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here is no other information available, and we fear we have to record another of those dreadful. 'occurrences with-which we are becoming, alas !

100 familiar in, these crowded and nation

waters.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE troopship Tamar was expected to arrive at Importers and Exporters of MÁNILA CIGARS. Singapore on the 18th inst

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGOISTA PERFUMERS,

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MANUFACTURERS of AERATED WATERS..

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HONGKONG.

THE SHANGHAI DISPENSARY, SHANGHAL

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THE BOTICA INGLESA, MANILA,

MESSRS, Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Jasón, from. Liverpool, left Singapore on the 19th inst, for this port, and is due on the 26th,

THB Straits Times says it seems to be generally believed that Sir Hugh Low will-shortly retire, that Mr. Swettenham will be appointed Resident at Perak, and that Mr. Maxwell will be appointed

Resident at Selangor.

THE China Mutual Shippers' new steamer Canfa ran ber trial. trip on the Clyde on the 15th ulio, covering the measured mile on a dranght of 19 ft. 6 inches in 4 min. 52 secs. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, HANKOW-The Oanfa, under the command of Capt. W, S. THE DISPENSARY, FOOCHOW. Thomson, left Liverpool for the Far East on

December 23rd. THE CANTON DISPENSARY, CANTON. Hongkong, 18th January, 189 DAKIN BROS, OF CHINA,

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CARBOLIC, COAL TAR, BROWN WIND;

WE read that the directors of the Torin Arsenal bave received orders from the Ministry of War at Rome to immediately commence the manu- facture of 400,000 rilles of the last approved pattern. The entire stock must be ready for delivery, without fail, by March roth next. This looks anything but promising for the universal peace we have heard so much about lately,

It looks as if the Scotchmen were still hankering after the America" Cup, and, undaunted by the failure of the Thistle, mean to have another trial for it. A letter has been received at the New York Yacht Club from Mr. York, secretary of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, on behalf of one, its members, asking if the same conditions that governed the Volunteer Thistle races would be.

accepted in the event of a new challenge. It is understood that an affirmative reply has been

sent.

IN the House of Commons on December 17th Dr. Tanner brought up the question of the

NUARY 21, 1889.

H.M.S. Espoir left Amoy for Formosa on the THE returns of the number of vijug the City 15th instant.

Hall Museum for the week ending fan, 20th, are: —Europeans 211, Chinese 2 òra ; total, 2,223.

THE agents (Messrs. Melchers & Co.) inform us that the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Braunschweig, with the German mails, dated Berlin, Dec. 34th, left Singapore yesterday at 5 p.m. for this port, and may be expected on or about the 26th inst.

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'A NAVAL Court-martial af Devonport has tried The authorities at Willesden says the Z. & C. Lieut. Sankey, of Her Majesty' ship dudacinus, | Express, have received notification of a decision for drunkenness on the passage home from China, | arrived at by Dr. Diplock, coroner, respecting He was dismissed his ship and ordered to lose the suicide of a Chinese gentleman named eighteen months' seniority. Mr. Sankey was to Kung La Jai, whose death occurred late on the have taken charge of the middle watch, but was night of the 14th December, at his residence in not permitted to do so as he was the worse for Dean-road, Willesden. The deceased, whose Equor.

mind had lately been deranged, held a high official position in his own country." He was sent

MR. Wodehouse evidently holds informers in the same estimation as we do. This morning one of them charged three men with assaulting him a day or two ago, and showed a big plaster on his head in confirmation of his story. His Worship told him that he deserved all he get that although the defendants were undoubtedly a bad lot he had traded on their law-breaking,

and they would be discharged.

THE question whether a photographer employed to take a photograph was justified in printing copies for his own use, and disposing of them without the authority of the customer, has been decided the negative by Mr. Justice North, who, in an action brought by Mrs. Pollard against the Photographic Company at Rochester, held that the copyright vested in the customer, and granted an injunction with costs.

fr is stated that the German Government has resolved on an alteration of the law for the measuring of German vessels. Hitherto the German certificates of tonnage were always in excess of, and showed a larger tonnage than, the certificates issued in Great Britain, so that German.vessels had to pay much higher ton- nage fees than English ones. By the new law the English mode of measuring vessels will be admitted in Germany.

His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen,

been made to establish a Whist Club. Bht this outport does, not even play Lawn Tennis, which sufficiently shows it has not advanced far in the way of social gatherings. Does it convey anything to you at Hongkong, if it is further We observe with much satisfaction that the stated that the community do not generally Bangkok Tinies has doubled its former size. live in European houses? The Consul has This would certainly appear to indicate that Mr. Chinese bouse, which is said to be Euro- peanized is has certainly been altered a Williamese's plucky enterprise has at least met good deal one way and another. The Cora with a fair share of success and encouragement.missioner of Customs lives in a temple,. And

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so on. In reality this means a great deal. It means absence of all attempt at decoration, no fire places, no fresh-looking carpets, no views from the windows, no space free from smells outside. There is one European house-a bungalow-missionary I need hardly add. Missionaries settle, they are lifers, as Consuls bungalow I feel after a few minutes as if I were. and Commissioners are not. When I enter that at Surbiton, or in some quiet London suburb, almost fancy that when I go outside I shall find myself on the admirable but untrodden Park-like ronds of Beckenham. There is nothing Chinese about that bungalow, and its walls of creamy white seem perfectly glorying in their cleanliness behind their clean lace curtains. There is an aviary full of twittering birds by the window, and all seems bright and pleasant. It is a terrible awakening to go across the little lawn and cutside find oneself in the Chinese street, a prey to barking curs of various degrees of manginess, at every minute getting out of the way of buckets ofloriferous in the extreme, and always carried uncovered in China, amongst children all equally dirty, and mostly with their heads in different states of scabbiness; among men and women all alike repulsive look ing, saluted by passing remarks of Foreign devil" or "Kill the foreigners.

by the Chinese Government as a commission to make certain inquiries in England, and during his stay here he has been under the special pro. tection of the Chinese Legation. It seems that on the morning in question he was discovered unconsciousin his room at his Willesden address, Dr. Sidney H. Taylor, of Willesden-park, was immediately summoned; but death ensued that night, in the presence of the Secretary of the Chinese Legation and other members of the diplomatic staff. A report of the circumstances of the case-showing it to be a death from suicidal poisoning-was in due course forwarded by the local authorities to Dr. Diplock. Finding, however, that the Chinese Ambassador, by virtue of his office, claimed the body, the coroner decided than an inquest could not be held. Kung La Jai's remains have already been em-

balmed. The body will be taken to China in a metal coffin for burial according to the rites of his own country..

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS..

(Before the Chief Justice.)

The adjourned Sessions were opened this morning. The following were the jurors-H. de Carvalho, F. Rawlinson, T. H Dalby, R. Adam, J. P. Basco, A. A. E. de Silva, and H. Ruttonjce.

THEFT BY AN OFFICE BOY.

One is so used to it all that we can only smile and look pleasant, as if everyone were friendly and the, remarks complimentary rather than

again someone says "Ifwe only were in Hong kong now!"

And we think of your flowers and tree fertis, and your glorious, land-locked harbour sparkling with phosphorescences, and of the charming Kennedy Road, and Botanical Gardens, and your frequent communication with the entire world, and your many merry meetings, and then some- how we envy you a little, and say **How delight- ful it would be in Hongkong now!"

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CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necessarily endorse the opioloos expressed by Competes in this column]

INSULTED BY A SIKH, To the Editos or tien "Havakond Taligraph."N

nawer than the foot-

SIR,-Will you give me room in your valuable columns to explain an occurrence which tool. place yesterday. At about 2.30 pm. I was talking to a friend near the Clock Tower, when Sikh Constable No. 688, came up and ordered us nway like two dogs. We asked this "long protector of the peace" if we were guilty of any crime by standing on a public road talking to each other but could get no other "Stand there" pointing his finger path, which we thought the place where we should not stand. I do not say that this Con stable was drunk, but by his acce t and general appearance he certainly had more than was good for him. What are strangers, like my · friend is, to think of our laws, if an object like this Sikh has authority to order respectable people about. Let me here state that we could not see a European officer about, to explain the matter to him.

Thanking you, Sir, for giving this publication,

I remain, &c.,

DISGUST. Hongkong, January 21st, 1889.

THE GREAT DISTRESS IN NORTH

CHINA.

TO THE EDITOR OF TH "Honakoms Telegraph," SIR-The enclosed letter, received from the. Rev. W. Muirhead of Shanghai a few days ago, needs no explanation. It is hoped the Hongkong Government will help but, considering the urgency of the distress, it seems well to give publicity to this appeal to Hongkong without delay,

Contributions sent direct to Mr. Muirhead or to H.B.M. Consu), Mr. WiP. Carles, at Shanghai, will be gladly received and acknowledged; and I shall be happy to forward any sums sent to me.

Yours, &c.,

JOHN CHALMERS. Hongkong, 19th January, 1889.

SOR, WHITE WINDSOR, HONEY AND obstructions in the "back reach" of the Pearl to the following Ordinances passed by the Legis worth of gold teal, a gold nugget worth $40, and fue you can get out on to the hills in the past year. the Missionaries in Shantung and

ROSE.

(Telephone No. 60.)

22, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong, 17th January, 1889, '

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River. In reply Sir James Fergusson said :— "Representations have been made at various times to the Chinese Government, in regard to the serious loss caused to British shipping interests: by the obstructions raised in the Southern reaches of the Canton River, but the Foreign Office has not heard, with what result,

On the fo1h January, 1889, at Yokohama, the The attention of Her Majesty's Minister will wife of 1,

MENDELSON of a Daughter.

again be called to the matter.".

. MARRIAGE,

At the British Legation, Tokyo, on 8th instant, by the venerable Archeacon Shaw, WILLIAM HOGGAN to LUCY ADA ROWE DU RIEU,

DEATHS.

On the 15th Dec., at West Hampstead, after long and patient suffering, FANNY LEWIS, eldest daughter of Charles Anthony Sinclair, late H.B.M. Consul, Foochow, China, aged 28, deeply mourned.

On board the 8.8. Abyssinia,, at Woosung, on the 15th January, 1889, FRANCIS WILLIAM DAWSON, Chief Officer, sis. Abyssinia, aged 27

years.

The Honghang Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1889.

TELEGRAMS.

SIR ROBERT MORIER AND THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR:

LONDON, January 12th. The controversy continues; the Cologne Gasette maintains the accusation and ignores all denial.

THE FRENCH NAVY.

January 14th. The French Government has ordered to be built in private French,yards two large Cruisers and fifteen torpedo vessels.

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RUSSIA AND THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

Russia will give unofficial support to intending

exhibitors at the coming Paris Exhibition.

THE UNITED STATES AND SAMOA. January 17th.

Mr. Cleveland has addressed a message to Congress regarding Germany's action at Samoa , and states that he has instructed the Admiral to

order a vessel there by way of protest.

DISASTROUS COLLISION-IN THE STRAITS.

Mr. Swettenham, Government Resident, at Selangor, telegraphed to the Governor of the Straits Sellements at 9 am. on Sunday morn ing the 13th inst.

The Steamship Chow Phya collided with the Pyah Pekket off the Klang Straits light.

The Pyak Pakket sank in a few rulnutes; ber two European engineers, ten of her native crew, and thirty galive passengers are reported drowned.

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The Chow Phya has arrived at Klang with survivors,

ALL the Chinese seamen are to be done away with in the Victor Emanuel. This is rather hard lines, says the Army and Navy Gaseite, on the Chinese seamen, and doubtless in the hot season there will be more sickness among the white sailors, unless precautions' are taken.

Although in some respects better suited to stand

the climate, we are all in favour of having our "bluejackets" of British stock, and you cannot make a Chinaman that. The heathen Celestial can be made to fight, as Gordon proved, but it is far wiser to trust to our "hearts of oak."

APROPOS of Colchester elections, a good story is told of Mr. Karslake, Q.C. When that gentle man was contesting the borough in 1868 he sought to win the favour of the shopkeepers by making extensive purchases of them. At one shop be ordered a large trunk to be made for him. "But," objected the trader," I don't make trunks." "Well, what are you, then?" inquired the candidate. Au undertaker." Ohl and

Mr. Karslake's countenance fell in contemplating the awkward position he bad placed himself in. But he almost immediately rejoined, "Well, never mind, you can make me a coffin, and send it to my chambers,”, adding that it would make a good receptable for Bevan's Reports,

An extraordinary seizure of opiunt was made, on Saturday night, by the Water Police. A native constable heard that there was some opium being smuggled to a junk on the Praya, and on going to Howard's Wharf saw the junk in ques.

tive Council:-

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Ordinance No. of 1889-An ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships, and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants..

Ordinance. No. 2 of 1889.-An' Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate the Law of Evidence.

Ordinance No. 3. of 1889.-Aa Ordinance advice and content of the Legislative Council enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the thereof, to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the compensation of the familles of persons killed by accidents arising from negligence.

Ordinance No. 4 of 1889.-Au Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend Ordinance 6 öf 1887.

Ching Achit, a thirty year old office boy of Dr Noble, dentist was indicted for stealing $50

other articles. The Altorney-General prosecuted, and Dr. Ho Kai defended. The evidence showed that the boy had made a key which would open his employer's safe, and had from time to time abstracted the property in question, during the absence of Dr. Noble in Manila in November and December.

Prisoner only said in defence that the Police beat him whch they arrested him. He was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' im- prisonment.

otherwise, and some of the women especially seern propitiated into friendliness thereby. But ware bucket! And that cookshop there is nearly as bad, using an all that regularly turns a European inside out merely in passing. But why walk along this street at all, you ask? Why I but because it is along this remarkably dirty suburban street all the few foreigners here live, the opposite side being occupied by squatters, people who run up cottages and shops, and pay no rent at all, gradually encroaching more and more upon the roadway, and poisoning all the air around. When we go to see each other we must go along that street unless in some cases when people have a back entrance. Then we go along a path at the back among the graves. The Chinese city we live besides is a very small one. You can walk all round it upon the walls thereof in an hour, but its graves stretch for miles and miles up the hills at the rear. They are a little depressing, those grave mounds, DEAR DR. CHALMERS,~I am led to ask your such anumber of them, forming a deadly barrier of interest and influence in behalf of the famine- perfectly uninteresting country to walk through stricken districts in North China. During the

have some charming walks. It is in the river them in alleviating the prevailing distress rear. But just now in these winter months we elsewhere have earnestly written me to help bed, on the sand the river brought down during From the time that we heard of the bursting of the smmer months, and deposited, upon its the Yellow River, this constant appeal has been underlying rock. There we can walk as upon made, and as the months went on the sufferings an esplanade, two or more abreast, with no fear of the people seemed to increase and extend in of dogs, or buckets, or other nastinesses, able to all directions. The government and private watch the river flowing, and the junks sailing charity among the Chinese have done much in up in companies, one a minute, or is it two a the province of Honan, and it appears up- minute, or how many? We have not yet settled necessary to send help there, however ill-off that, but we watch them, And surreptitiously many of the people may be. It is otherwise in we look out for the smoke of a distant steamer, Shantung; owing at once to drought and SERIOUS ROBBERIES FROM THE subject that must not be mentioned in a distant

though we do not say so. That is the one excessive rain, a vast region of the country is in a hopeless condition for a long time to come. outport. "Now you have spoken of.it, and you | It is the same in the neighbourhood of New- have made me think of it. How can we do chwang; and new fields are sending forth the anything, if we are looking out for a steamer? I same bitter cry. Millions are involved in the think of it all the while. We get a telegram to time in the local papers, was just quite forgetting it." But we all do calamity, of which full accounts appear from time

think when we shall get it. And directly we when she has started, and till we get that we hear that the steamer has left we begin to calculate when she will arrive. In an airy way we announce that we suppose she will come in Home lands. This, however, is-only-in-one" on such a day, giving a date when she will direction of the wide-spread disaster, and the decidedly be overdue, and the others hesitatingly Southern ports as well as England and America then agree. And we all make believe we are ore being appealed to for help. As representing not expecting her till then. But she almost | Shantung in particular, and assisting other always disappoints us. Perhaps she does not places as much as possible, I make free to ask arrive at all, but the other steamer that has you to do what you can for the relief work. started after her comes up, and only a day or two. On a former occasion when the famine, was ter does the long-lookedfor arrive. To-day raging in Shansi, Government in Hongkong was makes the twentieth day since our last news written to, and the Committee here, of which I from our metropolis, Shanghai-cxcept for some bad the honour of being Secretary, had the stray evening papers brought by a courier, satisfaction of receiving the munificent contribu Couriers are supposed to come from time to tion of $5000. So it was in Singapore. It time. But they seem even more irregular, than seems that the present calamity in North China the steamers. To-morrow perhaps we shall get is well described as a national one, and it would our mail again. I am thinking of it all the be a great favour if assistance could be obtained while as I write, thinking that perhaps perhaps from Hongkong. is all I saya steamer may be slowly making her way on in the darkness, and bringing it to us to-night, and that if I say to-morrow I may cheat it into doing this, as one often persuades the rain to keep off by taking out an umbrell We expected our letters really four days ago. And when they come what a reading there will be! There will be somebody then who will Commission. And we shall all have fresh actually read all the evidence before the Parnell subjects to discuss when we meet, or rather fresh light thrown upon our old sishjects,

NAVAL, DOCKYARD.

The Police Count was filled with officials from the Naval Dockyard this morning during the hearing by Mr. Pollock of a charge of unlawful possession of Crown property, brought against two Portuguese women, wives af Dockyard constables, Thomazi Ramsey and Cloria Lucas by name. Mr. Webber defended. The charge

Ordinance No. 5 of 189-An Ordinance | enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof for the naturalization of Tiü Tak-piu-bolts, value $6.50. otherwise Ching U.

was being in unlawful possession of a piece of canvas, a canvas awning, and some screws and Mr. Webber. admitted possession, but denied that it was unlawful. Ordinance No. 6 of 1889.—An Ordinance P. S. Macdonald, stated that on Saturday he enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the went with Inspector Lysaght, of the Dockyard advice and consent of the Legislative Council Police, Mr. Gilby, storekeeper, and two coolies thereof, entitled "The Statute Law Preservation to a house off St. Francis Street, Wanchai. He Ordinance, 1886, Amendment Ordinance, 1889." had a war

to search for five blankets, Crown Ordinance No. 7 of 1889-An Ordinance property. They did not find the blankets, but enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the there were two pieces of canvas, and several advice and consent of the Legislative Council bolts and screws, with the broad arrow in them. thereof, entitled "The Coroner's Abolition Or They were in two boxes, one in the bedroom and one, in the cook-house, Whilst they dinance, 1889.

were searching the second defendant came in, and said the boxes were sent by the first

Ordinance No. 8 of 1889.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Powers of Police Magistrates.

| WE extract the following from Meurs. Wheelock & Co.'s Freight Market Report, dated Shanghai, the 18th inst.:-Our last circular was published on the 4th January, since which date very little has been done in the coasting trade and we can look for no briskness until after the Chinese New Year. The Wuhu-Whampoa business bas been taken up by the regular liners, and charters

tion. He took a sampan, and chased another effected at the rate of 15 candareens per picul. For sampan which

was leaving the junk. On Nagasaki-Shanghai, rates have declined, there overtaking her be found 84 ties of raw Patna have been effected here for this trade, For London, oplum, cach containing 48 faels-4.303 taels vit usual ports of call and Suez Canal:-The .. altogether. He arrested the three men in charge, | Monmouthshire has booked a fair quantity of and they were charged before Mr. Pollock this cargo at pas per ton of ao cubic feet. Yesterday, afternoon. Mr. Caldwell defended, but the the Mails and. Holt's reduced their rates and are Crown Solicitor did not appear, a similar case | now booking cargo at 408, per ton." The Mutual having been recently decided. Mr. Caldwell Line as. Chingwo due from Japan to-morrow, conceded a good deal, bis point being that will also engage at the same rate of 403. per ton altogether there were over two chests, whereas of 40 cubic feet. Glen Line .. Glintern will the charge was "being in possession of opium also call here from Japan and take cargo at In quantities less than one chest."-Bergeant probably the same rate: Through rate from this, Harkin, who prosecuted, drily observed that by sailer loading in Hongkong 464, per ton of 50 there were 84 "quantities less than one chest. cubic feet is asked. For New York, vit usual --The case was remanded for a week.

ports of call and Suez Canal-The Duke of Westminster arrived yesterday and is now load

defendant, and that she did not know anything about it, Mr. Gilby had then identified the property as belonging to the Dockyard, and as never having been sold. He arrested her, and she took witness to 67 Queen's Road East, where the first defendant lived, and he arrested her also By Mr. Webber There was nothing in the first defendant's house.

witness by the Naval Storekeeper to look for Mr. Gilby said that he was sent with the last five blankets in the second defendant's house. He identified the property found as belonging to the Crown.

Inpector Lysaght gave similar evidence. He

felt sure that no canvas like that found in the

boxes had been sold by the Government.

At other limes what do we falk about do you wish to know, for as before said we are a

foreigners to assist them in their distress, and happily arrangements are being made to call forth the sympathy and help, of friends in the

The native authorities here are asking the

I send you two recent papers with letters on the subject, which are only an epitome of what- has previously appeared. I beg to leave the matter in your hands, and merely state that nearly Tls. 10,000 have been raised among the foreigners in Shanghai and Hankow, including several contributions from other places. The Chinese were first in the field, and succeeded in been expended, and the cry is still for more. I gelling the largest amount, but the whole has shall only say that alike Mr. Drummond, as representing the North China Rellef fund primarly intended for An-whel and Kiangsu, or Mr. Carles, H.M. Vice-Consul here, or myself,

PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE

AMIN AFRICA.

community who converse. We discourse upon on account of Newchwang, Honan and Shantung Chinese characters! They furnish a never-ending will be glad to receive whatever funds may be Mr. Gilby, recalled, said it could not have been topic No two people ever are agreed, Dictionas kindly sent. sold, because had the placing of it in lots. Itries are got out, and hard names and expressions

I am, Dear Dr. Chalmers, might have been told five years ago. Government of gratitude both alike lavished upon Stent and never sold canvas, except old canvas, and never Wells Williams, at his genus omnet. Then we

Yours very sincerely sold screws or bolts.

WM. MUIRHEAD. talk very learnedly about the Natural History A chain-carrier coolie stated:-I remember of the District 1 Are we not all members of

Shanghai, sith January, 1889. carrying a box from a house in Queen's Road, learned societies, and is not the country round over a druggists shop, five or six days ago. The brim full of interest 1 "boy" called me and another coolle in to cary it. I saw two Portuguese women in the room, but cannot identify them. We carried it to a house in Wanchal. I saw a Dockyard constable and a Portuguese woman-the second defendant there. A little girl showed us where to take it, and we got to cents. We afterwards carried a second box in the same way, and received six cents.By Mr. Webber: The second defendant Carry it inside. I cannot say whether the first defendant said anything to me or not.

Another coolie gave similar evidence. It was he who took the police to the house.

The case was remanded till Wednesday, ball being refused,

said to me

It is not all dull even in an outport! Some times one feels one's mind expand, and fancies one is really growing wise, at others the doubi arises: Am I just the person to be set to do a term of years in a Chinese outport Visions We have lately heard of the measures the Pictures and the Plays dance before our eyes. Britain and Germany for the repression of slave of Piccadilly and the House of Commons, and Portugal has taken in conjunction with Great for a moment, then they grow dim as they diss trade along the coast of Zanzibar. "A Lisbon cern those loveliest of pictures the houses of paper to hand by the last mall contains strong one's friends. And what have I donel one cries denunciations against the Portuguese Govern out, to deserve this

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle in Cathay," Tennyson, if he had been in China would have known that in one year of Europe the pulses throb quicker and more often than in cycles of Cathay,

ment for allowing slave trade to be carried on in one of the most valuable' colonies in the West Coast of Africa-Angola. We translate the following from the correspondence columns of the Secule of the 16th November last

In another column we reproduce an, accounting at for. per ton, a large quantity of cargo has, from a Shanghai contemporary of the wreck of been booked at this rate, she will be dispatched the British ship Anglo-India, off Formosa. [ on the 22nd instant,: The ad. Strathleven duc

Loanda, 16th October, 1888-1 am going to Mr. Murray, the and mate, arrived here with eight from Japan on the 4th February and the s.a.

And yet when the sun shines and not too hotly give you the information you desire about the of the crew yesterday, by the Fokien, and they | Albany about the end of February, follow. The

-there is a great beauty all around (where slave trade which is still being carried out in LIFE IN AN OUTPORT. «. With reference to this disaster the Singapore are now staying at the Sallors' Home. Mr. American ship Staft of Maine has the greater

human beings are not) and it ought to be in this province. The Lisbon Colonial Ofice deed Free Prays of January 14th, says :-The steamer Murray confirms the report, referred to, and part of her cargo on board and will sail for

itself an education to be thus transplanted not ask the Governor-General for information as Do you in Hongkong ever think of us who amongst a people, but for the telegraph and an to the existence of slave trade in Angola, because Pyah Pekhet left here on Wednesday afternoon adds:-After being hustled by the natives a good Hongkong very shortly. The American ship last for her regular trip to Malacca and Klang, dea! I found a Chinaman who spoke a little Pacfolus has also begun to load and as she has live to the Outports, up-country in China? If occasional steamer, living just as they did 1,000 that trade is authorised by the decises of tho you do I wonder do you pity us altogether, or years ago,It makes the history of the early 2016 April, 20th December, 1875, 15th July 1876 and was due here on her réturn trip to-day. English, and be guided us to Tamsui. We had booked considerable quantity of cargo will a liule envy us our opportunities of getting away Middle Ages of Europe very real, serving like and 8th September 1887 which practically Her master was Captain G Angus and her nothing but what we stood up in, and I had neither have quick dispatch. Rate for both vessels 358, from all things British Hongkong seems if living illustration. And in studying this early granted permission to His Majesty's subjects to, mate Mr. A. W. Seaton. The chief engineer shoes nor socks, as i had taken these off when in. rer ton of 40 cubic feet. Departure for London anything rather extra British, trifle more developed, then-arrested civiliation, one is ever provoke civil war among the beaten tribes English than England. Of course you know thinking what was the prevailing question then with a view to buying the prisoners who according to the latest articles, was Mr. J. W. the boat, to be "ready." My feet were all cut vid Amor, Switow and Sues. Cauals-Holt's better than to wonder, as English friends do if Wasit Opiumi? was it Competitive Examination? were generally brought to the seaside market Thompson and the second engineer Mr. Geo. with walking, and I only got a pair of native steamship Telemachus on the 8th Inst. Depar we find the Chinese soclable. But possibly, like Was it the position assigned in early days to allaystems analogous to that sk which was Easterh. The Chow Phya left bere on sandals, the night before we got there-Antures for New York via Amoy, and Suez Canal: them, you hope we have a pleasant society of our Woman? Polygamy? Slavery? Confucianism? adopted when Angola used to export them Friday evening for the same ports, being enquiry was held at Tamsui, by the British-Nil. Quotations are Newchwang to Swatow, own. Each member of our little community here The system of Education & In our quiet life we af contrabandra to Brazil. A newspaper commanded by Captain Cockburne Mer Consul (Mr. F.S. A: Bourne) assisted by Lent: season closed. Chefoo to Swatow, 11 Mex. cents has individual merits, mostly each has really have ample time to speculate, but too much we

Goveros Capello's own party has informed His very great individual matrite, There aro-mca of absorb ourselves in that which possibly may be Excellency that in th Stewart and Martin are the engineers. It is Lewis, of HB.M. gunboat Cockchafer, and perpicul, small demand. Nagasaki to Shanghai, distinction among us, and the number of leamed the real trouble, that terrible Chinese language, trade of buying and selling human beinga bura apparent, therefore, that the two venels were Captain. Lewis, of the steamer Fokien, but in $1.50 per ton of Coal nett, for steamers Societies represented is remarkable considering which certainly ought long ago to have been carried out, and the Governor has never, going in opposite directions when the dreadful the absence of the Captain and chief officer, the ex-ship, for sailing vessels, nominal Disengaged our numbers. But for practical purposes we been numbered among the Dead Language inquired into the crime in order to punish the occurrence happened. It is possible of course evidence given was of such a character that vessels, in Port Andalusia, British barque, to be only six. And that hardly constitutes And alasf Day after day we get up to a dull grey perpetrators ERSTEN FOT

a society anywhere. Certainly here it does not sky Sometimes it snows. Sometimes it rains It is quite historical here that the Banco Ultras (and we trust it may prove to be ao) that there the Court of Enquiry was unable to arrive at 884 terorister. Sir William Wallace, British We are all on perfectly good terms. We meet Sometimes the wind is equsually keen. But marino, has conferred full liberty, on this indiri are other survivors, but the telegram is definite, | any decisión as to how the wreck had occurred. I barque, 968 tons reglater,

very frequently, We converse Hosts have the sun will not shing on us. And soʻagain and - duals whom it had kept Watery is a mariah con.