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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1888.

| THE Courrur d'Haiphong comments at great length on the Regulations recently enacted with a view to control the traffic on the public roads of that city.

H.M.S. Rambler is under orders to leave Shanghai on the 5th inst. to continue her surveying duties. «

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s Meamer Anchises, from London, left Singapore for Hongkong, this morning, and is due on the 9th inst. In a quarter mile handicap at the Sir Joseph Banks running grounds, Sydney, on May toth,

when he saw prisoner take up a wooden compilation is got up in the usual excellent style the famous American sprinter L E. Myers; we learn that Mr. W. Wilkie, a German subject Finencing this great schuine as soon as possible,

WE have to acknowledge, receipt from the Statistical Department of the Imperial Marliime Customs of the "Returns of Trade and Trade reports and statistics for Cares. This useful Reports for the year 1887" together with the

characteristic of all the Customs publications. IT seems hardly worth public mention, says the Kobe native paper Naniwa Shimbun, but the is a native of Wal iyama" now residing in Vishinomiyaha is only forty years old and. yet has divorced forty-seven wives during the twenty-five years that have elapsed since he first embarked on the troubled seas of matrimony Chis much-married individual took unto himself No a few years ago

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expired, although, as the rule has been that prisoners are released the first thing in the morning, it was certainly of some interest to know why he was detained until well on in the afternoon, as we shall presently show. The turnkey swore that he was passing through the hall at the time mentioned,

spittoon and throw it at him with all his force, The missile luckily, missed · its mark, for, according to Wesrew, "had it hit him it would have cut his head-right open." Singularly enough, no provoca- tion had been given the prisoner, and the turnkey could give no reason why such an attack should have been made. It was true that prisoner had been under complainant's charge, and had been _reported, for refusing to work, for which he had been flogged three times, and only on Friday last he had been flogged for assaulting (1) an assistant turnkey, and WESTERN triced bim up to receive his gruel. When prisoner threw the spittoon, WESTERN At Shanghai, on the FR June, 1888, MARY rushed at him knocked him down, mastered OUR Yokohama contemporary of junc cand spain? the deade Infoged wife of Hihim, and took him to the Superintendent's publishes a lengthy report of a cowardly attack Fane, Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 56 oflice. Unfortunately for Air. WESTERN made, presumedly by Russians, upon the boats this nice little story was not corroborated, Straits on May 27th. The boats were pulling of the British schooner Nemo, in the Behring hut on the contrary, a fellow along the coast with the intention of rejoining on them from behind the rocks, resulting in three Japanese sailors being killed, and Captain Snow and three Japanese wounded. The matter has been brought under the notice of the British consular authorities.

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A CHINESE native paper says that on the night city wall of Yangchow came down with a crash of the 20th June thirty or forty feet of the old like thunder, and destroyed two cottages, crushing old man who was the only person in at the time, so badly that it is thought he will die. Vagrants had been removing the bricks for sale, but such a cunning way that the wall looked is quite distinct from the modern city wall of all right. This was the ancient city wall, which

Yangchow (in Klanges.)

Brachang Belegraph and a European prisoner who witnessed the schooner when a murderous fire was opened

Hansword, (Turustaw, JULY 3, 1888.

the whole, affair, swore that CHEUNG never threw the spittoon at all, and further indicated that WESTERN had actually The prisoner originated the trouble.

Os sisverut berasions during the past few works the very unpleasant task hasted, and apparently with truth, that he "devolved gpon us of directing, public was in pain from the flogging that he had received the previous day, and was attention to the extraordinary manner in

dawandjutim bava luan outraged in ronsequence lying down in the hall; cand trampled upodela The Police Courts WESTERN passed by and kicked him in order to make him get up, and when he tried to

Inexpreimpo,, ne stupidity-it does no

THE upao reports that a mandarin called Tsong Yuan committed suicide at Tiebtsin on the 13th June by cutting his throat His career had been an unfortunate one. Nominated, Iwen years ago, after passing his examination as. Tain-shi as a Preceptor of the Imperial Academy (Ksch Tsze Kien) and expectant sub-prefect during those twenty years the only billet that fell Subprefect at Taku, near Tientsin. He and is

his recent successful attempt, at suicide he had already attempted it, in company with a con- cubine, by hanging, but they were both rescued

on that occasion,

starting from scratch, wan easily by three yards in the remarkable-tiine of 48.2/5 seconds, the best record for the distance ever made in. Australia,

OWIND-to the purchase by the United States of Alaska from Russia, the States now own all the

eastern shores of Hebring Straits, Trouble has for some time arisen between the British and American sealers at work in the Bebring trade ; and it is reported that the United States have sent four men of war tò scize the British sealers.

writes that it has been decided to lay a three // THE Peking, correspondent of the Ship Pao railway at the Wan Shou Shan, adjoining the southlake; also to lay another several li lang at Hsu Hai Tren. The rolling stock and materials have been contracted for with a foreign firm, and they are expected to arrive in Peking some time during July.

under date the 23rd instant, that produce was

who has for the past two years been earning his living as a teacher of music and foreign languages at Hükodadi, committed suicide at that port on June 22nd. It is believed that want of success. in business was the cause of the rash act.

SUPREME COURT...

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before the Hon. Russell, Acting Chief

Fustice.)

REPORT from Tientsin states that Mr. Von very decided opinions of my own-one fact I Mollendorff has been engaged as adviser to this believe to be undoubted, and that fact I wish Excellency Yuan Su-kai at Seoul.

cefully to impress.apon vour minds, viz, that In the New South Wales Legislative Council'on the Crown and the marire tot-owners must May 30th. Mr. Julian Salomons, Q.C., stated, inly sent before any reclamation can be fecarejed out.) The local Government has alrendy - reply to Mr. Dangar, that 9,076 Chinese had left conscated upon terms which they, Guiseler the colony during the years 1882 to 1887inclusive, liberal, and they have certainly met us in a The arrivals, however, Mr. Salomons stated, friendly spirit on our original demands. It is were greatly in excess of that number.

Torus Gentlemen, not in lose the substance in looking after the shadow, but to assist in cons

Of course the Government hav ant caoscuted. to this suhteme without seeing, their way gesting a direct benefit for the Lobby generally, And as I said before that the scheme was asadvantageous to the Colony 24 16 salves, it will perhaps net be out of place ber to stave asd Gnitely as p isable what the any generally will gain by it. To my mom!

the advantages to be derived by the Government and the Puldic through our initiative will be so great that they can in no way be chrokhoond. inferior to those which may accrue to the Marine Tot-owners themselves, which latter are of course

patent to you, and have hern realt with at siang- length in the Colonial Secretary's letter, In this letter the Government touches upon the Crown rent of $800 an acre, and I will now point it to you what the Colony jeans in addition to this.

The total reclamite will comprise, I believe, a little under to acres. of which we surrender more than half to the Government, for

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regards width, as we have not sein hafose in this Colony, for anthis point the Sunvryn General has proved obdurate. The principal thoughfare in the new rect anazon will be wider than His lordship said he saw from the affidavit-Pedder's Street and the miner crosstreet will that the matter had been going on since the and be about the present wilth of the Queen's Road. June. It was more a matter of damages than of At our expense of these new streets will-not an injunction.

only be reclaimed, but handed over ta Guvern- not paved, sewered, channelled, and concreted our expense. Instead of the present Shallo and offensively unhealthy foreshore, the public will have the advantage of a continues Paya wall with 30 feet depth of water along its entire length, an imurovement that will not fail

SHEPHERD 1, CHANG_KING.

Mr. Deacon applied on behalf of Mr. D: Shepherd, of Garden-Road, for an injunction to restrain Chan King, contractor, from taking water from a pipe supplying his house. He submitted that the Court had power to grant that Injunction in Summary Jurisdiction unde section 18 of the Code, which provided that where

injuring, or alienating property in respect al which the suit was instituted the Court could restrain him from continuing to do so, and cutid appoint a receiver,

MESSAS. Bandinel & Co. write from Newchwanßit was shown a party to a suit was wasting, roads and streels, and such rals and streets, as dear owing to the demand to fill steamers in and the want of rain in the south of the province; in the north, they say, the crops 'hampon, Canton, Aleifen, Kimangeki, Soo- promise well. The vessels in part were the chow, Moyer, Charo Babuyan and 27 ships.

teabeth; and for pris Gardada hapan and

Mr. Deacon urged that no damages could Lt A-roo, aged 28, a coolie, hailing from Wei-recoup his client for being deprived of his water chow, was this moming charged at the Police supply in this weather. It was impossible to Court before Mr. Wehouse with stealing live in the house, there not being even a hydrant a pair of shoes and a jacket, valued at $1.40, the in the vicinity. property of one his brothers in irade, who said the things were taken our' of a shed where he generally left them before going to work. He went away at 8 in the morning and on return

His lordship was opinion that he could only grant an injunction in Original Jurisdiction Looking at the affidavits he could not but think that something was wrong-it was absurd that a man should go and cut a Government pipe and deprive another of his water supply.

Mr. Dencon said the defendant had been applied to, but had taken no notice; Mr. Seth,

stop it

His lordship expressed his willingness to alter Friday.

THE PROPOSED PRAVA EXTENSION.

MEETING OF LOT-OWNERS.

to benefit very greatly all the shipping, and landing work of the harbour. The Gave:iment will gain per arnom some $25,000 from Crown

rates, and an area of Government new reptilined rents, some $75,000 from ice and lighting ground which, I este, will be with some two millions of dollars, and which the Govern

In view of these prent public benefits which the Reclamation Scheme holds out, I think,

have no nisgiving as to the desi bility of. its reali ation, as much for the benefit of the Government and of the "colony as on our own account as Marine, lot holders, and I am confident that the Secretary of State,fer the Colonies will view our proposiljan, as the Colivolal Government has viewed it in the light of an enterprise to account in der to Hongkong an enormous public boon.

enough on the evidence that no assaute Sercombe-Smith, with assaubing Capt. Watson being the motiv, andthat Mr. Robert Jaffrays ¦ ¦ This afternoon, by the invitation of the Hon. opportunity not to be missed for turning bal

prosecutor vidence.

of this wolny, awing to, the, ignorancexplain that his term had expired and be do his share was the very poor one of Maritime the defendant who threw the shoes at him, but the landlord, hnd also unsuccessfully tried toment could not reclaim but for this scheme." Vin atter whof te two members of the was leaving the prison, the officer struck wifeand family were literally starvingand before escape. He was afterwards anested by the polis the case into an original suit, returnable on Gentlemen, the, Public and museivės, need

Civil Service at ginosent performing the two or three blows. He positively denied duties of the Magistracy. It is always ever having thrown the spittoon, a state- ment which as we have already pointed out. egresively disareeable, brd: especially so in a vewyll'errunjunly like Hongkong, wasconfirmed by the otherturnkey and the where', 'every „porsan' is "more or lessEuropean prisoner. It was therefore clear Keigen belangely ether to have to write or

frid. heen, committed by Kruse CHRUNG, "arrak gifimulanty of any person who is

And yet Mr. WODEнouse convicted him Brine a "beingsblo públic“ position to alig kunstent his ability; but the press writer and sentenced him to six weeks' imprison who is Sollined duty to thement with hard labour, after fining the Pompoigrali dalj, mostly mast waive fil personal

WESTERN, $10 for giving false Cocamidop diing forgetting alike" printing tossediolane bad personal inclinations for

in the Hongkong public whether it is trening of the interests of puldie

Why an objeci in aesirable that exhibitions of this kind oliving other Mr. 11. Eshould be allowed to, disgrace our courts justice? KRUNG CHRUNG was tried for Celtics, qr, MA, T. Sexcamps Smrtná tatlong es su honestly holies assaulting WESTERN by throwing a spittoon at him; the evidence showed that he did jamalt 1 te njar paletarugh public servants 2 emailqingjilline Sandarquirements applitud.

not throw the spittoon, and the magistrate in the disentian, and it is, we readily pressed his belief in that evidence by adult már átheir misfortune than it is thing the prosecutor $10 for perjury. But futurp it thou have.wen pitemforked into on what grounds, we would ask, did Mr. WapTHOUSE commit the unfortunate victim posisine johich they are, not merely inepif the turnkey's spiteful brutality to six albo ofendoq're de filling, but where they are ruling menace and danger to the weeks imprisonment with hard labour? admburgertian of justice and the liberty What offence did the wretched mancommit? If he did not assault WESTERN, and surely of the subject, Scarcely a day passes there cannot be the slightest doubt on that without one of the magistrates holding. himself dj të mullie ridicule by decisions boat why was he sent back to gaol? The man was not being tried for any offence which are either in accordance with

against prison discipline the probabilities are that at the time the fracas occurred he was legally not, a prisoner at all, hut ought to have been released hours before; but even if this had been

We appeal to Governar Des Vœux and sentenced to four weeks, imprisonment with hard the Yukoluna impers the table is over; } the report and estimates. Mr. Chater présided,

ad nof his property missing and _defendant gone Witness came to Honkong to search for the thief and found him in a steam launch going to Kowloon. He called out to held on to the jacket, and attempted to make his

who corroborated witness story. The accuséu saki he was a new coiner, and having no defence he

for six weeks with hard labour. was imprisoned

Says the Hiogo News of Jane 26th:-Rumours BOLSON, our of the crew of the British ship

were current yesterday that a sermus émeute had occurred in Koreà, aöiniosity to foreigners Childwall was this morning charged before Mi of that vessel, on the 22nd May last, and with formerly of Yukon, had lost his life during c.1 Chater, a number of owncis of luts within the disturb sace. So for as we have been able

Secure for damaging the ship's cabin in which he was

to ascertain the report is very greatly exaggerated, the limits of the proposed Praya Extension confued. After hearing a considerable amount of evidence of a conflicting character, his Wor-

and arose poobshly because the Koreans, assembled in the rooms of the Chamber of

Some 1,300 additional new tenements will be or at least an igamint mob of them, har Commerce, for the purpose of considering the provided by this scheme, affording no small. ship found the charge of assault not sustained and discharged the prisoner on that count, but threatened an atten the foreign residents reports, plans, and estimates for the work measure of relief in the admittedly increasing sentenced him to a week's imprisonment withoutander, the impresi tha the latter are prepared by the Government in accordance overcrowding of Victoria, a fict which should hard labour for wilfully damaging the ship's cannibals. Acending to the accounts published with the resolution passed on the 26th Nov.appeal favorably to those who take an interest in cabin. Thomas, another of the crew, was in.

ver, last, and to determine the action to be taken on the Sanitary condition of this Colony, th tig' the sudety of foreigners secured

Up to the present-Geoilemen-my address labour for refusal of duty, and the remainder to by parties of seamen and marines landed from and among those present were Messrs. J. to you has enlarged so much upon the great twelve werks hard labour for refusal of duty United States, Russian and French war vessels. rancis, 2.C. 1 Bell-Irsing Pytic, V. benefit to be derived by the Government and and thereby endangering the lives of the ship's The Korean authorities also seem to have acted in L. Woodin, J. A. Mosely, R. K. the Colony from our scheme, that I lear some of company and the property of the owners and promptly, and H.M. Leander left Yokohama Leigh, Solomon, R. A. Gabbay, M. J. Muses, you may think we are giving up almost too shippers., Brennan, Mortimer and Bullock are immediately pews of the distlirhane was 15Hughes, H. Crawford, D- McCulloch, Cimes, much. Let me strongly urge you to put aside still to be charged with other offences; such as received, in, or to look after the interests of S. Hancock, A. Dennison, F. W. Cress, Joseph, all such opinions if you have them. As.1 have breaking open the galley, door, stealing provi- the British portion of the foreign community. F. Dodwell, G. R. Lammert, B. Layton, D. before said, this is a matter of mutual consent,

The Herald mentions the sleath of Mr. Jaffray,

“Musso, Pereira, Coxon, Nee Sung Ho, Hon.Wa, and rest assured that the Government will not sions, etc.

Choy, Chan, Wu Yuk, Chan Lau Hin, Chu Kit allow this great undertaking to be é minced Min, Ho Tung, Wong Shal Tai, Koo Wali, Rc. without receiving an adhiquate return for the but without giving any particulars, so it is not probable he met with fiul play.

The Chairman, addressed the meeting as benefit of the Colony generally! The business THIS afternoon at the Police Court, before Mr. follows:

pending at this moment between the Gover- Gentlemen,―This meeting is the outcome of | meni and ourselves is one of equilil' interest and Sercombe-Smith, the Childwall case was again on the tapis, when the two men Tolson, and the letter i recently received from the Gov.rn convenience to both parties, and it seeñis to me, Mortimer were charged with disobeying thement regarding the proposed Reclamation as a Marine Lot-owner like yourselves, that it in which the Sphinx has thought fit to indulgenters of the Captain when he told them to desist Scheine, and which 1, as intermediary between should be approached rather in a spirit of harmony from interfering with the stowaways when going the Government and the Marine lot-owncis, and accord than in a spuit of insistence on over the ship's gangway on the 28th March. caused to be unmediately published in the local presumptive legal sights. The Gartrament They were found guilty and sentenced to four newspapers for your information, and which you made us last year certain important concessions, works hard labour, in addition to the other have doubtless perused.

and at our solicitation yielded certain impurtani sentences previously passed on them. Following

points in its first or original demands, for stealing two ducks, the property of Captain

put it to you strongly that our course is cle.f this case was that of Brennan and Monimer

Having obtained these concessions, and the new surveys having turned out satisfactorily, I Watson, and also for breaking open the galley door in order to cook the same; being found guilty

and that it is to our interest to accept the situa they were sentenced to four weeks hard labour

tion, and to enter into a contract with the in addition to their other sentences, Bullock

Government for the prosecution of the works as and Brennan were then charged with continued

soon as possible on our account and at our sule wilful refusal of duly from the 26th May to

expense. We do not ask the Colony to assist June 4th, 1888, while the ship was it anchor in Manila hathour; they were also found guilty and sentenced to four weeks im all other sentences. The charge of scuttling the

law or justice, and by sentences which are cut of gol proportion to the character of the nonen, It is this sort of thing that

kills public confidence in the inviolability of our criminal courts, and, as a matter of actual fact, the present Police Magistrates

THE lower Wyndham Street oracle has shrieked forth another riddles in the usual "Does the Governor know burden, doubtless to the amusement of the personage to whom the song is dedicated, who can well afford to laugh in his sleeve at the deep-rooted self-contradiction The Governor is saddled with the self-imposed task of looking into and working out himself the dusies devolving on the various departments of the public service, and in the same breath he is asked whether he knows what is going on in these everything himself" and is asked whether he same departments. He is taxed with "doing knows that "one official has bossed the Colony for six years and means to do it still." "Tite Barnacle," alias "Brownie," or the weather prophet of the China Afail, may well.regale the public with further morceaux of this new "Does the Gaveroor know" song. We will have it set to music and every stanza ending in the appropriate The Governor knows that, the Chine Mail knows nothing" refrain.

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was the charge there no evidence FROM Messrs. Wheelock & Co.'s freight marketprisonment with hard labour, in addition to

somewhat too circumstantial. CAP. M. H. HAYES gave a most interesting and Horses" to the members of his class at the City- instructive lecture on The Make and Shape of

With the opinions expressed in this letter

views on this point are correct, but as we have regarding the rights of the Crown, I am not entirely in accord, and I am advised that my met here today, Gatlemen, to accept or reject the terms offered us by the Government, it would bebacless to canvass he therein-expressed opinions of the Colonial Secretary, and I propose proceed immediately to the business of our meeting.

You will recollect that at our last meeting on the 20th of November last you expressed your selves by a very large majority as being in favour of the Reclamation in front of your Marine Lots,

to incur an outlay not exceeding $5,000 towards the Cost of making an engineering survey of the Tareshore ip enable you to ascertain the probable cost of the Reclamation" works and the new area which would fall to each lot-owner,

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any way or to make any sacrifices on our account whaterer benefit we hope in the end to obtain Will be the fruit of dur own unaided enterpride.

If we do not move in the matter the present

Government can embark in speculative works of this gigantic nature contrary to all Govern- ment practices and traditions, but which are works that we private capitalists may legiti mately take up, for our own good, it is true, but,

are common-subjects of ridicule through to out the colony. - And we' are sorelv i say that had a technical breach of prison / Since our last 'advices, dated 15th instant, oor will not be gone into, the evidence so far being ment on your behalf that you would be prepared condition, for it is not to be expected that-the aft that in this instance public opinion discipline been committed-assuming that the man's previous sentence had not expired is based on no mere bile prejudice.and that he had actually attempted to throw hut is more than justified by the extraordinary liberties the magistrates are. the spittoon, his Worship's sentence of rates. Under orders from home the Glen Line Hall last night. There was a large attendahce, Accordingly, I communicated with the Colonial considering the conditions imposed upon us, to constantly taking, not merely with, the six weeks' hard labour was, under all steamship Glenartney, 1,400 tons register, will which included most of the fending local Secretary, and in response to our request the, the inestimable benefit of the Colony, laws of our country, but with rights. which are inherent in every man, woman,

and

freight market homewards has ruled very quiet, rates nommally unchanged with not much cargo offering. There is a demand for steam tonnage and coast parts, but not at very remunerative for the coal carrying trade from Nagasaki to this,

proceed in ballast to Manila to load for the United

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sportsmen. The lecturer started by referring Government in due course undertook the surveys, The Marina lot-owners' interests involved in in have apparently carried them out with great this project of course are many! I am urging the circumstances, a piece of scandalous Kingdom. The Russian ship Primus, 1,148 tons to the old saying that horses Fun brutality entirely without justification, or register, a destination to load for a part in for all shapes," an aphorism to which he could completeness, at a cost--which I have already you to accept the plan as a whole, but should the same destination to load for a part in-the not subscribe. It was an absurdity to say paid-of. $3,399.98, $1,604.02 less than the there be anctions as shown in the plan, or objections to the proposed allot or child living under the agis of the use. We have no doubt that His Atlantic States, Quotations are Newchware that badly-shaped horses could ever develop expenditure we senctivued.

Excellency the Governor will consider it to Swatow, 20 Mex, cents per picui, steam, small high speed; nobudy ever saw a horse understand that the long time which it has any other grievance which any individvat lot- British fing

enquiry. Chefoo to Mex cents that was shaped a dachshund win the this survey to a close has been owner I should only be too happy to It is not our intention at present to make his duty to investigate this case and pleal, small dernand Nagasakl to Shanghai Derby, or a greyhound of that shape win the

During that $140 per ton Coal nett, for steamers demand; Waterloo Cup. All species of animals differed of the sea bed which had to be made all along matter will receive every consideration from the proceedings at the Pokce Court in any reference to the recent extraordinary see that justice is done. connection with the trial, or rather series / WILLIAM Des Vœux will make some inquiry during the fortnight have been :-Galveston, or speed. If was the same with men. Pedes exact depth and position of the hard bottom us from accepting the Project as a whole and

hope

of trials, of the crew of the British ship to the custom of wholesale flogging which appears to prevail in the Gaol for alleged Childwall for certain charges of alleged disobedience of orders and such like mutiny, Insubordination, refusal of diky,. etc.; should the Attorney General, the offences. If prisoners are triced up" and the lives flayed out of them on legal adviser to the Government, not see fit to move in the matter, it may devolve the unsupported complaints of men like upon us to show that convenience," or Assistant Turnkey WESTERN, it becomes a expediency, or something else which we matter for serious consideration whether this are. Able to comprehend, cannot be practice can be justified. And above allowed to over-ride the statutes, the all we would put it to His Excellency and ordinary forms of procedure, and the law the Executive Council whether the time of evidence. However, we consider it a has not arrived when the best interests pf duty we owe to public justice to direct the oldie colony and the prestige of British attention of His. Excellency, the Governor Justice demand that the responsible to the case of alleged a sault on a turnkey positions of polleo magistrates should be In 'ictoria Gaul, heard before Mr. WoDE-filled by qualified lawyers, who will House at the Magistracy yesterday. The prevent the administration of justice from facts of the case, can he set out in a becoming contemptible in the eyes of few words. CHARLES WESTERN, employed the community. as assistant "turnkey in the Gaol, charged Kruso.Cubuse a Chinese boatman who had just completed a term of six months imprisonment for larceny, with assault. WE would call our readers' attention to the new programme of the Wash Norton's famous World According tocomplainant's story, CHEUNG's of Wonders performance to be held this evening, sentence expired on Saturday, and at at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, 1pm, that day he was waiting his turn THE General Managers (Messrs. Jardine, Maths in the hall with other prisoners to be son & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Wingsang, released., It does not appear in evidence from Calculis, left Singapore yesterday for this at what hour the man's sentence actually I put,

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

due principally to the many experimental borings act as intermediary, and I am sure that the

under the overlying mud. The weather since the beginning of the year has also been unusually unpropitious for such work.

closing with the Government at once. differences of the kind I refer to can always be settled Bubarquently, A far as I am able to judge, these

Before I alt down I must surveys have turned out extremely satisfactory, inasmuch that will require explanation, an explanation to 1 mention matter as they shew that the Reclamation may be which you are fully entitled, I mean the carried out within the limits of the price per proposed purchase of the narrow strip of land, square foot which had been originally estimated, the property of the Hongkong Wharf and Godown My own idea was that, after paying for the areas Company, mentioned in the Colonial Secretary's required for the roads and streets, the reclaimed letter, and which the Government requires should lands left to the marine lot-owners would cost be purchased from the Company of the cost of thera about two dollars a square foot. You will the Scheme, the Government bearing its own. see by the enclosures in the Colonial Secretary's, proportion, for the purpose of widening out the letter that the average cost comes within this present Prays according to its proposed future

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be a gratifying dimensions of 75 fect, and the future Praya

embankment to fis price, which appears

But there Government estimates of cost may feet.

proposed new width of 65 The Wharf Company obtained.

..this ground possibly be capable of further reduction, when the tenders for the different sections are called from the Government about two years ago in the for, and I here must point out to our Chinese usual way, as an extension of their present Enter. friends who are present, and some of whom, I alde premises, and now on account of our Project understand, consider that they could get the which requires the widening out of the Praya to work carried out cheaper than the Government, 75 feet, the Company is called upon to restore to that there will be nothing to hinder them or the Government the strip in question. It hap their contractors competing for the execution of pens however that before the intention of the the work along with every other builder in the Government was known the Company sold a Colony, and that they will thus be able to gratify portion of the ground to the sub-tenants, and if their wish to carry out their own reclamations the scheme is carried out it is intended to arrange with these sub-tenants for a purrcsider by them Gentlemen, I now wish to assure you have again studied the position of the Govern at the cost of the Project. The amount, which meat and the position of the Marine Ipt-owners" is about $105,000, will add about 7 cents to the most carefully by the light of these new Surveys, price per square foot of the allotments all round. and the good opinion I have always had of this You will see that there is no way of avoiding Reclamation Scheme has been if anything this payment, as the Government insist upon a increased by careful consideration. It is as a uniform width of 75 feet for the present Praya, advantageous to the Government as it is to and a uniform width of 65 feet for the proposed ourselves, and whatever your opinions may be new Bund from one end of the reclamation ever the legal phases of the question may be to conclusion, Gentlenes, if there

German barque, 619 tons register, (at Amoy) trians were long-legged men, and wrestlers Foochow to Tientsin, $3,000 in full, y lay days. were men with short legs and long bodies Arcadia, British barque. 417 tons register, the first had to develop speed, the latter Ningpo to Whampoa, $2,300 in full, 18 lay days. strength, To secure speed in a race-horse Rison, British barque, 397 tons register, certain shapes, and attributes were absolutely (optional charterheschwang to Amy, 23 ex necessary, and amongst these were long legs cents per piculį Chefoo to Amoy, 16 Mex. cents and a long neck, the latter being indispens per picul, 20 lay days. Disengaged vessel in able for a horse to fully extend himself During a visit to England the port Ines Rohf, Danish barque, 338 tons register: in front.

lecturer bad photographs taken of a number THE attendance at Woodyear's Royal Australian of leading race horses, and as would be seen, Circus last night, was not sa large as on the two all of them bad long legs and short bodies, afficiently like the deer tribe. He had personally measured previous occasions, though a appreciative audience derived considerable St. Simon and Ormonde, two of the fastest,

sensation was 3 inches higher at the shoulder than result. provided by the programme. Some ormances borses that ever ran in England, St. Simon was experienced when Miss Alles Moore falled the length of his body, and Ormonde was to appear in her small wire (with trained 3.Inches higher. The likenesses he would pi cons) role, the young Japanese Tommy presently exhibit would show that it was in the Kitchie, of Swinging Bamboo celebrity taking. Loins where the muscular development was her place. But it was soon explained that Miss greatest, and where it was most required. Moore was seriously ill with fever, and that Behind the saddie should be flat; no one she would not be able to perform for three ever saw a horse with loin sloping like or four mere evenings to come. Young Kitchie the roof of a house that was fast except managed the wire as dexterously as he does ing over a very slight distance, because the bamboo;, the pigeons thought fit to strength was needed there to raise the forelegs express, their grief for their mistress illness and send them well forward. Captain Hayes by not appearing in public; and so this, one of then discussed practically and at considerable the liveliest parts of the programme, way com length the make.and shape of horses, explaining personally or through their own friends what I of the strip for a cocsideration to be paid them siderably marred. The remaining portion of tire to his audience the various points of excellence. entertainment was very efficiently carried out in racers, and illustrating his remarks by a and warmly received by the audience. We number of excellent transparencies of such understand Mr. Woodyear received a telegram equine celebritics of the English turfas Ormonde, yesterday from Singapore informing him of the St. Simon, Tristan, and Zocdone, the famous departure of dve now, members of his Company ponics Water Lily, Skittles, and Magic, the by the S.S. Diomed. They may be expected Mongolian cracks Teen-kwang, Sunewind, here towards the end of the week, when a and St. Gothard, and many other interesting change in the programmeandnewattractions will photographs Capt. Hayes's lecture, which, not fall to draw crowded houses to the nightly lasted an hour and a quarter, was listened to entertainment at Borrington The Circus gives with great attention, and was thoroughly another performance to-night/

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