THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897.
SUPREME COURT.
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sent price must be below the cost of production, | LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. and to all probability they will be compelled to shut down. Some large producers, on the other hand, shtits, sliver in conjascitan with other metals, and these fauld, of course, go on taking it out, no matter bow tow the piles might fall. There are no means of ascertaining what pro- portion of the total production is supplied by these mines, In any case it seems pretty obvious that in the restriction of production, In some form or other, lies the only hope either of
recovery in the market value of the metal, or a restoration of steadiness to the market,
THE PURON GOLDFIELDS.
The Ottawa chrrespondent of the Times, ring on 23rd August, says :-A party of miners who left Dawson City on July 3 reached Victoria to-day. They say that provisions aro very scarce at Dawton City and that there is not enough water in the gulches to do much mialog. About 400 men were la camp at Dyes and Shagway, unable to proceed owing to the bad condition of the walls," Many of them were endeavouring to sell their outfits and return. Year few miners would succeed in getting through the Klondike before the spring.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION, (Before His Lordship Str 7. W. Carring ton, Ki C.MG. OMiƒ Justice)
September 30th,
IP PINO KWAN 9. CHOY TAI SHÍ,
The plaintiff sued for the recavery of $3,000 with Interest of ta per cent on lt, on a promis. sory date signed by the husband of defendant, deceased.
Mr. J. J. Francis, Q C., (instructed b⋅ Mr. V. H. Deacon), p.eared for the plaintiff and Mr. E. Robinson (stracted by Mr. Wel Op) for, the defendant.
the colony as being." a disgrace to clvilization -and, Dr. Clark added, in some respects, perhaps, they were not far wrongs, Yet their proposal now was a deliberatempt to revert to the Inadequate sanitary cozialens of pre-plague days, and all because a local architect thought any improvement in the direction indicated might prejudice the rights of owners of there disgracefal proverites, The suggestion that the Medical Officer of Health and the Magistrato should both ba sa blind to the free interests of the community as to object to the improvement of house property was too absurd to be seriously entertained. If the com- miralon persisted in its amendmenta ka saw no alternative open but to apply to the board for permisilon to request the Magistrate to con- demn any of these houses an unft for komen. habitation in accordance with section 23 of the Public Health Ordinance of 1887. If this
His Lordship to-day gave his decision on a emasculated bylaw is a fair sample of what the
point raised yesterday by Mr. Robinson, that the commission will recommend the Government to
promisory nole sued on was not determined to do then the board need look no longer to
be payable at a certain time, and that therefore the Commission for assistance and support in
the case should be dismissed. His Lordship securing the very necesary reforms erged
sald the question raised was whether the by them upon the government in August,
P. N ssed on cime within the meaning 1896. He did not see why the matter should be dealt with in camera, as suggested
of the Act, and he then read the interpretation of the term "promissory note" as Isld down In' by the President, as the oilginti bylaw had
The Canadian Casioms officials are experienc-Chalmers's Digest. The learned judge went afreadly been tabled in the Council and pab-
into the matter most exhaustively, and made labed in the local press and the suggested amending no difficulty in collecting the dates on out
par icsiar reference to the silpalutkão an' to the fits bought in the United States. ment was the outcome of a letter published in
time in which the imeant claimed should be the press by Ms Leigh,
pald. It was not necessary for him, he said, to say Dr. Clark, after speaking at great lenpib, pro-
whether be belleved the stipulation was made or posed that the Colonial Secretary be informed that the Board could not adopt the suggestion of
not, but it was certainly consistent with the forms of the pate, which was really in two parts." The the Insanitary Commleston and thai the minutes
words ward were those generally used by Chinese of the members of the board be forwarded to the
in such documents and the second part con- Colonial Secretary to be shown to his Excellency
tained a silpulation that payment was to be made within or by the expiration of the 13th moon, 1896 If not the money was to be paid in 12 months. The deceased makes of the Got was eatbled to pay the money at any time during the 12th moon and the payment could. not be enforced until the last day of that month. “A small detachment of mounted police will His Lardship quoted a case where payment was leiva in a few days for Yokon, laking a different
to be made within two months and another caso whern & sons was to be paid on a route from these generally followed.” They start
P N. in two from Edmonton, Alberta, and proceed by way of years. He thought the first part of the note con- the Peace, Nelso0, Llard, and Pelly rivers, Thinstituted a good and valid P. N. In the latter is an experimental trip and has been adopted as slip
stipulation was exactly laid down that if the money could not be paid at dae date balf should be
repaid and the remaining ball be paid next year without fall. There was the contingency as To the ability to pay and defendant was relieved from making the payment if he had not the money.
the Govertor,
The Hon, Diretor of Public Works seconded and it was carried nasalmonely.
ADJOURNMENT.
The Board adjourned for a fortnight.
THE FALL IN SILVER,
The Government have completed all arrange ments for properly administerlog the Yakon judicial little, in which the Klondike g 1dfields leaves shartly for Dawson City to assume his are stigated. Major Walsh, the Administrator,
charge.
Joseph Ladne, the owner of the site of Dawson City, is here securing patents for his lands from
b the Department of the Interior. He strengly
warns prospectors agulost, attempting to ester the country this year. He is afraid that, owing to the lack of provisions in the country, many of those who have already started will die of starra- ilau,
■ text roule,
AN ASIATIC BISMARCK.
Only a few years ago the Japanese legislature was extremely unruly, and the Mikido was His Lordship made relerance to similar cases forced to dissolve the Parliament as recently as he bad quoted, in which the instruments were the Spriur of last year." To-day the people give not held to be promissory notes. The ficts of consent to avery measure of the Government, the transaction were reviewed at length and and every one acknowledges that this is_In_8 | his Lordship said be considered that the second large degree dus to the recent auccesses in the part introduced the element of uncertainty, war with China. This war would, perhapı, kare, by learlag Út unknown whether the whole turned out less advantageous had not Japan of part was to b; met and that was a contin- ponsored a man who, like Hismarck, reorganized the defenses of the country. In spite of Parlls-gency of which no one could be certain. He thought, therefore, that stipulation rendered mentary opposition. That man is Count Ito, the time of payment uncertain and prevented the the Japanese Premier. The Tageblatt, Berlin, document complying with the provisions of the contains an interestleg sketch of his life, from Ordinance as to time of payment and he did not which we take the following:
think that the instrument could be supported as P.N. Reference was made to a plen by Mr: Francis that at the time the money was payable defendant bad such a sum bat, hie Lardship. sald, that could not be taken as meaning test he bad so much money for given purpose. He thought the instrument was not a promissory note in this case and the guit must
fall.
FROM THE "ECONOMIST," After the disorganisation which followed the repeal al the Sherman Act to the United States and the closing of the Indian, mints, allver attained a fair degree of stondiness, and there seemed to be a prospect that the market might settle down to a condition in which half-a-crown an ounce would be about the normal price of the white metal. During the whole of last year the fluctuations imaged "only between 19ld and 31 9/165 per conce, almost the only disturbing Influence being the speculation that look place while the result of the Presidential election in the United States was a matter of uncertainty The price fell to sbont the lowest point of the year when the candidato favourable to the free colonge of silver was defeated by a large ma jority, and sliver remained at about 2911 per ounce baill the close of the year, and for the first two months of 1897 Since the beginning of March a gradual fall bas taken place, the quotation going to 28. 5/16d on March 311l, and after a peifod of comparative steadiness to 274 3.| on June 1st, from which not much change occur. Count Ito is a scion of an old aristocratic red until the last week in July. During the Japanese family, and entered at an early age present month, however, the decitas has been the army of the Shlogan, who then ruled continuous and severe, culminating this week in supreme in Japan * Ito and ble filead Iapaya, final break, which leaves the quotation at tiule who lately sent to reform the adminis better than two shilings per ounce. While tration of Korer, belonged to the anti-foreign therefore the movement has become accentasted party, for they had been told since their lofancy recently, it has really been in progress for up- that the pale-faced barbarians would rain, the wards of six months, and in view of that circum- country. The foraigners then lived nearly Mr. Francis siked for leave to amend bis stance the theories put forward to explain the in Yokohama, and the two young fire-esters, pelion under the provisions of section 62 fall seem to be scarcely borne out by the avali- burning with patriotism, conceived the abrection 18-19. The real question in con. able facts. The main reason given is a
plan to kill the barbarians. They left Tokyo pressure
troversy was whether the money was dug and with a hundred med to carry out this wild Idea, of supplies from the United States, accompanied
owlog to the plaintiff and he subralised” that - by a "failing off in the demand." A reference, but were discovered, and hately escaped the court had not power to impose conditions
however, to our Board of Trade Returns shows 'détection, when, daring the night, they
auto 'ilme, and expenses. In Justice to the that up to the end of July the supplies from fought their WAY through Ibe soldiers
parties his Lerhhip was bound to allow amend. America were less la válaë, than for the corre- thai bed surrounded them. They soon learned
menis to be made in the petlilon. sponding period in 1896, the figuren belog that the execution of their plans woold His Lordship sald that the petition should be £5,677,393 and £5.779,385 respectively. Alte- have involved the country in a war with remodelled and brought before bim in Chambers. geiber our impons of silver this year were valued Englan^, and that a victory la Tuch It was an important point and the real question, £9.950,464, as compared with £8,163,941 in * struggle was only possible If Japan posas Mr. Frands had stated, was whether the the Erst seven months of 1896; bat of the to- sessed big ships and guns. Ito and Inouye then
mɔney way owing Crease of £1,800,000 £8,000,000 was accounted asked the Prince of Choshe, their Chiet, per- fox by larger ibipments kom Belgium, and these talesion to go to England, to study the manners in their turn were neutralised by return ship. of the enemy, laspect their arsenais, and obale ments of about the same value, Including this the secret of their ren-power. Their money waT Item the value of silver exports from the Unlied sent to Shanghal, with orders to transmit it le Kingdom in the seven months has exceeded the London, but the insiractions to the Shanghai total for the same period last year by about ageot were not very clear, and the shipped them £1,200,000, and as regards the East our ship- as common sailors to England, instead of oblata ments to India were valued at £3,373,340 asing berths for them as passengers. Arrived at compared with 1035,210 last year, though London, the crew left the ship, with the exception there was a falling off of about £500 000 in the of the two young Japanese, whose agent had shipments to Chinx, and of nearly £600,000 to not yet come to receive them. That day Japan.
was the darkest in their life. They had a dollar left, and went to buy some bread, and the baker, seeing that the steinkers did not know the valug of the cols, did not give them change. Luckily the agent came the next day, and they con menced their studies of Europeso Institutions.
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It certainly cannot be said that these figures support the theory that the fall in silver in due to a glat la ike market. Bat there is a talk of recent heavy valen of the metal by holders in the United States, who for one reason OT BD- other are anxious to get rid of accumulated "After many kirange adventares they returned stocks; and, of course, if such sales have been to Japan, where, in the mean time, the enmity made, the shipments consequent upon them against the foreigners bad increased. When would not show in the returns unifl a later the two travelers related that the foreigners WORD dato. Obviously, however, if it is to saceptional just as brave as the Japanese, and much more transactions of that kind that the presckt decline powerful, the Shlogun's men treated Ito and is due, then there is a reason for expecting a Inouye as traltors, and the latter was attacked recovery after they are completed. And as the falling off in the demand for the stone evening by 's mob and felt for dead upon
which so much is being said, thets seems to be a good deal of exaggeration, India, as we have shown, has been taking considerably get quaestion of sive ale your than he did last
1 extent to which she has absorbed the matal doring the period of famine and plagas has Indeed been astonishing, and why it should be expected that her power of absorption should diminish when the worst éffects of those osi» amities have been felt, and a period of recupera. Hon may be expected to set in la not evidant, The Chinese
nese market has been disorganized, but there is nothing to show that the outlet there for silver L Likely
to become any more restricted than it has been. Then as to Japan, ia is trus that the adoption of the gold standard has led to a diminution in her imports of silver and will cemilune to have that affect. For some years past, however, Japan has been exporting about as much silver as the Imported, and the casss- Hon of her purchases will not greatly affect the relation between the world's supply and do. mand, while there is the possibility of the sliver yens now circulating outside of her borders" be ing retsmed to her, thus causing a vold which will have to be otherwise diled
On tha whole, then, there are some grounds for thinking EMMA UO presunt fall in the prices of KLİYAT MAY have been somewhat overdous, Although; however, the fall may have been carried a little further: (han, arising condiions warrant, them is no blinking the fact that uzlase there is a considerable curtallment of the nanual production the permanent tendency must be for the price of silver to droop to lower level The latest
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ground. His mother's nursing brought him round, but his face shows to this day the scare of the wounds received during that night.
from power, the Milada becams ruler in deed "A revolution soon after removed the Shiogun
| as well as in name, and the two travelers, espé- cially Count Ito, rore rapidly to influence and fame. He has now directed the affatre of his country for many years. His first thought after the occupation of Kores was to open that country to Western civilisation, and it is quite possibla that his far-seeing spirit already Intenda similar reforms for China. That Japan had intended to go to war is amply proved by the manner is which the military haltles executed their task. Everything worked so admirably that 100,000 men could be shipped from Japan with out disturbing the social or commercial life of the country. It is also very characteristic that the troops not only west abroad well, provided with arms and ammunition, but had all such modern appliances as telephonic and telegraphic instruments. Moreover, while the Colnere simy of occupation in Kores reduced the people to. "beggary, t the Japanese took thair provisions with them and had thousands of coolles to transport their luggare
*What * lively political optrii there is in these people
1. Not only the Government, bat the opposition parties also sent their reporters, in order to obtain political advantages through the news from the seat of was. Nearly all nows- papers, too, have their special correspondents, Bat Count Ito lacreased the censorship, and the newspapers have been warned that they will be confiscated If caught publishing naws without
of the censors, Crest Ito
́statistics of the world's production of the metal the cODREDE DI CROWs mach Interest in the indus- :
ses those for the year 1895, compiled by the Untied States Mint Bureau According to these, trist development of his fatherined. He believes the output of the year W1H 159,180,000
that most foreigners underrata the chances of That compares with the production of 93ja97,000 | Japan'la the International struggle for industrial ouncer in 1885, and ze in all probablily there | supremacy. The Japanese women, he thinks was a farther increase in 1895 it may be said | ard equal to the man in every field of labor, and that the total production now is about double double the capicity for work of the nation. It what it was ten years ago, while in the interval is not too much to say that the time is near 1km United States Treasury, which tried to take? when the last vestige of barbarlem will have
overy, year, many milions worth of silver, vanished from Jepav. In no little measure this has consed lis purchaser of the metal, and the charge is due to the exertions of her great Indian Milots have been closed against it. It is statesman Ito, the Bismarch of Japan," difficult, however, to bellava that the production:
of ̧-silver- cân › be maintained"atsite provant
levál, sinov, in the side of DE5D7 minne, its proćan
Mr. Francis'said the effect of the section wAS to get rid of non-sults as that the real question in dispute could be decided.
I wish that I might see them.
My B cthroo, white an' brown, With the borlies smelling pleasant, *„An1 the ag-dan passint down; An' the old Khansamah snorin'
On the bat:le-khana floor, Like a Brother la good standin'
With my Mether Lodge once more.
Outskle, Sergeant } Slr! Salute! Salaam)" Inside," Brother,” an' it doesn' do no‘arm, We met upon the Level, and we parted on the
Square.
An' I was Junior Dascon lo my Mother Ladge
cut there.
belog able to make Christmas Island was given op, and the two small boats' crews now lent themselves to the sport of the wind and waves, wanderers en an occan, with no destlcation.
The sea had no terror for the captain. He was dying of consumption, and knew he had enly a few days tv'lve. A Newcastle doctor vid him he had six weeks live before he fell the part, and he fulfilled the doctor's prophecy almost to a day. When all hands becime atized of the fact that they had missed Christ- man Island they urged the capiato in navigate them to sore other land But the master of the wicked burque replied that he was WAIF and would die. He urged upon the me to give ap bape of being saved, and to take down the galla and dis galetly. "Just drop me over the
THIRTY DAY'S IN AN OPEN BOAT. | side when I die," he said, and then reclined in
STORY OF A SOUTH STA SHIPWRICK.
Thirteen logicly-knit, huge-Umbed, flaxen- haired Norweglang stepped wibote in Sydney on Saturday afternoon (18th ult,) from the barque Ellex, and told a story of shipwreck and long- drawn-out suffering in the South Seas, the full | measure of the borrer of which could not be recited in public, and which illustrated lo vivid colors the tragedy and terior of the sea. They were the survivars of the birque Seladon, Norwegian vessel, which was wrecked to the mid-Pacific on August 7, 1898.
the sternsheets of the boat completely resigned to his tale, and taking no interest in the boat aul the men.
The mate's boat all ibli time was towing be- hind the captain's craft. Sill was made on both boss, and with all hands sternately working and resting, the greatest difully was experi enced in keeping them afloat through the heavy ronx which sometimes buffeted them. The men were getting werker and weaker
and one biter. nooo, when they had been 11 days tossing about in the wait of the ocean, the disaster which all asd deaded occurred. The mate's bat was caprised by an enormous sea, and the eight men were struggling for lite among the moun- Tre Seladon was a Norwegian vessel, and fileau veni. The mate was never seen gato, left Newcastle in July of last year with a cargo He may have been caught under the boat, or he of cal for Honolulu, One dirty night, about may have been loo weak to atten på tå save three weeks after they bad left past, the crew of himself. He did not not come to the surface. the vessel were startled by a wild yell from a Six of the men, with great difficulty, climbed on semran forʼard, and almost immediately, with a to the heel of the overturned bos1. The cap shock which shook the barque from and to end,lain's best pat round, and pleked up all the men she settled hard and fast on a reef, and the long with the exc plan of the lost mate. The sale Harkedly two of the ship's gigs were dropped and, what was wars, hall the water and provi Pacific rollers commerced to sweep over her remaining baat was new crowded to overflowing, into the aes, and eight mes, the fall complement loss of the disaster-passed party had bean
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Eleven days had gone, when darkness blatted out the grey monotony that night. No headway was made during the darkness, the man deciding to stand by in order to, if possible, right the swamped boss. An attempt at this task was made with the daylight, but the crow in their weakened coodlilon were not equal to it. Sa the ilos was revered, and the journey wlib the wind was resumed.
Two spoonfuls of meat were still the daily per tion of the mes, and the same quantity of water was served to each of the crew. The most went bad before the bottom of the tin was reached. The biicults were long since faished, and the little tlas of fish had gone. Thirst and honger were commenclog to madden the men, andikey glared sound the borize on their ceaseless but ever vain sesics for a sail with sxvage eyes. The cap. tan xot still weaker, and on August 34, 17 days | after the journey from the wreck commenced, be died. His body was consigned to the deep to accompaniment of song, as is the custom at burials in Norway, Both the superl officers were now gone, and the second mate look command.
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NOTANDA
CALENDAR
SEPTIMBER.. Metrorological masni barid on ten years?
"observations to 1895, Burometer... 29.815 Thermometer...........................80 t Haraldity....................................77
Ratatali
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WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer. Thermometer Hamidity...............................
Ralatali
8.18
On debe at On date as
3092,
39 85
Pang
81
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TO-DAY.
Thursday, 10th Stølembar, 1897. (Jerom-.) Chloese 5th of 9th moon of Bird year of
Kwo-pisil. Jawlub-44% Tisri, 6688, Mohammedan-3rd Fomada I, 1918.
Sun-Ritet. Bår. 65min.
Sits communion 5kr. 48mcha..
High water-Morning ITẬP. 68min. Afternoon 12kr. 7min. Low water-Morning ...................... Bhr, 27min.
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Afternoon · misam Skr. 40mini ANNIVERSARTES. |1341--The Rogue Forts destroyed by the British.
.Acet. 1866–Ship Westminster lout on Praias shoel. 1876-Fijl cated to Great Britals. 1893-Barque Alexandre last near Capones, 1896-Commercial Treaty between France and
Paliippines.
Italy signed at Paris, -
TO-MORROW,
Filday, 1st October, 1897. (St Remigius.) Chinese-51k of oth moon of 23rd year
Kwong-t Jewish—6FX Tiri, 8653. Mohammedan-jih Jomada 1., 1815.
SØD-Riser
Bär, 53mtu... Sėti nunnon ruamme Bår. 47nih, High water-Afternoon **** 1hr, 27mežu. and 11kr. 59min. Low water-Morning an đập. 82 mln.
Afternoona škr. 1min. ANNIVERSARIES.
1841-Tinghal caplored by the Briish, 1848-Colonial Hospital organised in Hongkong. 1857-Hangkong Dafly Press started, 1969–Earthquake at Manila. 1880-Schur C. A. de España, Spanishi Minis.
ter, died at Pekin. 1884 French landed at Keelung. 1887-leauguration of Hongkong College of
Medicine, 1891-Hlogo declared an open port. 1894 -The” German st.. Beflona lost on the
Paracels
of the crew, tombled into each. So black was the weather and so Imminent appeared the danger, that the preparations to leave the doomed vessel were bui scant, and only small quiaily of provistaox and water were put in each boat, The Cupials, Actolf Jaejer, took command of the larger boat, and the first mate, X. Nelisen, had charge of the other. The pro visione consisted of 'two small bags of blacolt, iwa kegs of water, each holding a couple af bucketsfal, two tins of beel, and a few smallting of fish. The men thought that two or three days at the outside would find them safe and sound on shore, but they would have waited for daylight on that fateful night with much heavier hearts had they known that they hid started a dreary voyage which would extend over 30 thirst-cursed, hunger-stricken days.. The captain, in fear that the ship on the reef would break up instantly, fanud himself in the beat with no better navigating instruments than a chart and compass, and though they expecial in reach Malden Island, which was distant from Starbruck, the reef on which the Seludes bad streck about 110 ml'es, in a couple of days, he determined to wait for daylight, to endeavour to get a sextant from the buque, and He put mere sail on the boat. The captain forther supply of provisions. A very beavy bad previously refused to allow the second mast sea ran all right, and with difficulty the crews to be stepped. The boat slipped through the prevented the boats, which were connected by a water silgbily faster under the altered conditions, fint, from. swami toz When daylight came st but no other change took place. The men saw last, aller the long night of waiting, the sea bed sharks following the best, and now and agalo increased in violence, and the wreck of the flashing up close to the side. Once or twice an barque, constantly swept from end to end hy angry sailor struck at the hungry so magsters tower'ng, white-crested seas, was absolutely over the side of the boat with a knife. So keen anapproachable. With regret, therefore, and was the nervous tension, and sapowerlal the pangs coniiderable doubt at heart, the captain gave of hunger and thirst that the men acarcely ever order to make sall, and a course was shaped | slept. There was not room for them to lis for Melder wlthout the sextanı,
dow
and sometimes they dezed as they int to the seats. The nights were bitterly cold, and
LATEST QUOTATIONS. those who, unable to sit up any longer," sitemp. led to lie in the bottom of the boat lay in
Water
Chlox Fires, $107; Douglares, 861; China and shivered, for the planks were leaky, and Sugar, $147; Punjima, Sili Charbonnaga, despite the almost care, on rough rights water $871; Olivert, $7E; Dock Co., zag per cent. would sweep aboard. Hali ihe survivors always prem. 1 Land Investment, 876';. Humphrwys. remained at work. Those not engaged lo | Estate, $9.60.3 Dairy Farm, $41. steering or selling were either watching or billing the water out. The days, on the can- trary, were hot to ■ palesql degree. The open boat left the weakened saliors in the fall fary ol the sun's rays, and to cool themselver, the men took off thele shirts, dipped. them in the water over the side, and then put them on again wet.
Even for two or three days journey, the supply of provisions aboard the small hosts was none too liberal among 15 or 16 hearty saliors, and from the start the mate and captala put theft news on short ralions On the first day,
■ tin of salmen and small quantity of biscalts, with a couple of tablespanntals of water, was the meat and drink each man bad to subsist on, The captain's boat sailed first with the mae's gig stitched astern by means of a long iine, The tea was running bigb, but going with the wind the boats had an easier time. Sess, how- ever, frequently broke aboard, and fie men eagerly scanned the horizon, in the hope of stel ing a vessel of some kind to rescue them from their dangerous position. Though they wern buddled to small bosts, wet and cold at night, and unprotected from a blez'ng aun in the day, existing on the shortest of rations, with a thirst already beginning to prick them, tossed bither and thither on the immenalty of the rolling Pacific, hops buoyed them for the first few days. The captain had stid Malden Is and would be reached in a couple of days, and, simple, hardy Norwegians that they were, they One of Rudyard Kipling's latest deals with then took their scanty food without murmuring. Freemasonry In India, se follows Com
His Lordship sald he would reserve the point as to what, judgment should be made after the amended petition bad been dealt with,
Mr. Robinson said he thought the course proposed an annical and inconvenient one.
Alter farther discussion bis Lordship decided to take the amended peltion in Chambers, Counsel being allowed. 14 days to which to prepare 5.
THE MOTHER LODGE,
There was Randle, station-master,
An' Bear'y of the rail,
An' Achman, commissarlat,
An' Donkin of the jail
An' Blake, conductor sergeant,
Our Master twice was ', With im that knot the Europe shop, Old Framice Edulfes, Game
Outside, "Sergeant | Sir | Saldie | Saltam [” Inside, "Brother," an' li doerak do no 'arin, We met apon the Level sul we parted on the
Square, And I was Junior Deacon in my Mother Lodge
out there,
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There was Bola Nath, accountant,
And Sacl, the Adeu Jew, Ani Dia Mohammed, draughtsman
Of the Survey Office, too. There was Babu Checkerblity, An' Amir Singh, the Sikh,
An' Castro of the fittin' sheds,
A Roman Catholic.
We 'adn't goed regalis,
An' our Lodge was old an' bare, But we knew the Adcleat Landmarks,
As we kept 'em to a hair ;
An' lookin' on it backwards
It often strikes me thus- There sla'i such things as 'eathen now -----
Except per'apoli'r cyn
For monthly after Labour
We'd all it down and smoke, (We duisn't give na banquets
Leit a Brother's cino were broke), An' man on man gai Sukkin
Religion and the rouf,.
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· Anꞌevery man comparla'
„Of the God 'e knowed the bast,
So man on man got started
An' not a beggar stirred, Till mornin' waked the parrots
Antkat dem brain-fever bird. We'd say was very curious
An we'd all go home to bed, With Mohammed, God, and Shiras
Changlo' pickets in our 'ead, Full-oft in Gov'ment service
This wanderin' foot as pressed, And bore fraternal' greetin's
To the Lodges, Exai and West, Accordin' as commanded;
From Ko'at to Singaporej
But I wish that I might sen them,
In my Mother Lodge anos mesi..
and taking their share of steering, sailing, or watching, wafted till the island abould show or
sheid. "With the tseffective fostynments ni bli command, the caplain could not make the island, where they expected to see the lind and trees on the evening of the second day, nothing bui The cold grey of the sun rolled out to the skyline in the gathering dusk. The night was waited through with feverish anxiety, but when the morning's sus sent bls golden blare across the waters the same usbounded expanse of water unfolded itself to the weary gaze of the ship wrecked sailors..
MEMORANDA.
TO-MORROW,—1st October. Indian mail due. Dividend warrants of the Chlon Mutual Steam-
ship Co, ready. West River steamers must surrender their pass06
at the Wongmoon Customé Station,
SHARE MARKÉT.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWB..
MAILS DUE:
Indian (Lighting) to-morrow, Australian (Australian) zeď prox. English (Sunda) 4th prox. Canadian (Emprits of China) 6th prox. German (Sachsen) 218 prox.
Tær D. D. R. stermer Ocians from Hamburg, fest Singapore for this part yesterday, and maỹ be expected here'on or about the 4th prox.
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The days tate and fell without sight of a mil or the shadow of lend," "And the hungry mind- dened crew felt despair taking possession of them. Now the provisione bad got so low that the mate decided to reduce the ratlons by one. balf. This was spoonful each of water and meat. Some of the men wanted to cal and drink what was left right off, and then jimp overboard and drown. And then the hardier members of the party feared for their reason. There was, however, a preponderance of hardy adventurers-the kind of men ba DAVCI regularly served out to the regulation limit. No chope - in the party, and the rations were
min get more or less than his shkie. For three days, the food lasted at one spoonful of .water. and one of meat each day, and on the morning of the fourth blank dismay spread throughout the bost, for the last morsel of provivalisteamer, for Chefoo alors had gone, and desperate starvation was each man's portion. There seemed nothing ahzad now bai a barrible maddening death, an less sellef speedily came. Eagerly was the hoilson scanned that day by the 14 men that were left, but ever the same tale was answered back. No thing but a grey, unbroken line. The raon now discovered that on the long journey through the water, some seashells had collected on the sides of the boat, and when it heeled over to the wind they gathered them off and eagerly devoured them. The sides of the boat were soon clean, Formosak. and again the shipwrecked sallors were without Støkat? a weitige of food. That day darkness again langpak má
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Departures.
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With the same scanty fare, and a couple of apoosiale of water, that day passed on leaden wings. No island had appeared in sight when aight again closed dawn, and then the men knew that by a mistake in navigation they had missed Malden's friendly shelter. Whether to east or west, north or south of them lay Ma'den, they knew not, but, after a calculation, the captain determined to ran on his judgment for Christmas Island, several hundred miles set in, without any means of rescue having Kalpana further on in the same direction. Then followed been sighted, and it was a despairing band of Mogul ....................................... * weary succession of days,-when the 16 men, men that settled down to wait that night through. now getting grant and haggard, lay at the Ol what followed in the next few days the men bottom of the boats wearied ball to death with | wil not speak. It reminded of the time, they the monotony, and the waves and wied, or swept shadder, and turn from the subject. The water the horizon in tireless vigil, possible sail which shorid, searching for that held out at one spoonful a day; but the next firs
rescue them.
days were passed by the rs men entirely with Hope had not yet deserted the crews, for out food. The horrors of the last six days ca Chilmas Islands were yet ahead. The tins of only be imagined. In the afternoon of the 6th beef were now belog consumed. One tie would of September the steward called out that he sw provide one meat for 10 men sidiary consum; land, and the exhausted men rafsed themselves tlos, Bat thlogs are not ordinary, in an open from the bottom of the basi, and saw an island, bost that has lost his hearings in' mid-Pacific, with trees growing, lcoming up in front of them. Foar days each one of those tion lasted 16 men Then they all wept from weakness and over- The meat was served out at the rate of two powering Joy. An hour inter they were nearing spoonfule a day at first, but afterwards, ne the outside reef, over which the Water way break provisions got scarcer, ons spoon only about - fog luto a roarlog sort. A couple of natives, on three-quarters full, was each man's ponton for seeing that they ware white' men, ender
endeavored to the day's sustenance. By and bye, as the days direct them through the parage; but the men crept way, hope of landing at Christmas Island
were too work to take the boat through, and they stole from the hearts of the unfortunate men. Just took their chance at the surf. A big wave With what Roxious langing bad they searched threw the boat right over the reef Into the the platas of the sea each morning, and each smoother water beyond, and the whole party were hour, in the hope of ancing that dark roild cloud assisted to land by the two natives. The island on the horizon that means land, and with what proved to be Sophis Zalaud, which is owned by IN FORT-Wschow, bitter, heari-gripping disappointment they had Mr. Mooze, a Samoan trader. Its position is seen darkness close down on the face of the 10 46 south, 139 31 east. The two antires, with Ir the sufferers from Consumption, Scrnfuls and waters each night without having sighted an two or three women, were the only inhabitante General Debility will try Scott's Emulsion eff Island, who could wille? Words cannot palat of the island, and they treated the shipwrecked Pare Cod Liver Off with Hypophosphites, they the life of men in an open boat. Those who crew with every kindness. They had some pigs will find immediate relief and a permanent have read Stephen Crave's desculpilon of his and poultry and plenty of water, and the benefit. The Medical Profession la the varÍONN couple of days in the commodore's boat off the famished mea sbon had new ile put into them. countries of the world unlvarsally declares it a coat of Florida will bave some idek of the vivid The carpenter, however, never recovered the remedy of the greatest value, and an je in var realuie honor of the experience. But Crane's privation and shocks, and he died, and war paistable it can be readily taken by the mod adventure, unattended by thirst and hunger, busled on the friand. They were fairly comfort-sensitive stomach, and will never fall to was a holiday jaunt compared with the terrors able on the island, and their anxiety now was relief and comfest to the skifterer - Any Cheste #bich werd you in store for the Saladon's crew, to get back to clvlilinition, They waited many can supply it. Bole Agents for Hoogkong: KHÁ As the hope of landing at Malden had deserted months for a ship, but were never again skort || the Keplis of Calas Watkins & Co, the wearied sailors, so ukiimately, all iöem of " of, food or water,
Sep.
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29 Wooing....Stangha........E. & 8,