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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1818,
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TRIP TO TIEN DONG. (Specially svrillen for “The Hongkang Telegraph.")
Before the Suramer, "sets in with its al
kont who would enjoy taking, a trip insiral a vivid recollection of how lovely Hongkung amount of refreshing breezes. Notwithstanding China, and at the same time getting a certain
looked on a certain night of April, ang T wondrous carvings, and the far-famed Buddhist recommend an expedition to Ningpe of the
Monastery of Tien Dong? Ningpo is tnly a obtainable at fifteen dollars, and, arrived there, if night's steam from Shanghai, return tickets are at all pressed for time, you get into your house. boat at night, and in the morning there you country, in the particularly friendly Province of are right away in the heart of the Chinese Chekiang, whose specialty seems to be rest houses and incestini
baltie the military Order of the Bath is MOLLE SCHWANA:DESCILAMPS, says the Manila-THE-semi-finals-for the Lawn Tennis Champion Witnesscontinued: —— Alter six the next also a true distinction, being an emblem Diario, is staying at Manila awaiting the ship were played on the Cricket Ground this morning I was awakened up, when I saw deceased of distinguished or meritorious service to arrival of a French troupe from Cochin-China, afternoon in the presence of His Excellency the lying on a mat on the first floor; he was quite the country; bur, almost without exception, THE passage boat which was in collision concourse of spectators, including a fair sprink-go up into the cock-loft and he would send use there are sure many people to 11ange.
dead, with his hands untied. At 8 o'clock we.. Governor, General Cameron, and n. large had our breakfast when Tim Kee asked us to the other chivalric (?) orders have just about yesterday in the Canton River bus arrived inng of ladies. After a very interesting display, some opium, I went up with Assin, but I wanted as much meaning as the tinsel on a child's Tharbour safe, though somewhat damaged, frock. We would not recommend that the Tur agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) Coxon beat Wallace in two consecutive sels, A-tien used to come up and see if we were there: in which both men exhibited first-class form, than we went up and remained there all day. to go out and take a walk to which A-sin objected; bronze cross, the one grand ambition of inform, us that the "Shire" line steamship by 6 games to 3 in each set. Scanlan fairly wanted to go out in the street, but he would every soldier, nor the Bath, which is alike Monmouthshire left Singapore this morning, outplayed J.C. Johnston, winning the first set by not allow me. the badge of the victorious commander and may be expected here about the 11th inst. 6 to 2 and the second by 6 to love. Coxon and
Tu-Afuk recalled said: I do not know why and the successful statesman, should be Tux corvette Sapphire, Capt. W. C. Kardake Scanlan are now left in for the final; which will they sent us down below to get a smoke and some tea --perhaps it was because we were SEED offered for public sale to those who yearn having completed her repairs, came out of dock be played on Monday afternoon,
interlering. The man was not dead at that tline: for decorations of this sort; but all the others, today, and will likely proceed North to join"An Old Sportsman" writes: The China Maile could speak; I dont think that he was in dying state. There were four of us ordered to from the high and mighty Garter down to Admiral Salmon's squadron.
has come out in a new line of business-as an go down, and on getting into the sitting room the lowly gin-shop Michael and George, Misses. Butterfield & Swire Inform us that the authority on home racing. Here is the comment down stairs we found several people there should be available to those who are Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Antenor, from of the religious sporting oracle re the result of sitting smoking. After that we went to sleep on ready and able to pay for, them. An
Liverpool, left Singa, ore for this port on the the Two Thousand Guineas Friar's Balsam mats, and before twelve o'clock a man caine and woke me up. I should know that man objection will, of course, be made that aftemoon of the 3rd inat, and is due on the gth. was, we believe, the general favorite, and as will again, he is a boarder. After seeing the body be seen he was nowhere at the finish." All this came down again and slept till 6 o'clock selling decorations would degrade them. Hix-The fact is, doctor, I can't sleep o' nights; is extremely sad, and so like the genius whe back of the sitting room. I sat down at a table We fail to see how this objection can have a pain in my chest and my stomach is all "runs" the Fish Wrapper. Yes, my long and had my breakfast amongst other people when the body was then on the first floor at the
be sustained. It would surely be quite as
wrong. Doctor (feeling his pulse)-What is your cared friend, your belief that Friar's Balsam A-tien was there but he did not say anything honorable to acquire a
"distins, ton" business, sir? He-I am a broker and a big was the general favorite-if by that idiotic about the bedy, nor did I speak to him; after by purchase as it is to receive it by family understand your case thoroughly. Here, take on against the field months ago-is perfectly all is finished. Then myself and A-sin went up loser in "Doctor-Never mind the balance. I phrase you mean that he was backed at odds wards I wanted to go out but he would not let favor for doing nothing, or by a scandalous
me, he said the deceased is lying there, wait ill- job! C.M.G-ships have been scattered his (alips a dollar into his hand) and go and get accurate, and the fact that Ayrshire, Johunyinto the cock loft and remained there ni- day Morgan and Orbit were placed in the order smoking opium which was supplied to as Tax Chinese authorities, when in financing broadcast, to suit political exigencies, By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the named is conclusive evidence that the slashing when I came down stairs A-tien said, do nor Deceased was taken away in a cuffin, and straits, can always raise the wind by the of the Colonial parliaments of Australasia the Regimental Band will play in the Public where" at the finish. But is that all you have to parts I will get you a pastage. ticket. On Plak, and mauve. When we were here in son of Hermit and Flower of Dorset was "no go out, yet-if you want to go to foreign sad to colour the hillsides in banks of yellow, sale of official rank, As in most European until it has become the jeer of the respect- Gardens, to-morrow (Sunday), from 9 till to p.m. tell your one faithful reader, beloved-brother? the next day, the 30th, after breakfast, I went April this was hardly the case yet, but the countries, so-it is amongst the level-headed able classes, a meaningless toy that has. The following will be the programme: sons of Han. Honorary rank, mandarins frequently been refused with scorn and
out to look for my friend, but not finding him, 1--yellow azaleas were culy cuming in. Nor had. buttons, and other gewgaws, which cost
returned, and did not go out again till after the yellow irises, come out. Another iris, how- dinner, when I met a man in Queen's Road who ever, like the fleur de lis, carpeted the ground contempt. If it were the fact that decor. the Government nothing will invariably.
asked me how long I had been in Hongkong, and just outside the Temple, and the wisterin bad ations were only given in recognition of
who.told me not to go to a foreign country, so-1 walls or to the fir trees, and generally everywhere, tossed its beautifis), wéénted blossoms over the produce a large revenue. And it is to the
went to his house with him and did not return to making the air very sweet with its perfume. credit of the advisers of the Emperor that
good health as far as i know, no money has been several Ting ears, of entrance pavilions, and two the boarding house again. The deceased was in There is a long, long avenue of fir trees, and paid me in connexion with this affair.
11 BUNGLONG DISPENSARY,
„Hongkong, 2nd March 1888.
The Hongkong Telegraph elegraph
Fongkom, SatURDAY, MAY 5, 1888.
75,
in most cases where wide-spread distress
is so frequently resorted to. Some time
anfongst the riff-raff, convict-bred Judases
noteworthy services to the country, or for extraordinary merit, that would be a very string argument against offering tl em for
omething to eat.
officers
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Jose Mosan, Bandmaster,
Two junk masters were to-day charged before Mr. Sercombe-Smith with navigating in the
-You-have-told us so very little, and even that little required no telling, as it was self-evident Does not the fact of Orbit being third suggest to you something that probably explains why Friar's Balsam was "nowhere" at the finish ?. It does to me, "Brownie," and doubtless will to everyone who takes an interest in the matter. Orbit and Friar's' Balsam are stable companions, and the
specialty: a slight attempt there is made at decendy.. It is the only part of China where I
at least inwardly amused by it. A sedmn clair for the sum of one dollar will take you to the have found any. And the result it so comical, that the most prudish traveller could not fail to be
stopastery, between five and six miles off, along a picturesque but very hard! road, and back again.. Once there you may stay in one of the spacious.. guest-rooms, entertained by the priests for a very small sum per diem, or wander about in the bamboo groves, or study the true character of Buddhism, now so fashionable
religion for blad Londoners. In May the azaleas are
Tse Wat Chi: am an undertaker; on Sun-lake-like ponds on the way up are specially
exists in the country, this useful expedient sale; but such is not the case, in fact it is the harbour during the night of the 4th inst, without Duke of Westminster, bad determined not today, 29th ulto. 'man came to nie and bought beautiful, reflecting as they'de such fine old trees ago we announcer that offices had been of cases could be, adduced to support this barbour regulations. The first defendantexplained kept all right. What therefore is the natural $3 Third Street. I know the man' who paid for We met hundreds and hundreds of people cousing exception rather than the rule: Hundreds showing their lights, and afterwards anchoring run the former if Sir Frederick Johnston's colt Coffin for $4; it was sent to the Tin Kee shop at all round. Some of these trees have
opened in certain of the Northern provinces contention. Can anything be more ridiculous for the sale of these honorary decorations, the proceeds to be devoted to the Yellow
to a thinking man who is not a slavish River Relief Fund; and the results haveady than to see the Heir Apparent to the Throne, whose warlike experiences proved so satisfactory that we would suggest to the Honorable ALFRED LISTER.
have been confined to witnessing a bruising Colonial Treasurer,-Postmaster General,-
encounter between JoHN L. SULLIVAN and some other equally low professional rúffian, et refore, that he would-be doing Hongkong n great service if he could induce the appearing in public covered with all the military decorations of Europe! What Government to open a shop in the is the true signification of such a burlesque! colony for the sale of C.M.G.-ships. It is a hollow sham; and even less justified and other official trumpery of a similar than the cases of the Grand Old Buffalo -description---Hongkong possesses-a-
and the other dignitary referred to above. depleted Treasury."—the phrase is not
Viewing the matter from every point of ours, it is dear Aururn's, and as a very large number of important public works view, it seems that very little can be said have yet to be carried out, and in view of the against selling decorations, while a great deal can be urged in favor of our proposal. facts that the general taxation throughout The Order of the Boot-jack or the Wash- the colony is already so excessive as to be
tub would be a luxury for the parvenu puite-a-burden-to-all-but-the-wealthiest
rich, and one for which they would not classes and that wopossess a most expensive
grudge to pay. Then let them have Surveyor General of unequalled enterprise and surpassing gonius, we submit that it their distinctions by all means; the would be much better to take a leaf out of revenue, derived from the business would the Chinese book than to laden with fresh greatly reduce the heavy taxation of the impositions persons and industries that working classes, and-in-Hongkong would are already seriously overburdened. This provide the funds for reclamation works is no joke on our part, but sensible
and other improvements so urgently needed,
without exhibiting a light in accordance with
to the magistrate that he did not know why he was arrested, as he had a lamp burning, and the second culprit admitted the charge. He was fined $4 and the first defendant $2, which they paid.
THE Courrier de Saigonpublishes the regulation lately framed by the Acting Governor-General for the election of a deputy for the Saigon district of French Indo-China. Every Ficnchman, or 23 electioneering centres: Saigon, Cholon, Cape French subject, is entitled to vote at any of the St. James, Baclieu, Baria, Bentré Bienhoa, Cantho, Chando, Giadinh, Gocong. Hatien, Leng-xuyen, Mytho,. Rachigia, Jades, Soc-trang, Tanau, Tayninlt, Thudaumot, Travinh, Brih-long and Pulo-Condorc.
THE following officers were invested at the Regular Convocation of United Chapter held on the ayth ulto
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inference to be drawn from the result of the Guineas? It looks very long odds that Friar's Balsam did not run, either in consequence of having broken down ar, not being quite fit, his owners may have decided to keep him specially for the Derby,
MANSLAUGhter in THIRD
STREET.
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Tam Oo-1 am an undertaker's coolie, employed by the last witness. On the 29th Apul at 12.30 I took a coffin to 53 Third Street. There was a body on, the first floor in a back room covered with some white cloth, I put it in the coffin, and took it to Pok-fu-lum where I saw it buried. I remember Wednesday the 2nd inst. On that day I went to the grave again with the police and saw the body disinterred. I baye since seen it buried-again in the same place.
shrines erected on them as if 'to Dryads.: back as we went out. They were mostly women,
it best attire. But as a rule, from each family went one man to take care of his female relations, looking very much as if he were taking out a whole seraglio. But probably they were The clothes-basket-like sedan in which most of his "gisters and his cousins and his aunis."
effect till you are used to it. the country people are carried has a very coniical
tubs of herb tea-a most refreshing tonic to It was too early in the season for the great
be put out in the rest houses. These are daily filled in Summer by the charity of rich philan thropists, by whom also are placed at intervals
practical. And many a man, whose shoulders on which the weary wayfarer can rest his load. Chinese-philanthropy-always-seems-especially were breaking down under his burden would be were it not for these stones, for many of the men unable even to relieve himself of it for a rest, carry burdens much too heavy to lift back on to their shoulders unaided, if once set down on the ground.
Inspector. Swanston:-1 produce an extract
of a farm labourer named Tsz Afuk who died on
This morning an adjourned Coroner's inquest from the Registrar General's office signed by the was held at the Magistracy touching the death of the one Tsze Fük, described as a coolie. Can the huge blocks of stone standing on end, Registrar General, which is a record of the deaths the 29th-April-from-injuries received-in-being by brother of the deceased living at 53. Third of death given as intermittent fever and reported tied by the arms and beaten by two men, Sireet, and date of death 28th April. Taze Fak Sit Atien and his for, who keep a boarding in pector Swanston, then asked for an adjourn
is not the name of the deceased in this case. house in Third Street, some details of which
ment in order to find an important witness were in our issue of the 3rd instant.
Mr. whereupon the Coroner adjourned the proceedings Wodehouse; the Coroner, presided, and the jury till the 7th instant. were Messrs. H. G. Dowler, H. Mackenzie and S. VERemedios. Mr-Dennys watched the case -on-bebalf-of the two accused me
In theopening ofthe case Mr. Dennys requested that a friend of the deceased (a witness) should leave the Court, to which the Coroner im mediately acquiesced. The first witness, Fook Loa, a farm labourer, said he knew the deceased who was his elder brother and lived with him in the same village, which he left about the 25th April. The village is named Coon Chung, and he left it of his own accord in order to get named Lee Asin brought him to this colony employment
here as an earth coolie. A man
arrived in this colony on the 30th April for the father sent for him. On arriving in Hongkong, purpose of taking deceased back home. witness heard from some clansmen that his His
brother had been killed, and he saw bis dead body; he was 42 years of age.
Tu Afak-I was a passenger in a junk which
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necesarily endene de oplatons expressad by Correspondents in this colunur.]
THE CHINESE QUESTION IN AUSTRALIA, ·
TO THE EDITOR OF the "Herdrang Telzurapi,*"
I sometimes wish English charity would take a similarly practical form. Why should not the teetotal societies provide free Apollinaris at all railway stations in August? Why should not slickers, with the means for making a fire, be erected on the Yorkshire moors, and throughout the lake district? Why should not the missionaries preach away the Club bars, before starting off up country to convert the Chinese ! SIR-Your evening contemporary the China to have proved that he had persuasive powers, Any man who had done so might be considered. Mail of the 3rd inst. contains a leading article and his Society need not think it was wasting anent the Chinese Question with regard to the its money in paying his fare up country. of the inaccuracies in the above-mentioned convert a Buddhist priest. There are 200 of these Australian Colonies. To point out the whole Our missionary might even be expected to
night impossible. A few of the most flagrant open to conviction, but they are friendly, meny comment, Among other unaccountable facts, with a sort of cope made of little oblong bits of the public are told that the Chinese in Fort red silk carefully sewn together with the white errors, however, I cannot let pass without some fellows, in their ash-coloured cotton gowns,
Darwin have monopolised the retail trade edges shewing, and fastened over one shoulder. of the place, which is totally untrue, as, There is a Temple to the Lord of Heaven, of with the ordinary run of atore, goods, there is whom there is a most unspiritual-looking figure and Chinese shopkeepers in that town. An sign of gratified appetite in his fat, hanging agitator M. (presumably Mr.) V. L. Solomon checks and half-closed laughing eyes. There is was sent practically to "stump" the continent also a Temple beyond to Buddha, a far nobler
proposition that is worthy of very earnesi The inducement should prove a great around in a liver pad and striped socks, Abraham he went from here to bring him, specially Witness article would be, plainly speaking, a matter well at Tien Dong.They do not look like men very
consideration; Nor is our suggestionquitean
temptation to cher ALFRED and the local Government. The Yellow River Fund has original one, even in England. Students of een benefited from the sale of official history will remember that the Baronetage
rank during the past four months to the is an order of dignity (?) that established by King JAMES I (douce man) extent of taels 1,360,000, and the good
was
A COLOURED troupe acted an original' Biblical play recently in the United States. Noah pranced went through a step-dance in top-boots and an opera-hat, and another well-known gentleman, connected with the sulphur business, appeared in macintosh and with cow horns on his head, During the last act, the whisky circulated and a
Language unbefitting.a gentleman of his age and
foreign parts; there were other two men on to the same shop in Hongkong as we were.
on the purchase system, and even in work still goes merrily along. There are fight ensued. Abraham went home on à shutter, brought the deceased to this colony; he appeared absolutely no competition between the English over the altar, with a large stomach and every these modern days a considerable number plenty of Hongkong citizens, Primrose and Noah was called to order for using bad to come willingly and said he was going to of persons occupying various positions leaguers and other noble representatives well-known respectability, Satan, passed the board who were going We were not, asked tb against the Chinese, and, as the result of type, whether imaged as bonito, or as Rejoicing, In life, have been ennobled or decorated of shoddy, who would, liberally patronise night on the kerb. When the curtain finally fell { pay for our board and lodging at the Tia Kee his laboura, and of the petitions that were or as himself. There are three figures of him in in return for money expended.
the decoration shop, with the result that the refreshment-bar was wrecked and twelve shop, which is in Third Street; it is a two- The Baroness BURDETT COUTTS is one living in a few weeks the Colonial Treasurer windows broken. A public announcement in the story house and has a cock-loft where many example, the. gentleman who was M would have his coffers filled to overflowing, paper notified that the performance would not The two men who came with us in the junk policy in lecturing againat the, Chinese was that of his exaltation. There were worshippers us, were put, along with the deceased.a-tax was extended to the Northern of his mother, Saliga-Mouni's mother, as dice be repeated,
THOMAS BRASSEY and is now known as Lord This scheme is worth thinking over,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
DE BRASCI is another, and there are many others that could be named whose.money secured for them the titles.. and so-calledi.M.S. Alacrity, Commander R. C. Maconochie, "honors they now possess. Probably the left here this afternoon for Shanghai, whence she British Government would object to supply, will proceed to Japan. Hongkong with a varied assortment of peerages and baronetcles, but ifour financial.
THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Nistor, from difficulties and necessities were thoroughly and is due on the joth inst.
Liverpool, last Singapore yesterday for this port, explained and proper representations
made, we think that Lord CELIVER-US,IN Volapuk a young lady is called a ji-put. This the lately ennobled Secretary of State for name is quite graceful enough for the object, if the Colonies, would see his way either to bustles are to remain in fashion, send out a bushel or two of Colonial knighthoods and C.M.G.-ships or to advise Her Most Gracious, to specially
We are informed by the agents (Mesori. Jaidiae, Matheson & Co.) that the "Glea" liner Glan eagles, from London, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning,
THE body of a Chinaman, which did not appear. to have been long in the water was picked up this morning near the Murry Pier, and conveyed.
create a new decoration for the Malta and Gibraltar of the East," to be disposed of to reputable citizens at a stated sum, the usual trade reduction being allowed to to the Mortuary. wholesale purchasers.
There is nothing more out of the way In this suggestion than there is in the existing method of distributing dubious honors and gaudy decorations. The vast majority of the recipients of these distinctions are persons who have done nothing whatever to merit them. If the Grand Old Buffalo or the Most
MESORS. Russell & Co. inform us that loft Singapore for this port yesterday, and may "Union Line steamer Metapedía, from London, be expected to arrive on the 11th fost.
AN "Englishman has discovered the ancient porphyry quarries, where the Romans obtained the stones used in their famous buildings. The quarries are ninety-six milles from the Nile, and Noblo the Antediluvian Antelope were to 3,650 feet above the level of the sea, appear at any public ceremonial arrayed in the magnificent regalia' of their respective THE emancipating wave appears to be rolling orders they would be inordinately laughed bravely on in Brazil A recent telegram from Rio Janeiro announces that “every morning
atand voted fit subjects for a lunatic asylum; unngs the news of tens of liberatory acts, con- and yet there would be just as much fening freedom at once, or in one oY IWS" "YAKIT sense, meaning, and Justification in upon units to hundreds of slaves. Thes, just parading their finery as there can before Christmas, the Ferreira family, of bo la men who have never done a great Campinas engaged to give liberty to their 1,500 or noteworthy act in the whole course of slaves at the end of this year; the planters of their lives covering their breasts with Ticle freed on Christmas 1,800 at once) in Sao Carlos do Piska), on the 29th, 1,540 were promised glittering orders at drawing-rooms, recep- tions, and other more or less silly functions freedom at the end of this year: Sorocaba has One can readily understand the significance county, na bas Indiatuba also its you remaining of the Victoria Cross-representing as it SAVESLAs for the leaser acts of emancipation docs conmilcuaus gallantry on the field of 1 from 100 down, they are retting beyond record, ".
liberated all of its 469 player and is now a from
The Courrier de Saigon publishes one of the latest Parisian songs, with the inevitable Boulanger for its subject. It is founded upon the statement that the General visited Paris disguised in a pair of blue spectacles and a Hmp. Roughly, it runs as follows;—
Through the air which, chills éach chest, Flind to all discomfors thick, Flant, or cold or ways, or mist Cirdlog wound, see,”on his misck Leaning, limpeza god man Weary, and isme, and lacking rims.
Salute!
Salute Thing arm not what chay seem "That grippla possibly is
(Chorus) Himi Hiding behind his ginases bye Hla myopic de emity
As through suburban avenue' Though in the everjoyous City So how he deftly picks his war
joed by his släckereined ofd dog. Trwyl
Saliste
Balute! His sight looks is from di "Jaša! I'm isuarly nucm faʼath
(Chorus) Higet
THE following are the Orders of the Day for the Legislative Council to be held on Monday, the 7th inst., at 4 pm
1. Ms. MacEwen, pursuant to notice, will ask
(4.). The reason for delay in the completion of Victoria College: whether the Surveyor General: can name a fired date when the Building will be ready for occupation,
Presuming that the water will be supplied to the Town by next November, is there to be a new distribution for Fire extinguishing purposes, and, if so, by what date will it be completed ?.. Is such distribution included in the present estimated cost of the Tylam will the extra Water Works! If not, what will cost amount to ?
2
(6) What Instructions the Government have received from the Colonial Office regarding the Public Health Bill which was passed by an official majority Inst session and suspended from operation pending the receipt of such Instructiona (4) For a return or W of the
number of destitute Women and Girls at present in the Colony under the protection of the Government, the to show the number in charge of the Tong Wa Hospital Committed
and
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beard
the
sent to the Government of South Australia, the Temple over hits altar, and behind it a figure In the first place, Mr. Solomon's call her not giving her son any other name but
were also there. We were about ten altogether, hardly that of an agitolor; in the second place going round, kneeling, and knocking their lore- and could go in and out of the house as we he was not sent anywhere, hat spoke to heads on the ground, or waving the joss-sticks pleased. Four of us who came in the junk were crowded and appreciative audiences, in aid of before each statued disciple in turn. The priests afterwards, the deceased was not willing: that the to poll lax as a result, of his going to foreign parts we were all willing to go charles, simply on his own account sudhirdly were chanting very monotonously a service was on the morning of the 28th. He changed was to all intents and purposes imposed before giving for his recent promotion in office.
specially
ordered by a Mandarin as a thanke- his mind after being out and seeing some of his he left Palmersion The Ching Mail, hot. The captain of Chinese gunboat was clansmen. A-tien was in the cockloft when content with sowing broadcast a number of wandering round in a very handsome blue crape deceased refused to go, and he said "You will perfectly idiotic misstatements, which prove that Jacket. We got talking with him, and he asked know about it to-night and the ship will be ready the writer, of the articis in question knows, as if we would not like to go and see the chief to-morrow. That night after 9 pm, they wanted much about the Australian Colonica au be priest, a friend of his. We accepted, and were deceased to pay for his board and lodging, and does about picking oakum, says that the conducted into an inner court, where the captain Ation came up to the loft and went into Colonial Government, under pressure from said there was a most beautiful flower we must deceased's room, which was next to mine the mob" have, acted to disregard of all see. It was a peony bush in full blossom, pale There were five or six men in deceased's room treaties Under pressure from the mob" is a plush colour. A literary mandarin, with a about ro o'clock that night. There was a fight good, idea, when we consider the mob as repre- most insolent expression, and a long-figured there and some men were smoking opium. I saw sentative Austrails, and containing upwards of cream satin gown, stalked in with us, and, without them go into the room, each was a pipe and then I can one was carrying 1,500,000 people, who have thek Governments being asked by anyone, at once took the neat of hand in band with them on this question, But honour, and lounged on the dails scowling at the them say 14 Ara
you going or not, as there is the concluding part of the sentence is a veritable foreigners. He could not speak English; the cap athip going to-morrow" then I heard deceased Chinese puzzle. The scribe says that the Colo-tain was dent, so also, was a most genial Ningpo say I will not go" upon which they demanded nial Governments have acted in such a manner merchant, who at once came forward on the the price of board and lodging. I then at responsible Governments would never round table being covered with excellent sweets, beard them threaten to beat him and also dream of doing I must ask you, Mr. Editer, to and most fragraut, delicate green tea. The heard the sound of beating, though not on try and shed some light on these
se lines, if not for merchant sat down with us, so did the captain, beating him at first and afterwards some more laudable, purpose of proving, in some manner. English lady a pipe. The chief priest was very any particular part. A tien and his fokis were the credit of the Ching Mail, at least for the who politely believed it was no use offering an fee who then came upstairs Deceased was that the man who does leading articles for that pressing with his sweets and fea, but did not laid on a mat on the floor, and when I went in I "weighty organ" is not quite of his head, seem to have much further conversation. Even found him crouching on the floor with bis hands The Premier of Australis, That your con the literary mandarin relaxed when I had to st up to his head. The others in the room were temporary quotes, I can see from the utterances down with my back to him, and apologised. sitting down looking, on, and decensed was of that venerable politician, is meant for 81 He smiled graciously, on being smiled upon, calling out. I ran in and caught hold of Heory Parkes of New South Wales, This But he would not pit down except in the place pipe which a job was beating him with and gentleman, periodical insolvent, and a schemer of Honour, and soon got up and marched away then one of them said he would get a rope and and-turacoat of the work type, has had his day, sending presently a messenger to fetch away his te deceased up. A rope was brought in and and, since the time that he kept a toy shop in friend the captain. The Ningpa merchant. given to s Joki, of whom there were six or Sydney, and beguiled shilling pieces but off little seven present, and they began to the deceased boys in exchange for tin trumpets and railes
hed how he came out to spend a week or up with his hands behind him. I said "Do till the present day, he has in some way managed, not tie him like that, you will perhaps kill to get backer. His attitude on the Chinese him"...I thought it might kill bim by atopping Question, however, has left him stripped ofer the circulation; he bad his face to the wall up, ort, and in's very short time his familias and was crying out. Three or four people with form, will be missing both kom; the politici myself were then ordered by A-ticu to go down arena, which He has so long disgraced, and from below and they had some tobacco and tea when the pages of the Bulletin, which he has so long the fois came down we could hear deceased filled? crying out while we were downstairs then I went to bed. After I had been in bed about an hour a man came and woke me up saying 1 don't know whether this man is alive or dead he is speechless." I went to the room, and found A-tien and a fok) with the deceased, who was lying on the floor covered up wi matafterwards they brought him down to the
Call attention to the insatisfactory nature of the arrangements at present in force for keeping and maintaining rescued Wo Girley and move a resolution on the sub To resume Committee on the Bill entitled
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lower floor, but A-tien was not store
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