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eisted in his labours by Mr Calvor, of the glass works, who also rendered valuable aid in preparing the stage.

Yours,

thereby reconciled to the negoptañro of ever been withered in Hongkong, and it fute are not yet obtainable, but it is expect ƒ plot of gmand which bad héon dng and plan- Lefore His Honorer E. J. Ackroyd, Puis and passed under his slorn if she had time.

THE FETE IN THE ROTANICAL

GARDENS.

With no land to cultivate and so ponds from which to draw supplice of lisa, the condition area of those who have houses to live is is truly pitiable. That of many Inndrode who have nano can be batter imagined that described. The relief wa

Judys; and Liens A. E· MaMuedo, RN., H.B.M. 'Fictor. Emanuel'; and Captain T. Brady, of the *Rosetta, on Naval Asutasura.) Wodnesday, July 15.

OMRMAN 8, 8. "DORIS' v. BRITISH 8. 9. PERING AND THE PEKING D 'DONIS." Mr Francis, instructed by Messra Sharp,

Stokes, appeared for the owners at the neral (the Hon. E. L. O'Malley) and Me Luth, instructed by Mesara, Wotton, and Duston, represanted Messrs Milburn & C, the owners of the Pering.

These actions areas pat of a collision which took place in Hongkong Harbour on solidated. No specific amounts were claimed, The hearing of these cassa was resumed this morning.

.Police Intelligence. (Before H. B. Wodehouse, Esq.) -

Tuesday, July 14.

LARCENT ON BOARD 2012.

rooked

of money for a most deserving cause.a strong on, hat would have been better THE INUNDATION IN KWANGTUNG. brought to the people was on all hands re- the night of the 25th May, and were co-though the actud value was only about Chartered Mercantile Bank had seen through

Ile haen gathered together to wiluces any

Success.

To the Editor of the 'CHINA MAIL.'

Canton, July 13, 1885. Su-Var relief party returned to Canton to-day from Sam Shai, and we are now in

which came under observation in that dis-

ceived al

DEILUCTING THE FAIRWAY TO FEDDER'S

WHARE.

понядя

performance hero, and this fact alone t enjoyed a great treat, hut the sound a position to fumish a report of the distress | quantity of provisions vas measured out and intendise P. & O. Pier, she found obstructing the fairway to Pedder's Wharf self, and having tho mɑney, he refused to

reloste much credit upon the promoters of the scheme, who have devoted much of their time and an immense amount of

did not travel far, and most of these on the terraces heard it very imperfectly. Later on the same guatlemen sang The Hardy trict. Whilet it sama nast to impossible to Norseman,' and 'All among the

labour and thunght upon the necessary on both occasions renderodey and give an exaggerated account of the sufer.only to those destitute persone whose hotes and turn round and anchor, stem un to the boats were anchored at 11 p.tz. last night plunder, Mr Wattout cunfdoutly subunit

preparations More than this, we havo no

very

No. 6858-JULY 15, 1886.]

FURTHER difficulties are boing experienced

The spectacular display was fully equalled

ground between was laid out as paddy timed, nor that they saved the valuable tried to cross his bows, and Captain Heuer custody on this sharge. They thon get bost from destruction. In this hope that ammu replied that he had had no such back into the sampan, and went nshore to in worth and variety by the drawing room

balls no two months since.

The river-bed being higher than the aur you will receive wall subscriptions for intention, and that he was at a standstill, the Central Station. Wheu charged with by the Chinono about the Mixed Court.

entertainment provided by tha kadin and

The only noticeable failure in the ar- rounding country the water finds free acctless top I encloa $2. It is much to be Captain Heuermann then naked witnces being concerned with Meadows in stealing In, whose appoutaunt has twen olrendy gentlemen, who no generoadly gave their

in ne bia in exstence, Peking was preparing to go to

ways. Af affichéd at the Fen-t'ai's Yaluan, sow pe services in the Theatre, and offered in itself currents was that ford fiflure in the when channele kuve been won by the no longer its exsicos, otherwise there is that he thought and writes said he thought its 26,100, be mid I about prosouter's remptorily declinon it. He has had a sufident attraction to draw together a public to the Gardens.

The this respect was comploto, and nut only us of the food at the time when the little doubt that these men would have pon, and that he was astonished to find him ter that he alluded to the great sceno with the Fun-t'ni, in which he large and cosmopolitan nasombly. fazly

declared that he would risk impeachlovers of vocal music wore delighted with caused great inconventionco and even dan banks burst. More than one of theso chan-beau better rewarded. This certainly seams crossing his bows. It would have done no aliasca, and mid so someone would have mont sooner than go to the Stolen. He the brilliant singing of the accomplished ger to visitors who arrived at the gates best nols may pasily be mistaken for the man a caso that deserves to be considered by the good for him a have let ge his anchor, to pay for his being the detained and anchor would not have had time to get hold would swent for it. The prisoner was argued, and rightly, that it was unfair to Signora Marchetti, and the gleen given by twoen 8.30 and 6 p.m., but led to a very strain. We found exploring and not bring presentatives of the engineering because his experience showed him that the king his ship, and the Hongkong police

the Chinese who which we went profession.

before the collision, and if he had let go anxious to have his luggage taken to the dogrule him solely became a fat post was gentlemen while some clever sketebing,large proportion of

STEAM-PIPE the anchor and it caught buld the Peking Hongkung Hotel. When strested he had wanted for Buang. So what will be done with fancy eile shooting and a nativa nero. thronged the grounds getting in widat left the der when in truth the river was now we do not kapw.--N.-C. D. Ves batic periarnianco, marlimentes, etc., added payment at all, over the garden wall. We scarcely insight in the distance.

at the villages, which are newly all on [We shall gladly receive any subscrip-would have dropped down on him, and 881 sovereigns upon him and 61804 in On the th, the same paper says We variety to the entertainment It is needless do not know who was responsible for the sre now informed on the best authority that to say that all this excellent inra was highly ap-miomanagement of this important part of the lighus; ground, the water rose in tome tions for the above purpose, if our with the tide ruthing as it was it would money. There were 14 packages of lugga

the prisoner's companion, and there was a the Viceroy of Nanking has overcome the precinted, and parts of it were loudly ap the business, but cortainly the arrange places & feet, and in others to 8 feet or carragandent will kindly undertake to see have been a difficult inatzer to get the ships ge, sums of while appeared to belong to

Cross-examined, witness know the Peking considerable amount of jewellery: scruples of La Chia-chieh, and that the plauded by thola geaudience which collected ments for the admission were about a bad more, above the level of the fields. The that the money to collected shall find its separated.

was not at anchor when he first sighted her, Mr Wotton asked His Worship in the tter will sasumo the duties of Magistrats in the seats in the Theatre enclosure, and as they could bo, and it was impossible for marks of greatest height are plainly to be way to the two nion whose services it is

because her head, was not lying to the tide. first instance to dismiss the ones, imtly on the Mixed Court in about two weeks aquatted or stood on the terraces above. It anyone, even provided with a ticket, to ub seen on the walls of the ancestral temples. sought to recognise-Es, C...

Re expected her to lie still until he had got the ground that if there was any crime com- tirao. The Viceroy has commended him to is naraly indeed that such a varied com-tain entrance at either of the gates supposed. It would not be true to say that through

SUPREME COURT. ^

passed. According to the German rule of mitted it was not within the jurisdiction of. Shao Tau-t'al és very clover and able bination of first lass entertainment can be to be open, without fighting his way throughout thesis or seven square miles of country

IN ADMIRALTY,

The riad, she should either bave stopped this court, secondly that there was no evid afficial, and promised to that he will not found together, and certainly nothing apa most unsavoury crowd with grant difficulty, traversed by us there were no traces of Particulars of the amount realised by the cultivation. We saw in cuo village a little

still until he had passed, or parted her cluence whatever of any crime having been Inse sight of him in to rasanture. Ln is pranching to it in the smallest degree has

committed, and thirdly that Meadows was Erkeat Lubrien, the chief officer, was stated to have boon the bailos of the post which is considered beneath his proper goes without saying; nho, that the inded to amount to about $3,000. Tickets ted after the waters retired and thoro

thon examined. His oxamination-in-chief Rs. 25,400, and until there had boon sarne rank, and has now gone to Chuan-aho to vidual exertions of each performer gave wore sold before the evening to the amount were other apots raised above the lovel "of Some of 81,500, and $1,000 wore taken at the the plain where the young tice sown after bo

Lasted until the Court adjourned. Jį | proof of the actual conversion of this money wind up his affairs there preparatory to the most unbounded satisfaction.

to his own use, there was no crime what- settling pro tem. in Shanghai.

disappointment was, porhage, folt at the gates. This is considerably below the esti the watari leit the ground will son

ever committel by Meadows alone, much absence of the promised rigger minstrel' mate which would be naturally formed an ready for planting ont. These sprite, her entertainment. Wo understand that the accing the immense crowds inside the over, are few and far between. They boar

less could Frost be a party to any crime, reason this was not given wax Lause they gardens during the evening. At the low-about the same rolution to the whole sur

Mr Wotton proceeded to go over the prose- were afraid their sable complexions would cat estimate we should imagine that 5,000 rounding country as the small aasis to the Not only are the fields

cutor's evidenco, arguing upon it in support: of these contentions. Mr Box; had, ondoa- spoil with the heat, and turn palor than people had visited the grounds, and the only wide desert.

voured to put the best aspect possible upon The grand al fisco fits given last night they ought to. The public will no doubt conclusion we can arrive at is that about covered, hit the fish ponds of the villages.

alf sinauraly synapathise with the gontleen in

the number got in for nothing. Promaterial source of support to the inhabi. Jelinsou a furis and the Attorney Ge

his case, but he(Mr Wotton) contunded that in the Botanical Gardens in aid of the their fiction. As it was, however, there bably it was not expected that anything tants, are choked with sind.

Wong Cheng Wing, cutie, wae con- what the facts of the case really amounted like so large a number of people would 6l completely 2 sufferers by the recent aevore floods in was plenty of fare to

opened with apply for admission, but the least that

victed of stouting a pies of iron, value to were that the prosecutor had endeavour Thit lengthy programme. Kwang-tring, was, we believe, the most Huutsuane Churns, by gentlemen could have been done would have been to

from the British ship dateinete on the d to evade his liabilities, by starting a na eet one gate apart for the admission of

14th inet. The piece of iron stolen was a firm under another namo-that of Bond, successful affair of the kind ever undertaken amateurs, the majority of whom are mem-

necessary adjunct to the windlass and as one of his employda o tlust the goods such was of great importance on board, could not be eaised by his ereditors, but the in the Colony, both as a public entertain-bere of St. John's Cathedral choir, and those who were provided with tickets.

were ably led by Mr Sangater, and accom. mont and as a means of raising a large sum

panied by Mr G. Grimble. The chorus was

Defondent was sentenced to one month's the move, and had seized upon both busi- Then when this occurred, he hard labour. 250 by getting from the elders of

smuggled Meadowa out with the Rs. 25,000. Never before in the memory of the uldest balanced had the bass part bean somewhat

each village we came to a list of the most stronger. It was ang in excellent time, sad

Mr Francis, in oponing his cam, said the

so as to dare something from the wreck, needy and destituta persoas in the place. To each of these wo gave a ticket for case for the Doris was that, in coming in inhatitarit, has no largo a concourse of peat it been sung whore it could have been

and start business again.. In Meadows, better heard, would have been a great

Four boat people were brought up by however, it appeared that he had to dua As those who were well in

catties of rice and ten biscuits, and this from Whampoa on the night in question,

to anchor

sonewhere a little James Harkin, P.C. 52, cuscged with with a man as sharp, or sharper than him, by the won whom we left at the boats to to the Buat of

a rather strong ebb tido running and on the 13th instant. every applicant who presented his ticket.

lot the prosecutor have any of it until the We soos had to limit our tickets, giving thought it advisable to ran up the harbour

The constable stated that the defendante intter agreed to give him a fair share of the

With tido. actually fiton.

la view, she ran this purpose Six singes out of more than sixty, wore along the harbour, ap what had been called the fairway apposite Pedder's Witted that there was no evidence on which Continual complaints were, being made of his client could properly be detained upon good time and taste-Mr Sangster coming we have witnessed daring the last two tincting, and Mr Grimble accompanying days, we wish particularly to refrain from refused relief becatise, though the crops the North fairway, although he denied that this and it was found necessary to clear the this charge.

there was any such fairway, and no proof tairway three or four times a night. T His Worship said ha thought the cross hesitation in saying that nearly all, if not The other vocal omsic was provided by any detailed deeription of the horrors of wore all spoiled, only a few of the houses been given of it, until she passed the of the defendante, po a cargo-boat pre | Stamination into the prosecutor's anteve wore destroyed. Our supply of rice (500 Signora Marchetti, who sang cavacinas from the inundation We have no desire to pieuls) and biscuits (little more than 100 Austrian Lloyd's steamor Titanic. She pristor, and one a nampan man who had donts could have no effect.

instribution, The dietinotion restward, mud her hond wea then steered other. SwO, BLIJ Auver uned gould ses there was no doubt, thia was a

hetwogn a lengths' night went away fully satisfyd that they she drew forth the most and effect that make out a case for public sympathy in picule) rendered necessary, the grotest care then baærned round under a port be, two beca previously convisted, wore fined excepting with regard to the credibility of 'distanco from the fetunia, to the cack, or fourteen days' hard labour, the the prosecutor's evidence. As far as one had received in the entertainment provido planas. Her tripod most usthusiastic ap any other way than by plainly nstrating destitute person who had a house and a

soprano voice was heard in a few words as possible, what we sav

When within a dis-

hard labour.

boad file charge. The evidence of the throughout the Gardens with the grea-

destituts persen who had no house was ousy coures W.S.W.

prosecutor as to what occurred with the them full value for their money, over and test distinctness, and she rendered her in the flouded fields and ruined villages to observe, and for the most part we folt mes of 500 feet of Messra Russell's nice exch, or seven

observe that compulled to

distinction No. 2 buoy, the

the Captain suddenly saw

ALLEGED LARCENÝ OF MONEY AND prisoner at Rangoon was such as to involva Where the poople seemed above charitable feelings This was of selections with so much artistic taste and which coyer only a small extent of country. throughout.

a steamer in the middle of the harbour

JEWELLERY.

the laster in this case, and it would be it 1208 course due to the kindness and generosity race, that she fully merited the warm

No information has yet bocu received all equally poor, or (as in the instances coming across his bowe

Chu Asz, a widow, Chan Tu, a girl of impossible to overlook it unt tribute which she received from her

widow, explained by some counteracting evidence: displayed by the various talented performers | koszara. Mr F. M. Page, whose abilities from the other relief party, consisting of mentioned above) where the houses were two or three minutes before, but there eleven years of age, Wong Asz,

His Worship must therefore declino to close the case as it then etood. At the sa who gave their servicns for the occasion as a caricaturist are of a superior order, Mesura Ost, Fulton, må Grundy. We left every vue destroved, we gave an order for was nothing about her to attract particular | and Imong Ahang, a married woman, wer a supply of rice and biscuit proption attention, and the appenrod motionless charged with stealing a box containing gave a most interesting and entertain the gentlemen at the district city of Sauned to the number of persons at the Noreen light was visible, and the first dung devoted both their time and money to wonderfully rapid and free manuer, some Shui, and they were then completing their place, leaving the division to the heat of the which attracted attention was the motion my, jewellery, &c., to the valno of $103,

village and the people themselves. When of her screw, and har sadden movecot ensure the success of the enterprise. of the lending men of the day, including

was not prastienble our men ahead across the harbour The Doris, Mr. on the y of a widow nuimed Wang Atai, ingat if some reasonabio guarantee for his

Cumplainant's statement was to the effect When the gates were opened at 8.30 Bongonfiold, Randedph Churchill, Brad. Preparatious for proceding to Sz Ci, their this pl

that abe occupied a room in a house in ute to that district lying in a different gave out rice at the rate of 5 catties to each Francis contended, was being navigated in Laugh

Bismneck and Gladstone, and also p.m., the Gardeus presented a fairy-like (one or two local celebrities, among whirection from that taken by Mr Simmons member of a family and counted out to a proper and seaman-like manner, when p'àguilar St. and the foer prisoners ce-

and tnyeolf.

ench 10 or 12 biscuits.

the Peking, apparently motionless before, enpist another roon on the same floor, were the popular Major Tripy, and Mr The statements in this letter refer to

It was

ms only with the greatest difficulty shut across her bawa at full speed, through On the 11th inst., at 7 pm, she left her scoue seldom beheld in this picturesley, the genial and ebliging Manager places on the North River only, not to the that tre could make our way from plate to her culpable pagligence in mul keeping room for in quartor of an hour, and ou her client could be detained....... little island. Our Public Gardens are in

of the Hongkong Hotel These latter North-west River, whitlar Mr Ost and his place, being beat ut every turn of the proper ck-out while abu was performing a return found a cupboard, which had hen

His Worship stopped him, however, and themselves grounds that any country might shotches wero amrcely so true to their

ath by a clamorous altitude who on-most critical and dangering manunivre, oloned, opened and a box containing jewel. said he woule not arguo the matter further ho proud of, but decked with wreathe and Ariginals as those of the former, but When we left Canton on Wednesday the routed boce us in may directions The only thing to which Mr Francis could lary do. abstracted. Sho, at once reported a bad given his full attention to the past

On the water it was compare the mureaunt of the Feking was the matter to the Police,

me to the conclusion that come to lines of vanetian leaps of all colours and they nevertheless showed the ability place of our destination was understood at the same moment.

of the performer. Mr Pemberton W. Wil

that of a ship being launched, 3 Yea Sergt. Butlin deposed that upon are there was evidence of a a crise having been wn-the tints, lining the walks and intermingled lard, assisted by Miss Vernis added we to be the market town of Shek Kok, in the s

Taing

Us district. From that region

opon At a time yesterday nine bonts were sal Loing suddenly shot across the

down the barbour. This she port being made by the complainant committed by Meadows, and he had ato track up and had done with the beuntiful tropical trees and shrubs terually to the BuQuess of the entertain-alarming reports had reached Caston of the following na apone of the channels in the nethrough not keeping à proper look-e accompanied her to the top floor dome to the conclusion that there was asi which adorn the Gurdens, the appearance ben by his elever and really wonderfut damage done to crops in the fields, and the fields, and these were full of persous engar hak

of No. 14 D'Aguilar Street and after deace of the prisoner having besu implicat fancy shouting Both performers appeared from the upper terraces, where the trees rien verbial drasa of the North Arausequent suffering entailed on the agri-to prosil on us to visit their villages, see for out on the starboard sido of the ship, sesing the cupboard where the complained in it to a cer gin extens B Icoked rip was enchanting, particularly when viewed in the

Indian, and while Mis Vernic held sultaral population. Trustworthy persons ourselves the desolation there and give thing she should have been most watchful ant had loft the box aurched the other on the cass as one of conspiracy.

Unfortunately tickets practicalar nder the circum-i

The first prisoner and the Mr Wotton asked for a small bail, as the miuolo articles in

articles in front of a small white were sent there & take inquiries and col-reif. We did what we could so long

lect anch information as might be made the rice aster. ware bang with Chinese and Japanese lan-board mounted on an essal, Mr Willard, } available on the arrived of the boats with were bsurd for more poradh, than we stanous, the Doriadić all that it was pissible girl went into a lumber room between the | præoner was a stranger here, and had no complainant's and defendants' rooms and means ut; goiting sureties. This police hid teins, giving out: a soft and subdued light. from the opposite side of the stage, rapidly the necessary supplies. This intention would apply, and many of those who came to du. The engines were immediately put the missing box of jewellery, was found asized every thing he had, over £50 in meney,

sim, in

in a variety of

of positions, Such As

ян to make Sher Kok the centre for distrilate and were most iu need had to be sest full speed estern, with a view, if lying down, standing with his back towards

The box and other effects. They held that, and that majority of waura were Chinese, in their the object, from between his legs, with bating tice to the people was not carried away with a third or fourth of the praised sible, to lessen the aliuck of the collision, under a seat apon which the girl was made jewellery to the value of £400, and all his

out. Our thram boatloads of provisions

Me betin was put to pork, and throw into it by the first prisonert had the was ample security for him. It was really

Mr. B a very hard full and owing robes of white, or pale one hand, ots. In every case ho hit the were spent in two days, and we di quay distributing at Lo Pau, where easels aide by side. As it was, the forse not been oped, as

Wa began

, and ho thought object taimed at. He accuracy as a marke

very slight. Mr

The first defendant was committed for from a friendly fealing, might also noi ba blue tints, added animation to the general man is marvellous. As an instance of how proach nearer than 16 miles of the place there is a village immediately adjoining of the collision W

which we started to ranch. Early on scene which was romantic and picturesque true in his aim, it may be stated that while Saturday morning, whilst we wore making houses had fallen. Afterwards, when worn, said he was the master of the other three defendants were discharged.

In this village 25 Francis then called bis evidence. the market town.

trial at the Supreme Chart, bail being desirous of keeping the prisonar in Willian Jorgen Christian Zarrab allowed in two suretics of $5.10 ch. The Decorations of various Miss Vernie beld a lighted cigar, in art one way with all possible speed against a BAW

the distress in the romoter vil- cigar holde

At 11 n'clook of forma in different coloured lamps were of the 26th May, his steamer wes

(Before B. Macken, Esy.) these Itt in the North channel or fairway of Hong- of a candle, leaving the candle un-

BAT the ruina

and kong harbour. coming in from Whampoa

Wednesday, July 15, touched. Willard's Marionettes were also

also were travelling, we saw

ander pers inving employment who may the steamor narod the Titanie it was 118, beautifully adorned with festoons of lights, to the natives and children, some of their water. Yielding partly to the sutreaties of exposted to do something for their big was the masterpines of the illumina. antics being very amusing. Miss Vernie poso in coming and who called to us from quito otherwise in the purely farming dia- nuwestward, W.S.W., of the Russing the people, ale weerned to know our pir neighbours in the aissent villige. It is der sonithand of the pilot, when witness took command himself. He was to anchor to tions. A large shield of various colonzert played elections on the piano, while the shore, and influenced still more by the

the tric, where tiw people have none on whom the amusing little

tof submerged fields, fallen houses and figures IBAN

sight

and them through their droll manteuvres. And

they ou

We finished the steamer Kamchatka. On his way rely for help.

rond her lamps was erected at the top of the path hat one the loss worthy, came the K broken or bankmonte, we landed at a little work of diatribation at half-pas; nine on the Titania, and turned cins passed ardens last night, and were sentence te from Calclitta with a vury large audi

atem. He had slowed as ans ho eatno wayside market called Kai Tan Hü, told the Sunday night, the river at the time being al- people on the bank that we intended to go

into the channel, and he was going slow most blocked with

with applicante, 8 to one of the villages, and asked them of wins had come from great disisicos to when he passed the Titania: As be found he could not get round under slow ahead, to show the way to those places which had taken to their vilinges on the moon.he went astern for a little, to get the Public Ganlons last night, and was sent to i distance. In this matter, and had come here erected on the grass-plat in the centre of character unique to many of the sudering where walking was possible, hundreds more that we met with in the head up to the tido. Ha then went halt naied · Leong Ashither man, a cook with but very little, and he could not sind.

all, of the thousands of all classes and nationalities who visited the Gardens last

the operas Eranni' and 'Travis, with so much admirablo

and other members of the community who

azhibition of his skill, by sketching in a

The crowd of people walking abont, ibe

took

in the extremis.

erected over the entrances to the grounds

the xt

have gone.

pot sp-

of rica.

10

for, and her

Sho was reén

a

the

rondered a collision

holder, in her mouth, Mr Willardoad minul and strong earrent about tentages and hamlots, we resolved to avoid the Gorman steamer Doria. and in other conspicuous positions. The wish of the cigar. He also split the ht bank of the river in the diection we and business cent Fountain on the middle terrace was most a great attraction, and give much delighthouses and a wide extent of cultor there are ahopkeepers, trades-people, this was little mery than in ballast. Un

Chesa

way above the upper torneo, which washing roups of native acrobats. These were also fusioned with lighte. The Theatro, Eve or six in number, and their contortions, for the musical and other performances, was leaping and tumbling, were not only sur prisingly clever, but from their extraordi

of

In

F

& 'me

A device of V. R. with the Crown

in

the lower level opposite the steps, and was foreigners present. We believe the sur- vices of this troupe were obtained through very prettily decorated.

Mr Lee Tuok Choong All the entertain- ments were under the directorate of Mr

By walking

most from the inundation.

in flat-bottomed boata över the

Wu do nothing for them or for many

u sanid

course of the day.

of stage maiters enabled him to discharge

occupied with shairs was set apart for the concerned. ase of the audience. A malahed was

be

the pro

he

koy

12th inst..

this case,

not leaving the colony was given. Flo would therefore be ready to hear anything the solicitor for the defence might have to say on the subject of bail.

Mr. Wotton again proceeded to argus that there was no ordencs on which his

time he was unwilling to keep the prismer

and he

had

The prosecutor said he had to press upon the prisoner, though from no such cause as 37 Wit on hat, suggested, and should be glad if he could have allowed He had no doubt him to go unpan shed. he should be able to prove the prisoner's

Ha lile prepared

ti complicity. LARCENIES AT LET sicur's Fea Champde. asut any charges

gainst himself, * ke Li Atsin, a fortune-teller, and Chang felt himself forocent of the imparations Mr. fee of oil, value 92, from, the Botanionl been au dispusut he might have mucio iff Aping, coolis, wore convicted of stealing a Wotton had cast upom him. If he had

three weaks hard labour each,

but he only took the £2,000, which, thought legally ho might not have been entitled to Chiu Kani Bhing, a chair coolie, admited take. he felt that he was entitled to it a clearge of straling a glass lane fruat the morally. Ho hud travelled over a great

GETTING AND WOUNDING.

cook, in

the Wong Aling, a

omplay of

ship's gaol for Boren lava

convicted of unlawful to abandon tha case, speed Abend, „10 stop paddling in

His Worship said the stern way. When possession of four similar lamps, was 990-

said he would grant aids where the water was deep enough,

grant bail in two sureties of $250 each,

of $500, We returned to Canton, wishing that the he got headway again his bow was about tenced to fourteen days hard labour.

HW.S.W. He could then 580 Megste

and at the application of Mr Watton, ho being carried on the backs of the villagers amount of relief we had taken down to Russell's boy shed, on the starboard side.

consented to accept a money deposit in lieu, the helm, in- the centre, in eofonred laraps, surmounted Willard, whose experience and knowledge where there were neither patlus nor boats, Sun Shui had been many tiraes greater to the man to steady's longth Mr Bowdler, was charged with cutting and as he believed the prisoner could hardly.go Iuspector Ferry having no objection to ciliar we contrived to rach and inspect in two The Chinese Bonevolent. Society Yak days more than sixiy villages and hamlets Tong) hud boen every here before us: tending to pass that buoy n the front of the Teatro, and a small space, his nderous, duties with satisfaction to aying in the plain between the two market there was no village or hamlet, however, off after he gave that order, and just as woanding Lau Águn, a chair-coolie employeaway with all his effects in the hands of the

turns of Lo Pau and Tai Tong, from 14 small, which they had not visited and sup. his

his ship was longth ghand of the B. Men by Mr Bowdler, on the 14th inst. The police.

The sightal Mr Thomus Ide Bowler thrunghout the to 20 m les north of the district City of plied with rice. Several of their bonts steamer, he

and abrat one knot! ground erected for the Band of the 'Buffs' on the evening provided and worked an alcotrio Sam Shui and all within a radius of abont & seed, on the way to Teine Un, whilet 1 then going over th the Peking. He w cute was remaided till the 21xt inst, bail i pathway above the second terrace, opposita light, with which he illuminated the stage. miles from Kai Tan Hi, where aur boats we by at anchor, and we inek others a fand a half, or three knots through the Leing allowed in one surety of 825..

the centre, was occupied by the refresh-flector which had be promised him, the be briefly described to by in ranny instances rendering cannot but be insiequate to the ad hy throught she was on the big with of entering the hopso of one Cha Aworg Jane, na follows

Owing, however, to the operator having

were anchored.

uf

the

ENTERING

PROFERTY.

sighted the Pelity.

DWELLING HOUSE AND STEVING the Fountain. The Fonatain terrace, in been disappointed in not receiving a re

we were returning to Canton. But the water. When he first

his port bow,! The present aspect of these villagos may help which this admirable inalitution itale was about two points on

Shy Tag Awing a coolin, atitted a charge ment department, matsbede being excuted light was at times rather erratic in its one of niter and complete dead the more out and is a bug we our arrival the Bene. her head pointing N. NW. At that time in Gough Street, and stealing a joke be

I to him to be stationary then, appeared for the purpose on both sides of the foun: movemema

furtlier our inquiries reached the more Twelve days before our tain, the inner circle being taken up by During the intervala, the Band of the manifest and more widespread were the volent Society had given out 3 catties of rice he only saw a rusthead light. From bis longing to the complainant, at 6 am

Defendant was sent to gaul for tables and chairs for the use of those de- But, under their experienced conductor, signs of dimater. Out of more than six- toesh individual without distinction in the position he must have seen her green light day. siring to refresh exhausted nature. On one Baudmester Kolly, plays a variety of pa ty villages and hamlets six only had several villages visited by onr party. The if abe bad one, unless it was covered. Two fourteen days.

or three minutes after he sighted

her first, most of the houses standing in four of the persons who received rica front as on he saw she was coming ahead, altering the villages the anly bu

y buildings which had escaped day and Sunday will have food enough to

He destruction were the ancestral temples last a weak.

bearings. His helm was then stonds. these latter being, even in the poorast

Two more relief parties will leave Can was then from 10 to 200 feet off har. As

MR. BOX'S CASE. places, well built, substantial structures.

Frank Frost was again before the court toa on Thursday morning, with provisions as he saw lier raoving, he put the en In the greater number of villagesand hamlets bought with the money raised in Hongkong gines full spesit astern, and ported the helm, which we entered moro that half the houses were litersity level with the grounds al Canton. Onu wo not do more, sesing us to keep her head to starboard if she char; o of being curverned with an- that the people are already on the verge of and any way on her. He noticed the Pether not in oustody in stealing 25,000- or at best wars

are confused heaps of brisks

Mr. Wotton appeared for the defined the way the water was working that the en- and stones, beama fal rafters, finand startion and will not be able to grow rice king's scrow. werking, and he judged from upoes, the property of Mr. T. Bux.

for weathe to cons?

The asecutor was again put in the box, with hroken furniture And the mud of the

Famine and sickness must cary of mui gines were going half speed. The chief

Grand March 'Africaine, "

Overture Haydee,'' Danse Pompeuse."

side the enterprising muunger of the Hang-puler selections, in their usual execlient and kong Hotel, with 4 numerous staff, displeasing style. Among theas were:- poured ices and other mild refreshments, while the other half of the cicacent was devoted to the sale of restoratives of a aronger nature. The business done in this department during the evening was amor, and we hear that the whole

of acrated

- watura procurable was exbusted before the right was half through. As before mentioned, the profits

Les Cloches de Cornoville.' Vains Mandolinsta.”

Erinit

*Always Joyful."

Of course such an entertainment us that given to the public at large last night could

・

Presented the British sportem he in- A..B Westland the Head Government I havn' their beds nnder the trees, with

A GOOD BUGGESTION..

(Before II. E. Wodehouse, Esq.)

I re-examination.

..

A PROBABLE NEW, GERMAN MINISTER TO CHINA.

An occasional correspondent writes to the NU. D. News from Peking, on the 6th

une, as follows tino to night to drop you a few lines to let you know the very latest bunder that has cropped up here, and which I heard at the club, Low that I laughed at it when it was rat mentioned, but the mate whe broached it ran after me when I left the room and offered to bet me five to three that it was true, so I begin to think there is some truth in it after all, The yarn is that on the retirement of and it is but right you should know about it. Herr von Brandt, whose harth has vis

gisen much cause of anxiety among bia friends, Dar Commissioner Mr Delring will succeed

derived from the sale of refreshments were siot be got up and carried through in the walls and fields. Where thoro are any titudes in spite of the efforts of the Tuag / officer was on the forecastle; and the second and the greater part of the morning was him as His Imperist German Majesty's devoted to the fend for which the enter successful manner it was, without entailing houses remaining, the people who have ng Wah and Of Yuk Tong Societies, and those in the wheelhones, helping the two quarter- | coonpiod ia going over the ovidence be bad Minister Plenipotentiary is China Thin tainment was organised, Mr Gresley's much labour and exertion on the part of longer any dwellings of their or are crowd of benevolent officials and private ind engine-room through a telegraph and stels on that stor Pesired to address the when you look into it it has all the colour wasters, He canmunicated with the previously given and answering questions will be a fitting pendant to the appointment asidence pnt by his Worship. of Sir Robert Hurt as British Minister, and taak last night was no sincoure, and his lot those who carried out the Achemg

Weed into fow amall buildings and in the vids in Canton, Rich philanthropists

sohayed as sooR The Was not a happy one

hear that the idea was first anggested by ancestral temples. Some of the latter are among the fareiga residents may find the phone, and his order was hytte from the tart upon the case, and was proceeding to of likelihood, as it is more than possible The shooti gallery, mangral most eff our worthy agistrate, Mr Wodehouse piled from floor to ceiling with furniture best possible scope for their charity in ruhe gave it. He heard no c'eatly by Mr. Susies and Inspector The general management was undertaken saved from the general

Roving the distressed. Chinese at 8am Shui Peking until b siw her move ahead. He argue that the effect of Mr Wetton's cross that the German Government may dears Orley, was erected on the right of the walk and carried through by Mr Stewart Lock Whorever parts of the walls are left and other places, where the flouds have had kept his whistle blowing all the way examination of hich had been to do more to be on a similar footing as Great Britain through the harbour, every two minutes to convict the prisoner than say evidence will be at Posing by having some and o Te the Fountain & trace. The sport was hart, the acting honerary treasurer of the

high influence with the Churcse or its re- mado auch terrible ravages. standing, men and women insy be seen

I am, Sir, well patronised, both by Chinese and Euro. Kwangtung Inundation fund, who has taken crouching in the corner of the rains or

When the shipa came into oullision, the he had given previously. Doris was almost, stopped. Under the Mr Walton objected that this kind of presentative a more suitable person for this реалв and a goodly sura was taken during great pains to make the entertainment a under mata stretched over four or five

Yours very truly, the evening by the two showmen, who re-

infisience of the ongices going full speed thing was informal, the presocutor of sutive there. It certainly could not THOMAS W. PLABOR. success. The erection of the matshed &a. pieces of wood, so placed as to have some

astern and the helm ported, the Doris' head simply in the position of a witness in the purpose than the gentleman above named,

Saltbux End the in the Gardens was superintended by Mr resemblance to a poor sort of tent, Others

He With the engines re

would give evidence- in the bie diplomatic acquirerents are thought went to starboard.. Texan cowboy their get-up: in

by his friends to be cu a par with the talents CORRESPONDENCE.

vormed, her head was bound to go-to star nature of a reel evitable Aunt Sally, with a genuins Irish Gardener, who was most indefatigable in no other shelter than the branches offer.

board. The shock of the collision; was in the printer. He said he wout with can be no doubt that he standa ́i

Inspector Perry gare videos to arest of Sir Robert in political matters, and there culty in her mouth, exposed her wollhia exertions in making the neomanry ar- Almost all appear to be utterly deatitate

Iwa with: done to the Peking

at Pe- known features on the groan plat above the rargements. The pretty venetian lamps and it will be long before the land around

was small, The stern of the Doria WSB apper terrace, and lured a number of sabi- with which the gardens were illuminated now given up to the ravages of the food, finus throwers of the stick to have a shy were supplied by Mr Gritton, of the Glass can he cultivated to afford the means of

Hongkong, July 10. beut, and turned from port to starboard, steamer City of Rio de Janeira shartly be king, and specially with the Viceroy here.

If Great Britnin Germany which necessitated 15 plates being taken for her departure, on the 11th inst. The display of fireworks, which commenced Factory, who also devoted much time and subsistence, The fertile plain, thickly

81Of such courageous sondnot as one Imagined this druga was due to searcited the vessel to find Meadows (the represented in China i at shoai 10.89 p.m. al continued, at in attention to the preparations for the il-studded with villages and hamlets, is now s

have been

diplomacy in the Maritime

other nations will po tervals, unt nearly & am, was one of laminations Some idea of the labour an desert covered with and to the depth of the displayed by Carlson and Flagberty, the headway which the Peking had on at other man said

falled to

to Gad the

cout similarly fitted greatest Booketa

under way Catherine-wheels, and such like it is known that no less than 28,000 of four miles or more from the original rives shond be shown by the public, and an asters after the colusion, and about torch ho things we have all soun, but sich a beauti these venetian loups were ned in the bed. Only in the high grounds can it be that the Coroner be some official should two or three minutes after, his chip the vassel got

met the pre- and the United States may before long kavu er members of the fal pices of burning pequila which was displayed last and fifty men wore employed in lighting fold lots, and by far the latror trests of stop, stid: drawn the fires, there is not sanchur

vernment. Had these men not let off the which he heard tho later drop er ofter and another man, who were then as Ministers in China other m night is seldom witnessed even in China, them up alone; the operation ocupying

He did not hear any one hill getting out of a sarapan which had come Chinese Foreign Customs. Really, an Dr.

there were fourteen packages! Sanuel Fohnson used to say, it is Assoribe the beauties of this bla to an hour sod & half. Four thousand lamps country are turned into Saud, reaches over shadow of a doubt there would have boun & him frout the Feng nor ask him to stand alongside on board the sampan. The digious" what is likely to happen, now that the land of Breworke Dis

ex-1 were used in the decorations of the Fountain,

tho" water at high tide 38 dear farther less of life, in addition to the total by He passed within 30 feet of the Puntor asked the prisoner were Meas the hall has been gut ralling.

1. The man who wanted to bet with hibition, and so we will not attempt it ; it

used for filling the lameniount anough to admit the passage of boats. There destruction of the Tug boat, valued say thing and everything scored was a disseiring slow which required to be ed in 2,400 10 This was provided by the is nothing to show that the river bad nr 80,000 or 810,0 10,16 seine incredible right on board. As soon as he anchored, dows was, and the prisons; replied, "I do Been to be appreciated Other parts of the Chinese, were also the 2,000 Chinaan always been where it now in, and it is al that reward of 83 each only was paid by and bad seen thers, was no danger to his ust know where Mr Meadows is what my said there wild he be difficulty about pyrotechnic duplay were very good, but the lantern winch illuminated the upper levels most impossible for a stranger

That the men really ship, he went of board the Peking. Es have I to do with Mr Meadows? The the Corinissioner successor here, as there beliave, to pagoda ioene was for and away the beat of the gardens. Mr Grition was ably in peseleg fra village to villege, that the risked their lives I think cannot be que asked Captain Hedemann, why he has prosecutor then gave him into mitras'a' is regarding who is to aucrand Sir Robert,

'the

To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL":

are to be

accesses of the evening. tailed by this work may be gained when from one foot to three feet, at a distance of it seems to me some further recognition the tima. He kept his ging" guing with the ouer), but afro concervado well lostnud ut persons who hivo:

tu

ik

mau

Just as

Service, thorough Customma

bably try pick ou

and

prutashnia mechanism as the decoration of the grounds. One hundred seen that the land once divided into brag their noble conduct before the do- backed off the Pking, immediately after when on the gangway than ore leang, from the same school, and Fauce, Rasia,

The lower

And be

these interested.

The all-