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At Lisbon, on the 16th November, 1888, Dona ADELAIDE CLOTHOLDE GONZAGA, Daughter of the late Guilherme Gonzaga, and Dona Maria B. Rangel Gonzaga, and most beloved Sister of the Baroness do Cercal.

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found guilty of heinous crimes has been set at liberty. Portuguese legislation is

$400. To wipe this out he promoted loan

By the latest census, just published, the popula$is chair allowance. At the time he owed $200. He re-entered Government employ in tion of Paris is 2,344,450,

1883, when his debts amounted to about

association, so that he could borrow money free of interest. The reason he got into debt was that his wife was ill, and he had to borrow money at heavy interest. Ha promoted ten loan associations altogether,

undoubtedly an elastic thing, and that Iris reported that "Ouida" has become extremely probably accounts for the extremely | religious, and will give up literature. anomalous position which the colony of

ALMA Tadema is immensely industrious. Macao holds in the Far East.

has just bung six paintings in the London Gallery.

TELEGRAMS

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SAMOA.

LONDON, January 8th. A party of German sailors having been landed at Samoa for the purpose of assisting Tamasese were defeated losing in killed and wounded thirty- six and two officers.

EGYPT.

The British forces have left Suakin.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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SWITZERLAND advertises accommodation for about 150,000 guests over night during the

summer season.

IT is reported that Mrs. Whitney of Boston has been selected to make the, Washington statue that is to be presented to France.

AT the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Leach delivered judgment in the Lucas v. Cur- iambux case. He awarded plaintiff $612. * QUEEN Victoria is afflicted with insomnia. She is sometimes put to sleep by having her browa stroked gently with a camel's hair brush.

Messrs. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the

LADY Dudley, says a current item, siceps in Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Patroclus, from black silk sheets,

Liverpool, left Singapore yesterday afternoon for INQUISITIVE Party-Whose faneral is this ? Irish | this port, and is due on the 17th inst. Undertaker-Mine, sor.

H. MOSLER has been awarded the grand medal We are informed that there will be a game of of the Paris Salon for his painting "The White Captive," one of the three $35.000 paintings of Polo at Causeway Bay at 4 p.m. to-morrow.

American Indian life he was commissioned to

THE P. & O. S. N. Con steamer Kashgar, from Bombay, left Singapore yesterday at noon for this port.

SOCIETY in London is considerably agitated by a report that young Lord Canteloupe is about to marry an American girl worth $1,000,000,

he Hongkeng Belegraph A SEVERE epidemic of cholera has broken out in

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HONGKONG, FRIDay, January 11, 1889.

Ahmedabad. Three hundred fatal cases were registered during a single week, including Europeans.

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His Lordship:-What on earth persuaded] you to do that? It is generally a lot of old women who do that, not a man in your position a public officer, with a decent income to keep bim. Considering your qualifications you were getting a very fair salary $80 a month-why did you not live on it instead of going in for things of this sort? Ten loan associations! I do not know how you could attend to your business here in Court and look after them.

The Bankrupt assured him that he always did that business after Court hours.

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His Lordship continued that the Govern- ment did not allow its servants to get into difficulties for the very reason that it interfered with their work. The bankrupt could not do his work if he had his hands full of loan associa don business. What was the money due to the execution creditor for ?

Bankrupt :-For loan associations. Mr. Wise stated that he had suspended the Bankrupt since he was imprisoned.

His Lordships-Well, Rodriguez, you have petitioned to be made a bankrupt, and I do not see any reason why you should not be, but I um afraid that unless you show very clearly that it was unavoidable misfortune that caused it, your chance of service is gone. Under the rule of 1869 no Government officer shall be retained if he has got into pecuniary embarrassment, 20 that your promotion is stopped, and you are liable to be dismissed. I do not think you are entitled to any pension, as your period of service is broken. I will adjudicate you a bankrupt

explanations to the Registrar in due course To Mr. Wilson :-I think he is entitled to get his release-I do not see any use in continuing to keep him in gaol, as far as the petitioning creditor is concerned--he is only throwing good money after bad. I think we bad better order. his release. 4-Mr. Wilson consenting, the order was made.

that it was a matter of obvious necessity. On the face of it I thought it was not very import- ant. However, when 1 look upon the voluminous correspondence of four years ago which caused this Bill to be framed, I am by no means ceitain whether the conditions in the Interval. have not so changed ns to render it advisable to amend the schedule of the Ordinance, · I'am not yet satisfied on that point one way or the other. · The correspondence has taken a long time to search out and the first time it was put, before me was this morning, I have not been able to come to a definite opinion on the matter for this reason, and as the matter is not by any means one of grave importance I wish for further time for consideration, and I propose to postpone the consideration in Commitice for another meeting. All the reasons remain for the adoption of the body of the Ordinance, but I question whether the financial condition of the Colony has not so altered in the meantime as to render it possible to reduce the amount of fees appeating-in the schedule. I have not quite made up my mind on the point yet, but I am somewhat of that opinion. Of course these fees are not a tax; nothing is there charged but what is for a service actually rendered. At the same time, I" think possibly on further consideration of the matter, considering that our revenue is flourish- ing, that is, compared with four years ago and considering also the enormous value of shipping to this Colony, that these sums might be, at least in part, reduced. I repeat that however mis-- taken in form the hon. member's question, was, (at the last meeting. I am indebted to bim for

calling attention to this matter.

Hon. P. Ryrie--I think it is my duty, your Excellency, to say, a word or two. Your Excel- lency states that questions can only be asked at one time. I have been twenty-two years in this Council and schedules have invariably been matters of discussion and questions on them have been put to the bead of the executive or to the

paint by H. H. Warner of Rochester. ACCORDING to German and English notation, a billion is a million millions, 1,000,000,000,000; by the French and American notation, it is aand I hope you will be able to give satisfactoryofficial introducing the Bill. Of course the rules thousand millions, 1,000,000,000. The arguments of ease in writing and reading are all in favor of the French system.

MRS. VANDERBILT's arrival in London has placed Mrs..Mackay somewhat in a back seat socially, Mrs. Vanderbilt was regarded as a better specimen. of an American society woman than the bonanza

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We are informed by the agents (Messrs, Adam son, Bell & Co.) that the steamship Riversdale, from Antwerp, &c., left Haiphong for Hongkong

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THE cricket match between the H. K. C. C. and the Navy will be continued at ram, to-morrow. By kind permission of Admiral Salmon and Officers of the Flagship, their Band will play during the afternoon.

we feel as if we were actually making a descent into bottomless Sheol. The shady traditions of that unique colony in the Far East, the modern scandals, Governmental and social which have taken place there, are so redolent of sulphur-and-brimstone that we have to uncork our scent bottle whenever we approach them. The news papers published in that immaculate colony have of late been crying down the Hong- matter, upon forms specially sent for that pur-kong, Press, and this paper in particular, pose so as to ensure accuracy. The Naval and for what they styled meddling with the Military portions have been taken from the affairs of the Holy City. Ignorant of the latest published official lists and revised at true mission of the press, and incapable Head-quarters; in fact, no pains have been of any freedom of opinion, the Macao TORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST newspaper scribblers are prone to imagine and other articles with quatrefoil designs.

that the press of free countries is as shackled and manacled, as are their own hireling organs. The latest contribution to this kind of Anglophobic literature was to be found in the columns of the seml-official Independente. The mysterious release of Tono KING-SING's son, the notorious pirate-chief who led a band of cut-throats into his mother's house, has been an endless subject of discussion. Senhor PACHECO, whom nobody accused of any thing in connection with this affair, thought fitto airhis innocence before the public. He admits that he received $350 from TONG KING-SING in order to obtain the prisoner's

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"SPIRITUALIS¿is a curse," Mrs. Kane (the Margaret Fox of "Rochester rappings "celebrity) says in the New York Herald, "No matter in what form Spiritualism may be presented, it is, has been and always will be a curse and a anare to all who meddle with it. No right-minded

man or woman think otherwise.” PRINCE Roland Napoleon Bonaparte is now attending the sessions of the Anthropological Congress at Columbia College, New York city.

He is a tall man, with the Napoleonic cast of

FASHION has decreed a new wedding anniver-feature:, wearing a black mustache, is about sary, the "clover wedding," upon the fourth thirty years of age and a widower.. The Prince year of matrimony. The gifts are four-leaved takes no part in politics, but devotes himself tables, screens, glass dishes, portfolios, frames wholly to science.

EX-QUEEN Isabella of Spain, who was to visit England for the first time last season, has an income of $1,000,000 a year, but is always in debt. She maintains no house in Paris, but always resides at a hotel. She spends vast sums on horses. Her executive ability is clearly shown by the ease with which the constantly spends more than her enormous income amounts

IN 1743 there flourished in Boston an original sort of character, Thomas Fleet, who was a printer and the most popular auctioneer of his day. Among other rare bargains ho offered at

public sale was this: “A negro woman to be sold by the printer of this paper; the very best negro woman in this town, who has had the small-pox and the measles; is as hearty as a borac, as brisk as a' bird and will work like a beaver."

Twx Queen of Italy, who is a charming artist and a great lover of peace, has designed one of the prettiest lamps on view at Cavalier Giuseppe's stall at the Italian Exhibition. It is composed of ruby glass, patterned over with gold' alive leaves and blossoms; gold doves perch on the globe. Candelabra, partly designed by the

cen, may also be seen among the lights, and up the suspension chains small winged angels climb and play.

We would call the attention of the Clerk of the Course to Rule 20th appended to the programine of the Race meeting for this year. It has been provided that all horses and ponies shall be measured by the Stewards a week previous to the day of entering, at the Grand Stand, between the hours of 6 and § am. Acting on the letter of this provision, several owners of horses endeavoured to get their steeds measured this morning but on calling at the Grand Stand they have found there nobody ready or willing to do the needful

NORMAN B. Ream, a well-known Chicago speculator, who has accumulated a fortune of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 in grain and provisions, was selling mackerel and brown sugar in a country store at Princeton, III, a few years ago, He began speculating in the Board of Trade in of the affair. Of course, Senhor PACHICO | a small way, through" brokers, and after a little assumed that this version was communicated success launched out for himself. He has to us by some one in Macao, and he never faculty of always keeping on the right side of the took the trouble to make himself sure of market, and is known as "the wizard of the

Board." the assumption. Vulpine reasoning seems to be in great favour with the Portuguese. It is needless to say that we beard of the release of ToxG KING-SING's son from quite another source than either Senhor PACHECO or the Macao Independente imagined. We gave the news in the same vague manner in which it was coin- municated to us, and never hinted who was to blame for the release of a youth who was charged with the heinous crime of leading armed pirates into his own mother's domicile. We neither know nor care what provisions are to be found in Portuguese legislation absolving a son who robs his parents. Our remarks and animadversions were directed to the moral side of the case. A young scamp who goes so far in his career of premature criminality as to place his own mother's life and property at the mercy of the robber's cutlass, deserves anything but pity and commiseration. If Portuguese law absolves a person who thus treats his parents, we hold that law in as much contempt as we do the offender.

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THE splendid monument to Maria Theresa, lately dedicated at Vicans, is by far the finest and most costly work of the kind in the empire. The lustrious Empress is represented in a sitting posture, her right arm extended and her left hand grasping the scepire. At the four corners are equestrian figures of her four great Generals--Daun, Landon, Traun and Kheven hueller. The inscriptions are simple, on the front, Maria Theress," and on the back, "Erected by Francis Joseph 1, 1888,” THE first performance of Iolanthe by the Amateur Dramatic Society so pleased H. E. the Governor that he wrote to the Secretary desiring that a third performance should be given at some later date. In accordance with that request arrangements were made for two repetitions this week, the first taking place last night, when a full house assembled. The cast remained unaltered, the only change being in

from the 91st Regiment. The performance was an unqualified success from beginning to end. The slight disadvantages under which several of the performers labored last time, such as nervousness, colds, &c.—were vanished, and the bright opereits went splendidly, most of the But this will never preclude us from songs being encored. Foulively the last perr condemning the facility with which a youth | formance will be given to-morrow night.

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TO TELL THE AGE OF A HORSE., To tell the age of any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel Two middle “nippera” you behold Before, the colt is two weeks old, Before eight weeks two more will come; Eight months the "corners" cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year. In two years, from the second pair; In three, the "camera," too, are bate.

At two the middle "nippers" drop, At three the second pair can't stop. When four years old the third pair goes, At five a full new set he shows.

The deep black spots will pass from view At six years from the middle twoj The second pair at seven years, At eight the spot each "corner" clears. From middle "nippers" upper jaw At aine the black spots will withdraw ; The second pair at ten are white; Eleven finds the "corners" light." As time goes on the horsemen know, The oval teeth three-sided grow } They longer get, project before Till twenty, when we know no more.

$8,773.40.

SUPREME COURT,

IN BANKRUPTCY,

(Before the Chief Justice.)

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IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION,

JOHANNES & CO. SASSOON. The arguments in this case were resumed this afternoon. V

The Attorney-General's defence, put briefly, was that his client was justified in retaining the opium until the plaintiffs forwarded the sugar,

which they did not do.

Mr. Francis having shortly replied, his Lord- ship reserved judgment.

CRICKET

H.K. C. C... Navy,

This two days match commenced to-day. The Club played the first innings, and were not vanquished until four o'clock, but their score was not so large as their long s'and would imply, the only big fighres being obtained by Mr. Sercombe Smith and Mr. Campbell, of the 9rst. The latter's 35 was rather lucky, be having four lives, but it was well-played, and the Club has evidently gained considerably by his acquisition,

The Naval men started well, and at 5.20 bad scored 120 for six wickets. The following were

the scores up to that time:

HONGKONG CRICKÉT CLUB, FIRST INNINGS. Major Johnston, a and b Crichton T. S. Smith, b Lea.........

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A. J. Campbell, (ast) e Rochfort, & Crichton

A. de C. Soraian, A. M. Sq, e Huster, b Rachfart.

8. L. Darby b Rochforting

Bart, b Rochfort..

CFlat Waiter, b Hasler

H. L. Henderson, (gist), o Egerton, & Hunter 11;

F. Bramwell, (sh), e ochfort, a Hunter

R. Boyd, (yiki), b Rochfor

Dr. Alas, not ent

Total...

NAVY.

FIRST IMHINGS, Sab. Lieut. Egerton e Boyd, b. Campbell Mr. Lea, b Campbell... Lieut. Freeman, b Daby nást severages Air. Lyne, b Smith/01/04/ Mr. Crichton,

bir. Garde, Major Jokastane, b Campbell Mr. Hunt Mr. Rochforth Campbells

Tojal.........

YESTERDAY'S LEGISLATIVE"

COUNCIL

of this Council may be different from others, but I am confident that the discussion of schedules always came last. It does not follow either that a question asked is addressed to the President, it is addressed to the official who introduces the Bill.

His Excellency Whatever may have been the practice of this Board I can only say that the Parliamentary practice everywhere is a fixed rule on this subject, and there is no such thing as having questions put while the Bill is being passed. Of course it may have been done here, hut it is absolutely foreign to the practice every- where else, sa far, as my experience goes. From what I have heard many irregular things have been done and passed here. As a matter of form it mattered very little. Had a different form heen taken for raising the question it would' have been all right;

Hon. B. Layton-I do not remember any dis- cassion of the: Bill before. J Introduced a amendment which the Attorney-General pro- mised to give consideration to, and all discussion was postponed. Then the last meeting_look place, and I withdrew the amendment. "There was no meeling, Ithink, between.

His Excellency-The second reading was passed. We had passed the Bill and then when this question was put in Committee it showed that even the unoficial members had not taken the trouble to enquire into it, so that though- very much blame is attached to the Government it is largely shared by the whole Council.

Hon. P. Ryrie-As it has done some good, your Excellency, we will accept the blame.

THE BY-LAWS UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH

ORDINANCE.

His Excellency-On examining these by-laws,. which we are called upon to confirm, it has been found that in one or two respects they are defec- tive, and following the opinion of the Attorney- General they deal with maltern which are rather subjects for legislation by this Council than for by-laws under the Public Health. Ordinance. They will therefore be referred back to the Sanitary Board and cannot be further considered to-day

ADJOURNMENT.

His Excellency If convenient, I think wa. should meet this day week. In the meantime I request that members will carefully consider the proposals with regard to interpretation,

Hon, B. Layton-Do you propose, sir, to continue the discussion on the Merchant Shipping Bill.

His Excellency-Most decidedly, It is only postponed.

„Hon. B. Layton-Would it be possible to have the draft of the Bill discussed by the Committed of the Chamber of Commerce). I was speaking to a gentleman this morning largely interested in shipping and he thought it would be destrable. His Excellency-This is not the proper time to put that question without notice. If you will send me a letter on the subject if shall have my consideration. I do not suppose there would be any objection to what you propose.

The Council then adjourned to the 17th inst.

THE OFFICIAL INTERPRETATION

BANQUESTION.

The following was the remainder of the pro- ceedings of the Council, which we were prevented from giving last night from want of time :-

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING AMENDMENT BILL.

The Council resumed Committee on this Bill. His Excellency-Before proceeding farther with this Bill I desire, to say that I take very The message from His Excellency the Governor much blame to the Government for the occur to the Legislative Council in connection with rence which took place at the last meeting with reference to this Bill. That blame is none theinterpretation, read at the Council meeting lers in that it is very largely shared by the yesterday, was as follows . unofficial members. It will be recollected that The Governor, in accordance with the intima. the first and second reading of this Bill took ition made to the Legislative Council last year e place during my absence in Shanghai.. Any has had under consideration the Report of the matter which affects merchant shipping must be Commission which was appointed to enquire of very great importance in this colony, and respecting the interpretation in the Courts and when the Bill was considered and passed through other Government Departments; and as the Committed except the schedules and no remarks result of further enquiries and much discussion A COURT, USHER IN DANKRUPTCY.

were made by the unofficial members, who in i of the subject, he is now prepared with definité- her, and now prisoner for debt, applied is took it for granted that the object of the Bill met hopes, promote more general knowledge of Henrique Joaquim Rodriguez, late Court special degree represent the shipping interests, I recommmendations, which, if adopted, will, he

forma pauperis to be adjudicated a bankrupt, with the concurrence alike of the Government and Chiness in the Public Service and bring about -Mr. Wilson, on behalf of the execution creditor, the unofficial members. It was therefore a matter a substantial Improvement 'in_its, Interpreting M. H. Gomes, Lyndhurst Terrace, opposed the of very great surprise when I found the subject capacity: 119 application. The bankrupt's statement of affairs | so little considered as appeared when the ques- || * It should; however, (be mentioned in the first set down his assets at 82,135, of which $1.348 tion occurred to which Hon. Mr. Ryrie gave instance that the existing state of things proved were described ai being due from members of rise.". As regards Mr. Ryrie's action in the on lavestigation to be scarcely as delective an loan associations bis liabilities amounted to matter I am quite sure that no one will admit might be supposed from the report of the Com

more completely than himself that the actual mission. The Judges and Magistrates* (from Mr. Wilson said that an arrangement had form which his objection took was 'a very whom no information was sought or obtained) been made originally for the bankaupt to pay Irregular one. There is only one proper time for did not altogether confirm the view taken by his debts off by instalments, but this had falien putting questions to the Government, and that is the Commissioners in paragraph 7 of their report, two lawyers for the purpose of deceiving hit Questions certainly cannot be put during the respect of Hakks, the most Important of the two gw you to bis duplicity in employing certainly not during the passing of a measure and have furnished evidence showing that in Med time a Bill is being passed. Of course the only dialects specifically mentioned, the Colony is creditors

His Lordship Why do you oppose his thing for members who were laterested in the falily well served. And even as regards, the adjudication ? He is a prisoner in gaol, he question to do and I venture to say that dialects of Swarow and Amay the Governor, us swears he is a pauper unable even to pay the includes all members of Council, all should be the result of his enguides, is not disposed to fees of his adjudication-I do not see how you interested in every measure that is passed was think that there is so wide a gap between present can very well oppose the adjudication. However, to have scrutinised: the Bill before coming. I deficiency and what is practically obtainable as he is here, and can answer any questions here and not having put questions at the superficial consideration of the subject in apti Mr. Wilson said that he had promised to proper time they should have boca in a position to indicates arvollere synthestar tuzilis appropriate half his salary to pay his creditor, | to move an amendment: if necessary. * But' ⠀⠀⠀⠀ It is to be borne in mind that ideal perfection "His Lordship pointed out that there was small | although the hon. member, who has had a very | In Interpretation is quite impracticable of attain. chance of that. Even if he did it, however, it large Experience of Councile and I presume their ment even when he two languages are far more would take about fourteen years to wipe off his proceedings were conducted regularly, has made -akin, than English and any dialect of Chinese, abilities. At present it was doubtful if his a mistake to point of forms mat may I'm In the quick translation of any one langulge into position was not jeopardised, so far as holding very much indebted to him for having drawn any other the success of cross-examination is,

Mr. Wilson thought he was entitled to a into the matter another very gravé översight with distinguish, delicate shades of meaning ; and In - pension,

Ca respect to this Bill : It appears to have been View of the act that there are used by witnesses His Lordship replied that the Government. lying in the printer' hands for three or four here a great number of dialects of a language so- did not pay pensions for the recipients to pay year. It has not been a matter of very kreat Berly unlike English as if that of China, it is, debts with, but to support them in their old age. importance, and apparently it has been over quite hopeless to expect the attainment of A' Rodrigoes was then sworn, and in answer to looked. I saw it for the first time on the very condition under which the Courts: would be. bis Lordship' said that he was in Government eve of my leaving for Shanghai, and as I came altogether free of difficulty and embarrassment employ in the Civil Hospital and Police Court here only at the last stage of the Bill and no in terpect of interpretation. Jerofoun up to 1874, waes he fefter. He was afterwards remaries had been made either by the Council Of the Hadis dialect alone, which is mentioned ov 5 suppose by the Pries, I took if fan granted, in the report as one single dálost, there are, the

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Suggestions for the improvement of this work only a precious blt, of the pombaste Juriato, the orchestra, which included 'six musicians office under the Government was concerned. attention: to the subject, for I find on looking and must be frequently affected by the failure to

nothing whatever to do in this matter; Senhor Pacerco's as well as the Indepen- denis's aspersions on him, on us, and on the newspapers of this colony in general, are

as harmless as it is van. We are glad to note-that-after-due-Inquiries have been Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE hitituted not a shadow of bribery has been MENTS may be sent to the Agents at the various

brought against any official connected with Ports, or to the Office of

the release of TONG KING-SING's son,

are respectfully solicited.

"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" PEDDER'S HILL, HONGKONG, Hongkong, 7th January, 1889.

in the Opisan Excise, and got 875 a months and