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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1888.

We would Tain hope that the report that, Mr., Higary E. Wonentese, C.M.G., police

magistrate, coroner and superintendent of the Government Fire Brigade, will succeed Mr. ALFRED LISTER as Colonial Treasurer, 6.4 more conard. "Such an appointment

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1888,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

HEAVY thunderstorms have lately been the orde, of the day at Noilo.

There are other difficulties in the way, which may not have suggested themselves. or been suggested to His Excellency the Governor. For some considerable time past complaints have been rile as to the vexatious and generally unjustifiable delay in seitling cases at the Magistracy, and the taneous..

ELECTRIC sinughtering of cattle has proved successful in St. Petersburg. Death is instan-

GENERAL WEYLER, the new Governor-General of the Philippines, in a speech after taking over charge of his office promised to devote all his attention in order to develop the agricultural resources of the Archipelago, and to foster commerce and education.

excuse has usually been made that the two. Tur steamer Saigois which arrived at Manila on magistrates had more work than they could the 6th instant with a cargo of rice from Saigon efficiently perform. The liberty of the has been placed in quarantine for ten days, subject is very properly recognised as one Ir is said that some samples of Philippine cotton of the most valued of British prerogatives, sent to the Barcelona Exhibition, have been and invariably takes precedence of every highly estimated by the cotton spinners of thing else in our higher Courts of Justice; Catalonia. but yet we almost daily see this undisput- able right set aside at the Police Court, where cases are remanded, and accused persons detained in custody for the sole reason that the Magistrates have not time. to properly investigate the charges made against them. Only the other day, when two cases in which Mr. Wonacuse's deci- sions were appealed against came before the Supreme Court, it was shown that there had been a delay of two months, pressure of business having presumedly prevented the magistrate from stating the cases in any shorter time. 'And yet it is proposed to add to this already overburdened official's duties those of the Colonial Treasurer. Another point should not

be lost sight of. The respective

Opium Ordinance, and then, as Magistrate, presiding at the trial. Surely anything so grossly irregular ought to be avoided! but it can be avoided only by keeping the two offices distinctly apart and under different jurisdiction.

cannot be justified on any reasonable duties of Police Magistrate and Colonial grounds, and we should infinitely regret Treasurer may clash and render the to see Governor Drs Vaux in any way administration of justice ridiculous. For impair the good impression he has already instance, the Treasurer, by virtue of his created in the colony by sanctioning what office, is adviser to the Opium Farm. The Lean only he regarded as a barefaced job. prosecution in the Opium appeal case Mr. Wourunese, of whom we desire to decided by the Acting Chief Justice a few apdiak with the greatest respect, does not weeks since was undertaken at the instance. possess the slightest qualification to fit him of the Colonial Treasurer, and was, of to assume charge of the Treasury of this course, tried before a police magistrate. We colony a position of the highest Importare, in fact, threatened with the anomaly ance and requiring special professional of Mr. WonEHOUSE. In his capacity of attributes and experience. During the Treasurer, advising the Opium Farmer to whole of his twenty years.official connec-prosecute a person for a breach of the tion with Hongkong, this gentleman, who came out amere, lail from school, has never been in any shape or form connected with the control of fiscal matters, the short time that he served as chief clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, thirteen years agn, counting for nothing. He is utterly As the salary of the Colonial Treasurer inexperienced as a practical accountant,is.only $900 per annum-the exact sum probably knows less about exchange and paid to the Superintendent of the Fire the noney market than he does of Latin Brigade-, Mr. Wonuouse will reap no For fireek, and his education and bringing financial Lenefi by the transfer We are up, adidel to the fact that since 1867 his therefore led to the conclusion that he has talents have been employed in a totally been induced to practically efface himself different direction render him above all and his usefulness to the colony by having. other officials in the local Government langled before his eyes the meaningless service peculiarly unsuited for this appoint-prefix Honorable and a seat in the ment. We do not say this in disparagement of Mr. Wodenese ; it is corfainly not his fault that he does not happen to possess the special qualities to make him. an efficient Chancellor of the Exchequer; but the fact remains, and however disagreeable it may

Legislative Council! It will hardly bo seriously contended that this is a sufficient reason for putting the entire machinery of Government out of gear, and taking à public servant out of his special sphere of uselessness to the community to place him

THE gem for January is the garnet, for February the amethyst, for March the bloodstone, and for April the diamond. May has the emerald, June the agate, July the ruby, August the sardonyx, and September the sapphire, The opal belongs October, the topaz to November and the turquoise to December..

AN American proposes to blow passengers from Europe to America through a pneumatic tube at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour. The idea is not new. Possibly the future may see it realized It is no more impossible than some familiar facilities of to-day would have seemed a century ngo. We already send parcels by pneumatic tube; why not passengers? Tite text of the Portuguese-Chinese treaty has at last appeared in the Macdo papers. A few variations between the Portuguese-and-English versions are to be found. With reference to the protection the Chinese authorities, are to give Portuguese missionaries, the English text has it that the Catholic, religion leads men to virtue, while the Portuguese says that it leads men to good, or to well-being. We wonder what to pot lance the Chinese Government will attach to both or either interpretation. If the Catholic religion leads men to virtue, the Holy City sight to have been canonized ages ago.

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| A LIST of plays which people in mourning mayThe British, steamer Strathairly anived

properly attend has lately been published in Singapore on the 6th inst. from Ratoum, with

carte of $5,447 cases of Russian petroleum Paris,

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THE wreck of the Fero was disposed of this afternoon by Mr. Rapp. The vessel went for $1,125, and $215 was given for the cargo. The purchasers were natives, ...

SUPREME COOKI, ·

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

The eveted to the interests wahe legal profession (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief tion devoted ofthe

is the title of Singapore's latest journalistic. venture. We have always been under the impression that the legal profession required no assistance to safeguard their own interests; the interests of their clients, however; are sadly in need of powerful protection.

Java heavy alocks of earthquake have been By latest advices received in Singapore from

experienced in Hali, one of the principal cofïce producing districts. At Buleleng the under. ground commotion, alarming as it was, did not do much damage; but in the interior the havec wrought has been great. Several villages have been wholly destroyed, and the earth shows rents and fissures in all directions. Nothing is yet known as to the loss of life, as the inhabitants of the stricken districts have taken to fight,

MR. ARTHUR-K. TRAVERS, according to current report, will succeed Lister us Postmaster General, Having already acquired considerable experience of the duties as chèr Alfred's assistant, and being a young, and active official, untrammelled by the ridiculous fods of ante-diluvian fossilam, he ought to prove an efficient and useful public servant. But as postal affairs, to be properly **attended to, will occupy the whole of his time, we trust the Governor will give Mr. Travers an opportunity of doing himself justice by not throwing on the lastinister's shoulders any, of the many unconsidered trifles which occupied

so much of Lister's time and attention.

A LONDON paper is responsible for the folawing

There are 400 Mormon Bishops in Utah, 2,423 priests, 2,947 teachers, and 6,854 sleacons Salt Lake city is divided into wards of eight or of each ward. Under him there are two teachers, nine blocks cach, and a bishop is put in charge

whose business it is to learn the employment and income of every resident of the ward and report the same to the bishop. Then the bishop collects the tenth of each man's income and turns

it over to the church authorities. The same complete system extends all over the territory. As the bishops get a good commission on their collections they make very zealous and persistent collectors,"

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RUTTONJES AND OTHERS V. J. S. LUCAS. In this case. Hormusjee Ruttonjee, & Co. storekeepers, No. 2, Lyndhurst Terrace, claimed $1,000 damages against J. S. Lucas, storekeeper, Victoria Emporium, for illegal distraint on the

and. Mr. F. H. Wilson, of Messrs. Wotton and 19th April-M. J. J. Francis, Q.C.; instapicted by Mr. J. F. Webber, represented the plaintiffs. Deacon, appeared for the defendant.

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The plaintiffs' case was that on the date named defendant entered their store under colour of writ of execution issued by the Court against ont Merwanjee-Pestanjee and seized goods of the value of $15,000 belonging to them remaining in possession for five days, during which time he prevented the business. frora being carried on. Owing to this: many customers were led to believe that plaintiffs were insolvent, and their credit was injured, whilst a further loss was sustained by another merchant refusing to fulfil an order for twenty cases of condensed milk, owing to the distraint."

In defence it was stated that on the 6th April judgment was given in the Court for $784, with interest and costs, against Adolph Demée and Merwanjee Pexonjee, the latter being the son of Pestonjec Basonjce, one of the plaintiffs, unmediately afterwards Demes and Merwanjes. left the Colony without complying with the judgment. As Merwaniec was book-keeper ni plaintiffs store, and defendant believed him to be a partner, he ordered the Court Bailiff to seize his share in the concern. Next day plaintiffs obtained an interpleader summons, upon which,

the bailiffs were withdrawn, defendant paying costs. It was denied that plaintiffs sustained

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Evidence having been heard at considerable length

malice had actuated the defendant in putting Mr. Wilson, for the defence, urged that no

the bailiffs into the store, and asked that nominal damages, should be given

Mr. Francis submitted that defendant had inquiry, and pointed out that the plaintiffs' credit taken strong measures without making proper had been greatly shaken, and their ordinary profits lost.

His lordship decided that plaintiffs' credit bad suffered through defendant's proceedings, and The typhoon scare, unlike the cholera epidemic, Magistracy, before Mr. Sercombe-Smith, with contracted by his son, in respect of which the TO-DAY the master of a junk was charged at the expressed the opinion that defendant's object was to coerce Pestonjee into paying the debts may be considered practically over: Yesterday, afternoon the harbor mosquito fleet ran down to being found in the illegal possession of four taels execution had been issued. He gave judgment Causeway Bay, where most of the boats still are.Opium-Farm-said-that-at-five o'clock-this morn-application of Mr. Francis, who slalu that ofapium, raw and prepared. A native officer of the for $200 damages, with costs, and on the ing he went on board the defendant's junk, lying handed over his business to someone else, during the hearing of the case defendant had at Hongham, and found him smoking opium, with his head on a pillow. He asked to be allowed granted Execution after mid-day to-morrow. to look into the pillow but defendant refused to produce the key; however, on being told that he should take him to Yau-ma-ti and there bave the junk examined a key was produced, with the result of finding the opium within. The accused admitted being caught with the opium, and was fined by 'his Worship in the sum of 830, which be paid in preference to taking six weeks.

This morning about 10.30 the danger signal at the Observatory was lowered, although the out- look was far from reassuring. Rain-storms were incessant, and the teadings of the barometer this afternoon, were 29.61, 29.59; and, at 4 p.m. 29.55. The weather experienced by the steamship Sachsen, which arrived this morning, was moderate. No damage in the way of floods or landslides is reported.

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BISMARCK'S FUROR TEUTONICUS,

We Germans, we fear not the boasting Franks! They may have.their tricks for their pains. We laugh at the growls along our flanks

Of Italians, Poles and Danes. From Portugal's strand to the Baltic afar, From the Southern Cross to the Northern Star, We fear only God (and the Russian Czar). With giants we fight, when fight we must; Want we take by craft or force we trust

We fawn not to foreign powers To keep it still as ours. Like lambs in peace, like lions in war, We fear only God (and the Russian Czar), Fear makes no echo in German heart;

An industry which sprang into existence about a year ago in Florida is spreading all through the Southern States of America, and consists in catching bats by means of the electric light. The business of catching bats was confined at first to the poor negro population, but it has now been adopted by "white capitalists." Every night hundreds of men may be seen in the neighbourhood of large cities going around with are lights and armed with a kind of large butterfly net, in which the bats, dazzled by the light and

value of the bat has gone up from 2 to 7. cents; they are largely used by all the principal hotels as an article of food and are said to be most palatable and digestible. Exactly how they are served up is not mentioned by "bur own corre- |spondent."

LISTER'S OBITUARY.

"THOUGH ABSENT EVER DEAR."

the Secretary of State's letter dated 7th August, 1883, and the Hon. Mr.Lister became A member of the Excentive Counci

We are not going very-far beyond the truth in saying that Mr. Liver in eich and all of these positions made himself little short of a public nuisance, Rude and offensive in his muens a be was found to become an object of gene al nversion; his unpopularity has for years been a bye-word, Andino wonder. 14k conduct whco acting as registrar genera), on a special occasion which has frequently been ailed to was a disgrace to the colony, and although that happened years ago it has never been forgotten, - The honorable Mr. Lister Good heavens! what a mockery. It is, however, as postmaster- general, collector of stamp revenue, colonist- treasurer, and official "ty of the Legislative

Council and Finance Committee that Lister

these capacities is too well known to require is best-known to the present generation of Hongkong residents, illis record in all,

repetition. Puffed up with a combination of arrogance, ignorance and conceit almost without this paid servant of the community appeared to devote the prester portion of h time and energies in devising schemes to obstruct progress and inconvenience. the public, is fixed policy was that of an obstinate” obstrac- tionist, and he was consequently in continual hot water with the community and its represent- atives. It may, of course, be just possible that Lister meant well in everything he did: he may have some claim to be classed as an apostle of mistaken notions and crite absur dities. We are willing to concede that much for whatever it may be worth, but we neverthe less think it a pity that such "cranks" should. have opportunities of working, under Govern ment auspices and support, such a vast amount of mischief as can truly be placed to-the debit of Mr. Alfred Lister.....

Now that our arch-enemy has gone we refrain from expatiating on his notorious personal enmity to this journal and all connected with it. His bitter animosity became a mania. His conduct in re the Price sham memorial. and the bogus Public Works Commission is

beneath cuticism; it was as contemptible as the abuse he was at one time during the. Haven

régime sa fond of indulging in to members of Council and others. However, he has gone and will quickly become nothing but an unplea- as we began it by hoping that he will never sant memory. We end Mr. Lister's obituary return to Hongkong; his "departure, is a public boon his return would be a sore grievance. to the colony. We would, fain trust that the and persuade him to spend the remainder of his Government will honor him with a. C.M.G-slun days in peace and tranquility where postal. worries, Hongkong ordinances, heathen Chi- nese, and the Hongkong Telegraph are unknown,

OUR MACAO LETTER.

MACAO, June 13tli, 1888, Lisbon Government to proceed to the election of Orders having lately been received from the

three candidates are advancing their claims to a deputy to represent this district in Parliament,

that position, viz, Senhor J. M. de Souza Horta e Costa, our Director of Public Works, who is well supported by the clerical party in the Holy City, Senhor E. E. Mascarenhas de Moliéren, a former Colonial Secretary, the idol of the Er tremo Oriente, and Senhor Ferreira d'Amaral, son of the late Governor Amaral, who was assassinated in Macao in 1849..... It is difficult" to forecast which of the three champions will win the day, the majority of our residents being. entirely indifferent to any or all of them.

Senhor A. da Costa, Governor of Timor, has sent in his resignation by cable, it is said, in connection with the affair of the Timor, prisoners who he lodged in our Gaol here. The Lisbun mission to resign in due form, or to leave Timor Government has ordered him to petition for per

on sick leave.

he to private feelings, we are compelled as an ornament where he will be worse From the Southern Cross to the Northern Star attracted by it, are easily caught. The market and the regimental band of the gallant old i handed under strong suspicions of having taken

to speak plainly in the public interesthan useless! Perhaps His Excellency

publicum lonum privato est praeferèndum.

There's no room for terror in German breast; He remembers his ancestors' glorious part

He builds him an empire, the strongest and best. Millions of warriors guard him in war- From the Southern cross to the Northern Star, He fears only God (and the Russian Czar.)

~Translated from the Barmer Zeitung. THE Bangkok Times gently lets down Lister as follows:-The muddling way in which Mr. Lister; (the Hongkong Postmaster) despatches mails, has long been a standing cause of complaint all

over China, Japan, and the Straits. It now appears that Bangkok has also to suffer from the incompetency of this ante-diluvial gentleman, for after leaving us without any letters at all from Hongkong since those of the 16th April, we on.

IN commenting on the recent Sanitary Board election, our evening contemporary remarks that "the limitation of the jury list was accepted as a test of intelligence and knowledge of the English language, but it was never intended that it should stand as a barrier to those who for various other reasons than that of mental or moral incompetency are not included in the list," We recognise the fine Roman hand of "Brownie" in this rigmarole of choice jargon, and pause to inquire what that eminent master of mean- ingless gush intends to convey by the expression "moral Incompetency? It certainly, seems hard lines for voters who, as the Ching Mail man delicately hints, have been "added to the

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and if Governor nas Vœux is so ill-Friday last, the 18th Ipst., received thras mails | list," that they should not be "Included in advised as to deprive the Fire Brigade of af once, bringing our dates up to the oth of the list on account of "moral incompetency," its useful and experienced superintendent May. Why on earth a bag for Bangkok was not merely to provide the Colonial Treasury the 18th April, or the P. C. C. Klas, which left made up by the Protas, which left Hongkong on with an ornamental figure-head, he will

on the 24th following, it would be difficult for Iny himself open to the gravest censure

anyone except Mr. Lister to explain, but certain for subordinating the public interest to it is that by his neglect and stupidly be bas personal influence.

caused many Bangkokites much annoyatice besides extra expense for telegrains to China, Is it possible that when the above steamers left Mr. Lister and his staff had fraternized with the Hicksha and cargo boat-men, and also gone on strike>

TO LEGRAMS.

may think that there is no other official But there are other grounds, oven available who is sufficiently-high-toned to were his business qualifications, all that creditably occupy Mr. LISTER's vacant seat could be desired, which ought to stand in the Legislative Council: He certainly as an impassable barrier against Mr must know that there are dozens far WODEHOUSE's appointment as Colonial more capable. of efficiently carrying out Treasurer. He is at present Police the responsible duties of an office which Magistrate, Coroner, and Superintendent Governor Bown once gushingly described of the Government Fire Brigade, and we in a despatch to the Earl of DREBY as understand that he will only vacate the lastMinister of Finance and Trade and named ofthese three appointments the one Chancellor of the Colonial Exchequer *for which Mr. WonEHOUSE has shown himself the selection by a public official for a to be by far the best qualified. As police position of trust of any person who is magistrate and coroner he has not been a notoriously incompetent to adequately fill success; with full honesty of purpose and a that position, is jobbery pure and simple, fixed determination to exert all his energies towards ensuring a fair administration of justice. It must still be confessed that the want of legal training and a lack of what is scarcely adequately described by the term savoir faire, have proved obstacles impossible to overcome. We cannot say bonestly that for this unsatisfactory result Mr. Wonuouse should be censured; it is more the fault of the rotten and iniquitous system of administration than the inability of an officer who, probably much against his inclination and will, was pitchforked into a position for which he was entirely unfited.. But on the other hand, Mr. WoDxnous has becomea most capable and efficient Superintendent of the Fire Brigade. When first appointed-to succeed Mr. C. V. CARAGH, the present Governor of British North Borneo, if we remember rightly........... it must be admitted that he was all but Incompetent; by continuous study and hard work he has now fairly mastered-the- details of this work and is both „popular. with the Brigade and efficient in directing all this, and in face of the continual complaints being made as to the necessity for improving and consolidating our fire extinguishing system, and further, although the normal strength of the Brigade has been greatly reduced by the absence from the colony through illness of Mr. J. S. BREWER, the chief engineer and late Acting Superintendent, Mr. WODEHOUSE is to be relieved from a position in which he has proved himself a most useful man, in order. that he may take up other duties of which he knows next to nothilig

(From Straits Times-)x“

FRANCE.

PARIS, June 4th.

In the Chamber of Deputies General Boulan. ger moved urgency for the introduction of a motion for the revision of the constitution and the dissolution of Parliament.

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IT is scarcely to be wondered at, remarks a

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accusers,

Senior J. D. de Moraes, Pinto has been appolated draughtsman to our Board of Public Works.

Governor Costa and family are expected from Timor during the latter part of this month.

By the Canadian Pacific steamer Pärthia on Tuesd y last, bound for England via Vancouver, there departed from these rock-bound shores on twelve months leave of absence, the Hon. Alfred Lister, postmaster-general, collector of stamp revenue, colonial treasurer, member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, Justice of the Peace, trustee of St. John's School, special compiler of ordinances, official Cathedral, Secretary of the Hongkong Fublic

adviser to the Opium Farm, and factotum general to the Hongkong Government. There Senhor A. Basto, Jr. has been making himsel were no guns fired to celebrate the exit of this conspicuous in Lisbon by publishing some of his eminent personage from the scene of his many ideas concerning the Timer prisoners. It triumphs; a geard of honour from the barracks appears that these individuals, who were appre "Steelbacks" were alike conspicuous by their pact in the barbarous assassination of Governor absence; the Hongkong Hotel forgot to drape its stately proportions in the trappings

Mala, have acquired, more defenders than and the suits of woe, and the attendant army of brokers-most of them" dead-brokers" -merely saluted "Stamps'" departure with a funereal smile; no "guileless, heathens feebly attempted to work up a nuisance as a complimentary send-off, and even the Lusitanian element in the G.P.O., with all their traditional chivalry, could not quite forget the "old-groove" insults and neglect of years, and turned their heads aside as the receding steps of Alfred the Omnipotent faded into spare. Mr. Lister went away very quietly, and it is earnestly to be hoped for his own sake and in the true interests of Hongkong and its inhabitants that he will never return. No man that has ever drawn Goverment pay in this colony-not even excepting that Emperor of Humbug and Hypocrisy, Governor Sir George Bowen-was so thoroughly, so universally, and so deservedly. disliked and despised as the late Postmaster; no official bis ever worked harder or with greater succon to breed dissensions and create mischief between the Government element and the public; his whole lengthy career has been a local autocracy with himself as its controlling continued and profitless struggle to establish spirit, in which, as might have been anticipated, ho broke down hopelessly

(1. By the glass of false science betrayed,

That leads to bewilder," . A dueries to blind."..

THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES.

A very significant altitude was recently assumed by Deputy Ferreira d'Almeida in the Lisbon Cories when he moved, the passing of a law empowering the Government to alienate the colonies of Guinea (in Africa) and Timor in exchange for other territories in Africa and Polynesia respectively. We remember reading a few years ago in the Lishon parliamentary reports a somewhat similar-suggestion made by the same deputy with respect to Macho, which possession Mr. d'Almeida frankly submitted should be either sold out or abandoned. This proposal was made when news reached Lisbon. of the disastrous; and (for Macoó oficials) Explain this parados, "Brownie, and your

ever to be lamented collapse of the Vy-sing Two coolies appeared at the Police Court this

statesman, who is gifted with that quality so petitioner will ever pray, etc.

monopoly. This distinguished Portuguese morning charged by the palice with polluting

rate among his compeers a real, independence the streams and-tanks on the hill side, the

of character-thean urged the Chambers to seriously take into consideration the worthless- water of which is used for drinking purposed.

ness, the utter uselessness of Macao and the vast The man first caught was discovered yesterday - Mr. Lister is one of the oldest pensioners on expense required to maintain it in genteel poverty, industriously washing and preparing the entrails the Hongkong rate-pavers. He graduated at Lon-and to vote the total abolition, of that colony, of a chicken either in the Glenealy tank or on don University in 1863 and two years later was from the list of Portuguese foreign possessions. the borders of a stream which runs into that appointed a Hongkong Civil Service cadet. The The proposal was feebly opposed by the then reservoir and from which, be it remembered, the cadet system of the present day is an admittedly deputy for Macao, the late Senhor Scarnichia, a inmates of the Victoria Gaol have been quenching incomprehensible curiosity--10 are some of its very worthy and greatly respected eld gentleman, their thirst and making their ten and coffee for products-but twenty-five years ago it was who simply dissolved himself in a panegyric of generations. What other abominations have without any doubt whatever a rascally fraud of the Holy City and entreated the Government to contemporary, that those fortunate persons who been perpetrated on the borders of this stream, the most abominable type. These were the days retain that decrepit possession, were it only for and how many carcases of animals have previously of nominations, when gross favoritlam and its being a memory of the glorious past of the have been favoured by having orders of nobility been prepared and manipulated by the coolies family or other influences were the open. Lusitanian conquests which occupy such a pro- conferred upon them by the Sovereign should be in the neighbourhood, who shall say? As sesames to fat appointments in the Public minent place in the history of the Middle Ages. jealous of their honours, and greatly disgusted the present discovery would possibly never have Service Hongkong was quite a happy bunting Deputy d'Almeida's Crowal of his formal

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proposal, with

and Timor, made regard to Guinea a when any individual of inferior worth is raised been made had not the doctors, who are ground for the alacompoop relations of

responsible for the health of the prisoners in the and parliamentary hangers-on, and so amongst before the Cortes a couple of months ago, and to the same high rank. The Knights of the Gaol, while casting about for reasons of the other bright geniuses we had Alfred Lister faithfully reproduced by the Lisbon papers to Garter have long considered themselves the prescat epidemic of cholera, thought of the to provide for, and an expensive job it has hand by the last mail, is, as we have said, highly cream of the cream, and they naturally decline possibility of the Glenealy tank being polluted proved for nearly a quarter of a century. In significaut, as it reveals a marked tendency by soms of the hundred and one predatory 1867, two years after his arrival in this Eastern among that section of Portuguese statesmen who the companionship of such skim-milk as is vagabonds who bang out their mat sheds in paradise Lister blossomed into a full-fledged now, the colonies, to finally abandon some represented by that quasi-Royal_personage of the locality Mr Sercombe-Smith sent the interpreter; he could not speak Chinese very of the possessions which are eye-soren to doubtful descent," Prince Henty of Battenberg. offending coolie to gaol for fourteen days with much, if at all, but he was fully qualified to civilisation as well as intolerable burdens 10 It is true that the decoration in question. hard labour. The second case was in its draw the screw for the position and did so the resources of the molber-country. - Timer

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even more disgusting than the first with great success. From interpreter, to acting may be said to be full of future premiac, es an agricultural settlement, but for a couple, with a most lavish band, so much so that emptying and washing out his aight soil tab successive years from 1868 we find this most of centuries it has been nothing short of a its recipients almost form a blue ribbon "Army," on the borders of a water course from which ubiquitous of men acting as assistant barbour penal establishment, where the worst classes of and the frequency with which the favour has householders: draw their drinking water in the master, sheriff, deputy marine magistrats, coroner, Portuguese malefactors have been relegated. As been conferred, has of course proportionately neighbourhood of Shau-ki-wan. The constable secretary to Police Inquiry Commission, superin Portuguesecapital and industry presuming such found the accused-employed as above stated tendent of Victoria Gaol assistant colonial things exist have always religiously stunned. it is understood that the Bismarck difficulty discounted its value. The present Emperor of in a stream near the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, secretary and clerk of councils, superintendent these shorce'as places of certain destruction for

Germany," as one of the Knights of this ancient Defendant explained that he was a coolle em- of Chinese studies, post-master, general-

1- 'and | any sort of commercial enterprise, has been smoothed over.

there is not Order, has of all its foreign recipients, the played on the night soil staff and was at collector of stamp revenue, and secretary to the the remotest possibility of Timor ever becom oftenest shown his appreciation of the distinction the time acting as locum tenens for a friend in Board of Examiners in Chinese, with a seat ating a productive and paying colony at all events by wearing its losigala; but even he kicks at of the rules, but he did not throw, the contents of with a vengeance, but it did not satisfy Lister. is the Customs revenue, derived from duties the Refinery. Being a new man he was ignorat the Board. This was an all-round experience under Fortuguese kule, Its only source of incomb the raising of his questionable brother-in-law to his tub into the stream, he threw the contents In 1881 he jumped into the job corsted post of collected on exports of produce which the native the same pinnacle of glory as himself. Surely on the bill side, and only rinsed out his precious cdng colonial Licastery, the appointment wax traders ship to Dutch merchants in Java and the the Bath would have been quite exaltation tub in the water. He also was sent up for a made permanent two years later, and in addition adjoining coast. A colony deprived of rational of foreign matter will soon be made up to the panying honore, the interested, advocacy, and however lich fits may be ting its practically Genuins" would be all the better for a little account of a coloniat, if he succeeds in running obstinato panistency of Governor Dowen over unworked agricultural and mineral resources more of It

sons, camp Lord Derby's plalaly expressed objections :: Portuguese, Quines in on the same level wik the deadly gauntlet of an epidemic.

He proceeded to attack the existing régime amidst incessant interruption and altercations,

Monsieur Fioquet opposed the motion, taunt ing the General with aiming at a Dictatorship.

Urgency was rejected.

FRANCE AND HUNGARY

VIENNA, June 5th.

sits operations. And yet, notwithstanding disclaimed any intention to affront France, with has been scattered broadcast over Europe PC. Mota Singh charged 'a land pirate with registrar general was but a short step, and in

Herr Tisza in the Hungarian Chamber formally which country he said Austria-Hungary had every desire to maintain peaceful relations.

* GERMANY:0

ANOTHER TYPHOON APPROACHING.

We are indebted to the courtesy the Spanish Consul at this port for the following telegram from the Manila Observatory, received this afternoon --

BOLINAO, 14th June.

ma

"There is another depression: In the Pacing enough for the Battenberg, and some of these eight="Al" this rate the proverbial peck, jɛto a seat in the local Legislature with its accoma....... trade is' anything but a promising possession

which will probably shape its course towards The East coast of China”.