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A. S. WATSON & CO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1889

it asks, strictly speaking, honest failures Are the firms so involved entitled to the same consideration as firms whose reverses have come upon them in the prosecution of

Tite steamship Arratoon Apcar will undock at Kowloon to-morrow and the British barque Antoinette will dock there. The Danish steamer Activ will go round to Aberdeen to-morrÓWAS

NVITE INSPECTION OF A WELL their legitimate business? Every firm puts | El Comercio of the and inst, reports a disastrous the gentlemen slyly inserted a hand in her muff would do so. The medical report was a very

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A MIDDLETON young lady, remarks the Hartford Times, never tires of relating an amusing occur- rence of the sleighing season last winter. She was enjoying a ride in company with two Hart ford gentlemen, and she was driving. One of

boller explosion, resulting in serious loss of life, and lovingly pressed her disengaged hand. She which occurred at Manila on that date. It ap-blushed and withdrew it just as the gentleman pears that the small steamer Lipa, which ràns on the other side slipped his hand in the muff to and from Laguna, was just starting when her She knew by the action of her adorers that the boiler exploded with terrible effect. A large band pressures were frequent and loving within number of passengers were on board and these the silk lining of the muff, for first one face and were blown in all directions by the force of the then the other would bob forward to catch explosion. Assistance was soon obtained, and look at the sweet face and eyes which prompted, the injured passengers quickly conveyed to the as they supposed, the tender pressure of the Hospital. Nearly twenty dead bodies were re-hand. The by-play lasted until the young lady covered, most of them too much mutilated for quietly remarked: "If you gentlemen are identification. Two deaths occurred in the through with my muff, I will trouble you for it Hospital shortly after the admission of the now, as my hands are getting cold." And the injured people, and there are still twenty men gentlemen, who had been comfortably warm up. and two women under treatment, most of them to this time, suddenly felt an Arctic chill creep seriously injured. Our contemporary states that ing up their spinal columns, and the mercury of an inquiry into the cause of the explosion was to their feeling dropped to 180 below zero. The

two gentlemen are strangers now,

be held.

the day of the burial. Arrangements had been made to bury the body, and as he saw no reason why the burial should not take place, he gave orders that the arrangements made should be carried out, and if, when he got to the Hospital, he saw any reason to stop the proceedings he meagre one and did not convey to his mind that nny necessity for an inquest existed, nor did the friends of the deceased wish an inquest to be held. Reports, however, afterwards reached him, which he could not overlook, and on the strength of He felt the responsibility of allowing reports of these reports be considered an inquiry desirable. such a serious character to be spread about with &out satisfying himself as to their truth, as by so doing a grave injustice might be done. From the evidence of Doctor Clouth it was shown that the nitrite of amyl was mentioned in connection with Captain Lee's death. He would ask the jury to disabuse their minds of any idea they might have that this enquiry was aimed at any one individual; it was simply an ordinary inquiry into the cause of the death of Captain Lee. From the fact of the nitrite of amyl being found in the cabin, and other surrounding circumstances of the death, Dr. Clouth would not have been justified in granting a certificate of burial without first informing the Coroner. In investigating this case, the Inquiry must be conducted without fear or favor.

Mr. Francis here asked Mr. Wodehouse if the reports which caused him to order an inquest had come to his notice as Coroner, or were merely Club talk.

༢॰,,:: His Worship replied that the statements were the statements were Mr. Francis addressing the Coroner, said that it was in the interests of public justice that the grounds and foundations of these reports should he laid bare. At first the Coroner had seen no afterwards saw fit to do so. He would ask that, reason to institute any proceedings and only the person who made these reports be put into the witness box. He concurred in what had been said to the gentlemen of the jury, that this enquiry should be conducted without any parti- sanship whatever, and only conducted in such

down two of the weapons to play with. Chance placed in the hands of the youngest child one of the poisoned weapons, and a slight scratch en

a way.

Mr. Wodehouse gemasked that a difficulty

medical gentleman to enable him to put his perfectly clear. questions in such a way as would render them

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for consumption The question is quite as pertinent as the Coroner's, dan

Examination resumed —If it interfered with oxydation of the blood, witness would not dare to use it in a case of consumption. The discase of the lungs from which deceased was jauffering ■ was consumption, a very bad case, and had been going on for years. He considered it very easy during life time to detect the symptoms of consumption What the effects of hitrite of amyl would be in a case of consumption he was quite unable to say. He has seen it stated that breathing but has never seen it stated that more. if given in one or two, drops it enses, the than five dreps at a time have ever been given. Theeffects of the drug arotransient and leave no permanent trace in the system. Witness would say the quantity given, if three bottles, would be enormous. He would not have given one, but' does not say that two of the three bottles contain nitrite of amyl. The only way he has seen it produced has been in very small glass tubes containing only five drops. As a medical man witness considers the label on the bottle entirely insufficient. He would put on the bottle a label which would contain the word polson as many times asit could be written, and also that it be used with great caution. He held the diploma of M. D. from Bonn, but wished to state that this diploma did not entitle him to call himself a physician though it entitled him to practice. He holds a ministerial certificate of M. D. entitling him to practice in every part of Germany as physician, surgeon, and accoucheur. He has passed

every examination requisite to become a full physician. house stated, in reply to Mr. Prantle thit on the Mr. Jackson recalled by permission of Mr. Wode-

evening preceding the day on which Captain Lee was found dead, a woman came on board the Yangisse at about 7 o'clock and remained on board until about a quarter to 8.1 was adjourned till half past two o'clock.

At this stage of the proceedings the Inquiry Examination resumed.

Dr. Clouth being naked 1

d by the Coroner to give his ideas as to how Captain Lee, could have obtained the nitrite of amyl, stated that it was only a few paces from the saloon to the cable

and that he might have put some of the medi cine: from the botila on to bis handkerchief,

forward some statement as a basis of FANCY CHRISTMAS credit. A young man may have little

GO O D S,

but his ability to work, good habits and disposition to pay his debts.. He CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS obtains some credit on these resources, As time goes on and his willingness to work, his ability to do good work, and his disposition to pay his debts are confirmed, his credit extends. In a few years more accumulated capital adds to his basis of credit. His disposition to pay his debts is now backed by larger means. At first the disposition may have been good, but the means lacking. There was thus a chance of loss which is in a measure removed by the accumulation of means, When a firm which has built up a re- ATKINSON'S, HENDRIE'S, AND LUBIN'S putation of this character requires Jarge THE fork has been made the subject of an in- THE French papers record a remarkable ac credits, it makes a showing of resources. teresting monogram published in Italy by Procident by which the Comte de Belmont has had The fessor Giovanni Lumbroso. In the ancient world the misfortune to lose his youngest son. The credit granted is in proportion to the this aid to eating was unknown, and the fashion. Count before his marriage had been a traveler, showing the firm can make. The creditable and well-bred sought to display as rouch and from the Polynesian Islands, he had gathered is given, but the resources all remain in delicacy as possible in the operation of convey a remarkable collection of lethal weapons show-made to him a Con the hands of the firm. Its real estate, its ing food to the mouth with the fingers. It was ing the ingenuity, and in some cases at least the CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS credits, its money in bank, and all other a thousand years ago when the first mention of artistic skill and power lavished on Aris and descriptions of property, are at its disposal. the forchetta was made in Italian literature, and ragaie, on aword and dagger. In a collection of Under the rule that a man may do what he it was then spoken of as an instrument intro- this nature intended to show the warlike methods will with his own, the firm may engage induced into Venice by a Byzantine Princess. It of savage races, arrows and other weapons whose was at first not favorably received, and for two shining blades had been dipped in poise were of (3 hazardous speculations without providing centuries came little into use, either in Italy or

course conspicuous. His two sons--Albert, aged for its debts. But it is well to inquire at the rest of Europe. No mention of a fork was eight, and Rudolphe, aged twelve years having NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

this point if its property is in a full sense made in the catalogue of table furniture at the been left alone for a short time in the cabinet, It is requested that all communications rela-of the term its own. Is it not morally wedding of Maria Sforza-Visconti as late as with the inquisitive rashness of childhood tooted in his not having the assistance of a closed the bottle and returned to his cabin, laid ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- pledged for the payment of its debts? 1493. Still, the Fifteenth century saw its use dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" Can a firm honestly risk in speculation one spreading in France, and the Sixteenth saw it in Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The dollar of the capital it has represented Germany. It was not until the Seventeenth that Editor" and not to individual members of the itself, as possessing, to secure the credit it was adopted in England.

it desired? There can be but one

DR. MARY Putnam Jacobi has just been appoint- answer to these questions. The capital ed to a position which is as honorable as it is a firm has claimed as a basis of credit unique. We believe there is no other instance is not its own until the debt has been of the kind in the world. The singularity does provided for. The fund available for not consist in her being Professor of Children, speculation is limited to the balance which for many women have held a position of that clearly remains after the debta have been kind; it consists of having been selected, from provided for. When a firm, even in good among a number of men, as the fittest person, standing, requires a credit that seems large by virtue of her attainments, to lecture to males in the New York Post Graduate Medical School capitalist requires some other security than for doctors, and is not intended for undergrad in proportion to its means, the prudent It will be recollected that this school is exclusively the note of the firm, But this involves in-uates. It is intended, not to furnish doctors, convenience, some expense, and a limita- but to improve such doctors as are already in tion of the general basle of credit. The existence. The appointing board consists of a special security our best surgeons and specialists, such as Little, property given as cannot be used in a statement of avail- Rosa, Wagner, Pallen, Sturgis and Hammond A male physician would certainly have been able resources. If all credits were thus secured the firm would be embar-appointed to this post could one eligible to the office, and otherwise sufficiently accomplished rassed by its lack of ready means. The for it, have been found. Dr. Jacobi's election elegraph tendency of business men toward spe- was upon her own merits. Certainly this is an culation is undermining the basis of indication that in medical science, at least, there credit: It becomes impossible to estimate is such a thing as fair play for woman-N. accurately a firm's ability to pay when that Evening Telegram. ability fluctuates with the stock market. Capitalists will not knowingly take the chance of losses while others are in pos- session of the chances of profits. The speculator who uses other men's money is, in a moral sense, no better than the ad- venturer who obtains, money on false pre- tences. We include among those who use other people's money, all who risk money nominally their own, which is made to serve as a basis of credit.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1883.

We are glad to know that the prospects in British North Borneo are daily improving and that even the most sanguine anticipa tlons as to the future of this new settlement are likely to be more than realised. We predicted from the first that the necessary

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Mr. Francis said I am very sorry to have to interrupt you, but I cannot allow your Worship to go on in that way,

himself down of the bed and then Inhaled the Another lengthy argument ensued her bo- druge R

tween the Coroner and Mr. Francis, in which the leamed barrister insisted on this right to cross-examine" Dr. Clouth before any His Worship-very well, I thought it would save other witnesses were called. His Worship tinte.

held that there was no necessity, to "cross ex Dr. Clouth being asked by his Worship to examine Dr. Clouth unless something more came plain the heart and lungs to the gentlemen of out in the remaining medical evidence to show the jury in popular language, proceeded to give that death resulted from nitrite of amyl, Mr. general explanation and illustrated his lecture Francis wished to see the result of the inqucet by means of a series of colored plates. For and the Coroner agreed to show him that, but the information of the Coroner, Dr. Clouth on his wishing to see the report or information also stated that sudden death from heart disease which induced the Corcher to cause this en- would be caused by rupture of the valves of the quiry to be held Me. Wodehouse said, "I shall heart, this causing an immediate stoppage of the not show you that circulation, and further, explained the various any, bearing on the case now being investigated, forms of heart disease. As the lengthy, ex- planation given by Doctor Clouth has little, if and is not of vital importance to the public, we do give it,

A lengthy argument took place between the Coroner and Mr. Francis relative to the taking certain disease of the heart. The Coroner told down the statements of Dr. Clouth referring to a Mr. Francis that he would not take down the statements until he understood the meaning of them.

Mr. Francis informed the Coroner that if he

and further remarked that if the people who had thought he could stop this enquiry in any peremptory way, he was very much mistaken made these reports to the Coroner had made their statements en affidavit, this enquiry would never have taken place.

His Worship after a lengthy oration stated amining Dr. Clouth he would adjourn the that if Mr. Francis Insisted on "cross-en inquest for the purpose of considering the point, as he saw no necessity for such cros amination, which he characterised as a waste of the jurors time, unless something more, came out in the further medical evidence to prove that

'the wrist was sufficient to inject the fatal virus, When the unhappy father returned he saw the child writhing in agony upon the ground, a prey to frightful convulsions, from which death alone relieved him. The medical man who was called in was unable to save him, and could not even recognize the poison on the dagger blade. That most commonly used for such purposes is derived from the strychnos taxifara. The woorali is said in some cases to have retained its poisonous activity after being kept dry for five years. SAYS the Hiogo News of the 27th ulto.After was the scene of one on Christmas Eve, when long immunity from fire, the foreign settlement the godown at the rear of the British Consulate, and occupied by Messrs. E. H. Hunter & Co., was burned to the ground. The alarm was given a few minutes after seven o'clock in the evening, but although the engines were quickly at work, and an abundant supply of water avail- able, the fire had taken auch a firm hold that the only thing possible under the circumstances

Mr. Francis said that if the Coroner had been was to confine the damage to the godown. This the Volunteer Fire Brigade succeeded in doing, paying attention he would have understood what death resulted, from the use of nitrite of amyl

was being said, and requested that Dr. Clouth's and were well seconded by a party of anilor exact wants be taken down, to create a lengthy and, wemay add, a very uselen argu landed from H.M.S. Daring, Litle beyond some iron has been saved from the fire, and the ruin was consummated next day when the totter- ing walls of the building were pulled down. Like many other fires the origin of this one is mere matter of conjecture. No one, we have heard, was in the godown for two days before the dis- aster, but it was noticed that some of the shutters were not entirely closed; in this way a maliciously inclined person might, perhaps, have occasioned the damage. The principal losers are, however, beyond all question the Insurance Companies, as the contents of the godown were covered to the extent of $42,000 distributed thus: -China Fire, $27,000; London and Lancashire, $15,000; Lancashire, $5,oco. The godown itself was further insured in the China Fire for $1,500.

In answer to Mr. Francis, Dr. Clouth said he refused to conduct the post mortem examination alone, as he was not a Government Officer; he that captain Lee's heart was not diseased it that Captain. was not al though the muscular tissues were not strong He did not think the state of the muscular tissues could have caused death. From the post mortem he was of opinion that the state of deceased's lungs was such as

cause death by

ceiving a shock, but he could not say that the lungs alone caused death. They were however, in such a diseased state that he might have died from lung disease alone if they had sustained some shock. The lungs were not so as to be unable to keep life in the deceased.

ment then ensued as to the rights of Mr. Francis to cross examine and examine into the motives forret the evidence given by Doctor Clouth Mr Francis held, and very wrongly too we think, aho has no right up to the present time and at the pre sent stage of the proceedings to interfere at all in the case, that it was in his client's interests and in the interests of justice that he should show the jury the motives which led to the enquiry. We should much like to know what Mr. Francis, or Doctor Fisher, has to do with the enquiry which it now going on. At present there is no charge against Doctor

Fisher, and until there is a definite charge, surely there is no need for any defence Mr. Francis not having any standing in the Coroner's Court,at the present time, is not justified in meddling with the enquiry at all just has a remedy after this enquiry is over should be, or his client, feel aggrieved. At present conduct in Court la simple scandal, should not be tolerated. Mr. Francis very gross injustice to the Jury and witnesses, which distinctly informed the Coroner, that, if he, thought he could terminate the proceedings beg

Chinese labor required to properly develop the resources of the Company's possessions would be available as soon as trustworthy reports were received by the Chinese here from their countrymen already settled in Borneo. These reports have come to hand, and have removed all doubts from the Chinese mind as to the char acter and prospects of the enterprise. THE visitors to the City Hall Museum for the The steamship Fokin which left Hongkong / week anded 7th January, were :-European 230 man for sport-came along. A party with @ UNITED SERVICE LODGE, NO. 134%, witness gave it as his opinion that paralysis very much mistaken j'however, this lado this morning at 11 o'clock on her second Chinese 2,177; total 2,307, trip to Borneo, took with her a large num- THE shop assistant population of London is big bead, "Deuced good shot!". Who fired the Installation of the Worshipful Master of heart to perform its functions, and this might modified, as be afterwards informed His

patimated at about 120,000-larger than all Dublin-and there are no isus than 29,009 shops employing about one-third of this population, who work from twelve to fourteen hours a day without relaxation.

ber of passengers for the new territory, well as a good deal of general cargo, and a quantity of treasure. Amongst the first class passengers are several of the Directors of the recently formed Sabah Farming Co., who go down to select their land and commence workin real earnest. The Chin- RECENT writers upon public health claim that ese passengers number 180 men, 28 women, the wooden blocks used in many cities for pave and 35 children. They are mostly of the ments have a decided unhealthy influence. The agricultural and artisan classes, and with blocks, being placed with their fibrous ends up few exceptions, we believe, have paid their ward, are saturated by rain, in which is dis. solved the filth of the streets. The pavement own pallage monies, intending to settle in thus remaids damp for a long time, and presents the new territory on their own account a large and unwholesome evaporating surface. This be taken as an indication of the“

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All the Year Round relates the following story connected with the Crimean War :-There was one Russian fellow who had a sand pit all of his of his own, right in front of our trenches. I never saw anybody so persevering as that man was, Early in the morning he'd be popping away, and there he'd stay until nightfall, taking his food with him into the pit. He seemed to take a real pleasure in it, and he was a very fine shot and never let us get much of a chance at him. He was not a popular character in the advanced trenches. Many a good fellow he sent to glory. It got such a nuisance that we dropped shells at him now and again, but the minded hem no more than if they had been so many oranges. Oas day was down in the trenches, when Colonel Mancor, of the Forty-eighth-a splendid shot and a great,

sergeant were at work, and just as the Colonel came up one of them dropped with a ball through. that?" says the Colonel, putting on his eye glass, "Man in the rifle pit to the loft, sir," answers the sergeant. "Never saw a heater shot," says the Colonel, "He only showed for a moment, and wouldn't have shown then only that, the edge of the trench in a bit worn away. Does he often shoot like that? Terribly dangerous man," replied the sergeant; kills more than all the guns lathe Rodan." "Now, major," says the Colonel turning to another officer who was with him, what's the odds against my picking him off?" In how long?" "Within ten minutes," Two to one in ponies, I'll give you,” says the Major, "Say three, and it's a bargain." Three to ond la ponler," answered the Major, and the bet was made. He was a great, man for measuring his

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A slight shock would have been sufficient to cause death, such as over excitement. He did not think the taking a few ounces of rum would have been sufficient shock. It was possible that a cold might have caused death, but witness was of opinion that death, was not so caused, but caused by paralysis of the heart as already stated in his evidence. There being no other Cause of sudden death visible at the post more

fore

all, the witnesses "were examined he was, the of the heart was the cause of death. By paralysis of the heart was meant the ceasing of the earned arriage's was very soon' considerably the caused by drugs being administered which en

ship that the jury could ask act on the automatic gangreous system of the enquiry at any sense heart and the gh or wandering serve from the administering of drugs, but under the say that death résulted circumstances attending the finding of the body and the drugs found on board ship, it might have been. In mentioning the state in which the

The usual anniversary banquet to celebrate United Service Lodge No. 1341, was held in Freemasons Hall, Zelland Street, on Monday evening the 8th inst. The members of the Lodge, met at 7 clock when the ordinary business was together with a large number of visiting brethern. not proceeded with. About 8 o'clock V. W. Bro. W Stanley Adams, Deputy District Grand Master of Hongkong and South China, accompanied by hia officers entered the Lodge, and duly per- heart was found he did not mean MAGN287/ Piranod to know, the exact, stat

Comben in the chair for the ensuing year in ancient form. The newly installed Master then invested the following officers

SWBro. G. ORLEY, J-Wingisingin J. ROBERTSON, SDH J. TAYLOR J.J. GLEESON. W. GOULBOURN. Secretary

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confidence already inspired in the prospects WILL you please pass the Shem asked a of the new country, and we have no doubt { quist man at the lunch counter, "Haven't guy ! powder, was the Colonel, and always emptied that during the next few months there will squealed the girl in attendance, "Some Japhet? Puts cartridge and then filled it up again ac- be a rush of emigrants from the adjacent queried the quiet man again. "Don't keep it thconding to his taste. He took about half his

time getting the Sergeant's gun loaded to please After closing the Lodge the brethr provinces of the Chinese Empire to the squeaked the damsel “I say chipped in a him. At last he got it right, and the glass to the Banquettings modern Eden. osoba koj

curious passenger," what do you mean by Shem

About 70 brethren at dón The Fokim, we observed, flew the flag of and Japhet #Nothing," responded the little crewed well into his eye. Now, my lada propast had been fald the British North Borneo at the fore, as she man; dolefully, "nothing, only the ham is so old said he just push poor" Smith bere up over the pleasant evening was

french. He's dead enough, and another wound" bu and musty that I thought the rest of the tribe will make little difference to him." The men steamed through the harbour. She

might be around here somewhere, and I'd like began to hoist the body up, and the Colonel return to Hongkong from Singapore vla

stood, maybe twenty yards of, peering over the the Borneo ports. The new route chosen,

edge with eyes like a lyuk. - As soon as the tợp for the steamer will be from here to Bornco ACCORDING to Eliana a poor relation is the of Smith's shako appeared we saw the barrel of direct, thence to Singapore, returning to most irrelevant thing in nature-a plece of im the gun come slowly out of the sand pit, and Kudat and Sandakan and back to Hong pertinent correspondency an odious approxims when his poor dead face looks over the edge, kong.

Advices which we have received" tions a baunting conscience; preposterous whis comes a bullet right through his forehead, Mr. H. E Wodehouse (Coroner) and Mears, from various, quarters leave us no room to shadow, lengthening in the noon tide of our The Russian, he peeps out of the pit to see the doubt that the British North Borneo Com prosperity; an unwelcoms remembrance; a per effect of his shot, and he never looks at anything pany has before it most prosperouspetually recurring mortifications drain on your again until he sees the everlasting river. The and the future.

LEARN MORENOM puse, a more intolerable dun on your pride'; a Colonel fired with "s-sort of:

drawback upon success; a rebuke to your rising; rifleman sprang up in the air WRITING on the Ethics of Trade an, a rain in your blood; a blot on your escutcheons of ten or twelve paces American contemporary, the San Fran rent in your garment; a death's head at your down on his face as dead claco Morning Call remarks that the num

pota Mordecal at your ble or quits on the man. In

door, a lion in your says the Colonel, loading up his gun again, but I ber of firms which have falled In business

your think theihfaige had dropEESE MONEY. within a few years past, and whose fallure.

eye; a triumph to your oneday over his shoot for he been trac

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never seen death

such a condition. He had new caused by nitrite of amyl. The state of the tranced features might have been, caule Aby oiber drugs. Witness noticed the peculiar pression of deceased's face at the time he di

HOMfirst caw the bodyïve This) expression" "need", not necessarily have been caused by the administer ing of a drug or drugs. He did not attach much Importance to the expression affaceofthedeceased as it

it might be pure sccident. It would be imposs sible to clearly trace the cause. He had occa sionally seen the trancedespression, butnot often Winess is thoroughly acquainted with the pros. perties of nitrite of amyl There would be post mportant signs of death itsulting from nitrite of- auty but none that are peculiar to that zo

lone. There was nothing whatever in the body hich would enable him to say that death was

by nitrite of amyl or that any other drugi Had been taken, töve

to the Coroner.

The adjourned. mylinth, thevdasth of the inte Captain E. Lee of the inamship Yangiert, postponed from Friday last was resumed at the Magistracy at 10 o'clock this morning, before

ww L. Scott, WA. E. Schmidt, and G. M, Cars, valho as Jury, Mr. Jno. J. Francis, barrister-

D. Stephens, at-law, instructed by Mr. M. J. Meat Stephens and Holmes, watched the pro-hously part ceedings on behalf of Dr. Fisher

Previous to going into the case, the Corner seen it mention gave a general explanation to the fury of the tion. Witness would then reasons for this inquiry having taken place Heng nitrite of amylto Dou remarked that in cases of death under ordinary so in the case of a man sui

Tangs, but does not know fede circumstances, noy Inquiry before burial

necessary. In the present case, however, Df it should not be Clouth, who reported the deats, made a general never used the me statement, and luz confequence of this report | 100% what

hadon before they statements poli muriem fered:

beld,ness (of the ||and

of close the

wens quoted by the learned

avergone further, but

the Corener. Could see, and he, had = nos bearing on, the,, CASO very wisely adjourned the exquiry unti We come to use the enquiry unt

Emacs at the Coroner'

Dr. Clouth" naked the Coro possible continue the enquiry,

for any cross?

Kthem for the