Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED.
CHEMISTS
AND
AERATED WATER-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1892.
The attention of the Government having been drawn to the fact that numbers of letters were conveyed to Macao by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's steamers free of charge, it was decided to enfores the law, The result of this has been a triding addition to
the local revenue,"
"A trifling addition to the local revenue,” / of an official with only sufficient brains to / Street, on Tuesday, the 24th Instant, at 8.30 for ment money, The accused had over twenty-two | WAYS Test as the chief officer did. As an
nvited.
For the first time an record in this colony, we belleve. Mr. Fielding Clarke caused the jurors worn for the Zambest case to remain in Court during the tifin hour and have their "chow in previous occasions. I would have conduced to the credit of the Court considerably, and we trust that the Acting Chief Justice's action will form a time-honoured precedent in Hongkong.
one class of missivo be exempted and On leaving Yakcheme for Vancouver yesterday | Tu P, & 0. 5, N. Ca1s stramer Fenetia lett Cross-examined-The Captain's came on the other forcibly detained? Why should morning the Empress of india had on board Singapore at t pm. yesterday for this post. și board at 9.30 pm on the night of the what by the test of time and experience
150 saloon passengers. has been proved to be a public boon and
5th February. I didn't see the Captain como A DEPUTY Soot. of Revenue Surveys, Mer. Baber, on board the night before we sailed. I did not convenience, be Interfered with and AN Emergency cavocation of Victoria Chapter. has been sept need to three months' imprison bear the Cantain give orders to the mate about ment In Madras for misappropriation of Goverthink I would be justified in putting the stow- manding the mownway. As a subordinate I swamped by the short-sighted officiousness No. 535, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland
irons,
If necessary. I think I should have done "The attention of the local Government prevent his getting on his hind-legs and precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially years' service. having been called," etc., etc. Now, on acting the goat, and who only played for -
under officer I would not think it my duty to put Mr. Francis in his final address unid inter ella a practical basis, what does all this blatant glorification of self? This question requires In our resort of the naval court-martial on
men in irons without orders from my saperier. MANUFACTURERS. dash mean Mr. TRAVzza report, to Commission to elucidate the facts; let the 16th inst., a serious error occurred in the
the Captain was charged with a simple assault In its entirety, is only what might have his Excellency the Governor Inquire of sentence, which was that of damital from the
which had nothing to do with the question of bean expected from such a source; in shy of our business houses, or let him have ship, and not from the service. The game of the. Court Library. Had this been done on | Illegal detention. If he did not know what was aome passages, of which that quoted above urgent need for communication with the first lieutenant of the Portoise, who laid the
going on be could, not he held criminally responsible. He asked the gentlemen of the is a fair specimen, the well-meaning but Macao, and he will quickly be satisfied charge, is Mr. C H. Morgans.
jury to acquit the captafa en all charges. that "the trifling addition to the local notoriously thick,headed Post-master writes himself down very plainly an ass of the revenue" derived from letters posted to first magnitude. The attention of the Macao, is at the expense of the trading Government having been drawn." The community, and that it is eaten up twice Hongkong Government for probably over by the demands on the time and attention of the Post-office officials, which more than twenty years has been perfectly well aware that late letters were might be very much better employed in conveyed by the vessels of the Hongkong, other directions. Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., and other steamers, on the routes to both Macao and Canton, free of charge; such letters were not sent in this way to
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save postage, but because the privilege was a great convenience to business men; the steamers took the correspondence and the Company's agents at Macao and Canton had the letters, newspapers, etc., distributed with all despatch, out of pure
DIRECTORS DECEPTIONS.
A CORRESPONDENT Informs us that a great billiard tournament at the Naval Yard the all- absorbing tople for the last two or three weeks way down Queen's Road East, will (D, V.) will be present and distribute the prizes. be concluded this evening, when the "Rajah"
A PROMINENT Chinaman named Khoo Tiang Pob was lately, buried at Fennag, the funeral expenses alone amountingto about the sum of $10 000. The covering of the codin, which was made in Shanghai, is said to be the richest and grandest ever seen in Penang, as it cost $3,000, AMONG the letters advertised by the Post Office are three addressed to persons in Hongkong. An undeliverable and lying by to be called for who have not changed their addresses for several certain knowledge, directions were left with the Post Office authorities some time ago.
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Me, Rabinion, on behalf of the Chief Officer, arged that the detention was legal and that in law, the defendant could not be convicted unless it was shown that there was no reasonable caUID for the detention. The existence of the ordinance readering any captala llable to a penalty if he lands any destitute persons in the Colony
of
(Before Mr. Fielding Clarks, Acting Ch itself justified the capiata in preventing the men
Justice), May 18th
MAKING A FALSE REPORT....... LI Ching was charged with making a faire statement to the Registrar Generalfully and with intent to deceivej ho pleaded not guilty The Attorney-General appeared na rown Cprese Benjamin Franklin Taylor, L. A. Colliço, W. cotor, and the following fury was Impanelled A. F. Schmidt, W. H. Gaskell, J. Wemyss
Mr E. H. Joseph was called, but answer his naMO.
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THE Governor of Fermoss, Shao Yu-ling.
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from landing here. An Imperial Act set forth that stowaways could be taken before a magis hate without war ant, which fact showed the right to detain such persons The captain Wan the fully justified, by law, in his intention to take men back to Japan. His client instructed bim to say that he alone was responsible for because be heard they were going to clear putting frass on the complaint. He did so
Jumping overboard that very night. There was and i was necessary as was proved by the man an doubt that the man was not detained against his will and it was clear why he did so he made
the sailed and he did because he never intended General's office, produced the register of deaths, panlahed. By this action the complainant Charles Onmund, clerk in the Registrar to be taken back to Japan where he would be containing the entry of the death of a woman had assisted the defendants to show that named Oh On, from consumption, reported by her there was no brutality on board the Zambert son, Lt Ching, the prisoner, on May 5th, at 10.15 and that the reports thereof were false. stated There was no doubt that the complainant was that at 3.30 that day | a man who had no compunction about stretch- prisoner came to Noy Station and reported that inga polnt even though speaking on his oath, his mother had banged berself Frisoner then And the reason for taking them back to Japan at the time, and made the false report on advice, bipment of an abnormal number of Tapanese produced the certificate of registry of the death, was that they might possibly confess to the Prisoner pleaded that he was in much trouble, Japanese authorities, who was responsible for the He had no idea he was doing anything wrong. stowaways from Kobe. It was very remarkable He thought it was all right to make a false report, that no member of the crew thought it necessary and the best thing he could do. He did it to inform the Consul of these men's detention. knowingly.
The chief officer was a subordinate and carried The jury had considerable difficulty in arriving out the orders of his Captain. Had he dono ataverdict, and his Lordship suggested that they, so he would have suffered, might retire, which caused some amorement.
At last the jury found prisoner gulity by 4 to 3.4 in, gadi
His Lordship thaught as prisoner had been necessary to punish him further. He would record sentence of one day's imprisonment, which by a legal fictton was supposed to end when It began, so that prisoner- might be die. charged at once. This case, though apparently trivial, could not be dealt with by the Magistrate.
The Attorney General replied. His Lordship summed up at some length, The Jury retired and after a long deliberation found the captain not guilty and the chief officer
Sentence deferred,
guilty. A week mirandy it was not
THE "ZAMBESIN CASE. ́.. George Joseph Edwards and Clement John
and subsequent days; also on the 8th February; Mattock were charged with nasaulting; and Imprisoning Takachi Yanezɔ on February 4th also on the 9th February Mfr. Francia, QC, appeared for the first and Mr. Roblason for the second defendant, who both pleaded not guilty, The same fury was impanelled.
The
Japanese consul occupied a seat on the beach, on the invitation of his Lordship.
The Attorney-General detailed the incur bi the case, which are already i known
Mr. Francis interructed the narrative to refer to the Shipping Ordinance 13 of 1888, sebar forbidding the laudlog of desiliute persons in the Colony,
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Ar the annual general meeting of share holders in the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation, Limited, on Feb. 27th last, the Chairman, Mr. J. S. MOSES said in the course of his review of the case in Manila, I am very glad to inform easily understood as it is deserving of the shareholders that yesterday evening commendation, of obliging their supporters we received a telegram stating that the and of accommodating the public. And first embargo has been removed by the so far as Canton is concerned, this sensible Audiencia, and the sum of 8328,000, the and most convenient system still obtains. full amount, returned to the Bank. It is But In Macao and In Hongkong It is quite probable that the release of the second different-thanks to "the attention of the embargo will soon follow.
We are Government having been drawn," etc. greatly Indebted to the Banco Espanol Bot. Who caused this change in our commercial Filipino and to the Spanish authorities for
and social communications with Macao, the assistance they have rendered to the CHAN SHIE, arrested by Inspector Stanion yea- $.coin face of the well-known fact that Bank in the matter! These remarks terday by virtue of a warreal fanted at the instance the system worked splendidly and gave were greeted with enthusiastic applause, of the Viceroy of Canton, who had offered $1000 satisfaction to everybody concerned? which drowned the speaker's voice at the reward for bis apprehension, was bought before It was the new broom," the newly end of every sentence-an unusually Mr. Wodehouse this morning and charged with 1.25 appointed Postmaster, who imagined he cordial display in Hongkong. Evidently committing burglary, murder and piracy in was doing something wonderful, and the shareholders considered this to be Chinese territory, Formal evidence of the arrest awoke
he had, to
was given and the prisoner was remanded for use a very good news; and evidently, too, metaphor from the river boats, "struck the Chairman wished that they should so
one week. & snag." We never know. were consider it. Poor fools. They were never able to guess why Mr. TRAVERS shamefully deluded, and the Chairman formerly Tastal of Shanghai, has memorialised was placed in charge of the local (or the sender of the telegram) was the Emperor for the dismissal of the present 0.75 Post Office. He was not a regular guilty of deliberate deception, of knowingly incumbents of the Sulphur Bureau, which is one member of the Civil Service-that is to and falsely creating a sense of security of the most important and lucrative departments say he passed no examination at home or and prosperity which he knew would not on the island. The reason for the Governor's elsewhere, had no claim whatever on the exist if he had told the whole truth. If memorial is the barefaced system by which the Colonial Office, was "jobbed" in the most there is any credence at all to be placed mandarins in charge of the bureau defraud the barefaced manner into a billet in the in the statements of Mr. Juano, Mr.rence. One thousand piculs of sulphur had Colonial Secretary's office by his uncle, Moses strayed far from the truth.
on one occasion, recently, been surrepililously Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, was dismissed for
exported and five hundred on another. In another part of this issue wa incompetency as private secretary by reproduce a letter which has already Governor Porr HENKISSY-he was a been printed and widely circulated in legacy left to HENNESSY by Uncle London, Per Arthur, which his Excellency failed as we know, been challenged by the far Case to appreciate and publicly said so Court of Directors. If our laterpretation was reported to have been rejected as of it be correct, it gives the le direct to Deputy Superintendent of Police when Mr. the Chairman, or rather to the telegram C. V. Carian left the colony, and he had which he said had been received, and to no experience in postal affairs until made his deductions therefrom. Whether any assistant to the late Mr. ALFRED LISTER, such telegram was received or not, the an able but eccentric man who had fact remains that there was absolutely no mistaken his vocation. And Mr. TRAVERS new feature about the Manila, business celebrated his being "jobbed" Into the that could rightly be cause for con- Postmastership by discovering, what gratulation; on the contrary, there was
known from everybody had
time though possibly Mr. Moses did not know immemorial, that a very convenient method it, serious cause for lamentation; so that of conducting correspondence with Macao when the Chairman said, "I am very existed without troubling the post-offices glad" etc., and stood smiling in of either colony. So the law was partially acknowledgment of the repeated applause $1.20 enforced-the omniscient Postmaster had which greeted his statements, he was, by to very quickly take back his veto on implication at any rate, very seriously newspapers, which are now conveyed as deceiving the shareholders. If he did so 1.75 in days of old-Incalculable Inconvenience ignorantly, then it is for the poor deluded has been caused both here and and often defrauded shareholders to In Macao, and we are now informed decide whether he is fit to be a director 50 that the result of the new broom's
attempt to make a big hit la "a trifling ignorant, if he knew the truth, and yet any more; but if he were not grossly addition to the local revenue." Will the represented what was so far from it, then Hon. Mr. WHITEHEAD, or any other of the Mr. Meszs is at the very least a deliberate Unofficials, kindly question the Govern 0.75ment as to the exact amount of this
The letter which thus rudely dashes - "trißing addition to the local revenue,”
so that the mercantile community may settlement of the Juzano dispute in, briefly, down the shareholders' hopes of favourable 0.75 be able to appraise the respective to the effect that although there was a
values of what they have lost and formal release of the first embargo, truly himself at Monday's Council meeting in the arrived here, whether I would prefer to go to 1.00 what the Government has gained? "We
have had too much legislation," said enough, yet it was simply a variation in debate on the archant Shipping Consolidation Governor Sir W. ROBINSON in Council the the procedure, as the Bank was compelled, Ordinance, and he made a gallant attempt to gol here or be taken back to Tapau." I told the Zambesi's carpenter that I didn't want to go 1.10 other week, and the remark was to the in place of actually having the cash exercie bis pretty wit at the expense of the back to Japan. I asked the Chief Officer to let point and only too true. But the serious held, under seizure by the Court, 10 Chamber of Commst te The combates me go ashore the day before the ship left here. And good security for the full amount diary magistrate should include the Police ship Kashgar, was called before the Court hat Whitehead's proposal that the phrase stipen trouble is that the great majority of this so that there was no real release of the Magistrate but not Marine Magistrate, the the pisintiff failed to identify him. He thought At this point Captain Woods, late of the stent- legislation has been of the grandmotherly Bank from Its incubus Further, the
worthy Harbour Master thought there was 1,00 persuasion, of which this Macao postal letter states that the decision of the some misunderstanding on the part of the Capt. Wood looked like the master of that vesselj
fiasco is a very fair specimen. In order Court after that was against the Bank, Chamber of Commerce if it was possible on which he had once slowed away 1.to to give the Hongkong Government which thus suffered very heavily indeed them to make a mistake in confosing the for convincing Instance of the general in Mr. Mosks has not, we bellers, told Marine Court and the Marine Magistrate's have gove ashore in a sampan loog before 100 childish and one-sided attempt at postal it was not sufficiently important; or he
convenience caused by the Post-master" the shareholders this Possibly he thought / Court It strikes us forcibly that the mala samN. WAS WAnarled two, nichts. prior to that the Supreme Court in 'Madrid, on the 11th..
understanding rested
not Japan, reform, we have only to refer to yesterday's
Commerce, Nobody has sule ...............aman 450 40 experiences. The letters from Macao per may have modestly shrunk from further With the Chamber of Mr. Rumley and Jumping presbord I boarded the Kashgar in January last, and the Court of Appeal in Manlis,
over called fato question, the propriety of the Pitt applause. Incidentally, the letter of Harbour Master presiding over Marine Courts
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His Lordship directed Mr. Francis to wait till his turn to speak.
The Attorney General went on to show that the law against destitute immigrants could not, of course, affect the police regulations aa to stowaways.
Francis further referred to Ordinanca 26 of 1891, Some argument ensued on this point. Mr. Section 38, sub-section 16.
destitute
IMEDIATELY.en arrival at Singapore on the roth inst, the French mail steamer Soghalian was met at the wharf by the police, who were la search of an absconding emberler expected to arrive by that bezt.. It was known tharly in the forbidden to land, but there was no authority
The Attorney-General argued that any person being found on ship was by law by name Rudolf Jaeger, who was formerly in employ of the Rothschild fatally at Frankfort, for the captain to prevent the landing s actress, taken out a passage by the mall, and after which his responsibility would cease. The bad, together with his paramour, said to be an he could however, hand them over to the police,
him to be intercepted. So far, however, Jaeger, he was acting under the captain's orders, but the authorities in Europe telegraphed out for chief officer (second defendant) might plead that who is wanted on a charge of embealing the law made both the giver and the receiver of 2,000,000 marks, about roo,000, has succeeded illegal érders responsible for any offence result in cloding capture, and no sign of the delinquent||jpg|nt was to be found on board the Saghallen, though it is stated that two persons answering, to the descriptions given were landed at Suez
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MR. HARBOUR MASTIR Romsey fairly extended
with
Mr.
Tikachi Yonezo, the stowaway who was not drowned, told his story, which has already been published.
ere bull! By Mr. Robinson--My friend and I were an kcer in the water before I lost sight of him, was not asked, shortly before the Zambist
Re-esanimed-Had I been possible. I would
when, going to Manlia without pass Nishforms, declared, stated sammó
"The stowaways asked me to rilesse
a present when the fetters were put on
April
Mr of Zhuharton, Mr. P. A. Bull,"Me, and
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Mrs, Mactavish,
Pet P. and O. steamer Victofa, from London, April 20-To Shanghal. Mr. J. Grant To Hongkong: Mr. D. R. Kelseyan, Commander A. W. Chisholm Batten, R.N., Colour-Sergeant J. Jarris, Colour-Sergeant T. Taylor.
IN THE MATTER OF THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
The HK & 5. Banking Corporation...Plaintiff. Mesus, Jurado & Co, Maulis.......Dejendonia,
· Madrid, 1st April, 1892. GENTLEMEN,
To fás Shareholders of the Bank,
City of London, to the effect that the Hongkong
Some rumours are now being circulated in tke. and Shangbat Banking Corporation won their case against Messrs. Joiado & Co., of Mania.
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· A London newspaper, which pretends to be
well informed, goes so far as to sy!"Wav "learn that a: telegram has been received from the head office of the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank at Hongkong, stating that "the money first embargoed by the Courts. Pin the 'onse of Jurado. & Co. against the #Bank, amounting to $318,000, has been released to the Bank; and another paper, in denving this Soanish authorities have The simple fact Is that the
#removed the embargo which they placed on the Bank's property, the Bank furnishe Hing a guarantee that the assets will be at Mband in the event of the case being decided „Hin Juurado's favor. #
Allow us to inform you that all these state.
acata are absolutely false; the rest facts belog
Chief Ondeer and myself well the owl # In Brits&-Court: such' a claim as Jurado's
on the 16th February, ultimo, have decided against the plaintif: Bank, on the two points then at faste, Lamin Heungthan were handed in at Pedder' Señor JURADO secuse those responsible for Enquiry into shipwrecks, collisions, etc.; what has of the Zamkot, I discovered two, stowaways -It is a coincidence that, following on the 40 Hill at 12.40, and the malls for the Holy bringing and maintaining this case of been objected to is that official, or his deputy, them. I conized the stowaw before we got considerable rise and subsequent fall in the after leaving Kobs, Tas last wijnens was one of publication of such misstatements, there was a Fine A. V. H. Genera...35 650 City by the same steamer closed at 12.30, gross fraud, bribery, duplicity, and acting in a so-called Marine Magistrate's Court, into Hongkong by order of the chief oficer. quotation of the Bauk ahures, da enota
Old Jamaica, Violet
or ten minutes before the correspondence
thinks that p to, had been circulated in even the lower criminality in several directions; and all and through ignorance of the law or of the value Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon levels of the city. Under the old regime through, the publication is a very direct of evidence sarding to gaol sations who had
One of the pipers referred all correspondence would have been not holding shares in the Hongkong and A
challenge to the Directors. Even to lose committed no crime.
would very soon have been disposed of.” *** present when the stowaways were fettered.inda Between Fond fide litigania, that would be so delivered within half an hour after the Shanghal Bank, the letter is well worth as were, says the Shanghal Merey, Captain on the bridge when be cime in hal Banking Corporation, it is somewhat dif WARRANTS for the decapitation of clevon 'John Niven, P. §. 96, sald—1 spoke to the everywhere; but with the Hongkong and Shang, steamer's arrival the Hungshan was reading and should call forth from the recently received, at Hangchow; four of the then ending him whether he had any report to make ferent marertheless Messrs. Jurado & Co. hope alongside the wharf shortly after II & Directors a most decided response. which even with the steamer starting on the ro
had already died in the prison since their He replied "no," and deplighete sentence. In China, as we all know, if a man
said that he **This firm are guchi, carpenter of the Zambert, return journey at 1 o'clock, one hour before the usual time, would have allowed
I ordered to be decapitated, custom prescribes nalled up the cabin dont forget
which proves that the Bank were advised shore. for the than four years ago by their three mining that the sentence must be carried out on his M France, QC, addressed the fury for th sufficient time for replies to be written
body whether he be dead or slits, and accord-defence. He submited that there wh nothing Spañia lawyers, that the action of the Bank and taken on board before the vessel's
ingly, in the present case, the quartette of in evidence to incriminate the Captain. There against Jurado & Co, could not succeed at corpaers were resurrected, and the festering no evidence to show that the captain Notwithstanding this, their sexszt representa bodies of their heads in vindication the detention of the nowaways, sive Ang Mr. Francisco Godines, advised lady. The seven survivers were then prdered to the surviving towaway (aid by way of the Bank to continue the litigation, taking make ready for the ceremony on the execution sure that the Captain saw him manacled. There advantage of every kind of legal quibble, «atrae ground. Bat they did not submit as quietly as was nothing to go before a jury?
2013 Suecial ledsence, or private mancovre, with fellows, and finding that the headıman's Che" Attorney General submit that the the object of delaying the people were pripared to use. Locs, to conduct. Captain shield know, hat la golog on oneri during high this, he andonbiedly fxpected them to the shambles, they became desperate | kis ship. Her
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departure. But imagine the inconvenience A GOLD STANDARD FOR THE AUSTRO of not receiving your mails until after the Post-office had closed, and you were At her Realdence, No. 27, Caine Road, on the legally prevented from sending a letter to AB LONDON, MAY 16th. 18th inst,, VIRGINIA ANNA ROZA DO ROZARIO, Macao, no matter how pressing its urgency,
Bills have been introduced into the Farife widow of the do aged 60. The fineral will take place or even in a matter of life and death. And meats of Austria and Hungary creating a gold
yet we boast of Hongkong as a free port standard for the Empire, and a monument of British enlightenment!.
he
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to teach them of a document
The Asistrian Mlolster of Finance, referring and ret to work instanter to make things hum- does not almost be a very strange man if he that the partners" of Pected
Bahl official red-tape laughs at common to the Monetary Conference, stated that Austria sense, and is invariably supported by the would oppose free coleage.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL,
AS HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, May 18, 1892. .**
LOUTPOST OFFICE BUNGLE, AN
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of the real question at issue. But these Macao postal restrictions are not only a grave inconvenience to local commercial Interests by are”, actfally "a" standing Tar P, 20. 8. N. Car steamed Gew Nor late absurdity, supported only by inconsistency, Shimonoseki for this port of 71 km/to-day.. Ignorance, and sheer obstinacy, If
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He ought to know the Back would die or disappears which they did with anything they could lay His lordship. I'll let the case go on. I don't To carry out this wonderful scheme, the sald Lp on | Mr. Godines (ope" of the thres lawyers tanp their hands upon. The gaolers were utterly, think the a la iny case sgalast, routed and had to call in the soldiers to their the first and third counts,:. You must have some advised the Bank in the document which Jarada aisiriance, when the criminals after a-dempe evidence of all complicity,
Co possess now, that the Bank were liable to VICEDEE FERSKE DETENČE.
„Jurado & Cp, about $60,000), requested the third oficer of the Zamětih, kann to appolal him theic agent: 1a.Spalo, with the ground, and according to Chinese custom said-I remember stowaways being on board, power to spend 90,000 to be applied in werd then plied with liquor and lands. After The day before we sailed, hum Hongkong fox ordiningroom and gratuities, (Bribery Fo the feas, they were led to the Potter's Field and Japan them put-in-cable-ne “This money," according to Grodines, could bi the headsmen promptly attended to them, And Captain's cable... I did age, specxpy four put paid by the Bank out of the starest of the lag no farther trouble in executing his bloody on the stowaways. men were not linked capital that otherwise, ought t to be paid to taires. The heads of the seven, along with those | together in the cable in question, which was a Juradỡ & Calf Muff of the test who had died in prison, went after, firs/class passenger gabin." It was ́s well. "Tappears that the Bank acceded to this scande wards aspored in magne at the place where their emailated cabling The Captain was not ce alone proposition fier: Mrz Godines Isles arlases kád been committed,
kemerd wkes tise men were fansaned in the Hojn? Hoúgkong upon skate pasinose?