SWATOW NOTES.
(From our otan Correspondent)
SWATOW, October 13th.
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It is'a wire saying that one-should never shout till you are out of the wood, and this might ennéctly be applied to my last budget of notes published in the Telegraph. So far from the summer being ended, wo have had of lato a renewal of the tropical weather we experienced In July, and, being by this time haustlly sick of the summer, zeildenis have been crying out for a change ; even a typhoon would baya bien welcomed II' It had brought cooler weather in its train. The last two storms, which have pissed close to Hongkong, have been felt more or less here and our weather has been very unseliled and wel. On the gth | instant it looked very threatening, so much so that the Chowfa and Formosa did not deem prodent to put 10 sen ; they made an attempi on the Eib, but came back again and did not finally leave for Hongkong till next day. Our glass showed no indication of had weather, but there was a heavy sen running outside. On the after-made. noon of the toth warning came from Hongkang of another typhoon and the appearance of the weather 'bers W33 decidedly threatening Sunday was miserably, wet and squally, but though the wind freshened a little, the barome ter remained steady at 29.95 (ancorrected rending) all day, Darleg the night, however;; the wind (N.W. 'to N.) blew much stranger and early on the mersing of the rath the glass dropped nearly two tenths. Nothing, however, came of it, and the glass rose agalo sbaut coon. This morning is beautifully bright and cool, but the wind is siki westerly; tem- perature at 8 am. 73 deg. We now hear the typhoon crossed the south end of Formeas. A steam-launch, the Konguon, apparently from Hongkong, pat in for shelter on the rith and came into the harbour yesterday."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1896.
IMPORTANT ARSON CASE.
A KUROPEAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
Shanghal, October gik.
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med. The policy was sent to Hart next morning. Wiineer had to send two or three times to collect | the premium, and it was not paid until the 27th of August, after witness had threatened to cancel the policy, Witness had no reason to suspect Stephen Hart, commission agent, was charged there was anything wrong. On Sunday night he at the British Consular Court to-day with filo- arrived at Hart's office after the fire had been | niously und maliciously_setilag fre to the pro- exil: galshed. He soilced that the furniture was mlies, No. 3. Foochow Road, occupled by him. barot and the walls damaged in places. He did with intent to defraud the Melj Fire Insurance not make a detailed examination of the room. Company, with whom he bad losured the con- Witness said he went into the private rooms tents of the premises for the sum of Tiș, 2,000. with two or three gentlemen from the Central
Captain D. Mackenzie 'said 'that at 11 p.m.
Station and saw some barat paper on the shiting. on Sunday the fire alarm was rung and a fire soom table. The room was full of smoke, but was reported to him in the Foochow Road, He
there was no smell of gas. Witness' impression went to the scene of the outbreak, accompanied was that the place had been intentionally set firm by Chlet fospector Howard, and found that the to. If the fire broke out in the fint place in the fire was in one of the front rooms in the second office it would have had to burn the passage storey of No. 3, Foochow Road, The Gire before it could have got to the private apart brigade was in attendance and bad two streams mets, and, although the passage was falt of | playing on the flames. Witness and Chief- smoke, there was no sign of fire." In suswer to Inspector Howard went upstairs together and Chief Inspector Howard witness suld that under found that the fire was practically the thing on the policy, It was not usual for people the circumstances he did not futend to pay any was sent for and an examination of the mom
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to insure for six months only. room appeared to have been set on Sun Ping-sing, house coolle to Mr. Pullard, in four or five different places. There
was called and said be slept on the premises. was large desk" standing against the wall He heard a noise like the falling of a gas globe, which had been almost destroyed by fire, about it o'clock on Sunday night. He looked There was a large heap of partially burned out through bis window and saw that Hast's payer under the desk and a considerable amount room was on fire. He could not see what it was of bornt paper scattered about the room. The that was buinlog; he could only see the light `farslture was more or leas damaged by fra but Witness went over and knocked at the door and neither, (1ɔss nor walls, except in the vicinity of heated, but not receiving any answer went and the desk, wern much damaged. All the windows Informed his master. Witness did not notice were closed, except where they had been broken say papers burning. He saw Hart come in at is by the firemen. The door between the about 9.30 and go into his room witness said private rooms and the office was locked, that Hart was not in when the fire was dis but the one leading out on to the landing covered, but on being questioned he admitted was open, Wliness and Inspector Howard that he had not seen pelioner go out. then went into the private rooms. Prisoner was
Captain Mackensie suld he did not propose to not in. There it was found that two separate call say mare evidence at present than would room. The private 100ms consisted of bedroom be remanded for a week to enable the police to and sitting room, with folding doors between. obtain further evidence, Across the doors were curtains, under which s
Prisoner here naked to be allowed to make a plie of paper had been placed and fired. The statement, and, after he had been cautioned by curtains were destroyed and the wondwork of | His Worthly, he said there was no gas in his the doors much charred. On the table was a tin portion of the house. He did not dine on the kerosene lamp, half full of ell, a candle and can-premises, and the fire was as great a surprise to We have had a visit from the Royal Artillery dienick (produced), and a heap al hall-burnt him an it was to ether people. When he went cricket team that went to Amsy to play the paper. The paper was piled up to a height of g out in the evening the boys were not in the Club there. On their relorn here in the Formosa or xa inches. Witness was informed by
Habit of waiting in for him, and left all the doom on Saturday a match was arranged by our local Japanese gentleman that the contents were open. On Sunday evening, from 9.15 to 11.14, sports, in which Swatow was victorious. We are lasured in the Melji Fire Tasarance Co. for Tis. he was in quite a different part of the Settle Considerably proud of our lack, for the RA 2,000, Apolicy had been taken out for six ment and could bring evidence to prove it. team thrashed Amoy. Our worthy Consul, the months, which in itself was an unusual proceed- When be returned on the night in question the Hon. Secretary of the Cricket Club and Mr. Rossing. After consulting with Chlet Inspector fire was out, and the desk contafelng all his were towers of strength to our Eleven, Why Howard witness thought the circumstances suf. books and simples was completely destroyed. doesn't a team the H. K. C. C. make a tour of ficiently suspicious to warrant the apprehension Not thinking there was any possibility of there the coast ports? They would meet with a haariy of the prisoner, and Chlef Inspector Howard and teleg another fire to the inner rooms, he went Welcome here and elsewhere. The gallant Detective-Sergeant Armstrong were instructed to downstairs, thinking that perhaps some of the gunners bad, I hear, miserable weather up and effect his arrest.
firemen had saved his books, but a fireman be down the coast, and their trip from Swatow to
met in the passage told bim nothing had been Hongkong was, I fear, anything hat pleasant.
removed. The reason for his taking out the afz months' policy was that his lease expired in March, next, and the agent of the Melji Co. declined to carry over the policy to other premises, saying they might not be as good risk.
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Mr. Litchfield asked for an order of restitution of the bags of silver found in the possession of the convicted man. "
His Honear-All that money is to be 101tartch--Japan Mali
BELGIAN ATROCITIES IN AFRICA.
For the purpose of obtaining some informa- tion on the position of the Belgians on the Upper Congo, in view of the reported advance of an expedition under Baron Dhanis against the Dervishes, represcatative of Rauter's Agency called upon Mr. Alfred Firminter, a rentleman who has been in the service of the Congo State and of the Société Anonyme Balge sioce 1884. From 1884 to 1886 Mr. Farminter Stanley Fook, under Mr. H. M. Stanley and Sie was on the Lower Congo, between Metadi and
the exception of absence on leave, he was in the Francis de Winton. From 1887 to 1893, with
employ of the above-named Belgian Trading | Company as Director of the Congo Transpan Service." He said:
able. Under such clicumstances it is well to remember that the Congo State is the creation of European diplomacy. Primally, however, it is under the control of Belgium, and it is far that Power to ace that it is properly administered, So many accusations have been made, accom- panied by circumstantiat dejalis, that it would surely not be amiss for the Belgian Govern mant to institate & Commission of Irqater lato the methods of its offspring.
(Dally Chronicle, September 9th.] It may be well for the Powers which gulda the course of the world's history far more directly than it has ever been controlled before to be thisk themselves of the kind of gifts that they Lave bestowed on it (the Congo Fren Stato), What they have done in Africa we all know, and we may take as a useful remtader the memorial which the Aborigines' Protection Society bag jest addressed to Her Majesty's Government. the protection of the native populations of Africa England was ons of the sigustories of the Act for
of 1889 to 1800. She bas certainly not been the which was the result of the Brussels Conference worst offender against the humane Intentions of that Act, though the native policy of men like Mr. Ceci Rhodes may well stem to deprive her of any iftie to hold up her head as a felend of the black races. Bat she must by this time be the Powers drew up, and of its Inadequate aware of the practical failure of the code which character. That is a mild enough description when we recall the unspeakable horrors which Mr. Parinter alleges against officials of the Congo State, and which, sustained as they ara by much evidence. permanently blot the record of that fil-mened and ill-conducted enterprise.
Infamies so base, to unspeakable, do voi, wo hope, ife at the door of any great European Power, though Germany has much to answer for in the conduct of some of the most famond of her explorers. The Aborigines' Protection there is some prospect of the Power meeting for some more humane and then the protection of the butcher of Constantinople.
The last three evenings the flood tidens have attempts had kɛɛ mađe ta set fire to the afiting { jestily a rewand, and asked that prisoner might † tell; the ́aficer could only get the samO EDIWET | Society Calls for a new conference, and we hope
been abnormally high, coming over the Band in places and Aboding the reclaimed ground. The China Merchants' new godowns have been nearly swath and on Sunday the water'in the native town was kore deep. Bradier's ground at Kakchio has also been-partlajly 'fioded.
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Pricoser was remanded for a week, pending Mackensie said he had no objetlon to ball being granted, and the sum was fixed at Tix. 2,000, the Capt. Saperintendent saying that the police would garrisoner every facility to obtain bail –N C. Datly News.
Chief Inspector Howard was next called and sald he accompanied the Captain Superintendent Caniten to mathroom-eaters: Three members
to the premises and went at once to the room of the Customs aff at this port have been halfwhere the fire had broken out. The bedroom polsoned through easing fungi of various kinds, and sitting room had no connection with the Presumably they thought they were mushrooms, office where the larger outbreak was There bat thave been load-stools. Of e^aree, no-
was no sign of fire la the passage between the body is to b'ame, for, as is always the case when
two tooms, which wers about 17 feet apart. The production of further evidence, Captain something goes wrong, every Celestial domestleafice door leading to the passage was open. when cross-sxrmined $175 “my so sarvee." A lamp was sent for and witness and the Captain "no bilang my midgin," or 'my no bave ree ho." Superlatendent examined the premises and came to the conclusion that it was a case of incen. FOREIGN AND NATIVE ENTER- distlim. The office must have been set fire to in
PRISES IN CHINA.
shout nine d fferent places. The gas was turned CO, a witness personally examined every burner to the room. There was no smell of gas in any part of the premises. All the furniture in the office was more or less burned, but the room itself very little damaged, with the exception of the win. dow framer, which were badly chatred. The two windows were about six feet apart, and though the frames were burnt almost through, the wall between them was not damaged. The door opening on to the verandah was also burned on
AN INTERESTING COMPARISON. The well-informed writer of notes on "The Situation," whose Intersileg Jutting usually cover portions of the wide field of politics, lately devoted a low spare moments to the subject of foreign and native enterprises in Ching, the result belog the following interesting comparison of the progress effeted :-
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Yesterday the hoseing was concluded, the accused belog committed for trial.
THE "SAIKIO, MARU" SCANDAL.
YOKOHAMA, October 11t
At ten clock ible morning, Edwin Ryder, lalo second officer of the Nippon Yasen "Kaf·ha's the folds. The only place where the walls were steamer Saikio Mars, and Edward Dawson, For several years a cotton mill, subsidized by at all charred was near the desk, which stood | Tats hled engineer of the same vesir), warn the Government, has been working at Shanghai clore up to the wall. Durlar the time witness | brought us before Judge Mowat in H.B.M. under the direction of a foreigner ; It has 30,000 was there the prisoner came in and mide Court for Japan to receive sentence-one having spindles. The present consortium is the fourth a remark about his crib belog burned and pleaded guilty of stealing a box of treasure con since the commencement of the establishment, said "Save my broks." He was drunk at the talolog $: doo from the mall-room of the steamer, under the protezilon of LI_Hang-chang; thé | time. Witocin' did not think prisoner went the other having been found galliy of receiving capital has consequently been renewed four foto the bedroom. On an examination being part of this mosey, knowlar it to have been talon. times, after Baving been eaten up by the made of the sliting room, it was found that Mr. H. C. Litchfield, Crown Pros:cuors Mr. Directors and thele helpers. Three yentengo || a list of paper had been placed close to the folding Tamlo Hayashi, Manager of the Yokobama the factory was arnt down, and was rebuilt, doors communicating with the bedroom. On branch of the Nippon Yaren Kalshaj and The Government has since then occupied itself | the uliting room table was the lamp and candle Tospector Maki, Superintendent of the Settle- in establishing two more mills in Shanghai stick which were produced In Coat. The lamp meat Police, were present. under the direction of mandarin consortia. The was such as would be used la naive epok right to fatraduce machinery has induced foreigners to establish several cotton mills, which will be at work next year. The present con- junctures of the money market and the success of the foreign silk fila'ures induced the Govern ment to establish such a flature by a mandarin Consortium.
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houses, hat never in the residences of foreigners, After seeing that two deliberate attempts had been made to fire the sitting room, witness con sulied with the Captain Superintendent, and it. was decided to arrest the prisoner. He was ap prehended in Foochow Rosd by witness and Detective-Sergeant Asmatrang. He was told the change and cautioned in the usoal way. He made a long, rambling statement which had no bearing on the case and of which witness took no notice as the prisoner was under the leficence of drink. The charge was read over to him again in the morning and no statement was made by him. Captain Mackenzie, recalled, said there was no smell of gas in the place. He examined each gas burner în turn and tested them with matches, but apparently the gas had been turned off at the motor. Witness saw no one at all on the premites.
Mr. W. Ballard, of the Eastern Extension
Ryder was first placed in the dock, and In answer to the formal question of the Clerk of Arraigns (Mr. C. D. Moss)—Have you any thing to say why sentence should not be passed upan you ?—szid he wished to make a remark,
His Honour said he was willing to hear prisoner,
Ryder said-Is.lt probable that I should steal a box of $2,000, take it woon deck into my cabin, and there give hall of it to another man bring the rest on shore and then gira rome more away to another man? That is all I have to way.
His Houdur-I understood that you pleaded guilty on Monday!
Ryder-Yor.
His Honour-Dawson at kis trial said, in a statement made before the magistrate, that he was brought to your room, where the treasure then was that he was given drisk by you, that he was generally the worse for drink; and was more or less drunk the whole of the time; I | shall be glad to hear if that was so ?
Ryder Yes, he was under the influence of drink.
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"One of the most horrible Instances of cruelty that ever cams to my knowledge occurred in the district of the Oneile. A Belgian officer, a leutenant, had been despatched with a force of some fity or sixty men to a village to capture the chief, who had been guilty of some fault against the Government. The force arrived in the village, but only to find it apparently deserted. in rummaging, however, in the huts for plunder they came upon two women, mother and daughter, who had not had time to get away owing to the mother being ill. They were brought up before the officer in command, whe demanded of them where the chief was in biding. The women chher did not know or would not from them after repeated inquiries, and fically lost his temper. He ordered them to be secured and laid out on the ground, where they were held down by eight of his strongest men, and a stalwart soldier then proceeded to administer sky skukes of the "chikette to each. The "chikotte is a strip of dried hippopotamus hids about five feet long and an inch wide at the butt end, tapering down to a thin cruel lash. After the fifty lashes had been administered the leutenant again asked them for informaation as to the whereabouts of the chief, only to receive the same answer. The dogging conilaned antil each bad received soo lashes. Finally, this Belgian officer ordered his men to cut off the breasts of the women, and then left them to die where they lay. Some time after this the officer came down country, and in passing Tchimbi, One of the stations of the Itimbert, he stopped, as all white men do when passing another white man's station. My chief agent and his second came down to the river bank to receive the visitor, but when they saw who it was, they politely requested him to get into his canoa again, at the same time saying that they could not possibly give hospitality to assassins. I am happy to be able to give the names of these two selves with such a roffan, although of their own Belgians who thus refuse to associate them country and a State officer. They are MM. Morrison and Lolutsin. These are instances pi the kind of warfare that is waged against the Congo people, and is at the bottom of the unsettled condition of the State. The bigh State officials can scarcely be blamed. They do what they can to improve matters, but it is impossible todeal with this sort of thing from Boma. What control can possibly be had on the actions of, a headstrong young offour several weeks' journey |
distant ?
[Globe, September 8th.] The murder of Mr. Stokes need surprise nobody what should shame overy Englishman is that his murderer is still a free man. "Lucky for up," said Mr. Parminter's Belgian fellow passengers, "that Stokes was an Englishman;
he had been a Frenchman, or a German we should never have heard the last of it, but the English are shopkeepars; they take money even for human flash." It was a stinging remark, and the sling lies in its trath,
Birmingham Detly Post, September 8th.]
Mr. Parmister does not pretend to say that the Belgian officers are constitutionally bad and depraved. Whatever the exalanation of the scandal, it is one of such gravity and magnitude that we hardly see how the King of the Belgians can avoid making it the subject of a special commission of enquiry.
SHIPPING And mail news.
MAILS DUE: Australian (Chingiu) 16th inst English (Khedive) 17th Inst. American (City of Faking) 19th Inst. German (Pressren) soth inat Américan. (Dorfc) 6th inst. Canadian (Embriss of India) 4th prox. Tacoma (Braemar) 4th proz American (China) 5th prox.
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THE: Canadian Pacific "Railway Co.'s steamer Empress of India left Vancouver for this port yesterday.
SHIPPING RITURAK. From 6 pm, yesterday to & pm, to-day,
ARRIVALE,
Many here in Europe are perhaps not aware that the Belgian officers receive a considerable commission on the tvory and rubber they collect, in many cases amounting to 15 per cent, and so per cent, of the value. A year or two ago the Belgian officials even received so much per head for the slaves they sent down in the training | Douro ......mastermer, from Shangbal. carsps, of Banko, Equiter, Kinobaess, and Chingking..................... 11 others. I havo often seen a slave ateamer com. FÅR ing down river packed with slaves—the State || men call them libd/s--sliting on the deck in rows without a spare inch to move in, and at night when the steamer stopa chased ashoro into the bush to find shelter as they may,"
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clonal spells of staklog which I cannot describe. Hot and cald fusbos came over me, my month lasted badly, and after osiing I had a feeling at the cheri like the pressure of an actual load upon is I never
seemed rested, and awoke in the moming more tired than when I went to bed. I was also much troubled with wind or gas from the stomach, and raised a sour, biting finid.
* In this manner I continued to suiter for nearly two years, no-malleine that I took giving me any rellet. In January, 1899, I got a small book and read in it of cues like mine having bora cured by Mother Beigel's Curative Syrap. I. immediately or taking it shout ten days, folk much better. procured the melisine from Boots Drug Store, and could eat something nou
nourishing without any pain following. I kept on with the Byrep and was 5000 in my former good health onos moro. Tog bave my mission (M) Aun Shaw, 174, Barnsley Road, Batimoor, Shelold, March 8th, 1886.
to make this statement public. (81ed)
Tomobing the "indescriballs sensation" alluded to by both ladies, an-eminent modioal author says: The sufferer has the komeat realivation of the bitternes *It is syncope without the loss of conscioaram, S
of dissolution. I haru' soon, stalwart men unnerved and shaken by much experiences till they tremblad like aspen paves."
by indigestion or dyspepsia. The remedy is to purify The cause is au sold poison in the blood produced
the blood with Mother Seigel's Syrup, and to tone approach of the earlimi algus of wonknma-dist. the stomach in the same way, Tie the Syrup on the
Amusements.
GRAND BALLAD CONCERT
IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, WILL BE HELD AT THE PEAK HOTEL. TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), the 15th October, 1895, AT 9.15PM
Under the Patronage of H.E. Str WILLIAM ROBINSON, KCMG, Major-General WILSONE BLACK, C,B,, Commodore HOLLAND, RN. kindly consented to assist:
The following Ladies and Gentlemen havE
Mrs. VALLIKUS, MI. WELMAN, Miss COXON,
Mr. SLIMAN,
Mr. GRACE,
· Mr. GOSTE,
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Mr. GRAYSON, R.A. TICKETS $2 each, to be obtained from any Member of the Committee, the MOUNT AUSTIN HOTEL and Mestra. KELLY & WALSH, LD.
Hongkong, 6th October, 1895.
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Intimations.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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1 MEMBERS of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, convened in accordance with Rula za of the Rules of the Club, will be held at the CITY HALL SATURDAY, the 17th day of Other, 1896, at 2.30 P.M., to confirm the Resolution passed at the Extraordinary General Meetfog of the Members of the Clab held at the City Hall on the and October instant, particulars of which reseipifon will be circulated for the general information of the Members.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course, Hongkong, 6th October, 1896.
[1556 CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, ⠀
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THE FIFTEENTH ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the OFFICES of the Undersigned at 12 o'clock (Noo), on MON", DAY, the 19th October.
·{Daily Telegrapk, September 9th.] rages perpetrated in the Congo Free State is an Mr. Parminter's story of the cruelties and out.
ugly, but not, unfortunately, a new one. Ampa- tnted cars and hands are brought into the camp levies have not expended thels ammunition in of Belgian oficials to prove that their native
vain; torture is inflicted to compel the discovery of supposed treasure, or the whereabouts of wanted chiefs; slavery la winked at because the so-called emancipated are required to supply the lack of free labour, and so on through the sickening list of horrors perpetrated with the countrance of European officials. The explan ation, though not the excuse, can be gathered from the extracts from Mr. Parmiater's | S. "D. Carlston'................. narrative. "The greater portion of the interior " Strathalian where these barbarities sze practised, "even a Saratov monumen short distance from the banks, bave never been John Batiley RESER *Cosmopollian trodden by a Belgian foo£* And again, "The Garlic........... {emons are not far to seek. They are, first, the
Wotan ¶¶¶¶ absolute inexperience of most of the officers Olympia secondly, the impossibility of checking their Sungklang m actions from headquarters. For the most patt the effcern arrivo straight from a Belgian town, own country before, and on being suddenly They have, probably, never been outside their AN INDESCRIBABLE SENSATION. thrust, with almost unlimited powers, among conditions that are strange, dangerous, ninos and unmized colours. In other words it must To be curlly described a thing must have clear onts healthy, and depressing, it is no wonder that they lose their heads and adopt their own body, tumhis while walking, the shape of a bar, de, be simple. A rent in one's clothing, boli on one's means to obtain promotion and wesith, in order the sooner to telein to Europe." If we complex and comprehensive things passis the mind really set forth in words. On the contrary the put these two expressions of opialen together, and take the meaning from language. there is so difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that until the Congo Free State has opened up is communications with the faterior there will be do means of exercising authority and control, of of developing that sense of responsibility which is the secret of the successful government of inferior races by Europaans, It may be with the sanction or connivance of professing remarked in prming that atrocities committed Chalatians upon blacks do not seem to rok 1998, My health appeased to give way all at once. X as illness which led to it began in the spring of anything like the same indignation in England found myself tired, howry, and feeble. My sppetita as the tortures la ficted upon the Armenians by wsa poor, and after eating I had much distress at the feasibility, the tyranny of whites over negroes is gradually declined and I became very low, weak, and Massnimans. Yet, if there are degrees of inde, stomach and pain at the chest and sides. My strength the lens excurable, since there cannot even be nerrose and it was when in this condition that I felt
the indescribable sensation I have spokane Prged the adequate plex of race Jealousies and religlang kolmosities,
“Isoon became so depressed in body and mind [Morning Post, Beptember gth]
that it was with gread labour and strain that attended business. I was extremely down-hearted and sideration when dealing with bis case. I sea scurt His story is one of wrong-doing, of Edigal? Eyrup was commended ad me, and I began There is no apparent reason to doubt the fmble, and none of the many medioses I tried did tonce you to undergo the penalty of two years' Parmalater. His story is one of wrong-dolag,
me any real good. In December, 1999, Mother imprisonment with hard labour, to date from the texture, and of slavery. The white officers are sising to with, I penfoss, small. confidence. But she day of your conviction, three days ago, accused of todifference or worse. Slavery is having taken it for a few days
Dawson was then pisced in the dock, rampant, and the officus of the Biste are or were 247 appetite Improved, and eating no longer av for Tis. 2,000 for six months on his faraiture guilty by the jury of receiving money knowing they could procure. Of course the enforced value in the
His Honour-Dawson, you have been found paid according to the number of slaves where pain. and private effects, and at the same time asked it to have ben, steles. Tas cireurenstanges of inbourers are not called slaves, bel; charset nervousness disappeared with my foreing strength. for a reduction of rates. Wlineas went to Hart's your case are very bad, though not so bad as Farmiloter: "I never yet met n Hidrs who had of Mother Belgel's Byrup quietly set me office and told him this was impossible, at the Ryder's, He appears to have suggested the finished his contract." There can be no further had so convincing an experience of what is owne same time advising him to intere for your if he crime to you by giving you drink while you question, moreover, that the State, through its recommend it to all my friends and customers. You wanted cheaper rates. He fically Insured his were drunk, for he sister that you were drank officials well cans and ammunition to the can make such use sue you like of this letter. (Bigoad). A SHIPMENT WAVERLEY" BICYCLES, effects for Tis. 2,000 for six months. A copy of at the time. But I cannot such much of any natives, and this fact is calculated to shed an (Kiss) Babins Mitchalian Marsham-le-Ben, Boston, the policy, together with the correspondence Importance to that. The theft was committed pleasant light on the charges which were made Ince, May 17th, 16955 which had passed relating to ft, was handed in on the Wednesday night; next morning you | 'agulant Mr. Sukes. La any case, the revelations for bis Worship's perusal. Hart was busy when went to work. You could not have been of Mr. Parteinter show that the administration of witness saw him, so he (wilness) took his word intoxicated on that following morning and all the Congo Hist to, så liste beed frequently mynd that the affects' inaweed ware worth the gums.) that day, 3 skali santeson you sa 15 mentha']['ft these soluntad, theroogkdy merupť nad á botnlat/
Besid's the ladustry which we have mentioned we have still to refer to the Great Chinese Steam- ship Co. This is a share company, in which the shareholders are mostly mandarins, under the chief direction of Li Hang-chanz. The founders of this company were to have tried to suppress the foreign consting steamers. The Sest Chinese Steamship Co. grew quickly, ss them was no lack of money. At present the fleet counts twenty-six stomers, which run to all the treaty posts of China. The feet is exclusively commanded by foreign officers, and the shareholders regularly draw a certain divi- dend, the payment of bleh only becomes possible Telegraph Co., sald he occupied rooms on the by the subsidies of the Government. This 10- same floor as prisoner. On Sunday night wit- called Chios Herchant Co. has, however, muluseð ness arrivað kome at about 10 45 p.m. How fis original sim, sod Chicese capitalists havano no sign of de on the way to his rooms. His chance of forming new steamship compacies, boy was sway sick and the house coolle was the HI Honour-Ryder, I have read the depos! because the Government strictly prevents the only servant on the premises. Witness went to tion of your examination before the magistrate, establishment of such. At the end of the his room and about ten minutes after the coolle and I can but consider your case to be a eightles a small company was, however, formed rushed in and said there was a fire in the house. extremely bad one. I see nothing in it that ander the name of the "Formosa Trading Com-Witness went to the door and saw Hart's room redeems it at all. Not only did you steal the pany," at the head of which was the Governor | in a biara. There seemed to be a fierce box of allver, but you also tempted another man of Formors, who had two ships bulit in England blaze on the one alde of the room und to commit a crime. You were placed in a for the purpose. These steamers commenced to on the other a cane chair was burning by itselt position of trust by your employers and you ply regularly between Formosa and the northern There was no fire in the intervening space wilfully broke the confidence that they had placed ports, but only for a short time, because the between the large bloss and the chair. in you. The confidence that they considered mandarin Steamship Company raw in them at struck witness as being singular for the they were honestly justified in placing in you violation of their own interests. The steamers chair to be baralag completely alone in this ought to have kept you from committing this were limited to the Shanghal-Formosa line, and manner. Seeing that he had time to dress crime. I think that the discovery of your Company, in consequence, was soon witness went back to his room and put on his conduct has erused a great shack to the men of closed. The China Morchanta
Steam clothes. He then procured buckets and filling your class. Employers of men of your das, Navigation Company has, darfog the past few them in the bath room endeavoured to extinguish in this part of the world, might also reasonably years, not increased its tonnage capacity. Precil the dames, but without success, Witness could have feared after this that the confidence they cally speaking, Chins possesses not a single got say what it was that caused the big blaze. reasonably separed to men of similar station foreign sailing vessel, and the fanks are stil the Ze saw a few loose papers lying about as the might also be unjustified In this way, I fear only wind jammers" ploughing the China Sea, floor, but they were not burning. There was no The enterprising spirit of the mandarins and smell of gas. Witness saw no one about and
you have, by your condect, inflicted on the bedour of men of your poisten a serious wound. Independent Chloese has not developed very did not go into the other rooms.
The honour of a class is made up of the honour much; wa msy mention a Paper Mill,. « Match By Chief Inspector Howard-The door of the of the individuals composing that class; this is Factory
Filatores, two Chromolithographic office was open, Wilmern thought it was why I think you have inflicted a serious wound establishments and several Printing Presses in suspicious that no servants were on the premises on the home of the men of your stalls. Shanghal; a Glaning Establishment in Ningpo; and that the fire was burning in faglated places. I am glad to hear your statement that and a Filature le Macia. The foreigners kive Mr. S. Iwashita, of the Melj! Fire Insurance Dawson was in a state of druskenness on the established the following industrial enterprises: Co., entd that prisoner wrote to him on the 15th night of the theft, and I shall take it into con.
In Shanghal, three Dry Docky, a Gas Factory, of August last enquiring about insurance rates for Waterworks, Dispensaries, a Machine Factory, six months. Witness auswered on the same date Match Factory, Sulphuric Acid Factory to the effect that the rate was per cent. Tess Skin Press, Ginning Establishment and 10 per cent, per annum and that the rate for the Petroleum Reservoles in Hongkong there are half-year was three-fourths of the above. two Sagar Refineries, two Cement Factories, Prisoner wrote saying he would take out a policy Sleats Bakery, Electrie Light Works, a Rape Factory, an Ich Factory, throe Docks, Coal Brick Factory and several Petroleam Reservoirs. We may here who mention at Tientsin the Off gas Factory, the Match Factory, the Taaisia Fress, and the Chinese Flour Mill, and we hope soon to be able to speak of the Tientsin Water Glaze, for which there is an immense demand, kas, la spite of several anempts, as yet not been successfully mansiactured in China-Tiantain
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