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IT is found by calculation that at 328 yanis a man has the appearance of one-third his height; at | 437 yards, one-fourth ;' and at 546, one fifth.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1888.
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MORE COERCION IN IRELAND,
LONDON, September 27th, John Redmond has been sentenced to five week, imprisonment,
THE EMPEROR'S DIARY. The German Government has prohibited the further issue of the Emperor Frederick's diary.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Messrs. Carlowitz'& Co, inform us that the steamship Stura, of the Navigazione Generale Italians, left Singapore yesterday for this port.
THR Rev. F. Hartmann, Pastor of the German Bethesda Chapel, requests us to state that owing to repairs going on in the building, the usual Sunday Service will not take place to-morrow.
not have been a bad match,”.
By kind permission of Colonel D. G. Anderson, the Regimental Band will play in the Public Gardens, to-morrow (Sunday), from 9 till 10 p.m. The following will be the programme:—
March.....The Borderer".. Overtits.... Ménétrier de St. Wasst" Veise......Rhoda"
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Gavoti. Semplice PARIS and its suburba has a population of 2,961,089, of whom 3,344.450 are resident in Paris itself. At the beginning of the century the total population of the Seine was only 631,585, so that it is now more than four times as large as it then was, having increased to 1,200,000 in 1840 and to 2,400,000 in 1876. It has, therefore; increased by about 600,000 in the last twelve years.
"I DON'T know whether I ought to help you or not," said the lady, dubiously; you look like a drinking man," "I give you my word, ma'am," said the melancholy but intelligent tramp, "I was drew into bankruptcy by keepin' a temper- ance hotel. It didn't pay, but I went cheerfully to ruin, rather than sacrifice my principles
FROM Nagasaki wo learn that a Russian Circus, which has no less than six lady performers, is expected to arrive there from Vladivostock some time next month.
No serious accidents are reported in connection with last night's blow, owing to the general precautions taken. A Chinaman fell into the water as he was coming off his junk, but got out unhurt. A few sampans were broken up by the high tide about ten p.m. last evening, and the Praya was in many places swept with spray. The water rose about three feet higher than asual To-day it has blown pretty hard, and the weather has certainly been threatening, but as we go to press it would appear, although the barometer has not gone up to any appreciable extent, that the worst has passed.
witnesses he worked in several telling allusions to circus riders, Balaam, Shakipere, and hide and-seck. Added together, he said, the estimated values of the stock, furniture, clothing, &c., amounted to $750 or $850. Was it likely then that the fourth prisoner would pay the others to set fire to the shop for the sake of obtaining $1000, at the risk of losing his stock, his con- nection, and his liberty? With regard to the allegation that he tried to bribe the father of the first witness to send him away, the truth was that he would not bribe the lad's father-that he refused to pay blackmail to have the case stopped. The witnesses had committed gross perjury in their evidence there and at the Police Court, and conspired to ruin the prisoners than that the he put it that far more probably they had
prisoners had agreed to set the premises on fire and risk all for the sake of a hundred dollars' profit."
His Lordship That is your case? Mr. Robinson No. His Lordship:-Oh!
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Mr. Robinson, in conclusion, submitted that the charge had been brought for the purposes of extortion by the boy who said he saw the fire.
Mr. Francis, in reply, agreed that the only practical question for the jury was whether the three prisoners set fire to the shop or not. If the jury believed, on the evidence put before them, that the fire was wilfully caused, the fourth defendant was equally involved. It was far more important, in such cases as that, that the Instigator-in this case the fourth prisoner-the person who profited by the fire, should be punished, rather than the instruments. Therefore the cases had been united in the only way possible by bringing a charge of conspiracy prisoner could not escape, as he would have against the four, in order that the fourth had a very good chance of doing if tried alone on another charge on evidence referring only to himself. The jury had only to find on the minor charge, that of defrauding the Insurance Company. No evidence could have. been adduced, as he had said before, that the four defendants arranged what should be done, the evidence, if it could be believed, simply
Institution which would take these things in hand to give up competing for the foreign exchange business and remain simply a Bank of Deposit and Discount, taking in reality a position similar to the Presidency Banks of India.
The trade of China has of late years been peculiarly susceptible to panics arising from sudden drains of silver, either to the interior, for cash remittances or for export, owing to depressed rates of exchange with foreign countries. These recurring periods of stringency do much injury to trade and their effects are felt for long after wards. Local enterprise is also much discouraged by the probability of advances being unexpectedly called in to afford the Exchange Banks the of exchange. meani profiting by an abnormally bigh rate
FORMOSA.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
TAMSU, 18th September Fighting is still going on very doggedly at Pilate The telegraph steamer Feeches arrived here on the 15th from the East Coast, with about fifty sick and wounded "braves," in all states of most pitiful misery. Everything that could be done for the poor helpless fellows was done immediately. The Feeches steamed round to Kelung on the 16th to coal, and went to the Pescadores afterwards to repairthe cable between there and Taiwanfoo, which has been interrupted for several days for reasons unknown. As soon as that job is finished, she is expected to take Ammunition and provisions to the troops at Pilam.
In consequence, when these funds are re-imported, difficulty is felt in obtaining employ. ment for them. It is probable that room could The number of foreigners in North Formosa be found for the employment of a considerable is steadily increasing, especially in this place amount of Foreign capital; and an institution and at Twatutia, Not many years ago, ibere. which could bring the cheap money of Europe were no married people living here at all; now to a country where the rate of interest, even on there are no less than six married couples, with a good security, is high, would find its profits inwenty-five youngsters swarming around them. supplying the wants of China,
A "schoolmarm" will be wanted soon. One of the leading members of our community is engaged to an amiable young lady in Hongkong and it is rumoured that the happy event will pretty soon come off.
The industry, commercial aptitude, and good faith in money matters of the Chinese, offer guarantees both for the security and profitable nature of investments of foreign capital in this country.
Yours faithfully,
MONETARY, Hongkong, 19th September, 1888.
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LOTI LIKIN.
Our Shanghai morning contemporary translates Liang Kiang in reply to a petition from the, the following minutes by the Viceroy of the Haiakuan Likin office, referring to the attempt to levy Loti Likin on certificated goods at fu
I am sorry to report that chofera is still. prevalent amongst the natives, especially at Banka and Twatutia; there has also been a few cases at this place. It is said that about fifty per cent, prove fatal, but we all hope now that matters in this respect will soon ameliorate, cooler weather having set in. Happily, no foreigners have been attacked; But, unfortunately, many members of the foreign community bavé
our good Doctor has had very hard and trying been suffering from fever, some of them rather more so than in former years. On the whole, times of it lately between his foreign and native patienis, and with a large number of sick and wounded soldiers suddenly thrust upon his professional skill in addition to his ordinary clientèle.
THX Macao Independente, in alluding to the latest election of the members of the dissolved Cor. poration, has the following interesting paragraph: "It cannot be said that the Governor does not possess sufficient strength to prevent a re- election of the Chamber; but why should be resort to such means when the laws give him ample powers to demolish the pack-of-cards castle, by simply flapping an order on it? This is surely constitutional writing 1 If the Governor of a Portuguese Colony has powers to prevent an election, which is guaranteed by the laws of the realm, from being carried out, then we may be sure Portugal will deserve to possess colonies only when the pigs begin to fly BERLIN just at present is the paradise for men who wish to get married. A Berlin merchant lately advertised for a wife and received 277 answers. Of these eighty-seven were widows, varying in age from 25 to 52, forty-two of them had no children, and twenty-one possessed Is it possible to sit down when there is nothing fortunes entirely under their own control. Four showed that they did certain things the tendency passing various stations and barriers en route intelligent man, could permit himself to send his But a solution of the difficulty was discoveret ladies who had been separated from their of which was to defraud the Company. The three and a further payment of duty cannot be levied. assistance whatever, and without ambulances.
husbands also wrote to express a desire to try their by the old troops of the African legion. When- luck at marriageļa second time one of them for whose interest thething was done, made à claim "ppointed to levy the Loti Ljkin in the Soochow emor did not secure the services of the three“
a third time. Of the remaining 186 only two sufficiently numerous they would arrange them. gave their age as over 3D; eighteen of them support, and was found the same evening have been landed and warehoused before they Li Hung-chang has since-attached to, his
professed to be just turned 16. Seventy-one photographs were inclosed, and thirty-one of them are said to represent remarkably pretty girls.
Thank yo, ma'am. Them's the finest-lookin' tarts and cookies I've had this summer,"
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to sit upon ? The question'seems a triffe absurd.
ever the soldiers made halt on marshy ground, they used to sit on each other's knees, and when
selves in a ring, so that the last man of the row would sit on the knees of the foremost of the
party..
DR. Portugaloff of Russia has discovered that drunkenness may be cured by subcutaneous injections of strychnine, in the proportion of 1 grain to 200 drops of water, 5 drops to be injected every twenty-four hours for eight or ten con secutive days, The patient will find, according to Dr. Portugaloff, that "the first attempt to resume drinking will produce such painful and nauseating sensations that he will turn away from the liquor in disgusc.”
AN Emergency meeting of Perseverance Lodge, FOR a couple of nights past the lamplighter who No. 1165, will be held in Freemasona' Hall, ¦ plies his trade along Wyndham Street, Pedder's Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock | Hill and Ice-house Lane has either lost his. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
"YES," said Mrs. Flizhoodle, who had been married 21 year, "if I were a young girl again I'd never get married. I wouldn't look at the men, wouldn't touch 'em, and I'd bring up my daughters to the same way of thinking."
chronometer, or been afflicted with temporary blindness, for any one living in this district or passing along the streets alluded to, must have noticed the sepulchral darkness which enveloped the neighbourhood till about 7 pm when the first glimmer of gas-light was visible. We would call the attention of the Gas Company to this irregularity. Perhaps the typhoon is responsible for it!
"I THINK an egg would make that coffee settle, Mr. Scadgers," said the impecunious boarder, heedlessly. "If the recipe is a sure one, pray YEARÉ ago a`large warehouse was burnt to the let me offer you an egg. Mr. Slen pa," responded ground in Dresden. It was winter, the wells the landlady, severely'; and then the conversation were frozen, and it was terribly cold. There languished,
were plenty of spectators, but only few persons willing to render assistance. Among the crowd TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 stood a corpulent gentleman enveloped in e o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel thick fur coat, and looking on in apparent enjoy flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting codement of the scene. **Come here, sir, and help pennant C, to convey men ashore to TI 2.m.
to carry water," exclaimed a volca from the service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return ranks of the water-carriers. "I am Councillor ing about 12.30.
M-," replied the man with the fur. “And 1 am the Duke of Courland," rejoined the water- carrier, and dashed a bucket of water over the
BALD-HEAD MAN (who inclines to be facetious); "I'm getting to be pretty bald. Suppose you'll have to cut my hair for half-price hereafter, eh?" Tonsorial Anist (who is equal to the emergency): "Oh, no, sir. We always charge double when we have to hunt for the AN. American lady, writes from Marseilles that before leaving Rome she had an audience with the Pope, who, the writes, "as I knelt before
councillor's head..
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SAYS the Shanghai Courier of Sept. 25th Little news has been published in the local press regarding the present passage up the Yangtze of the new steamer Xuling, and the silence is to be regretted, as great interest is taken in the pro- gress made to open the Upper Yangisze to steam prise, and it is difficult to believe, that full navigation. She is the pioneer boat in the enter
information respecting her movements would be detrimental to the interests of those who have put their money in her. Areport was current a short time ago to the effect that she was not to attempt the trip up the rapids to Chungkiang, but had been chartered, to run between Hankow and chang. We believe there is no truth in this report. Our latest news from up the river is to
the effect that the accident to her machine, which occurred just below Wuhu, has been repaired, and that she was proceeding on her Journey, slowly but surely. The Fing, we hear, has been re-chartered to run between Hankow And ichang for two years, and one of the conditions made, we understand, is that the Kuling does not run on the same route during the continuance of the charter. It would thus seem that, after all, the Kuling is really to make an attempt to reach Chungking, and we hope she will be successful.
Court this afternoon in the case of the Dock A VERY Smusing incident occurred at the Police
Company against J. G. de Jesus, for larceny of paints, etc. When the case was called at noon, Mr. Wotton appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Webber for thedefendant, but Jesus, who had been
gone out for a walk," said his Ingentions released on bail of $400, wan non- est. "He had
attorney, and no doubt would turn up shortly,"
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men set fire to the shop one of them saved a certain book--the master, to whose injury or in on the Company, and put forward the book in
endeavoring to induce the principal witness to leave bis shop, and offering him money to enable him to do so.. It they believed that, they would believe that the "men con- spired to cause the fire, and were induced It was not necessary for the prosecution to to do so by the master, for his own benefit. show that the goods in the shop were of less. value than when the insurance was effected; it was equally, a case of fraud if the Company of stock strengthened the evidence against the was asked to pay the claim, though the absence master. If it had been shown that the shop dence in favor of the master not being in the was well stocked, business flourishing, and money not wanting, that would be strong evi- conspiracy. But it had been shown that the stock had been diminished, that the business was falling off, that the master was in debt, and that there were many reasons why he should be accus, even at some sacrifice to himself, to get some ready money-$1000-from the Insur- ance Company, and therefore he was induced to conceive, or at any rate enter the conspiracy be her dealt at length with the points raised
by Mr. RobinsoD♪ ̧
His Lordship briefly summed up, referring to the principal parts of the evidence. He said that if the testimony of the first witness had stood alone it was so extraordinary that be doubted if it would have been convincing, but thought it deserving of credence. corroborated so strongly by other evidence he
After a retirement lasting twenty minutes the jury unanimously found the whole of the prisoners guilty.
Mr. Robinson asked that sentence might be stayed in the case of the fourth prisoner, on the ground that the indictment was bad in law, Tuesday was accordingly fixed for hearing the arguments in support,
CORRESPONDENCE.
(We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expresied by correspondents in this column.]
BANKING IN CHINA.
TO THE EDITOR or the "Howoxomo Telegraph,"
Kao:-
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4th September, 1888. In all cases where foreign goods in accordance with treaty are conveyed under cover of a half- duty certificate, all that requires to be done on is to produce the said certificate for examination It is therefore incumbent on the Board circuit to wait until the goods, after arriving at their destination and giving up their pass, shall call on the native receiver for payment.
This is most clearly set forth in a copy of the Regulations jointly submitted to me by the two Boards of Soochow and Shanghai, and how 'can it have escaped your notice?
Governor, generally known as a clover and Much indignation is felt here that the
"braves" to the front without any medical Everybody is greatly astonished why the Gov young medical gentlenen trained by Dr. Wykeham Myers of Takow (Formosa), whom Military College in Tientsin-Shanghai. Mercury.
KOREA.
According to the Regulations in force in Soo- chow and Shanghai all you have to do, seeing.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT) you are stationed at Hsiakuan, is to inspect all
Fusan, Sept. 19th. foreign goods for the Provincial Capital covered
I regret to report that our crop of rice and by a half duty certificate as they pass your beans in the vicinity of Fusan must be consi barrier but your own for them to pass before barrier. Even supposing there were no other dered lost. We have had no rain whatever for arriving at their destination, all you could have country the farmers are reported to be much e considerable time. In other parts of the to do would be to retain the pass and forward it better off. This is a hard case for our setile to the Head Office; you yourselves cannot levyment, where rice and beans always used to form any duty.
two staple articles of export.
Complaints have recently been received from two firms, Yu Shang and Yung Hsing, stating that their goods have been detained and I was requested to give instructions to the Central Office for their release; with this request I at the time complied.
up for cancellation, foreign goods conveyed In a word, if a certificate has not been delivered thereunder are under no circumstances whatever
liable to duty...
The instructions issued by Chen, the Customs Taotai of Chinking, namely, that if on examina. tion the goods correspond with the entries on the certificate they shall be allowed to pass, are quite correct. You, however, have not studied the regulations with any care, and now when con: sequently you have committed mistakes, you are of aware of having done so, but on the contrary characterise the action of Chen Total as irregular, a course of proceeding which is not at all in order.
I have to express a hope that for the future you will, in obedience with my instructions, see that the goods and the entries on the certificate correspond with each other, and, if so, allow them to pass at once. Should there be any further complainis of detention and delay I shall have to visit you with punishment.
Similar instructions are being issued to the bead office in Nanking,
With reference to the case of levying Zoti duty on foreign goods in Nanking and district, I have to add that in reply to a petition pre sented by the Chaokuan Likin Office, I stated that a careful investigation would require to be made by the Central Office and having learned their report and the views they take of the
here on the 14th inst.:-Kaimon Kan, Naniwa The following Japanese men-of-war called Kan, Tsukust Kan, Rusa Kan, Minechi Kany The Tabachshe has arrived on the 16th insty she is to join the flying squadron and to replace
by the Admiral's excellent band, and on the here we enjoyed some splendid music, discoursed the Fuse Kan as flagship. While the fleet was
whole, there was. & jolly good time all round
'during their stay..
the Takachilo Kan. The ships were in apple
The Japanese Ministers Ito and Saigo were on board the fleet, arriving from Nagasaki n pic order, and their crews behaved exceedingly well while in port. The whole crowd left us on the 17th for Vladivostock vid Gensan.
Lately, some rice, has had to be imported from Japan into the settlement, but we soon expect native cereal to drop in coastwise. Shanghai Mercury.
SEOUL
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT.)
16th September, 1888. On the 5th instant, Colonel Chaillé Long, of in the Soudan, and now Secretary to the U.S. Egyptian famie, formerly chief of staff to Gordon. Legation here, left by the steamship Higo Mars for. Futan, wherefrom the Colonel intends to cross over to the Island of Quelpart for the pur pose of exploration and collecting notes of travel. This Island, which local tradition says, was visited by Yacoob Khan, in search of conquests, had once a settlement of Spanish or Portuguese traders, was the scene of the stranding of the Sperber, is now the seat of at least two branches altogether a field which is sure to yield a rich of highly ornamental Corean industry, and is
return to an explorer of Colonel Long's ability. Since the present Acting Maritime Sub-prefect
A Japanese, squadron under the Command of at Amoy, Chang, took his sent some two months Admiral to arrived lately in Chemaipo. Admiral ago in the Yaman, there has been a wonderful Ito vialted Seoul, as the guest of Mdme, and decrease in the cases brought to the Yamen for Minister Kondo, who, to celebrate the occasion, squeezes levied by his clerks, who obtain from when a very enjoyable evening was spent listen she arose to go he again smoothed her rosy
they no longer bring so many of their disputes On the tenth it appears that a deplorable wear for his sake. "He is a dear old man," own, but could not get one either for love or
money. We do not think it was illwill on the at present he had no alternative but to accede to business it will never be looked upon by the before the Court, as they say they don't care to Land Chinese in Chemulpo. A dispute arose, encounter took place between Japanese sailors she adds, "but very feeble."
"lose a cow to win a cat." part of the people; quite the reverse. We do
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NOTES from chineSE PAPERS.
THE.Shanghai Afercury publishes the followingnisances of the accused be estreated, to which blish a National Bank for China, of Issue and subject I would come to a decisión.
Mr. Wotton thereupon applied that the recog SIR-It is now generally proposed to esta- extract from a private letter dated Kinhwa-fa, Sept.: 8th :-Owing to the long distance of our request the magistrate had no option but to Deposit, and there is ample room for welcoming an institution of this nature, as an abundance of accede. Mr. Webber said he could not object, capital would be to a considerable extent kept station "inland, I guess this won't reach you before a fortnight or so. We all are well bere.abia client ought certainly to have been present, free for use in local discounts and advances, in We have been very busy all this time building a but as there was probably a misunderstanding place of being locked up in speculative exchange
on his part as to the time the case was to operations. bouse, which has given us no end of worry and
To complete the whole system of Banking in make things straight if Jesus turned up on is a real Local Bank. The Hongkong and
him, smoothed my hair and face, held my hands, trouble in this outlandish plače, as you may well be tried, he assumed that his Worship would | China, only one thing is still required and that decision. The reason is said to be the heavy gave a most successful entertainment on the 8th and talked to me in a low, sweet voice." As Imagine. We would rather have rented or bought Wednesday next. His Worship (Mr. Pollock) Shanghai Banking Corporation, as it works at each party to a new case 817, or $34 in alling, to the really excellent, performances of tha theek, and gave her a beautiful silver medal to and loss of time of building a house of our Indicated that he would fix matters up if the present, has only one more competitor amongst The Amoy people are very litigious, but now Japanese,paval band,
a good native house, than go to the expense
the
the European Hanks represented in China, and so long as it competes for the Foreign Exchange. other Banke, or by anyone else, as a Bank of Deposit and Discount.
and from words it came to blows, a Chinaman being severely wounded and several hurt on Such a'Bank, however, is wanted, and if iñ
It is now several years since the silver mines both aides. existence would soon be appreciated. It would were opened at Jehol, but the Grat attempts at
«On the evening of the 11th in
of take a long time to enumerate the trouble developing them proved abortive. Last year the the nameday of the Czar of alin celebration of and expense which the European Banks would U.S. Vice-Consul at Tientsin, Mr. Pethick, gates of the hospitable Russian' Legation were avoid if such an institution came to their help; requested the Viceroy to devote Tis, 120,000 to thrown open by Mdma and Minister Wacher. it would enable there to reduce their establish this purpose, and to employ an American mining The grounds of the Legation were most chan ment; It would make it far easier for them to engineer to proceed with the work already comingly decorated and illuminated with more than realize regularly a reasonable amount of profits; menced, so that it might not be in vain. Great 1,000 lamps, Among the chief guests we noticed resources for them on the spot, when suddenly time, but they do not seem destined to be realised Kelen, Plancy, and Hashiguchi, Admiral: ito, it would come to their help in providing expectations were formed of these mines at that Ministers Dinsmore, Yuan and Rondo, Consuls drawn upon, without having recourse to the at present, as the yield of the precious metal bas Generals Chung, Han and Dye, Mr. Denny, negotiation of their bills, sometimes on very turned out to be very small, and the Superin- Rev. Mr. Jones and many: more.". Els Imperial unfavourable terms; it would also havethe effect tendent, Taotsi Chu, bas returned to Tientsin: Highness the Grand Duke Alexander, who is of throwing off the hands of European Banks the
expected on a visit here, did not arrive in time responsibility attached to the discount of native
Mr. Hass, Austro-Hungarian Consul, is about to take part in this most brilliant entertainment. bankers' orders. This business would go entirely to leave Shanghai, where he has had a career of N. C. Daily Niwire to the national Local Banks, a result which is over 10 years, commencing as an Interpreter certainly desirable, as it is only long experience and rising successively to the ranks of Vice- and a special organization which can enable a Consul and Consul. He is an accomplished him
accused faced the music when called upon, but
Mr. Wotton's application. Before estreating Is fa related that the Queen of Roumania recently not even think that the Mandarins had a finger defendant's recognisances, however, he must, addrested a letter to Alphonse Daudet, in which to the pie, although we are not positively con- according to rule, have him called in the usual fashion Mr. Webber suggested that the she complained of the exuberance of her fancy, vinced ca that head. But you are well aware which made it impossible for her to cling to with what holy hatred the literalf view us, and Portuguese interpreter should do the calling reality, and made fairy tales of her fiction. you are equally well hware what unwholesome Wotton objected, but did not clearly Carmen Sylva turns, therefore, to Dandet for but powerful induence they exercise over the explain why. Mr. Webber said his friend'
wis pultry and frivolous, but objection advice. At the same time she ventures to common populace. We have had several
it really did not matter › a Tow of pins propose to the French author a literary partner. baptisms lately, and now we are getting ready whether the calling was done by the magistrate ship for the production of a novel. Daudet is for our autumn trips; autumn is always the best himself or by the pankah coolie. His Worship, asid to have accepted the offer with alacrity, and part of the year for our work.
assuming a very severe aspect," thereupon will, before long, repair to the Queens's beautiful castle of Sinala.
WITH regard to the troubles at Pilam, Formosa, instructed the usher of the Court to call upon (says the Shin Pao) we have already related João Gualberto, Jesus thrict. "Yes, your THE German steamer Telarter, Capt. T. Peteren, how the Governor had despatched General La Washup," said that ubiquitous individual, and which arrived to-day from Saigon reports that Pun-k'in with the force from T'al-peh by steamer ten seconds afterwards a stentorian voice rang during the voyage as far as Hainan fine weather to the spot. The Fai-tsish, the man-of-war through the air calling for Jono Gualberto Jesus was experienced, with light westerly wind. From Steamer which took General Li to Pilam, having | Christ. We may just add that Mr. Jesus has European to conduct this business without | English and Chiness speaker and reader, and # The old order," says Tennyson, changeth,
taken his foot in his hand and likewise a toddling icket for foreign lands. Hongkong and the Dock Company will know him no more. So mote it be !
storm from the north-west, with low barometer and heavy sea from the north-east. Cela va sans dire that the Tetortos has intersected the zone of the typhoon which skirted this island yesterday, on its way west. The Japanese steamship Milka Maru reports that she left Kutchinsten on the 24th inst.. Hedheavy north cast gule and high sea gradually increasing since the 25th. The Government Astronomer sent us
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following particulars-The force of several thousands of savages were dispersed by our big guns, but reunited at Ta-chwang. Here it was joined by the savages of the neighbouring savage settlement called Jen Wang,, who are of extreme ferocity. General Li was going to attack them on 31st August, and was confident
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SUPREME COURT.
́CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
of an easy victory. The savages were originally (Before the in league with Chinese colonists who had placed
the following weather report this afternoon themselves in armed opposition to the collectors
At 4.15 p.m. yesterday the following notice was of the new land tax, and it was said that they issued: "Typhoon S. of Hongkong and directions bad killed two Deputies, Messrs, Liu and Kan. were given to hoist the South Cone. Last The fact of the matter is that Lin-wap-ersity night it blew a fresh E.N.E. gale, occasionally killed; and Kaq got away from the enemies by exceeding a strong gale in the squalls. The whom he was surrounded, and escaped north by barometer continues rising, but, the gale la circuitous routes, making his appearance before scarcely moderating. The typhoon is moving the Governor on a5th August and telling his
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THE COMING MAN?
Besides, the more China is thrown open to | able' Assessor at the Mixed' Court, As he is European trade and industry, the more the returning to Europe on leave, the other day he many ways, Test ono good custom should corrupt country will become inclined to progress, and visited the Mixed Court justabout the conclusion: No wiser oracio than this was ever uttered,
the world to the more the necessity of a real National Bank of the morning's sitting, and said good-bye to Manfs naturally a conservative animal, Indis of this kind will be felt.
Mt. Ta'al, Mixed Court Magistrate, Captain posed to change, however obviously secessary McEnen, and others, after my "A"creature" of foolish, precedent, and, in the Mlanguage of antiquity, landator¿temporis acti
The opening of Railways, the working, of "Mines, in fact the entire organization of the
country according to European ideas, will surely This summer the cholers has been very bad praiser of bygone times. Individuals, lika. Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief when the Imperial Government requires larger purchase teas, the deaths having averaged several only when sptured to action by tome strong im be accompanied by great want of money, and in North Formosa, at Twatutia, where foreigners nations, cling to the old order, and change *("Fustice,}}
and further loans; the officials will soon find it tens of persons per day within a radius of 5 or 6 pulse from without Agitatore" are a class of necessary to have a sort of special agent in, since zand August. On 3rd and 4th Septem- men who in all ages of the world have been China upon which the foreign public can look ber about 400 people succumbed, and the sights most obnoxious to the power that be and yet with confidence, and which has to-day really" to be seen were most painful. On 9th Septem, what we call "progress" could not exist but for become an absolute necessity, after the exposures ber the native tex merobants held a procession those who in thei time are almost lovariably fately made pubile with regard to the lost honour of the Turciary God of the town to
novators made through the Hongkong and Shanghal endeavour to avert the notions infuences on Banking Corporation for the Imperial Chinese people say although they always have cholers in
THE ARSON CASE,
PRISONERS. JOUND QUILTY, »
The sixth days hearing of the case begun to-day. Opening delayed half-an-hour by no appearance of a Kowloon Juror, detained by Mr. Robinson, in summing up for the defence, renewed the evidence adduced by the prosecution, After contrasting the testimony of conflicting
Government,
never remember to have seen Each's fatal year Ma thine district during the 6th and 7th moous, they
as this one. There is a humedad
'native texmen going on,v?"
But to occupy this position in the market, and work in harmony with the other financial Companies, it would be necessary
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