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MARRIAGES.
MAIL SUPPLEMENT.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
On the 11th inst., at the Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. Douglas Hamilton, Acting Military Chaplain, Captain F. T. CLAYTON, DAA.G., to IDA MACKENZIE RYRI, the youngest daughter of the Hon. P. Ryrie,
At the German Chapel, Hongkong, on the 14th inst, by the Rev. J. Chalmers, London Mission, JAMES MACDONALD, Junr,, Engine, IM.C., to ELIZA, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Riddock, Engineer, Hongkong.
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DEATHS:
EDWARD A. ST. CLAIR SMITH,
At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 1th Init, GEORGY RENNIE STEWART, commission agent, aged 42 years.
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Mr. Francis admitted that it did not appear en the face of the lease, but there were trustees, nevertheless. The grant was made to three persons, their administrators, executors, etá, Jointly, of whom Mr. Ryrie alone survived, and the title was therefore vested in him. They were really the trustees of the City Hall as a public place; but that question could be eluci dated hereafter.
Mr. Fielding Clarke thought it a material point in the application,
Mr. Francis urged that whether they were At Kobe, on the 4th October, the wife of trustees or not they held the title to the land, and it was their duty, or that of the remaining, one, to enforce the rights granted | to them. Mr. Byric was the trustee for the subscribers to the City Hall-the_large number of beneficiary subscribers-and was seeking to enforce their rights, as they had no legal standing individually. It was simply an Bion by a lessee against a lessor, and the beneficiary through Mr. Ryrie, as there was no mention of them In the
Out of respect
On Monday, the 13th instant, at her residence No. 1, Belvedere, Bonham Road, BLANCHE MARGUERITE, the beloved wife of Wm. E. Dougherty, aged 27.
Sydney and New Zealand papers please
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honghong Telegraph.
MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1890.
subscribers had to
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to the Crown they did not ask for an absolute Injunction, but for a rule wis-He then read the lease, according to which the grantees had to pay $14,000, the cost of removing the Harbour Office from that dibe and; erecting it on its present one, in consideration of getting the Marine Lot granted for the purposes of a City Hall. It would be a' matter of evidence to shew what constituted a Marina Lot, but it wAS generally understood to be as set out in all Crown lenses, which distinguished Marine from Inland Lets, the former being sold at a much higher premium and Crown rent. The thing which the Government intended to grant, and the lessees took, was a lot that was washed by the sea, or at any rate had no buildings between
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be put before them shewing what constituted a Marine Lot,
The matter was then adjourned for a week.
SHOOTING MATCH.
The Garrison Shooting Club opened their season on Saturday last with a match, Married *. Single, under the usual conditions. The Benedicks, captained by Sergt.-Major Meredith, won, the Bachelors, led by Q.M.S. Williams, running them very close, however. Marriage isn't altogether a failure, it seems ! The scores were —
SINGLE.
Q.M.S. Williams.... 1.S.. Beren.................
C.S. Adam ASANT 1.8.M. Le...
O.M.S-Hutan
Q.M.S. Dall
Sergeant FearsƏ.............
Sergeant Antrobus
- Mr. Dunn
Sergeant Reynolds.
G.S.M. Meredith 5.0. Ware O.M.S. Hunt..... QM.S. Tremaet ONS, Hong..
MARRIED,
Corporal Martin...... Sarreat Walker Sergeans Ommyda.................. Sergeant-Shloldi
SIX DOLLARS PER QUARTER
H.M.S. Wanderer is expected at Shanghai this Tye Model Settlement is to be congratulated. | Tur Straits Times of the 7th inst says:—"A weck from Japan.
The Gorski family, well known la connection correspondent who has been travelling through with the recent criminal prosecution of Mr. Syed certain little traversed districts of inland Pahang Mahomed Alsagoff in Singapore, intend to settle sends accounts of rumours of an intended great in Shanghai, their passage money being defrayedssemblage of armed Malays, and of a probable by the Government of the Straits Settlements, rising when the Kuala closes. There were umours of the same kind last year; nothing happened then nor does it seem likely that any thing will happen now.".
A SRAMAN on the British ship Constance iell down the hold on the afternoon of the tith inst., and broke several ribs.
THE Amay "sport" have subscribed for 14 griffins this season, and racing in Amoy promises to be very good at the next meeting.
OWING to the continued drought, the authorities at Foochow are offering prayers for rain, and from the 8th to 10th ins, pig slaughtering was totally prohibited.
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THERE is a further rise in the Bangkok and ricul, for rice, is now the lowest figure at which Saigon freight rates. Thirty-one cents per charters can be fixed; while the Saigon rate is steady at eighteen cents. Several steamers are loading rice at Wuhu and Chinkiang for Canton, owing to the drought prevailing in the Kwang Tung province,
Ara Naval Court held at Hanel on the 27th ult., THE steamship Anshin Maru was put up at A French corporal and seven soldiers belong public auction at Shanghal on the 8th inst., buting to the 2nd battalion d'Afrique were tried was not sold, the reserve price not being reached, by court martial for deserting their post on the The highest bid made was taels 17,000.
frontier at Lang-san, and attempting to enlist in the Chinese service, in May last, Ona of their number, told them that there was a standing offer of $586 and a rank in the army of the enemy, if they deserted with their arms and they accordingly crossed the frontier and sent an application for calistment to Colonel Quan, who accepted them, hut. they were recaptured by French troops next day. The Court condemned the corporal to death, and the others to various short terms of imprisonment,
The appointment of Mr. Thomas Henderson Whitehead to be an unofficial member of the Hongkong Legislative Council rice Mr. A. P. MacEwen, resigned, is officially, gazetted.
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The Queen-Dowager of Koren, who died some two months ago at the age of four-score years and two, was to be buried at the ancestral tombs near Seoul on the 14th inst, with great oriental pomp and ceremony..
ALL the Chinese who have spoken to me on the subject, says the Shansi correspondent of the Chinese Timer, seem to be well pleased to have Mai-yuen Fu and Pingyao connected with the roast by telegraph. ́ It is probable that railways, if introduced by the Government, would soon be welcomed by many of the people of the province. The Shanal people have a wonderful power of overcoming their fears about “Feng-shui" wben- they find "there's money in it."
Marine Officers' Association and the Committee
GOOD deal of interest is evinced, especially in. shipping cirdes, over the pending Conference, hetween delegates of the Incal Mercantile, of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, which comes off on Friday next at. 4 p.m., when it is expected that the much-vexed question of Sunday labour will be practically dealt with. The Chinese, as might be expected, take deep interest in the movement; the native Press has taken the matter up and generally support tha REFERRING to the depredations of a dog in the
proposed reform. As far as we can gather the neighbourhood of Lab-keo-tah, Kulangsu, which down to the menial coolie, are prepared to insist Chinese community, from the wealthy merchant. is creating havoc among the fowls and ducks
in enjoying the privilega of one day's reat in; belong to the Chinese, residents there, aur new Amoy contemporary says there is a doubt about stemngly in favour of Sunday abservance here seven. That the Chinese, as a whole, are now the animal belonging to the signalman at the there would seem to be no doubt whatever, and flagstaff. The work by all accounts is as they are perfectly justified in their aspirations, body's dog. Whether this is true or not, it is a they have only to remain united, like the marine known fact that, between the signalman and the "ficers, to obtain from employers their legitimate- Ld., arrived here from Singapore on the from the grant anything, except, as specially ing from a native contemporary of the 8th InstitRailway line for project is the kind yet sted feasts upon the spoil purloined by the dog, so we rights at no distant date.
AT meeting of shareholders in the Berapatdog a kind of friendship exists. The signalman 14th inst. This gentleman's arrival will reserved, what might be required for public An Imperial edict has been issued on the subject in Siem--held in Bangkok last month, it was
are told. An attempt was made the other day be gladly welcomed by the general body had to be given, together with full compensation tion received by the Throne from the Tsung-listated that the undertaking was ready in be signalman interfered and pleaded for its life, drafts of picked Chinese constables from Hong-
by some Chinese to kill the animal, but the as assessed by the Surveyor-General Other Yamêu. After perusing the memorial, his proceeded with, and a large portion of the alleging that his sumptuous and cheap mode of kong. The first batch of twenty-five were paraded
THE PUNJOM MYSTERY.
MR. H. M. BECHER, manager of the Punjom and Dua Samantan Mining Co.,
it and the sea. That having been granted, it was out of the power of the Crown to take away
THE TAXATION OF CHINESE OPIUM.
The Shanghai Mercury translates the follow-
purposes, in which case three months' notice of opium in consequence of a long communica
Majesty handled it over to the Board of Revenue for further consideration, and requested that body to make any suggestions they thought fit regarding the collection of duty on the native drug, which the Board did, and the memorial of the Tsung-li Yamén then received the Imperial sanction. The memorial in question was to the following effect"Opium originally was imported fato China from foreign countries, the payments being inade in bullion, and the money spent on this article flowed out of China like water into the coffers of other nations, and there was no means of checking the fearful expendi- ture. Of recent years, however, it has been neticed that the poppy is extensively grown here, particularly in such places as He-lau-klang, Sinkin, and Kiria, and the officials in those districts duly sent information of the fact to the proper quarters, In course of time the culture of the drug was developed, and now it is a general industry. But there has always beca a great difficulty in the levying of the duty on the drug, and therefore Governors of provinces and other officials are notified that they must watch the matter closely, and send up proper accounts of the amount of duty collected in their respective districts. This account is to be separate from the general accounts, and the officials are also-to-send-in-suggestions as to the best means of collecting the duty, and they are allowed three months in which to do so. Two Genes fofested by Sir Robert Hart, Inspector is that native opium should be divided into valuable. His proposals, the principal of which
the various officials for their consideration along classes, like the foreign drug, are forwarded to with the edict."
ACCORDING to the Manila, journals, the damage done in the Philippines by the recent typhoon and floods amounts to not less than two million dollars. Whole estates of sugar, hemp, etc., have been destroyed, and there is considerable
distress.
capital subscribed.
ACCORDING to the N. C. Daily News the steamship Anshin. Maru was purchased at public auction in Shanghai on the morning of the 8th Inst. by Messrs. Farnham & Cn, for -taels 27.000.
Messrs. Hopkin", Dunn & Co. were the auctioneers.
living would be at an end should it be destroyed.
EARLY this year political exigencies necessitated had governed Macao for a few months. The the recall of Admiral Teixeira da Silva, after he
same exigencies, shortly afterwards, 'conferred | the post on Senhor Custodia de Borjs, a fierce looking little Portuguese, then commanding the gunboat Taja. He deferred accepting the rank We learn that the steamer Tangshan, 19 days until he had put in his full time as captain, gales fortnight ago, and left a day or two ago meantime Col. Ferreira administered the Gavern- out from Bangkok, put into Touran after the.which period expired on Saturday, and in the for this port. As she would encounter the recent meatofthe colony. The English.mail to-day (14th Hollow to re-coal, which, as all the feel there as Governor of MCAD and Timor, Envoy Extra- "blow" the is supposed to have gone to inst.) brought the papers accrediting Sr.de Borja has been exhausted, means considerable delay. ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of H. M. the King of Portugal to China, Japan, and Siam, and that worthy official will take office on Thursday afternoon, with much pomp. He is a Tory, if politics are of any consequence in the Dead City.
THE steamer Cass, from Shanghai, in crossing the bar at Tammal on Sunday afternoon, the 5th. inat, a high ses running at the time, lost a Chinese steward, who was washed overboard. The body was found the following_morning. Such heavy weather, says the Amoy Timer, has not, been known at Tamsui, it is said, for the last fourteen years.
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THE Singapore Police authorities have decided upon reinforcing the "protectors ranks with
at the Central Station this morning (13th ins) -before Acting Assistant Superintendent Horsnonf and Assistant Superintendent Newland, of the recruits and take them down to their new anhere Straits Force,the latter having come here tox-lect
of labour. The men picked to-daw are by no means novices at "bobby pidgin," having been on special duty here at various times during the past five years; as, for instance, when the cargo- hoatmen struck at the time of the Franco-Chinese kong, etc., etc. Hitherto the Singapore Force war and in 1888, also when the Drak "did" Hong-
has practically excluded Chinese from its ranks, with the exception of a mere handful of defectives and four or five constables. The growth in power; however, of Chinese guilds and secret societies In the Straits has made it desirable that fairly rellable Chinese police should no longer be conspicuous by their absence in our sister calony. These men will get $8 per month, with the usual allowances,
of shareholders, and as the Directors are
wise nothing could be done to alter the perfectly well aware of the strong feeling character of the land during their tenancy that exists regarding the “Punjom mys-
of the lease. Their complaint was that the be entirely deprived of lot was about to tery," a wise discretion will be exercised its character as a Marine Lot, and its right in convening a public meeting with as little of access to the sea, as possessed since 1866, delay as possible. We have no intention at taken away in a great part. The work of reclamation was now in progress, and it was a present of critically dealing with the matter of public notoriety that steps were being details of the Company's working since taken to fill in the frontage. That, be submitted, Mr. Bacusa took over the reins, of was ultra vires-her Majesty could not take away with one hand what she had given with management; but considering the several the other. Even if this land were in England so-called expert reports that have been her Majesty, in her legislative capacity, could not take away by proclamation, charter, on in supplied regarding the mines and their any other way, what she had once given; prospects, the many and varied statements Parliament, which was supreme over even officially made by the Board of Directors,
the Queen, could revoke her acts, but she could | not re-take, in her legislative capacity, that "the eminently unsatisfactory negotiations which she had granted in her executive capacity, nor could she do so by delegation. The powers in London and elsewhere, and the utter
of the Legislative Connell here were purely collapse in the market value of the Co.'s delegated powers, limited strictly to making laws strip, we feel justified in forcibly directing the for the peace and good govemment of the Colony, attention of the Board to the very serious and such acts as this deprivation of rights were
not consistent with these objects. state of affairs now existing. What explana-
Mr. Fielding Clarke-Cannot she take it by tions that are likely to satisfy the long-virtue of an Ordinance of compensation? suffering and confiding shareholders Mr.
Mr. Francis submitted that she could not do so by any act of the local Legislature, because BECHER of the Board of Directors may be public rights were already protected by the clause in a position to offer, we have no means of in the grant. Otherwise the Crown could only knowing; but if the summary of the re-possess themselves of the land on the ground General of Customs, are regarded as particularly further they demand that their former mate be of foreign travel" frankly told me that the autho- tosta
that it was improperly used, or that the grant Company's latest prospects, published in our issue of the 2nd inst., is even approxi- the Crown could revoke a grant otherwise. A Was invalid. He knew of no authority whereby mately accurate, the situation, so far as private lessor could not deprive a lessee of any the Directors and their Manager are rights, once demised, and the Crown had no concerned, is certainly not to be envied, greater power. To obviate probable misunderstandings between the Board and the sharë- holders when the meeting takes place, the best course would be for Mr. BECHER to draw out a fully detailed report of the proceedings he took part in during his lengthy sojourn in London, and of the Company's actual condition and prospects, and this report, with any additions the Directors might see fit to make, should be distributed amongst the shareholders. It cannot be too clearly understood that the
Upon receipt of the document the Viceroy Sir James Russell-Looking at Onlinance 16
Chang Chi-tung at once proceeded to carry out the measures contained therein, and after con- of 1889, was no soplication made to the plaintiffsultation with his peers in the Hupeh province he to join in the scheme?
decided upon the employment of the following method, and issued, in conjunction with Governor Tang. & proclamation as following "Native Kwelchow, and Shenst, of which provinces oplum is principally from Yunnan, Szechuan, Szechuen produces the greatest quantity. In picul, but recently this has been considered former years the duty was fixed at Tis. 30 per a high rate, and various officers entrusted with the collection have been in the habit of deman- ding only a few tacis per picul, but there is always more or less evading going on of even this Imperial mandate that the duty should be raised, and of Sir Robert Hart's proposal that it should be the same as on foreign opium, namely, Tis xxo per plaul, we have decided that Tis.. 20 per pleul shall be collected along with Tia 4,70 extra for losses and short weight of sycee, which rate we have settled after mature consideration and careful observation."
ASHANSI correspondent to our Tientsin contem: porary says:-It is almost lamentable to find how ignorant even the best educated Chinese are, as to the true relations existing between China and foreign countries. One of the highest THE Singapore Free Press of October 6th says: grade teachers in the province recently asked The crew of the British abip Earl of Zallande hee It was that France and England, and came ashore yesterday in a body, and decline to the United States, which formerly paid tribute go back. They assert that they have been to China, had of late years refused to do so. A aboard eleven months without a day's leave, and gentleman, to whom I loaned a copy of "records
who was appofated captain. given charge of the vessel, instead of the man rities fostered ignorance of foreign countries. He also stated that the writer of the book was dis- missed from cffice by Tung-chik for publishing rosy an account of what he had seen and heard in the lands of the great West. I do not know how true the latter statement may prove to be. Among the pictures in high demand at destruction of the French Fleet by the Chinese. New Year time is one representing the total
THOSE who have seen that Archimedean lever the Amoy Garefie 'will understand to what a fever-heat journalism is getting at Koolangsoo when we have to announce a new venture there, is a hardy-looking little weekly, though that styled the Amay Times and Mercantile Gavrile, sounds paradoxical, and the price, 30 cents a copy, brings it within the reach of any million
aire.
UNDER the heading "A Veteran of the Sea" the Fagan Mail of the 4th inst. says:-A veritable. veteran of the sen, Captain T.-A. Christensen, leaves Japan to-day by the P. & O. Company's steamer Ancona. Caplain Christensen is now In his seventieth year. Fifty-three and a half- and for thirty-eight years he was a master years of his life were devoted to service at sea," mariner, of time, siding the whole of which long period man overboard, and never had a vesseli touch the ground, truly a wonderful record. Ha came to the East twenty-six years ago (1864) in command of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer, Cares, but resigned in Hongkong and returad to England. Four-years later (1868) he brought out the steamer Courier for Messrs. Walsh, Hall & Co., and commanded her on the Chinese the purpose of the fur trade. In 1869 be cam and Siberian coasts for a year and a half, for
manded the Vulcan, a German steamer belong. REFERRING to Sir "Gush" Bowen's twaddling ing to Messrs, Knifler & Co., and in 1870. memoirs, the Sydney Bulletin says there is one having returned to Europe, he took command of well-authenticated story which Bowen does not the Princess Royal, an English steamer char- ARTHUR Hollier, who forged the signature of the tell his readers. When the Civil Service offered hy the French Government to run between last month, with a view to obtaining board and under his authority, the socially astute and the Crusader, plying between Glasgow and the Chief Clerk of the Public Works Department Victoria was being decimated by Graham Berry Marseilles and Algeria. He next commanded lodging at the Marine Hotel, was brought before, then held the office of Chief Commissioner of running and was recently in Yokohama after courtly gentleman with the wicked eyes, who Black Sea-the Crusader, by the way, is still Mr. Wise at the Police Court on the 14th Inst., Police, received an early intimation from which he came (1874) to Japan and, entering. when the case was re-heard, by direction of the Melbourne Clab friend that his name was on Acting-Attorney General: It resulted in a
the Mitsu Bishi Co.'s service, commanded.
Gaol
noura Maru) for 12) years, Captain Christensen then passed into the service of the Japan Mail.. Steamahin Company, and lately commanded the Omi Maru. Universally popular and highly esteemed by his employers as an officer of exceptional" abillity, he leaves a record of which any seaman might well be proud. We belleve that his present purpose is to settla. in Scotland, where we trust that he may enjoy many years of comfort and happiness.
time has arrived when the truth about the had been distinctly told that they were outside | small duty. Since the receipt, however, of the sentence of three months' bard labour in H...the list of the doomed. Early next morálng he several ships in succession, the last (Waka- :
Punjom Company and its management, must be plainly told, irrespective of any private feelings or personal considerations that may be involved.
THE PRAYA RECLAMATION
SCHEME.
THE CITY HALL GRANT."
WE am from Macao that an attempt to establish a depot at that port for Chinese coolies, is connection with the emigration enterprise of the Compañia Mexicans-Asiatica, has not found favour with the Portuguese authorities, We awalt forther particulars regarding what appears to be a determined effort to revive the infamous barracoons of twenty years ago in spite of public
presented himself at Gavemment House and, having been received by Sir George with the usual blarnevi proceeded to state his business. The effect of It was that unless his name was immediately removed from the black-list, he would publish ■ lively chronicle of his | Excellency's after-office-bours amusements in Melbourne, The Commissioner retained hispost," There is another gubernatorial reminiscence in which a gardener and a horse-whip played prominent parts (in connection with a woman, of course) which does not appear in Sir George's book
THE 590 fon British barque Nicoya, Captain Johnson, which arrived this forenoon (1sth The body of old Tom Carter, the big West with sandalwood and to ballast,
lustant) from Albany, Australia," loaded Indian negro who has been so familiar a figure in having encountered three terrific typhoone reports this Colony for the past 30 years, was, we regret two of which she was in the centre of for morning (Oct. 14th). Tom was last seen alive at t. 15 deg, north on the 21st September, and to learn, found floating in the harbour this several hours. The first was experienced in the Marine Hotel, Praya West, last Sunday night raged with terrible force until noon on the 23rd. at about 10.30 p.m., when he was walking. In this very little damage was done to the ship her in an easterly direction. The night was a head being kept to the wind,underbare poler. The very bolsterous one, the seas breaking clean lowest reading of the barometer was 29.20. On over the Prays, and by some means or other the the 1st Inst. In lat, 18.21 north, a northerly galo. poor old chap fell into the harbour and as on fet in, with blinding sain squalls. The barometer was that of a ship wright, and for some years at 18 Be, when it was blowing a perfect hurricans. now known, was drowned. Tom's profesalon | fell rapidly, and at one o'clock on the "and stood
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Mr. Francle admitted that there was, but it was distinctly refused. In the first place the published the plans of the scheme, showing Government, under that Ordinance, issued and the disposition of the different lots, and colored the lots that were to be in front of the City Hall as Government land, and in response to the question why the City Hall site was to be deprived of its rights as a Marias Lot the Government said that it was not a Marine Lot, and had no rights whatever. They the Ordinance; although the attention of the Government had been specially called to the fact that the rights of the grantees had been disregarded they refused to recognise their rights over the Praya at all. The Colonial Secretary wrote that they had no rights beyond the limits fixed in the lease. He (Mr. Francis) contended that Ordinance 16 of 1889 was entirely beyond the power of the local Legislature as delegated by her Majesty, and was such an Ordinance as would merchants of Hankow; who have promised to This proclamation has been sent to the never have been passed by the Imperial Partia shilde by its enactments, and it will shortly be put ment (here their lordships exchanged inscrutable in force generally. A dépaly Tacial and a captain opinion. At the Supreme Court yesterday morning, Sir smiles) an it declared, without any inquiry, that will proceed with a sufficient number of saidlers, James Russell, Chief Justice, and Mr. Fielding all the rights, or supposed rights, belonging to all the most important stations and take the A BAILING vessel belonging to Messes. Bun Hin Clarke, Puisse Judge, sitting in Appellate Jurls to Crown or other lease-holders to the use necessary steps to collect the duty and prevent &Co., of Singapore, left that port somefour months diction, heard aner parts application in the case and possession of any fore-shore, embank smuggling. The head office will be at Ichang, age for Tamsul, with a cargo of timber for the Phineas Ryrie The Attorney-General, made ment, pier, etc., etc., were "hereby declared where all the packages af native oplum will receive Governor of Formosa, and has not been seen or by Mr. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. Mossop), to be absolutely extinguished and determined," the official stamp, after payment of the proper heard of since. It is feared that the vessel bay
Mr. Francis sald that the application was made and set out in a proving the compensation to be in a suit brought by the Hon. P. Rygle against the given to persons, sa dispossessed, mubject to the duty. These packages canthen be carried to every been lost with all hands. A large junk also left Attorney-General of Hongkong under the pro- absolute discretion of the Governor to give or part of the province for purpose of trade, and will Singapore about the same time with a similar visions of chap 14, section 83, of the Code, which withhold such compensation, or to risess the
be subject to no further interference or taxation cargo for Tamsul, and arrived there safely within made the Attorney-General defendant on behalf walus of the privilege so determined as he liked.
whatever on the part of the opium searchers | two months; ; or: soldiers detalled to prevent smuggling. of the Colony, and was for an interim infunction, How such an Ordinance ever came to be passed
Any smugglers detected will be severely dealt but the remedy sought to the suit, of course, was he could not tell, but he submitted that it was with, and the opfum confiscated, half the value The latest addition to the Rooskie Dobrovolnos a perpetual injunction. The salt was brought bad in the very essence of it, and altogether of it going to the people to whom the seizure is Flot the steamer Kostroma, left her moorings by Mr. Byric, who was the sole survivor of the beyond the province of the Legislative Council due, and half to the Government. Any opium at West Paint where she has been discharging three trustees to whom the plot of land on which to pass, confiscating, as it did, private rights to going about the country in packages without the about 1,000 tons of general cargo during the past he picked up a precarious Hving by doing" "Suddenly the wind and son went down, and the City Hall is erected was granted. Mr. Ryrie's property it was even beyond the power of her chang atamp will be considered contraband past 48 hours at 8 am, on the 11th fast and odd jha, such as caulking and planing, on those on board were comforted with the know- affidavit
was to the effect, that by an indenture | Majesty to delegate such power to any body. made on the 6th, March 1866;sbetween H, M.
Chang Chi-tong erjolas, upon the sficials of continued her journey towards the enchanting board sailing ships in port. The keen com-ledge that they were in the centre of the typhoon. Hopeh and the neighbouring provinces that it is land of exiles-Russian, Siberia. In her lower peta hich he was subjected to his Land and sex birds of almost every description ling langs by the Chinese, especially of sad sixe were hovering about: the ship in their duty to support him in his efforts to carry hold she carries large quantity of munitions of
reduced him to sad straits, thousands, aveiling themselves of every nook out the Imperial commands in this matter, and war and commissariat stores for the Far Eastern
red chiefly upon charity during the last and, corner on the deck into which to crawl, to prevent extortion of other improper practices. legions of the Tear of all the Russias, Pity they
e of his life. Blessed with a robust The vessel remained in the vortex until 4.p.m... He says that, as he knows the people are not couldn't put Popow on board,
tution and fine muscular body, this waif on the 3rd when a storm again set in frons ery rich, he only imposes the rate of Tis. 30 per
one of the Indies was often of great assis, the north and rapidly increased, to a moit cut instead of the rate suggested by Sir Robert-The claim by the Shanghal-Tug Boat Associato to the Police and Fire Brigader, furious typhoon. The wind now quickly veered fart, and say one attempting to evade payment tion against the underwriters of the steamer belt foremost in backing up the officers from north to west, the barometer standing st
if this duty will be severely punished.
Pasching, which vessel was, but on the of tad law at all hazard: Many are the acts 28.0 until 6pm, on the 4th, when it commenced Yangtzn on May 29th last, bax, xays: the N.-C of gallantry which the police and firemen tell of to rise slowly. During the whole ofthe time from Dally News, Intely been settled by the payment the plucky old man, not the least amongst which the 3rd morning of the to the evening of the of Tis. 750. The amount claimed was was bis fierce personal onslaught against upwards 4th the little ship was most severely tried. 2,000. The underwriters, it will be remembered, of 150 Russian men-of-war's men who were being virtually under water most of the time, sent a representative in the Fukles to bring in Indulging in a free fight with the police, in Queen's It is impossible to describes the fary of the the hall, but it was found to be already in pos Road West, some eight years ago. Seiring elements, the wind driving the son in a regular c session of the Recies by which tugs it was constable trancheon, Tom launched in, spoon drift. On the 13th and 3rd third brought to Shanghai asa derelictalakay and in the Upace often short minutes typhoon, more farious than the previous two, paparig land the Roosides in fad, dight,, while his was experience in lat, 1945, north, which lasted orts another rise in the THEY keep on having their "little affairs" at weapon, which he kept ever after as a trophy, about 24 hours. Lowest reading of barometer which now dearer by some eighty daylight, on the turf down Tonquin way, sad, bore stains of gore that proved conclusively 28.20 during which most of the starboard parede, what la more, they are getting so careless as to how heavily the niggar's hand and fallen bulwarks, together with the after binnacle and
even draw bleed a "M"Brintency, adminis upon the rank and file of the Philistines. everything moveable on decks, were washed, tracinent out with M. de Feyard, magisque, Thomas was admittedly anything but a Good away The Captain and cre are very proud on the 3rd fort, and now the former wears his Templar, but for all that the general pubile can of their little ship, and well they may be, for wo arm in a sling Two lieutenants had a turn-up bat look askance apon those who knowing of question very much if some of the steamers next morning, indone, twice alight" his pubile services and Indigent circumstances, which arrived yesterday, fully as much damaged are more afairat d'honneur in the air, What Poor old Tom has gone to rest" at the ripe ago tests of seaworthiness would have stood 18. sa wounded. The Progris de Saigon says there allowed him to virtually beg from door to doors the Nicoya, if put to such a series of severa in sanguiskry decature is is, to be auIE
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the Queen and Mr. A. Turing, MJ Mo the question of the ultra' virus of 1993),
Mr. Fielding Clarke Have you any cases on Dowell and himself, her Majesty grantedition ? an epaite
the land in question, in all 18,000 feet, being Mr. Franc registered as Marina Lot 82, with the usual find nont reservation of re-occupation by the Government rights of
If required for their purposes, on fair compensation
for the building thereon being given. The term
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that the
of demise was 999 years, at a yearly rent of gehad offe The land was situated About Bity yards from the sea, being only separated by: the Prays and Mr. sea-wall, and had always, been necessible from comm the sea. The Government of Hongkong had recently, with her Majesty's consent, determined giant to fill up the harbor along the boundary, to all -distance of 250 yards; and convert the present d
Prays into an inland street, no-depriving was des the owners of the lot of their right of access fmpiled t granted " by the lease, to the, derogation
of that grant. To that end work. waS DOW":
Mr. Flading plaintiff had got
going on, and, in a short time the plaintifs would be deprived of their privileges 10 Haring Ma. Francis it Cotholders. The stolicasion, therefore, (continued threatened Ibas 'nd22 Mry Franch Buangan interim injunction is
deterioration in the
mtrain the Crowded continuing much work removal of its pa Her Majesty, by "menia. Instrument, granted
plaintiff dought á per
~ to the trustees. Andriak meng qullestras not recover damagelij
Mr. Wielding Class painted out that nothing Sir James Rune Hid that they would kad houn shown so far that there wae trustees,, adjouta the matter, in order that evidence migħi.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
bition by the Hongeng Sketching in the City of the 21st
THE long overdue Bangkok liner Tangshan (Captain Young) expected here: to-day from Hofhow, faing kich port she called to coal after encounterin succession of beary gales and a agents yerday, from the captain, reporting typhoon.telegram was received by the local
'all woll, 19 days buts?:17
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