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THE calendar of probates and administrations granted by the Supreme Court during 1800 is contained in a return tabled at the Legislative Council yesterday. It hardly shews a case of a $1.00 single white man leaving over $ro,ooo, but lots of paltry sums. But the shoal of bankruptcies 1.to shewed liabilities to the amount of $112,353 proved (out of $119,000 admitted in schedule and $6,154 got in assets, out of $151,766 alleged to be existent. So that the Pagoda Tree wouldn't seem to flourish any more, to any extent.
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Ar the Harbour Master's Office this morning; before Comd. W. C. Hastings, R.N., Acting Marine Magistrate, the master of the steam laurch Wing Foo was charged with carrying 48 passengers in excess of his license on the 28th alto. Sergeant Niven proved the case, and the $4.50 defendant was fined $96--two shekels per man 5.00 Chang Tsung, master of the steam launch Saw 7.30 Ma was similarly charged with carrying 21 12,00 || passengers in excess, and was fined $57-two der caput and $15 for the rubber. Chan Po, $50 for a similar offence. The latter defendant, who was carrying 30 persons in his unlicensed $1.10 launch, alleged that the passengers were his master's family who were going to Chek Wan t.as to worship at the temples. The Chinese launches bave lately done very good business, running 1.to first to Kowloon and now to the Chek Wan festival, and it evidently pays to risk these little affairs, as the fines were forked out at once,
AND this is fame. Says an American paper "Siam, which is well known on account of lis Justly renowned Siamese Twins, will build-its- Grst railroad this year." Our contemporary is probably not aware that Siam is also renowned for its "white elephants."
AT the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. Wise, two of the three men charged with keeping a gambling house in East Street on the wgth ulto, surrendered to ball. On the morning of the day in question Inspector Hennessy broke Into the house and arrested the three men, whe were managing the place. This afternoon Mr. Mossop, who defended, said the house was a club, but he did not call any witness to prove that fact. Mr. Wise, after hearing the evidence ofthe Police and informers, considered the charge proved, and sentenced each of the defendants to six months' imprisonment with bird labour. A warrant for the third man's arrest was granted, and the $700 ball was estreated.
At the Legislative Council meeting yesterday the Registrar-General's returns of the batches "and "dispatches" for 1890 were tabled. The total number of births among the British and foreign community was 167, or 15.23 per 1000, and of deaths 188, of 17.14 per 1000. But as 40 of the 188 were non-residents-tourists or people sent bere to receive medical treatment unobtainable In coast-parts, this ratio is considerably lowered, The Chinese new arrivals numbered 1450, 7.71 per 1000: and the departures totalled. un 4553, 05 23 35 per 1000. The terrible iriamas | nastantium-infantile lock jaw—was responsible for 277 and 233 deaths at the Asile de la Ste. Enfance and the Italian Convent respectively. Is it excess, or want of, Godfrey's Cordial ?
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A NEW YORK telegram to'a San Francisco paper. dated March 25th. says:-There is no truth In the statement that the Chinese residents of New York, In connection with their Consul here, are getting up a mammoth petition to the Chinese Mialster at Washington, protesting against Senator Blair as Minister to Chinn, so say Fun Hon, Secretary of the Merchants' Union, and Wen Wing Taw, the Mayor of Chinatown. We think," added the Mayor, "that President Har- rison is our friend; but if he chooses to send an enemy to China as his Minister we cannot help it. We have no redress" "It Blair goes to out that he will soon change his mind. He said Ab W, the Delmonico of Pell Street,?
will be treated with the greatest respect. He
will go into the politest toclety in the world. No Chinese hoodlums will throw stones at him, pull his hair, or pluck his beard."
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GLAD tidings for shipowners and masters! Chang Chibi-tung' white elephant, otherwise the Canton river barrier, erected at the time of the recent Franco-Chloese war, has been about three parts removed, and it confidently predicted by those who should know about what they predict in this connection that the whole obstruction will be away by the first of next month, thus, making it possible for deep-draft steamers to get up to Canton and there discharge, instead of haring to tranship their cargoes into boats and junks at Whampoa. The recent activity of the
Chinese authorities in this matter is, we are fully assured, solely owing their desire to diminish the cost of
of transport of the enormous
D.-TILL me what you think of my last poem window, two Europeans, one Indian and four In the Dally Press? I want to finish it, as 1 | Chinese, and the placard at the door was altered have other irons in the fire, C-I should withdraw accordingly. After a careful-scrutiny of those.
behind the window the turnkey passes on, leav the frons and insert the poem.
ing the prisoners to their own devices until the following morning.
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ABOUT 7.45 last night the Indo-China. Co.'s steamer Footsang collided with a two-masted ballast, laden junk in the Cap-sai-mun Pasa, on her way from Whampoa hither. The seven men on board were saved by a Chinese Customs launch.
Ar the Magistracy, this morning,, before Mr. Wise, Yung Foug and Ngan Su, washermer wern charged at the Instance of Mr. King, land bailiff, with erecting a matshed and washing dams. above the Albany Service Reservoir on Crown land yesterday. The defendants admitted the charge, and were each fined $50, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment,
THE organisers of the Garrison Practice Dance were entertained last evening to a complimentary Quadrille Party at the City Hall by a number of Civilians who during the winter months had been the guests of the Garrison at their cojoyable practices in the Commissariat Buildings. The St. Andrew's and St. George's Halls were tastefully decorated in hongrof the occasion, and with music supplied by the Regimental Hand.. ander Conductor Hill, dancing was kept up to an early hour this morning. A most enjoyable crcing was spent by one and all, and, every praise is due to the committee for the manner in which they had worked to make it so successful;
none.
could do so.
A DEBTOR'S EXperiences in VICTORIA GAOŁ.
(BY A VICTIM:)
There is no fixed rule for the hour of getting up, but each prisoner must come down to receive his own breakfast, or what he must try to fancy is such, from the warder, so that he must get up before 7.30. He is supposed to make his own bed, and help in cleaning the room, but if he is the possessor of a car or cigarette which he is willing to share with his Chinese companions, he need never move a hand, or disturb himself by doing any of this work. 8 or 9 a warder comes in to see whether the beds are properly made and the floor cleaned, after which the prisoners are left in pence until dinner time, only then to be disturbed to get their dinners. This finished, they may almost da just as they please, considering they are in prison. At 4.30 tea (or a repetition of breakfast) is served, and at 5 the dror of the tower is closed. As I have before mentioned, prisoners here may do pretty well as they like. They have no task to perform, and are not under any immediate superintendence of a warder. Every prisoner has a right to one book a week to read; may smoke as much as he pleases, and, if he has the wherewithal to obtain the neces saries, when tired of reading he may indulge in a game of draughts, or if he is European of a practical turn of mind, he may profit by his incarceration by learning Chinese, providing that hecas "chum up with a sufficiently well-educated Chinese follow- sufferer. Nearly all the Chinese prisoners are merchants, in bankruptcy, and are undergoing a term of imprisonment varying from three to six
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YONG YAU, master of a cargo-boat, was charged at the Harbour Master's Office to-day beforethisthe latter being the maximum length of time a debtor can be detained, for no matter his boat without having a licence. Inspector becomes unbearable, and if the unfortunate Comd. Hastings, R.N., with carrying stones in
how large an amount. The monateny sOOM Corcoran sald about 4.30 p.m. on the 21st ulto. he boarded the defendant's junk, which was his freedom, or If he can manage to move the can scrape together the sum necessary to obtain loaded with stone from Sul-ching-wan, and asked the defendant for his papers, but he had heart of some kind fricad, he does so with all The junk was the property of Tsang who cannot possibly assist themselves or obtain possible despatch. There are some detained Akin. The latter said he was engaged the aid of friends, and they must, therefore, executing work for the Praya Reclamation, and being Government work, he did not need a patiently along until their term expirer. There was one man during my incarceration Ilcence for his boats, as they were really lighters Mr. Hastings said that according to his inter. who had been sentenced to three months, impri- sonment for a debt of $17, a fact which, I pretation of the Ordinance the defendant must think, requires no comment. He was the victun bave a licence. He would impose a nominal
of his creditor's vengeance; that worthy, not fine of $10, and if the owner chose to appeal he contented with losing the $77, actually spent another $12 la costs and for the maintenance of his debtor, who, of course, is, not fed by the Government. If a man is sent to gaol for debt, the prosecuting party must maintain him during his stay in the strong house topalde, and bould the prosecutor bring the $7.50 a minute after 9.30 a.. on the first of each month, it will not be received, and the prisoner is ordered to "get" forthwith. A slight legal help is afforded to prisoners in the shape of the cardboard forms which adorn the room walls, by a perusal of which they learn that they can regain their liberty by sending in a copy to "his lordship." These forms are simply declarations'setting forth that pursuant to Act so-and-so, they may obtain their release by filing an affidavit to the effect that they have no property, either in their own or in the joint possession of others; nor have they any la expectancy, and on another form their personal belongings are enumerated. If the prove the contrary within creditor cannot a certain time stipulated by the judge, the prisoners are released. This happens in piacty nine cases out of a hundred, and the debtor is thus released from any further fear of trouble by bla creditor. As I have stated, a debtor in geol has no fixed tark to perform, bat he is made to exercise in a cruel manner, only worthy of the tortures of the Inquisition. This exercise has to be done daily at 11.30 8.1, when dinner (1) is served, and the mode of infilet- ing this torture is to make him masticate a cast- off rubber sole of a lawn tennis shoe, heated, and served up in a round tin basin, at the bottom of which is to be found melted cirigrease, very smell of which would cause the bungriest mongrel to place his tail between his legs and fly. In gaol parlance this rubber sole is called beefsteak. Besides this delicacy he also has m
his soup" is composed of a few pieces dirty semi-circular tin of something which is described as stew or soup. From a rough guess vulcanite, thrown into about a handful of barley initiated into the mysteries of prison jargon, it may be useful to add that in that establish ment what an ordinary person would call
merres generally make a strong hearty mạn feel tired, and after wrestling an hour with bis “coup" and "beefsteak” he is glad to lie down,
to
Let me supplement your series of interesting articles on prison life in Victoria, Gaol by giving youa short account ofhow those poor devils, whose only crime consists of being unable to pay their Vills, manage to rub along. The prelude to an arrest for debt is a very simple formality indeed the debtor is accosted in the street by a bailid, little account 7" No, to generally the sad whose first move is lo ask "Can you settle this reply. "Well," retorts the balliff, laying his kand on the debtor's shoulder, "come along with me". If
If any explanation is attempted a rough pash adds force to the order 'come along.' To a man whose sole experience of a prison consists of baring seen its walls from the outside, and who never in his life dreamt of being ignominiously arrested in a public thoroughfare, this is a severe blow. In a few minster he is within the preclacts of H. M. Gaol and is led before the Fuujanbl scribe. At this point the warrant of his arrest is handed him, and a copy of an affidavit is shown him to the effect that Messrs. Short & Co have swom that he has refused to pay his bill and that he is about to leave the Colony. In vain he protests against this affirmation, but the bailiff turns a deaf ear to all that is mild, saying that that this not his business, and can only be explained to his lordship. "What he wants," he says, "is the money, or security from some- Justice on such-and-such a date. If not," he one for the debtor's appearance before the Chief continues, addressing the Punjabi scribe already referred to, will you take charge of this
the
For Betmaster of the Pd Hing steam launch, was fixed ] brother of the Great Viceroy would not have surrounded by bundles of ing else, belor valcanite is there called mutton. These two
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SAVE an American contemporary:-The Emperor William has his prejudices, and among them la a very pronounced one against the Jews, "It is 0.75 understood that he has privately intimated to the Prince of Wales that it will not be at all agreeable to him to meet the Prince's millionaire Jewish 6.75 friends when he visits, London såle summer, This hint has made it nécessary for the Prince of Wales to delicately but firmly suggest to 10-75 || Baron Hirsch that business affairs of an Import- Ant character should require his attention on the Confuent about the time that the Emperor 1:00 | resches London. Baron Rothschild bas also been I warned that he should look to his gardens 1,10
out i at his country seat about the same time. Reuben Sassoon has been convinced that his health will make it necessary for him to go
to Brighton at the very moment William leaves #75 Berlin, and it is on the cards that Baron Reater is to be taken seriously ill. Haw_arccellagly maplemsant this task must have been to the Prince of Wales may be appreciated by the fact 1.10 that it is, on dif, Baron Kirsch who kas jin
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A ROMANCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
It was in the Middle Ages,
quantities of rice which, owing to the long continued drought and failure of last year's aaturman crops in Kwangtung province, it is, and will for some months be, necessary for them to import from Yangtze grain ports-Wahu and prisoner," and after a final summons to his bolled in water. For the benefit of those not Chinklang. There can be but little doubt that had prisoner to try to get some friend to pay or stanil the barrier not been the cause of the wily security, be departs, fully conscious of having heather Chinee losing slightly, with every
fulfilled his daty. In this office, which resembles prospect of booking further losses, the noble a pawnshop more ikan
clothing
labelled and thought of setting about the removal of the use.
classed, the unfortunate debtor is searched. He is not allowed to have anything whatever on him less barriers in the year of grace 1891. Hardly with the exception of matches and tobacco. If he does not want inquisitive eyesto read the last letter from the girl he left behind him or from his parents or friends at home, he must destroy them, as he cannot be allowed to bare them in bis possession whilst la prison. Hela here "entered Into a register kept for that purpose. His name follows in retation after those already Incarcerated for murder, robbery, stc,the register knows no distinction between prisoners, with the exception that under the column registering the sentence of the delinquent (?) the word "debtor is written. He is then told to go straight abead and turn to the left" which he finds brings bim to a landing at the end of which is an iron door or grating. This is opened to allow him to pass, accompanied by a cry of" One Evropean from the warder. He has then to go down a fight of steps, but the view from the top of the landing. if he has ever been to Fails striices him forcibly as resembling the bear pl it is the same thing. Of breakfast Ad in the Jardin da Planter, in miniature. At the bottom of the step, he perceives a small hectagonal tower, which the placard hung near the doors announces as being "C. S. O. Debtors Ward"
It was somewhere near Peru, Someone found a silver sixpence In a Geld-this tale is true i Which to somebody he mentioned
Who was going out to dine; In a week it had expanded
From a sixpence to a míns, Then a company promoter,
And surveyors by the score, With eminent Gnanciers,
Came and landed on that shore. Then they spent a month prospecting
With a magnifying glass, Building up with many chuckies
Quite a cheery little farce. They retomed to Merrie England,
And they pursed their little scheme, Til they brought out a prospectus,
Which was quite a poet's dream i For it told of wealth enormous Lying burled in the ground,, And which only wanted raising –Having-been-already-ícund, Then the public they Invited,
With a lot of tender soap, To come and see that sixpence
Through a monster microscope ; And the capital was stated
At a hundred thousand pounds, Into five pound shares divided-
How refreshing all this sounds! Then the public rushed to buy them,
Till a five pound share cost eight, And a lot of people murmured
That they always were too late. Thus this company was floated In a month or two, they says But the capital it floated
In a very diff'rent way.' For the finder of the sixpence
Well, of course he took a third, The promoter took another,
Then the lawyers-twas absurd— The surveyor and financiers
Took as much as it would yield, Thus leaving the investors
With the sixpence--and the field. This was in the Middle Ages
You'll remember that, I trust, When the world was very wicked;
And man's morals apt to rust j Now, of course, it couldn't happen,
bfea are good, and true, and klid, And I've not the faintest notion ·
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happy if all his teeth have not come to grief. during the struggle. Sometimes this torture lengthened by an occasional tin of a description of cement which they call svet pudding. A man must be possessed of much courage to dare to tackle that; at any rate, in order in do so with safety, he must have digestive organs possessing about the same amount of force as & quartz crushing machine. On Sundays, a a person not brought up amongst the lowest. class of Chinese must remain dianerless, for it cannot be expected that any Christian can stomach the foul mers placed before him, which is called curry and fish! This dish is simply mixture of ancient and malodorous fab and brownish looking decoction resembling paint. Perhaps this particular dish was an exception, but it was simply too awful to contemplate and from what I gathered from one who had had previous experience, on every Sandy tea there is tile to say with the exception that the bread is half cooked dough; and ten-well, that baffles description, but may be safely termed a harmless mixture of bolled leaves (any kind) and twigs. This is served in a dirty tin mug holding about a pint, and a teaspoonful of sugar accompanies it. These measca cost the prosecuting party ag cents per diem. The Chinese prisoners in this Whilst he is thus examining the surroundings award only have two meals a day. At 7.30 they voice from the top of the bear påt slogs out i-have a tin of rice and a mess of ́fah and meat, *Inside that door; topside." He follows these instructions and finds himself within the tower. their looks seemed to express their indignation, It is a small bectagonal room, and from a rough A repetition of the morning's meal is served guess not more than 20 feet in circumference, them at 4.30 pm. I am not acquainted with This is the ground floor, and is reserved for the Chinese hours of feeding, but certainly g Chiness or Indian prisoners.. I was afterwards bours seem to be a long stretch between mexis, informed that all the beds were occupied-four in | and for these deb'om the same amount of number. Tas “fumiture" consisted of a rough maintenance money is paid as for those of the : wooden stool and table-nothing else with the Europeans, exception of the beds. The same furniture All prisoners detained for debt are allowed to adorned the room above. Here the European walk about their pit between y, jo a.m, and 5 p.m. debtor bas his
quarters. He can chose his own so that in reality they are not always in captivity bed if any are unoccupied, after being asked by from an optimistic point of view. Every Saturday fellow brother-in-luck to make lilmself at they must be inspected by the gael doctor. For home! This room is much lighter than the this purpose they are marched in Indian fils into one below, possessing a large, window giving a general yard and the honest but poor man fairly good, but limited, low of the harbour. It has from bars, which are covered by a strong wire netting. This netting appears to not have always existed, but for reasons we shall the gaol is no respecter of persors, and it is give further on it was found. necessary, Whilst the new arrival in contemplating the scenery and thinking of the callousness, of this cruel world, bo may be aroused from bla zaverle by a sound
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They never uttered a word of complatat, but
Those only crime is that he has been unfortu tie, has to rub shoulder with felons and perhaps murderers of the vilest description for
always best for the delinquent to put bis pride in his pocket, and, as our American cousins Bay, "keep a stiff upper Ba" Here there seem to exist certain unwritten laws about talking, keep- “horl 'ands,” which is ing the place clean, etc., which, Il neglected,
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he has to place kimself in a position so as to be Superintendent, who has the authority to order seen through the window by the night turnkey, his being placed on bread and water diet for i As he approaches the tower and is examining: term of days, and if a very great breach of those bilde, the warder flögu out! 4, 1, 4, disciplina has been made ha may order bir which mogne thar these should appens, ni the "doing “shot dela” as oven, if, theťaženées |