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Entimations.

ELECTRO-MEDICAL APPLIANCES, For the cure of Nervous, Diseases, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Lumbago etc.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1889.

duties, their names should be at once struck off the roll, and we would suggest that a return be at once called for of the attendances at the various meetings held for the past twelve months, and as visiting Justices to the Gool, etc. If the Bench of

THE launch of a new Japanese war-vessel, to be named the Oshima "Muru, which is now in course of construction, at the Onohama Naval | Shipbuilding Yard, at Kobe, will take place about the zoth instant.

PRINCE Krapotkin, the famous Russian Nihilist, has decided to make London his home for the rest of his days, Krapotkin would never be and appearance, and has fine eyes-soft, frank -almost tender.

MAGNETO ELECTRIC multiplying wheel Justices is to continue a cumbrous and taken for Nihilist, he fineresisoft,

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and magnetic indicator in Mahogany box.

practically useless anomaly, it should be Abolished without delay and its functions

AT the end of last year the number of Japanese in Vladivostock and neighbourhood was 614, of whom 25a were males and 362 females, Ws are informed by the agents (Messrs. Adam- son, Bell & Co.) that the steamship Port Adelaide, from Antwerp, left Singapore yesterday afternoon for this port,

Our Haiphong contemporary says the Doc Qui was to have tendered his submission to the French and Annamite authorities on the 10th

loading rides.

SPAMER'S SINGLE and DOUBLE CELL transferred to the Police Magistrates, who, AT the Police Court this morning, before Minst., with 100 partisans armed with breech to float the company, as I was the only of Chinese in Tokiyo. With the restoratio

in polat of fact, have for a long time past almost entirely performed whatever work has cropped up.",

BATTERIES GAIFFE'S PORTABLE MEDICAL COIL SCOTT'S ELECTRIC HAIR BRUSHES,

TOOTH BRUSHES, etc.

in glancing through the published list ELASTIC STOCKINGS, LEGGINGS, KNEE, of Justices we observe that the members CAPS, ANKLETS and BANDAGES. of two or three special. professions are SURGICAL and MEDICAL APPLIANCES of rigidly excluded, for reasons it would

all description at lowest rates. DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA.

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INSENG, the Cinchona of China, has been Gused for many centuries by the Chinese as a tonic, stimulant, alterative, and carminative. In all forms of Debility, and Dyspepsia, as well as in Malarious affections, it has ever been regarded as a specific.

Wodehouse, the Chinese storekeeper at the

Messageries Maritimes godown was charged, with two coolies, with stealing sare tinned pro- visions, &c., value $3, from the godown at East Point." The Indian watchman went in yesterday afternoon and saw the trio eating condensed milk out of a tin, and arrested them. Inspector Swanston afterwards found other tins of milk and sardines in their quarters. They were remanded.

"BLOW, blow, thou winter wind," &c. This refers to the conduct of an almond-eyed Portu- su se named da Luz, as narrated to Mr. Wode- houre this morning. Last month da Luz, who is a compositor, weat to a compatriot and brother typo. in St. Francis Street, one Franco-and told such a pitiful tale that he was taken in and fed, and lodged, and found employment. On Sunday night he went into the bosom of the things, till the police had to put the cloture on Franco family and said a lot of unpleasant him. Mr. Wodehouse bound him over to keep the peace, this morning,

be interesting to know. There are

DEVOTED Wife: "Have you any embroidered Government officials in large numbers, silppers ? Dealer: "Plenty of them. You wish merchants, ship-owners, bank managers for handworked ones, I presume?" "Yes; I and assistants, doctors, barristers-at-want pair that will look as if it took all the winter to do them." "Yes, madam, we have law, land-grabbers, company promoters, that kind; they make a mon almost weep when be thinks of the days, and weeks, and months brokers, engineers, clerks, architects

of silent labour all for him.” “Well, here is my and surveyors, store-keepers, and some husband's measure. Don't send any bill except [31 Chinese gentlemen who are generally for the soles. Charge him a few shillings extra

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for his next pair of boots," 25 *compradores'; but, singularly enough, the Fourth Estate is unrepresented and there is not a single solicitor on the roll.. Arelawyers and news- paper proprietors and editors disqualified for the Bench of Justices? If so, why ? To any person of ordinary intelligence it would certainly appear that the training and general knowledge of the working branch of the legal profession would prove of special value on the Bench in various directions which need not be specified; and we venture to say that for general influence, a knowledge of the duties of a J. P. and of the requirements of the community, the amount of personal interests at stake in the colony, and for length of residence, the editors of the three local newspapers have far superior claims 10 nine out of every ten of the existing con- tingent. Personally we have no ambition to join the ranks of "the great unpaid," and doubtless our colleagues of the local press are of the same mind, but it would nevertheless be interesting to know, why residents and rate-payers occupying leading and influential positions should, on account of their profession, which elsewhere ranks as high as any, be officially regarded and treated as the pariahs of the community.

Dr. F. PORTER SMITH, late Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, says of the remedy-

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THE NETHERLANDS.

LONDON May 12th,

The festivities in honour of the fortieth year of the reign of the King have been celebrated.

Captain Wissman has been attacked by an Arab chief, who destroyed his camp, killing righty of his men, toring forly blacks; several Germans were wounded,

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Our Yonghang Celegrap

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1889.

AT a duly advertised meeting of the Justices of the Peace the other day, held to consider an application for a spirit license, only one of the local "great unpaid' turned up, and he was a Government Official. There may not be a great deal. of honour attached to the title of "J. P."- but, however small, we think that no man

should be placed in the list of Justices who does not make some attempt to justify his position. It is notorious that at meetings of the Bench there are seldom enough members present to form a quorum, or at All events to make the business in hand anything but a farce. We don't exactly know what are the special qualifications 'necessary for a Justice of the Peace in this colony, and after a careful perúsal of the latest published list of gentlemen constituting "the Bench," we are quite at a loss to understand on what principle the selection is made. If social status is the qualification, there are numbers of persons omitted who ought to find ́a' place on the list, and the same remark applies if the raison d'être is local influence or special ability. It is really difficult to make out why a mere clerk to a firm of merchants, brokers or any other trading concern, who possesses neither influence nor position in the colony, should be made a Justice of the Peace, while various reputable mer. chants and brokers who possess both these qualifications, are totally ignored. We refrain at present from particularising in detail the most glaring of these inconsis tencies, as Governor Des Vizux has been such a short time in Hongkong that it would be manifestly unfair to hold him responsible for the fatuous bungling of his immediate predecessors; and now that His Excellency's attention has been specially directed to this gigantio farce, we feel confident that the next list of Justices will be compiled on a new basis. If persons who have been appointed to the Commission of the Peace do not consider it worth while to attend to their by no means onerous

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong) THE FRENCH COLONIAL BUDGET. PARIS, May 4th. *The President of the Republic has approver, by a Decree, the special Budgets for Antiam and Tonquin:

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THE Courrier d'Haiphong reports that the sloop Lach tray, owned by Messis. Leroy Cahors, merchants of Haiphong and Dap-cau, was pro- ceeding up the Dap cau river on the 5th inst. when after having passed Dong-trieu, she ran ground at Mac-done. A well-armed band of pirates, taking advantage of her helpless con- dition, boarded her, plundered her cargo, and her correspondence. carried away a Winchester carbine and some ammunition, and killed two men. The next day the sloop arrived at Dap cau with some slight damages.

MR. Pollack (if he will; only exchange his barnacles for a bandage) only needs a pair of scales and a pedestal to be a sort of an imita tion Justice. At the Police Court this morning he had before him a lukong named Mak Mau on a charge of taking bribes. The principal evidence was given by an informer, who alleged that one day last werk he saw the futong seize a street gambler and hurgain for thirty cents hush money. His story was very circumstantial-he told first what the lukong said then what the gambler replied, and so on, but in cross.

examination by Mr. Dennys, who defended, he contradicted himself considerably. A fellow.", informer corroborated his statement, but it was so evidently a trumped-up case that his Worship did not call on the defence, but ord red the first. witness to pay the lukeng $50 compensation, or go to prison for six months. The second witness was fined $25 for giving false evidence.

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ONE of the great desiderata in thir-land-locked colony is a suitable bathing place in the long summer months. The Prays which was formerly used for this purpose at Kowloon Point having forbidden, there is almost no place left for sea- recently been vetord, and Stone-cutters' Island

bathing, excepting the enclosure of the Victoria Recreatin Club, which is getting every year moré objectionable on account of the accumula tion of the foreshore deposits. Under the circum stances, we think if any enterprising baigneur would build a floating bath and have it anchored in mid-harbour, say in the neighbourhood of Kellet Island, or near the Kowloon Docks, where the tides are strong, he would satisfy a very press sing demand and reap substantial profits in the bargain. The hull of some old ship might be purchased, and outworks constructed all around her, with floorings, partitions, etc., to enable bathers to enjoy a real sea-bath in mid-harbour, without danger or inconvenience. A steami relaunch might be made to leave Peddar's Wharf issued to bathers of all classes, Floating bath and retum at stated times, and season tickets houses are to be seen at Venice, e the Tagus at Lisbon, at Margate, and on the Mersey. They are calculated to give all the advantages of deep sea bathing without the faintest element of danger. Hongkong should possess two or three of these ureful Boats.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF .PRESIDENT CARNOT.

May 5th. An attempt was made to assassinate the sident of the Repubic as he was leaving the Elysée to proceed to the Centenary festival at Versailles. The assassin fired a pistol'shot, at his victim, but missed. arrested.

He was at once

THE CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS, The Centenary celebrations have taken place. The inaugural ceremony was most imposing The President of the Republic was warmly

May 6th

welcomed.

THE INDO-CHINA CUSTOMS TARIFF.

May 8th.

The Council of State bas accepted the proposal to increase the Indo-China Customs dues on textile fabrics only.

LOCAL AND GENERAL, THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Stentor, from Liverpool, left Singapore to-day, and is due

here on the zoib inst,

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A FRENCH scientist has come to the conclusion that we are traversing a "cold period." He notes that during the last four years there has been a considerable diminution in the average. mean temperature,

ABOUT cloven o'clock this morning a fire was caused in the house 12, Ship Street, Wanchai, Some coolies put it out before it did much damage, and a woman was afterwards arrested on a charge of arson. SEROBANT Buttin swooped down on a petty gambling-house in Wellington Street, last night, and found a lot of chair coolies challenging Fate, in the shape of Po-taz The three presiding spirits got six weeks each, this morning. A "THEATRE OF ACTUALITY" is to be estab lished in London after the model of the French Theatre Libre. The idea is that authors may have the chance to produce their own plays without the intervention of the hated manager, FIRST DAME-So all your daughters married rich? How did you manage it ? Second Dame From the moment they were big enough to understand anything I kept dinning into their earn all sorts of warnings against the folly and wickedness of marrying for money. AN ingenious young Chinuman got three months this morning simply through overdoing his us over in Cassie blobs of lead, silvered them over, and sold them at ridiculously low prices as nuggets, and so supported an aged mother in comparative comfort. He swindled several money-changers, among others, but in attempting to pass one nugget an exchange for some opium he was detected, and sentenced as stated by an unappreciative Magistrate.

"FROM information received, "Inspector Quincey went down with a lot of police to some houses in Wing Wo Street last night to rescue a crowd of kidnapped women and children. He found even more than he expected, there being about forty women, girls and children in suspected bouses. He took the lot up to the Police Station, and handed them over to Inspecto Hennessy, who was sorely troubled to ac. commodate them. They pervaded the Station all the evening, and the amount of nursing and general baby-farming that the Inspector and his aides had to do was tremendous. The came came up before Mr. Wodehouse this morning. four men and two women being charged with detaining the crowd, but it was made apparent that there was no detention, and after a lengthy hearing the case, was dismissed.

SUPREME COURT..

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Puisne Judge)

A SHAREBROKER'S CLAIM.

This was a claim for $1,000, made by Mr. Hector Sampon, sharebroker, against Mr. George Fenwick, manager of Fenwick & Co.. Limited.-Mr. Welber appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hastings (of Messrs. Wotton and Deacon) for the defendant,

Mr. Webber, in opening the case, said that the claim was originally for $1,500, commission at the rate of one per cent for promoting and being instrumental in floating the company of which the defendant was general manager, but it had heen reduced to $1,000 for the purpose of bring. ing it within the jurisdiction of that Court.- Mr. Webber was then proceeding to show that the articles of the Company empowered the general manager to pay the cost of floating the Company, but

Mr. Hastings admitted the personality of his client.

The Viceroy is so pleased with the electric light in his Yamen, that His Excellency has decided that the reclamation frontage on the southern face of the city shall be lighted by electricity. Another step in the right direction His Ex- cellency has taken of late in to order that a Chinese gunboat daily patrols between Canton" and Hongkong to guard against river pirates. Not content only with isning these orders, His Excellency has instructed the patrol gunboats to telegraph the Yamen as they pass each station on the river.

The plaintiff was then called. He said:-My black river." It was with great regret I learnt it name is Hector Washington Sampson, and I am to be His Excellency Mr. Shioda, iho represent- asbarebroker I met the defendant, Mr. Fenwick,ative of His Imperial Japanese Majesty to the on the 19th February, and he said he was going Court of Peking. Probably there was no more to form his business into a limited Imbility experienced statesman in far castera: politics. company, and asked if I knew anyone who would than the lamented diplomatist who has some- take any shares. He gave me a draft prospectus what prematurely passed away. Commencing and memorandum of Articles of Association, and life in the Foreign office of the Tycoonate, he I took them bome and read them. I did not soon acquired a knowledge of the Chinese alter these, but did so in the proof. Mr. Fens language, while devoting all spare time to the wick remarked that it was "putting something, study of Chinese character and literature, in my way." I considered that I was engaged fidially becoming one of the foremost scholars broker engaged, and all the shares Mr. of the ancient Imperial régime, he faithfully would like Fenwick did not place I did. He said he transferred his allegiance to the representative of

the thing done privately. I the oldest sovereignty, on earth, that of His asked a number of friends if they would like Majesty the Mikado, appropriately named and shares, but they asked for prospectuses, and as understood as the Venerable. Remarkable I had only one I got a hundred printed. I did for a singularly courteous manner, he well repre that on my own responsibility. On the 4th | sented the true connecting link between the March 1 got a proof, and whilst I was reading gentlemen of the old and now Japanese schools, it in Kelly and Walsh's Mr. Fenwick came in, and his loss will be especially, severely felt at and at my suggestion alterations were made the Foreign Office of Dai Nippon, with which be He took some of them away, and I took the rest has to long, been associated. It is a matter I distributed them among my clients, and was of regret that I cannot place a spray of "Tsa successful in placing between 3.500 and 4,000 baski" on the bier of this lamented states shares--Mr. Fenwick placed the rest. He said man as he now lies in the capital of that. to me that I could promise my friends that every great Empire to which he devoted the study sbare I asked for on their behalf would be of his lifetime, so I content myself with wafting alloited. I took note of any ordered, and told this hurried tribute to his memory. him I wanted so many. I supplied a list of applications to Mesura. Wotton and Deacon, from time to time... I was five or six days in getting applications, but there was a lot of work to do besides-Messrs. Wotton and Deacon began to cut down the number to be allotted, and I had to go round to the applicants and explain it. The company was not advertised at all. I think that it was through me that it was floated so successfully. All the shares were left in my hands-if Mr. Fenwick placed auy shares he came and told me, so that I should not allot too many. I have been a broker here some time and consider my charge very moderate. There was no agreement na to what I should get, but the custom here is to get half a dollar for every share placed. At that rate I should be entitled to nearly $2000, having paced nearly four thousand shares, on the under- standing that all 1 applied for should be given.

By Mr. Hastings': --I was a shirebroker in 1884, and again from last December. I have had Shanghai also contributed big quota, and other no previous experience in floating companies. I met Mr. Fenwick at the horse auction on the 1th February. He did not ask me to take shares, but to place them. He did not tell me that he had had some applications for shares, or show me a list of applicants. I placed nearly I gol four thousand shares that is to say applicants for them. By the time the six thousand shares had been applied for 1 had got nearly four thousand shares placed, but after that Mr. Fenwick got more applicants, to the detriment of my clients. I do not know how many were allotted to my clients. I sent in my bill for $1,500, as I thought it was the nicest way. I could either charge $1 per share, which would have made my bill nearly $2,000, or one per cent. on the Company's capital, as I did.

By Mr. Wabber-Mr. Wotion told me to get Chinese into the Company, and gave me the names of some.

By the Court: There was no contract-it is

not usual to have one.

Mr. Danby, of Messrs: Benjamin, and Danby, said:-i have been a broker three years. I do not know of any case like this having happened. bere before; but I think the plaintiff is fully entitled to fifty cents a share. From my know ledge of how hard he has worked I should think he is entitled to $1,000. I would not have taken it in hand for less.

By Mr. Hastings-it is not necessary to have an agreement. I have known cases like this where brokerage has been paid, but decline to say to whom.

By the Court:If there was no agreement a broker would not be entitled to a commission on every share he placed he might place ten thousand, although there were only five thousand ghates.

Mr. Fraser-Smith -I am the Editor and pro- prictor of the Hongkong Telegraph and know the parties in this case. Mr. Fenwick has seen me several times about this company he has spoken about it several times during the last two or three years. I am a shareholder in the Company-I got my shares. from Mr. Fenwick. I remember him asking me on one occasion, about a week before the Company was floated. if I thought he could flost his business. I told him I was of opinion that he could, as it was, on the face of the prospectus, about the first legitimate Company that had been floated here for a long time. He said he had put it in Mr. Sampson's hands to do what he could. I said for the job. I do not know the custom with I thought Mr. Sampion was every good man regard to brokerage in such matters.

"CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressad by Commepondatia In this column.)

I hear the Chinking riots have been settled by the payment of about Tis. 140,000 compen- sation, of which Mr. Mansfield, the Acting

firitish Consul, who had arrived at his post but a few days before, received some Tis. 26,000, The money did not come out of the Govern-

ment Treasury. The Teotal of Chinklang bad to find some Ths.. 10,000, and bas' now retired on account of his mother's death; the Taotai of

mandarins were directly or indirectly affected, so it will be a lesson not soon to be forgotten at all events by Chinese officialdom, and will induce themteshow somewhat morezcal and promptitude in the suppression of similar tainga against foreigners in futuro.

THE NEW HARBOUR FOR YOKOHAMA,

As we announced some time ago, the Japanese Government have decided to construct a new harbour for Yokohama, un improvement much aeeded in that, the most important of Japanese ports. The design accepted was that of an old and well-known Hongkong resident, Major- General H. S. Palmer, R.E., who has already done service in the Land of the Rising Sun by Yokohama Waterworks and other important designing and successfully carrying out the public undertakings. Particulars of Major- General Palmer's harbour scheme have just been published.

According to the Yokohama correspondent of our Shanghat morning contemporary the main features of the scheme are two slightly. curved break-waters, and an iron pier some 1,000 feet long, to be connected with the shore by a solid male about 500 feet in length, which will abut upon, the shore where the English. katoba now is.". This pier, which is to extend straight out into the harbour, will provide accommodation for not less than ten 300-feet versels. It is to have a double line of railway connecting it," via the foreshore, with the Yokohama Railway Station,; what is to be known as the Northern breakwater will be 6,850 feet in length and will stretch from the Kanagawa Fort in the direction of the Lightship, thereby. protecting the barbour on the north and north cast, whilst the Easter breakwater, which will ba bus 5,380 feet long commencing at a post about 150 yards from the sea-wall English Naval Depot at the mouth of the Creek, and running to within you feet of the Northern breakwater, will shield it on the East and S.S.E. For more than three-fourths of the dis..

tance the Northern breakwater is to be laid, ' good foundations already exist in the hard spit extending into the harbour fully a mile from the Kanagawa shore. Beyond this a soft muddy bottom has to be contended with. The Eastern breakwater also will have a hard shoal for its breakwaters are only to be built up to high water base for almost one-half of its length. Both mark of extraordinary spring tides. Neither breakwater will abut upon the shore, and the inshore end of the northern one will begin not less than thirty yards from the sea-wall of the Kanagawa Fort. The outflow of a small river, which has contributed its quota to the silting up of the bay, is to be diverted and made: to discharge into the ses at the inner end of the Northern break-water,

Mr. Webber continued that about the end of February Mr. Fenwick met the plaintiff and told him he was about to turn his business into a he would assist him in obtaining the names of limited liability company, and asked him if capitalists and others who would take ibares in it. He added that he wished it to be kept pri By Mr. Hastings :-I did not anticipate any vate, and gave the plaintiff to understand that difficulty in floating the Company do not he alone would have, the placing of the think I ever said $400 or $500 would cover all shares. He also handed him a draft pros. the cost of floating it—I am certain I did not ... pectus, and asked him to read it over and At this point the case was adjourned until give him his opinion on it. The plaintiff did |-to-morrow, so, and made some alterations in it. The capital of the Company was to be $150,000, divided into six thousand shares of $35 each, of which the plaintiff wES to have 800, Laving 5,300 to be allotted outside. But Mr. Fenwick bad some private friends who wished

THE CASE OF THE "OMEGA?”............ to take shares, and this left only about four thousand shares to be allotted to the general To the Editor of the "Hongkowa Telegraph," pablic. After several interviews the plaintiff SIR,-Having seen your remarks anent the succeeded in finding applicants for the whole of British barque Omega, allow me to state for the the shares, being assisted, it was true, by Mr. benefit of the unemployed mate that the Omega Fenwick, who acted as joint promoter. The is not the only craft that does that sort of thing Company was floated without advertisements of there is another vessel in Hongkong now waiting any kind, it being understood that the names of for the same chance. This was not the first applicants seat in by the plaintiff should have time our friend, Master Brown, managed to all the shares applied for allotted. The sum of evade the law. Whose place in it to look after $1,500 was therefore claimed on the basis of these things? The German mate had been into-day, one per cent. the capital, but the claim the ship over two years, at $40 per mensem, bad, as he had said, been reduced for the and during that, time the Omiga bad cleared purpose of bringing it before that Court. It at the Hongkong shipping office three times, was laid down by Storey, in the Law of Agency. | Can any one inform me how it was the mate was that the commission charged by brokers or other agents should be regulated by the custom in that not entitled to one per cent he was entitled to at part of the world. Therefore if the plaintiff was least half a dollar per cent, for every share he

A clear idea of the limits to be enclosed is best given by, stating that the new harbouz will comprise the entire space of the present anchorage, which could be made even more extensive than it is now, were it necessary, by dredging the head of the Bay. With the construction of the barbour, large docks and repairing and engineering works are to be established; a widely-representative and Infiuen. tial private company having just been formed for the purpose. The transformation will be gradual, as all great changes are, but it is safe to say that the Yokohama of five years hence will be a strikingly different place to the Yokohama of

THE CHINKIANG RIOTS,"

On Saturday afternoon, says the Japan Mail of the 4th instant, a ceremony of a peculiar character took place at the great temple of Daishin-in. It was a Buddhistic mass for the souls of the dead who perished nineteen years The festival of the 6th May at Paris, on the ago in the U.S.S. Onrida. The loss of the occasion of the opening of the Exhibition, took gida was the most terrible incident recorded in the annals of Yokobama. The ship left this place to-day and was splendid, when the Preśl

Part one winter's evening, homeward bound. | dent of the Republic was received with inder-She had been some time on the station, cribable enthusiasm. The celebration was an and the day of her departure was spent in leave-takings between her officers and those enormous success; ̧'

on shore, with whom they were deservedly popular. Just as she was clearing the bar she came into collision with the P. & C. steamer Bombay, inward bound. Owing to the darkness and other causes, fully explained at the time, the Bombay failed to suspect the extent of the injuries suffered by the Oneida, and the latter sunk in a few minutes, carrying down with her a hundred and twenty-four officers and men. During the years that have elapsed since the

allowed to leave in her? He would have been. We learn from our Shanghai contemporaries appalling incident most of the bodies, or at least

allowed to do the same thing this time had it not that on the 3rd inat, the foreign residents of from the wreck, some washed ashore, and their their bones, have been recovered, some taken

been for one, not interested in shipping, writing Chinklang paid a graceful compliment, in interment, from time to time, in the cemetery

to state for the benefit of Captain Brown that the latest riots at Chinkiang, to Captain Mor to the Harbour master to inform him. Allow me recognition of valuable services rendered during of the Settlement, has recalled the and cir obtained applicants for. That was fifty cents a he got off very well this time; that for 'his and the officer of the China Merchants S, N, the remains of the last on the unhappily was instrumental in disposing of four thousand conviction under the Merchant. Shipping Act, deputation, which included the British Consul, cumstances of their death. Not long age share, and as it would appear in evidence that he contriving to evade the law he was liable to Co.'s steamer Klangyfl. On the date named a long roll were laid in the grave, and the shares it increased his rights very considerably, and a heavy fire would have been inflicted on the Commissioner of Customs, the members of Buddhist priests of Daishin-in, the principal All he had to do was to obtain applicants, whe him, in default of which he would have to go to the Municipal Council, and other leading temple in the vicinity of Yokobama, resolved to therthey got all the shares they applied for allotted Gaol.

residents, proceeded on board the Klangy Now, a Matter Brown blames an innocent for the purpose of presenting Capt. Morse with a perform a grand mass for the peace of the souls or not. of the dead. It was a resolve that many persons His Lordship pointed out that he might have man for that anonymous letter, as he is pleased Canton silver tea service, and the officera will doubtless find strange and incongruoda, but got applications for ten thousand shares. to call it, and bas written several letters to the of the ship with various presents. The presi of the charitable and benevolent spirit that Mr. Webber meant up to the four thousand different employers up the Coast and has sent : sentations were made by Mr. Mansfeld, actuated it, there can be little question." At any open to the public. His contention would be postcards, broadcast over the Colony with the consul for Great Britain, who read the following rate, the people of Yokohama showed that supported by some of the leading brokers. In Intention of preventing the man from getting address plus een lage they appreciated, the motive of the Buddhist the Colony-the vendor paid half a dollar per employment, I would like him to know that priests, for, despite the long distance from the share and the buyer half a dollar, but in this there is such a thing in Hongkong as the law of Settlement, they attended the ceremony in cape the chim was simply against the vendor, Libel, and that defaming a pian's character with

large numbers. The Admiral of the U. S. Slace the commencement of the suit the 'defen malicious furent coines under that law, Squadron, the U. S. Consul General and dan! bad paid $405 into Court, in two sums. Thanking you for the insertion of this letter, some fifty leading residents of the Settlement He then read the letters which had passed. In

I remain, Sirpa g were present. The mass was chaunted by the first the plaintiff said that half a dollar a

"yours truly, seventy priests, clad in full canonicals, and no i share was the usual rate, but be would only

Hongkong, 14th May, 189, Mok Ayu is a parlab who preys on Society, and accessory was neglected to enhance the gor-charge a quarter, equal to one per cent, he became so unpopular about March 1888 that geou mess and impressiveness of the scene. In reply Mr. Fenwick said he could not he was ceremoniously taken over to China and Such events certainly tend to draw closer the pay so much, and reminded Mr Sampson that he told that his health would suffer if he ever bands of union between Japan and the various WAS only asked in find applicants, and had Klepped over the line again. His was in Wanchaj | nationalities to whom she has extended her hos- himself offered to ff put the thing through,” He yesterday, and in the dock this morning. He pitality, They matter litle to the dead, but mentioned that the prospectus,cc,were alt pleaded that he came over to see his mother. they remind the living that even through the | drawn on when the plaintiff came into the Mr. Wodehouse decided that if the old girl waita | saddest pages of the history of our Intercourse undertaking, and is offering: $256, sald that in to see him for the next twelve months, she will with Japan, that enduring purpose, spoken giving him the disposal of the shares he was have to do something, and get six months. of by pocis, runs unbroken and unweakened. simply intending to “put something in his way,!!!

COUNT CAVOUR, the greatcet of modern diplo- matists once predicted that the Roman Catholic church, the most powerful of political bodies, will yet be converted to Socialism, In thecase of the four Japanese who were charged yesterday with the manslaughter of a China man by causing him to jump off a launch and geldrowned, Mr. Pollock discredited the evidence of the witnesses, and discharged the defendant with a caution,

THE following changes in the French Consular service are reported by the Courrier & Hal phong:-M. Lequeux, Consul at Yokohama, has been transferred to Balonica, via M. Pricot de Sainte-Marie. M. Klobukowski substitutes M. Lequeux at Yokohama.

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CANTON,

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Captain Kiangy, now beg on behalf of the Foreign Community of Chinking, representative deputation of which is present, to express to you our sincer gratitude for the appreciation of the valuable services rendered to us during the terrible experience through which we passed on the night of the 5th February and the following day. On that occasion the dwellings of several of us were burnt and looted by an infuriated mob, and had it not been for the opportune „Moving an arrival of the steamship: "Klanged and the promptitude with which she was, brought up to a position off the Bund, it is but too probable that in addities to the loss of our household gods, we might have had to mourn, the loss of friends or relations Our thinks are due and are most beuilly, lendered le you Camaln

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Canton, 13th May, 1889. "The Consular flags hoisted at hail, mast this; morning apprised the community that another noteworthy one had been “ferries across the