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Intimations.

NOTICE.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

Jongkötz, 2nd March, 1888.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, (bʊ8.

grievance will be removed without in any way prejudicing the interests of the colony, We shall deal further with this subject at

another time. ·

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The P. &Ò. Company's extra steamer Kashgar, from Bombay, left. Singapore for this port al 8 a.m. to-day.

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We are requested to say that friends will be welcome to the show of the Hongkong Sketching

hub to-morrow afternoon,

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IM several villages of Finland a kind of religious | Messus. Kussell & Co, Inform us that the sect has taken root, the fundamental dogma of "Union" Line steamer Gality of Lorne, from which is the sovereign authority of woman in London, left Singapore for this port yesterday, the family. The disciples of this sect, when and inay be expected to arrive on the and prox. they marry, take a vow to submit to the wife in. MRS. HENNESSY-James Hennessy, yez have all things, and to confess to her once a week.

been drinkin': Mr. Hennessy Sotra th' dhrop On their part the women choose one of their Mrs. Hennessy-For phat and for phy, thin, do number as their head, whose duty it is to see that the men behave themselves, and to punish hey the appinument av cellkaper at the

yez stagger like a lem goose?. Mr. Hennessy them if they transgress. This sect bears some resemblance to that of the "Purificants" in Central, an' it's practising Ol am, so as to mek Siberia, who also recognise the supremacy of drunks fale kind of brotherly wid me.

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A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, Notable of Japanese subjects at present residing The Nagasaki Express publishes the following 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland in Corca Street, this evenlog, at 8, 30 for 9 o'clock precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited

We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Adam- son, Bell & Co.) that the Canadian Pacific Line steamship Batavia arrived at Vancouver on the 16th inat, and that the steamship „töyssinia sailed from Kobe to-day for Hongkong vid Shanghai.

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THE forthcoming volume of poems by Mr. Sullivan, M.P., Lord Mayor of Dublin, contains & parody on Edgar Allan Poe's "Raven." The poet represents himself as sitting in Tullamore Prison when Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for the Ireland, favors him with a visitation, The

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THE project of an Indo-European canal, by way the Euphrates Valley and the Persian Gulf, will, it is claimed, realize two important results, namely, those of irrigation and navigation, and thus restore fertility to these vast wastes. Such ʼn canal would shorten the present route of going and coming to Bombay some six days. THE correspondents who have written Dock Company will permit our holding over their letters for a few days. We wish to give shareholders (and others interested an opport unity of expressing their views on the point raised in our series of articles, and will then publish all the letters sent us in the same issue. À BRICK, says a technical paper, being about as porous as a lump of sugar, and having six sides, needs a careful filling for water-light work in cesspools, etc., and a thin grout or porridge of cement is commonly used. Heating the brick, and soaking beforehand in thick coal-tar, has been recomiended. A man may lay common wall all his life without learning how to make bricks water-tight.

HONGKONG, Wednesday," March 28, 1888.

The Hongkong community, outside the philanthropic money grubbers and jobbers in house property who have matle them. selves so notorious, will hail with joy the Ordinance introduced into the Legislative Council-yesterday-by-Governor-nes Vaux for the purpose of reserving in this city of Victoria a. clearly defined district as European residences. This decision has not been arrived at a moment too soon. and it is to be hoped that no delay will be permitted in the passage of this much needed enactment through the Council. The difficulty of European residents finding house room at any thing like reasonable rentals has for years past been a substantial and standing THE results obtained in testing the new aluminum grievance that difficulty, owing to the ruzzes are said to be remarkable, and open wholesale purchases by Chinese of all up a new and interesting field of research. The properties in the market and to the policy enormous strength of these bronzes and their adopted by foreign owners of transforming lightness, allow of some very important applica what were European residences into tions. Thus, the weight of propeller-screws can Chinese shops and dwelling houses, kas-be-reduced-one-third-and-yet-be-incressed in of late assumed the dimensions of an strength and elasticity. It can be used instead

unbearable hardship. The very centro of the city has been invaded by Chinese, and unless summarily checked, this invasion can only result in foreign residence becoming a practical impossibility.

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of steel in making guns, and they will be more

effective. They can be made at one fifth fess han the cost of steel guns, and the metal in them can be melted and used over again any number oftimes. Heavy machinery can also he magle of this 'remarkable metal. There are, That difficulties may crop upin opposition no doubt an infinity-of-uses-for-these-bronzes, to this proposed restriction is possible, but

Unner the heading "Utah and Polygamy," the hardly probable. His Excellency, in his San Francisco Chronicle says that Utah to the "explanation to the Council, very fairly melonly territory in America where the crime of

any objections that are likely to be made either by foreigners or Chinese. Thi Government has a perfect right to insist on the most stringent regulations being carried out in the construction of houses in what are well..understood to be the

Looking at case and cranky, cans and stod noon the flour Then a being this and shanky, white of visage, tall sad lasky,

In his hand some keys ha dangled, keya (hat burably clanked and

Jangled, Arul over his right optic angled's large pane of glam he wore i

This he did and nothing more.

Now" said I, the shape nikdressing, "don'; you think I'would

be a blessing If this Anglo-Irish conflict, cusing down from days of yore – If this agelung won and sadness-sould be changed to peace And the holy ties of friendship could be knit from there to shore.

and gladness, And no words in words of kindness pass acros from shore to

Quoth the lank one, “Tullamore." L

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We shall feel greatly obliged to our friend Lister if he will graciously disclose to no expectant Legistative Council as "the dilettante profes- public, whom he referred to yesterday in the

sional man who comes here for three or four years and goes away. Trot him out, Alfred, and make him show his paces. WHEN the present l'ope was nuncio at Brussels he attended a dinner-party where a nobleman asked him to admire a lovely Venus on the lid of a snuff-box-expecting to amuse the company at the expense of the nuncio. "Charming said Monsignor Pecci, quietly{returning the box "Is it a portrait of Madame la Marquise ?”

THR visit of the Sultan of Morocco to Algiers, in order to communicate' by cable with his representative at the Madrid Conference, was an the Sultan opposed the laying of this cable, as event of some historical importance. For years he did not wish to bring Europe any nearer to his domain. It is fifty years nearly, since a Sultan of Morocco has deigned to set foot in Tangiers, a sea-port town pollated by the presence of many Europeans.

ego "the

when it fell he slowly raised it and replaced it as before-A RECENTLY prepared return, says the

News, shews how terribly destructive is of flower Tokyo," as the fires so frequent in the capital of this Empire are styled. During last year there occurred no less than 671, conflagra. tions, which resulted in the burning down of '3.495' houses,' And the year just closed was not characterised by any exceptional activity on the part of "the fire fiend" to borrow a favourite expression of the sensational reporter.

THE news recently published by our evening contemporary that considerable opposition had been raised in the Philippines against the religious element in the administration of the

stands, has not so far been confirmed by any of the Manila papers. The only noteworthy feature

THE Diario de Manila's Sooloo correspondent, under date the 5th inst, gives the following account of an engagement between the Spanish forces and the natives, on the 3rd inst. At 4 a.m. the alarm was sounded and shortly after wards 2,000-men-were up and ready for a march against the enemy. The whole column, whose rear was guarded by a battalion of artillery, marched out till to o'clock, when it reached a place called Fanyali, where they rested awhile. Later on the forces moved in the direction of Pagui-Dapu in the vicinity of Sarriol where they were received by a well sustained musketry fire from the enemy,, which placed a few men hart de combat. The column proceeded on its march Arasa, where the enemy mustered in strong and halted on a vast plain called Panghina |

force. Skirmishers were thrown out, and an order to advance given. After a sharp engage- ment, the village where the enemy was located was stormed and taken, the number of dead and wounded being considerable among the natiges, but amounting to only four with the Spanish forces, including their Commander don Victor Diaz. On the same day the column, having accomplished its object, returned to Sooloo.....

In the exchanges lately received,, is the publica ion of a pastoral letter from the Archbishop of Matila, in which he recommends his flock to stick to religion above everything else on earth Theocratic Government is apparently the elixir vita for the Philippine Archipelago, although other country where it has been in force. it has brou ht desolation and decay to every

As an example of journalistic enterprise in Caffarela, the San Franciscs Chronicle is on the progressive war path and for ahead of all competitors in its methods of inducing ubscribers to enroll their names on polygamy is at all general, and that the Federal

the pages of its ledgers. "We give says Government has now exclusive jurisdiction right

the Chronicle, "a complete sportsman's outfit, including our weekly paper for one year, for the through the Salt Lake country. But, continues

sum of $13.50. Our outfit will comprise a the Chronicle, if polygamy were to be wiped out tomorrow, Utah is not in a condition for OSCAR WILDE used to tell this tale, which he double-barrelled breech-loading shot gun, hand admission to the Union. The Constitution had received from the chief actress in it. It was made, and guaranteed to shoot straight; a garantees to every State a republican form of at the time of the prosecution by Mrs. Langtry hunting coat of fine water-proof canvas; a government, and such a government is morally and Mrs. Cornwallis West of the low London cartridge belt with leather straps; a sporting impossible, so long as the Mormon hierarchy print, Town Talk, for asserting that the respec-

hat made of water-proof canvas; a gun cover retains its sway. Possibly the Gentile population tive spouses of these two dear creatures were

with leather handles; twenty-five brass shells of Utah might, after admission, have a repub- about to institute divorce proceedings in which that can be reloaded, and which will last a life tican farm of government, but it would be the the Prince of Wales would figure as a co-respon- time; and a complete set of tools, including it is now, a hypocritical, greedy, tyrannical, It happened that at this juncture Mr Langtry, and loader, also a pocket oller, etc, which owners to compensation, we' venture to

at a certan dinner party, sat next the late- makes this the cheapest outfit ever offered; it thing that the saving clause in all leases, mock-sanctified oligarchy-a union of Church

and State, in which the Church would be every lamented Prince Leopold, who presently opened, beats everything for cheapness." reserving a discretionary right to the

thing and the State nothing.

proceedings by saying in a freezy tone: "Do you JAMES O'NEILL, the well-known actor, tells a Government to grant or refuse permission to

as is probably well known, was born of poor constructed. removes that point outside the followingstory relating to the early connection much annoyed by your name being coupled with between the Hungarians or Huas, and the my brothaw's in this way?" The Lily was a

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into the colony tends constantly to narrow the area of the city of Victoria where such conditions are attainable, and it is 'desirable to reserve by law a district wherein such conditions, may be secured: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

-This Ordinance may be cited for all purpose as The European District Reservation Ordinance.

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MODERN NEPHELOCOCcreía:

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CHIAROSCURO SKETCHES OF..

· LUSITANIAN LIFE IN THE

*FAR EAST,

In generalthe nobility, citizens, and reamery people of Painga' are ruda blockheads, incapable of good manners, ut ignorais, And this in spite of their pretension to be thawlaess; like the English, who admire no other people an auch as their own. Th Portuguesa, except the nobästy, are much-ntora loyal, to each other and to their king than the finalish: they are not a crack.

king: Aut more ugly in face, risets of Niralne de- and brutal as the latter; they are more modetula in easing and Falchow (1981).

.I. LEGENDARY.

It has always been a hobby with me whenever

2.In the construction of this Ordinance, the words

City of Victoria shall mean the City of Victoria as defined by the Victoria Registration Ordinance, No. 7 of 1866. The words "Chinese lenement" shall mean any tenement of the type usually designed for habitation by Chinese other than domestic servants. The words "European,

eastern side of a dividing line beginning from a should worship antiquity because it touched the District" shall mean that portion of the city approach the study of a people, to institute which is situated on the southern or-south- my inquiries að ovo. Ciceto, has said that we

point on the Pokfoolum-road, at No. 1 Bridge, gods. Acting on this assumption, might I not and passing along the Pakfoolum-road, High while studying the ancient history of the Portu street, and Bonham-road, as far an Ladder guese in the Far East, come up unawares with street, thence along the northern boundaries some Pan-Lusitanian deity in remote Olympus ? of inland Lots Nos. 573 and 574, and bisecting. At all events, it must be an interesting task to inland Lots Nos. 523, 423, 157, and 94, thence dig into the mouldy recesses of the past and along the northern boundaries of inland Lots search for the parent type of that wonderful class Nos. 100, 108, 122 and 123, thence along of people who are to be met with at every turn Shelley Street and along the northern boundary one takes through any European settlement in of inland Lot No. 135, thence along Chancery the Far East, a people entirely distinguished Lane, Arbuthnot Steps, Wyndham Street, Ice from all other nationalities, anique in its charac House Lane, Battery Path, Beaconsfield Steps eristics, and for that very reason ostracised from and the north boundary of the Military Parade the other mostals who live and move in this Ground, thence along Queen's Road East as far part of the globe, That the Portuguese race as the west boundary of inland Lots Nos. 47A-abound in China and Japan; is a fact needing and 47, thence along a line parallel with and 200 no fresh assertion; that they do not bail from feet to the north of Kennedy Road as far as the country whose name they proudly bear, is Road to its junction with Queen's Road East, that through their peculiarities of habits the Wanisai Nullah and thence along Kennedy another truism for which history can vouch; and which dividing line is more specially set forth and denoted in the Official map of the Cilythey almost constitute a distinct colony strong and manners-many of which are praiseworthy, of Victoria, to be signed by the Governor and to colonies, is also patent. They must then have be registered in the Land Office of the Colony, a history, a chronicle of their beginnings, a 3-After the passing of this Ordinance it shall record of their increase and progress since they not be lawful to build any Chinese tenement first set foot in far Cathay. within the European. District, and no non- after to be built, within such European District Chinese tenement, whether now built or here shall be divided with the object of providing for its occupation by more than one person to every one thousand cubic feet of clear internal space, nor shall such non-Chinese tenement be at any time occupied by more than one person to every one thousand cubic feet of clear internal space. 4-Upon the complaint of any person whether such person be aggrieved or not that a Chinese tenement has been built within the European District or that any tenement in such District is subdivided, or is occupied by an undue number of persons la contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Surveyor General or any officer deputed by him for the purpose, to inspect such tonenient, and any person in any way obstructing such inspection shall be deemed to be acting in contravention of this Ordinares,

5.Every person contravening any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction by a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding Dollars, or-in-default of

payment to imprisonment not exceeding mouths, and every tenement bull, sub-divided, shall be deemed a nuisance within the meaning or occupied in contravention of this Ordinance, of Ordinance No. 8uf 18,6, which nuisance may be abated accordingly.

6.-Nathing in the Ordinance shall be heldie prevent the owners of Chinese tenements now existing within the European. District, from. -repairing such tenements, in accordance with their present structure, nor shail anything in this Ordinance be held to preclude any Chinese, person from awning, or occupying, or residing in, any lawful tenement in the European District.

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HONGKONG MASONIC CLUB, LIMITED.

The following is the report to be submitted to the shareholders at the first annual meeting, to be held at the Masonic Club, on Thursday, the 29th March, 1888

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My present scope is to arize their pedigree of history. I purpose questioning amiquity and back into the mist of time and into the nebule the gods, some of whom may perhaps be prevailed upon to solve many a historical conundrum with which Portuguese life is much hcect. It is the critic's bounden duty to consult their history before he attempts to analyse the flowing current of their daily lives. "The present time assumes a new aspect when viewed through the prism of the past. Multi-coloured and aërial though this prisimatic retrospect may prove to be, it will nevertheless impart romantic tints to solid facts, and will help us to mark out the true predecession of events and of men who "have brought' about the first Lusitanian settle- menis in the Far East, and who, after centuries of time's travail, have at last blossomed out into the Macau or Hongkong Portuguese of the present day

For the reader's own convenience, I have adopted the plan of grouping all the Portu guese who live under our tropical sun in one Nephelococcygia, which is a kind of aerial city, the freedom of which I have conferred on every member of this particular nationality. The proper name, while to their descendants, because primitive Lusitanians I shall style by their

of the great variety of their birth-places and, the vast caprice of their comnion mother--the tropics I have given the high-sounding and classical name of “Nephelococcygians.

urban denomination that of inhabitants, of

Nephelococcygia then is not a mere mush- room city spring into existence only yesterday, it is a work of ages, and it has a history—a very” dramatic history, the prologue of which is to be found in the events connected with the discovery of India by the great Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama. Camões, the Portuguese Homer, has sung to immortality Captain da Gama's adven turous voyages and discoveries in eastern Africa and India, Portuguese' India, comprising Goa, Damão, Diu, Ceylon, Madras, Bombay, Malacca,

European districts of the city; if these districts have never been legally defined their boundaries have always been thoroughly well understood. With out going closely into the legal aspects of the case as regards the, rights of property merest form, while the reality would be just what dent, and all London was agog in the matter. powder and shot measure, extractor, recapper attributed to the many difficulties that presented nians, came to people Nephelococcygia, in China,

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some other minor settlements, was the off- spring of Vasco da Gama's discoveries; Nephelo- coccygia was its step daughter. Lusitanian blood had freely mixed with the native Hindustani and Gujerat, and had to doubt improved by the mixture, owing probably, to some secret law In submitting their first annual report and of affinity existing between the partlaidescendants statement of accounts to the 31st December, of the Moots and that cognate race of theirs, the 1887, the Directors much regret that the large East Indians. In the course of time, the descen- amount of $2,615.13 eppers to the debit of danis of this mixed breed, mostly hailing from Profit and Loss. This is to be principally Malacca, with a sprinkling of genulae Lasita themselves during the first few months working where by a close contact with the sons of beaven, The Directors are, however, able to state that they blossomed out into a more elevated race. the Club is now working more satisfactorily, and considerable light into the origin of Nephele- that the support of the members during the Mendes Pinto's Peregrinations, Lucena's Life that its position is daily improving. They hope coccygis Barros Decades, continued by Couto,

close a better balance sheet than the one now Asta, all written between 1600 and 1700, Sir before them

Llingstedt's History of Portuguese Settlements in China, a work which deals directly and fairly

following may be considered to be a succinct record of the initial events connected with; Lusitaulan settlements in China, the The first Portuguese who trad the soil of the Celestial Empire was Raphael. Perestrello, who left Malacca in":1516, 26 a passenger on board ajunk which was sailing for China. On hle return to Malacca, Ferestrello, related

to Jørge de Albuquerque, who was then the Portuguese venturesome voyage, and the information he Governor of the settlement, many wonder of his

erect buildings different to those previously THE Bada:Pesth Courrier de l'Orient publishes/ know, Mrs. Langtry, that my mothaw is very good story of himself. The "gentle Jeems," current year will enable them to present at ils of St. Francis Xavier, Andrade's Portuguese

DIRECTORS..

the region of doubt. All municipalities Celestial Empire: "The Emperor, Oso Kun. little taken aback, but responded quietly: "Do. Irish, parents. They delighted not in the

found himself compelled to make peace with the you know, Prince Leopold, that my husband is attractions of the stage, and it is even said, had a Messis. T. D. Humphreys and M. Falconer with Nephalococcygia, and a score of other;

at home reserve the right to Insist on

new buildings being uniform with those already constructed, if such be deemed desirable, and the conditions here must be exactly identical, The other possible objection "alluded to by the Governor, that the proposed measure might be characterised as "class legislation," need scarcely be seriously considered. The bill does not prohibit Chinese from living.

name being coupled with mine in this way It was the Prince's turn to be taken aback now, but he came up equal to the occasion with: "Yas,

appointments require the confirmation of the Shareholders at this Meeting. In accordance with No. 74 of the Articles of Asssociation Messys, Grant and Falconer retire from the Board, but are eligible for re-election.

AUDITORS..

Mr. J. Willmott has rendered his assistance gratuitously in making up the Accounts, and the of bis services. Mr. Mr. A. D. Death kindly Board desire to place on record their appreciation consented to act as second Auditor. The gentlemen.

C. P. CHATER,

derde, Chairman,

of never been inside of a theatre until inveiled there by James himself. It was not until after the actor had made an enviable name for himself and had often visited his native town, that he could prevail upon his parents to go and see him act. In his own words Mr. O'Neill tells it, bu thusly got my father and mother to accom- pany me in a carriage to the theatre. I seated curtais rolled up on the first act of Monte them in offs of the boxes, and presently the Cristo. Never did I put more soul into the

night, and the cast all did superbly. It was, therefore, with no little anxiety that I looked toward the box containing my parents for their CAPITAL ACCOUNT-31ST DECEMBER, 1887. verdict. My mother appeared to be slightly.

Liabilities interested, but my father displayed the most To Capital Account: $7,320

Less Suspense Accounting stoical indifference. The play continued and

Local Liabilities-unpaid Accounts 3,144.47

In the European, district; it merely insists wives, he thought of these paintings and sent for to-day, before Mr. J. Russel), Acting Chief Justice character of Edmund Dantes than I did that Directors recommend the re-election of these gave about the Chiness was so satisfactory, that

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$1,610.75 Less allowance for bad debit 483.600

intentions, like gallant men, the bandsomest of his wives. The Emperor had 300 wives, and he caused their portraits to be taken by a famous painter. The wives gave the palater gifts to Mrs. Langtry, but it is different with you and depict them at their best, all except Bouts, the with my brethaw!" And the whole table sat listening with awe, as the Lily guilelessly replied, most lovely of them all. In revenge, the painter Yes, Prince Leopold, for he is accustomed to made Bouta's portrait the ugliest and most it, and I am not!" The subject was changed. repulsive. When, therefore, the Emperor Oro Kun was compelled to surrender one of his

Ar the Supreme Court in Criminal Sessions them. Bouta's picture at once caught his eye and the following jury--Mersts. D. Wood, M. 'She is evidently the ugliest,' he said, and her Hansen, R. Martin, C. J. Gonsalves, J. M. V. to the Huns. The Hun emissaries went away Ribeli, G. A. Caldwell, and R. N. Olley, enchanted with their prize, but it is said that the Charles Dawkes, a private of the 8th Regiment Emperor afterwards discovered how he had been was arraigsed on a charge of indecent assault misled and wreaked his sevenge on the painter," against Miss Rhoda Bigent, on the afternoon of WITH all due respect to His Excellency the the 5th of March. The Attorney-General having redoubled my efforts, but still not the least Governor, we venture to think that the objection stated the case for the prosecution, particulars of sign, of approval or disapproval from the raised in the Legislative Council yesterday in which we have published in our Police Report, old folks. The play ended without any the discussion on the Rating Bill by the Captain called the following witnesses: Rhoda Bigent, sign from them, and I must confess I was Superintendent of Police, with reference to the the complainant, James Duffy, Constable of the considerably bored over it. Wo all got By Outstandings definition of tenement building," which phrase Naval Hospital, the woman Kwang Au Kim, into the carriage and drove home. On the way we talked on almost every subject except the does not appear in the Ordinance was quite in Sabino Thomson, an engineer, P.C. Singh, 627, order and very much to the point. The Colonial A: Macauley, P.S. 30, and John Maxwell; these play. This continued until I could stand it no Treasurer is a peddling busybody, whose chief were cross-exmined by the prisoner, who was longer, and I determined to breach the subject alm appears to be to raise trouble and dissension undefended. The case for the prosecution myself, since no one else would. As a prelimi on the most trivial, pretexts and for no earthly being concluded, the prisoner stated in bis defcucenary I handed my father a cigar. He stock. good to the colony, and Mr. Deane bad every that on the 5th March he went down to Happy it into his pocket and took down his little right to point out any inconsistency or blander Valley with four more soldiers of his regiment; dudeca pipe from off the mantel. Father, which disfigured the Ordinance under discussion they all had some drink together, after which said 1, at last, what did you think of my acting If the Governor is so particular about purely prisoner did not remember seeing or doing any to-night? Jimmy, said he, slowly, I think legal matters being left to he legal members of thing until the complainant gave him in charges you have a dommed, sisy way of makin' a Council, it is pertinent to ask why this Rating prisoner could not say where his friends had livin' It is needless to say that Jimmy was To Allowance for bad deba Ordinance, which is admittedly a legal matter, gone; be was taken by a Sikh policeman to completely nonplussed. was not drafted and brought forward by the the Wanchal Police Station, and there charged Attorney General, instead of by the Postmaster, with an indecent assault. Henry Arthur Luard, who knows nothing of law? And farther, na officer of the 58th Regiment, having deposed as His Excellency is stranger here, we take the to the prisoner's good character, his fordship liberty of informing him that Mr. W. M. Dease summed up and the jury after a short retire- knows more about the Ordinances of Hongkong, ment, found the prisoner guilty, but recommended than any man in the colony, the Acting Chief Hiurto mercy. His lordship in passing sentence Justice alone excepted. But beyond all this said the prisoner's case, was, is serious one, we strongly object to reveal an official meraber Taking into consideration his, previous geo ropeans, who

being publicly dictated to by the Governor as to conduct and all the circumstances of the case, there for their own what he may say, or

not say, in the discussion he would inflict on bin a sentence of 13 months pand a real!! of any question before the Council.

Imprisonment with hand Tabour

on all buildings within, the restricted limits being constructed on European principles; and surely such a restriction in a British settlement cannot be deemed excessive or unreasonable On the contrary, we feel quite assured that the Chinese community, who are ever ready to listen to anything that is fair and reasonable, will at once admit that the Governor's proposal, although perhaps it may press hardly on some individual interests, is calculated to greatly benefit the public at large. At all events, the time has arrived when some thing must be done in the Interests of the poorer class of foreign residents. House rents have become simply prohibitive, and wo hold that it is the duty of the Government to find a remedy for what bids fair to make a decent home in Hongkong impossible for any but the wealthier classes. The proposud reservation of a European-district will tend to relieve the over-crowding and to the reduction of the existing exorbitant rents; but His Excellency must dy more than this to achieve the aim he evidently has in View There are still, in spite of the land sharks who have infested the colony for so long, plenty of excellent sites for dwelling houses at the disposal of the Government; let these sites

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THE EUROPEAN DISTRICT RESERVATION BILL.

The following Bill was read a first time at the meeting of the Legislative Council, yesterday afternoon

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several other Portuguese resolved upon following? his example. In 1516 a few Portuguese and Malay ships under the command of Fernan Pares de Andrade, arrived on the southern coast of China; but owing to a strong dissidence which soon arose between them and the natives, they had to withdraw, after a very short stay. In 15za the Portugucee returned to China in three ships, commanded by Alfonsa Martins de Mello, with a view to employ all amicable means in their power to found a

commercial nettlement on some point of the coast, They were again folled in their attempt, for they were attacked by a a numerous Chinese feet, which sank two of their ships, the only one which escaped being that which had Martins der Mello on board. Undeterred by these reveries, they went on trading with the Chinese, now clandestinely, now by bribing the Mandarins, in which initer art they were successful, owing to the well-known venality of the native authorities. By: perseverance and courage, they succeeded in establishing themselves in China, and founded a trade emporium at Liampo now known as Ningpa Bina545 they sustained fresh reverses The Ningpo settlement bad attained its climax of prosperity Sem population numbering Christians, of whom Boo were Portugache.had settled thore, with two Roman Catholic temp wo hospitals, a permanent Municipality; Jud

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