1891-04-25 — Page 3

No. 8816-APRIL 25, 1891.3

THE following are the Ceneus roturna of population for the three trails Bottle.. ments, a'cosrtalnod, by the Census •xkon on the night of Sunday list, April Bil

Kings

19 130, 142,55€

18M

1671 Text

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THE CHINA MAIL

tolegrain to London, and not thrown that object of the expendituro, in the proportion 11 Because the only expenditure that the Honorable T H., Whitehead, the Unof. Your ressone, and obtaining his final deci: Judge: Never mind your being out stop. duty upon the unofficial members them which we are now shod to pay, even with would hs-tétrenched by the abolition official members wrote to your Excel aney on sinn. It is their right as Your Excellency's ping. Had you your wa'ch 1 d. Perhap jelves.

the additonal contribution, greater than we Grants for Eco salaskoal purposes would be 14th idem intimating that they prone to advisers on financial matters, and your in this fold, there is no inure to be done, That the specisole of a Corernment delay-ought to pay with reference to the Imperial a story nominally of £800, but really of remorialize the Secretary of State on the solo advora is a queation as nearly affect-The time must soon come, however, when ing discussions on the most vital points contribution The next question in-even £100, mid to the Colonial Chaplain and subject of the increase of official dularies ing the offtomal members. They did nnfor- there will be none to speak with personal until fresh trenpone should arrive from if that greation is answered in the negative representing little more than remaneración recently recommended by then, and naked tunately towards the end of last year gote authority of the beginnings of Dioksus's Promag & France 245,100 273,000 1100 That while the community are straining mount ire are asked to pay greater than dead, attendanes at the gati, a hospital, tary of Stata requesting his Lordship to any definite or intelligible statement of the supply footnotes for the joker, and i

Homa, is neither odifying nor admirable, amely, that it is not unduly great tho for the necessary services of burring the your Excellency to telegraph to the here these salaries, without having before them works. Now editors must then arise to Wellesley Minisorn

77,724 13,529 · R0030. brein are for information about a dugen we are able to pay without aurious injury: & fpinakin withhold his sanction pending receipt of financial position of the Colony, but there are for the vocabulary. The spirit in glos Total | 240,000 270,000 (301,061~620,354, 1582,068

subjects, the officials, rotire to await a to our prosperity and th, even from 12 Desaso if this salary, be withdrawn, their momials

is stilkan opportunity open to them to which Dickens wrote is immortalit in mo duspatch from Home to an end the narrowest point of view of the War Da the Colony will have to pay mostly if not The Unofficial Member would be glad consider the matter, long as the propos-older-te day than it was in the time of PERHAP Kuglich ladies who stark in track. That thinga kl, Tound in the Colony are partment; micabs, without, înjury to our quite se much in allowances for these ro to kilow. if your Excellency has no telo. cd increases are waiting sanction,

getting, even to the meat careless ob capacity to pay any contribution in future viera, thus sebatitating a precarious and graphed, because if not they propose doing. No harm to any one can follow the pre- Much of his exquisite humour of allusion is Aristophanes; but the form is already groy. server, excessively mixed-

at all. Now don't think it requires much unsatisfactory arrangement for one which so themsolvon That a consequences" this mixture it cdusideration on the pict of the Council works to the antisfaction of all concerned."

posod delay, as if finally the judgment of now lost. His localities are changed, though I am, Dear Sir, Your Excellency's most the Secretary of State is adverse to Me Fitzgerald says that Lant-street in the has been suggested that this unme given to give a negative answer to the first 19. Because the determination to abolish obedient humble servant; playfully to Hongkong of Clapham Juno question,Although it is true there is, as all grants for ecclesiastical purposes.ou

the views of the Unofficials the Oficera Borough is still as wretched a pince as ever. (d) PRYAIR:

will got their full salaries from the begin. His personages talk an old-fashioned lang. tion ba changed to Muggleton Junction, far on I know, bo part of this expenditure the death or retirement of the present in- That the thunderstorms which Mr J. D. which the Imporial Uprement would not cumbent is not called for by any public de

ning of the years, c.

Mr. Weller's English is quite unlike the In souclusion ika Uasfioial Members Cockney dislest of the present day. No Humphreys promised us, which would have to incur if we word got bero at mand. Da the contrary, the almost unaoi-

Colonial Secretary's Office, all, for the defence of its trade fis the mous opinion of the whole Colony, embras Sir The Governor has received your if the Acting Colonial Secretary is the pro- for. The vulgariams have lost

21st April 1891,

submit for Your Excellency's consideratione in the stue now puts for wand East and the detengo of this couling ing sait des many Nationalities and letler of post in which you ougaire on per channel of communication hetween their flavour in losing their reality. With aution, nevertheless, inasmuch as the reade, which is evidenced by the aigua. behalf of the lol Members of Council Your Excellency and the Unofficial Mem out the help of Mr. Fitz orald, how aro re incidental effect of that expenditure ietures to this Petition, is wholly advered to whether His Excellency has telegraphed to bers of Your Council. our defence, the defence of our intereste the course proposed.

to know what Mr. Pickwick, meant when the Secretary of State with reference to tha We have the honor to be, Sir. Your Ex-be declared that the praise of mankind was in that trade which though relatively

14. Бестове the

cordance with the request contained in vante,

of hayricks in Mr. Pickwick's day, and wan regarded as a sort of motive power for all te same time infory His Excellency that if he has no telegraphed the Latotilaid

things, good or evil. Mr. Gamp will soon be remato from experience as a figure from Members propose doing so themselves.

the Pyramids. Happy the generation that knew them all as they lived, buth in the flesh, and in the Master's page isel

asraillinore-and-dressmakers may-flod-a- useful agguation in an account of the clever advertisement with which a similar business was opened in New York. The dreaminkor hired a theatro, decorated it liberally with palms and flowers and the inevitable smilux, angled s orchontra, sud sont out, nokote for an afternoon pors format. There was a crowded audience, and the enterprising (radeswoman camo on in a becoming leagown, and leaning in a Jalist attitude ovora balcony remarked incidentally that the price of the graceful robo shu word was so many dollars, Myan- time the band played I dreamt that I

up the reservoirs, does not come That the happy-go-lucky a ganer of our Govaniment hore in Hongkong must be unlike that of any other Government Raywhere elen; und Major General Digby Barker will command the roady sympathy

lie is called upon to administer.

Qaft residents over the kettle of fieh perhaps small are intrinsiently very large, not, regardles aforesaid policy should recant increnze of Official Salaries in ne- colleney's most obedient-and hamblo ser- his "Swing?? Swing was the great burner, dwolt in marblä halls Anon thợ air beThat I suppose the officials will do nothing contribation is compared with the whole willing emmanity whichpon an an their latter of the 14th instant, and you at

4

now.

of the circumstances of the administering

I cannot for a mument think, when.ource, be reedicesly imposod cost, that you will believe it to be au ou its own terongo, in particularly interested duly large oue. When you hear in mind in warding against ita mo suppropriation. that really, even as compared with the com And Your Majesty'a obedient and duti of the present troo; 8, it is only about one-ful servants will over pray, ot fourth, and making largo allowance, na I have always done, for the land bocupied by the military on which no rent or rates aro.

PUNJOMS RUN AT

Driving is in progress on the No.

1 North

باره

(Signed) P. Ra

LJ. KESTICE. Ho Kai TH. Wurr-KSAD.

PIOKWIOKS

LATE TELEGRAMS. THE HEUELLION AT MANIPUR

been released::

all beheld hor” in a París ball-dress `loading That the higgledy-piggledy condition of the calls aro able to pay witboat sarigus Level, also on the foot and hauging walls | zeal of salaries will arrive by the next eng- | literature. At one tinie, and that not very two followare; of the 44th Gurkhas, 21

the little frock was made known by her sidor written some good things on the The case may in the course of a few years in good looking gaan was continued all its membóra að regards this your, audenstad if they have the numbers by thom,liams, of the Postal Department, and 32

mother. This ingenious inode of advertis

ing is said to have led to very large par.

chases,

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subject of this muddle.

The deadlock at which the Reclamation. disputa has arrived is only one of the little fontoros in the general muddio.

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COMMENTING on the death of Prince That it is high time the Public WorTHE ENDOWMENT OF EPISCOPAO were stopped, "pending the arrival from niet in what he cannot but regard as one tolls us in how many variaties they may be Banerjee, and a signaller. The release of

Jerome, the St. James's Grætte; says :- *It could pot·last; but we, havo aritised oumelvat very well. That spitaph upon. the Second Empire, spoken by one of ite distinguished pillar, represented very well' Prince Napolcop'e attitude towards life; When he chanced to turn an inquiring glance towards. Totuorrow, it was to tum his back upon it with a shrug. He was not an insincere man, since he had no prin-

ciples with which to kaup faith; but he was utterly destitute of the two things which can alone make a man saccessful, or evao folerable: tact and character. With brilliant abilities, ho was utterly unstable: with a profound knowledge of men, be never learned to know himself; with many: of the m kings of a statesman, he was never anything better than are unsuccessful intri- guor. The first Bonaparte of authentic royal blood, hu poneyword the vulgarity and the tacticancas of the common adventarer. To bim, more perhaps than to

other

Committed inquired into some of the complicatione now existing, That the must of friction and consequent

wasted energy.

for which the rate.payers have to pay, is such that a remedy is loudly called for.. That a Royal Commission is really what is Hanted, as otherwise on will disappear like water-from Tytam. That another fight is going on about that precious Central Market buikiing, and a new architectural desigit is said to be --rivalling-that-of Mr Brown-

That the newest design is the third that has bcon worked up, and some say it is the best, That of gnurse Mr Brown oloaves to his own chita, phd will have none of the now up That I have herd-but cannot credit this that both designa oro being prooseded with, that the building is destinad to

cary na osite.

start.

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PETITION IN FAVOUR OF THE CONTINUA-" TION OF THE DENOMINATIONAL GRANT..

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gold in

concerned.

most

A row the

into

Mr Blamey, writing under the bead of The Hou, P. Ryries Mulakaan en on, and Mr Fitzgerald notes several glaring tiparis fought for their religion as the

An, was due the shoddy teno and the That the Law of the Ladrones' is stripty/To Her Must Gracious Majesty the Queen, Tt canidly opened out, and it was followed theirs of the 14th inasat, they are inform. tio character of Mr. Jingle's ini gina-ching an unduly large panive expedition,

Aasaling unsaamtiness of the Seend Em-

pire.

No.

Conservative.

dreamed oferite himself, bu never That this may account for the justly popu- |

concealing his many and odious vices. His poliliosi caprices, amit his curious

attitude of cousin-in-opposition, must bare gone far to diagoat France with tba. Empire.

hape aniatactionally, we a particularly

lar Mr Hulliday having appeared, per-

good caricature of the present. Head of the Government,

May it pluss your Majesty,

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Had he boon as hʊngst mad, a prudent That the Sharo Market is sick nigh unka /tary of Stata for the Culonies, in a despatch Dalong. From the fact that I obtained | oficisi salaries in the Colony,

death,

came more marțial. A rest live kursu was

"Towards the water supply, except to sit hed on the stage, and the dressmaker.

down and whide for the thunderstorm. modated him in a well-ent habit, after dis- That as the Waior Anthority is, I fancy, playing which, to the best advantage, she

Iu reply I um directed to stato that is severed from the Public Works Dopact 'discomuted, and while giving the animal

ment, Mr Samuel Brown escapas respon-

Excellency has pos ao telegraphed and does south sugar, she discounted on the prioossibility in regard to the water famine,

not propose to do so. riding gear. Then, in an afternoon con- That as the Water Authority

His Excellency had hoped before now to navor bo

Mr Fercy Fitzgerald has just written a tume, she went shopping for her audience

thered himself about the public denvani- prid, I queation very much whether, op. au Secretary of the Punjom lining Crucell, but as owing to various anuses it is published, as it were, by authority, for have stated the ressous for his conres in volume on the History of Pickwick," and at a counter piiod with the must tompting oncs, he will not be expected to do so impartial consideration; the very small Company informs us that the latest advices there may yet be a delay of some days, heit bears on the title page the name of wares from her own stook, discussing com

Calesite, April 9.-Mr Quinton, Colonel binations of colour and material with the that the cool manner in which Mr Cooper the soldier alene, apart altogether from a gine and wheel lifts at Jalis continue to the Unofficial Members when you repre- characters, localities, allusions, and flu Me Grimwood, Political Agent, Lieutenant proportion which we are asked to pay for free the mines report that the pumps, deems it well to say for the information of Chapin and Hall It is an acconat of the Sterte, Me Cousins, the Por Dual Assistant, sales-lady who attended from her own referred everybody to the streams on the Float, for which we pay nothing, will answer all calle made upon then, one boiler seat, that those reasons are in substance as stations of the famous work, and its ap Simpson, and Mr Melville have bean pat establishment. Afterwards, in a meshing fallside for water, was suggestive. be deemed an unfair pho. Then, boraver, while the lieel pang weeks well within its

keeping the

lower levels free of water, follows:- visiting dress, she paid alle upon the stage, That I skuld not wonder, but a condenser comes the e question of vor capacity to pay.

pendix includes and later on received her friends in a

a bibliography. It will be to death by the Menipuris might be found stowed away onewhare, After very fall sonsideration of the muster espreity on the drainage from the 50 feet caived from the Secretary of State it may Pick wiele bos auront ceased to be a me of the 434 Regiment 13 sepoya and 14, fol

1. Because from a dospatch already re-nore and usore useful as time goes on, for The following sp

asptives. have been dolcctable indoor gown. The last corne of if f it were only hunted up.

I Hara

no doubt whatever that we workings, in the continued dry weather be expected list his decision on the sub-mory, and now belonge to the history of lowers; of the ford Gurkhas, 10 Sepoys and conscientiously return. the... apswor war forward a tiny girl dressed in pink, and

FW.D. is looking an bewitching that no ladies ap chavation

becoming a subject of general that #O

injury to our prosperity. At the two Forthwards All the staf fors-foot-wall of tail, no that any telegraphic measure long ago, it was a thing remembered in ita Sepoye, Sve followers, and nine syess; of plauded most warmly, while the price of Thit the Governor is credited with having time I may so only for the pressat incurent level, obtained with slight picking, goes to ofis bind would be, wo late; and beginnings, and there were many men whe the British Agency, 12 employes; of the

the damp hesp for milling, and the face is the unanimous decision of the Council

2. Bochase His Excellency considers that could recall the exquisite pleasure with Chief Commissioner's batablishment 18 eu be very different.

which they read its succcasiva pun bers, ployés, including the Herd Ulark, Mr H. regards salaries is binding upon it and upon The descendants of these men are to be D. Banerjee, and daignaller, Bir Wil Milling with one battery was tall the 16th instant, when the batteries that he dose not feel justified in taking any for there are things of price. Mr. Fitzgerald followers aides the Postmaster, Baba A. Biugapore of Piston rings for the second thing very nearly allied to a breach of con- found. The axle of the work so greatly these prisoners took place on the 2nd in- engine, While the now winnings from the tract with the officers footwall at Jalin were being put through,

exceeded all expectation that now sets of stant siter the news of the successful attack The following petition in anpport of con- platas tock on a good cuating of amalgam, reasons in Council Bis xcellency is nut editions. There was apparently no means reached Manipur

When the Unofficial Members hear his plates had be prepared for the successive on Manthans by the Military Police had tinuing the culcatactical great given to the paign promises as well as the last, and it is view; and will postpone any recomienda procis, sa they were copied by hand, and some assured of the title of Maharaja, bes and the manager thinks the present can without hope that they also will share this of reproducing the plates by autoraalio

Calestia, 9th April. The Jabraj, who Episcopal denomination in Hongkong, in expacted shortly to resume crushing with tion for the reduction of the Salaries already in copying the the artist took any liberty written to the Viceroy and his latter has prafurance to all other denominations, is the three batteries. being circulated for signature. We believe we shall have the result of the milling of too consideration, by which time it will one detail, sich ned lady's boonst strings, Jabraj says that on the 24th March his By next or the following work it is hoped voted until the estimates for next year as he thought propur. Sometimes be left out been telegraphed from Kohima Thu the petition is insert, but several of the the 10 ton sample of resi staf from Gubau, piele sinks to the santier und nuare cum and somastime ha added another. The palace was attacked and his soldiers were

pleto, view of the situation.

different states therefore are most

स. well as the women and children, paragraphe appear as if they had been This, together with, 23 ounces of anggety

I have the honor to be Sir, Your drafted by somebody who wished to Ne

band from the small working on obedient servant,

trasting, and one has to be an adept to by the British soldiers. He allegen further West cross-cut, will shortly be 1 (Signed) W. M. DEANE wick' was notar muck

know the very first at a glare.

anne.Pick that the women and childron were thrown caricature the movement.

The biath Coived.

Creations

the barning hours, and that the "because' is screechingly funny. It amounts

Acting Colonial Secretary. It grew up in the author a mind as he Gubau, says: I now come back to the

were desecrated owing to the st to this. A large zumber of the members South eroes cut on the rest side of the

inconsistencies of character and of fact tempted arrest of the Senapati and the barely t terute the services. If they had to cutting. The cross cut das commenced on His Excellency The Governor, Sir William the protoss. Mr Jingle, who is supposed people were out of hand and could not

Hongkong, 24th April, 1391. which were the disagreeable incidents of overbearing manner of the military. His the 34th instant, and after driving about Q pay for them, they wouldn't. Please do fect, a small loader with grand looking form.

to be speaking in 1827, describes his share deterred from slaying the Chief Commis But stop the supply of public money for ation about it was met with, which carried have the honor to acknowledge receipt from aubsequent edition the author got over London, 10th April-Mr Johnstone, lato

Sir,-The Unofficial Members of Council in the French Revolution of 1830. In a sinner and his party. this barely tolerable servico :--

fair gold. Its course was abon: North and the Acting Colonial Secretary of a letter, this dilty by a. pleasant footnote, in Resident in Manipur, has written to tho Sonth with die or underlie to the West, dated the 21st instant, in which in reply to which be called attention to the prophe press warning Government against dempate Empress of India &c., ., &o.

West; till the comiined width was at leasted by direction of your Excelleday, tlist, for tion. Sam Weller began as not much more and strongly deprecating the annexation-

fest. Its course was followed about the reasons there given, you have not seen than a pert aur decidedly valgar servant, that country, TAR PÉLITION OF THE UNDERSTONHO

feet, good gold showing by washing, the fit to comply with their request to telegraph He improved in the course of the work. Calcutta, April 10th The Head Oferic whole distanco. On the 23 K instant it RESIDENTS OF HONGKONG

to the Secretary of Stats to withhold tem- There was a sort of original for him in of the Political Agancy, Russiek Lel became very risk indeed, in fast so rich porarily and until he can be memorialized, Simon Splatterdash, the hero of one of the Kundu, and Chundra Blugh the In- Sheweth-That whereas a former Sacro-

that I determined to wash the best of it in

his approval of the proposed increase of farces of the day exiled The Boarding terpreter, who are still deteised. in dated the 13th July, 1881, announced to

over 3 ozs of gald (and such gold too) from:

The Unofficial Members regret extreme., Bjuvo, who was also 'n seríanty is Manipur, have boon made to write a systent of grants for ecclesiastical purposes judge of ita richness. Yesterday, fearing without ony aufficient reason, hate delayed take care of themselves, as the jokans the then Governor of the Colony that the about 300 lbs. of dirt, you will be able to ly that your Excellency should, apparently with such illustratione as Lot every one opties were killed in the action.

represented as interlarding his conversation letter, stating that Mr Quinton and other in this Colony would be gradually disconti that it might be a email only your reply to their communication for id, when he danced amurgat the chicafe, but to have successfully repulsad an Lieutenant Grant is reported not only nued as the offices of the present recipients comteneed to drive in it toxin if week and should have, again without reskens I dowa dou you, no

Would hold good in that direction, and am

the crattick by the Manipur Amy on Thubai; in And whereas your Petitioners are firmly now pleased to inform you that it showed sux assigned, refrained from holding any fingüinher said to the rushlight Coine which the Intrap of Sagupati (the Com lore and yet got through, and gas will convinced that it would be injurious to the good the entire distance (6 feet) driven. I pale They-regret this the more as your Heretters is clearly a sort of paternity of sequently relieved by Osplain, Presgrave,

of Council for so long an inter in, us the man said to the tight bookmander-in-Chief) was killed. He was atb Te ret

welfare of the Colony that this step should almost foar to say how rich it is, but will Excellency's approaching departure will suggestion, but there is no more. be taken

allow

to judge from the result obtained

There was a persistent rumour, for Your Petitionora humbly beg that the by simply washing, and handed over to evidently prevent the possibility at the ever borrowed but to improve; sud, who last three days that Mr Quinton and others were put to death under circumstances of you. The result is from the washings, made on a Council or suy statement you ever supplied the eggs, the omelette was reconsidered, and that the Church of Eng-by tinsmen not fully employed for 3 days may be preparing on the subject now un always of his making.

craol barbarity. This report is neither land sa hero established any cousins And here I beg to again refer to the gold It was very unfortunate that your Excol- the vexed question of priority of insontion digations that it may unfortunately prova

consideration

Mr Fitzgerald has, of course, to touch on denied or conormed, but there are in Eraction, there would have been guteral the Governor with which kushikime boste provided by the Chok, fully 12 pouuyweights each. Being part in the last debate in Conuel on the opinion was that the pervialent claim of the The Government have accepted the offer.

the enjoyment of the moderate endowment places. weighing from one ap to. I should any was that he present at take in the Pick risk Papers Dickens of ot regret over the announcement of his doubtless sense the unofficial-members of 1. Because the same reasons which ex-

a stranger to this- district, I almost four to departure.

Council--and with some good cause of iated for That Siz William Des Voeux will over be having changed their opinions and live of draw theding the decision to with. express an opinion as to the value of this eat of official salaries, and on the finan. Seymour family in favour of the artist of of service made by the Surma Valley Light

Goverumeat Grant for

discovery, but i bara no heaisation in way.

cial padtion of the Colony generally, and that name was not inach more than Horse.

We understand that the D the argumoris put rogarded as an upright man, incapable of policy, we give belon two extracta which will tical purposes to the Straits Settletacting it has enhanced the value of this con- there la any adequate reply demand for hush-money. If Pickwick

forward jocasion very considerably indeed. For we

by grew from the few illustrations supplied by about the Manipur outbreak is that a re- Colony like Hongkong-obtain cannot for a moment boliese that this is the Mr. Keswick, Bir Whitehead, and the aniortunate Seymour, it was only as port bus reached Rangoon, that the Raja's in this Colony.

the Uneficial Members generally, they the oak grows from the aburn. The glory hill levies are goin has also unquestionably soured the persons against whom a charge of in-

unly discovery of its kind which will de

back to the hills,, but were not then put bufore the Council in of the trunk and splendour of the foliage the local authorities have received na, off- singere regard of all classes here.

of imoediate necessity, such as religious man are employed in prospecting it. And

must still be loft to the credit of the tros. cial information regarding it. If this ru consistency can be brought. We leave it attendance upon the destituto pick, mar- I must not forget to tell you that the gold Excellency will arrange for at least tincidents in its progress, and the first of them the enemy have received information of the

The Unofficial Members hops That these feelings were clearly derons to our readers to decide which change la inriages, buri la (always pressing in this found in the drive cader aolice, is in an

trated on the return to the Colony of the the right direction.

chmate), the management of charities and almost direct line with that found in the departure for the discussion you have so happened very early in the aerial issue, one moving back to the bills, where undoubted Meetings of Council to be held before your was keymour's Buicide, after that, and it advance of British reinforcements and are Governor and his worthy wife,

distribution of charitable funds, for the North drive on the West side of the ent- often invited of the position and prospects or two numbers were filustrated by any they will have no tamense advantage Bis Excelluney, in the memorable performance of which no one could be hold ting, the shift, and the drive South of the of the Colony and its red refused to wire mau of some talent, was but the forlorn early to their mountain fastnesses NA despatch, written in 1889, the year of in- responsible except a clergyman supported shat. If these points can only be connect

1 resources, mang t artist named Buss. Mr Buza, though a over British trongs. They are wise to retire out of public funds.

As Your Expellency has Aalion, says —

ed, we shall have proved its continuation

Brad en the use the Gaol and Hospital always for over 100 feet in length very importers heretary of State the Unicial Mem-kupu of the distracted publishers. They 15. Military Expenditure' (apart from contain inmates to whose religious wants, aut

for their next number, and London, 10th April. committee if part in the abova total at expenditure was visit them, there would in mang casca be no sincerely hope the Directors will not au-

the thing I would beg to remark that 1ing forms

Unofficial Members Council dissatisfied part of the undertaking by learning the are engaged in vermining designs for coina 134,694 in 1859 as against $128 815 in one to adeusister. 1987, the increase being almost altogether

with financial position and prospecta; re-chainal manipulation of the etching to replace the Jabilas insurr thorize the sinking of shafts, or undertake due to the depreciation of aliver, and the at least pine-touth of the ravenue of the as I believe there are thousands of cupoen 4. Because the Chinese, who contribute other expensive works for some time yet.

quest postpone increase salaries; further needle. Having to begin so very wear the eration required .preparing Me-) beginning, the poor man was of course a consequently increased number of dollars Colony, have no obje op to the con- of gold it this Canecasion ab70 the level

Governor declines forward failure. The impressions illustrated required to make up the annual cpatribuintance of grants for etc'eaistical purposes, of the water course. And this was my

with warm words avoided.

telegram. tion of £20,0.0 towards the support of the

his plates are particularly precious to 5. Because the Chinese, though not avail- opinion the first day I ever saw Onban. Excellency, in the event of a despatch being nothing as against rarity and age. The They have now formally to request Your senteurs with whom merit conats for That the contrast furnished at Singapore to Troops,

ing themselves in large number of the an opinion which has bera stronger received from the Ecoretary of State authe third venture the attitude taken up here in Bokong tempted referent how very ribution, it services provided by such grants, have for every-day sitios.

16. With

was absolately successful. shows how the change of front wovou-

increase e of this part endowed out of public funda plished by the Head of our Executive la to be remembered that the abovo ex- with a hospital exclusively devoted to them but may be seen by Shareholders at lotion nusil the Meanorial they are now pre- triumphant close of the work. No conflict The Report is too long to give in extenso the increased salaries, to suspend its opera-illustrations and brought then to the rising payment within this financial year of Babloc K. Browne ('Phiz ') continued tho was as unnecessary as it was unwelcome.

no means fairly represents the selves, have had o liberal education placed Company's office. That in 1889 Governor Des Voeux. after but

is really borne by the within their roach at a morly monial

paring, Your Excellency's views on the on the question of originality of suggestion and enjoy many other concessions

subject about to be submitted to Conncil, was possible here. Dickens aupplied the and the

be submitted to incidents, and Browna ithustrated them. consequent debate-

by him. and considero Members are still very was dong in the way long after. Seymour'

Yet the major portion of the work, which The Unofficial decidedly of opinion that the financial posi- death, quite fulfilled the bigh promise of To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL"

tion and prospects of the Colony is not auch its commencement. Phiz was the ideal as to reader it prudent to grant just at pre-illustrator of Dickens. There has never Hongkong, 25th Aprit 1891 ant the very large increase of salaries now hos a mero perfect example of the union Se-The Uncleiat Members of the proposed. They can hardly think that of mind and mind in kindred arte. Phiz On Loncen dred, each of whom would thus be called by your pablishing the following cor-you propose to let the enhanced amounts but the very images. of his fancy. The and beads of firms numbering under bun. Legislative Council would be much obliged Your Excellency speaks seriously when not only realised the intention of his author, upon to contribute a large annual sum in tespondance for the information of the be paid this year as they have been voted, generation, that first read: Pickwick grow urder to sustain the services of the Church ratepayers of the Colony – Apren of England in the Colony.

man, and a strong inan; he might, and pro- bably would, have done for France that which would have earned such gratitudo an she has to give.. But be was, the reverse of all those things; and he has died, as for many years he had lived, utterly bankrupt in most of the things that maku life worth living, or death worth enduring.

'FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That, but for the unfortunalo atlitude faken

ap by FLE. the Governor on the Military

That convalescence will not be arrived at until the dead horse of carrying over is fully acknowledged and got rid of That nevertheless Hongkong bat got

wonderfully recuperative powers. That we have been as deep in the mud bo

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any crooked wetion, and Lady Dos Voz how that the unofficials are not the only Raise there are certain otticas, often found in this Concession, if only culpotent any comprehensiblo shape that Your The work had to strvire al murts of po mour, be correot, we suppose it means tant

That if instead of constituting himself the special pleader of the War Offos-for the "Culonial Office were at one time on the

A NEW COINAGE.

Hongkong aido, as was also „Governor Defence Works) which ia included in the absence of a clergyman deputed, to fit indeed. Before leaving this abers have done themselves in the follow- to prepare be found. He began his experts, including Sir Frederick Leighton,..

Des Voeux-His Excelloney had stuek to the eminently sensible view be took of the Military Esaction in 1889; mach friction would have been saved and many

by ich

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value,

6. Because tav

*apenses in connection with the support of a clergyman, cork, &c., not salaried by Government, would fall for the most part on the shoulders of officials

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tribution then axacted from Hongkong Admiralty occupy land in various localities was fair and just if only a return ware which in its aggregate area is of great ex. short of $1,320,000, while many temple made to the local revenue for the land tent, and much of which being in the centre sites are held by them feas or at a merely. and bones occupied by the Imperial of the Town of Victoria is of very great nominal Crown-Rent. authorities.

Unlike the other land of the Colony That in 1891 ho considers that a buin dou- this pays no rest, and what is of more ble that - paid two years ago is a just and | importance contributea nothing to the rates fair amount.

from the expenditure of which the Depart That, altogether apart from the arbitrary mente in question receive the benefit. and exasperating injustice of the doublet When this is taken into account, and there exaction, it is only natural that the is also added the intubat of the cost of the Governor's desertion of the Colony's Dafence Works and other lesser items, I

and to consider the advisability of an up with the character as he pictured them. ususe should be resputed by the commu-stimate that the real contribution of the

equally largo reduction when the estimates In costume, expression, and the tricks of Calony to ila Defence, exceeds, 830,000 7. Because in the case of many officials

for next year are laid on the table, manner, he supplied these siry nothing That the manner in which His Excellency per annum, a as equal to nearly 3th of such a contribution would be out of the

has reproduced the tone as well as the the Revenue.

That se Your Excellency well knows is with their enduring and new traditional queation, whilst it would prove's largo ad

practically an imposibility. Au increase forms: Mir, Fitzgerald shows an five fondly sophisms of the War Offion list increased Judging from the information at my ditional tax upon non-officials to whom cop

salaries once voted and paid must stand, mankind has dwelt on this great creation. the feeling of ghutyance

command, I question whether there is paid stent appeals are being made on behalf of

To sck as you propose would be very grave The Pick aick commentary is a literature. That the Secretary for War (Mr E. Stan- towards this object by any other Colony so religion and charity,

injustice to the officials No mau would in itself. Numbers have lived out of Pick- hope), now comes out in his true coloors, large a proportion of its receipts, or any and it will be hard for anyons at this thing like it; and it is moreover to be borne inability of the officiels and wealthier non-

a. Because in the probable event of the demanded by the Imperial Government expenditure. No injustion can be done by dental asociation of the name of an ins or know from year to year how to adjust hin wick' and still live out of it by some acei- time of day to sequit that offer of in mind that the defends of flungkung officials to bear this expense, not only will increased salaries recently recommended by deration of the whole question, for as the in the volume. Most of the character in On

this Colony is not in a position to pay the a delay in payment now and in a reconal- of a house with a character or an incident suggestio fitzi and suppressio

praofically includes to a considerable extent these two classes be deprived of the benefits the auofficial members, and that the Boere- the negotiations about the Military Exaction that of all the Britials Mercantile Com. of the regular services of the Church of tary of State be requested by telegram to increases have never yet been definitely Pickwick were partial to inss, and all the That the attempt made by the War Ofice munities in the many Treaty Ports of China England, but a large portion of the om-withhold his sanction, we, the undersigned sant oned so man

to recover the entire cost of the troops and Japal, which contribute nothing to its minify who frequent the Oathedral and areanoficis) embors beg to inform Your Ex on it. Fresch right to calcalate inus they used still pommemorate the maintazued for the defenon of Coaling Retamus, All things considered, therefore, not in a position to pay sent rent, will the Secretary of State on the subject to the Unofois! Members are by no means squnsel on the probable teelt of Bardell Chi Shanghai-

visit by their signboarða. be celiney that they propose

Me Fitzgerald has shrunk from ab ito. memorialise

LEO, and cannot be as Your Excel..

being a lawyer very wall knows.cally. He has obtained the opinion of On demand, urge the withholding of His Lordship's

sers in

Hongkong, April 14th, 1891. flis Excellency the Governor,

With reteror so to the debate in the Sir-W Legislative Council of Hongkong on the 10th instant on ablo 2. M. Whitehead that i conosc

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norskkenthes your AV We whether addition Bustribution, but also g′, Because all noctions of the Church of Banglah to the proposed increase of isla opposed to an iueresis of salaries to suohv, Pickwick if the dass were tried aner in. On demand” statiune nearest Home, it might be asked Military and Naval Departmantp) should J^nane form of, serviquand tolerate the hea, and that the memorál in la course of an extent as in sight and proper and sailed our day. Counsel abinka that what with 30 days' sight, private papar, 724

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Stations from the residents at these it sadne oppn bo question not only whether Laruel adrift and be practically out off from coaling stations, was a Parliamentary or Hongkong can be fairly called upon to theic wonted public religions exercises. Governmental mumis, no one osa now inorears ita have the slightes doubt

areas of land (such as England, whether Eroad, High, Low, &.. That sa Gibraltar and Malts are the coaling are continually being requisitioned for the worship together

for by the increased cost of living and as changes in the law, and changes in the Gold Leaf, 100 fine.438.00pdat it however •the Bainty.

Dow therafors to request Your far a the Colony's Basaves will permit, practice of the Quarta, it how touch to these plans paatribute to mod contribute to the Colonial Revenas, in of a clergyman depended on the congrega-Excellency to notify the Secretary of Stata trus tasy Joel birongly that, granted that that there was no base to go to the jury

tria, it would anw be held Sovereigns (Babka buying rate) 6.38

His Excellency, at a Council meeting various sections would wish for a clergymau ship by telegraph to withhold his an equivalent to 35 per cent in many in- | skoron okk

tion, there are fears that the supporters of of this our intention, and to ask für Lord. they signed "B report recommending an in. Mr. Filzgereid the trial sosue Tuken at Mézus Falconier de Ca's

crease it was a tilatak to make the increaza substantial accuracy of

Temperature peculiar views, and that pencing receipt of dor memorials representing their

of legal manders at the time it

it was held på 19th March 1891, said

chain ould thereby oceur, rendering We have the under to bay BrouanetOne of the Uneficial Members waiter. He quotes the late Berjeant That is in much ria” be regrotted that the It appears to me that discarding al- impossible the maintenance of the services Excellency's most obediens humble ser indead objected to so large an increase in Robinson; that there, wore Judges just BanoMEER 30.07

poor health of the Governor should be antagether the question of the mistake of the Church of England. Edditional element in the commige made by the Imperial Government in 10. Because the change contemplated

Fashion December leat when there was still time pompously ineffective as the Judge ho (Signed) - P. Krai, AUSÍ without inconvenience to have the whole tried the famous case. Mr Robinson gives That the delay mentioned last week turus giving the ransone for- this additions will effect a small,

J. J. KESWICK,

the following as a dialogue that actually "subject investigateddog. Bo Kit

The Unofficial Members will be very glad i took place in a hearing between a prisoner TH WHITEHEAD

Contato la Tour Babellency's ressons in Coup and s desfadge Judge

the mamienates of the troops there,

the shape of either rent or rates or beta.

That the unoficial metebers of Council are steadfastig fighting the battle of the ratepayers of Hongkong.

out to be less socidental than it wassup posed, and manifestly in thie instance

not combat

milence was

That whatever grounde the anotimals may have for their objection to the tauressed salaries, it would have looked far better 1 His Expelleday forwarded their

any, saving Govern vote, the question whether the addi- ment money, for pallid opinion will require tional contribution asked Ice is right the services of an official clergymas in the and just depends on the answers to two Gael and Hospital, public propriols the questions which are really quite distinor, presence of a responmble clergy to un and which are often confused. The first in dertake the burial of the dead, and public having regard to the relative faterest of convenience dee facilities for the parlor the mother country and the colony in the mange of the mitos of matrimony.

vantu

Well,

cil and if possible to be convingut by them, witness, your name is John Tomkins !" Bangkong, 20th April, 1881,

bat they must insist upon Your Kiseliancy, Witness His Excellency The Governor

No, my lord, Juhn Taylor. before any increased salaries are paid this Judge: Ab 100 you are a sailor; Dour dir-starring to the debate in rear, submitting to the Secretary of State, gad you live in the New Cat.* Couusil on 10th fratant on the motion of their arguments, utili unanswered, as wellas Witness: “No, my lord, I live at Wapping."

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