Intimations.
FLOWER
OUR NEW SEASON'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1888.
A JAPANESE contemporary states that the Kobe Electric Light Company will be ready to com mente operations in a few days. we are informed by the agents (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.) that the "Glen "liner Glangyle, from London, fofi Singapore yesterday afternou for this porti
he is away, without even a "thank ye," or signing for a drink. A couple of A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. |pitical looking cruisers pext loom on the horizon, gesticulating Orientally as they advance.
A gentleman crosses VER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS them to go upstairs."Ah! Mister So
and-So," of the corsairs shouts loudly,
one and they hurry after him as though they were hastening to tell him he had come into a million dollars. Such secrecy, such suppressed vehemence! They are asking for a job, that is all, Mister Sor is stated that there are at present 146 public and-So shakes his "head and quietly companies of various descriptións established in Extricates himself from them he does not Kobe and Hyogo. Their aggregate nominal credit their story of an impending "boom" | capital is. 1'2,906,444 yen. HOLLYHOCKS-PORTULACA, VERBENA in the Amalgamated Billygoat Co.,-and
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Tungkinny, 31st August, 1898-
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, EARR
ON THE RIALTO.
"Ir thereis one existing mystery in Hongkong which is really difficult to fathom, it is how the buzzing crowd of so-called brokers, whom one keeps jostling against in our main thoroughfare and elsewhere, manage
back they come, and sit down in the hall to continue their interesting confa' ulation, But outside, the door the broker genus is more numerous. One at the corner, with a turban on, is speaking in bland tones with a clerk of a local joint stock company whom he has intercepted. The clerk gets
FROM an advertisement in another column it will be seen that Lady Des Voeux will be unable to receive visitors at Mountain Lodge pa Sator day next, the 15th inst.
wg read that Messrs. Scott and Co., ship builders, Greenock, have secured an order to build an iron barge of between 400 and 500 tens
for service on the coast of China.
THERE are at present in Kobe, according to the latest official statistics, 265 persons owning jinrikishaw, and 2.259 jinrikisha coolies. Kobe can also boast of 148 public bath houses and
175 pawn-shops.
THE new dredger, Sode-ga Maru, built by Messrs. Simons and Co., Renfrew, left the Clyde on the 5th August after adjusting com- passes, for Japan, under the charge of Captain M'Dougall, Greenock.
Tilk Superintendent of the P. & Q. S. N. Co..courteously informs us that the steamship Verona, with the next English mail, left Singa pore for this port yesterday at 2 pm. A HYOGO vernacular print, the Shinonothe Shimbun, learns from an afficial report that a strange disease prevails at present among the inhabitants of two islands of Okinawa Ken, about 25 miles south of Napa, The sufferers come out in black spots, and many deatlis have taken place.
THE religious Christian Editor of the China fait says that the only remedy for beggars who drift back to the colony after having been sent home, would be a smart punishment in the form of a few strokes with the rattan. Fortunately the ordinances of the colony do, not, provide før, nor do they sanction, the brutalitics suggested by this merciful disciple of an absolete creed. It is also fortunate that nobody of any account takes more than a passing notice of the canting hypocrisy of an illiterate blatherskite?? THE Vienna correspondent of The Times telegraphs on Aug. Monsignor Semprini, Vicar-Apostolic of Hunan, has arrived in Vienna from China. He tells me that the Chinese authorities in Hunan, which it will be remembered was opened to foreigners in 1884, are as a rule trying honestly to do their duty and to protect the European traders, but that on some occasions they have to yield to the feeling of aversion to the foreign invaders which still prevails among the natives. As to the missionary work, he does not think it is very successful. The Bibles distributed among the people, are turned by them into slippers, and among the adults, scarcely any real conversions take place. The Roman Catholic Mission has, therefore, restricted its labours to the children abandoned by their poor parents About 700 of these unfortunate children
but for want of funds could collect as many thrusands.
connection: with the undertaking amounted to several hundred dollars.
mission on the purchase of the 30,000 pičuls: By the Attorney-General-He got no com
He did not receive 21 taels 6' mace in March, or 50 tnels on another occasion. He paid the money for the salt in two instalments, and got receipts, which he gave to Lai Kit:
By Mr. Francis-When the Nam Cheung Tye got their two-tenths they would divide it as they liked.
Ly his lordship The 30,000 piculs he bought were stored at Yau-ma-ti ; he inspected it there That completed the case for the defendants or the counter-claim.
Koon and his shop 1-10th between them, and 1 was to get the other 5-1oths. It was not arranged send out gun borts to stop salt-smuggling; it was that we should fsk the Salt Commissioner to
the Commissloffer of Customs. I do not know that the Commissioner of Custonis at Kowloon has nothing to do with salt.. Fraser Saith. told me so, I remember. 1.did not know how we were to raise the price of salt. A day or two later I was told that the captain of the Chan- 1 agreed to Mr. Fraser-Smith going up to fung had authority to stop smuggling, and
find him. I said if we bought too much people would be unwilling to sell, and if we bought too little it would not pay, Mr. their case was substantially a denial to the
The Attorney-General, for the plaintiffs, sald Fraser-Smith said we ought by E-10ths
org.roth all the stock in Hongkong.. one suggested so ingeniously by the defendants I told him not to send the gunboat top There was no question about the fact that
soon, us we wanted to get some more salt into there was between these parties-Lai Cheuk of the one hand and Cheuk Koon and Choo Hing.
the colony before we put a stop to the smuggling. I understood that they would try to get two gun- and possibly Yin Hing, on the other an boats sent down, one to guard each end of the intention to profit by the suggestion which harbour, and 1 agreed to pay $10,000 for two. originated with one of them-it was not quite launches that the Commissioner had for sale. clear which, probably Choo Hing-to speculate One was to be a passenger or cargo boat, to go in-to" corner "salt. It was proposed by one anywhere. They were independent of the salt of them that some European of reputation should scheme. If they were successful it was agreed be taken to assist them in corrupting the Com.that Mr. Fraser-Smith should put $4,000 into appeared to have been mentioned amongst them, missioner of Customs. Mr. Fraser-Smith's name them and 1 $6,000. He said that $9,5oa was but, as he very frankly stated, be thought that
their real price, but we had to give the English anything to do with. Therefore he exercised were in Hongkong and all sculed. He said that Censul $500. He asked me to give him the idea not a very wiseione, or one he could have
money next day, but I refused until the launches what they must look upon as the more legitimate was no use; he would not trust us Chinese. I form of influence to bring some sort of pressure to bear upon the Commissioner. With to making some profit out of the transaction that functionary was wiling to lend what legitimate assistance he could, in, stopping sali su ggling, There was a meeting, there were negotiations, and there was a dinner, at which, the scheme was to a certain extent skelehed out and put in rain. His case was that there were no final or definite arrangements come to between the parties, and it was not intended, as far as the salt put of the business was concerned, that Anything should be done, or any partnership finally constituted, until certain preliminary arrangements with regard to steam-launches and the Commissioner of Customs had been arranged. There was no final arrangement
At the dinner, whilst the contemplated partner- ship was yet inchoate, Lai Kit represented to the last witness that lic knew of a large stock of salt for sale, and that he had some thoughts of buying it. As a matter of fact he did not buy it, as it would be proved that the salt was not for sale. That was his client's story. It was on all-fours with Mr. Fraser-Smith's statement of what Lai Kit said to him-"He (Lai Kit) told me something about the purchase of 70 or 80,000 picula of salt; I do not know whether he purchased it or not. I understood that he did." They saw that he did not vouch with any amount of precision as to the fact; he could not say.
remembered, too, that their conversation was
that
view
refused to deposit the money in the Chartered Bank, but agreed to hand it to a lawyer. An agreement was drawn up by Mr. Dennys- several had been made, and altered--but it was not signed. An agreement was also drawn up about the Yee On We. It was agreed that the bonts were to be purchased in the name of the Loong Wo On. It was also agreed that no salt was to be bought until Mr. Fraser-Smith received a telegram from Canton that all was right. I was told that I should then get an official docu ment authorising me to seize smugglers. Mr. Fraser-Smith did tell me the authority had come, and I told Li Chouk Koon about that time. None of the salt that had been bought was sold until this week; I never told anyone I had sold
it this week, at 3 piculs 25 cattics, j-ro, and 3-8 per dollar. I could not have sold it better prices since I bought it. Mr. Fraser-Smith at first agreed to be a partner in the ownership of the boats, but afterwards it was, agreed that he should get $2,000, as bonus for purchasing them. He would not have been a partner in the salt firm, except the operations were for a large amount. Then he was to get 2-10th bonus; be was not a partner. The defendants' were not partners either, they only got a bonus. I did not give them any bonus because 1 lost on the transaction; I have not sold out. I was the sale owner.
about $50 a month; he doesn't know the difference between contango and cremation, and couldn't honestly pay the cover on a five hundred dollar transaction. What then can the persuasive Mahomedan hope to make out of him? He must surely expect to get something! Listen to him. The barque Ema, of London, which arrived at Do business, sar; by'gar; six months' time Havre on the 5th August from Hong Kong, you will be rich man." If he agrees to "do reports having experienced very heavy weather, | business." to be honest and plain spoken, and that she was obliged to make one or two
he will probably end in taking a passage sacrifices in the general interest, out of the colony in somebody else's name in a note on the progress of British North before the six months are over. But the Borneo The Times concludes :---The country broker will have done business” he now _enjoys_all_the advantages of a settled
apparently, numerous as they are and small worth losing. But there are lots more of India; offices, barracks, hospitals, jails, wharves, as must be their circle of patrons, is beyond the fraternity round the dour; they are
are in every station, Tribal feuds are becoming things of the past; explorers have been sent out culldoght: How merous the fraternity are
so thick that if
threw you
a stick
in all directions, payable alluvial goldfields have Father difficult to say--they are always at a dog and missed it: you would been found on the Segama river, coal measure rushing about at too fast a pace to be rubiahly Jame three brokers. They exist in the southern province, but up to the accurately counter-but we see that a
elaster at the Hotel entrance like the present only the agricultural wealth of the ter recent writer estimated their number at Peri of their national hightown poetry ritory is being developed. The revenue is about sixty. That is probably too high and the gates of Paradise. To see them derived from duties on opium, tobacco, and salt. estimate.-it would give one broker to line the step, enjoying a light breakfast or and export duty on produce and excise, fees and every 3000 or so of the population, all i titin off their toothpicks, and puffing their rents. The soil and climate bave been provedpines, the Malay Archipelago, Austrália, and whether he bought the salt or not. It was to be sorts of Chinese: included, and as not a cigarettes, one would think they lived like to be well adapted for the cultivation of tobacco, tithe of that number are likely, to have furls at the admittedly most gorgeous coffee, pepper, sugar and other tropical products. able field like China all the orders are represented, conducted through one of the present defendants, transactions through them it would come hotel in the Far East. Rut the Hongkongpetitor with that from Sumatra:"five companie but the districts of each are specified, and were His case was that he never did buy the sale &c. Salt loses eight catties per picul in a year.
to live. That they do live, and live well won't have Instanything at least, anything Government; the laws are based on those of are now under the charge of the Mission, which completed. What really happened was this it at three picula a dollar. I sold about half of
North Borneo' tobacco is now a successful com
are planting tobacco now, and by 188 it is anticipated that this number will be increased .it to twenty. The forests produce the finest known.
woods, including the famous bilian, and the planters, miners, merchants, shop-keepers, and labourers are free to come and go as they please. YESTERDAY'S number of that rancid semi-official publication which sees the light of day every week in the neighbouring Portuguese colohy Governor da Costa's recent refusal to accede contains an apology for an article in defence of
the petition made by a group of respectable citizens, requesting the removal of the cholern lazarettes from the City. The request made when cholera was raging and laying low
export of timber to China is increasing, Chinese
rather expensive on those who do. But Hotel didn't pay a dividend of four per let us say that there are forty brokers; cent for the past half year off these forty is a good number, and is highly gentry by any manner of means. suggestive of that traditional Forty-Atais amusing to watch the demeanour
· Bana and — the other parties. What sort of of the craft when together. When individuals are they? Thirty-five out of the inveighing against the Gentile the number will answer, we venture to say, effrontery and "blarney" are unlimited, to one of the highly-esteemed patriarchal ut I see their attitude one to another. The names; you can see Jerusalem in every one
mure successful leviathans swell out as of their classical countenances. They are a they blog "aliout their vast transactions, goodly company, and as distinct from the whilst the younger and shablier hangers rest of the Colony, as though the flags on listen with an air of conciliatory respect near the Clock Tower were their Ghetto; very different from their usual demeanour. however keenly they may compete against The different groups are gabbling in each other, their common purpose of Hebrew, Arabic, Hindustani, Portuguese, spoliation and the traditions of their race Chinese, and English; they are, to make them combine against unbelievers paraphrase a hackneyed quotation, forty and all others outside the pale. We hope talking like one, all noisy, and all this is not libellous; but maskee1 There damned." What use are they? They are perhaps, a dozen honest, reliable. simply live by promoting a most unhealthy necessary men amongst the brokering and dishonest spirit of pernicious gambling; fraternity, who are the rest? Unpre-they produce nothing, from an economical possessing, over-shrewd, insidious, and, we point of view; they do not even sell any regret to say, unscrupulous individuals, men thing, but merely exist by carrying to of straw, living on the scraps which the what "A has sometimes not always dozen good men and true let pass, without offices, without capital, without anything except the energy to work like niggers and the ability to beguile anybody weak enough to get into their clutches and
wealthy enough to make the game worth
the candle.
TELEGRAM S.
(Reuters)
was
numerous victims at the Cacilhos and Green Island lazarettes, and any Government but that acquiesced in the just wishes of a panic-stricken .of effete Portugal would have promptly community. Governor da Costa thought other wise; instead of personally settling a matter of Health, and after a few days had elapsed, of so much urgency, he referred it to the Board acting on the information and advice of that the removal of the lazarettes. It is a standing ridiculous corporation, he flatly refused to grant wonder to us how body of independent citizens can quietly allow themselves to be driven like dumb cattle by a Colonial Governor who publicly and most offensively declines to take their interests to heart. Had these facts taken place in Hongkong, or in any other civilised self-deluded autocrat who sought pleasure in and independent colony, we are sure the poor playing such pranks would very quickly have found out his mistake. But not' so' in Mamo. The Governor of a Portuguese colony is avert able Czar, of all the Russias. The people who allow such entities to domineer over them in such an arbitrary and unconstitutional fashion, are surely entitled to the general commiseration of the world at large. The decay and hopelessness which reign over the neighbouring colony are the direct effects of Portuguese misrule and thick-headed despotism. It is to be hoped the rising generation of the Holy City will some day
under which they live and groan.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing to the Manchester Guardian on the neglect of Manila, remarks
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A RECENT issue of the Etudes Religieuses con- tains some interesting statistics of the number and distribution of the Jesuit missionaries abroad at the commencement of the present year. In Asia, especially Armenia, Syria, certain parts of dia, and parts of China there are: 699. In China alone the number is 195, all of French nationality. In Oceania, including the Philip
New Zealand, the number is 270. In an illimit
Jesuits have Kiangsu province and the soulb of 8000 piculs of salt and wanted to buy. re-arranged about eighteen months ago The he dealt openly with Li Cheuk Koon when
heard of stores of salt, saying that he knew eastern part of Chili, the metropolitan province. it, although in point of fact he was afterwards They have 145. fathers in the former, and fifty unable to do so. With regard to the 30000 piculs, in the latter district. In such places aa japan, Li Cheuk Koon mentioned their existene and the Malay Peninsula, Siberia, Indo-China suggested that he should buy them for himself, and (Burma, Tong-King, Siam, Annam) they are not to them at the same price. That was depend afterwards, if a partnership was formed, re-sell found at all. The great centres of Jesuit mis-ent on their getting hold of the Chinese Com sionary activity on the surface of the globe are
missioner. He acted upon that suggestion and he bought it in the name of the Yee On Wo the Zambesi, Syria (where there are 142 French which was the only transaction that ever took Jesuits), Bengal, Kiangsu province in China, the under that name. It was carried out purely for Union (here they are all German Jesuits), Central even been thought of by the rest of the parties, Philippine Archipelago, the Central States of the his own benefit, the name Yee On Wonot having America and Cuba, Ecuador and Peru, Chili, who, on the contrary, were going to call their firm the Lun Woo On. He gave Li Cheuk and Paraguay.
Koon a commission to buy the salt and make all arrangements, himself finding the money. He was able to show that at that time Li Cheuk Koon received a commission on the transaction. It followed that if he did so he was inconicat ahly acting in contravention of the principle that the basis of the partnership was that they were had been alleged by him and his partners, that to make nothing themselves out of these trap sactions, but to share the profits. That was the only transaction which took place in connection with the prospective partnership. The enter prise was undoubtedly arranged, but nothing was finally settled on completely carried out.
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which our reporter has not set out at length,
By the Court contracted to buy 30,000 piculs, but the salt has not been weighed yet. I paid $7,700. The salt is in eleven godowns; I have sold the contents of five godowns. I have lost on it in expenses, rent, melting of the salt,
Leung Sheu, partner in the last witness's bank, gave evidence in support.
Li Lung, salt mercbant, said that he sold 30,000 piculs to Lị Cheuk Koon, at 3 piculs 10
casties per dollar. He gave him a candareen in each dollar as "cumshaw," or $77 odd altogether. Lai Kit in overtures for the purchase of 80,coo Low Wah, broker, stated that he acted for piculs. The purchase was not affected, as the
persons who held it were afraid.
That closed the case for the plaintiffs: The Attorney-General, in summing-up, sub- mitted that the defendants were bound, if their prove partnership strictly as set forth in their counterclaim was to avail them as a defence, to statement. He submitted that that had not been proved. The parties had met and discussed a project, but no final arrangement, such as would constitute partnership, was come to. It was arranged that when all was settled a document should be signed by the parties, but Lai Cheuk always refused to sign-he was not satisfied, and there was nothing binding on any of them. Lai Cheuk was's partner in a banking firm, but there was no evidence that his partners had given him permission to embark them in any ruch enterprise. The evidence as to who were partners was very conflicting, and altogether there was nothing to show that any real partners. ship existed.
Mr. Francis submitted that the evidence given by Mr. Frazer-Smith had conclusively shown that a partnership existed, if not between the whole of the plaintiffs and the defendants, ht least between the principal, plaintiff and the defendants. It was a very curious transaction altogether, and helped to throw a good deal of light on many things that had occurred in the Colony, showing that the Customs were not entirely to blame for the trouble they had given. He then reviewed the evidence, which, he said,
supported Mr. Fraser-Smith's account of the transaction. In conclusion he said that Mr. Fraser-Smith could only be entitled to a bonus, and not a share.
His lordship sald that he was in the same position as the other members of the firm.
Mr. Francis applied that, if the Court found for the plaintiffs on the counterclaim, leave should be given to add the name of Mr. Fraser-Smith to the counterclaim, and a decree granted as against Lai Kit.
His lordship asked what the position of the defendants would be if it was found that Lai Kit had actually lost on the transaction admitted.
Mr. Francis pointed out that all he had
FOR unparalleled credulity, or impudent audacity it does not matter very much which is the real quality-the so-called intelligent Chinese beats creation. No better example of this could be cited than a statement made in the Supreme Court to-day by a Chinese gentleman named Lai Kit, the defendant in the Salt "Corner" case Mr. Lai Kit is a Chinese banker, and no doubt, from his position, a leading and influential been in Hongkong for twenty years, and the member of the Chinese community. He has whole of that time engaged in the banking He then called
Li Cheuk, otherwise Lai Kit, one of the business. And yet, notwithstanding what must plaintiffs, and partner of the Sun Mo native have been an extensive experience of foreigners in this colony, Mr. Lai Kit naively stated in the bank, who said:-I know Li Cheuk Koon, witness box that he had been informed by his a defendant, and U Ying Hing, his foki.
remember a conversation. I had with the friends (and implied that he had believed) that former in December last about salt specula one of his associates in the projected Salt Farm
tion. He came and spoke to me about —Mr. Fraser-Smith, editor of the Hongkeng Tele-
it. Several days later I and several others met graph was a person Invested with such that he could calmly go up to Paking and salt. The Commissioner of Customs at Canton high authority and of such great influence at dinner, and arranged a scheme for dealing in aught to have been there, but was prevented. } heb-nob with the Emperor without ceremony,
expressed a doubt as to whether the scheme bad a free and special entrée to the yaman of His Excellency the Viceroy of Canton as if it
would be successful, but U Yin Hing and Li were a public hotel, was paid $1,000 per annum
Cheuk Koon said it was sure to be. They said we must get a good European, and he could ask by the Governor of Hongkong for leting that the Salt Commissioner to let them have a oficial down easily in his paper, could induce the
steamer to stop smuggling, and then, having British Consul at Canton to do anything be liked for a consideration, had been offered bat had bought a supply of salt, it would sell at a big refused the Registrar Generalship of this colony profit. I said when all was settled i would make acted under his orders, was a full-fledged barrister premature. I said perhaps the Commissioner of who did not practise law because he could Customs had been changed, but they replied "No squeeze" far more money out of his news. fear," adding that Mr. Fraser-Smith knew them the great men who could go into the Emperor's paper, and a lot more hair-raising atrocities all, and was a man of great influence, just like twenty years, must either be an arrant regue or Mr. Lai Kit, banker in Hongkong for over presence. They also said that the Governor gave him $1000 a year for him to use, and that If he did not Mr. Fraser-Smith would write in ́moming and evening they are crowded ; but a consummate fool. We have no hesitation in the papers to his discrèdit. They further told me. they do not pay, and probably never will pay, saying that, in our opinion, he is both.
that Mr. Fraser-Smith was a barrister, though he Competing with the tramways upon the various
did not practise. After that we dined. I have routes are also what are called the "express” |
partners in my bank; I had no authority from coaches, drawn by four horses, with postilions |
them to enter upon this scheme. I remember Mr. Fraser-Smith and others going to Canton; and bells, the most grotesque contrivance
I saw them afterwards. Nothing came of altogether that can well be imagined. These
the purchases of the two steamers ; no agreement also do not pay. The caromata is what may
was ever drawn up about the salt specula be called the camel of Manila. Itisa two-wheeled
tion. I was looking about for salt to buy. The news originally published by the Chinese vehicle, with a leather or tin top supported on four
I heard of some at the Sa Shin shop, where Times as to the probable opening of the West pales for a roof, and leather flaps for the sides
they deal in it. About the beginning of River to foreign trade and navigation is of the and back, to screen the weary traveller from
February a broker told me they had 80,000 highest Importance to the port of Hongkong. the sun or rain (neither of which ends they Li Cheuk Koon, be second defendant in the piculs to acil, and I mentioned it to Li Cheuk There is no other distributing centre of trade, accomplish), and drawn in most cases by the case. He said that in December last he entered. Koop. We went to see Mr. Fraser-Smith about always excepting Macne, nearer the consuming most wretched, emaciated-looking donkeys. the Yee On Wo firm, of which Lai Kit was the it. I did not tell him that I had bought it; 1 and exporting markets which lie on the banks The ability of the animal to go must, not capitalist. His joki, U Yin Hing, Lui Hon Po, had not, because it was not for sale. Li Cheak of the West River than this colony. Macao is however, be judged by his personal appear Mr. Fraser-Smith, and others were partners. Koon told me he knew of 30,000 piculs at West situated almost at the mouth of the West River "It is, in fact, not unfrequently in an They were to speculate in salt, the shares Foint, and advised me to buy it. I told him to and is therefore in close contact with the inverse ratio. The art of getting into and out of being allotted as follows: Lai Kit and his find out the price, and when be told me what it localities likely to become prominent as trading a caromats after heavy rain without retaining in partner to find the money, and the rest to put was I told him to go and buy it in my name, emporiums, but it must be admitted that the one's personal apparel the appearance of having their bodies in "work without wages. The The proposed firm had not been named the Yee neighbouring Portuguese colony is neither able had a lie down in the road demands much study, capitalists were to have 6-roths, witness and On Wo; the name had not been suggested to supply the new markets with the commodities, and the mind will remain divided as to whether the rest of the partners in the Nam Cheung TyeThe bargain on the purchase was paid they may require, nor to re-export to Europe the wheel or the roof is in its
proper
on the 5th February, and a recoups given to me, and the world the native products grown or will not The roof is frequently too low, for 2-roths amongst them, and Mr. Fraser-Smith
2-Toths. About the 25th January Mr. Fraser-The balance was paid some days later and manufactured along the banks of that Immense be forgotten in Manila how the gallant Colonel Smith, witness, and Lui Hon Po, went to Cariton. By Mr. Francis --I have been twenty years | water-way, Had Macao a sultable harbour, now commanding the 58th Regiment in Hong. They saw Mr. Pitman, and had an interview with in Hongkong. I have not, and never had, any and Portugal ships and steamers in sufficient Kong, and who cannot be less than 6ft. Gin. is the Salt Commissioners' official, who gave them business but banking, and have a sixth share numbers to run to and from its centennial colony height, was compelled during his travels in the permission to stop. salt smuggling. After that in the bank. I first used the name Yee On Wo the opening of the West River would have been Pallippines to discard, the roof and sit with his they came back and purchased salt. Lai Kit when I bought the salt; 3 had not used it before, in itself a sufficient motor to transform once head projecting through the top of the vehicle, bought about 80,000 piculs, and witness bought nor have I used it, since, I did not know Mr. more, as if with a magic wand, the old dead-and- and protected only by an umbrella." If it in a 30,000 picula from the Salt Fish market at West Fraser-Smith before the dinner in December alive.city into a flourishing emporium of trade. question in Manila, as between the caromnia. Foint, at a piculs go caules per dollar. He paid but bave been to see hita six or seven times. As however, the lalermediate European settico and the tramcars, of the survival of the fittest, for it with money he received from Lai Fo. since. At the dinner nothing was waid about Mrment between the proposed new markets and the then the tramcars will have to go to the wall, for Later on Lal Fo told him he had sold some of Fraser-Smith going to Canton. I did not recom-colony of Hongkong, is, to all purposes, à usclean
inter alia:-There are lines of tramway to all
the principal suburbs of Manila, and in the
SUPREME COURT.
sold to him, and vice versă. The tegitimate brokerage required by the score of public companies here could be efficiently done by half a dozen sworn brokers. What raison d'ure have these two-legged jackals? There are a hundred reasons for their non-existence, at least as It is worth while losing an hour any day brokers. One good reason is working to sit in the corridor of the Queen's Road out his sentence in Victoria Gaol at the entrance to our principal hotel, or to stroll present time, and it would be interesting to about under the arcade, and watch the know his opinion of this daily increasing busy bees at work. What the keen and most undesirable fraternity. The colony observer would see would be something can do without these touts and croupiers like this:-First a sallow young man of the gambling wheel of Shares; but until shake themselves free from the inglorious yoke and that the present incumbent of that position a written agreement, but that just then it was saunters up towards the bar, as though he the Chamber of Commerce actively moves were going to have a quiet refresher all in the matter, and a regular Stock by himself. He goes to the gas jet, lights Exchange, open only to men with capital a cigarette and saunters out again. The and integrity, has been created, we shall sallow young man is a budding broker. A still have to lament their existence, more imposing member of the profession waddles up hastily a minute or two later; he is well, even elaborately dressed, looks as though he would be good for twenty-five cents to the Hotel receipts and—yes! 'he's going into the bar. No, he stopped just short; he has come to see if there are any of his clients knocking about, and as there is nobody particular Inside he strolls quietly back into the sunshine again. Hullo! still another. Here's business; see the next man striding up at a five mile galt, with important commissions sticking out a foot every way, Shouldn't wonder if he calls for a small bottle. Ah! he's stopped at the desk; he reaches for a sheet of Hotel paper, selects a pen, stoops over the counter, and begins to write. He finishes the note, and now for the small bottle! Is zere a coolie can take zis chit?" he asks the clerk, who is giving some infor- madon to a boarder. He is gently, but firmly, told that there is not, and if he stayed to listen, which he is too busy to do he might hear an additional remark to the effect that if he waited till there was a coolle to do his dirty work he would be as
THE GERMAN NAVY.
LONDON, September 10th, It is reported that Germany intends to increase her Navy-
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AMERICA AND THE CHINESE. The Senate has passed the Chinese Immigra- tien vill. -
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S MANIFESTO, The electoral manifesto of President Clover land advocates a reduction of the tariff and recommends legislation to restrict the influx of unskilled cheap labour..
(From Siraits Times.) THE UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, September 1st.
A bill has been presented to Congress embody ing the reprisals in the sense of President Cleveland's message (regarding the Canadian Fisheries question).
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The Sugar Convention has been signed.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tite meeting of the Legislative Consell, old as some of those prime old progen), which was to be held on the 13th inst,, has been tort of hisMETHULASE for instance, But postponed until further notice.
ance.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Fustice.)
THE "SALT" CORNER. The hearing of this case was resumed this, morning. Mr. Francis frst called
ship, without trying to show what business took attempted to show was partnership or no partner place. If the question of profila was referred to the Registrar materialevidence could be adduced with regard to the 80,000 piculs.
The Attorney-General opposed the proposed amendment.
His lordship said that he would do justice, and. deferred judgment till Friday.
THE WEST RIVER. ་་ད་ན་བ་མ་ད-ད་
the caromata and the cry-between a grant and the salt for 3 piculs per dollar. The salt had mend that he and LI Cheak Koon should go to factor in the problem, it follows that our colony 4 yell-peculiar to its driver when urging his been bought on behalf of the Yes On Wo firm, Canton, nor did I agree to pay their expenses. Mr. is the only points that can and will benefit aleed on its tortuous course, are alike dear to but Lei Fo had not given any account of what it Fraser-Smith was to get 2-jpths of the profits, the by the opening of that valt. Though not over
"was sold for, or to whom. Wituere's capensasin | Commissioner of Customez-lethaj the Li Chauk deep waterway, which, starting from the delta o
the 'batire,