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MARRIAGE.
On the 26th January, 1893, at the Cathedral, Shanghal, by the Ven Arcedeseon Moute, B D., GYOROT FREDERICK GRAHAM, Chinese Castems Service to CATHERINE HANNAH, cidest daughter of the late Michael John HOLROYD, Hellfax, Yorkshire.
BIRTH.
On the 3rd January, 1893, the wife of the Rev. JOHN VURRAY (American Presbyterian Mission, Chiganfu, Chen, Shantung), of a daughter-Helen
DEATH.
At Chinking, on the aand Tamay, T. C. RAINFORD, late and Engineer of the KB. Taiwo, aged 43 years,
Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG Tuesday, January 31, 1893.
“A BRITISH COLON?" Oax of the most discreditable failures of Western civilisation in face of Chinese Immutability is with reference to buying and selling of children, especially young girls. Theoretically, British law refuses to recognise certain allen (not alone Chinese) laws and customs which are most flagrantly opposed, to British ideas of justice; for instance, one of the commonest troubles arises, out of marriage laws marriages and divorces being held differing, some European and American legal in England: while In many other respects also, what is held to be
THE Norwegian three-masted schooner Sy? hidan called at Nagasaki recently, short of provisions, on her passage from Amoy to Chefas. AFTER & stormy page through the Bay of Biscay, the troopship Himalaya sufely landed our old friends "The Stee:backs" at Portsmouth on December 26th.
Ar the Magistries to-day a past-office coolle was fined $75, with the alternative of there months imprisonment, for keeping a gambling house in Hollywood Rand, and a small boy who was caught gambling was ordered to be Intro duced to the rattan,
THE steamer Chas, owned by the Formosa Government, left Shanghal for Tamaul and Keelung, under command of Capt. Jenssen, formerly kipper of the sister ship Smith, on January 25th. Capt. Merless, formerly master of the sailing ship Cape City, is now in com "mand of the Smith.
THE Shanghat Mercury understands that a prominent resident of North Fomos han recently joined the Shanghal Meteorological
weather telegrams from that island, for the Society, and that strong hopes are entertained of the probability of obtaining daily regular China Coast Meteorological Service, before the next typhoon seison sets in.
THE Hankow correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury, willing on January 21st, reports that serious stals have taken place at Viceroy Chang Chih-tung works at Wachang, Several hundred are said to have been the rioters, the railway throw the engine off the line, and some Europears was torn up for about seventy yards in order to were stoned, No lives lost. We awalt farther details,
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THE Japanese cruiser Kongs left San Francisco f Yokohama, via Honolulu, on the gih Jan.
INSPECTOR Baker scooped in twenty-eight gam blers in Wanchai last night, and had them punished as usual to-day.
Rev. Doolittle Dibbs-I find that oil of cloves deadcrises strong drink and als· imparts a A HORRIBLE Uṇassacre is reported from Ceylon pleasant flavor to the breath.
due to jealousy between two sisters-am's Rev. Therphilas Thugg-Am glad to learn it.wife and bis brother's widow," for whom he had I've been using Cologne-ma'er.
taken a finey. The wife murdered her husband return, attacked the three chidren of her sister, And the widow's three children, and the widow, la
Tire Kobe Herald states that Mr. Alfred H. Dare, who recently re-ig, at his s t'on se nnb-mottally wounding them manager of the Yokoma Branch of the Hong- ang and Shanghai Bank, has joined the well- known and popular firm of Bennett and Steele, bill and bullion brake of Yokohama.
In spite of the cold weather, says a Chinese paper, the law must be nit nded o, and on the 15th Jan, there were two ex-calios at Sanchow, one of the condemned suffering for the murder AD Aunt, and the other for highway robbery ; and on the 16th there were two executions of robbers in the morning and two again in the afternoon of the same day.
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THE rupture of the negotiations bitween Great Britain and Portugal on the East African Boun
caused much unexalness in official quarters in daty Question, taken in co-function with the pro'ast of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, is stated to have Lisbon. Lord Roschery is reported to have declared bls firm Intention to maintain the carry out Lord Salisbury's promises. Anglo Portuguese Convention, as well as to
Marcury, writing on the 1th instant, says: THE Shaohsing correspondeat of the Skangkat
AT the Magistracy trday, before Capt. Hasilnes, J. E. Williams, master of the steamer Changsha, www charged with having anchored his vessel the telegmph cable, Mr. Hastings (Wetton and the 18th within the watts marked off for Deacon) defended, and in cross-examining the police wines, 100tht in show that there wES A fog on the water which would exculpate the Pefendant. Williams pleaded that he had not offended wil- Thie defence failing, Capt. fully, as he did not know the law prohibited anchoring there. To this His Worship replied that it was defendant's business to know the law and to carefully observe harbour regulations. Fined $15, or six weeks. The foe was paid. FOR some mysteri us reason aging of regular Chinese thieves decide to make a raid in force on Mr. M. F. Carvalho, ubeditor of the
cords, gags, and other garreting implements, Extremo Oriants, who lives at Third Street, West Point, in a house where the only valuable articles are those he wiltes; Last | night
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The weather here is Interaly cold and ma ushed into the house, and jumped as Mr people have stopped work. Traffic on the canals Carvalho, who was in bed. In pector Mann is difficult, but there is very little of it. Our dropped on them as they were just choking the rooms, with fires in them, show only 34° to 40°ife out of their victim, and turned the tables, F. I do not remember when it was on cold Later in the evening, four.nine of the gang came MR. FREKAR, having recovered from his recent
helare. The poor and distressed are suffering in, no doubt thlaking the coast was clar; but indisposition, was in splendid farm last night, or roadside resting-places and in the temples with a big constable, and they made things greatly, and the wretched beggars in haspitings Mr. Mann was again "just round the corner," and repeated Saturday's programme with such are starving, and dying off every night. The pleasant for the would-be thieves, Only two poor class, or respectable poor'are also suffer escaped of all the lot; the other s.ven were immense success achieved last night, Mr. Tus the Kobe Chronicle of January 18tb, Magistracy to-day, and sent la Rasi for a carne dangerously near apoplexy. Owing to the ing Intensely." Freear has consented to play again in Houg under the heading A Libel Sult.""Appat went into the house only because they heard brought before Capt Hasthgat the kong, on Saturday next, when he will present a
year. They Inocently pleaded that they new programme. "We shall know what it isntly in order to prevent further revelations for somebody calling for coolies to do some to be there "
the present, we were yesterday served with a articles which have appeared in this journal tion Inspector Mann deserves great praise petition in which Mr. Pearce has had certain
work; while one of the gang confemed so much printed in large type on fine thick paper for his prompt action, which nipped in the bud as that he was "wanting to collect a subscrip and then proceeds to modestly claim $10,000 what no doubt might have developed fats & damages. We are therefore obliged to hold really bigh-class murder and gang-robbery. over for the present our promised article on Mr. shares, which will lose nothing, however, by Pearce and the Yokohami Investment Co. being told in a Court of Justice."
A SAD story of the cold weather is published in Shanghai Mercury:-The severe weather lately has been the means of carrying away the beegars of Soochow by the score dally. On the 4th at the "House of Refuge" at Wang Felchi, morning, having been actually frozen to death nineteen mea were found stiff and stark that during the night--what sort of refuge is this we wonder while a dozen more were found in the same conditon during the day in different parts of the city. Such has been the suffering amongst the poor and beggars of Sorchow on account n! the unprecedented cold that many persons of these classes have been known to commit sui cide rather than to endure further. privations caused by the weather. Extra tice gruel houses have been opened by the local charity institutions and warm suits of cotton wadded clothlog have been issued by the tens of thousands, in addition to the regular yearly donations.
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AT grand review held last month of the artiler regiments of Peking before Prince L. in addition to the Krups, Nordenfeldis and Gating guns that were panded before the Prince, fired some huge muzzle loading canton of an there were piso, says the Shanghat Mercury, chsolete pattern, cast very likely during the Taiping rebellion. One of these last mentioned pay, christened "Eternally Solid," having been loaded, appareatly missed fire, whereupon one of the gunters aboved his head almost into the mouth of the gun to find out the cause of its nol The Shanghai Mercury of January 26th is coing off: but the moment be did so the fase responsible for the following:-The freezing fired the defectivegun-powder, which immediately over of this part has been fatal to a number of exploded. The relatives of that gunner are now Chinese, about twenty lives having been reported searching for his cranium, which when last seen as lost during the last ten days, through the
by his comrades was arcompanying the round breaking of the lee which had been used by that of the gun in " miscellaneous procession," ions. The climax, however, was reached by an wayfarers as "short cuis to their destian-THUS mays the Kishing Fu correspondent of the accident the 19th in t, when fifteen out ofsix cen
N. C. Daily News, writing under date January Pootung village schoolbors, who had been dis- 6th:-No doubt you are having reports frem. missed from school by their teacher, while sliding many quarters of the effects of the cold. In this upon the ice in a neighbouring pond, broke it by
pince the oldest inhabitant" ("the olde
thermometer registered 15° Fahr. There is remembered such a time. This morning the widespread suffering in this section, and thele fireless homes, with tie protection especially among the
gainst the wind, and
Country people in
SUPREME COURT,
IN SUMMARY JURISDITION. (Before Mr. E. J. Ackroyd Puiste Fudge.) January 31st.
A MISSINO CONSIGNMENT. Fok Chlu Hang. cloth dyer, of Hongkong, ued the Steam Launch Co., L., for $197, value of a parcel of silk goods sent by the Persever. anes to plaintiff's Macao boose to be dyed, but sald to have been never delivered by defendants, Mr. Dennya was for plaintiff, and Mr. Holmes for defendant.
Before proceeding with the case this moinlage bl Lordship expressed his strong disapproval of the long and rambling policy of crass examination which had wasted so much time at a previous stage of this cate Several hours were taken up without the slightest advantage to the course of justice or the elucidation of material facts by the defence,
Mr. Holmes admitted the justice of his Lordship's remarks.
The Court then proceeded with the evidence of various Chinese employés of the plaintiff, ultimately dismissed, with costs.
present mistress, in China, for Bog each: their united wright and were drowned. The six-rd," they xxy) is sald to have scarcely which was to contradictory that the case was
commerce
and they proved it by producing properly.teenth boy happening to be the last in the line of executed receipt forms, as if the article of sliders and so nearest the edge of the pond had been cattle or pigs! teacher became so alarmed at the thought of the escaped and st once gave the alarm; but their Whether it be true or not that the row that would be made for him by the parents 18.00 Magistrates have no power to disallow of the unfortunate children, for not taking a this traffic, it surely needs no argument to belier care of bis charges," that to escape the show that the trade ought to be rigorously consequences, he at once committed suicide by stamped out at once and for ever.
hanging himself in the school-room.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE American Mail arrived iste this afternoon, per Ottanic, and will be dealt with in these columns to-morrow.
2000 Two seamen, a German and a Swede, celebrated the Kaiser's bitt day at the Sul's Iome yesterday, and were fined the usual for "d. &d." To-day.
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THE United States gunboat Palos, the renowned terror of the Eastern Seas, has been sold for 7,000 yen to Mr. Yamaguchi, of Nagusiki, and was handed over to her new owner en January 30th.
covering in their bede, even inadequate
thing among the country people to sleep with the It is a commen buffaloes for warmib. One trader in ducks lest hight lost one thousand and more from the cold, The London and China Express on the Hongnthetic of all is the rept of two little children nd Lon & cows are said to have died, But most kong Loan Anyway, a loan is a Zocessity, having been frozen to death in their home near gold loan in inscribed stock at, say, four pet the truth were known, this is, no doub, only one and the only question is whether it should be a
the south end of this town list night. And if cest, which cou'd probably be placed at a proof many such sad instances. Let there of us mium of three to four per cent, in London, or a silver loan in the Colony at, say, five per cent. at par, or possibly a slight premium. To sitempt to state which would be the cheaper method to the Colony would be to attempt forecast the sliver question, which the bold st wou'd shrink from at the present time. Seeing, how ever, that the bulk of the money is to be expended in the Colony, and that little has to be remiited heme for material for these new public works, it seems to as that it would be Colony. The Government will, at all events, wiser to issue it la liver in the know what its liability Is, With a gold an it wil not. It might gain, it might lose. Another consideration is that the issuing charges would Gavernment could do much of the necessary probably be less la Hongkong, where the work, and save commissions." ~
H. M. S. Tamar, which left on Sunday, took home relieved crews from the Caroline,
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THE Shanghal pilot schooner Siran, with Capt, Alacrity, Mercury, Pigmy, Plover, Victor others say only about lep, but it has been will notice à large increase in "Accounts Pay.
able
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
hers in this Company was held to-day. The The ordinary annual meeting of share. Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving presided, and there were K. Sassoon, J. S. Moses, J. S. Lapraik, Paon, ales present the Hon. C. P. Chater, Meari. D.. Pong, Li Sing, C. Jantzen (directors), E. F.Alfor
seen, V. A. C. Hawkins, E. J. Cozon, G: M. H. Crawford, F. W. Cross, A. Coutts, V. H. Bins C. W. Dizon, W. J. Gressos, G. Fenwick, who live lo comfortable homes take note. THE Hangchow correspondent of our Shanghai Henderson, E. Jones Hughes, P. Jordan, 1. M. Farber, J. M. Goosmann, L. Happius, marring Contemporary wlies on January 215: Parlane, Gershom Stuart, A. Turner, C. S.
R. K. Leigh, A. G. Morris, J. M. G. Manuk, W... We have passed through one werk of severely cold weather. The first snow of the season feil Taylor, G. T. Velich, R. C. Wilcox, Ho Tung on Thursday risht, the 12th ult, and everything Ho Fuk. Ho Tai Shang, Li Po Lum, and A. S. was frozen hard and stiff on Sunday moloz.
Hooper (ecretary) We have been under a blkide of ice from that
The notice of meeting having been read, day to this, though a few boats cut their way
The Chairman sald →Gentlemen, in asking through the ice yesterday and succeeded in ger
you to adopt the report and pccounts I regret remains to be seen. The cinals and ponds were APR eclable improvement in the state of depres ring outside the city. How far they can travel that we cannot congratulate ourselves on any all covered with ice about three inches thick The West Lake also was nearly covered Under the circumstances you will doubtless sion and depreciation of property referred to by the Chairman at our lust anoual meeting, over with thick jee, and there was a wide 3.40 AN Emergency meeting of Perseverance Lodge,
leaving a wide space in the middle open, An fringe of ice on each side of the Talentang River,gree with me that the resulis now laid before No. 1165, E.C., will be held in the Freemasons
you are not d'acouraging, but on the contrary Hall, Zetland Street, on Tuesday, the 7th proxine,
old man of sixty-two winters, living on the siver, better things when the commercial and finan may lead us with some confidence to expect at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren
remarked that be had never seen the ilke before. elal simosphere clears, as it cannot fail to do, it is reported that a great many poor people though possibly but slowly. On comparing the 075 are cordially invited.
were frozen to death; some say three hundred, balance sheat for 1891 with (Ent of 1291, you Viencent and his assistants, arrived safely at mamuel sud Redpole, about 1100 men impossible to gather reliable statements on the Woosung on Jan. 24th with explosives on board is all besides some
120 time expired subject. The only way is to learn how many increase in the aggregate of our Investments on to blow up the wreck of the steamer Faking Victor Emanuel. The following is as nearly as benevolent et bishments. The number is said the olber, The Ingreste in the former arises on the ene side, and a corresponding. men, invalids, and prisoners from the free coffins have been given out by the various when the opportunity offers. 0.75A LITE-SIZE figure of an elephant, eleven feet trooper-Commander C. H. Adairs Lieut. nights were the coldest, the thermometer penis on mortgages which yields reliefhetory.
possible the full list of offices who went in the to be aver a hundred. Monday and Tgesday from advances employed Jn further inv high and weighing thrty tons, intended for the Commanders G. H. Hewett, F. H. P. W registering 13 above zero. Many workmen wers Account & falling off of $35,000 appears at World's Fair, says the Madras Timas, is being Freeman, Lieutenants C. H. Dundas, W.
margin of profit Turning to the Interest chiselled out of a solid block of stone by en Bowman, H. Talbot, F. H. S. Burder, A. L.pelled to quit work for several days, 1.00 Indian Stone Quarry Company, and
against the collections In 1891 whilst our Hughes-Hughes, E. R. Sankey, H. M. THE Siam Free Press, in an editorial desling rentals on the other hand show a setisfactory A MEETING of Licensing Justices was held Baker, E. H. Parker, F. O. C. Caborac, Settlements and the overweening insolence of m:inly due to the fact that on completing the Heathcote, G. S. Shuckburgh, L. Clinton with the military contribution of the Straite growth of trapco. The dunense to interesté 1.10 to-day. Or rather, Captain Hastings met him. D. E. R. Brownrigg, H. F. Shakespear, Government oficiais la Crown Colonies, remarks, development of properties throughout the year sal, and unanimously resolved to sanction the W. R. Willis; Lleutcasat W. B. Harkner, fer alia-Hargkong has also received it we cease debiting the same with interest, for so 1.00 transfer of the "Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle" Marios Anillary Rev. C. T. Todd; Paymasters castigation from
licence from Weinberg Jualor to ditto sentor.
offended officialiom. A soon as they are productive the rentals, go to CH. A. Ward, W. C. A. J. Robinson, J. W. proposal to reduce the salaries of the cfficials swell the Roht Account as already mesilaned. has led to scathing remarks from the Secretary The apparent loss of interest of course at first 0.73 MB. Thomas C. Guthrie, of the “Village” Line, Charler, F. F. Smith, R. F. C. Eimes
bas contracted with the Alles Ship-buliding Co. Engineers J. Gardner, C. Underhill, S. J. of the Colony, who thought that such a sugges exceeds the Increase of rent, as properly thought f.co of Troon, for steel barque of a 600 tons to Robins, W. W. Pearce, T. C. E. Hughes tog was not only imperfnent bat also indecent, complets, cannot all be let in a day, and
replace the Grains, iest on the RIBemas Shoal, Surgeons B. C. E. F. Gann, C. James, G. f. On whichever side we turn in the Ess, victory may look for continued and permizent 1.to off the Chloèse coast, on October 5th, 1892,
Fogerty. J. E Coad, I. Moore, C. Bradley.
site on the binner of the pranging official, and Improvement in that source of revenue, the farce of giving the colony voice in what it You may in these times naturally ask if we are. A COOLIE who was caught hiding among a lot FOR a single handed record in big game shootleg shall pay er do is becoming every day more satisfied that our mortgages are cu a safe basis, of opium and cotton, bales in the Wharf and we believe that the experience recounted below ludicrous to cry one but the governed. The and I would say that during the past year the Cedown Ca's premales yesterday, having atsien is unrivalled. The following is a translation people of Hongkang seem to be in much the Directors have thought it prudent to call up 1.00 875 worth of opium, was (o-day sent to geol for from the Dell Courant of the 18th Jan., which same predicament as the frogs in the fable, some of the mortgages ar margins ois the mort. diz months by Capt. Hastings, assistant map:opriately heads dis paragraph the as plus They have cried for a new Governor, and what gages existing a months ago, thereby placing alira of sport "Dell has been visited occasion our Hongkong contemporaries term "bullying them on what we consider a tale basis. The ally by famous sportsmen, but not one of them O'Brien," comes as King Stork to devour them, directors are satisfied that, were any properties 040 THE Shangkal Mercury learns from a native has as yet made such a good bag as the native The nonofficial is of course helpless. He uses thrown by our hands, the low rentals even now B Fine Unsweetened, White Capsule JADOORRENTEN
report that nearly a hundred Cantonese game shikari, Mustafar. The day before yesterday his privilege and expresses his eplatan and he derived from them would in every case be suffic C Fine A. V. H. Geneva ..........
blers, beaded by a dozen fimales of the virage he met a female elephant with a young one. He receives a rhetorical anubbing, Votes are given cent to cover fall interest on our advances alice RUM.
50 type, and a pliched battle with a superior force shot the mother and then caught the call elephant en Alec and he is catnumbered. What a sippid meciing all disbursements. As stated in the of King-pah men, fa, batires of the northern and tried to fasten it to a tree. Whilst doing farce this Honourable without weight or report we propose to pay fast dividend of Finest Old Jamaica, Violet -
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baks of the Yangtze, on the 20th at Wocsung. this it commenced to "trumpet so loudly that fofluence is, then wind big to be hurst at per share making with the interim dividend 8 per Finest Old Jamaica, Violes
The dispute arose from some gambling diapure. two large elephants appeared on the scene, the lofa Secigary or any other as the chance cent per anem, and to carry forward the balance Capsule...$5.50 per Gallon, but passion sising high, at last knives and clubs would not let go bfs prey and after shooting both authori les saw the absurdity of the whole ques that it is not intended to debit with interest the At first fists were used be.ween the combatants, coming to the reicos. Meestalar, however, may be. It is really time that the Home to 1803, and to justification of this I would mention Good Leeward Island...ço per Gallos, were brought into play, the result being that elephants proceeded to Loeboeg Pakam with the lion, and it it time that the colonies in the Far undeveloped properties, or those in course of LIQUEURS.
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there were severe casualfes on both sides. Just young one, where it is at present. The following East united their forces and extried on a propa development during this year, and seeing that as the King-pèb men were on the point af mening he went back to see the dead bodies gende for representativer to the Imperial Parila. housed recently erected and in course of con in, the Military Commandant of the and had the good luck to find two ligers on the meat. Until such time we may expect to find ruction on the Company's land will not be belog a Klang-pèå man himself, sent a party if he therefore managed to kill three elephants and ing roughshod over the representatives-of-the-holders will approve of this conservative appr unidiary-to-arrest-the Cantonese who were two tigers This man has alfagether shot six taxpayers. The sooner the ludicrous play of pifition, which will tend to obviate the posibilty abliged at last to give way to the additional force tigers within short period. This happened the Hongkong and. Stratte representation farce of any shrinkage in futuro dividends until our pent against them. Soms fail results were most the sand calls stone on the road to is made an and of, the better for all English propenies are fally productive. Before propose. reported.
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