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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1883.

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INFORMATION, which we (Hiego News) have received here announcing that the Mitsu Bishi every reason to believe is well-founded, has been Company's steamer Ahitushima-mar's is ashore Straits. No details are as yet to hand, but it is on Shiriya-saki, near the entrance to Tsugar reasonable to conjecture that the vessel was caught between Yokohama and Hakodate in the

La Presse has an account of a peasant named James Zygelof, who has just died at Odessa, aged one hundred and forty-seven years. His son is still alive at the age of one hundred and fifteen; he has a grandson of eighty-five, and a great-great-grandson of forty years. He never drank nor smoked,

accurately reflect the feeling of public opinion, holds that the advantages that may accrue from THE Paris journal France, which is said to

the exploitation of Tonquin are not worth the with England, "the only European Power risk of a war with China and a misunderstanding whose Government is at all friendly towards

of France, which is exclusively framed for the contingency of a war with Germany, and the want of a Colonial army, render the ven has got itself into such a difficulty that it cannot ture a culpable folly. The Government, it adds, advance with prudence or draw back without disgrace, and advocates a resort to a Court of

CHINESE VIEWS OF CURRENT EVENTS.

Mr.

(Continued.)

and would therefore be at a loss to know what

duties in the public service he prepared to A MARINE Court of Enquiry into the loss of the The following charters were effected in Amoy put up with a vast deal of hostile criticism, British ship G. G. Trufant was commenced at during the past fortnight:-Minerva, 7,000 peculs, and even personal abuse, without flinching.the Harbour Master's Office this morning. We Newchwang & Amoy, 25 lay days, $1,620; Kolga, A-thin skinned journalist is entirely out of all deal with the above matter in another 14,000 peculs, Newchwang & Amoy, 39lay days, FAMILY AND DISPENSING['his element on the staff of a daily news!

20 cents per pecul; Queen of India, 9,000 peculs, paper, especially in a small community BRIGHAM YOUNG is reported to have said after Newchwang and Amoy, 26 lay days, 18 cents

Reporter: "What is the reason for the Chi- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, like Hongkong where party feeling runs that for a long time he never saw a hearse go Amoy, 25 lay days, $1,300; Peter, 7,000 peculs, Joseph Smith made his polygamy revelation per pecul; Pelham, 7,200 peculs, Newchwang &

hese esteeming the telegraph above all other foreign inventions ? Why is it that such dis- high, and is of an unusually bitter descrip- by without wishing he was inside. He let fifty Yokohama and Amoy, 17 lay days, $700; ARABIPASHA says that he is in a second Elysium

crimination is made ??? tion. And so, the lessee and publisher of the children, many of whom make a poor living Benedicta, 6,000 peculs, Newchwang and back, in Ceylon. He likes the English very well and low race and they do not like to have things "The Chinese are said to be a Daily Press and the proprietor and publisher keeping boarders. When President Taylor's 22 lay days, $1,400; Roderick Hay, 7,000 is busily studying their language and their thrust upon them, as my friend here has just of the China Mail (whose name is not first wife died he married her niece, but since peculs, Newchwang and back, 25 lay days, laws. (Perhaps he wants to become a lawyer said. The Chinese are not slow to see when GRIBBLE), have reasons to congratulate he has become wealthy the piece is left to live $1,625; Faugh Balaugh; 5,700 peculs, New-and join the Hongkong "lights"). He is get failed to perceive the benefits of the rapid they have a good thing. They have not themselves that the questionable Buza alone unsupported. Her daughter is even said chwang and back, 20 lay days, $1,375ting fatter and fatter on bottled stout and communication between the different provinces policy of dog eating dog" is not the to be in a Mormon lunatic asylum.

Centaur, 10,000 peculs, (at Shanghai) New draught ale, but-ak 1 that but he "vants to afforded by the telegraphic, system, at a com order of the day at Peddar's Hill, A REUTER'S telegram from Constantinople an. Chwang and Amoy, 28 lay days, 20 cents per go home to his vaterland, am den Rhineno, paratively moderate expense, and they have

But it may be urged that a certain

not been over slow to adopt it. When you come nounces that the Armenian Patriarch has ten-pecul, if Hongkong a2 cents, or Whampoa 25 we mean Nile. It is always thus, a man never

to think of the number of years from the time the amount of credit is due to the Daily Press, dered his resignation. It appears that, at the

knows when he is well off-nor a woman telegraph first touched China's shares to the time for forsaking, after having discovered, the last. meeting of the Armenian National Assem-

either, for that matter.

when China first established a line of her own, viz.: from Foochow to Pagoda Anchorage, and error of its ways. All humbug and pre- severely criticised the conduct of the Patriarch,

will be better able to judge, throw that she fas bly, several prominent members of the Council

take into consideration the time taken to establish tence, my masters!. Our morning and Monseigneur Nerses, in regard to his relations

not so slow as she is said to be that they are of lines connecting various of the principal ports, you evening contemporaries did not purposely with the Porte. They openly reproached him HE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, omit publishing the plea and demurrer with having sold himself to the Turkish Govern

real value to herself individually as a country- telegraphs and that she sees that they are 24, NANKIN ROAD, SHANGHAI.

above referred to out of respect for ment. For some time past considerable discon-

will have every port, city, town and village con the don't care a sitaw for other nations-se any high toned principle of law or tent has manifested itself among the orthodox

nected therewith before another ten years late custom, au contraire. The learned barrister Armenian community on account of the Fa-gale which passed close to Kobe the other day. It points out that the military organisation great service which the telegraph would do in expired. The government sees very well the for the prosecution had scarcely reached triarch's intimate relations with the Palace.

The Akitushima-maṛu, formerly known as the his chambers after the termination of the ABOUT one o'clock today the fire bell-rang-out, Montgomeryshire, is commanded by Captain

the case of an outbreak or rebellion in proceedings in court, when the energetic announcing a conflagration in the central district. 1. Frahm, and is one of the finest vessels in the

a distant part of the Empire and it knows full and give waming long before the rebels or well that information would reach the capital reporters of the morning and evening Large crowds of Chinese were soon wending Company's fleet. She is 1,751 tons gross ton- papers presented themselves and begged their way towards the west end of Wellington nage, and has engines of 200 horse-power,

The majority of the Chinese in the Empire do others would be aware that such was the case. for copies of said plea and demurrer The Street opposite the Fire Brigade station. No. 3 nominal. The loss of such a steamer would be

not know anything of the nature of the telegraph steam engine was quickly on the Praya and particularly unfortunate, having regard to the

make of the poles and wires stretched along the documents handy, so referred his Street, from the ground floor of which smoke was last couple of years to the Company, and we the Alabama difficulties. The Liberi, another from the most western borders of the Empire visitors to the Registrar of the Supreme issuing in a dense volume. A manual engine trust therefore that it will be found practicable journal of high standing, candidly admits that to the sea coast. They believe it to be a Court, at the same time Intimating was also on the spot which, together with the to float the Akitsushima-maru off from her pre- the Canton riot was one of the consequences of supernatural power or "Joss" over which you Que excellent morning oracle, the Daily that although it had been the custom one on the Praya, soon filled the premises, asent position. We expect to hear further par French action in Tong-King, and urges a Europartially relates to "demonology in which foreigners have gained the mastery, and as it Press, has suddenly been struck with a fit in Hongkong to publish auch matters, batter's shop, with water. No flames were visi-ticulars of the matter during to-day.

all Chinese believe, they regard it with a sort of of the proprieties. In its report of the pro-yet from a strictly legal standpoint ble, so the water was directed to the back of the

awe and are prone to seek its'aid. Moreover, ceedings in the libel case at the Supreme the publication of ex parte proceedings in

for this latter reason that the telegraph is a Court on Friday, the Daily Press remarks the preliminary stages of a trial were not

sort of .communion with the Godsa prece- dence is given to that invention over all others of that as the defendant's plea and the pro-justifiable. And so as the Daily Prest was secutor's demurrer are ex parte statements

foreigners,""

Reporter: "What do the Chinese think of they refrain for the present from publishing

Fallroads?" these documents. We compliment our

ask (laughing). Have not you foreigners had "That is a pretty question to excessively verdant contemporary on the

very good sample of what the Chinese think Innocent manner in which it has assumed

of your railway system from their reception and the admirably fitting garment of mock

consiguent to oblivion of the defuner Woosung modesty. But the question will no doubt be

Rafiway ? m asked why has the Daily Press so suddenly become such a pronounced disciple of journalistic propriety, such a sturdy advo cate of the unwritten canons of good taste? Well, if the question must be truth fully answered, our would-if-I-could-be | strict letter of the law. high toned and strictly moral contem- porary is nothing more nor less than a canting humbug, trying to assume in the eyes of the public a virtue to which it has no valid pretensions whatever. The pretended spirit of impartiality which prevented the Daily Press from publishing the so-called ex parte plea and demurrer, which were publicly read in open court as a portion of the proceedings in the case, is a hollow sham, which it gives us infinite satisfaction to thoroughly expose.

Celegraph learned barrister did not happen to have her hose brought close to No. 170 Wellngtion other acidents which have happened within the Arbitration, on the model of that which setled Jomics of the day, from Siberia to do so and

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1883.

In the Daily Press of September 29th, also

unable to obtain copies of these papers; it complacently informs its easily satisfied readers that the ex parié statements are withheld for the present. Perhaps in these days of rapid changes to public opinion and feeling, our contemporay is wise to assume the hypocrisy which Ro- chefoucald designates as a sort of homage that vice pays to virtual And yet it. Is surely a pity to see such shallow humbug trying to hide itself in a pretended reverence for morality, the spirit of Justice, and the

TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, October aand. CHILI AND PERU.

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house when the smoke soon ceased to show INSPECTOR JOHN C. SWANSTON, who came out itself. We are informed that the next door shop with the first batch of Scotch policeman some to where the smoke was seen, an ironware store, cleven years and nine months ago, was this was recently insured for$ 3,400, and that the hat-moining sworn in for another five years' service ter's establishment was insured, only yes in our local force. Inspector, Swanston is not serday, for the sum of $1,500. We dont like much of a "terror" to look at, being rather to be hard on people who are trying to slim, though cleanly built, fellow, but the fact rub along and do business, but we have that he has done nearly twelve years' service repeatedly drawn attention to the readiness without as much as having been out of the with which these small traders can get their colony goes a long way to prove that he is Fifty dollars would buy the hatter out, stock, lock, of Scotia who are as tough as leather. The places insured for such disproportionate amounts, one of those heathery-bred slab-sided sons and barrel, and we are quite certain that if the worthy Inspector has done most of his ser Ironware man's premises were to fall a victim to vice at the outlying stations, where his general the-fire-fiend-and-he-got-the-fall-amount of his in-management of affairs has been very successful surance, he would instantly make tracks for his When leaving his former post at Shau-ki-wan, native village and set up for life as a retired the natives mistered together in force and pre gentleman who had made his fortune by a lucky rented the retiring Inspector with a handsome speculation, and the aid of-fire.

silk flag, suitably embellished, and setting forth We are informed that the steamer Shun-ox, fly, the many virtues of the recipient. Mr. Swans ing the Annanese flag, which, as we reported in ton goes home on the 30th instant on nine short time back, had been seized by a French month well earned leave, and we have much man-of-war for an alleged attempt to run the pleasure in wishing him don voyage to john supposed existing blockade on the Annahere O'Groats and a safe return to Hongkong, where count, has been released by Admiral Court his many good qualities have made him univer- having been discovered that not a shadow of sally, respected by those who have the pleasure Justification existed for the seizure and detention of his 'acquaintance of the vessel. Captain Blumenberg, whoycom- mands the Shun-on, is a German subject, and THE British steamer Thales went into the sonal indemnity for the high handed action of we understand that he intends claiming a per- Cosmopolitan Dock this morning.

the French naval authorities in illegally detaining of the steamer, one of whom is a British subject, will advance a claim for the loss caused by the seizure of the "Shun-on. We also hear that the late charterer of the German steamer Vorwaerts, which was forcibly prevented from entering the Annamese port of Touronreatest coward. ulto, has prepared a claim against the French by the French man-of-war Atalante on the 21st Government for the losses caused by this arbitrary and altogether unnecessary proceeding, the opi- nion of counsel being to the effect that, accord Ing to international law, there being no state of war between Annam and France, the so-called blockade of the Annamese coast is an illegal and indefensible measure. As the trade between

A definitive treaty of peace has been signed between Chill and Peru and the Chilians are preparing to evacuate Lima and Callao.

LOCAL AND GENERAL, ·

LOURENCO MAMEDE BAPTISTA, described as morning on a charge of using threatening langu- a clerk, appeared before Mr. Wodehouse this age towards Messrs. F. L. E. Soares, and A peace.

pean Intervention to arrivata pacific settlement.

CRICKET.

for Saturday last having fallen through, a scratch The match arranged by the Club Committee

affair was got up, the opposing teams being di vided on the old fashioned alphabetical principle, There is an old saying somewhere or other about the last being first, and so it was on this bees- slon, as the players who claimed to belong to whilst the "A.B.C.'s went to the field. The the last half of the alphabet handled the willow match, if the truth, must be told, was not a particularly interesting one, and we are some what reluctantly forced-to-the-sad-conclusion that the grand old English pastime is percep sibly on the decline in this colony. This should not be, and we trust that the old cricketing spirit will yet be re-kindled, alike amongst old hands and our jeunesse dorée.

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sufficient trial of the Woosung Railway to fairly Reporter: "The Chinese did not have test its merits or give it a fair trial"

Mr. .. But still it was sufficient to show that they did not wish to even give it a

fair trial."

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Reporter: What do you mean by not even wishing to give it a fair trial?? darins-that is to say those in office-did not

Simply this: The man desire to have the raflway, and the people took their cue from them," "

Reporter:-"I know all that about the Woo- tung railway, but what I particularly want to know. is how the people of China regard the system of railways generally, and what they think of them ?””,

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Rice and Bell-Irving were the first pair of batsmen to face the deliveries of Hendry and Farquhar, and as both were in good form the fielders were soon busy. The score sheet showed a total of 37 when the left hander was bowled off his

including six three's having been amassed been speaking to you about the railway at Woo- pada by Hendry, his contribution amounting to

Notwithstanding that I have, by legitimate cricket. Lloyd then became Irving's sung, I was only having a joke with you upon succumbed to a straight one from Farquhar, and you yourself well know, The Woosung railway chum, but with the addition of 11 runs the latter nevertheless all that I have just said is true, as what I know is to you foreigners a sore subject,

ner Johnston made any stand, but Porter (15) know full well that the The running of two wickets were down for 48. Neither Lloyd has undoubtedly been a sore point with foreigners, and Jarrett (18) showed good hitting powers, the Woosung Railway, even for the short

give up

a point once gained

in the China Muil of the preceding evening, THE British barque Wandering Minstrel came him a prisoner in Halong Bay, whilst the owners F. J. Soares, tending to cause a breach of the whilst the veteran H. F. Whyte, playing in quite time it did run, was most decidedly a point

out of the Amoy Dock on the 16th instant.

The U.S.S. Es now undergoing repairs in Nagasaki, owing to a break-down of her machinery, will not be in sea-going trim for the next two months.

News received at Colombo from Java itates that the Province of Batavia is in a better con- dition than was supposed. The burial of corpses is going on rapidly.

appears one of the grossest, most scandalous and most unjustifiable libels ever published in this Colony. At the Police Court the previous day the PRICE V. FRASER-SMITH | libel case had been called before Captain H.G. THOMSETT, Acting Police Magistrate, and on the application of the defendant was postponed for a week without being dealt with In any way. The information lodged by the prosecutor, a privileged document according to legal usage, was ferreted out amongst the records in the Magistracy by the energetic reporters of our modest and Impartial contemporaries, coples taken of it in spite of the protestallons of THE E. and A. Co.'s steamer Catterthun was the Acting Chief Clerk, and the whole towed over from Kowloon Dock this afternoon, matter published in extenso in the sucgrounding in the Torres Straits on the way up after undergoing repairs necessitated by her ceeding issues of the Mail and Press from Austraila, In that information, which it may be stated was never read in court and

in its entirety has been abandoned by the prosecution, the defendant is charged with having published certain things (wicked and malignant libels, &c. &c.) well knowing them to be false, and from

We are informed by the Agent of the O. & O. S. 3. Ca., that the steamship Oceanic, with Sari Francisco malls to the 28th ultimo, left Yoko hamia for this pert on the 21st instant.

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complainants by the defendant:--

The following letter was sent to each of the

Thope in meet you on board the steamer Wälte Cloud to

morrow to proceed is Macae asgether where we can talk as wa like. Should you fail to come i shall spit on your face, as the

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his old brilliant form, carried out his bat for an gained by the foreigners in their progress admirably compiled 34, which comprised a brace China, and to have that point wreated from them of fours, four threes, three twos and singles whether I am right or not in my surmise, but has been most galling to them--I don't know The innings yielded a total of 141, including 15 that is what we Chinese, think of the Woosung extras, which, considering the fast wicket and Railway. But, Joking apart, I shall tell you what (Signed)". "L. M. Baptista. the batting strength of the eleven, was not alto-e-that is the really enlightened Chinese, Mr. Dennys appeared for the complainants.

think of the railways and their introduction into dant was angry about some family matter, which pected. D'Aeth was most successful with the Mr. A. F. Jesus Soares stated that the defen-gether so satisfactory as might have been ex- he would prefer not to make public, with which ball, bis 5 wickets only costing 31 runs, an Defendant intercepted him in the street and used wickets for 46 and Hendry = for 49. his brother, F. E. L. Soares, was connected, average of 6 runs per wicket Farquhar had very violent and threatening language, calling him coward, infamous, and other mean namca, besides menacing him with a Penang lawyer as well an sending him a letter and asking him to business.

come in order that the same may be firmly. China, and the enormous difficulties to be over established throughout the country. Most for 3reigners, I believe, imagine that it will only take

Be The "first half" were first represented at the wickets by Farquhar (R-N.) and D'Aeth ("The Buffs"), Rice and Porter starting the trundling

few years to introduce railways into China, but most Chinese think differently and say that this generation will not see it. As far as we actually think of the foreign system of rail- ways, we really regard them as a truly grand invention, and one well worthy of an introduc

this port and the trading centres of" Annam Some to Macao with bis revolver to settle the for the opposition. The naval man was senttios in the country. But, also, de 1, said before,.

Tonquin has been practically suspended by thin ham blockade, merchants will no doubt be less proceedings on the part of the French naval pleased to learn that these arbitrary and sense-

authorities are to be brought under the direct notics of the British and German Foreign.

WE are authorized to state that the private view | Ministers. will take place to-morrow (Wednesday), and of the Hongkong Sketching Club Exhibition that the Committee and Members will be pleased to see their friends at 4. p.m.

chief witness in a case heard at Nottingham A GIRL, about seventeen years old, called as police-court, having examined the Bible, placed in her hand, said Gentlemen, this book be-

take my cath upon this book. Magistrate: Why? Are you an atheist-Witness Indeed, gentlemen, I am no atheists I am a Roman Catholle 1 shall decline to take the oath upon that book Magistrate Why, that Bible contains the Gospels, and Epistles approved and appointed to be read in all the churches and chapels in England. Witness: Gentlemen, in all your churches and chapels, but

Defendant admitted having written the letters back by Rice's first ball, and made way for and stated that he would not do anything in Hendry who stayed with the stalwart Buff until Hongkong to either of the complainants likely to the total reached 26, when he got his leg in the cause a breach of the peace...

He was bound over in the sum of five hundred way of the ball and had to retire. When Hare dollars to be of good behaviour for one year,

became associated with D'Aeth a long stand was made, and although several changes of bowling were tried the match was practically won when

inducing Hare to place ons in Lloyd's bands with at 119.Johnston catching and bowling D'Aeth and a separation was at length effected with the total

glad to see that the Marquis Tseng, who was in Challemel-Lacour was formerly connected, is THE Rpublique Francaise, with which M

this may not take place either in your time qr in mine. We enlightened Chinese can easily see the great benefits to be derived from rail- ways as a means of rapid transit; but is of no use be most strenuously opposed by the official ele for us to with for that which we well know ment of the nation. It is not by any means the people who object to railways in China. Norit

self, I refer only to those who hold the secondary prise the Court at Peking or the Emperor him

not then but it the mandarins. By man- darins, I do not wish to include those who com-

the habit of confiding his mauvaise humeur to consecutive balls. D'Aeth had made Bo-two reins of power, that is to say, the various pro

all the journalists on the boulevard, has now, stres, a quintette of fours, nine threes, & brace vincial authoriúcstushar

Reporter How is it you. thus ignore the

spirit. "Nobody in France," says the Rebub Fincham and Gonion, raised the score to 140,

gus," "desires a war with China. fun when the last named retired for 15, lnd then am about to explain in the first place I hard MERU For a variety of reasons which fortunately it were to break out it would be the former and Greaves kept up their wickets said that China rich, yes, very rich: Indeed. because China had declared war, or, what is until gun fire, their scores being a1 and gre. And so she it, but he don't like to part with still worse, had made war without declaring spectively, and the total, 170, or a majority of her money and what is more she will not part it. We ask nothing of the Celestial Empire; no concession, no favour. We desire to live at 29 Johnston took 3 wickets at a cost of 38 peace with it without interfering in its affairs, on The full scores are appended

runs. Rice's one wicket cost 45 and Irving's'; condition of its not interfering with our own,

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WE read in a Japanese native paper that, the longs to the Church of England, I presume thanks to the advice of the English Govern of twoes and singles-by bard' hitting, whimportant persons who have the greatest voice in corrupt molives, maliciously intending to in. Mitsu Bishi Company spent a good deal of Magistrate: Yea, Witness: Then I decline to ment, exhibited something like a concillatory Hare's 27. Included no fewer than 18 singles the matter jure, aggrieve, vilify, prejudice and de-money in attempting to raise the Sumida Mars, and then sold the wreck and cargo to Mr. fame the prosecutor. Now although the Nakabars, of Junkei-machi, Osaka, for 10,000 publication of the history of a trial in a yen. The purchaser has 97 coolics and to public newspaper, consisting of the facts of divers constantly employed at the wreck, and the case, and of the law as applied to those expects to raise the vessel next year, facts, is generally held to be lawful, yet A CORRESPONDENT Writes: Our worthy and the publication of slanderous matter is excellent governor went up north to see about not justigable, unless it be shown that it the "Blockade of Hongkong harbor. When he was published for the purpose of giving comes back there will be another blockade ques not in mine. Magistrate: What Bible will you What is the question after all? The whole of the public information which was fit and tion for him to discuss, viz: The blockade of Catholic Denny Bible. Unless I have one, I will and we must occupy one of its provinces, Tong.

take your oath on? Witness "On a Roman Annam is placed under our own protectorate,urde: proper for them to receive, and was, more- Wyndham Street, Peddar's Street, Queen's over, warranted by the evidence. But Road and a few other sanctimonious "retreats" take my math on any other. The witness King, in virtue of an incontestable right." Having even this must not be considered a justi- of a like nature. 1 suppose the "circular" of then left the hall for a quarter of an hour, when stated this, of course the Republique proves that yesterday was ostensibly for the purpose of see, she was again called in, and still objected to take Chins is completely, in the wrong, and warns fication in all cases, and under no circum-ing that our worthy Chief of the Executive would the oath upon the book, Magistrate: I have the Marquis Tseng not to rely on the support stances can the publication of ex parte pro-not-lose some more of his dads through fall never heard such an objection, only by a Fres which is given to Chinese claims by the German, ceedings heard before a magistrate being down some of the Praya Central pitfalls.byterian, who claimed his right of affirmation, Italian, and more especially the English Press. H. K. Lasley, considered privileged. The scandalous THE following romance in real life appears in a to affirm. Magistrate: What form of afirma ponsibility resting with the Marquis Tseng is very, a

Witness Then I, as a Roman Catholic claim. The article concludes by observing that the re- libels published by both the Daily Press Hiogo vemacular paper-Aburanokoli Taka- tion will you give that what you any in and China Mail, charging the Editor of fuss, the third son of a kwazoku living at Kioto, true? Witness: I will wifires that what I say is from Hong Kong, war would be immediately great. We cannot say whether, as one writes this journal with offences, the very name formed an acquaintance with a girl named Nat. true by the sign of the Cross in the name of followed by revolts in neatly all the provinces, of which would-make-a-Red-Indian-blush, 1, and when their parents interiered they ran God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Magis but we know that one of its immediate con, undoubtedly fald our contemporaries open off together to Osaka On the 4th instant Nat trate: Then hold the Bible in your hand and sequences would be fearful ruin, for which China The eye is sometimes called the window of haps they to either a criminal prosecution or an expen at and another women paid a visit to a man make the sign of the Cross. Witness"Lentle would not be pardoned; and we likewise know the squl, consequently a black eye must be sive and troublesome actionat law, the result named Adauma. The three got drink together men, I will not hold that book as a Catholic *1 that on a very different side to Tenqüin the stained window. Palladelphia Chronicle of which would not even be open to doubt. while Takafusa and another man expected them set no value on that version of the Bible. It Celestial Empire has enemies who would at once Herald, hastayaL JUMP TOALE Public journalists, however, have other in-at the railway station. The woman with Natsu would not bind me. I must have my own trus avail themselves of this occasion to break ItSaya & New York Custom House officer Pray the terests besides their own to consider, and overed first, and asked Takafúsa to wait until Bible, or I will not take the oaths will not up. It depends on the Marquis Taeng to render prefer a man's declaration to a woman's A glide {were) over the they must In the performance of their stead of doing so he went to the

her companion had slept off the liquor, but in-kiss any other book." The Magistrate finally his country Invulnerable in the south, or to rule, you can't depend much on women. They ar to cicape centre inde

"and" "adjourned the case, that, a proper Bible might make it a sort of Ottoman Empire on the shores of them the desire to smiggle something amounts

have no sense of responsibility, and with most: än favorable arduous and at times difficult and delicate strangled bis still unconscious mistress,

be obtained from the Roman Catholć Bishop, of the Pacific."

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