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WE would remind owners of race-ponies, that the entries for the forthcoming Hongkong Races close to-morrow. All entries must be addressed to the Clerk of the Course, Hongkong Club. THE correspondent who writes on the subject of the examinations at St Joseph's College omitted (3 to forward his name and address. In no case can we depart from our rule that all communica- tions must be properly authenticated.

It is requested that all communications rela-THE boy Sanches who yesterday admitted the

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would not let him send the medicine direct, and wished to see Captain Lee, he would write to. Mr. Lowe and let him know. He wrote to Mr. Lowe that evening to the effect that

Dr. Fisher wished to see Captain Lee. He told Dr. Fisher that in opening the tube he had lost half of the medicine, and that what bo had in the mortar and a stoppered bottle was about seven drachms. Dr. Fisher. said that would be enough, though the prescription was for one ounce. The instructions given in the prescription were to put the medicine up in three stoppered bottles in equal parts, and loot the stoppers with

wax. He made up the medicine that night, cach bottle containing 140 drops, and sent the bottles up to Dr. Fisher's office next morn- ing, the bottles being labelled according to the instructions contained in the prescription. He looting them. He has had nothing more to do covered the stoppers with white leather after with the bottles since.

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REFERRING to the death of John Day, the THE most effectual treatment, for car-ache, and trainer, a contemporary saysThe death of the one which has stood the test of years, says John Day will not attract a tithe of the notice it Dr. A. D. Williams, In the American Chémisis would have done if he had died during the hot and Druggists. L'ulletin, is the local application youth of the late Marquis of Hastings, or in that of a solution of the sulphate of atropia. Not a earlier and more fortunate period when he trained single case but has yielded at once. The solution the winners of the Two Thousand Guineas and is to be simply dropped into the painful ear, and the Derby for Mr. Gully in the same season, allowed to remain there from ten to fifteen Nevertheless, the son of "Honest John," as his | minutes. Then it is made to run out by turning father was called by Lord George Bentinck and the head over, then being wiped with a dry rag. other employers, played a not inconsiderable The solution may be warmed to prevent shock. pare in the history of the Turf for close upon hall From three to five drops should be used at a a century; and the very name of Danebury, where time. The strength of the solution must vary, he succeeded his father as trainer thirty years according to the age of the child. Under three ago, evokes memories which will not soon fade years, one grain to the ounce, and over ten years, away. Here were trained some of the best four grains to the sunce of water. In grown horses of their day, and though Dancbury may persons almost any strength may be used. All now perhaps pass into the hands of a stranger, ages will bear a stronger solution in the ear than By the Coroner. He has several times put up it is to be hoped that the mounds which "hide in the eye. The application should be repeated nitrite of amyl. The first time would be about the worth of Crucifix, Bay Middleton's renown, as often as may be necessary. Usually a few made up for a doctor on one of the Blue

years ago, and he thought it will be piously tended as of yore. Lord George applications will stop the pain. In acute supFunnel steamers. A supply of amyl nitrite Bentinck's mighty marc was trained for all her purative inflammation of the middle ear, and was then ordered out from home and has been in the Dispensary ever since. He has. races at Danebury, and ridden by the father of acute inflammation of the external meatus, atropia

kept always made It up in small stoppered bottles, the deceased, who was then having a fair share will only slighty palliate the suffering, but in the and labelled it according to instructions from the of success in the saddle himself. But, so far as recurring nocturnal ear-aches of children it is docter ordering it. Dr. Fisher is the only doctor who has ever had amyl. nitrite from the Victoria riding was concemed, John the younger was far practically a specific.

Dispensary, and it has only been supplied to him from being the most renowned of the "dynasty of the Days," and his best title to future fame A TEACHER in a San Francisco college who was personally. The largest amount he ever supplied to Dr Fisher was that which was made up for consists in his having trained so many good given to drink became so mortified at the fallure Capt. Lee. The usual amount previously supplied horses at Danebury since he took over his father's of a benefit given him by a literary society of would be about two drachins at a time. He in the same way; waxing the succession in 1853. It was a great feat to win his pupils that he took a dose of laudanum. He always put it up the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby for was found before death rescued him from bottle and tying white leather over the stopper. He has never supplied amyl nitrite direct to any the same owner with different horses, as he did teaching and taken to the city prison, where be patient. Prescriptions are not always kept; they with Hermit and Andover for Mr. Gully in 1854 was dosed with coffee, walked up and down the are sometimes returned, coples being kept in the

asphaltum floor of the gaol, and subjected to Dispensary books, Nitrite of amyl has been? other strong restorative measures. Presently supplied to Dr. Fisher and charged to his

account; in this case there would only be Police-Surgeon Stivers, for whom a messenger

memo slip kept, and the money paid afterwards. He could not say how much has been supplied had been despatched, arrived. The suicidal

to Dr. Fisher, but thinks he his supplied it three- educator had been taken into the kitchen and

or four times. He has heard Mr. Lowe's state- seated on the dough trough to make it all the more convenient for the attendants to administer re-nitrite of Amyl, and that statement is not quite mentias to what took place when he spilt the viving kicks to bis shins. When Dr. Stivers came correct. He cut his hand with the glass which out the reporters surrounded him for information. hurt him, but he did not feel sick or faint. Mr.

Lowe

did not mention to witness about the blood. The doctor replied:-"Gentlemen, it's the most

rushing to his head. He has made up prescrip extraordinary case I ever saw. The medical tions from most of the doctors in Hongkong Pat books have no record of parallel. The left eye various times. The nitrite of Amyl comes from shows every sign of opium poisoning. The pupil London, generally from George Curling & Co. A record of all the drug ordered is kept, but is contracted to a pin's point. Fat the right eye that would not account for the quantity received, is what gets me. The pupil is full-dilated, as it evaporates so quickly. The method of indeed; it has a clear and intelligent ex-supplying Dr. Fisher and just keeping a memo, pression, while,, as you see, the man is in until settlement, does not apply to the other a stale almost of coma." The doctor paused a doctors, Dr. Fisher being more connected with the Victorin Dispensary than the others. Ho moment thoughtfully, and then continued --- supplied Captain Lee, through Dr. Fisher, with

anni, who, in Ballyflorence, in 1863, pushed a pike time. declared that they knew all about it. "Well," said the doctor, in that case the right eye fell out, and was discovered in the vest pocket of the patient, while the left retained a look of intelligence until the tibia was served and the metatarsus extracted. Then the glassy expression of death supervened. This case is still more remarkable." Here a small and thin reporter, stepped up. He had a very large cigar between his, teeth, and his manner was exceedingly assured and familiar, "Doc," he said, "you say that the stiff inside has one pup contracted, as it ought to be when a man has flooded himself with laudanum?" “Yes, sir." "And the other pupil is wide open, as if on the paí eius for a point on the stock market?" "Yes, sir." "Praps, then," said the small reporter, "the phenomenon may be ex-

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feat which has only since been accomplished by Sir Joseph Hawley with Fitzroland and Beadsman; and for the next two or three years Danebury was well to the fore with Mr. J. B. Morris's Kingston and Mr. Harry Hill's Mincepic, the latter of whom won the Oaks. These two John Day to the grave-were true to Danebury as long as they kept horses, though there was a terrible squabble over the running of Trumpeter and Marionette in the Derby of 1859. This was the time when Sir Robert WE beg to announce that "The Hongkong Peel was one of the patrons of Dancbury; Directory and Hong List for the Far East" for but no greater fortune attended his racing Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-the current year will be published early next ventures than those of Lord Palmerston, who, as graph will always be open for the tair discussion week. This work is the most complete com "The Draid" in his own graphic style has told by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that pilation of the kind ever seen in China. It will us, occasionally received visits at the House of the Editor does not in any way hold himself res-be published at the ridiculously low price of two Commons from his trainer, and invariably left dollars. Orders may be sent to this office. his place at once to have a quarter of an hour's ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

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had been paid prior to the arrest of the assured on a charge of poisoning his brother-in-law, Immediately before Lamson's conviction, the policy was assigned absolutely to Mr. A. W Mills, the solicitor by whom he had been so zealously defended, to cover the balance of the costs of the defence. On the strength of a deci- sion in the House of Lords that, under such circumstances as those in the case of Lamson, policy of insurance is void, even though such

elegraph policy provide that death at the hands of justice shall not vitiate it--the company might have successfully resisted payment. They have, how ever, declined to avail themselves of any advantage on this ground, and last week they paid to Mr. Mills the full amount for which his client's life was insured-£1,000,

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1883.

THE French are thoroughly alive to all their commercial necessities. In the

up again in 1864, when Mr. Harry Hill sold Ackworth to the young Marquis of Hastings, who won the Cambridgeshire with him, and forthwith launched out upon a career which was in the end a very disastrous one. Lord Hastings and the Duke of Beaufort, who were the chief patrons of the Danebury stable at this period, did well for two or three seasons; and in 1865, though a colt called the Duke failed to win the Derby for the Marquis of Hastings, Siberia carried off the One

Thousand Guineas for the Duke orBeaufort, while both the patrons of Danebary had some good two-year-olds in preparation for the next season. This season of 1866 was the crowning point of the fortunes of the Danebury stable, as the Duke of Beaufort's Rustic, though only third for the Derby, won. the Prince of Wales's Stakes at

Mr. Francis being engaged in the Supreme Court when the examination of Mr. McLeish was ended, His Worship, adjourned the Court for a short time to enable Mr. Stephens to go and see whether Mr. Francis could attend. : On the enquiry re-assembling, Mr. Francia thanked journing the Court to enable him to be present. His Worship for his kindness and courtesy in ad-

treaties they negotiate with Spain, Eng THE approaching total disappearance of the Ascot, while his Ceylon.carried off the Grand plained when you catch on to the fact that the of the Court room, and had two windows, two glass

Mühlendamm in Berlin, a father curious and ill-reputed quarter of the Prussian capital, besides being the central seat of the "Old Clo's," recalls a little story of which no less a person than Alexander von Humboldt is the hero. While passing through there on a raw afternoon in

the One Thousand Guineas with Repulse, and The doctor stood for one moment, glared around, Prix de Paris. The Marquis of Hastings won rooster in the kitchen has got one glass eye," in the Cesarcwitch netied a fabulous sum in bets and the shout of combined laughter amote him by the success of Lecturer. Altogether, the in the back as he fled through a lobby into the Danbury horses won more than a hundred prison hospital. races, several of them being secured by the two-

Witness, cross examined by Mr. Francis, stated he was a regularly registered chemist and druggist. It was not correct to say that and that he and Mr. Lowe had to run out of the there was an explosion when the battle broke,

shop. He has experimented with nitrite of Amyl but not with that from the same consignment which Captain Lee was supplied from He experimented with two capsules which contained drops each, and were put as a specialty by Allan Hanbury & Co. of London. The ten drops were put on a handkerchief at 11 p.m. on Sunday, the 7th. At 7 am on the morning of the was exposed to the open air in his bed-room. 8th the odour was quite distinct. The handkerchief His bed-room would be about two-thirds the size

a fan-light. At 9.30 he again examined the doors and an ordinary door, and these were all shut with the exception of the ordinary door and handkerchief and the smell was easily perceptible. At it o'clock it was still the sashes. At 12 o'clock the same. At 1.30 p.m., no change. At 7 p.m. still the same. At 7.am. next morning, the odour was still recognisable but much fainter,

pensary about a am sometime in July last. He complained of general pains, a parched feeling in out. He asked Mr. Cruickshank and witnessto his mouth, and said he was thoroughly:"played give him a hypedémnic injection of morphla, and said he had had them frequently. They declined to give him the injection Captain-Lee asked for the injection and said he would use it him

land, the United States or other countries the effort their agents make for the admis- which will deal with almost every branch of sion of their products free of duty has, remarks an American contemporary, an element of heroism. They are continually looking for new markets by colonies spread all over the world, and when, their capital October in 1846 he found himself suddenly year-old Vauban, who bid fair to be one of the CORONER'S INQUIRY INTO THE He remembers Captain Lee calling at the Di

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anticipation altogether wrong, for Vauban won the Two Thousand Guiness, in a canter and ran third for the Derby: But the Marquis of Hastings was very severely hit by the Epsom race, stand

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DEATH OF CAPTAIN LEE

The adjourned Coroner's inquiry into the death of the late Captain Edward Lee of the steamship Fangissa was resumed at the Magistracy this morning at 10 o'clock, before Mr. H. E. Wode

neas, sont a chit: for Dr., Fisher and Captain

HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" will, in and extending directly south, end near medieval "herbarium. Instantly he retrace win the Derby was henceforth an article of faith had therefore come for the medicine instead of wards Dri-Fisher came and gave

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seeks foreign investment it is apt, as accosted by a half-dozen enterprising peddiers, in the case of Suez Canal, the Panama offering their cast-off goods to him in the most Canal and the Channel Tunnel, to be eloquent and persuasive terms Wrapped in something in the line of trade or tran been lost upon him had not some salesman thought, their offers and entreaties would have Sportation. Now French capitalists have more eager than the rest, pulled him by the coating to lose ipo,pool, over Hermit, who was the under consideration a new interoceanic and held up a green velvet vest "good as open of his old rival, Mr. Chaplin, and house and fryself. They also declined that and gent him to canal project to connect the Atlantic with new" to the amazed savante Taze. Humboldthough the money was paid to time, the cost Stuart Mann McLeish, assistant at the Vic Dr. Flaber, He saw Captain Les again on the at which it was obtained crippled the retoria Dispensary, stated he had been employed 23rd December Captain, Lee had dised at the the Mediterranean either by the Bay of shook his head, but on perceiving a pair of old sources of the loser to an irremediable, extent. in the above establishment for three years and Dispensary on that evening and slept there for "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND Biscay or the Engilsh Channel. It was first pistols inlaid with mother-of-pearl, he approaches. Still, the Dansbury stable did not do badly eight months. On December 27th; Mr. Lowe, very severe pain and wished witness to send for the night. Previous to retiring he complained of proposed in 1878 by the Prince De Bearn; the stand and asked the price. Ten thalers that year, for at Ascot Vauban took the Prince chief engineer of the Vingis, called at the Dr. Fisher, Witness told him to lie down and a French staff officer, who wrote a little and dirt cheap at that. Paid nine for them of Wales's Stakes for the Duke of Beaufort, and Dispensary about 5 pr., and asked withcas for he would be all right "Captain: Leck told pamphlet on the subjett. In June last M. myself, and that with repairs and interest makes Lecturer the Gold Cup and the Alexandra Plate Captain Lee's medicine, He informed Mr. Lowe witness while undressing, that if he did not DUCZERC, then a Senator, presented to Friedrichs-d'or, took the change, and carried off two-year-old, Lady Elizabeth, alss secured many tion he told him to send it up to his office, Loe, went to bed. He sat up with him until Just ten thalers." Humboldt put down to for the Marquis of Hastings. That matchless that when Dr. Fisher gave him the prescrip for Dr. Fisher he would go himself Wit President Geery a memorial on the route his exceptionally cheap acquisition enveloped in good races, and never will those who saw it forget and that Captain Les was coming over that about two o'clock. Captain Lee was lying on by the Bay of Biscay, which proposed to a dingy sheet of paper, torn from an old book the match between her and the late Duke of day and that he, Dr. Fisher, would give excuse my burning round, I can't lie on my his left side while speaking to witness, and said begin at Bordeaux and end at Narboune. On his way he happened to look at the wrapper Newcastle's Julius in the autumn of 1867. Julfus, Captain Lee the medicine himself Mr. Lowe left side at the same time turning over on the The line by the channel would begin near

and discovered it to be a treasure far more valu-whose death was recorded a fortnight ago, was said that Captain Lee was sick and could other side. He said he had severe pain in th Dunkirk, which is nearly opposite Dover, able than the pistols. It was a leaf from beaten by a head, and that Lady Elizabeth would not very well leave the ship, and that he back and also in ) bis left ilde Shortly Marseilles. It would divide France fato ai eps in search of the seller, and more par with all who believed in public form." How the Captain. Witness told Mr. Lowe that he dermic injection of something he

ticularly in that of the remainder of the book in the interval between her two and three-year had not put up the medicine, and had not per two divisions, if a canal. could be con- Impossible for him to And either seller or shop old career Lady Elizabeth went to pieces though enough suite of amyl ready open to make nigh sidered a dividing line, much the larger of despite of numerous inquiries. The antiquaries the secret was so well kept that she stated at up the prescription, and that he would have to Win which would be on the cast side of it. suspected him of having red of his bargain, and to 4 for the Derby, and finished last-it boots open a scaled tube." Mr. Lowe said he would Deliter. Either route would save, in the circum with laudabis esprit de corps refused to betray not now to tell; but it will not be denied that the wait for it. He proceeded to open the tube by neuralgis of the heart navigation of the Spanish Peninsula, a die- one another. Humboldt, no leas keer, finally Inte Admiral Rous was in the right when he drawing out the end, at the same time holding ank Captain tance of 1,200 miles, and not less than remarked: "Pity! I cannot find my man. He revived the simile of the spider and the fly in the tube over a mortar in order to the $7,000,000 in money per annum to the trade gave me back a thaler too such, and I came to describing the toils laid for the unhappy marquis, medicine sa It came out... He of Northern Europe. The north-and-south return it. He was quickly surrounded by twenty who was at the mercy of unscrupulous creditors, tube and in doing so spilt some route is preferred by the press of England or thirty deniers, each one of whom noisily as The late John Day was involved in the common eine over his hand and the deeve of his coat, and France, though it is twice as long as fairly frightened and at last pointed the pistols that he was more sinned against than sin. But the half of it was spilt in the oper

serted himself to be his man," He became condemnation, but it is generally considered There was an ounce in the tube the other. It would be especially preferred at them. Instantly the crowd dispersed, save aing and that but for Mr. Padwick here told Mr. Lowe that he had not enou by England, and would avoid the dangerous one individual, who slyly grinned at him, and would have been no such scandal as occurred other tube, he wished to get a gla

medicine in the mortar, and, before navigation of the Bay of Biscay. France said: "No powder nor balls in either of them when The Earl, another of Lord Hastings' three diamond to open the tube, as there was would reap the chief advantages of such an I know! Put them quietly by, my good, sir, year-olds, was "scratched" for the Derby, won more tube left in the Dispensary, and he did interoceanic highway, not only in the matter and give me my thaler. The real seller was the Grand Prix de Paris ten days afterwards, and wish to lose any of it in the opening of tolls, but in easy communication with the found. Humboldt went into his shop, discovered was then scratched" for the St Leger. The medicine be sent over by

said he could not wait," "and! the ancient parchment-tome, a rare specimen, management ofthe horses had passed entirely out morning. He told Mr. Lowd that sea, of which her interior districtsstand much with but few leaves missing Touched by his ofLord Hastings hands, and, broken in health, he on the prescription were to beu in need case of war to bring supplies from desirous of appserving no less generous on his of hir fortunes being followed by the withdrawal he was to receive instruclid inneed. Parisby it would become a seaport, purchaser's pretended honesty, "Old Clo, died while on his way to a warmer climate, the rain and asked him if Captain the channel, and a great emporium on the part, pulled down an old pair of pants, thiew of the Duke of Beaufort from the Turf and the He replied in that case principal highway between Europe and them on, the book and said: "I'll let you total desertion of Danebury. Now and again ses Dr. Fisher, as I have Asia. Water for the canal could be sup have the book at four thalers with those pants since then there have been a few horses in from Dr. Fisher; 1 expect i plied from many streams whose headwaters thrown in, which a nice old gentleman like training at Danebury, but John Day has not had the Dispensary to-night it would cross in its course, and there yourself may yet wear many a Sunday The which he possessed as a trainer. Of late is the instructions through

any good enough to bring out the real talent the facts to him, and are no dificulties along the route which bargain was finally closed on, that basis, Hum sight had almost totally falled him, and it was a mission to send the m could not easily be overcome by Frich bold, however, refusing to accept the pants. He painful sight to see the old man, whose love of

He law Dr. Fisher at engineering skill. It would be an addi- his literary treasure to friends in alter years tomed place in the weighing inclosure at Ascot,

net off the book und pistols, and on showingspost was so deep that he liked to hear when his trek that eventue

visual faculty decayed, being led to his accu Lowe's visit Dr Hional inducement to peace and a stimuli often smilingly alluded to the Sunday pants or to his own post of honour at the home to many local Industries. Though such thrown in.

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the medicine, but to on the prescription and office. He told Mr.

tho

the medi

advised, kim not the house his heart's petion might cease at any oment and it would not be nice thing for bappes to him in the Dispensary does not remember hearing any conversation king place between Captain

On

ristritas Day, they were both and the order was then given

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Lee, he

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