gambling-debt nor will be buy or sell one, no master how responsible pecuniarily, the debtor | may be.
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C.-Professional services at Chinese law haya in the main no legal value. In practico, a physician keeps a mein randu n of bis services, bet seldom Il ever sends a bill. When his work ladore, the patient usually hards him an amount of money equal to what would have been charged pander the American system. For this, no receipt is given. The same principle applies to scribés, enediums, priests and other professional”. As s check upon non-paying customers, shrewd pro- fessional men insist upon a note, I.Q.U. or bond before doing any work. The document, no matter what its form, is as binding as ordinasy business paper. It may be well to add at this point that a creditor bas mean of collecting debts which seem ridiculous to the Westem mind. He depends upon the profound love of peace and trangalilly, an characteristic of the Chinese race When a patron or client shows a disindination for
payment, he visits the latter's house, alls upon the threshold and weeps and harangues until his bill is paid. It seldom requires mors than an hour of lamentation to collect any
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1892.
The river is falling rapidly, the water-mark to day being a3 feet 8 inches,
I regret to say the steamer Kianglung is aground on the North hank of the river about sixty miles above the entrance to the Tungting Lake. As she is now dry it is to be hoped success may attend those who are endeavouring to launch her.-Mercury.
TAKU.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.);
Taku, August 5th.
and in strict accordance with the law of the land nod the regulations of the Court, you lay your case before him. It is not permitted to petty assistants and military officers to interfere with, or even to receive such cases 14 only concern the civil and judicial administration. If you disregard these instructions you will not only ba penished severely for your disorderly action, but even your lawful suit is most likely to fail,”
his
Weather all last week was intensely hot here, 101 F. In the coolest room in the hours, and this too up to 6 p.m. But yesterday and to-day we have bad a delightful break, all day yester The freshots in the river have taken off about day after a splendid ralo in the night and one knot, and besides the "Porcit, and Hasan carly morning, it was cloudy, and to-day land rivers suae Harbour Blaster, has Ther. only 84 to-day. The bot weather has again, one can write without wetting his paper. Band. Mr. Kingsley, the Harbour Master, has ladaced more, bathing in the day time than found was ten feet and a half in the South Reach; gain sounded the flyer, and the least water
uaust here, and so, as boys and young men act very foolishly in the hot sun, cases of drowning in the place of the long soft running out from the point to the Tientals Reach formerly, there the only son of his mother, who got
are frequent. A poor title fellow of 12 years, te now they felt discharging most of the ilvlag by selling cakes, Inst his life three days steamers are still discharging at Tongku, because it is certainly very risky attempting to go in a large pond in'ide this city. It is said that his companion cried out for help, but that fo up-river with all the posts submerged, which the sher men bathing near all fled to shore are such a useful help in running lines, to assist Tighter Co. have their hands full, attending on cruel thing. Semir young men go to bathe with vessels round critical points. The Tag and shouting that an evil spirit of the water bad come to take the boy away 1 Superstition is a the shipping; while Messrs. Jamesson and their stomachs fall, and many of them get the McMurray are engaged at the sunken tug-boat Grm, Mr. McRay is successfully bossing the ramp and know not the cause, and I believe Company work here. A buge steamer from Leith
also that sunstroke bas a good deal to do with le discharging locomotives and other rallway gear
some the cases I have heard of recently, outside the bar, some of the band tention requiring a good deal of care and attention; fallow this one er inng bear another steamer with railway material is to
I Kinder is progressing fairly well with the Im- anderstand Mr.
of water will run down the Felho yet, before the fron baran will reach Kirih.. It is reported.
was a very considemble one, as, had the loff w of the water not been stemmied la time a village would have been submerged, and a great quan- the of property lacluding the salt "heaps, des» troyid.—Mercury |
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Peking, August 4th. The common topic of the day here in the weather-and a very good subject of conversation too, for the weather is a thing upon which near
all people gee. Our rainy season began on July 4th and from that on till the 24th Jupiter few houses in Peking did not leak a little, and Flavius reigned supreme. Needless to say very in fact a great many poor Chinese were rendered homeless by the ceaseless downpour, Luckily the materials of which the humbler class of Native habitations are constructed are not very expensive, but still it means a terrible amount of misery when it is remembered that many of these poor people have lost their all. The Hen-po, the muddy river to the south gate of Peking. after having broken its banks and
sluggish as ever. destroyed a good many lives and homes, has subsided and new looks as dull, harmless and mighty torrent rushed along, long stretches of Where a few weeks ago B yellow mud are now seen. Since July 14th we have had very little rain, enough, however, for the purposes of agriculture, and Indian corn, beans, millet, etc., all look in splendid condition. and promise an abundant harvest. Some days ago swarm of locusts passed to the southwest of it appears is living at present near the Piesus, literally obscuring the air. The fight lasted. men het. The giber day; the son of for several days but luckily, very few of the
of Hub Ta-jea, and several sisters with other pests have located themselves in our vicinity. female members of the household; all went to Half of the Peking realdents are the hills the famous temple of " Wang Lab Slang-kung," but the other half prefer their comfortable homes its payment by a second genera. that only very few of Mr. Kinder's trained mea The women went to burn Incense and worship: ] temples on the eminences, to which so many fly them to offer special Inducements to Visitors and
situated outside the Pien meng mentioned above. in the city to discomforts of a sojourn in the F.-A custom, probably pocullar to China, iz jare still left on the Tengshan-Ticătuin line. As they were returning home in one of the largo in the summer months from here. So far the
ressonable clalım.
D-Debts of honor are paid to the extent of about sixty per cent of the amount incurred. Of the forty per cent, twenty per cent is unpaid because of the insolvency of the debtor and the refusal of bis kin to make him any advance So far as payment is concerned, legal debis pro sent the same figures,
Ein cases of insolvency, legal dable and those of honor are almost invariably paid by the deblor if he retrieve his commercial politon. In very many cases, the obligations of a bankrupt
have been assumed by his children and even grand children. This is a legal duty when the
ett was legal in character. When it was Perial railway beyond Tongaban, bat many
deti of honor, tion is con
considered an act of high filial piety.
since Mr. Pethick look charge of the sume; The
fatter gentleman having replaced the old em- pets by cheaper creatures of his own; the service cannot fare beter with the new, raw and
vice raw it is to be feared that the era of cheap labour, laexperienced hands, is as clear as daylight and inaugurated by the new management, may turn the long run, and may lead to dianster yet, out nasty enough, anything but economical in
that of "mutual forgetfpiness. Busleess-men who have advanced moners or sold goods on credit and find it Impossible to collect their Capital or to obtain payment in full of the amount due them, but who are on friendly terms with their debtors, will after several years call upon the latter and agree to forget everything to date." This is equivalent to a mutual release under seal and is bigbly favored by the great magistrates and jurists of China.
In conclusion, it may be stated that com- mercial litigation and insolvency are much rater in China than in Europe or the United Siates. The number'of tribunals, magistrates and court-officers is scarcely one-third and the amount involved not a tenth of what is at stake In the courts of Christendom.
Mercury,
NANKING.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.}
NANKING, August 9th,
Beyond the fear of going to Inw is the greater as the negroes of North Ameries are. A was The Chinese are just as food of water-melans fear and disgrace of being a delinquent debtor. quantity are consumed in this city, and in A Chlaaman who becomes financially em-consequence of a very obvious danger the barrassed will sell himself for a plantation-coolle, officials this year have issued proclamations go into exile for twenty years or even commit forbidding people throwing the rinds of melons suicide. It is part of his religion to pay off all out in the streets to the jeopardy of unwary foot ho owes In the last week of the year, in order passengers. that be may begin the next, free from care and Sunday was the commencement of accatton obligation. If he has not enough money, he and the Chinese who celebrated the occasion will give a note or bond, or a bond signed by had just as little to rejoice for os they had at the reintives to tide bimself, over to a more prosperous season.
In with the most wintry weather
and
A rather amuslog incident happened the other day. The private family of Koh Tajén, the previous Prefect here, and who is now in Peking,
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pics of Shaching, the man being sill summer has been exceedingly cool we can boast under one of the large camphor fres to anchor only a few really hot days, and as the evenings now are beginning to get much shorter we can this plain is plentifully studded; and, with Chinese fatter ourselves that the greater part of the warra universi insilact, all began to gamble, and weather has passed away. There are a greater got a little excited, and the women became number of Foreigners living in the temples on the their way, no doubt, who had seen some- Silations, Three men, smart
fellows in hills than has even been known in fonner years, conclusion that, because the women were dressed Methodist and Presbyterian Mission have thing of the world." basilly jumped to the going on in the same neighbourhood of late. The and moreover a great deal of building has been
in a fashionable style and different from this secured a temple and a large piece of ground, locally they were prostitutes or "singing-girls" and a perfect bee-bive of little houses, hallt fu from Shanghai. They shouted and ordered the semi-Chinese style have already sprung up. boatmen repeatedly to bring his boat ever to The London Mission have also purchased some them, as they wanted their curiosity to be satis land on the top of a small hill to the north fied. The lowdah took no notice of them por of the other temples and Foreign re- impatient and the women in the boat more and the Mission and the wall round the premises their orders whatever, so all three becoming sidences; a few houses have been erected by more cheerful and merry, they stripped them will soon be completed. Further the A. B, C. selves partly, and swam. ever to the boat, and F. M. have raised four or five houses on the were actually hoarding It-the women and the hill overlooking the Fun-ho for the misionaries small Jaya standing in amazement, and in Peking and Tungehow. They also have a wondering what exploits they would bebeld hulding used as a bospital and school, and on next! When one of the three suddenly saw and Sanday large meetings are held close by under a recogniti ta the file ind men it big teet, the Chinese congregien numbering all three plunged like madmen into the 10 or soo. Medicine is dispensed here an water, but only one was caught and taken to the Sundays as well as on other days of the week.
The Cuisine is andivalled In Hongkong, and Some of the houses of the American Board only the best Brands of Wines, Spirits, Cigars, Mission have paper roofs which fare only el are kept. In stock. Private Dinners or badly in the high winds which prevail Tiffins prepared in First-class style on the to substitute tiles or corrugated iron for the hour paper. The water to be got at all the temples ©Henokons, and May, 1802
At this time of the years, apring this year. Spring Indeed, was yamta to be castigated.
creditors are lentent and liberal When they are satisfied with the bona fider of a debtor, they will compromise on easy terms and on many Occasions will forgive the debt entirely,
In addition to these social features is the power of turtle. A man is born into a trade, in many Instances into a certain shop or work- yard. In his infancy he learns the calling, practiced by his father and forefathers for centuries, He festas no other and canes for one. He is swisfied with a comfortable living and seldom bas the opportunity to amars » fortune. There are no great magsilnes, no trusts, syndicates, pools, patents, copy rights mor monopolies in China and few of those influences or causes whose end is bankruptcy,
that the expression a debt of honor in The matter may be summed up in the remark Chinese is a "debt of duty" and that one of their great maxims is, the highest good is the performance of every duty, even the bumblest."
THE "TEH-HSING COLLISION
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In giving Jugdement on the 8th inst. In the suit brought against the Tal-Asing by junk which was damaged in collision on April 26th last, the Acting Chief Justics_of_the Shanghaf Brish Consular Court, Mr. G. Jamieson, said alier reviewing the evidence —-
CHENTU.
I have never heard of such a quick death now setom has come upon us with sing beat, after a snake-bike in these parts of China is the The people call a spall of very hot weather in following: The Natives firmly hold to it that the fall an satumn tiger," and when such an they have the cobra about here, but it is andesirable period sets in the custom of ceasing short and thick they say. And the pictures to eat water-melons with the advent of the that we show them of cabras, they at once sutumn moniks, is disregarded.
scem to recoprise I don't mean to affirma Two men were killed by llabining a couple of that the following a from the bite of cobra miles from here recently. We have had some yet I myself have seen-at place called rain squalls but the crops, it is said, are suffer-Flag-sin, 15 miles fratti this city-something ing badly from drought in the country around-
very like a cobra. A poor fellow went to ble Mercury,
Geld early on the 1st of this intercalary sixth moop, and was banking up his paddy with his bands, when he got a bite from a snake, and he seen fell down insensible. About 8 or 9 (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
a.m, bis wife brought him some breakfast, CHENTU, Joly rith. but not seeing her husband anywhere about this afflicted province, the mortality being feared that the busband had gone home to break Cholera has been making dreadful ravages in and fearing she was later than usual, conclud ful in many of the districts. During the past fast. So she hastened back, but found the door few days certain quarters of the city have been locked as she had left it. She then asked the swept of almost all their inhabitants. The neighbours if they had seen her husband. "Has be not come home to breakfast?" No one had seen him; and becoming a little alarmed she asked three or four neighbours to go and seek him in the fields, they shouted lustily for poor Ab-tch, as he was called; no one answered. They then sauntered towards the field where he had been working early that morning. When, lol they noticed the green paddy dispiaced, and in this hollow lay the unfortunate husband, with his hard bitten, and his arm and head swollen to a frightfel sise; but he was still alive, and breathing heavily, they conveyed him home, and called a doctor, who declared it was too fate; that the poison had done its work. Poor Ah-teh died at noon of that day |--Mercury.
TIENTSIN.
Gorʻual amount of wet weather we have
experienced this, year is blamed for having rendered us peculiarly susceptible to this fall Scourge. The Chinese swarm around our gates every day asking for someone to put a little Fare go writing on a plece of paper by which to charm away the plague, which they call the zumb-foot disease.
Mrs. O. L. Kilborn, the much respected wife of our recently arrived physician, passed away some days ago after 12 bonra' illness. She was the first Foreign lady to die in this great city.
Most of the Foreigners will be leaving for the hills la a few days-Mercury-
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Spanish Minister, and the departure to Cheloo Of news there is very little; the ansval of the of the German Minister on the 8th inst, are the only Items I have to record. The health of our community is not on the whole very good this summer, although so far there have beep_no death or even dangerous cases of liners The political world is dormant as far as Peking is, concerned, the only thing in the way of excite ment being an occasional electric shock arising out of the telegraph convention.—Mercury,
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On the whole I think the case set up on behalf of the funk has entirely broken down. She was not at anchor, sad she was not run into a alleged. Having falled in her mein allegation it is needless to take up, much time in discussing the other allegations on which the learned coumet for the plaintiff argued he was entitled
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Shobaing, August 4th,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) · of these is entirely uncentradicted. I thinks
The prefect of this city, Shi Tadeo, has just
Tientsin, 6th August. proper look-out was kept, and that the junk issued a proclamation concerning the undue The freshets in the river have now fallen con- was sighted
early as might reasonably have interference of military culcials in the civil siderably, and as I write the Priping and Poo- been expected, and if she was not ssen sooner it administration, and he seems to be much chf are alongside the band, but these vessain are was the fault of those on board the Jank in having annoyed at their presumption. The case of the only little tugs our good people here 117, and are no light. I think the porting of the steamers market-gardener and his son, in which it was always able to come sad see us, while the big helm when the Junk was first seen, and when she changed her course was right and a before stated, a poor woman was shockingly steamers, such as the Zinsheng, the Hasting, beaten and stamped on, and was barely saved the Chungking have to remain at Tengine. The proper manevra and that they were not bound by a few onlookers from being thrown into the Hasan managed last trip to get ON OFS
UP to latboard. And lastly, in reply to the final canal in an unconscious condition, was the occasin as many hours at it took the Eldorado days HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF allegation that the steamer neglected to keep sion of this edict being issued. It appears that to accomplish the same feat. clear of the junk, though this in fiself is too this caterer of vegetable esculents bas friend We have been looking for long accounts in The would bare rupe clear but for the indes or some friends in the Walch-tal's Yambe, bere, your columns about the completion of the pre- A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
have kept but sudden and he has been coxening these subordinates, so miasty arrangements for the Tientsia and and wrongful set of the funk herself in altering to enlist the Halch-tai's private sympathy Peking zallway, which were to have been combe held on WEDNESDAY, the 24th instant, at her course at the last moment and so running though not his official aid, as this would be too pleted in June last between General Meany, L14.15 PM at the Rooms of the CHAMBER, CITY Into the steamer, There can be but one rule bare-faced a thing for a bigh military officer to Fit-ming and the Peking correspondent of your HALL, to consider the working of Ordinance for steamers and sailing vessels meating or do. However, to what extent of Interference the morning contemporary. It
wald that Was
LI crossing and that is the plain and simple one that the sailing vessel must keep her course, if the Halch-tal's Yamén is lavaleed it is dificult had got do Native gentlemen to subscribe the Mule of 1891, daring the period in which it
in say. The prefect of course does not mention necessary capital and that General Messy would has been in operation, dongeng she does that the whole responsibility of keep the Haleh-tal in his proclamation, but he speaks and the materials and stock. The General andAn Ordinance to amend the Law in respect to ing clear resis with the steamer Captain pretty plainly when he tells them to mind their Li arrived here from Peking towards the end
the Sale of Shares in Companies registered Clutterbuck, the Nautical Assessor, whose assists business and not to encresch upon the of June, with dispatches, it is said from the
under the Hongkong Ordinances. 1865 to: ance has been of the greatest value to me dure office and duties of civil magistrates. He says: Grand Council to LI
1888, and in other Joint Stock Companies." |:44 » Hung chang, requesting ing the hearing, entirely agrees with this deciIn the appointment of magistrates and the His Ex. to memorialise the Throne on the
By Order, sion. I therefore find the junk wholly to blame, distribution of civil and military offices, the fine subject of the projected railway to the Capital with coste.
ADAM LIND, of demarcation is decidedly distinct, as each has, and the Viceroy did so on the and of last his own special sphems of action and properly month. Since then L Fu-ming has applied
Acting Secretary.. Hongkong, 16th August, 1892.
-1823 deßned drties; hence the law is justly strict and to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for a severe against the one class turping or loan to build the line, which would serm to encroaching upon the domain and duties of the indicate that the 40 Native capitalists had gone alber. It is not for petty araistants and officers back on their contract. At all events the the defence of the people in their litigs Heng-chang on the subject and to find out, of military Yaméns to take spots themselves Hongkong Bank sent its compradore to interview tloss and lawsuits. And although this is presumably, whether the scheme was really a well known, as most Prefects before me hava bond fide one or not. His Excellency declared enlightened the pubile mind on the subject of the the project to be genuine but said it must be proper relations between civil and military carried out with Native money. The compradore officials, yet 1 deems it important and necessary departed with this answer and as the fads are to remind all respectable citizens, and to caution not yet forthcoming from any quarter, the matter has temporarily been "put on the shell once
ICHANG.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
· Ichang, 1st August, 1893. We still exist, but exist only, for the tempera turs is almost unbearable in this faland treaty port, but taking into consideration that our residence here, both ashore and aflost, is merely a favour. for walch we are indebted to the Chinese Government officials who placidly looked on and allowed the rabbia to destroy all Foreign property last September, the claims of which are still unsettled, we ought to be grate
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE or of the late W. W. SHARP, to Sell by Public Auction (unless pro- French Bund, Tiously disposed of privately), at their Office TO-MORROW,
"HE Undersigned have received instructions
the 17th August, 1892, at 11 AM, THE WELL-KNOWN IRON SCREW
S. S. "ELLA,”A Classed at (for river purposes only), now stinning on the Yangtze between this and Hankow.
Dimensions 197' x 16' 6" x 39% Height between decks 73 6o,
Gross Register 784, under deck 680," net $19 tons,
She was bullt la 1870, by J. SCOTT & SONS, at Inverkeithing, and Engined by the same firms. Cylladers zo" and 36". Length of stroke 17". Bollers Multibular. Capacity of Bunkers 73 tong. Consumption of, Feel.
per 24 tons Japan goal. 9.
weight
She has a very good carrylog exclusive of Backers, and first-class accommoda 6,230 tons measurement or 575 tons tion for 10 passengers, second-class/100 and third class 350.NE WEST
Her average speed is 9.6 knots per hour, Draught of water laden 13' 'sit and 10 for- Ward,
Draught of water light 9' 6" aft and '4' for«
ward.
Lloyds Surveyor reports in December last Bollers in good order and condition. The ship. www.docked and palated in March last, new crank shaft fitted in November, 1891, when was thoroughly overhauled, que voleman
According to her capacity sho kun romarkably small consumption vif coal, vurderer
The Steamers will be sold with all fanits and errors of description, without any allowance for 0.16, KNUTSFORD TERRACE, KOW- any defects or dañciency whateveryone N LOON, END HOUSE
Mr Apply to die landen
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 19th July, 180s
TO LET,
One half the purchase money is to be paid em plation of the transfer, to be made within four the fall of the hammer, and the balance on com days (or sooner, if agreed, by the waller misd purchaser) Selling which the Bist fortaltepe myyden the best payment to be
The fessel to be at the gist of
of the
purchaser sa soon as knocked down. Should the purchaser fall to complete the purchase the steamer, Will be sold for his account either by Public an from impr
The following is a register of the thermometer } military for dry, learing that the proper himself.
Jodicals in his canse. Some skilful, has seen fit to keep all: these good things to DINING ROOM: and "LIBRARY OFFICES and Flort: Praya Central (läbely. Private salo, and any dedciency will be claimed
taken in the shade each day at 3 punkt
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101
201:
106
Scoundrels of
civil authorities by their strict avestigations of The heat of the summer fa perceptibly decrea the case should discover that the whole affair is sing and it is possible now to sleep without the
HALL & HOLTZ MADE FURNITURE. †O. 4, BLUE BUILDINGS,
Comprising why thin gene DRAWING ROOM SUITES, BED-ROOM FIRST FLOOR, No. 1, Bloe Balldings. BOOK-CASES, SIDEBOARDS, coupled by Messrs. Dana, atcibye & Co.) WARDROBES WHATNOTS, NING GODOWN (ander Mesars, Douglas Lapralk
GODOWN, No. 14.
No one shall be allowed to retract his bid-
tramped-up one, will rashly induce the tl Intolerable discomfort, of two weeks ago. The CARD. na nah TE TABLES ADINING} & Co.'s Office at the RANT SANDRA D All bids to be made to Tzely of Skenebal
thele
pants to rush off to the military yamdas; and lay health of Foreigners and Natives allice has been complaints before those abordinates, very good this year, a fact which so far as the regardless of the illegality of the action or of Chinese are concerned, is not due to any impro- the) constquancaa fevolved., Soch man" and "vement in, waly hatelal, and thels condict detestable, in the sanitary conditions under which Henceforth, let it be ladws that you who r Pethick has in a manner invaded the néve demesin debts or family quarrels to settle, duties of the Salt Commissioner, by Ciesing, a or any malbers with reference to Guldser farmers brasal which took place: la, the river bank,, with the help of some of the railway hands. The
ko landa er houses, it is hereby strictly enjoined
so you thai you in only to the proper magistrate) 1,amvice Stri, Pakide rondon): en
CHAIRS WASHSTANDS Eco, be s
IRON and BRASS BEDEFEADS, CRO ERYWARE, ELEGIR
the
*The shore will be on view ON
Cxialogues will be fasted previous to Sale- TERMS OF BAzz--Cask on Ga
LEVIOREL GEO. P. LAMMERT?
SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES at Magazine
Gaprit
Nos 1&24 STAUNTON STREET (comer of the Old Balley METRON --No. 16, OLD-BAILEY.-
Apply today THE HONGKON
Sycom 240 KALAPenses of tran
purchase. BRATNINE
The vessel way be 19th to 15th Augest.
to be bor