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Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 9TH July, 1881.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-SATURDAY, JULY 9TH, 1881.

pothesis, the support of the heads of several large houses, who happen to hold antagonistic views to those of the Governor has been withheld, which otherwise would have been forthcoming. Of course a misconcep- tion like this, fostered unquestion- ably by those who have interests to servo by fanning the flame, cannot fail to materially injure the financial prospects of a commercial under- taking of the character of a daily newspaper; but we can hardly be lieve that the great body of our sub- scribers can be so easily imposed upon by the shallow artifices of in- terested and unscrupulous partisans, who have their own ends to accomp- lish. The community of Hongkong have been so long accustomed to a daily column of censure and abuse of the Governor-and-his actions, that a portion of them at least cannot ap- parently understand the meaning of impartial criticism.

menced preliminary operations early. The occasion is not one of the ordinary festivals of the calendar, bot bears some specialities about it as being ordered on the occasion of the mourn therefore have more than the usual ing for the late Empress. It may interest and attractions for the Europ-

a Tesidents of the colony.

providing the public generally with the most interesting and most reliable, the best written, and the fairest journal published in Hongkong at the lowest possible price; and in offering to our mercantile community a thoroughly serviceable medium for advertising at a little more than half the ordinary cost. To the Govern- ment of Hongkong we shall always give a qualified support. Every newspaper owes that to the govern ment of his country. The individual acts of Sir John Hennessy will be criticised in this journal honestly and impartially without fear or favor from a perfectly independent stand- point, and we are quite certain that the Governor of this colony would desire nothing more.

He has cer-. tainly never up to this time received so much. We must also utterly dis-good fruit on the return of the Coreans claim our intention of emulating either of our contemporaries, by play- ing the role of Sir Pertinax Mac- Sycophant to any "great mon," pol- itically, commercially, or socially,

We now leave a disagreeable topic for good. For this infliction on the patience and forbearance of our readers we crave indulgence; but so much has been written and said lately, that we were compelled to definitely contradict and deny the malicious rumours to our detriment, which have been flying around the colony for the past few days. In future we shall meet similar difficul- ties in another fashion.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We would remind our readers of the entertainment announced to take place in the Garrison Theatre this evening, for the benefit of the youthful artiste Miss Mattic Taylor.

We respectfully request the gentle- men who have honored us with their confidence, to apply to the Editors of the China Mail and Daily Press for the information they require, as we are as much in the dark as the general public, why the despatches above alluded to, were not published in these journals, although we are most happy to take our readers be- hind the scenes so far as we are per- sonally concerned. With the first number of the Telegraph which we for- warded to Dr. F. Stewart, the Colonial Secretary, we made the usual official application to be supplied from time to time with all items-of Govern-- ment intelligence likely to prove interesting to the general public, as far as was consistent with the re- quirements of the public service. This is customary with all respecta ble newspapers in London, and we presume, elsewhere. Our applica- The Messagories Maritimes steamer tion was favorably entertained by | Djemnah, with London Maila of the the Governor, and we have from that 10tr Jung, is reported to have left time been favored with such matters Singapore for this port yesterday morn- as the Government considerading at nine o'clock, and she may be worthy of publication. We have nothing whatever to do with the omissions of our contemporaries. They are doubtless just as competent to manage their own affairs satisfac- torily without our assistance, as we are to conduct ours without their aid. So long as the Government will honor this journal with informa tion relating in any way to the in- terests of the colony, or of the com- munity, we shall have the greatest. possible pleasure in publishing the same,

Since our last issue we have received letters from three different gentlemen in Hongkong, wishing to know if we can inform them why the two despatches from the Rr. Hon, the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to H. E. We are quite well aware of the the Governor, which we published efforts which have been made, to in our mail issue of Thursday last, relard in every possible way the did not appear in the columns of our progress of this journal, by those contemporaries The China Mail and who ought to have known better. The Daily Press; and inquiring if It is no secret to us that the most The Hongkong Telegraph is in any contemptible measures have been way a subsidised organ or represent applied to crush us in the bud; but ative of the present Government, it is some consolation to know that Newspaper men are notoriously thick- all such efforts have ignominously skinned, and it is necessary they failed hitherto, and will fail here- should be so to tolerate with equanim-after. It is a matter of notoriety ity gross insults of the character and common-talk in the colony, that conveyed in the last paragraph of the the courtesy extended to us by our letters above referred to. A certain local contemporaries has been of the portion of our community must be slightest and scantiest description. thoroughly demoralised, or at least The China Mail has acknowledged strikingly lacking in the first prin- our existence, and that is all; the ciples of common honesty, to allow Daily Press has not even had the ignorant and unfounded rumours.to decency to observe towards prejudicially-affect the best interests, the prescribed rules of journalistic of what we contend, and are prepar- etiquette, readily observed by. ed to maintain, is and has been, an respectable neswpaper men in all honorable attempt to cry down quarters of the world. Possibly abuses, to hold the scales of justice they know nothing of such rules, with a fair and impartial hand be- and where ignorance is bliss, it tween man and man, irrespective of would be folly to be wise. It may creed or color and between the bo that our sheet is so small, and Government and the people; with our utterances so weak, that our but one aim in view; the permanent morning contemporary has not yet welfare of Hongkong and its citizens, seen the Telegraph" or heard of its consistently with England's great-existence! However we shall make We are assured by men who ourselves both seen and heard, and can have no object in lying, that an we can assure our contemporaries, idea is prevalent throughout the cons the young Disraeli warned the ony that the Telegraph, because it House of Commons, that the time. happens to have taken an honorable will come when our claims to re- andindependent position,socially and cognition cannot be ignorell- politically, is not merely a Govern- Is it necessary for us to di claim the ment paper, but the specially retain-honor and profit which our cponents ed organ of Sir John Pope Hennossy would thrust upon us? Wet ink not. and that in consequence of this hy-The only subsidy we hope 1 r, is in

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expected to arrive here on or about Thursday next the 14th.

The Sheldrake, 4, Lieutenant and Confpander Marcus L. Bridger, having undrone extensive repairs to her engines and boilers, at the hands of the Naal Yard officials, went round the island yesterday for a trial-trip. Tho report is of the most satisfactory nature:

We understand that His Royal High- ness the Field Marshal Commanding in-Chief has sanctioned the arrange. ment ander which Lieutenant R. C. C. Cox, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, bus been acting temporarily as Aide-de. Camp to the Governor of Hongkong, on the understanding that his doing 60 should in no way interfere with his military duties.

One of the largest attendances we have yet seen at theso pleasant gather- ings, assembled in the Botanic Gardens at 5.45 yesterday afternoon, to hear an excellent programme of well selected music, played by the Band of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, under the leadership of Sergeant Hassard, The evening was fortunately exceptionally nice breeze blowing, cool willi which enabled everybody to enjoy the promenade and music.

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We read id Le Courrier du Jupon that Me. Miyoshi, director of the commercial

society of Napa, in the ken of Okinawn, these islands, during the last year for desirous of increasing the produce of warded to Osaka the sum of 700,000 yen, to be lent to the Lookiens to assist them in cultivating homp, and the paper tree. It would be well for the future of Chim, if some of the great Mandarins would imitato Mr. Miyoshi's public spirited enterprise.

We observe extensive proparations are being made by the members of the Chinese community of Hong. song to bold some religious rites or ceromonies at the principal Joss House. in the city, the Man Mo Tomplo, Hol- lywood-road. A large, bamboo orec- tour is being raised in front of the building, and ns the feast will not com- menco till Friday next the 15th (thỏ. 20th day of the 6th moon), and will ouly last three days, they have com

to their native country,

The Race Course, Flongkong." The artist, Mr. M. A. Baptista, Jr., a who favored our contemporary with the sketch, has certainly shown himself, to be a genius of no mean order. The Grand Stand and Parsee

Stand aro recognisable, but the other features of the picture exist only in the artist's too vivid imagination. Aswell of the "Happy Hampton". style with a lady on each arm, and three gentle- men of the cut" usually seen in the enclosure at a suburban race-meeting, figuro prominently in the Graphic. We have reason to be thankful that they have never figured within the preciucts of the Hongkong Race Course.

We observe from the Japan news- papers that the Corean officers now-on- a visit to that country are taking a great deal of interest in the various public establishments of the Imperial Government at Tokio. The Post Office, Custom House, and other departments have been visited and carefully inspect- ed. The glass works at Tokio caused A silly rumour was flying round theo the foreigners a vast deal of wonder-colony on Thursday to the effect that ment, and it is deemed not unlikely the piece of ground on the Shau-ki-wan that this visit may ultimately bear road, purchased the other day by Messrs, Butterfield & Swire, was to-be- utilised for an opposition dock. One large bolder of Dock shares got scared and is reported to have sold a few hundrede at a sacrifice. The lot in question is about the most unsuitable place for a dock in the whole colony. At low tidos there is hardly enough water to float a sampan, and the diffi. cuty of bodily conveying a vessel across dry land to an inland dock, would be rather an extrome undertaking for Hongkong, even although something on the same principle was proposed and considered suitable for the Panama scheine.

In Summary Jurisdiction yesterday, in the Supreme Court, before the Hou. the Acting Puise Judge, Mr. J. Russell, the case of Nowrojee versus Betts, was again called; when his Lord- ship gave judgment for the amount claimed; $518, with the addition of the expenses incurred up till yesterday, and less the difference between $4 per diem and $90 per mensem, from the time the arrangemout for the lower tariff had been made by defendunt's

travelling companion.

Two other cases were also heard against the defendant in which two Chinese sued for sums amounting to close on $100. His Lordship gave judgment for plaintiff in both cases, remarking that defendant seemed to have-no-ides of the value of money.

One of the most serious breaches of either the Navy or Army Discipline Acts, and one fortunately of very rare occurrence, was committed on board the Victor Emanuel. yesterday, by a marine serving a term of imprisonment there. It appears that during the recent visit of H. M. Gun-vessel Midge to Canton, one of the marines jumped overboard and swam ashore shortly before the ship's departure for this port. All efforts to trace the runaway failed and he was consequently left behind and recorded as a desertor. About a week ago, however, he fell into the hands of the Cousal and was sent on here as a prisoner, where on arrival he was awarded forty-two days imprisonment with hard labour for desertion. The prison discipline of the ship seems to bave proved rather irksome and he tried various ways to evade his punishment. Several times he attempted to get hold of such lethal weapons as came within reach. In these he failed and a new idea presented itself to his mind which he at once carried out with

unqualified success, and, it is to be hoped to his own entire satisfaction. During the performance of shot drill yesterday morning be placed his naked foot on ashot resting on a block of wood, and deliberately raised another shot, a 32 por, to a level with his head, and dropped it on his foot, completely smashing the bones. The man was at once conveyed to the Naval Hospital where he now lies under treatment.

On his recovery he will be brought bofore a Court Martiil on a charge of

'disgraceful conduct."

The S.S: Tukien went into the Cosmo. politan Dock yesterday afternoou. The Company's business appears to be in- creasing daily, for not only are all the establishments crowded with work, but

wo understand that no less than 11 is certainly a good beginning for the vessols are booked for the Docks: This

current half year.

One of the best tips for the Derby was that of the sporting writor for Land and Water, who actually placed Iroquois and Peregrine, first and second in the order named. “Skylark” of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News nearly hit the mark as he selected Per- egrine to be first, with Iroquois second. There were only fiftoon starte for the great event, and the winner scho had the advantage of Archer's valuablo.. services, won, after a desperate kot-to. vory cloverly by half a length, with Lord Rosebery's colt Town Moor couple of longths away, third.

In the Graphic of June 4th appears an illustration of what is said to be

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LATEST COMMERCIAL

INTELLIGENCE.

Saturday, July 9th, 1881. One o'clock P.M. Business in shares has been very quiet since our last issue, in fact, with the exception of a few sales of Banks at 105 for the end of the month, and one or two small lots of Docks at 55 cash, nothing worthy of note has occurred. Banks stand sell at the price, and although, as firm at 104, holders not caring to

above stated, there have been several lots of Docks transferred at 55, there are plenty buyers who have not been The accommodated at that figure. China Sugar Refining Co's Stock is still very unsteady, and even at a reduction of three points on yester- day's quotation, sellers cannot find customers. We heard some cn-

quiries this morning after Hong- lead to business at a slight reduc- kong Fires, which we think may

tion on former quotation. Hotels" remain nominally at 971, but there really have been no enquiries after

these shares for the last day or two; and although a small lot of Steamboats changed hands on Thurs- day at 31, nothing has been done since that time.

per cent..

Shares. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation Shares-104. premium, Bayers. Union Insurance Society of Canton-

$125 per share ex dividend. China Traders' Insurance Company's

Shures-$1,700 per share. North China Insurance Company-Tis.

1,125 per share. ⠀ ́ Yangtsze Insurance Association-Ts.

820 per share.

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Chinese Insurance Company, -$300

per share, Ex. Div. On Tai Insurance Company, Limited-

Tls. 148 per share, Hongkong Fire Insurance Company's

Shares- $990 per sliare. China Firo Insurance Company's Shares

-$295 per share. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Com,

pany's Shares-55 per

cent prem, Sales and Buyors Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-

boat Company's Shares-$31, por sbare premium, Sellers. China Coast Stoam Navigation Com

pany Tls. 162 per share. Hongkong Gas Company's Shares

$82 per share.. Hongkong Hotel Company's Shares

$975 per share. China Sugar Refining Company, Li- mited $175 per share, Sollers. China Sugar Refining Company (Do- bontares)-3. per cont premium.. Hongkong Toe Company's Shares-

$127) por share, Sellors,