For sale.
FOR SALE.
UNDERMENTIONED, LAND AND BUILDINGS.
AT HONGKONG ;–
Notices to Consignees.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING
No. 3999-APRIL 24, 1876.
INLAND LOT 82.-The well-known House at the Godowns of the Undersigned, in both | Courtenay, Shanghai April 13, Amoy 2Mongolia, though they are credited with count of the cuatoms and habits of, the by the payment of 30 cents a month, and
Annual Crown rent, $390.48.
MARINE LOT 111, WANGHAI-First-class and extensive Godowns.
Annual Crown rent, $324.
AT YOKOHAMA¡--
Lors No. 6 AND No. 27 f the Foreign Settlement
1878,
Goods undelivered after 28th April, 1876, will be subject to Rent.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents, Hongkong, April 18, 1876.
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To-day's Advertisements. OCEAN STRAMSHIP COMPANY.
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The Chung Ngoi San Po comments on the
Mr Dennys preferred to proceed for the present under the Spirit License Ordinance, and contended that a license should have been taken cut for this house, as was done in all other public houses.
Mr Russell instanced the Hongkong Club, where liquors less than two gallons were The Universal Circulating Herald has no sold, and yet no licence was required.
nés of this subject, and a desire to have for the transactionof business with foreigners, Club of this kind, but that they the circles of the universe laid aside for occurrences like the Tientsin massacre, the would be occupied by officers of Her Majesty's Navy. That the deponent be ARRIVALS
a breathing time,
Formosa expedition, the Woosung tram-lieved that no license for the male of y April 21, Gunga, French steamer, 79, Wolves in Mongolia" is by Hoinos, ONSIGNEES per Company's steamer Garceau, Amoy April 20, General-Rand is therefore & readable and instruc way, the Amay-Foochow telegraph, the spirituous liquors had been granted to the
Antenor are hereby notified that the DIOS & Co.
tive sketch, It is satisfactory to be as Margary murder and the Anna affair would manager of the Club, a private in the Royal Artillery. And that by the regulations of Cargo is being discharged into craft & landed April 23, Nestor, British steamer, 1414, sured that wolves will not attack men in never have transpired. It gives an ac the house, membership, might be obtained cases it will he at Consignees risk. The General,-BUTTERFIELD & WINE
that a member was entitled to bring a and Offices lately occupied by Mesra AUargo will be ready for delivery from April 22, Beethoven, German barque, 340, this bad habit in Russia, and even in Coreane.
friend in. Heard & Co., adjoining the Cathedral Com- Gedown on and after the 19th April, R. Haje, Bangkok Mar. 28, Rice, China. The reason assigned is that in pound.
CHERS & Co.
Mongolia they can invariably dine off The Ground below the masonry retaining
April 22, Thalia, British entvette, 1456, lamb or mutton day or night; while in necessity of adopting foreign weapons of wall of the above, abutting on the Queen's
6 guns, 400 h.p., Woolcombe, Shanghai, the other countries mentioned they are war, and of drilling men in strategical * Road,
April 16,
driven to starvation and to man-eating. movements. It again notices the increased April 22, Hindostan, British steamer, 1746, N. Koskell, Bombay April 4, Galle Mongolians also face and chase the wolf growth of tea in India. 9. Pezaug 14, and Singapore 17, Malle and and howl at him, but a Chinaman turns General.-P. & O, S, N, Co,
and runs; and the wolf, it is said, knows editorial in this issue. the latter so well that he always gives cbase when he sees a Celestial. It may be a novelty to some to know that the Mongolian wolf has quite a reputation for ounning, and is generally more knowing than courageous; and when an unusually serious expedition is in con templation--such as-a horse, an ox, or a camel the attack is usually made in a body. His skin furnishes good fur jackets in return for the sheep he de- stroya
A sermon translated from the Chinese of the Rov, Hu Yong-mi, preached at Foochow, gives a fair impression, of the healthy and earnest tone of exhortation adopted by the higher class of native Tax following is the order of Service of St. preachers towards their native fellow-John's Cathedral, Hongkong, Lat Sunday Christians. A much more homely, but after Waster, 23rd April, 1876 :-- very effective, style is adopted towards those who have not accepted the truths of the Gospel.
No. 6 is situated on the Band, and com. prizes an eight-roomed Dwelling House, de- tached, with Garden all round, Offices, Go. downs, Servants' Quarters and Outhouses. Area 1,084 Taubos of 36 square feet,
Annual Ground rent, $3.79.
No. 27 is separated from No. 6 by Water Street and comprises large Tea Firing and other Godowns, Floss silk Press, Compra- dore's Quarters, Stabling and Fire Engine House. Aros, 654 Taubos.
Grannd rent, $154.97 per annum. Applications for purchase, or further in- formation, to be made to
J. WHITTALL,
T. G. LINSTEAD,
myl
FOR LONDON FIA SUEZ CANAL The Company's Steamship
NĚSTOR"
10a.m.
will be despatched TO-MOR- ROW, the 23rd Instant, at
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, April 22, 1876. ·
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FOR MANILA:
The Departure of the 8. S.
"GUNGA"
for the above Port is Post- poned till MONDAY Next, Trustees A. Heard & Co.'s Estate, | the 24th Instant, at Noon.
23, Queen's Road, Hongkong,
For Freight or Passage, apply to Hongkong, February 1, 1876.
REMEDIOS & Co. Hongkong, April 22, 1876. ap24
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, (Taking Cargo at through rates to HIOGO & NAGASAKI.)
The P. & D. 8. N. Co.'s 8. 9.
D
UO DE MONTEBELLO CARTE
BLANCHE CHAMPAGNE.
Quarts, $15 per case) (1 dozen. Pints, $10
5 per cent. discount on 20 cases,
Bourbon WHISKEY.
$12 per case (1 dozen.)
FOR SALE BY
HEARD & Co.
Hongkong, June 28, 1876,
Notices to Consignees,
FROM SAN FRANCISCO,
M.
BE 8 8. Fancouver having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby re- quented to send their Bills of Lading for
"SUNDA"
will leave for the above place on MONDAY, the 24th
A. MOIVER,
Superintendent.
Instant, at Noon.
Hongkong, April 33, 1876.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI,
The P. & 0.8. N. Co.'s S. 8. "HINDOSTAN”
will leave for the above place
DEPARTURES, April 21, Infernet, (Feb. cor.), on a cruiso.
32, Ba, for New York. 22, Mary Whitridge, for S. Francisco,
32, Norna, for Swatow.
22, Esmeralda, for Manila. 22, Galley of Lorne, for Shanghai.
CLEARED.
Annie Gray, for Vancouver's Island. Fesso, for Swatow, do. Nightingale, for San Francisco. Notre Dame Auxiliatrice, for Saigon. Forward, for Vancouver's Island. Nestor, for London,
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVED.-Per Gunga, 13 Chinese, for Hongkong; and 640 for Manila,,
Per Nestor, from Shanghai for London, Mr Kennedy and Mre Wilheims; from Amoy for Straits, 600 Chinose,
Next in order we find the lecture de fivered in St. Paul's College by Dr Eitel towards the end of last year, on "The Protestant Missions of Hongkong." This is a reprint from the China Mail, but is reproduced because of its excep- Fer Yoko-tional interest, in the hope, as the editor
puts it, that it will be more acceptable! than a mere notice.
Per Beethoven, 1 Chinese. Per Hindostan, for Hongkong: from Southampton, Capt. R. Davis, Deputy Contrl. R. C. Baker, Miss Fanshaw, My W. J. Miseelbrook, B.N., and Mr R.A Peters from Brindisi, Capt. Lee; from Galle, Megers A. Wood and A. Norton. For Shanghait from Venice, Mr E. Gam. man; from Brindisi, Messrs Bourke, O. R. Hole, W. Lent and Bingor. hamai from Southampton, Mesars M. J. Hendris and J. Grundy from Bombay, Messrs Makai and H. Collett; from Galle, Mr Harpster. From Penang, 23 Chinese to Bongkong, and 12 to Amoy
DEPARTED. Per Norna, 20 Chinese, Per Esmeralda, for Manile, Miss Deane, Messrs W, Johnson, Ro s and F. de Bola.
SHIPPING REPORTS.
The French steamer Gunga reports: had on MONDAY, the 24th equally weather with much rain, latterly
countersignature to the Cadersigned and to Instant, at 4 pm. take immediate delivery of their Goods,
Cargo impeding the discharge will be at once landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents, S. 8. Vancouver. Hongkong, April 17, 1876. ap24
FROM BANGKOK,
ma 8. 8. Bentedi, Captain Beoranas, Thaving for
Consignees of Cargo are bereby requested to send their Bills of Lading for counter- signature, to the Undersigned, and to take immediate delivery of their Gouds,
Cargo impeding the discharge will be at once landed and stored at Consignees risk
and expense.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Ca
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES.
8. 8. MEIKONG.
NOTICE.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo per S, S. "Euphrate," from London, in connec tion with the above Steamer, are hereby Informed that their Goods are belu landed and stored at their risk at the Company's Godowne, whence delivery may be obtained from TUESDAY, the 20th Lustant, at Noon.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on, anless intimation is received from the Con- dignees, before To-day, the 19th, at 5 p.m., requesting it to he landed here.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
Goods remaining unclaimed after Wen- NESDAY, the 26th Instant, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX,
Acting Agent. Hongkong, April 19, 1876 COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES,
NOTICE.
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(ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer.
ibre from Calcutin are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Boats and landed at the Company's Godowns. 1 both camen it will lis at the Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery shortly
after her arrival.
The above Steamer left Singapore or Saturday, 1st April, for this port.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Acting Agent. Hongkong, April 5, 1876. RUSSIAN STEAMSHIP RUSSIA, CAPT. GERARD, FROM LONDON SA SINGAPORE.
\ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above Steamer are hereby informed, that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk in the Godorns of the Undersigned, from whence delivery may be
@blained.
A MOIVER,
Superintendent. Hongkong, April 13, 1876.
JUST RECEIVED, Ex 8. 8. NAPLES." A Large Assortment of New Booka, TOVELS, WORKS OF REFERENCE,
NOVELS GIFT BOOKS,
SCHOOL BOOKS, dro. LAMMERT, ATKINSON & Co.. Hongkong, April 22, 1876. my6
JUST RECEIVED,
Ex 8. S. "FIKING & NAPLES,”
RIME Quality Busks' DANISH
PBUTTER in tins of 1-15, 2-lbs., and
4-ibs, each.
BASS' ALE, October: brew), in bulk ;-- bhds, and kilderkins,
LAMMERT, ATKINSON & Co. Hongkong, April 22, 1876.
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Not Responsible for Debts.
Neither the Captain, the Agents, nor Owners will be Responsible for any Debt contracted by the Officers or Crew of the following- Vessels, during their stay in Hongkong Harbour:-
BRETHOVEN, German barque, Captain R. ajo.-Melchers & Co.
STEAM FOR
Singapore, Penang, Point de Galle, Aden, Suez, Malta, Brindisi, ânsona, Venice, Mediter- ranean Porte, Southampton and London;
ALSO, Bombay, Madras, Calentta and Australia.
"THE
E PERINGULAR AND ORIENTAL STAY NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Stanm-ship GWALIOR, Captain J. C. BaBot, with ier Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specs, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places, on SATURDAY, the 6th May, at Yoon,
CARGO will be received on board until Noom; SPROLE and PARCELS at the Office until 2 t., on the 5th May.
For particular regarding Freight and Pasange, apply at the P. &0. 9, N. 00.'
Office, Hongkong,
CONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED,
A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland faste is required by the Egyptian Gotemment, and must be deterred by the Shippers to the Com pany's Agents with the Bill of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not held Goods remaining in store after the 23rd themselves responsible for any detention or Instant will be subject to rent.
prejudice which may happen from incorrect Optional Cargo will be forwarded unlessness on such declaration. Boties to the contrary in given until 4 Shippers are particularly requested to note o'clock this afternoon.
the terms and conditions of the Company's Bill of Lading will be countersigned by Black Bills or Lading,
WM. PUSTAU & Co.,.
Agents
www
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Hongkong, April 18, 1870,
NOTICE
fine clear weather with variable windi..
The British steamer Nestor reports: first part of passage light variable "winds and thick weather, latter part fine clear weather and light variable winds mostly from the N.B.
The German barque Beethoven_reports:
fine weather first 18 days in the Bangkok Gulf to Pulo Obi, thence to Esprit Shoal fresh S. W. winds, thence had aqually was ther and variable winde, last two days salms and light N.E. winds.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATINOS. MAILS WILL CLOSE !----- For SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW,
Per YESSO, at 9 a.m. To-morrow (Sun.
day), the 23rd Inst.
A sketch of the history, progress and present condition of the English Presby. torian Mission at Swatow, by Mr Mao kenzie, and a summary of the medical work done there by Dr. Gauld, furnish information most acceptable to all inter- ested in the progress of Christian Mis. sions; and to judge from the sketch also given of the American Baptist Mission,
LOJAL AND GENERAL. We are informed by the agents that the City of Peking, from San Francisco April 1st, will sail from Yokohama for Hongkong to-morrow at daylight.
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Mr Dennys said the whole question here was whether the institution referred to was Club or not. He contended it was not, and that this was a colourable protenos in order to evade compliance with the law. submitted that the Naval Authorities had no right whatever to set up an establish- ment of this kind. He observed that there
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was a small ticket posted up in front of the bouse, stating that none would be ad WE are informed by the Superintendent ofmitted unless they were provided with o for 30 centa. This constituted member hip, the G. N. T. Company that some delay has ticket which could be obtained at the bar been caused between this and Shanghal. | and by the rule of the house, this entitled The Gutzlaff Island Station telegraphs the member to bring a friend with him into the house. Now supposing this was "Heavy gate of wind." Repairs are ex- considered a Club within the meaning of pected to be completed hourly.
the ward Club, every one in the Colony could establish a public bouse by merely aflzing a ticket to his house, stating the class of men he would admit but afpulat ing that they might bring friends with them, and he would no doubt wake a fortune by that means. The ticket outside tire dear of this Club did not specify any class alone could apply for tickets of member ship It only maid any person." might mean any civiliane or anybody else.
Morning Prayer, Litany and Sermon at 11-Reader, The Colonial Chaplain; Preacher, The Rev; W. H. Daynes, Garrison Chaplain; First Lesson, Numbers, avt to verre 36; Second Lerson, 1 Corinthians, Y. to verse 20 Venité, No. 1, Mercer Te Deum, Oakley; Besedistus, No. 2, Mercer; First Hymn, Thon art the Way, to Thee stone," No. 189 in Mercer; Second Hyma, "Nearer, my God, to Thee," No. 361 in Mercer.
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Evening Prayer and Sermon at 4- Reader, The Colonial Chaplain | Preacher, The Rev, S. Kenah, B.N., Chaplain of H.M.S. Narcissus; First Lemon, Numbers, V. from verze 36; Second Lesson, John, XX. verses 24 to 30; Paulme, No. 192, page 134, Monk; Cantate Damino, No. 184, Monk; Deus Miscreatur, No. 55, Monk Anthem, Saviour, blessed Saviour," No. 46 in Anthem Book; Hymn, after Sermon, "All praise to Thee," No. 18 in Mercer. Tax English Mail, which arrived this after- it would appear that this serial is Resumoon, brings an unusually small amount of ing a tone more in accordance with its title than hitherto, Mr T. W. Kings mill continues his warfare against the myths of China, and combats the notion that the Chinese ever advanced as for as the shores of the Caspian Bea, before the Christian era.
The number closes with two or thres important letters on the all-absorbing term question,What term should be used for God in Chincze? Canon Me- Clatchie appears as the champion of the minority. Dr. Carstaira Douglas writes what seems to us a very temperate and convincing essay to prove that Shang ti Per BUNDA, at 11.30 am, on Monday, "comes wonderfully hear the pure Theis
the 24th Instant. For MANILA. ——
For YOKOHAMA
Per GUNGA, at 11.30a.m. on Monday,
the 24th Instant. For SINGAPORE AND PENANG.-
Per ABBOTSFORD, at 2.30 p.men
Monday, the 24th Instant. SHANGHAL
For
For
Tate Letters
tic or Scriptural idea of the one Supreme troversy as a layman, thinks "it is a God." Dr. Kerr, who regards the con- matter of entire indifference which term is used, and that all parties might un- animously adopt either one term or the other, without any detriment to the Per HINDOSTAN, at 3 pm. on Mon-cause of Christianity in China." This
day, the 24th Inst.
latter suggestion is no doubt well meant, from 3.10 to 3.30 p.m.
but will not commend itself to those SBANGHAI, Per HOCHUNG, at 3.30 p.m. Monday, who have made the matter a very serious and prolonged study. Two things are mentioned by Dr. Douglas which strike us as very cogent arguments in favour of Shang ti, viz., (1.) the most scholarly Chinese Christians use Shang-ti, and (2) the large company of German mission aries, who are known to be of "stadions and accurate habits," unanimously use
the 24th Inst.
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Shipping. Daylight. Fesso leaves for Swatow,
Amoy and Focobow,
10 a.m.--Nestor leaves for London.
Goods per Kussia undelivered after this
date subject to rent.
MEMOS. FOR MONDAY, Shipping.
Noon-Gunga leaves for Manila, Noon,Sunda leaves for Yokohama. 4 pm.-Hindostan leaves for Shanghai. Amusements.
Amateur Performance at Uity Hall
•The publication of this issue commenced at 816 p.m.
MARRIAGE.
At the Union Church, Hongkong, 20th April, by the Revd. J. Lamont, B. F.
DEATHS. ADDIMAN, TO ANKE HAINR. No cardo.
the same termo.
The number closes with items of mis. sionary intelligence, one of which is worthy of special note: two missionaries and a medical associate have settled in Bhamo, where they have been well received, and obtained presents and assurances of protection from the King
of Burmah.
THE SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
meros. It says that with the information
news All the later telegrams have already appeared, Several naval promotions are reported Com. Stirling, to be captain; Lieut. H. T. Wright, to be commander Sub-lients. Poore and Warren, to be lien tenanta; Surgeon Gorham, to be staff surgeon; B. Thompson, H. Bonnett, and D. Sloper, A.B's., medal "for conspicuous gallantry. Lieut. R. T. Wood favorably noted for services.
The Army and Navy Gasette grumbler at the waste of money ere the 10th Regt. gets to England,
Mr Edgar Besant, late senior clerk at Hongkong Dockyard, has been appolated senior clerk to Portsmouth until a vacancy occurs. Mr Jes. Stone, of Portsmouth, is expected to go to the Hongkong Yard,
Major Amiel, 80th Regt, has reached England on leave.
THE SEAMEN'S CLUB,
Tati
Mr Russell asked if Mr Dennys was pre*.
pared to prove that other than naval mon were admitted.
Mr Dennys replied that soldiers bad been seen in the hones, but he was not prepared to prove that men other than soldiers and sailors had been admitted into the house. He would, however, contend that the naval authorities had no right to establish a pan teen through the whole length and breadth of the island, and the prezent institution was what it amounted to. If nobody else was allowed to do this, surely the Naval Authorities would not even the Sailors' Home was obliged to have a license;
Mr Russell asked who wore those that could call for drink in the Home 1
Mr Dennyn said everybody.
Mr Russell observed that this was the difference. The Seamen's Club was limited to a certain class of men.
Mr Donnys said there was nothing to show that. Everyone could go in by mere. ly applying for a ticket for which he had to pay 30 cents. This entitled him to bring a friend with him, and if he went Gifts times to the place, he could bring fifty friends with him, and thus so far the insti tation was a public one.
The Magistrate ssid it was limited to a particular class of men only, viz., the marines and blue jackets and no others. Therefore the establishment could not bo said to be open to the public.
Mr Dennys replied that his argument was that no naval officer should have the power to establish a canteen. Suppose any one established a house of the kind, with a tickat outside the door that mercan- tile men alone could be admitted, but giving them the privilege of bringing friends, he would make a fortune, as it would The application by Mr H. L. Dennys for practically be a public house within the meaning of the Ordinance. The institu- a summons against the abova institution, tion, complained of was different to the on the ground of a public nuisance, came
Sailors Dome, where sailors alone were before Mr James Russell. Police Magistrate, Mr Russell said Mr Donnys-bad been ca for argument to-day at the Magistracy
admitted, an affidavit having been filed by Bir Johann Buse, an-assistant in the firm of arguing against himself. He had said be Mr Dennys remarked that it was open to Messe F. Peil & Co. The affidavit proved fore that the Home was open to the public. that the deponert was a resident in No. 1 Praya East, with bis principal Mr F. the public before the case of Captain Orar Pail, who was now absent from the Colony.bury, but since then he understood that no That the house next to his, No. 2, was formerly occupied by officers belonging to the Royal Engineer Corps and El. M. Con- Supposing the solicitors in the Colony were numerous enough to form a Club trol Department. That on the lat April,
outsider was admitted.
Mr Russell imagined a Solicitors' Club.
Mr Dennys asked his Worship to put the comparison still further, that is, that the Club should be extended to mercantile men who could be brought in as friends. If any one was allowed to do that sort of thing, he would make a to tune. Every private house might evade taking out a license by sticking op a ticket intimating that no one was admitted unless he was provided with a ticket which could bo had at the bar for 80 cents.
it bad been found to be converted into a among themselves, there being so many place for the sale of Boer and Spirituous of them that it was nocestery to have a liquors to the men employed in H. M. badge of admission which would shew Navy, and that the words Royal Naval membership, would this not be the same as
the institution complained of 1 Seamen's Club' had boon painted up in large letters over the entrance thereto." That ever since the establishment of the so-called Club, residences in the neighbour hood had been rendered almost toinhabit able by the shouting of songs and choruses, containing offer the most filthy language, and that the public thoroughfare along the Praya had frequently been almost impass: able for respectable people from the same cause That on or about the 2nd inst, when be started to his bustness, he found
Mr Russell said this was a different cluster of narai seamen, all more or lesz The Press notices in extenso the collection intoxicated, standing round the entrance to matter altogether. The offloor of a ship of products of the island of Hainan, made his house and that of the so-called Club. had a right to see that his men obtained That one naval sesinan was sitting on the every comfort while ashore. At any rate On the 14th March, at Hagley Bouse, by Dr. Danays for the Chamber of Com-top of the Praya wall, and he was dread. Mr Dennys had travelled out. of his ori pression of a public nuisance. Now he was Edgbaston, Birmingham, Frederick Tom-
fully intoxicated and bleeding profusely ginal application, which was for the sup about the fase from wands inflicted on kins Cohen, in the 65th year of his age.
On the 12th March, at Grove Hill, Turto band respecting the island it is, of course, him by a drunken marine, who was standing going on the Spirit License Ordinance.
Mr Dennys Baid he thought the present bridge Wels, Altha Margaret Heraobel, rather premature to pronounce a decided a short distance off with a couple of com the youngest obild of Sir Thomas F. Wade, opinion upon its mineral wealth, but it is tades, both of whom ware the worse for prooeding was the most simple, it was E.0.B., H. B.M.'s Minister at Peking, aged highly probable that if energetically worked this Clab, he had often found inebrid. to say that a license was messsaty foto
liquor. That since the establishment of here only necessary for the Magistrate hose then na application would follow the mines would prove lucrative, and trade ated seamen and marines of the Royal and he was sure that the bench of Magie, receive a strong stimulus by their develop navy, and who had been getting drinks traits would not grant one to the house in from this Club, walking and lying ment. Is will, however, it is to be feared, about the Praga in front of these houses, question. If his Worship overruled bire
however, be would proceed with the applis were frequent disturbances cation for the suppression of a public timi be a long time before the Chinese Govern- That there ment will seo fit to alter its poling, and between the same and the boatmen and chair-coolies, making it extreme-
Mr Russell observed that the affidavit remove the prohibitions against the mines dificuit for people to pass along was filed with the object of an application being opened. The trade in opium and the road, while the noise and smell for declating the Orb to be public manufactured goods will necessarily be this Club had been frequently committing which would
were disgusting. That the frequenters
There was nothing in it prove that spirituous article by Canon McClatchis, in conti-limited, though it may improve in time, nuisances against the walls of deponent's liquors were sold in the house. If M nuation of the discussion on his favorita Valortunately the port of. Hotshow is house, on the side where the dining room Deunys would persist in his applica subject, Paganism." The rer, author wretchedly adapted for the development of a sated and this rendered that portion on that head, he would have to Ele
tion uninhabitable, the ravium arising supplementary affidavits may be correct enough in the place
A-large trade. which he assigns to Baal and we do
13 months
THE CHINA MAIL,
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1876,
Ws have been unable hitherto to notice
the January-February number of the Chiness Recorder and Missionary Jour. Rah
The number opens with an
dance.
But Kiung-therefrom being so great That singing Mr Dennys said he would. Be hon ries till 2 or 3 am. That even when the absence he returned with an affidavit from not see that any one need object to the chow has been formally thrown open, and end noise were heard from the ubat suu- retired from the Court after shor names or attributes which may be given it now only remains for merchants to see members of the Club were sober, the iso Mr Bite, proving the existence of a bat it to his hoary pantholatie majesty, so long what are the chances of establishing a guage used by them was of such a descrip the hates whore spirituous liquors were as due allowance is made for the peculiar. remunerative trade there. It is to be hoped tion that it wouli, vecesitate the closing Bold.
of all doors and windows, especially when idiosyncraties of the learned but singular that they may more than equal the specta-ladies were in the netzhbourhood, and that pared to prote that men other than the Mr Russell asked if Mr Dennys was pre- sobolar under mention. So surely as the tions of the most sanguine, though we can the whole locality had been rendered alto asilors and marines had been supplied with Canon devotes several pages to Baal and
gether untenable in respect of the attisanoe complained of That the ludlord, the liquora
THE 2. & 0. 2° K. Op. reserve the option of forwarding all Goons ship ap23
ped by their Steatmere for Europe through Egypt, althor by Ball, or by Canal in their on Steamer, or in vessels employed for his place in the anciens pegan pantheon, not help donfessing to some misgivings on the purpos
however, so surely may we keep a the subject.-The Press also comments on Rev. Father Herce, had been appealed to & MoÏVER, Superintendens,
bright lookout for the inevitable analogy the Government of Chiris drawn between that pagan deity and the
CONSIGNEES OF OPTIONAL CARGO, EX O. 8. S. Co.'s 8, 8. ANTONOR, FROM LIVERPOOL.
HIPPING Orders must be obtained from the Undersigned not later than the 5th Test, for shipment per 8.8, Glaucus, - BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, April 19, 1876.
ape
P. & O. §. N. Po.'s Office,
Hongkong, April 22, 1876.
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Sheung-ti of the Protestant Missionaries THE HONGKONG NATIVE PRESS.quated the Naval Authorities to remove a ticket at the bar, and he was not prepared
of China. To those who follow the
Canon in all his argumente; and revise
The Chinese Mail arges on the necessity his multitudinous quotations and author of appointing officials well conversant in rities, the article may be interesting foreign matters to posts in the treaty ports: but we must confess to certain wear-If the mandarins had been posted of tags
Mr Deungs replied that he was not by other residents in the neighbourhood prepared to do so, but from what in reference.to the establishment of this was stated on the ticket outalde the Naval Seamen's Club; and that He had res door. every one was entitled to gút the establishment elsewhere, but that they to say that there were no outsiders supplied refused to do so, That the Revd father with drinks there. Herda had informed the 'deponent that Mr. Russell observed that nobody asked when he let the premises, he did not un Mr D. to prove a negative. The question destend-that they were to be made into here was whether this was a Club or has
No. 8909-APRIL 22, 1876.]
Mr Dennys had contended that it was not, but inasmuch as it was confined to blue jackets and that no private man was allbled wy it was not a publia house within the meaning of the Ordinance.
hir Dennys said that since these proceed ing had been taken, the place had been wonderfully quiot. This allowed consider able improvement in the management
Mr Rossell said the present was an ex- ceptional occurrence; there was a large number of men-of-war in the harbour, and the noise complained of would not be likely to occur again.
Mr Dennys observed that this was not the point; the same thing might happen again any day.
Mir Dennya observed that if the mercantile marine were compelled to take out a licence for their houses, the naval marine should also be required to have one. He denied that the house in question was a club,
Bir Russell remarked that this institution might be a nuisance to those in the neigh bourhood, but it was a private nuisance if nuisance at all, and not a public one. it might be the subject of a remonstrance, and not of legal proceedings.
stowage of gunpowder, and there was now a balance of $8,600 to the credit of that account, that anm, with the amount for which the powder in store would now sell, would be far more than sufficient to cover the amount they proposed to expand upon the Powder Magazine. It would probably be more satisfactory to the Council if the report of the Surveyor General upon the
matter were now read,
The Clerk then read the report of the Surveyor General, dated the 11th inst., as follows:-"I have, the honour to hand you herewith the plane of the proposed new Powder Magazine at Stone Cutter's Island. You will perceive that it is proposed to adopt the Chapel to this was, with due "Mr Russell said at any rate it was satis-regard to economy in every detail as far factory to find that Mr Dennys application as is consistent with safety. Plans are also had done some good.
submitted of the proposed quarters for the men in charge of the powder who at present live on board the hulk, and for the permanent guard on duty at the Magazine. The quarters consist of a small house to be oreated at some distance of, with kitchen and latrine attacbed, and is a facsimile of the Harbour Police office lately erected in Aberdeen. The estimate for the entire work according to schedule prices is $7,800. This high figure is due to the expensive class of material necessary in this descrip- Mr Dennys said everything in the waytion of building, where copper has to take of correspondence had been done, and the place of iron throughout, and to the here was Captain Colomb'a reply. (Rend.) fact that it also includes all internal fit- It was to the effect that they, did nottings, racks etc, screwed and nailed in cop want to put their neighbours to incon- per and framed in hard wood as a provision venience in any way, and the simple against white ants. I beg, also to enclone objection to them, was enough to set copy of the correspondence with the far them considering how to move. They bour Master, upon whose data the plane could have taken a house, most suitable in have beon based in regard to storage no- every way, next to the new Temporance commodation and to the housing of the Hall, but they wore objected to there, and staff in charge. I also understand from fell back upon their present house un- the Harbour Master that although the willingly. That it seemed to Capt. Colomb Powder Hulk may possibly founder in a that they were all in the hands of the typhoon owing to her rattan condition there Isndlord, whose business it was to arrange in every probability of her fetching $9,000 if matters. The only proposal they had had sold by public auction. This amount would from him was to move into No. 2, but the therefore be deducted in considering the next door (No. 8) would be just as likely total outlay in convection with a new to object again, "Jack is a Jack, Capt. powder store at Stone Cutter's Island. Colomb continued, “a good deal because The Harbour Master also consure with mo of the life he leads when on shore, and the in the opinion that the storage of powder life he loads is forced on him. We want on shore entails the necessity of a wharf to remove that force, at least here at projecting into sufhalently deep water to Hongkong, with the least inconvenience to allow of large cargo boats coming alongside the inhabitanta."
and loading at all times of tide without having to use bosts. On this point it must be borne in mind that it is in the increased haudling of powder barrels caused by the loading and unloading in and out of small boats that lies the risk of accident. The prudence of having a proper wharf will therefore be readily recognised, Accord ingly though not instructed to that effect I have prepared a drawing of a timber jatty running out to a depth of five feet at low Me Dennys brought forward by way of water spring tides, the cost of which will analogy the case of a public woman selling bo $2700. Owing to the excessive shallow spirituous liquors by an evasion of the law,ness of the water all along the shore op and he had no doubt the woman would be posite the magazine, the jetty as shown in at once hauled up, yet it was only for the plan will have to run out to a distance of doing what this institution was doing. 145 foot before attaining the depth men.
Mr Russell said Capt. Colomb was quite sencillatory. The letter showed that they must remain where they were, because they were objected to everywhere. He must decide against the application, and Mr Dennys must take into consideration the copstitution of the institution, which, his Worship must say, was analogous to the Hongkong Club or the Gorman Club, although of course of a different class.
Mr Russell thought there was no analogy between an institution under the patronage of Admiral Ryder and under the manage- ment of a Committee consisting of Capt. Colomb and others, and the house of a public woman.
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tioned. The aggregate cost of magazine
and jetty will therefore stand at $10,700," The Governor said the whole of the plans were upon the table if the members of the Council wished to examine thom.
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The tion. P. Byrie said he wished to Mr Dennys said if his Worship decided make a few remarks on the matter. Be against him in this application, he would pro- was at Stone-putter's Island a short time ago ceed with the motion for the suppression of and he saw an ordinary zampan loaded with a public nuisance. In support of this mo gunpowder at the magazino. There was tion be handed in a statement by Dr N. B. no one on board the boat excepting Chinese, Dennys, who described the nuisance seria and he thought that such a proceeding as tion. There were noiges, blasphemous that ought not to be permitted. The language, vomit, nuise continued up to 2 Chinese had no idea of the danger that am. and renowed at 6 a or until 7.30 o.existed in dealing with gunpowder, and if He had been put to great inconveniences, that in the boat had blown up there was no and that residence there was intolerable. knowing what would have been the results. Mr Dennys then quoted several cases, de thought they ought to have proper chiefly that of the King . Lloyd, a tin-arrangements, and proper boats for truna- man's case; that of Rez v. Moore, & pigeon porting the gunpowder to and from the shooting case.
ships.
Mr Russell asked Mr Dennys whom he wished to proceed against.
-The Guvernor said it was a matter that- could be, and should be remedied. The Mr Deunga presumed it was the mana beat way to provide for perfect safety in the ger; it was no satisfaction to them to pro-transport of the gunpowder to and from eved against the landlord, a Spanish priest, Mr Russell aaked, was not Capt. Colomb the man to proceed against as lessee?
the ships would be to have a proper bost for the work. Vessels that took the pow der were obliged to anchor in a certain Mr Dennys then continued his address place; and he thought the carrying of the to the Court on the law of the case, He material should be done under the super- contended that blasphemous language was itendence of a proper officer, and that it an offence against decency, that the conduct should not be left to the sampan people -comp-ained of rendered habitation intoler--alone, who bad comparatively no regard
able to those in the neighbourhood, and for danger of this kind. that therefore it was a public nuisance. The Colonial Secretary said he should The institution, moreover, was situated in think the best way would be for the Go one of Her Majesty's highways.
vernment to take the conveyance of the powder to and from the ships into its own hands,
Mr Russell said the strongest point was the complaint mentioned in the state ment, but as for that a speedy remedy
The Governor proposed a vote of $10,700 could be effected, He would, direct an for the purposes stated in the Burveyor
Inspector of nuisances to inspect the place and report thereon. If the nuisance com- plained-emittance of noisome smell was found-existing, it could be at once sup pressed. But he thought the question at 18840 was one which should be settled by the landlord, whose property would be deteriorated if improperly employed.
Mr Denays said if his Worship ruled against the 'spplication, the neighbours
would have only to remove elsewhere,
eneral's, Report,
The motion was unanimously carried, and the subject then dropped. TRE CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY. The Governor said the next business.was to proceed with the Bill to authorise the China Traders' Insurance Company, Limit ed, to sub-divide its shares. In the frst
place he would, with the permission of the Council, call upon the Clerk to read a me-
THE CHINA MAIL.
The Hon. W. Keswick: The object in your coming here is not so much to reduce the amount of the shares, as to extend the number?
-Witness: It is to extend the number and to reduce the amount. I consider, myself, that the amount in too large.
The Chief Justice; Has there been a duly constituted mosting of the Company with a view to considering the propriety and desirableness of procuring such an Ürdin- anoe is this one ?.
by shares under the provisions of The Companies Ordinance, 1805, and whereas the Memorandum of Association of the said Company provides. that the Capital of the Company is one million f dollars divided into two hundred shares of five thousand dollars ouch, and whereas the whole of the said abares, have been. issued and the sum of fifteen hundred dollara has been paid up on each shore, and whereas the said Company has found that shares of five thousand dollars each are too large for the advantageous man- Witness: No, there has not been a duly agement of the affairs of the Company, and constituted meeting of the Company in re the Company is therefore desirous of sub-faronse to this matter. The Directors of dividing the existing shares into shares of the Company are, however, well assured smaller amount, and whereas the said The Chief Justice: I only ask the ques- Company in order to effectuate ita desire tion, has applied to the Governor to confer upon it the necessary powers therefor by means of this Ordinance, and whereas the said Governor has consected so to do upon the The Attorney General: Nothing could be terms and conditions hereinafter contain done under this Ordinance until after two ed: Be it therefore enacted by the Go-meeting of the shareholders had been Ternor of Hongkong, with the advice of called, the Legislative Counch thereof,”
Witness: I would point out that the object of the Bill is merely to enable this to be done.
The Chief Justice: Then you are of opinion that if the shares were more easily gus-divisible that the Company would be in a
more prosperous state? Witness: Quite so.
The Chief Justico: Some witnesses muat be called on behalf of the Company to tain the statements in this preamble,
The Chairman of the Company, Mr H. B. Nelson, was then called forward to give evidence.
The Attorney General said he was afraid the Council bad not power to swear the witnesses.
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been forfeited to the Company; how many do they number t
Witness: There are six on which the last call has not been paid.
The Chief Justice: Seven and six make thirteen.
Witness: I expect. they will all be paid, with the exception of the seven, as soon. as the steamer comes in; they belong to people out of Hongkong.
The Attorney General: Has any share holder given you a formal objection to this application
Witness: Not one.
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The Hon. P. Ryrie: Two object to sign? Witness: Yes, in one case the share did not belong to the party; he was acting for another, but he was, himself, in favour of the application. The other simply want ed time to consider the matter.
of this kind stood in the poaltion of this ono, with shares of such a large amount.
The amendment, on being put to the vote was lost, there being three votes for and five against it, as in the case of the previous amendment..
The first and second paragraphs of the Bill wore as follows:-
I. In the interpretation of this Ordinance, the expression "The Company” shall messi: The China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited."
IL. It shall be lawful for the Company by special resolution to modify the condi The Attorney General : Or told you that tions contained in its Memorandum of
objected?
Association so as by ̈sub-division of Ita Witness: Not one.
shares or any of them to divide its Capital or any part thereof into shares of any amount not less than one-third of the amount fixed by the Memorandum of A sociation, provided that in the sub-division of the existing shares, the proportion be tween the amount which is paid, and the amount which is unpaid on each share of reduced amount shall be the same as it was in the case of the existing share or shares, from which the share of reduced amount is derived.
The Hon. P. Ryrie; He would not be a party to this application?
Witness: Not then; he said he would let me know.
The Chief Justice: And he has never given assent or dissent l
Witness: No..
Witness: Mr Coxon and Manger, who was acting for the late Mr Douglas Lapraik. These are the only two European gentle men who have not signed. There are some Chinese as well.
The Hon. P. Ryrie: You cannot say there is any falling off in the business of the Company on former years?
Witness: No; the business is restricted under the present circumstances. People have objected to buy on account of the value of the shares.
The Hon. W. Keswick: At the same time the principal reason is not the value of the shares, but that they are not sufficiently numerous to extend the constituency to the extent you desire?
The Hon. P. Ryrie: What advantage do The Hon. P. Ryrie: Have you any ob- contributing shareholders get in your Com-jection to tell me who they are that refuse The Chief Justice said they were now pany over non-contributing shareholders 1 to sign 7 acting as a Court of Judicature and any Witness: That is not settled yet, evidence given should be on oath. It was The Hon. P. Ryrie: As the case stands the practice of Committees of the House of at present, there is no inducement to Commons when private, Bills were before them to help the Company because they them, to swear the witnesses. Of course get no more than the outsiders. The Com- in this case it was a mere matter of form,pany has gone on for ten years, has been but he thought the witnesses should be prosperous, and how is it that they have sworn for the sake of precedent in future found out now that the shares are too large? proceedings of this nature. He undertook The Attorney General: There has been to say it was the praction in England to ohange in the management of the busi- take such evidence on oath.
nesa within the last ten years.
Witoess: 1produce letters from Shanghai and Amoy in favour of the proposal,
The Governor It may be that the shares The Governor said he had boon_examinare too large, and also not sufficiently nu- ed on several Commitees of the House of merous. Commons and had not given his evidence Witness: I know of one instance in on oath.
which the price of a share has been a draw- The Chief Justice said that when the back to a desirable person, wishing to be Governor was examined it was on a Com-como a shareholder in the Company. mittos for a publio Bill, and not a private one. There was an important difference te tween the two, because on a public Bill the Committes did not sit in a judicial capaci ty'as on a private one, and did not conse quently examine the witnesses on oath.
The Governor! I put it to the Coupoil whether the witnou be sworn or abt.
The Colonial Secretary said he thought it would be establishing a very inconveni ent precedent to swear the witnesses and he did not see why they should do so,
The Hon, W, Keswick: I can scarcely consider that the shares are too high, seeing that they are at a premium,
Witness: It has occurred to my owa knowledge here that people who have been desirous of buying one share have not been able to do Bo
The Hon. W. Keswick Have you ever heard a cans in which a person has wished to sell a share in the Company and has not been able to do so ↑
Witness: I cannot call one to mind.
The Governor Are you of opinion, or have you any doubt that by reducing the value of the shares as proposed in this Bill they would be rendered more marketable
Witness: I have no doubt of it. The Ron. P. Ryrie; But do you think would benefit the Company if the shares
The Hon. W. Keswick said that with. regard to taking evidence it appeared to him that the 36th article of the Standing Orders would meet the cane. It said that the evidence of every witness should be taken down by the Clerk, and signed by the wines. That, he thought, would be suttit
cient.
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The Chief Justice esid that possibly the word witness in this case did not mean man sworn; but the question of swearing the witnesses was scarcely worth discussing, and he would waive it.
The Governor said that, as the Chief Justice waived the point, it would be sufi- cient for the evidence to be taken down and signed by the witness. The Attorney General would question the witness to elicit bis evidence.
The Attorney General: You
are chair- man of the Board of Direc ors of the Chi-
na Traders Insurance Company, Limited?
Witness: I am.
The Attorney General Bave you the Memorandum of Association with you i
Witness I produce it.
The Attorney General: Have you also your Certificate of Registration,
Witness: It is produced.
The Attorney General: How many of the two hundred shares have you issued ?
Witness: The whole of them have been issued; aeven of them, however, have be- come forfeited to the Company, through the failure of Augustine Heard & Company.
By the Chief Justice: The subscriptions to these seven shares have been met and paid with the exception of the last call. They are held by the Company at the pre-
sent time.
The Chief Justice How much has been Paid npon the whole two hundred abares?
Witness: $1,500 per share has been paid
up.
The Chief Justice: That is upon the 183 shares, Jexcluding the seven. Nothing far- ther has been paid ap
Witness: Nothing further. upon the whole of the shares, with the ex- The Chief Justice: $1,500 bas been paid
ception of the seven ↑
Witness: I may have been incorrect with reference to three or four shares, in respect to which the last call has not been paid, but of that I am not sure.
The Chief Justice: The preamble of your Bill says that "the said Company has found that shares of five thousand dollars each
were more marketable ?
Witness: I think so; by marketable 1 mean to desirable people.
The Hon. P. Eyrie: The Directors of the Company would not like to see the abares frequently changing hands,
Witness: We can control that ourselves; we can refuse to transfer shares, and we can take care of ourselves in the matter.
The Attorney General: I believe you applied to His Excellency for this Ordi- nane in a formal letter 7
Witness: Yes.
The Hon. P. Ryrie: You said there were three or four shareholders in Hongkong who had not signed?
Witness: To my knowledge no one has said douidedly that he will object; two shareholders have said that they would like to consider the matter further.
Witness: Both reasons, enter into it; the value of the shares drive people from buying.
The Hon. W, Keswick: But the shares are always at a premium ?
Witness: Yes, shares will go to a pre- mium sometimes.
The Hon. W. Keswick: That is because the people buy them.
By the Hon. P. Ryrie: The accounts for the present year have not been made up yat, and I cannot say whether there is a falling off in business or not,
The Hon. P. Ryrie said the question whether having more shareholders willin. crease the premium of the shares should be settled.
The Governor: That is a matter for the Company to judge of, and not for us.
The Lion. P. Ryrie: My view of it is that to set aside the law which up to the present time has benefitted the Company very much, is wrong; they find the shoe pinohes them now, and they want to get the law
altered.
The Governor: No doubt; that is the way in all businesses,
The Hon. P. Ryrie: I don't think they have proved anything.
The Witness then retired. The Attorney General i J now move that the preamble be considered.
The Colonial Secretary: I second it. The motion having been carried, The Attorney General said that by the evidence they had heard it had been shown that the preamble of the Bill, as drawn, was not strictly accurate. They might, how- ever, altor the preamble in accordance with the facts brought before them in the evidence, and he would move resolutions to do so. In the first place he would move, first, that the words "one thousand dollars" bo substituted for * fifteen hundred dollars," being the paid up on each share; that the words and a further call of five hundred dollars has been made," be insert- The Chief Justice: You made youred immediately after the first amend- pplication by direction of the Board of ment; that the words "to be readily trans- Directors at a meeting 1
The Chief Justice: There are three or four who have not signed in the Colony; is that so 7
Witness: The Secretary can tell you; I think it is very likely there are three or
four.
Witness: Yes, at a meeting of the Board. The Governor Has any shareholder, to your knowledge, registered or recorded his objection to this proposed Ordinance? shareholder who does object. Two share. Witness: Certainly not; I know of no
they wished to give the matter a little fur- holders said they would not sign because
ther consideration.
The Chief Justice: Then they did not object.
Witness: There was no formal objection
that you have still unallotted; have you whatever, so far as I am aware.
The Hon. P. Ryrie: These seven shares had any application for them
Witness: We have not invited any. The Hon. P. Ryrie : Why? Witness: For reasons that the Board have of their own. If there is any parti- sular reason for knowing why, I have no objection to state the reasons,
The Hon. W.Keswick: There has been no
Mr Russell failed to see how he could/morial which had been presented by share are too large for the advantageous manage application for them 1
holders of the Company on the matter. ment of the Company, and the Company help them other than by what he had pre-
The Clerk then read the memorial as is therefore desirous of sub-dividing the ex- sorbed. No doubt the subject complain- follows: That the Chins. Traders Insur-isting shares into shares of smaller amount," ed of would be remedied when attention
ance Company, Limited, is a public com- What proof have you of that f had been thus called to it. He could not
duly incorporated and limit. d by do more at present than to send an In-shares under the provisions of the Cum spector of nuisance to inspect the place. panias Ordinance, 1865. That the memor-
Mr Dennys then withdrew,
audum of Association of the said Company provides that the capital of the Company is one million of dollars, divided into two hundred shares of $5,000 each. That your of the Company, holding altogether one memorialists are respect voly shareholders hundred tuares. That your memorialists
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Witnean: The only proof I can adduce is the expression of opinion of a large number of the people interested in the Company Since my connection with the Company, it has been frequently brought to notice by the shareholders that the amount of the shares prevented desirable merchanta from becoming shareholders. I have also man of the Company, in which the same seen correspondence with the late Chair
taining expressions of opinion that five
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
was held this morning at the Colonial A meeting of the Legislative Council Offices. There were present the Governor, (Sir Arthur E. Kennedy); the Hon. Sir are aware that an Urdinance has been in views are urged, and I produce letters con- John Stuale, Chief Justice; the Hon. Jtroduced by Your Excellency in order to
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G. Austin, Colonial Secretary; the Hon, enable the Company to sub-divide its thousand dollars is too large an amount for J. Bramaton, Attorney General; the Hop, shares. That your memorialists are of shares. U. May, Acting Colonial Treasurer; the opinion that the passing of the proposed
The Governor: This memorial is a proof Hon. P. Ryrie; the Bon, H. Lowcooki Ordinance will be a very great advantage that the shareholders generally hold that And the Hov, W. Keswick,
to the said Company, as they have hitherto opinion. found that the Company's existing shares Witness, in reply to the Chief Justice, The Governor said there was a subject have been too large for the successful de-esid that only two or three shareholders in which, with the permission of the Coun-velopment of its business. Your memo- Hongkong had not signed the memorial; cil, he would take the liberty of bringing rialists therefore humbly pray Your Ex others out of the Colony had not had an forward before the regular business of the celleocy that the proposed Ordinance to opportunity of signing it. day was taken. It was with reference to authorise the Company to sub-divide its The Attorney General: If the shares are the storage of gunpowder on Stone Cut shares may come into fores and become reduced in amount what result do you ex- ter's Island. Elu would shortly state that law.
pect? last year a survey was held by the Master The Governor In what stags is thin Attendant and Carpenter on the Island, Bill on 1 and they found that the hulk in which the gunpowder was at present stored was in quite a bafit state for the purpose, and insap-
able of repair. Under these circumstances
The Clers It is now in Judicial Com- mittee; it has been read a second time.
The Chief Justice The Committee of the Council on the Bill was adjourned for the purpose of taking evidence on the preamble of the Bill.
The Attorney General -I move that the preamble of the Bill be read,
it was therefore necessary to find some uitable place for storing the powder, and the matter having been carefully considered, it was thought that a part of the buildings om Stone Cutter's Island, which as the Council were well aware could not be used | lowa —
The Clerk read the preamble as fol-
Witness: An increase of baslui for the Company.
Witness: No; it is not generally known that we have them in our hands.
The Hon, W, Keswick: You say a thon- sand dollars has been paid on each of the seven share
In Augustine Heard & Company, and they Witness: Yes, they belonged to partners became forfeited to us on their failure.
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ferable" be substituted for the words "for the advantageous management of the Com pany;" and that the words to the Gov- ernor to confer upon it" ba struck out, and the word "for" merely, inserted in their place.
The Attorney General moved that the - two first paragraphs of the Bill be passed with the amendment that the amount to which the shares might be reduced to be statod at $1,500 instead of one third.
The paragraphs as amended were passed. Tho remaining two paragraphs of the Bill were as follows:--
Ill. The Statoment of the number and tal of the Company is divided contained in amount of the shares into which the Capi
every copy of the Memorandum of Associa tion issued after the passing of any such special resolution, shall be in accordance with such resolution, and if the Company make default in complying with the pro visions of this section, it shall incur a penalty not exceeding five dollars for each copy in respect of which such default in made, and every Director, Manager and Secretary of the Company who knowingly or wilfuly authorises or permits ench default shall incur the like penalty.
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IV. This Ordinance shall come into forca on such day as shall be hereafter fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Gover
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The A. General moved that these two paragraphe be passed with the amendment that at the end of the first paragraph, the following words be added-all such pen alties may be recovered before a Magistrata in a summary manner,"
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The two paragraphs as amended were then adopted.
The Governor moved "That the Bill do now pass."
After some further remarks the mellom was carried by five votes against three.
The Hon. P. Ryrie and Hon. W Keswick gare notice of their intention t enter a protest against the messure.
The subject then dropped.
CONVEYANCE OF CHINESE EMIGRANTE, The Governor said he had now to próposs that the Bill to amend the law relating to ance of Chinese emigrante be read a second Chinese passenger ships and the conrey
time.
The Hon. W. Keswick suggested that sa the measure was an important one, and it he would more that its consideration be was scarcely convenient to discuss it now, postponed.
This motion having been carried, and there being no other busineNK, The Conncil adjourned,"
Quotations.
OPIUM-New Patna, cash... 620
Homezone, April 22, 1876,
#
12
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**
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credit, 6221
Old Patna, cash... 607 -credit-610
New Benares, cash,
credit,
Old Benares, osah, 5824
credit, 685
New Beslna, oanh, 680
17 credit, 585
Allowance Taels, 24 a 36 Old Maiws, cash, 685 oredit, 690 Allowance Taels, 24 a 36
CAMPHOR, QUICKSILVER, SALTPETRE.
***
... 15 a 15)
*** 5 à 53
Exchange.
...8/107 a 3/11
...B 221
714
The Hon. W. Keswick said he thought the been proved. The evidence must be taken Bank, 6 months' sight, ... words. "not readily transferable" had not to mean that the shares are valuable and Credit, 6 months' sight.......3/11 readily transferable, and if such words as On Calcutta, Bank demand,... 221 those proposed were inserted in the pre- amble they would not represent the truth,
12 Bombay, emand,
shares was an impediment to their transfer; Sycee,
The Chief Justice thought the evidence" Shanghai, demand, had shown that the large amount of the Bar Silver, 17, dwts. B.,
Shanghai, 30 days' night, they were very large, and as a fact there Mexicans...* fore they were not readily transferable.
The Hon. W. Keswick moved, as an English Sovereigns,
Gold Leaf, amendment, "That the preamble has not Australian Hovereigns, been proved."
Discount,
The Hon. P. Ryrie seconded the amend- ment, and said be certainly agreed with the remarks of the mover of it that the statements in the preamble had not been proved.
The Attorney General said he had heard no arguments to show why the Company seeking relief should not receive the con cession they asked. He should prefer upon the Company, being given in a gene. powers, suah as they proposed to confer ral Ordinance instead of in a Bill of this kind, but as the Council were not of the same opinion he must content himself with The amendment was then put to the
The evidence having been read over; The Hon. W. Keswick said he thought it ought to be a little more clearly stated on this measure.
view,a greater object than the reduction ber of the shares was the great object in vote, the evidence that an e-tension of the num
of the amount, he thought he might say, that the object is to reduce the amount Witness: I have no objection to state with the view of inducing a larger number
of shareholders,
The Hon. P. Ryrie: Have you formed any idea as to how many shares you will have to allos under this new system f
Wituise We shall have none at our die posal; there will simply be more in the
market.
Mr W. H. Ray, the Secretary of the Company, was then examined—
The Attorney General : I understand that seven of your shares have been for. feited are there any other shares upon The Hon. P. Byria: Would it not be which the last call has not been paid i mare correct te state in the preamble that Witness: There are a few, to the amount the number of shares are too small for the of $5,800. The shareholders in some in- advantageous management of the Company, stances are at a distance, and I have not instead of that the amount of the shares is heard from them yet. too large f
Witness It might be mate correct. The Hon. P. Kyrie: At the time this Company was formed, is it not a fact that the public did not get as many skaren as they applied for..
Witness: I was Bot connected with the
for any other purpose, might be adapted "Whereas The China Traders' Insti- for the magazine. A separate account had rance Company, Limited,' is a Public best kept for nine years in regard to the Company duly Incorporated and Limited | Company at that time:
The Attorney-General: As I understand thousand dollars has been paid upon every share t
Witness" Yen.
The Oblef Justice i The total number o shares on which the sum of $1,500 has not been paid, including the seven which be
For the Amandment -
The Hon. W. Keswick. Hon Hi Lowcock. Hon. P. Hyria. Against the Amendment
The Governor,
The Chief Justice. The Colonial Secretary, The Attorney General. The Acting Colonial Treasurer. The Amendment was therefore lort. Mr Keswick moved "That the preamble, an amended do not pass." He said that by such legislation as this they were establish ing a bad precedent, and he entirely ob lected to it. If they passed this. Bill they would be having other Companies applying for like powers,
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The Colonial Secretary said he could see London Paper other Companies. If they would not effect Jan. 3, Annie Braginton, from New York this legislation in a general Ordinancs, he for one would be glad to relieve Companies Jan, &, Ottercaps, from Cardiff to Hong in this way plesemneal.
kong, Jan. 6, Lycka Till, from Cardio to Hồngs
Kong,
The Hon. Lowdock seconded the Amandment and said he considered thero was no necessity for the Bill
The Attorney General said that it should not be forgotten that no other Company
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Portfolio.
THE CLOUD-STAR.
Far up within the tranquil eky, Far. up it shone;
Floating how gently, silnolly, Floating alone!
A sunbeam touched its loftior alde” With deepening light; Than to its inmost soul did glide
Divinely bright.
The cloud transfigured to a star,
Through all its franie Throbbed in the fervent heavens afer
Une pulse of fame;
One pulse of Hame, which inward turned
And slowly fed On its own heart, hat burned and burned,
Till almost dead.
The cloud, still imaged as a star, Waned up the sky; Waned slowly, pallid, ghost-like, far,
Wholly to die;
But dia so grandly in the sun-
The nooufire's breath- Methinks the glorious death it won, Life! life, not death't
Meanwhile a million insest things
Crawl on below,
And gaudy worms no flattering wings
Flit to and fro;
Blind to that cloud, which grown a star,
Divinely bright, Waned in the deepening heavens afar
Till lost in light!
Paul H. Hayne.
THOU AND I
Strange, strange for thes and me,
Sadly afar
.
Thou safe, beyond, above, I'neath the star; Thou where flowers deathless spring,
I where they fade; ... Thou in God's paradise,
I'mid the shade,
Thou where each gale breathes balm,
I tempest-tossed j
Thon where true joy is found,
I where 'tis lost;
Thon counting ages.thine,
I not the morrow;
Thon learning more of bliss,
I more of sorzyw
Thou in eternal peace,
I 'mid earth's strife į Thou where care hath no name,
I where 'tis life j
Thou without need of hops,
where 'tis vain. Thon with wings dropping light,
I with time'a chain. Strange, strange for thee and me,
Loved, loving averį Thon by life's deathless fount, I near death's river i
Thott winning wisdom's lore,
I strength to trust;
Thou 'mid the seraphimi,
I in the dant
Phoebe Cary.
PRIDE is a good thing, but when it is duly propped up In ignorance it is perfect Vollaire.
Ta gravity that we see many people sailing under is like the sand ballast that vessels take in for want of better freight.
A MAN rarely speaks of himself without loos. His secusatious of himself are always believed; his praises, never.-Montaigne, ----No other humen pursuit is so hostile to the influence of the female sex as the pur suit of athletic sports. No men are so entire ly beyond the reach of women as the men whose lives are passed in the cultivation of their own physical strength.Wilkie
Colline in "Man and Wife."
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THE CHINA MAIL.
It was
[No. 3999-APRIL 22, 1976,
is far worse, and it is to this state of things and tapering pagodas. The costume of the sounded all round, but there was only sand, acquaintanco with words, and has confused presented to his Government an explicit that we are approaching with rapid strides. Burmese is remarkably simple. Both sexes It had come down stream and lodged there, his mind with, etymologies--which are often report upon new caravan roads to be formed Sabjecte, which should not be so much as wear a short, whito jacket called-an-engic, and I went up slower than I came down as misleading for the purpose of correct through Mongolia. These roads, it is under- named or even alluded to in the presence and the malo a puso, (a piece of silk or cota for When I told the old man there spelling, as a superficial knowledge of a stood, are to pass through the territory east of ladies aro now common topics of con- ton oloth, usually the former,) and of gay was part of a scene flying round. He whole family is misleading for the purpose of Kashgar, which at one time was occupied before the youngest girls, color-red or yellow-about a yard in with threw up his arms and went into the of directly identifying a particular member by Jakob Beg or his Mahommedan allies, nay, are often introduced by them, in and four or five in length, which is wornoabin and cried like a child. I never of it. For example, the word 'anonymous' but has since been recovered by the Chinese ignorance, let us charitably hope," of round the hips; while the women wear a sailed across him again." The second is is much more likely to be misspelt anon- Immediate arrangements are being made at their trus menning, Formerly a married tennine, which is a neatly square picos of of a more perilous character:-" One of omous' by a boy who has just acquired the St. Petersburg for utilising the knowledge woman of many years' standing would have cloth or silk, sufficiently large to wrap my expeditions was among the silvor knowledge that the word is derived from gained by the enterprising and successful blushed hotly and have considered that around the body, but fastened merely by banks of the Antilles-the loveliest place onoma, the Greek for name, than it is explorer. a gentleman had positively insulted her if tucking the outer end within the other, and ever. naw.. where the white cocal grows by a child perfectly innocent of it
THE QUEENSLAND BLACES.-Continued he had referred to divorce oases and other consequently it gapes opon at every step into curious tree-like shapes. As I stopped etymological origin. Nay, to say nothing coguate esolandres. Now the rula seems to taken by the woarer, and discloses nearly along the bottom it seemed as if I was in of etymology, we fancy that a literary feel. reports reach the Cooktown Herald of be that anything may be said to any one; the whole of ono leg but this exhibition, a frosted forest. Here and there trailed ing for the effect of words, often tends to depredations being daily committed by the and women appear to be positively ashamed being "the custom," is not deemed im-long fronds of green and crimson seaweed. confuse people as to the proper spelli blood it seems impossible to quench. On the black savages, whose insatiate thirst for of not knowing every detail of the most modest. The men wear gay-colored silk Silver bellied fiab flashed about among Every one almost must have experienced unsavoury scandal, instead of, as should bandannas gounboungs in adjusting which the deep brown and purple sea ferue, which the surious emotion with which every familiar 11th February, the "flying packer" arrived be the case, being hotly indignant at such they sometimes entwist a thick lock of hair; rose as high as my head. Far as I could see word, when looked at simply as a sound, is in town, and reported considerable ravages things being referred to in their presence. the women wear no head-covering. Both all round in the transparent water were apt to affect ope. is it possible, we ask our by the niggers on the road near the Laura, It proceeds from the very low opinion men and women wear their hair long, the different coloured leaves, and on the floor selves, that q-u-a-sh can really be the right the bloodthirsty, scoundrels occupying a piece which men now entertain of women, and former gather it in a bunch on the top of piles of shella so bright in colour that it way of spelling the word which expresses of country through which it is a tener to which they are at small pains to conceal their head, and the latter comb it straight earned as if I had stumbled on a place the sudden and complete undoing of an white men to pass. Some of our informant's though they ofton veil it carelessly and back from the forehead and tie it in a knot where they kept a stook of broken rainbows. elaborate procedure? The word, carefully horses were spested, as were several belong half contemptuously under exaggerated on the back of the head. The men seldom I could not work for a bit, and had a considered, looks so silly we begin to ing to teamsters on the road camped at the compliment.
or nover wear any hair upon their faces, un-quarter determination to sit down and doubt if there be such a word at all, sad to Laura, and he reports that some Chinament, And to what is this low opinion due lese it might be a vory feeble mustache. The wait for a mermaid. I guess if those be quite sure we must have made some been murdered by them. Some portions of and one European, were supposed to have Chiefly to the conduct of the young married sexes generally walk barefooted, though these girls live anywhere they select that serious mistake as to its componcut els- woman, who, empty-handed and foolish, women oftentimes wear a sort of sandal made spot. After walking the inside out of halfments Well, that sort of uncertainty, the route are strewn with Chinese remains, think it very dull to be treated with proper after the classical Roman model. The Bur- hour, I thought I had better get that swimming of the head with which we said to have been the victims of these terrible
A look at a word and ask if it can really mean
marauders. Valuable property is being deference and respect, and encourage doubles mese males are all tattooed from above the back to work and blast for treasure. entendres and abandon all womanly dignity hips to the knees with a blackish-blue pig- little bit on from where I sat were the re- the thing which we hate in our mind, is not destroyed hourly, horses speared, men killed, for the sake of attracting round them an mont, and some besides have punctured spots mains of a treasure ship
a complaint to which the beginners in litera and loading souttered, although said to be ostentatious court of fast men, who treat upon the upper part of the body, stained a Britisher, I think, and corale had formed ture are liable. It is due to the same kind done in almost immediate sight of police them almost en camarade to their faces, and vermilion color. This tattooing of the all about her, or rather about what bas of wonder with which dreamy people some. amps. queer at them and pity their husbands be- thighs is a painful operation. It is done left her. The coral on the bottom and times look at themselves in the glass, and I HAD been told that the best form of bind their backs. Even in these free and when they are very young, a little at a time, round her showed black spots. That ask if that really is the treature with whose advertisement, even in this advertising easy days a man is generally quite keen and opium is often administered on such meant a deposit of either iron or silver. inward history the gazer has had such aage, is what is known as the "packing. enough to appreciate at once the sort of occasions, and deaths from an overdoso of I made fairly good hauls every time I went long and melancholy acquaintance. It is case." An ingenious tradesman places out- woman to whom he is talking, and there is this drug or from inflammation are not un-down, and sold one piece I found to Bar when the first familiarity of the association side his shop a board, directed in very big but little danger of his commencing a doubt frequent. The diet of the Burmese is both num, of New York. After I left there I bad between the word and the thought or thing letters the Duke of Omnium, purporting ful story without some decided encourag simple and wholesome. The general food of a curious adventure with a shark. I was for which it stands, has worn off, und you to be the lid of a case containing gooda ment. The girls have caught the infection the nations of Southern and Eastern Asia is down on a nasty rook bottom. A man begin to be able to think of the thing with to be delivered to that estimable nobleman. from the fast young married women, and rice. Of the Burmese we may say that salt never feels comfortable on them; be out the word, and the word without the When the British public is supposed to endeavour to emulate them in freedom of fish, rice and nagapee and fruits constitute can't tell what big creature may be hiding thing, that this sense of wonder and dont be sufficiently acquainted with the fasts conversation, jealous of the manner in the solid and substantial part of their bill of under the buge quarter-deck sea leaves begins. And no feeling is more diesstrous as to the Duke's being a customer of the which their partners are ruthlessly lured fare, while betel nut and the theroot make which grow there The first part of the than this to the presence of mind neon shop, the lid is taken inside, planed and away from them, and eager to be quoted as quite an enjoyable dessert. The condiment time I was visited by a porcupine fish,sary for a Spelling-Bee. You must go at reappears with the Marquis of Carabas's exceptions to the dictum of the day that nagapes, for which there is a very great de- which kept sticking its quills up and your words as a good old hunter goes at name; and so on through the peerage. **girls are so heavy in hand." And their mand, is made of preserved fish, fish which bobbing in front of my helmet. Soon after a gate without losing yourself in con- But I cannot help thinking that a hair. mothers, who should be wisor, are weak has arrived at that opiourean stage termed I saw a big shadow fall across me, and templation, or you are lost. If the horse dresser, celebrated for his dye, went too enough to argue that it is the fashion that high it is a sort of pasts which mixes with looking up there was az infernel shark could realise how add it was that the gate for a little while ago, when he announced if their girls are quiet and dignified they rice like the Indian sauce, chutnes. 16 playing about my tubing. It makes you was there and that he was just going to be by means of that system that he was sup- will be voted pradish and slow, and that it betel nut is extensively used, and mest houses feel obilly in the back when they're about, maniac enough to lift bimself and his rider plying a gentleman very well known in will diminish their chances of marriage, have about or near them trellises of the piper-He came down to me slick as I looked up high enough in the air to get over it, London society with two dosen Dotties of Indeed, au great in the force of custom, that betel plant, which is chewed with the nut. I made at him, but he sheered off. For though be le just as well on one side of the Restorative. Using hair-dye is not a topics of conversation that would once have Smoking is universal and continual among nearly su hour he worked at it, till I gate as he would be on the other, and criminal offence, I believe, even under the appalled them, now appear perfectly natural, both sexes and all ages; sheroots of solid could atand it no longer. If you can keep perhaps a little better, clearly be would Judicature Act, though I won't speak for and they see no harm" in their girls talk tobacco, but more often a preparation cover your bead level it's all right, and you're never rise to the emergency, and would not certain; but it is nevertheless a practice ing like others. But even in a purered with a green leaf wrappor, and some of pretty safe if they're not on the sharp clear his gate. And so the literary compati. one likes to keep to one's self. atmosphere, where the taint of the fast set them of enormous size are used. Burmese This ugly brute was 20 feet long, I should tor at a Spelling Bee is not untraquently at bas cot me yet penetrated, conversation, boys take to smoking even earlier than do the think, for when I lay down all my length a disadvantage. The word gets steeped though free from indelicacy, is still liable youths of this country. I have frequently on the bottom he stretched a considerable for him in the curious cross-lights of to the indictment of being probably siang seen babes at their mothers breast alternat-way ahead of me, and I could see him reverie, and he cannot go at it in the old, and certainly inane. Polo and "rinking," ing the nourishment of Nature's Nile" beyond my feet. Then I waited. They mechanical way, on a mere series of sonda rinking and polo,on these the changes with pulls and puffs at their cheroots. The must turn over to bite, and my lying down And so be collapses while a boy fresh from are rung ad infinitum while it is surely a natives of Burma do not appear to wear to bothered him. He swam thrice or four the National School will take the word development peculiar to modern dage to much jewelry as the Hindoes, but they de times, and then skulked off to a big thicket easily in a canter. hear young men gravely discussing toilettes Light especially in ear ornaments. The lobe of sea-wood to consider. I knew he'd come in all their details with the kness of of the ear is bored to a hole of astonishing back when he'd settled his mind. It seemed appreciation believed to be poliar to sizeoften an inch in diameter and in it a long while waiting for him. At last it various articles are worn pieces of wood, came viciously over me, but like the time jewela, ofrolla of solid gold or silver. before, too far from my arms. The next. When no ornaments are in the ears, the men time I had my chance, and ripped him often put their cheroots or any small article with a knife as neatly as I could. A in frequent use, through them, and the wo shark always remembers he's got business men use them as bouquet-holders or flower acmewhore else when he's out, no of this stands, thus presenting & very comical ap- fellow goes. It is a curious thing, too, pearance. From the Land of the White Ele--that all the sharks about will follow in the phant, by Frank Vincent., -
millivore
The reason of the frivolity of general discourse is not difficult to discover: deeper aubjects require to be read about and thought over, and the young people of the day would grudge an hour to what they would consider such uninteresting pursuits. Formerly a girl who knew nothing that was going on in the world beyond her immediate circle of friends and round of amusements would have been considered exceptionally ill-informed it was expected of ber that she should be able to converso at least on such simple subjects, for instance, as the loss of the Deutschland, the tragedy of the
love and compassion toward them that are they not go on from bad to worHO.
ADVENTURES AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE SEA.
In the Gentleman's Magasins the writer of An Evening with Captain Boyton" gives
blood trail he leaves. I got on my hands and knees, and as he swam of I noticed four dark shadows slip after him. I saw no more that time. They did not like my company."
SPELLING-BEES. (Spectator.)
Miscellaneous.",
A COLOURED Berenzder down in Georgia warbles the following:-
De last time dat I saw my love, See was standing in the door, With shoes and stockings in her hand,
And her feet all over the floor.”
WHEN is a fowl's neck like a bell --When it is wrang for dinner.
LABOUR rids of three great evils-poverty, vice, and ennui,
Waar requires more philosophy than tak ing things as they come Parting with things as they go.
buttons the other day, and asked her to put
A YOUNG husband handed his wife a dozen
a shirt to them.
THROW life into a method, that every hour may have its employment, and every employment have its hour.
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AN UNGRATEFUL HEN,--The Saint Helena Star says: "We can never be made to ballare that there is any soul or even principle in that two-legged animal called a hen. Grate fulness is unknown even to its instincts and fain would we kill it. It makes us febl a dieguet for the honour of the hen creation, when we think of that fat hen we imported from Spurr and Crow'e, and, as a medium for her safety, tied her up in the piano box, there to meditate upon the romance of solitude and the glory of being monarch of all she surveyed, but, like man, she was hard to suit," and murmured in sundry semihumorous squarks and fictitious cook lings. We weakened, as the heart of man has often done before, and let her have the scope of the yard. Next day being New Year's, and our wife adjudging herself to be sick for chicken broth on a holiday, we let her out for a little recreation, and, like Nebuchadnezzar, to eat grass. Poor thing, was taken without her blessed company, and she's gone to grass. Our New Year's dinner four bits reward will be given to any who will bring back our white hen with a red comb, a bob-tailed topknot, and a cracked soprano voice."
Victoria in the Sydney cricket field hes not COMMENTING on the Intercolonial Cricket Matoh, the Argus writes The defeat of
been so decisive as the disaster on the ground of the M. C. C., and that is all the consolation
Cricket has its share of luck, but there can... that is left the once conquering colony. be no doubt now that the best team Australia can put in the field hails from Fort Jackson. and we must not grudge our friendly rivals
Mosel, the Malay war, or even the result from the lips of that courageous" toller in of the last election that may have taken the sea" some of his marvellous tales of what place. Now, unless the information is imparted to her by her partners in the ball he has gone through in some of his diving.
There is hardly a town in England which operations. We select two" Once when room or the skating-rink, she knows nothing I was diving in Delaware Bay a little old is not getting up, or thinking of getting whatever of what to passing around her, paring of a man came up and asked me if up, its Spelling Bee; nay, not only getting Bave indeed the newest piece of sandal or 1 Leved in spiritualiam. I said, not it up, but reporting its small failures and the last-announced marriage. She has no much. He said if I would go down and successca with the sort of enthusiasm which time, even if the possessed the inclination; see him he'd show me by spiritualism where implies a keen social interest. We suppose in London those morning hours that once I could find a treasure ship. When I got the reason is that these Bees bring afforded at least the possibility of quiet there and we'd had supper, and a liquor together many classes on terres of real or two, bo reached down his charts and equality, without the embarrassment which reading and intellectual growth have been ruthlessly swept away by the Juggernaut diagrams, and asked me if I was ready to is caused by any attempt at general social of Fashion and orgahed beneath the wheels listen. Then the knocks came as he pointed intercourse between classes of different
a success which has been fairly earned. They of the Plimpton skate; in the country she out along the map, and such a lively row habits and different degrees of culture. Is poetry we require the miracle. The is walking with the sportsmen, even if the that I half began to believe him. I got We say 'real equality, because it is cer- *WERE you guarded in your conduct bore their defeat year after year with British pluck, and set themselves resolutely to work bee flies among the flowers and gets mint herself does not shoot, riding to hounds, bitten at last with the idea that the spirits tainly true, and very curious that it should while in London? asked a father of his son, to alter the position. Two All-England And marjoram, and generates a new pro-rowing in the nearest pieos of water when meant it, and I said for $50 a day I'd be true, that men and women of compara- who had just returned from a visit to that
Eleven mon were first retained to play in duct which is not mint and marjoram, but the weather is warm, or skating upon it throw in with the other world and see if tively little literary knowledge, and who city. Yes, bir, part of the time by two their ranks, but Caitlyn and Laurence failed honey. The chemist mixes bydrogen and when frost confines the hunters to their we could raise something. However, that have had not a tenth part of the experience policemen."
to turn the scale, und wo may lay this lessori oxygen to yield a new product, which is loose hoses. Naturally she is too tired for was too much. The old spiritualist would of books which their competitors have bad,
"No, George," she said, in response to his to our hearts in Victoria. Importing talent not these, but water; and the poet listens any literature deeper than a light and only give me $26, no at last we settled all often spell as well or better than those question, it is not true that a string of is of very little use, and Sydney has found to conversation and bobolds all objects in
probably fast novel to prove attractive to nature to give back, not them, but a new
her; and indeed, if physiosi fatigue did that, I to have part of any treasure competitors in spite of this familiarity and transcendent whole.-Emerson. not insure this result, the incessant excite recovered. We started down the bay next We know of a recent instance in which a new belt buckles in a shop window would that the true policy is to foster native ability. morning, the old gentleman carrying a University man of a highly literary family make any woman loss a train; but," she She has depended of late upon her own Evans, she has two bowlers of a calitre not smoke and it sbatters the column, but only effect. If the muscles of the body are afternoon we got sounding, and touched boy at one of these Spelling-Bees, while have to run a little.'
SHOOT a cannon ball against a column of ment of the life would have much the same shipload of mouldy charts. At 2 in the only just succeeded in beating a butcher's added, musingly, sometimes she might resources, and now, in Spofforth and in often met with. That terrible Evans, with an instant when it re-nuites. So it is with left long unused they become stiff and about 80 feet. Then I get the armour on his younger brother, a University under Ir all the musical instruments ran a raco, his pace, pitch, and break, would be a "bright death. It dissolves the theory we call life, comparatively useless; at least as much and slipped overboard. The bottom was graduate, was actually beaten by the why would one of the string species como particular star" in any port of the cricketing for a second, to be re-united elsewhere for may be said for the powers of the blue mud, swept as clean by the water as a butcher's boy. In another case within our ins first? Because the wind-instruments world; and there will be much curiosity se to
mind. If day after day and weak after MADAME de Stool said :-"If I were mis-week girls are allowed to live in an inoes.log-hut floor of pine planka. I signalled fown knowledge, the interrogator, an experi- must be blown before they even begin; any how he will come off against the formidable
after looking all round carefully and came enced journalist of middle-age, whose one can beat the drum. Tudy.
All-England Eleven which is to visit us next season. His right arm with not, we may tres of hity languages, I would think in sant whirl of dissipation, never opening a
UNBABY ÚJBUUMSTANCES.--In a stationer's trust, have forgotten ita cunning twelve the deep German, converse in the gay book graver than a novel, and seldom up. The old fellow was death-terrible dis-whole youth had been spent in University appointed when I told him "Nothing down studies, confessed that the winner of the French, write in the copions English, sing reading even that, never speaking of all there!" We tripped the anchor and ran a first price, a young man engaged in a window last week we read, appended to the months hence, and then, if backed up by a the noble Greek, and make love in the soft the next polo match, or the most remark.little way under the Delaware shore. This thriving manufacture, spelt certainly no portrait of a famous prima donna, this good team, he ought seriously to disturb the la majestic Spanish, deliver a speech in subject deeper than the land skating-fall,
able dress of the day, what hope is there time found a grey said bottom, very worse, and probably better, that he him mournful legend, "Patti ! reduced to 10d. batting average of the British champions. ourselves admits of being tersely summed up, THERE is no greater sign of your own that their brains will ever mature into the firm, bars as the back of my hand. After seit could have done. Evidently in this Poor young woman, she will be compelled The cause of the Sydney victories over up and said I wouldn't go down again that has been hit, upon in which the apparent perfection, than when you find yourself all | capacity for better things? Rather, will examining right about every way I came spelling rivalry, a subject of competition to sell her diamondel-Fun.
day. At 10 next morning I dropped over disadvantage of want of culture is nothing It will hardly be necessary to tell the though a great deal has been said and written on the subject. It is "better bowling". again, but it was evident from the way the like as real as it seems, so that those who name of the facetious party who went into & Oar weakness lies in that department of the ourrout swept the bottom that a wreak start at a disadvantage are not unfrequent village dry goods store the other day, and couldn't have laid thers. The old manly able to reap not only the success they was observed to be looking about, when the game, and the patrons of ericket would do It is now generally believed that the Bur looked so out up when I told him that I court, but the additional distinction of proprietor remarked to him that they did not well to take a noto of the fact. The cups mese, and, indeed, all the various races and determined to make another try, I got the winning that success against odds, and keep whisky, "It would save you a good are given and the prizes that are awarded nearly all go now to the batsmen, whose nations of Indo-China, migrated at a remote pump put in a small boat and rowed over a what seem at least to be great odds. No many stops if you did," was the stage-showy part of the contest needs little enpour- period from the plateaus of Central Asia, likely place where I meant to drop. Then doubt one great reason of this is the fact driver's quick reply-Berkshire Courier." agement. Attention requires to be paid to and that they are of mixed origin, possesing we fat go the anchor and down I went. that the knowledge required implies, of With light from heaven, a nature pore and great, some of the characteristics of the Hindoo About 3 o'clock I came against something course, no real mastery of either thoughts HoRaCE WALPOLE said this was the worst, bowling talent, and if good men are made as (the Caucasian) and some of the Chinaman that made me feel exolted. By Johoicks! I or things, but only of the instruments of that is the best, bull he ever read: "I hate much fuss of are as much praised and as Mongol). Thus in person they are short thought, that's her. I felt so all fired rich thought and the names of things, and that wonian," said a gentleroan, looking at much rewarded as dashing batsmen, Victoria her own. Until we have, and so long as and stout, with the small, oblique eyes at the moment, I seemed to own dreation, hardly even so much as this. The very a person who had been his nurse, "I hate may not be long before she has an Evans of high and prominent cheekbones, and Hat, I'd a nation I would go up, and ask fifty best spellers will spell correctly names her, for when I was a child she changed me sydney has constant practice against better short, and broad nose of the Tartar, Chinese dollaranday, making fresh terms with theold of things of which they have no correct at nurse." This was, indeed, a perplexing and Japanese races, and the "raven black" mag but when I looked closer and saw it notion at all i nor is this in any way more assertion; but we have a similar instance bowling then our own, Sydney is likely to hair, pearly teeth, and olive-brown skin of was really the bull of the old treastire ship. true of the little-taught than of the well. recorded in the autobiography of an Irish stand first and foremost in the cricketing To listen to the conversation, if by such the Hindons and Malays and though of just as the old spiritualist had described taught. At one Spelling-Ree, for instance, man, who gravely informs us that he ran contests of the colonies. One other word Bydney motto has been "Never despair" Same it can indeed be dignified, of the nearly the same stature as the latter, they ber, I jumped so wild lively at once that I the laterrogator, having asked for the away early in life from his father on dis ought to be spoken. In dark years the When her champions were defeated in one young people of the day le, to any one who generally possess the stouter frames of thecould only signal to go up. As soon as I word het, was requested by the can covering he was only his undle,"
innings, or by 200 runs, she did not regrosch has accidentally been absent from London former. The Burmese are a simple-minded could get my head out of the water. I didate to state what it meant, whereupon replied rather doubtfully and
or put a slur upon men who had done their for even one season, to listen to an unknown indolent people, frank and courteous, fond yelled 1've got her, The old man was be
level best; and her raanly conduct must be tongue Ordinary Bugilah is almost entirely of amusement and gay-colored spparel wonderfully excited. He promised every very erroneously, that he believed it the name of the creature into Brahewed by these young persons, who dis-friendly among themselves and hospitable to body fabulous presents. I get a block wa course in a jerky and disjointed manner strangere. They apprantate a quiet life, rigged, and a chain line run from it, and which the tadpole grows. Evidently he in an argot" of their own, compounded ap smoking and gossiping and sleeping through went down with an ads and shovel. I did not himself in the least know the dif. parently of contributions from the tart, out the day, and listening to wild music and dug a good way about the wreck, cut a ference between an eft and a frog-nay, the stable, and the vocabulary of the slaging through half of the night stern groove rotind the bow with an ndso, rigged worse still be confounded the immature Street Arabs, interspersed with ejaculations ambition is among them, indeed, a very rare the line to it and gate the signal to haul form of the eft with the ultimate form of from Fanch and telling morgens from trait of character. Burmese houses are built away. It was so deeply embedded that the tadpole. Yet he knew, of course, how As I stood to spell newt,' and, as it may be doncluded, topteal og ir brond burlesques. You of teak wood, palmsleaf, bamboo rattan nothing deemed to stir it. may listen if you choose but if you fail in and grass, and are generally raised upon piles down there and looked at that strain-on nothing else in the world about it, surely a typical piece of modern education. But the shibboleth you will and yourself calmly four or five feet from the ground; as a pres the rope, I couldn't help thinking whist a ignored and left to comprehend or not, as tentive, against fevers, bred by the great bank-nate eight of treasure was keeping It is precisely this shallowness of the the case may be. But it is not only the dampness of the climate, and to provide it down. Buddenly they let go the anchor knowledge required which makes the Spell. manner, it is also the matter of the die against the inundations of the rainy season and stood down stream with the streaming-Bee so queful and popular as a social course, that is somewhat appalling to Natire villages often consist of but one long and current. Then she gave a slight move amusement in which different classes of Deflective mind. Disregard of the refine, sad broad street, running through perfect and trembled all over, I stepp d back to society can particinate. The girl or boy ments of the English language and contempt jungles of date, banana paim, or other tros be out of the way. Slowly the great piece fresh from the primary school who has s for the commouest restrictions of grammar pioel trees, and beneath and among these old bow rose out of the sand, and then, good eye for the appearance of words, will are bad enough, but the shrowing ag the ararly concealed from view, are the little my feeling dried up completely. I saw the spell better than many a carefully-educated winde of prasy vestiges of decency, or reserve bamboo but artfully parved mouetațion timber was only part of a drift wink. I con boy who has got beath hi frat
very defective and weak.-Law. Beneath a sandal tree a woodinati stood Andswung the the exc, and as the strokes were laid Upon the fragrant trunk, the generous wood With its own sweets perfumed the ornal binde,
Go thou and do the like; a soul endued
Will place fe highest bliss in doing good,
And good for evil give, sud love for hate.
---William Cullen Bryant.
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- A SONG OF THE DAY. The busy B stands now for Belle! I love to rink, I love to spell 1 Both to flirtation 1 converti Good gracious, is it flirt or fiarty While merry groups fip to and fro, I practice spelling as I got Practise or practice ?s or a P The Dictionaries disagree. This rinking is a pleasant whim, When lungs are right and ancles tria. Is ankla right? Is ancle wrong? No matter; mine are swift and strong, Says Fred, "I'm amper of success i I long to see your spelling dress," Ab, now I know I have it pat Auger's a bore: Fred isn't that-Punch CAPTASY Sosnovsky, the traveller; who bas just threaded his was from the shores of Chius to the South Siberian frontion, has
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