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direct vote of want of confidence.
THE total sam subscribed in the State of ENGLISH medical authoritics are coming to the can when he had purposely refrained from THE EARTHQUAKE AT HOIBOW. Perak towards the Mauritius Cyclone Fund is conclusion that the ameking of pare, oplum is calling witnesses in the belief that the car for $519.15, which has been remitted to H not nearly so injurious to Chinamen na has been the prosecution was so imperfect and weak that Excellency the Acting Governor of Mauritius, supposed. Possibly they imagine that a China-najury of sensible men could possibly convict the man is a creature who cannot be injured with prisoner at the bar. People, in such cases, often Smythe--I dropped a penny in front of a blind out being improved.
sald “If he had called this witness and that, the issue would have been different." He would, beggar to see if he'd pick it up. Thompkins-Well, did he?
PRINCE BISMARCK has denied that, he It therefore, not deprive his client of one single. Smythe-No; he said: "Make it sixpence, animated by any desire for revenge on his chance of escape. The case was undoubtedly successor, Count von Caprivi, in his action since one of cowardly and brutal murder, with no mister, and I'll forget myself."
his dismissal from the office of Chancellor. Ho circumstances that could be used to reduce the only desires to correct those tendencies of the charge to one of manslaughter. He then went Government which are hurtful to the peaceful on to review the evidence and stated that there was not one tittle of evidence to show that Raus development of the Fatherland.
Saray was murdered an the spot where the
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co Royal mall steamer Empress of Japan, Cast, G. A. Lee, from Hongkong, anfved at Nagasaki at 6 am. |
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July 28th, 1892. This morning at a few minutes past three all the inhabitants of Hofhow were greatly alarmed by a heavy earthquake-shock that shook the whole place, houses - being, asen and felt za stagger and shake in a most terrifying manner. The earthquake was accompanied by a subter- |ranean roar far loader than thunder, that roiled
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by the natives that Holhow has not been visited with a similar
unusual occurrence. We hars had exceptionally able to produce evidence of a scuffle in that wet weather of lits and attribute it to the diver
CHEMISTS and DRUGGISTS, AERATED/ instant, "after which the opposition wli·movo a | yesterday, and left again at 7 p.m. for Vancouver; } ##'operatern and brokers on the Madrid Pourse | body was found except in the evidenca of the shock for a century: oven a slight ons le a most
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TE Live the pleasure to announce that this THE next Gymkhana will take place on the awh / ZHR rumour of the permanent 'departure of M. } [mposes a tax of 1 per cent, on the coupons of that the police blinded themselves in the belief
Inst. Programine in our advertising columns. de Lanessas from Saigon is gaining ground in Paris. M. Thomion, Deputy for Algeria, is There monthly meetings are growing in popu expected in be appointed his successor in the
Governor-Generalship of Indo Chias. THE Free Press says that Mr. T. C. Loveridge is prospicileg, by permission of the Governor, for mother of pear shells off Tanah Merab,
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"Well, my son," answered the fathers "It might if it were fant."
THE report and halines sheet of the Hongkong and Stanghal Bank was published this afternoon, but reached us too late for publication. We Intend
to reproduce it to-morrow-with comments.
NICE question in law bas come up in Phila. delphin, where a lady left one thousand dollars In her will for the care and maintenance of her pet cat. The cal recently died, but left fiva little orphan kittens, and now the question whether they are the legal beirs of the pet cat. An Amoy correspondent, writing as on the tea trade, says "Business is very lively. The tea season is far away ahead of last year, and thers no sign of slackening. It keeps all the boys on the Jump, and knocks all social matters into
report,"
chaos. We are all well and have nothing
to
IT is expected that Mr. Bibby will shortly come from Raub to Singapore to confer with the local directors. What does this mean? Certainly there is no need to consult about the disposal of the gold from the mine. Is more capital to be raised? Or is there another reconstruction in the wind?
A PILLAR Letter Box has now been placed near the Kowloon Wharves, and will be cleared st noon and 4 pm. Articles of value should not be posted in this Box but should be registered at the General Post Office. Similar boxes are being erected at various parts of the town and at the Peak. Due notice will be given', when they are ready.
W note by an express issued to-day that Capf. Ashton will take the chair at a meeting of mem- bers of the Mercantilo Marina Officers' Associa- tion convened for 9.15 to-night. The express invites all British masters and officers in port to
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Tuz Mala Chakykri, a large armed steel yacht, built to the order of the King of Slum, was launched by Messrs. Ramage on the 37th June at Leith. The dimensions are, length 275 feet; breadth, 40 feet; depth an feet. The yacht, which more like an armed cruiser, has 'a ram projecting several feet from the bow. She will carry 15 guns of various calibre, and will have two powerful search lights. The furnishing is simply gorgeous. Prince Kityakita, son of the King of Siam, named the yacht,
AT Shanghal last week the new tug boat Sampson, built for the Shanghai Tug Company, was launched from Messrs. Boyd & Co.'s yard, Peotung. Her dimensions are as follows:- Length over all 125 feet; beam 21 feet; moulded depth 13 feet, with a mean dralt of 9 feet. She is built of iron, with steel upper works, and is very substantially constructed. She is fitted with compound surface condensing engines, with Inverted cyclinders, diameter 18 and 38 faches, and a stroke of 27 laches, and she is expected to give a speed of 17 knots,
actually go
The Parls Anarchist are decorating-houses, give their orders, consume the victuals, and leave without paying the demands of the landlords. And if any objection be raised to supplying the hungry miscreants with food, they threaten to call in the assistance of dynamite, which threat, recalling as it does the fate of poor Very generally has the desired effect. The motto of the Anarchists scoundrels we should call them is. We take what we want where we find it'?" and the name given to the tactics of the vagabonds is Z Estampage. We have in Hong- kong an Infinitely superler system, involving no violence, threatening, or other unpleasantuens. it is known as Le Systime du Ch.
THE following resalation was unanimously THE Band of the rat Shropshire Light Infantry passed on July at. by the Commercial Congress will play the following programme at the Barrack in England: That, in the opinion of this Con. Square, to-morrow, commencing at 7.30 p.m.-gress, the establishment of a uniform penny rate of postage between the moiber country and her colonies and dependencies would not only tend to promote frade and freedom of intercourse Her Majesty's dominlors, but would In an endinent degree foster and extend the cordial relations which at present exist between the various parts of the Empire. Tois Con- gress, therefore, respectfully urges Her Majesty's
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that they would have done so. Then, referring to dagger picked up near It was justifiable to presume Seath China. the way in which the care had been worked" пр by the police, the learned Counsel polated out that it must have been Emin Deen who did the marder. They jumped to that conclusion" at once, acleden it and did all in their power to
It has been shown, to the complete satisfaction being it home to the p isoner. Sestha Ram's and of the police authorities and picha atas con Duan All's effects had never been searched in the hope of finding evidence of guilt, and even thing of the subject, that the most stringent even gambling laws are unable to suppress the evil in the Chief of Police (General Gordon) bimself had Hongkong, and that the most they can do, as at rice questioned the prisoner about the proved by the results of last year's Ordinance, is murder, showing a deep-rooted suspicion. He to compel the gamblers to conceal their opera submitted, too, that when the times given in tions. The only reason put forward by the evidence and distances were taken into Goverment for continuing in this course of self. account it would be found that it was in stultifying is that ancient washerwoman's possible that Emin Dean could have committed twaddle about "principles of English law," Straube would be put in the box to prove that any rate teated here s— the murder. Gaol employés named Nolan and Truit puts on record a case which might be at pricz to 8 pm. on the 19th June prisoner was playing cards in the gaol Mr. Wotoon, too, would be put leto the witness-box to coufate the allegations of the witness W. Schmidt, who spoke of Emio Deen and Mr. Wotton Leseeching him to make a false statement as to the time prisoner went out on the night in question. It was not until some days after giving his evidence privately to Mr. Wotton that Schmidt want back on his statement and
Among our numerous associations, of moral busy.bodies there is, I believe, a Society for the Suppression of Gambling. I would respectfully point out, therefore, the rich harvest which awaits this Society's reapers in the island of Malts, where, under the aegis of Britain, and the direct supervision of the local police, publicintteries are
THE Northern Pacific Co.'s 4000-tonner Victoria, doe here about a fortnight hence under command of Capala W. Panton, will have amongst her passengers Captain A. Marabull who was the disttareished commander of the ten-clipper Stirling Castle and now is the nautical organizer of the Hongkong-Tacoms line and special representative in the Far East ofthe owners of the renowned Gulon Line of trans-Aliantic steamers. It is rumoured that Captain Marshall will become a temporary realdent of Hongkong in the capacity of Marine Superintendent of the Northern Pacific Steamship Company. GRENIER, who sold the plans of the Toulon defences to foreign Governments, readily acknow ledged the extent to which he bad betrayed the interests of France to Germany and Italy, practically laying bare to thote two countries the
recognised and flourishing instituten. The secrets which France has most zealously guarded. The Improvement of the Toulon defences will
tickets for these gambles, ste sold in enormmit numbers at 1. Id. each, the odd pinay being probably be changed and alterations will be made at other points, so as to make Grenler's revela-altered the time to 8.30 p.m. As to the seduce the agent's commission. The modus operandi tions of as little value as possible to the tripletion of the deceased's wife by the prisoner, that as follows: Each ticket bears a series of fifteen alliance, Captain Borup, an American officer, doing away with Ram Samy, for he was living place the holders assemble. Numbers are could not be held up as a motive for prisoner numbers on its face. At the appointed time rad admits that Grenier gave him certain documents. quietly with the woman in Cochrane Street and drawn from a revolving cylinder, called out, and His response to Mr. Coolidge's demand for a
was never molested by the deceased or his marked up on a black-board, and each tickat explanation is an emphatic protest against the
friends. The learned counsel could not recall a holder marks off the corresponding number (if charge that he communicated anything to Ger-
case of the seducer doing away with the busband be beppens to have it) on his ticket. The Indi many or Italy. Mr. Coolidge has communicated
of bis paramour, it was generally the wife thatvidual who first gets all the numbers on bla Captain Borup's protest to M. Ribot, Minister of
was killed by her husband. When the polter ticket drawn in this way is the For.ign Affair.
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Court of Waquiry, Into the loss of the Milion, held at Penang on July 16th "The Court finds the loss of the steamship Milton attributable primarily to bad stowage of the dead weight portion of her cargo, which should have been more evenly distributed. This was done by the orders of the Chinthew (Chinese supercargo) who then left the ship on the plea of sickness the day before she sailed. The master of the vessel seems to have arranged the rest of the cargo so as to counteract, In his opinion; the effect of the deadweight forward, but though his arrangement was altered to some extent by the Boarding officer's orders to lighter the vessel sufficiently to clear her Plimsoli raat this would not have affected the result. With cargo stowed in such an unsafe way, and con aldering the history and condition of the salp. It was natural she should founder ou meeting. prolonged rough weather. The Master's certifi cate in retorned to him," And still there is nothing done to modify the dangerous and scandal un despatium of chinchews in the Straits 1
working up evidence amongst Chinese and made up their minds to prove a case it was not prize, which is usually, I boller." "inner of the
difficult for them to effect their... purpsie hers,
by
gua tuscars, as bad been done in this instance.
Nalan and Straube, gael employés, spoke to seeing Emin Deen playing cards between 7 and 8 p.m. on the 10th June,
Sheikh Abdool, a fireman employed at the Les Yuen Reasery, spoke to seeing Seetha Kam come to the works at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 20th June and report the murder of Ram Samy,
the supervision of the police. The battery
The whole business, as I have said, is moder
tickets one before me) all bear official pelice stamp on their backs. A police officer is
drawing
The present on the platform. at the :: | prizegare distributed as the police station. I do not feel my own ighteous indignation stirred very deeply by thess lamentable proceedings. I see that the whole proceeds are devoted to specified public charities, and charity has covered so many big sins before now, that I should think it might be allowed to cover the thirteen-penny preesdliloei ofthepunters at the Maliere tombols. The amusement, too, is one of the customs; of the country, and to countenance it is therefor chiefly strikes me about the matter is, that wa justifiable on Home" Role principles.
What
should be such pernicious humbugs as to turn up our eyes at the iniquities of Moute. Carlo, while we are fostering and protecting pubiles gambling in our own dominions a few miles offe Here Is Governor Robinson's $40,000 endowment for the Medical College.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, July #gib, The death is announced of Mr. Thos. Cook,
Buddooh, another fireman, sald he beard all about the murder on the 20th, at the refinery. Seetha Ram reported it at the gate at 6 am. Seetha Rams said he saw the body near the said it might have begs Emin Deen who killed Cremation Ground in Happy Valley, and be along him because he had a grudge against the deceased.
William Wotton, solicitor fastructing counsel for the defence, and he was first instructed to behalf of Emis Deen on the Tuesday following the murder. On the 24th June he went to the gaol and saw Emin Deen. Schmidt told him that it was 8. or F.15-or. 8:30 wben Emin Deen went out. He did not coax Schmidt tot A CURIOUS case occurred in British Kowloony &15 or &30 pm He wasn't sure of the this week, Ulustrating a very serious source of position of the prisoner when Schmidt was the border-line giving this information in the Gaol, He might constant trouble along
THE English Derby, the "blue ribbon-of-the turf, and the of The Cook and Some Tourist Agency, Ports, Sherries, larets, Burgundies, Hocke warld, was established by the Eail of Derby in as may be, the establishment of a system of junk-owner reported to Inspector Hanson | but there was nothing cringing abbot his mannete game. BM, SIMLA, July 19th.
1780. Ever since then the Stanleys have main-uniform penay postage throughout the whole af at Youmati a few days ago that his junk, lying | Later on Schmidt said, fa... witness' officit is believed that the Indian Currency
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tained a racing stud and it has always been their the British Empire. ambition to win the race bearing their name. But, as yet, they have not done so and their fast nearest approach was some thirty-five years ago, when Toxophollte ran fourth and broke the bearts of many favourite followers. "SANDY," said Mrs. Simpson to her eldest olive branch the other day when be returned from school, "I forbid ye to play or in about w!' ibat Bobby Wilson any mair, Mind that na, an'if ever hear ofye playin' wit him again 1'i gl' ye guld Heken." Wht way have I no to play wi Bobby, ma!" queried the youngster, with some surprise. "Becus he's bad, wicked laddie," replied his mother, "Weel, me, returned Sandy, aker a moment's thought, "I dians think I'm that awfu' gaid myself that ye need be use (cart."
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moored at Tal-kok-tsui, had been boarded during the night by thieves, who stole four large new fishing nets, worth $so Alongside his boat lay a hulk, fitted up for weddings and similar shows, and during the night of the theft a Chinese watchman was on board the wedding' juuk, but nobody on the other. This watchman soon afterwards told the owners of the junk that they could get their nets back, through him, for $40 Aller Hele biggling, 837 were borrowed from friends and paid to watchman, who went over the border into China,
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that Emin Deen went out at 6.30 on the 19th. Cross-examined-He did not bully Schimdt, He pressed bim, bat did not bally him. There was a great difference between coaxing_and bullying. He wouldn't be sure about Emin Deen thanking Schmidt for stating the time wAI. 8.30 p.m. He didn't notice it, at any rate,
That ended, the case for the defence. Mr. Francis then proceeded to address the Jury.
The Attorney General replied, Hie Lordship summed up, The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.. Prisoner was discharged. ."
memorial will have been signed byten thousand pereens at the end of the month. (9) ST. PETERSBURO, July zġih,
In consequence of riots that have taken place At Antrakan, Siratoff and Dhavinsk, in which■ frenzied mob sacked the cholera, hospitals and in murdered this doctors, a proclamation has been
· · "fssued stating that henceforth the slaters will be tried by courtmartial. The plague has appeared
st Khorasian.
The latest reports of the Russian grain crops state that the prospects ate improving,
TO-DAY, August 5th, according to an exchange, Mars will artive at a point directly opposite this earth, which it reaches but once in 15 years, when the distance between the two planets will be reduced from 141,000,000 to 35,000,000 miles. Tonight a thousand telescopes will be levelled at the planet, in the southern skies, and a thou- and eyes will seek to pierce the veil of distance that conceals the knowledge for which cleace thirsts. Wonderful results are expected by reason and got the nets promptly from an ex-convict, of the marvellous improvements that have been made in astronomical instruments within 13 deported from Hongkong and living at the years, since the last most favourable observa Chinese village of Sam-rul-ps. There is a very ston was made. With the powerful fences and strong suspicion that the watchman know the photographic appliances of today it will be
good deal about the theft, and Colonial mannery and customs are still as if the inza-way visitor, tempted by curiosity,
always had drawn nearer to the earth than ever.
have been, Although Mars will be 35,000,000 miles away
of the $37 must have gone into the watch the powerful Lick telescope will mag ber engaged or paid by anybody, but seems to hold her man's pocket. He ls nof, it srems, regularly to a sixe as If viewed at a distance of 17,500 miles. A little bearer, and Mars would
an indefinite sort of rambling commission from the elders of the village, and when be wants any
various terms of imprisonment. be a favourite with the class of capitalists whost financial career culminates in the "Disappearing pay he makes an arbitrary demand from the Trick Where is the H. & S. Bank shroff leading inhabitants. This arrangement ought typhoon. She is now more than a fortnight
what they
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Owing to the late hour at which the case was finished (6.5 p.m.) we hold over the fall report unill to-morrow.
-THE “PAKSHAN" MISSING.
steamer Pakshas has yet been received by the We regret to hear that no news of the missing local agents of her registered owners-Mears, Bradley & Co. of Swatow. The agents think it highly probable that she has foundered in
SOFIA, July zoth The trial of M. Karaveloff, formerly Prima Minister and Regent of Bulgaris, Dr. Moloff,, ex-Cabinet Minister, and sixteen other persons, for complicky in the murder of M. Belichoff, and with having laid a plot to murder. Prince Ford Hand and M. Stambouloff was concluded to-day tenced to death, six being acquitted, and eight, and resuled in four of the priorem being sen including M. Karaveloff, being sentenced, ta ALLAHABAD, July 20th, -
shouldlike naval authorities take the whip out THE acrostic which a waggloh firm of architect. i been arrested under a clauso in the penal coa"). Overdue from Saigon to Singaporsegirl hands tribes have expr‹ssed a-desire to anter futa come.
is a difficult case to decide. The ex-
at any rate to be stopped. The watchman bas, of the hands of the police? Have the naval placed upon the new public library building of making it a punishable offence in receive money satherlies carte blanche to arrest private Boston has now been removed after much Indigon account of stolen property without using every citizens and search their premises, like the Ponant discussion. Upon the facade of that possible means to secure the arrest of the thief! structure the names of several great men had Leang Kuk detectives? We think not; and I been arranged in such a manner that the perpone convict cannot be arrested, we believe, for not why should not Kelly's friends apply for a
dicular rows of initial letters spelled the Bre's the offence, as he is a Chinese subject, living in writ of habeas corpus, lo be served on the com.
tille, The tablet has been torn down and China and the offence was committed within modore on the Victor Emanssi, at once Ÿ
another will soon be put in its place. To do British furfediction. GENERAL improvement, in the physique of the away with all offensive suggestions of adver people, as well as well as many of the advan. tising and at the same time mest: the poetic tages without incurring way of the disadvantages requirements, the following arrangement of files. of conscription, would, it is believed, saya trious names has been suggested:
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me paper, be gained by the adoption of the scheme propounded by Sir Henry Havelock-Allan which he intends to press igrward in the base of Commons ahemid he, as it is hoped, "be 35+ elected Sir Henry proposes that the youths of all classes should receivo some degree
voluntary PRICE THREE DOLLARSchools in Board schools and Voluntary military teaching in public schools, between the ages of ten and four teen years, and that this training should be receive technical education at the expense of the continued to the age of nineteen to all who
Etate, to me to enable all young men on attaining manhood to be prepared beforehand, not by an sort of compulsion, but by voluntary engagement, to bear arms in the national defence on saddas emergency arising.
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SUPREME COURT,
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
(Before Mr. Fielding Clarks, Chief Fustics, and a Special Jury:):
August 5th.
THE HAPPY VALLEY MURDER. THE DEFENCE.
The trial of Emin Deen, receiver at Victoria Gaol, for the murder of Ram Samy, an Indian watchman, was continued today.
At the commercensent of the proceedings to-day, his lordship called the Attorney-General's attention to the fact that there was nothing on record to show that the body referred to by Dr. Marques la bis evidence was that of Ram Samy, the murdered watchman.
The Attorney General thanked his lordship
The headmen of the various Black Megbala
Bregano za monestion with the British, authorities with s THE HAIPHONGPORADA view touching all questions connected with
My Mahal || Hashim Ali, the late chief of the HassanzaÍS,"
panna talk buah ASIMLA, July zothi Thr Kumamoto Maru astired at Yokohama on the sand alt, and reported rough, stórmy
"The Amit has replied to the Government of weather. Large quantities of wreckage, probably India's recent intimation that if blu troops from the Haiphong, were passed, and fiethought occasioned forher trouble in Bajsor the Goverse the wreck has gone to pieces. Previous to this it ment, would farlet on their withdrawal from was stated that the Hatékonga nota seriously Asmal Abdul Rahman says his troops were damaged as at first reported in particular, perfectly golet and Tays all uns blame
that she had not broken up aft. After removing the cargo the Japaness engaged in the work of salving fell out among themselves, and work on the vessel was practically stopped,
MORE ABOUT THE TYPHOON
A correspondent sends us the following notes, which seem to be from a scientific point of view the best yet received 1-.
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Kina,
News from the Hazara country states that the the Amit's troops, The latter are reported on Hazaras Have twice fufleted heavy defost пред each occasion to have fallen into an smbath losing several hundred men and in the second Imtiance a very large number of Hier and aims munition. This occurred at the beginning of the present month and hoary fighting has probably place taken place. ADD, July at
ALLAHADD"
The noth ulto., and recarving northwards, I Amir of Kabul has replied to the second
Inches in length. Ga each of its eight tentacles for reminding him of the fact prior to the com, houses, washed away, the B |
mencement of the defence and called Acting Inspector Baker to do the needful,
The typhoon reported south-east of Hong- kong en
sent by the Government respecting Bajour. passed over the south end of Formoen apparently. He again says he will not attack the country in an easterly direction. In Talwanico the wind malean provoked, bust throw the blame of the blew first from the south, finishing up from the recent collision on Umra Khan. He seems la.. north. All day on the sist the wind blew strong better mind to discuss masosably a settlement from the south, until about to plan, when, after of the frontier about Asmer to the negotiation an interval of calm, it suddenly sprang up from with the Government of India. The costiered the north. At Auping the water rose seven feet presenon of Alghan troops )› at | Asmar man and flooded the basements at early all the ptoroke fresh firing, though Umis Khan has
boc warned
med by the Goremment el Indis not ja or arma there were 350 suckers, maklog s grand
several of the large trees on Fort
Lorde collision, total of 3,560. The octopus had attached fisch to
wrecked eleven large trading Jonku
It Important that a distinct a gruernent a fish caught by a trawl and was draws up with Mr. J. J. Francia, Q.C. then opened the case which were blown over the bar out to was thrac should be tone to by negotiation with the Ame it. The game frm Sas also received bygang for the defence in a twelve-column oration. Not wrecked on the bar, and one blown a couplebi aftosha, suck, limit of his Rathorky in the albino deer, a buck, shot on Wirdby Teland, Baving space for such lengthy address a miles faland, where the liebigh and dry now, Rasur Valley,
A LONDON, July are has two-pronged Borus and li supposed to be confine ourselves to a few points in the The European houses stood fairly well, but the about two year old. The sutural polar speech." Happly, said the learned counsel, this natives suffered terribly, their houses belog There are reasons to belleve that the riotă it fawn is brown, with white spots, but the color Court was not often called upon to deal with flooded, razed to the ground, and swept away, "Artakan, Saraboff and blowwhere: la Rast of this one p
with? spots, murder cases, involving, grire responsibility on overwhelming the inmates rikoseems to were testigated by political agitators, simlar, door wall shot, on the island some: the part of the jury, and the prisoner's counsel, live beam in the centre of the track, nod to meeting of the creditors of the Oriental Banic tims so that It Is thought there must, and it was generally admitted that by far the hive suffered more than Auping but as the was held yesterday, the which the liquidator stated be Albino, blood. In theil dour won the most valour responsiblilty rested" with the Telegraph broken down and the country that the creditors, claims ire llesly to smount to lalands. The deer alles are comparatively stay counsel for the defence, for upon his conduct Hooded Communication y almers Had font and half million sterling. The arsen to preserve, but no better means of preserving of the case depended, in great measure, thelina Fizibrand was lylog them all the time moored tons at of me and a half million canh, which the devil tan has been found as yet than keep. of the case." Hewould not adopt the course of in the harbour, and Agongh" "good" handling coines in four to six months; one million and a ing them in alcohols. This is on account of their some counsel and at once put the case to the craped "ithost want damages At the Paser fif which will taken time to realige) and having za bones and because of their sarisking, hiry, as he could do, without calling any whóems 'dares the typhoon was hardly felt, bit the grupe *21 140,000, the realisation of which is diorubefal and suriyalling as foort forms of deep water for the defence, because it would be most all about ailemdey have been dismayed ani 'marine life doy.
perlagg ramponsibility for critnosti to lose the lake natives have loot Heavily,
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