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A FLAW IN THE GAMBLING
ORDINANCE.
At the Police Court this morning, before Mr. A. G. Wise, Mr. Phillippo, barrister-at-law, applied for a rehearing of the case in which Choi Kwan was found guilty of offering Manlla lottery tickets for sale on the deck of the steamer Fakten, and was fined $25, with the alter native of three months' imprisonment, and the tickets. $200 worth in all, were ordered to be confiscated. i.
His Worship said he fined the defendant under section 8 of the Ordinance, and ordered the tickets to be confiscated.
Mr. Philippo said If his Worship would look at that section, he would find it was only in a gaming house that goods were ordered to be confiscated. The Spanish Government did not sell their tickets, as was done in a lottery tickets sold by Chinese. His Worship bad power to fine anybody selling tickets, but the law did not intend that the whole of the tickets found on the seller should be confiscated, but theone he was selling. There was only evidence of one ticket having been sold. There had been 380 tickets, $15 in silver, $7 and an umbrella taken. His Worship had the right to forfeit them, but as the law had come so suddenly into ferce, he would ask for the return of the tickets, so that the defendant might send them back to Manila. There was no evidence of gambling, and he would ask for the return of the money and the umbrella.
His Worship said there had been no umbrella forfeited. Did Mr. Philippo say the articles had been wrongly confiscated?
Mr. Philippo replied that he did not, netther did he think the articles had been rightly confiscated. A man might have a ticket in his possession, and yet not buy or sell it.
His Worship said that under section R he Imposed a fine of $21, and ordered the tickets to be confiscated under acction $8, where it read any person gambling in the street" and sa forth. The defendant was caught selling the tickets on board a ship, which was not a streat. There was a flaw in the Ordinarice and accordingly he would now order that the tickets be returned, and alto the money seized.
THE ARIEL TRAIN.
GEORGE FRANCIS BREAKING HIS. RECORD.
ROUND THE WORLD IN 55 DAYS.
The champion eccentric of the world, Citizen George Francis Train, dropped from the skies, via the Empress of India, at precisely 5.42 im. yesterday, and, with his "secretary," Mr. J. N. Klensch, registered with the famous blue pencil at the Hongkong Hotel, A Telegraph man called on him at once, of course, and found him to be precisely the same old forked-lightning. oddity that he was when he called here about fifteen months ago, on the Tacoma-booming trip. Fate had used Citizen hardly, and his gray hairs were visibly whitening with grief. He had set out to advertise Whatcom, a frame. house city on Puget Sound, Washington, by going round the world in 55 days, and in pursuance of that scheme he left Vancouver in the Empress of India on the 9th inst., thus Aiving here in 19 days-cight days less, so far, than he took on his last trip. He wanted badly 10 catch the tea-steamer Afoyun at Shanghai, and even offered to take a steerage passage, but she had stuck on the bar at Woosung, and Train concluded to come right on by the Empress and catch the Thames, due to leave here for hare yesterday. She stayed till four, by good luck, but thick weather outside kept the Empress back till 5.30, 10 that Ariel missed the connection by periods, varying from an hour and a half to eight minutes. according to the Citizen's truthfulness. He bad got through swearing when he saw the Telegraph representative, and could be approached without danger. He had taken possession of the hotel reading-room, which he tttered with photographs of various celebrated Eccucs and persons, including Mr. G. F. Train, George Francis T., Esq., Citizen Train, etc., etc. He at once produced a really handsomely got-up volume compiled by his companion on the last trip, Mr. S. W. Wall, illustrated with several hundred reproductions of Kodak photographs taken during that tour. As a flying panorama of the world we have seen nothing to compare with it. Hongkong was honored with pretty well a score of plates, and some bigbly interesting, if not strictly veracious, letter-press, in which the friends who met the party on that occasion were embalmed in imperishable type.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1891.
that he left with us, and in some of which be hai Bank, in their engerness to get control of says:
MY JAP'S FIRST PANTS! Old Pants I gave my Japanese
Delighted Oriental Mind
But Chinese cackled (like Wild Geese) To see them buttoned up behind!' He took them off but could not see
le carried them an Arm within
What caused the-laugh and in Bare Skin
Passengera Roaring Merrily
RAINBOWS AHEAD.
(From North China News, Shanghai, China.) How long before whole World will come
From Occident to Orient
And Orient to Occident
To witness" Rising-Setting-Sua ! " Indian Tourists in Hindostan
(And Thousand Islands in the East) Will come through China and Japan
To Realiz: "Sight Seeing Feast 1" 'Tis Six and Thirty Years Since I
(See "Young America Abroad") Cheered and Ovated in Shanghai
Met Hospitality's Award 1 And now again through China News
(Have ali Old Friends gone over Stream In Ponce De Leon's Youthful Dream)
Let me New Friendships new enthuse ! Is it not sad (n Native Town)
That Cunningham (my Shanghai Host Where Courtesy was uppermost)
By Poaching Sportsman was shot Down ! Save Jardine, Dent, Forbes, Wade, Wetmore ?
Who is there of old Friends alive? What other old time Friends sur-ive
Poe's Death Raven, Croaks "Never More 1"
THE GRAND HOTEL, YOKOHAMA,
Wantung, Chin, May 25th. three weeks Europe to Asia, America's 50,000 Now the Empress Palace Yacht, the Pacific, Tourists instead of spending $100,000,000 n year in the Chestnut European Towns" will new enlarge their geographical knowledge by visiting Orient via Occident! Big business is in sight for Yokohamat The New York of Japan! "Psychic Regards" to friends.
(From North China Shanghai News) CITIZEN TRAIN CHEER ENGLISH ENTERPRIZEÍ England still helds The World's Highways
(Suez Canal "knocked out of time) Past Canadian Pacific Line
Has mailed Shanghai in Sixteen Days. Empress of India Secures first prize
With English Mails (Cross Continent) To prove that English Enterplac
Is still ahead Round World's Extent! Four Days (ere long) to Halifax
Four fore in Rae to Puget Sound Already these Extablished Facts
The money and to damage the English bank,” setting aside all regard for law, Nothing has, in fact, been done by the Manil Government that cannot be 'ully justified. In the long pending suit of Juradov. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. proccedings were taken by the plainti and duly sanctioned by the Court to place na embargc-something like cur writ of foreign attachment-on Д sum of money in the Bank's treasury amounting to shout made and no illegal or high-handed measures $200,000 Nothing was seited, no arrests were carried out by ordinary legal procedure an attachment was made of this maney and the seals of the Court affixed to the lock-fast place
containing the same. It is a simple matter of contention in the law courts between Señor Jurado and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank!; aud the action that has evidently been taken by.
the plaintiff to obtain as much security as possible for his large claim against a foreign
bank trading under the laws of Spain, is not without precedent under British Jurisprudence..It will be remembered that about two years ago a sum of $128,000 was embargoed in the same suit, and actually removed from the Bank and deposited in a local we believe, it still remains. bank, where, The shareholders In the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation are to be excused if they have entirely lost sight of that and other once notorious and expensive incidents, in connection with this disgraceful Manila muddle, as the information vouchsafed by the Court of Directors has been meagre in the extreme and grossly unreliable.
And
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HONG KONG TRADING CO.. LD.
Intinetions.
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LONDON, May 1st. The Brighton express went through a bridge near Marwood to-day and many passengers were seriously Injured,
Russian volunteer (transport, has been detained In spite of the recent threst of Russia, another in the Bosphorus. The Turkish commandant threatened to fire if the vessel attempted to pass, Nelidoff sent a strong note to the Porte, in which he demands indemnity and the right of under the mercantile flag. absolute free passage for Russian vessels sailing
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 1st.
However, lo return to the special pleading (Plying) of the China Mail inspired oracle. He British settlers guarding the stores there "left says that in all the actions that have arisen out their posts. of the Jurado litigation, the Bank has obtained in such a statement? Has any final victory the final victory. Is there a single word of truth
recent legal attachment of $190.000 been obtained by either litigant ? If so, why this why are the $328.00n embargoed two years ago still detained by order of the Manila Court Senor Jurado has publicly stated on several Occasions that he has obtained all the victories that have been won in these expensive proceed. ings, and excepting by a most misleading and unsatisfactory letter sent to the newspapers about eighteen months ago by Mr. Thomas Jackson, who was then acting as manager of the Bank in London, the contention of the plaintiff remains practically uncontradicted and all the evidence is in his favor. An article published in the Hongkong Telegraph of the 5th May, 1893, founded on information supplied by Mr. Thomas Jackson, plalely defines the situation on that date; and so fir as We can ascertain, nothing of the slightest importance bas occurred since then until yesterday, when the plaintiff appears to have once more: assumed cffensive tactics with conspicuous
Shows Shortest Raute Cosmos Around! New Whatcom and Vancouver Now
Score Honors on "Grey Hound" Race Brow! success, Eleven Days to Yokohamal
Thirteen Kobel Sixteen Shanghail Shows Race Course under England's Banner
Red White and Blues Strip Rainbow's Sky! Good Bye to "San Francisco Gong"
(And this cut down Three Days ere long) In Eighteen Day Race to Hongkong!
GEO, FRANCIS TRAIN
Round World $5 Days,
Empress of India,
Shanghai, China, 16 Days from New Whatcom |
Puget Sound!
Dear Citizen 5. W. Wall, My Round World Kedaker, Tacome,
Certainly 1.(my old Friend Wall)
Go down with Boys to Sandy Hook (Roach, Grass, Harrington) Boom the Book
And Chorus lead in Banquet Hall ! New Whatcom takes Tacoma in!
(Seattle and Port Townsend teo) Bellingham Bay will always win
For Shortest-Route Pacific through 1 Peebles is agent for Japan
Will sell One Thousand copies there' (And Cuina) will India to spare
וי
From Puget Sound to Hindostan 1 Always Regards to Radebaugh
Tacoma's Friend of long ago!
LONDON, May 1st. The scandalous charges of indecent assault brought against Mr. Fyffe universally awaken sympathy and the charge T generally believed to be blackmail An extraordinary letter is printed from Mr. de Cob in, in which he defends himself against charges of similar purport made to show that a local Belfast clique has conspired against him, and enters into a long explanation to ruin him politically, financially, and morally. the House of Commons. It will not, however, prevent his expulsion from
May 2nd.
In London many barristers, officials of law courts The influenza is spreading rapidly in England.
suffering. At Woolwich arsenal so many work- and members of the Lords and Commons are men are laid up that the work is interfered with,
May 3rd.
The attendance at the labor meeting in Hyde Purl: to-day was variously estimated at from 200,000 to 300,000. The procession in connection with the meeting included workers at all trades and was miles lang. Jahn Burns, Thomas and Benjamin Tillett, and Mr. Graham, Socialist member of Parliament, were among the speakers. Resolutions in favor of a compulsory labor day of eight hours were moved on all the platforms.
QUEEN'S ROAD AND DUDDELL STREET.
HONGKONG TRADING CO., LD.
English lawyers are suffering from a lack of business, The Law Times says: "Crime and1 contention are both declining,"
In England they have established a woman' agricultural school. The granger is to have competition in the grangeress.
the wonders of the Mediterranean,
The palace and the park of the Empress of Austria at Corfu will, when completed, be one of
has lost $625 000 there in the last ten years, and The heaviest gambler at Monte Cario says he has given up the baneful practice.
Among spring repairs, noticed is that of the famous winged Lion of St. Mark in Venice, which has become injured by intense frosts.
In Switzerland every man is his own tax, assessor. When you die they examine your estate and take out any shortcoming in this respect,
fleet left Odessa recently for Vladivostok, con- The Russian steamer 'Orel of the volunteer veying fifty engineers for the Siberlas Railway, and 1,410 recruits.
purchase and develop the petroleum wells of A company has been formed in London to Mancora, extending along the coast of Peru from Talara to Tumber.
The bust of Dr. Henry Schliemann is to Berlin, and the bust of Leopold Ranke, the great ornament the main room of the City Hall in historian, is to be added.
The Pope has ordered a hundred churches in Rome to be closed, they being unable to support themselves on account of the sequestration of their goods by the Government.
Queen Victoria is to be godmother of the son of Lord Onslow, Governor of New Zealand. The unfortunate child' is to be named "Taiko," a Maori word meaning "On slow."
To-day's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SAAT: W, AMOY AND TAMSUI.
THE Company's Steatas hip
"HAILOONG,"
Captain Roach, will be despatched for the above Ports on SUNDAY, the 31st instant, at Daylight,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 29th May, 1891.
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. NOTICE
CONSIGNEES of CARGO per. Steamship
" CHINA."
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are bereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take Immediate delivery of their Goods from along- side.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel, will be landed and stored at Consignees' riak and expense.
J. S. VAN BUREN, Acting Agent. Hongkong. 29th May, ror.
Intimations.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
LONG RANGE HANDICAP CUP
THE SPOONS will be competed for TO MORROW, the 30th instant, commencing at 3.15 p.m. Ranges Boo and goo yards. Unal conditions.
A Launch will leave the P. & O. Pler at 145 P.M. to convey competitors.
FRANK COLLINS,
Hop, Secretary,
Hongkong, 26th May, 1891.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
165
THE accommodation in the Pavilion having ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held on FRIDAY, the 5th June, at 5.30 p.m., in wise of extending the Building. the Pavilion to consider the advisability or other
ARTHUR K. TRAVERS, Hon. Secretary.
been found insufficient an EXTRA
Hongkong, 27th May, 1891.
(774
W. S. MARTEN,
ARTISTIC DECORATOR,'
2, DUDDELL STREET,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 6th April, 1800,
NOTICE.
JRYE'S SANITARY COMPOUNDS COMPANY; LIMITED.
The China Mail writer says the conduct of the Manila authorities seems incomprehensible, it has been dictated er influenced by the stoppage and he actually is mean enough to suggest that of the sale of Manila lottery tickets in this colony. As we have already shown, the action of the Manila authorities is comprehensible enough when sensibly viewed. At one time Señor Jurado offered to settle with the Bank for $200,000, but this offer was declined by Mr. Jackson, who doubtless acted under the instruction of the Coait of Directors, and now we understand that the Bank's alleged Hability aggregates something like $goo,con. Of this amount $620,000, or thereabouts, are detained as security under the order of the Supreme Court of Manila, and we do not doubt that unless the final decision of the suit is hurried on, any further amounts in the Bank's coffers
Details of the labor trouble at Fourmics have will share the same fate, and such action by the immensely heightened the political importance judicial authorities will be held legally justified of the incident. The fact that six women, several An enormous elephant, peagreen in color, by the Spanish Government in spite of the children and eight men were killed on the spot, trunkless, and with tusks branching out like the childish vapourings of the China Mail and the while twenty were seriously wounded, several horns of a deer, is reported to have been captured of these PERFECT DISINFECTANTS, and nonsensical appeal to the British Foreign Office fatally, gives, the affair the character of by an African King, who will not part with the by the local officials of the Bank.
massacre. The soldiers were merely exposed curiosity. to stone throwing, but they replied with One of the finest exhibitions of Oriental successive volleys from rifles, Inflicting frightful Carpets ever held will be opened in Vienna next wounds on the victims. The houses exposed to month. The Shab is among the exhibitors and the fire were riddled, and there is every sign of has sent carpets of a land only made for the reckless and wanton Inhumanity shown by the Palace at Teheran. troops.
The China Mall is "glad to learn that speedy action has been taken to bring the Insolent Spaniards to their senses." This "speedy action" amounts to a telegram forwarded to Lord Salisbury by the Directors of the Bank, after it had been submitted to and approved of by the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong. Our well Informed, contemporary also hears that "a message has been sent to stop the flagship Imperieuse at Amoy." We shall watch with some curiosity the result of the action taken by the Court of Directors to assert
PARIS, May 3rd.
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HALIFAX, May 4th. H.M.S. Emerald received peremptory orders to-day to proceed at once to the scene of the difficulty in Newfoundland.
ST. JOHNS (N. F.). May 5th,
A steamer bas arrived here from Fortune Bay bringing eight prisoners charged with being ringleaders in the recent troubles. Other captures are expected. Matiers are getting quieter and the Government expects to suppress all troubles antiga, one of the leaders, who threatened to fire on the inspector, is among the captured.
HALIFAX (N. S.), May 5th.
A report is current here at the British wor ship Pelican, now in Newfoundland waters, was fired upon by the Newfoundland ball-catchers of Fortune Bay.
LONDON, May 5th.
Prince Henry, brother of the Emperor of Germany, recently displayed surprising talent as a violinist at a concert in Kiel. The Prince played the first violin in the orchestra.
The cost of Queen Victoria's journey to and residence in Grasue will be about $90,000. It costs money when Queen travels. A President would make the same trip at his own expense.
Emperor William's actions are causing renewed comment as to his mental condition. The general opinion in Berlin, cautiously worded, is that he is a little off his mental balsace, but not yet dangerously so.
One German school child in every roo is a defect than gitis. Ernst Kell, who has collected slutterer. The boys are more liable to this
statistics from all German schools, finds that
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Woosung, Shanghai, May 25th. Your splendid Photo I will group wit mine and others as Souvenir of delightful acquaintance in Japan! I can see by your face, talk, make-up, observation, independence of character that you have Grand Future as Marready, Forrest and Kean (of our Salvini Stage, Barrett and Me. their rights in Mantia, but must confess that our Cullogs are over the River and Booth soon anticipations, so far as the course that has been there who is there left with "Repertoire" of adopted is concerned, are the reverse of sanguine, Fifteen Shakespearians Plays but the Orator. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is a. private Pulpit Tragedian of the Histrionic Stage trading concern carrying on business in Manila Paychic Regards" to Mrs. Milo, and my little.fr its own profit and at its own risk it has friend (the Heir of all the Miln's)! Hope you become mixed up through its own fault in an will still hold your crowded houses as Art extraordinarily involved series of law suits Shakespearian chief in Japan! See you at
which has proved vexatiously expensive and Merifield's Continental Hotel, New York City.
troublesome, and now when it finds itself in the meshes of Spanish legal procedure, the British Foreign Office is modestly requested to forcibly interfere with a squadron of war-vessels in order corporation of traders to special exemption from of Queensbery, committed suicide to-day by America, 36,420,000 polar regions, 300,000. to assert the alleged claims of this private the operation of Spanish law. The Bank, which cutting his throat with a razor. Lord Douglas The total would then be 1,787,600,000.
Lord James Douglas, brother of the Marquis 6530,000 Mortis America, e SoNOW
4.730,000; 89,250,000; South
has a civil remedy against any illegal and night. He behaved in such a strange manner salary of £100,000 per annum and supports his is understood to be duly registered in Madrid, had been travelling from Ireland during the
The Egyptian Goverment pays the Khediye aA SECOND EDITION OF THREE THOUSAND COPIES unjustifiable acts to which it may be subjected that the railroad officials, noticing he was town palace, the Abdin. Nothing is allowed his in the conduct of its business, and possibly apparently in a demented condition, ordered one
"THE LAW OF STORMS IN THE under special circumstances the Foreign Office of the company's employes to accompany him
wife and two little girls, who are nfl in the eyes
EASTERN SEAS," might be induced to take up an important claim London. Upon his arrival in London, Lord of the law, but his two sons, who are being and make it a matter of diplomatie contention Douglas put up at a hotel, and subsequently elder of 15,600, and the younger of £9,000,
educated in Vienna, have an allowance, the with the Spanish Government; but, to talk of eluded his attendant and cut his throat. (acturing a casus bell out of the fact sending the Imperieuse to Manila and manu
May 6th. The rat performance of Massenet's new Captain Vemey, member of Parliament, to-day opera, Le Mage, led to two interesting incidents. interested "gush," the Fish Wrapper man pro- by the Manila authorities, is too ridiculous for but pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to procure prohibition against the performance, claiming that an English bank bas, under legal pleaded not guilty to the charge of procuring the The composer got into an altercation with process, been put to considerable inconvenience guverness, Miss Beckett, for immoral purposes, him, and Marion Crawford lodged some sort of Lasalle, the bats, and the latter challenged ceeds to tell bis very much varnished tale. He says serious consideration. Had any personal outrage her. Captain Verney was then sentenced to one that the work was based on bla novel "Zoroaster. that telegraphic information had been received of been committed on British subjects the question year's imprisonment without hard labor. During "a most high-handed and illegal action on the notice, of the appearance of the antiqua blow- part of the Manila Government,” to wit, thould have assumed quite another aspect, but the trial the court was packed with people eager valuable books is illustrated by the figures for The tremendous variation in prices for "a sum $296,000 belonging to the Hongkong from British men-of-war to settle a very un. Varney, though downcast in appearance, pleaded the Valdarfer Boccaccio. In 1812 the only to threaten a friendly nation with a hostile visit to witness the sensations of the case. Captain
In the course of several pages of conversation, during which the Citizen held a couple of news- paper men enthralled by his eloquence and beer, he said:-Don't ask me about Tacoma-it's gone bung. My scheme for gladling the Pacific with 20 koet Nord-deutscher Lloyd steamers won't come off now, so far as I can see, but Whatcom City is bound to boom, And I'm doing it. I'm the greatest advertising power lo the world. I've got here in 18 days, I shall get to Singapore in five more, catch the Thames, and turn up in New Whitcom under 55 days.
Then Georgy began to shew a few more phases of his character. He is a curious, wild- ayed, shaggy-locked individual, as we have mentioned on occasion before, and when surmounted by a Derby hat with a stars-and- stripes puggarce, talking about everything under the sun at the rate of 300 words a minute, be make the bar-boys and general public stare.
Our artist is unfortunately away in Europe, so that the best ides we can give, at this short
hard is not so satisfactory as we could wish.
Still we hope our enterprise in producing the following: rough portrait will be duly appreciated
OKORGE FRANCIS' TRAIN.
He has no false pride-he says every four minutes. "Just shew me up as you see me I'm a crank," and he is. He gave a very interesting series of recitations from most of the poets, from Chaucer to Longfellow, and said he kaew most of them personally. Napoleon 1. he described as "no gentleman," we regret to say, and Carlyle be considered couldn't wrlie English, latterly. G. F. Train's style of composition will be seen from the extracts appended. For want of space we cannot give the lot.
If he had not been able, by good luck, to get a passage to Singapore for himself and Secretary Kiensth on the Frigga, which sailed at daws this morning, it was his intention to have stayed over for the Stadgar), and lectured here in the meantime. But we have missed that treat. Ha is gone-gone like's beautiful dream, and our only souveniris & small godown-fullef manuscrips
THE BANK SCARE IN MANILA. That bysterical screech-owl who apes with becoming bumility the responsibility of "run ning the China Mail let himself loose. laat night-to use an expressive but vulgar saying he was "on the job" It doesn't take much to overtum the feeble brain of this journalistic genius, but we doubt if he ever wrote himself down a greater ass than on this occasion. Here are the beadings of bis inana and' insane twaddle:---
OUTRAGE BY THE MANILA GOVERNMENT. $295,000 oF THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK (SÍC) EMBARGOED. And after this outburst of patriotic and dis-
to
in a firm voice. Counsel for the defence, in his distinguished services in the Crimes and in plea for the prisoner, alluded to the prisoner's Parliament, and undoubtedly woa sympathy for the disgraced ex-naval officer, The Recorder, in sentendag Captain Verney, said that.be had come to the conclusion, through the evidence not the only case of procuration in which the given, that the case of Miss Neille Beckett, was Captain had been implicated, and therefore he Capt. W.B. Seabury, arrived from San Francisco as he could have done had it been an isolated The Pacific Mall Co. steamship China, could not lean toward the side of mercy so much and Japan this morning. The subjoined tele-case. grams are taken from our exchanges:-
and Shanghal Bank had been seized without savoury private dispute between the Hongkong Mail grammar, it will be observed, is conspl policy that is scarcely calculated to find favor any notice whatever being (sic) given." China and Shanghal Bank and Señor Jarade is a cuously faulty, but as an old Scotch sylog has even with a Jingo Government, it-"ye can expect naetbing frac a pig but a grunt," and we make every allowance for gutter Manila either to-morrow or on Monday.
We expect full particulars of the trouble from journalism from such a source. Our contem- porary goes on to state authoritatively that according to Spanish law it is necessary to give five days notico, "but in their eagerness to get control of the money and to damage the English bank, the Manila authoritics have set aside all regard for law," and that it is supposed the pretext for this embargo has some relation with (c) the old Jurado business which has given the Bank so much trouble.
NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.
LONDON, April 28th. The bearing in the charge against C. A. Fyffe, Now, before going any further, we think it the well-known historian, was to have been held necessary, in common fairness to the Government to-day, but owing to the critical condition of the of Manila as well as to the Hongkong and accused, who, overwhelmed by the charge, cut Shanghai Banking Corporation, to point out that his throat yesterday, the court granted an the foregoing statements, made in all seriousness adjournment. Fyffe is the candidate of the by the China Mail, are a tissue of deliberate Liberal party for a vacant seat in the House of justification or foundation in fact, and apparently above suspicion. The charge against him, that misrepresentations, without any substantial Commons. His character has always been the mere outcome ofspecially chartered ignorance of criminal assault in a railway train, is believed and unscrupulous venom. We have carefully to be utterly unfounded. inquired into these damaging allegations, and have the best authority for stating that they are absolutely falso and unauthorised. The Manila Government has been quilty of no outrage and has committed no high-handed and "illegal action. The Manila authorities have not forcibly seized without notice $196,000 belonging to the Hongkong and Shang.
NEW YORK, April 29th.
The British ship Lansdowns which salied from Japan 199 days ago, is given up: as lest with all hands. Captain Newcomb is com mander, and she had a crew of about forty men,
CAPE TOWN, April 30th, Upon the app-ouch of the Portuguese, the The Portuguese have occupied Massikesse,
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
15,000,000 pesetas.
The Spanish budget shows a deficit of
recent sale in London. Alfred Tennyson's school atlas sold for $45 at
Italy thinks the conversation and tone of the American press most execrable.
shortly from telling or mortgaging their lands.
Russian peasants will be prohibited by law Two acres of land adjoining the English Houses of Parliament are offered for sale at $5,000.co.
perfect copy in existence was sold at the honor of the sale. A copy with five leaves 2,260 A Roxburghe Club was formed in disbursal of the Duke of Roxburghe's library for
missing was sold last week for 330.
An article on the maladies of the Bonaparten shows that all the members of the great Napoleon Napoleon's father died of cancer of the stomach. family have suffered from hereditary arthritis. Napoleon himself, Lucien Bonaparte, Pauline the same trouble. Prince Pierre, Napoleon III, Borghese, and her sister, Caroline, all died of Prince Napoleon and King Jerome, all !^an- fested arthritic symptoms.
of
(by W. Dolarch, Director of Hongking Observatory),
acid work has been re-written and greatly enlarged, and is filustrated by
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