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OUR NEW SEASON'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 888.

OUR Nagasaki contemporary says it is reported that a very sich copper mine has been discovered about 18 ré distant froni Nawa, on one of the Loochoo islands, for the working of which the Mitsui Co. have offered to advance yes 15,000.

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS IT is rumoured here, says the Bangkok Times of the 3rd inst., that the intrepid traveller, Count Aurep Elm, who, it will be remembered, left Bangkok some few weeks since, has succumbed up in the interior to an attack of fever contracted on his journey to Chiengmal..

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Priced Catalogas on application. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 31st August, 1898,

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1868..

TELEGRAM

(Reuter.) FRANCE,

LONDON, October 16th:

أخي العام

The Spanish Consul-General at Amoy received an official order from the Governor-General of the Philippines, dated Sept. 29th, fixing the exact number of Chinese passengers which Spanish steamers trading between Hongkong, moy, and Manila are allowed to carry, as follows:-Don Juan 471 3. España 467 ; Visayas 330, CHOLLY-You look tired, old fel'; whatcher been doing? Dolly (briefly)-Literary work. Cholly (surprised)-Don't say I what branch, old man? Delly-Well, you see, I know a man who writes for papers, and this morning he asked me to help count the words in an article he was going to send down town, Mighty hard work, I assure you. Almost as hard as writing, don'tcherknow. | WE quite agree. with our correspondent Customs cut a very poor figure in connection with the Croker bankruptcy business, but we are unable to publish his very trenchant letter, as the matter is still before the Court. However, our correspondent and all others interested, including the general public, may rest assured that the whole truth in connection with this affair will be elicited in due course.

"Interested" that the Imperial Chinese Maritime

TUE, Courrier. d'Haiphong reports that on the night of the 2nd instant a band of 200 Chinese

Our Shanghail morning contemporary hears that a telegram was received in Peking on the 7th inst, stating that a great fight had taken place between the English troops in Sikkim and the Thibetans. The latter were defeated, with many hundreds killed.

THE three men captured-in-connection - with the Little Hongkong gang robbery and murde were again brought before Mr. Wodehouse this morning. Evidence corroborating that of the woman who was robbed was given by her daughter-in-law. The case was again remanded ENGLISH as the is wrote. A would-be wine merchant at Wanchal has issued the following neat little intonation. That last bit, "large consumers," is good:-

NOTICE-Specially of wines of able, guaranteed natural in casks, and la bottles, imported by his own brother she paprietor,

wing merchant No.-

KĮ, opotite new arscral befare "Blus Buildings," Canditions Especial of anio for Hotels restaurants or large comSLUMDES. Price very moderate.

Wladivostock,

to the value of $7. He was found guilty and sentenced to two years' hard labour, his Lord. to be flagged if he had used violencen sentenced Four prisoners having been discharged by proclamation, the Sessions were adjourned till Thursday.

A TALLYMAN SHOT ON THE STEAMSHIR “VICTORIA.

The staff as increased by these recommend tions will, in the opinion of the Governor, be not more than sufficient for the work, which will. under any circumstances, be required to the coming years. A still further, though temporary, addition to the strength of the Department will be required if there should be an immediate commencement of all the Public Works to which -reference-is made below. -----

POLICE.

The Increase of $10,684 in the votes for t Department is principally to supply an addition

the growth of the population. to the numbers of the Force, required to meet

GAOLS,

The additions to salaries in this Department are chiefly for the purpose of bringing about s very necessary improvement in the staff, the remuneration hitherto given having rarely proved sufficient to be a permanent attraction to good. officers. The increase to the salary of the Superintendent, the Governor has felt compelled to recommend for reasons which will be explained in Finance Committee,

EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURE.

water works, which, unlike similar works else. where, have been entirely paid for out al income These could readily be sold for more than the cost yiz: a quarter of a million sterling while the rent-charges on laed already nold, wild, if capitalised, produce about half a millor nore When it is further considered that there is an entire absence of import-duty in connection with the trade of a pott, which in respect of the ton- nage of its shipping is certainly the wh. If not. the 3rd, in the world, there seems no resson, why the credit of the colony should not be at least as high as that of the Corporations and Companies which borrow at 34 per cent.; and it is with a view to assist towards that end that the floor- nor has made this special reference to the sub- jects. There would, however, be a difficulty about ohmining on the most favourable terms a loan periods not being; at all in favour with investors.. which would be repaid in four or five years, short Some of the funds might indeed be re-invested, as they were recouped, in a road and tramway round the island at the edge of the water a work which ought in any case to be commenced at no distant date-but even in that case, the expendi from the development, which would thereby be ture would with equal quickness be returned

this reason it would probably be advantageous. hastened, of the resources of the island. For that an arrangement should be made by which the bonds for any Loan that may prove to be the necessity for doing so actually arose, but required should not be issued to the public, unless should be deposited as security for temporary Majesty's Government, it appears to the Governor that the funds might be obtained at the Bank

temporary rise of the Bank rate that it would -rate of interest; and it would have this further advantage to set against the possibility of a

actually required at the moment. There may, obviate the necessity of borrowing more than was

as stated above, be no necessity to borrow all, as the effective expenditure of the large surplus

case, the amount required on Loan cannot be depends on uncertain conditions, and may not for various reasons prove practicable. In any estimated at the present moment.

Yesterday morning, about half-past ten, o Chinese tallyman on board the steamship Vic. toria, lying at Wanchal, was shot under the following circumstances: The engineer's steward; a young man named Alfred Postlewaite, whilst cleaning out the third engineer's cabin took up a revolver, and commenced to clean it. He took it outside the berth, and was making a preliminary examination of it by pulling the trigger on the empty chambers, which he reached one in which a cartridge had been left. This a once went off, and the pistol being pointed forward, the bullet struck a lamp which another lad was cleaning on the hatch. It With ordinary Revenue estimated at $1.737,718, THE following, charters were effected in Amoy was deflected by the smooth surface, and flew in

and ordinary Expenditure at $1,394,665, there is during the fortnight ended the ith insting an oblique direction, striking a Chinese tallyman thus a balance of $343,058. Certain recom- Indian, 11,000 piculs, Newchwang-Amoy, 22 lay He was seen to fall, and was attended to, but for

in the check, broad end first, and sticking there. mendations which the Governor intends to make days, 26 cents; Jokanna Kremer, 7,000 piculs, a time no one knew where the shot had come

to the Secretary of State, but which cannot be Nagasaki-Amoy, 14 lay days, $1,325; G. H from, and the Japanese on board were suspected. sanction, may possibly reduce this balance by a introduced into the Estimates without previous Wappaus, 13,000 piculs, Newchwang-Amby, 22 Postlewaite, however, informed the chief engineersum certainly not exceeding $50 on leavin Jay days, 15 cents; Altair, 11,000 picul of his accident, and the injured "tallyman at $283,053, Adding to this. $150,000 which has advances. But such a plán; if permitted by Her Newchwang-Amoy, 22 lay days, 25 cents.

once desired that he should be given into custody, been stated as likely under any circumstances which of course had to be then done; He was to be realised from land-premiums, and $445,000 THE Nagasaki Rising Sun of the oth inst. brought before Mr. Pollock this morning, and the probable balance in the Treasury at the end says-H. I. R. M.'s cruiser Rynda, with the prosecuting. A 'coolic who was working near $878,053 available for the cost of Pune Work charged with maliciously wounding, Mr. Caldwell of the present year, there results a total of Grand Duke Alexander of Russia on board, the tallyman when he was shot, deposed to his and to meet unforeseen contingencies. Thr arrived from Wladivostock on Thursday last. injuries, &c., and the arrest of the defendant was Extraordinary Public Works specified in the She will proceed to Shanghai about the 18th formally proved. Mr. Caldwell then wanted a List accompanying the Estimates are all of inst. The cruiser Koreala, now in barboar, call witnesses on behalf of the defend. The being immediately undertaken no doubt differ remand, but the Captain of the Victoria begged to them urgently needed. The necessity for thei will leave for Chemulpo about the 12th inst. youth who was cleaning the lamp testined to his The Naitsdnik arrived yesterday afternoon from position when the lamp was struck, and showed them, in the opinion of the Governor, can be in degree; but with the funds available. none ol that if the bullet had missed the lamp it would commenced too soon. It will be seen that the have gone overboard. The owner of the

utmost sum which is estimated as likely to be revolver stated that he had been in the habit, capable of being profitably expended on them when lighters were about, of putting a cartridge during the coming year is $637,626. This times.--The case was remanded for a week, bail the steady advance which is being shown in all being accepted, in a surely of $500.

the important items of Revenue, there will almost certainly be in 1890 a still larger surplus of fact that the Opium contract will be in force Ordinary Revenue than in 1889, owing to the during the whole twelve, instead of only nine, months; while it as there is reason to hope, the proposed works in connexion with the Junction of the East and West Prayas should be, before that time, in progress, there would probably be largely increased receipts from Land-premiums, owing to the impetus which would thereby be given to building in the Eastern district of Victoria. As regards most of these works, the mere mention of them by name is sufficient to One of them, however, the separate system of drainage, which happens to be most costly, may possibly require further explanation. The report of Mr. Cooper, the Sanitary Surveyor, on this subject fully supported as it is by the valuable opinion and judgment of the Sur veyor-General, has, however, produced in the Governor as complete a conviction of the neces ity of the work as can be justly entertained by one who is not an expert and he is of opinion approved by the eminent professional authorities In England, to whom the question will be referred, responsibility if it failed to make the earliest this Government would assume a very grave practicable commencement of the works pro

Upon the re-opening of the French Chambers Pirates, armed with breech-loading rifles, attacked Mahatat some few days ago met with a tragic into it, as he had lost a lot of things at various amount can be readily afforded. For apart from possible to provide from the balance of ordinary

M. Floquet submitted a Revision bill, proposing the duration of Ministries, subject only to direct impeachment.

SAYS the Bangkok Timer :—A priest at WA

death. Having occasion to enter a small com. partment in the Wat buildings, he placed for convenience sake, a lighted taper, which he had in his hand, upon an open kerosine tin, when, the oil becoming ignited by the flame, a con- Bagration was immediatly caused and the hapless, man was literally roasted before he could effect an egress.

MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

the An-chau station, which was under the com- mand of Captain Moiroud of the 4th regiment of Tonquinese riflemen. After a sanguinary Eight at close quarters, the pirates were repulsed, and it was discovered that a French sergeant was seriously wounded, three Tonquinese riflemen placed hors de combat, three dead, and two missing. The pirates, set fire to the officers' quarters and the granary during the affray. A CORRESPONDENT, referring to the rank religious The Custom's Revenue Cruiser Ling-feng, Capt. intolerance which prevails in the Philippine J. Farrow, left Amoy for Formosa on the morning Islands, writes:-"On the 4th ulto,, Don distinction. Can any well informed reader of Surveyor General, Captain W. M. Deane, suggest their necessity to residents of Hongkong from the neighbouring Empire, The Governor,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE rice crop in the district of Haiduong, Ton quin, is said to have exceeded all expectations this year.

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of the 9th' inst.

THE contractor who amused himself by blasting around the foundations of Mr. Ezra's house in Castle Road last week was' this morning let off with a fine of only $10.

Manuel Hidalgo was taken prisoner by the Governor of Laguna, Don Engenio del Saz Orozco. Two days afterwards the prisoner was exiled to one of the Islands of the Archipelago. The cause of this shameful proceeding on the part of the Governor of Laguna is to be found in the fact that Senor Hidalgo is a brother of the author of the celebrated anti-clerical pamphlet

We have seen a great deal in the local press for some days past about the Count and Countess Bardi, who are apparently persons of some this journal tell us who the Count and Countess Bardi are, and what they have ever done in the interests of humanity or the advancement of civilisation and progress to entitle them to the wholesale toadying and lickspittling they appear to have received in this colony?

A meeting of the Legistative Council was held yesterday afternoon, when there were present:- His Excellency the Governor (Sir William Des Voeux), Dr. F. Stewart, Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, Mr. E. L. O'Malley, Attorney-General, H. E. Wodehouse, Acting Colonial Treasurer, Mr. J. M. Price, Superintendent of Police, Messrs. P. Ryrie, B. Layton, J. Beil-Irving, and Wong Shing, (unofficial inembers.)

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.

His Excellency read the following imessage:- G WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor has directed to be laid on the Council the Estimates of Revenue and Expendi ture for 1889,

Polo on the groand at Causeway Bay to-morrow "Noli me tangere." It is well known that all Garrison will be played to-morrow, commencing table for the consideration of the Legislative that if the view of our local Engineers should be Government should be unable to sanction such

WEATHER permitting, there will be a game at

the 19th inst. at 4.45 pm. Sticks and cooling drinks will be provided,

THE Frenchcruiser Frimanguel was at Nagasaki on the roth inst, and the flagship Turenne and gün vessels Vipère and Aspic were shortly expected from the North.

REFORTS from headquarters regarding the prospects of the East Borneo Planting Co., received by the Ocean Co's steamer Memnon, are of the most encouraging description.

those who have perused that, work have been relegated to prison.

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ANOTHER international question. Yesterday afternoon two Chinese sailors on the Imperial revenue-cutter U Man, which is being repaired at Mun Kok Tsui, boarded a fishing junk off the Cosmopolitan Dock, and ordered the owner, Cheung Ling Li, to sail under their orders on a cruising expedition. He refused, saying that he must fish for his livelihood, and did not believe In making a revenue cutter of his junk, but he was forced to go, and told to

protest, and communicated with the police. When they arrived he gave the men into custody on the charge of unlawfully seizing the junk in British waters. They asserted that they seized it in Cainese waters. They were taken before

A CRICKET Match between the Club and the at 2 p.m., and on Saturday at 11a.m. By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and officers af the Northamptonshire Regiment, their Band will play on Saturday afternoon. Tiffin will be pre- vided on the Ground on Saturday. The following cleven will represent the Club :---

J. Cazon (Capl.) Milthand. EW, Maitland,

S. Smith..

S Barfl

L Bal

T. E. Davies. 8. L. Darby, CA Tomes Dr. Sparrow, KNI C. Plin.

THIS morning's Daily Press contains nearly two columns of babyish twaddle defending Mr.

REVENUE.

posed.

Besides the Public Works appearing on the List there are (1) some equally required which cannot be commenced at once, such as a New Harbour Office, which requires to be placed on the proposed reclamation, and New Supreme General's Office, all of which it is proposed to Court Buildings, Post Office, and Registrar include with the other Government Offices in one large building to be erected on the site of the in front of it (the whole cost of these, however, being likely to be recouped by the sale of the sites of the present buildings); and (ii) others which, it may be hoped will be, commenced in the coming year; viz.:

IN another column will be found a full repait of steer to Mun Kok Tsui. He did so under Henry Norman, the special commissioner of the colony, and also in part, as regards Asscased present North Barracks, and an the reclamation that it would on this account. be impossible to

the meeting of the Legislative Council held yesterday, together with the text of H.E. the

Governor's message on the Colonial Estimates for the ensuing year.

A PATHETIC Appeal.—(Scene: A lonely spot on a dark night)," Would the gentleman be so kind as to assist a poor man besides this londed revolver, I have nothing in the wide world to call my own"

Mr. Pollock this morning, and the case was remanded, bail being accepted in two sureties of $100 each.

a

$100,000

Extension of the Praya in front of the Admiralty and War Office Reserves roughly estimated to cost Goverment portion of reclamation.

in front of the Town of Victoria,... 363 000 Reclamations in Kowloon, (first in

stalment).....

Total,

→20,000

live works referred to above will be carried out On the supposition that the highly remunera- by means of a Loan, it would have been quite Revenue and Land-premiums for the commence- ment, and for a considerable part of the construc- tion, of another important work which must pro- bably be very soon undertaken viz, a New Gaol of sufficient size for the confinement of all the convicts on the separate system. This work will be a very costly one, the estimate for it being $420,000 or deducting $50,000, the sum likely to be realised from such portion of the present site which is absolutely required if the present as can be sold, $370,000. It is, however, one system is to be maintained under which there are always in confinement and supplied at the cost of the Colony, some three or four hundred aliens

Indeed, believes, that under the very exceptionni. who have come here to practice their misdeeds

conditions which present themselves here, there would be very fully justified a change substitut- ing short and sharp punishments, followed by banishment, for long periods of imprisonment; in which case the number of prisoners would be so much reduced as to admit of the exclusive use of the Separate System in the present Gaol. Bat If, as is probable in the existing state of public opinion in England, Her Majesty's a change, the provision of a new and much larger Gaol would probably be an inevitable With the taxation remaining as at present the

Governor intends to make strong representations necessity. During the coming year the Estimate 8, in any reave, ut grounds is our

on this subject; and meanwhile more time will $1,740,818, or an increase of $303,148 as com pared with the estimated, and of some $253,c>

be given to watch the effect of the severez discipline recently enforced, which has already as compared with what will probably be the

much reduced the number of prisoners. And actual, Revenue of 1888, provision requiring to

under any circumstances the building could not be made for the largely enhanced price obtained for the new Opium Farm Contract, which will

considerable number of the other proposed be undertaken at once without postponing a affect nine months of the coming year, and also, for substantial improvement in various other

there will be much difficulty in obtaining the Works For the Governor is advised that items, due principally to the rapidly growing

requisite number of sufficiently skilled native population and increasing prosperity of the

artisans even for the works on the list, and taxes, to more careful rating and better collection.

provide for them and the new Gaol in addition. It will, however, be observed that the actual

it has been mentioned above that the balance amount appearing as the estimate of Revenue is

of Ordinary Revenae cannot be estimated with $1,737,718, the difference being produced as

exactness owing to uncertainty as to the issue follows: Deduction has been made, for reasons given below (1) of $1,100, the amount of tax now

of certain recommendations which the Governor,

reductions in the assessed rates; while addition received annually from the crews (other than the

is about to make to the Secretary of State. The

has been required of $45.000, the estinated -hendmen) of cargo-boate; and (11) of $47,000 for

great rise which has taken place in recent years In the cost of living, especially in the matter of consideration for the Government Officers. Those rent, demands in the Governor's opinion some product of the additional shipping-rate to be THUS the Shin-pas-A Chinese gentleman

levied for the e stof the Gap Rock Light-house.

who have been appointed recently, even though who has just arrived from the Hanan River

derived from premiums on the sales of land. As regards Extraordinary Receipts-chiefly

as compared with their predecessors they may be. Works, says that the Censors have reported to

which as representing capital are rightly excluded.

required to do more work for emolument which 3783,000

is practically less, have comparatively little cause the Emperor about the culpable delay in the

from the accounts of Ordinary Revenue, the

These, however, being all works, not merely for complaint. There is, however, real hardship repairing of the breach in the Yellgy River Bank,

amount to be expected will largely depend on (i) remunerative as are some of the others, but such in the case of those appointed before the rise in which is not attributable either to unfavourable,

the result of the strong representations which

as will very quickly repay the whole of their coa question, took place, especially those with small. with, in the case of the Reclamations, a large salaries. Some special relief also, seems to be circumstances of weather, or to unwillingness to

have been made by the Governor with the view to the removal for the Military restrictions on the

profit in addition, the Governor is of opinion, required in the case of officers appointed from exert themselves on the part of the High

sale of the sites above the Kennedy Road and

that there can be no reasonable objection to the England in consequence of the great fall in Authorities, but to bad organisation on their part

(ii) on the approval by Her Mejesty's Govern provision of the required funds by loan, unless exchange. For their ability to make provision for and disgraceful peculation on the part of the

the Extension of the Praya in front of the prove unnecessary. As regards borrowing funds thereby largely decreased; and it seems right ment of the project, about to be submitted, for as is by no means impossible, that course should the future ofthemselves and their families bas heed subordinate officials. The former and latter

Admiralty and War Office Reserves. Allow well as the present, especially, such works as the difference between the rate of exchange at the for works which will benefit future generations as that as regards some proportion of their salaries, Directors-General of the Yellow River have in

however, for this item $150,000, a sum likely to consequence of this report been sentenced to

be realised under any circumstances, the total believes that if the true position of this colony prevailed at the date of their appointment should are of a remunerative character the Governor time of the receipt of salary and that which banishment, Li Lan-sun, the Imperial Commis-

receipts of the year would amount to $1,887,715. sioner, and I Fao-ch'èn, Governor of Honan, have

were more fully known all reasonable objections be made up to them. If this subject should be been severely, reprimanded; and of the subor

below the 4 per cent, which is the rate paid give due weight to the views expressed. Another Interest required would moreover be reduced does not doubt that the Secretary of State would against such a policy would be removed, and the discussed in Finance Committee the Governor dinate officials whose guilt has come to light, some have been deprived of their rank, but

in respect of the last Loan Considering the of the recommendations referred to is with retained at their work, others stripped of their

reference even to its Immediately realisable extremely small indebtedness of Hongkong with respect to the Gap Rock Light house. It had peacock's feather, and about fifteen of the worst

assets, the Governor is decidedly of opinion that

been originally intended that this charge should be met by a special tax on the shipping of 1 are at present exposed in the cangue.

times larger than is at all likely to be required,ment on this point was with the if there were necessity for borrowing uns many cent per ton; and the decision of the Govern- MR. JAMES H. Cox, of No. 3 West Villas, Castle

security for it. For though the area of the communicated to the Secretary of State and there could scarcely be offered more complete support of the un-official members of Council, unanimous Road, is a gentleman deserving of a considerable

Colony is small, its Crown lands are of an ex approved by him, the probable return of such amount of public sympathy, Mr. Cox's palatial

ceptional value, and a value which is morally tax, viz,840,000 appears in the estimates of residence has within the past few months been

certain to increase part faszu with the rapid Revenue. But since the above decision was visited by the thieving fraternity on three or

growth of the population. Without attaching arrived at early in the year the financial prospect SURVEYOR GENERAL. four separate occasions, and robbed of various

undus weight to the many recent sales of land has much improved; and as it is a fact clearly The net increase of the vote for the establish- at distances of 1 to 3 miles from the town of recognised household articles of value. At a quarter past:

ment of this department amounts in the aggre- Victoria at prices varying from no cents to a trade affect it injuriously to an extent, which in Captain (in Chinese)--A wedding party.

competent opinion, that taxes on one this morning Mr. Cox, who was enjoying the

gate to $16,708. The recommendations which cents a square foot, or to the recent valuation by no means measured by the amount of Customs officer (who does not understand sweet repose of the hard-worked, was suddenly

Involve this increase have been made only after (believed to be more than justified by axis ng Revenus produced, it appears to the Governor Cantonese)-Bring a sample of it on shore and awakened from his slumbers by his wife, who

careful consideration and consultation with Mr. market prices) of the reclamation about to be specially desirable to render sich an inpost state in your manifest the quality and weight. I said that a robber had just silently departed from

Price, the Surveyor-General, who, it may be re- undertaken in front of the Praya at (87,910,811, of light as practicable in a colony to which do not know but that the whole lot is liable to the bed-room with the proprietor's gold hunting

from them, as to the Governor's deep regret, perly at) 89,714,777 it may in any case be fairly For this reason the Governor will recomm marked, will himself probably derive no benefit including that in front of the Government profile commerce is of such paramount importance. be confiscated.

watch, chain, locket, and gold pencil case,

the colony is about to suffer the loss of his considered that these figures throw a useful light mend to the Secretary of State that the THE Shanghai O Progress of the 13th inst. in Needless to say that Mr. Coz followed the thief

retire on the ground of ill health. The duties there is every reason to suppose it will should cent instead of 11 cent per ton. By this me most valuable services, he having applied to on the prospect of the future, if the colony, as special vote for this Light-house shall be'iya a lengthy editorial reviews ex-Governor da with loss of time, but his agility was all in

connected with the public works of Hongkong continue to prove an attraction to the people the burthen will be distributed over a longor Costa's administrative blunders. In the neigh-vain, the Celestial marauder, shooting through

CHINESE ROAD AGENTS. bouring colony of Macas and earnestly hopes bathroom on to the verandah, and then fellows, were indicted for robbery with violence the hot season when several of the staff are not presumption that the Government wise warrant the complete relief from it which at the An Pul and Sha Kam Hi, both brutal-looking of the officers. The occasions are rare during of calamity, impossible to foresee and on the year or two the condition of the Revenue may

appear to be especially prejudicial to the health of the neighbouring Empire. In the absence period; and is is probable that in the course of the Portuguese Government will cease to curse quietly slipping down into the garden of at Yau-ma-ti on the 8th ulto--The Attorney Incapacitated by illness. During the last month enough to maintain the present freedom of present moment would be imprudent Should the colonies with Governors of the military the Wilderness the private residence of General prosecuted. On the day named two no less than nine officers at one time were unfit trade, there can be no moral, doubt that the this profession, The whole of the Portuguese press of Messrs. Reiss & Co.-liero' he was com Chinese traders were walking along the road for duty and many works are thereby unduly 20,000 acres of unsold land in the colony (most rece

Faved by the Council and the Far East, with the exception of the parasitical pletely lost to view. It is presumed that the then the pelsoners, with two other usen, attacked retarded. As one instance out of many, the of which is as suitable, or not more unaniable sec

The Secretary of Stale, a and trub-rovilinz Independente, has joined robber, who displayed courage and ingenuity goods, hich were worth about $45, away. of the Admiralty and War Office property have, now covered with houses) will eventually realise reve

them, gagged and bound them, and took their estimates for the extension of the Praya la front for building than was originally that which

require ite in condemning Senhor da Costa's high-worthy of a better cause, bad sen eled himself in The prisoners were afterwards caught in owing to this cause, been delayed for several an enormous sum. Indeed at this moment if a like

dings in Macao.. It goes without the front bedroom, Mr. Car having carefully neighbouring village with some of the goods in months; and it has therefore been impossible the new treat the art Shapainaakal

amaypridente nas espoused me preen that an“ wwe noors were sepure, before no sentenced to three years imprisonment each scheme for this long-delayed and supremely of limpiediate building and of thus abando

Comery do ubila ter ajelty Government, the present policy of young without the condition fallen autocrat simply because retired to rest. There was a light horning in with two floggings Ling Ching, a coolic, was important improvement, which, the Governor to speculators the proat that will other aper is almost exclusively written by the bedroom, and the thief walked off with indicted, upon a similar charge. On the 13th:

bosom friends of the official bunch of keys in addition to the gold watch inst, he met woman on the road between Hung the year the concurrence of the local authorities, difficulty of o

most glad to announce, received early in reaped by the community there would

obalning from sales loss at $200 Ham and Yazma th, and demanded the bandia Civil Naval and Military (the question, how weeks an aggregate cum cu appendages. Mr. Cor estin

she was carrying, at the same time threatening acao and wants to know where the police were. We her with dagger, She refiend to do so, but he feel of the proportion of the post to be the amount of the surf

peld took away the bundle, which contained property

Imperial But besides the land Baremalting

TONQUIN papers report that Thuiet, a former Regent, with a thousand armed followers, is posted at the frontiers in the neighbourhood of Dinh-hap, awaiting a favorable opportunity to enter Tonquin as soon as the crops are gathered.

We learn that the steamship Dafila will shortly be placed on the Hongkong-Manis line vice the Visayas. The latter vessel is now under going certain alterations prior to being placed as a night boat and consort to the Pasig on the

Canton River.

We understand that the total amount subscribed to the "Pereira" Trust Fund as per List circu Inted by Mr. Ulrich, Assistant Turnkey, amounted up to date to $697; of which 295-15 were collected and deposited at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on the 15th inst., $335 on the 16th, and $144 to-day, the total amount collected being $474-15. THE following interesting little dialogue took place between a Customs officer and the captain of a steam launch at one of the out stations a Tow days ago

Customs officer (in Engilab)-What do you have on board that launch?

handed

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Pall Mall Gastle, from some very strong the Yokohama papers for certain reports he has attacks that have been alleged against him in sent home anent Japanese manners and customs, and especially for statements he has made which have a direct tendency to place Europeans and are stated to be wholly imaginary and to Japanese at enmity. Our morning contemporary was ill advised to meddle in what concerned it act, and on matters of which it had no personal knowledge. Mr. Norman, like a great many others of the globe-trotter ganur, was made great fuss about in Tokyo and Yokohama, treated to every possible form of courtesy and hospitality, he was even presented to the Mikado--and his return for all this was a report to the Pall Mall Gazette bristling with inaccuracies and "making game of the people from whom he had received so much consideration and kindness. Mr. Norman is apparently a falt specimen tonally "nored correspondents" we see occasionally honored with in Hongkong selfsatisfied prig who thinks he is everybody and all the rest of the world nothing. If the press in the Far East. would only leave Mr. Henry Norman and his kind severely alone, they would soon drop out of recognition. The idea of any man, however. talented, presuming to set himself up as a com petent critic of affairs Japanese after only a few weeks superficial acquaintance with the country, serious consideration. We in the Far East can and people, is altogether too preposterous for safely afford to ignore the existence both of Mr. Henry Norman and the Pall Mall Gazette.

SUPREME COURT

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief

Justice

there being ten cases for trial. The following The October Sessions opened this morning, Jury was empanelled-Messrs. J. A. da Luz, C. H. C. Platt, K. A. Seks) Ullmann, F. A. dos Remedios, C. Grant and if. H. Hughes.

EXPENDITURE 2.

$1,394,665 or an increase of $63,472 as compared The Ordinary Expenditure is estimated. at with that for 1888. The apparent increase in Departmental expenses of 891,808 is due, as re- gards $35.474, to votes for Scavenging and for the Lock Hospital, which have hitherto appeared under the head of Miscellaneous services, and are now transferred to the Sanitary and Medical under this head, $56,334 (principally due to the Departments respectively. The real increase needs of the increasing population), will be as usual explained in detail before the Finance Committee. Some of the principal Items, how ever, deserve special notice.