No. 5332-AUGUST 12, 1880.)
A RECENT decision of the Court of Appoal at home lays down a somewhat important precedent in maritime law.
After much argument it was raled that ship is justi
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fied in going out of her course to save buman life but not to save cargo. The decision was given in the shipping case of Besramanga wys Stamp, and the facts were very simple. The defondant obar tend a ship to the plaintiff for a vorage from Crosstadt to Gibraltar. While at sea the master saw steamer in distress, and discovered that her machinery had com- The tea was quite pletely broken smooth, and he could there and then have saved the crow; but he conceived the idea of saving the cargo too, and accordingly towed the vessel into
pounds. The result was that the too adventurous captain got his own vessel an aliore, and she was fast with all her cargo. The plata tiffe, as owners of the cargo and charterers of the
ship, ened for its value as lost by the defendant's breach of contract in deviating from the proper track, and gained the case, the decision in their favour being confirmed by the Court of Appeal.
the
Dargained to do so for one thel, having
tire
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE STATUS OF FLINCH STEAMNES, The Attorney General moved the first re- ading of a bill to make temporary provision Proceedings of a meeting of the Legisla- for avancing the status of the Franob Mail Connell of Hongkong, held this steamers with in the waters of this Colony of afternoon (Ang. 12),-Present: H. E. the secure for the steamets of the Messagerien Hongkong. The object of this bill was to Governor, Sir John Pope Hennessy, Maritim a, the status which it was agreed His Honor the Chief Justice, Sir John by convention between Her Majesty and Smale; the lloa. F. Stewart, Acting Co-supplementary convention, that all steam- the Emperor of France in 1866, and also by lonial Secretary; the Bon. E. L. O'Malley, ers subsidized by the French Government Attorney General; the Hon. M. S. Tonno probably aware that in order to secure this
shoul
bon, members were occupy. The oby, Acting Colonial Treasurer; and the status, it was necessary to legislato. This following unofficial members, the Hon. P. had been laid down in a cars which came Rytis, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. J. M.
before his Lordship the Chief Justice, lant year. The laws of this Colony did not, as Pries, and Hon. Ng Choy.
they stood, secure that status to these steam- convention, and the object of this bill was to ors which they had a right to ander the give it them.
PRISON KEGULATIONS AMENDMENT BILL
curtain bille which came more
Bill read a first time, the second reading to be taken at the next meeting.
EMIGRATION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, dinance to amend the Emigration Ordlu- The Attorney General Introduced an Or- ance, the object of which was to shorten the process that had to be gone through take emigrants from the Colony could be grauiei. A great desi of inconvenience had been caused by the provision of the ordia- ance that there llocoses were to be granted
Pensions and Gratuities-Gratuity
3
more recent returns than that to which he His Worship ordered him to be privately Coasals, as well as to a select few in the Was to refer. They here had the compara-whipped with a rattan six strokes, and to party of our local Esculaplus, Dr. White. tive statement of the revenne and expendi.be imprisoned for 14 days, 7 days of which is the latter case this showed a sense of 144 ture of 1870 and 1880 up to the end of last to be spent in solitary confinement and the foresight in case of accidents not oftea
to Mr Miles, late Postal Agant at Hiogo, on closing the Agency at that portr Works and Balldinge-Temporary
Small Pox Hospital ($1,507, Re vote of 1879),...................
Conversion of the Lock Bo-
pital foto a Civil Hospital, 15,000 The above payments were authorized.
2,009
month. Without trop inform them
them with all other 7 days with hard labour.
to
LAWFUL POSERASION.
Teoi Acheng, a blacksmith, was charged with the unlawful possession of two baskets of coal on the 11th inst.
Defondant said he purchased the coal at different timca.
Fined $2, in default, four days' imprison-
POND OF VEGETABLES.
excuse for
laken advantage of by the native authori ties, although we do not suppose for one moment that any fee was attached to the proceedings. However, there were no mishape, so the occasion was a sufficient delightful picnic and sail in the neighbourhood of this well-wooded and
tty littlo island. protty
Thousands of Chinese of every grade, besides, the soldiers, lined the river back, the fortifications
and bill tops, all awaiting
the details be might that the total receipts from the 1st January the Siat Jaly 1879 were $671,000. During that period, of the present year, the corre spond ng seven months, the total receipts were $627,600 showing a considerabis in- SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. moved the first reading of an ordinance to estimate for 1880 and comparing that ment.
aroese in the revenue of this as com The Hon. the Acting Colonial Treasurer, parod with last year. Taking the total authorise the payment of a sum not ex- with what they had now obtained, ceeding $62,000 towards the suplementary there was very little doubt that in ali Estimates. All the items had been passed the great iteme which show the prosperity by the Finance Committee at a meeting of of Hongkong there will be a considerable having stolen two baskets of vegetables this Ursa Major, or any other barbarous Power, to see the terrible instrument of destruc La Lung, a coolio, was charged with tion, which, if occasion requires, shall keep the Council, at which be had the honour of increase. The Police, fide and Hghting precisa sum should be stated: should that under the stamp ordinance he found an Men Kok Tsui; at 2 o'clock his morning be made to enter the gates of the Yang- being present leat year, it was said that the showed a large increase, and in the revenue
grate morning.
Cheung Aman said he was a farmer at altogether should any venturesome sitempt at a rospectful distance, or destroy them be done 1
increase also.
for
the he saw defendant in his garden with a year was $115,000. Judging by the quantity of onions in his possession which
tsze. the half year, and if the had obtained was to continue to tell the
they ho had just pulled from the ground.
Defendant said he was only passing som rate of the income from the Department, they would receive $125,000, or $10,000 more then was estimated for.
As com- pared with 1879 and especially the earlier pact of
1879, and
the latter part of 1378, there was one item which showed a decrosse; that was stampa on share transfers; but he did not
When they found regret the fact. An increase on maring bills of insurance,
The Governor: Yes.
The Treasurer stated the exact amount of the supplementary estimates as $51,777.90
THE ESTIMATINA,
1881.
on the table the Estimates for
His Excellency the Guvernor thon laid Owing to the activity of ble hon. friend, Dr. for 1881 at a somewhat earlier period that had been done for some years part, earlier at least then it had been done before in his time. This was the fourth time he had
time to ear the reward which has been was about to lay on the table before licenses for steamers proposing to Stewart, he was able to move iba extimate
the 4th.
shank to
and the Master of 8. 5. Carisbrooke ware of cement There wRE Do law to allow
A BILL TO KATURALISH REV, E, I. EITEL,
Included
The
estimate
Bum
healthy signs of real commercial business and all
up
for inde and he had been taken for nothing Two months' imprisonment with hard labour.
LARCENY.
About 9.30 am. bugle sounded, and boats were despatched to stop the trafo during the ceremony. A sampan, with a red flag, was anchored over the two torpa does previously sunk in about twenty fost of water, towards the SE. extremity of the island. It was supposed that the current in the middle of the channel would be too strong for a successful experiment at this time of the year. The water is is sometimes eight miles per hour. very deep and the velocity of tide running
The
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The Governor said the business the Council had to do to-day consisted in considering the first reading of certain bills, and he proposed to ask his hon. friend the Attorney General to submit to their notice within his Department, But before calling particularly on him he would ask their attention to a bill entitled "The Publle Prison Regula. THE Kelly Gang has been taken in good
tions Amendment Ordinance, 1880," which
as The object of long offered for their captare. On the 18th them to read a first time. of February last a
Chie bill we reward of £3000 was might remember that last year the Council
was simply this.
Hon. members
(Refore J. J. Francis, Esq.) offered the combined Governments of
by this colony and Victoria and the associated passed an ordinance to enable prisoners to by the Governor in Conocil. That entailed had the satisfaction of laying the estimates in bills of lading, la bank notes Bit; being in possession of a quantity of pre- elcatris connection was oouducted from n
BREACH OF THE OPIUM ORDINANCE, Cheng Aon, a cook, was charged with be punished for breaches of prison discipline the circulation of the paper and if any of bafore the Council. When he arrived in banks, but on the 29th of April last it was proclaimed In the Government Gazette that tuls reward would lapsa antess claimed prison. It had been repo been inter- this ordinance was to place the power lu/returns of the revenue of the Colony which On the whole there was a considerable kentenced to ous month's imprisonmont follow. When the offects of this boom had committed on the eve of their leaving the the members of the executive should be at Hongkong he had to consider very carefully and prosperity be did not regret the para opium without a certificate from the toas surne 200 yards distant. Thi com-
to his
him that
distance, delay was caused. The object of the state of the finances: at that time the
Upium Farmer. before the 20th July. They were taken on fered with by the fact that prisonere, a day the bands of the Governor alone, and to were laid before him in April 1877 showed reading of the Ordinance and the hon. gen-handed over to the Opiam Farmor,
the discipline of the gaol had
$400,000 difference in transform of shares
plated, the bugle sounded, and a gan was Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fired as a general warning for what was to or two before the expiry of the term to avoid, although it would not prevent him that it had reached $885,000.
crease, Ho had now to move the first with hard labour, the opiam Reized to be passed away, the torpedo, with its 2,500 which they had been sentenced, were in
in conantling
in that revenue was a considerable sum tlemen would be able to discuss it at the
ibs of powder, was exploded. The effect Tax Amoy Gazette of the 9th inst. has the the habit of committing breaches of prison sity of his them when he saw fit, the neces discipline for which at any other time they
canaulting them in all cases. from land sales, and the ficat time next reading. The estimated revengaaccord-
ᎯᎻ . As sudden as it was tremendons, aud Tit following important item of news :— would have been liable
Bill read a first time; the second reading he had the honour of addressing them he Ing to the Auditor General's estimates most a wesk's solitary to be taken at the next meeting.
sent a huge column of water 100 feet high pointed to the fact that the males of Crowo recently prepared amounted to
Wong Aleong, a cook, was charged with into the air, and not a vestige of the To stealing 94 cents from a girl of 12 years of campan was afterwards soon. The vibra lands though called revenue ought not to
$1,050,000. That was an increase of Kome propuse now the he treated as the revenue of the Colony. $80,000. He hoped with the assistance of age, on the 11th inst.
tion was clearly felt in Chinking, and the first reading of an Ordinance which was In the sale of Orown lands, especially in a ihe hon. members to keep
Wong Asai, the girl in question, said that bonses shook asif from an earthquake. This the e expenditure acceptable to them all. It was an Ordin- really selling what was a portion of their surplus of $90,000. The detalls would come
noon to make
make some purchases. On her way was afterwards tried, but it was a
failaro, suo to naturaline or a British, subject the Capital. The revenue of the Colony from before then in the printed estimates and after horns hos baldhering, of costs, wrapped which two hours' further experiment upon Rev. Dr. Kital. In the month of last applied to theant the tncreased value of the land to the would be brought ou tor the sound in her loft band. The defondant came up known, but they were not far apart when Crown lands was really the increment of the lapse of time laid down in the rules the up in her handkerchief which she carried could not improve. Whether the explosion Dr.B
of the one caused injury to the other is not to be
to her when only a fow doors from the shop SIR,I have the honor to acknowledge the paper to infe (the Governor) sent | Crown, not the premiums paid to the ing and on that occasion he would happy to where she boen to and snatched the band
Bank. until late in this evening of Saturday, when the receipt of your despatch No. 60 of the (Ml the Ordinace, Eis Hon. friend and salos; if he was not mistaken a larger two or three years worn, with the Quess'sap in the street, and was asking whom it order as saratoby sandstone could make
the acting Attorney General Government. In 1870, when Mr Austin recefre from the hon. members every advice korobief from her hand. Hassell) with a a request that he would laid before thin the revenue returns, there and to listen to any proposals
here make. If it were to be his happiness for
PORALS they was a considerable sum se premium on prepare however drafted a general Naturalisation Ordinance under which any one could be sum than he bad obtained during the last permission, to submit the estimates to this the Council he only hoped that he would be Council. On referring the matter to the
as he had stated was $385,00; the Secretary of State, Sir Michael Hicks. genditure was $928,000. In other words shows he now laid before them. Beach said it would be as well to proceed there was a defolt. It became bis duty cated when he expressed his desire in the way Dr. Eital had himnalt ind. to be extremely careful with respect to the
be finance of
of the Goloar. Boz
member enactment. The hon. members were aware bat the Imperial Statute enabled the Le- the Australian trade, and fill witbla ameut, and to order corporal punishment on sure of ang Colony to naturalize that for these three years the Colony had the Court of Directors to the Ordinary half-day (5th), from Singapore, with an in- mention. He has a large number of wall. on person in that Colony. The Ordinance star had a sum of $206,000 added to ite balances Pearly General Meeting of Shareholders to portant consignment of galvanized iron for behaved and woll-disciplined troops ander withdrawal #lii be received with regret,Interval required to elanar before carrying he should be so naturalised, that he aball to the past year, 1879, the anditet pect Monday, the 16th instant, at 3 p.m:-
The Governor had therefore
British Consul at this port, on Saturday, a to allow of these offences being dealt very short but which to believed would email Colony like this was, they were within $980.000, which would give them a she was sent by her mother yesterday after.in three miles distant. The second torpedo
ab
of punishment being imposed for such offoDoza
This ordinance was passed amending the Prisons Act of 1869 so with. He duly transmitted that ordinsure in the Socretary of State, suit Sir Michael Hicks Beach, in reply, wrote as follows:--
DOWNING STREET, Oct 3, 1879,
22nd May, forwarding for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure, Ordinance No. 2 Ordinance No. 4 of 1883. of 1878, entitled, su Ordinance to amend
bill
be
had
him,
Defendant said he picked the bandkerchief and belonged to whan the constable arrested Sentence: to be exposed in the stocks for
prisoned for 6 months with hard labour.
2. I caused a referonça to be made to the naturalised by the Governor in Executivo three years. However that might be able to submit estimates se prosperous as 6 hours in Graham Stroot, and to be im. those in authority made themselvos pleasant
We understand that Captain M. G. Soott brought before B. A. Gilles, K, Acting the 7th instant, for breach of the Chinose Passengers Act, and that they wore sen- tenced by the Consul to three months' fi prisonment each or to pay a fine of are hundred dollars each. Beth prisoners were detained in the British Consulate gaol the fine was paid and the prisoners released.
The Melbourne Age of 19th June says:- The great increas of competition in the shipping trade between England and Aus- tralia, and the change Introduced by the placing on the route of large steamers, such as those of the Orient and P. and 0. Companies, has Wigram and Sone to withdraw from this Hue. For many years this firm has been among the leading shipowners engaged in recent period their fleat was in high favor bis own authority; the provision respecting with merchants and passengers. Their punishment for nog
neglect of work, Bod the though the step has doubtless been neues sitated by the establishment of lines of
Home Office regarding the advisability of this Ordinance, and I enclose a copy of the reply.
3. It will be so that in the last para is taken to four points in Ordinance 4 of 1863, viz, the power given to the Suparia tendont to inflict sentences of
Imprison-
revenue B
three
The Connell adjourned sine die,
has induced lessra Money graph of the Home Office letter, exception naturalized, that it is to say by legislative were no doubt aware that for the th HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-
Kent
powerful steamers, against which the older and less speady vessals could not compete. Messrs Money Wigram and
and Sons bave Buld steamship
to the Spanish Govern ment for the sum of £42,000. Another steader, we believe, is undur offer for the purposes of the frozen moat trade, and the rest of the steamers will be taken off the Australian line. The whole of their sailing
ships are announced for sale,"
be
ware
Fears past, 1877, 78 and '70, there bad been no defolt. On the contrary be found
y recited the application of Dr. Eltel, and sat forth that whereas it was expedient that
and is hereby naturalised and shall en- joy in this Colony mud not elsewhere the rights and privileges of British subject ander the provisions of the Ordinance of 1860..
Bill read a first time; the second roadlug to be takon at the next meeting.
-OPERATING WITH THE FIR BRIGA OB.
four
: this
belog
14
accounts
ING CORPORATION. The following is the Thirtieth Report of
silver.
visit to the forts was afterwards made, tbe gune were found to be in as good them. They were very cosmopolitan, some native made, some Armstrong, while others were apparently continental. Some of and agresable to their foreign visitors, and even showed some desire that the day's proceedings should, if possible, be sent to the foreign newspapers.
courtesy chief military authority named Wang shown on all occasions to foreigners by the holding Thotai rank, deservON
special
Manila. (Translated from our Manila fechanges) The British steamer Miramar arrived to
roofing. She also brought $30,000 in his command here, contrasted with the Cavite to take the rest of her cargo of when foreignora wore murdered by thera rabble of a few years ago, when it was The German steamer Lydia had to go to dangerous almost to leave the house, and permit her to continue loading in the port embassies abroad is tobacco. The state of the bay does not and they show that the establishment of Although the weather has shown very frail. The late Ambasador to need little improvement to day (5th), there was Kuo Ta jon, upon his return, some year to England in the Registro of the Customs much oficial, and it is supposed that be raised some mercantile business transacted, and or eo sinse, paid a special visit to this suimation was observed, whore operations within him the greatest desire to serva his have for some time been suspended owing country with soms of the legations abroad. the vestula. to the difficulty experienced in unloading all the officers of this gurrison, with him- Huator, arrived at Manila on the 5th inst, China wants, and who will come pro
The British barque Jessie Stowe, Capt. language, and it is such man as these that self, are diligently studying the English in ballast, 48 days from Shanghat.
The rain continues to fall with tenscity. rid of that useless diplomatie and non- minently forward for progress when wo get During last night it fell in torrents, accom trading contre-Paktug. panied by strong puffs of wind. This that also was one au one be disposed to
morning (4th), every place was found was an increase of $1,000 for Education, get a had alea sanctioned an increase
aurrounded with water, which formed a necessity for that every one must see.
1879 for the Fire Brigade + of $3,800. The $322,222.22
barrier to all sorts of work
the establish
July 31st. also found an incorous of $1,648 sanctioned
dition owing to the earthquake, the rain ments, while, with the roofs in bad con- During the month of July, the ther for the Surveger General's Department, and
fell through them as into the streets. The to rise above 80. One or two days it mometer has made some ineffectual efforta he might say, having mentioned that, that
state of the river was such that a lorcha, mounted to 81 and 83°, but the mercury the roads, streets and bridge had been kept
watch has had cargo on board for some seems to feel sad that it is cheated out of in 1879 in the most admirable order, and The Directors are much pleased to be twelve days, could not yet leave for the ita annual visits to the whatever
the upper regions. Each succeeding summer one feels more and boen done to whole satisfaction then able to recommend an increased Dividend. bay. This will probably cause the delay
their This Auditors. The Accounts have boon
the ses of complete cargo. The barometer nol its heights and paths, grover and beaches. withstanding was high, and nothing is for a small spot on the earth's anfas, it
The rain is the rain of the sasson, surprisingly combines but more abundant than usual Large beauty, and its scenery any elements of
delights the eye. tzaoks of Land are inundated, and in so
of pilgrims this places the water in one yard deep,
dyear has not
on the Colonial revenue;
be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on average of $68.000 a year. With
To the Proprietors of the Hongkong and out the sentence of corporal punishment.
of revenue and expenditure were printed Shanghai Banking Corporation. 4. Before forming any defialte conclusion
in the Gazette in the month of April last. upon these points I shall be glad to receive
They would observe from there that the re- submit to you a General Statement of the Gentlemen, the Directors have now to the opinion of your Government as to how
venue as stated by the Auditee Guneral was affairs of the Bank, and Balance Bhoot for for it would be desirable to amend the law in
And the expenditure
the balf-year these particulars, and
$926,800,
ending 30th Jun
30th June last. a report from the Superintendent of the Gaol an to the re-
87,000. Now the $920,00 included a con- $25,451.20 brought forward from last at
a surplus in round figure of
The not profits for that period, including sull of his further experience of gaol man-
siderable outlay an the police
fores agement, for I observe from his evidence
the count, after paying all charges, deducting at page 86 of the Police Report that he was
increase in the amount that year being interest paid and due, making provision for then of opinion that it was desirable that reading of an Ordinace so amend Ordis requisite sums to enable him to inorases Dividend is declared and the current rate The Attorney General moved the first the Connell regretted having voted the in Exchange between the rate at which the was sure no gentleman in bad and doubtfni nocounts, and for difference $10,880. He the Superintendens should have the power sace No. 9 of 1837, (an amended Ordinance that Force His hon. friend on his im- of the day, amanat to $861,178.16, of to administer a certain number of stroke for betier securing the good paacs of the mediate right (the Chief Justice) had ex which, after taking out robato on Billa not and I should be glad to be informed whether the resulta of another year's ex- Colony), There were only
Sections ofperianes of The following paragraphs are from Dr Dud- nerience has been to confirm or modify that had had their effect or been repealed from one could regret. He found also that there there remain f
this Ordinance still in existence; the rest
that increase. It was one no yet due, and remuneration to Directors, appropriation $346,547.47. From this suw, the Directors recommend fime to time. The object of this Ordin-
the payment of a Dividend of One pound BUCH would best be shown by his reading the clause it was proposed to amend and
Five shillings per Share, which will absorb indicating the words it was proposed to Section 5, had reference to on-
000 to the Reserve Fund, which will then The Directors recommend placing $100,- The enclosure, the letter from the Home operation with Fire Brigades, and can as
stand at $1,600.000, and carrying forward Office, was as follows :
the Balance $23,325.25 to the credit of new The Home Office to the Colonial Office. Every person whomsoever required by the
Profit and Loss Account. WHITEBALL, Aug. 28, 1879.
Suparintendent of Feline to co-operate with any Sta-Referring to your letter of the 13th instant, forwarding copy of an up-
Fire Brigade, whether consisting of Volunteers Excellency, or in working of fire-engines, or in ench requisition under the penalty, for every present in the minds of some of his hon. and Mr A. P. McEwen | case of disobedience, of not less than ten dollare
stende but which did not
in those Appear any Justice of the Peace. nor more than Bfty dollars, to be imposed by nothing in 1870 save to keep the roada, accounts. Did tho Surveyor General do
proposed by this Ordinanes that they be Look Hospital, which they had found very
streete and bridges in good order! Then these words followed, and it was undertook as they were aware to build a new
uneful Cor
Cor general
geon's report to which we have already re-opinion.. ferred
I have, o.,
&o.
M. E. BIOE-BEAUF.
die.
in October, 1879, the death occurred of Governor Hennessy, C.M.., Übeng Lin, one of the Lieutenant governora of the city and a Minister of the Foreign office. By the death mear the end of the year of the mother of another of the minis. ters, also patients of the Hospital, and the removal of the present tajen, the F.0. is free from the large of having amongst its members any opium smokera. The death
deleto.
follow-
or
not, so that the came to approved by ilis
Ве
POOTOO.
will not soon be filled up. He lived berlative to paalshments for offaneer committed the suppression of fire, shall be bound to obey roaght him to one item which might be sadited by the Bonourable Phineas in the departure of some vessel for went like prslag the enchanted islo of t
of His Excellency has left a blank which dinance of the Hongkong Government re
the Hospital; we met
strout and at his own house on the in Gaol, I am directed by Mr Sporetary Cross
ful
I have been to state for the
of State for the Colonies that in Eng or the Information of the Secretary land there is no power to detuda a for a prison offence sfter his sentence has A prisoner expired, unless he is brought up before Magistrate in the same way as a free porton would be and sentenced according to law,
a
at ending him and the members of his fami- ly for years, he had made me some thought 1 little present on my departure, and had ever been prompt to render assistance in the case of thefu etc.; and from his con- nexion with us, I found considerable loftu. ence with the Obfuese could be exorted,
my friends and their friends under the Military Act, detain a prisoner and numbers of my were not slow to advantage of this. ander
take 1 mention this to warn
or those
certain circumstances after his son- similarly
tence had expired, situated with respect
but Chipere officials
it does not appear that the greatest caution and care require the Army Discipline Act.
that such a power can be exercised under exercised, and perpetual superintend once exerted, to see that servants and others
to
to
Left ont:-
He
Or (if much Justice shall think fit and the of works were ondertaken, and other minor |
um, which
W. KESWICK, Chairman, Hongkong, 12th August, 1880.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PEAK RAILWAY,
feared,
beer grua.ty but mera are expected. The
in Milliary Prisons the visitors might, ffonder stali bo e Chiasman) of not more then 101 expended a considerable is it the Peak Railway that is to be, have against 88.948.70 same time last year, with a flourish of trumpsis and lanlarts.
80
in so far as Magistrates acting as visitors of a prison having each a power, there ap. pasts to Mr Crose to be no objection to the tendent of the Caol to inflict sentences of Ordinance, but the power of the Superin imprisonment seems to him to be objection- able
fiftoon blows nor loss than fire blows.
The number The now Civil Governor and Corregidor quality makes up for the of Manila, Sr. D. Manuel Enriquez y So Shanglist compradore pays $800 to have a
quantity, a To the Editor of the "CHINA Maiz."'
quera, assumed office to-day (4th) at noon. alx days' service performed for his father. and he also during
The Custom collection continues still on Next Wednesday night the spirit, which August 12tb. was not stated in these accounts,
SIL-By way of meeting the expense of the crease. During the month of July came all the way from Canton to receive ita
last thera
was collected $130,620.23 homage, is to be conducted to the sea-side Bill read a first time; the second reading the repair of the Frays Wall. In meation-American system of making such outer. The value of dutiable goods exported in the Island. Slegs foreign commerce
amounted to something over $160,000, on of your correspondents yet suggested the to be taken at the next meeting.
the being $42,377.69 in excess of last year. There is a good deal of building going on lng this, he must not conceal from them
them the FIRANON-EXCESS ON ESTIMATES 1879 1880. fact that there is a difference of opinion partise? I mean (comparing amail things during the month of July last amounted rules the seo, the China waters are fees prises both practicable and profitable to all The Acting Colonial Secretary brought as to the nacuracy, an it
of with
the manner in
only forward the following payments in excess these returns; that is, some masintain-
which thon with great)
from the lutranion of pirates. Two men of the estimates of 1870 requiring Lagialed that these being the returns of through deserts, and over mountains, that sands of miles of railroad were constracted
from Shanghai have pat ap an iron railing the Finanes Committee 7th June:- tive Authority; they had been passed by the expenditure of the Colony for 1879 to this day would have been no man's
to saiet pilgrims who climb to the light house.-N. C, D, Nura, they ought not to contain the expenditure Inad" instead of the "world's Establishments.
highway
Were
ide
A
to $734,908.
China.
SHANGHAI.
Shipping Intelligence,
The following is corrected from the lateat
was bound to say that those at Now a mouuksia side out here is M.'s Consulate to consider an application London and Colonial Papers, dro
on the Praya Wall, and it was
it was argued that but for the wise policy of the Government the expenditure on the Praya Wall was who gave a free grant of half the land on
(N. C. D. Neur.) extraordinary expenditure special expen-
aob
special meeting of subscribers to the of the way to the constructors of Cathedral was held yesterday (5th) at H. diture a
and that it ought not toappear in these
the line, returns. He
valuable, and only moderately so from the Very Rev. Dean Butcher for loave int these not very vo that view who took
the case were very even when good building site can be found of absence, at the annual general meeting high authorities. Mr Marab, who was now on it; but we are not half alive to all that of the subscriberstwo year ago, the Trustees absent, took, he saamed, that view for it our little Isle offors to settlers in the way 684 did not appear in the returns 1audited
he way of
were empowered to grant twelvemonths 1 by residence, profitable timber-grow-leave to the Dean, but he did not avail
healthy him, and he further knew for a fact that ing, cattle grazing, floriculture, market gar himself of it; and it was at his request that 3,310 vory competent authorities agreed with that dening, and the like. I am inclined to think the meeting of the subscribers wad convened
view, and hold that the expenditure ought therefore that, if II. E. the Governor were
do pot take advantage of one's friendship with the higher owa ends. All cards of auch individuals gher clasans, to forward their should be at
at once destroyed. Unless care be here exercised, much evil might result, money might be borrowed, goods obtained
Governor; allowance for lighting am to add that no Governor in Eng at shops, prisoners liberated and suot like. land has the power given by the Ordinance
Government house Increased The minister looked well for an opium of 1863 to the Superintendent to inflict
from $1440 to $4480, per au- smcker. He was suddenly seized at the corporal punishment, this power being Colonial Secretary's salary, tuition
AU...... palece, white having an interview with the properly confined to visiting justi
$3,360 Empresams, with Pomiting Thinking it might pan off, he slid not soll- visions also se to punishment for neglect Auditor General; temporary clark, booka for 2 cadets in Eng- 100 and persons acting as such.
The pro
land... cit my help till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, at work, and that by which 12 hours after and having been called to the Western bille that same afternoon, 1 failed to see him and
Contingencies... he died in the same evening. The symp were those of cholera. He was buried with grest pomp by virtue of his post of governor of [the city. Great crowded
tome
and diarrhoea.
the streets, and it was a spectacle that rarely witnessed even in Peking, a city with
A. F. O. LIDDELL. The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
780
66
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Han
again
1,817 simply a question of account, and it only once shareholders for the und Esq, presided; and there were present-
sentence must elapse before the punishment Jadiel.................................. in inflicted, do not seem to Mr Croms to be Medical.... expedient
Services Exclusive of Establishments. Judicial. Gaol ..............|| Fire Brigade; expenses consequent ite magnificent funerals. The other was On receipt of those despatches he caused Steem Fire Engine received from
on the Great Fire, exce the wife of a former viceroy of this pro- them to be sont round to the members of
England vince. She had long suffered from asthma his Executive Council and to be considered
we suddenly oxtriad off, the same by his advisers. His bon, friend the Super Transport... disease having removed her husband, many
intendent of the Gaol made a report at his
and Buildings Sanitary years ago, also after a few days illoses. Al request, which was considered by the
improvement in Aberdeen Polleo Exe- though I had constantly attended the facet cutive Council The upshot of the report Miscellaneous; furniture for Go-
Station
-************* ly for the last 16 years, and still attend, I of his hon. friend was that he thought the I was not called in at the fatal Ulness of time had come when the
varnment House ($5,000) voted the parents. The mother I had often seen the Gaol should be rellevantendent of
In 1878 of the tank of
Expenses in consequence of Great pania
Fire who ment; and accordingly the Executive
and
and prescribed for. The attendance upon sontending prisoners to corporal
the
not
youngest son of the late Vich the cil, having considered the matter, auant. Printing 300********
had accidentally shot himself
copies of the report
on C.D.Oczy
nected with
lons
to Governors sof
FREEHOLDS.
Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. Ng Choy.) Thursday, August 12..
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10, Aguas Muir,
not to appear in this account, that in fact it to adopt the American plan and grant free-Yesterday, though there is little donht that was taken from one of
of our balances, and holds (not loaseholds) of every other half he was entitled to leave without the ques would in time in process of years be ro- mite on each side of a well-selected line of scribers. H. M. Conani, C. F. R. Allon, being submitted to the sab- 2,430 paid to that balance. He had hlonself he
railroad to the Company constructing it, confessed, taken an opposite view. It was thers weald be no diflculty in
and Mesra W. C. Ward, W. H. Dalgleish, T. came to this that in the statement he made the next 10 years would show such Im-F. W. Lomarchand, J. Hart, C. Therne, W. Kingsmill, W. R. Carles, F. B. Forbes, 1,805 to them, he would prefer that they would provements in forcat planting, gardening, J. F. Holliday, H. R. Heam, W. H.
184 consider the fact that although the ex-med-making and general sanitation (mostly R. E. Wainewright,
penditure in 1879 was put down at without expense to the Government) as Hosie and Captain Bolton rammond, A.
W. $026,867 it was actually $150,000 inore, would surprise and delight everybody.
It 300 that sum was actually expended on
was decided with great unanimity to the Prays Wall As à mere matter
twelverannths furlough on his fall stipend, grant the Dean of beainees which concerned his own
expected that he will leave on his department in dealing with the finances 6,245 at the Colony he took that view and
well-carned holiday,
after sixteen years of unbrekon service as the Cathedral, about He had to set under 986 for this reason.
the middle of September. At present we what were called the Treasury instruations
believe it is bis intention to be Away Bix or 2,809 for Governos. These were the instruc
eight months, and that be intends to spend Issued
Orown Colo
Lo Ayau, 18 years of age, was charged winter at Cairo and afterwards visit 1,033 Dien ad
England. During his absence arrange overlooking and controlling ex-stealing a number of books and other articles Scheroschewsky, Bishop Bardon, Roy. W. Now, one of the rules of these therefrom.
prevcated
Всода, Rev. .D. M. Bates, Rev. J. C. Hoare Bf the possibility
Leo Ayun, hawker, said that be was of Ning or spec muster of a roast-roat stall in Graham service and others to conduct the 22, Annie EL Smith,
17, Goldkanter, Ningpo, expenditure
treated in any extra- Street. About 8 o'clock this morning assist in the promotion of say good object, Hotspur
at the Cathedral. Ever ready to and
provided ordinary manne 8,400 that no such phrasa sa #special
constable brought defends to him and irrespective of sect of greed, the Dean vell 25, Recambi or extraordinary expandi. I showed him four account books, a looking.be sorely
missed during should be used. The Cating Colonial Secretary neki mar before the Governor from month to month, wore all to his drawer last night, and he community when we
comparatively glass, All expenditure came once recognised as his property.
and some writing which be at short paper
holiday; and we feel sure that we are
26, Hannah W. Dudley, ed the pausing of the following paymenta
They
26, Alice Mary, bus echoing the sentiments the entire
of g'alatis authority they yet pand by is a note in which he would stats for the him. The drawer was locked, but the lock which will tend in a large measure to re
was sanotioned by him. He would | ww
23 wish him bon was not aware that they had been taken
Importer, voyage, Ju'y the Financial Committee on 7th June
2, Halloween, distant friends, and a recruitment of health Colonial Secretary (Student Inter
Information of the hon. members and the
the had been 5
0, Brunettey public
removed. the amount spent on the generally
medy the ill effects of sixteen years' re- P. 6. No. 221, In Apo, said that shortly aidence on the muddy banks of the Prays Wall, and the amount brought from $1,581 the Special Fand. When that was done, defendant in Graham Street, and when he
after જાતી
sclock this morning he met the
Whangpoo. 103 as it seemed to him, the real expenditure of saw the witness he tried 200 the Colony in 1879, and the real work done a
to hide himself in dark corner. He was carrying the books 400 would both shows. Now, in the month and looking glass, and when asked shout
the Volunteer Corps
chest, and a note of whose case is mention mously recommended him to send the Colonial Defentes: expenses con ed in one of the earliest reports, was the Ordinance in
in that par means of introducing me to this family and same time they retin and at the Tommended that the through them to many others. The
Fice.
Attorney General should be roy's eldest son, his brother and his s This among my most frequent popben modify the Uzdinance in aos requested to and and Houses purchased: Chl
with
the evidently expressed voice of Her M4- is my best known
In Peking, jesty's Coverament, and in that way the and our relations are so intimate that I feel Attorney General and drafted the Ordin-
at liberty to call upon them at any time. anos the first reading of which he now pro- There never has been any difficulty in at. Po
He proposed taking the second tending upon the female members, old or reading at the next meeting of Council, all have solicited help and been when the bill would be open for the discus grateful for atendance. The span of als son of the hon. members. family entertained me at a splendid banquet
Bill road a first time.
on the eve of my departure for Europe; THE MREOBART SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION
and there were invited to mast me a very
AMENDMENT ORDINANDE: 1880,
DAB
housa at Sain Bhal, British Kowloon, for Bohout House (re-vote of 1878)...
་་་་་་་་་་་ Military contribution ; exceS OVOĽ
the amount estimated on no
count of lower rate of exchange,
The above were sanctioned.
and
deal with the Governor's duty with breaking into a stall this morning and ments have been made for. Bishop 16,
of
7
in excom of the satimates of 1883 requi reprint the returns in the Gorelte appond. I sway until the constable brought them to pleasant sofourn among his now far!
preter $2,061, foam $480 cotimat ed for i cadet in England)
large çicale of friends Knowing that for The Attorney General anked leave to in “eigners liked milk, a large portion of the troduce a bill entitled The Merchant dianer consisted of a multitude of articles Shipping Oolidation Ordinance 1880," ingeniously made of this exbatance, and as The object of this bill was to amend in Colonial Treasurer, Loreigners partake largely of white salt at certain particulars the ordinance which was Educational, table, and the Chinese supposing it to be pasted last year consolidating the whole Grants-a-ald.......... white angar, for they have no such white of the ordinances of this Colony with refer Judicial salt, it is not uncommon to fad everything ence to Merchant shipping. The amend Medical............. offered at each a feast, sweetened to an ex- traordinary extent. In being invited to a
ments wore of a very trifling description i feast it is almost nevemary to Indioate bo- Ele did not know he need any more; the one or two of them were merely verbal.
forehand that you do not profer sweet things. I might may very much of thle family of to most gratifying charsoter,
alterations were very triding.
Bill road a first time, the second reading. to be taken at the next meeting,
Police,
Miscellaneous-Grant to the widow
and children of the late Revd. Mr Kidd, Colonial Chaplain, towards the expenses of passage to England, £100 at 3/9,
16,000,
N'astle (.B.W.) London
Antwerp N'hastle (.8.W.)
Hamburg
Cardif
Cardiff N'ostle
London N'castle (w.&.W.)
Cardi (W.)
Penarth
Bamburg London
N'castle (~.n.W.) Naude (5.3, W. Penarth
Nicastle (1.5.W.) Nosstle (mw)
LOADING FOR CHINA AND JAPAN PORTS,
At London.-Steamer sia Buen Canah Euphrates.
URIMILIANG.
August 4.
At interesting demonstration in torpedo
Glenase,
Jolas Bicholson.
Bailing Vessels,
At Liverpool,
At Hamburg
425 of August, they were in a position to know them he said nothing. On enquiries being 124 from the returns furnished to him by the made it was found they had been abstracted practice took place yesterday morning Deviation (6.) 570 Acting Colonial Secretary, that the anti- from the last wittiesa's stall.
mates formerly made of the revenue were
at the Silver feland pass fortifestions sound estimates; he might say, speaking complainant's stall and the books and all the high military and naval authorities; Hakon Adelsten (.)
Defondant said he was sitting near the Among the spectators were the Taotai and generally that the estimates had been excood papers were lying near him. The drawer including the celebrated Pong Yu-lin, the Adolph. ed. His hon. friend, the Acting Treasurer of the stall was open, bat ho did not take Admiral of the Yangtzzo. We believe that 683 had just handed to him an estimate on the things,
spacial invitations were also issued to the Oibuere.
At Newcastle, NSW,
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