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Tax Brisbane Courier is afrald Singapore offers little encouragement to those looking anxiously to other countries for a market for fat stock, and publishes the following letter from a firm there, Messrs. Guthrie & Co., which certainly cannot be considered

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THE CHINA MAIL.

to Peru have been successfully terminate, ral, strange to say, has announced that ultimately obtained the mastery, and the and that the departure of the Chinese foron all piece-goods woven by foreign pro: fire was got under without further damage Peru will be permitted on the Treaty cosses in China, a tax will be levied equal basis.

in amount to the import tariff on the same being sustained, than the complete gutting class of goods of foreign maks." This of the block of houses in which It first would seem en unusual burden on a new in- broke out. The buildings, which are of brink dustry, and in any other country than China would hardly betokon friendliness, and quite new, are now represented only by on the part of the Government. The Times the standing walls. The block was divided Correspondent, however, affirms that the into eight houses, which were occupied as Viceroy is very anxious for the success of the now enterprise, and that bis queer way family and coolie dwellings. The Ins of showing good will only argues the pro-rance Companies' steam engine broke down, posterous eccentricity of a Chinaman. Tho as holding out an inducement to ship-factory in question is to be an 800-loom but fortunately not before the fire was got one, able to produce from raw cotton from well in hand. The bose of one of the 260,000 to 400,000 pieces of finished cloth. Referring to results of the shipment Work will be done after the English fashion, Government engines burst and caused a cattle per barque Bessie, from Freemantle, nothing for instance on Sundays; and the short break, but a fresh length of hose was arrived 3rd Biarch, the sale by auction was English workmen who are to teach their quickly found and adjusted. la antis well attended, and the cows, which were trade to the Chinamen will be fined if the factory to note that the practices of the landed in a very fair condition, averaged a lesson is not taught in three years time. price of $39 per head. The calves were The machinery has been contracted for, Brigades have not been in valu. We have lked, and went off at pretty good prices, and the mill will be set up in Shanghai, not heard positively how the fire occurred, realising about $20 each. There have been The Times' correspondent adds:-"In the few imports so far of cattle from Australia, hands of the merchants purely, the scheme but we believe it was owing to a lamp being and dealers are cautious in their bidding. might be a success, and Manchester might capsized at No. 27. Once ignited, there was If the purchasers of the cons lately arrived have in future another rival than Bombay. find their bargains turn out well we should But the connection of the Chinese Govern apparently plenty of material to feed the see better prices for the next lot offering: mont will blight the enterprize, as it has flames. The fire was got well in hand by half but you will be able to judge in a great blighted the great Chinese Steamer Com past 12 o'clock, all danger of its spreading measure from the reauls of this last ship- ment how far it would be advisable for y: Bays the Pioneer: Those who further was then gone. The naval brigade know anything of China-which is so like shippers to send cattle from Australia to Russia will thoroughly endorse this opi- left the soone about 1 a.m., and the Tusu-

rance Engines followed soon after.

this. Cows of Indian breed seem better Etted for this climate, and there are daily Arrivals in small lots; a good fat beast fetching about $30.5, and inferior animals $25 down to $20,

nion.

ALARMING FIRE LAST NIGHT.

THE fire-bells were ringing again last night,

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

JOHN SMALE) Friday, June 20.

your lawful apprehension. You were very nearly guilty of murder. For this crime you are liable to a sentence of penal servitude for life. You do not appear to have over been sentenced for any offence before, and this I take into account in your favor; but your sentence must be severe. The sentence of the Court on you, Chan Aping, is that you be kept in penal servitude for seven years. stid-Your conduct in securing this prisoner Addressing Sergeant Perry, His Lordship

progress, and utilise the Town Common by fencing it in.

The services of the paid staff of volunteer officers are to be discontinued after the dose of the current financial year, making a saving of one thousand pounds. Ipswich and Rockhampton Workshops are

The debate on the dismissals from

not yet concluded, Government refire to make public the papers on the subject,

The schooner Annie, arrived from Cook at the risk of your life was very brave.town, 22nd, reports that mattera are in s Your struggle with him, and your scouring very disturbed state in the Eastern Now him, after he had wounded you, deserve Guinea Islands. very high praise. I do not forget that this

is not the first time in which you have shewn from Batavia contains news to the effect loyalty to duty. In 1877, you held on to, that there is a good market there for meat and scoured a violent criminal, though cared by the Town Marle process, Morgan's greviously wounded by him. I shall have patent, The communication urges the much satisfaction in submitting your con-advisability of sending a trial shipment. duct to the favorable consideration of His Excellency the Governor.

Sergeant Perry thanked His Lordship.

26th instant.

The Sessions were then adjourned till the

The case of Regius v. Peter Nelson, the case of assault on board ship at Amoy, was not taken to-day, owing to defendant's through ill-health. Counsel (Mr Hayllar) being unable to attend

Australian News. By the Torres Straits A. S. N. mail steamer Menmuir we have Australian pa- pers to hand, but as her Sydney dates are

on the 8th Inst., we have little extra to obtain from their columns. The following items, however, are new :-

Our contemporary adds: Mr Wildash firmly believes the Japanese will be good the first alarm being sounded about half (Before His Honor the Chief Justice, Sir the same as those of the Bowen, to hand customers for our live stock, and as the past ten o'clock.

A large number of journey from a northern port to Japan would not occupy three weeks by steamer, Europeans, the members of the Fire Bri the distance cannot be considered a diffigade, and others anxious to be present, as culty,

helpers or as aight-seors were soon on the streets; hundreds of natives flocked also to the scene of the fire, Second Street,

.

Tat first Chinaman ever arrested in New

REGINA V. LUT ACHI.

QUEENSLAND.

NEW ZEALAND. Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan have retired from the native meeting. Str George stated that, as they had not accept ed his proposal for pensions and grants of land to the Kingitos, he would make no further proposals, but he is willing to receive any proposals from the King.

VICTORIA.

The sam required for the completion of the Exhibition building is £130,000. The space to be covered will be equal to London. that of the first Exhibition in Hyde Park,

The Commissioners of the Exhibition here are taking steps to obtain a complete set of -photographlo views from all parts of the country, skilfully executed and of uniform

Bize.

nitrate of soda now in the custody of Wil

Ham B. Grace & Co., whó, it is asserted, threaten to sell the same and remit the proceeds to the Government of Peru. From the papers in the care it appears that in November, 1877, Olyphant & Co, entered Intó a contract with the Government of Peru to become the sole agents of that re-

Tork for theft has just been taken up. In Sayingpɔɔn. The alarm was, first given say why sentence should not be passed upon nedy, in person, at noon on the 18th. Asing throughout a grester portion of Victo-secured by a lien upon Olyphant and Col's

New York sonroe →→→

Moy Jin Kee, arrested for grand larceny, Kays his relatives in China are wealthy, his father is President of a Lodge of Freena BODS, He was converted by an English missionary, and came here to learn to be a minister and to go back and teach his pro-

save

tion of the deceased's father.

publio in increasing the sale and use of ni- trate of soda in the United States and Canada. On receiving a cargo at Iquique, -- or any other port in Peru, Olyphant & Co. were to advance to the Government of Peru a sum aquivalent to 13 cents. per pound, A private letter received by the last mall | Olyphant & Co. being allowed a forfeit. of $22.50 for costs of insurance, & Oly. phant & Oc.'s interest being cont. per pound, the surplus of 1 cont, per pound was to be directed towards the payment of a subsidy due to Olyphant & Co. on ac- count of a navigation and emigration con- tract executed in April, 1877, between that government and Olyphant & Co., providing that subsidy had not previously been liquidated. Olyphant & Co. received a number of cargoes of nitrate of soda, made advances, and in order to get credit entered into an agreement with Drexel, Morgan & Co., under which their agent, Hoffman Atkinson, at Lima, could drawn upon J. S. Morgan & Co., of London, whenever it was necessary to pay advances. The payment of these drafts was secured by an arrangement that the bills of lading should either be made out in the name of Drexel, Morgan & Co., or be endorsed by Wieberg, who was connected with the that firm, to whom they should be sant steamship deca, has been captured close in the United States, then to be delivered gold robbery (5000 sovereigns) from the and held until the arrival of the vessel to the place were he escaped from the to Olyphant & Co., they giving a trust re- police. He surrendered to the polles after weipt, stipulating to sell the soda for the passed near his head. they fired three shots at him, one of which account of Drexel, Morgan & Co., and to account to that firm for the proceeds of the sale to the amount of the advances, Lu Achi, the man who pleaded guilty

The Peruvian Government, wanting a to having given a false report as to the

number of extra advances, drew upon cause of the death of a lud named Ng The second session of the eighth Parlia

Olyphant & Co., who accepted the drafts, Apaa, was brought up for sentence.

ment of Queensland was opened by his

and procured money to meet them from The prisoner, when asked what he had to Excellency the Governor, Sir Arthur Ken-

A fearful drought appears to be prevail-Drexel Morgan & Co., who in turn were veterato gamblers in the land of their adop from the Civil Hospital, and therefrom it him, said that he did not know the law and was anticipated, more than ordinary inter ris; the Leader learns that the accounts surplus proceeds of the sale. tion as well as in the land of their birth, was quickly taken up by the fire-bells at that he made the report at the instiga-est was taken in the proceedings. Some given of the scarcity of water around Lon- On December 7, 1878, Olyphant and Co. they maintain twelve "hella" in Mott Street the various Stations,

time before the appointed hour the floor of gerenong, Murtoa and Rupanyup are truly suspended, by reason of losses incurred The bells were kept His Lordship said he must have known the Legislative Council was crowded with pitiable. A selector from the neighborhood mainly under their narigation and emigra- slone, and there have of course been ap ringing for about twenty minutes, call the law; he must at least have known the ladies, Miss Kennedy amongst the number, speaks of there being only one or two tion contract. At this time there were six- prehensions; but Moy Jin Kee is the fireting together those “required to

spirit, if not the letter of the law. In 1872, occupying a seat immediately to the left almost dried up, and surrounded by the from Paro, on which the firm had paid waterholes near Longerenong. These are. teen cargoes of nitrate of aude under way Chinese thief caught. The following is from the property in grave poril. The glare the registration of all deaths and births in

he remarked, an Ordinance was passed for of the dais.

The Clarence River is reported to have areas of sheep which have had strength advances and had also accepted nine drafts Hongkong. Every sensible man must know risen 40 feet, so that, as the banks are

to reach the water and lay themselves down upon them by Peru, for the payment of ple we an additional indication of the deathe should be correct. in the sky, and the scurrying of the peo how important it was that the reports of 22 feet high, there would be 15 feet depth to dio. A small swamp nest Murton is, which latter they procured means from The Ordinance of water in the streets of Grafton. Boats says the Stawell Chronicle, described as ba Drexel, Morgan and Co. and Feary M. whereabouts of configration, to that to was intended in the first place to provide a were being got ready in anticipation of the g partially taken possession of by water Taber. There were five other veure's load- be gathered from the tones of the record of the number of persons in the Colony, fod.

garts, bullocks and sheep, and in a fowing in Pera, consigned to Olyphant and and with regard to deaths that care should be The Governor's speech delivered at the days there will be no water to be obtained Co,, making twenty-one in all. Mr Seuna, with a small taken that no person died by violent means opening of Parliament on 13th premises anywhere near any of these townships. In their assignment, filed by Olyphant ple Christianity. He has a brother who is engine from the Civil Hospital, was first without a proper investigation being made measures to facilitate the general adoption introduce a Bill to enable local governing given first place as preferred oreditors, the The Victorian Government proposa to and Co., rexel, Morgazi and Co. wore an interpreter in one of the State Courts on in San Francisco. He baé been about three the spot; but the fire had spread into the circumstances. When a person had of loosi government in aparsely populated years and mine months in this country, and so rapidly that eight houses were already taken poison, and the cause of death was im-districts. More land will be thrown open bodies to apply their funds in the constrao Gov-rumont of Puris the fecord place and

properly reported, the object of the Ordinance to selection contiguous to the Central rai:- don of branch railway lines.

H. M. aber the third place. When the ne spent most of his time in San Francisco, bursting into flames and there appear-was frustrated. It was plain that since 1872 way, Immigration when resumed will be

Peruvian Government ascertained that the Moy Jin Kee's brother is Fully Jin Mey.ed very great danger of the configra-obeyed it; for, so far at least as was known The estimates for the approaching year after occupying two evenings, terminated on charge of the cargoes upon their arrival, in the public had known the law, as all had oviducted under more effective supervision. The debate on the financial statement Co. was given its power of attorney to take

TASMANIA.

firm had suspended, William R. Grace and It is said that the fow Clinumen who have tion becoming a most serious one. been before the Courts in this city hereto

The the prisoner was the first man who had have been framed with the strictest economy fore have all been charged with gambling.

street is fortunately of medium width offended against the Ordinance. Although to meet the failing rereune; it is believed the 1st May, when the motion to go into place of Olyphant and Co. Under the pro- he said he was ignorant of the law, his that increased taxation through the Cus. Committee of Ways and Means was carried test of the assignee, Drexel, Morgan and else the houses opposite must have in-plea showed that he did know it, and that toms will be unnecessary. The Route will by a majority of only two votes. The in-Co. turned over the bills of lading in their evitably have also became a prey to the he broke it wilfully that was what his be asked to make provision by lean for the some tax is almost certain to be rejected possession to Grace and Co., the assigned Whoever offended in apeady extension of facilities for internal by the Upper House.

having previously made application for Asmes. As it was, the heat was intense; ples amounted to. several times the wood-work on the opposite if he had committed perjury in the Supreme and other public uude takings are being that way was guilty in the same degree as communication. Harbour improvements

them and having been refused. On behalf of the assignee it is claimed that Drexel houses was ignited, this in the early part Court. The law must be vindicated, and pushed on with vigoar. Bills are promised

Morgan and Co. have wrongfully converted these eargoes to their own use, and be bas prisoner was a respectable man, and that regulation and inspection of mines and to such an extent in Chicago that the was to rush from one side of the space in the persons who spoke as to his character collieries, financial separation, regulation necessity of making some strong and front of the burning houses, and with a well-were to be believed, yet in order to deter of the civil service, and other matters of ~concerted movement to restat it is manifest directed blow with a heavy bar, bring the sentence must be a severe one.

others from committing a similar offence, minor importance,

At a meeting hold May 19th a provisional to the minds of the better class of citizens, down the portion of wood-work which was hoped the sentence he was about to pass counaittee was formed for the purpose of The following pars gives particulara :———

in flames, backing again in double quick would prove a warning to others. The pricaking steps for the initiation of a soner was then sentenced to nine days' im- The theatres, with a single exception, time to avoid severe scorching. This was prisonment (dating from the first day of of £22,000.

company to erect a Theatre here at a coat are open on Sunday, and the beer saloons done several times, before the Fire the sessions) and to pay a fine of $50 or be and for groggories keep up an unr.strained Engines could get the required length of further imprisoned till the fine be paid. traffic. The natural results show them. selves in increased disorder and crime, and hose, and their other arrangements com- the tide.

The prisoner said he was too pour to pay the demoralizing tendencies of the time pleted to allow them to play upon that part His Lordship said it must be paid, or he promise to gather such strength that, if of the place. Then several members of the would be imprisoned for, three months. they are not speedily and effectively opposed, they will result in making the Brigado and a few volunteers got into the Sabbath in Chicago more Farisian tha houses, and cut away the woodwork in the American in ita character. In order to consult upon this peril, and the measures front, and had it pulled to the back where required to avert it, a conference of the the fire could not get hold of it. The avangelical clergymen of the city has just engines, both Government and Volunteer, been held, in response to a call of a committee of Congregational ministers. were quickly on the spot, and set to work. About one hundred clergymen were present, Some delay was experienced in getting and participated in the discussion. There

water from the fire wella, on account of seemed to be one impression as to the seriousness of the question, and the only the pipes not fitting properly, but once set point in debate was as to the best method to work there was no lack of a good supply of organizing and directing public senti of water, buth salt and freah. The Govern- ment. It was agreed that there was no occasion for limiting the movement, even

ment Steam Enginos were at work on the in ita incipient stages, to the evangelical Praya and pumped two good streame up churches, as there could be no doubt that the members of the churches not classed as

alarm bells.

We have aheady noticed public movements In India and Australia to provide, as we are endeavouring to do ourselves, for the batter observance of the Sunday. We now read that Sabbath desecration has increased of the fire. All that could then be done although he was willing to believe that the to amend the electoral laws, for the win (says the Adelaide Observer) it will be begun a suit against them to recover

with its cessation from labor as the beat

as well as the moral interests of the city.

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NORTHERN TERRITORY, According to a telegram from Port Dar. seen that after deducting those bound for Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand, the 80001. Mr Olmstead asks for an ac Menmuir had brought exactly 414 Chinese count of the dealings and transactions be to the Northern Territory. And the action, and a judgment against Drexel, tween Olyphant and Co., and any parties to remains behind,” for further shipments are said to be upon the water. Had not Morgan and Oo. for the full value of the South Australia better decide to hand over

nitrate of soda-$1,000,000, less the the Northern Territory to the Celestials for amount due for legal a vances and judg their sole use and benefit at once, be:ore meat against Wm. R. Grace and Co., for they quietly appropriate it? If the influx the full amount of the forfeit and for the continues at the present rate one may soon

full remaining value of the cargoas, less ad- expect to hear of the Government Real judicated liens. Mr Olmstead asserts fur- ent's abode being converted into & joas and Co. and the Government of Peru were ther that the interests of Drozel, Morgan' house, and to find the J.P.s of Palmerston deposed, and pigtailed mandarins dispersing not imperilled by the assignment made by Chinese justice in the city courthouse. Olyphant and Co. Did we not know that it is the prospect of Mr Jack, Queensland Government Geo. obtaining gold which tempts John to the for Mines to examine the district around gine that China had adopted one of the logist, has received the order of the Minister Northern Territory, we might fairly to Cooktown, with special reference to the religious beliefs of her neighbour Stam, existence of coal localities where the and, not being able to find the sacred The following gentlemen were empannel-mineral may be profitably worked, and it snimal within her own Flowery Land, had led as a Jury:-Messrs A. A. dos Remedios, is not improbable that the Minister for sent forth her sons to seize upon South Aus-aring will take place on March 10,--

REGINA V. LEUNO A WAL

larceny of a watch, valued at $250, the pro- The prisoner was indicted on a charge of party of his employer, Mr W. N. Bain, a partner in the Ice Company.

M, D'Almeida.

The Rev. George Brown, of New Britain, delivered an address in the Wesleyan Church this evening, justifying his conduct in connection with the massacre of natives in retribution for the murder of teachers aomo months ago, and he also referred to the progress of the mission work in New

Guinen.

J. A. Barretto, jr., E, L. Woodin, G. Works will grant the privilege of a diamond Wieler, J. M. Guedes, J. G. Smith, and J. drill to effectually test the seam of coal Mr A. L. J. Pereira was called but did not awn to exist, within a mile or two of the

surveyed railway line. answer.

the Magistrate, has been already reported. The case which was very recently before The facts are briefly as follows:

We understand that it is the Intention of view the present financial state of that the Queensland Government, having In

Melbourne, and Sydney, to discontinue the colony, and with the prospect of a fortnightly mail service between England, present mail contract with the Eastern and Australian Steam Co, at the end of the present term.

means of barter.

In the Legislative Assembly May 21 both the Premier and Macrossan stated that already been made) among high and low further reductions (a great many bave would probably have to be made in the Civil Service Departments,

tralia's tenderly-cherished white elephant.

NEW SOUTH WALES. There have been terrific gales on the West and at Newcastle the town was flooded and shipping suffered considerably. A serious rupture is threatening between. the Council and Assembly in connection with the Parliamentary Privileges Bill.

scabby sheep coming from California, the In consequence of the recent discovery of

agents of the San Fransisco 'mail steamers have sent instructions to San Francisco to exercise more sarain the shipment of sheep. 16th, until the middle of August.

The aesaion of Parliament slowed May

The aggregate value of the cargoes of the twenty-one vessels is given at $954,499, and the forfeit as $332,292.

Judge Larremore, to whom the applica- tion was made, grouted an order to show should not be made perpetual. The cause why the temporary injunction should

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by Mr Bain for thirteen months ending on The prisoner was employed as a servant Western Street; whilst the Insurance Com- the 18th February of last year. On that

coming numerous, the Metropolitan Coal Borings for coal about Sydney are be evangelical would be quite ready to co-panies Steam Engine fed the Imperial day he absconded, and the robbery was then

Company of Sydney have expended about. operate. It was agreed also that citizens Engine by way of Centre Street. Three or Police Station and search made for the pri- discovered. A report was made at the

£3000 on buildings and other requirements In general, who are interested in having the four band engines worked from the fire soner, who could not be found. A detective away blankets to the aboriginal lords of the twelve-hores power engine, has been at An old established custom, that of giving and snow diamond drill, driven by a observance of the Sabbath maintained, should be invited to lend a hand in the wells, and heavy streams were thus brought was sent to the prisoner's native village, soil, was once more to be repeated on the work for some time, now reaching a depth work. Indeed the disposition manifested to bear on the flames. A body of Blue- away. Information was given to the Police qu's Birthday. The practice has of 200 feet. It is intended to go 1800 feet near Macao, but got no trace of the run- In the meeting was to make the movement, jackets and Marines from H. M. ships Vistor a few days ago, that the prisoner was in fact that the blacks do not keep these gifta,

doubtless become almost a farce, from the linecary. not simply not a sectarian enterprise or au undertaking of evangelical as distinguished Emanuel, Lily and Kestrel, did good service, the Colony, and he was found in the set but immediately barter them away for pool for the United States on the 7th of Lord Augustus Loftus will leave Liver from non-evangelical churches, but not The men of the Lily and Kestrel are parti- In addition to the suspicion which naturally obtain, so that the object that they are to arrive by the Pacific Mall steamer which vant's quarters of a house at Morrison Hill. tobacco, money, or anything else they can June; and he may, therefore, he expeated eren roligious movement distinctively. The idea is to place it on the "law-and- cularly deserving of praise; they worked attached to the accused by his absconding, sotually bestowed for, is virtually counters due at Sydney on the 4th order" basis, to exhibit the oivli Sabbath, at the rear of the burning buildings; under prisoner's duty to take a cup of tea to his not value these articles for the purpose of walk of 180 miles in forty-eight hours easily

It was shown in evidence that it was the balanced, which shows that the natives do

August next. Edwards, the pedestrian, finished his boom of the working classes, and the the orders of Commander Edwards of the master's room every morning at six o'clock; protection against the inclemency of the on the 17th Inst. saloons an their worst curse; and so to Kestrel, who shewed a splendid example; but on the morning of the 18th February weather but look upon them more as a enbat in the cause all who prefer order to and it is due to their and to his exertions the tea was not ready as usual. After hir means of obtaining the luxuries of life by ruflaniem, and who are clear sighted enough

Bain had been down stairs and set the men to see the menace which the existing that the flames were provented from spread to work, he returned to his room at 6 condition of things involves to the materiai Fing to the houses in the rear. Between the o'clock, and found his tea on the table and burning he uses and these, there was only watch and chain, and the prisoner's absence a fire lighted in his room. He missed his a space of a few feet; and down into the well was then discovered. No one had been formed between their walls, the window seen to enter the room but the prisoner: frames and so forth all in flames, were conti. The prisoner was next seen by Mir" Bain at

the Police Station, one day this month. nually falling, close to large piles of fre wood that would have buried like tinder. the Pioneer writes :———

Gaining access to the rear of the burning About one-fourteenth of the raw cutton houses through a narrow lane, they set to and over six-sevenths of the twist-and yard work, cutting away all the wood-work, Which India exported last year went to which might serve as a lead for the fire Chine. Under these circumstances. the attamps that is being made by Young Several hoses were then brought to bear on Chias" to set up cotton mills for working this side, the effect being soon noticeable.

A MILLION DOLLAR SUIT.. nativa produce becomes interesting, Ar-

land Legislature passing a law so provid« HEAVY LITIGATION FOLLOWING TEN (876. rangements have already been made, to There must have been a large quantity of

Chan a Ping, the man who was founding The Government have purchased the PRESION LAST FALL OF OLYPHANT open a cotton mill at Shanghai, which will oil or ether inflammable matter stored in the guilty of stabbing Sergeant Perry, was then surveying schooner „Poari to net as a sculier, & Co, be a demi-official establishment, with an centre house, as the flames licked along the placed in the Dock, for sentence] he had and enfores law and order among the Henry M. Olmatend, as sanfones of Wils Imperial edict for its charter and mandarins

been brought up in the early part of the | islands.]

Bu | liam W. Parkin, George W. Talbos, Robari | BazoMBERR= fos foremen. The promoters enjoy the ground, bursting fiercely and repeatedly day, when it was found that Sergeant Ferry The refusal to great a reduction in the B. Geary, Talbot Olyphant, Tobias Pim Lavour of Li Hung Chang, the great Go. for a considerable time after the burning was not present.ge

fares during the Bydney Exhibition resulted and John F. Seaman, composing the firm vernor General of Chi-Li and one of the wood-work had been put cas,

His Lordship then ordered the prisoner to from a decision of the Steamship Owners of Olyphant & Co., of Okina, has begun | THIRMOMETER— A Messi me sklest statesmen in China. For the first

Water stand saide and Perry to be sent for His Assosiation, and therefore affects the Melnit in the Court of Common Pleas by in three years English workmen will be em. peared to have little or no effect.

It was Lordship now said Yon, Chan & Ping, took bourne Steamship Company as wall as the function against Drexel, Morgan & Co

Do 4 PM ployed to teach the China factory hands, afterwards found that there was a room violently from the person of Ho Ayeung her Australian Storm Navigation Company. * Wm, R. Grace, Michael P. Grace and Native raw sotton will be used, and the undergronul, which use 90s mass of damer tence of penal servitude for fourteen years to apply for a loan of $10,000 in order to paying to the Government of Peat or to earrings) for that you are liable to a sens The Rockhampton Municipal Counal are Charles A. Flint, restraining them from -till-company firm that is better than

sus Indian custon, and they hope sise to burning at white heat. The unremitting You hare been also found guilty of wound provide adequate wharfare sesqmmodation, by mher persons or corporation or aƏSİNƏ produen better porn. The Governor Gene, exertions of the dremen and the nalloze |ing Gorgaan) Forry, with Intent to resist | defray the in a day man kn i spay the province of the aning of earpoon of

RENEERING to the interesting and trust worthy information given by the Shanghai Correspondent of the Times lately, as to the proposed new cotton mills at Shanghai,

The prisoner made an absurd statement at the Police Station to account for his absence, He said that a man had taken away his box, and gone on board the Canton steamer. He went to Canton but did not find it.

he was sentenced to five years' penal servir The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and tnde

REGINA V ORAK APING.

Mr Meston gave notice of his intention to introduce a Bill to reduce the Governor's salary by one thousand pounds per annum, being the amount of increase given in 1874

The City of Melbourne, a.m., arrived from Noumes, New Caledonia, on the 20th, bring forty-seven released Communists, mostly artisats and mechantes, intoxiding to seek employment here.

Judge Manning, in sentensing, 2ad, a French expiré for an unatterable offence, The Bill for the annexation of Cosat expressed an opinion that some action Islands was read a second time.

should be taken to prevent the indisert

for the Colonies, to proclaim to be part of

(Those Torres Straits inlands 'the Goverminate influx of released criminale from nor in empowerd by the Secretary of State New Caledonia. this Colony and under the jurisdiction of the Queensland Government, on the Queens-

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Shares. Hongkong Bank, 59 % prem. Union Ins. Society of Canton, $1,800 China Traders' Ins. Co., $1,875 North China Ins. Co., Tls. 1,250 ex div. Yangisze Ins. Assoo, Tis, 780 Chinese Insurance Co., $300 H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $740 China Fire Ins. Co., $172) HK, & W. Dook Co., 5% prom, H.K. O. & M. S.-boat Co., $7 dis, Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tha. 13 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tis. 95, ez div. Elongkong Gas Co., $70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $65 Chian Sugar Refining Co., $135 Chinese Imperial Loan of 1874, nominal.

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