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The Hongkong Telegraph

HosGKONG. Monday, May 22, 1882,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

almost forgotten to say that, for the con- garments and general discomfort which venience of the public, a commodious re-over three thousand foreign and native freshment bar, under the experienced residents were subjected to, and which they management of Mr. J. Cook, of the Stagnat unjustly attribute to Mr. Maksu's arbi- Hotel, has been constructed in the entrance trary refusal to make a very slight con-

cession to the public désire.

Lent,

WE are informed by the agents, Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., that the steamer Bengloe let Singapore, for this port, on the 21st instant, and may be expected here on ar about the 27th. OUR remarks on the "Hongkong St. Andrew's Sóciety" and the action of the latest edition of the "Three Tailors of Tooley Street" have been unavoidably crushed out of this issue. They will appear tomorrow, We note that at the recent Tientsin Races, the well known pony East Wind, ridden by Dr. Ruegg, after losing the two-miles Russian Cup by a short head, won both the Visitors Cup, and The Irish Judges have sent a protest against the Champions with great ease. the supersession of trial by jury.

TELEGRAM S.

Reuter telegraphs froin London on the 20th inst., that the Bill for repressive measures in Ireland has been read a second time.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Mercury states that the steamship Glenegle arrived at Woosung at 6 p.m. on the 14th inst, having made the passage from Singapore in six and a half days. She proceeded up the river to Hankow the following morning at 4 am. We beg to remind the public that tickets for Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus and Menagerie Hotel, daily from 9 a.m. until 4 pm. They can can be obtained at Mr. Moore's Office, Hongkong

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We note that Mr. Justice Snowden passed through Tientsin en route to Peking on the 8th inst. A CHINESE lad, eight years of age, was charged the morning before Mr. Wodehouse with cutting and wounding another Chinese boy twelve years old.--The complainant said he was on his way on Saturday from Shek-tong-tsui to Sai-yung-poon On Saturday night, at nine o'clock, be-

to purchase provisions, carrying a pair of scales. tween three and four thousand people had,

Defendant and another boy came up to him, the notwithstanding the long distance from

former taking away the seales. He began to the central districts. and the threatening weather, assembled in the circus. and

beat the defendant for doing this, when the other boy scized him (the complainant) by the queue, punctually to time, after an overture by

the defendant running in to his house close the band, the performance commenced with

by, and bringing out a chopper, with which Les Mosquetaires de la Reine, a spectacular

he cut him across the hand, as he held it out exhibition in which the skill of ten trained

to defend himself. His hand bled, and some horses was capitally displayed, the perfect

people in the street came up and seized the de- fendant and arrested him.-The complainant's manner in which they went through the

father, a hawker, said he was in advance of his various intricate evolutions, of what was

son, and hearing a noise looked back and an unusually attractive performance, de-

the defendant cut his son on the servedly eliciting hearty applause. This

hand with the knife produced. His son was spectacle was directed by Signor CHIARINI

rested the defendant, said the complainant was badly hunt-The Chinese Constable who ar and Miss NELLIE Rein, in the style of ac-

cut across the fingers to the extent of the tenth complished artistes. Mr. TUZET. a gym-We are informed by the Agents, Messrs. Melchers

of an inch deep.-The case was remanded till nast of some celebrity, proved himself a & Co., that the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's steamer THE steamship Killarney came out of Aberdeen

to-morrow to enable medical evidence to be ab- master of the art of balancing, performing Helias left Singapore for this port on Saturday Dock this morning. The Spanish steamer tained as to the cut. The father of the defen some very clever tricks on an oscillating morning.

Jorge Juan will undock at Kowloon this after-dant, a street coolic, was bound over in ten trapeze. The "educated zebra from Tus salt-fish laa keeper charged, on Saturday, noon, giving place to the British steamer Zido. dollars to produce his son at ten o'clock to Southern Africa" was introduced by Mr. with retailing Gish outside the market in contra-The steamet Sorsogon came over from the Cos- Jost ROMANO, and showed itself to be a vention of Ordinance, was mulcted this morning mopolitan Dock this morning. "timber-topper" of some ability, taking in a like amount to the two shopkeepers.com. the hurdles, and five barred gate like a prac-victed of the same offence, namely $20 or 2!

days' imprisonment. tised steeple-chaser, A comic equestrian scene, entitled the "Three Nations," and INSPECTOR Orley, having completed fifteen years introducing ideal representatives of Eng service in the Hongkong Police Force, was to- land, Ireland, and Scotland, was cleverly day sworn in for a further term of five years by performed by Mr. F. WATSON, whose. Captain Thomset. The Colony will this, barage, to Canton, with the intention of marrying her. that have hitherto disgraced this generally quiet chopper with which the murder was committed

humourous impersonation of Paddy, and ñne trick-act riding as Rob Roy, received great applause.

WE note that His Excellency the Viceroy of Canton arrived at Shanghai on the 17th inst. We observe that the Hon. T. G. Grosvenor, C.B., Secretary of Legation at Peking, arrived in Shanghai from Fonchow, on the 15th inst.

accident, have the bencit of the valuable services

of an abte and zealous public officer until 1887. THE steamship Peking from Chinkiang repous CHILARINI'S CIRCUS.

that on the 21st inst, at 6 a.m., when 15 miles At this stage of the proceedings, the rain of Cape Good 11cpe, they picked up the ship CHIARINI's Royal Italian Circus and Mena- which had been coming down in force for wrecked crew of a Chinese junk, numbering 12 gerie advertiser the first grand perform-sonic time previously, suddenly assumed persons in all. As the Chinese were anxious to ance of their short season in Hongkong at the proportions of a deluge, and accom- proceed to Swatew, they were ultimately placed Bowrington, East Point, on Saturday night. panied by a terrific squall, forcibly remind-on board a Swatow fishing boat. Although the company only arrived from ing one of the typhoon season, soon com-A TIFFLING hawker, who was found drunk and Manila on Friday morning, the vast pre-menced to make matters decidedly unplea- parations necessary for the reception of sant. For several minutes nothing could the public had been completed in a be heard but the roaring of the wind, thoroughly satisfactory manner, and we are glad to be able to speak in most

favourable terms of the admirable ar-

afterwards be obtained at the entrance to the

Circus.

saw

morrow,

position in the sentry box, but without success. Her mother, sisters and brothers arrived presently on the scene, sending upharrowing lamentations for the child whose young life, cut short by the hands of a ruthless, cowardly murderer, was fast ebbing away. The girl was carried to her mother's house, close by, but no efforts could, of course, stay the implacable hand of death, already fixed, with iron grip, upon the new happily un conscious child. The Inspector at No, a Sta- tion was communicated with, and the child was carried to the Station by some of the Gun Lascars, whence she was sent in an um

shortly after admission. The poor thing never bulance to the Civil Hospital, where she died spoke after her cruel murderer had struck her. She was a rather comely girl, with fine, well-cut features, and dressed Chinese fashion. Her little brothers, who were sobbing plicous- ly as they related to us some of the harrow- ing details, wear foreign dress, and exhibit much more of the Indian than the Chinese type of features. The murderer, who is a rather mild looking Indian, was handed over to the police and taken to No. 2 Station, being subsequently sent to the Central. Whilst at No. the havildar's wife went to the

24 Station to have a "last fond look" at her poor. nurdered sister, when the murderer said to her in his own language, that if he were not hanged this time, he would kill her also when he got out of prison. When told by his comrades while in the guard-room that he would swing for the crime, he said he didn't mind, that he could they could cut his throat if they liked. A person awing, and did not care about death, adding that said to him since "What made you do that; it was very bad." He answered "No, it was very good. I lost my caste and my money," The man is evidently a villain of a desperate type of character, and, without wishing to pre- strung up high and dry for the cruel, fiendish, cowardly crime he has committed, it is high time that capital punishment were altogether

The prisoner was brought up at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Wodehouse, the being also produced in Court. It is a short handled one made entirely of iron, is moderately sharp, and weighs two pounds and a half. Portions of the murdered girl's blood, brains and hair are in charge of the case, applied for a remand, pend- scattered treely over the blade. Inspector Baker, ing the Coroner's inquest ordered for this after- noon. Mr. Wodehouse remanded the case util to-morrow, at ten o'clock.

At the Criminal Sessions opened to-day, Wang ATROCIOUS MURDER BY A GUN judge the case, we can only say that if he is not

Akong, the carpenter, who made the desperate at

tack on Police Sergeant Hanson near the Peak, on the 12th March last, was found guilty, sen- tence being reserved. Tung Ahoj, the cook who decoyed the girl Sala, under 14 years of was also found guilty. Sentence was reserved in his case too. Mr. Ho Kai defended the fast named prisener, and made an eloquent maiden He spoke speech in behalf of his client. for about half an hour with great case and fluency, his enunciation being clear and distinct. He told the jury that if they convicted his client, a young man in the princ of life, they en- tailed upon themselves a great responsibility, appeal, the jury did convict him. Mr. Ho Kai Despite, however, the learned barrister's moving gives promise of being a bright orament of the Hongkong Bar.

LASCAR.

A murder, which, for disabolical malice, fien-abolished. dish cruelty, and tigerish, or rather hellish, fierce- ness, will take high rank among the worst crimes Colony, was committed on Saturday afternoon at the rear of McGregor's Darracks in Wanchai. The victim was quite a child, a little girl about eleven years old, and small for her age, in fact, infantile in appearance, and the murderer, a full grown man, about twenty-five years of age, a private in "A" Company of the Gus Lascars, residing at McGregor's Barracks, whose disappointed fust-it would be criminal in his case to dignify the passion by the sacred name of love, that "fine erotic madness," as Dr. Charles Mackay calls it, "that peoples the world "was the impelling motive to

THE FRENCH ́MAIL.

The Messageries Maritimes Co.'s steamer Pei- ho, Captain Champenois, with the French Mails of the 18th ulto, arrived in harbour yesterday, shortly after mid day. The following items are

and the rain lashing on the roof of the that his sister had invited him to dinner. The THE Shanghai Mercury publishes the following the crime. Private Tecca Ram, the dastardly taken from the London and China Express of

very disorderly in Wellington Street yesterday, was fined this morning 25 cents or a day's im prisonment. He made the rather lame defence

hawker is evidently an admirer of western civili- zation, progress, and enlightenment. THE Band of the Buffs, under the direction of Dandmaster Quinn, will play in the Bontanical Gardens, to-morrow (Tuesday afternoon), the 23rd

March

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• Xacarilla "Valentina"

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Axiret? ..Marivol. Relt.

curious storyAt the Li-shan, a bill near Kiu kiang, there was a stone door which could not be opened; but in the second month of this year an aperture, caused apparently by decay, was no- ticed by a party of five men; four of them squeezed in; at first it was so dark that they could see nothing; when they procured a light, they found a passage leading to a large chamber ...Maart, richly furnished; then to another, at the door of which they found a jade jar in which was a script purporting to be signed by the Emperor of the Teng dynasty of the Tiempo period in the tenth year of his reign. He stated that he had been in the habit of retiring to this cave with his Em presses during the summer heats for five years, He had also em. and he left this as a memorial. ployed a sculptor to make a marble effigy of him and his Empresses, so that their features should be transmitted to posterity. The Man darins have ordered the aperture to this cave to be sealed up.

marquee, the audience meanwhile keeping their seats and behaving admirably. The rangements made by the management, forec of the squall at length proved too in every possible way likely to conduce much for the canvas of the tent, and in to the convenience and comfort of the several places a breach was made, the Hongkong public. The large space rain pouring into the circus in torrents.inst., commencing at 5 p.m. adjoining the Bowrington Canal, occupied The gas lights were swinging about in a by the pavilions, has been enclosed by a dangerous fashion, and a stampede of the bamboo fence, and at the entrance, which audience towards the entrance would in- is constructed on the most approved prin- evitabably have led to deplorable results. ciples, a ticket office has been erected. However, what was actually a very serious AN unemployed engineer named John Thomas, On entering the first pavilion the visitor at matter was fortunately regarded as a piece an Englishman, was up this morning before once finds himself in the Menagerie, a of rather good fun, and all danger was Captain Thomsett, for being drunk and refusing smail but valuable collection. At the right avoided by a humourous view of the situato pay ricksha hire.--The Indian Constable who the tigers' dens are placed, and it will be tion being generally taken. In the midst arrested the defendant, said Thomas was drunk and disorderly in the vicinity of the Clock Tower admitted that Signor CHARINI's "monarchs of the storm, Miss NELLIE REID, mounted at 8.30p.m. on the 21st instant. He knew nothing of the jungle" will bear favorable com-

on General Grant" rode into the ring about the 'ricksha hire.-Defendant, who ad- parison with those of any travelling men- but in less time than it takes us mitted the impeachment, was fined fifty cents or ageric in the world. The three large to record it, both the fair equestrienne two days' imprisonment. performing Bengal tigers are indeed mag- and her noble stead presented the nifrent animals, and Mr. Loxzsz Joussos appearance of having been dragged appears to have them completely under through a mill pond. To continue the control. Another fine specimen bas lately performance was impossibile, although this been added, and if the three grand tiger | decision was only arrived at with some re- cubs, confined in a separate compartment luctance by Signor CHIARINI, after the of the same cage as the new comer, should dressing tent had been blown down, the have the good fortune, to live to reach the roof of the grand marquee torn in many age of maturity, probably the finest collec-places, and enough water had collected in tion of tigers in the world will be under the ring to float a sampan. The whole oft off in other boats.-The boatwomen were the charge of the enterprising 'proprietor the audience and performers alike were of this popular circus. A brace of black | drenched to the skin. Umbrellas and rain tigers, or panthers, from Central India, coats proved a delusion; the elements are exceedingly ferocious, but splundidly were out on the spree, and evidently meant shaped specimens, and we believe that having a good time of it. And they did. they are the first of their specios ever The members of Signor CABINI's troupe exhibited in the Far East. The black were in a most deplorable plight. They bear, is a funny looking, and evidently were all dressed for their various roles, harmless customer, and the kangaroo- and the swamping of the dressing "the wonderful animal of Australia"--is rooms having placed their ordinary gar- what is known in the Colonies as a wallibi. ments out of reach, in inost instances tights The monkeys are rather a mixed lot, con- and spangles were the only protection taining, however, some very good speci- against the heaviest downpour of rain ex-

Two boatwomen were charged at the Police Court this morning with refusing a legal fare.-Police Constable Dick said he was on duty at Gibb's wharf on the zoth, where the women were with their boat. Two sailors of the Jason came down and wanted to engage the boat. They asked him what the fare was, when he told them off, so he impounded their licence. The seamen 20 cents. Defendants refused to take the sailors

A CHINESE seaman, a hawker, and a shopman were charged this moming before Captain Thomsett, the first and second with attempting to steal, two silk handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. J. Dorabjee, near the Hongkong Hotel. The three prisoners, according to the evidence, ent cred the shop at noon yesterday, the scaman and the hawker asking for some silk handkerchiefs. While

hawker, who appeared to control the actions of Mr. Dorabice was showing the handkerchiefs, the

the other two, gave a handkerchief to the seaman, who tried to hide it under his jacket, the hawker at the same time bolting off Mr. Dorabjee seized the seaman and sent for the police. The other two were found later on in Third Street.The scaman and the enterprising hawker, the leader of the gang, were shopman, who had taken no active part in the sentenced to six month's hard labour each, the attempted theft, being ordered to find two sureties in $25 each to be of good behavour for three months, or go to gaol for that period. All three had been there before, so they are well up in gaol active assistance in carrying on the multifarious routine, and will doubless afford Mr. Hayward

duties appertaining to "durance vile.”

murderer, is a Hindoo, and has served nearly four years in the Gun Lascars at Hongkong, a corpa raised as an auxiliary to the Royal Artillery

in China. His victim bore the rather poetical name of Lachmee, and was the daughter of an Indian named Appasamee-who had served some watchman upon his discharge from the Force- years in the Police here, taking up the duties of by his wife, a Chinawoman. Appasamec died in August of last year, leaving three daughters and two little boys. One of the daughters is married to the hayildar of the Gun Lascars, named Scelhoram; the other one, as also the boys, are quite little things, as was the murdered girl. Casting his lustful, murderous eyes upon the

April 14th:-

Advices from America report that the Presi-

dent's veto of the Chinese Exclusion Bill has con-

ciliated the Chinese Minister to the United States.

M. de Struve, the Russian Minister, has arrived

at Washington overland from his previous post in Japan, and was to be presented to the President

on the ith inst.

The Viscount Bondy Riario, who was re- cently appointed Secretary of the Third Class at Peking, has just been transferred to the same tier, formerly attaché at Peking, and subsequently position at Stockholm. Count Renaud de Mous- Third Secretary at Madrid, has been apd Second Secretary at St. Petersburg, Chen Tasjon, has arrived in New York from The Chinese Minister in the United States, Washington, and leaves on the 15th inst. by the

poor child, his victim, Private Tecca Ram, it | White Star steamer Germanic for Liverpool.

He is on his way to Spain, to which country, our readers will be aware, he is also necredited. His Excellency will probably visit France and Germany as well, and will return to the States in the autumn, and then proceed to Peru, should there be any Government to treat with.

The second volume of Mr. Demetrius Bolger's "History of China "will appear next week. This

third volume, which the author hopes to furnish volume closes with the abdication of the Em. peror Keen Lung in the year 1796; and in a within the next twelve months, the events of the present century will be described in considerable detail. Mr. Boulger has had original manuscript placed in his hands for that purpose by Colonel Gordon and other Chinese authorities.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga tien Company's new steamer Sutlej has arrived in the Thames from Barrow-in-Furness, where

Gauges, the Sutlej is fitted up in the modern she has been constructed of steel by the Harrow Shipbuilding Company. Like her sister-ship the style, the saloon occupying the entire breadth of the ship for a length of 45 feet. The decorations

"ppears, visited, up to about four months ago, at her mother's house in Wel Sing Street, close to the scene of the murder, and asked the mother for her daughter to wife. In consequence of the child's tender years, the mother declined to listen to the proposal, and

A small pamphlet has been published by told him she would consider the matter when the Messrs. Dyer Bros., for the Society for the Sup pression of the Opium Trade, containing the girl had reached the age of sixteen or seventeen.opinions and testimonies of twenty-three medical He continued, however, to visit at the house, men who have resided in China. About one and in the course of a conversation with the half of these are medical missionarics, and the mother, she told him that, in accordance with other medical men who have resided in that Chinese custom, he would have to pay a hun- country. It has a short preface by Sir James dred dollars before he could have the girl, Risdon Bennett. after she had arrived at maturity. He offered fifty dollars, but was informed it would not do.

her good name, her husband being dead, would and, continuing to pester the people, he was told by the mother not to come there any more, as be thereby compromised. The Havildar also fined a dollar each or four days' imprisonment.

told him to keep clear of the house. He ceased to visit the place, but evidently treasured up the Anour half-past nine yesterday morning, a China-

memory of his supposed wrongs and disap man, whilst walking from East Point to the west ward, suddenly fell senseless on the ground,

-pointed lust. It appears he was heard to mutter threats to the effect that he would take care no opposite the offices of Messrs. E. D. Sassoon &

one cise should have the girl, if he could not, as Co., having evidently ruptured a blood vessel, as

he would make away with her first. He had blood was flowing freely from his mouth. A

breaking habits, and indulged freely in Sam meanwhile broken his caste, by getting a Chl- nese boy to cook his food, and by other caste crowd of coolies quickly surrounded the poor man, whom they raised up, and with a handful of

shu, brandy and anything in the liquor line that offered. We have not been able to elicit leaves, from one of the trees close by, attempted

that his casto comrades in the Gun Lascars of this part of the vessel have been carried out to atop the bleeding, in which, however, they

that their caste prevented their continuing The Suflej is of 4,300 tons gross register, and has treated as a parlah in consequence, bayond by Messrs. Wallace and Flockhart, architects.

man who happened to be in the vicinity obtained

assumed that they looked askance at him over 390 feet long, has 42 feet beat, and is 35 feet were not successful. After some time a gentle

to mess with him, but it may be safely engines of 5,000-horse power effective. She is the assistance of a police constable, and the mas

the matter. The man's character in the force deep, and will carry about 3,000 tons of cargo, eventually regained consciousness, although un-

has been what, in

The Sutlej leaves for Australia direct on the mens of DARWIN's protegir, whilst the zebra perienced in Hongkong for many years. able to raise himself from the ground. On the THE Shanghai Agent for Reuter sends the follow-technically ternicday parlance, may be

a disposition to inter- fith

proxec One of the recommendations made by the offi Is one of the handsomest of his class we The audience had an equally trying time constable enquiring where he lived, he was under- ing apology and explanation to the N. C. Daily perance, quamelling and falsehood having been

prevailing attributes. Events marched cers called on to report upon the defences of Hong- have ever seen. A white cow-the-sacred | to get through; however, everything was stood to say that he had recently arrived from New for the blunder made with the telegram on in their customary inanner until Saturday, kong is, I am told (writes a correspondent), rather animal of the Brahmins-from India, will borne in the most good humoured fashion, Singapore, A chair was procured, and the poor reporting the murder of Lord F. Cavendish and we to go to a coffee shop, a wooden structure naval establishments from the present locality

about half past twelve, the poor child hapa sweeping one, involving the removal of the be viewed with interest; and the two baby and expressions of regre: were heard on

fellow taken to the Central Station,

Mr. Burka:The Agent regrets the mistranslaust outside the Gun Lassar cook house, kept by Causeway Bay, The existing position of the tion of the telegram of 7th May, reporting the as Chinese, to buy curry powder. Tecca Ram was Government buildings is an unfavourable one,

up wood with п Chinese chopper, or

or and laye them more open to attack and more. menced his season under such unfavorable Court this morning with the larceny of a silver

cleaver, On entering the grand marquee one auspices. A large number of people re- watch and chain, a pair of boots, and a table which however was corrected in a later issue on

as the girl entered the shop. As she did so, the were in the Bay, But the recommendation is cannot fail being struck with the perfect mained in the menagorio until past

knife, from the Police Station at Aberdeen, Con the toth when a confirmatory message was re-

murderer desisted from his work, and went to almost sure to be set aside, on the ground of the ceived. The messages coming in cipher are

the cook house, just inside the door of which he great cost it would involve, unless the report is manner in which the whole of the internal o'clock, inspecting the denizens of the stable Lyons, it appears, went to Aberdeen on the arrangements have been completed. The forest, and partaking of the good things Station. Getting out of bed at 5.30 in the mom-mutilation of a word will possibly alter the hind his back, watching intently for the child be in positive danger in the event of p

12th instant, on leave, sleeping at the Police sometimes doubtful in their signification, as the

posted himself, with the chopper in his hand be very strong indeed, and Hongkong be shown to box seats, each box containing six chairs, provided by mine host of the Stag."

American advices report that the ship Richard ing of the 14th, he found his boots non est, and meaning of a sentence. Every care is taken to to leave the coffee shop. As she did so, surround the inner circle; thọ resorved

The circus has been thoroughly repaired, had to borrow a pair to protect his pedal extrani- give the message in its integrity, but as unneces- he stealthily emerged from his concealment, and Robinson recently arrived at, New York from seats, affording comfortable accommoda- and the second grand performance will be lies from the cockroaches, centipedes and mosqui-sary verbiage is avoided on account of the exhind, by one hand, dealing her a murderous blew consigned to bankers who had made advances. quick as thought, seized the girl by her hair be- Hongkong, with 7,500 bales of silks and hemp, tion for many hundreds of spectators, are given this evening when a most attractive tots. A telegram was received shortly afterwards at pense, the connecting words of the sentence are on the head with the chopper with the other hand. Messrs. Vogel and Co., of Hongkong, the suspen sometimes left to the discretion of the Agent, who The child immediately dropped to the ground, slon of whose firm we recently noticed, were the slightly to the rear of the boxes, the stalls programme will be produced. Judging Aberdeen Station from Pok-fo-lum, asking if a

Villain

struck her two more blows on the head charged: it was found, however, that the full being placed immediately behind the dress from what we saw on Saturday we can pair of European boots had been stoles, they however believes that, with very rare exceptions, when, to make sure of his work, the cowardly shippers. When the cargo came to be dis with the chopper, pieces of the poor thing's skull amount was not there, and that much of the cargo circle; whilst the gallery, capable of seating speak in the highest terms of the merits of having been found at the latter place in posses he has given the correct translation. 'between three and four, thousand people, Signor CHIARINI's exhibition. It is un-

sion of a coolic, who, when questioned about And yet another instance of Heuter's blundering fragments of brain flying about, her life blood was inferior matting. This seems to be cer dyeing the ground around. The murderer, having tainly a large fraud, but the amount the con- is substantially constructed around the ex-doubtedly what the Americans would call them, said another man had stolen them from and bungling. On Saturday the following tele finished his bloody work, rushed to the guard signees will lose cannot yet be exactly stated. Aberdeen Station, and gave them to him to gram was issued, and duly appeared in our

within ten or twelve yards of the scene of Bills were drawn against the cargo-amounting to treme outside of the enclosure. The ring, a "a first class show." The, enterprising carry. Lyons went to Pok-foo-lum and identified columns "The Ponte has sent a note to its re-

the murder, and gave himself up as a prisoner, something over £30,000. The advices also state capital one, rather larger than the usual proprietor deserves, and we hope and be the boots as his. Another telegram was sent presentatives abroad to the effect that a warm

a precautionary measure, it would appear, that cable advices had been despatched to Hong- dictated by care for his own safety, as the men kong to arrest Mr. Vogel, but that he had ab- size, is well within the view of every specta-lieve, will receive extensive patronage and from Aberdeen to Pok-to-lumi station asking if reception awaits the ironclads should they en of the Gun Lascars who witnessed the murder sconded. The fact is that Mr. Vogel had tor, in the circus. The members of the support. There were a good many fer- prisoner had a watch in his possession. Prisoner croach upon Turkish sovereignty in Egypt from the windows overlooking the road, but Hongkong with his family about a month orchestra are seated to the left of the en- vent prayers (?) said on behalf of the Ad- said the man who had stolen the boots had also After we went to press the following circular was could take no steps to prevent it, the thing was he suspended, and came to Europe, and it is well trance to the ring, and the whole of the ministrator on Saturday night, and we stolen a watch and a table knife, and that he sent round For telegram of to-day read: done so suddenly and quickly, rushed down, and known here that his whereabouts in Europe at pavilion is brilliantly lit up with gas. Two heard frequent expressions of regret that lived in Tai-ping-shan, but the man could not "The Porte has sent a note to its representatives would probably have lynched the scoundrel had the present time are not known. We hear that he not ensconced himself in the guard-room.'. A many transactions recently made by the firm large tents, one used as a series of His Excellency was not present to receive und When locked Torpelendirir, who said wroad demanding the air of the ironcias, Lacarraised the dyng this from the ground, and have not beer postavely fraudulent, bar that they a maa gave him the boots to carry, was fined for an encroachment upon Turkish sovereignty carried her tothe sentry box, just outside the guard- were bordering on the same: A heavy loss is dressing rooms for the artistes, and the practical proofs of his popularity with the

paid to fall on Messra,

Cyrus Wakefield and Co., other as a stable for the large stud of community, especially in connection with $50 or three months' hard labour for unlawful in Egypt." Although both messages may mean room, at the window alongside of which the mur

derer was observed peering out at what was going of Boston. | possession. Ho reluctantly entered the Victoria practically the same thing, it is difficult to under-

on below him. Water was procured, with which Li Chao Pee, the Attaché of the Chinese Em- trained horses and ponies, conveniently his Cricket Ground policy, and to expe- Hotel, where Mr. Hayward will look after his stand how this mixing and mudding could have the child's blood-covered face was washed, and bassy in Paris, who has recently been elected an adjoin the principal pavilion. We had rience the same hour and a half of wet comfort until the 22nd July next.

taken place.

an attempt was made to seat her in an upright | officer of the Academy, has published in the

elephants must attract great attention, all sides that Signor CHIARIXI had com- A COOLIE was charged on remand at the Police assination of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke, cuttingthin a few feet of the coffee shop, difficult to defend than would be the case if they

especially amongst the Chinese,

and

room,

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