1888-09-29 — Page 3

No. 8032.-SEPTEMBER 20, 1888.

We hear that his Excellency has issued ordon that the burning of papers beforn the doors of houses shall be done only in jars, and that these jars shall be provided witha certain wire guard of which a pattern is giron. A supply of water has also to bọ kopt at hand in case of fire.

Tae British barque Rothiemay, baving dia.: changed, at Negasaki, her sarge of kerosene oil, is now loading a full cargo of Mike coal for Ban Francisco. This is the first cargo of coal that has been shipped from Negaki to San Francisco.

THE Laminations at Nanking are over. We are informed that 27,312 etudents pre- sented themselves, and of these eight died! during the trying ordeal. The list of thos who have been successful will be out about These examinations the end of this month. are good for steamer trafie en the Yang- teze. On a recent trip from Chinking to Nanking the steaner Kiangyung had eleven handred odd passengers, the largest oum- her, we baliaro, ever carried by a Yangtzzo boat,Shanghai Courier.

WITH regard to the troublos at Pilam, For moss, we have already related how the Governor had despatched Gonoral Li Pan- k'o with the force from Tui-ph by stea- mor to the spot. The Fei-tsich, the man- of-w

f-war atearer which took General Li to Pilani, having now returned to Tamaui, wo Rave

gathered the following particulars - The forge of Bevoraž thousands of saving ca were dispersed by our big guns, but re- nailed at Ta-chwang, Horot was joined by the savages of the neighbouring savage settlement called Jen

who

of extrome ferocity. General Li was going to attack them on 31st August, and wha confidont of an easy victory. The savagos were originally in league with Chinens thomasivus in arm- colonists who had

who had placed ed opposition to

to the collectors of the new laad-tax, and it was said that they had kill ed two Deputies, Mesara Lis and Kao, The fact of the matter is that Liu was really killed; and Kao got away from the enemics by whom he was surrounded, and escaped north by circuitous routes, making his op- pearance before the Governor on 20th August and tolling his story.-Shea Pao.

CHINESE NOTES.

The Shikpao says:-Now that Commis sioner Dotring has by order of the Viceroy

due in a great mamare to the action of middlemen who farm out blocks of buildings.

That until the military are removed and

omething done towards carrying out the suggestions of the Land Commission, there is no hope of controlling these middle.

THE CHINA MAIL.

But as

g

man, and things wast just go on as they That he will probably say next that Hong.. ann to opposition "leep at the only a lamp with Ühines: oil. If the Office, 1 stated that a careful in stigation it is cheap ate industriona i let the Arieri"

are until a crisis come.

kong is not a coaling station.

To

cus thert take it as nu example and copy it. it is really the untivo Americans wine Late

it because it deprives them of their profits;

Commons that the fortification of the of the crowd. As to the main point-was in the box, stated that when he went into enco. Should there be any farther com-sions of a passport are not stopped, only cooling statican would, bo inexpensive this araon or not, he subunitted that the the shup i saw kerosene running from plaints of detention and sofay I shall have labourers, and if Ching likes to stop Ameri

A labourora she can do 10.

is wall Owing to the use of disappearing gun carry of Lang Kan wax, to by the vast of a pile of wood in the shop. He touched to visit you with punish ent.

Similar instructions are being inned town American labour is not abundant, it. vagna, doublful and uncertain and was it with his hand and amalt it, en that he

and there is no demand for it in China, and ringes (ho would not call them Mon not evidence which the jury could convict would have no doubt about what it was. If the Boid Oflice in Nasking..

Rapper-t that

might With

refernce to the son of levying Aeric us know very will that in this crickī overtagán}; and that if this is the on. The theory of the defence as to thoa kerosene lamp har hent

origin of the fire was that it was at have explained the matter, ont on the other Loti

is no dety on foreign gurds in Nanking and spect, there is

on reciprocity between the case we want to know what his been leident the nature of which tuy did not side it was said there was ne keuses lamp, district, I have to add that in reply to a Love cuntries. Why, to, du Ameri-

know, the shopman being All

polition presented by the Chaukuan Lakin cins dono with our money.

disliko Chinnae labour? because time. And in

u's believed Lang.Tong's alatoment Leung Kau's

about the statement that the fire had born but uewly karoweno it was absolutely consistent with would require to be made by the Contral lit, they had the statements of the what the buy suju. Referring to the vid. Office uns having learned their report and two mon fron

the adjoining shop, ence of the rire pounder who was left alone the views they take of the subject I would That Sarrica, has hrou going the while that when they went in, immediately in the shop bis Lordship remarked that it come to a decision.-N-C. Daily News. the employers like it. The working mon

hog menntly, quits in the true Irish aitor

bcon only natural

in America have howover the maj rity cod and therefore it Tread on my tail if you plase style, ritar the shoptaen har fled, it was would surely have

must

if the shop-coolio who said ho wha

COREAN NEWS.

the minority can only growl. Congres have been burning for some considerable stooping next to this man had roused seizing vessels in the Batring dies, cujust time. The evidence of the other inmates him before running out of the shop. The

saye, above they profit the

nation, On the ath lost., Folonel Chailló Long, of the people and du so by trade, but ing the Fishery. Treaty and summarily of the house was distinctly corroborative of fict that the mom s not sound would be Egyptian fame, formerly chief of staff to create a hustilo feeling neighbouring running out the Chinese.

this. The story of

tho Houng Shan boy was been engaged in the operations in the to the US. Legation here, Jeft hy the

the AA. It is anid, too, restriction is done to benoût oratory est loose in the. Supreme Court That I should like to know what Amories this statement if the defence was that consistent with the shop-coolic's having Gordon in the Soudau, and now Raeretary Stata is not the way to accomplish, this.

would do if Obina retaliated by asking all pure fabrication and that lio and the shop which the Feng Shan boy described. Higo Man for Fusan, wherefrom the Co. the native workmen and that the labourers,

other men when esmas forward to

statement of the Heang Shan boy was lonei intende to cross over to the Island of will not be allowed to return after Pport Thu

se af axploration leaving

ng but Chinese are Portuguese the Americau missionaries to quit--and him wore in league against the prisoners, no doubt in some respects u oxtraordinary Quelpart for the purpose

When the charge was made againt the one, and it would be for the jury to form and collecting notes of tras). This island, it is in desired to benefit native lab

Macro, and English in Hongkong. which local tradition says, was visited

d by tou, sionally suggesting to Mr Robinson that That thero in every reason to surmise that songs by the Beung Shan bay thern their own opinion as to its honesty Yacob Klan, in search of conquests, had uro not the members of other nationalities

That it is. L be hoped this typhoon which lias passed by our shores is the last for the season, and that we may again con. gratulate ourselves on having escaped all destructive storme.

That there has been a small typhoon of

during the week. That the judge and jury have beon models

of patienco, His Lordship only ocen

a few less random shots in the air would bo ndvisable. That it has at last been possible in Hong- kong to get a conviction against a man for suiting fire to his house. That the public aru woll pleased to see a trained lawyer on the magisterial bench, and the neconsity for this has already hean amply demonstrated. That, although it is a refreshing novelty to

have a lawyer-like judgment pranounced in the Folire Court, the law may some- times be harshly enforced, and in the Case of Surgeat Dulcan, who erred through zoal for duty if he erred at all, the hardship was manifest. That the blame of the foolish proaccution lay, not with Mr Pollock, but with the

the Palos to botobard all China 7

drug line so soon as was expected.

BROWIE.

OF

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WAY

Icaro in Hongkong er Japath of Ameri

for their

as a general impressin abroad, due to otherwise. After referring to the con the Heung Shan Day's atatements chiefly, indict ry evidoneo as to what took place a sortlement

sent of Spanish or Portuguese treated in the same way as Chinese; but Mr Maclean and Mr Walter have severes that this was not an honrat fire, and after the fits, the alleged visits of the master trasters, was the scene of the stranding of the not an order or a word has ever been asid connection with the Dakin Go epaus, and that we may not get the opposition in the everything was seen through the green at the shop to the Heang Shan boy's Sperber, in naw the seat of at least two in that senso. Ta is dan to differences in spectacles of suspicion, and the result was father's house and than of the Heung Sha branches of highly ornamental Carena in- clothes and appearance, but this is not tho that people convinced themselves that boy to the house of the mustor of the But dustry, and is afgether a field which is those men were guilty of the charge which Fung. his Lordship left the case in the hands sure to yield a rich return to an explorer Ouce Chinese were demanded in had heen brought by conspiracy against, of the jury.

of Colonel Larg's ability.

industry, to open up lauda, and | them.

After a retirement of about a quarter of A Japan a squadron under the Com-to cause the people to thrice; yet now they Mr Francis hegen by complimenting the an hour the jury returned a ganimou sand of Admiral Ito arrived lately in Chero regarded as fous. Judeed when the jury on the patience with which they had verdict of guilty" against the prisoners. po. Admirul I visited Seoul us the soaring bird, is dead lay nside the bow, followed the ovidence, and went on to M: Robinson ared for an arrest of guest of Midae, and Minister Kondo, who, when the Ented kare is dead the hourd congratulate bis learned friend on making judgment in the case of the fourth pris to celebrate the occasion, gave us most auc. may go,'--Shia Pro. a very able and in some respuble a very soner, on the groud that the information pursful entertaiment on the 8th when a very enjoyablo evening was spent listening effective defence. He agreed with bis friend laid was bad law. No overt act was

for the that the main

joy to consider alleged except that of setting tiro to to the really excellent main point was whether bore had been arson or not. the premis, which act was limited ex Japanese tuwal hd Perfurstatees of the If the three first prisoners did not appear | pressly by the wording of the information on the tere bolwern Japanesede by a miestomary in Old Mexico; i

SUPREME COURT. IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Hon. Jumes Russell, acting Chief

Justice.) Saturday, Sept. 29.

not one of

firs

His Lordship-Should that not havo

second and than prisoners encounter arisen on deportar?

Mr Robinson-Nu, My Lord.

His Why not!

tir

-Beghase 1 tank the chance of a vardies, which I was entitled to do.

His Lordships said it struck him at pra-sins, the gates

other magistrate, whom years of expori-wi Francis, Q.C., instructed by Mrur, Thry, but simply a misdemean- sent that Mr Robinson's cuntention was Lege. The grounds of the

unce have failed to tosch the rudimenta of the law.

Mr

Mr

CAECH

worthless but he would hear equusel on the point on Tuesday morning at ton o'clock. The prisoners were then removed in cus- tody.

FORMOSA.

Tarsui, 16th September.

Minister

established a school of seiones at Tientsin. Thus the practice of heads of departinemis, three prisonera that there was as he bait a yoried alone on ernience there and Tiwanfco, which has been in whatever for considerable time. In other Was the evidence as regarded the other spiracy prisoner should not escape, the 16th to coal, and went to the Pensadores and beans in the vicinity of Fusan must be

it is bigh time that measures were taken to compile a Standard Dictionary of Chines and English, Exing by authority the propor Chineso rendering of scientific and diplo ruatio terms, so as to obviate the confusion and misunderstanding which has hitherto oristed. Many have made dictionaries, but

sitting on the beach beside the magistrate, the actions of the master showed guilty only asked to find them unknown.

whether directly prosecuting or not, is a bad one; but that I think the Post-

was the greatest inuer in this, respect,

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AN IMPORTANT Dinovaaz is announcod in the Paris Figuro, of a valuable ready for nervous debility, physical exhaustions CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD AN

tent: it appears that a deplorable and premature decay. The daovery was INSURANCE COMPANY.

to them to base set fire to this place, the

sailors and Chines in Chemulpo, à dispute saved him from a minutable existence and the rest of the evidence went for nothing a PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY.

, and free words it came to blows, a The punthly Criminal Sessions were hat if on the other hand, the jury believed

Chinamat being severely wounded and Jenoph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, an early grave. We learn that the Rev. resuragi to-day, when the trial of Chung that these three men did set the shop on

vonal hurt on both sides. Chi, Choo Kai, Tong Yin and Li Yok, fire there could be no doubt that they were

Bloomsbury quary, London, W.O., will entitled to convict on the general ovid.

On the evening of the 11th, in celebration send the prescription, free of charge, on. on a charge of conspiracy to defraud

the charge

of a nameday of the Czar of all the Rus-roseipt of a solf addressed stamped enve- the Stratta Fire Insurance Company, Li-ence the Four prisoners on That That charge whe

of the hospitable Russian mited, by means of araon, was proceeded brought against the

were thrown open by Meme, and Bamo unfortunate accident Stokes, appeared for the prosecution; and the proceedings at the Police Court, which

Legation wors must charmingly decorated and illuminated with more than 1,000 Robison, instructed by Mr Hastings ought to have been one, were broken up in- He though the jury would

lamps. Among the chief guests we noticed That I truet Duncan's comrades will not (of Messrs Wotton and Deason's office), for to two.

Ministera Diusmoro, Yan

and Rondo, Con- allow him to enffer vicariously without the defence. The jury were-Mesars J.gree with in that in such a

that the prosecution

cale Krien, Planey and Hashiguchi, Admi helping him towards paying the legal ox-Oro, dong, B. A. J. Witte and E. had a case at all--it was far more im

J. Rodger, A. Johnston, F. J. V. as this-suing

ral Ito, Generals Chung, Han and Dye, Jorge, A.

that the fourth defendant, the

Mr Denny, Rev. Mr Jones and many more. penses and the finis imposed.

del Aguila

portent

Fighting is still going on very doggedly His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke Al- Me Robinson, in summing up for the de-instigator of, and the person to profit by That Mr Pollock seems not only to base and the evidence for the defence this affaic, should be brought to punish. at Filam. Tho telegraph steamer Fiechanyunder, who is expected on a visit here,

arrived here on the 15th from the East man well-versed in law, but a man of fiviced itself into two clases. There was ment than that his instruments should be Conat, with about fifty sick and wounded did not arrive in time to take part in this

punished; and

and the cages had been nuits d

most brillant entertainment.-N.-C. Daily independent wind, if we are to judigo by the evidence that there was no fraudulent

all states of most pitiful misery. News. braves, tu the way he dealt, un more than one ocda-

eisin on the part of the master, and no here in the only way in which they could Everything that could be done for the

bean

the poor

Fusan, 19th Sept. motive

have for

such a claim, and there making such a

bringing a

a charge of cun helpicas follows was done immediately. sion, with Captain Deano.

the font, in order that if

I regret to report that our crop of rice: bat The Feechou steamed round to Kelung on Kilty the fourth

We have had no rain avory reasonable chance of For the prosecution it was alleged that

of denes afterwards to repair the cable between considered lost. if he had been

reforable knowledge of are committed by his

to himeelf. Therefore the ****

Reveral

country the farmers are report- daya, for reasons Parts of terrupted for

hard On Launchers- shopmion, the implication being that the jury were

As son as that job is finished,ed to he much better of This is she is expected to

Ammunition case for our settlement, where rice and master General, and not Captain Denne, shopmen had been paid to commit it for a comparatively minor charge and not of a

the mastor's benefit, they having no in- felony. A bis Lordship would

point out,

de-namber of foreigners in North Formoss is ticles of expeller here on the 14th instant: The following Japanese torest in the business themselves. He that charge was that of conspiring to de- and provisons to the troops at Pilan. The beans always used to form two staple ar and the Magistrate often was to blame admitted that evidence of a diminution fraud the Straits Insurance Company 09 steadily increasing, especially in this place Kaimeus Kan, Nanswa Kan, Trukusi Rani for inviting then officials to sit beside of the busincas and the stuck would have putting fire to this strop. Nu evidence was and at Twatutis. Not many years

before

ed people living Lore at all;

there Fuss Kan, Michi Kan. The Takachine the jury or could be. effect against the master, although

six stried Ran

arrived here on the 15th instant; aho would not be by any mens conclusive. Therefore them to show that these men ware no At Shanghai, Fooshow, Nanking, Canton, That the hopes satestained of having the evidence of the witnesses for the prosecu met togetuar aud arranged the now there are no Jame thar is to join the flying squadron and to re-i

in effect,

should be done, but there was vid couples here, with twenty-five

place the Fess Kan as flagship. While the tion who spoke to this point ordinatices of the Colony codided and that the business had beca greatly roduced enes that they did certain things which swarming around them.

hich will be wanted soon.

Dac

of the lending dect was here wo enjoyed some splendid was almost depleted. had a certain unity among themselves, the

neic, discoursed by the Admiral's excell- put within reach of laymen have been and that the evidenco on this point tendancy of all of which was to defraud the members of our community is encavel to a band, and on the whole, there was o

ent it is The witness whose was intended to have most weight was the Straits Insuranca Company if they sticcend. amiable yung lady in And in making the French and English That the Hongkong Hotel Company seein coffin-shop accountant, who posed as ened. It was not necessary to constitute the rumuared that the happy event will pretty jolly good time all round during the stay On Bombay-

Buon come off. The German 8.8. Jolumn of the fleet. the 16th from

The Japanese Ministers to 2nd Saigo in expert in valuation on the strength of his offer.ce with which the prisoners were arrived here

having once been in a chandlery business ad charged that there should have

stock in the shop or that the Port, and returns to day via Keelung. Im were on board the fleet, arriving from Na Singapore. What struck him (Counsel) in dim Buoh was the case even when distinguish That if a real typhoon had broken over the connection with thia with Was the pecu-master should have been in a bad position:rry to report that oholera is still prevalent gasaki in the Takachiko Kan. The shipe were in apple pie order, and their crate at all. altnough evidence of the world! Songst the natives, especially at Banka behaved exceedingly well while in port. Ou ́Shangla Colony some of the bricks of the inci ar smartness with which he anewor

and Twatulin; there has ales been a few When certainly form a strong presumption of

cases at this place. It is said that about The whole crowd left us on the 17th For pinut Tower of Babel might have bad a ed a question ho put to him.

the part of the foeth prisoner, fifty mtitive ou asked question about Singapore, he

While he (Counsel) agreed with his learned per cant provu fala!, but we all hope rice has had to be imported from Japan Onli Loaf, 100 ...

hope Vladivostock ria Gousan. Lately, some chance of testing the hardness of dotas very adeuitly avoided the confusion

now that matters in this respect will soon which his want of knowledge of the price whether these thre fokis set fire to the ameliorato, cooler weather paving set in: to the settlement, but we soon expect Sovereigns, That Mr Price'a temporary market would

no foreignere have been atimked;

kodutivo cereals to drop in countwise. That Happily, to would have thrown him to by auying he did got think his learned friend bat, amercy, many trembers of this all the news I can give you.-Shanghai |

Temperature. Oh it was not Singapore but Labuan. shop, he siso be fine game for a sportivo typhoon. This was not the only, it will wore the that the only evidence of arson 1s that of fever, some of the rasher more so than in

was correct in trying to persuade the jury foreign community have

have been suffering froin

Merestry.

Yaken at Mera Falconer de C5, Premises, That the Poak residents know well what statements of the others worth They had they left the evidence of the Beung Sha Thacter has hac very hard and trying tica

recution on this point; but what were the the Beung Shur boy.

Cheen's floud. Esun supposing

On the whole, our good NOTES FROM NATIVE PAPERS. former years.

BAROMETER-

I AM vapour means and that they are shortly a better opportunities of knowing about

This summer the cholera has been very Do, to have an experionna af gan-nut the the business than the witnesses for the boy out of the case altogether, and orsaud

Do kind expended in the Supreme Court defence indeed their opportunities were from their memories every word that he of it lately, between his foreign and nativo bad in North Formoss, at Twatutia, wherd

patients with a large number of ster and foreigners purchase teas, the deaths having Turbom tter had said either in examination or crust- but the real genuine article from our Gas not a good; and the evidence of the latter

t distinctly to show fast the stock was examination there wou'd be amply sub-aded soldiers suddenly thrust upon his averaged several tons of persons per day professional skill in addition to his ordinary within a rading of 5 or 6 lé, since 22nd not decreased. About 82-0 was the valne

alne cient to convict the first three defendanta clientele.

Art. On 3rd and 4th September about That I wonder at your morning contem- put on the contents of the shop by the of having set the house on fire, und Much indignation is felt here that the 400 people succumbed, and the sights to be witnesses for the prosecution, while the claimed as a witness for the prosecution, Governor, generally known is a clever, in-seen-xoto most painful. On 9th Septoms. porary giving forth such stuff as was evidence on the other side put the and a

the and a must effective witness ted, one of his tell

this telligent man, could permit himself to send bar the native tea marchants held a pro. found in the Mercury as intelligent criti- value

witnesses, friends goods at $750. H.

the rice pounder who was his braves to the fr at without any medical cession in honour of the Tutelary God of did not admit that the left behind asteep in the abor while the assistance whatever, and without anbul- the town to endeavour to avert the noxious clem of the movement for the stopping of (Counsel)

made their escape. And an put: amount

Bowl as $750, but other the evidence of the Heung Sa: why the Governor din nat same the ser- always have cholera in that district during ptances, Everybody is greatly astonished inflacucos. Old people sag although they even taking that Bum, what advantage

ting aside t would this grime be to the muster of the boy altogether, let them take the exident vices of the three young medical gentia the Uth and 7th moons, they never ro-

the two cen-shop pren who, per men trained by Dr Wykolam Myers of member to have seen anch a fatal shop, considering that he would have to pay his men for what they did, and that has fortunately for themselves, were nut Takow (Formosa), which Là Hung-chang

in a hurried exudue to one. There in a e would lose his business? Where, thou, incrassed by being called up laif a dozen attached to his Military College in Tisotain Amoy of native tramen

going on. to times and cross-examined half a dozen times was the motive? The evidence as to

Mi Haas, Austro-Hungarian Conent, is site.-8. what Mercury

bout to leave Shanghai, where he has had a career of over 10 years, commencing an Interpreter atai rising auccessival-

thoy frequently differ in their rendorings

and Tientais, independent sots of scientific

and techuical terms have been adopted

which often do not agree with each other.

sadly blighted.

Trestion there have been discrepancies be-

anxious to rival the Austin Arme Co.

tween the European and Chinese versions.

the matter of elevation.

Sinologists like. Wade nad Mayera mado the Chico Convention. There is no place so well fitted for undertaking such a work Tientsin, where eminent scholars lika Lo, Yen, and Thung are collected. They waight receive help by correspondence from scholars distinguished for Western science in other provinces. Thus, when the work was completed and received official sanc. tion, it would be a standard for all acholars to follow. Wo venture to auggest that there is no time like the present for making such a Dictionary,

The same paper says:-The presence of foreigners in a settlemout greatly interferes with the offactual carrying out of the Chi- nese method of praying for rain. Slaughter is prohibited in a native city, but it is only carried on more vigorously in the foreign asttlement. So that of course it in axotom farve and cannot possibly move Heaven te gend rain. No wonder that the foreignora who do not believe in prayer for raib laugh at the whole thing. We havo, bow-

heads.

Workn

Sanday labour in the harbour.

That the Daily Fress' own arguments, how. ever, are little butter than those of the northern journal.

want

the

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friend that the main point to consider was

erer, the best reasonsfor believing prayet. That the proportion of heathen ships to be denying that they la plagistrale, in treated and the other men were not,

(Here examples of effectual prayor by an- cient worthies are quoted, including the case of Han Wanking and the crocodiles). We cannot at the samo time see the reason- ablanoss of forbidding the slaughter of piga, sheep, dacks, and fowls, which are fod for no other purpose but to be eaten. We might

jest as well stop killing, and eating tigers,

in the one port as in the others,

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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER

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Temperature, Humility

Direction of Wind Force... Weather

29.74

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Hongkong Observatory, Sept. 29, 1888.

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That what these critics of a landable move-

conspiracy was brimful of contradictions;

Bat the Magistracy. He hardly understood ment fail to prove is that there is any more than that it was purred to the jury how it happened that the Hourg Shou boy

LOTI LIKIN, essential diffuzences between Hongkong that some of the witness ware guilty of was tres cd in that way, but he was so

deliberate lying before

Minute of the Khungun Visorey on a thu anke of Vice-Consul und Co. He and Liverpool or Hull.

men were wholly unconnected with the Petition of the Haiakuan Lakin Office. ever apken to Mr

is an accomplished gl

and Chiness Stokes of what

End

stated in the Horeg Shan boy. Seither in cross-ex

4th September 1888.

speaker and reader, and objys the reputa- witness-box. People who would lie de taiation from their own months or from

In all cases where foreign goods in tion of an int-gent and able Assessor at affected by such a rule in about as smalletely would conspire to tell les, Tho the months of other witnesses had it been accordance with Treaty are conveyed under the Mid Court. As he is returning That, although we may ha justified in toler tion that the master of the atop tried

Luster of the defence to the allega shown that they were related to or connost

out-cover of a half-duty certificate all that Tt-rops on leave, the other day he visited with him in any way, and there was no quires to be done on passing the various the Blixed Court just about the conclusion rating Sanday labour on shore, it is quite to get Loong Akau out of the way earthly reason why they should come for- tatious and barriers en youth to pouce of the morning's sitting, - ad anid

ang story invented by the said certificate for exammation and at Mr Tsai, Mixed Court Magistrate, good-bye tried to Leung

get ward to support sugested that ane farther payment of duty cannot be levied. Was that a different thing to compel Englishmen

master) blackmail eut of his to work on Sundays for the purpose of a conspiracy to get my tu the same called them had got hold of this hoy and appointed to levy the Loti Libin in the prefcet at Amoy, Chang, took his ac some

of this man. low-class Chinese-garrotters he thought he

Captain McElion, and others. out of

It is therefore ineua bent on the Board Since the

Maritine Sub. present Acting Two giving employment to stevedores and witnesses

Balindaced him to concoct thia story, hat coulies.

inheith the master, who were cert:

in a the two months Yason, bas leopards, and wolves. It is different with That England has not loel, in the com- told the jury that they saw the House garrotters had tot bold of these other fairing at their destination add giving been a wonderful decrease in the cases: Włostock.29.93, 48 |

These men were next door buigbours, who their pass, aball have been landed and brought to the Yatoon for decision polition for the trade of the world than boy at the house of the master and

warehoused before they call on the native reason is said to be the heavy rezes

ezes Nagasaki,.29.9 78 heard

had the him ask the master for money

very best

receiver for payment. by observing Sunday, and Hongkong will the threat of pressing the charge against

what was going on. One of them was an best opportunity of seeing

viral by his clerks, who obtain from each Slangha.. 29.98 This is must clearly set forth in a copy people are very litigious, bat now longkong (29,40) 80! How caso $17, or $34 in all. The Amoy.. 29.75 5 rut lose its trade by insisting on one the fobis. The only print that might be puntant who had converanticus with the

of the Regulations jomly submitted to me made they the Boards and Shan tained is the best monus of securing an That myself am in favour of making the gave their evidence too well. If the de-know, by sight at least, the master of the bai and how can it have escaped yourį putes before the Court, they say,

day's rest in soven.

they Bolinao... 29.67 79 fence charged the witnesses for the prose-shop and it was not even anggested by a nut a

don't care to lose a cow to win a cat.' Manila...2.69 89 61 8 cution with conspiracy is was to be anti-single question in cross-examination or by

According singla sentence in Mr Robinson's address

to the Regulations in force in It is us several years sizes the silvor SEPTENDER 29. —AT 10 A.2. cipated that the prosecution would bring the game charge against

the witnesses for the that there was any quarrel between them. Show and Shanghai ull yan have to do, mines were opened at. Tehol, but the first stock. 29.80 43 19

seeing you are stationed at Haiskuan, is to attempts at dovch ping them proved abor Tokiu......29.84

all foreign goods for the Provincial tive. Last year the U.S. Vice-Consul at steamers are in Hongkong on Sunday is with the jury and they would see the dif- form that there was any reason why these

ferent ground which the charge rested in meu should join together in making any as they pass your barrier. Even supposing to devote Tls. 120,000 to this purpose, and Amoy. Capital

Shanghai.. 29.09 ts 79 not many, and the so-called loss would at the one case and the other. In support to deal with the Dung Shan boy's state for them to pass before arriving at their proceed with the work already commenced. ugkong 29.75 878 NE

of falap statements about the matter. Coming there were no other barrier bat your own to coploy an American mining engineer to the honesty and actacy of a

Haiphong. 29.87 £2 773 Great ex theso #teamers, knowing she practice of every points of garrcboration in the in regard to some of the accessories of the to to retain the pass and forward it to the pectations were formed of these mince Manila...

eridenge. One point which seemed to be story there were

accountant was said to have

horses and oxon which do us service in thoir

life, and should have decent burial when tboy die. But, on the whole, a benero-

Jent government of men consistently main.

swer to prayer for rain.

The Shih-pao has come to the conclusium

law applicable to all wossils, mail boats included.

under

muy

to

that dragons do not exist now. They must That the number of times that the mail defence. But he would foare that matter Nor had it been suggested any shape or inspectored by a half duty certific to Tientsin. Mr Pethick, rognested the Viceroy Nagasaki..299 | 78 | €2)

have become extinct in ancient times.

(This agrees with the opinion of Mr Gould in Mythical Monstars,>

the most be trifling.

That the result would doubtless be that witnesses

Bolinao.... 29,70, 82 | 87|

'FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR

That the question of house rent in Bong-

kong is beginning to sorinnaly affect tho poorer class of Chineze.

That a shopkeeper whose rent a few years

ago was $15 a month has now to pay $75,

That the shopkeeper, as a rule, takes care

Hongkong over Sunday.

was that the

but *not

to

variations

ions of statement. Head

og any of the anbatantial points,

auty.

ONNO

be a loser, and that the real aufferers are That the Causeway Bay pelago las grased of the fire 'clock on the morning of the jury to the points by which they delivered up for ertificate has not been Chinese Jabour is industrious and cheap, The typhoon is moving Westward.

to raise the price of his goods so as ook to

thats in receipt of tixed wages, who have

not only to pay higher reais but a higher

price for everything they bay.

the port, would contrive to avoid being in made against the priser been seen Francia said in concluging that he felt him- oraplaints lavo recently been received í precious metal has turned out to be very notice was issued; "Typhoon S. of Hong-

After reviewing the evidence briefly Myy duce you yourselves cannot levy that time, but they do not acer deatiued to

be realised at present, as the yield of

of the At 4.1 p.m. yesterday the following take the books:

6 away with him wien he ran

from two firmos Yu Shang and Yung Hsing small, and the Superintendent, Thotai Chu, houg, and also directions to hoist the South That reading the other day the account of from the shop the answer to which was self entitled to ask confidently for a verdict stating that their goods have been detained has returned to Tientsin.Shen Pao. cas. Last night it blow a fresh EN.E

the flexible inflexibility of the Chinese I that one of the books was afterwards found against the four prisoners.

and I was requested to give instructions The Chinese Restriction Act in the galo, occasionally exceeding a strong gale in could not help thinking that the man ip thero and produced, the purchase

Book 20. His Lordchip, addressing the jury, began to the Central Ofics for their release; U.S.A is duc not to the Government but to the squalls The barometer continues ri

the time complied. tho

but the gale is jag people, and is based the parable who said I go, my Lord' wit the bucks were not taken away with a definition of the charge against the with this request I

solely on gain,

scarcely moderating. When the master called on Mr Audraw's prie nors, and then directed the attention Is a word, it and seat pot, Tres a Chivamzu.

compradore at six

for cancellation foreign goods then eager to be hired abound, and to them

W: DOBERCK, promised in being the books, should be governed in arriving at enveyed thereunder are under 10 cream has been due the rapid development of the

Government Astronomer. The frat not knowing then that they had been des verdiot

fertile but unoccupied lands in the interior to fulfil its object, being now much too troyed, and when he returned at eleven the shop, had been set on fire in the

point was whether stances whatever liable to duży.

The instructions issued by Chen, the of California, which the few natives of

Hongkong Observatory, September 29. small to hold the native craft desirous of o'clock, he brought this one book with lies, manner described. 1 they found there Customs Taorst of Chiakiang, namely, that themselves would have been unable to ne

1. BAROMETER, radacet to 8% degrees Fahre shelter. That the proper thing to do having by that time found out that the was no arson, then there was no if ou examination the goude correspondcomplish. The number and

destroy, d. with it is to fill it in up to the breaks water, point which seemed to hairydd Anther use going further into the ease. If the with the entries on the certificate they Chipsso labeat excite the act of the poft, and to the level of the pos in innban, South

the evidence of the Hearg Shan boy on that shall be allowed to pass, ure quite correct, pore natives. It is uot, however, easy to and then perhaps in a short time a new first three defendants abated theserves point stood alone it would hardly be right You however have not studiert the vezake, and it must be due to the faci why Congress attends to the : સલાઅો

tobia (Counsel) to ask any jury to convict unit. But did tions with any cato, and now when conv that this wes natural thing to do. The That the Glenagle did not bring guns, but fire was far advanced when they were would remember that in the account jury sequently you have coramitted mistakes, that the U.S.A. is a Republic, and that

of the you are not aware of saving done so, but the voice of the people must be obe

obeyed. only a gon and that a small one.

yho would suffer iron by the fire would to mailer ofgin of the fire given by the on the contrary characterise the action of Still the people must be reasonable in aroused, and doubtless the many people supposed

ahop to the Insurance Com. Ché : fuotai as irregular, e course fires that occur are due to the same cause That the skins of the Home functionaries augry with the shopmen, and if they did pany's compradore it was stated that coading which is not at ali in of pro- what they say for them to be fulleged

are indeed and in trath thicker than a lupute crins to them they would at the lamp which had caused it was I have to it, is obedience with any in- governing, and what taisfortunes any out, hai, liktinis crunch, 7 (y var

kerosuo late.p. rhinoceros hides, and the sense of shame It was no wonder, then, that the shopmen Lerng Tang, who struck his Lordship {structions, see that the goods and the be impending Americaua say, however, quzily, ↑ vain, a szuw, i thunder, v visibilit; ;

leest lay some blame on them for the fire. not a

most intelligent and satries on the certificate correspond with we do not restrict Chinese entirely, for 2). got got of the way, to tapage from the as die of the That the demanding of exorbitant rents is That Mr Stanhope stated in the House of upbraidings and possibly the maltreatment careful Chinese witnesses he had ever seen each other, and if so allow thein tu pres at merchants, officials, travellers, in posses.

That this class of people have been feeling

the pinch so seriously of late that they

are meditating sending all their families

to Canton until affairs improve.

That the Chinese are saying that the many!

city will rise up Eastwards.

small merchants not able to pay tha ront or make ends mest barn their shops to square matters.

has departed frota them.

from the fire. In:

witness

understand

tumidity at sir apturated it moistaze bolest

anger and hundredths.

2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in degrees Fahrenheit.

3. Kum, in percentage of saturation, the

100.

6. DIZZOTION OF West, to two points.

Scale.

G. STATE OF WKALDER, lite sky, e de.

Ou! but if they are not so sud yet they are to be express a hope that for the attended to, what pleasure can there be in

5. Fancs a Wy, according to Beaut

ched ofonda, d drizzling, tog, gloomy

7

7. HAIN, &inction, tening and kendrediks