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No. 4610.—APRIL 12, 1878.]

CANTON.

TERRIBLE TORNADO.

(From a Correspondent.)

expecting momentarily that the house would fall. In less than two minutes there was a lull, and feeling it safe to go out, I went to the back door and saw such a sight as I hope never to see agala. The tornado was marching across the city, a pillar of a cloud, thick with dust and debris. In those two short

THE CHINA MAIL.

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The regular extimates for 1877-78 show!--- Revenue...

Ordinary expenditure Loss by famine... Deficit ezelusive of

for productive works,

The surplus on orinary.

accounts, excluding famine

The net amount borrowed in 1877-78 was

£56,$10,000 £83,113,000 £6,500,000 £ 8,431,000

£ 4,877,000

£5,000,000

£8,620,000 Falf a million was lent to Mysore and

balf a million to Gwaltor for famine expen diture, closing balances in India 149 mi)- Lions (£14,750,000).

The Budget cstimates for 1878.79 include ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH 2 milions (£2,750,000) provincial rates and taxes hitherto shown separately, thus MAIL.

giving the whole public revenue and ex- penditure:-

TELEGRAMS.

It is reported that serious negotiations are proceeding between the Austrian Minis. ter for Foreign Affairs and the British Embassy at Vienna, for an alliance between England and Austria, and that if they fail Count Andrassy will resign.

Revenue £63,200, 00, new famine taza

A great improvement is recorded in the financial position of the guaranteed rall- ways. The net earnings in 1877-78 cover full amount of famine insurance (£1,620,030) all interest, and the surplus provides the

according to recent pledges.

for the construction of the Cosmopolitan to Leong Cho Kum at first, and only told bankruptcy law; but the ofrcumstances Dock. The sum of $1,717.42 was paid fato him wherd he had invested the money al- under which the sealgnment was made. court by the defendants, who denied further ready borrowed three months after the loan forbid the notion, or the facts are really as liability for various reasons, amongst others of $400 in September, 1874. He then told stated by the bankrupt and Leong Cho claiming a set-off for penalties $10,000, and Leong Cho Kum that he had put the money Kum, as I prefer to bellove. It is a very for work and labour $28,782.58. The mat- in the cook and asked for advances, Leong common arrangement for one Chinuman tera in difference between the parties were Cho Kum said yet, if I would make out for who trusts another to let him have large referred to the arbitration of the Hon. J. him a written document. The bankrupt sums of money without security to use. CANTON, April 12, 1878. The central portion of the settlement of

Price, the Surveyor-General, by an order of wrote one out himself. He says "I deposited He becomes what is well known as the the Supreme Court in Original Jurisdiction the assignment as security for the loan" It capitalista part usually, I fear, attended Shameen in a scene of devastation that it

on the 4th day of August, 1876. By his seems that the bankrupt was in partnership with disastrous results when works are were hopeless to attempt adequately to deantes Shameen and the city were rained award, dated October 20th, 1877, the arbi- with some other persons in a stationery undertaken under contracts with foreigners. pict in words; much less can the contrast es if they had withstood a long slege. Antrator found that a sum of $13,817.70 was business. Leong Che Kum, who lived prin--Judgment for defendants, question of

due to the estate of Fung Ming Choong cipally near Macao, traded with San Frau- conte reserved. be vividly drawn with the charming ple- old resident said to me to-night, "I have Before the som was paid to the catate notice disco in paper goods which he bought at ture combining the comforts of family seen many bad typhoons in China and of motion was served on the plaintiff January the bankrapt's shop called the Kwong Su homes with the beauties of Nature and the other parts, but in all my life I never wit- 30th, 1878, to show cause why the order From time to time he was in the habit of the court dated November 23rd, 1877, of letting the bankrupt have money elegancies of Art presented on the same for massed anything so terrific as to-day" A making Mr Price's award an order of court, to uso, the arrangement being that 13 per

The steamer State of Alabama, bringing voured spot yesterday afternoon, as I be- clear line, one hundred and Afty yards in should not be carried into effect, and the cent, per month was paid for the use of lt; Up

on the Nizam's mails, which include London tion gross £1,200,000, arrears land revenue held it from the deck of a steamer upon width, seems to have boon drawn through of money standing to the credit of the the bankrupt says he got 4 per cent.

cause should not be paid to Mr Brereton as to 8th July, 1873, Leong Cho Kun had which some friends had embarked for the the city, passing immediately over the solicitor for Leong Cho Kum, Foong Leong, lent him on these terms $4,600, beginning dates to the 1st March, arrived here this £87,000, ordinary expenditure £60,094,000. (sic) of which £500,000 on famine in Madras, North. Descanting as I then did upon its bridge connecting the north side of Shameen and Wing Chuen Foong. The only sum from March, 1873, He had borrowed morning.

standing to the credit of the cause at this about $8,700 from other people before and

surplus £2,156,000, excluding: 44,556,000 beauties, I shrinix from a present recital of with the Canal Road. The scans of deso- time was the $1,717 paid into court. The after September 11th. Some of this money

for productive works, £800,000 required (Strails Times Extra.)

for foans to native states and elsewhere, the and revulsion that but twenty hours lation, as it appears from the top of a house Official Assignee at the hearing of the motion the bankrupt had advanced to the con-

appeared by his solicitor, Mr Holmas, and tractor for the dock, but of this Leong Cho London, Marah 17.-The Pall Mall £1,000,000 guaranteed Railway capital bave wrought upon the community. "But by the Canal side, in past description: Brereton appear on behalf of Messra Kum ewears he was ignorant. The last Gazette statos the Pope has ordered the withdrawn. The balances will be reduced ' twenty honra !" any, the havoc that is so Indeed. It baffles not words alone, but Spratt, and also for the other parties, who advance made before he was informed how Italian Bishops to legalizo thoir positions one and a half millions, closing at thirteen In India probably two and a incomprehensible and awe-inspiring even thought. Over a wide area the houses are claimed under separate assignments moneys the money was invested was on the 11th and ask their Ecequatur. This means a millions, in its mute eloquence, was the work of but lovelled to the ground, and a fire blazing payable by Messrs Spratt to the bankrupt. September, 1874, when $400 were lent. tucit acceptance of the loss of the Temporal half millions will be borrowed.

The loss by archange in £3,000,000 on- By consent of the partios, although it is Three months after this the bankrupt says Power. Requf Pacha has had audience of twenty seconds of time! In presonco of fartonely (Thursday night, 10 o'clock) not so expressed, I ande an order, dated he told him about the dock and that he had his Imperial Majesty the Czar, at which he remittance of seventeen millions.

The revenue from opfum is estimated at this phenomenal manifestation of the power amid the rains. The number of dead that November 23rd, 1877, that the Registrar lent the contractor money for no fixed time was received with great ceremony. It la of the elements, let us hasten to acknow- must be buried there is terrible to think of should, out of the fund in court to the and without security. In July, 1873, he reported that he asks that Varna ahould six millions net.

The Malwa crop was short, credit of the cause (The Official Assignee says, he first began to talk to the contrao be restored to Turkey. Typhus fover is

No fresh taxation is proposed beyond the ledge the great mercy that none of the for- The sight at the bridge was by far the most. W. B. Spratt and another), pay the tor Wing Shlag, about assigning to him the raging at Adrianople and Phillipopolis, and eign residents wore killed or seriously in shocking. For about seventy yards on taxed costs of the plaintiff's solicitor in the contract, and it was duly assigned on woust sickness prevails at Erzeroum and January arrangements, which are calculated to yield the Imperial treasury in 1878-79 suit and of the arbitration, the latter not to August 21st, 1878, and notice given to Constantinople.

London, Marob 18.-Ratifications of a net £1,160,000. The inland sugar duties. jud;-a margy, indeed, for that all es each side the crowded fleet of boats seem to exceed $126, and to pay over the balanse Spratt and Co. Shortly after he seems to caped seems little short of a miracle. One have been just knocked to small pieces. It remaining after payment of these costs to have conducted the making of the dock Treaty of Peace between Russia and Turkey are abolished (losa £155,000) in anticipation family of the stricken locality was absent, was heartrending in the extreme. I was not Mr Brereton as solicitor for Leong Cho Kum. himself up to April 2nd, 1875, when he were exchanged at Saint Patorsburg on the of the early removal of the custom line. most fortunately, it is said, since their there till half an hour after the tornado The matter, being arranged by the consent handed the work over to Tang Kwong. 17th. The conditions were published in The Import duties on raw coton and coarse had passed, but the cacal was still covered of the solicitors for the parties the validity Leong Cho Kum confirms this account imediately afterwards, and communlasted to goods are also abolished (entailing a loss of 228,000) and there is also sacrificed under naual sitting room was greatly damaged. with small pieces of wood so densely that of the assignments was admitted, and it was we make the necessary allowance for the the Powers.

twenty-seven other tariff heads £54,000, But the tales of individual escapes that the water was scarcely visible, and a large with much surpriso I found that a notice of habitual inaccuracy of Chinese witnesses- He distinctly number of persons were still holding on to metion was given by the plaintiff, the Off-with tolerable accuracy. will thrill the ears of friends, must this ruine of their boats to save their lives. It cial Assignes, on the 10th of Desember, states that the assignment was made on He had been kept in evening give place to the broad features of is believed that several hundreds of persons 1877, calling on defendants to show eause strong pressure. - calamity so startling and appalling that met their death at this spot. It is no use why they should not pay all costs of the ignorance of the investments of the bank- to detail the special cases that have come plaintiff, and $125 costs of the arbitration, rupt, and when he demanded payment was can only characterize it as one to my hearing, but it is a sad night for and why the plaintiffs' costs, inelading the told that until the dook was Buished pay. of Nature's most ruthless tragedies,many who are the sole survivors of a whole costs of the motion, should not be paid out ment could not be bad. The ovidence is as a tragedy, because beside the desolation boatfal of relatives. Tong-cheong is dead, of the moneys paid into court in that suit. follows-Foong Ming Cheong being press the amiable and portly tailor, who has been The fund in court at this time consisted of ed said "I will go to a lawyer with you and to which we have already alluded, we favourite with foreigners for 18 years, and the $1,717 paid into court by the defendants, make a written document to make you already hear of the loss of several native ten of his assistants are said to be buried and another sum of $13,817 paid under the receive all your money from the dock before

The object of the I receive mine." with him under the ruins of his hones, ward of Mr Price." The Chinese shops for foreign stores are motion was to make the whole fund formed then $2,000 more. I wanted him, the witness But of ita instruments and their broad almost totally destroyed. Others will by these two sums chargeable with the costs, says, to put all the amount in this docu- doubtless tell you of the terrible havoc on and not only the sum which had been paid ment. He refused, and I would not let effects, we have now to report; reserving games. Perhaps it is safe to say that into court and to which alone my order of him have any more money. Then he con- particulars for to-morrow evening. Pre- one third of the trees are destroyed, and November 23rd, 1877, applied. After hear-sonted, and I advanced 93,800; this was on mising that it became obvious last evening those of course the finest ones. It willing the motion of the 10th December, 1877, November 29th, 1878. A month after that the S. W. monsoon of the past few take twenty years for the beautiful settle. the Court made an order which is embodied there was another advance of $2,500. Then ment to recover the position and reputation in a debree to the effect that without proja of $2,000. Then he says I demanded pay. days had charged the air with olestrisity it has so deservedly enjoyed. But it is dice to the order of November 23rd, 1877, ment. He said that the dock was not done and that at two changer of the tide during hard to write of it. I have seen more heart and the rights of either party to apply to and wanted $3,600 more. Igave him a good the twenty hours there was a succession of rending sights and more of death this set aside or vary it, that the motion should scolding and lent him the money. Up to

afternoon than in all my life before. stand over, and that Leong Cho Kum claim-September, 1874, I had lont him $28,500 tempestuous equalle, our theory, drawn

ing to be entitled to the funds in court In March, 1876, the assignment was under an assignment dated March 24th, made; the recitals in the document confirm from previous observation and inquiry

The tornado passed over Fati, Shateen 1875, made between him and the bankrupt, this, and it is pretty clear therefore that regarding meteorological phenomena and and the Western suburbs of the City. A purporting to secure $22,600, and the other the account of their affairs supplied to Mr from the observation of several persone passenger on board the Canton steamer says: two assignees, Fong Leong and Wong Chuen Wotton, who prepared the assignment, by to-day as well as from existing visible We saw it as we were going in, and Fong, claiming to be entitled to $3,325 and the bankrupt and Foong Ming Cheong in Captain Cary called it a water-spont. It $3,000 respectively, under like assignments March, 1876, vincided with these present Indications, is, that a Tornado, bearing on has left a path about 300 to 500 yarde dated the 14th April, 1875, and 16th June, statements. This assignment (B Ex) recites Its orest a huge Waterspout, burst and fell broad of complete devastation. Thousands. 1876, in priority to the claim of the official a debt due to Leong Cho Kum of $22,500, upon Shameer, at the incoming of the tide of people must have been killed instantane-assignee, should be at liberty to apply by and money due under the agreement be

Obituary.---General Sir Philip Guy. ously on water and land, The eastern motion for payment of the said fund as tween the bankrupt, Spratt & Oa, and Application was Wing Shing, of about $50,00% It can

London, Mar. 20.-It raported that the this p.m. The form and spiral action of and western houses of Shameen are unin- they should be advised. a Waterspout ware distinctly marked by one jured, except a few panes of glass, while made by motion dated the 22nd January scarcely be said that bankruptcy was then Russians are concentrating troops on the The Russiana the outside plaster of some is chopped as if ultimo that the $13,817 should be paid out. contemplated, and the small amount ultim Busso-Austrian frontier. gentleman for some minutes as it approachwa gang of coolies had been fighting with of court to Leong Cho Kam. The learnately awarded to the bankrupt under the wish to embark homewards at Boyukdaro, ed Attorney-General appeared for the arbitration of Mr Price was at that time The Porto, however, objects and offers fact nd with startling rapidity; as if, like an brick-bats and bamboos against it. enormous bird of prey, it was golsing in The Canal above and below the Bridge was claiment, and Mr. Hallyar for the official Aa- bayond all calonlation. I will only add lities for embarking at San Stefanos and

chock-full of wreck, with dead boat-people signee. The order of November 23rd having that Mr Wotton had the management of Rodosto, mid-air to swoop down upon its victims.

In the House of Commons laat night, and mixed with it. None of the been made with consent of the solicitors for the business, which it a guarantee that the Thas it struck down upon the bund line mission houses in the City sro injured; and the parties to this suit, and the validity of transsotion, so far at any rate as the legal the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir of trees between Memes Deacon & Co.'s only one foreigner is hurt, and that but these assignments having been admitted documents are concerned, was quite bond Stafford Northcote), in reply to a question, slightly. Nearly one-half of the houses on by the plaintiff's solicitor, it seems to me fide. If the arrangement was collusive the said that if an agreement was come to residence and the British Consulate, up Shameen are utterly uninhabitable, and almost contrary to bona fides that any at- partica must have gone their solicitor respecting what England required of Russia, rooting more than half of the finest of several will have to be rebuilt from the tempt should be subsequently made to vary tutored by some one else well versed in the viz., that all the conditions of peace should

foundation."

er upset it, and it manet stand so far as the requirements of English law. Leong Cho be submitted, the Congress may meet at them, and sweeping its way through to the

$1,717 are concerned. The costs of the Rum is closely cross-examined as I have the end of March. houses and godowns in the direction of S.W.

By the courtesy of the Officers of the arbitration were by the order of reference to remarked, before. He denies ever assing to N.E., left traces of its whirling oboracter steamer Powan we learn that the catas.he awarded by the court, and had upplies the agreement before, though it is reclted Be says that he at various points between the first and trophe oscurred about half an hour before tiou been made it is possible that the costs in his assignment and the bankrupt

they arrived (say quarter to 3 colook). would have been thrown on the defendants, says was deposited. second line of houses before passing to the Lote of sampans were lifted completely out Mesars Spratt. It is said the official as did not know of the bankrupt's connec creek and Chinese shops in the rear; the of the water, and capsized. Daring the signes had no right to give away part of the tion with the Dock Company before the bankrupt's estate divisible amongst the time he mentions. Except as a test of average breadth of its course being about Progress of the tornado vivid flashes of light greditors. This, however, depends on the credit this does not seem to me very mate- severity of the existing law and facilitato ning were seen and a heavy thunder-stor validity of Leong Cho Kum's deed of as-rial-unless there is further evidence that the represalon of sedition. He promised

lives.

600 foot.

molished :—

ende.

Mears Wm. Pusiau & Co.'s residence.

Messrs Wm. Pastau & Co.'s silk godown, demolished.

Messen Biemmen & Co.'s silk godown, demolished.

Messrs Thomas and Mercer's residence, somewhat injured.

Messra Descon & Co.'s residence, slightly injured.

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under

Police Intelligence. (Both Magistrates Siiting.) April 12, 1878,

A:DAUIZ.

I assented, and lent him

There are numerous

A Russian army has crossed the river beyond San Stefano and has occupied vil- lages close to Makrikos.

The Russians have arrived close to, Ba-

yukdere despite the Porte dissenting-to a Russian occupation.

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Great excitement provnila in Constantino plo, and seditious placards have been posted up about the city.

London, Mar. 15.-Consols, 154. French Rentes, 110. Bar Silver, 64 at . For per cents, 822. Five and half per cents, Exchange on India is 8. 7 lb. Shirtings 56. 98. 83 lb. Shirtings 6s. 10d. London, Mar. 18.-Twenty-five thousand Russian troops have arrived at Iohataldja The Servian army corps, from Tirnova wishing to protest against the peace condi- tions, have reoccupied Waangt, which they refuse to evacuate unless forced. The Ser vian Government remains passivo.

The Chanceller of the Exchequer, replying to a question, said the British Government are perfectly justified under the present circumstances in retaining the fleet near Constantinople.

Major-Meneral Donovan succeeda Str F. Colborne as Commander-in-Chief of the forces in China and the Straits.

Mr O'Donnell moved that the native Indian press law was subversive of the to the House of Commons. Lord George English constitution and must be submitted Hamilton (under-Scoretary of State for india) defended the object of the Indian Government, which was to mitigate the

motion was withdrawn,

The policy of extending provincial re- aponsibility is zo-affirmed, and the results continue highly satisfactory,

An important minute by the Viceroy in published with the budget relatiyo to the active prosecution of railway and irrigation works for the prevention of famine through the agency of local Governments with smple. precautions for securing 'economy and fx- anoial regularity

The list of tariff heads freed from duty is so follow-

Brushes, building and engineering materia's, cabinet ware and furniture, candles, canes, rattana, articles made of cano and rattan and basket work, carriages and component parts thereof, chemical products and preparations, coir and articles made of goir, cordage and rope made of vegetable Abre, raw cotton and the follow. ing gotton; grey piece goods if containing no yarn finer than thirties, namely the olothe under 18, reeds, jeans, domestic sheetings, and drills, mule twist number 32

and lower numbers, water twlet number 20 and lower numbere, flax and articles made of flax, fruit and vegetables, hemp and articles made of hemp, hides and akins, instruments and apparatus except musical leather and articles mado of leather loclad ing boots and shoes, harness, saddlery, mlitary and other uniforms and soontes ments, naval stores, not otherwise provided for in schedule, oils, oil and foor-cloth, wall paper, piece goods made of jute, pipes and other implemente used in the con sumption of tobacco, pitch, tar, dammer, railway materials, seeds, soap and toilet requisites not otherwise named in the schedule.

Quotations.

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credit,- Old Patus, cash, Nons

credit,

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New Benares, cash, 547

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Old Benares, cash, Nons

credit,

Mew Malwa, cash, 740

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Allowance

rodit, 745 Tasis, 6 a 24

Old Malwa, cash,

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It appears to have worked its way signment which would absorb the whole of the whole arrangement between the bank to submit the law when received. Tho The following are the houses and silk city.

through the city in a zigzag manner, the two funds. If it is good, his solicitor rapt and Leong Cho Kum was collusive. I

London, Mar. 20.-The Czar has refused godowns seriously damaged or quite de-carrying everything before it. The people had a right to consent that the costs should think it is quite clear that Fang Ming

on beard the guard boats were observed be paid out of his money; if it is bad and Cheong was deceiving him because he had to reduce the Turkish indemnity, which is sutting the air with their swords and the whole of his two funda goes to the received from Mesars Spratt up to Mareh fixed at three hundred millions of zoubles Mesars Gibb & Co.'s late residence.

firing gaus to scarce away the evil one. bankrupta' creditors, then the official as- 25th, 1874, in goods and cash $87,331.50, (about £42,000,000).

London, Mar. 21,-Hobart Pasha has Messra Gepp & Co.'s residents and go- It is said that hail-stones fell, measuring signee has given a consent he ought not to and on April 11th he received $5,000 more, downa..

2 inches by three quarters of an inch; have given, but by which he is bound. whereas he constantly assured Leong Cho opened negotiations with the insurgents of and however improbable this may appear

The proceedings in this case being somewhat Kam that he could not get any money ba- Thessaly, and it is reported that he has Meners Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s re

we are assured on reliable authority that it complicated, I have thought it right to pre- fore the dock was finished. The recital, offered them autonomy.

Aden, Mar. 21.The Gwalior, with the Bank, on demand, ... aldenice.

is correct. Two fires occurred at the same x a history of them, which does not affect however, in the assignment, that about

30 days' aight, Mesars Arnhold, Karborg'& Co.'s resid-time, and one was still burning when the the main question to be decided. With $50,000 were due under the contract, was London mails of the 8th March, sailed for

6 months' sight,... owan left this morning. From Chinese respect to the $1,717, for the payment of not incorrect. Mr Hayllar argued that this Bombay last night.

London, Mar. 21.-Russia declines to lay Credits, sources we learn that about 2,000 Chiese which an order was made by consent, I hold was an assignment of the whole of the Messrs Arnhold, Karberg & Co.'s silk have lost their lives, and a very much that order to be binding on the parties. bankrupt's remaining interest, and there the treaty of peace on the table at the Documentary, 6months sight,.. 5/11 godown, demolished.

Larger number have been injured. Buch The question next to be decided is as to the fore was void. As the result has turned European Congress, as demanded by Eng Bombay, demand Rupees,

at that time it land, though admitting that the plenipoten- Calcutta, a catastrophe has never been known to secur second sum of $13,817.70 paid into court out, it was the whole i

Shanghai, demandų *** before in the memory of the oldest inhabit under the award-Does it belong to the off was expected to turn out, it was not the tiaries may discuss clauses.

London, Mar. 21-In the House of Lords sial assignee of the bankrupt's estate? Or whole. The arbitration and its remerons this evening, Lord Derby said that England Bar Silver, 17, dwts. B.,

-30 daye... ant,

does it go to the claimant Leong Cho Kum one could. foresee under an assignment of a debt due from authorities which lay down that the assign had not demanded the admission of Greece Syote,, 17 Spratt and others for building the Cosmopo- ment of the whole or the greater part of a to the European Congress on the same Mezianas, * litan Dock, of which assignment they had trader's estate to secure an antecedent debt footing as the Gnaranteeing Powers, but Gold Last, ****** notice, the bankrupt having taken over the laaaact of bankraptoyand vold, as general had only asked that she should have a English Soversigns,**** The demand Australian Sovereigns, m contract from the original contractors, proposition; but they vary very much, and hearing at the Congress. Wing Shing and others? Mr Hallyer it is hardly possible, I think, to reconcile made by the British Government that all Discounts contends on behalf of the official as them. But the severity of sarller decisions the pesos onditions should be submitted Joseph Welsh, a seaman belonging to signes that the assignment was a fraudulent has been much mitigated. After referring to the Congress was, he thought, moderate the American bargte Frank Marlon, was preference on the grounds that it was: 1st to the cases cited, his Lordship concluded and reasonable. Rusela had not yet sent a Hongkong Bank, 87 % prem Fully 100 trece bare fallen, some lying charged with committing ad nuprovoked An assignment of the whole of the bank-Moreover, there is another important reply, but unless she accepts England's Union Inn, Soctory of Usatati, $1,809 From S.W. to N.F.j a few nearly S. to N. assault on Captain Eldridge, the master of rupt's property to secure an antesedent debt difference between this and the majority, terms, his lordship said there had better be Ohina Traders' Inz, Go, al 250

the vessel. By the complainant's evidence and was not made in consideration of a pres at any rate, of the case alted where deads Congress

Rome, Mar. 31,-Signor Caftell has been Yangtase Inn. Adaos., Fl. 820 It appears that the defendent came on shore sent advance. 2nd-That it was a frati as of assignment bave been held invalid. to see the U. B. Contil He then met the being a collusive arrangement between him. They generally contain a power to seize the appointed President of the Italian Council North Ohlas Ins, Oo, Tis: 900 Captain and asked for some money, which salf and Leong Cho Kum, who was the whole of the debtor's property on demand of Ministers, and has succeeded, after great H. K. Fizs Ins. Co., $695

forming a new Cabinet with was refused, He followed him as far as person in fact who took over the contract of payment. In the case before us there is difficulty, Wellington Street, when the prisoner pulled

being merely the ostensible fender, given to Spratt and Co., to pay to Leong Minister for War

St. Petersburg, Mar. 24The official the Captain, who is a cripple, out of his Cheung bag Bang, the bankrupt Fong Ming no such thing, but merely an authority is Count Corti as Foreign Minister and Brass ohair. Cearing his clothes and struck him, The bankrupt and Leong Cho Kum were Cho Kum money as it becomes due under knocking out one of his teeth.The chair closely cross-examined by Mfr Hallyar as to the contract. The advances for which the Russian Gosstte publishes the conditions of coolie she was carrying the prosecutor the circumstances tinder which the assign assignment was made had, so far sa we the treaty of peace, which are identical with corroborated the Captain's statements-Dement was made, but I must say were not know, been expended by the debtor In those already published by Router's office. Lochhead proved dressing the prosecutor's shaker in any material point, though Leong paying for wagen and material in carrying The Servtan troops have evacuated and the wound, and said that he had lost a tooth. Cho Kum'a denial any knowledge of the out the works. Th re was another ground Russian troops have occupied Franja. It a The Magistrates sextended the defendant original contrast is hard to bellere. The for supporting this sarignant mentioned te semi-officially stated here that since En to seven months imprisonment, with hard bankrupt says that it was after he had bors by the learned Attorney General which I gland persists in ber demands relative to rowed of Leong Che Kum the $400 in Say think is good it was an appropriation of a the conditions of pease the chances of the tember, 1674, that he took an amalgament of spes de fund, sad this would take it out of Congress meeting are decreased, the original contract from Wing Shing the hands of the Offcial Assignee. It restan This must be an error, as the assignment to me, then, that this assignment muct was made by an agreement dated Eist of be supported, as I find that it was not made But a strange sight met me. To the south

August, 1976. It sets out that in con in contemplation of bankrupter; nor with sideration of Foong Ming Cheung ad the intention to delay and defeat creditors vancing money to complete the dock to an nor was it an algement of all or the west was a towering mass of cloud, blikke

amotat not exceeding the balance of greater part of the bankrapt's property. ened apparently with myriads of birtis; and

$110,000 remaining unpaid, less penalties Though it was made partly in consideration moving towards Abxmeen. I had only just Huffam, Official Aesignes v. Spratl and deductions, Wing Shing assigned to him of an anteosdent debt; there was a previous tims to close three windows when the air His Lordship delivered the following the whole amount of the contract sum of agreement made upon pressure to assign $110,000 then remaining due or unpaid, the debt and adrances subsequent to the was darkened with leaves and branches of judgment:This was a sult instituted by What the amount was Has never, to fe as 1 verbal agreements The whole thing war

the official assignes on April 21st, 1878, the trees and broken tilen, My windows the bankruptcy of Fanging Cheng, who know, bean actually determined. The bank. boa fraud; but if it to very cleverly began to break in all directions, and if stood | claimed about $88,000 from Mossss "prati supt jays that he did not mention the dass concocted by sumi eni wall refund

some N. to B., others about E. to W.

(From on Occasional Correspondent.)

CANTON, 11th April,

The morning had been stormy; thunder

that pealed without ceasing for sometimes the space of a quarter of an hour. It was just about 3 pm, when the thunder crashed forth from several quarters of the heavens

at once, and then suddenly came such peculiar rushing, bussing noise as I had never heard before. After listening for 6 tow moments, I went to the door to listen, thinking the Foton had just arrived and „had mat with some accident to her engines.

labour

SUPREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION, (Before His Lordship the Acting Chist dus. tine, the Hon. F. Bzoween.) Aptil 12, 1878

THE INDIAN BUDGET. Calcutta, 1-18 A.M. March 10.-The Financial Statement of the Indian Guvern: ment is published in the Gazette. It could not be brought before the Legislative Council, legislation not being required.

The accounts for 1870-77 show Revenue. Ordinary expenditure Loss by famine Daficit

exclusive of

for productive works,

Ühinese Insurance Co., 1966

China Fire Ins. Co., $178.

K., &M,&boat Co., $16 dis Shanghat Steam Navigation, Th, 2 ... prof.

Hongkong Gas Co., 876. Songkong Hotel Do., 185 China Sugar Refining Co., 1 % dia.

Do. of 1877, £108,10), Chinese Imperial Loan, £108.

Temperature.

Taken as Messrs Falconer & Co.': Framus

Queen's Bond.) Roxazone, April 12, 1878.

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