, which visionally and until further notice, Mr. O. F. van and presently observed one of them, the prisoner, ended in the death of one of the lads. Our Mollendorf as Acting Consul for Germany at this pull out his drawer, and coolly stow away the lag of Mexicans under his jacket. One of his men correspondent, arcording to 0) Mwcaeme, port, during the absence of Mr. G. Travers.
dispossessed the stone-cutter of the stolen dollars, must have been mistaken with regard to We regret in abserve in latest home papers an and he then gave the prisoner in charge to a con- the details of the first named accident, account of a fatal colliery explosion at Bochum, stable.-Lispector Rivers said it was becoming and misinformed about the second, that Pussia, resulting in the loss of many lives. An a practice for five or six inen to go into a shop is il ✪ Macaense is worthy of credence, explosion of fire damp occurred in the Pluto Aline and some of them call the shopman's attention
officers, and others going to show that the crew which we gravely doubt. Our content-at four o'clock in the morning on the 11th ulto, while one or more filched what they could lay
had been unjustly treated, and that the provisions ¡Up to nine o'clock, tifty-six bodies had been porary states that an accident dil happen brought to the surface. Every effort was being the prisoner for trial at the Supreme Court.
theie hands upon. --Captain Thomsell committed
of the articles under which they shipped had. at the silk factory, injuring several persons, made to rescue the survivors.
been violated. A Call reporter, after considerable difficulty, found a number of the crew, late last but says it was caused by the roof falling we would remind the public of the dramatic the isle of Skye, Scotland, we note from the WITH reference to the "No rent" agitators in
Saturday night, in one of the numerous saloons in, and not by the explosion of a boiler performance to be given in the Garrison Theatre, Londan Daily News that the five crofters were
along the front. One of the stewards was also 4-That on Saturday, the 10th day of June
present, and from him the following narration We are further assured that the student this evening, by the Officers of the Buffs. We tried at the Castle, Inverness on the ith ult. Hongkong Telegraph which I considered to instant, there appeared an article in the said
of their alleged wrongs was obtained. The died of consumption and not from falling were present at the preliminary performance on
steamer is owned by the White Star Line, of from the tower. So far O Macaense has Saturday, a notice of which will be found else sheriff's officer being abandoned. All the pri on my profession and character and calculated for assault only, the charge of deforcing the be a defamatory libe! concerning me relecting
Liverpool, and was chartered by the Occidental. and Oriental Steamship Company to carry Chi- decidedly the best of us in the affair. Our where, and can conscientiously recommend all soners were found guilty, and were fined in tion and considerable pecuniary damage.
to do me great injury to my professional reputa-reported to have taken place at the Temperance namen from Hongkong to San Francisco. The contemporary then mournfully expresses who wish to pass a pleasant couple of hours to
amounts varying from fifty to twenty shillings. A
Hall on Saturday night. A Mr. Gaine, lately crew, numbering forty-two, including the rate, 5-That in the Hongkong Telegraph of the
carpenter, boatswain, two cooks, four stewards, its opinion that we cannot care much for pay a visit to the Artillery Barracks, this evening cheque was handed in by a sympathiser of the 14th June instant there appeared a paragraph employed as a chief officer, who has been stay three engineers and teu firemen, were engaged the welfare of Macao, as we have com- Lieutenant Hofme's imitations of the great trage prisoners, but it was paid in under protest, so as charging me with having committed an assaulting at the Hall about a fortnight, went out about by the owners. Under the articles of agicerent, pared the Holy City to Sodom, and des-dian, Herr Bandmann, as Titus Tulins, in the to keep the case open for an appeal, should such
upon Mrs. Rousby lately an actress of the Eng- seven o'clock on Saturday evening, his box, he which the reporter carefully examined, the men lish stage and also with being a c
a confirmed wo- cribed her military system--that burlesque great transpontine tragedy of Catching a Mer
a course be deemed expedient. Another tele-
states, being then all right in his room, and contracted to serve in their several capacities on man beater, the said paragraph in this and other locked. It is the customs at the Hall for the voyage from Liverpool to Hongkong, via Suez, on the pride, pomp, and circumstance of maid" have to be seen to be appreciated,
is a libel and calculated to do great gram states that fifteen tenants belonging to a respects is
and thence to San Francisco, via Japan and any servants to take coffee round to the boarders
and plac
s in the China, Easter, Arabian, svaras a harlequinade. As ✪ Macaens, The St. Petersburg correspondent of a London township in Skye have agreed to vacate their damage to my professional reputation.
5.That on or about the 15th day of April last at six o'clock in the morning, and about Red, Mediterranears and Black Seas, Indian or is such a stickler for correctness of detail, daily reponsia, series of huge ires from Southcrofts by arrangement with the proprietor, Major I entered into a contract with Colonel Emmerson that hour yesterday the boy who took the Pacific Oceans, California, British America, Aus East Russia. At Smeda, near Kieff, two con- Fraser, who is offered 50% increased rental. Only of Singapore, proprietor of a Hotel called. Em refreshing beverage to Mr. Galne's room, went to
tralia, New Zealand, South America, United we may point out that we never compared agrations on May 8th, destroyed two hundred one tenant remains, the others propose emigrat
merson's Hotel' at Singapore, to perform at Singa-
States. Continent of Europe, and back to a final incao to Sodom. Ancient Gomorrah was houses. On Thursday, May 4th, part of the ing to Canada. The land agitation has spread pore with my company not later than the end of Mr. Stringer, the Manager, and informed him
port of discharge in the United Kingdom. The the place that we imagined must have in village of Fastova was on fire, and at eleven to Caithness-shire.
this month, and in case I am unable to fulfil the that Mr. Gaine's box was broken open, the term of service was not to exceed two years, to many respects resembled the "refuge of o'clock the same night thirty houses had suc-
saidi engagement I should be liable in damages contents, being strewn about the room. The use the exact language of the articles, but the try has been held, and the "No rent " doctrine and suffer great injury to my professional reputa- Manager at once proceeded to the room, which sailors claim that they were verbally uses to the the destitute forty miles away; however, cumbed to the flames. At Tomsk on the previous put forward.
tion and considerable pecuniary loss.
the time when they placed their signatures to Sodom will do very well for our purpose. Sunday, fifty-seven houses were burned, together A COOLIE was charged this morning before panying me in my tour, nine actors and actresses
6That, I have under engagement, accom- was open, the key being in the lock on the inside, same, that they could serve the entire term if they and found things as described by the boy. The were so disposed. The steward then went on to all of whom I have to pay heavy salaries besides contents of the box were lying about the room, say that the crew were not aware that they were will no doubt remember reading that when cight more houses near the same town, and on of Samsog Deen, a broker, three ten-rupee notes Sodom was threatened with destruction, Monday four other buildings in its very centre, on the 28th March last. It appears the complain and company while in Hongkong amounts to Upon examination, it was found that the lid had was then too late to back out, even if they so
7-That the expenses of maintaining, myself
ship Company until after they left Liverpool. It
A meeting of Clyth tenan
instant,
ALLEGED ROBBERY AT THE TEMPERANCE HALL.
A robbery of a rather mysterious character is
The sage who tackled us in O Macacuse with a quantity of wheat, while during the nightCaptain Thomsett with stealing from the person providing several of them with board and lodging, most of Mr. Gaine's papers being on his bed, working for the Occidental and Oriental Steam-
were destroyed. Several other cases have occ
the safety of the city was guaranteed if five | urred during the last few weeks, and the loss or/ant had received the notes from a money about $100 per day independently of my loss of been wrenched off the box at the back, the lock, desired, and the vessel finally arrived at Hung
righteous men could be found within its walls. The place was so steeped in wicked-property and the distress must be enormous.
time.
of
dom of the past resembles the Macao of Question has not been altered in any essential "Thief but the nan escaped: He made a Shakespeare's plays, and if I am delayed in my thrown violently back, breaking the hinges, Mr. quarters comfortable, and the pay good. The
changer's stall in the Central Market. He put them in his breast pocket, and while walking ness and wretchedness that there were not THE following communication, from a well-in-along Queen's Road, he observed defendant five good men in the whole place, and in formed quarter, has been received by the Vienna walking close by his side. The coolic suddenly, Presse: The standpoint of the Austro-Hun- thrust his hand into his (Samsoo's) pocket, this respect-as in many others--the So-garian Government in regard to the Egyptian, pulled out the notes, and ran off. He called out the present. We are perfectly certain that particular by the events occurring in Cairo. report at the Central Station, and upon going the city of Macao does not contain, all Austria and Germany have always maintained there yesterday on being sent for, he saw the told, five upright men. We have very care- that the Egyptian Question must be treated as prisoner, whom he identified as the purloiner fully gone through the population of the one of European concern, and that any action in of his rupee notes.-Detective Sergeant Quincey Portuguese settlement, and we have ar- Egypt should only be undertaken in agreement said that, upon information received, he arrested rived at the conclusion that our view of the with all the European Powers. France and Eng- the misoner, whom he found in East street. The righteousness of its inhabitants has not been hesier to this view. Austria can only leave the others. Three previous convictions, two being Tänd, after some hesitation, have given their ad- complainant picked him out from among several under estimated. The glaring corruption, adoption of the initiative to the Western Powers; fat larceny from the person, were recorded against and disgraceful immoralities of the place and, as was declared on a former occasion, she is the defendant, who was committed for trial at the must be loathsome in the sight of all prepared to entertain their proposals."
Supreme Court.
8-That i have already secured the passages wint seems a very curious circumstance, no
however, being intact and in working order, and, kong, There, as the sailors claims, the agent for myself and company to leave Hongkong by
the charterers discovered that he could reduce the steamship Brindisi which is advertised to marks of prising were apparent on the box, the If their story be true, he offered them $25 bonus the expenses of the slip by biring a Chinese crew. leave on the 23rd June instant.
lid, judging from the direction in which the to leave the vessel and reship on some other 9. That after fulfilling my said engagement hinges were broken, presenting the appearance ship bourd to Liverpool. This they refused to in Singapore I am desirous of proceeding to as if the box were first opened, and the lid then do, as the steamer was a new one ilicir. Queensland and there giving performances of departure from this I shall sustain a considerable Gaine, who had not slept in the Hall on Satur
inen were also strangers in Hongkong, and did not wish to remain there any length of time wait- pecuniary loss and should have to abandon my day night, returning yesterday morning about ing for de to the officers, as the charierers could for a return vessel. No such offer, however, intended visit to Queensland, as the season of eight o'clock, the Manager informed him of was that colony would be passed. Sworn at the Supreme Court House,
what had occurred, and asked him if there Chinamen, in spite of their acuteness, not under Ivery well dispense with their services, the Victoria, Hongkong,
had been any money in the box. Mr. Gaine standing the an of navigation. After taking on this ́ 17th day of June, 1882.
said that he left $274 in notes in it when board the consignment of coolies, they steamed Before me a
he went out on Saturday evening. This money, for San Francisco, under the only real diff assuming it to have been there, has disap of the articles, it was provided that after the ar culty was experienced. According to the terms peared. Nothing else, we believe was missed. rival of the vessel at this city, the current wages Mr. Gaine's room is the centre one of n row of of the port were to the paid. The wages now three, all occupied, and so constructed that any being paid range from $30 to $35 a month, and
EDWARD J. ACKROYD, Registrar. Mr. MacKean continuing his remarks, observed that under the peculiar circumstances of the case, Mr. Bandmann Baving, as he says, been grossly
not