Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
LIMITE D,
DISPENSING "CHEMISTS, &C.
CHEMISTS AND AERATED WATER
MANUFACTURERS.
A REFRESHING WHOLESOME DRINK.
DAKIN'S
LEMON SQUASH. VERITABLE LEMON SQUASH AERATED, COOLING, THIRST QUENCHING.
PER DOZEN 50 CENTS.
(Telephone No. 60.) *
Nos. 21 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
"Hongkong, 4th May, 1891.
BY APPOINTMENT.
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WINES AND SPIRITS. A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
ESTABLISHED AD. 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.
Our New Factory has been recently refitted with automatic Steam Machinery of the
fatest and most approved kind, and. we are quell able to compete in quality with the best English Makers.
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness ari exercised In the manufacture throughout. LARGE BOMBAY
"SODAS":
We continue to supply large bottles as beretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
COASTY PORT ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer 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.
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica.
tion.
Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.
The following is a List of Wateri always kept ready In Stock --
PURE AERATED WATERS
SODA WATER
LEMONADE
POTASH WATER
L
SELTZER WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
LITHIA WATER
TONIC WATER
GINGER ALE
GINGERADE.
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.
The Honghong Lelegraph.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1891.
brokers? No. Do they job? It is generally believed they do "job" and on a wholesale principle. What then is the excuse for its existence, other than the
·Imposition of a scale of charges quite without precedent? Let us take our older local companies for examples. Brokerage was based in the first instance upon the subscribed value of the shares, not upon what might actually be paid-up. Thus, Banks and Docks, with §125 paid up, were assessed 50 cents; Sugars, Steamboats, and Ices, $100 paid-up, were conceded so 'cents, but it was a concession, as brokerage by right should, have been 40 cents. Compare these brokerages with those claimed by the Stockbrokers' Association upon later issues of the subscribed value of 850, 825. 810, and even as per shares: Hongkong Fires.....$ 250-brokerage31.00 50
Unions, Canton Banks, Docks ..... Yangtzes, Chian Fire". China Sugar, Luzons, Tramways, Hoogkang Hotel................ Straits Insurances, Singapore Insurances, Straits Fires vanurasa Trust and Loans ............... Gas Company's..... Rope Co.'s,. Bakety, Green Island Cements, Cruickshank's, Bornes Hotels, West Point Buildings, H. G. Brown & Co., Kowloon Go- downs, China And Manila's, Indo-Chinas, Douglas Steamboats... Kowie Lands, Steam Launch Co., Labuks Austin Arms, Peak Hotels
Ice Co.....
Fenwicks, Gordon't, Brick
and Cements Marinburk's
Hongkong, Canton and Macas Steamboats, Shameen Hotels Balmorals, Dairy Farms Watson & Co............. Campbell, Moore & Co.,
Electric Lights, Pan- joms hausten Imurls, Raubs
Jelebu, Selamas
250- 125-
60- 60-
50
ទគ នន់ ទន់
20-
10-
3-
TELEGRAMS.
FURTHER FORTUGUESE
AGGRESSIONS.
LONDON, May 18th. Lord Randolph Churchill telegraphs from Espetown that the Portuguese have assaulted British residents at Delagos Bay, and that he considers the immediate occupation of the Coast imperative.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
MEMO. FOR MEMBERS:-The third tie in the Lawn Tennis Doble Handicap must be com pleted by Tuesday.
WE are informed by the agents (Messrs. Russell & Co.) that the "Union" Line steamer Zanzibar left Singapore for this port on the 27th inst., and may be expected to arrive on the 2nd prox. THE San Francisco Commercial News of May and under the bending "Personal" says "Alexander Center has taken charge of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's affairs in the rpcity of general agent." Mr. Center was for many years agent' for the Pacific Mail and Occidental and Oriental Companies at Yokohama, at which part be enjoyed a wide-spread popularity: ALREADY we are getting good evidence of the scientific arefulness of the phonograph, for it has been applied to taking down copious samples of which is fast dying out, along with the music to the language of tribe of American Todians
which the religious services are chanted. As the ordinary anthropologist is quite unable to MR WALL, late chief officer of the Pacific Mall write down the melody of a chant as he hears it Ce's steamship Chine, takes charge of the (indeed it requires a very competent musician to Company's shipping department at Yokohama,
do so), he appreciates the value of a machine which enables him to add to his collections the YESTERDAY afternoon during the heavy down-music of savage races, which may be of great pour of rain a wall near Mr. Millar's premises, use in establishing connections between tribes Queen's Road East, was struck with ligh'ning which have none left but their old primitive. and about sixty feet of it fell down, fortunately chants. An enterprising schoolmaster in the United States has set up a phonograph in his .50 | without Injuring any person,
school as a teacher of French pronunciation. A collection of typical words and sentences were taken down by the machine, and are reproduced from time to time before the French class to keep the best model of pronunciation before them. As Edison's factory has already turned aut several thousands of the machine its practical everyday usefulness may be regarded as establiibed.
It is estimated by our contemporaries in Japan that the Czarewitch's couloilment of his visit will go result in a loss to Yokohama, in business, of $100,000. Why, poor old Kuhn would have made something like that, alone!
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ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission 50 steam-launch Day Spring, will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C between 9 and 10.30 am. on Sunday to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30. The Canadian Pacific Railroad has everything ready to commence the construction of its new bridge across the Niagara tiver. The bridge will cost the Company over $200,076, but it will be one of the most substantial structures in America. .50
THE final in the Lawn Tennis Championship was played between Messrs. W. H. Wallace and G. S. Coxon this afternoon, on the Cricket 25 Ground. The scores were as follows :---
Wallace. Cozom.
First Bet
Second........
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10
Third
.25
.15
Fourth
Drivin
6
8 6
9
L
THE Nicht Nichi Shimbun says that inquiries were sent by the Japanese Government to the Legation in St. Petersburg in order to obtain information as to the state of feeling caused Russia by the news of the attack on the Cz re- .10 witch.
The representative of Japan in that elty has replied that, after careful examination of all the newspapers, he finds their tone calm, and is unable to discover any evidences of angry
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And here are a few curiosities :--- North Chinas $1,200-brokerage 2.50 feeling among the people." China Traders............ Trust & Loan, Founders', Charbonnages
to
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131-
5.00 1.50
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial Hospital bega to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the fands of the Hospital:-
ANDO.....
Robert Becker, Esq....... Geo, R. Stevens, Esq. James Stephen, Erq.......
Wheeley, Esq.
...$ 20 To
10
S
$
2
A RUSSIAN ukase lately issued withdraws the privilege given to Jewish workmen of residing outside the limits assigned to the Jews, and orders the expulsion of those living without the pale. Two years' grace is granted to the possessors of real property and one year's grace to others, This will result in the expulsion of 14,000 Jews from Moscow.
THE Tientsin correspondent of the Shanghai fercury said the other day that the steamer Newchwang had collided with a salt jank when going down the river. We copled the assertion, and now Capt. Finlayson wants as to take it back, as inaccurate. As that gallant mariner was there at the time, and we weren't, and it wasn't our correspondent who said it, anyhow, we do so gladly.
THE following promotions bave taken place in the Hongkong Police Force, consequent upon the departure of Inspector Cradock on pension:- Inspector Mathiesou to be Chief Inspector; and class Inspector Hennessy to be and class; Acting Inspector Mann to be confirmed 3rd class be Acting Inspector; Sergeant Kemp, to Inspector; Acting Sergeant Baker, 20, to be full Sergeant; Laute Sergeant Collett, to be Acting Sergeant; Acting Sergeant Hadden to be Lance Sergeant; and P.C. Holt to be temporary Acting Sergeant...
DECLARATION OF WAR WITH SPAIN.
MANILA IN' BITS.
(From our very own Correspondent.)
Manila, May 29th, 18gr,
4 p.m.
Manila wiped out. Imperieuse monarch of all of the surveys.
5 p.m.
Ar the weekly meeting of the Hongkong Mercantile Marine Officers Association, held last night, considerable indignation was expressed regarding the strange action an employé of the firm of Butterfield & Swire in interfering with the passenger traffic in the harbour, as evidenced by the tally- ing of passengers landed from the Chinese steamer Kiangkwan a few days ago. It was generally conceded that the time of the Firm which was understood to take the lead in persecuting the unfortunate owner of the Pasig, and befooling the Government in connection therewith, would have been better occupied in considering the advisability of directing the attention of the British Shipping Federation to the fact that the new and stringent lond-line regulations, which come into force here on the pth proximo, will operate in a manner injurious to British shipowners' Interests, accing that while British vessele are bound to conform to the rules, and dare not load their vessels below the line, foreign-owned vessels trading in British waters will be able to load their vessels just as deep as they please! Finally, it was decided that the Association should address its allies in England and Australia upon the subject, on the ground that the interests of shipowners and their
officers are more or less identical.
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IT is now reported from Ottawa that the Canadian Government is willing to co-operate with the American authorities in preventing Chinese from violating the Exclusion Act in coming to the United States by way of British Columbia. At one time the Canadian Govern- ment made an attempt to exclude Chinese from its territory ; but when a remonstrance was Ed. L. Stainfield, Esq. .....................
sent to Ottawa from London, declaring that such action would be detrimental to British AT the Police Court this morning Mr. A. B
interests, the Dominion Parliament limited Rodrk applied to Mr. Wise for the return of legislation to a measure which requires every some furniture that had been seized by Inspector incoming Chinaman to pay a poll tax of $50 Stanton on Thursday last when the police raided and procure a registration certificate. Under gambling house in Possession Street. The this Act Chinese enter: British Columbia, from over to the furniture had been seized from the first floor of which a good many of them the house, whereas the owner did not carry on
Stales. The new Dominion, however, may any gambling on that floor. Inspector Stanton yet adopt an exclusive policy like that of the said he would be prepared to prove that the first United States. Its Parliament cannot hereafter floor was used for gambling, and at his request be subjected to restraints that are not to be Mr. Wise remanded the application to Monday. maintained in the Australino colonies, which, by a decision of the British Privy Council, are now A MEETING of the Sanitary floard will be held empowered to exclude Chinese from their on Monday, June 1st, al 415 pim., when the territory. The most feasible way of preventing orders of the day will be:-Correspondence the further growth if the thinese element in concerning a Hospital for the treatment of Americs, according to the New York Sun, in persons suffering from small-pox. Agenda ~1. | through the operation of the Washington Letter from Hinourable. Colonial Secretary and Ottawa Governments in the enforcement- informing the Board that the Common Lad ing of an exclusion police, house bye-laws have hera approved by the Legislative Council. 2. Letter from Honourable Colonial Secretary concerning the condition of Mount Davis Cemetery. 3. Mortality Retura for week ended the 23rd May, 1891.
Tsor PING WAT was charged before Mr. A. G. Wise at the Police Court this morning, at the instance of Mr. 1. Sample, Inspector of Buildings, with having diverged from the original plans of three houses which he had built in Bonham Strand West. The complainant said plans were deposlied with the Surveyor-General shout May, 1890, and the houses were completed last January. Since that time the defendant had added another storey to each of the houses and had refused to remove the same. The magistrate imposed the full penalty of $100, and allowed. the defendant a fortnight in which to alter his premises.\
The anomaly becomes even more marked when we find shares, such as Banks, casting 8350, charged with 50 cents brokerage, whilst others, such as Punjoms and Selamas, selling for $2. are charged with 10 cents brokerage. The fact is this: The Stockbrokers' Association is a Trades Union or Guild, the only excuse for which ís, to protect its members against competi. tion, by boycotting allfreedom of action, and by such means reducing all to one deadlevel of mediocrity. And this is the thing that dares to emerge from the obscurity which is its only safeguard, and attack a measure that only aims at limiting the power for evil which a lax system has unfortunately, introduced into share transactions. The Stockbrokers' Association, weareinformed comprises 36 members. Rating them at the If lowest as earning Ba50 a month each, this represents a sum of $168,000 a year, which has to be paid out of the monthly wages of the working community of Hongkong, or out of, dividends declared by the local companies. The paper stock of our HONGKONO. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1891.
local companies does not contribute to it, We promised that odd conglomeration of therefore it must come out of earnings, Individuals who have assumed the, to them and if the 56 brokers representing the for-reaching, but to others meaningless Stockbrokers' Association were swept into title of the Stockbrokers Association of the sea, Hongkong would thereby gain In six years the Hongkong, that the Hon. J. J. Keswick's $168,000 a year. share dealing ordinance should have a community would be one million dollars fair show, and that we meant to give it richer by not having to support a hive a fair show, But, first of all, we should of unscrupulous drones, who spend the time much like to know what is this Stock- not occupied in coursing the streets brókers' Association. So far as we are in smoking cigars in the Club verandah able to discover, it assures nothing and and consuming cocktails at the Hotel conforms to nothing, beyond the assumed bar. The dividends paid by joint-stock right to impose, for the benefit of its companies, the shares of which are quoted members, an onerous tax upon that section on this market, amount to about $3,580,000 of the public which is weak enough and per annum, of which perhaps one half may unwary onough to listen to the interested accrue to and circulate in Hongkong, so talk of a gang whose sole object is that the support of the Stockbrokers' apparently to encourage speculation in Association amounts to nearly to per cent. order that they at least may live at ease. upon the yearly incoming, and as not one The main object of Mr. Keswick's bill quarter of the capital stock is floating on seems to be to provide the weak and the local market, or withinthereach of local unthloking with some, if only a small, brokers, we may fairly and safely assume measure of protection against unscrupulous that not more than one half the dividend on operators in shares, and because of such that which is negotiated reaches the hands protection this high and mighty emanation of speculators, the other half representing of the other day produces an amusing a tax they voluntarily impose upon parody on the fitness of things and talks of themselves for the upkeep of the Stock- interests threatened. Whatever Interests brokers Association, by whose aid they the Stockbrokers Association mayhave,are manipulate and control the market's of no public importance whatever, and we movements. Self Interest naturally is at will proceed to prove it. Before a police the bottom of the Stockbrokers' opposition notice was called Into requisition to clear to Mr. Keswicz's measure, but it has yet Queen's Road Central from an army of to be shown that their interests, are needy adventurers; before this childishly superior to those which the Bill has been helpless Stockbrokers' Association assumed framed to protect.. an inviolable right to stamp with a It is our intention to Interview Mr. semblance of authority an iniquitous scale Keswick on this bill, the main principles of charges, the share business of Hongkong of which have been strongly advocated in was carried out on a fairly respectable our columns for many years, and when we and reasonable basis. Its evils are the thoroughly understand how far that creations of later years, and they have gentleman intends to go in placing culminated in a still greater evil which is the share business of this colony the liquor was kept for medicinal purposes only called, but is not, a Stockbrokers' Associa on a comprehensibile basis, we shall have What does this Stockbrokers no hesitation In placing our tion,
views, Association provide. Is there a guarantee whatever they may be worth, before the fund No. Are Its members sworn Hongkong pubile,
In order to do away with the enormous pressure of the water against the front of ocean steamships an English inventor has introduced a novel device, which he claims will enable faster time to be made by vessels, it addition to faciliating the manoeuvring of ships, and tend to avoid collisions. The invention consists of one or more screws on each side of the bow, each 45 deg, with the bow and go dega. from each other. Experiments with these screws show that the water la brown from each side of the bow, form- fog a deep well in front of the vessel, and allow. ing the stern screws to effect their full power in propulslod.
IT is rumoured that about the end of the present year the gist Battalion, A. & S. Highlanders. now stationed here will go to Singapore to relieve the Northamptonshire Regiment, now stationed there and in the Straits Settlements, the latter Regiment proceeding to Colombo, and it is said the Highlanders in Hongkong will be replaced by the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, formerly known as the 38th, which is Reitsent alationed at Gibraltar, whither it was drafted from Davenport, England, some twelve months ago. [All these movements, however, sro sobject to alteration and to the requirements, of the Manila empaign fusage rated by the Snail]
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"THE MODIL SETTLEMENT,"
A Vulgar Fillah.
Shanghai. April 1st, 1887. Should you but visit the steckbrokers' seat, The City of Refuge or Pilgrims' Retreat, Perchance you will venture, like venturers do, Along the broad Bund with Its grand avenue; Admiring tall mansions that screen the back
vlew-
The suburban resorts of a fortunate few,
You will notice frail chariots, Celestial raafoos,
Go sailing along with chaste feminine crows, So.homely it seems how Sir Guy makes a rush For dear Lady Devon, who hazards a blush And is gone while Sir Guy resumes bls cigar— Turns in at the club and adjourns to the bar.
You see broughams are pot rate, on the Bund Chequer'd Jockey and gentral together dash by,
you descry The one looks askance with his almond-cya On those whom he thinks are inclined to be aby Of his social position, and while in this dream He unrcels to his patron some four-footed scheme, Until they meet Gamerun in official altire- Just off to the race-course, just out of a áre).
stairs
shares
Now Just pause near the Shanghai Bank a while And admiring the bunders, observe their style. See there's dear Rebert just mounting the "Great fav'rite! une fellah! has numerous Sunk in companies floating in Mexico? (But their buoyancy troubles bis creditor
though.) "There's his twend, dear old Salls," (of Bourbon
renown) "Hi wife charming weture has gone hout
of town.
"Here comes Skwib i" (the light broker)"light
clowes an" (light name), "Fwine bawses !" (light income-of bankruptcy
fame)
"That's his wend Capinio (Blow, of the Hollowsy
Blufft) "Gweat apwortsman, great twavler, has
(wine (Pewter) Cupa
throws
"And plates by the hundred." (and one on his AMONGST those who were admitted to Mr. Wise's dior- Magisterial levee at the Police Court this morn Consultation from two (lucky_dog) until four. ing was a lady balling from Graham Street, and "That's Chevalier (Bilster, the globe-trotting
bard known to the local guardians of morality re Mary Ann Barnes. A couple of persons-we No more trotting for Elm-he finds the work cannot call them men, were in evidence, and much too hard) testified that the fair Mary had supplied them "Will be knighted for music" (as long as ha with a beverage which they were prepared to swear was boer, on the 27;h fast A detective, acting upon the statement of the two informers in queston, visited Mary's entblishment and either fa her baudoir or unde: her stairs found two bottles of brandy (lest not given) and five bottles of beerver teen in her house, and further that The lady stated that the informers
the water in the neighbourhead not being as pure as it might be. The Magistrate, however, thought the charge proved, and food Mary Ann $24, half of which amount was handed to the persons who supplied the information,
His lot in with the Jewn and the prosperous crows, Keeping dark what he thinks, and sill more
what he knows,) "There Weedy, the Spiral, the ladies'
Bo Peep,"
Fall of humour and wit (with a brace of Lots of money invested, plaguey linie to keep)
sweethearta)
Just been ashore with army of occupation, Noibing to occupy except Bank buildings and churches. Luckily pleaty of 'em.
6 p.m.
Time for more details now. Imperfaust left Amoy on Thursday morning on receipt of instructions from China Mail to proceed to Maalla and wipe out $300,000 insult offered to British faterests. Got across at noon to-day, some of our boilers standing strain wonderfully well. Sent ullimatum to Governor-General,
who referred us to Archbishop. Ayuntamiento refused to meet until finished siesta. Decided not to wait, so anchored in centre of bay and began.
(We regret to state that this is all we are able to supply at present. The coolie who swam across with this despatch in his mouth says they never got beyond beginning. The first gua that they rashly tried to let off spread tself out all over the place, and imparted a descending motion to the ship which ended fatally, However we can't waste a couple of excellent illustrations of the event. In the first the engraver has unfortunately introduced a fancy portrait of either "Brownis" or Admiral Mer-aix-Bains, and was also slightly previous in respect to the British Lion, but the error was only discovered after publication had commenced. The accond picture is slightly damaged, but with a good glass the Imperieuse can be distinctly seen in
the act of disappearing —
Manila before bambardment,
• FAM Dillo after, valde 142 - HONGKONG,IN 'DANGER, ́ ́ ́
In view of recent international courtesies the Reina Cristina will, we understand, proceed to shell Hongkong to-morrow, commencing atg a,m. The Volunteers have been called out to defend the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Heaven help us 1.
The fast, and farious gunboat Chop-chaung will leave Pedder's Wharf every half-hour, con yeying fugitives to Sam-shul-po. Only well-to do fugitives taken.
THE FIRST BOMBARDMINT OF MANILA.
The Guia Oficial de Pilipinas-or "Official Guide"-published in 1885, describes the events which led to this in the following terms .—
am conpected had anything to do with my action in this matter. I had no instruction from them, and have the best grounds for believing that had I acted from the base and unworthy motives assigned to me, I should have been severely reprimanded. The facts are as follows, and would have come out in evidence, but for the fact that for some inscrutable reason I was not allowed to enter the witness box:-
I was coming from Yumn-ti in my own launch, fitending to land at Gibb's Wharf, when I saw two launchra perfectly black with human beings and, as I thought, racing with each other. They were rolling so badly that, with my recol lection of seeing the Wak on turn over, thought a similar accident might again occur. I called the attention of a lutong, in charge of a water police boat, to the dangerous condition of both launches, but he simply looked over his shoulder, and pulled away in the opposite direction. I landed at Gibb's Wharf, and asked the European constable whether he counted the passengers by the ferry Inunches. He said, "No." I asked him then if he had no instructions to do so? His answer was again, "No." I said I thought he ought to. He asked me for Instructions, and I said I had no authority to give any. He then asked me to assist him, which I did. The European constable, the utong, and myself, agreed as to the number on each launch. I then suggested he should sen their licences and so ascertain whether or not they were actually carrying an excess of passengers, with the result that we found one had seven, and the niher eighteen in excess. In addition, each of them had an amount of luggage that would have weighed at least three times the number of passengers they were licensed for. It was only at sight of this loggage that I came to see they had come from the Kiangkwan. It is not true that any one, either coolies or watch. men, boarded either launch before we counted the passengers, or that children, either on back or led by hand, were counted, and if any one will
go to the trouble to investigate for himself, he will find that the coolies seeking employment go off by the empty lapsch returning and landing, with the passengers. There was not a acul on the wharf but the European constable, referred to came alongside. I went at once and the fukeng, and myself, when the launches reported to Captain Hastings that there had been a breach of harbour regulations, which be promised to attend to. I think the Telegraph's remarks with regard to him are not only
uncalled for and incorrect, but in the very worst tarte. Captain Hastings is acknowledged by every one to be one of the most straightforward and at the same time obliging officials we have in the Service. It is not true that he was not at the Police Court on the morning on which these cases were supposed to be tried. If I mistake not, he was on the Bench while the first case was on,
The questions as to why the captains of the launches were not charged till a week after the alleged offence, and why the Inspector of the district or the Crown Prosecutor did not take charge of the case, instead of leaving it to an almost illiterate policeman, who, if I may judge from the shouting of Mr. Wotton, which could be heard even in the court-yard, was frightened out of his senses, and why the lukong and myself were not called, bave yet to be answered. If we had been called, and our evidence had fallen through, i would have strengthened the Magistrate's hands in arriving at a decision, which decision, under the circumstances, cannot but regard as a gross, miscarriage of justice. There Are matiers connected with these cases which it is not necessary to refer to here, but which may become a subject of official enquiry.
I am, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
JOHN MITCHELL. Hongkong, 30th May, 1891,
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HANK IN MANILA,
To nie EDITOR OF TAN "Howaxoma TelioraTR.” SI-I have read with much interest the ́accounts in the press of the last day or two respecting the seizure by the Manila Government of nearly a quarter of a million dollars belonging to the Hongkong and Shanghai-; Bank. I am not in a position to comment authoritatively on the matter, and I do not pretend to understand the mysterious litigation which this embargo is supposed to be founded upon, but I do know something of the Manila Government, and I rather fancy that they have over-reached themselves at last. In your last night's faue you seem to regard their action as justified by law. I have discussed the Bank's position with one or two of the leading inwyers in the Philippines, and aves they don't pretend to know to what autocratic extent the lain force, cannot ge. To my mind the powersof the Government there, under the alleged Bank deserves the strongest possible support of the British Government-the fact that they have grossly mismanaged things in the past ís when they have a focus stand in Manile, and if no argument against their being protected now, this rumor about the Imperieuse being sent. down there is correct, it may perhaps relieve the British Government to know, the step will have my fullest approval.
In 1762, when the Philippines were advancing in prosperity with gigantic strides, and established commercial relations with all the
The fact is the Manila authorities have been countries between the Isthmus of Suer and Bebring Straits, an English Squadron suddenly
carrying on their high-handed proceedings quite appeared in the Day, of Manlia on the long enough. They have in the past arrested, and 18th September. War had been declared actually imprisoned, the manager of the branch of the Bank there, they have removed hundreds against Spain by England, although the Government of the Colony had not yet heard of of thousands of dollars from the Bank vi of men-of-war, carrying a force of 2000 men. The the Bank's Iegal representatives, allowing a it, and they were suddenly menaced by thirteen armis, they refused the commonest justice to Archbishop-Governor at the time was an half-caste magistrate of the lowest grade to deal American, named Rojo, an irresolute, anpatriotic with the case as he listed, and altogether prelate On the 24th three more war vessels
evinced a strong desire to drive the Directors. arrived, and General Draper occupied the city, here into closing their branch establishment. which was only protected by 300 Spanish soldiers.
If the Imperiouse went round and saved the But they were trua Castilianos, and returning
Spaniards the long-contemplated trouble of the outskirts of the capital, declared war to the pulling down the ancient forts on the Pasig, by death against Albion, aleciing one Don Salazar blowing, then into the most, it would only an Governor. Salazar called on everybody whe
be a well-merited retribution. That sounds like could carry weapons to volunteer, and the priests tall talk, I know, but 1 will try to justify it. In raised the flag of Spain in the "holy war 1762, Pitt's Government declared war against Thousands of natives Rocked in from the pro Spain, France, and Naples, which nations had vince, sinking their tribal enmilles to combine entered into an Alliance against British arms, The West Indies were first captured, and of the Colony until the conclusion of peace Manila, which they very quickly occupied, against the common foe, who held the metropolis then a fleet of sixteen frigates sent to between England and Spain.
Negotiations for peace were prolonged through be duplicity of the priests, and a bombardment became necessary, after which an armistice was arranged by the Governments at home, and the British withdrew on condition that four million, dollars were paid as indemnity. That trifling
- amount still remains copaid !
The Guis Oficial says nothing about the $4,000,000 indemnity still owing, and to which
a correspondent refers in another column.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Wade not necomarily sudorse the optatona expressad by Correspondents in thin column),
· THE OVERCROWDING OF STEAM LAUNCHES,
TO THE EDITOR oy www “Epsxcmoa Talkarara,"
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peace of God, passeth all understanding,
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