THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1892.
was conviction and not an order. part of it which related to the forfeiture way susceptibilities.
The to disarm misconstruction and avoid exciting an order and leaves the other part good. in regard therefore to the wages of the men
He recommends that orphanages and schools should be, as far possible, open to public inspec. while they were in guo! respectively for 14tion, which would tend to disprove the absurd and to days I must make an order for the rumours regarding them which have been deduction from their wages during that industriously circulated among the lower Chinese time. Verdlet for the plaintifs with costs, by the anti-Christian party. As to the counterclaim, there is first the question of the "six days Day." That is disposed of Wages whilst in Victoria Gaol." That is dis- posed of. "Advances during voyage, That is a matter for the Registrar. Then there is general-laim for insurance during time of survey, expenses of management, and Interest. Tarie are all dismissed by what I have a ld. There is also a claim fr£51. oug. That is altogether dismissed.
His Lordship explained the points left over for the Registrar, who will decide the remaining
issues.
THE ANNAMESE CREW v. THE STEAMER ·
"TORRINGTON."
That Bible Societies abould refrain from circulating uncommented translations of certain boks of the Bible, such as Joshus, Judges, Ruth, the Song of Solomon, etc., which cantalo passages easily open to misrepresentation if un- explained.
That Chinese prejudices and superstitions should be more carefully considered in the forms and heights of buildings erected.
That missionaries should refrain from tnter- fering in disputes between Christian and non- Christian natives in pecuniary matters and other questions of secular business.
The prisoner was then sentenced and led away to her cell."
PARIS, March 9th. sident Santon, a well-known socialist,
The Municipal Connell has elected as its pre-
BERLIN, March 9ib. The Thorner Leung, a paper published at Thorn in West Prussia, says that an extensive movement is in progress among Russian troops on the frontlet. Every place of Importance is Giling with so'diers, chiefly Cossacks
The Leipsic municipal authorities announce that they will provide_work for unemployed unemployed persona,
MADRID, March 9th, The Gu:dalquiver river is twenty-six feet abave the normal level and several places are inundated.
ST. PATERSDURO, March g'h. Several Ministers believe that the letters of Tolstoi, published in foreign papers, giving That any endeavours to combat heathen pre-accounts of the distress in Russia, should be Judices and superstiti ns should be conducted stopped, and have arged the Czar to place the with moderation and judgment, and that care should be taken to avoid giving legitimate cause
Count under arrest. The Caar refused to do to. for offence.
VIENNA, March 9th. It is reported from Constantinople that, the Sulian, under the, influence of the German Austrian Embassador, has refused to dicipline the Governor of Salonica for confiscating the Russian mail to Mount Athos recently. It Isku, open secret in diplomatic cirales that the Mount Athos cloister bas-long been little less than an advanced post of the Austrian army In Turkey. Of its 000 monks
Finally, he observes that the practice of un- married female missionaries travelling in the company and under the protection of unmarried male mlisionaries, however, unobjectionable it may appear to those concerned, is incompatible with the Chinese views of decorum, and affords ground for scandal which gains publicity through the scurrilous pamphléis and plicards circulated by the anti-Christian party,
and
poition of our wagen; I think we ought to get compensation fostend of our wages being stop ped." Then Campbell says. The Caplain bas threatened me that if I did not pay he would prosecute me." "The remalader, nothing to say," Well, it is quite clear there was a question between the men and the captain, whether when they refused work they were reasonably entitled ia da so under the circum. stances, and it is quite clear to me this question was not brought out in the proceedings before the Magistrate. I do not seethat, after a number of people are put in the dock together and one witness heard for
the prosecution, they ateht to be prejudiced by that. If proceeded against individually they could have called felends, and If proceeded against altogether care bould have been taken that any evidence that could be produced for them should be. The third and fourth engineers might have been sent for. If they were not willing to be witnessce something should have been done to allow the men in give their statement of the matter. So much for the proceelings; now I come, to the This was a claim for wages put in by eleven sentence. The change, is one of wilful dia Annamese who had been engaged by the captain obedience on the 25th, and I say from the of the steamer Torrington to work the ship from fact that they did not return to work that day Saigon to Hongkong. The parties having come as agreed in the Resident's letter there might to an agreement, his ordship gave judgment be some avider ce of the act of disobedience on for the plaintiffs for $538 and costs. The other the 35th The Captain gives no particulars,points of the suit, such as subsistence expenses, He merely says the men on the sgth refused return passage, &c., were lef to the Registrar to work. The sentence for refusing work, for this determinr. Is the charge, is that the men be imprisoned To-day (13th) His Lordship made the following some for to days and some for 14 days, and that explanation -I was reading the report this the cost of all subattutes and the share of the forenoon of my judgment in the case of the survey should be forfeited from their wares. Terrington, and it strack me that I ought to Well, now,
the Magistrate had got power to give lay a wonder two to remove a possible ground 14 or 10 days' imprisonment; and as I anid just of t
( misapprehension of what I said. I think from now it is quite possible there was some insubor what I said it might be understood that I was ef dination. But there
has been
question as to opinion that wilful disobedience of lawful come the Magistrate's jarlsdiction with regard to the mande would not consitate grounds for other prints of the sentence and it is quite clear dismissal In case of a mariner coming from under the offence with which these men were England, but I should be very sorry if charged the Magistrae had no power to make were thought to have meant that. What I meant the deductions he did. The utmost he could do was that mere disobedience could not be In a case of disobedience was to deduct two days? accepted in a coort of law or elsewhere pay, to make an order for forfeltore. There was no as a reason for discharge without due Inquiry power in the Magistrate's Court, though there into the reasons of the disobedience and the might he in another Coast and under circum circumstances which led up to it: and I also stances which do not exist in this case, to onder wish to say that a mere act of insubordination exrenses which were incurred in the survey.under extennating circumstances-I think Therefore, there is no doubt that as regards used the words "circumstances of provocation"- there forfeitures the decisions are ultra viris would not be sufficient reason to deprive a man That being the case they must be disregarded in of his sight to be returned to England. Also I this case. Then the Magistrate altered another think I conveyed this quite clearly-I also matter of this order, and that was that the sea- meant to say that the Marine Magistrata. bad men should be discharged. There again there no right to pronounce a sentence of discharge is no power to discharge, and of course that and had no right to authorise discharge in the mariners absence in adjudicating upon a case of disobedience, and it was that which
When the court-martial convened to try the understood
to be the practice of the Harbour,
remaining men charged with complicily in the Master's Office that I wished to dacounten nce.
ararchistic attack at Xeres met to-day there was It is a matter of such importance, it may be of
a large crowd around the Courthouse. The mob such Importance that both mariners and manters should have a due understanding of what the
was riotous, and shouts of "Long live anarchy" Court thinks with regard to enforcing the du les
were frequently heard. The crowd finally, A dispatch from Leipsic this morning states became so disorderly and threatening that the of obedience, that I thought it right to make this statement. I should be exceedingly. Borry, as
that the discontent among the large number of police made an attack on them. After a slight said Just now, if for a moment I conveyed the ing. At a gathering on the street 10-day, where
unemployed workingmen in that city is spread-resistance the mob scattered. idea that a mariner, even if he came from the a large number of unemployed men had as- other end of the world, could justify wilful dissembled, several speeches were made. A large obedience of a lawful command, and I do not think I conveyed that impression at the time,
the
must
TO
be disregarded alio, -But I must a word or two about that, because it Reems to me. from what the Magistrate wald in connection with these partier, there has been a danger of a very consider. able injustice being done to seamen who bave been engaged in England or colonies other than Hongkong and brought here. In answer to a question of my own the Magistrate and be understood it had always been the practice of the Hongkong Harbour Office to discharge seamer, wherever they came from, for acts of disobedience. Well, I think the captain is mistaken as to the practice of the Hongkong Office. I cannot belleve it to be true it would seem to me to be so thoroughly unfair. There are men--take the men In this case-who
engaged in England under a solemn contract, which is hedged round with all sorts of safeguards by legislation for their protection, to go on a voyage to a distant part of the world like China and Japan and to go back and be discharged In England, provided the engagement is not
)
I
THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANP
LIMITED,
The following is the report for presentation to shareholders, at the third ordinary yearly macet. ing of the above company to be held at No. April.
י,
NEWS OF THE WORLD.”
BERLIN, March 8th. · The Duke of Cumberland has made a state. ment in regard to his refusal to accept the Guelph fund in compromise of his claim to the throne of Hanover. He declares that he cannot consent to the forfall of the rights of his family or to enter into any understanding not to main. tain those sights should the opportunity offer.
In brief, he refuses to recognize the annexation of Hanover to Prussia as a situation that may not be reversed. This decision of the Duke has circles, caused the most unpleasant feelings in imperial
The Kaiser considered that he was doing a special favor to Queen Victoria in consenting to make terms with the Duke, and to be snubbed to what be regarded as a stroke of statesmanship and liberality at the same time is a source of deep chagrin.
Another cause for anxiety in connection with the matter is the evidence that in the opinion of the Duke there is at least a possibility of his recovering the Hanoverian throne. This could only come about in the event of the defeat of the throw the Prussian supremacy. Germans in a foreign war so decisive as to over.
force of mounted police appeared and the crowd dispersed After some threats of realstance.
at least 1,300 are non-commissioned Russian officer, who, in monk garb, traverse the sur«! reunding country and gather information for the Russian general staff. To facilitate their work these officials recently bad established a special mail service from Salonica to Mount Athos. Thus, while the Russian and French postoffices in the city managed only the correspondence of ports, Russla had a domestic mail service en French and Austrians in Turkey with foreign Turkish soll
Advertisements.
HARMSTON & SON'S GRAND CIRCUS,
GYMNASTIC "JACK"
JOMBRAAÜLT 2:00
ROMAN HIPPODROME
AND
GENUINE WID WEST Show.
WEST POINT !
LAST NIGHTS.
WEST POINT I LAST NIGHTS,
LAST NIGHTS.
THE GIANTS THAT TOWER ABOVE ALL.
MLLE. LE BLONDE'S GREAT JOCKEY ACTS.
GILBARTO THE GREAT, GEORGE HARMSTON, THE LIGHTNING ACROBAT.
ARNY AMMA'S This effrontery moved even the Sultan to
GREAT LADDER ACTS. anger, and upon a hint from him the Governor of Salonica confiscated the mail to the cloister
THE SOMERSAULT MONKEY. recently and forbide the continuance of the Service. The Russian Consul in Salonica
TO-NIGHT,
TO-NIGHT, reported bis action to M. de Nelidoff in Constan.
(WEDNESDAY), April 13th. tinople, and the latter protested to the Sultan, THE GREAT EQUESTRIAN SPECTACLE. against this protest. It was hardly expected, The Austrian and German Ministers protested that their advice would stiffen the Sultan's back- bone sufficiently to cause him to persist in opposing this last encroachment of Russia upon hli sovereiga sights.
CADIZ, March 9th
SHE WILL NEVER TELL THE SECRET.
› wanid give all their there are
more than two years; They have the right to Ice House Lane, at noon, on Saturday, 231d and the United States passed the second read diamond-only knew how to turn it into a
before you the Accounts for the year ending 1st Gentlemen-Your Directors have now to lay December, 1891, which show $14,002 37.
A loss of
be brought back to the country in which they were shipped. And although in some cases with native crews like this the men may not have relatives in England, men when they make their contracts like this in England have is view the support of wives ned children at home who are cati led to part of their wares. In the case of the man Campbell we know that authority had been given for payment of half of his wages for the support of his mother. No doubt, in other they venture to hope that, keeping down
It will be noticed from the accounts-that-the- loss is owing principally to damage by fire to steamship Sandakan, her working, the Hongay contract, and the heavy working charges, but
no which show a profitable result, it will more than pay its way.
DIRECTORS
In accordance with the Art cits of Association Messrs, Dairymple and Stokes retise. but being eligible offer themselves for re-election Mr. D. R. Sassoon having resigned, Mr. E. S. Whealler requires confirmation. was invited to fofo the board. His appointment
The Kraus Zeitung to-day says that at the to a settlement of the Cuciph fund. The agrec last moment the Duke Cumberland has agreed ment includes the provision that Prince George Wiliam, the Duke's eldest son, shall be recognized as heir to the Duchy of "Brunswick. The Prince is not yet 12 years old.
The cop right convention between' Germany ing in the Reichstag to-day, free bread to needy persons.
VIENNA, March 3ib.. The police have forbidden the distribution of
DUBLIN, March 8th. SEdward Hudson. Kosaban, head-of-treat firm of distillers of this city and High Sheriff of Queens county, is dead.
ST. PETERSBORO, March 8th.. Brigands are plundering the inhabitants of
RIO JANEIRO, March 8th, Congressman Labo, who has exceptional opportunities for obtaining information, says there's no doubt of the existence of a wide spread plot, with ramifications in Congress, the aamy and ravy, for the purpose of restoring to office General da Fonseca and his friends Recent news from San Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul indicates that the theory of a general uprising is not altogether baseless.
the
Bare le a place of glass, it is cut into facets It Is pure white glass, it is fit to he one of the pendants hanging from a chandelier in a millionaire's drawing room; it is about sa big na hazelnut. How It Anger! Yet it is merely glass and scarcely worth a sparkles na I hold it up between my thumb and
llling,-oh! If I c
blue or a rose diamond! thousands who
and then mortings their souls, to bay it of me. Then good. Bre to work and oare, for I should be rich drame of avarica. Who will show me the Alsef nobody, Who will tell me how to transmute tin or copper into shining gold! Alan!
A nobody. bit of coal is carbon diamond-ta-aleo-carbon- Whore Is the link between them? We rearn to know. Thousands of men have burned out life's candle in the sffort to ascertain. How vainly! To the bosom of a hills Nature hides that secret, as she hides the grumbling bones. On our bended kases we beg har to break one unbroken soal, to speak one unspoken word. She only regarde us with contemptuous pity and remains for ever dumb.
comes home, to your thoughts in a way to fighton Yet, is there no other mystery, just as deep, that
Think a mieste, man. What builds and repaire changes a loaf of bread into nerra, flesh, skin and the house live in, that is, your body? What
DICK TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK.
Incidents in the career of this desperate high Vividly Illustrating the various sensational
wayman, and pourtraying with realistic skill the events leading up to and the death of
BONNY BLACK BESS,
"If Blood can give noblUty,
A Noble Steed was she: Her Site was Blood, and Blood her Dara".
And all her pedigree."
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, April 16th, Positively the
IAST GRAND MATINEE,
1
at. 4 P.M.. when
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
R. J. M. ARMSTRONG has received by Public Auction,
Minstructions from the Mortgagees to Sell
ON
THESTAY.
the 19th April 1991 at the Premises,
རྩྭ
THE
at 3 o'clock pum
FOLLOWING
VALUABLE LEASHOLD PROPERTIES. Comprising stand 13. Ferer Incat Raw And Now, 4nt.6, Lower car Row, Virtaria e Colony of Bangkong and aiunted on feland for Yo, 248, th sam! promises are now held for the restina of y tiem af og veges from the toh Jung, 1843 bdtä rein, subject in the payment of the Crown Rent piyable in respect the cnf vid the farmanes of the Crown cvera-te in he performed in respect thereal and sube also to the existing lettings and tenancies thereof,
The property will be sold in one Lot or separate Lots comprising two Houses ench at the option of the Vendors,
For sale plan further particulars and condi tons of sale, apply to
WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors for the Vendors,
or to
J. M. ARMSTRONG,
Auctlancer,
Hongkong, 26th March, 1802
IN THE COLONIAL COURT OF ADMIRALTY OF HONGKONG. Suit No. 3 of 1898.
1365
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,
Plaintifs,
Against
The S. S. TORRINGTON."" Tission for sale issued herein) Sell by HE Undersigned will (pursuant to a com* Public Auction,
'ON MONDAY,
the and day of May, 1893, at 12 o'clock, Noos, on board the vessel (unless previously sold by private treaty)
The Iron Screw Steamship
"TORRINGTON,"
gross tonnaga 1,098. net register tonnage 1,563, as she now lies afloat in Hongkong harbour, and without Cargo, Coal, and Stores,
The vessel was bulk by Messrs. RAYLTON & DIXON, at Middlesborough, la 1875, and classed 100 A1 at Lloyds.
Length 296 feet 3 inches, breadth 36 feet r inch, depth 25 feet 6 inches. Is fitted with one compound caglar of zza b.p. nominal, 800 h.p. effective, built by Mess, RICHARDSON & SON
Children will be admitted for Helf-price to all in 1874. diameter of cylinder h.p. 38'; l.p. 73'.
parts of the Circus,
PRICES OF ADMISSION:
$12.00 2.00 1.50 Stalls, carpeted #9214........... 0.50. Gallery (for Chinese only)........ 0.30 Box olan on view at Kelly & Walsh's, where sents can be broked..
Rox of 6 Chairs ..................... Single seat in B^% ........................... Dress circle chnirs
CHAS. B. HICKS,
..................................Manager. ROBERT LOVE,............General Agent. Hangkong, 13th April, 897.
"ORTA
T
No. $25.
V40
CHAPTER,
REGULAR CONVOCATION of the above
BONS HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 13th instant, at 8.36 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1802
1400
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
cases similar orders are made in respect of wives | expenses to the lowest possible 6gure and only Asiatic Russin. The thieves do not hesitate to ocret of man's destiny under mountairs of ashes and Chapter will be held in the FRIZKA- and children, It would be a dreadful thing if working those branches of the Company's busi-pillage the houses of the Russian officials. for an act of insubordination a man who had o a contract of this sort should be cast entered inta adrift
as a vagrant in the streets of Hongkong without having the means of enforcing any farther the rights he is entitled to under the contract. In this very case. Captain Hastings caid his resson for ordering the discharge of the men was Lecture Capinin Berwies wished to: Away, and he says if Captain Berwick had pro- ceeded to re Harbour Master's Office or the Marine Office he could in the absence of the men have obtained their discharge, and Mr. Guttierez, who is the clerk at the Office, corroborates Cap tain Hastings in this respect. Had the Tor rington been in a condition to pieceed on her voyage and gone away it seems to me that if the contain had obtained the discharge of these men behind their backs in this way the result would
be
080
most unjust and most disastrous. Thess men wuld have found themselves on emerging from prison deprived, of all their rights under the contract, and except such small balances of their wages ar a
are admitted to be due to them by £be captala in their absence, the men would have been cast upon the streets of Hongkong without the means of subsistence. That does not appear to me to respect the rights of the
AUDITORS.
The accounts have been audited by Messrs. Henderson and Lyall, who offer themselves for re-election,
*B.. LAYTON,
Chairman,
CANTON,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Canton, 12th April, 1892. Our electric light company bar been in trouble lately.
On January 31st, during as election in the State of Minas Geraer, the southern part of the State proclaimed separation from the northern part and elected a provisional government
ANTWERP, March 8th.
The Handelsblad says the United States Government recently made an offer to the King. of the Helgians to purchase the Congo Free State and defray all the expenses incurred by Belgium In connection with that country, also to pay an Indemnity to Belgium. The paper adds that the King rejected the propetal. The statement rectives no credence in official circles.
ATHENS, MArch 8th.
TEQole?
"HAIPHONG,"
What does this mean? as when a Indy says of her
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. fighter, she took food but got no strength from THE Company's Steamship
It means that in her case the bases products of the ground were not lumed into the diamond called thea) Bioply that the process of digestion is What does that mean, in familiar English? interrupted, a process stranger than the transmutation of copper into gold would be.
above Ports, on FRIDAY, the rgth instant, at Captain Hunter, will be despatched for the Daylight.
}
For Freight or Pasinec, apply ią.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkons, 13th April, 1893.
CALCUTTA
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND
THE Stearnship THE
(4x4
abore Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th lost,,
"ARRATOON APCAR," Captain J. E. Hansen, will be despatched for the
Norn.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co
Agents. Hongkong, 1 th April, 1892.
[427
BOXING TOURNAMENT,
Stroke
of piston 36'.
Two cylindrical mulittubular iron boilers built by RICHARDSON of Hartlepool in 1875. Work ing pressure 65. Retubed in 1891,
The engines and bollers were put in thorough repair and passed survey in Hongkong in February, 1892.
She has a collision bulkhead, and g water tight compartments.
Total deadweight capacity, bunkers excluded, way Rice or Coal 2,50 tons.
Accommodation for 40 First Class and 29 Second Class passengers.
Donkey boller and winches new 1886. She it fitted with steam stearing gear, and har electric wires throughout, also condenser for fresh-water.
F. A HAZELAND,
Marshal, Colonial Court of Admiralty of Hongkong, ist April, 1892.
*395
Rotices of Firms.
NOTICE.
THE style of the Firm of POATE & NOBLE, DENTAL SURGEONs, has been changed to "Dr. J. W. NOBLE," and will be represented as under
JOSEPH W. NOBLE HERBERT D. REQUA CHAS. L. SNYDER
HERBERT POATE
Hongkong
and
Singapore
35, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square,
London, W.
onekane. 27th February, 1802.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
$259
THE Office of the undersigned will be removed to No. 35, WELLINGTON STREET, co the Tat of May, 1892.
Henglong, 11th April, 180
I
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AR. MARTY,
Duddell Street.
AN APOLOGY.
THE PROSECUTION OF THE
OPIUM FARMER;"-
£400
BEG. to, express through your columns my deep regret that I should in a hasty BOXING TOURNAMENT for AMATKURI, A. will take place cu SATURDAY, 23rd
moment, in, consequence of my not being CUPS will be given for Light-weights, not April, säga. whes TWO SPLENDID SILVER able to read or understand Chinese county, have commenced a prosecution against Mr. respectively.
seventeen years of age when she was taken . This The lady praoands to any that her daughter was le the age of hope, brightness, vigour, and enjoyment, and, by
right
illness ought to be unknown to it. Stilf, she lost her strength and languished as
as though stricken hy time. She grew tired and wook, and Doula keep nething, on her stomach. She would, so her the primary wire about 2 a.m. with the full -A few days' ngo some thieves tried a plece of
mother says, often throw up a quantity of green Buld The story published in the Pans Ecfair Satur. | M bitter as gall. This was dile, the Enid which in current tamed os. They managed to cut it but day last, stating that 30 suppor ers of Delyannis,
health nature taken from the blood and sands to the bowels when they found that the thing was spitting fire ex-Prime Minister, had been placed under arrest
ild digestion there. The liver failing to do like a real live celestial dragon, they severely and all the members of the Delyannis Cabinet returned to the stomach, which rejects it as a polson, this work, the bile remains in the blood, and is left it lone and cleared. Bal presently green duffer came slony of a scientiae turn of mind dened by authority here. As for the stoles producing headache, nervous depression and debility,
were being clearly watched, is emphatically That is a part of it. The rest saturates the and took the thing up to ir vestigate, and then printed abroad that the people throughout the bad dreams, cold hands and fast, farred tongue, body, he dropped it and dropped himalf also. Then country were arming for rebellion, and that yellow eyes and skin, dizziness, bad taste in the mouth, another fellow wanted to investirare him, altogether the situation was very alarming, they and the gaping up of nauseating gas and allme, probably to see if he had left his watch at home, are ughed at by tho.e best qualified to judge with loss of appetite and ambition for labour or He dropped loo. and two mare after him. At the state of affairs. No revolution is impend-pleasure. This state of things is often exited a bilions last shey fetched the manager out of bed and being and perfect quiet reigns. let them all-nobody dead,
attack, and is part of the reults and symptoms of DUBUQUE (I.), March 8th. Indigestion and dyspepila.. Tala afficted life, to young Last right there was another row, The
the The iron works of this city have undertaken or oli, ie one constant misery. It is the copper, the water reservoir holding goon gallons burst. to bulid a boat pa an entirely new plan, the glass not the gold or the illamond. It was build after Shameen French Missionary object of which is to navigate bath river and. Jerry-house fashion, twa-hick (1) with mud ocean. It will have one bow and two sterns, mother, "for nearly two years. She took arious "This was my daughter's condition," adds her
"between, and could not stand the pressure, So each of which will have a indder and screw, so medicines, and was treated by a physician, but with. | exceeding to stone, and Heavy or Catch-weights | KOH CHENG SEAN, the chief manager of the
if one is disabled there will remain balf the power out beseft. She grew dally wanker, and with her center board, which, it is thought, will answer "old to make port. She will an adjustable to do, nor where to look for help.
decline our anxiety increased. We know not what There Competitions will be, open to Soldiers, late Opium Farm, with reference to the funds of
Sailors, and Civilians of all Nationailles. the purpose of despor draught” The boat will
"It was at this worrying t
• time that wa fect board QUEENSBERRY zules will be strictly adhered the CHEANG TEK KONG SEE, A complete be about 300 le t'long, and from 30 10 35 feet
to. beam. She will be built entirely of steel, a bad derived grost good from [£* Thinking, or rather announced, and the Cups will be on exhibition examination of the books and accounts have whi cast about $200 000. It
...Time and place of competition will be daly farestigation falo the matter and a careful It is exp
expected wil canya Cargo in wright equaling about being that it might svall something in my daughter's shortly. 60,000 bushels of what in five fect of water. This Stores, Mullingar. To our great joy the found relle
procured a bottle from Mr. Rogen Ding Hangkeng, 13th April 18-2 vessels when finished, will be sent with a cargo after taking the drat bottle, and before she had finished to the Amason. be will then go up the river the third ons she was completely cured and has had 500 miles or more to the coffee plantatious and no return of the complaint have since recommended take from them direct profucts which now have Beigal's syrup to many friends and neighbours. The to be transcried half a dozen times before facts in my daughter's case are wall known to Mr. reaching market. The leaders of the enterprise Rogers and to others in the vicinity. 1 claim that whenever a market is to be reached my initials and address. H. J. M. Blanemers, nur appood fo shallow water the Lucas ship will act as 'm. Mullingar, Ireland, and qu long-felt want. Its expriment is one that will be watched with great interest, as it will open up new era in combined ocean and river navigation.
men under their contract. The power of punishment and discharge must be very closely looked to by Consuls, marine magistrates, and any one else who may have to deal with these things If Let it may lead to great injustice. The order of discharge in this case is qaite without any meaning, any effective meaning at all, in my opinion. Now I come to what should be done. In this case sed in what manner it should be put before the Regl:trar. It is very necessary Indeed that in connection with those men who are clating compensation, their wagen, and return passage to England, they do not get any undue advantage out of the position in which they are placed, and the Registrar must be very careful to see that any man who is GDD wall came out and the water went into a allowed the expenses of returning to England rice milf next door where it played up must have a bone fid's intention of returning. It Harry smashing lots of things, amongst them appears to me that they are entitled to be sent three Celestiala. They barefoot made up their back. I think Mr. Pollock
ith me there rands yet whether to die or not, Heavy damages, and It also appears that they
be entitled to their wages until they get back to England. which is already short of money.
I am afraid. Hard. lines for a new concern Of course those who don't want to go back to England won't be so entitled, They will be entitled to wages up to the time they get other -employment and they will be ́entified to subalst-/ ence up to the date they would arrive in England or for a fair time during which they might ohtala employment. Of course any advances which hars been made will have to be deducted. The only question which remains is the question of wages during the actual imprisonment. By a section of the Merchant Shipping Act it is provided that persons lawfully imprisoned cannot receive wages dualog their imprisondent. It is sug gested to me that inasmuck as part of this order is bad the conviction must be considered bad altogether, have some doubt about the cue, I
confess, but if seems to me that, the power by the men were convicted being warranted which the
Bould
OFFICIAL ADVICE TO MISSIONARIES,
The Shangbat papers publish the following copy of a mem zandum which has been sent by the Foreign Office to the Secretaries of some if not all of the Mission Societies in London. The last paragraph iv'simply immense,
A letter has been received from one of Her Majesty Console resident in the dist/bet districts of China, in which some ausgestions are made as to the caution, which it would be well to observe sader present chrumalances in cons nection with missionary work in Chinz,
The Consul's remarks porn to Lord Salle
bary to be sensible and useful, and after cont by the secilon, under which they were proceeded raitation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, be agains, the conviction at far as regards the ime considers that they may with
and
of the preparation palled Mother Balgal's 9720p, and read the statements of different persons who wild they
CH. I
PERSEVERANCE-
1399
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HONGKONG, NO. 1,165, EC. NEMERGENCY MEETING of the above £X LODGE will be bald in the Frustasown HALL Zetland Street, on WEDNESDAY, the of the cure of her daughter by taking Beigel's Syrup, Hongkong, 13th April, 1802
I remember the lady 'abore named informing macth instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. and oán rauch for the socursy of the statement N
***** RICHARD G. Bourka,
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thoroughly convinced me that my suspiciona were wholly groundless, and that there has been zothing whatever in Mr. KOH CHENG SEAN'S management of the business of the OPIUM FARM that is in any way repres cosibles and further, that he has all along been doing-his-best, honestly-and-fatihfully, for the benefit of the CHEANG TEK KONG SEE.
I should be obliged if you would insert, this letter in your corresponizace column-osoy and A telegram from Post Said states that the German ateamer Misrina has foundered off the
afterwards an an advertisement for the period of Scilly islands during the gala of February 10th remedy employed assisted nature to resume her work Samdech Phra Nang, or his late WIFE we possible any injury I may have, through my To recur to our illustration, we may say that the A ROBERT JONES, Master of the 5.6 LL PERSONS INDEBTED to the late it in brileved the crew, twenty-four in ambers of producing the most precions of all her jewels requcated to Pay the SUME DUT by them to hasty and unjustifiable astim, inficted upon Me one month, I am anxions to undo as far as
LONDON,-March-9th.--
Mrs Rogers ouillion as follows im je cr
* Mullingar, June 4, 189L” -
prisonment is good, and therefore although I communicated to missionary vintage be was lost. A MANNER MSN health and happiness. Advt. :
don't think that such an enquiry was made into the facts of the case as would b., fair to the mer still, the enquiry such as it is having been made and acted upon and there hari a beam ao appeal I think it must be conclusive; conviction pad
in part must be bad altogether. An order can be good in past and bad in part. This sentence
whom an
In this Mr. Osborne, country having agents in China, and was found for larceny and perjury, today pleaded
The willer, who has great knowledge of the guilty to the charges and was sentenced to nine DEAFNESS ABSOLUTELY CUREDA Gentleman Chineas people, their customs and manner of menthat Imprisonment at hard labor,
who cured himself of Desfaces and Noises in the thought, bears testimony to the temperate and Mrs. Hargreaves made a plea that the court. Head, of 714, years standing, by s new method) discreet conduct of the elder and more rxperienced would show mercy to Mrs. Osborne and deal as will be pleased to send full particulars from missionaries of all denominations, but points out leniently as possible with yet, Mrs, Diborne | Address HraBERT CLIFTON, B; Shepherd's pisos Copala matigra. In which it is very deeliable, wops bislesly dur.ag Mrs. Hargreaves remarks. Kennington Park, London, Bra, OK MAG
NOTICE
T415
¡GEOT HOPKINS, S¢¤fit"Oriental Steame from the date, and all Persons having CLAIMS ship Co., La, Hongkong, within TEN DAYS KOK CHENG BEAN
gainst the sald Captain de MR. JONES are Requested to lodge detailed Statements thereof IN MEEGEOST, HOPKINS within the same període
Henglong, 12th April, 1892.
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GLYour's truly ke
COH TE
ongkong, 42nd March, 1893,