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HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-TUESDAY, JULY 26TH, 1881.

to their own convenience, and with- out regard to the views of the Chi- nesc, though we are far from ad- mitting that this course would be a wise one. On the contrary, how- ever, it is urged, as one of the chief prospective benefits, that a scheme of tramways in Shanghai will fur- nish an example, to be in course of time followed up throughout the Empire, of improving the means of | communication and working in- estimable good. In the face of this axiom, it seems incredible that some effort should not have been made at the outset to secure the goodwill and co-operation of the Chinese author- itics. Yet it appears from the latest advices that the Taotál has been ignored altogether in the pro- posed undertaking, and has sout, as, under the circumstances, is nat- ural enough, a vigorous protest to the board of Foreign Consuls. The Taotai is the prefect of the district in which this scheme, from which so much good is looked for, is to be carri- ed out. Unquestionably he is all pow- erful beyond the limits of the settle- ment, and can do much to make war on the undertaking, at all events inits wider scope. We fail therefore to see what was to be gained by ignoring him. On the contrary, that course was pretty certain to arouse his op- position. In this, as in the Woosung failway, we firmly believe that, if | the matter had been straight-forward- Correspondents are requested to for- ward their names and addresses with all ly explained to the authorities, and communications intendat fur insertion, fairly discussed in its different bear not necessarily for publication, but asings, their support instead of their evidence of good faith.

hostility might have been fairly counted upon.

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may be, a somewhat stiffnecked race; if one thing stands out more clearly than another, as the result of forty years of foreign intercourse, is is that we have gained little in the un-long run by driving them. On the of other hand, it cannot be disputed they are a reasonable and intelligent race, and open to conviction by fair argument and practical illustration.

It would seem that the Woosung railway muddle is very likely to be repeated in the North, in the matter of the Shanghai Tramways.

We venture to believe that, if the Woosung railway question had been conducted in a wiset' manner, and in

accordance with the principles en- unerated above, railways might ere this have been in full operation in many parts of China. The attempt

to turust that measure upon them proyed fatal, for the time at least, to all such enterprise; and it is to be feared that this last movement at Shanghai, if not quickly remedied, will only aggravate the difficulty.

of being a very estimable man, and a most efficient schoolmaster, and no doubt deservedly.

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time. We are not an authority on the law of libel; but if we were libellous in our remarks on the exam- ination of emigrants in the Glamis Castle, it was on the Government and not on Capt. Thomsett. But in any case we did not go to the extent of torming any government officer a dummy, a nobody, a farce, and a laughingstock" which is the manner in which a publication in Saturday's China Mail speaks of the Registrar General of this Colony.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Our special purpose in alluding to the China Mail's leader of last night, which we would have preferred to ignore with silent contempt, is how ever a personal one. The black guardly attack on Sir John Popo Hennessy on this occasion we have nothing to do with. We have thie utmost faith in the Governor's ability to defend himself if he considers a defence necessary. The gist of the China Mail's insinuations so far as we are concerned amounts to this:- The Governor after much labor, has

Wo aro informed by the agents of the discovered a medium, the columns of | Union Line that the steamer Antonio the Telegraph, of making violent pub-teft Singapore for this port yesterday. lie attacks upon his own subordinates. 4 barefaced instance of this occurred. in the case of Captain Thomsett, The “ Press Commissioner" and his staff, (who is the "Press Commissioner" and who are the members of his staff?) | driven from purer atmospheres, (the China Mail and Daily Press) had to seek refuge somewhere else, (i.c. the Hongkong Telegraph), but their latest effort prored to be a false more, and they in a short time stood aghast at the prospect of a complete exposé before the Supreme Court. The Go

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stands revealed as a public traducer of his subordinate, and has to beseech that gentleman as a personal | favor to allow him to escape from the consequences of his acts." If all this he inazurate, it rests with is Excellency to show that it is so. There is a good deal more in the same strain" in the Mail; but the above are the salient features of his

We are informed by the Agent that the Messageries Maritimes Co.'s steamer Amezone" with the outward French Mail left Saigon yesterday at twelve o'clock (noon) for this port.

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We observe from the Straits Times of the 16th instant, that Captain E. M. Smith, for many years manager of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, was on the preceding Saturday waited on by the employes of the Company, and presented with a cheque for $1,000 to be invested in the purchase of a ser- vice of plate when he reached England, as a token of respect and goodwill. At the same meeting the Pilots of Sin- gapore presented Captain Smith with a clieque for $120 to purchase a silver cup, as a mark of their appreciation

of his services to the Pilot Board for many years.

wreck were unable to give auy reliable information as to the fate of the crow, and it is to be feared, that as the diro- lect was within a short distance of land and nothing can be traced of them, the worst may be anticipated.

The M. M. Co.'s steamship Tunais came out of the Cosmopolitan Dock this morning, her place being taken by the German stoamer Octava and the

China Merchant Company's steamship Tun-ting. The American barque Signal · goes to Kowloon to-morrow.

The case Graça v. Pitman came on in Original Jurisdiction before Acting Chief Justice Snowden, and Mr. Jas. day morning. Mr. T. C. Hayilar, Q.U. Bussoll, Acting Paisne-Judge, yoster- counsel for the plaintiff was called on not be dismissed, without any answer to show cause why his potition should being required from the defendant. on the subject from Mr. Hayllar, and After hoaring logal arguments bearing-

a reply from Mr J. J. Francis, who prosented Mr Pitman, their lordships reserved judgment.

Many persons seem to imagine that this colony was subjectal to a distinct and most perceptible shock of earth- morning; honses are said to have been quake at an early hour yesterday shaken, articles of furniture knocked against each other and indulging in little antics of their own, ships also rocked at their anchorage,

and

may other wonderful phenomena are sail to have occurred. All this

however was supposed to have takon place about half past four o'clock in the morning, at a time when most of Her Majesty's loyal and true subjects might expected to be beyond the

would be a mattor for carious specula- apnfully distinct night-mare. It tion to ascertain the number of heavy uppers that had boon taken the pro-

vious evening.

LATEST COMMERCIAL

INTELLIGENCE.. The French Chamber of Doputics,

Tuesday, July 26th, 1881. with a careful eye to the immediate

One o'clock P.M. futuro, las voted an additional sum of two and a half million francs for The expected results of the tond- quin. Those who have any interests Bank Shares a rare impetus, as from Naval expenditure in the Gulf of Toners for the Imperial Loan have given at stake in Tonquin will howover be 109 per cent premium they gradually glad to hear that the Minister of advanced until good business was Marine and the Colonies has disavow-done at 114 and 115, cash sales. A cd a policy of annexation. Nous ver- large number of Shares have changed rons, mes amis !

hands at these prices, and the stock is quite firm at 115, Some import- ant transfors on time were also effect- ed at 117 for August, and 123 for

According to a telegram from Lon- The Chinese are a proud and it accusation. We may be excused if don, dated the 23rd instant, the Italian reach of suy thing more alarmning than our-language towards the Chinting a memorial to the Great European Government is reported to be prepar- Mail is not so courteous as a friendly Powers, proposing a solution of the contemporary might expect; and as monetary problem. We shall wait an honest and honorable journal rather impatiently for some details of would have a right to demand. The this proposal, which is to settlo, off- statement that the Governor found | hand, questions which for years have the Telegraph a medium for making puzzled the greatest financiers of the violent public attacks on his own age. subordinates, or on anybody else, is a cowardly lie. The assertion that His Excellency had anything what- ever to do with what the Ching Mail calls the "barefacod instanco referr ing to Captain Thomsett, has not even a shadow of truth in it. The opinions expressed in this paper on Chinese Emigration, and on the examination of emigrants in the steamship Glam's Castle by Captain Thomsolt, Mr. Gerrard, Dr. Stewart, and Dr. Eitel, were solely our own, and for those opinions we are pre- pared to accept whatever responsibil- ity they may have rendered us liable to. We declare on our honor that the Governor of this Colony know no more of our intention to write on the emigration question than the babe unborn. We declare that the insinuations of the China Mail to the effect that our columns have been suborned by the Governor to traduce his subordinates, or to write up his policy, or for any purpose whatever, are blackguarilly false- hoods, which, but for the respect we ewe to ourselves and the law, wo should feel inclined to roscut in an unorthodox fashion. The insinuation that the China Mail is in any one respect purer, more honorable, or more honest, than this paper, we challenge, as a glaring untruth. The allegation that the "Press Commis- stoner," whoever he may be, found refuge in our columns is a scandalous

The true history of the vexed Woosung business has yet to be written; suffice it to say now that the Chinese Government considered, we think with justice, that they had been deceived, and that a march had been stolen upon them. Consequent- Our gruntly esteemed, although ly, they resisted its working to the illogical and grossly ungrammatical, utmost, and finally succeeded in contemporary, the China Mail has forcing its sale. It is true that they once more come out of his shell, had to pay a pretty price-no less According to current report, Dr. than the cost of a first-class English Stewart has resigned his appoint railway-for what was really noth-ment as Acting Colonial Secretary. ing more than a "toy" tramway, No reliable particulars of the reasons but, as they considered that an im- which have led to this step have yet -portant principle was involved, they been made public. The glaring in- did not shrink from the outlay. No propriety of discussing a question of sooner did they obtain possession of this mature in the coluinns of a news- the line than they removed it to paper, when the real facts of the casė Formosa, and utilised it in connec- are unknown, and all premises could tion with the Coal mines in the only be sheer speculation, must sure- Northern part of that island. With ly have struck the China Mail! such an experience to guide them, However an opportunity presented it might have been, expected that itself of covering with sickening our Shanghai friends, before setting adulation the late Head Master of -on foot in their settlement a some the Central School, and of libelling, what similar undertaking, would, as vilifying and abusing the Governor a matter of policy, if not out of com- and his supporters, which was too mon courtesy, have consulted the good to be missed. The extraordin- responsible Chinese officials in their ary faith in what the China Mail neighbourhood. More especially terms "Dr. Stewart's honourableness would this seem to have been ad-ant probity" may exist, although visable if the promotors were really we certainly never heard the public actuated by their professed desire put themselves to any inconvenience to further the true interests of the to demonstrate their belief; but whole foreign community. Those there was surely no occasion for our interests, as we maintained a few contemporary going out of his way days ago, can only be truly served to assure us, of what we all know by working harmoniously with the well enough, that Dr. Stewart was natives of the country. If the ob- honest and honorable. These virtues. jects of the promoters of the scheme are not so rare in Hongkong, we be simply speculative, or to improve hope, that a special defence was re- the locomotion for the benefit only quired on the cx-Acting Colonial of the few foreign residents, it is in- Secretary's behalf. We have not the telligible that they should elect to honor of Dr. Stewart's personal ac proceed in the manner bost suited quaintance, but he has the reputation

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falschood.

A telegram has been received by the naval authorities hore announcing the death of Commander W. G. Scott, of II. M. S. Ling, at Shanghai. No further particulars are yet to hand accounting for his rather sudden do.. wise, but it was known that he had been in a rather indifferent state of fare that the worry and anxiety of health for some the past, and it is mind attendant on the guquiry now going on at Shanghai into the Hochung Impering colision, acting on a sensitive temporamont, has tended to accelerato his death.

We have been favored by Captain Oroad, of the C. M. S. N. Co.'s steamer Fa-you, which arrived hero yesterday afternoon with the following roport of a wreck ho met with on bis last trip from Shanghai..

to

enda with starbourd -sile out of the

July 22nd, 1881.-Noon, observed a wreck on the port how surrounded by Chinoso boats; steered for her, and sent Mr. Williams, 2nd Officor, away get information. 1 p.. Mr. Williams returned and reported the vessel to have been a three-masted schoouer, With regard to proceedings before with fore mast and jib-boom standing, the Supreme Court, for what we aro the decks and sides burst in; the na- surprised to learn, was considered a tives were taking out beans or hoan libel on Capt. Thomsett,-the-China-eako, she was early on her beam Mail is the first to send us the news that such stops were ever seriously contemplated. We heard rumours that Capt. Thomsott considered his conduct had been reflected on unfairly. As we never had the slightest intention of reflecting on Capt. Thomsett's character or conduct in any possible way, we at once considered it our duty to publicly proclaim the fact. Our opinions on the subject at isano aro in no way changed, and we aro prepared to accopt the rosponsibility of our uttorances now or at any other

water, and both anchors were down and tho tido running past her, so that she is a danger in the track of ships; letters visible on her storn, also an Auorican Flag in the contro. "S. Hall. O.N." Bearings, Magnetic.-Lea-chu, N. by E. B, High Chikok, N. W. W Soudan, W. & S., Lat. N. 28° 17', Long.

E. 121 53,

Thor is little doubt, wo four, that this is the Annie S. Hall, commanded. by Captain Nolson. The tives whom Captain Croad interviewed at the

December.

Fires were sold at 207, a slight ad- vance on our former quotation. Docks were on the market at 58 per cent premium, and a few sales book.

beats did not take place, although the cd. The expected move in Steam- Company's Report, which will be found in another column, is an ex- tremely satisfactory one. Hotels are on offer at 112 without leading to business, and we have no changes to other stocks. report in connection with Sugars, or

A small lot of China

Shares.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation Sharos-115 percent, premium, Sales.. Union Insurance Society of Canton-

་་;

$1,675 per share ox dividend. China Traders Insurance Company's

Slures-$1,700 por share. North China Insurance Company-Tis.

1,125 per share.. Yangtsze Insurance Association-Tis.

820 por share. Chinese Insurance Company, -$300

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

Tis. 148 per share.・・ Hongkong Fire Insurance Company'

Sharos- $1000 per share, China Fire Insurance Company's Shares

-$297 per share, Sales. Hongkong & Whampoa Deck Com

pany's Sharos-58 por cont prem. Sollors.

Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam- boat Company's Shuros-$31 por sharo premium. China Coast Steam Navigation Com-

pany-Tla. 162 per share. Hongkong Gas Coorparty's Shares-

$82 por sharo.