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was to obtain an official assurance that the transfer books of the Company would remain open unill after the question of the proposed · Increase of capital had been BROTHERS, definitely settled, and in our opinion they were justly entitled to demand such assurance. Further Mr. Licor was well within his rights in expressing surprise at the mine that had been unexpectedly sprung on the shareholders by the Board, and in insisting that the special business for which the meeting had been convened should be strictly adhered to. We assume
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the Directors had so suddenly proposed to increase the capital of the Company by four instead of two lakhs of dollars was "beyond the power of his feeble compre- hension," was merely intended as a figure of speech; the actual reason being only too obvious. It, however, afforded Mr. W. WorTCH an opportunity of airing his pretty wit at Mr. LEGGx's expense, and also of exposing the weakness of the Board of Directors. Mr. WOTTON was present In two capacities, namely, as a member of the Board and as legal adviser to the Company, and we venture to say that such an anomaly should not be allowed to exist. In two capacities this gentleman is
MADAME KOWALEWSKA, to whom the French Institute recently awarded the grand prize in mathematics, is a descendant of the illustrious Mathias Cavinus, King of Hungary. She is professor in a Swedish university, and is about forty years old.
PARISIAN Women have carried the watch wearing manis to the point of wearing time. pieces as ornaments for the hair and instead of rosettes on their ball-slippers. Only fancy a fair dame holding up ber footsey-wootsy and asking you to tell her what's o'clock !
THE sisters Dolan are Edinburgh notabilities. Helen is the more distinguished of the two. She has been convicted 137 times for breaking
eccord is only to their fatest escapade
extailed a fourteen days' sentence,
Two duellists recently fought in Paris with bows
and arrows. Shooting began at will. After a while one of them got frightened and bolted, climbed a tree and became a target for bi pursuer, who shot till his arrows were exhausted, and then went home to breakfast. The man in the tree was pretty badly wounded, but he will recover.
A REVEREND gentleman in England was absent for a brief holiday, and had secured as foose feniss an old college chum. His bishop called to see him, and the door was opened by the pretty housemaid. "Is Mr. at home? was the inquiry. No, sir, he ain't; he's gone to London," replied the gid "but if it's anything about the church, praps you'd like to see the
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he resigned both. Ho spouted a lot of unnecessary and childishtwaddle-whether as director or legal adviser we cannot say, --but certainly his remarks were totally uncalled for, as no legal difficulty had arisen, and if such had been the case, the Chairman was the proper person to lay it before the shareholders. With regard to Mr. WOTTON's repeated offensive references to Mr. Lzoor's "feeble under- standing," we can only express surprise that a lawyer who claims to be a gentleman could have been guilty of such gross and vulgar rudeness. Mr. WOTTON probably forgot himself—not a difficult.operation apparently-and fancled he was bullying and abusing some helpless coolie in the police court; but under any circumstances his gratuitously Insulting
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same paper his German client had brought, and every signature had a menace in it as it stood
Schwindler." "Mr. Schwindler, why don't you write your name some other way; write out people to think you are a swindler. Vall, your first name, or something? I don't want my Got, sir, how much better you dink that looks ?" and he wrote: “Adam Schwindler."
WITH reference to some remarks which appeared in a letter published in our issue of the 18th inst. as to the valuation of the plant and stock- in-trade of Messrs. A. G. Gordon & CoŊ now proposed to be formed into a joint stock company we are authorised to state that Mr. Andrew Johnston's estimate may be seen at the office of Messrs. A. G. Gordon & Co., No. 1 Pedder's Street. It appears that the ambiguous wording of the original prospectus has led to considerable very easily satisfy themselves as to the actual misconception. However, those interested can
state of affairs.
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MISS AMY SHERWIN, the accomplished Austra lian prima donna, will make her first appearance before a Hongkong audience at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, to-morrow night, in Flotow's popular English opera "Martha, Miss Sher- win, whose brilliant musical career is too well known to require elaboration, will be supported by a select but talented combination of first class artistes, and we can safely predict that she will have a successful season in this colony. We would remind our readers that a plan of the Theatre is on view at Messrs. Kelly & Walsh's, where seats may be booked.
THERE is a certain distinguished lawyer-not in Hongkong-oh, dear nol-who prides himself on his generosity, and who is always averring
socording to the extent of a man's pisse. Afne
day a poor man who wanted a deed drawn up was sent from a relative to the magnanimous lawyer. The lawyer drew it in an expeditious manner, when his grateful client asked him:
"How much is your fee??
"How much have you about you?" "Twenty-five dollars." "Twenty-four dollars," said the lawyer, and then be leant back, and congratulated himself upon his extreme moderation."
hide them; that is all persons secretly connected
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has been admitted ; it was admitted by Patek
strict rules and prohibitions as a means of putting years, and the Sultan of Brunei has been too a stop to an evil custom. I have referred to feeble to enforce respect for his decision, which dispatches received (from Peking) some time was against the Pangeran. Out of this state age which state that those who disseminate affairs arose, of course, constant dificulties, Manila lottery tickets are to be dealt with by the Company, under the authority of Brunel, the same law which treats of selling other enforcing their sights in the disputed territory, materials for gambling, (such as dice, &C., &c.); and the Pangeran tesisting, men were killed, they are to be banished to the fontier. Their
wansen stolen, houses knockeddown or destroyed, accomplices are to be dealt with in the same and at last came the murder of a man, I have way an accomplices in the former mentioned forgotten ble name, formerly a subject of Padas cure they are to receive too blows and to be Damit, but wha had gone over to the Com deported to a distance of z,coc. Those who cany's territory and paid poll tax to them. He buy these tickets to get the advantages they vas at the time of his death actually in the promise, will be punished according to theft cmploy of the Company as a tax collector, and will be placed under police surveillance for murdered because of his adherence to the Com- deserts, ie, they will receive 100 blows and there is a strong evidence to prove that he was three years. Persons who either shelter the nany. The murderer was hisown brother, and a offenders, or store the tickets, or receive and friend of the Pangeran Shabander: The murder with the offence, will variously himself the other day in full durbar at Brunci. according to law. Their offence will be strictly The place where the murder occurred is not in aquired into and they will be cangued as lispute, but it is undoubtedly in territory the warning to others. These prohibitions are in title to which was in question, the Company tended to be severe! As for certain vagabonds being in actual possession, but the Pangeran who have ventured to advertise their trade disputing their rights. The Government of North and have consented to receive these tickets Borneo might have fairly and properly demanded and traffic in them, being foolish enough the surrender of the murderer that he might to disregard the laws, I have sent out be tried in their Courts for a crime com- oficers to arrest them, and now in addition mitted within their de facto jurisdiction, but to that I am issuing this prohibitory pro they confined themselves, as the title was clamation that all Chinese subjects residing in dispute and the jurisdiction questioned, A-CURIOUS old French story of the guillotine in Hanyang and Hankow may know the state to demanding, not that he should be surrendered, from De Loye's new book on Capital Punish of the law, and may clearly understand that all but that he should be arrested and tried either ment"-This partisan (Schavenburg) was who deal in these tickets, whether as principals, by the Pangeran or at Brunei by the Sultan. or agents, or accomplices, will be dealt with ai
The murdered man being a subject of B. N. caught together with four of his associates, and they were all condemned to death. They were
common gamblers without any difference. Let
Borneo, asd in its actual employ, the Govern already on their knees, ready to submit to their every one cleanse his heart, and reform his ment could not do less. All redress was refused asking that his four companions night, be and let him on no account by disobedience get fate, when Schavenburg addressed the judge, | manners, and-attend to his own proper business, by the Pangeran, and this, coming on top of many other causes of complaint,' was "the ranged in single file in front of him, at a entangled in the meshes of the law
immediate cause of the war; and it certainly distance of eight feet from each other.. #1" he As for you who buy these tickets, coveting seems to me that it was justifiable, especially up to the first of my comrades, will you pardoning that you are being imposed upon, remember. Pangeran refused to listen to all applications said, "after I am beheaded, I get up and walk gain to which you have no right, and not know when it is added that not merely had the him ?" The judge thought he was pretty safe that this sort of thing leads to the ruin of house- from the Company's officers, but he had also in complying with the request. "But if I walk up holds and the loss of property as well as to to the second, the third, and the fourth, will you punishment. In the quiet of the night watches by refusing to surrender the murderer to Brunei rtat defiance his own feudal superior, the Sultan, pardon those also" The judge replied that he consider with yourselves whether you ought not or to present himself there in person. The partisan was satisfied, bent his head, to abstain from evil practices. would obtain their pardon from the Emperor, to repent, and make haste to arouse yourselves received the mortal blow, and his head rolled down; but to the great surprise of the judge and the spectators, the body got up, walked along, past the first, second, third, and fourth of the condemned men, and fell down. The occurrence was told to the Emperor, who pardoned the four criminals.
THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES AND
With the history of the war I have nothing to do. The Galelah fort was taken, and prepara If any do not attend to this proclamation they tions were in progress for an attack on another will be at once apprehended and brought to trial,of the fons, when the Pangeran invoked the and they will assuredly be dealt with as their assistance of the Rajab of Sarawak and the offence deserves and punished with the utmost intervention of the Consul General at Labuan. rigour. No lenienty will be shown.
An armistice was concluded,, the Pangeran and "Let every one respect and obey this.
his followers, and the murderer, Si Patek, The 15th year of Kwang Su, 1st moon, 13th went with Mr. Hamilton to Brunei, and day.
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there was a sort of trial there, without notice to the North Borneo Company or time given to get witnesses. The fact of the murder was admitted, the place of the murder was alleged to be in the Pangeran's dominions, the formal declaration of the Sulten and his ministers defining the Pangeran's territories being ignored, and the status, and position of the sinurdered man as a subject and official of the company- was disregarded in toto. The accused was released-although why the murder, quite apart from the political aspect of the question, could be justified, I don't know and the Pangeran
went over to Labuant with Mr. Hamilton,
THE MANILA LOTTERY. During the past few weeks, says the Shanghai above the initials "J.J. F." and endeavors, in A correspondent writes to the Straits Timi Mercury, three or four different proclamations the character of a well-informed observer, to have been issued by the Mandarins in Wuchang, justify the action of the British North Borneo Hanyang and Hankow, with reference to the Government in going to war with the Pangeran A BLOOD-THIRSTY advt. from the Cooktown (Q) Manila lottery. Before these proclamations Shabander, slaughtering men, women and chil- Cooktown bullies and blackguards.-I-have seen posted up in almost every street of Hankow, Christian England that might is right. If "!, `Independent ;-Notice.-To North Shore or were issued, advertisements of tickets were to bedren, destroying towns and villages, and gene
Tally carrying out the grand old policy of invested in one of Lund's six-shooters and a Clunn's bowie knife, with the full determination but the official prohibitions of the trade have had J. F were not Mr. John Joseph Francis, Q., Governor Creagh arrived a day or two after. of applying them for self-defensive purposes the effect of stopping the sale entirely in these we should allow his defence of the policy of the wards, and the Treaty was made by which the gainst any bullying coward who, trusting to his three cities. The ordinary price asked for a like the idle wind-as unworthy of notice. But pany for an annuity of 82,130 a year, this sum British North Barnen Government to pass by Pangeran bas ceded his territories to the Com- superior strength and youth, thinks he can force ticket was 16 cask, and though in some cases Mr. Francis is a person of sone eminence in including a sum of $330 he had been in receipt his way into printing premises and knock an editor into pulp, with impunity. If the law is not the purchaser may for that sum have acquired a this part of the world; he is a clever lawyer and of from the Company before. He' agreed to suficiently strong to protect the Preas from bona fide share in a genuine ticket, there is no shrewd man of the world; he has on many remove with his family and followers from the the Press must adopt Texan means of defence. rowdies, bullies, and larrikin scoundrels, then doubt that a large number of the tickets sold occasions posed in public ass champion of territory, and not to retum without special per- Only one more warning will be given trafficking on the credulity of their countrymen. of the world, he has not been slow to use for his circumstances, was unavoidable. The want of were spurious, and the sellers were simply carned a sort of reputation, which, as is the way. In my humble opinion, the war, under the
right against the oppressor, and by so doing has mission, quamen v
Fowler, Editor, Cooktown Independent.
The following is the text of two of the proclama azn-personal-aggrandisement; and he is an clearly defined boundaries placed the Pangeran Irishuran and if he is not a Home Ruler he in an attitude of hostility to the Company from tions referred to PROCLAMATION BY THE PREFECT OF WUCHANG. some time past the guest of Governor Creagh Government left the parties without any higher ought to be. Our eloquent QC. has been for the beginning. The weakness of the Brunet Whereas gambling isa practice most injurious at Sandakan, and his special defence of that authority to whom they could appeal to settle to the people, repeated orders have becguissued official's policy in carrying bloodshed into the their differences. This state of tacit hostility led forbidding it with the utmost strictures.
Pangeran Shabander's territory looks remarkably all the criminals and troublesome characters I have ascertained that the trade in Manila like a grateful" return for favons recrived. To from the Company's territories to find their lottery tickets is a business of the same nature suggest this may appear mean, but no other, natural refuge with the Shabander, and from vicious people in China. These tickets are Mr. Jno. J. Francis know about the dispute villages and individual houses. Hence reprisals, as the gambling that is carried on by certain conclusion can fairly be arrived at. What can them originated probably most of the raids on deposited for sale in the first instance in Shanghai, between the British North Borneo Company and recriminations, and reclamations of all sorts. where various foreign firms dispose of them. At the independent ruler of Padas Damit beyond War was the only remedy. The most prudent length they have found their way into Hupeh, what he has been told by the officials in and the most peaceably disposed could not avoid Kiangsi, Chekiang and other provinces, and un- Sandakan and Kudat? Absolutely nothing. it under the circumstances. You say, rightly principled Chinamen are surreptitiously imitating And yet he cheerfully comes forward, on the enough, that the terms granted the Pangeran (the sellers in Shanghai) to the injury of manners strength of this hearsay gossip--which is not Shabander were far more favorable than he had and the depraving of men's minds.
evidence as the learned gentleman knows right any right to expect, when the results of the Some time ago I received the Imperial com- ) well-and set aside with a sweep of bis pen the operations against him are considered, but mands in the exercise of my office here as a decision arrived at, after full investigation,
what che could be done? He had pre- seated himself at Brunel, he had produced dealing in Lottery tickets), to make enquiries of Sarawak, and Mr. D. Daly, Resident of concerning it, and to apprehend and punish offes. Padas Besar, that the Pangeran was entirely was afarce. He had admitted himself ders. Now a disregard for the laws has arisen innocent of the charges brought against him and beaten. Governor Creagh made a golden bridge and certain persons have ventured to open places that the British North Borneo Government was
for a flying enemy; wisely I think, and most of business in this the provincial city, and using alone to blame for the war. What business had people will I believe, agice with me. If he bas the name of the Manila lottery to placard all the British North Borneo Company's hired Sikhserred, he bas erred on the right side, and been the place with advertisements of tickets, seek- and other fighting swashbucklers to carry fire
merciful rather than just, The Pangeran ......* ing gain by imposing on ignorant people. and sword into the territories of the Panjeran
Sbabander is a very superior man ; intelligent, Such conduct deserves the utmost reprobation, and his people? The same right, and no more, gulet, polite, and apparently honest in his belief in the justice of his cause. He is perfectly satisfied with the settlement made, and, perhaps, better advised, would have come to terms long age; but I am afraid that in the atmosphere of Brunel and Sarawak there in a certain amount. of latent hostility to the North Borate Company that influences all those within its range, and the Pangeran has not escaped from those influencer.d
It is requested that all communications retuing to Subscription, conduct degraded the Board whose views he arrogated the right to represent, and made himself an object of contempt and
SARAH BERNHARDT on the question "Is mam. pity. To what extent Mr. WOTTON age a failure? The possibility of divorce enjoyed the confidence of his brother makes the association of man and woorde directors may be guaged from his admis-formed by marriage more agreeable, inasmuch as it equalises their rights. Forced slavery no longer existing, the necessity for revolting against its thing of the past. Mutual concessions can now be made without causing a sense of humiliation on either side, for these concessions have now become voluntary. The knowledge which husband and wife now have that each can regain his or her liberty, if married life is the existence of that brotherly harmony no longer supportable, Just gives an amorous which ought to reign amongst the mem-turn to reconciliations after domestic quarrels, bers of a Board, all of whom are reported, and allows a poetic vell to be thrown over
Monsieur's slippers and Madame's pot-au-fau, truly or otherwise, to have made a good thing out of the Punjom "boom." How A NEW piece of ordnance has lately been invented Subscribers to The Honghong Telegraph are compactfully ever, the meeting was ultimately adjourned in the United States. Two soild steel wheels magistrate to forbid with all strictness (this by Governor Hamilton of Labuan, the Raj Si Patek for trial, though the trial itself
until Friday, when it is to be hoped that connected together, to feet in diameter, are made to rotate concentrically by means of a the question at issue will be satisfactorily Westinghouse machine. On the circumference settled without any further undignified of each wheel two projectiles are placed. A quadrant -attached to the side of ons of the squabbling between directors and share-wheels allows theartilleryman to take aim. When holders,
the piece is charged the artilleryman pulls a string attached to the Westinghouse machine, and the projectiles which are placed on the discs are thrown with great violence at the I have caused one Chü Sin-yuen, a seller of that the hirelings of Mr. Secretary Balfour have point aimed at. The inventor estimates that these tickets, to be apprehended, together with been exercising throughout Ireland in their with wheels to feet in diameter, and turning at another person named Tao Fu-hine, the land-crusade of coercion and bloodshed against the the rate of 4,000 revolutions per minute, a pro-lord of the Sien Hing inn, who had sheltered rightful owners of the soil. We suppose it fectile weighing 1,020 lbs. can be thrown abim, and having enquired into the matter I find will be admitted that the natives of dinance of five miles. The advantage of this that Chu confesses to the offence with which he North Borneo have se much right to their Instrument is that as no shock is produced, and is charged and does not attempt to hide it. I native land as the Irish patriots have to the no explosion, dynamite cartridges can be used | have severely punished both men, ordering them Emerald Iste! And if so, apart from all other with impunity.
to wear the cangue and to be exhibited as a questions of right and wrong, the war in British warning to others. In addition to this, lest any North Bornen was a cowardly, robbery, varied CAPTAIN Deane, in his farewell address to the tickets for sale, or fraudulently make use of the which can only be justified, as wo have before person should hereafter receive these lottery with considerable slaughter of the Jusocents, Police yesterday referred to the improvement of Manila lottery as a meane cheating other hinted, on" the principle that might "is right, the Central Station compound during his years and imposing on them with counterfeit tickets, And now, we will allow "]. J. F. to spin bla of office. We should like to point to the other this proclamation is issued for the information little yara side of the shield, that is to say to the expanse of the public that every one may know what the "I have recently returned from British North of waste ground lying in front of the Magistracy, law la Lotteries and gambling ought to be Borneo, and during my stay there I had un- opposite the top of Pottinger Street, There was forbidden in Manila, but (as they are not), usually good opportunities of becoming a fine big house there when he came, but for why should our people imitate the evil practices acquainted with the circumstances out of which years and years past it has been abandoned (prevailing elsewhere)? And sinen those who the late war them arose, and with the events hens and cats, and other rubbish, ". There is sell Lottery tickets here are Chinamen, why that led to and accompanied the armistice and magnificent site for pubile buildings-y for a should they call them "Manila" tickets, and treaty now so happily concluded The accounts new Police court, with a new staff to ensure its with their eyes open venture to break the law you have received from your. Sarawak corres being properly conducted. Or if there is no "long as they are doing Let all our literary men, and pondent seem hardly to do justice, to the North felt want" in that direction it should be leased the people in to private enterprise, by which it could be in what is decrera, test in sighteousness and Borneo Company, and your short article of (by Heaven), and on no | Saturday on the subject must leave on the minds utilised in a score of ways, and $200 or $300 account banker after lillelt gain or covet hastily of your readers an impression anything but a month added to the local revenue. Here we are extending the fringe of our Colony in costly gotten riches, thus laying themselves open to be artificial ses fronte alle eligible central cyswindled. Not only can money not be made by these swindling practices, but the money which Will somebody pall the bell at the door of the he buys these tickets, and poverty, is the result. ars lying fallow for want of official intelligent a man already has in secretly filtered away when Public Works Department, please !. Knock and Before he is aware of it be becomes entangled rlog,
in the net of the law, and seeking wealth proves to be only a stepping-stone to calamity; repent- ance comes too late!
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter.)
Tuz extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Punjom and Sunghie Dua Samatan Mining Company, Limited, held on Monday last, was extraordinary THE COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE. In more ways than one. It presented in
LONDON, March 18th, the first places Board of Directors who The Minhter of Finance has informed were apparently altogether at sea as to meeting of bankers that a new capital of the object of the meeting, and then a 40,000,000 francs will be necessary for the
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Ware informed that the new Puispe Judge is
expected here on Sunday next,
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We hear it is rumoured in Cantos that concession will shortly be granted for a railway between Canton and Kowloon.
rough-and-tumble game at fisticuffs Comptoir d'Escompte. Before evening the between a member of the Board and a whole was assured, including a further advance
of 20,000,000 francs from the Bank of France. burly shareholder was only avoided by the astonishing complacency displayed by the latter. The special business, according to notice, was to confirm & resolution passed on the 25th of February, to the effect that the capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $600,000 by the creation of twenty thousand new shares of 810 each; and, as is clearly laid down in Section 6 of No. XIII of the Company's We are informed by the agents (Messi. Russell Articles of Association, no business & Ca) that the "Union" Line steamer Swar, from Hamburg, left Singapore for this port on other than that specified in such notice the 17th init, and may be expected to arrive could be transacted. Mr. W. G. BxODIE, on the 24th. the Chairman, explained that the meeting had been called for the purpose of con- A REGULAR Convocation of Cathay Chapter, firming the above mentioned resolution, No. 1165, will be held in Freemasons' fall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 25th instant, at but added that the Directors had con- 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting companions sidered the question and had concluded are cordially invited. } in the meantime to adjourn the meeting until Friday, their reason for so dolog performance last night to a large audience. - As "THE PARADOX" Company gave another capital being that some discussion had arisen as will be seen by notice in another column, s to whether it would not be advisable complete change of programme has been to issue shares to the extent of 8400,000,amaged for to-night.
did it. The same storiespread abroad
Duxasks ran in families,, The brother of the present Emperor of Austria, uncle of the su cided (2) Rudolph, was found dead in the bed- room ofthe Countess of Tynn in 1846. Plagrante dilleto and a husband, who was the better man,
about his death as have been about Rudolph's, hot at last the truth came out. Rudelph bai long been a great cavaler, as befitted one in his high position. His wiis left him some time ago but was persuaded to return; and Queen Natalie of Servia owes her matrimonial troubles half to be called up. Instead of $200,000, SAYS the Sydney Bulletin:-That great wit, largely to bis attentions. All this calls to mind all to be called up. So far this was plain Judge Docker, has got 'em again as bad as ever. the mysterious killing of a page by George IV Railing, and had the Chairman at once On being told that a prisoner at the recent then Prince Regent, a scandal deal fully with Mudgee (M.S.W.) Quarter Sessions was named by Lady Hamilton in her interesting Secrets put the motion for adjournment to the Hang Hied bis Honor gravely remarked that of the Court of England: "The first gentleman meeting it doubtless would have been "Hang Hewas very bad grammar; it ought so | in Europe" pleaded that, waking suddenly from agreed to; but unluckily he left the door be Hang Him." The prisoner muttered some sleep, he saw the page near and niew him while thing shout a good hanging being far preferable | dreamily feasing assassination, Others) were of open for discussion, and trouble ensued. to such fackass joking, but his floor laughed, opinion that the Bulucky boy accidentally dis Studled between the lines, it appears that and the force laughed, and the court laughed, covered an intimacy between the first gentle, the object Mr. E. Gxoxo and Mr. W. and a circus proprietor who was present said it man" and the first gentleman's own sister was a blasing shame that such a splendid clown and was put where he wouldn't be likely to tell Lurex had in view in hacking' the Directors Was for ever lost to the sawdust arons.
anybody.
favorable to the Company and its proceedings, Will you kindly permit me to state the case, t
at liberty to address you on the subject? In this the officials of the North Borneo, Company, would, I think, themselves, state it if they were way your readers will have both sides of the question before them.
REFUGEES IN WESTERN SHANTUNG,
25th January, 1889. In no year since the great famine of 1877-78; has there been so much distress in China as t the "present timer: The causes are as usual a combination of the opposites-in Manchuria, floods in the rivers, in the central provinces long. protracted drought, in the eastern part of Shantung: unexampled rains which washed away the crops in central Homan the deluge caused by the Yellow River in 1887, and in the northern part of Honin and central Shantung, the drought, together with the ruin of vast areas which have been" covered by the fine sand'
sult in this past of Shentong has been to brought by the Yellow River in the inundations of the preceding five or six years. The practical turn loose Over-the country large army of refugees who come from the south southwest, "The Pangeran Shabander of was,
east and northeast Long trains of them have independent chieftain, owning and ruling, under drifted to the Westward, in the hope of finding grants from the Sultan of Brusel, a small tract some region where the crops are better, or even of territory known as Padas Damit. The Padis of penetrating to the remote provinces of Shana! Damit is a river running into the ses nearly or Shensi, where it is supposed that labour com opposite Labuan, and draining: the delta-like i manda a better reward than here: Trustwortky country lying between two much larger river, accounts as to the condition of those regions du the Padas, Besar to, the south and the Pada | pot poxetite ta’this province. As far aE WO Klias to the north. This Hile: Independent can learn, all this part of the country is filled State is surrounded on all sides by the territories with these refugees who have settled down on The 14th year of Kwings, 11th of the North Borneo Company, and the first and this region, wherethe crops are much better than
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primary dispute between the Company and the to the sond and east, and who are in some way Pangeran was 11 to boundaries. He claimed | supported by the people. The amount which-- PROCLAMATION BY THE PREFECT OF HANYANG that his rights extended from the banks of the each individualismble to get is doubtless Whereas the Manila jottery misleads people Padas Besar on the south to the banks of the trifling, but thus far it appears to be suficient and defrauds them of money so that men and. Padas Klias on the north The British North to keep them not only alive, but apparently. women are taken in by it with no small amount Borapo Company, fortified by's formal declaratied in excellent Wealth The most trying part of of injury to themselves, be it knows that an under the signatures and scals of the Sultan of this hard lift is the cold at sight. The refugees Imperial edict strictly probibits (the evil referred Brunel and his ministers, denied this, and asserted differ greatly in their eficurastantes. Some that the Fangeran's tenitory was limited to the who are absolutely; unable to get anythin"" At the present time whenever. I go out I see | area drained by the Padas" Damity” and that his to eat at home, are yet dad in comfortable in the streets placards announcing the sale of boundary line to the south was the water divide garments, and look at first like well-to-do people. Manila lottery tickets. The adwelwers are between the Padas Damit and Padas Besar, and They are loaded on wheelbarrows, a wholl numerous, but though they profeen to be doing Klas respectively. This disputed question of family together, often with infants but a few day what in legal they are secretly' disobeying the boundaries la, of course, at the bottom of the oldễ. They are simply trying: 30 support 11(s law. is has now boerne sovvovary to put out Ɛybold trownies (by had been going as for beme Hyring, shKH KHAY, WIL Nura Wih: AS
From the date of this proclamation if any one still ventures to receive these tickets for sale, he will have to take the consequences, and will be at once apprehended and severely dealt with. Innkeepers who shelter such people, and pur chasers of tickets will sho be dealt with, and no leniency will be shown,
Let every one respect this,
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