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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1888.
Tix Courrier d'Haiphong comments at great length on the Regulations recently enacted with o'view to control the traffic on the public roads of that city
We have to acknowledge. receipt from the Statistical Department of the Imperial Maritime Customs of the "Returns of Trade and Trade reparis and statistics for Cores. This usciul Reports for the year 1887," together with the compilation is got up in the usual excellent style characteristic of all the Customs publications.
seems hardly worth public mention, says the Kobe native paper Naniwa Shimbun, but there is a native of Wakayamn now residing in Vishinomiya who is only forty years old and yet has divorced forty-seven wives during the twenty-five years that have elapsed since he first embarked on the troubled seas of matrimony, his much-married individual took unto himself No 48 a few years ago.
A CHINESE, native paper says that on the night city wall of Yangchow came down with a crash of the 20th June thirty or forty feet of the onl
like thunder, and destroyed two cottages, crushing an old man, who was the only person in at the me, so badly that it is thought he will die. Vagrants had been removing the bricks for sale, but in such a cunning way that the wall looked all right. This was the ancient city wall, which is quite distinct from the modern city wall of Yangchow (in Klangsu.)
expired, although, as the rule has been that prisoners are released the first thing in the morning, it was certainly of some interest 10 know why he was defained until well on in the afternoon, as we shall presently show. The turnkey swore that he was passing through the hall at the time mentioned, på is recomen indeľby the Faculty,
when he saw prisoner take up a wooden persent Season, avoid all doubtful spittoon and throw it at him with all his Banter, avons fatigue, and impute nir,
force. The missile luckily, missed its debate of ASIATIC CORDIAL, and a bouleinark, for, according to Wesrea, had it DET FINS AMI! JOUEUR HRANDY, are useful hit him it would have cut his head right
to have in the hensp.
apen Sgularly enough, no provoca- tion had been given the prisoner, and the turnkey could give no reason why such an Attack should have been made. It was true that prisoner had been under complainant's charge, and had been „reporind for refusing to work, for which he had been flogged three times," and only on Friday last he had been flogged for assaulting (?) an assistant turnkey, and WESTERN triced him up to receive his gruel, When prisonerthrew the spittoon, WESTERN rushed at him, knocked him down, mastered him, and took him to the Superintendent's office. Unfortunately for Mr. WESTERN this nice little story was not corroborated hut on the contrary, a fellow turnkey by jonchong Delegraph and a European prisoner who witnessed the whole affair, swore that CHRUNG never threw the spittoon at all, and further indicated that WESTERN had actually The prisoner originated the trouble.
Ts'ang Yilan committed suicide at Tientsin an tater, and apparently with truth, that he THE Hupae reports that a mandarin called was in pain from the flogging that he the 13th June by cutting his throat. His career And received the previous day, and was had been an unfortunate one. Nominated, twenty Tsin-shi, as a Preceptor of the Imperial Academy consequence lying down in the half; ar cepting his examination as WESTERN passed by and kicked him inorder woh Taze Kien) and expectant Sub-prefect, to make him get up, and when he tried to during those twenty years the only billet that fell plain that his term had expired and he Sub-prefect at Taku, near Tientsin. He and his to his share was the very poor one of Maritime
his recent successful attempt at suicide he had
DEATH.
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A Churub, on the 28th June, 1888, MARY Pastrnice, the desily, beluged wife of 11.1. Mexne, Imperial Mantime Customs, aged 20
· years
„Jos vara, TuspÁY, JULY 3, 1888. several.pngasions éluring the past few weeks. The very unpleasant task has devalued uppy us of directing public
attenting to the extraordinary manner in i
which law and justice have been outraged gind reageerd use in The Police Courts of this edang, sing to the ignorance imoquialogna, or' stipidity-it, does not
Oux Yokohama contemporary of June 22nd publishes a lengthy report of a cowardly attack made, presumedly by Russians, upon the boats of the British schooner Nemo, in the Hebring Straits on May 27th. The boats were pulling along the coast with the intention of rejoining
on the mifrem behind the rocks, resulting in three Japanese sailors being killed, and Captain Snow and three Japanese wounded. The matter has been brought under the notice of the British consular authorities,
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H.M.S. Rambler is under orders in leave Shanghai on the 5th nip to continue her surveying duties,
A REPORT from Tientsin states that Mr. Von Mollendorff has been engaged as adviser to Excellency Yuan. Su-kai at Seoul.
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In the New South Wales Legislative Council on May 30th, Mr. Julian Salomons, QC, stated, in reply to Mr. Dangar, that 9.076 Chinese had left the colony during the years 1882 to 1887 inclusive. were greatly in excess of that number. The arrivals, however, Mr.. Salomons stated,
THR. Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Anchises, from London, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and is due on the 9th inst.
Banks running grounds, Sydady, on May goth, IN a quarter-mile handicap at the Sir Joseph the famous American sprinter . E. Myers, in the remarkable time of 49 2/5 seconds, the wig has for the past two years been earning his starting from scratch, won easily by three yardsWE learn that Mr. W. Wilkie, a German subject best record for the distance ever made in living aan cacher of music and foreign languager Australia.
at Hakodadi, committed suicide at that port on June 22nd. It is believed that want of success } în business was the cause of the rash act.
OWING to the purchase by the United States of Alaska from Russia, the States now own ail thic eastern shores of Bebring Straits Trouble has for some time arisen between the British and American scalers at work in the Behring trade i and it is reported that the United States have sent four men of war to seize the British scalers.
writes that it has been decided to lay a three f THE Peking correspondent of the Skik Pao railway n the Wan Shou Shan, adjoining the south lake; also to lay another several // long at Hai Hai Ti'en. The rolling stock and materials have been contracted for with a foreign firm, and they are expected to arrive in Peking some time during July.
SUPREME COURT.
FIN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice;)
SHEPHERD 7. CHANO KING, Mr. Deacon applied on behalf of Mr. D.
Shepherd, of Garden Road, for an injunction to restrain Chan, King, contractor, from inking water, from a pipe supplying his house. He submitted that the Court had power to grant that injunction in Summary Jurisdiction under MESSRS. Blandine! & Co, write from Newchwang,section 18 ofthe Code, which provided that where under date the 23rd instant, dit produce was
it was shown a party to a suit was wasting, dear owing to the demand to fill steamer in injuring; or, alienating property in respect of port, and the want of rain in the south of the which the suit was instituted the Court could province; in the north, they say, the crops restrain him from continuing to do so, and could promise well. The vessels in port were the appoint a receiver.
hampaa, Canton, Meifng, Kwangchi, 500 chow, Oscar Moeser, Clare Babuyan and
His lordship said he saw from the affidavit? that the matter had been going on since the 2nd
.an injunction.
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very decided opinions of my own-one fact I believe to be "pulouhted, and that fact I wish Carefully to inpress upon your minds, viz, that The Crown aut the marire ai-owners must jointly assent before my reclamation can he carried out. The local Gameat has alrently consented upon Terios which they consider liberal, and they have certainly met us in a friendly spirit on our anal deals. It is for us, Gentlemen, just to lose the Bubstance in
of course the Government-hunt consented tooking after the shadow, but in assist in com mencing this prest scheme as soon as pošiljk to this shems withom sang their way t geting direct benefit for the Colony generally," and, as I said before that the scheme was 25 advantageous in the Colony as to our- Ives, it will perhans not he out of place here to state as finitely as possible what the Colony generally will by it. To my main the fivninges to be arrived by the inverrment and the Public through our initiative will be so great that they can in no way be dusidered inferior to those which may come to the Marine, Jol-owners themselves, which latter are of course patent to you, ani) have been dealt with ot simg lengths in the Cofnți.il Se civiary's letter. In this Tetter the Government tourbes upon the Chown rent of $6ostan acre, and I will w point at to you what the Colony gains in'nddition to us
The total reclam it will comprise, I believe, a little under to acres, of which we surrender roads and streets, more than half to the Government, for public.
and such reads an
MICETS, HS regards width, as we have not seen belare in this
Elizabeth; and the arrivals to date, 88 steamers June. It was more a matter of damages than of At our expense all tirese new streets will not and 27 ships.
went
Mr. Deacon urged that no damages could recoup his client for being deprived of his water- supply in this weather. It was impossible to live in the house, there not being even a hydrant in the vicinity.
His lordship was opinion that he could only grant an injunction in Original Jurisdiction. Looking at the affidavits he could net but think that something was wrong-it was absurd that a minn should go and cut a Government pipe and deprive another of his water supply.
Mr. Deacon said the defendant had been applied to, but had taken no notice; air. Seth,
stop it the landlord, hnd also unsuccessfully tried to His lordship expressed his willingness to alter
Colony, for on this point the Suryar teneral has proved obdurate. Theprincipalilolnighfare in the new reclamation will be weler than Pedder's Street and the minus cross sheets will be about the present width of the Quern's Road,
only be reclaimed, but handed over to Govern- ment paved, sewered, channelled, and concreted at our expense. Instead of the present śkallaw and offensively unhealthy, foreshore, the parlic will have the advantage of a canticus Paya wall with 30 feet depth of water along its entire length, an inforovement that will not fail 10 benefit very greatly all the shipping and landing work of the harbour. The Giverament will gain per annum some $25,000 from Crowa rents, some 374,000 from Poice and lighting rates, and an area ní Government new reclaimed ground which estimate, willbe worth some two millions of dollars, and which the Govern ment could not reclaim but for this scheme.
In view of these went public henefits which the Reclamation Scheme tekis vat. i think,
have no misgiving as to the desirability of its reli ation, as much for the benefit nổ the Government and of the colony as on ohr own account as Marine lot-hakers, and I am confident that the Secretary of State for the Colonies will view our proposition, as the Calónial- Government has viewed it, in the light of an opportunity not to be missed her toring heal enterprise to account in order to secure for Hongkong an chorious public boon,
Some 1300 additional new tenements will be provided by this scheme, affording no small measure of relief to the admittedly incarning overcrowding of Victoria, a het which shoald appeal favorably to those who take an interest in- the Sanitary condition of this Colony.
mather which of the "twa members of the was leaving the prison, the officer struck wife and family were literally starving and before escape. He was afterwards arrestedby the pothe case into an original suit, returnable on Gentlemen, the Public and ourselvest need
Civil Service at prosent performing the sules of the Magistracy. It is always jusly disagreeside, and especially Sự in a Sa'ill community like Hongkong. ahora mare narum is more or less "Permifen & parsel.other to have to write or ak kitamburly, eľaný person who is móákvebla (public position to the best of his abdlings but theress writer
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THE PROPOSED PRAVA 'EXTENSION..
MEETING OF LOT-OWNERS.
him two or three blows. He positively denied already attempted it, in company with a can- ver having thrown the spittoon, a state-cubine, by hanging, but they were both rescued ment which as we have already pointed out, on that occasion. Was confirmed by the other turnkey and the lotson, one of the crew of the British ship: uropean prisoner. It was therefore clear Childwall was this morning charged before Mr. Sercombe-Smith with assaulting Capt. Watson Enough on the evidence that no, assault of that vessel, on the 22nd May last, and with hid been committed by Keung CanUNG,damaging the ship's cabin in which he was and yet Mr. WODEHOUSE convicted him confined. After hearing a considerable amount to ascertain the report is very greatly exaggerated. assembled in the raums of the Chamber of
of evidence of a. conflicting character, his Wor ship found the charge of assault not sustained and discharged the prisoner on that count, but sentenced him to a week's imprisonment without hard labour for wilfully damaging the ship's cabin. Thomas, another of the crew, was labour for refusal of duty, and the remainder to sentenced to four weeks imprisonment with hard twelve weeks hard labour for refusal of duty and thereby endangering the fives of the ship's company and the property of the owners and shippers. Brennan, Mortimer and Bullock are still to be charged with other offences, such as breaking open the ralley door, stealing provi- tions, ele
and sentenced him to six weeks' imprison- went with hard labour, after fining the prosecutor, WESTERN, $10 for giving false -vidence.
We appeal to Governor, DES Vaux and to the Hongkong public whether it is of the interests of pigblley desirable that exhibitions of this kind man layan mo nlajeet tó att vis dovratne up vilifying pither Mr.-11. Ehould be allowed to disgrace our courts of justice? Kaung CHEUNG was tried for Wop goret de M., Ti Surense Smirir:
ale then cabootlong in was honestly believe assauling WESTERS by throwing a spittoon
quodal | fare care dicemunch public servants
ot him the evidence showed that he did
Governor know" burden, doubliéss to the
over the ship's gangway on the 28th March.
This afternoon, by the invitation of the Hur. C.1. Chater, a number of owners of lots within the limits of the proposed Praya Extension Commerce, for the purpose of considering the separts, plans, and e-timates for the work prepared by the Government in accordance with the resolution passed on the 26th Nov, last, and to determine the action to be taken on and among those present were Messis, 1. the report and estimates. Mr. Chater preafted Francis, Q.C., J. Bell-Irving, P. Ryle, Deacon, E. L. Woodin, J. A. Mesely, R-K; Leigh, Solomon, R. A. Gabbay, M. J. Muses, 1. Hughes, H. Crawford, D. McCulloch, Gomes, 5. Hancock, A. Dennison, F. W. Gross, Joseph,
D F. Dodwell, G. R. Lammert, B. Layton, Choy Chan, Wu Yuk, Chan Lau Hir, Chu Kit Musso, Pereira, Coxon, Nee Sung Ho, Hon Wa,
Min, Ho Tung, Wong Shai Tal, Keo Wah, &c. The Chairman addressed the meeting as follows:
Gentlemen,--This meeting is the outcante of the letter I recently received from the Gov. rn ment regarding the proposed-Reglamation Scheme, and which I, as intermediary between casised to be immediately published in the local the Government and the Marine lot-owners, newspapers for your information, and which you have doubtless perused.
With the opinions expressed in this letter
himself up to subli rídicule by decisions fint, why was he sent back to gaol? The everything himself" and is asked whether. he for stealing two, ducks, the property of Capiain emirely in accord, and I am advised that my
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regarding the rights of the Crown, I am not views on this point are correct, but as we have met here to-day, Gentlemen, to accept or reject the terms offered us by the Government, it would be useless fo canvass the therein-expressed
to proceed immediately to the business of our meeting,
You will recollect that at our last meeting on the 26th of November last you expressed your. selves by a very large majority as being in favour of the Reclamation in front of your Marine Lots, and that you empowered me to inform the Govers
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Up to the present-Gentlemen-my address to you has enlarged so minch, upon the great benefit to be derived by the Government-and the Colony from our scheme, that I fear some of you may think, we are giving up abrost too much, Let me strongly urge you to put aside alt such opinions if you have them.. As I have before said, this is a matter of manual consent, allow this great undertaking to be emenced. and rest assured that the Government will not
withmys receiving in adequate return for the benefit of the Colony generally. The Business pending at this noment between the Govern- thent and ourselves is one of equal intérest and convenience to both parties, and it seeps to me, as a Marine Lot-owner like yourselves, that it should be approached rather ion spirit of harmony presumptive legal rights. The Government and accord than in a spirit of ionfrence on
made us last year certain important concessions, and at our solicitation fielded certain important points in its first-or original" déamands. Having obtained these concessions, and the new surveys having turned out satisfactorily, I put it to you strongly that our course is cler, and that it is to our interest to accept the situa tion, and to enter into a contract with the Government for the prosecution of the works as
expense. We do not ask the Colony to assist. us in any way or to make any sacrifices on our account, whatcser benefit we hope in the raided
will be the fruit of our own enterprise.
Li A-roo, aged 28, a coplic, hailing from Wei- chow, was this morning charged at the Police Court before Mr. Wodehouse with stealing property of one his brothers in trade, who said a pair of shoes and a jacket, valued at $1 40, the the things were taken out of a shed where he generally left them before going to work. 1le taway at 8 in the morning and on return- defendant gone. Witness came to Hongkong aing at noon found his property missing and to search for the thief and found him in a steam launch going to Kowion. He called out to held on to the jacket, and attempted to make his the defendant who threw the shoes at him, but
who corroborated witness' story The accused said he was a new comer, and having in defence he Friday. was imprisoned for six weeks with hard-labour. SAYS the Hoga Nees of June 26th:-Rumours
yesterday that had occurred in Koses, a mosity to avreigners heing the motiv, net that Mis Raber Jaffery, formerly of Yokoh my, had lost his life during the disturb mee, So for as we have been able and arose probable becau-e. the Koreans, or at least an igricant mah of them, had threatened no attack on the foreign residems under the impossia, that the latter are cannibals. Aceiling to the accounts published in the Yokohama pipes the isle is over, hy parties of senen and marines landed from ́th tijệ, the safety of foreigners secured
United States, Russian and French war vessels, The Korean authorities also seem to have arted promptly, and HALS, Aonder left Yokohama immediately news of the disturbance wat received, in one to look after the interesis of the British portion of the foreign community. The Herald mentions the death of Mr Jaffray but without giving any particulars, so it is not
THIS afternoon at the Police Count, before Mr, probable he met with fully. Sercombe-Smith, the Childwall case was again on the tapis, when the two men, bolson and Mutmer were charged with disobeying the in which the Sphinx has thought fit to indulge orders of the Captain when he told them to desist: The Governor is saddled with the self-imposed from interfering with the-stayaways when going task of looking into and working out himself the duties devolving on the various departments of They were found guilty and scatenced to four the public service, and in the same breath he is wecks hard labour, in addition to the other asked whether he knows what is going on in these sentences previously passed on them. Following same departments. He is inxed with doing this case was that of Brennan and Mortimer knows that "one official has 'bossed 'the Colony Watson, and also for lucaking open the for six years and means to do it still." Tite doorin ofder to cook the same; being found Barnacle," alins. "Brownie," or the weather they were sentenced to four weeks haid labour in addition to their other sentences. Bullock prophet of the China Mail, may well regale the
wilful refusal of duty from the 26th May to to music and every stanza ending in the
June 4th, 1888, while the ship, was at anchor the Governor know" song. We will have it set
in Manila harbour; they were also found appropriate The Governor knows that the
guilty and sentenced to four weeks im- China Mail knows nothing" refrain. FROM Messrs. Wheelock & Co.'s freight market Prisonment with hard labour, in addition to all other-sentences. The charge of scuttling the report, of funt view dated 1st lining Childwall while at anchor in Mania harbour freight market homewards has ruled very quiet, rates nominally unchanged with not much cargo offering. There is a demand for steam tonnage for the coal carrying trade from Nagasaki to this, and coast ports, but not at very remunerative Horses to the members of his class at the City rates. Under orders from home the Gles Line Hall last night. There was a large attendance. preced in ballast to Wanila to load for the United which included most of the leading local proceed in for the sportsmen. The lecturer started by referring Kingdom. The Russian ship Primus, 1,148 tons to the old saying that horses run in register, also fixed at home, will sail in ballast for all shapes," an aphorism to which he could Atlantic States. Quotations are:-Newchwang not subscribe. It was an absurdity to say that badly-shaped horses could ever develop to Swatow, ao Mex. cents per picul, steam, small high speed nobody ever
saw "a horse. enquiry, Chefoo to Swatow, 13 Mex cents per that was shaped like a dachshund, win the It fa not our intention at present to make
pical, small demand. Nagasaki to Shanghai Derby, or a greyhound of that shape win the any reference to the recent extragrdinary
8.40 per ton Coal melt, for steamers demand, Waterloo Cup. All species of animals differed proceedings at the Police: Court in
$1.10 ex ship, foghing vessels, Scalement in their particular forme, for the sake of strength during the fortnight have been-Galveston, or speed. It was the same with men. Pedes- connection with the trial, or rather serdes
German barque, 619 toner register, (at Ampy) trians were long-legged men, and wrestlers
were men with short legs and long bodies of trials, of the crew, of the British ship
Foochow to Tientsin 1,000 in full, 15 lay daye. Chiltwell for curtain charges of allege
Ninggo to Whampoa, $2,500 in full, 18 lag days; the first had to develop speed, the latter
lay days, strength. To secure speed in a race horse As far as I am able to judge, these surveys Before I sit down. I must mention a matter.......... Ribes, British barque. 397 tons register, certain shapes and attributes were absolutely have turned out extremely satisfactory, inasmuch that will require explanation, an explanation to› mutiny, insubordination, refusal of diy.
necessary, and amongst these were long legs as they show that the Reclamation may be which you are fully entitled. 1 mean the etc.; should the Attorney General, the
(optional charter) Newchwang to Amoy, 22 Mex cents per picul Chefoo to Amoy, 16 Mex, centa
and a long neck, the latter being indispens carried cut within the limits of the price per proposed purchase of the narrow stripe
of land,
·legal adviser to the Government, not see
per picul, zo lay days. Disengaged vessel in
able for a horse to filly extend himself square foot which had been originally estimated." "the property of the Hongkong Wharf and Godown in front. During a visit to England the My own idea was that, after paying for the areas Company, mentioned in the Colonial Secretary's fio move in the matter, it may devolve
port fuss Rohi, Danish barque, 338 tons register.
lecturer had photographs taken of a number required for the roads and streets, the reclaimed letter, and which the Government requires should upon as
to show that convenience, or
Trix attendance at Woodyear's Royal Australian of leading race horses, and as would be seen, lands left to the marine lot-owners would cost be purchased from the Company at the cost of expediency, or something else which we
previous occasions, though a sufficiently like the deer tribe. He had personally measured see by the enclosures in the Colonial Secretary's proportion, for the purpose of widening out the allowed to over-ride the statutes, the all-we would put it to His Excellency and appreciative audience derived considerable St. Simon and Ormonde, two of the fastest letter that the average cost comes within this present Praya according to its proposed future ordinary forms of procedure, and the law the Executive Council whether the time amusement out of the varied performances horses that ever ran in England, St. Simon, price, which appears to me to be a gratifying Cimensions of 75 feet and the
provided by the programme. of evidence. However, we.consider it at has not arrived when the best interests pi was experiented when Miss Alice Moore falled the ches higher. The likenesses he would possibly be capable of further reduction, when
length of his body, and Ormonde was But these Government estimates of cost may embankment to its proposed new width of 65 to appear in her small wire (with trained 3 duty we owe to public justice to direct the of the colony and the prestige of British cons) rple, the young Japanese Tommy presently exhibit would show that it was in the the tenders for the different sections are called from the Government about two years ago in the attention of His Excellency, the Governor justice demand that the responsible Kichie, of Swinging Bamboo celebrity taking Joins where the muscular development. was for, and 1 bere must point out to our Chinese usual way, as an extension of their present water- to the case of alleged assault on a turnkey positions of police magistrates should be her place.. But it was soon explained that Minse greatest, and where it was most required. friends who are present, and some of whom, I side premises, and now on account of our Project, in Victoria Gail. heard before Mr. Wone-filled' by qualified lawyers, who will Moore was seriously ill with fever, and that Bebind the saddle should be. fat; no one understand, consider that they could get the which requires the widening nut of the Praya to she would not be able to perform for three ever saw a horse with loins aleping like work carried out cheaper than the Government, 75 feet, the Company is called upon to restore to nquer at the Magistracy yesterday. The firevent the administration of justice from or four more evenings to come, Young Kitchle the roof of a house that was fast except that there will be nothing to hinder, them or the Government the strip in question. It hap feas of the case can be set out in a becoming contemptible in the eyes of managed the wire as dexterously as he does ing over a very short distance, because their contractors competing for the execution of pens however that before, the intention of the the bamboo, the pigeons thought fit to strength was needed there to raise the forelegs the work along with every other builder in the Government was known, the Company sold a express their grief for their mistress illness and send them well forward. Captain Hayes Colony, and that they will tifus be able to gratify portion of the ground to the sub-tenants, and if fey words "CHARLES WESTRRK, eniplayer the community.
by not appearing in public; and so this, one of then discused practically and at considerable their wish to carry out their own reclamations the scheme is carried out it is intended to arrange asssistant turnkey in the Gaol, charged
with these sub-tenants for a surrender by, thein KRUNG CU a Chinese boatman who
siderably marred. The remaining portion of the to his audience the various points of excellence Gentleman, I now wish to assure you entertainment was very efficiently-carried out in-racers, and illustrating his remarks by a have again studied the position of the Govero at the cost of the Project. The amount, which had just completed a term of six months imprisonment for larceny, with assault.
and warmly received by sho. audience. We number of excellent transparencies of such ment and the position of the Marine lot-owners is about $10,000, will add about 7 cents to the understand Mr. Woodyear received a telegram equine celebrities of the English turf an Ormonde, most carefully by the light of these new Surveys, price per square foot of the allotments all round. of avoiding According to complainant's story, CHEUNG's
yesterday from Singapore informing him of the St. Simon, Tristan, and, Zocdone, the famous and the good opinion I have always had of this You will see that there is no way departure of five new members of his Company pontes Water Lily, Skittles, and Magic, the Reclamation Scheme has been if anything this payment, as the Government insist upon a sentence expired on. Saturday, and at
by the S.S. Diomed. They may be expected Mongolian cracks Teen-kwang, Susewind, increased by careful consideration. It is as a uniform width of 75 feet for the present Fraya, and St. Gothard, and many other interesting advantageous to the Government as it is to and a uniform width of 65 feet for the proposed -1 p.m. that day he was waiting his turn
here towards the end of the week, when a
Capt Hayes's lecture, which ourselves, and whatever your, opinions may be new Bund from one end of the reclamation fel In the hall with other prisoners to be
changein the programme and new attractions will photographs. released. It does not appear in evidence
not fall to draw crowded houses to the nightly fasted an hour and a quarter, was listened to entertainment at Bonington. The Circus gives with great attention, and was thoroughly ever the legal phases of the question may be In conclusion, Gentlemen, if there. In another performance to:night,
appreciated by all present. at what hour the man's sentence actually
-gud about which, as I have before sald, Ihold | Information which you may wish to bay
if we do not move in the matter the present
foreshore will rentuin indefinitely in its present
Meretheins il cats and aciptirements applied not throw the spittoon, and the magistrate. THE lower Wyndham Street oracle has stricked cdo plen vo podfruition and it is, we readily pressed his belief in that evidence by forth another riddle, in the usual "Dacs the autoriratorine than it is their fuing the prosecutor $10 for perjury. But amusement of the personage to whom the sang „Eught that share "have been pitemarked in what grounds, we would ask, did Mr.is dedicated, who can well afford to laugh in his sleeve at the deep-rooted self-contradiction ptions which they are not merely incap. VanEHOUSE commit the unfortunate victim of the turnkey's spiteful brutality to six at fate of despre de fitting, lat where they area mea and danger to the weeks imprisonment with hard labour? What offence did the wretched man commit? adinisistration of justice and the liberty he did not assault WESTERN, and surely of the subject, Searendy a day passes there cannot be the slightest doubt on that -vihajtani af fhèar magistrates holding
wild see neither in accordance with an was not being tried for any offence Tia nor dystion, and by sentences which against prison discipline the probabilities are pit of all proportion to the character re that at the time the fracas occurred public with further merceaux of this new "Does and Brennan were then charged with continued opinions of the Colonial Secretary and I propose soon as possible on our account and at our sole of the offence. It is this sort of thing that he was legally not a prisoner at all, kills pildir confidence in the inviolability but ought to have been released hours of our criminal courts, and, as a matter of before but even if this had been the ebarge there was no evidence actual furt, the presopt Police Magistrates
support it. And we will go further and disipline been committed assuming that the man's previous sentence had not expired and that he had actually attempted to throw the spittoon, his Worship's sentence of six weeks' hard labour was, ander all the circumstances, a piece of scandalous Brutality entirely,
without justification or excuser-We have, no doubt that His Excellency the Governor will consider it his duty to investigate this case and size that justice is done. During at investigation we would fain hope that Sir WILLIAN DES VEux will make some inquiry into the custom of wholesale flogging which appears to prevail in the Gaol for alleged disobedience of orders and such like offences. If prisoners are "riced up" and the lives flayed.,out of them on the unsupported complaints, of men. like Assistant Turnkey WESTERN, it becomes a matter for serious consideration whether thi
are common subjects of ridicule through out the colony... And, we are sorely say that had a technical breach of prison / Since our last advices, dated 15th instant, our will not be gone into, the evidence so far being ment on your behalf that you would be prepared condition; for it is not to be expected that the
afraid that in this instance public opinion is based on no mere idle prejudice.
but is part than justified by the
"extraordináry litiertjes the magistrates are
constantly, taking, sot merely with the Lys of our country, but with rights very man, woman,
which are inherent i
or child living British g
somewhat too circumstantial, CAPT. M. H. HAVES gave a most interesting and instructive lecture on "The Make and Shape of
to incur an outlay not exceeding $5.000 towards Government can embark in speculative works the cost of making an engineering survey of the of this gigantic nature, contrary to all-Cavern- foreshore to enable you to ascertain the probablement practices and traditions, but which are cont the Reclamation works and the new works that we private capitalists may legiti area which would fall to each lot-owner mately take up, for our own good, it is true, but, Accordingly I communicated with the Colonial considering the conditions imposed upon us, to Secretary, and in response to our request the the inestimable benefit of the Colony, Government in due course undertook the surveys, The Marine Int-owners' interesis involved in and have apparently carried them out with great this project of course are many. I am urging completeness, at a cost-which I have already you to accept the plan as a whole, but should paid-of 33.395.98, 81,604.02 less than the there be any objections to the proposed allot expenditure we sanctioned.
ments of reclamations as shewn in the plan, or I understand that the long time which it has any other grievance which any individ al lot." taken to bring this survey to a close hai béen owner may have, I should only be toù happy to due principally to the many experimental borings act as intermediary, and I am sure, that the of the sea bed which had to be made all giang matter will receive every. consideration from the the line of foreshore in order to make sure of the Government. Small grievances Should not deter under the overlying mud. The weather since beginning of the year has also been unusually unpropitious for such work
exact depth and position of the hard bottom
us from accepting the Project as a whole and closing with the Government at once. Jifferences of the kind I scier to can always be settled 'subsequently,
are ble to comprehend, cannot be practice can be justified. And above Circus last night was not so large as on the two all of them had long legs and short bodies, them about two dollars a square foot. You will the Scheme, the Government bearing its own
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was 3 inches higher at the shoulder than reauit, vine
feet.
The Wharf Company obtained this ground
the liveliest parts of the programme, was .con length the make and shape of horses, explaining | personally or through their own friendhat of the strip for a consideration to be paid them
We would call our readers' attention to the new programme of the Wash Norton's famous World of Wonders performance to be held this evening at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, Tax General Managers (Messrs. Jardine, Mathe. son & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Wingsang,
as to your rights as Marine Lat-owners, what the other from Calcutta, left Singapore yesterday, for this peri
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