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the Governor for his Line. pertaitted to da ast be supported and -o obey his orders.

it a

ey General ask

10 ur refusing to obey ler as he bad referred

eplied that he would, fterwards be remitted. ney General suggested ful' be inserted before which was done. The

Dent, veferred to Mr, stimony to his abilities, omised to look into the

adjourned until threa

Arning Mail, August 15,

Beeving Moi.")

=it

Grant's Telegraphie

a recent meeting, Shanghac papers, to very foulish or a very as the case may be. uver to Mr Grant the er a promise from him,

no security whatever, them the Taels 6,000, ed, within three years. d would be apt to form ey were in reality doubt- partial success of the quite content to give up ein for the chance of re-

ey they have embarked.

, their decision is based that while the telegraph likely to give one man 2 is trouble, it is not pro- ever produce anything initesimal dividend for a lers. Whichever may be ant is, we presunie, satis- solution come to, and per- eg that the glory of pos suld be his alone, while ir- opt in a debt of so many n ease of failure cheme from beginẳng tớ ustration of the letàit-alous in such matters by the eut. Had a Frenchman, a fact a native of any coun- at Britain determined to

= own exertions a means of similar to chat which has

at by Mr Grant's indefati

bis first step would, in all ve been to procure not only but a promise of aid from, ve of his Guvernment. Had abe such a step he would in have met with, obstacles, eign official justance, which eved fatal to the success of Englishmen do things differ- ily did Mr Grant obtain no

Sir Frederick Bruce, but his ike those of Sir Macdonald ooked upon as chimerical. Bluence was, however, exerted the part of our Legation. Cogang his ain gait" and th such perseverance that he establishing the line of cour- semplos, and more than that, a sufficient number of per- ance in the matter to raise y to pay the first expences putting nagitera into working lie action now taken by the although as we have pre- red, to be presumed a satiɛ. For themselves and Mr Grant, damage the prestige of the seriously, and we would Mr Grant take measures such out to judicate to obviate the collapse.

no personal knowledge what- Grant, but may mention that

d Litherto heard was highly as to his capabilities for esta

line on a bona fide basis. however, a common (and, we hole, a tair)test of compel cuce, ace of the line being actually king order, it would be un- to urge any objections to the ualifications of the projector. Cherefore, Mr Grant as the most oper person to continue the ud receive subscriptions for elegraphic route, we would iramediate application to the ts of Great Britain, France, d Spain for a yearly enbeidy

ce aount which would give right of sending to or re- n their representatives at Pe any melanges per month on cer- dates. We are doubtful whe

mited States would deem their sufheient importance to pay a for telegraphic advantages. At

No. 1122.-AUGUST 16, 1866.1

all events the fact that the services oft British interpreters were generally availed of in the absence of the only Chinese scholar.! So their pay-Dr Williagis-who was ex- pected to work cheap," being during the late Minister's residence, secretary, inter- preter, clerk, accountant and in fact the performer of all the duties devolving on some eight officials in our own Legation, would jead one to believe that a similar plan would be pursued with regard to telegrams. No more zealous or hardworking men could have been selected for their posts than the lat American minister and bis sheretary, nor can any blame attach to them for the shvoling" syetem, as the Irish call it, of which they have men forced to avail them seives in the performance of their di- plomatic dutice, owing to the niggardness of the United States Government. This however, by the way we do not think that Government would support Mr Graut's Schermo.

Having obtained a promise of support in this manner from official sources, a si- milar proposition should then be made to all the leading mercantile houses, The fuct of the live being used, and therefore, necessarily supervised to a certatu extent by our official representatives, who would thus be directly interested in seeing that no breach of faith took place in the manage- tuent of the line, and would, moreover, "possess the power of laying hands on a de. faulting employé, would give great soeurity to merchants that their interests would be properly guarded, while the government of Hugong, and the papers as this and other ports would very probably be disposed to arad themselves of the advantages thus offered. The larger the dumber of subscri- bers, the smaller would be the subscrip- tion required in each case,

The political advantages presented by thas bringing Claua into closer connection with Europe need un exemplification. It must not, moreover, be forgotten that in the event of a rea! Chinese ass.00 being sent to England, the facilities offered by this liue for speedy and direct communi- cation with Peking would materially less en the difficulties attendnut ou an embussy of so novel a character, This, however, is of minor importance compared to the be net which we shall ourselves, in com- mon with the rest of Europe, derive from it, and we must heartily wish the Trans Mongolian-telegraph scheme complete sac-

VIS

We publish below, by permission, the following report of the Hongkong and Shangbai Banking Company.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED,

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. To Amount written

off Preliminary Expenses,...$5,812.34 To Amount voted to

the Hon. Thos.

Sutherland, Lite Deputy Chair

tan, 4,444.44 Hill Got ToRebate on Billa

fitte,07

..35,573.79 $45,830.57

To Dividend at the rate of 8 per

or

per Share......100,000,00 To Amount Carried

to reserve Fund 66,700,00 To Balance being un-

divided Prosta carried forward to next half- year,.

THE CHINA MAIL.

the fact that there are still some now Shares anapplied for.

FREMISES.

157

It is

A sample of good ration sugar has been fowarded to us, prepared from canes grown at Port Macquarie, New South Wales. interesting and valuable as evidence of the fitness of the northern part of this conti-

this purchase they hope to reduce the cur first attempt at robbery, one of the We are unable from want of time to furant for the growth of the sugar-caus. -

I. M's.

Of course the appeals to H-M's. officers AT the Meeting of Shareholders of the for the twelve shares-realised when the for help and protection on the part of the Hongkong and Shangbae Banking Com-shares ran up to £100 each, and is gone sufferers were most urgent, but their claims being pressed in a lakewarm spirit on the pany, the Hon. John Dent, Esquire in home with his little fortune."

the Chair the report published in our last The Directors purchased a short time ago, native authorities, but little attention was for $60,000, the premises known as Ward paid to them, and things got from bad to evening's issue was presented and unani

worse, the mandarina themselves soon join. mously adopted, A few questions were ley House, where the business of the ing in the general pillage. Very different was put to the Chairman relative to the con- Bank has hitherto been curried on, By it with regard to the rafts despatched under tents of the report by various gentlemen,

the protection of the French flag rent expenses for rent, and at the same gunboats, stationed at Chinkiang, immedi-ish a full report in this leave, but will dogris. time, make a suitablo investment of partately got up steam and towed the raft into

Evening Mail, August 16. commanded by her guns. of their Reserve Fund, which, no doubt, Frenchman soon recovered his money and

a position will meet the approval of the Shareholders, never had any trouble in subsequent trans. We learn that the pirate chief now awai.

DIRECTORS.·

actions. Tad the same policy been pursued ting his trial, has confessed to having when the rat raft under English protection by the British authorities at Chinkiang,

committed the crime of which he stands got into trouble, thousands upon thousands charged, and that his confession includes au acknowledgment of other piratical

Evening Mail, Aug, 15.

The Honorable Francis Chomley, Mr Douglas Lapraik, Mr. Palaujee Framjee, and Mr. H. W. Wood having resigned, the

45,696.86 212,396.86 Court of Directora have appointed the Ho- would be held Port, and the British

By Balance of undivided

Pict

fits on 31st December 1805,

By Amount of profits for the

six months ended 30th June, 1860, after doduct- ing all expenses and In- terest paid and due,....

RESERVE FUND.

To Balance 30th June, 1866, By Balance on 31st Decem-

ber, 1860,

By Amount transferred from Profit and Loss Account,

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The

You the proud boast

so in our next..

THE celebrated singer Madame Anna Bis- Mile, intend to leave for Hongkong hop and Mr Charles Lascelles at present in about the end of the present month.

of taels would have been saved to the mer-

A deeds. chants of this

respect than is at present the case $258,227.43 norable John Dent, and Mr. Caleb T.

Sunith, to two of the vacant seats in the Di-Iman Englishmania becoming as great a rection, which is now composed of the fol- of the world, the Chinese not being slow mackery in the fac Fast as in other parts 12,281.00 lowing genticucu-Hon. John Dent, to appreceate the Christian policy of the

aud

Gladstone Chairman, Mr. Woldemar Nissen, Deputy being smitten on the one cheek, turneth

Bright a

government, which, Chairman, Messia, A. F. Heard, Geo. J.

the other to the suniter. Belland, H. B. Lemann, A. Sassoon, Car Whatever be the policy of the govern

however,

a little courtesy at the ment, 245,046.43 | leb T. Smithi, Hon. Thomas Sutherland.

hands of its officers costs nothing, but Mr. AUDITORS. $259,227.43

Harvey apparently considers an expendi- In the place of Mr. Caleb T. Saith, ap. tare of this cheap commodity unnecesary. In two instances to my knowledge, where pointed to a seat at the Board, the Diroemen have been at the trouble and expense tors have elected Mr. Phineas y object of a personal interview, he bas refin

of travelling from this to Chinkiang with the $100,000.00 one of the Auditors to the Bank,

ed an audience, and that without deigning cordance with clause 92 of the Deed of any reason or excuse for such apparent

rudeness.

Excuse my taking up so much of your

only to your local readers.

In ac-

Settlement, this meeting will now have

to

Evening Mail, Aug. 16.

Spen of our readers as are concerned in the Shameen Site at Cantou will find

a Notification in our columas affecting

their interests.

VICTORIA REGATTA CLUB.

The first of a series of four-cared Scratch

Matches, by members of this club, came off ou. Wednesday evening. The course select

The pranks of his Honor Judge Boothby who denies the validity of the constitution of South Australia, have convinced the S 4. Register that it is highly necessary colo- nial governors should have the power of re- moving colonial judges. In it we fud the following remarks ou the subject:"But the question of amending the Constitut tion, we hope, the colony are to have the subject before them when they have dealt with Mr Justice Boothby, and

dealt with the

that Ministry, the point will be considered as to whether

uth Australia:

48

the Governor of South

hare power to stanove juges, I to her Majesty in appeal to

Wend I shoul

subject tot

gal British

to an

colo-

that this is the law in several nies where responsible government and it is a law

law which

has never been ab Nor is it likely to be abused. But it is re- quived as a protection from evils which may

teen no no im present our Constitution gives us any day happen in a remote colony; for at mediate remedy for a case of downright madness on the bench, unless it should be such madness, as would warrant an arrest by the police and a committal to a lunatio asylum."

$33,300,00 elect two new Anditors, to examine the valuable space with a subject of interested extended half a mile, from Burrows & the contract with the P. and O. Company,

year.

66,700.00 Accounts of the Bank for the next half

Your's faithfully, The Board have much pleasure in

RAFTMAN, recommending the re-election of the pre-

Hankow 21 July 1866. sent Auditors, to whose valuable services-Tanken Times." they are greatly indichted.

JOHN DENT,

Chai amars.

$100,000.00

From the profits thus shown, the Dired tors recommend a dividend of $5 per Share, equivalent to 8 per cent. per annum, which will absorb $100,000—and - of the remain- ing amount, the Directors propose carrying $60,700 to the Reserve Fund, (which will increase it to $100,000,) and the farther balance of $45, 696.36 forward to the credit of the new account in addition to $35,673.79 being rebate on bills not due.

The Directors have to congratulate the Shareholders on the satisfactory result of the operations of the Bauk for the last half year, which, as is generally known, has gira period of continued and increased

depression.

The Bank has had the good fortune of slinost entirely escaping the effects of the crisis which has just passed over Europe and ludia, the only exception being Bills of The Agra and Masterman's Bank; but, from specific information received from England, as well as that of a more general character, doubtless known to the Shareholders, the Directors feel some confidence that the only prejudice the Bank is likely to suffer is the Letiporary lock up of some of its funds, and the consequent loss of profit thereon. The

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

No less than sight deaths from sunstroke took place in Shanglue during the week previous to the mail's departure. We have not as yet heard of any in Hongkong.

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Evening Mail, Ang. 6.

Evening Mail, Aug. 11.

A BOAT was captured by pirates a few days since off Stapley and another the day before yesterday at Aberdeen. Ja the Harbour and Coasts ordinace intended to apply to these places F

Evening Mail, August 1.

Son's jetty, to a busy moored off the end of the Praya wall by the arsenal. Five boats started, their crews, drawn by the respec- tive coxswains, being as under

No. station: Thomson, Lambert, Fair bain, Norton, Beart, (cox.)

No 2 station; Kerr, Turner, Linsted,

Phillipe, (cox.) Vickers,

No. 3 Station: Jensen, Major, Sontt, Lyall, Glossop (cog).

No. 4 station: Lowndes, Glennie, Over beck, Woodlin, Botkomley, (cox.)

No. 5 Station: Tripp, Sini, M'Leod, Barlee, Young (cox).

The boats were started by G H Heaton, E

C. Vincent,

officiated as pira; and . G. Thomaett, Eay, as judge. The Match terminated as follows Mr Nor Woodin's 2; Barles's 3; ton's crew 1 Vickers, & Lyall's 5. The last boot be by the other four to-morrow evening at a The race was woll rowed ing disqualified the next race will be rowed quarter past six

Ir Norton's boat taking the load, and keeping it throughout. We heartily gratulate the club on the successful inau- guration of their regatta senson,

ME Pollard, Q., has written to the Editor of the Daily Press with reference to cer- tain assertions contained in a leading arti cle on the case of Anderson versus Shaw, and another, which appeared in yeater- day's issue of that paper. The Editor Tas Hanhw Times contains a very ex-

forwarded it to the Clab for the conside cellent letter respecting Chinking, which publishes the letter and states that be has we publish below. It deals somewhat ex ration of the Committee. This, we fancy, tensively with the raft trade in which, is hardly judicious as the colunma of some two years since so many foreigners newspaper afford a perfectly open field embarked, and contrasts the prompt action for bringing ony question of intemperate taken by the French naval authorities in language before the public and leaving the case of robbery, with the right and matter to their judgment. Were it re- Gladstone policy parzued by the represen-garding a private matter, the case would tatives of Great Britain:

be differeat, but as this letter was a repre- hensibly strong answer to a stinging cri- ticism on Mr Pollard's professional con- duet, it would seem wiser to have remained content with giving publicity to the do- cutsent and pointing out how easily even

legal luminary may also make charges native authorities.-N. C. Daily News. which are unsubstantiated by facts, are to say undignified in language and which the

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CHINKIANG.

To the Editor of the "RARROW TEES," It has been my fate again to visit this liveliest of the treaty ports and although two years have elapsed since first my car acction with that interesting aud profita ble branle of the river trade, commonly known as "raft pidgin" first compelled we

NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

Our readers will learn with satisfaction that the two Englishman, West and Mac- leau, concerned in the robbery from Waller & Co.'s silk boat, bave beru recaptured between Soochow and Chinkeang by the,

South Wales has given notice to the

The Government of the colony of New Imperial Government of its intention to terminate for the mail service via Galle, ill twoyears, The Kaikouri, the pioneer mail steamer via Panama, left Sydney with the mails and 75 the 5th June. The Rua- passengers hino, the second steamer for the Panama mail service, arrived at Melbourne on the 12th, having made the run out in sixty-five Days

Basbranging in the Colony of New South

the decline. Wales, is said to be on

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Cit

Our gold fields (says the Sydney Herald), continue in a depressed and languishing condition, and as a general rule, it may be said that they are so far worked out that the day of the individual rainer has

коле with his pick, abovel, by.

digger, cradle,

no longer earu bis rations. Before gold can be got now a days, extensive works have to be constructed, races ailes in length have to be or tunuels have to be excavated. A lave amount of capital in money and has to be expended before any return

and it will in futurs have to be conducted can be expected. Thus work on the gold- is assuming a totally different aspect,

fields is

GIFT

by a totally different class of men to the old Herald is digger af former days." The Her equally Ingubrious as to the state of the colony generally." Physically, nothing can well be more miserable than the appearance of the interior. Our special

reporter gives a most melancholy account. of general aspect of the country. Except in the back country, amongst the ranges, the bush has the look of a desert, hardly a blade of grass to be seen, and water so scarce, that drink- able water is hardly to be met with ones in the course of a day's ride."

On the 16th June,

Directors therefore have every reason to to sa ieir days there, 1 regret to sily fact of one on the staff of the paper having her collision with the Plymouth Rock, Sire Daniel Melhado for twelve years connected

believe that the amount carried as above to new Account will be amply sufficient to

provide for any contingencies on this head, aid that the reserve fund of $100,000 will somain intact. As shown by the accounts, the Directors have still deferred their claing for remuneration.

The Business of the Bauk generally has

ap

that in the interim the port does pear to have made the rapul strides to warts the prosperity, which at one time was prophesied for it. On the contrary the strides, if any, seem rather of the ro trograding chameter, and business there will, I fear, dio a lingering death, unless some revolution take place of witch no signs at present are evident.

furnished the report alluded to in the article, and accepted in good faith by the Editors effectually disprovce.

Evening Mall, August 11*

Tan Daily Press states that a European

ressel was attacked some days ago in the Leum channel and is now lying at the I have neither time nor inclination to enquire into the causes which have milita- back of some Island. If auch is the case, tel against the antecess of this port. Many all, or the greater part of the crew, mus

nisfortune in have been murdered. An officer was

REPORT OF THE COURT OF DIREC- veu steadily increasing, and the current of them are evidcut, genera of the aur-sent with the informer to see into the truth

TORS TO TUS ORDINARY HALF-YEAPLY and fixed deposits show a much larger the China trade by the rebels being pro- of the report.

GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS, TO BE HELD AT THE BASKING HOUSE

OF THE COMPANY, WARDLEY HORSE, BONGKONG, on Thur day, the 16th An.

gust, 1866,

To the Proprietors of the

HONGKONG & SHANGHAL Banking

COMPANY, LIMITED.. GENTLEMEN, The Court of Directors have the pleasure of sabitting to you the accounts for the half year ending the 30th! June last, from which it will be seen that

the net profits of the Bank, after deducting interest paid and due, salaries, rents, and all working experises, amounted to $258,227.43, out of which after taking out the rebate, the amount written off pres timinary expenses, &c, there remains for Appropriation the sum of $212,996,86, as shown by the following statement of ac-

Evening Mail, August 13.

l

It is believed that some 20 or 30 lives were lost on board the Williunette, through at 800 soldiers on board retuning from the scene of the recent disturbance in the salt districts; a uumber of these were asicep on the paddle-box, which was completely course thrown overboard and drowned. cut away by the collision, and were of The Willamette, which was at anchor at the time; is so seriously damaged that it seeins doubtful whether it will be possible to repair her..

CHEFOO.

the colleagues of Mr

with the literary department of The Sydney Herald) presented him with an elegantly wrought pencil-case of gold, accompanied with a suitable address, expressive of their good feeling and friendship.

A statue to Captain Cook is to be erected in Sydney. A ratlier late compliment to the distinguished navigator.

AN EXECUTION IN NEW ZEALAND. Some months ago, the Rev. Mr Volkner, a missionary, a Mr Fulloon, and several of the crew of their brig, were murdered under circumstances of peculiar atrocity by soma natives, who were tried, found guilty and condemned to death. They were fire in umber. The following account of their ex- ecution is from the New Zealand Herald-

The only exciting occurrence that bas With rounding country by amount than as the end of last year.

Upou enquiry however we cannot learn taken place at this port since the arrival great measure depen-that any thing is known about the matter of the French missionaries froin Cares, is port is, however, comparatively few exceptions, the entire bably the principal. The success of a new

afforded to mer

merchants

an attempted murder of a Cantonese wo- mercantile community, and very many out on the supposes, and the vigour at the Police Station,

nan by one Edward Seawerd. Foreigners native merchants, are now interested in the by the cousular officers,

with which their claims are urged in cases

in China appear

to have an especial talent Bank, and have given it their full support of fraul and extortion by the Chinese. In

for escaping from custody, as this indivi- and their confidence in the position of the this respect I am sorry to say Chinklang.M. Gunboat Janus left this morning on dual has also succeeded in evading it; but Bank has not been shakes, even under the the complaints against the present repres the Gunboat Haughty which had no news does not appear to have been fortunate,

a trial trip, and reports having boarded both the consulaand native police are on his traces, and it is hoped be may be recap- very trying circumstances which have sentative of Her Majesty being very gene to give. The latter was expected at 6 p.tured.

Freights for Shanghat are $0.20 a At eight o'clock the prison bell tolled, The

when the Sheriff accompanied by the gover involved so many bitherto well known have previously alluded to the raft this evening.

picul

temperature pleasantly cool. The Old schooner Emma, the Ta-pung-nyonor of the gaol, proceeded to the condemned business in which a couple of years ago so.

and Shoeyleen had arrived from Tiontain: the cells and commnuicated to the clergymen much capital was embarked by merchants.

Am. brig Forret Beile from Foochow and in attendance upon the Protestant culprits, the Brent. brig Albatross from Swatow- Horomona and Mokomoko, that the time at this port. The ruinous losses suffered

had expired. The cell doors were at once

banking establishments.

INCORPORATION.

Evening Mail, Aug. 14.

on

hid

AUSTRALIA.

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Cants, which have been duly audited by but little doubt that tho Ordinance will be rations were on native account, and the junks, and then sent her bosts to burn chemist, at Ruthergien, who exhibited in

the Honorable W. II. Rennie, and Phineas Ryrie, Esq.

the

great

An Ordinance to carry out this object, in this trade have become proberbial, and H. M. S. Osprey, which left Hongkong framed in accordance with the directions of are in a very great measure attribuitoable on the 2nd inet, returned into harbor this the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and to the want of oficial support awarded to morning. She only succeeded in finding two piration junks, which she made out ou The raft trade, as far as concerned the 8th, and proceeded to overhaul them; the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the British merchaut,

Foreigners, differed from most commercial has been laid before the Legislative Council

shore pear Hang-go-tsin in Hainan: the and read a first time, and, subject to certain transactions. The wood was not forwar-finding escape impossible, they ran the foreigner was consequently indep

crews deserted the junks and escaped in- laud. On the Osprey getting within alterations suggested by His Excellency the led on foreign account, and the result to Governor (calculated to be beneficial to the dent of the state of the markets either Company), the Directors believe there is or at the port of consumption. The ope- range she fired a few shot and shell at the simply assisted with his capital, them, which was accordingly done, though a high rate of interest .in

effecting it one man was seriously risk attendant on the 1 passed at the next, or an early Meeting of

the riv or navi-burnt by the explosion ; be, however, has tlie Council,

gation, signinst which no protection was since been doing well. She afterwarde ohtainable by insurance, When first the trare attracted our attention it was of a proceeded to Suma Bay, where the pira Under the existing very unsatisfactory most remunerative ellaracter, an operation tical fleet was lately destroyed. A White with fuck suive four sonths to carry out, Button Mandarin with a party of soldiers, often i

yielding the native trader upwards of had arrived there, since the pirates were in India, the Board have thought it prudent 200 percent profit and he could consequently destroyed. Some of the soldiers had beca to postpone the opening of Agenoies there well afford to pay the foreign capitalist from illtreating the villagers in the vicinity, who for the present. They have, however, de-4 to 5 per cent a month for the use of his had given information which led to the discovery of the pilongs. One soldier ..$1,542,650.56|terwined to open an Agency at Yokoliama, Unfortunately this embarkation of for was found plundering a house by a party Discounts, Loans, Credits, &o. 4,754,070.04 and have appointed an Agent at that port, eign capital into the trade soon proved too of blue jackets who were getting wood off Exchange Remittances,.. 4,722,212.25 where they hope, in course of time, to strong a stimulant, and in the course of

25,812.34 Preliminary Expenses,

eighteen months it was overdone. A rapid to the ship, and by them subjected to transact & remunerative business. 29,605.55 Dead Stook,se

$11,074,850.54

Ab tract Stutement of Liabilities and Assets

of the Donghwag and Shanghai Banking Company, Limital, on the 30th June, 1866. ASSETS.

Cash Balance on Hand and at

Bankers,

LIABILITIES.

Paid up capital,

I

$125 per share, 20,000 Shares, $2,500,000

1st. Call on Now

AGENCIES.

state of commercial and financial relations

NEW CAPITAL.

inovey.

On

Tas following are extracts from Melbourne and Sydney papers to June 28th –

A FIERI FUNGUS curious tireum stance happened in Mr Worthington's shop,

his shop win

window a piece of fungus, Comu- only known as of unusual snal Touratey Mr Worthington smelt fire in the shop, but for a long time was unable to find out the origin of it. At length smoke was ob- nation the punk was discovered on fire, Hervest in the shop window, and on exami- having been iguitod by the rays of the sun, reflected through one of the large colored bottles usually seen in the chemists' win- dows, and causing it to act as a baring glass.

opened, and his Excellency's warrant was road over to

to the two prisoners. The execu tioner, enveloped in crape to the waist, took up his position behind each prisoner as be emerged from his cell, and proceeded with alacrity to the work of pinioning. Horo- mona was the first to appear; his eyes ware closed, and he uttered the responses in a voice singularly sonorous, and was entirely and with enuncia- tion particularly clear. passive. He liad been divested of the

long white beard which distinguished him проц bis trial, and instead of the lock of hair on his forehead, which like a phylactery mark- ed him out as the hierophant of the new superstition, his hair was cropped, close to was less quiet. His restless eyes sought the scalp The demeanour of Mokomoko

the face of everyone, until they set the countenance of some fellow native, of whom there were six or seven present, and then hai," What is the use? This word he would give

expression to a convulsive

he utte

uttered twice or three times in reply to the exhortations to pray from the -piyudo- prophet, h his fellow in condemnation. When

decline in the value of timbur occarried at suminary punishment, known on board living in a hut by himself at the Woolshed, of the grund several times o

Chinkiang, and losses took the place of the large profits previously realised.

And I now a system of fraud and robbery set in, of which foreigners were the victims, scarcely credible by any but the unfortu nate differere.

ships at bing," an operation in which a rope's end plays a conspicuous part in the hands of a good performer.

The Osprey afterwards cruized along the coast of Hainan, but without further sac- Geas. We regret to learn than when near Hongkong a Petty Officer died; his ze mains were interred in Happy valley this

Evening Mail, Aug, 16.

afternoon.

The Shareholders are already of course aware of the change in the distribution of the Capital of the Bank, and the conse. quent increase of its amount, carried at the

Rafts, on which sumos varying in amount Extraordinary General Meeting held for front Tis. 7009, to Tha, 12.000 had been the purpose on the 3rd of March last. This advanced, left this port, but never made was done with a view to the Incaporation their appearance at Chinking, having barir broken up and sold at the various towns on Stock paid by

of the Bank, and, with the exception of a the route, in spite of the efforts and protes Anticipation,... 38,773 $2,688,775.00

small portion, the now Shares have been tations of the foreigners in charge and We learn from Whampoa that some alarm Reserve Fund,...

33,800.00,

freely applied for, and taken up, by the others,

others, that did eventually reach their dea- Deposits and Notes in Cir-

3,810,899.08 proprietors of the Bank; though, in view tination, were mere wrecks, not worth a ti-as been lately caused by a piratical at- the of the money advanced on thista. Even tack on an adjoining village, but the per culation, Exchange Acceptances,.

4.433,715.03 of the heavy monetary pressure prevailing when a raft did by SoDie strange chance petrators of the foray have, it is stated, Profit and Loss Account,..... 258,227.43 for the past few months, the Directors reach Chinking intact, the foreigner was been apprehended by a mandarin force unable to recover his money, the raftmen despatched in pursuit, which also captured have not yet finally closed the list of ap refusing either to pay or deliver up the se- and destroyed their boats.

Evening Mail, Augus: 16. plications, which may probably account for curity, on which the inoney was advanced,

$11,074,850.54

Doctor And Patient BOTH DEAD.-At Beechworth, the police ungistrato ninde au order for interment under peculiar circum- stances, A Chinaman, Damad Ah. Hom.

Bufore the suffered from leprosy and died. time of his burial, however, the medical man attending him, Dr. Hesker, also died without giving any certificate of the causC ok deth.

Mokomoko came forth into the open air he turned round towards the other divisions trol and uttered aloud,

korirali," his Farewell, march to the seaffold he exclaimed, "tenei

kela Farewell ra kau tan na pakeha."

pake. has." When the two bien arrived at the fust of tho scaffold and ascended, they were self-possessed, and betrayed not the slightest tremulousness indication of

or faltering

and whilst the halter was

being adjusted he The air of Hormona was that of a devotes,

was motionless, yet caying aloud, ele atna, to tohanga hau" (Lord have mercy upan me.")

.") le ventured to turn, towarka Mokomoko, and exhorted him to prayer,

ihats ("What's the use ) During the process when again the response was

Autions have been entered by one named

Hou. W. Milne, for sitting in the South Hyness against the Hon. A. Birth and the Australian Parliament last session while atting as Judges in the appeal Court.

SOMETHING TO Boor--A very valuable in Ballarat The Star reports of the trans- pair of boots appeat to have changed hands action: When Sir William Dou shares of adjusting the haiter, Nokomoko ex- were being given away by holders who foar claimed, tonui nhau omateharakoro,

cent") Having said this he closed his eyes, ed to hold what then was worthless, aud ("I die without cause yet entailed liability, the story goes that a poor shareholder gave twelve shares for a and gave himself entirely up to the hang- pair of boots. The man who gave the books man. The bolt was withdrawn, and the

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