IN the House of Commons on the 6th ult. Mr. Birrell asked what steps had been taken to protect British subjects in the Yangtze ports, where rioting was occurring.-Six J. Fergusson replied that the Consals had taken all the steps required.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1891.
NEW YORK, June 17th. Advices received here to-day state that Don Claudio Vicana has been proclaimed President of the Chilfan Republic.
ROME, June 28th. Scenes of unequalled uproar have occurred in the Chamber of Depaties during the debate on the Triple Allance, the Radicals object.
THE Gan Tone failure, says the Amoy Times, will not entail much loss upon the Hongkonging to a renewal of the Alliance. The sitting. and Shanghat Bank, there competent to judge say that the deficit will not exceed $125.000. D. D. Ollia & Co. are also creditors of the bankrupt bank for $98,000. They are arranging an amicable settlement with the insolvent con- cern, but at how many cents in the dollar is not yet announced.
was repeatedly suspended. The Marquis di Rudini declared that the Government adheres firmly and absolutely to the Alliance with the Central European Emplies, being confident that the peace of Europe would thus be long preserved. This emphatic" statement by the Premier has produced a sensation
ST. PETERSBURG, June 28th.
The harvest prospects in Russia show no improvement, and the Government are now con- sidering the expediency of prohibiting the export
of corn,
LONDON, June 28th.
Mr. Spurgeon, the eminent Baptist minister, is dangerously ill.
MESSES. WHEELOCK & Co. In their Market Report issued at Shanghat on the roth Inst. sny:The expectation of a good business being done during the past fortnight mentioned in our last has not been realized and considerable diffi- culty has been experienced in collecting cargo for the London market. Several steamers are circulated for despatch during the next ten days or so and it is to be feared that, unless some- thing unforeseen occurs, many will leave here with but scant cargoes. Coastwise-Beyond an enquiry for steamers from Newchwang to Kobe and Chefoo to Amoy there has been nothing doing. From Nagasaki to Shanghal -For want of demand," rates have again declined to quotations given below. For Lon-Jews from the south of Russia has commenced.
The Times states that at the present moment there are a thousand educated Jews in St. Petersburg who are reduced to absolute beggary, Hirsch is proceeding with his scheme for found. all the professions being closed to them. Baron ing Jewish colonies in the Argentine Republie and Palestine. An exodus of four thousand
A serious strike has commenced amongst the grain trades in Dublin, affecting the dockers, millers, bakers and rallway men. The grain ships now iring at the port remain unloaded, and a scarcity of supplies is feared.
Further particulars of the rising of Assyrs in Yemen state that the revolt is increasing, the nomads having joined the insurgents. The Turkish troops sent to suppress the insurrection "have again betur defeated, and the Arabreinforce ments have proved unreliable. It is feared by the Porte that the rising will assume a religious
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We may further categorically state, that the understand the conditions of their own peaceful rule for the future, Anart from the question of A private trial has taken place at Manchester Manila for the release of the funds embargoed, righteousness, for most earnestly would we nor anything of the kind; far in Spain, as in deprecate the mention of vengeance, apart from of a pacumatic gun charged with a compressed sir cartridge, the invention of an English Great Britain, and every civilised counter, judg-justice and righteousner, what folly in the first engineer unned Bott. The discharge is noiselessments of the Courts of Justice have been, and are men of the Empire alienating the foreign govern- and smokeless, and there is no recoil. In the still, doly, respected and obeyed. The Madrid meats and encouraging rebellion pad disorder, oplafon of those present at the trial it surpasses Government have, no doubt, impressed on the in the very face of an imeending conflict. If ad authorities of-their-Colony.the necessity ofevery further nunishment be exacted-a punishment the Zelinski gun.
one abiding by judicial decisions, and that the far less, be it understond, than would be inflicted Government confidently expect that the Judges wer a yamte burnt down and a magistrate there will continue to be impartial and apply the killed-the party of disorder distinctly under- stands that it has won the victory. What We therefore expect the execution of the judge of a few tens of thousands of thels and two law without hesitation or lack of energy.
or three rustles' heads? Foreigner-baiting and ment given in favour of Jurado and Co......
We request you to rectify your statements and mandarin-scaring are well worth that Hele cost, especially as the instientors, dan't pay it. to publish this letter in proof of your devotion to
They have beaten is openly and now do they truth and justice.
thrust us out privily? Nay verile, but let them come themselves and fetch us out," Of cours a for heavier punishment will be insisted, on, and H.B.M. Consul at this part is not the man to allow the murderers of innocent men and the cowardly ruffians who bent women and children to escape, as long any power of his can reach them, We have no doubt that the Home Government will support him thoroughly. The atake is too serious for trifting,
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THE HONGKONG BANK IN
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21, Billiter-street, Landon, E.C. June 19, 1891.
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Melid, to which they further applied) to return to Jurado and Co. their capital of $328 000, which the Banking Corporation had unduly locked up, with costs and damages.
408. per ton for Tea 335. 6d, for general cargo; through to New York 45. for Tes: 40r. for general cargo Nagasaki to Shanghai, $1.20 a $1.25 per ton of coal neit, for both steamers and sailing vessels. Newchwang to Amoy 33 cents per plcul. Newchwang to Swatow 22 cents per picul. Settlement during the fortnight:-American ship, Berjamin Sewall 1,367 tons register, Shanghai to Vancouver via Japan, private terme. Diseng. aged vessels in port:Harvard, American barque, 982 tons register; Hecla, American ship, 1.476 tons register; Naupactus, British ship, 1.399 tons register; San Joaquim, American ship, 1,555 tons register.
OPIUM PROSECUTION.
Before Mr. Wise to-day a woman named Leung A Ho was charged with selling twenty. tnels of opium without a perimit. Mr. Wilkinson defended.
on.
Messrs. Jurado and Co. forwarded the follow- ing letter to the Z. & C. Express of the 10th ult-the same date on which we published a letter from the Manila branch of the firm on the same subject. The last paragraph but two is a little discounted by subsequent events. They sayOur attention has been drawn to a para- graph in your issue of the 5th inst, containing statements, which we cannot pass unnoticed, concerning the litigation between the Hongkong. and Shanghal Banking Corporation and Messrs. Jurado and Co, of Manila, in which firm we are Interested.
The Banking Corporation Instituted legal proceedings against Jurado and Co. In the Court of First Instance In Manila in the year 1894. and they thus, of their own free will, selected that tribunal and the law administered by it, which was to he applied to the case.
When the Banking Corporation were ordered to pay the said $318,coa into Court and were forced to do so by a levy on their property, and the sum was lodged at the Treasury of Manila, Deposit Department, they applied to the British Government for protection; but we also asked the Marquis of Salisbury not to interfere in a matter of litigation beween private parties, and we then received a reply which we considered satisfactory,
The Rev. T. Bramfit, of the Wesleyan Mission, who is at Watch and Kuangchi together with Mr. George Miles to watch and report to the Consul, Has been guarded by double guards ever since the execution; his post is not without its perils, hat his long residence and influence in all that countryside will stand him is good stead.-N. C. Daily News.
TIENTSIN.
All is quiet as far as we can learn, and it is generally believed that the Tartar Generali really a very strong man, and well able to keep in order, not only the populace, hut the soldiers under him. This is a grand thing, for the braves make capital of any lot that takes place or may be brewing, Steamers and other ships have heen snuggling arms and ammunition, to rather considerable extent, but some of the effenders, if not all, have heen caught. That they may be well punished is the wish of all who have any regard for the peacefully disposed. There has always been more or less suspicion na to the complicity of foreigners in these nefarious acts, but it is to he hoped that
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) there is no truth in the idea of white men
July 2nd, conniving at any proceedings which, may tend to
On the 30th alt, news reached Tientsin the destruction of their fellow countrymen I is too horrible to contemplate. The projection through my Chinese friends of the progress of the ratiway is getting on towards Shashal-made by Mr John Pringle and his narty, and kuan, but stations or terminl are a profound of his safe arrival at the mineral fields between. secret, although we are led to believe there will Shan-Hal Kuan and Newchwang, and ther be a branch line to connect this port with the were then busy surveying there. Samoles of rain, the drops are reported to be A r, and judging by what has already been done in impor's and exports, the prosperity of this year prontiers to surpass even the business of last season which was the best since the establish. ment of the Customs, allowance being made for the ruperseding of the junk trade by foreign ships and the loss of the Indian oplum imports.
N. C. Daily News
WUCHANG..
July 6th
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place to Peking, and they are of excellent quality. Mr. Pringle is spaken of very highly by his Chinese colleagues and the local oficials, which is certainly a feather in his cap.
July 4th. Since writing my Inst a letter has been rereived from Mr. Jahn Pringle, dated. Kiu Chao, roth June. In which be sates that in the district of Kia Chao is the Th Yao Kao mine which la heing worked by natives. In this mine, there are three seams, one 6'fest thick, good coal, one zo feet thick. of inferior coal, and another 30 feet thick, good coal. The (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
nailves work the two former, but are unable to wark the third, as there is water in the mins. We have been watching with intense interest. The cost to start here would be very lule, au the course of nation taken by 3.E. Chang Chih- there would be no shaft to sink. A small engine tung during the conduct of the Wusuch case.
would be able to put out 3000 tons per day easily, His has been a difficult position, but those of us hut a small pump would be required. The who have watched him most closely in the past Estern coal mines have also been visited and bave hoped, notwithstanding one or two signs the place is far better than are the Ta Yao Kuo of weakness, that he would consummate his mines. The U Foo Mino mines would be worth bravery by acting fairly, and fully without pre-working, and would pay well, as the whole thing Judice of tradition or unpopularity. Our hopen could be bought for abrat Tis. 15 000 to Tis. have been shaken as the case has developed, and we much fear that the difficulties of a Viceroy 20000, and 300 tons per day would be an easy about 25 in length. Mr. Pringle will leave there in a few days, and when I see him I shall be able to give you fuller news of his surveys,——
Mercury.
From that date (1889) the Banking Corpora- tion have been endeavouring to delay, the pro- ceedings but Jurado & Co. have at length succeeded in having the damages duly assessed at about $1,000,000, and obtained final judgment and execullen for that amount, and the same not being paid, an embargo upon the property of the Banking Corporation in Manila was granted From the evidence of Inspector Quincey and and executed. The moneys seized under this an informer it appeared as if a regular business embargo being less than the damages assessed, of telling opium in a quiet way had been carried
the effice of the Corporation in Manila was Three mfarmers, with marked money, closed on the 19th ultimo, as per telegrams went to buy 100 tzels of opium from the received by us, and which you may inspect if ƒ between the fires of foreign and native opinion i output. The district in a first-class field, of woman. She took their money, $34, as a matter you desire. of ordinary business, and went out of her house to get the opiam. She returned and said she had only got zo taels. They refused to take this, so she went out again, but with no better reralt, Inspector Qulucey had been waiting round the corner, but as the appointed signal did not come off be went into the house and found the 20 taels of oplum hidden in the klichen. He also found the money in the woman's box.
Mr. Wise thought this sufficiently proved the Mr. Wilkinson maintained that there was no sale at all. The oplum was never delivered, ns the man refused to take it. Without delivery there was no sale. Further, even if the opiata had been banded over, it was not a case of buying and selling: the woman only acted as agent of the foformer in buying from somewhere Mr. Wise overruled the second objection, but on the first be adjourned the case until
cale.
elon.
to-morrow,
LATE TELEGRAMS,
LONDON, June 16th. Telegrams from Buenos Ayres state that a revolatos which proved successful has occurred In the Argentine province of Catamarca. The Governor of the province has been deposed. In the fighting which took place several persons were killed and a number were wounded."
The Timis states that u liberal constitutional reform movement has commenced in Perala, and that the Shah has been petitioned in favour thereof. Farly arrests have been made with the object of stiflloy the movement.
NEW YORK, June 26th.***** The shipments of gold from New York to Europe during the week amounted in value to close upon five and a half million dollars, most of it being intended for Berlin and Paris.
WASHINGTON, June 26th,
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are proving too much for him. Fire tests According to the statement in your issue of the man how will Chang Chih-tung stand the 5th inst., the Corporation have once more applied fire? It is known in native circles that fre for the interference of the British Foreign Office.quent messages of urgency are received from Allow us to remind you that the manager of the the Tsung-11 Yamén, commanding the speedy said bank la, London informed the public by a settlement of the Wusuch outrage. But native SCOTT's Emalsion of Pere Cod Liver Oil with letter published in the Standard on November opinion is showing is hold on the Viceroy's Hypophosphites, is a combination of two most 12th, 1889, "that the bank's latest appeals to mind. The Imperial Edict, far the most valuable remedies, in a palatable and easily the Supreme Court there (in Manila and Madrid) pronounced on the subject of the purity and digested form, having great healing and streng favour was confidently expected" that in the been issued in China, has at last found its way few and wasting diseases. Read the following: have been admitted, and that a decision in their position of the Christian Church found its ever then ing properties, most valuable in Consum report of the ordinary half-yearly meeting of to the walls of the city streets. Some days I have found Scott's Emulsion of great shareholders in the above corporation, which after its reaching-Hankow-the-writer-caused--be-fit-in-the-treatment of phthisical and scro- was held on February 22nd, 1890, the Chairmana copy in bold handwriting to be hung at his fulous diseases. It is extremely palatable and sald (according to your own statement in your door, and a crowd has been reading it from does not upset the stomach-thus removing the issue of March 31st, 1890) that with regard to morning to night ever since; but it was not until great difficulty experienced in the administration Manila I regret to say we have not yet recovered three days ago, nearly a fortnight after the of the plain oll"--D. F. Kenna, LR.CS.. the money embargoed (328,000); but our legal Viceroy received it, that a large official copy on Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. Any advisers assure us that we may confidently the opposite wall has rendered the private issue Chemist can supply it-A. S. Watson & Co. expect to have it returned, but that there are unnecessary. Weseem to have evidence here that (Lid.), agents in Hongkong and China-Advt. numerous formalities to go through, which cause the Imperial power is being grudgingly obeyed, delay," Notwithstanding these categorical but is too insistent to be longer Ignored. It assurances. the bank and their legal advisers is difficult fully to understand the sight passed have never succeeded in obtaining the release upan the British Admiral. For three consecutive of the said amount,
days refreshments were provided in the gamin for his reception. Whether he was really expected, or whether only an appearance of expectation was kept up, we cannot say. Either H.E. does not yet understand the courtesy naturally to be expected, or he has yielded in a fit of temper to the fear of the vulgar clamour of will be despatched for the above Port on the and are cool, comfortable and healthy.
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On the following half-yearly meeting, beld on Aug, 23, 1890 (reported in your Issue of Sept. 29, 189), the Chairman expressed himself follows: I think we are at last really nearing the end of our troubles over this harassing, and, what has been for some years, most anxious business to all concerned with the Bank."
Jurado and Company, on their alde, have always denied this statement, and have inform. ed the bank and their directors that they ware wrong in their belief, and that they were not rightly informed as to their real position regard Ing this Htigation.
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the inland officials, ignorant of outside usage, who rule here. It is not hard for us to see who In the long run will suffer by this breach of etiquette. The representative of the people whe have committed injury will gain nothing by an irritating assumption of superiority over the representative of those injured.
You now state that "the Foreign Office bas taken up the matter warmly" that it is con- fidently expected that, the fonds will soon be released, and that this expectation is because the Madrid Government have twice telegraphed We beg to inform you that we are also apply. log to the Marquis of Salisbury, in view of your statement, making to him the request we humbly made before, and we "confidently expect that the noble lord will not interfere with the regular administration-of-the-law by the Court-chosen and selected by the Banking Corporation, and to the jurisdiction of which they submitted when But if the Viceroy and Chinese authorities they commenced their legal proceedings, which
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To-day comes the news of the execution of the two men mentioned in my last letter who are to balance the lives of Messrs. Argent and Green. These two men and these two only were executed in Kuangchi inside the front wall of the Helen's yamén and thus privately. The heads were sent down to Wusuch and hung on poles in various places Now it is only fair to remember the difficulty of the local mandaries. The clán of one of the guilty men is a very numerous one and the magistrate feared a rescue; hence, after STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, VIA NAGASAKI
AND KODE_____ an appointment for a public place and hour, the executions took place privately and suddenly. (Passing through the INLAND STA), 4. The agitation in favour of the repeal of the
imagine that after all the openness and pubs. THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship you refer to "euphemistically termed legal of the justice will be satisfied this holes quence of the increasing dearness of provisions process; and we hope the Foreign Ofice will and-corner beggarly one-for-one by cutilage Captain W. D. Mudie, will leave for the above by M NO, RUSYALL general.y,
warmly take the side of justice, as we are also which is well nigh an insult, they litla places on SATURDAY, the asth July, at Day ST. Pereasure, June 27th, entitled, as a firm established In London, lu understand the temper of the British ro. } sight, **. An order has been trued prohibling the which the interests of British subjecte are insidents, where whote fature confort and even Rumian press from referring to the treatment of || valved, to the samdo protection as the Banking | existence in this country may depend on the Tews.
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