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The

No. 32

Right Honourable the art of Kim- berley to Governor Sir John Pope Henncas, K.C.M.G. Downing-street, 20th Nov, 1880. Str,I have the honour to acknowledge

THE CHINA MAIL

every year that has elapsed since then has boon thought necessary by the sanitary been an unfortunate investment for the Ionat excited until he was apprehended would probably havo fallen below the shown that it was simply a transfer of busi-officers of the Colony, nu were approved company, and its earnings have largely for attempting to rouge the frat de prezent protation Dring the fortnight neas promises due to the transfer of business by your predecessors, without busing your gone into the palatial, but very unreliable fondant, and aimed the blow at both only 70 balca Tantlee- have been bottled and from one class to the other.

opposition to them on any scientific grounds, hull of the City of Peking. If some of the witness and Dick very cooly and delibe.30 halos Filature Bilk, prices ranging from 7 Most of the Chiramen who have been, you have incurred grave responsibility. money spent upon her cabins and furniture rately. The dist defendant was not drunk, $475 for No. 1 Tantlue to 460 for No. 3 buying out the

Europasne

sand Americans, 6. To remedy any defects that may exist had been devoted to extra ira and better and was in the full possession of his seoses Tables (condition terma); the Filatures.

being

settled at 8650 per picul. The Stook are not compradores; the wealthy in the sanitary condition of the Colony, workmanship on the hull, she would have at the time, and said to witness You

Long rects. Fair business is reported in the receipt of your Despatches, relative to Chinese merchants who now and British you have proposed that a separate sanitary been more creditable to her builder, and would not hang a man for killing of No. 1 Tsatloe is how almost exhausted.

porta that were made by the Colonial manufactured goods in such large quantities department should be created, with Dr. more profitable to her owners. In cunspari-Dutchman and an Irishman?" With the Burgcon in 1874. on the sanitary condition into China. assure Hor Ainjesty's Artane is its chief officer. But I am not son to the Belgie, Ocranie and Gaelic, the assistance of the privates of the Inniskill these sorts for the Iulian rurket and prices of licensed brothels, and of the Chinese Government that there are no persona in prepared to authorise this step, which ap. City of Peking entes but as a very poorings, and others the defendants were oven-

tually taken to the Station.

Re-reels, -A slightly better demand has this

a better bonses generally in Hongkong.

who have s

CUNILY knowledge pours to me to be open on various grounds spocimon of American workmanship."

The Magistrate adjourned the case till existed for these silke, and contracts for the wents in 2. Little appears to have been done since of what

the way of English to considerable objection, until I have re-

to-morrow, to give the defendants an op fortnight amount to about 145 bales, this is the date of Dr. Ayres reports to improve goo

owing to prices being easier, No. manufactures on the China market, engineer who is about to visit the Colony.

I have, ko

to whether they would make their defence 1 the sanitation of those parts of the town goods, who have such facilities for placing ceived and consulerve the report of the

KIMBERLEY. (Signed) Victoria which are inhabited by Chinese, who have granter commercial probity or and rapid growth of the population cannot mora

70% our

Colong ins

gentlemen.

present to be carried beyond the limit recommended by the Surveyor General, and I'shall wish to be consulted before Buy concession beyond that line is made." The line laid down by the Surveyor General has been upheld. The correspondence as to the building of Chinese houses in the vicinity of the barracks comes next, and is particularly remarkable for the tone adopted by the Earl of Kimberley to Sir John Pape Hennessy. Apparently thonghly dis- gusted with the trickery and quibbling of his correspondent, the Secretary of State for the Colonies conelses his defail to have added to the evil of overorowd than the loyalty to Queen Victoria spatches in remarkably brusque terms, ing.

8. The closed statement enters fully such phruses as "Send despatel at once" I fool sure that you will agree with into detail, and answers the question as to "Report immediately occurring pretty ne that a state of things so dangerous to whether this transfer of property is specu- frequently. In replying on the 8th the health of the Colony ought not to relative; or whether it is owing to the healthy July 1880, to a despatch of Sir M. H. mnin any longer unranelled; and although requirements of our trådd. It altu denla should be forned, as recom fulfilled the object for which it was mainly Dosch on tris question, the wonders of it is very desirable that an efficient sanitary with the questions whether Hongkong has Chinese sanitation are purated in the mended in your Despatch of the 15th of established, and whether the Colony luns most ostentatious manner. Dr. Dud-July, it would not be justifiable to defer geon, ao advocate of the Chinese system, aotion until the now department is organ-any manufactures of its own.

I have, &c. I therefore request that you will at

(Signed). PorE HENNESSY.. is freely quoted, ani poor western scienen has to leave the field limping. In this chce takto such stops as may be in your

Ea. Sc. despatch there seems to be the ground power to put an ad to these discreditable The Right Hon, the Earl of Kimberley, work of an article which appeared in a northern contemporary some months ago, and which was replied to by us at the time. The memorial by Chinese land- owners, objecting to indulge in the light and air proposed to be given them, is referred to as a most "intoresting doon- ment," and Sir John remarke I vanture. to call your Lordship's attention to what they (the Chinese memorialiste] say in paragraph 3, respecting the recent rules

department

ised

nuisances.

4. I do not conceive that there can be difficulties in dealing extraordinary with this matter, but if your Government The finds itself unable to devis and carry into effect the requisite measures, it may be necessary to send out a special commission for the purpose from this country.

I have, &c. (Signed) KIMBERLEY,

Sir J. Popo Hamacssy,

No. 41.

No.46.

K

Right Hoverable the Burt of Kin barley to Govern Sir John Pope

·Hennessy, K, U.M.CA

!

Bir J. Papo Hennessy.

No. 48.

Colonial Office to Mr J. M. Price,

Downing-street, 27 Aug. 1881. Sir, I am directed by the Earl of Kim- berluy to acknowledge the, receipt of yet letter of the 15th insinarity cuiten of

with the condition Hongkong.

cupy

your latter has been for. warded to the Governor for his report, but am to inform you that, having regard to the conflicting views which have been ex- pressed on this subject, Lord Kimberley has decided to send out an engineer from this country to report upon the actual state

of

Police Intelligence. (Before H, G. Thomsett, Esq.)" Tuesday, April 4.

A CHARGE DISMISSED.

Chan Fong Shen was charged on a sura- mous with stealing 820, the property of Taun Kwai, trader, on the 29th-ultimo.

Tenn Kwai said he lived at 231 Queen's On the 20th ultimo he handed 990 in bank notos to his wife. Rond Central Next day he was away from home, but in consequence of

nce of what his wife and told him took ont a summons against the defendant. Lun Asam, wife of Taun Kwai, said she was dus the defendant 80 conts, and from. 810ong a number of actes, which her hus- band had given her two days previous, she handed the defendant a note, without knowing the valis of it. The defendant went out and gos chango, and roturned husband's return he received the bundle of notes back, and said there was a 825 nota amissing. Ho was tofd of the transaction with the defendant, who lived in the same house, hud who assorted that the note he received from the woman was $5 note at the time that the complainant raissed the large note.

Defendant, denied the charge and said

that he had returned the proper change.

The defendant was discharged, but

of 850, to appear if called on.

Fare firm.

portunity of consulting with Mr Caldwell, as proow boing 85 per picul chenpor,

in the Police Couch, or in the Criminal whilst in Nos. 2 & 3 n. docline of $15 per Sessions of the Supreme Court, where they picul may be quoted. are to be sent for trial;

SUPREME COURT. IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION, (Before the Hon. F. Snowden, Pulsne Fridge.)

Tonday, April 4.

KU TANO AND ANOTHER. TANG WAN

CUTS.-

x.-$559.

Mr Sharp, of Meaars Sharp, Toller, and Johnson, represented the plaintife; and Mr. Mossop, of Mears Dennys anti Mosson, appeared for the defendant.

of matters, and to make such recommenda-.20 aaying the note was so one. On her the goods on which the eum was claimed

tions as he may consider necessary.

(Sigued)

Downing Streel, 18 Angust, 1881. Sir,I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Hespatch, of the 6th of Mr. M. Frico. June, transmitting the returns of the. Census rocontly *talcon in Hongkong, and to express my satisfaction at the indication

prosper which they afford of the gre

I am, &u.

R. H. MEADE

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TELEORĄDs for Bangkok œa go forward by

of western sanitary science? The par (faverner Sir J. Pope Hennesen, K.C.M.G.. of the Colony. It will be compliance mail closing at Singapore at 5 p.m. to-day the note he received wis a 85 one, and

graph in question is as follows:-

Now these habits, although your Momo

rialists are given to understand that they

are condemned by the more recent ruler of

to the Right Hourable the Earl of Kim- herley-(Received 22. June 1881.)

Government House, Hongkong,

29 April 1881.

other

papers

with

2.

الغة

JA

to Parhamat address of which I enclose a copy. The language of this address indicates that a perusal of

your Despatch has done Temperance Hall concert takes place the impression that there have veyed

of

western science, ure, is a natter of fact, the {. My Lord; I-enclose, for your Lordship's twinpts, previous to your nest been to-morrow evening, Wednesday, the 5th ordered to enter into his own recognizance outcome of a longthened experience among information, a printed copy of a letter the Chinose of living in large and crow written by Mr Price, the Surveyor General, cities, and are as deep rooted as moal of

is their social

customs, a that it is

quite whom curtain that the tenants for these houses as intended, as they would not understand the reason, would in n

the Government, to drive the Chinese out April, not Thursday ng was stated. of Hongkong by enforcing undue and un-. on the 30th of June 1980, which he re-fair restrictions with regard to their graves, Last Ovening about seven o'clock, P. S. da quested mid to lay before the Legislative dwellings, and thoir commercial transac Rozt committed suicide in Macau, 3. It was of course not your desire to be by sbooting himself with a pistol. No Council, and in which he seoins to argue in tins. favour of the under-ground dritage sys- notew

proceedings in having ventured to refer the Government or the Government of Hong- water supply question to the leading thi kong had followed or contemplated a vexa was well known in the Colony. nose gentlemen in the colony for their tious or repressive

earlier part of your opinina.

figures quoted in policy; and indeed the 2. On the latter point I need not make speech prove that during the last

The one was partly heard yesterday, when it was stated by the defendant that were left in security for debt, and were not bought as the plaintiff alleged. Judgment was given to-day in favour of the defondant with costs.

Canton.

THE VOTE IN THE COMMONS.

Stock in Canton is now estimated at about 700 bales of all kindis.

Haste--For the sunnil quantity of No. 2 Gum now on land, destors are willing to Of about $120 per paul being a drop 83 pur

of Silk-Export to date :-To London, 5,402 bakes; to Continent, 7,804 balos to Amories, 8,710 boxes; to Bonu- hay, 2,434 picula--Total, 13,396 balos 8,790 boxes; and 2,234 picula." Of Waste, and Pierced Cocoons, 2,182 8,537 balca

for Europe.

Tantico,.

ولا

Loongkong

QUOTATIONS.

Curio, Nono

$435

No 1, 8405

8425

4, $415

Curio,

No.

Nono

3470

Cumchock and Lucklow, Re-reeled Cumchuck'

J,

-31

Lucklow

Cote-ng-own

Waste Silk,.

Cocoons Pierced,

Bleak House, 3rd April. Simultaneouslyour attention is challengod by a crisis at other ond of our present line of observation-Poking and London; tho tension at either apparently imperilling the

party leaders-H. F. Li Hung Chang and position and political-grasp of the respective

Mr Gladstone. And, singularly, with the almost literal" hauling over the coata" of For Europe,

way avail themselves of the facilities for the Tel, and to expresa come doubt as to my understood na implying that Her Majesty | cause is ascribed for the rash act. Deneased allured that he got the candles from the the former at the pit's mouth of the mines

free access of light and air which the Sur, veyor General's propusod alterations would provide for there.

held at

the Magistracy to-day, before

document upon which Governor Hen-any reinarks, but on the serious question of five years, the resident Chinees a special scaзjoas of the Licensing Couri

The memorial here referred to is the

Best None

No. 1, $520

2

2, $480

3, $400

None

2. Nono

No 1. None

2, 9123 3 08

SETTLEMENTS FOR THE MONTIT,

1881-82. 1880-81.

by penned the now celebrated lines proferring an underground systen of drain had increased by upwards of 20,000, while Messrs D. R. Crawford arid A Selk, witho Temporanea Hall door with his in mouthed tongue of passionate inventivo, quoted at $7.95 in mats, and $8.20 in

Old-

THEFT OF NAVAL YARD PROPERTY. Janos Koup, one of the officials, while ho Kwan A-I bricklayer was stopped by was leaving the Naval Yard, and three candles, the property of the Government, were found on his person. The defendant

foreman, and forgot to return them. A fine of £o was imposed, with the alternativo of six week imprisonment.

ASSAULTING THE POLICE. Kum Akam rufused to move away from age in a tropical colony to the Chingan the increase of the property held by Cid Captain Thomsett, 15., prosiding, Marieksha yesterday, and when the policeman known as the "Smoke-hole minute."

house-backet and the dry-carth system.

riano Fernandez, late barman, was un- on the beat attempted to remove him, remarkable. The whole of the papers are instruc- find that Mr Price's account of the inese residents and of their commercial

operations had been still tive, but much of the matter contained of house refuse in Hongkong, as given

constable. Dofondant denied the charge, taken in all matters ro- in many of them we have already pub-paragraphs 11, 12, and is of his letter, dues which fully approve of the active interest animously granted permission to take over

you have

ment with hard labour. lished. The selected despatches append not correspond with the account given by lating to the welfare of the Chinese in the spirit license of the London Inu"

the Chineze themselves, nor with the Hongkong, and it has been my object in frou John Humby, reports of the inspectors of пезівалісен,

For the foregoing okserrations to remove any. with sume

sume facts that come occasionally incorrect impression which may have been before the philco magistrates. A few months formed as to the treatment and condition of

I had to draw Mr Priou's attention, the Chinese in previous years.

I have, &c. not for the first time, to the fact that the it scavengers employed by his

(Signed) KIMBERLEY. had been fined by the police magistrate for deliberately emptying night

ed will be read with interest:-

No, 30.

Governor Sir John Pops Hennessy, K.C.M.G. to the Right Honourable the Earl of Kim- berley.Received 1 November 1880:)

Government Ifuuse, Hongkong,

17 September 1880.

ia

4.

Sir J. Pope Hennessy,

5 No. 47.

more.

The Right Hon. the Burt of Kim- berley to Governor Sir J. Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G.

picked up a stone aad threw it at the but was sentenced to three days imprison

+

But, whilst we must leave to the mys

100 bales 60. balca United States, &c., Re-roeta, 200 boxes 480 bxi. in Chili,ochood with emphasis in the Govern Bombay, 100 piculs 30 picul DROUS AND Brzors. Gaasia Lignes ; men: Halls of the capital, there has, coin-

Look Poo and Loting are quated in mata odontly, bean tho typical hauling over $7.75 and 88.20 in boxes. Sales 1,000 the coals of the latter by the many piculs Stock: 5,500 piculs. Tai Wo is

boxen. Sales: 2,000 picula Stock, 8,000 with a liko implication of an insecure hold picals. Cussia Buds, Old 89.60 per picul of power.

Sales: 1 100 piculs. Stock; nil. New 310.20 per picul. Stock 200 piculs, Stock 200 picula.

SUNDRIES-Fire Crackers 72 a 77 cents teries of a statecraft, whose fiat, inay insure

box. Vermilion, $31.00 per bot from womaly caprice or unreasoning superstition, the out-put of the Coal-Mines Matting, Fine contract, White 4/4, 11

vente, 5/4, 13 cents, 4/4, 15 cents FROM the medical evidence given in the Tan Ayuk was charged with leaving the question, I hasten to dissent frous your yard: Red Cheek, 4/4, 126, conta, 5/4, 14) cents, 6/4, 171 cents; Double Extrs Im case, in which Mollers and Powers, stand service of his. reustor without giving notice construing of the telegram in your Satur-centa, its 4/4,15 centa,

5/4, 17

conis, on the 3rd instant.

William McLellan, inspector of junks, day's issue, 'just to hand, as a defeat of the 6/4, 19 conte, Red Check, 4/4, 101 cents, said the defendant was his servant, Last Ministry. For, on the contrary, I read in 514, 18) conta

18.com 6/4, cents, per yard without leave, and witness told him if he month he frequently absented himself

Cargo

in it their complete trium The vote re Manularin $3.86. Young Sten St 40

Syru

(Chyloong) $9.35. repeated the offence he would be given insulted in a majority of 3), in the trial of Cargo (Manleong) $3.2. Mandarin 84.60. clitrge. On the 13th he went off without

.

DESERTION OF SERVICE

per

IMPORTA

LEAD--is weaker und prices for L. B. Lase

charged with shooting a man named Wi liams on "Theland we live in "pablichotege the 5th ultimo, it will be seen how narrow My Lord, I have the honour to acknow-oil into the under-ground drains of the city

by the latter escuped being shot dead, and ledge

two roceipt of telegram, dated, tho

of Victoria. Soon after I arrived in Hong-

oven yet there is a probability of the wound 14th instant, in which your Lordship any keng I had to point out to Mr Price and to

War Department Lands. Answer Dokong,

Dr. Ayres the danger to public health of

developing serious symptoms. The men any warning and did not return until strength on the new rales of Parliamentary Young Stern 84.80 per case of 3 jars, Soy,

Pesterday, when he demaniled his wages. prosedure; and the result is fraught with $3.50 a $4.00 por pies). spatches 3th of April, 30th of September

allowing the Survey Department scavenger

have a heavy indicturunt against them as The defondant said he had a boil, and momentous and insting consequences to 3. On receiving Sir Michael Hicks-

considerable Boach's Duapato building of houses on into the good

of thu

Sotir of

September to empty every moming a

| the matter stands at present, but they are thus could not attend work. portion of the right-soil of the prisoners 1879, rospecting

drails, and to

to deposit night

was the racial test of the principles of 300 pigs have latterly been soll, whilst some days previously 160 piga were placed colonial land to the south of Kennedy-road, soil in large quantities in a place choron the receipt of your Despatch of the 30th of not entirely relieved of the chance of a Sentence-Fined ton shillings, or ton legislation and the Empire at large. It now fallen to $6.00 por pical at which rato

good Government over every device of at $6.00 per picul. There are the រម subject of the them. They will likely be committed for. concurrence-with-the-dupisius of the War by the Survey. Department at Belcher's April, and of your telegrams of the 18th: more serious one being preferred against

ted in Lord Eustacey, wear the west end of the-eity of Vic and 2d of Mays. Celony.

faction; ad all-good-Britain will oven-lus we have to report Quotations are for L.B. and Hole chop £6.00 por pion!, other Department, as stated in

opinion that it would not be trial at the next Criminal. Siis of the

tually rojuice at the rewilt, 2. I am of Though I then told him that every sanitary condition of blic institution in the colony should have

brands $5.80 to $5.00 per pictl on the possible to enforce the adoption of the Supreme Court. closets, and latriuus paly

QUIKSILVER is unchanged at 857.50 per dry-earth system. only throughout the

SULSVING,

I made a minute on it

entire

Coell's letter of the 19th of February 1870,

and I sent the Despatch with ray minute tum, he made in effort, a

the Major Geremi and the other members of my Executive Council, for any

observi

to of

す

Downing-street, 20 Aug, 1881.

Sir,I have the honour to acknowledga

nrainage; nor is it clear that the romoral

My

be the merits of the

at

days' imprisonment.

ANSTOWAWAY.

Peter Hayor, a stowaway on board the Strathairty was ordered to be detained in gnol, the time not to exceed seven days, until a passage was procured for him by the Dutch Consul. The lad, only fifteen, had absconded, and a letter from the Netherlands Consul at Singapore was

the request of his paranta

ALLEGED STABBINO..

[Our correspondent has misunderstood the construction we put on the telegram pieul. relating to this Clature. We did not say it

only

YAR "defeat to the ministry, or did we The rate of Freight to London, is per ever dream of so doing, misplaced stentner, £1.9, and per sailing vessel, 64/ might have been misleading, but the pur- respectively. port of the entire paragraph was to tho effect that as the amendment condemning the Cuturo had been negatived by the House of Commons, the Government seem to have successfully carried the Cloture through the House-Em. C. M.)

The man of Freight to New York, per steamer, £3.15. and per sailing vessel, 40/ per ton of 40 cubic foot.

months afterwards, to go: the Government Colony, to the exclusion cromoter As inquest was opened this efferacon

sewage can be effected the Government Civil Hospital before tions they might dusirp to offer. They connction water-closets in the new of, every kind of curred with me in accepting the decision

pital, on the

the ground that Jeming's without the existence

drains Dushed by the War Department. Meanwhile, iri- structed the Surveyor Gunerat

of water as to at once greatizan adequato eupply of wation but whatera Coroner, H. E. Wodehouse, Esq., and the esived here asking him to be sent buig at comms in the last clause of the paragraph or ton of forty and fifty cubic feet, to wall ∙not to

following gentlemen as jurors: Meta A. alternative systems any of the building sites or other lands question.

(aud I recognize the advantages in certain W. A Wohlters, F. Herbst, and A. A Car expects of a propenly administered system deira, regarding the death of a Chinese of dry-earth treatment), it is important, ont mediate step should be isken to mendicant Ng Achim, whose body was int mediate-atma-all be be undone and whose Chinese or

or European quarter, which area Marques, who had made a post mortem soutes of danger and discredit to Hongkong,

3. I find considerable diffenity in giving examination of the body, said he found

sutont water-closets would provide such a t

volume of dederise the dejecta.

3. The

enclosed returns show that 182 Owing to the same renson given by rater-closets have unfortunately been con Mr Price in his latter of that of structed from time to time in Hongkong, 1879, in

in, explanation of some want of

Both of them in spite of the wish I ox- promptnces in attending to the every day. official matters referred to the Public Works pressed in June 1877, that closera on the Department, I could not press the Survegar dry-arth system should aloue bo sanc

to deal with this subject in

4. 1 should be għad if your Lordship General On receipt of Sir. Michael Hicka Beson

circulated. Council on the Surveyor Gen

At a meeting

of the Executive

tioned.

Loung Yan was charged, with others not in custody, with outing and wounding Yan Law on the Sed inatunit

Inspector Thomson said that yesterday a copperanith named Yan Alun was stabbed

removed to Hospital, which he would be in three different places and had to be

inflicted the wounds.

The case was remanded for a week.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION-

Commercial.

April 8. Tho market fur Bengal Opicin has been

Fresh crops of produce not being yet on the markot, the call for investments in the drag has been ou & restricted scale; the lowur range of prices even not inducing opera Lions on the part of uative dealers to any extent. The day's rate is given at 8679 for Patna and Benares.

LOADING AND ON THE BERTH-At Wham- poa. For Land Nime

For Now York-Nono.

At Hongkong, For London Endy- mam, Priam, str.

For New York-Mary Wintridge, Nelly

M. Slade.

For San Francisco-Arabicate., Altongwer tr., Glamis, Castle, str.

DEPARTURES.Troia, Whampoa -For London: None.

For New York.None.

Despatch, of the 9th of April 1880, 1 laid would authoris ne to lay an Ordinance any precise directions on the subject, as some brown powder in the stomach, resem able to leave for a woek. The Inspector | it before the Counal, and directed it to before the Legislative Council, under which there is a conflict of opinion with regard to winiz opiuri dress. The appearance of the bad reason to believe that the defendant |

In your Euspatch of the 15th of July body was that of opium poisoning and Dr. along with another two were the persons who rather languid during the past fortnight. str., the focal government might be able to insist matters of fact. on the 28th of July 1880, it was re-an the substitution of dry-carth closets for 1880, you state, von Dr. Ayres, the Marques was of opinion that that was the solved that the Despatches be again sent to the water-closets now in use in this colony. Colonial Surgeon, has, in the suppressed.cause of death. There was nothing found.

passiges of the enclosed report (Colonial to prepare draft

fe on the body, save some opians and opiumi Surgeon's Raport for 1874) made a few general statements on this subject (the dross, and a discharge ticket from the Tang anbits of the Chinese) that are somewhat Wah Hospital. The inquest was adjourned misleading, but you give no details which would tend to throw doubt upon the stater till Thursday, and contents of the stomach ments made in that

in the interval to bo analysed. report. Again, among the enclosures accompany-

clauses containing all the requirements of The

the

Wor

Department

4. Nearly a month having passed without any reply from Mr Price, I told the Acting Colonial Secretary to remind him of the resolutions of the Excentive Council, and to request the draft of the new conditions

from

I have, &. (signed). PoPE HENNESSY. Right Hon. the Earl

of Kimberley,

&c. &c. &o.

No. 42.

Governor Sir J. Pope Henessy, L.C.MO.,

to the fight Bonourable the Hart of Kimberley-Recsival 19 July 1881.)

Goverment Hons, Hongkong,

3 June 1881.

ing your Despatch now arsler reply, I notice Tus La Fictorisuse, the fag-ship of Itour-

a lotior from Mr. Price, duted the 30th of Admiral Moyer, the new Commander-in- June 1880, in which he states that among

Inspector Perry apprehended Li Achung in Queen's Road yesterday afternoon, with 76 tins containing tea, which he was proved to be in unlawful possession of. He was fined £2, and given the option of suffering foartam days' imprisonment..

DRUNK.

From Hongkong-For London.Aga memnon, str.

For New York-None,

For San Francisco-Metapedia, Gaelic str,

The steamers have just: arrived with the with the month's supply, about 3,000 cheats. During the interval some 400 chests have been taken by the local consumers, against THAMES-TREET INDUSTRIES, by Percy This Illustrated Pamphlet on 530 cheats at the corresponding period last Rasol.

This, with thé

Independent of the had gratis from any Chemist or denler in supply,

Martin Rangull, an unemployed Scotch seaman, caused some disturbance in the year.

the Chinese "ne.comprehensive house chief of the French Squadron in Chip home of a European on the Praya yester. the availablo al portations, leaves Perinniery, &c., published at. 6d., may ba

bucket system of the kind

My Lerd,I have the honour to enclose out exists," and clut ined by and, Japan, arrived here this afternoon day night and nasalted the Police, and for aliove stated importations as computed, at perfumery in the World, or Josy GOSTE77-

he

gaul.:

1,200

cheats, against that of 2,150 choats and Co.,

London-[ADVT.]

were Benarea, of which the present stook comprises 650 cheats Perai Sales" mado at $450 to $486 par pioul; the stock is compated at 3,000 chesta

1876, when be from Singapore, where Rear Admiral this was sent to one mouth's hard labour in Last year. Of this last quantity 700 chests ín the various returns relating to the census

with the Colonial conjunction of the 3rd of April 1881, together with a

"a detailed house-to-house in Duperré, of the Thendis, handed over the statement I mails upon then when laying specion of the Chinese quarter of the command on the 22nd ultimu. In Vic-

(Before II. E. Wodehouse, Esq.) the Papers before the Legislative Council

la town," they discovered no such

system few days agolity of reference I anbox a copy removal of the entire waste products of a present under the command of Captain as the hours-bucket system, implying the toriense in an'iconclad frigato, ́and is at of the brief report. I made to Lord Carnarvon house by means of buckets unaided by Dioncien de la Batié. She is n vessel of in 1877 on the census returns which accom- drains," and they came to the conclusion

2. For facility.

THE NRAUAA IN "THE LAND WE LIVE IN*- PUBLIC MOUSE.

of lesace he had beon instructed to prepare. A letter was accordingly written to Mr Price on

the 24th of August to that effect. When I

received your Lordship's telegram yesterday, I called for the papers, and find the Acting Colonial Secretary's Minute of to-day's data, that Mr Price has mada no reply to the letter of the 24th of enclose for your Lordship's in formation, the Minutes of the Executive Council, and a copy of the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter of the 24th of August, with Dr. Stewart's minute thereon.

81 I am sorry to say this is not the only panied the Blue Book for 1876, and extract that the abolition of house-drains would be 4,094 tons, has 13 guns, strams 14 knuts her engines are of 3,963 horse power, and instance which

in

Our last report was dated the 18th ultimo,. for more than two years from Minutes of Executive Council of 29rd impossible. past some delay has occurred in

to this clear statement of she is manned, by 421 men. Salutes were shout another in the public house. The and since that date, a few further shipuszta the Public May 1877

careful Worke Department On the gist of last 2 The post-commercial progress of this two profen, based upon month, the Acting Colonial Scarotary put for the last four years is coincident personal observation, I find remarks of exchanged between the La Victorieuse and land we live in," on the 5th March, and of old season's leaf has been made.. A reference to the export tabte on the next before me a schedule of.

of 0.8.0.'s (Colonial with an increase in the population from your own, which, while favouring the so- the Port, the Iron Duke and the Stouch. A Puwers with alding and abetting.

case was resumed this morning, but page will show the export to date, and this pore), which had been 138,144 to 160,402; and incressa in the called house-buckut system, as at ones salute was also tired from the Iron Duke 31 Caldwell, froin the firms of Messrs will probably be the total export for lust Secretary's Office papore), registered as having been referred for some Colonial revenue (without additional taxa preferable in itself and better suited than yours past

to the Surveyor General, and tion) from 184,405 to 222,905 L.; and a underground drainage to the habits of the and Stoech on a visit being paid by the Brereton and Wotton, did not appear on not yet answered or. returned. The ache considerable increase in the value of pro- Chinese, do not furnish no with detailed commander of the new flagship to Roarself if the dule covers five pages of foulacap, and porty.

and specific evideres disproving the state- though many t

4. This general prosperity of Hongkong ments of the Colonial of the entries in it appear been disposed of by the

the

Frederick Moller, of Germany, and John Messas Tacos & Co.'s Canton Markot Powers, of Ireland, were charged, on re- Raport, dated 1st April, says niand, Moller with shooting and wounding John Williams, and also with attempting to

This

Dr. Stockwell, Acting Superintendent of

season.

Shipments of New Season's Congou to dato arc as follows

be of no great importance, and seem to is also coincidont with that important change Surveyor General; and iteon and Admiral Sullivan of the ore and Commo- the Government Civil Hospital, said the 13th March, 8. S. Sind 8,130 lbs. 1

have

by the Government, has ceased.

on

7. The building sites along

long the Kennedy.

nese accounts for

I re-

prisoners.

from the 11th instant. The bullet

We complainant had been under his treatment appeared

Pist

*

8. S. Bangalore,... 9,720,

23rd

-

27th

S. S. dagmenmen. 3,885, 5. S.

**

glaze.77,606 ;

Total

98,241 lbs.

to have entered the foreliend just above the

right eye, fracturing the external plate of

the bone, and gausing from the Shipments to same date last taken an upward direction, passing along

it

the frontal bone, the external plate of which fractured, and emerging about one inch audi-a-half above its entrance. The skin was unbroken between the two wounds. The wound was now healing well, but Dr. Stock

sqason were....magukka

Shipments to same date season

49,985-15.

TADSO

and

iF

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Barometer Direction of Wind..... Thermometer attached. 790 780

Weather........... Dry Themometer. 776

29.38 1.29.99 39 90|29.90 29.84

73.0

Force of Wind

77.678.0

Wel Thermometer.... 735

Hours of Rain......

Quantity

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On date

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CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.

it is consequently dure Von Blane of the other. by the mere lapse of to which I drew Lord Carnarvon's attention impossible for me either to accept your anticipate that the officers of this vessel timit, yet some of thera relate to questions in my report on the last census, namely, Jiews or to form any fust desision without will soon become as popular, if they re of growing urgency, which I am requesting the transfer to our Anglo-Chinese merchants further elucidation of the facts.

4. Under those circumstances I had al-muin anytime hero, na Admiral Duperrand Mr Price to try and take in hand, now that and traders of the business premises of tha Extraordinary

work Europeans and Americans, a a transfer which

determined to Bead out out an officer the officers of the Themis were. press of

fessional experience to

to decide, inves- the Praya Wall," to which he attributed the since January of last year involved a change of

ters referred to him of land and bouses for commercial purposes, tigrates, aud report upon the actual state of

1860-81............ 185,042. Ibe, ' delay in every-day matters

emounting in value to 1,700,000 dollars. affairs; and I had instructed the Crown Is the first part of Vel. XIV. of the Journal

Settlements and contracts during the last 5. Whist the European and American Agents to place themselves in comunica of the Icyal Asiatic Society Mr Kingsmill

fortnight have amounted to about 4,700 road ara much sought after by some of the malo adult population have continued to tion with an engineer of repute, who I hope loading Europeans anil professional men decline in number, there is an increase in will be able to start for Hongkong at an has a paper on the Intercourse of Chins wall was unable to say whether dangerous boxes here, and about 1,600 to 2,000 boxes

Williams in Macao, and prices may be said to and since coming to that deter with Rastern Turkistan." The events symptoms might not develop. and I have no doubt handsome villas will the number of children since 1876 Of the early date

constantly

quality complained of headache and from Tls. 18 to 26 per piou! be created on the hill-side, when I am in total increase of the population in the lamination, I received a letter from her treated of occurred in the second century there was a possibility of the inner plate is taken into consideration, these prices are 21,258, the increase of the Chi- Price, copy of which is enolosed, which B. It serves as a link to compare the of the bone being damaged. shall insist, four years, position to sell the land,

Had the Tia. 2 to her picul higher than last for 20,532. however, on the stringent conditions re

has furnished additional prout, if proof knowledge obtainable in the East from Chi-bullat penetrated further the consequences yours. The bulk of the top is decidedly Camarron 6. In my report to Lord

wanting that ferred to at the Executive Council

and a starching

nese writers and that to be obtained in the would have been fatal,

below the average quality, only a very faw inquiry make

into the meeting of the 28th of July by which ferred to a relaxation I ventured to

condition munitary

West from the old Greak writers. It

J. R. Grimble, P., who along with small parcels shaving strength and quality. colony is urgently necessary. that the not in say tusk to trace the ice of others apprehended the two defendants. The stock both hire and at Macao is very the commeraal progres the Queen's

people and places, under the different guises and he went to the bar of the and small and consists almost

consists almost entirely of medium West. The basis of Mr Kingsmill's paper, At the side door of the bar he saw the ret

descriptions and Tena hipped from Carton Waters

STATE OF WEATHx-8. Clear blue sky, C. plainant was lying on the ground insensible, to date-March 21, S. S. Bangalore I Lightning, Misty O. Uvercast. Cloudy, D. Drizzly. Fig. G. Foggy, H. nor sell the land, until I have given your allowing Chinese shops in what he consider on the subject from Dr. Eitel and certain press

with his Lage

blackened, apparently with Congou 10,000 lbs., total 10,000 Toe.; 23 Lordship an opportunity of submitting ad the purely Eureponn business quarter of Ohiness gentlemen, I cannot approve this

S Snow. Thunder U. Bad, threatening. theu, if your Lordship should think it to Hongkong, and expressed the opinion that nerangement by which an officer of profes: Tan Han Francisco Chronicle has the follow powder, and his head covered with blood. S. S. Agamemn, Congou 14:240 lbs., total Passing showers. 2. Fanaly. 7. Rainy

ising particulars suspecting the City of Pee, along with Dick, secured the Brst de 14,240 lbs. making, with previous chip. Visibility. W. Storm. Calm. The l

fendant, when the second whom he had ments, a total for this season of 19,040,070 tors are repeated to indicate any luckA CORT tion of the site for English and Eoreign placed under the control of a

Iba., against

bs for

season the mean averge of their signifestan frms. This gentleman thought the demand which has neither the knowledge

of sanitary

***** Razx.—- The Liqurs of rsiu for the previïms: 24 for land and native bouses in the uropean matters nor the official position which pany's steamer City of Pching in again in violent blow on the shoulder, and also 1881-82. A business quarter was mainly fictitious, and would justify the entrusting to it such the hands of workmen, receiving an iron gave P. G. Dick a blow on the head with a S. The market has again been very heure (ouu) a ragletered from 1 to 1, was due to the proceedings of some speca powers. And I feel bound to point ont deck and other strengthening, involving an Rolice staff which he had te his possession, quiet and had not a temporary demand the quantity of water lakes indicatos in Inothe lating compradores. But, on the contrary, that in opposing the measures, which hid expenditure of about $200,000. She has The wond defendant was not in the arisen, which soome satisfied now, prices sens and hundreda.

of

of the

water closets nor house privies will in one of the restrictions laid in this Colony. From this letter it operveys they assumed by being carried East or We Live In acompanied by PC. Disk, – lenti

or any flow of house sa chinese subjecta; and I submitan to his Leaf chitances by the §

.ba:

age

the barmoks

allowed inte drains towards Chine

spect by the Registrar | General

draw on for the

BAROMETER, level of the B in inches, dens, and ausdreda.

THERMOMETER, Án Fahrenholt degrees and tons, kept in the open air in a shaded situations

DIRECTION OF WIND in registered, every two pelists, Y., N.N.E., N.E., &a

FORCE OF Wien-0 qilm. 1 to 5 light brante,

& Furthermore, when the Surveyor Lordship the protest lodged against my the

the Colonial Surgeon have which contams much good information, is defendant in a very excited condition andort of the APARATHAN of 8 to 5 moderato. 5 to 7 frenit. 7 to 8 strong Ganem has drafted those conditions for General, who, altsongh nominally the been cancelled by you, and that you direct the Shiki of Sza-na-Taien with a'revolver in his hatid, while the coin-kung, Carton, and Blacso) to Great to 10 heavy 30-ta 12 violentNAN

the

in this respect

new lonace, I shall not act upon them "Protector of the Chineso," argued against ed the further oficer to take his instructions

do ad to the War Department for ap the Governur outd reserve the central porsional experience and hietes, king: The Pacific Mail Steamship Com- not seen before came up and struck him

proval

I have, &c.

**

(Signed) J. Porn HENSELY.

The Right Hon the Karl

of Kimberley,