No. 6354. SEPTEMBER 7, 1880.]
FOR some apparently unscconciable reason the vicinity of Aberdeen village has been fatal to many of our Police Force; and notwithstanding that some pains have been taken to provide good accommodation for
the Police stationed there, the unhealthiness of the pleen has but too frequently bean forood upon the authorities. It is now, we learn, the intention of the Goverment to hnil a new Police Station on the little island of Ap-to-show, which forms the southern sile of the Harbour. If proper
In
Another account says:—
THE CHINA MAIL.
the gale
iter part
any person confined in them. This, bow-strain off the cables. At 2.30 p. ever, is not a subject which could so easily was apparently broken. For the be made the subject of remonstrance as tho pontshosents, which are in their very nature
the bar. 29.80." ornel and capable of being included andar are the caugue, or huge wooden collar, the category of tortures. Among the latter which criminals are often condemned waar for several wooks, and whipping, or rather boating, which is prescribed freely for comparatively telling offences. order to extort confession culprits are struck repeatedly on the month and fact, and after they are convicted they are constantly doomed to revive as many as two or three hundred and occasionally even four hundred
The blows are given, not with atrocks.
wri- ter's opinion, is a much more formidable weapon, as it tears and mutilates the flesh It
is snggosted that in these Mixed Courts, where Kuropean Consular officials sit aide by side with the Mandarin, it would be better to adopt a penal code in accordance with civi- lised usage, rather than to assimilate the proceedings and sentences to
those provall ing in China. With the doings of purely native Court we have of course, no
dropped port ancher 16 fathom on the hawser. Blowing a gale from the .E; the wind had shifted from the W.N.W. and was veuring right round. Could not give the vessel mure scope as the Hongkumy was ly ng astern of us with both cables to the end. Gbt up steam and at 10 a... hove in both anchors, steamed outside a tle and
"On the 31st, in the port of Paifipi, 7 a.tu
B
6th inst.
Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. Ng Chay) Tuesday, Bapt. 7.
with gambling on the public street on the WHAT IS PUR IC GAN BLING ON TE HTKERT
Tong Ashin and in Ashun were charged
there were only four persone playing domi The Magistrate said there was no care noos for amusement at the door of their
Discharged.
house,
PITTY LARCENIRS,
ore be taken to secure the most favourable cat, but with a bamboo, which, in the dropped both anchor with 76 Fethoms on tealing thres jackets on the 17th, value 80 beso while ponies are being exercised, or | Holt staked their fortunes on what was
sanitary conditions of the new alte, it is boped that great improvement will result from this change.
ས་
each bawser; in four fathoms of water. At 12 noon, the wind reached its mecmum in force and was accompanied it hoary showers of rain. At 1 p.m. the wind voor- thing round to the 5.E. and blowing out of that direction till e p.m., when it began to
Lal Achang, a boy of 16, was charged with cents, from a house in Wing Shong Street, and sentenced to six works imprisonment with hard labour.
Loong Afu, for stealing an umbrella from the Po Lok Theatre, was sentenced to nis woeke' bard labont.
We ought to have excllor congratulated the Government upon the resolution, at last, to provide some decent-luoking landing places on the Prays. That dilapidated and dangerous heap of rubble which has so long and should have no power, to the gradually to decrease. Daring the afternoon weighis, was soutenced to two months' im.
hard labour.
BATTAN SPLITRES QUARREL.
Wong Apo, for stealing a abopkeeper's the ship had heet dragging ont le con- prisonment, first and last seven days in siderably and we had to get the spiner toolitary confinement, the remainder with work to take strain of the cables. fapt. lat 9.30 am. hove in both anchors and itsamed further in. At 10.30 anchored with the part anchor in 23 fathoms of wa At 5 p.m. the gale had moderated, and to pro- seeded na our voyage. The glass vs down to 29.36. At Heihow it was under 2.00."
We further
bear
Fadi and H. B. M. ship Encounter, quality, much the same as those de respected, subject to tax tn.
The only Tire is only 14 feet of water on the Bar signed by Messrs Holt-in face of much nation which confiscates its enemies' pro- al the Rohilla les drawing over 19 fart.
The very unusual quantity of snipe that At that time, what is now known as the reserved for the successful section of the hustle criticism,filleen years since.perty is the Turk." And yet it was bone visited tho
sad many very good bags have been with the first compound engine, that the private property of their opponents!
neighbourhood of the aetement this year has given plenty compound engine was uncommon. of ccupation to many of our local sports, experiment of the P. & G. Company sable Tuck," in confiscating wholesale, The United States to emulate the impas.
It Duie.
to 18 be hoped, however, that known as "Wolf's system,had failed And yet, in spite of riolation of the law the cagerness with which the sport is altogether, and the P. & O. Company, of nations, they call "Treuson" when The inside of the Race Conrso appears to after expending upwards of a hundred the pillaged Southerner asks for com- paed will not result in any accident, he very warm spot just now about dusk. thousand pounds in unfortunate experi-pensation! Did the Republicans refuse The fact, that as yet, no one has been shot ments, reverted to old types of engines. the dollars of the Democrats, there aars to be due more to good lack than Undeterred by the failure of the ela- might be an argument. Their conduct, goc management. At any rate it is borate engines made by Messrs Humas explained by their organe, can have etwas either that men ought not to shoot phrey, Tennant, and athers, the Messrs but one tendency, that of keeping alive Saat ponies ought not to be oxorcised there deemed to be an exaggeration of the other war not distantly impossible. we people are shooting.
A spirit of rancour, and render yet an- numerous large engines that had failed Many of your readers, doubtless, have so utterly. The P. & 0. Company used wondered at the fearful deeds of outrage steam at 40 pounds pressure, the Messrs and murder, as depicted in certain Halt at 60 and 80 pounds. The P. & O. illustrated American prints. I always Company had four cylinders and two thought that they must be exaggerated. (Mail. Aug. 21.) Wo learn that the British barque Forward the time was held to be the dangerous least, the journals show a daily access of cranks; Messra Holt tried-what at But I assure you, in this one State, at which arrived last Sunday, completed her passage in 104 adling days from the experiment of two cylinders and one crime fully hearing out the reports. The a to be the fastest sailing pasage on excessively complicated and costly; murders are committed by people of timea a left the London Docks. This is crank. The P. & machinery was worst aspect consiste in the fact that the recard for the last ten yeara The vessel Mesars Holte engine was curiously education. The hopelessness of getting wandelayed at Anfer some eight days re- simple and very cheap. The F. & a conviction, is a powerful incentive to Shroeder, a bank clerk, shot dead, in his cffice, a Dr Lefevre, without parley. quoted in the streets, is fifteen to ons The betting, for here it is public, and against hanging. From their easiness judge that their qualms on of conscience in this respect, you may other moralities are not over exacting, amongst the Californians,
allag
Japan.
ГОКОНАМА,
Tang Ayst, Ho Ami and Tang Acheung of cargo, so that the actual number" Wolf" engines performed badly, and crime. Yesterday, for example, a Mir
were charged with assalting Mak Al, a rattan splitter on the 2nd inst The case of Me Wotton, who appears for the prosecu was postponed on the 4th on the application
tion.
of hys out is 112. Captain Wads has been kus on this line for the Isat nineteen or tity years.
oy
To-day Mr Holsea appeared for the do-as that the Hong-fence, and on his application now the cane was farther remanded till Saturday, the 10-bail as before in $100 each.
But the Mixed tribunals siends on quite graced the former site of Pustan's Wharf is another footing, and it does certainly seem now being dealt with; and the landing-advisable that a roformed practies should be lntroduced, so as to free this country place that should have been erected there from the appearance of countenancing an has now been commenced. This is as it odious judicial spatem. should be, and the maxim " Better late than never" must be taken to apply, We Tur departure of the French mail yesterday are also informed that ring-balis are to be (20th) and the Daited States mail to-day, together with the arrival of the tity of fixed in the Praga Wall, for the convenience Peking at an early bout this morning, must, of boats lying alongside. If this be so, says the Japan Gazette, have pressed the there will then be some prospect of the postal officials to the fullest oxtant of their
powers. Curiosity lodi ne to inquire how the kong got the cyclone very severdy car- Bex-wall extating longer than it otherwise work was done, for since the English and ly on the morning of the 31st, ad had would, as the boat-people will not then French post offices have been discontinued, to cut away both her masts.
the whole of the foreign mail work has de-
At Takboi have any ezense for picking it to placesvolved upon the reduced staff of the Ja-the general statement was that this was with pegs on which to bang their mooring panese general post ofiles. We were courte- the most severe visitation that hd been ously informed that a a pressure of work, as experienced there for 25 years. There is in this instance, necessitates the almost www- tinuous attendance of the officials; pushing ont inquiries further, we found that the postal staff assembled at 5 a.m. on Thuraday for the expected receipt and delivery of the The steamor was, however, delayed, and did mails from Shanghai and the coast ports.
sot arrive at the castomary hour, but the staff was kept in waiting.
lines,
A case came before Mr Justice Snowden this morning, in which a chair-coolle sued for wages, for the month of August, from Mr A. B. Johnson. The defence to the suit, was that the coolie had disobeyed the ordora
information in town that the crops allover the cane-producing districts have becrachmaged, while several large juuks lasken with
monts are not without their de effect sugar bave foundered; and the state-
From that hour on the sagar market.
The Homan, the
The cass is one in which the sompialannts asserts that while at work at the door of his shop he was attacked by a gang of men, strook from behind and stunned sad beaten
with bars and sticks.
Manila.
steally that it takes about so long to e of the London journals remarks
aract a first class icondad man of war to build a city. wort feature of the matter. By the time Bat this is not the the conclad is completed other inventions
render it neulers and out of date.
for:
Lequence
and
that in the auraO Of
were liable to frequent derangement. Holt's engine worked perfectly well, yearly cost of repairs was trivial. The scarcely ever got out of order, and the
end was that the Holt" line soon of occasional bad times, has greatly on became firmly established, and, in spite riched everyone concerned in it.
But when the crème de la crême of San Francisco society is represented by the successful Plate-laying Hiberniau, and cocotte-proprietors of the Tinder- Box houses on "Dollar Hill," one is brought back to first principles, and one need not wonder at the condition of a tree which has produced such fruit.
of bla maior, whon told to go down from to-day, the post office has been in Ping On, the Conquest and II.M. Magne her four days' run to reach her destipation Potions on the new road now being con- expansion cylinder is placed on the keel but he has, we think, mistaken the froth
the Peak to get a chair from Mr Johnson's
house in town. In glving judgment for the defendant, the learned Judge wisely remark
a.ro.
ed that now-a-days it was a difficult mattor
to gai obsir-coolies to do even ordinary work,
two hours, work
the
na compared to former yours; the chair. 2, and at midnight there was a reveas for have been one of remarkable severity. A large daring the voyage was $9,88, at 5 p.m. of pessablo no aa to tra their attention to the governor, there is in rear of the engine
in
coolies to question appeared to have had for the Doing resumed at 2 a.m. number of junks and campane were passed: 29th Aug, with wiud from E. by N., and te;reainst adigace and the road traps. Is very large 27-wheel, a segment of,
very light work; and Fils Honour cosmider-
| superficial observation.—ED. C. M.]
Quotations.
cordia to Japanese reports the demand All the vessels are good trading ships, creed, and indeed the importation of that the success of the line has been brought cimported paper bas of late greatly de and, without any notable peculiarities, ar de may be said to have ceased altogether; about by the engion adopted, yet, of thi the demand for Japa strange to say, although the one-crank best made papers has grea-ly increased, vertical engine has answered "Holt's" the paper mills in the diffrent loostitios line so well, there is a general prejudice
rery good prices are obtained, so that! are maily engaged at present and find it against it, so that the owners of the rivai (Translated from our Manila Exchanges.)ala at impasible to full their contracts; lines of packets invariably avoid the The staater Fanera'da, on her last voy-harver, in apite of this they have zet stone-crank type, and adopt the two or age from Hongkong to Manila, ezpartenced
prent raised their prices,
three crank engines.
[Our Correspondent is ovidently not The Nichi Nichi Shimbun states: Wo
un admirer of the Republican institu- In Messrs Hole's engines the large tions, as developed in San Francisco; very bad weather, no much so that it took hant informed
beep full work. Thursday was devoted to the must have all have been in the same clone, while ordinarily she takes less than three Alant, As-gori province, a rock was cut siderable space between, is the high apparently imagines also that there is Arcanted at Ye-sho zika in the village of son of the ship; abore it, with a con- for the pure refreshing malt, and he outgoing outgoing French mail, with a respite from the mails had to be alosed in timo for the details of its extent and ravages, about midnight to 4.m. on Friday, when to that we any soon expect to her further days. She was detained by the bad west in which a seam of silvor was dis-
pressure cylinder; between the wo far more frath than malt in the States- It arems ther in this vayagu 31 hours over her usual sered. Upon this discovery con cyhuders the connecting rods turn steamer's departure at 9 a.m. Friday was, from all account we have yet to land to time. The lowest reading of the Barometer of intebing their road-making se quickly an tardation of movement, and to act as a
trasar and his employés were all dosirens round the single crank. "To avoid re- a supposition which we believe to be of course, American mail day, and a busy
erroneous because based upon a too
mink They are consequently working with ly approaching completion.
which is loaded with eight or ten tone Mr Hodkinson, The Spanish steamer Zamboang arrived Amming export at present in the employ of of lend. A perfectly smooth, equable at Manila from Hongkong on the 27th the decational Department, availed drumotion is thus secured, the minimum of PIUM August, and during sa official trial trip
bolt the summer vacation and travelled space is occupied, and the apparatus of made on the morning of the 24 September, a1 be as the Mitake sau in Shinshia pro-surface condenser, circulating pumps, the Naval Domininder General of Manila vice, and in one of the surrounding bills expressed satisfaction as to the adaptability ho dovered a coal mine which gives an&o, &c., is arranged in a simple, com- was bought. Her apend was tested and re-crapplete examination, of the seams of coal of machinery is reduced, all parts are
firat ra f the road to the purposes for which she
outtura of
quality. When a pact, and convenient form. The weight sulted in 11 miles hoing made per hour. bastleen made, experimental diggings will accessible, and the first cost is email. Commander of the fatine, and will be re- She will he commanded by the
to emmenced. present
Rasthe Chopa Shinden it is said that "the its coal requirements.
The engine is also very economical in The pioneer Parimas exports sen Legaspi
from our constry to vessels only consumed about two pounds Two violent shocks of
earthquake were
Coma, cotton fabrics, shirtings, Japanese felt at Taal on the Ist Sept, about one per ink, slices, and umbrellaa, fetoh good per horse-power, a marvellous economy o'clock in the morning; they wore without price. To the Coreane never use, and at the time, as the average consumption definite direction, and with an interval of Downguently there is no market for this of the Cuinard and tho P. and 0. Čom- about one minute between them; the both large quantity of oil paintings and ordinary first type, although experimental, an- artise of food. A Japanese who shipped a pany was from four to five pounds. The ration was of about 30 seconds each, both were accompanied with aubterranean nulas picures, trusting to make a fortunate awered so well that the intest ships show A letter required from Daet (Camarines speration, has been able to make any very little improvement in performance 13.000 koku of rios wire brought up from Hongkong by the City of Tokin.
officials,
of a heavy inward mail City of
which, with lers energbottom up and loss of life is ostimarad at n have been postponed until large guro, The Hainan pussed a large their plate, and recommended them to tell This work concluded, the outward mails died together ou board of her; the next ed they had noted nawlsely in forfeiting aftor the departare of the natgoing steamer junk, with a large number of pragte hud.
tholt fellow-coolies that they could not
which closed at 8 a.. to-day were com- pleted, and at about disobey thoir master's orders is refusing resumed its urdinary course of business!
'olock the
office moment she was sweeping past, bom up 6 and not a soul belonging her to seen. the work which they are naturally and fair-a.m. on Thursday to & am. to-day, is a In singular contrast to the Honghang the period of 52 hours, 45 of which were devoted to incessant work and only 7 to rest and Hainan bus not suffered a scrap eddamage, such refreshment as could be snatched at in- and is only in the Cosmopolitan Dak now tervals. This is heavy work in weather like this. We do not intend to pay any to be cleaned. fulsome compliments to the postal officials, but it gives us plesauro to say that their efforts to promptly discharge their duties are highly appreciated.
ly expected to do.
EVERYBODY in Hongkong will be glad to hear that the French Mail which leaves on Monday next in the last, probably for ever and certainly for this year, of the Monday departuren,—that fatolerable nuisance on. tailing on those who are sufficiently hard worked already and have in all conscience
LICENSING COURT.
A special meeting of the Justicee was held this forenoon at the Justices' Boss. to con- himself Ujakoff," and whose article bears license to sell and retail malt Liquore, fer- A WRITER in the Nouse Premya, signing sider an application by Me A. Han for a
vary heavy rain.
abristaned with the name of
little enough time for volaration, the sacrl internal evidence of the author having new-menterod and spirituous liquors in a honsa Norte), dated Aug, 25, 78:-On the 22nd. ales, and has lost a large sum of money.'
fice of the so-called Saturday half holiday, and seriously oncrcschlag alas on the Day of Roit. The next English Mail will be made up on Saturday, the 18th inak, to go by the P. & O. steamer Khisa. The M. M. ateamer will leave on the following Saturday, the 26th inst. Thereafter till the end of the year, the mail day for both the English and French services will be Wednesday, in every way a more conve nient time of the week. This arrangement begins with the Lombardy, which leaves on the 6th October.
ly arrived from Turkestan, denies in vigor
at 9,17 p m., the strongmnt abook of sucılı
experienced here. We are thankful It was instantaneous, but had It continued for say
We have had the satisfaction of seeing the complete recovery of the gaung Ame rican gentleman, Mr Parker, who had his
or economy.
If all goes on well, we presume that Yokohama will be the terminal port for the new line, instead of Shanghai.
30 seconds, no building would have remala- | THE "BLUE-FUNNEL" LINE OF
We wish the new-comers success, as od standing.
STEAMERS.
the owners are admirable mechanics, Messrs Holt, of Liverpool, the manag- whose successful experiments, by avers of two or three services of cheapening the cost and shortening the trag steamers, one engaged in the delays of ocean navigation, have con- aller between the eastern coasts of Japan Herald.
and London, ferred great benefita on commerce. South America and Liverpool, and a We append the names of the vessels third line for some other trade,--are of the line :---- abai to form a steam service, at regular
of the Chinese arty in Kashgaria. As heated at Tears Sha Tsui, Hritish-Chwioon, ous terms the alleged efficiency and strength and appartenances thereunto belonging situ-quake fatt stuce the 16th of July last was very rightly points out, Russians living on Garden Lot No. 35, rented by Pety Smith, intercourse with the Chinese, should be ae- and of which applicant is the tenant, which the confines of Kuldju, and having constant credited with knowing more about the state house applicant stated that he in ended to of Tso Tsoun Tan's force than political busy bodies in England and their country keep as an lun or Public-hours under the men at Peking." The writer acknowledges sign of the Kowloon Recreation Gardens, that it would be
arm fractured in three places in the earth- wicked crime for a Rus-
There were present the Hun. De Chor, quake of the 18th July last, his arm having sian to wilfully under-estimate the power of president, Hon. M. S. Tonnodby, N. to he amputated near the elbow. Our an enemy on the eve of a great war, but, all Ede, and Capt. Deans. Inspector Cameron friend, with only one arm, notwithstanding, the
facto same,
and if the Russian army in Kuldja is strong and well-orguois
appears glad at having cecaped with his Capt. Donne opposed the focus on the life, and while the zight arm is still left to no house on the him for work, bla body conceals a great which has befallen him.
are facts and
was in attendance,
trada between China
Tous.
Funs,
ed, and the Chinese force in Kashgaria ground that there was Of much greater simply a mob of raw levies, without cuber- ground which the Justices acul iconse. beart to support him in the misfortune intervals, between England and Japan Agamemnon....2,270 Stentor.......2,020
ence, it
importance to residents here is the foform atlou which is just to hand to the offest that the Post Office authorities at Home are desirous of socedlug to such an arrange. ment of the mails, for next year and the future generally, an shall preclude the possibility of mail day in Hongkon, falling again on a Monday. The whole matter lies In the bands of the Post Office, and we may therefore, if the co-oporation of those in power is secured, confidently look forward
to a fulfilment of our wishes in this im- porland matter.
Heves & Co.'s Weekly Shipping Report, Pagoda Anchorage, 28th August :-
Arrivals During the Week.-Aug. 21, Namon, from Hougkong; 23, Swatow, from Amoy 24, Hae San, from Shanghai; 24, Sarpadon, from Shanghai; 24, Norfolk, from Stanghal; 26, Kwang Tung, from Hongkong; 26, Europe, from Shanghai: 26, Janel, from Hongkong: 27, Bellona, from Bongkong
И
The
rates
*
Dew
Ajax to pampate with the vessels of the
Achilles. al
and "Castle" lines.
The Diomed exchange at Manila on the Late ongkong and Amoy pister of the
enterprise, the Nester. per cent.discount respectively. A gestemnon, catue into our port on the
que Jamaica, Captain 17th August. Witt, arrived at Manila on the 31st ulto,
The British barque
Ho nine days from Hougtong-
is well that Russia should acknow-Thero was a building of one kind orszother, ledge the circumstance, and not try to keep but it was not a place at all suited for a it secret from Europe, Ujakoff lan
laughs licensed house. at the notion of of the Chinese i in Kashgaria possessing a European railitary organisation, Mr Peter Smith, resided in a house on the Mr Habn stated that his brother-in-law, Krupp guns, and so forth, as asserted by adjoining lot with his family. They in and asserts that so far from Kashgaria could reside there if it was requisite hold- the sathor of the Life of Yukoob Blog, tended to turn the two lots into having been
At a sale of cigars held on the 26th Aug. anocessfully conquered by Lob means, Tro Tsoun Tan owes his vistorias ir Tonarchy asked what he warned the millarus cold for a total sum of $59,818.
last, 8 809 millates were offered, and 4,373 and the cowardly fight of his incapable solely to the untimely death of Yakcob Beg license for.
A correspondent in Tagbilaran (Bobol). successor. The Chinese general possesses no tainmento be intended to give, say arios a
The applicant said mainly for the epter-writing under date of July 31st, says that military skill; his troops are badly armed, month. It would only be when they were by steam, was established there the other machine for crushing sugar cane, worked Toorfen, and Manus are too small to allow Bar. and worse led; and the garrisons at Aksu, on that there would be much doing at the day, which is the first thing of the kind
of the formation of a forse to invade Kuldja.
the license.
On the other hand, General Kaufmann in house license which would enable to soll Mr. Tannochy: Hat you apply for a public latter province and General Abramed in
the
and well-organised armies, and they have
al for t give the signal the whole of the
Ferchans, possess compact, woll-equipped at any time to all comers
arly to a
AppHount: Yes.
8aria to rise in arms against the Chinese, it.
15-plication is
ever introduced into that island. This
will do
same kind, and is due course they which machine will be followed by others of the
away with the woodeu contrivances ste incapable of extracting the juico from Mr Tonnoohy: Well, you must soribe the oxus
the issb The Comercio of Maella reproduced with. Musulman population of Kaldja and Kash and desiguate your house. Your prent ap-
form; we cannot died without commen: the paragraph which ap who have irritated then by converting Ma-
peared originally in one of the Japa The other Justices concurred; a bomedans to Buddhiam at the point of the
papers regarding the arrival of the Don The President said the applicant might Maria de Molina, having been the only sword. We have not space to follow "Uja- oume before them again.
Spanish man-of war that had visited Na superiority possessed by Russia over the it in lota. At present he opposed it in the
Capt. Beans send that then he woukoppose gasaki for 300 years. Chinese in Central Asia; but, if Departures During the Week.--Aug. 23, tion be correct and candour compets us to grant a license unles son had no power to Rachel, for Adelaide; 22, Minatitlan, for admit that he simply shoes in a vigorous to be linensed were olearly desoriial and the premises imposed Tiantain; 23,
for New Zealand; 24, form what Russian intelligence from asta defined and a designation given to the bouse. bas asserted all along-Kaufmann would He would oppoes it further on the round
for Hongkong; 27, Hlas San, for Shanghai, Shipping in Port Sheldrake, Gustav and Marie, Leader, Norfolk, Europe, Janet, Bellona.
kof" in his remarks on the strategical
if his informa-
Ulysses Menclaus Patroclus.
2,279 Anchises......2,020 2,279 Sarpedon...... 2,035 1,916 Orestes
.2,057 1,980 Tencer .........
.2,057 2,039 Hector
2,035
HONGKONG, September 7. -Now Patna, ask... 630 a 324
Old
"
"
sash,... -
New Benares, cash 596 a 90 Old
cash,
New Malwa, credit, 750 a 770 014 Malwa, predit,
Allowsace, Tools ... 8 a 12
Exchange.
Back, Wire,... ...
Deigand, ... 30-days' sight,
3/8)
3/0
4 mouths' ght,
9/03
8/08
Crodite, 4 **
Documentary, 4 months night, 3/9) Indis, Wire,...
***
TH
demand, Shaoghal, demand, Gold Loat, 994 no...
80 days sight, ***
Sorecaigas,...
228
220
27.95 6.42
Shares: Hongkong Bank, 56 % prem. Univa Ine. Soo. of O'ton, $1,400 per share. Chlen Traders' Ins. Co., $1,40 per share. North China Inz. Do., Tla. 1,075 per share, Yangtare Ins. Assoc., Tia. 720 per share. Chinese las. Co., $300 per share. L.K. Fire Ins. Co., $875 per share, buyer, China Fire Ins. Co., $245 per
share, sales. H.K. & W. Doak par. Cosmopolitan Dock, par, nominal B.K.0.1, S.-boat Co., BIB prem. S'bal Stantz Nav
Th. 3 por
Domisal.
China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tla, 100 pere.
Do,
floug kong Gas Co., $80 per share. Hongkong Hotel Co., $68 per share. China Sugar Redning Co., $168 per share.
Debentures, Sp.o. prem. Chiroso Imperial Loan of 1874, nominal.
Do.
of 1877,
do Temperature.
1,088 Laerten.. 2,148 .1,992 Cyalop, 2,168 2,118 Bellerophon.. 2,166 (Taken .2,112 Telemachus...2,180
2,109 Jason.
Twenty-three iu sil.
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Promisu,
Queen's Road.) HONGKONG, September 7. VARONETÜR~M.... 1 2. M....
2,180
30,083
Do.
$0.089
Do. [RESMOKZTER 94.
Do.
& P.M.
30.024
88-
41+
1 P.E....
***
4 P.M....
**
Do. (Wat bulb) B.M.
De.
Do. 1 F.M.
80
Do
Do. $2,M.
.80
Do. Maximum
87
have no difficulty whatever in conquering that the house was an unfit pie for & hempah barqun Anglessa, for London, we Holf vessels brought great revenues to mists, and the license which, in a firat-
Do. Minimum over night 70
Shipping Intelligence.
London and Colonial Papere, do
The following is oorrooted from the latent
VESSELS TO ARRIVE, AT HONGKONG,
From
Glasgow Cuxhaven
London
Antwerp Cardiff
Hamburg London
Cardiff
N'asile (1.8. W.)
Cardiff
Allout fifteen years ago, Messes Holt, in connection with Messrs Birley, of Chiau, summenced the first line of cargoes. steamers for the trade between England Deacalion......2,067 and fine. A few isolated steamships, like the Bahama and Sea King, had Shanghai and London, at a speed that endeavoured to carry cargoes between would enable two round trips to be
Do. But the Suez (From an Occasional Correspondeat. ) were er apart, and the vessels consumed madein twelve months. Cabu was
not open, coaling stations
SAN FRANCISCO, July 81. I bave been endeavouring to arrive at what would now be regarded as an in- some conclusion as to the difference The and was, that the cargoes sarried Democrat. ordinate quantity of coal for their size, existing between a Republican and a To one who has not the were taall, the expenses of the vessels privilege of American citizenship this is were excessivo, and the speculations not so very easy; in fact the very terms brutt heavy losses upon the pro-employed are confusing. But the best motes. Messrs Holt then entered the method I have hitherto found to eluci trade, and it apparently has been very date this problem has been to read what The following chartera were effected at profile to them." Their vessels, the one eays of the other in the press. As
Left, Name. Manits, from the 15th August, to the let Agamemnon and two others of similar far as I have had opportunity, the Re-f September -
eize, had many novelties of construc- publican party is facile princeps in the British barque Bowfell, for Live pool, tiou, and to this day the form of engine art of vituperation. From a popular 31, Dorothes,
6, Diana, Wanderlag Minstrel, tor Cape Town; 24,
wat sugar at £2, and hemp at £8.2.6. Louise, for Melbourne; 24, Namos, for Taoun Tart, and picketting Cossacks on public house. He saked Inspector Cameron
Spanish steamer Victoria, for Liverpool, vessus save those of Holt's line.
used has not been adopted by any" weekly," I gather the enclosed ex-June. Hongkong; 25, Swatow, for Tientsin 28,
tracts, illustrating at the same time, £3. Sarpodon, for London; 27, Kwang Tang, the Karakorum range.
Its easy to understand why Meaers the "casus belli" between the antago- British what he knew of the place,
sugar at £2.2.8 to £3, and bomp at £3.2.6. Inspector Cameron said it was a bir British barque Jessie Stowe, fr Now their swners, and how it was that the class journal in this country, is allowed THE LATE TYPHOON.
opinion not a fit house for a license. There York via Cebo, angar and worse for Now The Mesure liōlt, who are practiool ship- paper I quote from is the Argonaut,
hemp, private. was only the one hense on this la men- We have received further intelligence re- tioned, and that was not the one which York, sogar at $3, Banfield, for Bendy Gossel that would combine four quali themselves. This nation is divided into rival teamships were most unfortunate. to pass muster without rebuke. The American ship Valley
and botop at $6. garding the typhoon experienced by the Mr Smith resided. Tur Rev. J. Eector, speaking in Caloutts, British steamer Hainan, Captain H. W.
British barque
constuctors and mechanics, planned a of the 24th instant. They speak for the utus day, of the progr. of Protestant Conner, which will be road with interest at others this Mr Fabu had ever there the i
Captain Deane: What sort of an eqrtain Hook, to order, via Floile, sugar at $9.50. Mission generally, painted out that the
ment was
Gvening
American barque Chattanooga, for Now ties,-1st, to carry a large cargo; 2nd, two equal parties. The Republicans, by number of Native Christians in Indle, the present time when information is anxi-
York, or Boston, via Iloilo, dry sugar sat by sa of a compact compound engine an act of outrage at the last Presidential Inspector Cameron: There was a large $10 per tou. Ceylon, and Burmalı bad ri en la the past ouely awaited for as to the extent of damage collection of people, both native and breign.
possus sufficient steam power at the Election, have held up the political 50 years, from 27,000 to 500,000. In India
American barque Martha Davis, for Newcost a small consumption of coal; 3rd, integrity of their country to the derision proper there were now at leat 400,000, a that has been actually done to vessels at
Captain Deans: What sort of poop were York via Iloilo, 39.50 per ton dry sugat. they? number almost equal to the populations of sea and to crops ca land-as to the loss
Spanish barque Manole, for the Channel, onl enough for a voyage of 8,000 of the world. Now, they do not stop at Inspector Cameron: There was a large to order, wot sugar at £315.
or 7,000 miles; 4th, ability to make a stigmatizing one-half of their fellow. British barque Helen Marion, for Liver. voyer under canvas, if necessary. citions as Tenitors. If one attempts to Mr Ede: Of what F been occationed. Capt. Conner reports that
pool via Cebu, wet sogar and hemp, The russels, therefore, were able to do analyze the onuses of this indecent Wz gave the other day the Pall Mall Ga the severe gala hin steamer met with par-
The Inspector: Of females.
private,
what to other packets had done before, violence, at once it appears that the actts's remarks on the Shangbal Mixed Court took more of the nature of a syclone than
Captain Deane Where were they from? American ship Harmonie, for New York, and well, that even at this date the arguments adduced by the Republicans The Inspector:
Gage Street. subject which has been occupying the of a typhoon; the glass gavo remarkably
Captain Deane Common prostituta
sugar and hemp, dry.
vessel, which are now fifteen years old, are illogical, They boast that they Mri attention of the Prens and the public, the little forewarning of its approach.
Hahn stated that it was his Ention
are egial to most of their newer com have restored fully the citizen rights of to get up a
a subscription for a worleaf en-
petites. The conditions are now altered, the Democratic party, as represented by House of Commons, and atker bedien at
tertainments amongst the better lies of
but the pioneer vessels carried 8,000 the South, and forsooth, now that they "Tuesday last, the 31st ult. began with people; the gardens would always open Home. This is what the Globe mk74 |—
tons cargo, about 800 tons of coal, attempt to exercise these rights, the strong gales from K.N.E., bar. 29.80. At for those subscribers children to enjoy We have received a copy of a circular 6 heavy squalls from E.N.E.-bar. themselves.
and, after calling at the Cape, Singa language of abuse is exhausted to villity We are intermed of the destination of pors, and Hongkong, delivered cargo them The Republiesne do not refuse of Judicial pualaliments in China, as dain. 20.60. Got up steam and brought the and spirits.
Captain Deans: They don't want bear the 5,000 troeps from Hankow, to the in Shanghai in some days under two Decoratic dollare to give pensions to latered at the present time by the Mind steamer into a good berth, as the weather
At London, Steamor via Buez Canah eight China Merchent steamers; they are to mont Mr Haba: The children would there be landed at the Pohtang fort and ust at
their own widows and orphans, and they Glenartner Cong" at Bbanghat. The writer has much looked threatening, bozemstar having a down on Sundays and on the afternoons of week Ning-hi, the end of the great wall, as prise the Suez Canal has been made, see his own defenceless ones enjoy soins *xperience of practice now subsisting
Slade the earlier years of the enter-marvel at the wish of the Southerner to Vecglos China with regard to judflat cases, and word tendenot. At 8 am, paid out 120 fa fortnightly.
days. The entertainments would say form Best of vessels are detained both and assols especially suited for the benefit from his taxation! Big battalions John Nicholson. especially to criminal offenous and he thoms of cable on both anchors, wind blowing
Quito s polate out the barbarity of the
Mr Founoshy again suid the Justiciamust which the penal code is interpreted by the with great fury and healing enddenly in have the house before them.
outside and inside the Bar, rafting for changed conditions have beau built in have, à la Napoleon, vel at rest the style in
to get over it Outside the Bar large numbers, so that the fleet is now justice of the cause between the two con Bellerophon (.) The President stated that the bense waiting to come up rivor are the following The most objectionab European Artsors, to B.E, rain and spray perfectly blinding, would be refused for the present, and, fir the steamers, clunce, and Hi-othing Mang adequate for keeping up a fortnightly tending parties, but yet, in spite of
of all the penalties At 0 nm. bar, 29.29, ship dragging her reasons the applicant had heard statel. imposed in, perhaps, that of long imprison.
military success, the law of nations Hakon Adelsten" (.) manat, for the state of the Chinese prisons anchors up hill; got the epare bower ready ho would oppose the license being gasted man barque. Inside the Bor, the P. & O. mediation from the first type, the quered England to-morrow, the house Cashmere.
Tho Capt. Superintendent of Poldin said Hermans, Top gallant, Parthia and Ger
sailing vessels, Blue Jacket, Nourmahal, service
While the bulls have undergone soma should be inviolate. If France con- appears to be such as to ondanger the life of to let go kept steaming hood to keep the at any future spplication.
stosmer Rohilla, Flintshire, Ülenkai Maru, į engines and boilers are, in form and and property of John Smith would be Qatlarice.
Calcutta ; and it was increasing with every of life and damage to property that have collection of ladies.
decade at the rate of over 50 per cant.
which is la intended to late on the subject
China BHANGHAI. (Mercury.)
ட்
rumoured,
Penarth Hamburg Penarth
5, Titanis,
10, Dr Petermann,
5, Vale of Doon,
10, águes Muir,
18,
16,
17, Goldhunter,
23, Annie Il
Smith,
24, Blairhoylo 24, Hotspur, 23, Importery
| July,
Bongala (n.) 2, Adolph, WBARC
Gorda
Hamburg Popath Cardiff
N'castle (8.5.W.)
+
Londe P
Cardiff
Antwerp
Cardiff
Cardif
•
Oard:ff LOADING TOR CHINA, AND JAPAN. FONTS..
6, Belle of Oregon, 6, Brunolic, 13, Seholde, 17. Charlton.
21, Telemac
Cantlo, Telemachus (5) 22, Stentor (1) 22, Channel Queen, 25. Vortigers (4) 2 Jimes Bailey 28, Goat Admiral, 28, Oclan,
Glengarn.
Sailing Vessels,
At Liverpool.
Asla (b)
At Bamburg
At Newcastle, N.S.W.
Dagnar. Penobscot
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.