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The Hongkong Jelegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1888.
"It has always been the policy of this journal, as it is of all properly conducted newspapers, to carefully abstain from
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1088.
THE U.S. corvette Juniata, Capt. W. T. Burnell, arrived this morning: from Whampoa, and left
for Foochow
endangering the public health, had ignored the polite official letter reminding him of his obligations. And yet in the face of all this, Mr. WODEHOUSE, who appears to have1.2012 opinion.Com an Agiasions-popers been in private correspondence with a person who was charged with a misde- meanour, dismissed the case on the feeble pretence that Mr. FOSTER did not clearly understand what was required of him, Further comment would serve nouseful end... This sort of thing, only brings public justice into contempt. If the Magistrates are not to assist the officers of the Government in enforcing the necessary regulations for the protection of the public health, but rather to hamper them in their useful work, the Sanitary Board and its mission had better be abolished without more ado. Mr. F. T. P. FOSTER, aided by the Police Magistrate,
you are a married man, your wife can compel you to support her... If you aren't, she can't,"
AUSTRIA has the credit of containing more public libraries than any other European country namely $57, containing 5,475,000 volumes, The following unique sign appears outside shop in Toccoa, Ga.: "Lamps fixed, rators honed, freih'oysters, Vienna bread and tonlb stones."
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AN American contemporary pertinently remarks that the death of: Bismarck would cause more Commotion in Europe than the death of all its
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crowned heads.
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it is stated that during the last 20 years, 344 This morning Mr. Wodehouse committed a This inscription was found upon a tablet in an white women have married Chinese in Australia, widow, aged 40, to gaol for a month for English cemetery Here lies the body of-, The odd thing is that 168 of them are Victorinos,eing found on the 6th inst. in illegal posession whe for many years conducted a highly respect- 62 English and 25 Irish.
of one tael of prepared opium and two taels of able general business in an adjoining village, <ine kaw"-Qinox-without a certificate from the † whicir is now cominggu by his with
the Opium Farmer. Defendant had the option No trust given." of a fine of $zo but she was unequal to the occasion.
"FERDINAND the Silken" is the nickname at Vienna for the Prince of Bulgaria. Ferdinand may be silken now, but the indications from Russia are that he will soon be worsted.
THE Courrier d'Haipkong is Informed that the Survey Department of Siam under, the manage- ment of Messrs. McCarthy and Collins, is now publishing in London a geographical chart of Laos and Siam.
THE holy Melbourne Daily Telegraph, organ of the highest marriage rate-no less than 18.4 per Sauthern parsondom, says; "Queensland shows thousand-a fast due probably to the fervency of the Queensland climate." Marriages are made in-Sbeol!
It is announced, says n home paper, thought wo cannot guarantee the truth of the report, tha Her Majesty is occupying her leisure in ediųng a grammar of our language, which will be brought out under the title of "The Queen's English." Among the examples of how not to do it, will be cited her own remarkable letters to Miss Garden which were published recently. These limited Monarchy," for in this instance the letters, show, at any rate, that we live under Sovereign seemed to have no power to stir a hand, although she felt deep shame that her ambassaden was being deserted. Still, while everyone must
arise, that if the monarch is thus helpless, be otherwise than that, the thought should why do we have one at all. Particularly as the expenses of this arrangement conic to between eight hundred thousand and one million pounds
A COOLIE was met yestelday by the police coming'" down. Plantation Road with a new but dirty mosquito curtain in his arms, of the value of $4. Looking like a bigh-binder out on a foray he. was run in till the owner could be found.
Things being highly unsatisfactory this morning the foot-pad was sent to gaol for twenty-one days.
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A TELEGRAM! dated Montreal, May foth, says: The annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific
has asserted himself to be above the law. IT has been figured out by a statistical official THE price of quinine has been so low for the rejoice that the Monarchy is limited, it cannot $4,996,516 were expended in construction and ›
and established a dangerous precedent which may prove awkward under similar
circumstances,
that there are thirty-one criminals to every thousand bachelors and only eleven criminals to
every thousand married men.
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last three or four years that large plantations of the cinchona tree have been uprooted in Ceylon, and the tea plant is substituted. Ceylon produces a very large share of the bark that is sold throughout the world.
THE Hongkong High Level Tramway Company intend, at an early date, to offer a free excursion to the Peak and back, to all married families living at the Military Barracks. This trip into, the country will be immensely popular with the juvenile.military.community...
yer annum.
Railway Company was held yesterday. The annual report showed that the company controls 4,960 miles of road and some 17,000 locomotives and cars of all descriptions. During the year
amount. to $1,606,411 80 and the working improvements. The earnings for the year expenses to S8,102,294. The total estimated value of the company's property is $165,548,810. The report makes reference to the severity and
unusual snowfall of last winter, which had so- great an effect on the cost of working the line! during the first four months of the year that the not
as
MOUSIZUR BALANSA, an indefatigable French botanist, has left Hanoi for Mount Bavi, on the the slopes of which he is testing various
WE would remind the French,linguist "who processes of cultivation with some success.
manipulates the Paris telegrams for our evening ning fell off nearly $100,000 during that period SICK MAN (to wife)-If I should die, dear, would
oracle that his translation of the cable message compared with that of the preceding year. The you marry again? Wife (sobbing)-Oh, I think
of the 2 th ulto, relating to the tinnsfer of twr deficit of crops in Ontario-and-the insufficiency --- not. John but your life is insured for $20,023,
French Captains_toʻsther vessels in the Navy of rolling stock and elevator facilities acriously you know, and no doubt I should have very
is entirely misleading. The news is, to say the affected its carnings also. The same deficiency. strong pressure to resist!
AT the Vatican. Boy:"Please, your Holiness, "cast, an idle one, but the oracular réporter who also affected passenger and all other traffic in RANGPON is shartly to be connected with Xieng-you." The Pope: "Who is she, my lad?" Boy: glaringly shown bis deficiency in Ollendorffian Vancouver and Yokohama and Hongkongreferred. there's-a-lady-down-sinirs as would-like-to-see--has undertaken to bring it before the public has the province. The steamship service, between mai by an English railway which passing by "Queen Victoria, your reverence." The Pope: Moulmein and Tavel will be extended as far "Tell her I am not at home. One cannot be de régate Esnauth et Giron viennent d'être tions as to the value and importance of the trade fore. The telegram reads:-"Les capitaines to in the last report has fully justified all expecta as Bangkok vid Panan-po at the junction of the too careful in Leap Year."
-nommés, le 1er. commandant de l'Annamite, to be developed in that direction. The negotin- rivers Mékong and Meping.
le 2a commandant de la Meurthe,”. The China | tions in progress with the Imperial Government Mail man renders this message in the following for the establishment of a permanent line of "first" style: "The Captains of the frigates Esnauth class steainers suitable for armed 'cruiicis in time and Giron have been appointed, the first as of war have so far progressed, that a subsidy of Commandant of the innamite, and the second as Commandant of the Meurthe?". If this is a correct version, the French message has evidently been wrongly worded, for it should CAPTAIN G. W. Watson, steamship Northern, have read "Les capitaines des frigates this morning charged two firemen with being Earth and Giron," and not "Les capitaines absent without leave from their ship on the oth de frégate Esnanth and Giron." Our evening inst. Complainant said the men had been away contemporary's translator would surely benefit from the steamier since five o'clock yesterday by taking a few lessons in the "Le matelot n-t-il whereupon Mr. Wodehouse directed they should afternoon. Defendants admitted the charge-le-matelas standard-of-French-tuition.
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THE ngents (Messrs. Melchers & Co.) inform
Sachsen, with the German mails, dated Berlin, at 9 am, and may be expected on or about May rgth, left Singapore for this port today
the 13th inst.
THE following are the Orders of the Day for the Legislative Council, to be held on Tuesday, the rath inst., at 4 pm.
"Every solicitor is a gentleman by Act of Parliament and no doubt the majority of the profession answer the description Independently of the statutes. But every Magistrate--although J.-P.-by-the-grace of God luck and log-rolling--is not a Solon: Our police courts in Hongkong are almost daily the scenes of exhibitions of irregularity, contempt, and not to put too fine a point an itincongruity. We are of opinion if Ecriticising the merits of any case before a lest case were heard by either stipen
the courts which is still sub judge And diary, and decided, that on a rehearing therefore, erpually as a matter of principle before the other "heak" immediately and in fairness to all parties.concerned. | afterwards, a very different decision would we have not imitated the very bad example he given. And yet both jusgments would set be our conteminoraries, especially presumedly be the result of careful consis that the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship the Chive Mail, in commenting on the deration and would be just." One day rosecution inclitutail by the Secretary of a petty opium smuggler is sentenced-in the Sailtory Board” against two house-default of payment of the fine imposed to holders at the Peak for gross neglect of a term of imprisonment far greater than certain Government Sanitary, regulations.. a cold-blooded-crimp. professional thief, whilst the points at issue were still or ruffianly blackguard who has outraged undeckied. The action of the Magistrate publle decency. Next morning some poor (Me, J. E. Wonghouse) this forenoon in ignorant hawker is punished with twice dismissing the summons against Mr. F. T. P. the severity meted out to those pests, the Foster-thechargeagainst Mr.A. FINDLAY street gamblers, and anon an admitted Surru having been withdrawn on that purloiner of other people's property is gentleman promptly undertaking to de sent away with an admonition which does everything possible to meet the wishes of the more credit to his Worship's" leniency Sanitary Inspector-leaves us at full liberty than to his sense of justice. The police to deal with what must be considered a administration is far from perfect, but the matter of general importance. As this is inactivity of the force is targely due, we question seriously, affecting the public have no hesitation in asserting to the health, wo do not hesitate to specially variable moods of our "Great Overpaid." direct the attention of His Excellency the A paltry larceny or other petty offence is aged 15, calling himself a farm labourer, Governor to the facts of this particular not worth the trouble of investigating if due was today charged with having in his possession case and the proceedings before the punishment will not follow. Our magistrates. magistrate, And we will go further and show a very imperfect acquaintance with take the liberty of suggesting that, unless even elementary law; the dignity of the the sanitary regulations formulated by the Court is frequently lowered by "bluffing" "Government are to be considered a mere solicitors who know even less of the dead-letter, the action of the magistrate in code than "his.. Worship," shadowy dismissing a case which was fully proved, impressions, undefinable inferences- and thereby throwing discredit on a subtle "somethings are allowed to
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2.
First reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordinance
to amend Ordinance 6 of 1887, (Arms)" Second reading of the Bill entitled "The Fire
Enquiry Ordinance, 1888,"
"WHO was that young man here last night papa, that was my accepted lover." "Your naked a fond parent of his only daughter. "Why lever, Maria ! Why, I never saw him before What does he do?" "Do, pani ?. Do?" she tenlied in amazement. "He doesn't do any thing; he has a Government, position,”---
eleven taels of raw, opium on the 8th inst
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The New York Mall says: There is one good sign in England. The rich people are becoming poorer. The income tax has produced less this year than in any recent year, it may be, there otherwise where has the money gone 7 fore, that the people are becoming richer, for
be sent on board.
"AMAN who went from Arkansas to Colorado $100 at #paken" invested the mancy in a mine ten years ago, broken in health and poor, won and is now worth several million. This shows the value of a knowledge-of-poker-over-a collego education. A man who knew how to speak all the dead and living languages might have gone to Colorado broken down in health and pocket, without accumulating enough money in ten years
Daniel Wise, an officer of the Excise, hid he found the "farmer" leaving a Kowloon steam launch yesterday afternoon, with the oplum on his person, and arrested him.-I was engaged to carry it-Fifty dollars or one month in the stone ivg.
THE Washington correspondent of the Atlanta, Ga. Constitution quotes Roscoe Conkling,
to pay his own funeral expenses.
Two boatmen were to-day charged before Mr. Wodehouse with anchoring their junks in the central fairway of the harbour, on the 9th inst. and thereby causing an obstruction. The first defendant, who had moved away in compliance with Police orders was fined $10 and the and who had refused to lift his anchor, was ordered to plank down twenty mexicans which he on the man-of-way anchorage and thus anchored in a prohibited part of the harbour was fined g
"THE source of General Boulanger's popularity has puzzled a good many people, but the Paris question. When he became Minister of War paper, La France, throws some light on the be immediately set to work to reform the military tactics of the army. Instead of defence his method taught attack. All the young officers and most of the old ones who still preserved some of their military fire, adopted his plan with enthusiasm, and only a few old fogies of the ancient school offered objections. His theory fractionizing the troops when within the range of was very simple. It consisted in scattering or artiliery day, and beyond the range of infantry, At closer quarters they were to be massed, in order to open the biggest fire possible on a given point, and then to advance in short rushes, stopping just long enough to allow the troops in the rear to form in the line vacated by those in front, and in this way keeping
movement, which would tend to impress the soldiers with the wholesome conviction that
responsible officer of the Government who outweigh evidence-in every way the whose death is generally deplored throughout complied with; another man who had trespassed up a continuous forward and well-supported
was performing a public duty, should be
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$60,500 has been obtained for a monthly service. The company's telegraph system is growing in importance and will during the year n
greach the cities of the maritime provinces.
THE SANITARY BOARD V. THE
PEAK RESIDENTS. .
The remanded case in which Mr. W. E. Crow, Secretary-to-the-Sanitary Board-and Acting Sanitary Inspector, charged Messrs. A. Findlay Smith of "Craigieburn” and F. T. P. Foster of "Beausite" for neglect of certain sanitary regulations in the Peak district, was again called before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse at the Magistracy this forenoon. The defendants were not present. His Worship:-What about the first defendant?
has promised to do all in his power to meet the Complainant-The first defendant, Mr. Smith,
the charge against him has been allowed to drop. wishes of the Spuitary, Inspector, and therefore
His Worship-And the and defendant. Complainant I consider that Mr. Foster has
ignored the rules of the Sanitary Board, and os he has not thought proper to carry out their very reasonable demands I wish to press the charge His Worship-Are you quite sure he knows of non-compliance against him. exactly what you wan
Complainant-He had fourteen days given him to find that out; the summons was not taken him. out till two weeks after the letter had been sent
His Worship-He admits having received the letter but says he does not know what it is you require him to do; the letter does not make that clear.
Complainant-What does he mean then, by
principle of this important institution is subyerted. We can thoroughly understand might be nominated for President: "That is but being unable to pay, was sent to gaol for the safest way was to go ahead, and avoid His Worship-To the method of attaching the
America, as saying of the suggestion that be
sheer nonsense. Why, you might as well set a' | corpse up 'in a window to look at a funeral procession go by as to nominate me for the office of President of the United States." WE Have often called the attention of the Police and of the myrmidons of the Sanitary Board to the Chinese soup and fruit vending nuisance which is daily witnessed in the approaches to the St. Joseph's and St. Paul's Colleges. With rumours of choleric complaints current more or less generally among the population of this colony, it is high time the Sanitary Board probibited the sale of unripe fruits and of the the habit of supplying to the boys frequenting rat-soup which Chinese Itinerant vendors are in.
there two educational establishments,
seven days.
IT is said now to be practically settled that the Duke of Edinburgh is to succeed Admiral. Sir Fortsmonth, this command being the best at the George Willes as Naval Commander-in-Chief at disposal of the Admiralty. The pay and allow ances are as follow-viz. £ per diem salary, 4 10s. per diem as table-money, and 500 per annum In lieu of domestic servants-total, 3.967 1os, per year. This is one of the most monstrous jobs that has been perpetrated any surprising that the whole of the office in the the Admiralty, protesting against such af infair navy do not sign a round robin to the Lords of
proceeding.
time during the nineteenth century, and it is
saying that his notice has not been drawn to the regulations?
drains perhaps; be has made a drain leading losses by inflicting the greatest possible from his house to the point of the Goverment amount of them upon, the enemy.
In a drains, stated in Court, word, it was following strictly the advice of Sir Complainant-He stated that he had Boyle Roche, which teaches that the best way compiled. tactics, or instructions, pour le combat, thepizod to avoid danger is to meet it plain The new
His Worship As far as he knew what was wanted, the French troops with an enthusiasm that soon he has not carried out the requirements regarding Complainant-I am in a position to prove that ignited the patriotism of the country, until the the waste water flowing from his kitchen, and blare of Boulanger's popularity began to be too
that he got takes any notice of the Board's hot for the men in power."
letter drawing his attention to that.A NA
His Worship-As far as I can see, he was not. Informed so clearly as he might have been as to
what the Board wanted him to do in all details to mach has been done, as far as his information in regard to the drains, and as he has stated that from your goce, I shali dismiss the 216, 201 requirements of the Sanitary Board if they understand he is quite willing only let him know clearly their demands.
made the subject of a strict investigation.
Thecomplaint of Mr. Caow, the Secretary the difficulty there is in dealing with of the Sanitary Board. was that the two, native crime-the insufficient or incorrect gentlemen above named had neglected translation of evidence by incompetent or certain drainage regulations, and the result untrustworthy interpreters, the Mongolian of this neglect was the probable pollution disregard of such little things as truth by of the Pok-fu-lum Reservoir which supplies witnesses due, we are convinced, to the the community of Hongkong with water, administration of an oath which is no more They had both received ample notice that hinding than an affidavit by Thor, or a the Government regulations were being wooden fetish, or the Great Horn Spoon, violated, which notice they calmly ignored. the press of business-all these tend to make And then a polite invitation from VICTORIA, the balancing of the scales of justice no easy by the grace of God, Queen, etc., etc., to task. But what we need is at least one appear at the Police Court, afforded Messrs...magistrate who belongs to the legal pta: A. FINDLAY SMITH and F. T. P. FOSTER Anfession, a man who can maintain the opportunity of airing their grievances dignity of the Bench and bring his know in public. Mr. FINDLAY SMITH may be at ledge of the statutes to bear on the cases once dismissed from the scene; he had brought before him. Or, failing this, let erred in Ignorance, and expressed his us at least have magletrates, with some readiness to at once conform to the Intuition--better have decisions like those regulations. The other gentleman was of SANCHO PANZA or the CALIPH AL RASCHID not so easily dealt with. To begin with than the present travestles of law and Mr. FOSTER treated the summons with the public justice,. At any rate ter ur not have means of subsistence and came to Hongkong commenting on the news," says :-"The task of support a platform about 6ft. broad, with a His lordship remarked that he had no desire
thrust on the judicial bench inexperienced Civil Service graduates for whom we pay too dearly to be able to afford to teach them judicial business..
same cool contempt that he had treated the letter of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board; after the first hearing he made no appearance in Court nor was he legally represented his is one of the points to which we would direct the attention of Sir WILLIAM DES Vaux. As Mr.. FOSTER contemptuously
openly defied the law by why did the
TELEGRAM S.
·LOCAL AND GENERAL.
caso is dismissed.
carry but the
THE BENJAMIN CASE.
The hearing of this suit was resumed on Jane
ings ho
foi he had laid down for Bintself to pursue but it would be well for defendant to confine the argument, for the purpose of shortening, the proceedings to the main questions, sot ou Mra Wilkinson
out by
We read that for the first time for a number of years the Sigiri Rock in Ceylon has been scaled by a European, the feat on this occasion being the island. It is said, indeed, that only obe performed by General Lennox, who commands European, Mr. Creasy, ever cceeded in A SWEDISH seaman named Quinton was brought MONSIEUR FAVIE, by an order from the French reaching the summit. The rock la cylindrical up to day on the charge of vagrancy. The police Foreign Ofice, has been attached to the staff of in shape, and the bulging aides render the found him hanging about the Sallor's Home, the General commanding the army of occupation ascent very difficult and dangerous. There are at which place he is not staying as a paid lodger in Tonquin, for the special purpose of under galleries all round, a groove about 4in. deep but persists in frequenting, to the annoyance of taking the pacification of the rebels up the Song- being cut in the solid rock. This rises spirally 4th when Mr. Wainewright, addressed the Court the manager. He had no employment and no rua and Black rivers, The Avenir de Tonkin, and in it are fixed the foundation bricks, which for the defences from Manila on the sth inst whence he had paid subduing there hands of Black Flags is not the chunam-coated wall about oft high. The his passage. Defendant told the Court he had first which has been undertaken by General whole structure follows the curves and contours no occupation and no means. Mr. Wodehouse Begins, two hundred Chinese who have been of the solid rock, and is cunningly constructed so directed him to be taken to his Consul, but the exploring the country in the neighbourhood offer to make the most of any natural support the police said the Swedish Consu! would have the Ha-be lakes have recently been engaged in formation can afford. In some places the gallery nothing to do with him; he was accordingly dis-re-building the forts At Tuyen-quan, whilst has fallen completely away, but it still exhibits charged.
several rebel chiefs have placed themselves fights of fine marble steps, High
rock are
several figures of Budd in communication with the French military THUS the San Francisco Build A probably authorities."
pa mritery how the artist got there near estimate places the number of free-trade pest
there, he was able to carry on his documents sent into this country by England in An intricate case of international procedure has fortifications consist of platforms, one above the 1887 at 11,000,000. A Presidential election is recently been decided by the Swiss Federal other, supported by massivo retaining walls, to be held this year, and the flood of anti-protec Council to the effect that the laws as they each commanding the other tion literature coming from the same source now stand will add to the difficulties of the falling away of the gallery, the may be expected to assume a far larger volume. English and American doctors practising in had to be Why should-English-free-traders-taka such an that vicinity. A short time since a petition clim interest in converting public opinion here was presented to this Connel that English were left to to their views if they do not expect to make doctors who need a Federal diploma in order alo
klone: pounds and shillings out of the hoped-for to become legal medical residents, might be an acre change in the American system ?They allowed to undergo the necessary examination certainly are not working in American interests, in the English language, instead of in Ge Such disinterestedness will never be known to French. The Bundesrath rejects the
that the concession must be
to Swiss doct
ignoring the summons,
(From the Courrier- d'Haiphong,) FRANCE. Magistrate not at once issue a warrant for his arrest Had a Chinese shopkeeper
PARIS, May 29th. Frigato Captains Esnauth and Giron have done the same thing as Mr. FOSTER he been appointed Commanders of the Ansamite would have been ignominiously dragged and the Meurthe, respectively. before is Worship sau cérémonie. Now, we venture to contend that in the eye of the law a Chinese shopkeeper or
For coolle has equal rights-neither more nor less with Mr. FOSTER, and we assert that if THE Chinese corvette Kwang-kap arrived this the magistrate had properly performed. his duty, Mr. FOSTER would have been
We note that Lady Des Vœux will be “at fined or sent to gaol for contempt of court. And it certainly appears that his conduct home" at Mountain Lodge on Saturdays from history. If Americans will stop to think, they it answer
afternoon from Canton
4 to 6.30pm.
in, this matter made him a fit subject to veto be made an“
ever the
cast:
THE Temoval of snow In Berlin during the last winter is stated to have cost; the municipal Kauthoritica $150,
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M. Wainwright-Yes, my lord, but there are two points would like to take first. The other alde har laboured to catablish champarty on
of technical grounds, as well as the invalidly the agotament on the basis of undue influence I do not desire to take advantage of technical matters, as the case is one touching my personal honour, although all the charges made against me by my learned friend are perhaps to be taken
Ickian sense as I understand themig Wilkinson-1 depy that I made y
Länd: gbt You charges tinducinãdence, and the imputation Mr. Benjamin of money due an unfair advantage over him madue Influence, and that I am pow his widow after he is dead Thera charges, my lord, but not believed in the face of the
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