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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1868.
AT the Police Court, yesterday, Mr. Wodehouse fined Li Ah Sy of 41, High Street, $50 for having one thel of uncertificated opium. ... THE O. & O. Co's steamship.Belgie, with the American mails of May 12th, arrived in harbour about 6 o'clock. We have to keep'over our San Francisco telegrams.until to-morrow."
H.M.S. Cockchafer left Shanghai for HankowAN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge. Inn Saturday last, and was expected to be absent No. 618. S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall,
for about a month.
Zetland Street, to-morrow, at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. we have received from the Statistical Departs ment of the Inspectorate General of Chinese Customs, Shanghai, another work of the valu- able series published by order of the Inspector General, being a List of Medicines exported from Hankow and the other Yangtze ports with the tariff of their approximate values, and other interesting details, compiled by Mr. R. Braun. Assistant Examiner of the Customs Service.. GENERAL TERRERO, late Captain-General of the Philippine Islands, arrived here this morning" from Japan; and proceeds to Marsellies by the Mesageries Maritimes steamer Djemaah. During His Excellency's stay in Tokio the Mikado conferred on him the first-class decoration the same time decorating. of the Rising Sun, the members of his suite-Colonel Parrado with the third, and Captains Vera and Cortès and Señor R. Terrero with the fourth-class of the Rising Sun.
THE American Corvette Juniata, with the American Minister on board, arrived at Macao an the 1st inst. Colonel Denby landed at 3. pn. thefort firing the usual salute. He was entertained at dinner by Senhor Costa Duarte, the Acting Governor, and left the next day for Whampoa in the corvette.
E special correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes from Newchwang under date May 24th:-A large fire occurred in Newchwang the 2191 inst, destroying 20 houses and several millet stacks On account of the scarcity of water, and there being no fire-engine in the place, the fire was left to burn itself out, which it did about twelve hours after it was dlicovered. HMS. Audacious and Alacrity arrived at Nagasaki from Port Hamilton on May 23rd and,
hama on the oth. The Alacrity was docked,
Nagasaki on May 28th. The Rising Sun says that, according to present arrangements. the Imperieuse is due in Yokohama about the th June, and that after Admiral Salmon has transferred his broad pennant!"to the new flagship, the Audacious will dock at Nagasaki prior to proceeding home.
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The Banchone. Telegram accompanied by the Wanderer, left for Wodehonte,
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1908,
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dining Bake delivered a lecture on the #il fines of cue Serengile M trige, and conchided Mafur that we have not one fourth of the pofsiman number of cruisers requisite.
Me John Bricht is seriously ill.
GERMANY,
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REVENGE is sweet, but Tsai Ah Fat will not hanker after any more when he wears his own clothes again, in the falling of the year. He got three months this morning, a present from
Queen's Road without waiting for an invitation. He said the amah there had adopted him, but he knew not Joseph. He was led outside, and in the courtyard saw. the lady again, and, as he passed her, playfully tickled her with his fist till she fell down. "Once again he looked over the spikes. Three weeks more.
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in the presence of the chief engineer and 2nd mate, on board my own ship, and showed it to the 2nd and 3rd engineers; they all refused to sign. Accused countermanded my orders, and said he would not allow the boat to be lowered. I then went on the brides to see if the man wars coming to lower the boat, and found the defend- ant preventing them from doing so. He made use of very bad language-offensive and abusiver he also said I was trying to take his certificate from him, I made an entry in the Log, and then I took it to the British" Consul," "The accused, told me an reading it over to him that the entry was false. I took all the Euroficant to the, Consul and had the entry again read over to them. Their answer was that they did not see the first part of it, and that they did not know whether the defendant' was druik'or not.
On the following Monday defendant left the ship without my permission, and returned on board about a am.
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presence; the mate might have beard it as he was not far away. I refused to sign it both on board the ship and before the Consul, becaper
it was not the truth. The mate was not inups cited and did not want to leave the ship 1 don't think so, bacea he had not bus bonos un. As to insubordinħtion, I don't know any, thing about that,
To Mr. Webber :-Wifen the mato came up the companion he had no hat on; I did not hear what the Captain said to him. I heard the mate say * let me go " i " let me go 1" The second roynt they had the Captain went for the mate. I tried to part them, but I could not do so and then went away. Baw the mate come aboard; he said "good afternoon," and I do upt consider he was drunk. I would not like say what state the Captain was in. should not say the chief mate was drunk, when he came aboard, what he was afterwards, I coul not say, I am certain the Captain, coin- menced the second row, and the whole affair Insted about 46 minutes. down on the hatch and had a sinoke, aterwards, and then saw blood on the mate's shoulder, Cross-examined by Mr. Wilson :—As far as I am aware, the Captain was not drunk, and 'I cannot say the chief mate was drunk), the filter he came aboard. I did not see the Captain's appeared to be in the same condition as wher
face next, morning,
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saw me go on board and heard me speak to them. I said "good evening, gentlemen.” I took my friend down into my cabin and there we had, I admit, something to drink but certainly not enough affect me in any way, Vis lonkod ovar-platographe and loutero-and- finally, when my friend left, I think he was Hi a pretty bad way. He got into the hoat alongside and as he left the ship and passed the port of my cabin bid him good bye through the port, so that it is impossible that.. I could have wanted to go away in the boat, ns the captain states, and I say ho tells a deliberate lie when he says first, that I was drunk, and secondly that I wanted to go away in the boat, for I was in my cabin at the time, and as I have already said, wished my friend good-bye through my cabin port. After the boat had left the ship I came-out of my cabia and made my way up the companion on deck, when the captain stopped me at the top and said I should not "go-ashore," and got hold of me by the arms. I told him I was not going ashore and asked him to let go, my prims but he would not, and in the.. struggle to free myself, my foot slipped and I fell down, he tumbling on the top of me, and in doing so, struck his head against some obstacle
which I on the stairs. He says he struck me on the face say is also a lie he struck, me here, over the heart, and the row would never have occurred if he bad not been conducting, himself. like wild man. When 1 heard the order given to lower the boat, all I did was to ask the captain he wanted it down and he said "Yes, Mr. Lyle," when 1 at once gave the order to lower it.
This concluded the defendant's statement, when after a few minutes' deliberation the Court opened with the following
FINDING
Having carefully considered the evidence given before this Court, in the presence of the accused Robert Lyle, as also his statement in defence, the Court_finds that it has not been proved that the said Robert Lyle is guilty of gross mis- conduct or of drunkenness, and his certificate is therefore not dealt with. The Court, however,
ITs ems that the hangman's rope in America is SAYS the N. C. Daily News of the 31st ulta. likely to become ere long as obsolete as the axe One of the best known of our American, fellow and the block which are exhibited to holiday residents, Mr. Artemas Webster, leaves here to- visitors in the armouries of the Tower of London, my row morning for his home, after an absence By a majority of no less than 87 to 8 the New Alpicha mantind was held in the Cityminent position among the Masonic Fraternity all capital cases death by electricity, and it is of nine years. "Mr. Webster occupied a pro-York Assembly has passed a Bill substituting in
alergi Mira's and many military notabili, and was the Worshipful Master of the Ancien reported that the Bill will be strongly supported not quite four months ago, We have just John McIntyre, examined, by Mr. Wilson:-must mark its disapproval of his conduct. by
in the State Senate. If the example abould be followed on the other side of the Atlantic, it may be expected that a more scientific face of executioners will take the place of the Berry and the Sansons of grim renown; for public opinion would hardly tolerate any unskilful application of the electric current, which if of adequate, power must produce instant death. Much is clearly to be said for the new system. Since torture has been abolished it has been no part of our penal code to make the prolongation of the sufferings of criininals a feature of capital punishment." Deaths by electric
as a deterrent from crime, its awful suddenness may be said to be at least as striking to the imagination as the more clumsy process of breaking the neck by hanging. It is a sign of the times that the Bill before the State Legisla ture of New York also provides for the prohibi tion of the publication of details of executions in
The Emperor is better again.
FRANCE AND HUNGARY.
Landmark Lodge, and the Eminent Preceptor of the Celestial Preceptory. He was well known as a partner in the firm of Messrs. S C., Famham that firm designed some finely modelled vessels, & Co. and during the time he was connected with Twocoolies were charged before Mr. Wodehouse this morning with stealing a box of clothes and $85 from one Lau Pak Ching, on Saturday, Mr. Dennys defended. The prosecutor said he tent them mining in Pahang for four months, and was bringing his little pile back when h: brrived on Saturday. He stated that the
and when he refused they took his box. He follow.d them down to the Chinese quarter, Stonetour Depinis the French ambassador to
where they turned and went through" him, Man bee love instrued to confer with Count his little hoard out of his wais band. 15 plejeder un, the mulj sez
Unfortunately it was elicited from him that he had been only receiving to a month as a inner, and as he could not explain where he got the rest of the 385 from, the case was dismissed-the newspapers- ispoutinently,
PARIS. May 29th-
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The French are highly indignant at Here prisoners wanted him to go and lodge with him, shock is certainly more humane, while, regarded cabin once and saw them talking. I helped the and have seen him so on several occasions. The
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·Voltakonna from 10 he op the sand ako. Tune Glen “Kom Glenrrie, with new season's tas, bet Singivare for London on the 1st inst.
que mean Stamskip Co's steamer Trion, damdivernal, teft Singanore yesterday after conn for this part, and is due on the roth inst. A sepur of the Gather proceedings in the Binjain a 'hi vinright case and a lot ni
her matter haer been crowded out" of this
isane.
A CUTER Ossion perambulated the streets of the Holy City during four nights last week.
REFERRING to the case of Madden, clerk in the Chiese Protectorate at Singapore, who was recently sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment for receiving bribes, the Straits Times remarks:-"Rumour points to many Government servants who, on detection of corrupt practices, have bushed up mallers by sending in their shin-tions. Madden preferred to run the risk The hushing up system, however of a trial. advantageous to the overnment in warding off nublic scandal, ties open to obvious objection in the public interest To allow public servants to retire in pener on the fruits of illegal gratifications does not tend to encourage honesty among their belowe who think they may fare likewise on
these ideas prevail, Madden's fate will only deter fer tell-tale show,"
wirty the object al propitiating the gods against straying from the path of duty. So long as
the choler (enidemic, “
Accorning to the Chiurse Timės, Mr. T, L Balle lately Acting Chineas Secretary at the Peking Lotion is to act as British Consul at Tantsin, while Mr. Brenan is away on a year's Heave!
LATE TELEGRAMS.
(From 'Rangoon Times.)
MINGIN, May 13th. The Kalay Tsawba is alive and has returned to Indin.. He has sent for help, and promises to send Important news.
LONDON, May 16th. According to Russian accounts received from Mery, a conflict took place on the Afghan fron- tier on the 6th instant between a body of Salor Turcomans and some Afghans having claimed tribute from the Salor-Turcomans; the losses- were four killed. The Salor Turcomans after- wards returned to Russian ferritory.
I hold a chief's certificate and am 2nd en directing that he shall be discharged from his gineer of the Crusader, I remember the dis-ship in accordance with the powers contained in turbance in Iloilo I was standing by the main in sub section 4 of section 13 of Ordinance & of rigging and saw the Captain get hold of the 1879. mate. We dine on deck, at 6p.m. He got hold of the mate's arms, about the top of the companion. I heard the mate speak; he said "let me go." The Captain said be would be --- if he would; they had, struggle and then fell, the Captain on top. The Captain had no reason for Jaying hold of the mate except that be, the Captain, was the worse for ligour. I consider he was the worse for liquor, first time was in Sourabayas he came on board- drunk, then. I think it was in October, the day wo arrived. He was so drunk he hát to be assisted down below. His wife nasistel hiin. The next occasion I saw him drunk was in Manile between 4 and 5 o'clock. That night, at the table, he had brandy and sod.. I don't know. any other occasion that I have scen him the worse for liquor. In the struggle the Captain was on top; the mate had a little liquor; he was not under the influence of drink; he was perfectly sober when the captain got hold of him. The and mate tried to separate them, but after that they went for each other again, and then the Captain was underneath; fc called for assistance, and went and took the mate's arm off the Captain's neck The Captain orderal a boat to be lowered and then. I saw the and mate lowering one. I heard the mate stop the boat being lowered; the Captain' had given the order in such a way as if he was under the influence of liquor. We had had a visitor on board that afternoon--the chief mate of the Loch Eck-he was visiting the mate. I saw
Cron-examined by Mr. Webber-On the Saturday, when the disturbance occurred, cannot say whether Mr. Lyle had a hat on or not; he had a coat on. I spoke to him first and am quite sure he was intending to go ashore, I did not say I'll be — if you go ashore." I took hold of him, but lie did and I on the top of him; the zed mate did not not fall down. After he struck me he fell down,
pull me off him. I suppose nty offices were close enough to see what was going-an,After To the Count; I saw the Captain's fige was we were separated I did not rush at him; he swollen a bit, on the left side. The Captain and rushed at me... I did not hear the 2nd mate say mate have been on good terms during the
If there is going to be any more of this fighting voyage! When I saw the Captain seize the 'm going away." The and mate heard him stop mate I did not think it was a matter of much, the boat from being lowered, In disobedience to importance. The mate and I have always been' my orders. The cut on my eye was not caused { good friends. When I heard the mate say "let by a fail; it was done b; defendant. Before the go" I did not think it was anything going ashore to the Canal-asked him if he very extraordinary. When I saw them struggling intended to go to Hongkong in the 'ship. I went the mate was sort of laughing, but the Captain ashore early on Monday morning, and made the was not. I did not think they were skylarking entry when I came back. I did not see any when I got there the Captain, who had been Chinese members of the crew while the scuffle calling out for assistance, was on the top. 1 separated them, and the Captain lot go quictly I am and mate of the Crusader, and joined her was going on.
John Campbell, examined by Mr. Wilson - but the first time I tried to part ihem, he did
returned here on a trip from floile. There was a disturbance in the ship on Sunday evening, the adih May, in Iloilo. I was standing near the engine room about 7 p.m., it being dark at the time, and heard a row going on. I went all and found the Captain and chief mate struggling. Before this, I helped stranger out of the ship into a boat alongsile; he was under the influence of liquor. I saw him sitting on the ship's deck, but did not see him fall. He had cons aboard during the afternoon with the chief mate, and had been down below with the m te in his cabin. I passed the
man into the boat there was another man with him. The 2nd engineer did not assist me to do so. I swear I did not see the chief mate come up from below and I did not hear him. I first saw him lying under the Captain, on the deck, and i separated them. On getting up, the Captain then went for" him again. It is not true that when the mate got up he "AT the Police Court this afternoon' a case of an rushed at the Captain again.. I said "If you anusual character was heard. Chan Ah Sing will not stop fighting I am going away." The of the Tye Yun-shop. 97 Queen's Road East, next thing I heard the Chulain say was, "take charged Hung Fuk Chow, an informer, with this man off me," and then separated them, laying a false information. Mr. Dennys appeared The Captain then ordered me to lower a boat, for the plaintiff and Mr. Watton for the defen- and I went to do so, when the mate stopped me dat Mr. Dennys stated in detail that on an he said "let the Captain give me the order." I did information sworn to by the defendant on the not disobey the Captain, because all the time I th May to the effect that he believed that have been in the ship the Captain hos given his twenty lacis of smuggled opium was concealed orders to the mate. I eventually lowered the on the plaintiff's premises, a warrant was issued boat by the mate's orders. I have been a ship and the shop searched. but no uncertificated master for eighteen years; my last ship was plan, found. Under Ordinance 1 of 183, it the Nados, of which I was master. I sold was provided that for issuing or executing a her. I did not see the beginning of the row,
see the mate strike search warrant without proper cause the cffender and did not was liable to a fine of $500, or three months Captain. The cut on the Captain's face was imprisonment. The plaintif said that he was owing to an obstacle on the deck, not from the him in the mate's cabin, looking at photograph I a Government contractor, and with his brother mate's fist. That was the opinion I formed did not see them having any liquor. Ihave known prosessed house propen
worth about $12,000, could not see, for certain. no prepared opium in Cross-examined by Mr. Webber :-The scuffle On the 29th ulto. he his house without a certificate. About ten took place after the stranger had left the ship. persons came in and searched the premises. I did not hear the Captain speak to the mate
LONDON, May 15th. Sir James Ferguson replying to a question in They found nothing. To Mr. Wotton;-I do the first thing I saw was the chief mate on n—
the House of Commons, said that the Govern- not know the defendant, and do not know that the deck and the Captain on the top of him-
ment declined to recognise the unlimited claims, he had any ill-feeling against him! My brother they were scuffling. I pulled the Captain off, is a habitual opium-smoker; I do not smoke. and on being separated, they closed agalo, when To Mr. Webber: The mate did not strike me of Portugal in the interior of Africa, or the right When my father died he das not leave anylald the Captain was the first to fall. The mate fell at all, he had no bat on, but had his boots on. of that country to stop the free passage up the saying, We had nothing to drink but water that Sunday river Zambest. Sir James added that nothing opium. It is not a fact that on the 29th May on the top of him. I then walked. there was apium worth taels 200 on the premises; "if you will quarre! I am going away. They afternoon when we were on board, the sailing would be neglected to promote the legitimate there was some-my brother's. The searchers had about two rounds, but they were struggling ship. We were there about 6 hours; the mate development of the South African colonies.
was with me.
May roth, were not rough, but they went all over the all the time. When the Captain gave orders to
Ng Kom, to Mr. Wilson-I was 'steward In the House of Commons last evening Sir house. I have received injury through shame lower the boat I went to do so, but the mate would
she was in Iloilo, John Gerst in reply to a question said the at being suspected. I should be satisfied with a not let me. The mate had been out of the ship of the Crusader when Wotton apologised for the mistake the defendant drunk. I should say, if I spoke the truth, that the and Mite. The mate had been out of the powers which are in force in India by advising and the Opium Farmer had made, and hoped Captain wasdrunk, orunder the influence of liquor. ship and came back with a friend, from the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act in
They went to the inate's that the case could go at that. His Worship.per We were all called into the cabin to heal the entry another ship. mitted the case-to-be-withdrawn-on-the-publicain the log read, and I refused to sign it be ause cabin, I don't know what they did when The Imperial TNSTANTINOPOn The Suez
May 18th.. I did not think it was correct; · 1. did not know they came on deck: they were sober,"
The first tion of the apology..
there was an entry against me in the log; it was mate of the other ship could not sta d up Canal Convention has been issued. The Porte not read over to me at any time.
because he was drunk." The Captain- said | abandoned its claim to president theextraordinary By the Coun: The mate takes the ship in to our chief male," Now that, your friend sittings of the Commission, but will require the and out of harbour; he is always on the bridge has gone away you had better go to bed." Turkish representative to preside at the annun! the Captain always consulted with the mate then the mate struck the Captain two or three the Convention. The modified Convention
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the mate for zo years and have known him to be under the influence of drink, but on that occasion he was not. I refused to sign the entry in the log because it was not true. If the Consul has written in the Ing that I said the mate was drunk, Lsay it is false; I never said any such thing.
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May 17th. A Committee composed of members of the Cabinet, with Lord Salisbury as its President, has been appointed to, enquire into what steps are accessary to put the country in a complete state of defence.
May 18th.
A meeting of the leading Parnellite Catholics. took place in Dublin yesterday with regard to the late Papal Brief condemning the plan of com pnign and boycotting. The discussion insted for nine hours and eventually resolations were passed declaring the opinion of the meeting upon the assertions made in the Papal decree as baseless and protesting its issue; and furthermore declaring that the Trish people cannot admit the right of the Vatican to interfere in the political
SOFIA, May 17th. 'Prince Ferdinand has returned here from his tour in the provinces and was received with. great enthusiasm.
affairs of their country,
SAV's the Japan Mail:-The Japan Brewery Company is now a fait accompli Its beer is chilly in the market, and most excellent beer it is. The price is twenty-five per cent, less than that of similar beer imported. Whether that margin is large enough to drive away opposition is a question concerning which various pinned tre expressed For ourown part we are inclined think that when the public know that they can in think that beer he purce-fourths of the price they have hitherto been paying, they will not. hesitate to buy it merely because the saving per zen might have been a few cents greater, The Brewery ought to succeed well. It is given showing that the captain had ordered thoroughly organized, and; as we have said, Its public apology, and ong in the papers. Mr. that day, but when the row occurred he was not and remember the row. between the Captain Government declines to interfere in the legislative-
beer compares favourably with any in the market in respect of quality, with the additional advantage of marked cheapness.
A Fiercency modeling of Zetland Lodge. No. will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Streete on Thursday, the 7th inst., at 8.30 for precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited
Trik twenty-three mea who were charged on remand with illegally, boarding the Wingsang on the 30th 'ta, were this morning further remanded till Monday, after evidence had been
them off.
A sunck-of-eapihquake-of-greater-severity than any experiented for many years past'occurred al Kobe on the night of the ard ulto. The Hing News says the shack "was immediately preceded by a rhabling noise resembling a
ve at passing along." No damage is. Teportal.
THE Peak Tramway, unlike most novelties, Sight, hundred persons went up yesterday, and eems to be attracting increasing interest.
at tinics the Peak Hotel was so crowded with. visitors that genial Mr. Thomas was positively
leak An improvement is going to be made on
MARINE COURT OF INQUIRY.
country.
Tx Maran clerge have, now undertaken the equal in the occasion, which is saying a good | ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OF A SHIP'S. OFFICER, with the Captain. He took her into Penang: The Captain" tried to make him go, and meeting only in conformity with the terms of Pastuguese Chinese Treaty, R. Te Deum was tesiring to take tifin up there can go up by an Harbour Office to inquire into certain charges | navigation on board the ship. He takes sights, fell down, the Gaptain being, on top headed
task of celebrating the ratification of thr
columnly chanted in the Cathedral of the Holy City on the star ulte, by Rishop Medeiros and bis vener stichapar, thanking the supernatural powere Pyat lye for that worthless and ridiculous interagtional compact which goes by the name
of a Treaty
Is the Police Court this morning, C. E. Warner West brought up on remand on the charge of
the Sunday time-table, by which anybody xtra carat 12.30. A proposition was made to nake andtlier extra journcy, for visitors to the Peak Church, but it has been decided that any
ne desiring to worship there will have to go an breaking the commandment in the same old way, by working his men,servants-that is if chair-coolizs came into the category of human beings. The project is climbing up the ladder of success, and will thoroughly deserve to get to the top when those üle incongruities as to considerable grumbling at present classes are got over. In this respect there is
A Marine Court was held this morning at the of misconduct brought against Mr. Robert Lyle, first mate of the British steamer Grundder, of Glasgow, by Mr. John Ogston, m ster of the sald steamer. The members of the Court were Commander R. M. Rumsey, R.N., Acting Stipendiary Magistrate, Staff Commander. A Buckner, R. N., HLM.S. Victor Emanuel, Capt H. Wallace, Canadian Pacific steamer Parthia, and Capt, GW. Atkinson, P. & O. S, N, Co.'s steamer Thibet.
Mr. J. F. Webber appeared, for the defendant;
and so do I, but the Captain told. ae I was incompetent. I do not mean to say the math, takes the command out of the Captain's hands. The Crusader is not a flush-decked ship, and the boat to be lowered was on the starboard side of the poop. The crew came aft to lower the boat and the mate came up and asked who had given orders to lower the boat; then, nothing more was done.
on going in and out of port. He does all the times on the head, after which they scuffled and permits the Turkish troops to be conveyed. through the Canal to the eastern coast of the
only mate of the Crusader could not stand and I am quite sure he struck the Captain first.
BAR ST. PETERSBURG, May 18th Mak Ko Tung, examined by Mr. Wilson -IIt is semi-officially stated here that the conflict am table boy on board the Crunder, which lately took place on the Russa-Afghan attend to the chief mate. In Iloilo, the frontier was of no moment, was prede morning of the disturbance, the mate went API LONDON, May 19th, out of the ship after to o'clock; he went to Sir John Gorst, the Under-Secretary of State another ship and came back at 5.10 p.m. the for India, in reply to a question in the House of first mate of the other ship came with him and Commons respecting the transfer of Scind to they went to the mate's cabin. I saw them Punjab, said that no such proposal had been
were a little dronk. The Captain was not drunk; no such change could be made without the
Government was in Hello, and I remember some trouble nothing else. As the mate went up stairs the
to the safety of the
Robert Hannan, examined by Mr. Wilson I am chief engineer of the Crusader and hold
and. Mr. F. H. O. Wilson (of Messrs. Wotton & a chief engineer's certificate (No. 53.959 drinking whisky; they had two botiles; both submitted to the Secretary of State for India and
Deacon) for complainant.
embezzlement in Calcutta. Mr. Wodehouse stoted that he had gone through the papers. and he'ieved this a prima facie case had been medeen Fle therefore committed the prisoner to gul for filieen" days, during, which time he, could apply for a writ of habeas corpus form dity which the prisoner apparently did not intend to avail Himself of. He will therefore
strike the Captain twice. to trupector Jacoba, camined by Mr. Wilson
to Calcutta.
"MANIZA papers to hind by the España give
shin Chian Hak Tian was in quarantine at that put, five deaths from cholera having occurred an hard of her. Astwo more cases were reported in the same vessel after the departure of the Zafiro and the Pizayns for Manila, the Board osred both vessels to undergo ten days quimaatine at Mariveles.",
THE most prodigious vessel on the records bitha ancients was built by order of Hiero, the accone Tyrant of Syracuse, under the superintendence of Archimedes, about 230 years before Christ.
A FIRE of a serious character broke out shortly after noon on the 1st inst. at Messrs. Major Brothers match factory, situated on the south bank of the Soochow Creek, Shanghai. There
mizm, and asa the obtained of war, one which
is felt
Penang, now six days overdue, the Tafsong here yesterday saw nothing of her on the way The weather was fair all through. The steamer, Carogea, belonging to the same Company, leaves to-morrow in search of the missing steamer,
at Greenock. On the 20th of May the steamer I had given him soda-water on that day, and sanction of the Indias curta. May 20th," A letter from S
for an Captain Ogston, examined by Mr. Wilson, first I saw was the chief officer coming on board, tain be struck the Captain first; I saw him British India S. N. Co.'s steamer Booldana fron
DEHOD, "PF: Datween the chief mate and the Captain The Captain stopped him ; the mate pushed the Cap- Great anxiet read. sald-I am master of the British steamer at 5 pm. when he said "good evening." I was
the mate came on deck, and the Captain I am 3d engineer of the Crusader and went and held him by the two army. I remember the disturbance in Iloilo, between the beard the mato say quietly let me go" Then Captain and the mate. The first saw was the an altercation took place shortly after that I Captain and the mate struggling the mate on was on the deck and on going aft saw his back and the Captain holding him down. I
Later the chief officer lying down, with the Captain on tried to separate them but could not, so I went
The Booldann has been heard of. She is n the Captain calling for assistance. The mate was anchor twenty-eight miles from Mutlah Light saying something about the Captain trying to with a broken shaft. The Carogals will tow- take away his certificate. The mato was not her in to-morrow
PHILADELPHIA, May 21st drunk by any means, but he must have had
The floods of the Mississippi have submerged liquor in him. I should not say the Captain
mind; that 250,000 acres, mostly of wheatland, in Illinois, and was drunk it did not enter my t
population. he was refused to sign the entry in terrible distress prevails among the the log about the mate, because I was not
only thing I saw the mate drink at any time was beer as a bottle of lager
to be lowered, but, who executed it I cannot By Mr. Zip
LONDON, May 22nd. Mahonias Condor, str. for East Tipperary who was convicted and imprisoned on charges,
their lawful obligations" and was of inciting persons at Mitchelstown, not to full
doating fabric. There was, he states, as much issued in March 1874. The name of my chief timber employed in her as would have served mate 41 Robert Lyle the signed articles on the for the construction of so galleys, It had all the 17th February, 1888. On the evening of the Be particulars of the detention of the steam- sirin Zafire for purposes of quarantine. The varieties of apartments and conveniences neces zoth ult, while the Crusader was lying in Hello, Bond of Manila on the 27th ulto, that the steam bath, afbrary, a templo.of Venue, gardens, fish: | pornoh who came up the companion way, fallinghe top of him to tried to separate them but away They had a second struggle, when fheard Snnish Consul at Amoy called to the Sanitary ary to 's palacs-such as banqueting rooms, at 6.45 o'clock my attention was drawn to a ponds, mills, and a spacious gymnasium. The down on deck." I called the and mate and and
laying of the floors ofthe middle apartmant repre- engineer to auslit him inig a boat lying along..could not then I walked away and left them. sented in various colours the stories of Homer's side. As he got into the boat Mr. Lyle came On getting to their feet another struggle took Ellad;" there were everywhere the most beautiful up an deck from below. He was the worse for place the Captain called for assistance from paintings, and every embellishment that ast liquor." I said where are you going? He said the engineers and officers, and on getting there could furnish were bestowed on the ceilings, am going ashore." I answered "No, go found the chief mate down again and the Captain windows, and every part. The Inside of the back to your cabin and go to sleep. He had been on the top of him. On my going to them they got temple was inlaid with el press-wood, the statues out of the ship during the early part of the day up and went on quarreling in words. The were of ivory, and the floor was studded with without my permission. I took hold of him by upshot was that the mate went down below and precious stones. This yeapel bad twenty benches the arm-in-an-am cable way as ger him to go went to asleep. I heard an order given for bust this briff of the of bars, and was encompassed by an iron below. While doing bjs he struck me three
Bay. I saw other officers about, the and mate | ampart or battery; it had also eight towers with times with his ast on the face. This mark on was considerable delay in sounding the fire walls and bulwarks, which were furnished ith my left eye (showing mark) is the result; of his amongst them, Traws party leave the ship; he was
his assisted into a boat, but I don't know by To Count have been in the of struck him with my fists, on dim hold of the building belpre the arrival of throwing a stone of 300 folds weights 932 Unit madefenses here were asher of this officer hon. When the chief mate. Aus- Aboard since the 10th May I Joined her in Hon fange
14,45; I cannot say that he was At this point, the Coast was cleared when Ack the Fire Brigades. Nothing could be done to of twelve cubita long, to the distance of balla standing about. We had a scufle and I then it was about: 4,45 effectually stay the conflagration until, in add mile. To launch her, Arhimedes invented a threw him down. He was under the infidence under the influence of liquor, was reading after a deliberation, of fifteen minutes it was tion to the match factory, alx two-storied and brew of great power. She bad four wooden and of liquor, but he knew what he was doing. On the paper at the time and don't know what again opened and after discussion between nineteen one-storied houses had been destroyed. eight iron anchors her mainmast, composed of ging up he came for me a second time, threw state he was in. I am giving you my plain the President and the two solicitors in regard It was reported that five lives had been lost, single tree, was procured after much trouble me Jown, and struck me while I was down. I evidence. After the quarrel was over the mate the defence of the chief offer of the Cramade and one body was recovered during the afer from distant Inland mountains. Hicro finding called for assistance to my officers who lay down in a long canvas chair and went to it was decided to put bisa la the vi 2006. During the progress of the fire Mr. Kitehat he had he harbours in Sicily capable of helped me to a certain extent, but they did sleep on deck he was asleep by 9 o'clock when he working engineer of the Fire Brigado, had a containing her, and learding that there was not secure him as I diredded. They pulled consider there was something aggressive in the sunstroke, and other members of the Brigade famine in Egypt, est, her loaded with corn te him off me and I ordered a boat la be way the Captain took hold of the mate by the suffered severely from the Intense heat. The Alexindid She bare an inscription of which lowered to take him out of the ship 1 atm, I did not hear the mate way he was going
sambore; be did not have bis danige done has been estimated at about tuels he following is part Hiero, the son of always treated him with respe
to day about ra c'clock the 6,000 and the property war dot insured, Nearly eroules, the Dolan who wields the sceptre af got the buat lowered and made
Fantry in the log to me there Thee thatisund persons mostly women and Sicily, sends this vessel bearing in her the frukte, 'get the swelling on my face down
"hot the chief mate; the children, have been thrown out pfremploymenthe enth. Do thou .Neptune, preserve in blackened shd my face by file unfortunate diçancus
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