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business, and so he said this case was good- and he would take it. Every day in Court, 875, please-oh, thank you. So the rascally Chinese was induced to believe he had a strong case; he pro- ceeded to swear an information, and his partner, the trusted manager of the firm, was arrested. The case came before the
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
WX are informed by the Agents (Mesars, D. Sastoon, Sans & Co.) that the steamer Japan, from Calcutta, left Singapore yesterday for this port "THAT Doctor ain't no goed."
"Ain't he? You bet he is, though. Why, be gave our Jimmy medicine what made him
sick that he died,”
at head-qnriers,
EUGANE Richter, the lender of the Liberal party of Germaur, is and to have the most remarkablo memory of any member of the Reichstag, He le able to commit long tables of firuns to me mory, and when Prince Kissick was in power often corrected him-when-he-attemnted-to-use Egures in Illustration of his speeches. THE New York Timed way" that If some American dramatist could write a antirical comedy treating of the 1'e he sees in the same mood of amble cynicism and sportive fun as Mr. Preto shows in The Cabinet Minister, he would make a fortune. We in Hangkang need just such class at this hour. The material is at hand in large qunniltles, BEARDS were at various times taxed in England,
and
the Sheriff of Canterbury reid 3 shillings
THE Hongkong Volunteer Artillery drills are ordered:Thursday, 24th Instant, 5.30 pm, gan drills; Friday, 15th Instant, 9 p.m.. gun drill An Emergency Convocation of Victoria Chapter, Stress, wit be held in Bremssons' tall, Zeitaud Street, bis evening, at 8.30 forge'clock precisely, and pence for westing a beard. In the first Tear nl Elizabeth's reign every board of shore a Visiting brethren are cordially invited. STRANGER-"And so you believe In Prof. fmtnight's growth was taxed. 3 shillings and 6 Chloride's cure for drunkenness?" Red-nosed, pence, but, the law was too absurd to be enforced. Peter the Great imposed a tax of a rumb'e apan believing in it? I've been cared six times." "ALL full faside?" queried Tanker-in at the door of a London omnibus. "Can't say for the rest," responded Charles Lamb from one of the seats, "but that last piece of oyster pla did the bualness for me."
followers, Probably the ideal amusement out of it, when there was no more fun Enthusiast-"Belleve in It How can I help heards, but it was soon fancelled.
A
Biranice were towed over from. Kowloon docks
THE RAJAB'S PLAFTHINGS.
Active minds usually find active occupa Magistrate, occupled the Court about tlon for their spare time in pursuing some seven days (spread out over three weeks) hobby or other, the choice of which is and then-Mr. FaiNcis blandly threw it often eminently characteristic of the man. | up.. He had had his little joke, had The hobbies, which while sufficiently, with the had with fascinating in themselves are at the same with the Magistrate, had toyed with time sources of profit, naturally elicit the English justice, had made a good deal of most enthusiastic devotion from their money, and he was well, satisfied to back of a great mind is the game of chess with nor money to be got. The Magistrate, a human pleces--not that foolery, in which poor overworked official, anxious only the human pieces dress themselves to about his holidays; was glad enough to resemble the ivory originals and then make an end of the farce, without caring skip about on a tennis-lawn with band what more ought to be done. Mr. Wist accompaniment, but the Bismarck game ofis great at leaving things undone and THE Canadian Pacific Co.'s steamer Empress of real life, which one player alone directs, unnoticed. What did it matter that so Japan and the Austrian Lloyds steamer playing off human figures against each many people had been kept wasting today The Spanish cruiser San Quinton was other, while they know nothing of his pre. much time to suit RAJA FRANCIS, that Our docked at Kowloon this morning. siding, genius, but fondly Imagine they are Only Q.C. had committed a gross breach Tur latest victim of the whipping-post in moving of their own free will. That is of legal morality (paradoxical expression,dding the cat and left the post with a broad Delaware chewed tobacco while the Sheriff was the human chess game, the highest of all by the way)-what did it matter that grin on his face. He claims that it was a great pastimes, played only by clever men. everybody cried shame? Allah is great, -ko-they were whinuing the wrong man.
clever man, and plays the game well. So RAJAH FRANCIS, Q.C., of Hongkong, is a but not a patch on the RAJAH.
Rereaved Wife (to nume)~Do you think my It was much the same when the Share
husband will live ill to-morrow? unfailing is his success in setting one Bill was introduced last year. Mr. FRANCIS, against another among the people of this C., was retained; he took the brokers in Colony, from Governors and other high hand, like so many oranges, sweet and officials downwards, in working them soft; he made a long speech in the Legis- dexterously for his own purposes, picking lative Council, he got his big fee, and then he them up, holding them in his hand, threw them away. It was the same in throwing them down, smashing them years gone by, when the Chinese Govern-
them all round against each other, and generally foolingment and the Hongkong marionettes were without their ever negotiating a treaty: Mr. FRANCIS took suspecting It-so remarkable is his the Chinese in one hand and the feeble success in Hongkong that we would Hongkong Government in the other, like to see how he would fare in a
and jammed their heads together
Nurse-I am afraid not, madım, and I would advise you to order a mourning dress at once-
Wife (wringing her hands)This is terrible! How would y u have it trimmed i A FRENCH seaman, uuemployed, staying at the Sallor's Horee, departed from the usual castom of getting drunk, and remained soŊer enough'to steal jacket belonging to another Inmate of the Home. He was brought before Mr. Wedehouse to-day and sent to gaol for three weeks.
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been made
A TALLING calculation has recently by the first statistical authority in France. The Riffel Tower weighs from 7,000 020 to 2000000 kilogrammes (the kilogramme is a pounds 3:26 ources), Reconstracted in silver, an Eiffel Tower would require two additional stories in order to represent the actual deposi's of French people in the national savings banke. THE monthly Share Settlements, due to-morrow, promise to Increase the financial gloom which has surnunded this colony like a pail for so mighty local speculators are already reported to many months past. Some would-be hirk and have coolly repudiated their legitimate liabilities, and we are only walling for reliable information to give these persons the fall benefit of the widest spread publicity in nas powrs. And, singalar to relate, "the honest and solvent com munlly of Shanghai-formero inconsiderable portion of those 'gone antray,"
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be his faults, Mr. FRANCIS certainly has "QC" for services rendered. And shown himself to be the ablest manipulator each Government congratulated itself on of the Hongkong puppet-strings, the having obtained the valuable aid of $1.00 subtle, Jesuitical jester who does just what Mr. FRANcis against the other]
he likes with men, who humbags the still be is pursuing the even tenor of Government, toys with
his way. He goes on "assisting" the the judicial fuminaries as a dog-fancier with his own Government, drafting bills and other pet paps, or, like a juggler with so many documents, smiling and smirking, and gilded balls of emptiness, tosses them pulling the strings. Individually, every 2.50 Ughtly and easily from hand to hand, or up man in the Colony knows what a In the air, and then, contemptuously, slippery person he is, even for a lawyer; shoves them all together in a basket and yet it would seem that, collectively, the puta them away, to make room for whole Colony worships him as an un- a75 something serious. So well does he mitigated saint. But perhaps we are
succeed here, that It would be intereading unjust; perhaps after all he is not evil to see him at this game in the great world, minded; perhaps all these things have in perfectly, innocent and away from our tiny tea-cup Colony, out in his mind bordé a the open, among real men engaged in virtuous aspect. It is not impossible. He real work. But he is clever enough to may have really believed Mr. Kox CHENG 1.To leave that alone.
SEAN was a swindler; he may have thought About a month ago à Chinaman went MINNETT an innocent and injured man; a local attorney's firm on special he may have believed he was doing good Per business. He was in
a partnership service to his employers in the Share Bill Case concern, and he hated one of his partners, business; he may have imagined himself whom he would like to injure, and thought to have fairly and squarely earned his the time was
now come; the partner Queen's Counsellorship. Yes, after all, it is ship was about to dissolve, and almost unjust to condemn him. We apologise, and $4.50 every Chinese partnership presents at withdraw all we have said, We must A St. Estephe, Red Capsule... 450 5.00 C St. Jallen, Red Capsule... 7 7.50 least prima facie appearances of something admit that he is an upright and conscien- D" La Rose, Red Capsule .............. 1 12.00 being wrong, either in the peculiarly tious man. Still, how is his action in the Celestial Irregularity of the book-keeping Oplum Farm prosecution explained? How MADEIRA, HOCK AND CHAMPAGNES. FULL PARTICULARE OF THE VARIOUS BRANDS
aystem,__or_the_usual confusion-of-private. Is it that he had_to_tell_the_magistrate IN STOCK ON APPLICATION.
and partnership accounts, or some of the several times that he had not investigated the books, nor as yet tried to get evidence) Per des Per Innumerable slipshod transactions always
Case, Bot, characteristic of Chinese firms; somehow, How was it that he had absolutely nothing BRANDY.
said this Chinaman, the hated partner to support his case, and that as soon as 'A Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
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fraud. Anyhow it was worth trying. 1.49 The lawyer consulted, though not a 1.75 budding COLERIDGE, still knew sufficient to be aware that this was no case, that before proceedings could be commenced it was necessary to find out if there was any evidence, and that in England any solicitor 75 would be struck off the rolls for taking up a case on bare suspicion, which, as in 0.95 this instance, was directly stimulated by personal spite. He knew that, but he knew further that this was not England, not even a dependency thereof
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be necessary, it had to be ignominously dropped? After asserting in his opening address that he would prove by sworn testimony that defendant had got over $19,000 which he had not accounted for, after loftily claiming to represent the whole body of partners in this action, after urging Mr. Wisz to increase the ball on the ground that defendant would sacrifice his friends and 85,000 to escape the certain penalty of indisputable villainy, after ignoring the very plain hints of Mr. Wisx, after abusing and trying to bully Mr. Dera, alter jeeringly calling out in Court
THE debt of the subsidised rail-sada, to the U S. Government is over $112,000,000, of which a lege part is now maturing with an adequate. provision for payment, Some policy for deating T managers of Woodyear's Cirens have with this matter, with a view to the ultimate arranged for an International tug-of-warto be
••nights. for a big purse of money. Arrangements the Finance Mirister.
are being made (which we hope will murcsed) to Ma. Wodehouse today sentenced a Chinese break the news to the Russian and other foreign meer to a fine of $25 or a month's imprison-crews in the harbour, who do not read Fnglish ment for selling bundles of matches enclosed in
newspapers and would not otherwise know any- wrapper 'bea fog a false trade mark, more
thing of the event; nemilon is to he asked for them to compare, and some very fine teams. popular than the one on the boxes inside each bundle. A Hongkong Chinese match-maker
Can be got up If the organisers will hustle a proprietor of the pirated trade-mark, prosecuted.bit. Full particular can be obtained from the
manager, at the Victoria Hotel. Ar the Mygliracy to-day Mr. Wodehouse held an inquest on the body of the Indian goal warder, Kism Singh, who shot himself on Tuesday night while on duty.. It was stated incidentally that the brother of deceased on Monday night had a dream in which he learnt that one of his family was to dia soon. (Professor Baldwin should try to secure this gentleman for his Mahatma business) The deceased had heen in the hospital recently, but at the time of his deals it was not known that he had any trouble, physical, finandal, er domestic He was a very galet and well-behaved man. A verdict of "death from self-inflcted bullet
hand " was retorned,
COUNT Tolstol's wife, though living like a peasant with him, and devoted in other ways, doesn't think much of his peculiar doctrines, of which she was rec atly quoted as saying: "All my husband's disciples are small, blonde, sickly and homely-all as like one another as a pair of old boots. I think they drift inte idiocy by following
the Count's teachings."
Elsa-
more
THREE weeks ago the CAfna Mall uneartheð a yarn about a seafaring party being swallowed by a whale. The story w swallowed by the editor of a print called the Yarmouth Morning Bloater, or some such name, and reproduced in the Hongkong Fish Wrapper, ann waining to all seamen to forsake their evil ways and turn missionary. The Dally Press got hold of it, and after three weeks of hard work, has succeeded in
MAX O'RELL on 'American women:-The spelling it out and publishing to-day. "JobI see of American woman, the more confirmed I Brown's story fies a mouldering to the grave, am in the opinion that she is typical-recogniz
able anywhere. Her brilliancy in conversation, but its ghost la marching on { " MADAME TATTI bas bonestly confessed that her her animation of feature, he absence of affects
tion, her physical beauty and her mental lovell- latest is not her farewell tour, and congratulates mess, her pletererqueness of language and her herself on the fact that her voice is just as fresh frankness of expression, mak her & type. I
it was twenty years ago. The fatigue of dressing for the opere iltes me more now than "pologise for reading this description of the American women's characteristics, but I wanted used to when I was younger," she said the other day, but my volce never gets fatigued. The
to get it all in. Your American woman is the woman par excellence, but she is to have a rival. cilties charge me with ahliking the finales. We are Americanizing the French girl, but it fa
utter nonsense. I have never more than cace low work or twice pushed my voice to its fullest power. Il I were to sing at my fullest strength at the Academy of Moric or to the Chicago Auditorium, nothing else could be heard in the bousie Patt -also-says-sleep is the tonle-for-a-prima-donna's voice. Marie Rose says a well-regulated diet and the ayoldance of pastry, pickles and wine will preserve the voice. For some days past the talk of the focal sporting world has been the widely advertised "set-to between Billy Waters, the British Columbian champion, and Jim Brown, a pug. belonging to the U. S. cruiser Lancaster, which was to hard eventuated in the ring of Wondyear's Circus, last- night, and confident that business was meant on beth sides
very large audience assembled to witch. PEOPLE SEEM (ld a practical dentist recently). mill" The fight, however, did not come off for the very good reason that Mr. Brown was
to wonder why it is that dentists use geld for not at home He was anxiously sought for, but stopping teeth, and are inclined to bel'ore that
because they wish to ran up the bills. A much to the disappointment of all PIERDI could not be found Right here it in but is well known, silver would resist the acids found tale to state that the management of the in the mouth galte as well, and I have heen blame and If the audience reisreed homely
#liver!If those who are so anxious to cast circus must be completely exonerated from all asked at least twenty times why I did not sure chagrined at the show provided, the fault lies at aspersions on the dentists would only study the door of the invisible Brown. Professor metallurgy they would find that the reason that Valarie, who acted as manager for the exhibition, we employ only gold is that it is the only metal spared neither pains nor expense to bring the that will weld while cold... Silver will not do so nor will anything else; The cohesive properties business to a access issue the tel out of perfectly smooth and clear gold are artonleh
-TO-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS.
Inward. teamer, from Touranc
» Haiphong, Haiphong.....
Aggregating 1,621- tons, register.
Outward. Bornso... steamer, far Amoy, PC. C. Klas......
17
10
11
Swalow. Saigon,
10
Shanghai.
Swalow,
Saigon.
Wustangporate, Canton unmitt Loksang anomnes 11 Holstein >=
Aggregating 666a-tons, register.
not meet but in a few minutes he arranged fall upon another, both will be to firmly joined
in anything but the name; so he put all Produce the misiing money after all last moment did be know that the men wong If you take a sheet of geld-fall-and let it that aside, and came to look at the question of-money-Oh yes, there was pleny of this, Mr Fucis puts on a smug amille trio of filendly bouts between aspiring money In the buildèks. All right, thọn, go aheadį. As he informed his cllent, there che be sustained, even with reference to 0.75 | was not much..doubt that the partner
the small balance, still not accounted for on the face of the accounts." He never aforesaid was perfectly honest throughout; but things looked a bit mixed, and with a expressed regret for his own large and 1.10 capable lawyer on the job it might be not too clean share in the mess. A lawyer mads to look serious. A "capable lawyer who thinks he is doing right in taking 1,00 meant more money, and so the confiding such a baseless case as this one must either be very foolish or not troubled with Chinaman was no doubt mulcted con- siderably as the first step. Then Mr. Any inconvenient i cruples as to the prestige FRANCIS was retained, as being the one of his professios. We have our own Capsnio 4.50
0.40 man in all the Colony who can be rolled opinion on the subject, and it is not C Fino A. V; H, Genera "imi saj. 059 on to secure a conviction against, an inno lavorable to Mr.¡FRANCIS, Q,C."
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and gently llaps "I do not think the charge knockers-out. An upon a previous occasion that will be impusible to separate them-It the first part of the performance was takes this property that makes gold valable to un by legitimate circur business and the dentists, and not the desire to increase blliss different flems were most enthusiastically
RUMPHREYS land and eSTATE received. After the usual interval the "sing
COMPANY LIMITED. was pegged out and Waters came forward and explained that as his opponent had not turned up, the contest, of course, could not take The ordinary annual meeting of shareholders place, but that he would boz three friendly rounds in this Company was held to-day. Mr. J. D. with Joe Dobson, with whom he had spared on Humphreys, managing director, prealded, and the previous Saturday. The result was much there were also present Mestre, Mancell, Jupp, thesameaupon that occasion and although Nabbe, Clement, H. Humphreys, Sutton, and sclence was displayed the physical disparity Scott
the report and between the men robbed the display of interest. The Chairman sald Webert and Les also faced the lights in a three accounts had been in their hands for some days round go and caused some merriment, but he would take them as read. He would be glad the latter had things all his own way? The best to answer may questions, and would reserve als work of the evening, however, was put in when own remarks until afterwards. A Thomas and Warren donned the mittens. There being no questions, the Chairman During the first round both men sparted moved the adoption of the report and accounts. cautiously to ascental each other's ability
ded
1ɩhe motion, which was Mr. Mancoll That accomplished, the second round resulted carried,
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cent; man," Consultations, wern'" held (at - Capsule. 19. Los ŝas a time, cash in advance) and Mr. Francis' said he thought there was a good case, and he would be willing to take it up,
BRITISH DEFEAT IN AFRICA, Heering's Cherry Cordial | Of course, he must have known all the
LONDON, March aand... Dr. Siegert's Angostura | time that it was not a good case, that there News hram Sierra Leool states that the British
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was no evidence whatever, toestabilah expedition, to Timbo has been repulsed. Captain the serious crime of embezzlement. But Robins of the Englace was killed, and A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. FRANCIS Q.C. has no particularly delicate twenty-Core officers and men wounded.
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some
in some good Brushes" by Thomas, the WOn the motion of the CEO Coton
seconded by lighter, but more active man. In the Mr. Sutton, Mr. V. A. C. Hawkins Was To- third and last round Thomas put his man elected auditor, and his on his mettis from the outset, and some heavy was approved appointment for last year infighting was the result. Warren geping the The business having been concluded, the worst of it. At the conclusion the winner Chairman said :—Gentlemen, as you NIU KWETU, was enthusiastically applanded, and the audience the Company has been reconstituted under a voluntarily contributed, some $30 as a mark of new Memorandum and Articles of Association, their appreciation. The evening was fairly with view to conducting business in a more successful in spite of the disappointment capsol | satisfactory minanes ar to what we have done in by Brown's absence, and the audience expressed the past, and to enable to increase the His determination to box him ewwaite 11 ke | earning power of ibe Company, This pate would be found
Capipany a very satisfactory position, "and