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THE CHINA MAIL.

WE road in the Anglo-Brazilian Timés, ofterpretation of the law of libel, in its rela Feb, 22nd last, the following paragraph :-tion to the Press. The landlord of an

the columns of the journal in question about his establishment. The case was an unsavoury one into which we do not intend to enter. But what we would desire to direct attention to are these words:

The Imperial Government is negodating hotel, which has long had a shady reputa- in London, between the Brazilian-and-the tion, sued the proprietor of the South Ans- Chinese Legations there, a treaty for the Imtralian Advertiser for £1000, representing portation of Chinese plantation labourers," | damages be considered himself entitled to Nor only has the Prince of Wales promised in consequence of certain remarks made in to visit the Australian Colonics next year, but we read that "fl. R. H. and the Duke of Argyll are under promise to visit Canada during the vice-regal term of the Marquis of Lorne." If the Prince is to do the grand tour," which with his well-known love of travel he has never yet attempted, we shall, ro doubt, bave B. R. H. here, and the bright dream of our North China contemporary, the News, may yet be realized.

Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. O. B. Plunket.) Tuesday, June 10,

CONCUBINAGE IN CHINA-ABAD CASE OF

and it was for him (plaintiff) to take what action he liked now. The Court was not a place for making a few remarks.

BOREFFER v. BOWLEE, $18,~This was a supplied to the defendant. The case had claim for the value of a rifle and cartridges been allowed to stand over last day, owing to defendant having left the Colony. He did not appear to-day, but sent his cook. His Lordship sald he had nothing whatever to do with Mr Bowler's cook, and gave, j judgment for the amount claimed, with costa.

THE DARIEN CANAL. To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL,”

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Peking, 23rd May, 1879, Sir,In every maritime country, and in every centre of maritime commeres, a great tional Congress which assembled in Paris on deal of interest will be falt in the Interna-

the 18th day of this month, for the purpose of discussing and adopting the plan and route most practicable for an inter-ocennie Canal across the Isthmus of Panama.

The President of the Congress will be the world-wide-known Monsieur Ferdinand de Lessopis, of Suez Canal fame, to whose genius it would almost appear that Provid- once has entrusted and reserved the mission of altering the Geography of the Globe for the benefit of mankind and science.

No. 4968.-JUNE 10, 1879.]

admits that it does not seem to be an Basy matter for some cooks to make even a réchauffë.” His own work smply proves this; we have frequently observed it. For example, only a portion of our Austra --liau papers coming to hand by this mall,

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, we took over, to make our suminary com

Lo-Shun Ho, a protected woman, was plete, two or three short paragraphs from

charged with attempting to commit suicide Australian sources which appeared in the

evidence that she had been living as a con- by hanging herself." It appeared from the Daily Press of Monday morning. It turns

cubine for the last four years. Her protec out now, that, when engaged in his con-

and applied to the defendant for $10 to go tor had inade up his mind to get married, genial Sunday labour with scissors-and-paste,

to Canton for that purpose; the money was the mind of our contemporary had been on

On a former occasion, when the same jour- bis own, but the woman kept the purse. holler things intent; for in one case he

pal was defendant in a libel case, Chief Jus- She refused to give him the money, think tice Way put it to the jury that "If a public ing to dissuade him from getting married; makes a Batavia-bound ship leave Fort

writer, in commenting upon transactions but he went to Canton, without the $10, Darwin 58 days ago, for Hongkong;

brought under his notice, whilst he is not and returned pesterday, when be informed and puts his Northern Territory news

entitled to sacrifice truth to epigram, and her that he was engaged to a young woman, under the Western Australian heading.

the reputation of another person for the The defendant became very despondent, purpose of making a pangent point, is and, yesterday evening, was seen crying It has not been our customa to put much.

entitled to bring to the exercise of his daty bitterly. She was told not to ory, and trust on what we find in our contemporary's WE read in a recent London paper that as style and composition. He is entitled to night, one

the mastery which he may possess over about 9 p.m. she went to bed. At mid- the inmates of the house was columns, and we shall have less in future; an additional practical measure for the better use irony, and he is entitled to use sarcasm, awakened by bearing a strange molze, and

SANG MAN KWONG v. Lo À¤ing, $68.76. but we imagined that he might be relied on protection of the city from fire a moreable so long as these gifts are not abused. So on getting up saw. defendant hanging from--This was a claim, on a promissory note, to reproduce two ten-line paragraphs of re-fire-station--a novel contrivance is to be reasonable bounds, the writer may be illogi-onstable was called in, and the poor

long as the comment is confined within the cross beam of the door of her room. A for money lent. print correctly. But in Monday's issue, as placed in such a position so as to afford im-cal, he may show bad taste, he may be incor- fe. She said in Court, that she was very debt. He was duly cautioned to speak the advantages those of bringing Europe and

Defendant did not appear, and Plaintif woman was cut down In time to save her was declared, with a view of proving the is often the case with him,

rect, but unless the contents of what he has

miserable, and a feeling of desperation truth, and warned that if he did not do so, came over her at being turned off after so he would be sent to gaol. He aald that he many pear. She was sorry for what the lent the money to the defendant, & junk her own life again.

lent on the 8th February, this year, and Bis Worship sent her to one mouth's the promissory note in Court was handed hard labour.

to bim at the same time.

"What was now wasn't true,

mediate ald when required in the neigh bourhood of Flect-street. In a country like this, where fires are of everyday occur

theae details may be interesting :-

SCHEFFER. KLANTE, $41.90.-This was a claim for goods supplied. The defendant is an Engineer on board the German steamer China. This case had also stood over for a week, on account of the defondant being absent from the Colony.. The China bad, since that time, beon iwice in the harbour; and defendant had been asked for payment, He had promised to pay, but failed to do so. Judgment for the amount claimed, with costs.

At powerful Company for the promotion and carrying out of this inter-oceanic Canal has been formed in Paris, presided ovor by an Italian General, Signor Stefano Turr, and has lately made a Convention with the United States of Columbia, which gives her the tight to out and own a navigable canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific at any chosen point on the territory of the Republic, for the term of ninety-nine years. The agent for the Company in this Convention was a Captain in the Fronch Navy, named Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse.

The Suez Canal presented for its principal Asia nearer to each other, especially to the evergreen Spicy Islands, of which Sumatra is the Queen in the same manner as Cuba is of the West Indies; and to return to the

cularly to the cities situated on the classio shores of Italy, the ancient commercial

Seriously, as our contemporary has lately rence, and where they do grievous harm, in this charge, that the question they had had done, and would never attempt to take master, to buy provisions. The money was Levant and South of Europe, more parti-

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ALLEGED LAEVENT OF $470.

written satisfy the jury that his mind was actuated by malice, the privilege still And what was true wasn't new."

exists." Chief Justice Way told the jury

developed a spirit of "nagging," with a

to decide was not whether the article was strictly accurate in point of fact; whether very suspicious approach to trickery, which

The shape chosen for the moveablestation it contained language they would have we are sorry to see, we would recommend is that of an omnibus, the unifyem red employed, or inferences they would have him, for his own safety, to study the pro-served, and a coloured lamp at the top will proved it was written with malice-not peculiar to the brigade engines being ob drawn but whether the plaintiff had verb applying to those who live in glass indicate ita pronenes. Four men will be merely with implied malice of what is honses. A protection so brittle as that on placed on duty," sleeping accommodation called malice at law, but with actual malice, will be provided, and the interior will be he malice in fact." Journalists, said his contemporary inhabits will comedown about

furnished with every appliance requisite to Honor, might have great power of language bis ears one of these days if he foolishly combat with a fire at the commencement, and skill in employing it, they might also continues throwing atonea; thrown against When a "call" is received the men will make mistakes; but it was to the motive as there was really no case to go to a jury.only came into use this year.

turn out; bydrants will be opened or stand.the jury had to look. If the article was a stone wall, these iniselles will rebound pipes fixed; and the amount of canya hose not written maliciously the verdict should not burting the wall, but carrying deat command will enable three or four jets be for the defendant, and vice versa. The strustion to the glass house.

to be at once applied, and so reduce the jury found for the defendant, obance of the calamity spreading before the engines are attracted thither.

We have received a copy of a 48-page pamphlet entitled "Reformation of Mis- sionary Enterpries fa China," printed at Amoy. In this reprint, "H, "B," laya

of Reform in Missionary Enterprise, which

Cook, the billiard-player, who is now down in Australis, has made a statement which may be of interest to those who spend an

THERE seems to be a regular endeavour all round to gain a greater respect for the Sabbath. We mentioned what was being done in Calcutta, the other day. We now

handed to her by the butler.

The cars was adjourned till tomorrow, to allow of M: Eastlacke being sub- pœnaed.

His Lordship asked him what he had to say why he should not be sent to geol for three months for perjury.

At this stage, Mr Lister, the Collector of prosperity wrenched from them by the dis- Stamp Revenue, was sent for, and was Covery of Vaseo di Gama. shown the note, which bore a stamp

The Darien Canal, which will unite the Aling, a servant, was charged with stealing date of issue to have been 26th May, 1879. and the Pacific, at the latitude of 10 degrees

The remanded case in which Chung #g3-678" This, he swore, proved the waters of the two grand Oceans, the Atlantic...... two cheques value $240, and $230 in notes, Mr Llates aid he was positive that the North of the Equator, would receive from the property of his employer, (Dr. East lacke), came on again to-day, when Mr stamp was not issued in 1878; even if the both sides an ample amount of wind, and Dennys asked that the oase be dismissed, date was illegible, he was positive of this, for space offers to the sailing navigators Be contended that there was a link in the

as the form upon which it was impressed an immensity, sparing them the long and dangerous voyage round Cape Horn. At the evidence awanting,as to what Mrs East-

Defendant, when called upon to account proposed outlet of the Darien Canal into the lacke did with the key after it had been for this discrepancy, said that be lent the use, is found at a short distance the great money on the 8th of February, but that Antarctic current of cold water, which has fourth moon of this year. the note was not given him natll the its direction from South to North all the year round; it washes the coast of North America, goes through the Straits of Behring, enters the Folar Sea, and then ends its course among the ion of the Arotio Cirole. On the Atlantic side is found the great. Equatorial current of warm water known the Gulf Stream, which comes from the Southern hemisphere, runs all along the Bea, crosses the Gulf of Mexico, and in Bis Lordship sentenced the plaintiff to tremendous volume finds its way through with small pellets of hard olay, made so as labour, for wilful and sorrapt perjury,

and, freighted with tropio warmth, carries a to resemble gram. The defendant said he

sqft and pleasant climate to the British ULLMAN P. SAM ÁTVE, $84,20.-This was cold on the coasts of Sweden and Norway, amine it. This is the second time the same

Isles; thence goes to mitigate the Ärotis bought it from a Parase, and did not ex-

a claim for goods supplied. Defendant like the Antarctic currente, also enters the deducting $2.50 as a musical box he had Arctic Cirole. purchased from plaintiff was not good. His Lordship gave judgment for the full amount, with costs.

(Before C. V. Creagh, Esq) SELLING UNWHOLESOME FODDER,

Pang Ki, the Master of the Fuk Cheong

Defendant said he had not told a lls, In reply to His Lordship, Mr Ball said he was sure he had interpreted correctly; he had asked the defendant goveral times

before the public s solution of the question | occasional evening at the green-cloth. In read that the Presbytery of Melbourne Shop, 34 Graham Street, was fined $25, when he received the note, and he said Coast of South America, enters the Caribbean is contained in a letter that appeared in balls, knocked one off the table on to the forth that they have learned with deep for fodder for the Police horses, mixed three months' imprisonment with hard the Straits of Florida to the Eastern Atlantic,

a game of pyramids, Cook, in breaking the have addressed the Government, setting with the alternative of fourteen days when he paid the money.

the N. O. Daily News five years ago. The

necessity for reform, he says, "will now even more readily be admitted, and the soheme is perhaps worth reconsideration, The arguments in the original letter are those of Chih Tao-Jen, communicated to "H. B. " in frequent and prolonged discussions with that Chinese scholar, and

with a view to being urged on the attention of the foreign public. Chih Tao-Jen's whole

scheme seems to be comprehended in this short paragraph, although his letter con taining it is spun out to cover several

pages

Let, then foreign countries give up the special protection that they have hitherto "socorded to their preachers; our govern. ment will, in that case, grant them the fullest liberty to preach their religion, and to the people to enter it. China will be found quite ready to issue the strictest instruction to all authorities to treat these men with the utmost justice and considera tion, to put them on the same footing as all scholars, and as other priests.

imprisonment for eupplying gram Intended

door, but instead of the ball sering to him, regret and pain that a large body of work as it has been generally understood it men were employed during the whole of should, the revered was the case, the ball recent Sabbath, at the Melbourne was replaced on the table, he owed one, terminus of the Gipps Land Railway, by man has been convicted for a similar admitted $81.70 which he paid into Court, Polar Sea and plunges beneath the ice of the

and his opponent played, Mr Cook after wards explained that the old rule with regard to a ball going off had been abolished in England, and a totally different one

substituted.

order of the Hon. the Commissioner of Railways, and that the Hon. the Minister of Railways and officers of his staff were engaged during the same Sabbath in an inspection of the said line. The memori- alists express their solemn, ananimous, and emphatic protest against the proceedings above referred to, as a flagrant violation of the law of God, as a breach of the civil law, as an outrage on the most sacred feelings of the community, and as an unwarrantable encroachment of the indisputable right of| the working classes to the rest of the

Lord's Day.

WHAT is called "a new point of law" was raised at the Central Police Court, Sydney, the other day :—

offence.

THE RENDITION GABE.

The thirteen man whose rendition has been applied for on a charge of burglary and murder at the Village of Tim Kung, Poon Yu District, near Canton, were again brought up to-day, when one more witness

was examined for the prosecution.

One Hung Chui Kan, a student, deposed to having seen several of the accused take part in the murder of his father.

Mr Ng Choy cross-examined at some length, after which

Mr Sharp said that he had taken great paine to have all the defendants clearly identified, and that the cross-examination of the witnesses bad failed to stake the ori- detice in any one partionlar. The defenceded tried in vain to shew it was a clan-fight, but had indeed brought forward no evidence in support of this theory. There might possi- bly have been some jealousy between the two divisions of the clan, but there was nothing shewn which would justify such a terrible crime. The thing had been deliberately planned, and the object of the attack was undoubtedly murder. He as would lead His Worship to commit an contended that if the evidence was such ordinary case for trial, the prisoners should be delivered up to be dealt with by their

CORRESPONDENCE.

These two current, with steady winds on both sides of the Darien Canal, are very advantageous for sailing vessels; while the tide of the Red Sea from Buez to Aden, which runs from two to three miles per hour, and being without regulár monsoons, is very dangerous for sailing navigation, rendering it almost impossible.

Apropos of Cook, we see that some of our

To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.” Australian contemporaries dub him the

Hongkong, 10th June, 1879.

The Darien Canal will extend for half a champion billiard-player of the World. This

SIR,-I'm a rusty old enss, I am"-but I century to come the existedoe and utility of is not correct; John Roberts juar, has

allow that I am at a disadvantage when a sailing ships, and will in no way endanger member of the Fourth Estate takes up his per the merits and business of the Suez Canal, been the champion since 1875. Cook has

to knock me down through the medium of for the reason that between Europe and the no doubt been champion; he took the honor

bis paper, Well, I have read your leader Far East, r the Red Sea, everything of Saturday evening last on the "Engineers is transported by steamers, which carry out of the hands of John Roberts, sen.,

oxamination question," and I have arrived in 1870; from John Roberts, jun., 1871;

at the conclusion that no Ordinance exists passengers, treasure, mails and light and from Joseph Bennett, 1872; and again got

valuable merchandise worthy of the high here to compel an engineer to undergo an price of rapid transit. the championship from John Roberts, jun.,

examination for competency, and that en- The Darien Canal will be of equal advan gineers are bound to have a certificate, not by tage to both Europe and Asia as the Suez in 1872. About the last we are very doubt-

any law of this anomalous Colony, but by Canal has been, but will be detrimental to ful; we rather think Cook then got the

the Insurance Offices, who demand that the Africa. All the raw, heavy, cheap, but Act of Parliament of 1862 shall be strictly necessary, productions of Asia and of obampionship through Roberts, who was

complied with. So far as I am informed, Oceania, for Europe and vice versa, have to just starting for India and the Colonies,

there is nothing in the old Ordinance of this go through the long, tedious, and costly The replies of Mr Chib's opponents are

Mt Driver wes defending two prisoners,

Colony connected with steamers or engineers; voyage round the Cape of Good Hope. By failing to accept his challenge. He has charged by a Chinese rummed ab You, with

it refers only to "ships and vessels," the Darien Canal, when open to navigation, published in extenso and a considerable ba u besten for the championship three baving assaulted and robbed bim; and in

which may mean anything from a dung the distance will be much shortened, and number of other letters by himsel, so that times by John Roberts, jun,-in 1870, witness for the prosecution, put this ques

monstrously strange that in a port like this,prices of transportation and that of produce the course of the cross-examination of a

barge to a three-decker. It appears to rue consequently the time as well, while the readers have both sides of the question 1874, and lastly in 1875 after Roberts' tion" Did you say or do anything to the

where so many steamers are plying on the will be reduced. before them. The main part of the re- return from Australia and India. Cook is prisoner, in the presence and within

coast, carrying thousands of human beings, America, of all parts of the world, will printed matter is from the North China highly respected gentleman, and all who Carrol objected to the question, inasmuch Ahe bearing of the prosecutor } " Mr

that we should be indebted to the Insurance be the most benefited by the Darien Canal.. Daily News, but the China Review (Review know him are loud in his praises as, whatever was said between these perroon His Worship at prosent, but would ask for ing properly qualified engineers on board our have their Atlantic ports in immediate.com Mr Ng Choy said he would not address Offices and not to the Government), for hav-The United States and Mexico will at once of Chinese Sketches; Vol, iv. No. 6, p. 384), as an upright "square" man.

He is being in English, his client, the Chinese, a further remand to enable him to get his steamers to set the "bilere don't bust up."munication with those on the Pacific Slope, and the Deutsche Rundschau are also laid oredited with the longest break on record, prosecutor had sufficient understanding of by the Chinese authorities to prevent the Harbour Master virtually has no power to house of the Pacific.

could not understand what was raid. The witnesses together. Threats had been used Your statements point to the fact that the and San Francisco will become the clearing under tribute; two letters addressed, but 936, of which 286 were from spot hazards, English to give all the details of his com- witnesses for the defence appearing, but he interfere in the matter of qualified or un- Central and South America on the Pacifio- The Republics of never sent, to the China Mail, and one sent 262 of them consecutive,

plsint to Constable O'Conner; and several hoped to get some of them here in a week. qualified engineers being appointed to sea coast, especially Guatemala, Peru, and Chili On ordinary times in the course of his evidence answered He had had two witnesses here who were going steamers. Well, perhaps not; but let favoured with very fertile soil, benign to, but not published by, the Daily Press, tables he has made breaks of 388, 351, 417, the question without the intervention of prepared to prove that defendants were not me narrate an instance where a person was climate, and vast mineral resources-willi make up the compilation.

512, 631, and 756; and on championship Mr Moy Mow, the interpreter. Tue sisting in the village at the time of the attack, in misled, and then you can draw your own undoubtedly take a prominent part in the tables, which render all hazards dificult, magistrate (iz W. Fowler) upheld the ob fact to prove an alibi but they had been inference. Mr Be wished to pass un

jootion; but after some further argument frightened away, and the spot hazard almost impossible, he between the Attorneys, His Worship yielded

examination as a Second Engineer, but great commercial development of which the had scored breaks of 110 and 186: He har to Mr Driver's suggestion to remand the

before doing so he interrogated both the Darien Canal will be the lever. Harbour Master and Shipping Master if it farther bearing until another day that he played 1000 up in an hour and ten minutes. (the Magistrate) might take Counsel's

were essential to do so; their reply was in cable will be the vital artery of the com- Whilst balving with John Roberta, juan.opiolon on the point, Mr Driver said that

the negative. Mr B, thinking all was right, merce of the Universe. They are two of the grandest possibilities of the present-they went to the Shipping Office to sign the Arti- the first place at English billiards, he holds if Counsel upheld Mr Carroll's objection he

ales of the .. Camed, but was informed will be two of the grandest facts of the would pay the fee from his own pocket.

that he must get a certificate of competency for all. The magnitude of these two enters

future and they are an imperative necessity undisputed the highest position at pyza-

before doing so, as the Insurance demanded prises ought to infuse enthusiasm in Govera it he was consequently debarred from ments and peoples. taking the proffered employment; still a Chinese engine-driver sould pass muster

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In the preface the author says:- One point will be admitted I trust on all aldes,the urgent necessity-of-reform periculum in moral-and we have a little right out here to abstain from a thorough and always renewed discussion of the "Mis tionary Question" sa political men at home have to refuse the consideration of the Fope's policy or the relations between State and Churchi

mids. In his present- tour Cook is adoome The rule on this is plain enough and sen- panied by Kilkenny, the champion of sible, here and everywhere else that we Yorkshire, which county has produced have ever been in a Court. The whole several of our best billiard players, both question is -Does the man likely to be

own courts.

had adduced was very conclusive.

Mr Sharp said he thought the evidence he Mr Ng Choy said there was more in the case than Mr Sharp knew of.

Mr Sharp, in that case, would offer no ob- action to f remand. The case was then farther remanded for one week, till Tuesday next, at 2.80 p.m.

SUPREME COURT,

-IN SUMMARY-JURISDICTION.

J. J. Francis, Roq.) Tuesday, June 10,

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Part I. treats the Missionary question from a Obinese point of view, and Part II., from a Non-believer's point of view, Bere ral miscellaneous articles are reprinted past and present. Meantime, our more adversely influenced by the conversation (Before the Hon. the Acting Putans Judge, board. Supposing that vessel's boiler had under the same cover advocating another immediate interest lies in the Shanghai proposed to be brought in se evidence solution of the difficulty, mainly consist. proposed settlement of the question, who understand sufficient of the language to ing in the discontinuance of dogmatis is the third-best player in the world. make it certain that he understood what was teaching. Although wiltten by one who Shorter announced himself as entitled to being said. If so, it is evidence; If not, it disbelieves Church doctrines, the compiler that designation of honour ; Stanley denfes would be unfairŝto him to receive it. In claims for them that "they are conceived his right to it, and has gone to Shanghai | the recent Compradore's case the point was with all due respect for existing bellets, to challenge him; at the same time Kil. decided by the Chief Justice; when Ab. and one need not share the author's rell. kenny alsims to rank "next to Roberts dhool Hassion and the Compradore went to Rahamtulla's hours, and the two tious opinions to admit the force of the and Cook, the best billiard players,” Arguments here addüced."

Parsɛsa, spoku in Guzerati, no word was given in evidence of what they said, because the Compradore was not supposed to understand them; what they said after they began to speak plógin English was of course receivable, as he anderstood them. The point seems to us so simple that we can soarely understand how any question could have arisen about it. The Court cad easily make out by five minutes' conversa

Tre Right Hon. H. Childers has been sp Ws stated, when General Grant was here, pointed Ubairman the Board of Advics that it was under instructions from the instead of Agent-General for Vistoria, and Bedretary of State that no salute was fired probably a short Act will be passed to on his arrival. We now see in the Anima. enable members of Parliament to act as lian payers the full text of the Circular Agents-General. Will the time ever some letter Issued by the Secretary of State for when Hongkong has her Agent-General or the Colonies, in anticipation of the project share in one 1 The sadly requires some

as Chief Engineer on the Norna, on a foreign voyage to Saigon, with 60 human beings on blown up, through unskilled labour, or negligence, who would have been to blame for much a catastrophe Aye who When Indeed, let scho answer that! ALABOB 4. SAM SING TÂM, $70.—This writing my letter of the 6th instant, I as a claim for goods supplied. Defend concluded that the same Ordinances were in ant did not appear, and Mr MacBean was foros here as in Singaporej-I and I am called to prove service of summons, when mistaken, and that this Colony, with all it transpired that the summons bad been its enlightenment, as a great trading mart, served on defendant's wife, but that Mr is about twenty years behind the age, the MacBean had gone the next day and seen presumption being that, money being, eo the defendant, who said it was all right, plentiful in former years, no one had tine Mr Alabor also stated that defendant had to turn his attention to making laws for the and admisted the debt. His Lordship sald admitted having received the summons, future,

Where is that wonderful egg the Legisla that might answer, il defendant were present, tiva Council have been trying to hatch, after but the case would have to stand over for a four years' incubation P I mean the Boller week and the summons be re-estved. and Machinery Ordinance you speak of.

Mr MacBean said that service made on Friday was not good service. question of whether the defendent obfested: His Lordship said it was i It was only a is, Mr Mas Bead's duty was to serve the sommonses properly, and not to trouble

himself about the hearing.

It would appear that no Ordinance has been passed in the local Legislative Council 1862, affecting Engineers qualifying thom- of Hongkong since the Act of Parliament of selves for sen-going steamers. Therefore many ship masters believe (and I am one of the many) that where no local Ordinance has been passed since the Act of Parlament of 1852, there the Harbour Master would be 4109.50. This was slates for board and act into operation in the port, till such Trist Cook v. Hansex aller Wrizeris, justified in putting the requirements of the lodging i brought by the proprietor of the time as the Legislative Council thought fit Stag Hotal, against defendant, who ad- to pass an Ordinanse for this Colony suitable mitted his indebtedness but said he had no to the purpose. Another word are I "law" means of paying the amount. Judgment up. Many seafaring people believe that the Ir is twenty-six years since Consoli was entered for plaintiff for the full | Acts of Parliament stand good anywhere, at reached such a high point as they did on amount.

where the Briten bas planted his foot,

ed vialt of the Gan ral, to the Governors of one at Home to look after has interests tion with the man whether he knows the Australian colonies and New Zealand, there, and to act as a means of communis enough of the language to have understood which he was then expected to visit. The tion between the colonists and then they the conversation in question. letter has the following clear slause i

desire to address in England, so wo kare

I have to add that to salutes or offidal more than one pointed out in these honours should be given in the event of cokumas.

General Orsat visiting the under

your outrol, bus toss ac should repare all The Chief Justice of South Australis bas,

such courtmies as are proper in the mee of » distinguished foreigners

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The Darien Canal and the trans-Pacifio

Youra, &o,

CELSO CESARE MORENO, Projector of the Trans-Pacifio Cable

Shipping Intelligence. The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers, dro.:—

VESSELS TO ARRIVE, AT HONGEONG,

When Name

Lefti Feb.

8, Vale of Doos, 18 Vigilant,

28, G. O. Trufant,

24, Edward Barrow,

Mar.

Frome

Antware Cardiff

29, Grosefarat Constantine, Hamburg

20, Monte Rosa,"

Caryliff

Cardiff

Hamburg

Liverpool

Cardiff

London

Cardiff

Liverpool

Cardiff

London

Spithead

Liverpool

-7, Cadla, (5.) 14, John A. Briggs, 27, Agnes Muir, 28, Adam M. Simpson, Apr.

8, Leon, 10, Spica, 21, Worra

92, Tyne (B, M. S.) 39, Wabu LOADING FÖR CHIKA AND SAVÁN VOITKĄ At London.-Steamers sia Bus Canal, Glenlyan.

Celtis Monarch Glongyle.

Harter. Benarty.

Balling Verzels.

Whiteadder. Douglas Castle

Omba

Bonaccord

- Ldverpool.

41 Bamburg.

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