No. 4923.–APRIL 18, 1879.]
a corporation has successfully weathered a Į and promptly taking the matter up; It is very riaky spell of weakened confidenos. now known that the line will be begun as The commercial outlook generally is spoken soon as possible. Several routes and of as brighter, and Manchester markets plans have been before the authorities, aze again beginning to look up.
They had to consider the proposed route by the West Coast of Afrias, the pro Ar the Marine Court, Joseph Lavery, sea-ject of telegraphic lines through Central man British steamer Gleneagles and James Grey, seamen British steamer Lord of the Isles, were charged with wilfully remaining behind from their ships. A passage bad been provided for Lavery to Shanghai by by the Gleneagle's agents, but he refused to go, and was therefore sentenced to one month's hard labour; Grey said he came anhore and got a drop too much and missed his vessel, He was ordered to be kept in gaol until as opportunity offered for sending him to Shanghal, such Imprison- ment not to exceed one month.
Africa, and the offer of a line to con- nect India and Mauritius along the east- ern side of the continent. but the deputa- tion which walted upon Sir Michael Hicka- Beach received little encouragement to believe that the Central African route would be adopted. The western route advocated by Mr Donald Cuzzle as linking our
naval stations, St. Holena and
Ascension with the Cape Colony, and St. Vintent with Capetown, was not pressed upon the Government by the company interested in the line to St. Vincent. The importance of the western route as an Wazn the President of Americs sent the alternative one must, however, it is said, message to the House on Saturday night, in good time secure attention. For the Marah Lat, vetolug the Chinese Restric-presout emergency the Eastern Telegraph tion Bill on the ground of its improperly Company's project of connecting Aden Mauritius, and Natal Interfering with the Chinese Treaty, the with Zanzibar, House, at midnight, sustained the veto, will be adopted, since it offers the 109 voting for the bill and 95 against It, advantage of speedy completion. This the affirmative thus falling short of the two-will be effected, we are informed, by the ap- thirds required by the Constitution for the propriation to the line of communication passing of a bill. Telegrams, from Sanfrom Aden to Zanzibar of 1400 miles of the Francisco report an uneasy feeling there, an outbreak being apprehended when the veto is announced, The Governor has ordered a military guard at the militia armouries BO a precautionary measure." We get this information from the London papers of March 7th, which have New York advices considerably later than we have yet ressived here owing to the un explained non-arrival of the Alaskai
THE CHINA MAIL.
fatallatio views on the point to a belief the accident to the British schooner Lulu, that the evil may, after all, be mitigated to mentioned in our last number, was in no a certain degree by "vigilanoe."
way attributable to any shortcoming on the part of the river steamer Taiwan, but was entirely owing to the very heavy gale which blow while the vessels were proceeding. through the Kimpai Pass, the Taulu being driven by the force of the wind upon the rocks in too dangerous a position for the Taiwan to render prompt assistance. The. pohooner floated off with the tide, and is now being stripped in dock for examin ation.
SUPREME COURT. CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice.) · April 18, 1870.
V
The Criminal Sessions commenced to day. The Acting Attorney General, (the Hor, J. Russoli, appeared to prosecnte, and the jury comprised Messrs. W. H. Dunn, R. M. Robertson, J. P. Perokra, O. L. Gorham, A. O. F. Hahn, O. Chamber lair, and G. B. Lammert. The first caso
WHI-
REGINA U, CHUNG 'AHRE AND WONG KEE LUM,
Tho prisoners were indicted for the laweny of a pillow-box containing clothing, money and valuables, and also with vlo leally assaulting the complainant. Both were found guilty; the first, against whom there were three previous convictions re- corded, was sent to five years' panal servi. tude on the first ooust, and twelve months' hard labour on the second count; the Bededant was sent to one year's
hard labour.
REGINA V, WONG ABING
The prisoner was indicted for robbery from the person. The jury found him guilty of the charge, and he pleaded guilty to three His Lordship sen- previous convictions. tesood him to three years' ponal servitude.
REGINA A LEUNG ATBUN,
The priso er was found guilty of stealing bangle from the person of a child and was sent to one year's hard labour.
telegraph cable which was intended for the duplicate line on the Eastern Extensior, which will thus be somewhat delayed. But
(Before the Hon. Acting Puisne Judge, Mr J. J. Francia.) the world can better afford that delay than
Mr Ng Oboy prosecuted. The following England can now afford to be a day longer
gentlemen wore empaneled as a Jury, than is absolutely necessary witaout tele-acers F. J. dus Remedios, T. N. Driscoll, graphic communication with that distant, J. Czorio, A. E. Abraham, M. de Souza, purtion of her dominione whose very exist. T. H. Kublman and G. Piercy. ence has of late been so gravely threatened,
REGINA V. CHAN ASHAP AND LOW ACHUN.
Our readers may be interested in learn- ing that the Proclamation lately issued by the high provincial authorities, with refer- once to the Wa-shih-shan Riot, was surrop. titiously removed from its post of honour
on the wall of the British, consular com- pound facing the Club.
Japan. (Mail)
3
The following returns of houses, popala- Again and again during the past year the tion, &c., under the jurisdiction of the intervals between the succeeding arrivals Tokio Fu, on the 28th day of February or departures have, varied between two last, are extracted from the census recoutly weeks and a month. This does not so much matter in regard to outward mails, but it taken by the Police Bureau:-
is a serious inconvenience to those in the 287,937 Total number of Honask...........
Population...... 1,042,888 habit of receiving their home letters re- It should also be remarked that galarly. Males...542,016 Females500,872
there is no connecting link between the 411 mail service on the Atlantio and that on 5,838 the Pacific side.. Each one is independent
M
Foreigners.... Soldiers.**** People in the Poor-House ... Oriminals under ponal servitude Imprisoned......
of the other, and it would very probably 513 happen if the steamer on the Atlantic by which the Japan mails were forwarded, were 3,800 to be delayed for two or three days, or if--
the mails were by any chance detained on tho railroad across the Continent, that the Pacific steamer, not being bound to wait for them and consulting merely the exi
52
The total number of births during the month of February was 1,958, whilst that
of deaths was 1,264.
The total number of Jinrikishas in the city of Osaka in March last, was 10,868.
It seems that the report of the appoint- ment of Mr J. J. Enslie to be Acting British Consul in Yokohama, in consequence of the transfer of Mr H. S. Wilkinson to Shang- hai to be Acting Assistant Judge of H. B.ly M.'s Supreme Court for China and Japan, was not accurate. A notification has since been issued by Sir Harry Parkes, announc ing that he has appointed Mr M. Dohmen to act as Hor Majesty's Consul at Kanagawa and as Assistant Judge of H. B. M.'s Court for Japan, during the absence of Mr Consul Robertson, and also that he has appointed Mr J. H. Gubbins to act as H. B. M.'s Vico-Consul at Yedo.
gencies of its own service, would leave without them, and unfortunato residente
hore would be compelled to wait for their home letters for another two or three weeks. All this is no doubt a matter of THE U. S. 8. "RICHMOND." sublime indifference to Hongkong mer- This vessel, which will probably bring chants, but to ourselves, it is one of pri- General Grant here from the Straits, is mary importance, and we trust that the thus described in the New York Sun. community will take some steps in the The Richmond's cabin has been thorough-matter and, if necessary, memorialise the overhauled. What was good enough for Home Government on the subject. The plain John Rodgers, rear-admiral United local Chamber of Coramores has already States pavy, was not, in the opinion of the been in communication with Sir Harry department, suitable for the Ex-President. Parkes on the subject, and there is Httle Naval-constructor Pook, of the Charlestown donht that, were proper representations navy yard, was given carte blanche in the made to London, dus consideration would embellishment of the same. If the cabin be given to them. Shanghai residents was latonded to be magnificent, Mr Pook lately (by reference home) got the date of was successful. As a cabin it is regal. The the departure of the mails altered, in order main entrance to the abip, when at anglior, that the over-worked residents might get is on the starboard side, whence a broad away on their trips to the country on the A telegram has, we understand, been re-and elegantly fitted companion-way leads to Saturday afternoon instead of waiting seived in Yokohama during that last week, a sort of grand saloon on the main deck, until the Sunday mornings, and certainly stating that H. B. M.'s oorvette Juno has This saloon is divided into three suites of any memorial from Japan, backed by the received orders to proceed from Hongkong apartments-drawing, dining and reception Minister's support, would have some weight to the Cape of Good Hops, doubtless to
TOOLS. On State occasions these may be with those in authority. Whatever con- assist, if required, in the operations against thrown into one spacious apartment. Beclusion may, however, be ultimately arrived the Zulud. She was previously under orders sides these, there are large state-rooms at, we must enter a protest against the to proceed home, and unless her officere abutting upon the forward and after bulk question of whether the two thousand Eur have a dosire for a little land service against head. The painting and decoration of all opean residents of Japan shall or shall not are ssentially bright; the woodwork being receive their mails regularly, being left to Cottewayo's warriors, they must feel some disappointment at the change in their de- of light colors, having panels and stiles the decision of a majority of Hongkong
picked out with orange and green. The merchants, the majority in question "zam». stination.
corales and pilasters are of a delicate hus. baring exactly seven persons. Sage-green silk blinds and lace ourtains embellish the ports and deadlights. Tho sides of the ship and the bulkheads form
Ir has been subject of general remark that HEDGE & Co.'s Weekly Shipping Report,ring at the shop of Messra Falconer & Co., opinion with regard to the non-combustive|ing the drawing and reception rooms are
no answer has as yet been vouchsafed, by the Secretary of State for the Colmies, to the resolutions passed at the great Public Meeting held at Hongkong in October last
year.
It
Pagoda Anchorage, 12th April, 1879;~-
Arrivals During the Weok-April 6, Tab Yew, from Shanghai; 8, Kwang Tung, from Hongkong; 8, Europe, from Shang. hai; 8, Queen of the West, from Shang bai 10, Vigilant, from Hongkong.
A fire broke out at Nilgate, on the 31st ultimo, in a kerosene oil warehouse, which resulted in damage to the building only, The prisoners were indicted for stealing a This goes to confirm the generally accepted jewellers, Queen's Road Central. The facts properties of this oil, and of its com- hung with mirrors framed in oak and gold, of the case have already been fully reported paratively safe nature when properly packed the wooden fittings in some cases being of in our columus. The defendants went into in cans and bozee. We do not remember polished mahogany. When in the tropica, the shop and wanted to purchase a ring.to have heard of any case which has re- the temperature of these apartmentd will be They were shown five rings, but, pretending sulted in the injury of a cargo of this cooled by means of clay pankabs or mon that none suited them, were about to leave article of commerce by spontaneous com- keys, which, filled with water, will depend the shop when Mr Koss, the manager, bustion, ou the high seas, and the fire on from the Interior of the poop-deck. Departures During the Week.-April 9, stopped them and soused them of stealing board. the American ship Coldstream at Kwang Tang, for Hongkong; 9, Tah the ring, which was found in the umbrells Kobe, and that which occurred on the to be called state-rooms full-sized feather- Yew, for Shanghai; 11, Europe, for Shang-et the second defendant. Both prisoners English Hatoba at this port but recently, bede rest on brass bedsteads, suspended by nere found guilty, and the second pleaded would point to the safety of the article gimbale. These work in upright standards, hai: 11, Vigilant, for Hongkong
In a sea-way, the motion of the beds is like Builty to previous summary conviction. when properly stored. It would then re-
His Lordship sentenced the first prisoner to quire an extreme degree of heat to burst that of a compass, being disturbed slightly tro years' hard labour, and the second to the cases, allowance being made for ex-by either the rolling or pitching of the ship. Tho dining room la surrounded by transoms pansion. three years' penal servitude.
covered with silk. There are four bath- rooms, with pipes leading to wells in the waist, which are kept filled with water by
Shipping in Port.-Ling Feng, Upmann, Lalu, Queen of the West.
J
REGINA CHANG AMUI.
The prisoner was indicted for assaulting with an iron bar a chair-coolie employed by Dr. Ayres. It appears that several mon sailed the complainant with iron bars, sod one of them snatched 300 cash from bie hand.
In the bed-rooma--for they are too large
Mr Reeds' trip to Nikko, for which place he was to leave Tokio to-day, has been abandoned, and it is said that he will return home by the French mail, leaving Yoko-the oren. hama on the 10th instant.
That public meeting, which was called upon requisition signed by the Hon. P. Ryrie and 83 other, was held on the 7th day of October last, and the re solutions were transmitted a day or two thereafter to the Colonial Seocutary. seems to us to be somewhat strange that no BOOKED FOR HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI:- Por . M. steamer Iraouaddy, from Mar- acknowledgment has yet been received; and, seilles, March 25-Mr, Mra and Mias although no annual expedition need be look Richardson, Mr and Mrs M'Keau, Mr ed for in a matter hostile to any member of the Charles Kahn, Mr G. Stade, Mr Young, Mr Manro, for Hongkong. De Bratach Colonial service, especially under the poli-neider, Mr and Mrs W, Wells, Mr Hart and tical pressure of the Zulu War, still some family, Mr Fries, for Shanghai
Per M. M. Tigre, from Marseilles, April "movement of the waters" might have reached this Colony in six months' time. Mr Brackenbridge, for Shangbal,
Par P. & O. steamer Poonah, from We are afraid if this delay has been adopt-Southampton, March 6-Mr. B. Elliott, ed as a sort of cooling process, tho at Commander S. H. Smith, Mr S.) W. Wright,
Mr E. C. Stewart, Mr Úrooker, Mr Tilley tempt will be a failure. It is generally (from Brindisi), Mr G. M. Byers, Mr. W. believed that the Hon. Mr Lowcock, B. Thumaon, ir W: Hunter; (from M. L. C., will precced home shortly. Perhaps Venice), Mr Oliver, Mr F. W. Thoman, for ho might be induced to stimulate the Hongkong. Mr H. Dale, Mr R. R. Letch-ants for child stealing. The Jury found Tokio, has been appointed Vice-Consul for
ford, for Shanghai.
lethargic energies of the pigeon-boling au- thorities at the Colonial Office.
PIRACY in these waters appears to be becoming as rifs as it was in bygone days. It is true that foreign-built vessels are generally unmolested, but that they are not wholly free from attack has been orilenced very recently in the case of the Klizabeth Childs. Of course it was never for a moment
But the evidence was very weak against the accused, and as it socmed quite probable that in the confusion might have been mistaken as to the entity of his assailants, the jury found him not guilty, and he was accordingly discharged.
REGINA 2. U ACHEUNG.
The prisoner was indicted on three
Per P. & O. steamer Travancoe, from him guilty and sentence was reserved. Venice March 14th-Mr Oliver, Mr J. Jones, Me F. W. Thomson to Hongkong. Mr and Mrs F. Major, Mr and Mrs Blair From Brindisi March 17th, to Shanghai.
hat
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China.
ABLOY.
(Gazette.)
According to the Customs return of Exports and Imports for all the Treaty Forts of Japan, the total value of the Exports during the month of February last was yen 1,877,808 while that of Imports was yen 2,155,287. Thus there was an excess of Imports over Exports for the month, of yen 277,938. The total amount of revenue from the Custom House was yen 152,871.
It is stated that Mr P. Kempermann, the 1st Secretary of the German Legation in Germany at Hongkong, and that he will shartly proceed to his new post. Mr Von Eisendecher, the German Minister, is ox- pected to arrive at Tokio in the beginning of next month. Mr Van Stoutwegen, of the Netherlands Legation at Paris, has been appointed Minister for Holland in Japan.
We notice quite a large arrival of iron main pipes, per the 8. S. Scutland, from London, intended for the enterprising Tokio Gas Works.
When a hot bath is desired, an- other pipe, leading to the tubs from the The engine, beats the water by steam. reception-room contains a large library and the walls are covered with choice pictures,
-THE NEW POSTAL CONTRACT.
Japan Herald, March 26.) We published in our yesterday's issue on account of some proceedings which took place in the Hongkong Chamber of Com merce relative to the postal communication between this place and Hongkong, in which the inhabitants of Yokohams are intimately concerned, but in which they have been completely ignored. We read, with profound. surprise, that it is the Hongkong comma. nity which has been consulted as to the advisability of withdrawing the service and not the people with whom it is a matter of vital importance, the community here. We fail to see what Hongkong has to do with the matter. It is true that our post. office is a branch of the one in that colony,
is
Mr G. M. Byres, Mr W. B. Thomson, Mr Four grillins arrived per Sarpedon from W. L. Hautor, for Hongkong. Mir Bourke, Shanghai on the 4th. They are reported to be useful looking beasts, and will make Mr Hole, Mr R. Anderson for Shanghal.
Per P. & O. steamer Kashgar, from their debut on the Amoy turf at the forth Southampton, March 20-Mr A. J. Lind-coming races.
The final departure of the Revenue wor, for Hongkong. Mr Hearu, for Shang-
Cruiser Fei oo for Hongkong will Per P. & Osteamer Deccan, from South-doubtless be viewed with regret by all our ampton, Apr 3-Mr and Mrs G. Brown, readers, her presence having long been supposed that pirates had ceased to carry Mr Robertson, for Hongkong. Mr and regarded as one of the institutions of the on their nefarious trade; but they appear Mre Pirkis, and two sbildren, for Shanghai. Port. We are quite sure that her Captain minds to keep cool this summer at less ex- Union, it would appear that its interest in
Por P. & C. steamer Zambesi, from and Officers carried with them the best Southampton, March 27-Mr and Mrs wishes of this community. Thomaett and child, and Miss Thomaett for Hongkong via Bumabay.
Per steamer Antenor (Holt's line) from Liverpool, March 2-re laherwood for Hongkong.
wwwwwwwww
Foodnow.
(Herald, April 10.)
By the same steamer we also note the arrival of the machinery for the New Ice Company, which came from London. We suppoes we can now definitely make up our
pense than formorly.
Mr Yoshikawa, the Director of Tele. graphs, who is to represent the Japanese Government at the forthcoming Interna tional Telegraph Conference in London, will leave here for England at the end of the month.
Quotations.
HONGKONG, April 18, 1879. -
Patna, cash....$6571
caab,...
OPIUMN
Old
Now Benares, caab, 697† Old
cash,
Now Malwa, credit, 780
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33
Old Malwa, credit, 760
Allowance Taola, -
Allowance Tools, Exchange.
Bank, Wire,...
30 days' sight,
6 months' sight,
3/0 3/7
3/7 a
9/7+
Credits, Documentary, 6 months' sight, 3/78 India, Wire,...
demand,... Shanghai, demand,...
80 days' sight, Gold Leaf, 89 ane... Sovereigni,...
att
Shares.
2104
920
72/
79
28.80 6.59
Hongkong Bank, 45 % prom. Union Ins. Society of Canton, $1,400 North China Ins. Co., Tis. 1,250 China Tradera' Ins. Co., $1,800 Yangtore Ins. Assoc., Tis. 725 Chinese insurance Co., $270. H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $760 China Fire Ins. Co., $175 HK. & W. Dock Co., par,
H.K. C. & M. S.-boat Co., $6 die. Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tls 17 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tls. 0ð, ex div. Hongkong Gas Co., $70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $65 China Sugar Refining Co., $135 Ühinese Imperial Loan, £113
of 1877, £110
Temperature.
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BAROMETER
9 A.M.....
Do.
1 P.M.... 4 P.M....
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THERMOMETER—9 A. M. ...
Do. Do.
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29.924
$9.890
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1 P.M... 4 F. M....
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10 68
$7
65
Do. Maximum
Do. Minimum over night
Bhipping Intelligence,
The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers, &C. 200
and that the stamps used here are also Hongkong ones, but as the P. & O. subsidy (Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises,
paid by the Imperial Government, and as,
Bonexors, April 18, 1879. even if the service be continued, that colony will, as Mr. Ryrie stated, not have to pay any more than it does under the Postal the subject is but small. If the receipts from the sale of stamps are insufficient to defray the necessary expenses in Japan, the Japanese Post Office Department will be The Customs cruiser Ling Pong will, we
only too ready to relieve Hongkong of Buy further charge under that head, if arrange. understand, leave for amoy in the course of the ensuing week. She has been thor The machinery which has been put up at ments to that effect have not already been been made of considering the question as Taz following is from the Pall Mall Ga-oughly overhauled, and fitted with new the Wool Factory in Senja, Tokio, was entered into. The mistake appears to have
bollars during hor stay in port,
purchased in Germany at a cost of yen Sir Thomas Wade returned this evening 100,00. The motive power is supplied by Hongkong and Yokohama. As this is but one simply of correspondence between sette
An order has been recently leaned to the from Hongkong, in H. B. M.'s S. Figilant. an engine of seventy-five horse power smail, and the larger portion of the trade police force by Sir Edmund Henderson, His Excellency is most anxious, wo are When the workmen who are now engaged containing certain no doubt highly valuable told, to keep the Fengshui-ite Case out of in learning the use of the machinery, have between the two ports is in the hands of Instructions, but at the same time suggest Court. But we trust that the missionaries completed their studies, the formal opening that bote noir of the European community ing some rather uncomfortable reflections. will stand by their rights as British of the factory will take place. This what Hongkong, the Chinese, it is easy to question is regarded there. Were the "In order," it rans, "to promote greater subjects, and decline any settlement short probably not be before the month of June understand the indifference with which the vigilance on the part of the police employed of a fair and equitable compromise.
A clever fraud was discovered some daysThe following application for this establish subject to be rooted of leaving Hongkong on beat or fixed point duty the district! superintendente will in future, in all osses ago at the Custom House. It came about ment of & Marine Insurance Company, out of the ports of call of the P. & U. and of murder, robbery and assault, burglary, In this wise. A native hong received from signed by Mr Kujo Michitaks and 24 other M. M. steamers, we fancy that we could or housebreaking, make full inquiries into Formosa a consignment of bullion-declar- Kuwataku, was sent to the Government of contemplate it calmly, and even if the idea the particulars of the case and report to the ed to be gold bare-but on examination the the Tokio Fu, in September, and was re- were carried out, it is doubtful whether it Commissioners whether any blame attaches metal was found to be silver washed with a plied to as below in December, last year: would disturb the equanimity of any one We now desire to use that money into little does Hongkong influence BB. But to the police on duty in or near the placs thin costing of gold. Truly, the ways of
manner that may beneft our country at the to Yokohama this question is not simply one of the receipt of our Hongkong malls, where the offence was committed, and the heathen are dark and mysterions.
The Wa-shih-shan case is in statu quo, same time as it procures us a living, and as whether there has been any neglect or want
we find that navigation and transport of bat of those from Europe-a much more goods by sen have very much increased in important matter. Hongkong is not de- Japan, we have decided upon establishing pandent for the receipt of her home mails Marine Insurance, as at undertaking that on the American lines of steamers; wore it meets the requirements of the times and or if it were proposed that the P. & O. may be of great public beneft, and for steamers should proceed direct from Sin- that purpose we have assosiated ourselves gapore to Shanghai, the question would not with Mr Iwasaki Yataro, Director of the have been looked at in the cavalier manger in which it was. The service via America Mitan Bishi M. S. B. Company,
"The Regulations to be observed by neither a certain nor a regular one. It
next.
VESSEIS TO ARRIVE,
AT KONGKONG,
When Name.
Left.
Oct.
18, Erast, 16, Rosine, 19, Hermann, Nov.
21, Fulda, 29, Rosaire, Deo. 18, Blenheim,
to be getting bolder and bokler now the find that foreign gun-boats do not interfere with them. A daring attack was made recently on the Sun Yeung Yik, a junk of 2,000 piciile capacity, but we are glad to learn that the pirates came off second beat, The Sun Yeung Yik left this on the 29th ultimo, bound for a place called Cheung Sah in the Sun Win District, situated close to Sun-wui City, When within a few hours' sail of her destination she was hailed by some men iù s boat who pretended to be Customs Revenue men, but the junk people suspected them, and refused to allow them to approach, Themen in the boat then fired at the junk and left, but returned again with several other bosts aad ootamenced a determined attiek. Sev. anty or eighty rifles were fired at the junk, killing the Master and one of the
of vigilance on the part of the police. The in deference to the expressed wishes of Sir beamen, and wounding others. The junk divisional superintendents will take care Thomas Wade Legal expenses are, how people returned the fire in good earnest that the natnes of the sergeant and consta ever, sacumulating, and there will be a from their dook guns, killing about mix. bles concerned in all such cases are placed heavy fengshui.ite draft on the impoverish- on the morning report, and that full infor- ed provincial treasury ere long After all, teen men and wounding some twenty mation is given to the district superiotend. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. The pirates then beat a retreat,eute to enable them to report to the Com The lawyers are reaping a rich harvest,
missioners. All this in doubtless, as it though they may fail at petitions. and the junk, belag favored with a
We understand that the Viceroy of Chibli shou d be; but it is certainly a little start- fresh breins, reached her destination Hag to fud the thief Commissioner of Li Hung-chan-is making extensive pre- in safety, where a report was made to the Police issuing instructions to the dietrist parations to receive General Grant at such a Company have not yet been publicly is not certain, because either Company may Chinese Oficials. The junk has returned superintendents to make full inquiries in Tientsin. His Excelleney will, according notified, but we endlose a sketch of the at any moment withdraw from the feld, future to the particulars of fences to present arrangements, meet the ex-important points of our objects for establish. This is perhaps not, for the moment, a pro. to Hongkong, and, information having been committed in the various parts of the toetre President at the landing plase and secoming it. When permission has been granted, bable occurrence, but it is by no means at -received from Macso that the pirates intend polis, with a view of ascertaining whether pany him to his temporary residence. The our own rules will be framed and sent for impossible one. The opening of the Bues making another attack on her, and haveau blaue attsobes to the police on duty usual Chinese salute of thres gans will, we your approval. In the meantime we ask Canal has dealt a severe blow at the pro- in or near the place where the offence was hear, be dispensed with in favor of a that you will take the circumstances into sperity of the Trane-Pacific lines. The year in steamers via the Canal, le nearly revenge for the loss of their comrades, it has ommitted, and whether there has been any "royal" salute of twenty one guns. Bo, consideration and grant us the permission quantity of tea shipped during the past
with as little delay as possible." been arranged that she shall leave in com-
apglect or want of vigilance." It would the General will be highly bonoured.
It is rumoured that she the British Gov. The Governor's answer to the application double that of the preceding one, whilst the shipments per Pacific steamers bave almost appear as if in the past no such pany with two others. It would be well if inquiries had been thought necessary, and ernment contemplate surrendering the by endorsement
decreased by a third. Again, although the The application is granted. bar sutkozikien took steps to find out where that vigilance" and attention to duty had consular premises on Wa-shih-ahat Now,
Note: As soon as the rules have been anti-Chinese Bill has for the present been been assumed as a matter of course is for many years the Chinese disputed the this information has come from, which might four of the police on duty bear the pinces right of fordgn ofcials to rende it the agreed upon, you are ordered to forward a fotoed, it by no means follows that after lead to the arrest of this band of despara in questions to the further direation to City of Fooshow. The premises in question copy, when the Regulations shall be due conference with China, the treaty will not in some degree he modified, and if the pises on the morning report the name were ultimately obtained, but with the publicly notified.”
This correspondence has been published lucrative trade of the carriage of Chinere of the as-geants and constables onderned utmost difficulty, and have been held ever
It is doubtful whether the lines could be Tin delays that have occurred in the off. in all such cases," we should have thought since in order to maintain a principle in the native papers during the present passengers be in any way interfered with, cibl news regarding the Zulu war, zonahing that that would have been part of the namely, the right of residence. If then, week.
Large quantities of rice having lately carried on without a subsidy. The service regular routine of police business already the British Government should at the England, have had the effect of calling the whole dostiment, in fact, gives the crisis abandon Wu-shin-chan, will it not be been purchased by foreign merchants for slao is not a regular mail ons such as attention to the necessity for telegraphie impression that crime has hitherto been said that this step has been taken through the European market, the price has risen Europeans are accustomed to. There are treated by the auth rities at Scotland yard fear of the anti-foreign cliqua of ingen in consequence, and former buyers for the alther fixed dates of departure not arrival, communication with Natal and the Cape, estate in nature and that they diaries
European markets are greatly disappointed but the ships are ran to suit the conve
| sience of the Companies or the shippers. ↑ Jobą A. Briggi, We have been requested to state that | pccordingly, and have led to the Government beartily have only seently been wagtyried from
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