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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29TH, 1881.
ever about legal matters, frequently the members of which are the Stew- commit sorious errors on the magis-ards of the Ball, and with its con- terial bench.
consummation concludes what may be termed the official marks of wel- come accorded to the distinguished visitors amongst us. No pains have been spared to make the Ball worthy of the occasion so far as the mecha- nical features of it are concerned, and under the able superintendence of Captain Mannors Kerr, Mr. Danby and Mr. Kerfoot Hughes, the deco. rations and other arrangements will be exceptionally complete and good. We trust that a full attendance of ladies and other visitors will sup- port the Committee in offering this: compliment to the Detached Squad
UBSCRIBERS are respectfully in-
formed that on and after January To return to the case of Li Ahung, lat, 1882, the Hongkong Telegraph will alluded to above. At the Police bo published daily at 4 p.m. Arrange. Court before Dr. Stewart on Tuesday, ments have been made to publish Li Ahung, shop coolie, was charged punctually at that hour, so that Sub-with throwing a parcel into the gaol on the 26th inst. According to the evidence, about 10 a.m. on Monday last, P.C. Peer Bhoy, 613, was stand ing in Caine-rond, when he observ ed the defendant in Old Bailey-street,' near the gaol wall, from whence he threw something over the wall. He went away, bat the constable fol- lowed after and arrested him. Wil- liam Staunton, acting warden, said in consequence of what the constable. told him, he searched that part of the gaol grounds where the parcel was thrown over, but he could find nothing. It was difficult to discover what was thrown into the gaol un- less a signal was first given. The prisoner was discharged from gaol on the 24th instant. Two convic tions were recorded against the pri- soner, and he was fined $10, or in default six weeks' imprisonment.
The new machinery and plaut will arrive by next English mail, and it is intended to publish the first number of the Telegraph in its oularged form on January 16th...
Hongkong, December 29th, 1881.
A. S. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,
AND
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
Manufacturers of the following AERATED WATERS, viz: BODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA,
AND POTASH, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
Deliveries in Town and Harbour from
7 AM to 7 P.M.
SHIPS MEDICIĘNE CHESTS REFITTED, PASSENGER SHIPS SUPPLIED.
Prompt Attention given to Coast Ordora.
When asked by the magistrate what he had to say in defence, Li Ahung denied the charge in toto, and argued that if he had thrown any thing into the gaol, as sworn to by the constable, whatever it might have been it would have been found. To any man of practical common- sense this defence was simply un- assailable; and how in the face of the evidence, on the mere assertion of a Sikh constable, Dr. Stewart could convict this man, and sentence him to six weeks' imprisonment with the option of a fine of $10, we leave that worthy gentleman to explain to his superiors. It is a well known axiom in law that a man is supposed to be innocent until he has been proved to be guilty. If the proofs brought forward in support of a cri- minal charge are not of a convincing character, no judge, on his own re- sponsibility, has any right to enter On the 28th December, at No. 136, Queen's a conviction against the prisoner at Road Central, Hongkong, the wife of Mr. the bar, unless his guilt has been WILLIAM WATTS, of a daughter.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG, SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
CANTON DISPENSARY,
THE DISPENSARY,
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THE
SHANGHAI
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Songkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 29TH DECEMBER, 1881.
CASE is reported from the Police Court by the Daily Press of the 28th instant to which we beg most res- pectfully to invite the immediate at- tention of the local Government. If the circumstances of this case are
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We understand that applications for sharos in the now autoa Office consi- dorably exceed 6),00), and, as there aro only 10,00) shares to allot, disap-. pointment and heart-baring must be tlao lot of mauy ,
A Manting of the Reception Com- mitte will be hall to-morrow after- noon, at 2.30 p.m., at the Hongkong Club for the purpose of oxplaining the arrangemants regarding the Ball, A full attendance is requested.
We take the following interesting obituary notios from a Scotch nows. paper: At West Bud, Kirriemuir, on the 1st November Margaret Stuart- a dosobndunt of My Queen of Scots, and at one tins school mistross in Lin- trathea for about 30 years in the 8ith year of her ago.
Such ladies and visitors as
the actual nature of the welcome, are present will at any rate reflect
Of the many almanacs for the com. since no invitations are issued excepting year already to hand, by far the in those cases in which the Recap most useful, and most artistically got tion Committee decided that un ex- up, is that issuöd by Messrs. A. S. caption should be made, that is to Watson and O. of the Hongkong say, in the case of officers of the Dispensary. It is in every respect a Garrison, Foreign Consuls, and of great improvement on anything of the course all Officers of the Fleet kind we have yet seen." and one or two individual cases in which the rule has been broken through. All other visitors will be there by subscription, and the Ball thus becomes a public and cosmo- politan entertainment in which it is hoped that all will share the enjoy ment equally with the visitors of the evening.
The French steamer Precurseur, which arrived in Melbourne on the 17th Oc-
tobor, is the first of a now line of steamers, entirely distinct from those of the Messageries Maritimes Company, to 'run between France and Now Cale- donia, by way of the Cape of Good Hope, touching at Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney both going and coming. On this her first trip, she had not much cargo, but the vessel is sailed economi- cally, and steams her eight knots on a consumption of 10 tons of coal per day. She had nearly one hundred passengers, the greater number of
which were for Noumea.-Straits Timos.
A London magazine, says the Straits Times, gives the following account of the practical sort of education German women of all ranks have to go through; "I was 16 years of age, and, according to a common custom of German fami
lios, I had to go to what is called a cookery school, in order to learn there everything that is expected from a Gorman house wife. A girl may be a
countess or a baroness, a olergyman's or a general's daughter, or else the child of a butcher or a shoemaker. It does not signify how or where she has been born, or what her rank is. The manners of her country require that, whoever she is, she should know how to oook, wash, and plant the garden." After that, who would not like to marry a German wife ?
The Amoy Gazette of the 28rd iast. says that "the Great Northern Tolo- graph Company's stentnor Store Nor- disks arrived this morning from Shan- ghai and anchored opposite Chambó.”. We learn by a recont arrival in Hong kong Harbour that the Telegraph Company's steamer has since boon soon at sea at work on the break in the
cable.
The princely house of Jardine, Ma- Formerly, when the Jardines ruled, theson & Co. is very much changed,
and a good thing" was on, their young men had never to ask for a slice; it was always allotted to them as a matter of right. Wo hear there is weeping and wailing and quashing of teeth amongst the present hard-worked juniors, in consequence of their ap.
plications for shares in the new Canton Insurance Office having been rigorously shelved,
The steamship Albay will undook at Kowloon this afternoon, and the Penedo will probably dook there this evening.
Sugars seem to be looking up.
Wo heard a broker erying from the house. top to passers-by, to give him ton shares, only ten shares, at 60, but they turned a deaf our to his call. We un- derstand there is that on the tapis which may send this stock up to 100 premium.
The well known raco-ponios Wild Scad, Roverse, and Too-too, winners at the recent Foochow Meeting, ar- rived by the steamship Namon this afternoon. These pouies, as will be seon by an advertisement in our front page, are for sale on very reasonable terins.
We are given to understand the Chinese Authorities' have decided to give up tho Engineering School at the Arsenal in order to curtail the expen- ses of that establishment. Mr. Legh, the Engineering instructor, took his departure for Home last week, the Chinese officials having seen fit to can- cel their agreement with that goatle- Inau-Foochow Herald.
We are requested to state by the Honorary Secretary of the Reception Committee that the subscription lists tachod Squadron will remain on the for the Subscription Ball to the De-
table until 2 p.m. où Friday afternoon. They are to be found at the Hongkong Club, the Club Germania, the Club Lusitano, Messrs. Lane Crawford & Co.s, at the Hongkong Dispensary, Messrs. Geo. Falconer & Co.'s,” ko.
PUBLIO SUBSCRIPTION BALL TO THE OFFICERS OF THE DETACHED SQUADRON.
We are requested by the Hon. Secre- tary to the Reception Committee to etate that, as already announced, the Public Subscription Ball to the Officers of the Dotached Squadron will be held in the City Hall on Friday, the 30th December, at 9 p.m.
The case of the 66 squatters, who have settled on Crown lands adjacent His Excellency the Governor has au- to the Pokfoolum Road, was again-nounced his intention of being present, brought before Mr. H. B. Wodehouse, and amongst other distinguished guests at the Police Court yester.lay. Ins will be the Lieutenant-General "Com- pector Thomson said an application manding the Troops; the Vice-Admiral, had been made to the Surveyor Gene- Commander-in-Chief of the China Squa. ral for a valuation of the ground nest- dron; the French Antral, Command- pied by the squatters, and as this had or-in-Chief on the China Station; and not yet been sent in, he applied for a other English and Foreign Naval and rainan for a week. The squatters Military Officera. had applied to be permittel to pay crown rent for their pre.uises: The caso was adjourned until the 4th prox.
We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the "Eastern Religious Kalendar for the year 1832," com- piled by Dr. B. J. Bitol. The com- pilar states in the proface to the work that the Kalendar comprehends the reosguized fête days of the Chinese people as recorded in the National Almanack, also the prin cipal religious festivals of the Japanese and the feasts of devotion observed by presented in Hongkong. It is design the various religious communities re-
ed for bandy reference, but it will also serve to tho thoughtfal observer as a guide towards a better understanding of the religious life of Eastern Asia. Should this compilation be foqud to answer a practical want, it may per haps in future years be extended, by the addition of explanatory notes, ao as to make it a practical summary of comparative religion.
The Ball being a representative Ball given by the community, is opon to all subscribers, and one subscription entitles all the lady members of any Que family to be present.
No invitations are issued excapt to the Officers of the Fleet, the Officers of the Garrison, and Foreign Official Consuls in Hongkong, Canton and Macao, together with temporary visitors to Hongkong.
His Excellency the Governor of Macao has been also invited to be proseut.
Some time before Friday evening tickets of admission will be issued to
each subscriber; and the Hon. Seore- tary trasts that if any of the tickets fuil to reach their destination the sub-
scribors will attribute it to inadvertence and not to any intentional discourtesy. Gentlemen who have subsoribed will uot of course bo precluded from attend. ing the Ball on account of the non- receipt of their tickets.
demonstrated in an unmistakeable manner. We contend that there was no evidence brought forward against Li Ahung to justify the ma- gistrate in finding him guilty of the offence with which he was charged. The constable said he saw the prisoner throw something-he did not know what-over the wall of the gaol, and he immediately ar- rested him. This was denied by the prisoner, and on a search being at onco made by Mr. Staunton, the act- correctly detailed by our morning ing warden, not a trace of anything contemporary, which we see no rea-
could be found. This alone ought son to doubt, we are prepared to
to have insured an acquittal; but contend that the magistrate's docino, Li Ahung had been twice pre- sion is a most unjustifiable one, viously convicted; he was only fit warranted neither by the evidence to hard with criminals; he had al- adduced or the character of the already served two terms of imprison leged offence. The prisoner was
ment in accordance with the law of only a wretched Chinese coolie, a the colony, and although having pariah from respectable society, with done so entitled him to the protection two previous convictions recorded of those laws, all the justice and pro- against him in the books of the gaol; tection he received from the emi- and as he was discharged from prison nently capable and enlightened ma- so recently as the 24th inst., it was gistrate was a sentence of six weeks' doubtless imagined that it would be imprisonment. Li Ahung may pos- just as well to send him back to his sibly have thrown something over old quarters, and therefore Mr. Li the prison, wall; but, as satisfactory Abung was sentenced by Dr. Stewart evidence of his criminality was not to a fine of $10, or in default six forthcoming-in fact the only reliable week's imprisonment-not for any evidence, that of Mr. Staunton, went offence proved against him, but mere- exactly the other way-ho ought not ly for having a bad character. There to have been convicted. The mere can be little doubt that the magis fact of this man being a common trates of Hongkong have a great deal coolie, and having been previously of power in their hands, and we are convicted (for what, we do not hap- quite willing to admit that they pen to know) is really no reason seldom use that power arbitrarily, why he should be made a victim of or even unwisely; but every rule has magisterial eccentricity. its exceptions, and occas nally the judgments of these officials are worthy in every respect of that body of gen- tlemen so universally abused in Eng land, and known as "the great un- paid." A magistrate is actually a judge who should be thoroughly ac- first part of the, reception accorded life, or in any authentic act, shall havo. way possible, has undoubtedly injured | unable to say whether the Princes are quainted with the law which, he is supposed to impartially dispense; therefore we can hardly be surprised if gentlemen who have had no legal training, and know nothing what
We understand that the arrange ments for the Public Ball, which takes place to-morrow evening are now nearly complete. The Ball, as is well known, is the sequel to the
to the Detached Squadron, which consisted in a general illumination and other expressions of welcome. The Ball is organised under the aus pices of the Reception Committee,
A curious order of nobility says the established in France, due to the in- Straits Times has been proposed to be
genuity of M. Joseph Magnin, for some time Finance Minister of the Republic, who drafted a Bill with the object of (axing titles. The bill set forth with a declaration that ovory Frenchman enjoying civil rights is entitled to acquire any title ho likes to boar. It then proposed to enact as follows:- "Articlo 2-Every Frenchman enjoy ing his civil rights, whether he already possess a title, or whether he wishes to become possessor of it, has the right to bear it on the following conditions: 1. On a payment of 10,000 franca a year for the title of duke. 2.-On a payment of 5,000 francs a year for the title of marquis. 3.-On payment of 1,000 frames a year for the title of count. 4.-On a payment of 3,000 francs a year for the title of baron. 5. On a payment of 2,000 francs a year for the use of the particle de before his name. Artiolo 8.-Tho 100 milions of franes which this new law may pro duce will be devoted to the reduction of taxes on agriculture and mannfuc- taring industry. Article 4-Bury French citizen who, in his correspon- dence, his writings, in public or private
taken any title of honour whatsoever without having consouted to pay the above taxes abail be subject to tho same poualties, as for the illegal wear ing of a decoration."
Wo bog to direct the attention of our readers to the Notice to Subsori. bors, which appears in another column, We are pleased to be in a position to state that we have concluded arrange- ments which will enable as after the 31st instant to publish tho Telegraph with all the day's doings punctually at four o'clock, so that it will reach all subscribers cortainly not later than We must claim our 4.30 every day. readers' kind indulgence for past irre. gularities in the hour of publication, We have fought hard if not always successfully against the obstacles placed in our way by an interested olique, whose unscrupulous persistency to rain the prospects of this journal in every
as very materially. However, with our own printing staff and appliancos, we traat not only to remove all cause for complaint, but to merit a continuance of tho support of the community.
Tickets will not be issued to those who bave received invitations.
Residents having visitors staying with thom are invited to bring their visitors with them, whether in receipt of invitations or not. The object of the Ball is to honour the occasion of the visit of the Detached Squadron to
Hongkong, and it is confidently hoped that the Coininunity will do their utmost to assist the Committee in
carrying out their programine success- fully. With reference to the paragraph that has appeared in the China Mail respecting the probability of the pre- sence of the Princes at the Ball, inserted apparently by authority, the Hon, Secretary thinks it right to state that this was published without his autho- rity or knowledge, and that he is. likely to honour the Ball with their presence or not.
His Excellency the Governor, Lady"; Hennessy, and suite will leave Govern
Ident House at 9.30
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