judges, or at least a judicial commissioner in- dependent of the Company in the territory,
ANOTHER PARADOX QUITE
On the 2nd March a well educated Malay was summond before the court, and fined $3 for making out a power of attomey for another native The prosecutor was a gentleman who, although possessing no legal qualifications to practise in any English Culony or other civiliz- ad state, nevertheless is allowed by the Charter ad Coy. to plead in the courts here and British North Bomen and generally exercise the pro- fession of an Aciovcate and Solicitor":
The inhabitants of Labuan almost to a man would welcome a cessation of this anomaly, and fail to understand how a person who has not been called to the Bar at home, neither in any 'British Colony 'been admitted a solicitor. can claim to be the exclusiveyarbitor of their personal and legal affairs, when his services can be dispensed, with without detriment to their interests.
Undoubtedly the Chastered, Cay are un bridled license to act as they like in their own territory, a power they use to its utmost extent and to the country's misfortune, ont it is quite another matter to inflict on this British Colony for such it still is, although entrust- ed to the Chartered Coy for administratives perposes-the objectionable privilege of one single lawyer, or so-called one, as matomily in any civil or criminal case, the party employing him bas an unfair advantage over hisadversary, especially when the legal code is so compli- cated as in this territory, generally impromptu
to suit the occasion.
A PSALM OF (MODERN) LIFE,
With Apologies to the Shade of Longjeilow.
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Tell me not in mournful numbers That you are not what you seem, That a wig your head encumbers That your teeth are but a dream.
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No, Sir, no, I am in carnest; Of my teeth not one is whole, And the locks that thou discernest Once did deck another's poll.
Then, if others' tecib you borrow, Take this fond advice, I pray, Choose a set that will to-morrow Be as steadfast as to-day.
Lives of great men all remind us, That our teeth are not sublime.; We, departing, leave behind us Teeth upon the sands of Time.
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Teeth, it may be, that another, Sailing o'er Life's solema main, Some forlorn and toothless brother, Seeing may pick up again.
Let us then be up and chewing With a heart for any plate, And, past memories reviering, Use our teeth ere 'tis too late.
A. B. M.
MR. HUGH. CLIFFORD. Mr. Hugh Clifford, the late Governor of British North Borneo, and Mrs. Clifford left Sandakan, on their final departure, on the 13th March. The embarkation was fixed for the morning, but they could not get on board until night owing to a squall raging all day. The
British North Borneo Herald says that the public of Sandakan an never forge: Mr. Clifford for all the good he has wrought amonE. them during his short term of office there. Mr. Alex. Cook, Treasurer-General of the Territory; bas received a Commission to act as Governor till the arrival of Mr. Birch, the new Govenor, in Labuan.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1901.
James Russell, main-deck watchman, ‘had littls to add so what had been given. He said
that all the life rafts had been cut loose whến he went up to sea about them! He saw nons of the engineers mofficers,
The examination was adjourned.
THE PUNJOM MINES.
With addition: capital of over half a million dollars in hand, and with the appointment of a new and experienced Manager (Mr. Thomas Lester, of one of the leading gold mines in Australia) who assumed duties a few weeks ago, it is to be hoped that the Punjom Co. it at length on the road to success, says the Pahang correspondent of the Straits Times,
THREATENED TRADE FIGHT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE
UNITED STATES.
What the New York Evening Post (Ind.) calls "the hardest blow we have received mi the way of trade reprisals since the war of (Rep.) calls "the most sensational movement 1812," and and what, the Boston Transcript in that direction that has ever confronted us," appears in Russia's increase of the duties on American machinery, steel and iron goods by fifty per cent. This almost prohibitive duty on a class of American trade that has been. making a remarkable invasion of the foreign
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success of our ladustrial and commercial "It is self-evident proposition that if the qnteprises depended upon the indulgence of foreign countries, we should have been driven out of the business years ago. world is wide; the struggle for commer- cial supremacy is very strenuous; but we an open field, and these things we intend ask nothing more than fair dealing and to have. Meanwhile, we strongly advise our producers and manufacturers to avoid excite. ment and mental strain of every kind. It is Incredible that Russin intends to wage com mercial war upon the United States-though we could survive it, should the issne indeed be meditate injustice or unfriendliness toward made and it is equally incredible that we
sjonate inquiry and honorable deliberation will soon sinother this petty little tempest in a teapot."-Literary Digest.
They have a farge:eserve of ore in sight and market is imposed in retaliation for Secretary Russia. It is not to be doubted that dispas.
it is expected that crushing will be recom. menced in July, by which time the reconstruc tion of their clam may be finished. The spell of dry weather that has now lasted for over a month has been aken advantage of by the Company, and work on the dam s progressing rapidly, there. being an average labour force of to coolies employed daily. Mining in the "Mill Gully Stall" recently opened out was suspended during be greater pan of February owing to a heavy influx of water which bad to be treated with powerful pumps. The shaft is now dry and sinking has been again re- sumed. hundred feet, from which depth a crosscut is "South Jalis sinking has reached a being made which has extended 37 feet so far: They mean to continue this further. Good results are expected from the prospectings no in progress at a place called Swab on the Com- pany's property. The cyanide experiment at Panjom has been somewhat of a failure so far, but, as they still have large quantities of "allings" to be chemically treated, they mean to revive these works under the new manage ment. From time to time the Company has exported small quantities of gold concentrates for treatment in Lumpe. These vary in value considerably, according to the percentage of gold contained in each consignment. Punjom is the only mine in Pahang which exports gold Concentrates. It is said that Mr. Kerfoot Hughes will return to Hongkong next month Four additional miners are to be obtained from Australia for the concession. From present indications, it would be safe to predict a more profitable year to the Punjam Mining Company than last.
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.
DEST SEEN AT SUMATKA. The total eclipse of the sun which takes place on May 18th will not, be visible in Eprope, but two expeditions are on the point of staring from England to make observations therean at this side of the world-one proceed ing to Maurities and the other coming out via Singapore, to Sumatra. A party of Dutch scientists is also maling its way to the Dutch Indies, the exact destination being Padang, and in this expedition several English obser- vers will probably be attached.
imported into this Gage's recent decision that Russian sugar additional tariff imposed on subsidized pro- country must pay the ducts. Only about $300,000 worth of Russian sugar a year is affected by Secretary Gage's decision, while our exports of machinery, stee! and iron to Russia are roughly reckoned at about $7,000,000 a year, and many newspapers think that Russia has returned a blow greatly disproportionate to the provocation. Far from intending to provoke a tarif war, Secretary. Gage explains that he was only carrying out the plain provision of the Dingley law that "whenever any country shall pay or bestow the exportation of any article," an additional directly or indirectly any bounty or grant upon duty equal to the net amount of such bounty or grant" shall be collected, and the amount of such benalties or grants shall be net ascertained, determined, and declared from time.to time by the Secretary of the Treasury." The nib of the question seems to be whether or not Russia pays an export bounty on sugar in the meaning of the Dingley law. It appears that Russia levies a tax on beet sugar con- sumed at home, but remits the tax on sugar exported to foreign countries. If the remission of a tax is a payment of bounty, therefore, Russia pays one; if not, not. On this point the New York Journal (Dem.) prints an alleged despatch from S. J. Whitle, the Russian Minis- is subject to an indirect impose applying ter of Finance, saying that "Russian sugar only to internal consumption, and this im foreign countries. and that "no bounty post does not apply to sugar exported 10 to encourage the export of sugar exists in Russia." On the other side, the New York Times (Ind.) prints an interview with Mr. Herman Sielcken, who, it says, has "intimate business relations with the American Sugar which lie says that the Brussels Beet Sugar Refining Company" (the "sugar trust"), in Congress, in 1898, agreed with the claim of its Austrian and German delegates that Russia bounty ofany country in Europe; and Mr. was paying, directly and, indirectly the largest Sielken adds: After the close of the Brussels conference, the United States Treasury Depart- restigate the question whether a bounty was ment despatched an expert to Russia to in- paid or not, and to report results. When he returned this expert's reports confirmed the same finding as that which the Brussels Beet Sugar Congress did, that Russia was paying the largest bounty of any continental country in Europe."
tion between the law and the Secretary. The The critics ofthe decision divide their atten- New York Sun (Rep.) thisks that Secretary Gage's order "was of doubtful wisdom," and the Boston Advertiser (Rep.) calls it "the
The eclipse will be best observed from Sumatra, where the totality will be of the longest but, as oldtime residents out here are aware, the weather in that part Malaysia is the reverse of reliable, and, therefore Mauri- tius, where the totality is less but the atmos pcrie conditions more favourable, will be the chosen spot for the special expedition organis ed by the British Astronomer Royal Another expedition, whose baggage and instruments partly left England three weeks ago, will, how.sult of a tariff provision adopted to oblige the ever, take the risks of observation in Sumatra. Republican paper, remarks that the increased sugar trust." The Baltimore American, another This party starts under the auspices of a joint duty will probably bar the Russian sugar from Eclipse Committee of the Royal Astronomical our market, so that our Government will ind Society and the Royal Society; it is assisted no additional revenue in the increase, and by Government and is headed by Mr. Newall, the "only beneficiary will be the sugar of Cambridge, and Mr. Turner, of Oxford.
Mr. Barnard, of Yerkes University, U. S. Aust, to which every man, woman, and child is going to Solok, a place inland, where he additional tribute."
in the United States will forced to pay proposes to take photographs on a large scale
"It is easy to under THE WRECK OF THE "CITY OF of the corona in the same inanner as Professor stand," adds the same paper, "how a doubtful
RIO DE JANEIRO,"
Christie took them in Ovar. Solok is 1,300ft. provision in the revenue laws might be decided above the sea, and it is expected that it will upon any fair method of reasoning to com
in the public interests; bat it is impossible prove an excellent point of observation. H. M. S. Pigmy was to leave Singapore for pest in word it hasil be decided against the Sumatra on Wednesday last on work con
most important business interests and against nected with the Anglo-Netherlands expedition being in the land, except the beneficiaries of the immediate interests of every human
the sugar trust." The Philadelphia North American (Rep.) makes similar comment, and adds that "the Germans will be quick to possess themselves of the field from which Secretary Gage has compelled Russia, in self- defense, to bar American manufacturers," and says further. that "once the Germans are in possession, even if the courts eventually decide that Secretary Gage was not correct in his con- struction of the Russian law, it will be a difficult and tedious task for American manufacturers to regain the forfeited territory." The Philadel phia Ledger (Rep.), too, thinks it will hardly trust which taxes American consumers at its pay to start a tariff war. for the benefit of "a own sweet will and controls labour with an iron hand," and it observes that Congress "could not do à better thing than start the warfare against trusts by repealing this particular clause of the tariff act at once."
THE INQUIRY.
The inquiry of the Federal Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers into the wreck of the Pacific Mail steamship City of Rio de Janaiso was - continued on the 2nd ult, at San Francisco.
Third Officer Holland, the first witness, tes tified substantially as he had already done before the Coroner. He said that a steamer passed in while the Rio was lying at anchor. He could see her lights. He was questioned closely by Captain Bulger as to why he had not obeyed the captain's orders when he was told to awaken the captain at 4 o'clock if it became clear. He could give no satisfactory reason, except that he awakened the pilot, and thought that if Jordan deemed it best he would have the captain awakened,
Quartermaster Frederick Lindstrom, who was on the look-out when the vessel struck, said it was so foggy that the light at the mast- head looked more like a glare than a light. lle had just remarked to his fellow-watchman that it was very thick, when he noticed a red glare almost immediately above and in front of lim. Just as he noticed this the vessel struck and he was thrown from his feet. This would indicate that the Rio was very close in to the fort. Ile.beard no surf and no sound of the Fort Point bell
Quartermaster Free Matheson was of duty when the ship struck. He pushed to deck and met Captain Ward, who sail to him: "Mathe- Gap, the ship is sinking. Get to the life ralts and cast them loose." Matheson obeyed the nder, and saw that all the rafts were cut loose. Helthough the ship was under water within five minutes after she struck.
Carpenter Frank Cramp gave several new points in his testimony. I said he was on deck when the vessel started in, and when she struck he sounded the forward hold and found ten feet of water. He reported to the captain and then sounded the main hold and found twenty-two feet of water. He believed thatthe ship was cut open clear back into, the after held, as he knew that all the water-tight bulk- heads were, in'good order and tho sluice gates shut. When he sounded the main hold ha kaew the ship was sinking, for he heard her slide off the rock and felt her right. He thought that she went under in about four minules after he sounded the main hold.
"Do you think more liyes would have been saved if the engineer's crew had been on the upper deck?" asked Captain Bulger.
Yes," was the raply. "There were ten white men in the engineer's crew. They could have got out the boats."
When asked the speed at which the vessel was going, be said that she was not going at full speed, for the bow was not vibrating as it did when the ship was at full speed. Cramp was asked to sign the stenographer's notes, but said he would sign nothing that he could not read, and as he could not read the shorthand writing he went away without signing.
Daniel Lane, & water-tender, fared badly at the hands of the inspectors. He was asked many questions regarding the fires under the boilers, the amount of steam on, and how long it would take to get up head of steam Line was: disposed to shield the engineer's department, but was finally made to admit by Captain, Bulger that if the crew bad heen the upper deck more lives would have been saved. His final reluctant admission to this effect brought out an indignant." Well, why zu didn't you may 80222 from Eaglain Bulger
QUEEN VICTORIA'S MEMORY.
SALUTES TO BE FIRED ON HER ANNIVERSARIES
It is characteristic of the King's veneration for the memory of his mother that, in revising the list of Royal Salate days for the present year, His Majesty dould have included not only the birthday butalso the accession day of Queen Victoria among the anniversaries which are still to be thus honoured. After the cur- rent year, the latter of these two dates is to be birthday is apparently to be still commemorated omited from the list; but the late Queen's in this manner-n fact which has suggested the possibility that it may be in contemplation to institate an annual observance of the date- May 24th-as a public holiday under the name of Victoria Day" The nearness of the date to the period within which the Whitsontide fatal objection to such an arrangement. Bank Holiday falls would probably be found a
THE KING'S FRIENDS.
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MINING IN BORNEO,
FACTS AND PROSPECTS.
Mr. Blair, of the firra of Richardson' and Blair, mining engineers, who has lately returned to Sydney, after a visit to Dutch Borneo ex-
day by a representative of the Australian Min og over ten months, was seen the other ing Standard, and gave a good deal of infor
of the island," said Mr. Blair, in a district in mation respecting some very fitile-known localities. I spent eight months in the interior
Kapocas Moeroeng. River, which runs into the which no white man lives. I prospected the sca near Bandjarmasin, on the south coast of the island. When we got above tidal influence we began prospecting with the dredge, and olitained gold all the way up. The best prospects were obtained in the head waters of the River, and usually below strata of cement- ed wash which shower! itself in the banks. The natives have been getting gold on a small scale been known. They wast: the dirt in round as long as the island has wooden dishes made from the thin spurs' of the butts of certain trees. The dish is cut out of the spur whilst the latter is still standing, being fashioned. The washing is done by and it is thus held as in a vice whilst it is women, and they become. very skilin at it. They put the gold dust in quills and sell it.
NOTANDA.
CALENDAR.
APRILL Meteorological means based on ten years! abservations" to 1893- Barometer aan Thermometers. Humidity... Rainfall
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT,
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Barometer.. Temperature Humidity Rainfall..
30.039
620
85,0
4.08
Ondare at On dain at
tok. In.
20.99
29.90
.68
67
97
95
0.09
TO-DAY.
Wednesday, 10th April, 1901. Chinese-22nd of and moen of 27th year of
Kwangju. Sun-Riser
Sets
High water-Morning Morning Low wale-Morning
shr. 46min.
bar, 16min. thr. 12miz. „trhr. 44min
går. 12min. Afternoon w
zkr. 55min. ANNIVERSARIB 3.
1896-Dinner given to Sir Claude MacDonald 1814-Battle of Toulouse 1865-Suez Canal opened.
by the China Association, Shanghai.
TO-MORROW,
Thursday, 11th April, 1961. Chinese-23rd of 2nd meon of 27th gear of
King-. Sun-Rises
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shr. 45min. Ohr. 17min. High water--Morning. Low water-Merning shit, 25mins. ahr. $Smiu. Afternoon ...... ohr. z6min.
Afternoon... ghr zomin ANNIVERSARIES.
1713-Treaty of Utrecht. 1873-Hongkong Volunteer Fire Brigade
formed.
1878-Terrific tornado in Carton; 2,000 houses 1894-British protectorate over Uganda pro-
destroyed, 10,000 lives lost.
1898-Glen Line steamer Glenturret grounded
claimed.
1899-Friendly Islands become dependencies
at Woosang.
of Great Britain.
AGENDA.
The country where I was is very flat and heavily covered with bush and timber. The island promises well for dredging, because the Among the mines which are being worked in riverare so large, and gold so widely distributed.
Lebong, the Lebong Soelit, Kahajan Benkajeng, Bornea, Celebes, and Sumatra are the Redjang
Sentai, Alluvia, Melawi, Hirool, Pagoe Jamau, Passangan, Loemat, Seballan, Pinogo Bone, Mateunan, Totok, and Monano. Except the first named, which, I believe, is giving good English manager, the others are mainly returns, being under the control of an Cargo ex Prinses Irene subject to rent. in their preliminary
TO-MORROW. stages. For the Melawi, which was Mr. Toby, we are constructing a dredge.
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TO-DAY,
HIKOSAN MARU, Japanese steamet, 2,303, P. Hallstrom, roth April-Kutchiaoru 6th April, Coal-Mitsuf Bussan Kaisha. Loosok, British steamer, 1,010, J. B. Jackson, 10th April,-Bangkok via Swatow 1st Apl, Rice and General-Butterfield & Swire. HAMBERG, German steamer, 2,660, H. Yaeobs, loth April,-Yokohama 23rd Mar, Gen- cral-Carlowitz & Co...
PRIYANG, German steamer, 970, W. Wiese, toth April,-Chinkang 6th April, Beanoil. -Siemissen & Co.
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DAIJIN MARU, Japanese steamer, 900, T Ogata, roth April,-Swatow 9th April, Gen- cral-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
Clearances at the Harbour Offios. Sarnia. German str., for Amoy. Chihil, British str. for Shanghai. Sungkiang, British str., for Amoy.. La Rhone, French stt., for Caaton. Kangnam, British str., for Canton, Arraion Apear, British sit, for Singapore. Guthrie, British str, for Shanghai. Taiyuan, British str., for Thursday Island. Germania, German str., for Saigon. Ho Kwai, British steam-launch, for Wuchow. Whampoa, British, str., for Shanghai. Inada Haru, Japanese str; for Kobe.
pore.
Dopartures, April 9, Aurora, British cruiser, for Singapore. April 10, Sunghiang, British str, for Amay.
April 10, Anping Maru, Jap. str., for Swatow, April 10, Reynolds, British str., for Moji.. April 10, Arraton Apcar, British str., for Singa
April to, Yueusang, British str. for Manila April to, Hertha, Ger. eraiser, for Shanghai. April 10, Glenfallock, British-stry for Amoy. April 10, Jaguar, Ger. gurboat, for practice. April 10, Taiyuan, British str., for Thursday, April to, Kwangler, British str., for Shanghai.
Island.
Tarongers-Arrived:
Pet Idzumi Maru, from Shanghai-2 Euro- peans and Japanese..
Per Thales, from Swator-125 Chinese. Per Loosak, from Bangkok and Swatow-Ma' Sutter, Japanese and 334 Chinese.
Por Michael Jebsen, from Haiphong and Hoi. how-2 Frenchmen and 17 Chinese. and 1 Japanese.
Per Daijin Maru, from Swatow--60 Chinese
Departed.
Per Yuensang, for. Manila-Messrs. Ramon Oritaro Ikimoto, Archibald MacKillop, L. W Lopez, P. A. Williams, W. B. Powell, F. Hurst,
Yiara, M. Tashiro, H. Matsuo, Miss Felicidad Warne, P. Shecham, H. Richardson, Hiego Lopez, Masters Ramon Lopez. H. Lopez and M. Moreno, Dr. J. T. Halsell, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Levy, Mesdames. Kisi Honta, Tatsu Kic mura, Oshi Imasuga Tomo Yiura, Matsuo, San Yiura, Otoku K, and Okeyo.
SHIPPING REPORTS,
reported upon by E. & A. Co.'s steamer Australian leaves for Bangkok, via Swatow, reports:-Moderate Capt. Jackson, of the steamship Loosek, from
sidered healthy. Malaria and beri-beri are the The climate of Borneo can hardly be con-
white man who adopts their methods ought to prevalent diseases. Nevertheless, the Dutch keep their health remarkably well, and any come out right. I had great difficulty in insur- ing my life before starting for Bomeo. Some of the big offices would not have me at any, price. But I came back much stronger than With care a man can keep his health right when I stared, and fully two stone heavier. enough. Celebes is healthier than Borneo. About six months of the year, beginning in October, there is almost incessant rain, and little or nothing can be done, The natives gave no trouble, although there were no other white men in our vicinity. I believe the Dynks, in the centre of Borneo, are not to be trusted, but otherwise the natives are fairly quiet.
OFFICIAL STUMBLING BLOCKS.
The great trouble. is in getting about. Before you can do anything you must get per mission from the authorities, and you continu- tion. The exclusiveness of the Dutch officials ally have to present your passports for inspec is a great barrier and hindrance to the develop ment of the island. Another undesirable feature is the over-capitalisation of the mining companies. A concern which expects to spend 2100,000 and the directors, moreover, expect £10,000 will perhaps be capitalised at about liberal fees from the very jump. When these matters are rectified, I think there will big a foruze for mining in Netherlands-India."
SLUMS AT COLOMBO.
Colombo, the Chief Justice, Sir W. Bonser, said In a recent land acquisition lawsuit at as regards slum property in dispute, which fetched a high return-
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"My impression is that heavy incomes would
FATAL DUEL AT SEVASTOPOL.
ON THE HISTORIC MALAKOFF.
Australian Ports.
FRIDAY, 120.
Noon-C. & Co.'s steamer Barnida leaves, for Daylight-N. Y. K. steamer Inaba Maru leaves
for Japanese Ports.
Singapore and Europe.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
MAILS DUE. French (Yarra) to-morrow," American (America Maru) 12th instant. Tacoma (Olympia) 12th instant. English (Coromandel) 13th instant. Canadian (Empress of India) 16th instant. American (City of Peking) 20th instant.
The Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Co.'s steamer Trieste, in Trieste, left Maji for this port this morning, the
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The H. A. L. steamer Suvia from Hamburg left Singapore for this port yesterday, the 9th inst., and may be expected here on or about Monday, the rgth inst.
旮
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
at Kowloon Dur
U.S.S. Isla de Luzon
U.S.S. Bennington ... U.S.S. Yorktown..... H.M.S. Ocean!......... H.M.S. Linnet... Styx..... Kweiyang,
Ping Suzy ****** Compania de Fillpina Shantung Chorofa Hanoi
licos....
Perla......
Pelliana
Recario Taichiow
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11
11
13
11
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weather.
Jebsen, from Haiphong and Hoihow, reports: Captain Jessen, of the steamship Michael Very thick and foggy.
Capt. R. Kroble, of the steamship Benlarig, from Bangkok, reports-Light S. winds and smooth sea to North of Paracels, thence to port heavy N.E. swell and dense fog
Capt. A. Robson, of the steamship Thales, from Swatow, reports-Calm and clear, overcast, fine, and rainy. Vessels' in Swatów:-Geman gunboat Seeadler, s.s. Hatching, Ichang, Hong- Bee, Chefoo, Taishan, and Choysang STEAMERS EXPECT 90.
From.
Names.
Yarra.......... America Maru. Coromandel
To-morrow.
April rath
Singapore
April 13th
...April 14th
¡April 15th
Saigon. Japan
Triete
Japan Suevia wwww... Singapore Empress of India. Vancouver ..April 16th Prinz Heinrich ...Colombo..
....April 17th City of Peking......San Francisco... April zoth Hiroshima Maru... Bombay... April zist
We would direct the attention of shipping firms to the style in which Steamers Expected" and "Projected Sailings" are new published in these columns, and in so doing respect. fully urge the managers of shipping Enas to give orden se their clerks to furnish this office, an the forms already up-} plied eratie with the Intel punilahlatoformation zvary day.
FROJECTED SAILINGS.
Destination. Date
America Maru...San Francisco, &c April 23rd
Foochow
Ship
Agamemnon
Ajax.
London.... f.ondon
Anping Maru
Cosmopolitan
Antenor.......
·Asturia.....
Aberdeen
Bayern
Bormida
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PASSED THE CANAL.
Outward-and March-Ceylon, Calchas, Andalusia, Segov, Benvoirlich, Germanicus. 26th MarchPring Heinrich, Kostroma, Marcononio. 29th Mar.-Indus, Shinano Maru Indrani. 2nd April-Amòria, Claverdon, Oslo, Sutherland, 4th April-Orei, Dardanus. April-Oak Branch, Glenartney, H. H. Meter, Glenturret, Japan, Claverley, Kawachi Muru, Coningsby, Gloucester City.
th
Homeward-22nd March-Skangkaz,' 20th April-Tarkin, Kiautschou. 4th April-riot, Mar Glaucus, Sado Maru, Alcinous. 2nd
Rassa. Malacca, 9th April-Wittenburg, Preussen
Arrival at Home-3rd April-State of Tentin, Glamorganshire, Sade Maru, Sydney, 10th April-Glauch,
be absolutely useless if the authorities did their Lung Tshig Secretary Gage says of bis decision that he duty and pulled down all buildings which are could not have done anything else. He de miserable shanties like this. Well-built build-U.S.S. Concord
Hangchewy clares in a newspaper interview: "It is potings can never give great returns like these Celonies a question of what the manufacturers desiré ar cheap, insanitary places." think ought to be. It is not a question of what the sugar, refiners or our beet-sugar raisers In Cassell's Magazine for March ais special desire or think ought to be. It is a question article on the personal friends of the new purely of law and of fact. The Secretary of Sovereign. Among politicians," says the the Treasury is sworn to enforce the law, not writer, His Majesty has always been careful to make law. The late decision as to the to preserve that impaniality which was fitting liability of Russian sugar to pay a counter- in the destined holder of a constitutional vailing duty is based on the department's monarchy. Yet some of his most intimate apprehension of the law and of the facts." society at Sevastopol by a fatal duel that was A great sensation has been caused in naval personal friendships have been with members And he says further that the exemption recently fought between Lieutenant Roschts- of this class. To Mr. Gladstone he showed of Russian sugars from additional duty would chikofski and Midshipman Ilovaiski, bothyoung consideration. during many years an unvarying kindness and righily be regarded by the other bogatyinen of good families, and previously-good He and the Princess of Wales paying countries as a discrimination against comrades. The cause of the encounter was visited the old statesman at Hawarden not them and in favour of Russia." The Philades briefly as follows-From a private institution very long before Mr. Gladstone's death, and phia Inquirer (Rep.) says that "neither the with which Lieutenant Roschtschikofski was everybody femembers how the Prince and the justice nor the illegality of the Secretary' Duke of York were the chief pallbearers at ruling "hs yet been successfully impugned, As the Lieutenant felt himself responsible, and connected a sum of 3,000 roubles was stolen. the funeral of the man who had so lorg filled and unless it can be shown to be either illegal was not in a position immediately to make the first position in the State. It is pleasant or unjust it will be maintained, regardless alike good the loss, he accepted a temporary and to remember that Mr. Gladstone most fully of Russian displeasure and of Russian retalia highly-paid appointment abroad to enable him. reciprocated the friendship with which he was tion. We don't want to become involved either to do so. A few days after his departure a thus honoured. On the day on which he passed in a tariff or in any other kind of a war, but if malicious report was spread to the effect that through London for the last time, when he already knew that he was a dying man, he in-
one is to be forced upon us we shall probably Roschtschikofski, had accused lovaiski of be able to stand the racket, at least as well as stealing the money. As soon as the former sisted upon fulfilling one social duty, and one only. He drove to Marlborough House, and policy of agression. Our trade with Russia, pudiate the statement attributed to him.. The these who choose to adopt the unprofitable heard this, he returned to Sevastopol to re- with his own hand wote his own and Mrs. too, the New York Journal of Commerce notes, matter appeared to have been satisfactorily and Gladstone's names in the Princa's book. The "represents, the smallest proportion of annual and amicably settled, and the Lieutenant wason Duke of Devonshire, both as statesman and sales made by the United States any civilized the point of returning to his foreign past, sportsman, has always lean one of those whom people under the sun. Sweden and Norway, From some unexplained cause, a few minutes the King has esteemed most highly among with less than 7,000,000 infiabitants, bought before the departure of the Constantinople his friends. Lord Cadogan, with whom his per- from us a little more than Russia with her steamer, flovaiski went aboard and grossly and sonal friendship dates from his days at Ox 135,000,000; Denmark, with a little over publicly insulted Roschtschikoski. "The latter, ford has been another; whilst Lord Rose-2,00,000, bought fully $4,000,000 more, and forfeiting his passage fee, came ashore, the bery has not only entertained his Majesty even to impoverished Spain we sold last frequently at Menimore and Dalmeny but has
matter was then considered by a naval court of year 33 per cent, more than to Résia honour, which declared that there was no on the occasion of the King's birthday. Among launch upon a policy of reprisal in the form of with this decision, the seconds arranged been one of the regular guests at Sandringham Europe or any nation of Europe wishes to justification for an appeal to arms. Dissatisfied statesmen who have passed away, Lard Ran-heavy or exclusive tariffs on goods made in the meeting, Besides the principals, no one but dalph Canrchill must be mentioned as having United States," says the Kansas City Journal the seconds and a couple of doctors were had a conspicuous plate in the circle of Royal (Rep.), the way is open before her and we present. The encounter took place early in friendship. Among the living, Lord James of can have no rightful criticism to make. But the moming on the histone Malakoff, where Hereford, Lord Carrington, and Mr. Chaplin Europe has experimented enough with this the late Field Marshal and President of the have been honoured in the same way. Whilst sort of thing to come fully to understand that French Republic, MacMahon, first adopted his mentioning these names, it is perhaps unneces heavy taxes on American products result in well-known motto, "'y suis, j'y reste The sary to say that they are far from including all oppressing the poor and least efficient of her young officers fought with pistols at twenty-five the men of eminence in political life who have own citizens without gaining corresponding paces. At the first discharge Midshipman been ranked among the King's friends, A full benefits in the form of greater productive and-floraiski was shot through, the abdomen and list of these would, indied, include álmost every industrial activities." man of Parliamentary eminence from the days The Washington Peft (Ind.) remarks philoso- Lieutenant will be court martialled, und,' în'all liver, and expired shortly afterwards. The of Lord Palmerston downwards,
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San Francisco, &c. April 13th Coromandel, Shanghai..... April 14th Daljin Marü... Swatow, &c........April 14th
San Francisco, &c. June 1st Einp. China...... Vancouver,&c......June 5th Emp: India
...April 24th Emp. Japan
May, 15th Esmeralda
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April 19th. König Albert Straits, &c. April 17th Nippon Maru....San Francisco, &cune rith Olympia Victoria, R.C... April 25th Perlan Preussen Straits, &c.
Manila Pooting... Shanghai Prinz Heinrichstraits, &c.
Prinzess Irene... Straits, &C.
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April, Barry Dock 15th Feb., Coals,Sachsen, Straits, &c. IDzUMI MARV, Japanese steamer, 2,301, M. J.
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Pyrrhus.Liverpool. Richmond L'astle New York.
Shinano Maru... Kobe & Yokohama April 26th Sanuki Macu...Marseilles, &c. April 19th Siluria Strathcyle... San Diego, &c.
tiavre, &c. April 15th Solimón... Marseilles, April 17th
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