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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1888.
The sum of $89,000 has been voted by the THE capital cost per mile of the Kaiping Rail- Manila Goverment for the construction of tele- way Company is, according to the Chinese graphic lines in the island of Visayas and for Times, Tis. 8,674.1-9.3, a very small sum com- connecting it, by a cable, with the nearest station.pared with the English railways.
THE appalling statement is made in England that where one missionary had been sent to Africa to evangelise the heathen, 70,000 barrels of rum, hind been sent for the purposes of barter. Britain's bulwark is evidently kept in wood.
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A DECREE was recently published in Manila
ordering all the Chinese residenta to get them selves registered and to exhibit their poll-tax certificates to the proper authorities. WOODYEAR'S Circus arrived of Shanghai on the
THE Manila Comercio reports that on the morning of the 7th inst. two cargo boats Inden with rice from the steamer Cheang Hye Feng capsized near the shore; and ten other similar
boda conveying cargo on board that steamer
had to put back, but suffered no damage.
ANOTHER tiny Spanish pamphlet bearing the title "Guardaos de ellos!-Pero porque ?" "Beware of them-Why?" has reached us. It contains an exposé and refutation of the arg pines against all the friends of liberty and
progress.
Tune are some sensational stories in the native papers, saya the Japan Gasiile, respecting the doings of certain foreigners in and about the Settlement which can hardly have been invented
simply pour passer le temps. The Kaishin
Shimbun of yesterday Informs its-renders that the nineteen year old daughter of a Yokohama German resident has for some months been enamoured of a Japanese cook, in the employ of her father; and a few days ago, after robbing the parental reserve fund of $600, started secretly
tacked by some friends, who had started in young lady is said to declare that she will die of pursuit, and brought back to Yokohama. The
grief if her father will not allow her to marry the man of her choice.
were security for was dismissed, the amount was recoverable from J. H. Smith, and therefore it ought not to form part of the claim against the defendant. With respect to the disbursements. for the ship, bly contention was that the
ship was the plaintiff's, and whether the
defendant's representations were true or false they would have had to be incurred wherever respect to the claim for $13.000 for the loss at the ship was, and could not be claimed.. With re-sale, they could not claim for both loss ar re-sale anil damages for breach of contract, they could not have the ship and tell bar. But he submitted that the plaintiff was not entitled to templation of the parties at the time to do more
in the sense of shares, and the "loss of market than sell the ship, for the purposes of trade,
Now he put it that a ship was not marketable," value "claimed was inadmissible in such a case. With respect to the claim for demurrage, it must be proved that the ship was not only ready to be employed during the period of detention, but also that employment wasufleted, Asregarded the allegation of false representations, the position of Mr. Melbye, as agent, was well defined; he was acting under telegraphic instructions, with a limited power of attorney, and no nuthority was confided in him to make any such representa tions as it was alleged he had made. On the
Authorize security up to gross amount, if 16th June Mr. Ortiz telegraphed to him
Ortiz of all responsibility in the matter; it necessary." That if necessary" really cleared
DR. J. J. DA SILVA, Chief Justice of Macao, and morning of the 9th inst, by the P. & O. mail his zon were passengers by the M, M. steamship steamer. Peshawur, and were to give their i ments used by the clerical party in the Philip with her lover for Hakone, where they were damages in either case. It was not in the con Melbourne which arrived this morning from opening performance on Saturday, the 11th, Marseilles. Dr. da Silva returns to Macap after a WHEN the Yellow River made its great breaches well earned furlough in Portugal.
in the southern bank last year, says the Chinese "WE note that owing to Dr. Eitel's indisposition, Times, the flooded districts of Shantung, as the Mr. W. E. Crow, Government Analyst, will give river level fell in their locality, were drained, sone chemical experiments illustrative of a few and the farmers hoped that crops could be borge facts worth knowing in the science of Chemistry, by the dried land this year, and, with this at the Garrison Theatre, at 8 o'clock to-morrow expectation, sowed large surfaces with seed. evening,
Unhappily, in almost every case, no crops have been raised. The Yellow River silt is too full of headed "A lost voyage" says that the British, gritty sand, and though silica in certain pro (barque Chitton which had arrived a few days portions aids fertility, when the quantity is it was, but the Don being probably engaged in
before at Masiveles from Cebu, to undergo the excessive the ground becomes sterilized. The
unfortunate people are scarcely better off than, ten days' quarantine imposed by the Sanitary when their lands were flooded, as the dry lands
prove, practically, to be barren.
A light lose of WATSON'S SALINE APERIENT in the morning is also recommended is a deterrent.
A, S, WATSON & Co., Lid. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hangkong. 8th August, 1888.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1888.
TELEGRAM S.
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THE NAVAL MANEUVRES.
LONDON, August 12th. Rear-Admiral George Tryon's squadron has eluded Vice Admiral J. K. Baird's fleet and surprised and captured Liverpool.
(From Straits Times) 'THE GOODWOOD CUP.
LONDON, August 4th.
Lord Falmouily's Rada.............. Lord Lascelles' Osric...? Mr. Manton's Timothy........................ 3 The Emperor of (ermany will visit Alsace Lorraine in September, and Vicona-in October.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE Manila Comercio of the 6th inst., in a local
Hoard, left the Lasaretta on the gth to return to Cebi.
A MANIFESTO is being extensively circulated among the Portuguese residents of this Colony, prolesting in very dignified terms against Senhor da Costa's latest freak in dissolving the Munici- pality of Macao. We hear that several hundred signatures are already appended to the document, which will shortly find its way to the Lisbon
Colonial Office.
TizBand of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. following will be the programme
..Atiber
The
• March...... *Let me like a Subfier (all”,...........Neyton.. Over... Leriver"man ...Diner Sweet“.
las Cloches de Cornerville". Planquette.
Select......
Selection....Mikadu" Selection....." Dorothy."
Lothian
Sulian. .Cellier.
Jujen Moran, Naadmaster.
The U. S..S. Essex airived at Yokohama, from lakodate, on the 4th inst: The British squadron
OUR Macao correspondent writes us under to- day's date that Governor da Costa has taken a further step in his objectionable crusade against the freedom of the citizens of Macao, Yesterday he summoned all the heads of departments to Government House, where the Colonial Secretary peremptorily intimated to them the Governor's wish that they abstain from voting at the coming Municipal elections, and that they instruct their subordinates to do likewise, under the alternative of being noted down as enemies of the Government' if the intimation be disobeyed. This is a considered to be a most shocking measure on the part of His Excellcacy as it aims at depriving free
A STABBING CASC appeared at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Wodehouse in which two Spanish firemen belonging to a foreign steamer in port quarreled on the 6th inst, white they were staying at a boarding house at No. 32 East Street, about a discharge paper, and a piece of soap, which the complainant, Joachim Andrey, had had under his pillow the night before; on missing it early on the morning of the 6th inst., he asked his chum Don Azeai, aged 28, where thought far above such useless commodities as Joachim jumped up and struck Don Juan seap, gave him a quick answer, thereupon
over the smeller. Juan in his turn getting mad went for the armoury of No. 32 and returning with a black-handled poniard, known to the very vulgar as a dinner knife, moved at the double for Joe's heart, but before he got it cut out a valorous landlady interfered, and after her came a 'bobby' who yanked the irate Don off to Wyndham Street, 'chop chop. Dr. Atkinson gave evidence to show that the wound was only of a superficial nature, whereupon his Worship sent the prisoner to gaol with hard labour for six months.
"THE Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,
At a little English agricultural town called l'etersfield there was a meeting of the workhouse guardians, and a heray labourer, aged 73, appeared before that august body to make a few remarks, He had lived in the parish for ball a century, and had worked hard at planting carrots and turnips and carting dirt for 60 years, and he wanted assistance. The chairman, a reverend vicar, who had looked after the local flock for 52 years at a screw of £2200 per annum for a total of 114,400), arose to deal with the case. "What do you want?” he asked. "Out-door relief, sir, for myself and my wife." "How long have you
We learn from the Courrier d'Haiphong that on the evening of the 28th tito., M. Richaud, the Acting Governor-General of French Indo. China, presided at the first session of the Muni cipal Council of Haiphong. The following members of the newly instituted Corporation were present:-MM. Bancal, Bleton,, Daniel.
·Devaux, Briffaud, Candau, Leroy, Cahors, Paul and Phong. The Governor-General's opening han, Reynaud, Sintas, Vincens, Joseph Saah,
remarks were to the following effect:"1" instituting the Municipality of Haiphong I take pleasure in acknowledging how your efforts, your initiative, and your wish for existence have produced in me a deep impression and attached me to your work. You have come here in great numbers and have not been discouraged by the obstacles which arose in your path; you have made a city in a few months. On Sunday, July 29th, M., Richaud left Haiphong for Saigon, all the civil functionaries, the military, and great number of the inhabitants of the city accompanying him to the wharf.
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was a key to the nature of Melbye's authority, and it was on the strength of that that the
vessel was taken over, as to the dealinne with the Smiths, no damage was sustained by the plaintiff, either by mistake, misunder streger Smith's claim; it was duly settled or misrepresentation="" respecting as promised. The great issue, however, was Is it true or not that on or about the 28th May the defendant informed plaintiff, that the ship had been released, and all legal claims satisfied, and that he might safely pay the second instalment of $10,000 He denied that such an assurance was ever given; or that false representations were made in stating that McGregor Smith's claims had been met and all other claims satisfied. Some thing had been said, not by him, as to the abandonment of the charge of fraud in the petition.
MESSRS. WHEELOCK & Co's Shanghai freight circular of August 10th has the following: Our last report was issued on the 27th. ultime, since when the difficulties then alluded to thing to say that a man had been injured by 'His Lordship said that it was very different
between the Tea Guild and Foreign buyers | misrepresentation, and to impugn the mis have been amicably arranged, Tear settle- representation by saying that another wilfully ments going on as previously, Freights hone
misrepresented the case. wards are dull and the supply of tonnage in quite equal to the demand. For the coat carrying trade from Nagasaki to this, suitable steamers are in request at our quotation. For sail- ing vessels there will probably be a good demand alter the 1st proximo, in the event of scarcity of steam tonnage, as on and after that date, shippers heretofore subject to a duty on coals by
citizens of their electoral rights. The Crown Attorney who was present at the meeting has promised to issue an official protest against the illegality of Governor da Costa's proceedings.
arrived at Hakodate from Yokohama dn the 1st
Thus the Chinese Times:-There is perhaps The British ironclad Audacions left Yokohama, now little doubt but that the earthquake shocks homeward bound, on the 1st The British gun of the last two months were the result of some Dinizin is believed to have fled to the host Raffler arrived at Nagasaki from Yoko submarine eruption, the precise locality of which baina, en route for Korca, on the 30th ulto. The cannot be exactly determined. Several steamers U. S. men-of-war Bracklyn and Marion, left bave felt shocks in the Gulf of Pechilt on Yokohama' for Korea, on the 4th inst. The various occasions, and, all recorded it as carta-been able to work is your lifetime?" "Sixty years, sailers from Japan at 22 Mex cents per ton will
Transvaal,
PARIS.
August 6th,
The strike of the Navvies is extending to ather trades, and collisions, with the police are frequent.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A SUBSCRIPTION has, been started in Manila on behalf of the sufferers by the recent eruption of the Mayon volcano in the province of Albay. ́. THE Japan Mail Icarns that the important post of Secretary of Embassy at Berlin has been offered to the Hon. P. Le Poer Trench, Charge d'Affaires at Tokio, and accepted,
MESSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co. agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam ship Port Adelaide, from Vancouver, will leave Nagasaki for this port to-morrow, the isth inst,
The Attorney General, continued that, loo" - ing at the way in which certain matters had been pushed, it was impossible for his Lordship to acquit Messrs. Melbye and Caldwell of the charge of wilful misrepresentation if the issues set forth by the plaintiff were successfully supported. But to do that it was necessary to show knowledge; to show that the representa tions made by Melbye and Caldwell were made for a fraudulent purpose, and that they did not themselves belleve ihem to be true. It might -
the one side, and mistake on the other, but there bad been enough gathered in the course of the evidence to afford some evidence as to the
Brooklyn is homeward bound. H. M's survey. quake. On June zath, at 10.47 a.m, the Owari sir." The chairman looked at him critically. He be relieved from that charge. From Newchwank be that there was a good deal of, müddling on
ing vessel Rambler left Shanghai on the gth. The British man-of-war Firebrand returned to Singapore on the 27th July, from the Cocos Islands, where she was sent on a special mission, with Mr. N. P. Trevenen, Private Secretary to H. E. the Governor of the Straits Settlements .on board,
bearing S. 33 deg, W. distant half a mile. lat. 37 age P. "Yessir,' I never earned more than Peshawar will leave on the 21st instant, her sibility, he had shown perfect fairness. At :
Afars experienced a shock when in lat 38 deg. 38 min. N., long. 118 deg. 53 min. E. where a depth 14 fathoms of water is marked in the chart. And on the g h July, at 9.50 a.m., wher in the Prince Imperial Archipelago, west coast of Corea, the Owart Moru found a shoal of volcanic and with Hae-do' (north-east end)
deg. to mia. N., loog. 126 deg. 1 min. E., with 22 fathoms of water marked in the chart. The Quart sustained no injury whatever. Although no information has yet been received of the appearance of any new island out of the sea, there is every, reason to believe that the sea-bed between China and Japan has changed its configuration.
bad himself drawn £550 for a quarter's salary the day before, and, as he felt quite fresh and thoroughly rested himself, he was naturally dubious about this old man, who said that he felt tired. "Now, do you mean to tell ine that you have worked for 60 years, and yet not saved enough to keep you comfortably in your old
88. a week, and I had a family to keep out of "Suppose we say 21. a week for each of them," interposed an extravagant member of the Board, but the chairman paid no attention to him. "This," he said sorrow fully, "is a sad example of the improvidence of the lower classes. When a man spends his whole life without making the slightest provision for his old age he must suffer for his recklessness ing any concession in similar cases in future, the and folly. Under protest, and withou catablish applicant will be allowed is. a week and a leaf, and a similar charity will be extended to his wife." The Board then made a minute of the arrangement, and the toothless party, having been severely admonished, was allowed to hobble
and Chefoo for parts in the South, regular coast- ing steam liners find steady employment at the rates named below. From Wuhu and Chink iang for Whampoa, the regular steamer coast- ing lines have been carrying all the grain for direction in which things lay. One thing was sometime past at rates from 14 to 12 candarens evident that although Mr. Melbye might be per picul. For London, vid usual ports of call ignorant of the legal bearing of the case, he acted and Suez Canal:-The next P. & O. steamer
in good faith, and from the beginning to the time when he admitted his principal's moral respon rate henc will be 40s. per ton. Holl's steamship Telemachus and "Ben" steamship Bergtee wil regarded Mr Caldwell, Inasmuch as his character be despatched as Sunday, the 12th instant bound to justify it, he submitted that through- had been attacked, and feeling that he was The "Glen" Glenavon is circulated for des patch on the 15th instant. The rate quotes March until the moment he threw it up, his out the transaction, from the first meeting in by these Lines ft 375. 6d. per ton for all cargo For New York via usual ports of call and conduct had evidenced a perfectly cool head, Suez Canal:-The "Glen" Line ateainship this client, and the protection he must Gleneagle is advertised for despatch on the 11th instant via Amoy and Hongkong. tier afford bim, and cognisance of bis legal rate for Tea has been reduced to 555. per responsibilities and the proprieties of his position,
on. General Cargo remains without change,
On the other side there was no question of fraud;
take the beath at current rates, at regular inter viz.: gos, per ton. The following steamers will it was one of muddleheadedness and mistake, and to that he largely attributed the false position vals in the order named, viz.: Lord of the Isles, into which Mr. Rapp drifted Rapn did not The ship Wed. Conner is expected to be des representations on which he was now suing; Morny, Glengarry and Dorsets Via Cape appear to have awakened to the nature of the patched towards the end of this month via
neither he nor Mr. Holmes, on whose evidence Hongkong, ber rate remains as hitherto zza. 66
he largely relied; thought of making a claim on the 'strength of those representations until he per 40 cuble fest. From Hankow for Odessa via Suez Canal:-The "Glen" steamer Gle handed him over to the lender mercies of Messra. went behind the back of his quondam partner and
to
THE London are relates how a beautiful lady in Paris, belonging to the diplomatic circle, lately met, with a most peculiar accident at a ball, to the intense delight of her "bosom friends" of the fair sex. The lady in question wore a low-bodied dress of artistic design, which attracted general admiration, but what most riveled the attention of the ball guests were her shoulders of dazzling white. Suddenly her brooch, a splendid camco,
The Shanghai Courier learns that the post of bicke in pieces. In her alarm the fair owner became unfastened, dropped in the ground and Austro-Hungarian Minister to China, Japan, and quickly stooped to pick up the fragments. But Siani, which recently becaine vacant by the this rapid movement caused something still departure of Count Zaluski, has been filled by
more valuable to fall to the ground, viz., a portion the appointment of Baron von Biegeleben.
of the charming white shoulders of the lady, OWING to representations made by the Agent of piece of a mass resembling porcelain, delicately the Messageries Maritimes' Company at Manila, touched up in blue and pink. The gentlemen of a scarcity of money.. There is no capital in away homewards. This is the English system carn, just left, will be the last direct TealadenWatton and, Deacon. The indications were that backed by the French Consul's declaration that gazed in blank astonishment at the damaged the whole of Tunis and Tripoll, and credit is but faintly caricatured. no case of cholera had occurred at Saigon, since beauty, while the ladies giggled in their pocket- entirely lost to the commercial commuby. THE following is from the Shanghai Courier im | the 23rd of June last, the. Manila authorities have handkerchiefs, and the husband ran for a shawl Owing to the late hostile attitude of the Tuaricks, His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Alexander | Güügi Los don...May 4th.....5,300 THE M. M. steamship Melbourne which arrived HERE is a specimen of China Mall wit and The caravan routes to Timbuctoo and other patts Friday, the 3rd inst., in the C.M.S.N. Co's
declared the port of Saigon clean.
cause of the disaster.
to conceal the misfortune. Tableau } .
Hungary and Russia; in the latter country it is GREAT depression of trade exists in Italy, Austro- said that thousands are on the borders of starvation. In Turkey matters are not quite so bad, but still the agricultural classes are great sufferers. Even the Moorish tribes on the south side of the Mediterranean feel the inconvenience
It is said the Irish seed
Michailovitch of Russia arrived in Hankow on
•Moyun
steamer this season. ·
| there was a mistake or muddle-of want of clear- Paned Steamers, Destination, WODIRNE
Cargo, Rate per Ton sightedness on the part of Messrs. Rapp and Laadon May 4,000
Holmes, rather than the alternative of deliberate fraud prepetrated by Messrs. Caldwell and Melbye, men of "unexceptionable character,— He then proceeded to comment at length upon the evidence. A
Palkan,
a
Forth, London... and0
London... May ah710,0 Ningchop,
locks..... Odessa...june and 3,400 Priva19,stazah Antenora m Load...Jussdth goo
Loudon... June 8th Odessa...June 4th 550 Private terms Glamogasker, London... June 10th....100
unidesse. June 1th. 30 Private term Kostroma ..... Odly 300 do
do. .....Odessa...August pih.... 3,100. £1.5.0
movements in the service, and other interestingporary.. is not so uniformly perfect that the thrives better in Tripoli than either French or occasion, the heat and the dresses of the ladiester, Nagasaki to Shanghai, $1.70 perton Coal nett, altempted on the 2nd, and itth of that month
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SUPREME COURT.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
(Befers the Hon. 7. Russell, Acting Chief Fustic).
Mr. Francis, in his closing speech for the plaintiff, commented at length upon the evidence. After showing the commencement of the negotia tions; he dealt with the alleged misrepresent- alions contained in the various letters written to Mr. Rapp by Mr. Melbye, and with the testimony of the witnesses for the defence. It had been he would not say got up-but prepared by their memories being refreshed by a perusal of the evidence. Mr. Melbye obtained the $10,000 on the 28th May by the same deliberate misrepresentation as he had whatever his own opinion was Mr. Rapp was acting cautiously, but he was led on step by step until the transaction reached a stage at which it would be dangerous to go back. The defendant wanted the Court to believe that Mr. Rapp made the second payment in the knowledga that the Smiths claimed $10,000 against the vessel. . It was suggested that be acquiesced in the arrangements, that he was cognisant: of everything from beginning to end. The onus of proof rested with them, and no evidence had been given in support, whilst on the other aldo Mr. Rapp and Mr. Holmes had conclusively stated that they were ignorant of the non-settlement of McGregor Smith's claim until the roth June. It was the duty of Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Melbye, after having got the $ro,pop, and com- mitted Mr. Rapp to the transaction, by stating that the bond had been given, to inform bim
trade with the interior of Africa is entirely stopped. this morning from Marseilles and ports of call, cleverness: The Penang Gazette publishes of the interior are open, but for some rCASIN, the following telegram- Eight thousand ostrich feathers, one of the chief products, cannot picked up yesterday and brought to port 29 navies have struck work in Paris, and are having be had, and in consequence British cotton goods Chinese seamen, the crew of an abandonedjunk.
cannot be purchased. Ivory, another valuable The rough weather which has prevailed outside daily processions. Eight thousand navies! during these few days has evidently been the liyah " Only a Scotchman could have perpe. product, is not forthcoming owing to squabbles in evening a dinner was given in his honour, Peterburg Odossa July reth 1,899
trated such a "goak" as that. Where does the the interior. The trade in feathers has fallen fun come in? The proof reader of the Penang from £200,000 a year to £15,000, and the only We are in receipt of the Imperial Maritime Gazette passed or overlooked a wrongly spelled export trade at present is esparto grass for Customs Gazeli, containing the Quarterly word, missed the second "y" in the word making paper. The last introduction is potato returns of trade, the report of dues and duties, "navvies "--and that is all. The spelling in the seed from Belfast, in order to grow potatoes fines and confiscations, official notifications, feebly compiled columns of our evening contem. solely for native use. details of trade statistics in Korea, Chinese editorial staff of the China Mall can afford to Austrian.. Kowloon, and Lappa, Macao, from April to June throw stones at the Penang paper for a mere slip. NINETEEN of the crew and firemen ofthe steamer 1886.
which only a very small-minded person would have designed to notice, and which was evidently Sang Kiang, who are all, or nearly all Africans, THE Straits Times correspondent at Anjer not the result of crass ignorance like so many of
were this morning charged before Captain writes-On the 1st instant, a detachment of their own blunders. How is this for high, mostumsey R.N., Harbour Master and Marine troops, under the, command of Captain Veen-immaculate "Brownie "-The China Mail of refusal of duty. Captain Augustus Hunt, said
·Magistrate, with absence from their ship and huijzen, arrived here in four prauws, bringing Saturday went to press at 7.40 p.m., and yet the he was master of the Sung Klang, which the dead bodles of Hadji Wasid, Hadji Ismael, first paragraph in the laque says that the French arrived here from Glasgow on the 11th lost. On Hadji Oesman, and two other Hadfis, also six of mail steamer Melbourne is to leave Saigon the aftemoon of arrival in this port the imen the rebels. The encounter took place near for this port at 3 pm, to-day the lith inst." Soemor, in the district of Tjaringin; Captain Kommeat is kneedless!
came aft and claimed their discharge with the Veenhuijzen and a European soldier have been-
object of leaving the ship. He told them they slightly wounded. We can now say that the JAMES BERRY, hangman to Her Majesty and the had signed the ship's articles for 8 months, and rebellion is at an end.”
rest of the Royal Family, was, at latest dates, that they would have to remain by her till their arranging for a lecturing tour in the Waited States, time was up, but they appeared to be very A SCHOOLBOY aged but 14 was charged at the Six weeks at 200 per week. It was Berry's in discontented, and finally said they would do no Police Court this morning with obtaining goods tention to deliver discourse on Crime, and Crimi- more work, when they went forward, and sabse by false pretences on the 13th inst.. A Chinaman nals; illustrated with dissolving view of the law's quently went ashore being absent without leave who said he was an accountant at a shoe shop last dread sentence. His "properties" foclude a from that day, Saturday, till Monday morning. in Queen's Road Central alleged that on the beautiful model of the drop, an assortment of On Monday Noara, 7, 8, 18 and rg returned on 7th August the boy came to his shop and said nooses, and personal relics of the people he has board but refused to go to work till their ship be wanted a pair of shoes for Wong Ki who was attended in their final moments. But we fear mates arrived, in consequence of which he gave known at the shop as being the son of a woman Berry's gruesome expedition was sat upon by the them to minutes to make up their minds, and with whom the prisoner lived as a kind of servant. Home Secretary, for that unfeeling functionary then logged them for continued refusal of duty. The shoes were not paid for but the bay sald quite recently prohibited Her Majesty's myrmidon. At g o'clock, on the chief mate taking a look for he was to put them down to the account of Wong from warbling comic songs at a provincial concert, them, he found they had decamped, bag and Ki, which was done. On the 9th the prisoner on the eve of an execution James had been baggage, Answering the magistrate, complainant: came again and informed him that the first pair billed all over the town for "One more Drop said the terms of agreement were from Glasgow of shoes did not fit; they were too tight, and he before we part, with breakdown," and "The to Hongkong, touching at ports or places in wanted another pair a size bigger, which were Night, before Larry', was stretched," when his China, and to be discharged within the space of given to him, he promising to return the misfit projected whow was vetoed by telegram from 5 months if agreeable to the wishes of the Consul "the following day," "Lai Kán, a widow living in London. We wouldn't be surprised to leams, at or other local authorities. His Worship, after Hollywood Road, in giving evidence said she any moment, that Her Majesty was looking out bearing from each man his objections, sent had never authorised the prisoner—who was for someone to replace her wild Berry. By the Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 16 to gaol, there living with beranto get any new shoes for her way, a real baronet, Ste Claude de Crespigay, to be confined until discharged by the master, son, and she did not know anything about it has acted as deputy assistant hangman on one The master agreed to pay any debts incurred by
hearing of it by an accident. Mr. Wodehouse or two occasions. A little family influence would the prisoners so long as they do not exceed the place on the Bund, by the Fire Brigade, and bad transferred the liability to have the shiphe Attorney General repeated sout the youthful pirate to gaol for 6 weeks, doubtless get the more important billet for dear wages due. The other defendants were ordered with hard labour,
Sir Claude,
to go on board and roaume duty.
steamer, Kiang-Yang, Captain Perking, and was received by the Russian Consul and the principal Russian merchants. The same in the Reading Room, of the Hankow Club, Gener
Quotations are:--Newchwang to Swatow, 19 and about eighty sat down, a large gasted Mex cents, per picul, sicam, small enquiry considering that the invitations were only issued Chefoo to Swatow, 13 Mex cents per picul, small on the previous day. The dinner is spoken of by demand. Nagasaki to Shangha, $1.65 per ton our correspondent asa great success, but he makes of Coal nett, forsteamer, demand $1.30 ex ship, no reference to the speeches made on the for sailing vessels. Settlements during the fort night Fellung, British steamer, 752 tons regis, apparently being more important. He states despatch. Fellung, British steamer, 752 tona that the thermometer stood at ninety-four, and | register, Kuchinotza to Shanghai, §1.60 per ton notwithstanding the costumes of the ladies were Caol nett, despatch. Disengaged vessels in most fashionable; The majority of the gentlemen port-Henrietta, American ship, 1,257 tons register, Satsuma, British barque, 364 tons appeared "in white," but a few were martyrs to register, Mary L. Stone, American ship, 1,420 the supposed. Indispensable black dress suit. tons register. and at night they were Illuminated with Chinese The Russian hongs displayed flags and bunting, lanterns, kerosine oil lamps, &c., and the whole settlement was en fit. So unusual an occur- rence attracted immense number of natives, and the Bund was crowded, the number being estimated at 20,000. It is to be, regretted that the Chinese who assembled did not conduct
"THE "ESTRELLA CABE themselves in a very orderly manner. Stones The adjourned hearing of the case was resumed
this morning. 9.
ppy were thrown at the guests as they went Mr. Rapp, recalled, put in a statement showing that it had rint been given, Instead of leading to and returned from the dinner, and it is the amounts disbursed on behalf of the Estrella him on It was as much a fraud in law to fortunate that they were sheltered in Sedan during her detention. It was agreed that he conceal a fact as to mis-state one. But they got chairs, otherwise it is feared some of them should receive from Ortiz aå, per cent. on the further sum from the plaintiff, and induced would have been injured. While the dinner sale price..
Let him to execute Inevocable deeds by further mit The
Attorney-General, in summing up for representation and concealment, in the statement was going on stones were also thrown. This the defence, waid that there was one branch of that security, had been given to J. H. Smith is not the first time that Hankow mobs have the petition which could be disposed of at once Alingether he was to badgered about that at leas been guilty of stone throwing, and complaints without argument the assertion by the plain he attempted to take the ve sel out of the on the subject should be forwarded by the tits that the defendant had not a good title to waters of the Colony After he was prevented different consuls to their Ministers in Peking. the Estrella, and that she was not free of from doing so the defendant showed his recor
incumbrances. On those two points no evid: | nition of his liability by offering to pay "all The British authorities might also spare a gun-ence had been offered. With respect to the legal expenses, that might be Incurred. st. Me bost for the great emporium of trade on the damages claimed, it appeared that Rapp paid submitted that the plaintiff was entitled to liberál Yangleze. Years ago a British gunboat was $5,000 to T. H. Smith as security which was damages that wasnto say sonicthing more nearly always there. Now their visits, like either to lie for ever and over, or was to than the Banke iste of interest, or demurrage at those of Angels, are few and far between. The PPy to an action which had suce, been the rate of ad per ton per day, sell as the dismiated. By the agreement, therefore, Mr. Iegal and maintenance expenses, with interest on Grand Duke was right royally entertained by Rapp should" bave had that num repaid them, the Russians on the 4th and 5th, and a garden by . H. Smith. That payment, the further cla dahip, who reserved judgment, ex- party, in his honour, was given at the British contended was not made on the strength pressed his pleasure at the withdrawal of the
of any false sepresentations made by the defen," "charges of fraud: ( Consulate, on the 6th, and on the morning of dant, and could not therefore be claimed as The Attorney General did not think, they had the 7th be left for Nanking, and is expected to "damages." At the time the representation, bean withdrawn. There still stood on the recorda return to Shanghai on Saturday morning. On that the ship was free was made H. Smith's with which the Court had to deal distinct Saturday evening a torchlight procession takes action was not yet commenced, nor was it when allegations of falte representation.
the last payment was made. If the defendant His Lordship differed, la fe His Imperial Highness will leave, on Tuesday stopped to the shoulders of the plaintiff, it would His Lordship certainly unde wo understand, for Tientsin and Pokings
Bave been different. The claim which the $5,000 to say that My, Melbys was not so'