Intimations.
A LUXURY FOR THE
HOT SEASON.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889.
DAKIN'S new "Loofah " BATH BRUSH, brokers in the colony frequently guro at
handle. price 75 cents..
Also on hand a very large selections of FLESH BRUSHES, GLOVES, STRAPS, PADS, &c.
BATH and TOILET SPONGES, of all sizes,
ALSO
HAIR BRUSHES, TOOTH BRUSHES,
thank the sharebrokers of Hongkong for another very apt illustration of the saying that right and lawful' was never yet found as a marginal note to the black book of profit." It would seem that certain.
principalsintransactions where they also act as brokers, and they consider this perfectly legitimate. It is also not altogether unknown for a broker to buy and sell the same shares for the same employer. Mr. R. SHEWAN nominally sold a lot of shares
MR. H. H. HOLST, an employé of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at Amoy, died at his residence, Koolangwoo, on the morning of the 8th inst
THE Colonial Surgeon's report for 1888 is published in the Government Gazette of Satur day last. We shall a-alyse it later on. We regret to note that the death ɑrate is on the increase,
An extensive fire occurred at Catbalogan, in the Philippines, last month. It commenced in a wooden house and in a short time destroyed etc. The total Inss is computed at $300,000.
An official reception was held yesterday forenoon at the French Consulate, by M. Vizcavona, the Acting Consul, in celebration of the storming of the Bastille. The reception room was gaily decorated with garlands of flowers and ever- greens, and between 10 a.m. and noon all the French subjects in the colony and many English. and foreign residents paid visits. During the
fusely illuminated.
On Saturday: Mr. Raw Hong Tek, J.P., sent a purchasing from the blacksmiths' shops in the coolie to do the family washing on the hill-side. city all ready-made daggers, and not "finding r He went, and was just up to his neck in suda | sufficient supply gave an order for a large num when a gang of bold bad men came down the hill ber th a shop. The "boss" of the shop, con. and identified the initials on about $30 worth of sidering the onder rather a suspicious one, garmenta na thrive. Two of them will have V.R.refused to take it in hand and reported the cast spread over their snowy raiment for the next to the officials, who, we understand, have since three and six months respectively.
given orders that all Hunan men are to be arrested. The natives believe that similar troubles to those now going on in the country will shortly commence in Foochow. In our opinion there are too many mischievous reporte afloat just now, all of which are intended of course to unsettle the minds of the pleople. It there are disbanded Hunan soldiers in the city, they are agents for their friends in the country. in buying up daggers and swords.
The accounts from Taikone, to hand this the approaching troops, having allowed a good margin of time for fear of being overtaken. They had proceeded their return journey into Kiangai on foot. Before leaving they burnt all their boats and impedimenta. The attack on the Chin-chu villages is confirmed. For the loss revenged themselves by slaughtering from 400 to 500 of the Chin-chuj, including women and children, berides despoiling them of their goods, and carrying off all that was easily portable. Whether the troubles will end here we do not know. We look for further news in a few days' time.
money and is charged with committing a capital offence the Crown, as the just penalty of the double iniquity, assigns any barrister who is junior enough to be glad to get a case for nothing, for the defence. This expedient assists greatly in securing justice. Many a man has been banged because of the able manner in which his assigned defence assisted the prosecution. On one occasion at least this practice has shortened a trial con- siderably. That was when a not very brilliant junior was assigned to assist the Crown Prosecutor in convicting a very intelligent darkie. The latter had pleaded not guilty but upon being shown his advocats he promptly withdrew his plea and threw himself on the mercy on the Court.
NAIL and SHAVING BRUSHES, SOAPS, at a certain price and purchased them back seventy-two houses and huts, the Court, theatre, evening the façade of the Consulate was pro morning, report that the rioters had fled, before etiquette to claim anything, but that explana-
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PERFUMES and SACHETS,
at lowest cash rates,
DAKIN'S PRICKLY HEAT LOTION.
the only reliable remedy for prickly heat,
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In ordinary capital assiguments no fee is paid by the Crown, Barristers tell you it is not tion is too thin. The fact is that there is no. fund out of which anything could be paid, so that the results of making a claim would not be great from a financial point of view. In the case. of aboriginals it is different. A fee is ordinarily allowed for their defence, and so it happens that
DAKIN BROS. OF. CHINA, ledge which so frequently overleaps itself, value of the land purchased by the Rap daughter to a Canton man for $242. The other of four or five of their countrymen last year, they no" countryman" is without legal assistance"
LIMITED,
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
Opposite Hongkong Hotel, HONGKONG,
(Telephone No. 60.)
Hongkong, 10th July, 1889,
again the same day at the same figure. The transaction was, of course, a' bogus. one, and was doubtless specially intended. with that ignorant, assumption of know-
to create what would constitute in a court of law a genuine market rate. This was by far the worst exposure, as between broker and client, in the whole trial, and yet the witnesses pretended to regard (13 it as a
mere matter of course. Of all the fraternity subjected to cross-
IN bis evidence, the plaintiff in the recent case of Petts, v. Rustomjee said that he knew the
Manufacturing Company for $10,000 was now between sixty and seventy thousand dollars Assuming that Mr. Potts knew what he was. taking about, the shareholders in the defunct Glass Manufacturing Company have reason to congratulate themselves.
ONE TANG, a Sun Dn man, was charged before Mr. Wodehouse to-day with threatening a Bonham Strand merchant named Chau Ling Chi. Last month the latter sold an adopted
day the prisoner, who was unknown to him, turned up at his house in Hollywood Road and reported that he was a friend of the
had run away he would trouble Chau for $200, In default of payment, he felt it his duty to fatally lacerate him. Then, as all these people do, he went away. Again he came, súd men. tioned this time that he thought burning the house down and stabbing Chan to death would so that he had to change his residence, and drove him to contemplating suicide as the only way of escaping getting killed. Luckily, on one occasion, a lakong was contiguous, and Tang was handed over. He is an remand now.
purchaser referred to, and that the girl
A: S. WATSON & CO., LD.examination Mr. S. 1, DANDY was the gummy coiffure of a fat Chinawoman last evening, about meet the case. He badgered poor Chau pronounced, on all hands, the hottest on record place, they are sometimes given by solicitors
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
A COOLIE snatched a gold hair-pin from the down Queen's Road West. He was cutting the record beautifully when he stepped on a banana- rind, and made the welkin. ring with the back of bis head. Before he could recollect whether he wasin Singapore or Shanghai the fat female wal on him, and fondling his queue. He was taken to the Central Station in an ambulance, and will probably pass his two months in the Gaol Hospital. The authorities really ought to see that these rinds are not left carelessly about.
most severely handled by Mr. FRANCIS, IN drawing attention to our special prepara- although after a careful analysis of his evidence we fail to see that his record was tions, we beg to state that we continue to
one, whit worse than that of some of his Import Drugs, Chemicals, and Goods of every kind of the best description only. No other quality is kept in Stock. Our long experience confrères. That Mr. DANDY got mixed up" and intimate acquaintance with the Trade and somewhat, and entirely misconceived the the best sources of supply enables us to purchase meaning and construction placed on a series direct from the Producers on the very best terms, and thus gives us an advantage which of damaging questions put by the learned enables us to offer our Constituents the benefit.C., was probably owing to his getting of a considerable reduction in the price of all thoroughly demoralised under the sledge- Specialities of our own Manufacture or patting. up, as compared with similar, articles sold else hammer style of cross-examination to which he was so unmercifully subjected, but nevertheless a much fuller explanation of some of the transactions would have been advisable. Mr. RUSTOMJER, on the other As prescribed and recommended by. Dr. hand, passed through the ordeal of cross AvAES, Colonial Surgeon, when President of the examination most succesfully: he admitted To be used in cases of vomiting and purging1aving sold short" and heplainly proved water, and strode on. He lost a little of his the station, "just go home and read them before Hongkong Sanitary Board.
that he had done everything reasonable and within his power to carry out his contracts even when he knew that he
where,
WATSON'S
CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA REMEDIES,
CHOLERA MIXTURE.
attended with violent pain. Prepared only by
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, China and Manila. In Botties, $1 and I so each.
had been unfairly "cornered.". The Acting Attorney General very foolishly attempted to blacken the defendant's character by As recommended by the London Board of contemptible insinuations referring to the man's social life some thirty years ago,
ASTRINGENT ANTACID DIARRHEA
.MIXTURE.
Count Leo Tolstoi was taking a walk in Moscow the other week when he saw a police- man alruggling with anoujik. The policeman
a got the better of it, and when the moujik was laid out in the mud, Tolstoi rushed up, nushed the JAMES Woop is a gay and festive seaman, and turning back on the policeman, asked: "Canst gorodovoi away, helped the monjik up, and when he comes ashore' has a good time.. But thou read, my friend?" I should think so." te never loses his sense of what is due to him."Well, hast thou read the Holy Gospel ?" "Yes, ...I have. * \"Well, how dare you forget that it Yesterday he had one of his dazzlers, and then forbids a man to strike his neighbor?" The decided to go off to his ship in a rickaha. He selected a nice one, belonging to Mr. Farrand,
policeman hesitated a minute and then collaring standing convenient to the Douglas Wharf, and chironed Gee up to the object in charge, whereupon James canted the concern into the dignity this morning when he paid $2 to Justice and $5 to Farrand."
objet yanked him out, and “------
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the manjik air to the celebrated novelist:
The weather has been the chief topic of conversation during this week, and it has been
for the time of year. The following figures from a private register may not be interesting to our many readers, and the comparison with recent years shows the general opinion to be correct. The figures given are the maximun. registered on a self-registering thermometer placed on a partition wall in a bouse on the hill and where no glare or sun can possibly reach it 1889. 188. 1987, 1886, 1885. June 1991... 96.85 84 88 20 90 89... 86 84... 83 21 01 89 88 87... 87 22......
90... 85... 89... 85 90 92 ... 89 83 .90
And you, do you know how to read ?" "Yes" said Count Tolstoi, "Read the police regula- July policeman, as he formed the procession toward tions ?" "No." "Well, then," continued the
going ab ut in the streets interfering with people,"
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upon his trial. Which may perhaps account for a certain percentage of convictions. One other Jacob's ladder to the forensic heaven is afforded by country sessions, which extend considerable aids to advancement. This class of work has many advantages. In the first place country briefs generally cany spot cash":"and further they entail responsibility rarely conferred upon the raw Junior in Sydney, and in the third
who actually don't know more law than the forensic juvenile bimself does-men who ancé knew some law but can't quite remember what it was, - Therefore, ithe blunders, his fault is not necessarily discovered, and, besides, the knowledge that some ore in the profession knows less than the junior himself is a reflection very comforting to the latter. Parenthetically we may mention that when a man is first called he is prepared to teach the Full Court a lot of law which he knows and they don't; after a few. months he begins to admit that the "Chief's" opinion when opposed to his own is not necea- sarily wrong, and subsequently when he gets into contentious practice he gradually discovers that his knowledge of the law could be largely increased with advantage to his clients, Then he really begins to learn. Another method of getting ahead is what is known as "devilling," The junior becomes "devil" to some senior demon who allows him to draft pleadings, write opinions, and look up points and cases for the senior aforesaid, who 'receives the fees therefore in due course, the junior getting for his share the experience accruing from the work. Occa sionally, too, he receives other emolument fa the shape of junior briefs and formal matters
The rainfall for these days has been as generously banded over to him by the senior.
WE respectfully beg to point out to the Hon. follows Samuel Brown that he is not earning his salary just at present. We haven't had a drop of
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1888..
1887.
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1885...............3-44
Of the rainfall for the days recorded above in
This is an arrangement which suits both parties, and if the junior has any talent, enables him to work his way to the fertile region where the wary “oof bird” has her nest.
Health for use in all cases of Diarrhea, Cholers which had no bearing whatever on the short time, and paid the coolie pretty liberally, as they were at the end of May. Over $10 000 this year, 1.14 inches fell during the heavy supply of cheek, energy, and talent, he must fall
Prepared only by
&c,
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,'
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
Hongkong, China, and Manila
In Bottles, $1 and $1.50 each. WATSON'S
It is refreshing to drop on a British farm laborer out here, but we only do so occasionally. One James Foster, by name, was introduced to the colony this morning. He made his debut behind the dock rails, but proved to be the victim of mistake. Yesterday he took a ricksha for a
Then he decided on going on as far as the Victoria Hotel, without any additional payment, and the coolie took it to be a re-engagement. So whilst James quaffed the flowing bowl inside and warbled that be was a Farmer's B-0-0-y, a whistling farmer's boy. Then, when his fare re-appeared, he wanted the best part of a dollar, and was repulsed, with much, invective. After which a Sikh sought him, and put hira in a cold
that he had done quite as much waiting as the | ricksha-coolie, and called it even. But Muster
Foster doesn' whistle any more
he sat and waited outside for five mortal hours
rain for weeks, and yet Wyndham Street, both at the top and bottom, is practically untouched. Sais Glenealy Ravine. Likewise the bridge across the Murray Barracks Nullah. And a good miny other places are in the same deplorable condition has been paid already for road repairing principally, as far as we can see, for putting back the sand in Zelland Street every time it was washed out. There is very little else to show for it. The work of cleaning the mud out of the Albany reservoir is progressing, About three cwt. have been removed up to date, so that there are only 2999 tons Most of the coolies are at work levelling and turfing the banks again, so that they'll look nice. Meanwhile, the wet practically useless. Paste this in your hat, please, Mr. Surveyor-General.
inch has
If the above methods fail, and if the junior knoweth not the, solicitors' of this honorable Court or any of them, and hath not an abundant back into the ruck of the deserted-men, seniors as well as juniors, whom suitors do not know, and solicitors do not esteem. The full number of these men who have failed comprises perhaps one-third of the total of "practising" barristers. Theirs must be a sorrowful kind of life. Even if private means suffice there is still the ever-present reflection that they have failed where others have. succeeded; that in the market of talent their
issues being tried, and succeeded in very materially damaging his own case and alienating from the plaintiff a considerable amount of public sympathy. While on this point we may remark that we certainly cannot congratulate the plaintiff on the manner in which his case was conducted 1, 2, or 3 tea-spoonfuls every hour, or in urgent from start to finish; there may have bean and silent cell. The magistrate decided 10- season is. getting on, and the Tytam supply is by keeping the atmosphere much cooler, out of profession, le not always a proof of his
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eases oftener.
In Bottles-go cents and $1 each.
.WATSON'S CHLORODYNE. Dose:Ten to twenty drops in brandy and
water,
In Bottles-so cents $1 and $1.50 each.
WATSON'S
ASTRINGENT PILLS, FOR DIARPICEA, DYSENTERY, &c. Dose:-One pill after each. liquid Motion. In Bottles 75 cents and $1.50 each. WATSON'S
ANODYNE LINIMENT.
For relieving pain in all cases of Spasm, Colic, Cholera, Diarrhea, Infiammation of the Bowels, &c.
DIRECTIONS FOR USE :-Sprinkle some on hot Flannel or Spongio Filine soaked in boiling
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RUSSIAN ISINGLASS,
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feebler exhibitions in the Supreme Court of Hongkong, but we don't remember them.
THE following news of home cricket appears in` papers brought on by the German mail:-
74 and 159. by 31 runs.
Middlesex, g6 and 168, has beaten Lancashire,
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There is only one morepoint to which we need refer at present, but that is one of more than ordinary importance, and it may crop up hereafter. How many persons compose the celebrated "corner of which Mr. R. SHEWAN was chief director? The names of the employés of Messrs. RUSSELL & Co. who were implicated frequently attracted attention during the hearing of the suit, and it was also indicated pretty plainly that two or three outsiders had a finger in the pie. But were these ali? We gravely doubt it. Who were "the good wickets, against Surrey. (Gunn, 118.)
M. C. C. has beaten Oxford by 7 wickets, (Barnes for M. C. C, rog and 27 not out.)
Surrey, 210 and 338 for 7 wickets, innings. being declared closed under new rule, best Gloucestershire by 250 runs. (W: G. Grace 94 and 34)
names" offered as additional security the Manager of the Chartered Bank when these two salaried clerks tried to negotiate a loan
Invalids' necessaries and appliances of all kinds of something like a quarter of a million
kept in stock..
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, HONGKONG, CHINA AND MANILA.
DEATH.
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At Beaconsfield Arcade, Hongkong, on Sunday, the 15th July, 1889, JOHN L HART-MILNER, sub-editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, aged 41 years.
Che Hongkong Gelegraph.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889.
THE ROPE "CORNER" CASE.
of dollars? Why were these "good names" not forthcoming? They would undoubtedly have thrown a good deal of light on the entire transaction; but possibly the gentle- men learned in the low had all-sufficient reasons for not disclosing too much. However, enough was made public to convey a lesson to that portion of the Hongkong community interested in shares and stocks which should not readily be forgotten.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
The usual weekly entertainment at the Sailors' Home will not take place to-morrow evening.
Äx important and not altogether unin- THE appointment of Mr. Vicente Agostinha teresting factor in this case was the quasi-Sales to be usher in the Supreme Court is expert evidence of the share-brokering officially garetted. fraternity. It must be confessed that, as.
a whole, the noble and ancient brother- THE returns of the number of visitors to the City hood did not show to advantage. There Hall Museum for the week ending July 14th, ares were too many mysteries of the business-Europeans 135, Chinese 2,204; total, 2,339. rudely brought to light; the latter day methods employed by reputed brokers
THE Government want a second boarding officer for the Harbour Department. Applications for the billet must be sent to the Harbour Master, with testimonials, before Friday, the 26th inst,
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were shown to be tainted with more than mere suspicion, and involved transac- tions that could not bear investigation. The combination of parties was not badly NINETY taels of oplum, smuggled from Beatow, matched; the principals, that is the
were discovered between the lining and bull of genil of the "ring" were only one the chain locker of the steamer Chow-fs this shade worse than their apt and willing morning. Some "d-d kind friend" bad tobis, and in some particular cases split on the smuggler. A man was arrested, principals and brokers, "bulla" and but the Magistrate discharged him, jobbers, got so mixed up together that their separate roles were actually a distinc- tion without a difference. The special aim of each of these daring speculators, an object carried out with unblushing effrontery unparalleled in the history of local share gambling, was avowed with the greatest coolness Imaginable. We have indeed to
THE Vatican, that is the Pope, the so-called vicegerent of God on earth, has decided that an astronomical observatory is to be began at once; at an estimated cost of 1,000,000 francs. And millions of Catholics are in a stále of starvation all over the world. A poor substitute is the Vatican for the simple faith of Jesus of Nazareth. But it serves its ends.
Kent, 104 and 380, beat M. C. C, 130 and wickets for 72 runs in and innings." 139, by 135 runs, Walter Wright, for Kent 9
Unfinished matches
Notts, with Shrewsbury playing, 280 for 6
Sussex, 278 against Gloucestershire, (Major, A COIL, 106.)
Yorkshire, 132 and 82, for 1 wkt. against Derbyshire 57. with Spofforth, 4. (For Yorks, Peel 6 for 74, for Derbyshire, Spofforth 7 for 45.) Leicestershire, 77, versus Warwickshire, 75 for five wkts. (Pallett for latter 9 wets for 27.)
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FOOCHOW.
6th July, 1889.
But for timely assistance, a rather serious fire would have happened on Tuesday night. The threatened conflagration originated at a lea box manufactory at the back of the Ewo hong,
Delivery of China Congos in London for last month was four and a quarter millions against six and a hall not year, Privately, there is only a hand to mouth business' doing In Moyuna
lens.
The following private telegram reached here on the morning of the 3rd instant ;---
"Auction sales ex Moyane 3.580 packages commonest to fine black teas 6d. to itd, per lb. losing 20 to 30 per cent. Private sales 1,000 packages. Shipping buyers refuse to make any offers at present."
The tigers are getting bolder. During the last few days eight or ten, natives have been, carried off within a mile or two of the North Gate of the City in broad daylight. One man had a very narrow escape: He was seized by a tiger and was being dragged off when his friends observed him and their shouts caused the beast
to drop his prey and clear out. The man was not injured. Where are our sportmen?
STAFT SERGEANT Mills is big, and powerful, and altogether just the man we want for a deputy fighting editor when we don't feel very well, but
No further news from the disturbed distric's he can't get away with the Majesty of the Law,
has as yet reached Foochow, but by the end of On Saturday he went to
next week we may be able to give full particular s caab-box in bis of what the troops, despatched from Foochow, quarters to take out a little of the root of all evil, have been able to do in the matter. Though when he found that it had been broken open, many ramours are floating about the place of a and $20, a gold ring, and a Japanese gold coin most alarming nature, we give no credence to abstracted. He called his “boy," and faxed him them until we learn something officially. with the theft, and the fellow actually had the
Large numbers, we are informed, of native nerve to reply that he--Staff Sergeant Mills-had children are suffering severely from the present probably done it himself, presumably when in a
weather, and many fatal cases are reported. To trance. He was thereupon given into charge, blame the weather as the cause is, in our with another Chinaman who had been hanging opinion, scarcely Justifiable. If the Chinese put around for about a week, and further inquiries it down to the unripe fruits which are spread in made. The "boy, on for her examination, the sun the whole day, and in which their children repeated his assertion, and said that it must have freely Indulge, in addition to the filthy condition been done with a Japanese sword which stood in in which their houses are kept, they would be this had been the "Jemmy the comer. On examination it was found that attributing the trouble to the right cause, house, before whom the case was brought to-day, did not see that there was any evidence pointing to even the boy's complicity, and discharged bath prisoners. Singular conduct, though, for an innocent man, wasn't it?
used. Mr. Wode-
thunder storm of 19th June so that since the 20th June only or of an been registered. It seems as if the unpre- cedentedly heavy rain storm which occurred in Hongkong has exhausted the rain supply which ought to have fallen bere,, for it seems only a natural inference that in the southerly monsoon, the clouds, had they not spent themselves in Hongkong, would have been quietly drifted P here on the monsoon, and would have given us occasional and refreshing showers, there The ripening paddy crop will suffer from the want of rain, as it needs an occasional shower to fill the grain properly, and prevent it ripening too fast. Our chaatser too will feel the heat, as at present prices they cannot well lose themselves in Tea, as it is their wont to do There are no signs apparent either of an end to this hot spell, which reminds us more of the ten consecutive days in 1869 when we registered 97 or over, than any weather we have had since. That happened later in the year however, so we may be coming to it again 1-Echo.
wares are unsaleable. Because a man, especially junior, fails to make the rent of his chambers want of his brains or lack of law. He may on the contrary be both learned and intellectual, but yet ifhelacks either courage. tact, energyrorcommos- sense he will almost certainly fail, however much he may have been assisted at the outset, Men who don't know any law have made their thou sands while others who know the text-books from cover: to cover have been making their tens. Audacity, perception, and resourcefulness ennbie a barrister to force his way through' where a man deficient in these attributes cannot enter, We have not time now to review the complaints which sultors make concerning the Bar, nor to expatiate upon what is humorously termed "etiquette"—the latter being a series of unwritten
THE BAR AS A PROFESSION INuts under which the public are slated every
N.S. WALES.
No. II.
White-headed" Boys-Moving the "Stiffs" -The Probate Pantomime.-Assigned for the Defence. The Young "Devil" and the Old 'Un. Men who have Failed.Amalga
mation.
(By a Mora or Less Bridless Barrister.) Having been duly admitted, the junior has only to get good practice: If he is the son of Lame eminent barrister or judge this is easy,
time, and the barristers are forbidden to wear while waistcoats in court-but we may venture te opinion that unless the Bar wants to get itself disliked it must do a lot of things differently. First of all it must rip into flinders the present rules for the admission of barristers, and in the false pretences by taking briefs, and the fees next place it must cease to obtain money under thereon, and then falling to appear in Court. A very short Bill making the barrister's fee the consideration for a contract instead of, as at present, an honorarium, would straighten that up, for then barristers could fue for fees, and would be liable fornegligence if they failed to attend,os failed in the proper conduct of a case. And, moreover, the Bar must cease to be a shark in 109 joints
enough. He just hoists his shingle and the or else the work of advocacy will, in any Courts duli.rs roll in. If he has not an eminent father, less than the Supreme, pass to the attorneys. his best plan is to invest in a suitable father-in- | Already in some districts attorneys retain law. Judges, „Q.C.'s, and' attorneys in good attorneys to conduct their District Court or practice usually have daughters capable of Quarter. Sessions cases, and this practice will making admirable barristers' wives. If this expand unless the Bar descends to a commercial royal road to eminence be not available, the appreciation of its true worth. From amalgama- junior may have rather a weary time of it, fox of tion of the two branches of the legal profession barristers it is true enough that many are called but little beseft may be expected. Advocacy is but few are chosen. Generally the newcomer more distinct from mere technical legal work is startled a few days after his call by the gift of
than surgery is from medicine, and as the ten- a probate, tendered to him as one might tender dency of the age is to specialism, the generalians a bone to a dog, and entitling him to receive the implied in amalgamation would be contrary to sam of £1.31. 6d, whenever the attorney is the trend of modern progress. Let the barristers generous enough to pay up.. Then the heart of be made liable, for their work and allow them the junior leaps upwards, and he goes out to sue for payments and then the monopolising straight way and buys a fee-book, which absorbs by seniors of work which they cannot attend to having got a brief," and they conjure up anti and the public together would share to the the add 31. 6d, and admiring friends hear of his would become a thing of the past, and juniors cipations of the fame the proud holder of the tremendous advantages secured by such reforma, probatę will win by conducting this, his first, ||| „Taking the profession. by and, large it It is gratifying to learn that the rice crop case.
may be described as a palace for some of its round us will prove a very remunerative one to
Once a junior that we wot of was honoured by inmates and a, poothouse for others. When a planters, though the whole quantity of both the flattering paragraphs in the papers of the day, man is able to push out of the ruck the kids to compared with the consumption by the popula: asserted, in words which we have forgotten, that of heavy chances against his doing this. The first and second crops is as a drop into the ocean
As an earnest of the career awaiting him, it was | his progress are most potent, but there are a lot tion. It will, however, be a great relief to the a brief was put into his hands the day after he ball of fame once kicked is easily kept going at poor farmers to obtain the improved price, and it was "dmitted. He took that important brief increasing velocity, but it is mighty hard work to THE ancak-thieves bare been marking the Hong-
is daily rising. With the present difficulties up kong Hotel for their own. On Saturday at noon country, no large supply can fairly be expected sound to the Ecclesiastical Court next day and get that first kick. A mistake made by a junior from that quarter, and we are given to under- told the Judge that "the papers were quite plays fearful havoc, but man in good practice. two Chinamen were caught in the new portion, stand that unless a good suply soon Trives mention that this promising junior won bis case, capital stock of repute. It man is engaged in correct." The newspapers carelessly omitted to can blunder hideously without losing any of bis walking off with a couple of brass hinges which from somewhere, the quotation will be very and all that the public learned of this forensic two courts already. It is taken as a proof of his they had artistically removed from a door in the high. The poor and labouring classes are suffer- congu st was compressed in the words "Probates; ability and he gets a brief to stay away from absence of the workmen. After resting for three ing much from the dearness of the article and A Korpse, 135. Just here we may timidly third; if he is not engaged in any that is hours in the stocks in a shady place alongside the the cash exchange at present. A man who could
venture the remark that the process of moving deemed to prove him a duffer, and suitors. of five weeks this morning. Another man, a scene of their crime they commenced a vacation live at the rate of $1.50 per month, has to pay for probate in court might seem to some to verge would not trust him to hold a brief to register
Over $2,
upon the farcical. The name of the "stiff" is a dog. Every reposted appearance in Court carpenter, who was intercepted about five o'clock A sad story of a tragedy in real life reaches called, the barrister moves that probate be granted is a new advertisement, and clients rush to this morning with about thirty feet of ironwork us. Last week, in the neighbourhood of the ice and adds the Information that the papers are retain a barrister to neglect their cases if they belonging to one of the verandahs concealed on house, a girl, 17 years of age, was arranging ber correct, the Jud, e with dignity says Take the know he is already neglecting the cases of bis person, was ordered to lay low for a month, washing on bambook, when one of the bamboos erder," and the harrister sits down filled with several other people. It is somewhat stranga, We understand that a corps of determined fell on a boy, 19 years of age, who happened to triumph and gladurss, Sometimes the papers that this should be. For it is manifest that a men, including the flower of the Public Works be passing by. The youth was of the better are "crenk? and a case has to be cited, but that junior who can do two or three days' rending on Department and the majority of the Deathless class of focal natives. He began by abusing doesn't very often happen for a junior to prac: more likely to score points than a senior who a casa and attend to it fight through is much Scouts that are to be meaning the Mounted the girl who in all probability answered him Probates are good things: Volunteers-ars to keep watch over the new bim saucly. High words followed, and then tise on. He can't do any harm to them, and way open the case without having read his elevator, so as to prevent its annexation by the he set to work to beat and kick her, eventually they "ring in" the coin. But he cannot live pa brief, and address the Jury without baving heard felenlous fraternity at night, We are enabled, kicking her to dead now the fateste tot has this work alone; there are such a lot of claimants the evidence Bat, as we have, hinted, sultors in this connection, to contradict the rumour that since escaped ; and now his father is in prison for these favours that the share of each is small; have a greatfancy forretaining one of the acknow the polios have an eye on the noble army of for him, where he will remain until the dollars, And besides, they are only pot-boilers and don't ledged lenders of the profession. And the
For if they can faho i brokers in the said clevator they won't ordered as recompense to the girl's mother, are advertise the barrister worth a cent, Some other leaders aforesaid like The want anything to elevate, them all they die. pald, why he means to this necessary end has to be devised, to the case say much the better i If they CANE, And then they will want one badly, or they will Information reaches us that for the last few One method of the an of getting on in the accepthey, of let us day some of them, claim there. have to do most of their elevating falling,
days some disbanded Hunan soldiers have been tance of nauigaments, Suppose a man thar op fees on the ground of their having fundieć w brief.