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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1883.

THE first lol of Subscription griffins for next season's race meeting, ta in number, arrived here this afternoon and will be drawn for at Kennedy's Horse Repository at noon to-morrow.

at Causeway Bay to-morrow afternoon, com.

THE General Managers (Messrs. Jardine, Mathe. son & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Tatsang, from Calcutta, left Singapore on the zoth inet for this port.

THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending at October, are:-European, 197, Chinese, 2,075; total 2,272.

"No," said the theatre manager, "I don't want

A recommendation of the Governor's that $8,500 be granted for the erection of a Honie for Women, was referred to the Finance Committee girls rescued by the Society for the Protection of

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THE FEVER COMMISSION. The Governor expressed regret that by an been laid on the table. He had not known that owing to a question about planting eucalyptus trees having arisen, He did not think cucalyptus trees any good in the tropics. Anyhow, the report would be at once forthcoming.

favoring a severe one, the result being that Mr. Marques was sentenced to 25 days imprisonment. gentleman was not a military man in any sense If you take into consideration the fact that this

of the word, as he never took the requisite oath of allegiance to serve in the National Battalion," never served, and never received,pay, you will punishment. It may be that the existence of the ordinances; but such, ordinances, if they exist, as well as the entire carps, are ridiculous excrescences on the body military, and of no': practical or possible use to the Holy City. When sach things as these are tolerated the rapid decadence of Macao, ceases to be a matter for

THERE will be a game at polo at the Club's ground SAYS our Shanghai morning contemporary of the any society favorites to play at my house this oversight the report of this Commission had not readily recognise the injustice of his arrest and mencing at 4.m. After the play a meeting of/17th. inst.:~H.M.S, Alacrity, with the British season. I had two last season, and there wasn't such was not the case, and explained that it was National Batinlion is legalised by Portuguese members will be held to consider the qucation of dial os, board, is at Cheloo, and the Afufine and Heroine are expected here shortly.. It is obtaining ponies from the North.

said the Satellite will winter at Shanghai.

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BILLS,

The Supplementary Appropriation Bill 1887 readings. Three Bills for the naturalisation of as many Chinaṁmen were passer..

NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED..

enough to pay for the gas in the house the four wecks they were her." "You," said the advance ngent, "but this is a different kind. This one' 7-53 MR. C. D. Harman, agent of the O. & 0.

lives with her husband." "Great Scott't why S. S. Co., informs us that the steamer Gaelic, THE following appointments are notified, in, the didn't you say that before, man? Of course I'll with mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 20th Government Gazette:-Mr. George Jekyll bill her for two weeks this winter and two next and Appropriation Bill 1879 passed their second surprise. ulto, has arrived at Yokohama, and will sail Philippo, B.A., to be Clerk to the Puiane Judge, spring. If we get that fact about her living with for this port on Wednesday, the 24th inst.

with effect from the 37th August last, vice Mr. Cher husband in the papers the house wont hold E. Holworthy, resigned. Messrs. Au Kinam and the people. I've been looking, six months for a A MEETING of the Sanitary Board will be held Wong Sung-ting of the Tung-wa Hospital to be drawing novelty."." on Thursday next the 25th inst. at 4.30 p.m. public vaccinators under The Vaccination Or. The bye-laws unifer sub-section 1 and 3, and 19 dinance, 1888, vice Mr. Ch'as Hotsak, resigned. and 24 of section 13 of the Public Health Ordinance will form the subjects of discussion. The Band" will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, to-morrow evening, commen. cing at 8 o'clock. The following will be the programme -

CLOVE" PINKS-PANSIES—PHLOX--

HOLLYHOCKS-PORTULACA, VERBENA and PETUNIA.

MIGNONETTE MACHEL (The New Variety).

Priced Catalogue on application. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 31st August, 1888,

DEATH.

At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 13th October, 1888,. ALEXANDER H. TAIT, (late Engineer S.S. Pekin), aged 41 years.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1888,

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter.)

RUSSIA AND, AUSTRIA. ·

LONDON, October 19th,

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MR. POLLOCK thinks "It is a sin to steal a pin, much less to steal a greater thing." Last week he gave a poor wretch two months' imprison- ment for stealing a tenpenny nail from the Docks, whilst this morning he committed a coolic for fourteen days for having twelve pounds of copper nails, the property of the same Company, in bis possession.

THE N. C. Daily News hears from Peking, under date the 8th instant, that it was blowing A nor-wester there, with frightful clouds of dust, added to which crowds of bannermen, ander their different.flags, were repairing Legation Street, by piling up the dust and dirt in the middle of the fairway. This was in preparation for the passage through the street of the Emperor's Ur-tick, which was understood to be a notification to his deceased ancestors at Moukden of his approaching marriage.

A PRIEST living at Tai-ping-shan has a very handsome bob-tailed pussy, the winner of fifteen

March........."I will be true to thee" Onmort......"Schubert".....n Yala Star and Garter" Fantasia. Rem, of Mendelsagha” Sebadan.....Dinorah" Selection," Mefistofele'

Newton, Suppe. „Strauss

"Mayerbeer.

Dolio.

JOHN MORAN, Bradmaster.

SAYS the Japan Daily News :-A new rule has been issued by the acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of China and Japan, promulgating a scale of fees for civil and criminal proceedings to be substituted for the scale put in force on May 4th, 1865. The new scale, which is applicable to all Courts in China, Japan, and Korea, came into force on the 8th instant; all actions instituted prior to that date will be under the old scale, but all instituted subsequently will

under the new scale. The fees are given in the new table fa, more detail than hitherto, but the amounts are practically the same.

THR U. S. S. Paloj left Kobe for Chemulpo on the 11th inst. The Russian gunboat Korcats left Nagasaki for Chemulpo on the 13th inst. The Russian cruiser Najasník arrived at Naga saki from Vladivostock on the 9th inst The French cruiser Parsival" and the flagship Turenne arrived at Nagasaki from Hakodate on the 12th and 13th inst, respectively. The U.S.S. Marion, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chandler, was to leave Yokohama on the 13th instant for Shanghai. H.M.S, Cofkchafer is ordered to Tienisin for the winter. We hear that she will have as consorts a French, a German, a Russian, and an American man-of-war. The German gunboat Wolf was at Wenchow on the ith

instant.

SUPREME COURT

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION. (Before the Hon. J. Kussell, Acting Chief

Justice.)

The Attorney-General moved the second read-. ing of the Bill to amend the Gambling Ordinance. of 1876. He said that it was desirable that o section should be added to the Bill, empowering the police to arrest the keepers of gambling houses, and removing their powers to arrest other gamblers.

the Manila loftTERY. The Governor pointed out, with regard to the section dealing with the punishment to which illegal. He thought it should also be made offenders were liable, that lotteries, were declared

criminal to sell lottery ticke's. That was a short Ordinance, with a specific purpose, and he did not include that point, but he thought it followed conclusively that the sale of Manila Lottery tickets should be made punishable. It would never do to punish the Chinese for selling Tea Fa tickets and allow Manila Lottery tickets, which did as much harm to the community, to be sold freely. He had been furnished lately, by a leading gentle man concerned, in a bank, with some startling statistics as to the amount of money taken out of Hongkong every year by that Lottery, and he did not think the purchase were confined to those who could afford it. The purchasers included most of the European community, if not Chinese also. He had not the figures, but he assured the Council they were startling as to the amount of money taken out of the Colony yearly,

The ordinary general meeting of the share- holders in the above Company was held yester day (13th inst.)in the Company's Office, Hankow Read, Mr. E. H. Lavers in the Chair. There were present:-F. H Bell, W. Brand, J. A. Hawes, H. R. Hearn, A. C. Westall, A. G. Wood. (Directors), W. C. Ward, C. Möljer, A. S. T. Clifton, C. G. Warburg, J. W. Harding, A. P. Arahold, and A. Ross (Secretary), representing Campbell, J. M. Young, Y. Duer, H. L. Price, in all 1,132 votes.

The Chairman said that as a quorum was now present and they could comnience the busincas of the meeting, Mr. Ross would please read the nolice.

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The notice convening the meeting having been road, the Chairman remdliked that the meeting was merely a formal one in pass the Report and Accounts to the 30th Jane, which compared favourably with the statement issued at the corresponding date last year, and moved the following resolation which was seconded by Mr. F. H. Bell and carried unanimously

That the Director's Report and the Accounts, as now presented, be adopted and passed.

Mr. Arnhold proposed the second resolution namely

That the Directors' be authorized to close up the accounts of the year 1887 as soon as it is found expedient to do so, and that, after making Mr. Ryrie:Some of it comes back, (laughter). due provision for claims and outstanding liabil The Governor :-Extremely little, I am afraid.ities, and further profit which may be found to have accrued in respect, of that year shall be THE FIRE INQUIRY BILJ..

added to the Reserve Fund;

It is reported that Russia is placing troops on the Austrian frantier ja response to similar move. cat-competitions and the champion ratter of the ments on the Austrian side. The Russian press neighbourhood. On Saturday a cold-blooded on the sermon about loving his enemies which Michaelsen, G. A. Wieler and O. Bachrach. move in Committee that the Bill be amended

is in favor of an understanding with England.

(From the Avenir du Tonkin) THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH *REPUBLIC.

PARIS, October 7th. The President of the Republic has received ovations at Lyons and Dijon.

M. CLEMENCEAU.

October 10th.

M. Clemenceas, in a speech delivered to a public meeting at Toulon, stated that he would support the Ministry and that the Republicans would easily defeat the plebiscite manoeuvres of General Boulanger.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An editorial and other items of interest have been unavoidably "crowded out" of this issue,

THE French despatch vessel Parseval arrived

at Shanghai from Nagasaki on the 18th Inst. THE. P. & O. Company's steamer Deccan, from Bombay, left Singapore for this port yesterday

at 5 p.m.

His Excellency the Governor announced to-day at the Legislative Council that be contemplated stopping the sale of Manila lottery tickets by a

new Ordinance.

MR. A. MCCALLUM, Engineer of Messrs. Boyd & Co., Shanghai, was drowned the other day in crossing the bar at Tamsul, Three Chinese

shared the same fate,

Wx regret to hear of the death of Colonel Lat,

who has been well and favorably known for many years to residents of this colony as com randant of Kowloon city..

We are informed by the Agent of the Messageries Maritimes that the Company's steamer Anadyr, with the next French mail, left Salgon this morning at z o'clock for this port.

rascal who kept a stali near his door stole her and tied her up with an eye to a rabbit pie next day. The pricnt's wife discovered her, and offered to ransom her for ten cents, but the rascal took the money and then beat Mrs. Priest. The catastrophe will be spoken on Friday, by Mr. Pollock.

Kuhlow says:-Germany now produces 300,000 kg, of spun waste. The centres of production are Alsatia and the Grand Duchy of Baden. Germany, however, imports silk of alldescriptions and from all countries. Three-fourths of the raw silk consumed in that country comes from, Italy, whilst spun waste is applied to it almost exclusively by Switzerland. Waste silk enters almost as much as raw silk into the goods manufactured in Crefeld, Elberfeld, and Barmen, and the weft generally consists of cotton. The German dyeing houses receive, annually about 700,000 kg, of silke for treatment,

THE sixth (and last) "Spoon" competition at boo yards of the Hongkong Rifle Association took place at Kowloon on Saturday afternoon. Although the light was bad and most unfavorable for big scores, the shooting showed some im provement on previous essays over this range, albeit that two or three usually reliable marksmen failed to exhibit anything like their true form. Eventually Police constable J. Carson, with a total of 30, scored a handsome victory over 25 opponents. Messrs. C. D. Wilkinson, D. Wood, and E. R. Hope tied for second place with 25 each, and there were three 24's and two 23'6.

YESTERDAY morning Inspector Matheson was going across Queen's Road to the wharf, reflecting

he had just heard, when he saw a Chinamiz coming along with a tremendous revolver of the pepper-box brand coming towards him. The man seemed mad, and Mr. Matheson resorted to strategy. He asked the madman if he had any conscientious objections to letting him examine the pistol, and said it so nicely that the lunatic at once said he had not, and handed it over, with 99 cartridges. When disarmed he was easily got to the Police station, where he proved to be a very decent sort of an old fellow who thought a ghost was after him. He is in custody pending a medical examination.

A CHINESE APPEAL. This appeal was heard before a special jury, composed as follows:-Messrs. Alex Wright, Alex. Levy, A. Hancock, H. X. Just, S. C.

The Attorney General (instructed by Mr. Has tings) appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Francis, Q.C., (instructed by Mr. Mossop) represented the defendant.

The Attorney-General stated that he would

to the extent that the same magistrate must not hold the inquiry and any subsequent criminal inquiry.

The Council adjoumed shortly afterwards,

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ANOTHER FIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD,

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Mr. Young seconded the resolution.

The Chairman-Gentlemen. I think that resolution meets the position in which we are placed, and I trust there will be something added

to the Reserve.

The resolution was put and carried without discussion."

The Chairman-That is all the business there. is before the meeting, Thank you gentlemen, for your attendance,

A vote of thanks to the Chairman having been proposed by Mr. Young and manimously carried, the meeting adjourned.-N. C. Daily News

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“RUSSIAN' INTRIGUES IN COREA.

The ratification of the Russo-Corean treaty, says a vernacular paper in Japan, took place la Minister brought forward to the notice of the October 1886. Shortly afterwards, the Russian Corean Government the draft of the additional treaty, and held a conference for the purpose of should be first inaugurated. By this draft the deciding on the place where the domestic trade true signification of the treaty which the Russian Government' were desirous' of making became manifest.

following

that was an action brought by Siew Lok Hing, The Attorney-General, in opening, said that substantially to obtain an order for the setting aside of a decree made against him, in common with several other persons who were partners in the Yu Cheung bank. Their partnership was About half-past three, this morning, the care: wound up some years ago, and in the orders taker of the shop 114 Queen's Road West, which which a sum of money was made payable by Street, heard a noise in the cookhouse and. made in the suit for the purpose was oor by is between Cochrane Street and Pollinger the appellant as a contribution toward the thought it was a thief. He awoke a foki bank's settlement. He now appealed against named Sam, and they went to the place, when that order on the ground that he was deceived they found the door, a cupboard, and some Wx (N. C. Daily News) hear from a competent the Court. He alleged that Ho Kit told him

by Ho Kit, the partner who obtained it from firewood burning. Instead of putting them out, authority, and we do not know whether the that though it was necessary that bis name ran out, Samuel leading. About twenty as they could easily have done, they gallantly opinion has been brought to the notice of the should be added to the suit, and that appa minutes later they gave information at the Inspector General of Customs, that there is offently he might be made liable to pay a Fire Brigade Station, and four engines turned grave faull about the splendid system of ligh" would be in no way affected by the results, and Nam Pak Hong manual. Water had only to be sum of money, it was a mere formality, he our, as did also the Volunteer steamer and on the China coast. The light-houses are alme it was quite unnecessary for him to have pumped from the Praya, but there was a little uniformly too high. This unquestionably enables himself represented or have his interests delay in getting it on, the flames in the mean.. but that is not what is wanted. The sailor suit, and did not examine the documents which litte wind, and the hardware which formed the referred to, vizite substance of the draft the lights to be seen much farther out at sen,

watched. In consequence of these represents-time extending to the front of the building, tions he took no action or active part in the which is three stories high. There was but wants to know when he is near the dangers he received from time to time. In the end against which the lights are to guard him, and

strck on the ground-floor not being combustible-By Article 1 of 1806 a promise is made be found to his astonishment that he was liable no very serious blaze was visible. In a short that a belt of land extending over a hundred in the peculiar low fogs which infest the China The question now to be decided was not whether others from the rear, and before the chilly crowd sides of the lake starting from Zumbanko lako for the sum of nearly $3,000, which he paid, time five jets were playing on the front, and two Corean miles (about 14 English miles) on both coast, the captain of a vessel is often below the he would have been liable for the money if he could warm their hands it was dulled down. will be given, where Russians and Coreans may fog and the light above it, so that he does not had been properly represented that had been The basement was stocked on one side with trade freely. The officers who shall superintend see the light at all; and this will account for decided, but whether the appellant was induced clocks and on the other with hardware; over the trade are to be some of the losses of steamers close to, and by fraud and misrepresentation to neglect giving head was

appointed by the respective living room, and the top floor was Governments, ne sometinies almost at the foot of, powerfid and

such attention to the sult as might or might not a club. A very marked increase in the ardour 11-The Corean Government shall open a place otherwise admirable lights. The objection is at any rate to forego a right which he would have conditions was noticeable; they were also miles (about 75. English. miles) frem Zumanko, have resulted in his exemption from liability, or of the Government Brigade under their improved called Funei, situated at a distance of 200 Corean well worth the serious consideration of Sir exercised if he had not been deceived. The strengthened by six military firemen, who have besides the present treaty ports, for the purpose Robert Hart and his engineers, and is not lightly stated that in March 1984 Ho Kit, the active the beginning of the month, and who worked opened for Russians alone, under the same con- Attorney-General then read the petition, which had quarters in the Fire Brigade Station, since of trade and residence for Russians. It shall be partner in the Yu Cheung bank, brought an most energetically. The premises were gutted, ditions as are existent in other treaty ports.. action against the other partners, including the but the adjoining houses were entirely enved. III-A Russian Consulate shall be established This is the third fire in the block of six or seven at Funei, the trading post, and until the arrival will come none too soon. The Lubeck Fire the Governor of Vladivostock or another Russian

joint occupant beld a policy for $7,500-both Insurance Co. (Messrs. Scheele & Co.) had provincial officer shall act as Consul insured the clack-seller for $1,500 and the other taken out on the 8th of this month, we under stand.

zuade.

THE amounts of convertible notes and reserves ABOUT eleven o'clock this morning a mahogany appellant, for the settlement of the accounts of the

in

the Bank of Japan for the week ending the colored, solemn-looking little Chinaman whose partnership and having it wound up. Appellant shops this month; so the Fire Inquiry Ordinance of a properly constituted Consul at that place,

6th instant were as follow :-

CONVERTIBLE NOT

Yox,

Notas issued.....10,046,650

Reserves and SACURITIE

-Yox,

Gold cols and bullion... 2144 Public Loan Bonds.... 13,672,100 Government Bills.....& 18%.do

Silver coln and bullion.,,,34%

Tressury Bübc. Dead

$8,008,610.

2,420,00

1,100,000

35,004,650

on receiving his copy of the writ, asked Ho Kit for an explanation, and was told by him that bis defendants being the other partners, and that he name had been added as a formality, the real need not trouble himself to take any steps to stated that the appellant had full and due notice defend the action. In his reply the defendant of the proceedings, and was not prevented from sentations of Ho Kit and that he was furnished appearing or defending the same by any repre with a copy of the accounts which showed him to be indebted to the bank in the sum of $2,496. that for some years previous to 1831 he was a Sten Lok Hing, a merchant in Hongkong, said, partner in the Yu Cheung bank. There were four partners left when the company was wound and soon afterwards commenced a suit against the rest of the partners. He asked Ho Kit for an

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CORRESPONDENCE,

(We do not necessarily endurse the 'opinions expressed by

corespondents la this column.] Day, MAI

postal service by horses. The horses for the IV-The Corcan Government shall start a Russian postal service and others shall run a distance of 100 miles within the treaty limits... V-Articles which have once paid duty at other Corean treaty ports shall be exempted from taxation at Farel.

-VI-Russlan 'goods which have been stored for a period of over 13 months at Funei may be transferred to other Corean treaty ports free of

silken babiliments were bidden by a barrister's

wig, toddled into the Supreme Court and sat gown, and his queue bý à very new and curly

down beside the Attorney-General. Even his lordship smiled, but the little legal luminary never moved & musciq until told by "Mr. (down), a gentleman who had passed in law Attorney" to come later. It was Mr. Wai Peu with flying colours at the Middle Temple, and who had come to be formally admitted to practice here. At one o'clock he came in again with the same comically-imperturbable look, and |his chaperon, Mr. O'Malley, informed the Court SAYS the M. C. Daily News :-On the night of that his protege's 'papers, showing that he was up in 1881. Ho Kit was one of them, and you agreed with the decision of the Governor in VIII-The duty to be imposed an articles the 31st August, a steamer ran down a small cause of the levers prevailing in the Western The Captain of the steamer which proved to be examined and found correct. His lordship'said I explanation, and was told that his name must the Gaol Moreover, you say:“! you have every tradelimits shalle be, governed by the ordinary Commissioners appointed to enquire into the boat off Woosung, and two men were drowned, called to the Bar in April last, had been District," and purpose dealing with this importhe August, finding an accident of some ting that he also had looked over the papers, and be included to make the matter complète, but reason to believe he is a most competent officer rate of taxation,tor CAD HA

A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 16,

will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street,

this evening, at 8,30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

WE have received a copy of the "Report of the

tant subject at an early date.

A CASE of piracy and murder has been reported to the police. On the 16th a gang of men in two large junks attacked four fishing boats about 30 miles to the east of Hongkong, and after killing one man and wounding several others looted the boats and sailed off.

Of the above total issue of notes, a sum of yen 2.020,176 is in the treasury of the Bank, and yen 55,986,474 is in actual circulation, showing an increase of yen 503,784 as compared with yaw 55.483,690 at the end of the previous week.

had occurred, stopped the engines and instituted a search, but the boat was a very small one and nothing could be seen of it, nor of the recent occupants, as the night was dark. The Captain recorded the fact in his log that the ship had collided with something; what it was he did not collided was the following morning the natives reported that a boat had been run down by an

'unknown' steamer. The name of the vestel was

they seemed to be in order, and he had great pleasure in admitting him.-Exit the little

imperturbable.

show gives the following comprehensiv account of the fight between the Atlantic Cable Companies :-At last the Commercial Cable Company has obtained a well-earned triumph, and from September 1st the tariff per ward across

VIL-Coreans who emigrated to Siberia pre- vious to 1886, the year in which the treaty was contracted, shall be recognized as Russian subjects. takarás

which are transferred 100 miles outside of the

the others which relate chiefly to official com

THE GAOL SUPERINTENDENT. TO THE EDITOR or the "Honorowa Tellorapit.".. SIR--I was much surprised to find on reading the leader in your issue of the 19th Inst. that increasing the salary of the Superintendent of

The above are the, most material provisions, that he need not trouble himself about it, as the I don't think you have the public with you in too was only brought really against another this conclusion. The figure the Superintendent of the partners, and if he went to the Court it cut at the recent Chain-gang enquiry was most

munications, etc, are not so important. In the would be useless. After some interviews be unsatisfactory) the utter want of knowledge dis above there is no mention whatever made fo received some papers, and had an interview played in his evidence was quite sufficicat to connection either with extradition, or the Consul or other officer on with Mr Dennys, He Kit's lawyer. He also stamp his incompetency; the arms, supplied to residence, of a Corean

Russian territory sawers Mossop, who explained that the other the officers were in some cases found to be use altogether. He was a creditor of the bank's possible, to be even wors would have to China; but as his assistance and knowledge partners owed the bank $9,000 or $10,000 less, and the ammunition, if such a thing were brought forward, M. von Mollendorff was recalled At the time this additional treaty was being and understood that he would get this money back after the suit against the other better satisfied had His Excellency throw this invaluable to the Russian Minister in obtaining The public, I believe, have been far of all matters pertaining to the subject were had not been 'misled by Ho Kit.

body agree are miserably paider

Government strongly objected to his departure Other evidence having been given,

from Corea" This aroused, the suspicions of Cores and she postponed the ratification of the treaty, and in accordance with the advice of the Ministers of the Foreign Powers In Cores, the Goverment was able to postponelije ratification OUR MACAO LETTER. of the contract. Judge Denny was then appointed Adviser to the Corean Government under private MACAO, 22nd October, 1888.structions from the Viceroy Li. But what fur A Municipal election was held in this City unlooked for and alowed the cleverness and prised the public greatly, inasmuch as it was so yesterday for the third time during the past few diplomacy, of the Russian Minister, is seen in the weeks, which resulted us was confidently antici action of Judge Denny Soon after, bis arrival pated, in the unanimous re-election of the member helped the Russian Minister in his pol bers who composed the Corporation so arbitrarily relative to: Cores thus showing that wh

QUR Shanghai contemporaries learn that the only discovered yesterday, 14th inst. It does the Atlantic is to be one shilling. Of the tactles partners. He would have got a lawyer if he "Sop" amongst the rank and file, whom every for bin the wished for concession, the Russian"

Imperial Dock and Naval Yard at Taku are not appear that any blame attaches to anybody of the combined companies the less said the better, but the facts may be recorded. When the again in full working order, so that any verseison board the steamor.

Mackay-Ecobett combination laid itacable, efforts visiting that port can have repairs effected. The

Mr. Francis, for the respondent, addressed the jury. He denied that the appellant ever received an assurance from his client that he was not liable

establishment is now under pow management, AMONGST other forms of Chinese rascality is were madeto induce them to join the pool So far to have judgment given against him in the action,

as we can gather, these efforts also agreement and submitted that it was not reasonable that failed because there was no reality in them. The he would ignore all the legal correspondence sent pool then put on the screw, saying, agree to our him, or act, as he had done, on the mere repre- terms or we will fight. They fought. The sentations of Ho Kit. sixpence tariff: was a "fighting tariff." It was spoken of as such and boasted about as such,

and Mr. William Grant is the Superintendent...that of "flying the pigeon," as they call it. Two pigeon-flyers of this description were up before Mr. Pollock this moming, on a charge of obtain ing money by false pretences. Early last month they went to a woman who lives in acen's Road West, and who wanted to adopt a child, and offered to sell her a little girl nine years Result; no dividends to the shareholder and

PRATH has been been rife, amongst some of the most influential of our Chinese friends lately, and we notice with regret that that accomplished Chinese gentleman Ng Heung Po, the agent of Abe China Merchants Company at Canton, has crossed the "black" river and has been followed by old Ya, Lok, the contractor who built the Naval Department works at Kowloon.

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The jury found for the appellant on two of the issues, and against on the other two.

Mr. Francis will move, for judgment to be entered for the defendant to-morrow.

COUNCIL.

Yours truly,ligge FAIRPLAY. Hongkong, 22nd, October, 1888.

old, stating that they stood in the relationship of no "prostration in fear from the Commercial mother and uncle respectively, that the father cable. The fighting tailf failed, and then it MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE and unfastly dissolved by ex-Governor à Coifas expected of him by the puple Was was just dead, and that they wanted to sell the was dubbed euphonistically an experimental child to pay his funeral expenses. They wanted tariff, one that was fairly and squarely tried. as an experiment to see if the increased messages ON Saturday morning three Chiuamen armed $100, but at length agreed to take $93, for | mewn - with swords visited a coppersmith in Battery which they gave a receipt. On Friday night would recoup the loss from the tariff. In other just as he was counting his dollars. They the new mother took the girl to the theatre, and words, being worsted in the fight, a happy mentioned that they wanted a loan without whilst there the latter got away and rejoiced thought

Zimme

and that if he objected he would be the prisoners, who were really her parents. They experim

very dead. They got fifteen dollars,

were all on the point of going to Canton when gested

the purchaser appeared, and gave the father and The mother into custody. The little girl denied all | the knowle

prosecuta

door, and cleared put, The coppersmith ly followed caught one of the men, to carry, and hid eky one wa amanded,, identific

and they were sentenced

[and:

Out of 130 votes which were registered Senhor variance with what he did cast Pacheco obtained 147 Benbor Cancio similar manner as M. von Mall Jorge 14 Senhor A. da Fonseca 125 Russian Minister hereupon brou A meeting of the Legislative Council was held Senhor, E Volney Sanches 125 Sentint A the Corean Government the this afternoon, when thers were presents da Silva Telles 93; and Senhor J. Ribera C His Excellency the Governor (Sir William Now that the autocrat of All Macao) has left De Ve Dr. E. Stewart, Calogial Secretaryy, this city for good the slotanious Ge porationve Mr. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, Mr. E. L. depend on leading an astroc long since sug. O'Malley, Attorney-General, H. E. Wodehouse, In my last 1 Informed

adopted, Acting Colonial Treasurer, Mr. J. M. Price, Informal arrest by the com

Surveyor General, Captain WM Deane, Battalion on a charge of o Superintendent of Police, Meas. P. Ryde, Rowma B. Layton, Bell-Irving and Wong Shing, Prosed (unofficial member)

The minutes of the prey

three months