Intimations.
DAKIN BROS, OF CHINA, LIMIT E D, CHEMISTS.
MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
WATERS..
WE devote special attention to this part of deviness, and our process ensures a perfect fitration and purification of the water, and thorough saturation with Gas.
Our plant comprises name of the largest and finest machines ever shipped from England, and embraces a combination of all the most modern improvements for filling corked bottles or syphons. Our machinery is fitted with in-lined
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FR APRIL 18, 1890.
a few exceptions, has already tied up evey spare cent. The increase of its capital by $2,500,000 contemplated by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and the anxiety on the part of the Hongkong Land Investment Company to extend its sphere of operations so as to be able to accept as security locally-owned property outside the_limits of the colony, shew the financial tension.
The reason is not far to seek. The mania for company-promoting which we so strongly condemned last year is
A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No 1026, wil be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetiand Street, on Tuesday, the aand instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
'Russia, INDIA, AND CHINA..
[Communicated.]
ficence to Cblocse modes of thought. His | a gasp, rather than break the glorious flow of fallure, however, laid the foundation of the aue cess of his successor :-
* Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in.
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Mark but my fall and that that ruined, me.” “
The old head on young shoulders did mark right well, and inwardly digest, and in an ex- perimental career of 27 years has with much delicacy of touch soothed the susceptibilities of the Chinese and slipped over their beads the vesture in which they now appear at the Counci! board of nations.
eloquence, rather than spoil the perfect picture formed with this flushed, happy, gorgeous liar for a centrepiece?
tubing, and the fact that our Waters are free having its result. Concerns which pro: Usual standard. The chorus was fairly good, I money. Strategic lines run through impassable they were eager to disavow it as one bides away wonderful "leg show" it was-how raptly you
from metallic or any other contamination is certified by Messrs. Hassall and Clayton, Analysts to the City of London.
GINGER ALE, SELTZER, LITHIA,
The following are manufactured daily :- AERATED WATER, SODA WATER, LEMONADE, TONIC,
SARSAPARILLA.
Our Aerated. Sarsaparilla is prepared from Auid extract of Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla made in our own laboratory, and is not merely a flavoured water as so many brands of this popular beverage are. Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Hongkong 14th April, 1890.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
ESTABLISHED AD. 1841.
MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.
OUR AERATED WATER MANUFACTORY is replete with the best Machinery, embodying
all the latest improvements in the trade.
The greatest attention has been paid to appli- ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to secure which we have added a Condenser cap- able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in, a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers. Our Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed anywhere,
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.
LARGE BOMBAY
"SODAS"
* We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
COAST FORT ORDERS. whenevér practicable, are despatched by first stener leaving after receipt of order.
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.
Counterfail Order Books supplied on applica-
tion.
Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.
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The following is a List of Waters always
kept ready in Stock :-
PURE AERATED WATERS
SODA WATER
. LEMONADE
POTASH WATER
LITHIA WATER
SELTZER WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
TONIC WATER
GINGER ALE
GINGERÅDE.
No Credit given for bottles that look dirty or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,
Hongkong, China, and Manila.":
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The Beaghong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1870,
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duced a decent little income to their owners were sold at ridiculous prices to the public; want of judicious enterprise here, and lack of prudence there, has necessitated repeated calls upon the share holders' resources; and the many who had unfortunately found no difficulty in obtaining as many shares as they now in the position applied for are of having no reserve capital to meet these successive demands, and must either pay exorbitant interest for the slender advance they can get or see their scrip declared valueless. It is "hard lines" for a good many, but it is only what might have been expected.
TELEGRAMS.
EAST, AFRICA,
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LONDON, April 8th. The Germans are doing all they can to basicn the despatch of Emin and the expedition, with a view to being first at the Lake District.
HER MAJESTY,
on the zoth instant at Darinstadt,
It was with some such thoughts in our mind Everything seems to have become turned on-
that wa walted upon Mr. F. Frost, the agent for side down in Afghanistan since the occupation
Van Tassell Brothers, the noted American IAST evening the Hongkong Choral Societyof a portion of it by the English after the Afghan
aeronauts who are now among us, and asked attracted a large audience or perhaps we should war. Quetta, instead of bing a flourishing
bim just enough nice leading questions 10 ́set say congregation-to the Cathedral, on accous trade centre, is now rapidly falling into the
his ready tongue wagging. B.fore wa go any of their being going to sing Gaul's sacred cantats en-dition of a mere way-side station, owing to
further, however, we must disclaim, on Mr. Ruth. There is no special plot in the piece, and the fact that it is by no means the terminus of
Frost's behalf, any connection with the lyre no rice solos or choruses or anything, and, taker our trans-Afghan" railway, which, running
brigade. Mr. Frost is the soul of truth, and all round, the affair was a "frost." Mrs. J. D through a long tunnel under the Khojak
would not deceive a Chinaman. He'is of public Humphreys (Ruth) has been heard to better Maintains is now within hailing distance of
The diplomatic essays of the Customs need. advantage: Miss Winifred Hazeland was a fiat Herat. In gigantic preparations to meet the
interest as baving been part proprietor and not be traced farther back than the Burlingame Naomi, Miss Lammert had nothing to do ar Russians on level terms in Central Asia, England Mission of 1863 a venture which succeeded so
ac ive agent of that flecting vision of our youth, the " Victoria Loftus Troupe of British Blondes,” has spent and is still spending millions of much beyond the expectations of its authors that Orpah, and Mr. W. E. Crow (Boaz) was below his
Reader, do you remember them? What a when they had a 'chance-Mr. May conducting. ravines and tunnels pierced through enormous who has loosened a stone from the mountain used to sit and watch the high kicker's carnival, Mr. Sangster was organist. But Ruth war mountain ranges. Miles of perpendicular pre-side and sees it crashing into the hamlets below. when the girls would kick a bell held up at unworthy the Society, anyhow,
cipices have been blasted out along the sides The origin of ideas is harder to localise than the arm's length by a tall man. Then he'd get on of mountain ranges to make the summits sources of rivers, and though a dual parentage, inaccessible to an enemy, Miles of earth-at least, may be predicated of most fruitful ladder and bold the bell up, and then they'd··
▲ chair, then on a table, and at last climb a works, flanked by heavy batteries, stretch schemes, modesty itself can at bar the affiliation kick that bell or, bust something. Do you across from mountain range to mountain range. of Burlingamism on the Inspect rate of Customs. not remember, friends, young and old, bald England has been compelled by Russia to ca
With what precise degree of prévision of the conse-headed and curly-pated, what plums some of a good deal of humble pie during the past quences involved in the success of such a mission those girls were, from the frizzy, yellow-headed few years, especially with regard to the Afghan matters practically little; for we held rebulous Victoria Loftus herself to the noble creatures frontier. But the day now seems to be nigh belief that a mind once accurately act will by who stood in the second row and smiled serenely when any further arrogance of Russian comman
on the mashers in the orchestra stalls and boxes? Don't you call to mind the matchless beauty of punishment by the Power which · possesse
ever created, a woman in perfection of form and Miss Genevieve St. Mare. The loveliest woman
feature from the tip of her tiny toes to the crown of ber glorious head, and yet enly, a mere girl of eighteen years at the time we write of, 1879 807 This superb woman has made a very wealthy marriage, and is queen by right of her unequalled beauty and enormous fortune, of Nob Hill, San Franciaco. Bless her, ahe gave endless pleasure as a living, breathing, heart-gladdening, eye- delighting picture, and she deserves the rest and happiness she now enjoys as the bonored wife of the richest man of his age, perhaps, in the world. In such sweet remembrances could our spirit wander for ever, but the reader wants us to get along to our Frost, a killing frost," and let us forget if we can and proceed.
WHAT is called a moratorium, or delay in pay mentlasting over twelve months, has been found necessary to meet the commercial situation in Buenos Ayres. The Latin races which predominate among the "Yankees of the South," as the Argentines love to call themselves, have been a whirl of speculative excitement for the last two or three years. Land rose in value prodigiously, and prices became thoroughly inflated, because the currency was irredeemable. A paper dollar in the Argentine is now 70, whereas its value worth about 15. was over 45, when the people had confidence that it would be paid in gold. Staries like chapters from "Monte Cristo," but well authen ticated, have reached London. Merchants and cattle farmers have lived like royal princes of old times. Satin bed-clothes, professional atteo- dants to provide music, dancing, and every appliance of wanton luxury that reckless extra- vagance could procure, were taken to the land of these hot-headed plutocrats. The game could not go on for ever, and in, for a year or two at least, ended.
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ders will meet with prompt and well-deserved the best right to supreme influence in Central and Far Eastern Asia. The impudent schemers, who over-awe the Thor and try to over-awe the sovereigns of great and civilized nations, who "un" everything within the dominions of the Tsar of all the Russias, who wink at corruption and are themselves corrupt in the worst sense of the word, will possibly find, ere long, that neither they nor their hlustering military commanders will' be able to threaten the peace of the world much longer. Russia has made mischief in every direction. She has cast the seeds of 'dissension for and wide, in 'Asia Minor, in India, in Europe, in Egypt, in Korea, and, in fine, all over the world. She is guilty of unjustifiable aggression and infamous perfidy She h's built herself up upon the ruins of PEOPLE go from here to the Colonies" for a
other states. Are we to allow her to complete the change. The Colonies are beginning to send ed fice-universal sway-upon the ruins of their tourists round the Far East with the same
he British Empire and the conquest of object. Some months ago the E. and A. S. N. Europe? Let us hope not. Her very attitude The Queen meets the Emperor of Germany Co. offered special facilite a fera frito lava, bas amounted to a casus belli for some years
China, Japan, etc., by Menmuir, which was
past. The day has possibly passed when taken advantage of by a small party. The trip so she can be allowed to play fast and loose recommended itself that when the Company with the best interests of civilized Powers, offered to put the Guthrie at the disposal of a
Russia must either retire within her legitimate party, so many more responded that the Tourist-
sphere of influence or do so at the point of taking Cook organised a special trip, the bajonet-there appears to be no middle with a newspaper muan-Mr. A. J. Plummer course. The situation, as regards Russian in charge. On arriving here last month the
aggression, appears to have reached the ummi party shewed their appreciation of Capt. Green's
pl forbearance. It is now retire ar fight. Russia goodness towards them by giving him a purse
in the most te..rehensible manner has strained of gold and a recommendation in case be wanted
the patience of several great Powers, quid she. to get employment elsewhere. Then they all
should not be surprised if they mete out to her sub- went to Japan. They had a real good time; stantial return with powder and shot. No other Capt. Green navigated so as to give them all
will soothe the dignity, the honour, the vital the sight-seeing possible and they viewed the
interests, and the amour propre of Powers Inland Sea by day la consequence. They called whose quiescence has been falsely construed at Nagasaki, and left at Kobe, to visit Osaka, into cowardice. The day of retribution appears to Kyoto, the Rapids, Lakes, etc. From Yoko-be nigh, the day when the pent up retaliation of hama they went to the Exhibition at Tokyo, and the Peace Powers will find vent in one of the "saw everything." Dr. and Mrs. Cantlie were
most terrible wars-universal war-that histor, with them, and saw even more-getting up daily ever has, recorded orever will, Let us hope that at 5a.m. to start. The trip was so enjoyable, when storm comes, when the raging billows stayed over for the next steamer. The experi Powers, the weight of whose influence has been and Japan so fascinating, that most of the party burst upon the world's communities, that those ment was a complete success, as far as the Eon the side of the maintenance of peace, will not and A. S, N. Co., Messrs. Cook and Son, and be found wanting; but that, on the contrary, the tourists, were concerned. It will certainly they will ride over the raging main, successfully, be repeated.
triumphantly, bringing their combined interests into a haven of safety, leaving all aggressors those who may be responsible for the outcome of seriously strained relations-a confounded, contemptible, crushed 1475 of revolting humanity.
HE WILL STOP,
April 15th. The Duke of Cambridge denies the statement that he contemplates retirement.
ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in reply to a question said Government has no fresh information with regard to the Portuguese expeditionary force into the Shild country;"
EMIN PASHA.
The doctors report, that Emin. Pasha has an incurable cataract and will be blind within a year.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A REGULAR Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 218, S.C, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8 for 8.30 o'clock precisely. Visiting companions are "cordially invited.
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme on the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock;-
March........." Aleeping
Layer"The Old Gu.. Vaise Seathern Breeze" Pelka.Vereinsball"...........
Quadrillo...
Minult Passa".
Galop... "The Jolly Bachelor"..
Hawitt, +Crook,
Melesier. ...Gangʻl
Gur. Standhaft
THE Legislative Council will meet on Wednesday next. The orders of the day will be:-
Financial Minutes.
Report of the Finance Committee. Third reading of the Bill entitled "An Or dinnnce to amend The Public Health Ordinance,
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice).
The April Sessions opened this morning, there being seven cases on the list. The Jurors were Messi, F. Suares, H. McLean, F. A. Rodwell, F. de Jesus, E. C. Ray, J. dos Remedos, and R. R, Thomson.
His lordship acceded to the applications.
THE CUSTOMS DIPLOMACY, ·
When reviewing a short time ago the various elements which seemed to make up the effective, as distinguished from the theoretical, Govern- ment of China, we were led to consider the
services which had been rendered to the State by certain foreign agencies, more particularly by that splendid anomaly, the Foreign Customs THE EMBEZZLEMENT AND ARSON CASES.
But we stopped short at the threshold of the The Attorney-General suggested that the casein subject, which on a near view seemed suddenly which John Gray is charged with the embezzle- to astume dimensions too large to be conveniently ment of $19,000 from the New Oriental Banking dealt with as a mere pendant to a wider disquisi- Corporation should be fixed for Tuesday, totion. The sublect nevertheless refused to be rele suit the convenience of Mr. Francis. He had gated to oblivion, and like an unlaid ghost applied for a special jury to try the case. He has continued to haunt the editorial-cham also desired the arson case to be set down for ber, pointing impatiently to the well-filled hearing on Monday.
Ink bottle, the paper and the pen And as no more appropriate occasion is likely to stile than the present juncture of events, we will with out further preface or apology endeavour to bring out some kind of synthesis of the facts connected with the diplomacy of the Foreign The conditions under which China was forced, much against her will, to enter into foreigarelations could not but evolve many curious novelties; for the status and the antecedents of the two parties to the intercourse, China on the one side and all foreign nations on the other, were antithetical mens were consequently to be expected Freely mens were consequently to be expected precisely
A FRANK PRISONER
Wong Chun was charged with escaping from the chain-gang at Kennedy Town last year. In answer to the indictment he said:If I say "no" and be (the turnkey) says
"yes," the what is use of it? The turkey Well, I did ras. I leave your says I ran. he says so, it is so, and let it be so. Lordship to punish me as you see fit. If turnkey presser the charge against me; then let it be so. My real name is Pake-Ah-Chun. I did not do it. They say I did. I leave your lordship to punish me,
If the
Several of the jail officers identified the man, lordship passed sentence of one year, to be added to the settence of seven years which, prisoner was serving at the time he broke away from custody. With the words "if he says us, let it be sallon bis lips, the prisoner, was removed. ›
Customs..
its own half-conscious intuitions strike the
key-note of policy whose far-reaching effects the embryonic conception, as the remoter stages are obscurely, but no less surely, wrapped up in of a journey are determined by the single step that is taken at the dividing of the ways. Consciously or not, the launch of the Burlingame Mission was the decisive fact whence all the subsequent achievements of Customs diplomacy have sprung, and it is therefore worth while to get clear view of the distinctive principles which it embodied..
in
After the foregoing spicy introduction Frost takes the stage, and this is how be extends himself:
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A leading feature in Chinese diplomatic tactics has always been to keep negotiators as far off hom the Capital as possible; and the irksome ness of having to endure Foreign Ministers resident in Peking found a welcome salve the proposal to despatch Chinese emissaries abroad, a scheme which had more attractions for them-not all of a very high order-than we need now stop to enumerate. But the measure strengthened Chinese diplomacy more substantially than was I am a native of Indiana, United States, what, perhaps apparent to themselves at first, for by they call a corn-fed Hoosier, and I've been in" shifting the venue from Fking to the variaus the show business ever since I was a lid. Western capitals the Chinese turned the advan-It was in 1879 that I arrived in Auckland, New tages of the game entirely to their own side, so Zealand, on the Royal mail steamer City of that it was a real master-stroke of policy as well New York, with the best, troupe that ever as an adroit tactical move. Of its advantages to travelled these colonies, the Victoria Loftus China we need only allude to one or two. In the first place it effaced the Foreign Ministers in Peking, on! Don't you remember I used to bill and British londes." Lordy how they did catch
who were well informed, had ample time to advertise special nights for men only,' and by *-. marshal their facts and nothing to distract their the harp of my father's ancient halls didn't the minds from Chinese affairs, and it brought the men roll up The programme never varied whole diplomatic force of China to bear on one bit, but there was always a bit more expected Secretaries of State who were entirely pre-than we gave, and they used to think it was occupied with matters infinitely more pressing, coming this special night. I had every theatre who could only devote furtive fragments of their in New Zealand packed to the roof with men. time, and none at all of their more serious only. They got a good show that they could attention, to Chinese questions. It was the very just as well have taken their wives to, and we ideal situation for an envoy of average shrewdness, got an extra night's biz, and lots of fun. Why, who, giving his whole mind to one thing, was ever as you know, one whole seat was filled by a on the watch for oppor unities of insinuating in-party of young men who had never worn formation, putting his own gloss on current eports irousers and vests before, to whom cut-away coats and posing as one speaking with auth-rity came very strange. They were all young girls These opportunities have been fully used during and one of the most select 'sets' in Auckland at the last twenty years, and the views put forward that, All over the theatre were women in male ncccepted by some at least of the Western by Chinese emissaries are to this day habitually attire, and so it was all the way down one coast
and Goyeraments in preference to the reports of their intentionally; but the Minister's reports are own representatives in the country. Not perhaps written on cold sheets of foolscap, numbered and docketted and passed through the mill of office routine amid cartload of. similar papers; and there an end. Information conveyed in such farm had no chance against the ilving voice, choosing its favourable moments and using all kinds of channels for conveying the desired impression, Chinese envoys could moreover use weapons which are forbidden even to the laxest diplomatists of the West, while at the same time, by the addresss partakers of the full privileges of diplomatic of their own foreign employds they were made
cliquette.
up the other. They had to see the show 'for men only" or bust. We sent em mad, and- when we had done the biggest season ever known in New Zealand we came over here and did every important city of Australia. I can tell you that, though a stranger and an American, I know the lay of the Innd here in these colonies better than most Colonials. We re-organised here, and took away eastward the most versatile company that ever travelled. Fancy one organisation that could play opera, opera bouffe, minstrelsy, comedy, and drama. We went to Java, and did all the Dutch settlements. Then to Singapore and did well. The Rajah of Johore came down himself to see us, and got us all, week, during which he gave us tiger shooting on from call-boy to star, oat to his palace for a
elephants. Idon't think we shotany tigers as faras lions-social ones, I mean, and sold their skins at I can remember, but the blondes bagged several a fancy figure. I tell you no company of any we did. The extraordinary beauty of the women pretensions ever did the East so exhaustively as
sent the potentates off their bases, and we used to sweep diamonds as big as to have pigeon's eggs off the stage with the property gress of the play. One young gentleman, was broom every now and then to admit of the pro-
stunned one night by a gold bracelet weightag All these, and many more, benefits to Chinese 31b avordupois, that a Rajali threw to Miss St were completely realised by the Burlingame Mare as a token of his admiration of her mission, and so promptly that those foreign unequalled beauty to her Venue and 'Cupid act. Ministers who had assisted to batch the egg Wall all agreed that whatever we could do, the took fright when they saw the full-fledged bird Kajab had made a hit. But I anticipate some over-shadowing them in the spread of its wings; what these truthful memories crowd and cumber and they made a sorry show of repudiating their my brain till they tumble out of my mouth any own work. The principle of Chinese representa-how. To continue our travela: We went next tion abroad was thus once for all triumphantly to the Phillipine Islands-Spanish, you know- established, and Chinese legations in Europe and America now form a recognised part of the pageant of public life.-Chinese Times.
foreigners in getting the Chinere Government to There was obviously a certain advantage to speak by a single mouth, which could never be done at Peking, and that no doubt helped to reconcile the Western Powers to transacting business with Chinese envoys rather than through their own Ministers. What they said, indeed, discretion by their government, but it served its might not be true, or might be repudiated at turn for the day, which is about the measure of an ordinary politician's borizon.
and at Manila I had the worst time with the Customs officials I ever had in my life. So strict were they that they would not let you carry a cano ashore till they had tried if it was hollow, or whether they could break it. We only showed
FRANK FROST'S EXPERIENCES, three times there, but we knocked 'em; I promise
you
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Committee on "The Vaccination Ordinance, 1f90,"
Committee on "The Magistrates' Bill.” Ar the Sanitary Association of Japan, Dr. Nagayo Sensai recently called attention to the fact that the modern method of choosing a wife in that country was not satisfactory. Formerly the choice of a wife devolved exclusively on parents or middlemen, The antecedents of the girl were thoroughly scrutinised, and care was taken to keep clear offam- Ilies tainted with any kind of hereditary disease. Whenever men choose wives for themselves, beauty, and not health or property, influenced INVESTORS in joint-stock Companies are
their choice, and according to Japanese ideas having a rosy time just now. The beauty and frailty were inseparably connected
market is too tight to
with each other. The belle of ancient times had money
a white face, a long, slender throat and neck, a opened, even with prayer, and
narrow chest, small thighs, and small feet and advertisement pages bristle with intima-bands-a description which corresponded with tions from secretaries to shareholders, thought the man chosen should be one careful that of a consumptive person, Dr. Nagayo either with respect to calls overdue or of his personal appearance, averse to slovenly going to fall due, and the average habits, having good boner and sinews, a broad capitalist is reduced to the hope that the chest, and a loud voice; his eyes should glisten, and his face be ruddy. In the choice of a wife directors will accept his wife's earrings in a man should look for a girl with clear eyes, a part payment. There is no more money distinct voice, a ruddy face, a well-developed and the fury returned. à verdict of guilty. His with which we can now look back, it appears
cheat, and bones well covered with flesh. The to be got, in many cases, and yet the paper, it will be seen, is something of a curiosity directors; of an increasing number of as an illustration of the extraordinary absence Companies are being driven to the of romance which characterises the caual Ja
panese method of treating such questions. desperate resort, of declaring forfeit
THE Magistracy was a scene of much excitement any shares on which all calls are
THE "INTELLIGENT JURY” AGAIN, this moming, on account of a Chinese paus
Two Chinaman were stealing clothing from a not paid up promptly. Matters are calibre which Mr. Wodehouse had to decide.
this issue A damsel whose husband is in the pork butching shop on the Fraya on the 29th March, and getting to a crisis. In
find had some trouble with her parents, second count charged them with receiving it the Hongkong High Level Tramway who pursued the fish business, and as a couse knowing it to have been stolen. Several pawns Company threaten to, cancel 155 out quence the progenitors were seen at the dis shop clerks gave evidence regardlag the articles of their 1,200 shares unless $50 a share advantage of being in the dock whilst their off. recovered, and identification of the prisoners.
His Lordship put the casa yery fully before spring endeavored to get them six months each. is not paid up. The Labuk Planting Her story was curious. She got married a month the jury, who, mirabile dictu, returned a verdict Company contemplate dealing similarly ago, immediately her mother of guilty on both counts. His Lordship declined bothered her for money, which caused early dis to accept such a verdict upon the ground that with 85 shares, in default of the second 10 agreements. On the expiration of the honeymoon it was contradictory, and requested the jurors to call being mot... The Hongkong Brick and the bride was entitled by custom toexpect presents reconsider the matter. After a good deal of Cement Company are just asking for at a from the old folks, but because of her previous argument amongst themselves they retired to a share more, and still look for the last call reluctance to lend they only forwarded a catty of consulting room, whence they returned in about in Chine; and we shall on this occasion confine the ubiquitous reviewer of the Sunday Times, one of the steamers of the 'Irrawaddy Flotilla
fat pork, four duck eggs, a rice jar, pair of wooden five minutes with a verdict of "both guilty on of $5 on 250 of their shares. Then the shoes, and pair of tweezers. She sent the pork second count" His lordship reserved sentence, Austin Arms Hotel and Building Company and two of the eggs back, regarding them with suspicion, whereupon she received a parental
(Before Mr. A. G. Wix, Acling Putrne require $25 more on each of their 4,000 visit, and, together with her mother-in-law, shares, and Marinburk and Co. notify husband, and a host of other newly acquired relatives, got a tremendous hiding. The defence a Bio call on their list of, 3,000.. Then
was that the recipients of the presents con the East Borneo Planting Company tempiuously said that they were more st absolutely must have $60,000 subscribed quickly, or lose all it has invested. Added to that, the directorates of the Songhei Kayah Planting Company, the Darvel Bay Planting Company, the Green Island Cement Co., the Marina, Limited, etc., have intimated that they must ask for power to foreclose on defaulting shareholders. Nearly half a million dollars to be found and that by a community which, with
for a funeral ceremony amplying that the to a wedding, thereby ought to be handed over to the Saultary Board.-His Worship looked weally at the une moved punkah, and perspiringly dismissed every- body. On hearing the decision their sweltering friends who packed the Court set up yell of triumph, mingled with groans of disep probation, and a few rash policemen who tried to yack the nearest offenders out got swept away, For some time after the Court was cleared the whole locality, looked as though a healthy not was under way, but at length tranquility was restored.
Fudge.)
LARCENY.!
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A coolie who carried to his house, and sub sequently to a pawnshop, a quantity of clothing which never belonged to him, awaits sentence, the jury having found the prisoner gulity.
RODDING THE CHIEF JUSTICE
A chair coolle who was some months in the employ of the Acting Chief Justice pleaded not guilty to the charge of having stolen's gold watch and chain, a gold bangle, a quantity of Fijilan Treasury notes, a diamond ring, and about fifty dollars, the property of the Acting Chief Justice, was found guilty by the jury and sentenced by Mr. Justice Wise to eighteen months hard labour.
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at the point of contact between the two unlikes,
THE CHAMPION APOSTLE OF TRUTH.
Thence we went to Hongkong and found our. and if we could have looked forward thirty years
· selvca" "once - more among God's people. "That ago with the knowledge (m:" though it be).
......... Many of our readers will remember Mr. Frank best class of Englishmen I ever met are the Frost, the co-proprietor with Mr. Charles F. Hongkong English, and we played a four weeks to us that intense interest would have Davis of the Loftus Opera Bouffe Company, season to splendid houses. At Shanghai, our been aroused in speculative minds as to which visited this colony twice, in the early next destination, we were treated like lords and what the upshot of that intercourse would eighties and some four or five years later, and ladies, and thence we went through the Inland be. It was like the bringing together of achieved about the biggest financial success on Ses, amid the loveliest natural panorama 'on two heterogeneous metals or chemical sub record. Mr. Frost had receded before the God's globe. No words can describe the scenery stances, under untried conditions, when erosion, faal visit of Victoria Loftum and her visible on the trip from Shanghai to Yokohama.. corrosion, explosion were as possible results i
clever troupe-poor Victoria has long since Look you]: I can talk as well as here and thers welding, blending, or fusion. That which ocJained the angels, for a betier-hearted little one, but when I remember that trip words fall cupied the point of junction, and may even be woman never breathed-bat, he appeared again me No other part of the world can show such said to have formed the copula, was the Foreign on a certain memorable occasion and enjoyed wondrous beauty of scenery. From Yokohama Customs. Standing as it were between the two free lodgings for some time at: Her Majesty's we doubled back to Singapore, and up through camps and facing both ways, the Customs chateau in Arbuthnot Road, a little incident that the Straite sellements. Played a week at has thrown its light now on one side and does not appear in the following Experiences, Penang, and from there to Rangoon, in British now on the other, preventing those blind colli: although, if we are not mistaken, the genial Burmah. Every son of a gun who was entitled constituting itself the buffer between two rough- Frank, fagotout, of a soracwhat tiyling, ordeal to wear a crown was my oyster sure, and we were with flying colours, However, all that by the patronised to a grand tune. Then came one of edged forces, nach QA
way. Mr. Frank Frost is now or was very the events of ray life. I had heard of the It would fill not a small newspaper article, but recently, in Sydney as agent for the Van Tassell Hairy Family, distant relations of that bloody a good big book, to detail the various functions Brothers, who are described as noted Americas murderer, King Thebaw of Upper Burmah, and which the Customs have been called to perform eonsuts, and of course, he became a victim to I made up my mind to have them. I want in ourselves strictly to one, and to only the outlines and after some persuasion-Frost was always Company-an English concern, and to the fact of that. Nor is it necessary to occupy our particularly modest and retiring when that the captain of the vessel was an English renders minds at this time of day with | lengthy fee, ad. was within roach-con- | man, with a heart like a lion, I owe the fact that wondering at the strangeness of Customs' sented, to imitate Othello; with Desdemona I am here to-day talking to you.-: I had every- officials playing such unusual and important and relate his most disastrous chances of thing fixed,” The Hairy Family were on it, and pasta j" for "as is sometimes said of the Chris | moving accidents by food and field of hair ilan miracles, the capacity for wonder is breadin #scapes?? and a great deal more which exhausted by the primary one of all, so when we | wi'l be found fully detailed below. The Sydney have once realised the competition-wallah con. Interviewer can wiite a bit in a fashion, and so trolling the Chinese Maritime Revenue we need it is just as well to leave him to tell his tale in not stumble any more over mere names. Can his own way.
bad them down to the very plank of the steamer, which had steam up ready to get up and git,, when some of the black devils ashore saw them and raised a row. The country was, as you know, a hostile one, and there were Bundreds of the cruel King's guards hanging. sider what power has been wielded by and what There are no such conversationalists (he says), around. In an instant the brutes drew their multiform responsibilities thrown on men bearing no such raconteurs, no such joylal devil-may buge knives-nice little concerns about zft. longi the modest title of "Collectors" in India. Euro care, hard-headed, kind-hearted, free-fisted broad in the blade, and weighing several pounde peans among. Asiaties ate anomalous from top fellows on earth as much,travelled showmen, a piece, and in one second I saw two hundred to bottom.
particularly clever cagents, who leave,iing yards of cold steel. I quit my hairy friends, ** The root principles of the Foreign Customs and unvisited where they think it possible to and it did not take me long to get down that gang- Service, the true secret of its growth and its make a few dollars over and above the actual plank. I had two big 45-callbregues, one in cach utility, have been its loyal devotion to Chinese cost of travel, salaries and keep What happy hip pocket, and I pulled 'em. The captain and interests and its ceaseless endeavour to serve hours we have spent in chatter over wine or mate pulled theirs, and the former yelled to me. those la Chiese manner. To do good to whisky with such men as our description con- to get down into the engine room, sweat, PA China was undoubtedly the object of Mr. Lay Jures up! What, stories, we have liateped to, fellow don't stop to argue when about 300 niggers also, but he neglected to accommodate his bens, I what lies sometimes we have swallowed without | are after His blood with big sword-Knives