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Intimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO. FAMILY AND

DISPENSING

CHEMISTS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1883.

AN Oxford solicitor, trying for a degree in law | MR. Chun Ahing, the hospitable coolie who was was "plucked" upon a text-book which he had himself prepared. AN Emergency Lodge of St. John, No, 618, S.C.,

will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street,

to-morrow evening, the 20th inst, at 8 for 8.30 precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, | to attend.

DRUGGISTS' SUNDRYMEN,'.

PERFUMERS, IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS

OF

MANILA CIGARS,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

AND

MANUFACTURERS

OF

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841..

THE Russian Government proposes to make use of the Amoor Territory as a place of exile for political offenders. Strongly fortified prisons, capable of holding Box persons, have been built

there for that purpose.

THE Duke of Alhole, who was recently in Hong kong, is said to be probably the most extensive tree planter in the world. During his life the Duke has planted 27,000,000 sprouts, covering 15,000 acres of his private estate,

It is estimated that there are 203,070 vagabonds

KATED—WA-T-E-R-Sand-beggars-in-the-German Empire, including thieves, pickpockets and other swindlers, and the authorities estimate the annual loss to honest people by their operations at the enormous sum of $25,000,000.

ACCORDING to an American contemporary the

THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, 24, NANKIN ROAD, Shanghai.

BOTICA

INGLESA,

14, Escola, Manila,

THE CANTON DISPENSARY, CANTON. THE DISPENSARY, FOOCHOW.

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lowest class of attorneys are now sometimes referred to as "bucket-shop lawyers"-meaning that class who insult witnesses, bluster, rant,

defendants,

POLICE COURT,

charged at the police court the other day with administering a narcotic to a bricklayer and his friend who had recently arrived from Annam, and relieving the former of a considerable sum of money, was set at liberty this morning, there being no evidence to convict him of the alleged crime, the complainants having unceremoniously quitted the colony. Under all circumstances wo consider Chung Ahing a most fortunate coolie.

In briefly opening the case Mr. Sharp said he CHARLES FALLEN, of Norway, who was so

would produce ample evidence to show that the considerately let off by Mr. Wodehouse on top floors of the house where the defendants Monday last, after promising that he would were arrested are places for public gambling. A look out for employment and abstain suspicion has for some time back been enter- gambling is carried on. I have been to an EngThis was on the 7th of April, and was the from fire-water, has, we grieve to relate, tained that gambling has been carried on there already come to hopeless grief Charles to a large extent. He would produce the evid-gambling there, got beastly drunk last night, and at three o'clock chce of the Inspectors and the police, who entered this morning had to be "run in for being drunk the house and found the prisoners gambling, that and disorderly, Captain Thomsett estimated the house was fitted up as a gambling house. that the sum of one Mexican dollar would Also that all of the defendants made considerable

satisfy the outraged law; but as Charles was efforts to get away when, the police went to not in a position to ante up, he will spend-the-the-house-He-would further shew that the next six days under the paternal care of genial first defendant., has been for years engaged in Mr. Hayward in Her Majesty's Hotel.

fitting up establishments for the express purpose of gambling...

THE combined enterprise and intelligence dis- played in the editorial department of our evening contemporary truly pass all understanding. Foochow Spring Races took place on the gth and ioth inst., and a full report of the meeting appeared in our issue of the 14th; and yet we find

from the Poochow Herald, written a week be fore the races, and giving "tips" for the various events. The idea of reproducing vaticinations concerning races which have Jong since been do-

Mr. Dennys here objected to any evidence of this sort being introduced, as the defendants had only to do with the. present charge preferred

against them.

Objection upheld.

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place perjured witnesses on the stand, and make in last night's China Mail a lengthy extract ther produce three witnesses who will distinct. Into the hall he saw a number of people running tute ship coolic. I have done this for two months

business of packing juries. It is very truth fully remarked that if Judges possessed and exercised the proper degree of authority, they could effect a great reform in the Court house

manners of this class of attorneys.

cided and the results reported in detail in the co lony, is so funny that we could not resist the tempt ation of calling attention to this startling in

Even "Notes on South Africa, novation. Mauritius, and Australia," by one who knows nothing of either of these places, would make better "padding" than stale extracts which have long since lost whatever interest they originally Possessed.

wealthy Chinese gentleman's house. On the top were respectably dressed; they were all in the floor there are sixteen rooms exclusive small room gambling. I first staked 3,920 cash of the cook house. The small room where I on mumber three, 2,00 cash on number two,. IMPORTANT. ČAMBLING CASE.

Arrested the defendants' is fitted up as a sitting, and 2,200 cash on number one, and lost The thirty-two Chinese, remanded from the room with a bed room Inside, I have heard of on them all. I went to the house by the game of Lau Chun but have never played it.inyself. I saw. At Lee there the first night 13th instant, on a charge of public gambling, I have heard that in this game the players sub but not on the second occasion. He was in the were again before Captain Thomsett this morn-scribe a pool and play against each oчer. The cook room on the gth. I have not seen Ah I've ing. Mr. Edmund Sharp, Crown Solicitor, pro- plan was made on the morning of the arrest since then and do not know where he has gone secuted, and Mr. H. L. Dennys appeared for the before taking the prisoners to the station. I to. In my information I said chessmen wor

cannot swear to anyone of the defendants being used for counter. A known in the room where the table and gambling im By His Worship I have known my friend plements were. I believe some of the defen Ah Les more than ten days; I met him on the dants were sitting in the front room when I Canton wharf about two pm. I went there to entered the house. In all the Chinese club houses see if any of my friends were coming. Ah I have been in, they have dominoes, cards, black. Lee was with a friend of mine and at once and white beads &c. &c. In all Chinese clubs began to inform me that I could go to the Club house and call him and I could go in.

first day I met Ab Lee. We only spoke a lish club, the Cosmopolition club, and have seen

By Mr. Sharp-I have only now the house few words that day and then separated. in question under its new none of Yat On, for 1 had the $15.in my box in my house in Bridges" Street. When I went to the Club on the oth ins- about twelve months.

Inspector Matheson stated he was in chargent, I called Ah Lee and he opened the door of the case. He executed a warrant on the 13th for me it the top of the staircase. Ah Lee took instant against the top floors of 158, 160 and me to the cook room for a little time when I left 162 Queen's Road Central. The entrance to him and went into the gambling room. these premises is from the Kau U Fong Lanc. Ah Lee did not introduce me to anyone. The two infermers accompanied him to the house. was dressed in a long coat; as-l-am-now One of the Infor.pers is Fong Awo; the other he No one asked me if I were introduced by a friend. does not known ese Open the door, and walking I do. I did not put on a special dress to the door Fong do not always wear my long cost, when I go Awo called out in Chinese.

to the gambling house, and had never been the door was at once opened by someone inside to go t who immediately attempted to close it again, but there before the gth. I saw a large lamp was prevented doing so by the informers who over the door of the club, but did not see. rushed forward; we then went through the the name of the club on a board on the side of door into the corridor with Inspector Quincey and the door. I can read a little but did not see the some other constables. When in the corridor board. I have been out of employment for two. he heard a rushing of footsteps and when he got years and make my living by acting as a substi- Mr. Sharp continuing said he would fur

a month into the verandah from a room on the left of the duing the past two years. I got $8 n prove that they have often played and lost con-ball, He ran on to the verandah and saw two during those two months. siderable sums of money in the house and know or three men make their escape on to the roof of the

Wong Sing Hoi, stated he was a partner in the it to be a public gambling house. He said his adjoining house. These men got away. He at Young Shan carpenter shop. No. 57 Hollywood Worship would ember a deputation that rested the first defendant who was attempting Road He knows the Yat On house but does not to escape to the roof of the adjoining house if it is a club; they play Fantan there. He has waited on H.E. the Administrator and complained Two or three of the others were arrested on the been in the house and has gambled there. He of the injurious effects of gambling, and the harm verandah by P.C. Cronner. The whole of the went there with a friend named Chun defendants were arrested in his presence. He Asam, who has gone to Canton. He does it had done.

After a lengthy argument which here took took the first defendant into the hall and told not know if his friend is a member of the place between the solicitors it was agreed that the him to sit down. He was in charge of the place but he himself, is not a member. the third floor of the building. He recognises all (Mr. Dennys her objected to the evid whole of the defendants would be tried under whole of the defendants who were arrested in He has only been once there on January 15th. the defendants. There is no communication be ence as not referring to the present charge.) section 5, for public gambling only.

tween the second and third floors, the houses nic He went there about 11.30 at night and stayed Inspector Quincey stated that on the mom- ing of the 13th instant about 2 am by separate. In the room on the left was the table there till daylight; he played Fan-tan and There were over as it is now. The table was surrounded by similar to the one in coutur

Some European constables, two

stools with a chair at one end. There were two twenty men there who were gambling, Chinese constables and two-informers, one hanging lamps in the room and two small lamps went out and others came in. He lost twenty of whom laid the information, to house No, on the table. There were two men found in five dollars; some of those present won money bed; the defendants were similarly dressed to and the manager deducted six per cent from the 160 Queen's Road, which he entered from be what they are now. He searched the room in winnings. He saw, the 33rd and 24fla defend. The aard defendant was from the Queen's Road. The informer who laid the two books, money, and other articles which he witing accounts but he does not know if ant was sitting down doing nothing. He calls information went upstairs first, he and Inspector took possession of. When the defendants were he were acting as accountant. The 24th defend- Matheson following. The informer knocked at public gambling. he wa

taken to the Station they were charged with

It a gamers were no coolies in the house house because they played Fan Cross-examined by: Mr. Dennys have ten there. the door and it was opened, but when the person who opened the door saw witness and Inspector sten Nos. 1, 6, 17, 19, 20. So far as I know, the Mathieson he closed the door but did not bolt it. defendants, exclusive of the servants, are a re. spectable body of men.. The 25th defendant The door was pushed open and the informer, was arrested in the hall; be was standing, doing Inspectors and constables went into the room, nothing, and appeared to be the coolis; the 6th or corridor; when we got in there was a defendant was at work in the cook house and the on the others. The first time I saw the two rush; he saw people running from the room on small boy was running about the hell attending to the verandah overlooking Queen's Road.

women described as prostitutes, was in the cosidor He saw Inspector Matheson and some of the at the top of the steps. I could not say where constables follow the Chinese on to the verandab. the other women were arrested. I saw no one He then went into a room on the left and saw gambling all the time I was in the house, There some men running from there into a room at were thirteen of the police party; and the noise the back. There were about fifteen persons the house whether they were dishonest.or not made would be sufficient to frighten any poslyn who ran away. The gambling implements were The house is fitted up as a Chinese club and has found in the room. On the table were dominoes, the name at the door. In all-Chinese clubs cards, black and white beads, two lighted lamps, have been fo, I have seen just the same impie

meats for gambling as were found in the house. square and circular ivory markers, Chinese cash There was nothing special about the house. As and a tin square in the middle of the table which visitor to the house I would not have con- is used in playing Fantan. There were also sidered that it was a gambling house. I have strips of paper with Chinese numerals on them, been to English clubs in Hongkong and have

scen gambling going on in them. pens and inkstands, a money punch and a rested the defendants on the warrant issued on Fantan counting stick and several lacqueredtrays the information of the informers, Underneath the teapoy there was a square tin box which contained envelopes with bank notes

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

SOME very singular advertisements appear from It is requested that all communications rela time to time in the newspapers. Out of the Ling to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad-most curious has lately been observed in a Paris dressed to the "Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" paper, where a certain "Yankee engineer" thus and not to the Editor.

Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The addresses all whom it may concern: "Having Editor" and not to individual members of the visited the Leaning Tower at Pisa, Italy, I staff.

am fully convinced that the architectural grand. Communications intended for publication must eur and beauty of this ancient and colossal relic. writers, not necessarily for publication; but as

hereby offer to contract to put this immense evidence of good faith.

Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-structure in a perpendicular position, and raise graph will always be open for the air discussion it to a level of the ground for the sum of $600,co, by correspondents of all questions affecting public the terms of payment and time of completion to interests, it must be distinctly understood that be agreed upoa, the time not to exceed ninety House of Commons.. He stated that what Britons bind. There is no entrance to the rooms above company with Inspector Quincey and found the ants in the house."

be accompanied by the name and address of the of past ages can be wonderfully improved. ISOME few weeks ago Mr. Joseph Leicester, who virtue of a warmant he accompanied Inspector which is now in court; it seemed to be atanged | nothing else." They were playing on a stable

the Editor does not in any way hold himself res- ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers are requested to forward all notices intended for insertion in that day's issue not later than THREE O'CLOCK “so as not to retard the early publication of the paper.

days."

holds the very important position of secretary of the Glassmakers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, went somewhat out of his way to say some nasty things about the members of the

are vain enough to consider the finest IT is stated that fencing has been adopted by the Legislative Assembly in the world, consisted of ladies in Paris as a fashionable exercise, and the little-minded, decrepit, hump-backed, and one- use of the foil is now general among the belles eyed scoundrels." Mr. Joseph Leicester, who is of Parisian society. The principal fencing mas evidently a funny dog in his own estimation, ters all count a certain number of fair pupils who afterwards found it convenient to write to the devote themselves to the healthful exercise with press that the above complimentary flowers of considerable energy. For ladies, perhaps, even speech were merely inctaphorical. Such mictaphor more than for men; the good effects of fencing as this is calculated to get a man into trouble, will be found very great. The sedentary and especially if he used it in the presence of one highly enervating life of French women leads to who understood the manly art. We are very all sorts of nervous disorders, and fencing is the fond of metaphor, but we like a rather milder. best means in the world, with riding, to counter-quality than that favored by the secretary of the At Manila, on the 10th April,. WILLIAM | act the bad effects, of late hours and fashion- Classmakers Association.. STEVENSON.

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DEATH.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1883.

TELEGRAMS,

LONDON, April 16th. BRADY CONVICTED. The jury have returned a verdict of guilty against Brady, who has been sentenced to death.

FRANCE AND ANNAM,

Government.

=----——- April 18th.

--DE_BRAZZA'S EXPEDITION...

Loango in face of the hostility of the natives.

A SERIOUS CONTINGENCY.

A conflict between the French and Stanley

expected.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHE- QUER AND THE SILVER DUTIES.

Mr. Childers has decided to deal with the

silver duties.

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able dissipation. It would not be amiss for all ladies to adopt this last French fashion. SOME time since some Wisconsin people were astonished to see their dog come into the house with a piece of paper tied to his tail. They paid no further attention to it except to laugh at his comical appearance, until he began going around to diffierent mem. bers of the family, always tail first, and sticking it at them. This ludicrous action at last made them see that there was writing on the paper, which proved to be as follows: My legs are broken. Please help me." They care- fully examined his legs, but found them all right, when somebody recognised the writing as that of a woman who lived half a mile away. They went to her house, and found her helpless from

SAYS the Sydney Bulletin The Duke of Edia burgh has been made Colonel-in-Chief of the Marines, and yet he does not belong to the Army! At a grand spread given to him at the Albert Hall, a decree was issued that each officer attending should wear hils decorations. The in- trepid. Colonel put on all the medals, &c., he could, and it was then found that the balance filled three large tea-trays. Then he went and patronised bronzed veterans who had by hard fighting for their country gained a simple medal, while he, who had seen no more active service than a padymelon, locked, with orders, &c., like a patchwork quilt. We suppose Prince Leopold will be made an Admiral next, or Princess Boa- trice a Field-Marshal. This reminds us that the Prince of Wales is Colonel of the Hon. Artillery a fall which had broken her legs. She could not Company-the crack volunteer regiment, and when he reviews them, he makes it right with the officers to give him two minutes' notice before firing. No taking a fellow by surprise, you know. No larks!

LOCAL AND GENERAL. In order to enable us to publish the whole of the the face of it, and yet Mr. Justice North only evidence and the verdict in the important gam-sentenced the miscreant to three months impri- bling case Heard at the Police Court before Cap. sonment, which, as a contemporary remarks, was tain Thomsett this morning, the publication of exactly the same sentence which was passed a this issue has been delayed until 6.30.

few days before on a potboy for taking sixpence

Matheson, two

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merely.r

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they must be respectably dressed to get in there. He does not know if the men there had money in their pockets, end does not remember how much money he had when he went to the house. He put the 825 on the table and a man took it upand wrote on a piece of paper his name and on it; he does not remember how many. He gave it him with so many thousand cash marked does not know how much he staked at one time as he played many times. There was a man acting as manager but he is not heres he could. Identify him if he saw him. The man who took the

money up is not in Court. His money was since January 13th as he has no money..

lost by daylight and he has never been there Cross-com'ned by Mr. Dennys told my friends last January that I lost money, but do not know how the Inspector came to know of my loss. I do not know if I am to be paid fo coming up to the court. The man who has gone to Canton introduced me to the club, "but I do. not know if my friend is a member. I do not know the house is a club but I have seen

the name: Yat On written up on the door,

Cannot say

I saw no supper going on while I was there. They were playing when I went there at Fung Awo, stated he laid an information in this half-past eleven. There were people in the case against houses No. 158, 10, and 162 he'l and some in the rooms, in them, the envelopes having Chinese charact which occupies three top floors in Queen's play until I lost all 'I had. There was no hinde Queen's Road Central, He knows the Yat Unwho got my money. I lost and won during the Road The house is used for gambling-play agrance to my going out or coming in. I have fantan. He visited the house on the mong of been at a club in Gough Street once; they have a dominoes and other gambling implements there April 9th about ra.m.

charged six per cent, commission the night I was the same as in the Yat On. I am sure they there. My only reason for calling the house a gambling house is because a S

gambling going

Mid de act his clients who were charged with Mr. Denny objected to the last statement as public gambling on the 13th instant

and

and shop for the money I lent him. The money I

gambled with wat my own,

ters written on the backs of them ; some pack ages and a paper containing names and numbers. There were several stools around the table and an arm chair at one end, the teapoy being within A New French envoy has left for Annam. The French Government demands the execution

reach of the arm chair. He believed the tin box

The objection was noted by His Worship. of the treaty of 1874; M. Bource has been re-stir, nor attract anybody's attention; and she

was open. There were two lighted lamps bang-

Evidence continised:-When in the house on called, and the Government disavows the treaty night have starved or frozen to death, but luckily

ing from the ceiling, one over the table, and the the 9th April, ht, lost five dollars at Fen-tan By Mr. Sharp do not know if anybody concluded between M. Hource and the Chinese the dog' came in, and crawling to a table the

other some distance off. Some of the seats were He gave the five dollars to the 23rd defendant in go in the Yat On I have a long coat capsized and the others placed here and there, we gave had five colors to the sand, defendant ha gana at on house; I have managed to write the note and fasten it to his tail.

By hle Worship I have lived in Hollywood At a recent meeting of evangelical.ministers, the The men who were in the house were similarly now in Couit. He got a paper wrapped up, The French have captured Pontanegra on the tliese incre refined days we are content to in upon the Ilferal interpretation of the Scriptures. ception that some of them had their long was managing the game and counting the to that. I lived in Canton, and for the past three THE ancients represented justice as blind, while in discussion, says the Sydney Bulletin, tumed dressed to what they are now, with the ex- which sald 7,200 cash, from the 23nd defendent. Road since the toth instant, but have lived in a He then proceeded to play. The first defendant street close by since November 20th. Previous sinuate that the goddess is occasionally caught One of the assembled divines had been making coats on. The back room where the defendants beads. There were over twenty persons present years have lived sometimes here nodding. A prisoner was lately convicted bafore an Impassioned appeal for taking the word of ran to, communicates with the room where the and they were all playing Fan-tang some lost and in Canton, I am not a partner in the carpenter which lent the money in September 1881. I have no is Mr. Justice North of manslaughter under what, God exactly as it was written, without adding gambling implements were found. He told one some won. The people kept coming and going. shop but lent Bros to the master of the shop, In popular estimation, were aggravating circums thereto or taking therefrom. Said.be: When of the European constables to keep guard over He saw his five dollars put in and played on money now. I have not asked the master of the.

was placed in a tin box. He first tances. He knocked down a coffee stall keeper, God said streets of gold, He meant streets of the men, about fifteen in all, while he and Ine number three to the extent of 30 without the lightest provocation, kicked him on gold, when He said 'gates of pearl,' He meant pector Matheson made a further search in the lost. Other people staked at the same time. He the face, and otherwise so ill-used him that death gates of pearl; and when He said 'sea of glass, gambling room. The two Chinese books now did not win any stake that night. He saw de Chim Chu, stated he was masterofthe Tai Chong subsequently ensued. It heightens the prisoner's He meant sea of glass etc. When he had in Court were found inside another box in the ductions made from the stakes of the win chanter shopla Hollywood Road, He has been ners. The deduction made was seven per cent, here over thirty years. He has known the first de offence to learn that he had several times pre-made an end of his harangue, a thin, piping room. One is a money book with various sums. He is pot a member of the alub. He went back fendant for several years. Hedoes not know ble viously been convicted of violent assaulis, and voiced member from the rural districts got the of money entered in it. The large book contains to the club on the 10th at ram and again saw occupation. He knows the Yat On house but has that in this very case he absconded after floor. He said he was fully in accord with the names of the members of the Yat On Club and gambling as before. He gambled also and lost never seen any of the prisoner there. He being admitted to bail. A bad case surely on

sentiments of the eloquent brother who bad just states that any members introducing visitors ten dollars which he had with him. The went than to look for the first do preceeded him. He too was in favor of taking

method of changing the money was the fendant who 3 tr

him the Scriptures literally, and believed to be all becomes ascurity for him as first and second played was Fantan. He did not win any one he forgot the moment that he

to the Club must enter his name there and ate as on the previous occasion, and the game was pasting there and went in, to look for!

Rived there Just what He said every time. Of course,

iime when he went to the house, He cannot He has never deep any gambling Is the Yat On there were some things that rather puzzled him, security (., proposer and seconder.) ad, for instance, where it speaks of the woman. The witness heresisted that inspector Matheson say be aw any of the defendants except those house, and hatt never seen, a table there like the who was seated on seven Bills. He could not had arrested one of the defendants on the roof already named, in the house hen he was dee In Conte? La Yoase, threw Novem understand how she could ever do it, but he was when Mr. Dennys asked witness if he saw Mathe- there. He is not a regular informer and never fendant inibe, Yet On house this was in Novem willing to suppose that she was endowed with son make the arrest on the roof Witness said he before gave Information to the police hare He said the first defendant lived in the THE remanded case in which Ho Ming, boste When It was reported that the American flag

Wat On house because he saw him there. He extra large seating capacity, 7

did not see the arrest. His Worship then asked

namic told me

to the questiona, Consolation were charged with assaulting Mr.

If I lost my money could go to Mr. Denny here objected the prisoners he himself arrested. only William Salmond, the second officer of that trance of the harbor of Curacoa, ovory intelligent enormous. In the course of five years the paid Witness named six of the defendants as being the Inspector and get the men arrested, It and as bir Worship said that they had nothing to

that I gare fu do with the case in quest on the objection notes amount to 77,745,000 in number and they those he arrested but could not say he saw them is only because I lost menettel anybody else person was willing, observes an American con- vessel, on the high scas during the voyage be-

was house coolle to Mr. Marty and let bis ser-

Facinded the evidence for the prosco up and some sitting down. tween Bangkok and Hongkong, was settled by temporary, to believe there must be some mistake fi. 13,400 boxes, which, if placed side by side, run from the front into the back rooms. Some of formation set for the

about the matter. The Dutch, though a mari would reach two and one-third miles. If there others in the back rooms were arrested vice two years ago. My wages were $7 a month; Mr. Deanys Belly Reviewed the evidence and Mr. Wodehouse this morning, the boatswain

argad, there being the constables. The defendants and the I have been out of employment for two years. I asked that defendants bedia having, in recognition of his pugnacious attri-time people, have always been eminently peace notes were placed in a pile they would feach to

ful. The name of Holland in these modern times a height of five and two-thirds miles, or if joined police came up together to the Central Station. have during the past two years had two months my evidence pafast them butes, to retire into the seclusion of Victoria is never mixed up with the complications which end to end they would form a ribbon 17,445 The staircase is in the middle of the three houses, employment as substitute for coolie sfid the "te His-Worihip said he, would be glad to hear Gaol for the space of three months, whilst his

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fed the way shipmate was served out with two thirds of that of all would Holland desire to have trouble with be rather less than that of Hyde Park. They the staircase, corridor and rooms on the top floor, the 310 that I laid the information. The in- Whi

have disturbed other parts of Eupore; and least miles long. Their superficial extent is said to in house number 160. The plan now produced was the whole of my savings. The amount is a winesses on bear of the defendants.

was made on the night of the arrest, and shews: large sum to me. It was

formation was read to the witness) When I He fir business lis the United States. The two governments are weigh over ninety and two thirds tons and their When the defendants were brought to the charge forms to the club house I was Ink-oduced by her on chamad how, and diabetes, and by

an original value was over $5755133,000 The room their names were taken down, the charge went to by Ma

Cross, examined by Mr. Dennys - Į know The disparity of population, is another reason greatest of rogues might be inclined to find some

the house in question to have been a Club house in the house and I have known him for ten days. THE Sydney Bulletin is responsible for the why Holland should pause before giving volun- comfort in the extent, and intricacy of such a

Witneany afterwards stated that to me Ab ever since the house was built, about three following, which it says is a noteworthy muetary offence. Her four millions of people would store of old paper, Of course they are most years or so. For the past year I have known it. Lee in the street ten days ago and made friends of clerical cunning: A clergyman down in make but a sorry abowis a war against fifty mil systematically arranged and any note of the as the Yat On Club In August 1881, the club with him; this was near The Canton, stea TREN Milton objects to the Three Musketeers," "The lions. The firing was the result of a misunder celerity and precision. At the end of five years visited by me with a card from His Excellency Ah Lee said could go in and gamble as they

77,000,000 may be pounced upon with the utmost which was then called the Kee Hong Kok was wharf w Lollards" and "The Romanceofthe Harem "being | standing, in which a drunken policeman seems these old potes are thrown into a furnace specially the Governor. The card I 'gave over to one of the everybody could go in without say retained in the local School of Arts library, on to have failed in the discharge of his duty. This constructed for the purpose and burned. It is a Haikwan's officials. I have visited this Club two Is my information stated that account of their immoral tone." The sly dog fact being ascertained, the officers of the fost be the paper of a genuine Bank of England note regarded the place as a Chinese club. I noticed Join in supper with curious, fact, however that so firm in texture is or three times with my Chinese friends and have persons could gain First he reads them as hempat have done to know came alarmed at what had been done. When that burning alone can hardly destroy it. The the name of the Club on one side of the entrance dents Next and 23, they were immoral-and then objects to their an official explanation has beco sent to Washing authorities have in a litle glazed frame the re on a black board in gold letters. There is a fano kuoga being read by anybody else." This is much like ton the reparation will doubtless be regarded as "mains of note which was in the great fire of large square glass lamp over the doorway. The know any the case of a gay old father who should make complete. Holland holds her West India posses Chicago, Though completely charred and black lamp is about this feet by eighteen inches, not see love to his pretty housemaid and then ward off sions by sufferance, and knows very well that it the note is said to be sufficiently legible to stairs was wicket which was also open. There wa

the paper still holds together and the printing of The door was open and about half way up the present on his son from her, on the ground that she was a would not do to provoke a quarrel with a super establish its genuineness, and to warrants as no difficulty in opening the door to enable times.

(son of easy virtue, Oh, these giddy, holy men. lor power, which might wrest them from her five, being cashed.

the police to enter. The house is filled up as i could

out of his master's till.

Cross-exammed by Mr. Dennys;Chasete did some work for him in Lyndhurst: Terrace.

wain, and Wong Mun, seaman, of the steamship had been fired upon by the Dutch fort at the en, THE transactions of the Bank of England are Witness to state only what he saw and name is a friend of mind Pundits-na informer.3

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