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HONGROSE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1898..
TELEGRAM S.,
(From Straits Times.) THE STRIKES IN FRANCE,
PARIS, August Sth. Riots have broken out at Amiens, where the strikers sacked and set fire to a factory. The streets had to be cleared by charges of cavalry. Disorder continues and the streets are patrolled by Police and Military in force.
in Paris conflicts between the strikers and the
police are. contiguous.
TYPHOON IN THE CHINA SEA. We are indebted to the courtesy of the Spanish Consul at this port for the following telegrain received this furenpen from Bolinao:--
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1888.
A MAN was recently arrested in North Carolina ENTRIES are now being made for the annual for "committing assault with a deadly weapon, Regatta in connection with the Victoria Recrea-
tion Club, to be held about the 1st September. to wit a large and ferocious bull-dog.” Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the LISBON papers received by the last mall say that Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam-Capt. R. d'Andrade, formerly of the gunboat Rio ship Parthia which left Vancouver on the 1st Lima stationed-in Macao-waters, will, is all inst. arrived in Yokohama to-day.
probability, be appointed Governor of Fortu
THE Manila Diario publishes a very interesting years ago. The Court by its oath was bound to article on Philippine Cotton.
administer the law, and he could pass no less a sentence than one of six months' imprisonment. UNDER date the 10th inst, the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands has officially declared clean the port of Saigon.
THE WINDHAM STREET GILVERT and Sullivan's "Mikado" has been
ORACLES. translated into Japanese, and is shortly to br
THE Portuguese transport India, which left guese Timor in lieu of Senhor A, da Costa" who always feel semorar. 1 was acting with a tray brought on the Japanese stage at San Francisco.
Macao for Lisbon on Sunday last, put back to the former part this morning at 8 o'clock-Just as the Kiukiang was leaving for Hongkong, An Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. $25, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the 18th instant, at 8.30 for pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordiaily invited.
this forenoon from Nagasaki en route for home. HMS. Audacious, Capt. J. R. Warren, arrived
On entering harbour she was saluted by the Commodore ship with the regulation number of guns. We understand she is to leave for Portsmouth in a couple of days. This morning two boarding-house runners were charged at the Police Court with boarding the steamer Waverley without the permi sion of the Captain and white she was under way in the harbour on the 15th inst. The vessel was -coming in from Singapore and the enterprising drummers made the ascent of her side by ineans of their boat hooks, in quest, no doubt of passengers or plunder, whichever first came to hand. Mr. Wodehouse fined the accused $10
cich.
We have received from Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co, à copy of a pamphlet published at the Celestial Empire Office, Shanghai, bearing the following sensation! litles:-"Some Queer Stories of Benjamin Davel Berjamin and Messrs. E. 1). Sassoon. & Co." "Wealth, Fraud and Poverty; Les Juffs Entre Eux." The pamphlet gives a sketch of Benjamin's chequered career, and reproduces from the public news papers the reports of the sensational proceedings connected with his 'rise and fall. It is very interesting reading.
has resigned the post.
Wito says that the Chinese are not advancing in English civilisation? A resident the other
day ordered a call's head from his comprador and received the following reply
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H.K. 19th August. Calves no kill at this present išli kas kill on torrow or boy and boy. I will send you une palco.
A SHORT lecture on Chemistry was delivered in the Garrison Theatre last evevening, by Mr. W. Major Ellis presided.. A series of interesting E. Crowe, before a fairly large military audience. experiments were given, but unfortunately at the conclusion Mr. Crowe was tempted to try one which caused the audience to retreat like one man, a suffocated vote of thanks being hurriedly given.
THERE is every probability, says the Bangkok Times of the 1st inst., of teak prices going up in Bangkok, for, with no water to bring the logs down it is quite certain that there will seatly be a scarcity of timber in the local, market. In consequence of the drought up country the price of paddy is also getting very high, and should we not have heavy rains within the next ten
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days, the newly planted rice will be endangered. CORRESPONDENT of the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, writing from Nagoya under date the 35th July, says that on that day the city was visited by a violent storm which levelled fences and trees. The injury done to cotton plants was consider. able In Kyoto also the gale raged fiercely
The topmost storey of a four-storied house near
Shizyo bridge was blown off. A steamer that sailed from Ots for Nagahama shortly before the storm burst, had not been heard of at the time of writing.
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A GOOD time appears to be setting in for long shore loafers, drucken bummers, and that numerous 'class' of sailors and firemen whe
of foreign countries instead of being at sea.. Recent advices from Australia infórm as that
PRO.
(With apologies to them both.)"
but the couple secking it must go before a DIVORCE in Switserland is theoretically easy.
Hail, Archimedean levers, hail Solo solace of our exile here; Before whose power wrong-doers pale magistrale every four months for two years and Whose mirthful lines our sorrows cheer, insist that they continue to desire it. This
Ou grave abuse and marlensasice, makes it rather uncommon;"
"Your myriad eyes you sternly turn; GLOBE-TROTTER (to Missionary) "Minister of Your fiery bolts the offenders burn;
Falls nepotism before your lance, the Gospel; I imagine, air 7" Missionary: Yes,what though sometimes ye slightly err sir., I have been a minister of the Gospel for 45 Or deco each utter enemy years, but I am going to retire soon." Globe trotter: "That is a very sensible more, sir. I. Is but your little playful way.
Even Flomar nods: your friendly war
think when a man has made money enough in Ye Mercuries, we appreciate his business, he ought to get out of it and enjoy Wherever men do congregate: Your tell in search of novelty, Historians of far Cathay.
himself."
CON..
MR. JAMES TROUP is to succeed the late Mr. Robertson as British Consul at Yokohama, or Kanagawa as the official designation has it. M. COQUELIN, the famous French comedian, confesses that he once fell asleep on the stage. have been guilty, he says, of naturalisin only once in my life-involuntarily and yet I shall elling company. I had passed the night in the rehear al I had gone on some excursion or train, then rehearsed in the day, and after the
another, so that I was very tired. In the oven- ing I played the role of Annibal in Augier's "L'Aventurière." The reader will remember that attheend of the second act Annibal, whom Fabrice has been enticing to, drink in order to make him talk, gets drunk and then goes to sleep. I played the drunken scene as usual, neither more nor less; I was feigning seemed to me so sweet, and i but when it came to the sleeping part the act that wanted to sleep so thoroughly, that 1 uncon- sciously yielded to the temptation, I went to sleep on the stage in the presence of the public, and, with shame be it recorded, I even snored. A BANQUET was held at the Continental Hotel This was exceeding orders, ce n'etait pas la con- Paris, on the 10th úko. to celebrate the signe, but the public, hearing me snore, believed abolition of slavery in Brazil. it was presided that it was in my role and that I was endeavour-over by Senator Schilcher, the veteran Aboli- ing to make a point. Sope laughed, others tionist, who, though eighty-four years of age, is found the "business" in doubtful taste, and there as hearty and enthusiastic as ever in the cause was not wanting some who said that I snored to which he has devoted his life. Prince Pedro without naturalness, without grace; that I forced of Brazil was present. the note-in short, that my snoring was not like real snoring. Alas I was as indifferent to applause as I was to criticism. And when the
in recalling me to a sense of the reality.' THERE has been some taik lately of a rival newspaper being started in Bangkok in opposi- tion to the Times, and here is how the Editor of magnanimity, cheerfully sets out the beauties. the last named journal with praiseworthy.
journalistic enterprise in Siam-We hear that and advantages, pecuniarily and otherwise, of Mr. Gocite, ably, assisted by Capt. Loftus, is thinking of starting an opposition paper here in they are plucky fellows, and deserve every Bangkok. If these two can manage to do this
success for thus sacrificing their savings in order Sir Morell Mackenzie,was wrong. The report has up and have a look at it, since is only a few io endeavor to amuse the public for a few
are well known and, together with Mr curing some twenty or thirty subscribers, but Goette's influence, he may succeed in pro
is able to support two papers. It was Shakes we fear it will take some time yet before flangkok peate who said, "I am nothing if not critical" Editors may paraphrase this and say "I am
curtain fell my companions had some dificulty
Ye melancholy frauds, your rancorous spité, Time-serving policies, and feeble wit Make you alike contemptible to sight And sense-Veritas, prævalebit. Guiltless of grammaar, almasi every line The reins of our affairs, and fractious whine, Crawling with errors, ye presume to guide When not on horseback set, to (somewhere) ride.
the German professors and physicians consulted Bind back to back each would-be Twis THE promised pamphlet on the fatal malady of Tooley Street tailors, cease to arrogate the late Emperor, Frederick contains, says the
Vnto yours. Ives the public censor's taste; Learn grammar, facts more often state, L. & C. Express, the reports, of a number of | And use your brains more, and less paste.
Bergmann, Gerhardt, Kusamaul, Landgraf, To drown them and their sorrows multitudinous in the case to wit, Doctors Bardeleben. "Brownie "and"Granny;"get your only reader" Schmidt of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Schrätter of Deep in the Harbour-weighted by a lender. Vienna, Tobold and Waldeyer. But, it has no account from Professors Virchow, Krause.
ARCADES AMBO.
OUR HALL OF JUSTICE.
"There are indications of a typhoon maging in arrival of the Glenogle with the first of the New always seem to be wandering about the beach months. Of course Capt. Loftus' many talents generally admitted that it is in the nature of an it is liberally whitewashed, and inpoccat of
the China Sea towards the N.W., near the Coast of Luzon. Rangh weather may be expected in the China Sea."
.
The Government Astronomer sent the follow ing message at 1.25 pun,jo-day:
The typhoon is in the Southern part of Formosa Channel, and pears to be moving North-Westward. Telegraphic communication between Kowloon and i longkong is interrupted,
LOCAL AND GENERAL. ACCORDING to a Japanese paper, on the 31st of June last the number of foreigners residing in Tokio was you, of whom 413 were males and
257 females.
Says the London and China Express:-The
Season's Teas from the Foochow districts con- seas the impression that the Chinese are more fully alive to the necessity of repairing the care lessness of recent years in the manufacture of their Tea. The Chingwo and Panyong descrip- ions show a decided improvement, both in quality and make, over last year's Imports; and though the Seu Moos might be better manipulated, they are strong in liquor and are looked upon favourably by the dealers. We hope it may be taken as an augury of the China trade entering upon a fresh era of its ancient prosperity. The Bangkok Times announces authoritatively that the statement made by the Manila Comercio to the effect that the Siamese Government con- is totally unfounded, and remarks" When the addition of gunboats, the new vessels will be Siamese intend to augment their navy with the constructed in the first-class yards of England, and hot recruited from the impracticable failures of local shipbuilders." Our contemporary Assumes too much when he describes the
It is imported that important telegrams from the templated purchasing the gun-vessel Filipinas appear to be inevitable where the crews are circumstances a proprietor of a paper in Siam-blood boil, not because of its tragic contents, are pretty well filled with Chinamen,--all sorts,
Lisbon Colonial Office have reached the Governor of Macao, concerning his high-banded proceed ings towards the Municipal Chamber. ALFRED CELLIER'S successful comic opera Dorothy" will be performed at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, this evening, by the American' Musical Conicdy and Opera Company. THE half-yearly Report, with a Statement of Accounts up to June 30th, of the Directors of
the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company,
Limited, will be found in another column.
Filipinas as "an impracticable failure," as that vessel has never yet been put to any practical est beyond a couple independent, experts on board. which she gave the utmost satisfaction to the Metal trips, in both of
A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance. Lodge,
SINGAPORE is either exceptionally favored in the No. 1165, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Beatness of foot of its amateur pedestrians or Zelland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock exceedingly unfortunate in the "timers" who precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.officiate at athletic sports. A couple of years since a gentleman named Chopard was We note from home papers that at the Congrega-credited with running a hundred yards in level tion of the Cambridge University held on the 7th June," Mr. Robert Minio Jameson, of the Government School, had the degree of Master of Arts conferred on him (by proxy). THE
this issue.
via the Harbour: Police constable Carson happened to be in the vicinity and rushed to the rescue, eventually saving the drowning girl after considerable difficulty. This simple little story was related at the Magistracy this morning, when Mr. Wodehouse ardered the girl to-be placed in charge of the Registrar-General.
time, and now, at the recent meeting of the Singapore Recreation Club, a Mr. Seth is authoritatively stated to have covered the same distance in tot-5th seconds. We doubted the accuracy of Mr. Chopard's record
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the mail steamers which ply between Sydney and San Francisco, and which hitherto have been manned on deck and in the engine-rooms by Chinese are now and from henceforth to carry European, to the rigid exclusion of the Celestial. Such an effect has this order of the Maritime Labour Union of Sydney had on all shipping which trades to Australia, that already a considerable number of the loafing class of scamen have been applied for at the Hongkong House of Detention, would always prefer to see their own country Certainly on broad principles British shipmasters. men employed as seamen and firemen on board their vessels, but owing to the troubles which British, they are frequently driven against Leir other nationalities that may be available. As it will, to engage Chinese, Hindoos, Malaya, oray appears, however, that a body of trades unionists in Australia have taken the matter up for the benefit of poor Jack" the only thing to be done now is for them to compel that somewhat mythical personage to behave himself. Absolute sobriety when in port cannot, of course, be strict attention to a good and wholesome dis- secured with the ordinary run of sailers, but
cipline can be absolutely forced out of many of the worst characters, who go to sea by nothing more potent than moral suasion and a simple show of force when necessary. any commander or officer of a British steamer doubts this let him go on board some of the mail steamers in Sydney and see the facts for himself. Neither the laws of the land nor the decisions of a magistrate can help the man who, in the government of crews, has not the firmness, the tact, and the sagacity to help himself.
sheet as a hawker, appeared at the Police Court A CHINESE, aged 46 and described on the charge
If
Leyden, or Senator, or from Sir M. Mackenzie or contain all the official raports deposited in the Mr. Hovell. It does not, therefore, appear to State. Archives. The pamphlet, indeed, is an
On most mornings the public of Hongkong, if they have leisure and inclination, can visit three courts of law in full swing, one being pretty
in his cancer diagnosis from the first, and -that er parte statement, published with a view to literally the seat of law and equity, and the showing that Professor von Bergmann was right other two so-called by courtesy. The first- mentioned is the Supreme Court, let us drink
produced a great impression in Vienna, and it is
yards away from our hotel. The building is. rather an imposing one looked at from the street; indictment against Sir Morell Mackenzie, who, those images of impossible females with their against distinct charges. One of the news of short weight. The outer hall is as great a it is said, is now compelled to defend himselt eyes in a sling, and a pair of scales, and a sword to scare customers with if they complain
by Professor von Bergmann, justly remarks, papers, alluding to the virulent language used convenience as the simple coolle finds in the "A more quiet tone and a less open hatred of
Colony. By day he lounges in its shade until his master leaves his Club. opposite and nothing if foo.critical. It does not pay now-a-appropriate to the dignity of the German medical making himself invisible to the Sikh patrol by enteis bis chair or ricksba; at night, he the English colleague would have been more days to call a spade a spade, and the policy of profession." In many quarters the wisdom of
les around in it pretty numerously, after the judicious application of a cent or two. But "please all, offend none," is the only one that allowing the publication at the present moment
we must further than the häll, and examine sending me your paper after the period for which squabbles of doctois over a grave which has can be profitably observed. "Please discontinue is much questioned; nor is it forgotten that these have to go up the general stair, the privaté
the interior
The public, such as ourselves,
honestly commenting upon a subject of genuine those who were dearest to the departed Emperor.spacious and lofty it is built in the Deaf I have subscribed" is the result in Bangkok of been barely closed must be extremely painful to officers, and other great people. The Hall is public interest, but which penetrates to the quick" The perusal of the report," said a gentleman beams across, and is penned off at the back for entrance is reserved for the Judge, lawyers,
the person whom the cap fits. Under these in high official position in Vienna, made my you, and I, and the riff-raff. These back-seats Architect style, has a Gothic roof, with massive
has a very hot time of it, and all things considered but in view of the light cast on the character of from the oriel-window-spectacled merchant to we think it would be better to charter a wheel the man who authorised its publication." With who looks old and ugly enough to be sister. that ancient daughter of Han in the corner, into the newspaper line in this city. barrow and vend vegetables than go at present reference to the report of the German physicians to the Witch of Endor. There are also a low on the case of the late Emperor, which has just Indians, a beach-comber or two who have THE Macao Independente of the 14th inst. been published, the British Medital Journalis come to pass away their valuable time, and publishes two contributions on the much dis-authorised to state that no reply will be made
a European constable, who is the only Chamber by Governor da Costa. One purports This resolution has been adopted solely in Now, having seen who our companione mine cussed topic of the dissolution of the Municipal thereto by Sir Morell Mackenzie for the present. perennial, personal interest in all the cases. person in Court that seems to take a vivid,
by the Governor, and the other is a clear feels bound to respect, but at the same time he intellectual-looking gentleman; he has no wig, to be the defence of the illegal act performed deference to wishes which Sir Morell Mackenzie end are, let us look beyond the pale, and examine the privileged ones. The Judge is a mild," exposé and condemnation of the still more Is anxious that it should be generally known and he sits in a one-sided way which is (wrong- legal doings in connection with the suppression that the German report contains serious mis- fully) suggestive of partiality. No, he doesn't of electoral rights by His Excellency through the statements of fast and erroneous inferences, the look quite one's idea of "m'lud," I think that medium of his adviser-the Colonial Secretary untruth of which he will be able to prove if the clerk to his parsen. The Registrar, is he? his brother on the seat below, who is playing The extinct Municipality is saddled with a few probibition now laid upon him is withdrawn. What does he do ? Sits there and passes. mistakes and irregularities in the management
things, ch fatiguing job. Ah I who is that of its affairs. The writer who has taken up the
imposing-looking gentleman with spectacles, and cudgels in defence of the Governor accepts the
a wig in front of him? Is he a Queen's Counself allegation that the last Corporation had managed
He seems to wind the Court round his finger; finds relief in the fact that the debt was a small to pay a debt incurred by its predecessor, but he
I'm not surprised to hear that he always carries the fury with him. Not a prepossessing individual, though. Never mind about the In the Supreme Court, sitting in Bankruptcy, rest of the legal gentlemen; they're a good one, and that in compensation for its settlement, this morning, before the Hon. Jas. Russell, looking lot, but they never seem to use those very substantial income from the new sinughter had been adjudicated a bankrupt, came up for looking youths at the side-table on the right are the dissolved Chamber had managed to derive a Acting Chief Justice, Rasmus Adolf Apenes, who piles of law-books they bring in These languid- for the newspapers-I thought so-Here our Apenes had agreed to a scheme whereby he was Fat," WON FAT!" cries's burly usher with Mr. J. F. Webber, who represented the Bank running comments are cut start by the com rupt, formally applied for the final. He stated that mencement of busincas."Won Fat," "Won to pay out of his salary $30 per month towards increasing vehemence. At the third time of the liquidation of his liabilities, and promised to asking an oily Chinaman laboriously risce near increase it to $50 monthly should his salary beus, and crawls to the front. An uncliced, but
read the following report:-I have the honour to nods, steps into the box, and takes the Book. at any time raised.
very valuable official, an Englishman evidently, The Acting Registrar, Mr. A. G. Wise, then anys something to him in Chinese, at which he report that in view of the facts disclosed by my They never hesitate about that, whether they report and in the evidence of the bankrupt when are disciples of Buddha, Christians, or anything that the bankruptcy was attributable to rash and tell a lie with equal blandness and confidence. bound to oppose his discharge on the ground cock's head, allo same, "Yes, allo same-they he appeared to pass his last examination, I feel else," Kissum close, smellum book, cut off
hazardous speculations.
THE APENES BANKRUPTCY.
THE BANKRUPT SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IMPRISONMENT.
oath
notorious Apenes bankruptcy case terminated this afternoon, when Acting Chief and are equally incredulous about Mr. Seth's Russell sentenced the bankrupt, whose discharge In each case a mistake of a second was this morning, both Magistrates sitting, on the house. This vulpine style of reasoning, it is bis final charge. was opposed by the Acting Registrar of the probably made by the "clocker "-a mistake charge of kidnapping a Chlacao boy aged 12 useless to say, only shows the writer's determin- Supreme Court, to six months imprisonment. A very easily made by inexperienced time-keepers. years. The lad's statement was to the effectation to bolster up an argument in defence of report of the proceeding will be found elsewhere in the 150 yards handicap Mr. Seth, with
that he was a fiber boy living with his mother his idol, the Government, but it goes without 7 yards start, got home after a hard race in 16 15th seconds-which means that his first On the 9th inst, while he was in the market
at San Hung, a village in Chinese territory, saying that it egregiously fails in logic and "ONE more unfortunate." Chan Ahoy, aged hundred was done in from two to three yards place making some purchases, the defendant Cemetery is then trotted out as an Impeach- common-sense. The bad condition of the public 18 years, was the inmate of a house of ill fame worse than eleven second-plainly showing accosted him, and after some little conversation ment against the Senado, and then the late in West Street, the mistress of which brutally that his reputed record of 10 t-5th seconds will ill-treated her. And so, feeling tired of life, she not bear inspection.
asked him what was his profession and whether fracas with the beef and pork farmer resulting wandered along the Praya about two o'clock.
he would not like to get better employment in the wretched supply of food and in the SAYS the this morning, and on reaching the wharf near latest statistics regarding the amount of damage which he assented. It was then arranged that councillors' want of tact and experience. The Japan Mail of the 4th instant: The in Macao that booking fish in San Hung, to increase of its price is directly attributed to the Murray Pier tried to reach the great beyond. done by the eruption of Bandai-san are as they should leave the place together. He did not inefficient lighting of the city, and several other inform his mother what he was going to do, but trivialities are then brought forward, and the
The interpreter administers the Mr. Wilson, who represented several creditors, Teing sam, chung toh chee," &c, at the following day shook the old home dust writer concludes that the Governor must have said he did not oppose the Bankrupt's discharge which Mr. Won Fat grina as he repeats off his feet, and struck out with his new com bad ample reasons to justify him in dissolving to perform, but he considered the case, as shown takes him in hand, unless the trouble, as is His Lordship said that he had a painful task the words. One of the good looking lawyers. paulon for fresh fields and fishing grounds new. the Municipality, though he refrains from by the Registrar's reports and the Bankrupt's generally the case, involves an amount too small On the 11th they arrived at the great city giving one of these reasons. Were the accusa own evidents at the last two examinations, a to call for legal assistance. A litigious people, Hongkong-and of course made tracks for a tions he makes true, they would not have salary of $300 a month he had entered into the tale of woy, and the Recording Angel opens bisa series of rash speculations, Having only a these Chinamen: Then the witness begins his boarding house, when he was carefully locked justified the dissolution of the Chamber, as purchase of shares amounting to nearly a million Sin-book MATTERS would seem to be getting rather warns for that crowd of cooks, pensioners, and other
up in an upper room. At 5 p.m., he was this measure can only be legally adopted dollars, knowing when he'did so that he had no supply geink After Won Fat Lan finished his
yells a new pen fresh'S larrikins who regularly feed and sleep on board Terrible as was the Bandai-san eruption, it will panied by the defendant and three companions, opposition to the Colonial Government. As not which was as follows If it shall appear to they have heard it) er, having been sent out of taken away and put into a "small boat," accom in the case of open insubordination and money was in fact in debt. His lordship then little parable, and one or two fishy-looking Imost of the Chinese-manned steamers which lie not bear comparison with that of Asamayama There was also another person in the boat who
read Section 143 of the Bankruptcy Act of 1864 friends, perhaps, have duly corroborated it fit along the wharves. This morning, before Mr.in 1783, when the number of men and women appeared to be going on the same quest as him-Governor in the decree ordering the dissolution, by means of fictitious capital or that he could defendant begins to weave his litla web of fiction a word of this has been breathed either by the the Court that the Bankrupt has carried on trade Court previously, tell entirely different tales, the Wodehouse, the chief officer of the steamer killed amounted to 4,626, and the damage to self. These two "mared birds" were put on Fokien charged one of the fraternity with being property of all kinds was something enormous board a steamer, and by this time the enterprising the Independente, it can only be inferred that the ground of expectation of being able to pay the arrives at the truth, or restralas himself from or by his Quixotic defender in the columns of not, at the time when any of his debis were None of them has told the truth, asfaras we could found on board that vessel yesterday, with intent The local native papers. represent the work of youth heard the vessel was going, not to Macao, dissolution was an essentially illegal act, without same, or that he has, with intent to con- committing them all for perjury, he only knows, contracted, have any reasonable or probable make out by straining our ears. How bis Lordship to commit a felony. Complainant put one of his exploration and surveying as attended with great but to Singapore, Thinking then something any justification whatsoever. The anti-guber-al the true siste of his affairs, wilfully My impression, and that of my companion, is quarter-mastera in the witness box to prove that the danger owing to the unstable condition of many about home and his mother, he began to cry malorial contributor dwells at some length on the omitted to keep proper books of accounts, that be tosses up; bebind his desk, or else trespasser was discovered at 8 pm.stowed away parts of the mountain, and the rugged nature of and was observed by the polica, who took him recent Injunction imposed by His Excellency on of that his bankruptcy is attributable to gives judgment alternately-one case for the under the cover of one of the deck winches, while the ejected mud and stones. One writer says: ashore. Ching Yau, a detective said he visited a all his subordinates to abstain from voting at extravagances in living, or that he has put any he does decide it, and after the polyglot gentice the steamer was at the "Douglas wharf. Cont-The sharpness of some parts that have to be steamer belonging to Mestry. Carlowitz & Co. the coming elections, under the penalty, in case of his creditors to unnecessary expense by man with the luxuriant baldness under his
rash or hazardous specalations, or unjustifiable plaintiff, the next for the defendant. Anyhow, plainant informed the Court that every time the traversed is worthy of comparison to the mous on the morning of the sath inst. and there of disobedience, of being considered as raising a frivolous or vexations defence of any action to as driven the parties away with words bich vessel came into labour there was something inin of swords said to exist in the Japanese ound the boy crying and demanding to be direct opposition to the first authority of the recover any debt or money due to him, the Court sound like dyerbailleal invective, the burly unher missing, presumably taken by auch visitors as Hades. It is asserted that hither and thither sent home. The vessel was on the point of colony, His Excellency reserving the right to take same from taking effect for such time at it may it is that of some young Portuguese who has may either refuse the order, or may suspend the beforementioned calls the next case. Probably Mc. Wong-a-fuk, the prisoner. Defendant smoke is seen to proceed from the mountain and leaving for Singapore. The accused said he was the matter into consideration. These being the think fit, or may grant anorderofdischarge subject been living as if he had a white man's income rendered the same old story; he went on board sundry alarming noises are heard. The hot innocent of any crime, the boy had said he was to look for a friend, and when he was unable to vapours emitted from the crater are sald to be willing to go and so he took him. For himself he addressing the meeting which asssembled at emoluments, profits, wages, earnings, or income by some inexorable tradesman. Here another exact words used by the Colonial Secretary in to any conditions touching any salary pay, only to be brought up with a very round tum find him he became afraid and hid himself, Mr. extremely suffocating, so much so that with was an honest farm labourer in San Hing,, had Government House the otherday, the writer bring touching afterwards-acquired property of the a fluent sepulchral voice. These cares aro “like which may afterwards, become due to him, or official is needed to interpret, which he does in Woog's friend on board the Fokies will lose the certain directions of the wind it is necessary to never been in Hongkong before in his life the penal legislation concerning the use of threats Bankrupt, as it shall think fit, or may sentence roasted maggots, short and sweet; the debis, run of his pal for the next three months, that lie down flat on the ground till these clouds have had no passage ticket for Singapore, and hid to prevent citizens from using their electoral the Bankrupt to be imprisoned for any period are undeniable, and the alleged Fortuguese being the period allotted to him by a merciful passed over, One explorer states that he was no witness to prove that he was anything else rights, to beat on His Excellency and he earnestly not exceeding one year. His Lordship also young man finds it convenient to have rice beak in which to recover from bis fright upwards of an hour la this posture before the but a hard-hearted trafficker in human fest niks the Lisbon, Government to remedy the do-referred to Griffiths and Holmes Commentary three times a day instead of twice for awhile with a modicum of hard labour thrown in to air was clear enough to admit of his approaching tHe was very properly sent to prison for
considered the case more serious than certain the way t on Bankruptcy and concluded by saying that ho his muscles up to concait-pitche
bető is nothing very much out the edge of the crater.
welve months with hard labour,
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plorable state of things now existing in the old Settlement