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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE, 1, 1888.

We believe (says the Foochow Echo) that many of our tea merchants are unaware that a consi.. derable quantity of tea, brought every year from the plantations just under the foot of Kushan and the hills above Mingan, is packed at Foochow and sold as Pakling. It is said that loss from these places differ very little in quality from true Paklings.

ACCORDING to the N. C. Daily News the

MONTSERRAT LIME FRUIT JUICE, steamer Telarter, which went up to Hankow to

CORDIALS,

JUJUBES, and

MAWSON & SWAN'S

TABLETS.

NEW PATENT WATER FILTERS.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY;

HONGKON

Established A.D. 18413 Honglan, 8th May, 1888.

lond leas for Odessa, left that port empty on Monday, the athi May, and was at Chinking an Thursday, the 14th It appears that the Captain, through some oversight, forgot to pay onnage dues at.Shanghai, and so the vessel had

to return.

H.M.S. Porpoise left her moorings this after to be docked and painted previous to leaving noon and steamed away to Kowloon in order for the North.

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Wrace informed bythe agent of the Austra Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co, that the steamer Melpomene, from Trieste, left Singapore yester day for this post..

AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 4th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

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THE fire bell rang last night shortly after eight o'clock, indicating a blaze in the Eastern, district. A few buckets of water did the business without the assistance of the Brigade. Cause of the fire-carelessness; effects mil......

His Worship-I cannot give an order may be as well to adjourn the matter for a week. without the defendant is in Court, and I think it The defendants have already said they are willing to comply with the demands of the Government that authority will only explain to them fully what it is which is required,

Mr. Wilkinson (banding witness a letter.)-Is this this letter which you received wilts that repayment?

I suppose I must have done so as he has them,

concocted by others, and thai Mr. Benjamin mentioned the document they would take only put his initials to it, and thought if

ment to override in advantage of that and get up some oilier ducu-

Mf. Wilkinson-You are aware that Benjamin was before the Court on a judgment summons?

that time that he had no money available.

I have heard so, but I do not know myself. it would then be to his interest to make out at

That would be a defence.

the sum of Tis. 25,000, when he received the Do you think that if he had agreed to pay you T. 45,000 that he would not have referred to the payment to you? (Aud Mr. Wilkinson read examination on the judgment summons.) from his briet what Mr. Benjamin said in his

I cannot answer for what Mr. Benjamin said." I was not present and know nothing about it. mention the Tis: 25,000?

But don't you think it strange he did not

mention it. What he said may have been in It may not have been his fault that he didnot answer to leading questions, and I fail to see any statements of the kind affect this case, II had been near him he would have recollected all about it.

I only tell you what he did sny.

the sewage and other drainings are permitted, occurred in the river within a very short time of wells which are below them, Mr. Foster to repay the money you advanced him? the soil and thus contashimole and poison. TheYou-have said that Benjamin always promised to- run at random, they will percolate through one another.

has been written to officially but he has He did not always promise. He always, communication, although in addition to that understood between us that the money I gave thought proper to take no noile of leactitionel for the advanced and it was always there have been sent to him many private him were advances, and if he could he was to vading and infringing the conditions on which to repay me In the Water Works shares, the objections by residents. He was distinctly repay me, a d sometimes he definitely promised the land was sold. Mr. Wright, a neighbour, Tis. 2,878, he definitely promised to repay me, had complained of such irregularities on the or I do not think I should have let him have the part of Mr. Foster, long and bitterly, and was money. He used to say he would let me have quite willing to enter the witness box when the advances back, as he expected to get money a quick, str Foster would have to pay his share and so on, and in one case, as I have said, he hand by the Government, and witness thought of the costs of the regulation drainage taken in id pay me something back.... that an order from the Court compelling defend ant to comply with regulations which had been THE General Managers (Messes. Jardine, Mathe-made specially in regard to the health and com

This is a letter from Mr. J. A. Taylor.. Yes, fort of the community should be issued, and would Accorpte to the Courrier d'Haiphong there

son & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China carry the requisite weight of authority-parlic-making out the account, till it was brought to suppose it was. I had forgotten it when Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Choytang, froin ularly since the defendant had ignored the my notice by some one, Mr., Taylor I think it s very little probability of Tonquin being.Antwerp and London, left-Singapore to-day for demands of an official letter as well as the adequately represented at the Paris Exhibition this port.

was. He told me the other day that the money reasonable wishes of his neighbours. of 1889, The Commissioners entrusted with

janin." was repaid by him at the request of Mr. Ben-how, the preparation of exhibits commenced opera-

Benjamin?

And tions by demanding from the French Treasury

you handed the letter and papers to Mr. 1 credit of 400,000 francs, a sum which the Paris 15 financiers deemed exorbitant, and which they Batly refused to grant. 'A telegram has now reached Haiphong ordering the suspension of all purchases in connection with the Exhibition, and thus what promised to be a grand display of colonial resources has now become a very problematical undertaking. MESSRS, Gibb, Livingston & Co. have received telegraphic advices that the steamship Afghan left Newcastle, N.S.W., on the 29th ulto, for Manila, bringing back 71 out of her.complement of 268 Chinese passengers who originally left this port for the Australasian colonies. No if the immigrants, but probably those for -particulars have been received as to the disposal Sydney, Adelaide and New Zealand were ulti- bymately allowed to land-by paying the poll-tax int conforming with the other necessary legal egulations. The passengers returning by the Ifghan are doubtless those who were refused permission to land at Melbourne in consequence of their naturalization papers being of a bogus description.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1888.

T_E_L-E-G-R_A_M-S;

(Router)

COERCION IN IRELAND.

LONDON, May 30th. Priblin City and county have been proclaimed

RESULT OF THE DERBY. The Duke of Portland's b. c. Ayrshire,

Ilanipton-Atalanta.....

Mr. Vyrer's ch & Crowberry, by Rosebery

-Lizzie Lindsay..........

Mr. Fr's el. 6. Van Diemen's Land, by}.

Robert the Devil-Distant Shore...

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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OWING: to pressure on our news columns, an

editorial, an article on the Derby by "An Old Sportsman" and other interesting matter have unavaidsbly been left over until to-morrow.

As the Hand of the 58th Regiment have gone up to the Sanitariom for a well earned rest, there will be no performance in the Public Gardens

until further notice.

MESSES. Russell & Co. inform us that the E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Catterthun left Port Darwin for this part on the 25th May, and may be expected to arrive on the 4th inst.

MONSIEUR Pavie, who has successfully concluded bis journey from Stammus fuisquin, according to latest advices has reached Hanoi, where he has been given a grand official reception.

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The Macao Independenté commences a serial reprint of the famous Monita secreta of the jesuits. This is a collection of administrative, financial and political suggestions given by the Black Order to its adepts, to enable them to monapolise all the good things of this world to their own advantage. The secret volume was bed-the-Order was suppressed, in 17737 it was founil amongst the books of a Dutch Jesuit

ubsequently repudiated by the Society, but proofs of its authenticity have since accumulated o such a degree that it is no longer doubted as genuine Jesuitical production, the quintessence of that spirit of tergiversation and duplicity for which these reputed champions of Catholicism

ave ever been notorious.

The Peak Tramway line is getting na capitally, Something like six hundred passengers using the A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 535 The tariff of fares is published in another ears to take them up to Cloudland yesterday. will be hekt in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street,alumo, and certainly it compares favorably this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely with $32 a month chinir-coolies' bill; but why Visiting brethren are cordially invited. ^

ot issue monthly tickets at a reduced rate? Our Nagasaki, contemporary hears that the The only drawback is its Conservatism. Accord British Admiralty have informed the Japanese ng to it, if you are not a soldier, sailor or Government that H.M.S. Heroine will begin Chinaman, you can't go up except at the first surveying the coasts of Japan in July next, lass rates. Most people like to travel in gik. dged style, but it is hard on those civilians who o not care for that style that they cannot

We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Russell &Co.) that the "Union" Line steamer Stanmore, from Hamburg, Jeft Singapore for this port yesterday, and may be expected to arrive on the

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SAYS the Facchow Echa of the 16th ulto. Since last Thursday musters of new season's teas have been freely sent round, and the natives believe that the market will be opened before the dragon festival, 5th of the fifth moon.

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British Vice-Consul at La Rochelle-aenda home a dismal account of the condition and prospects of agriculture in Western France. Though the agricultural interest is protected by heavy duties on corn and cattle-amounting on the former to no less than 8sod, a quarter-Mr. Warburton-declares that all that he has heard of agricultural distress in England presents nothing to compare with the depth of depression which exists at present alike among the French peasant proprietors and occupiers of farms. In farm themselves, have received no rents for a y car many instances the landed proprietors who do not and a half, and those tenants who have paid, have.. been made large reductions, the average for last year having been as much as 3 per cent. Yet the powers of landlords for the recovery of rent under the French law appear to be exceptionally severe. half-year's rent the day it becomes due; if he Every tenant, we are told, is bound to pay his

does not do so where the tenancy is a lease, or other agreement in writing made before a notary public, his landlord sends him by a "Huissier" notice ordering him to pay at once under pain what is called a "commandement," which is a

of a seizure. The law then gives him twenty- four hours to obey this order, and then if he has not paid, the Huissier, without any decree or

everything-in-the-place-farming-stock, imple process from a legal court, takes possession of

ments, crops, furniture, money, or anything else he may find-all going to satisfy the landlord's claim, to the exclusion of any other debts,

THE SANITARY BOARD VERSUS

THE PEAK RESIDENTS. ~~This morning at the Police Court before Mr. Wodehouse, the two remanded "Duliance cases in which Mr. A. F. Smith of "Craigieburn" and Mr. F.,T. P. Foster of "Beansite," both in the were not in Court. Peak district, were again called. Defendants

Mr. William E. Crow stated --I am Honorary Secretary to the Sanitary Board and my duties, as such, are to'give effect to the decisions of the Board in all Sanitary matters. I am also acting Sanitary Inspector. This prosecution was instituted by me about a month ago. 1 inspected the premises in question and noticed that a quantity of hone their class without going to the Com-Pak-fu-lum reservoir from the servants' quarters, waste water was allowed to drain into the any's office and getting cheaper tickets. And would-venture to suggest, that children night be allowed to go up on half-tickets, as on British railways. The line seems bound to pay -everyone appreciates and will avail themselves its advantages-but there should not be too auch desire to make big dividends to begin

with.

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IN our reports of the two judgments delivered MR. TUN KON TAI, describing himself as a doctor yesterday in the Court of Appeal, the discussion and fortune teller, charged four rice pounders at ag to costs got misplaced. In the opium case the Police Court this morning with others not costs were allowed to the appellant; in the other case the Acting Chief Justice told Mr. Francis toshan Street and wilfully damaging property to in custody, with enterting his house, 23, Taiping take a reversal and be satisfied;

the value of $27, on 31st May. Complainant THE Rising Sun say's that the German steamer

said that at 9 pm. on that day-aman named Tay May from Takao with a cargo of sugar, is to be

At this point one of the defendants, Mr. A. F. Smith, appeared in Court, when Mr. Wodehouse read over to him Mr. Crow's evidence in regard to his own casc

Defendant:-I am sure your Worship I have every desire to comply with the regulations of the Sanitary Board, as far as I can.

Crow-will-communicate with you and let you His Worship: Very well, then; perhaps Mr. clearly understand what are the wishes of the Government Inspector.

week.

Mr. Foster's case was remanded to this day-

·THE BENJAMIN CASE AGAIN,

(Continued from yesterday.) rassments in 1888 did he rely very much on you Mr. Wilkinson-After Mr. Benjamin's embar for advice and assistance?

round frequently, and we talked a great deal.

Mr. Wainewright--Yes, he used to come Did he ever apeak to you as his father or as his elder brother?

Yes, frequently as his father and elder brother, but more particularly so when he wanted some

money.

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been the

His Lordship-"Uncle" should have term 7.

Yes, perhaps so, but he never pledged any thing with me.--

ifyou he mentioned Tls: 50,000 for your services Mr. Wilkinson-I think you have said that he would have agreed to it?

Yes, ise was alwayswilling to give what I asked,

50,000. He was very liberal, and always said and if I had recovered Tis. 200,000 I do not think that he would have begrudged-me-Tis

ought to have as much as I liked.

Did you, when you received the Tis. 45,000, advise Benjamin to leave any of the money in your hands?

No, I did not, for the reason that there was little to leave.

There was at least Tla. 3,000.

Yes, after I took mine and paid Captain Law, diately to save Benjamin from the Court. The but I had to pay Mr. Gabbay Tla, a 500 imme action was entered Here is the summons. It was taken out on the 12th. Otober, and, the the money. Mr. Robinson, I see, was acting seven days expired on the 19th, the day we got for Mr. Gubbay in the case."

When you made out the decintation, in the with Mr. Uenjamin for the Tis. 25,000, did you nature a of: a confirmation of the verbal agreement give Mr. Berjamin a copy of it.

cannot say.

I do not recollect whether I did or not. I What is your impression--that

did or did you not ?

If I did give him a copy I do not remember, but I have no impression one way or the other.

was all so clear to our own minds, and we both I should think it is very likely that I did not. It so. completely understood the thing, that we never referred to the subject afterwards-not that I recollect.

subject of the Tls. 25,000?

Benjamin never afterwards referred to the

No, not that I recollect.

I therefore wrote to the defendant (Mr. Smith) calling his attention to the matter, but did not specially point out in what respect his directed the Inspector of Nuisances, who is the premises were out of order. Last week I complainant in this case, to make a close survey of the premises; to see if the rules with regard the you quite satisfied that Mr. Benjamin on to sanitation, at the Peak were strictly éamplied definitely understood that he was agreeing to Occasion was perfectly well aware and with. He reported that they were not, and part with Tha. 25,000 out of the money recovered? finally directed him to take out a summons. I have heard the statement of the defendant, and the fact of there being a filter is not were not successful in recovering something of

Yes, perfectly sure. sufficient; it does not prevent the pollution the Tis. 200,000 ?

And you were not to be paid anything if you of the Pok-fu-lum reservoir. Ja order to for the refuse waters to be carried below the comply with the regulations it is necessary Defendant must consequently carry them away source of any publie or private water supply. anywhere down the Aberdeen valley, provided that it is lower than the private houses on that similar to the pattern made by the Government as any other style of box will cause too much trouble in the emptying. I do not ask for a conviction, but maintain it is imperative Peak do not drain into the Pok-fs-lum reservoir "Craigieburn" was buitt before the passing of that the refuse waters from dwellings at the

the regulations, but such rules are quite practi- cable to houses already existing.

Are you sure that you did not hand him the cheque with it?

No, I think not. In fact I am sure that I did not I held that as salvage, or rather as feckage

I have the exact entry in my pass book so much got from the fire.

Did Mr. Benjamin express himself grateful to you for giving him the advances -

But reading from a brief is not evidence. But don't you think that when he was asked about receiving Tis. 45,000 he should have the amount? mentioned the Tls. 25,000 to you, as reducing

only know facis.

I cannot tell what he should have done.

But you are away there was such an examin ntion of Benjamin?

I did not give him all he asked for.

I do not recollect anything about it. I was not so grateful as-ho-might have been, because squabble about jewellery, and that Mr. Silas had Yes, sometimes he did, but at others he was not present. was-told-that there was some

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Did you see Mr. Benjamin in his last illness? nothing about the judgment summons. I was made a good thing out of the jewellery. I know I saw him once.~-. What was the date?"

only_told-about-it-and the jewellery,

1 do not know, but I think it was the day that Mrs. Benjamin came into possession-no, it must have been before that,

Were you in possession before Mrs. Benjamin? No, and I saw very little of him.

His Lordship-But you used the term "came. into possession." Perhaps it would be better il I did not put it down in that way.

It was before Mrs. Benjamin came and look charge of him, and I did not see him after that. His Lordship-There was a decree of judicial separation, I believe?

Yes, there was, my lord.

Mr. Wilkinson-Did you receive a letter from me on the 27th December last?

Yes, I believe I'did.

The letter is dated the 17th December, and there is a word in it amitted, but you seem to have understood it?

I did not notice it, but on the next day I got a summons or something of the kind.

And you had not seen Mr. Benjamin for some. days then. Can you recollect for low long before that?

No, 1 carinot say. It was some time.. Mr. Wilkinson then read the following leuter:-

Shanghal, 27th December, 1881. Aly DEAR WAINWRIGHT, -1 eachas lestar to your address thousand), taels handed to you on his acent to which; after from it. B. D. Benjamin refering to a sum of forty-free giving cells for certain payment made by you, he sales thore a balance owing to kir, of T. 94,000 less your charges And Le requests you to hand over the balance for the benefit of his wife and children.

On behalf of Mrs. Benjamin 1 shall be glad to know what deduction has to be made for your charges from the 1,000 and what you proposa so do with reference to the payment of the net balance

Yours aruly,-

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R. W. WAINWRidhr, Esq.

IT. 8. WILKINION.

with that?

Mr. Wilkinson-You received the enclosure

Yes, the enclosure now in Court, exhibit A. Counsel then read the exhibit as follows:

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Shanghai, ath Dec, 1837.

Ferty-five thousand tele in Bank Notes, which I received MY DEAR WAINWRIGHT-I have handed you (Ts) from Messrs E. D. Sassoon & Co., and out of which amount you have paid on any account as follow:-

To Cap! Law about... TI. 7.000 the Purse..... 5,000 me at times pa

Th: 20,000 Including the sum of Tis 2,500 paid R. A. Gubbay, Esq. Balance owing to ma-Th, 11,000 less your charges. Kindly hand over the balance for the benefic of my wife and children,

**Yours alucerely,

ston, mentioning to another person that he had Have you ever heard of Benjamin, on any occa agreed with you for the fixed sum of Tis. 25,000?

No, I have not heard.·

You say he had an excellent memory about details?

Yes......

Do you think he would remember the Ts. 25,000

Yes, till his mentory failed him.

And when was that?"

I do not know exactly,

When you last saw him was his mind all right?

think so, but he was very ill.

It was not merely because he was ill that he was insatic.

a sick man, and I did not test his-memory-or- I do not say he was insane then. He was ill, mind. I had no occasion to do so. His con- versation was principally abusing his wife and Mr. Silas,

The further hearing of the enac was adjourned to Wednesday, May 30th, at to o'clock.→→ Shanghai Courier,

FOOCHOW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

General Chamber of Commerce was held at the The annual general meeting of the Foochow Club on the 23rd May, 1888, Mr. Slade being in the chair.

The notice convening the meeting having been read, the Chairman inquired if any one wistiću“ the minutes of the last meeting to be read, and nobody expressing such a desire, Messrs.. Walkinshaw and King proposed to take them as read, which was carried sem con

Mr. Slade then made some additional remarks on the annual report, thanking the members for the cordial support they gave the Committee during the troubles with the Kung-Yih-Tong, and pointing out that this support had a wonderful the position of the Chamber. Alluding to effect on the Chinese, thus greatly strengthening the Report on the Decline of the China Tea Trade and suggested Remedies," which was forwarded by the Commissioner of Customs to the Inspector General of Customs in Peking,.. and by this Chamber to the foreign Consuls and various Chambers of Commerce jo China, Great Britain, and América, he said that he was afraid the Report had met with the same fate as most others, and that it looked like having been shelved; anyhow.he had heard on good authority that the lekin in the Pan Yong district has been increased this

concluding bis well received speech, the Chair- year, whereas no reduction of taxes had come Shanghai, with Den, 1857, ··' to the knowledge of the Chamber. Before man proposed a vote of thanks to Messrs. Francis E

Street, of Colombo, and Thos. Cass, of Calcutta, for kindly having forwarded the commercial telegrame.

W. B. Jameson-Witness.

And you replied the next day ? Yes, I believe so..

B. D. B

MY DWAR WILKINSON,-Ia reply to your letter of yesterday Mr. Wilkinson-I will read your reply :-

Benjamin, with an enclosure written by Air. Silas, all I have to la that I will have my bill of costs made out as soon as I can, will then vender n account of the sum to which you refer Meanwhim I have only to add that I da na ows Mr. Benjamin one cent as he is well aware.

Yours truly,

R. E. WAINWRIGHT.

Mr. Wilkinson-Now, a letter was sent to you

Tis 25,000 less your charges. If he had paid signed by Ms. Benjamin that you owed him in December containing a statement made and

of Tis, 25,000 had to be deducted by you from you the sum of Tis. 35,000, or if the fixed aum the Ts. 45,000 under an agreement, why did you not mention the agreement to me in your

Melita, which arrived at Yokohama on the 7th Cheung, with over 20 others, called at his house de. It is important to have the dust boxes self, and if he had not perfectly well understood letter. Why didn't you state that fact? ----

sold to the Asano Co., Tokio. The vessel was inspected the day after her arrival by Mr. Ishibashi, Chairman of the Company." THE Shanghai Courier reports that on the 27th ulto. a sampa having on board, four of the crew of the German mail steamer Neckar, was capsized when a short distance off the Kin-lee- yuen Wharves, with the result that one of the occupants, a European fireman, was drowned. This aftemoon before Mr. Sercombe Smith two

charged with bringing into the. Colony three __boys of the respective-ages-of-14,15 and 16 for purposes of emigration. His Worship finding the cakes proved committed the prisoners for

trial.

that Benjarain had nothing to give me.. He did not expect to get anything, because I knew Nothing was said about it, but in that case I

that he had to give me Tls. 25,000 absolutely, always believed and understood perfectly well but I had to recover and get other people to pay it for him. He could not pay me anything him

demanded it back from me as a right while he that the Tla. 15,000 was for me, he would have was living, and not begged of me in charity. well and definitely understood that you were to And to never referred to the subject of the take it for your services in recovering from Tis. 25.000 again, and you think he knew perfectly

Messrs. Sassoon?

wrong.

As a matter of fact I know he definitely under In tegard to "Beansite, Mr. Crow said stood, and he never referred to the subject while With regard to the drainage from this house the he was sane, for the connexion of the drains with the Govern. Yes, while he was sene, he never referred to only application made to the Surveyor General While he was sane? 'ment system was on the 30th May, and what I the subject. There was a letter afterwards sent the defendant must find some other way of die But it was not Benjamin. His memory was too posing of his sewage. If the drains from his good to make mistakes and the figures were all house are in a satisfactory condition they may now be connected; if unsatisfactory they cannot But from the time the confirmation of the be. In the meantime Mr. Foster must carry his drainage below all sources of water supply,

agreement was written out, there was no conver sation about it? those houses below the level of the Peak houses. either public or private. In saying this I exclude No, none that I remember. But before I went

Faster that the only application' which had been receive..

Mr. Crow, continuing, said in regard to Mr. which referred to the remuneration I was to to Hongkong there were several conversations in

made to the Surveyor General in connexion with the drainage of "Beansite" was made on May 30th.

Nobody eles offering any suggestions. Mr. Slade (seconded by Mr. Tennant) proposed that

confirmed without dissent. the Annual Report and Accounts be passed, which was carried unanimously.

The election of the new members was then

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Molotkoff & Co., Piatkoff Molchanoff & Co., and Discussing a letter from Messrs. Tokmakoff S. L. Speabiloff & Co., in which it was proposed "That the urgent necessity of putting paper between the tea and the lead. in the packages be I did not mention it simply because I looked represented to the Tea Guild," it was decided upon your letter-not your letter, but the that the incoming Committee should send it enclosure in it, as a concoction by M-Sila's I written by Mr. Silas, and treated it with Whilst the election of the new Commitice knew Benjamin was off his head some time

contempt immediately, I knew from Dr. Little was going on, Mr. Walkinshaw (seconded by before he died, and I could see it had been consider expedient,

said letter to the Kung-Yih-Tong, leaving to the teamen to take such steps which they

that Benjamin was insane for days, and I treated Mr. Pollard) proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the letter with contempt-contempt as written the outgoing Committee, and especially to the by a man who thought he knew all the facts, but Chairman, for all the trouble they had taken, locked upon this document (the enclosure) as he did not. Every lawyer has to make out

and for

rubbish, not worth the paper it. is written on. his bill, and I said I would make mine, but at the caving so ably conducted the business Chamber, which was carried with acclamation.. the agreement about the Tis. 25,000. I did not current year, Mr. Chambers having refused to Messrs. Slade, Teasant, King, Odell and mention it just to see how far they would go, not in for if Benjamin, at the time he signed this, Was condition to appreciate its contents, I knew that his memory was too, accurate to knew how the money' went too well for that. I allow him to pats misstatements like these... He

for the payment of the Tis. 25,000) because I did not mention this document (the agreement thought it was quite possible, if I did, that some other document might be concocted, cancelling be was surrounded by people who would not It, or something of the kind, my belief being that stick at anything, and the less I said about it the better. I thought it best not to mention it, and knowing that Benjamin had made an agreement You Intended to prevent those concerned of the kind, and that such a document was in existence

The follow The proceedings then terminated. The following are the annual report and statement of accounts:-

and demanded twenty dollars. They threatened to kill the worthy doctor and prophet if the cash was not immediately produced. Esculapius efused the demand without hesitation, whereupan the rioters took down his nine sign boards and commenced smashing them up. They then threatened to stop him from deing any more of the fortune telling business if the cash demanded was not forthcoming, and finding complainant still obdurate they ended the affair by carrying away his signs. Witness could swear to the four prisoners in the dock being amongst the

· men, a boarding house rúnner and a coolie, were 1 party of filibusters, moat of whom were armed ❘ contend for is that until the drain is connected to ing to which it seems he had pet his mark. There was another reason why I did not refer to Schönfeld were elected as a Committee for the.

with iron bars or bamboos, He was not acquainted with any of them and never saw them before, as far as he was aware's they did assault him or even go into his house, but carried on their depredations on the outside, near the sign boards. The boards produced in court were part of the wreck of the whole, which was completed thoroughly, by the rioters beaving large stones on them and smashing them to atoms. He had been carrying on business in the same house for six or seven years, and this was the first time that anybody had troubled him in such a way,

His Worship-That is what he states, ile knew the prisoners to be slee pounders The defendant was informed of what was Mr. Crow He states about a month ago. The Japan. Mail says that, according to his own establishment. Tay Cheung is the Surveyor General, but the delay in connecting in-Sung-Hing-Lane, just one street away from required as far back as July 1887 by the investigations made by the Tokio City Govern-lender of the party he is a man without any the drain was owing to the application only just ment Office, the estimated cost of making a

occupation, living in the same house with them, the Government is ready, the defendant must harbour in Tokio Bay is 12,000,000 yen. This man had previously, come, at 6 p.m. the comply with the regulations and carry the bath baving been received, and in the meantime, till Another paper says that it has accordingly been

same day in company with thien men, and it and other refuss waters, down the Aberdeen determined to "be satified with Yolfobama-asr the port of the Capital.

was then that the first of the sign-boards was Valley, brokens when the party came at nine o'clock two THE Nagasaki Express of the 23rd May anys

women were in the house with him. One of the that news was received from Coren by the women, a widow, gave corroborative evidente, steamer Owar? Mar to the effect that Mr. P. but she did not know any of the party and G. von Möllendorff had unexpectedly returned could not say why they wanted the money. She to Chemulpo. His arrival, our contemporary saw them smash the boards and carry them remarks, was altogether a surprise, and various way. The prisoners had no defence, Mr. gurmises were hazarded as to the object of his Wodehouse remanded the case till June 5th at

GOOD HEAVENS ! great Scotti bl-yah The Hongkong Daily Press, out local goody-goody ́advertisement sheet and propagator of inane twaddle, has actually reprinted a leading article from the Sydney Bulletin. It is enough to make "Sillycox" squirm in his little bunk, What next?

viuit,

His Worship What about the residents of Aberdeeni are they not to be considered? down the valley add before the sewage reaches Mr, Crow There is a large stream passing down to the village it will be well filluted and perfectly harmless. The conditions of the lease under which Mr. Foster is now living in thathouse and that the Government regulations ist regard to complied with. All the houses at the Peak get. sewage and other matters of sanitation must be their drinking water from wells, and of course, if

And nothing was said about it after you came back?

From the time I came back to the settlement I do not think anything was said about it. We about. were too busy and had other things to think

25.0007- Messrs. Sassoons you were to retain Tis. And from whatever money you recovered from

Yes.

Was anyone present when Mr. Benjamin signed ?

we were alone. He usually came up stairs and

Nó. He w

was upin myidining-room, and I think had a little refreshment. case by going away to Hongkong?

You said you might have lost a big collision Yes.

worth?

And what do you consider a collision case.

Seme of them run to between three, and four thousand tacle, budakan

It would not be likely for you to have lost two of these cases during your absence

Certainly I prevented it, because thought

way, and for another thing because I had been they were capable of concocting some other document to cancel it, or to neutralise it in some told that Benjamin was quite unable to hold his own with them

Early in the season difficulties arose between of this Chamber their report for the past year.

The Commitice beg to submit to the members

the Tea Guild and this Chamber with regard to the strict carrying out of the regulations for Tea buying of the 13th June, 1885. These difficulties Guild's payment of a guarantee fund of taels gooo were eventually satisfactorily arranged by the Tea to the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Co-

fairly satisfactorily. poration, and the addition of few clauses to the original agreement, which now seems to work

At the request of Mr. Hannen, the late Com missioner of Customs, a special report was, drawn up showing the present decline and the

improvement in the cultivation of the leaf and probable future further decline of the Chinn Tea trade, and auggesting rentedics both as to the as to the lightening of the heavy burdens placed on the trade by the Chinese Government. His Lordship-But you did it to prevent their During the past year subscription telce knowing. That is what I have put down. You grams have been introduced giving the es wanted to prevent them knowing that you had port, figmes of Indian and Ceylon Teat number of subscribers, this year these messager New to the United Kingdom, and Judging from the

No, I did not prevent them. That word was was able did not consider it de put into my mouth. The idea I p

I ment to convey their attention to this document, riid not know

I don't know, I cannot say, Misfortunes whether, Benjamin had a copy of it or noth never come singly, and two collisions have I saw that the statement sent une was only a thing

seem to have been of utasem

Mesura Barlow & Co., E. D. Sassoon & Co and Mr. A. A. da Roza have been elected mem the General Meeting, as per rule 4 bers of this Chamber, subject to confirmation at