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Intimations,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1889.

I ́measure adopted to cope with the present unsatisfactory sanitation of the colony. It ELECTRO-MEDICAL_APPLIANCES, will certainly be a pleasure to spend the

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ELASTIC STOCKINGS, LEGGINGS, KNEE- CAPS, ANKLETS and BANDAGES,

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

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(Telephone No. 60.)

Hongkong, 9th May, 1889.

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May, 1889.

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summer months In Hongkong, when in half an hour's time the resident or visitor can transplant himself from a sweltering town to the cool breezes of the seaside, and spend an evening along the beach, with a vast horizon before him, and a steady wind blowing through his house. We have been in the habit of going across to Macao to enjoy some of these comforts. We forget that nature has abundantly provided us with sites infinitely more advantageous for Summer resorts; and-almost-at-our-own gates. The Government would reap a substantial profit by undertaking, the work alluded to, as the new reclaimed land would surely be taken up. But if Government is behind the times, we would recommend the plan to the enterprising men of Hong kong, as one of the most remunerative and practical that can be conceived.

TELEGRAMS.

OBITUARY,

in the Sandwich Islands.

LONDON, May 13th..

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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An Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618 SC will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 17th instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. PRIVATE Alexander Smith, of the Ninety-oneth, is a Bad Egg. He got fined the other day for being pugnaciously full, and now he has been away down in Ship-Street, having a royal row with a China girl. Mr. Pollock sent him up for six weeks, this morning, with another month on the top off if he didn't pay the damsel $1ọ cumshaw. SHIP-OWNER-Has the Dolphin sailed for the west coast of Africa, John? Clerk-No, sir, Ship-own-hat's Those confounded Clerk-No, sir; the missionaries are all right. missionaries have delayed her, I suppose They'renboard. Ship-owner-What's the trouble, then? Clerk-There's a strike at the distillery and the rum hasn't come down yet.

REFERRING to His Excellency the Governor, "Brownie in the China Mail of Saturday last says That perhaps his seediness caused him to be somewhat unguarded in his condemnation of the repeal of the C. D. Acts." The italics are know what they are actually intended to convey. "Brownie's," not ours, and we should like to

If this fragrant murmur 'is meant as a witticism, it is worthy of its author if it is a double entendre, it is alike course and vulgar, and alto- gether lacking in point; and ifit conveys nothing beyond the ordinary meaning of the words used, we can only characterise it as the idle chatter of a buffoon.

Father Damier has died of leprosy at Molokai If there is any demand for a roomy, grave with nice high railings and cornices, and a bell on the front door, and green venetian blinds that can be let down when the remains are not at home-if any one wants a quiet and select The British sloop Wanderer, Commander Geo.hand, and no coarse, uneducated dead in too sepulchre, with no low dustmen buried close at

A. Gifford, arrived to-day from Singapore.

close vicinity let him look at this advertisement cut from the London Bazaar

THE P&O. S. N. Co.'s extra steainer Kashgar, from Bombay, left Singapore for this port at 5.30 p.m. yesterday.

WE note that Mi. 1 Fennis, Q.C., will deliver a lecture at the Literary Society to. inorrow at goo pm. on "A visit to Borneo." We are informed that telegraphic advices have been received from the Punjam Mines to the effect that new lodes have recently been dis covered.

ELDERLY GENT-1 am eighty years old, young man, and I don't recollect ever telling a lie. Young Man-Well, you can't expect your Į memory to be reliable at that age.

stage at Phitrdelphia on Monday the 25th March MRS. LANGRY made her appearance on the in "Afacbeth. Beyond a slight seakness, she showed no signs of her recent illness. Two mild-mannered men who possessed swords and revolvers but not licences were fined $30 What about some of the whisky in Queen's eich this morning for having deadly weapons.

Road West ?

THE composer of "Put me in my little bed" announces that he got two pounds for writing that interesting lyric, and hints that it was not enough. It was not: he ought to have got two

years.

THE redoubtable Thadeus O'Kane of Chaiters Towers, Queensland, now fills up the peaceful columns of the Northern Miner with corrections of the grammatical errors of his reptile contem- porary.

THE widow of Marshal Prim, Donna Francisca Aguero, has just died at Madrid, after three years' suffering. Since her husband's assassi nation she has jived in the strictest retirement, and during the last three years her reason has given way,

CITIZEN (to Uncle Rastus)-So that is the woman you are going to marry, is ii, Uncle Rastus? Uncle Rastus-Yes, sah, dat am de lady. She yain't much to look at. Citizen-Well, no, not very much, Uncle Rastus. Unele Rastus-But she hab gnt forty-seben dollars in de bank, hoss, an' she hab promised ter gib me de power ob attorney-generalship,

therein. Price very low.

head-stone, freestone base, iron tall, young girl only interred Highgate Cemetery, privare grave, bendly Atted with granite

Poor litle girl 1. For safe along with the grave price very low! It is rough on her. anyhow. If her ghost takes in the papers and she sees her dust in the market how must abe feel about it? The granite headstone, and the freestone base, and the iron rail are not of much account, but we would like to see the animal who has a little girl's grave for sale, and ask him what he thinks of himself, and how much he'll take for and his conimercial soul is stumbling over open his own sepulchre when he is deposited in one drains and dodging ash-heaps on its way to another land,

H. Norman, the Pall Mall Gatette travelling NEWS reached here to-day to the effect that Mr. correspondent, had been successful in shooting a tiger at the Telegraph Station, Cape St. James, where he landed from the last outward French mail. It appears that whilst Mr. Norman was enjoying a quiet rubber the monarch of the occurrence there) when the hunter, nothing jungle came to interview ibings (a not unfrequent daunted, from behind the bars and venetians of the verandah, fired' his celebrated six shooter, and plugged the best in the eye rolling him over on the spot. Naturally this achievement has created intense excitement at Cape St. James, and really it nearly equals the feats of our Amoy shiparis who by cautiously approaching their big game (when the brutes sein a gorged or semi-comatose condition) generally manage to bag them. Now is the time for our military Q.C., who prides himself on being so great an authority on guns, gelting out his little weapon and fixing off the one which place to which he is so partial. Surely Mr. J. I. has been seen in the neighbourhood of Macao, a Francis will not let one of the fourth estate cut him out in this fishion.

THE Electric sugar swindlers are under $11,000 bail each at New York.

M155 KATE FIELD had called to see the religious editor. As the great American charn- temperance problems, I sent bin pion of California, wines as a solution of the case of the wines, with a request for a strong article on the subject in the religious department, but the article has not appeared. Office Boy-No,

um; he's drunk yet.

A WILFUL Mistake on the Major's Part.-Widow (with marriageable girls): Julia has a most lovely volc, Major-10 powerful, you know; but daughter's. Would you like to hear her eing for ringing, silvery tone, give me my second Some Day'?" Major (awfully bored): "Certainly! month; that is-er-unless I'm unexpectedly Delighted, I'm sure, 'Let's say some day next ordered away anywhere,

THE following are the Orders of the Day for the meeting of the Legislative Council to be held to- morrow, the 16th inst., at 4 p.m. -

1. First reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordin ance for the naturalization of Li Man Hi, other. wise Pokshan.”

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2. First reading of a hill to amend Ordinance Houses and Markets Ordinance, 1887.), 17 of 1887, (The Cattle Diseases, Slaughter

3. First reading of a Bill to amend "The Post Office Ordinance, 1887."

the service,

tion berate him was whether that was enough or note That being the principle on which he would net, it was necessary to decide if there had been an agreement between the parties that all shares applied for through the plaintiff should be allotted, or not, The evidence · ence. One witness called for the plaintif fixed was conflicting, but it did not make any differ-

$3000, but his Lordship did not agree with him the amount of remuneration at something like

material-their evidence was irrelevant, and the that the witnesses for the plaintiff were not Mr. Hastings submitted, with regard to costs,

defendant ought not to be called upon to pay their expenses.

Taxing Master....

His Lordship said that was a matter for the

review the taxation if he liked.

Mr. Webber agreed. Mr. Hastings could His Lordship Certainly.

was only entitled to one per cent brokerage on the number of shares allotted on those applica tions. It would be shown in evidence that the amount paid into the Court represented the amount due in the latter case, and he submitted that that was the only practical and workable rule to apply to such cases, Mr. Fenwick utterly denied having promised to allot all the shares Mr. Sampson's clients might ask for, and also the assertion that he gave Mr. Sampson power to place the whole four thousand shares

he might. think his time very valuable, but where he liked.

Mr. Fenwick was then called. He said his best consideration to the subject, and that was a very large amount. Having given

Co, Limited. Sometime ago I was desirous of prepared to allow $720-that was to say the am the general manager of George Fenwick and in view of the number of shares allotted, he was went to my solicitors and had a prospectus thar and $720, with costs forming my business into a company, and 1 suin paid into Court plus the difference between and memorandum of purchase drawn up. All February; on which day I accidentally met Mr. the preliminaries were settled before the 28th Sampson. I told him I thought of making my draft articles of association, &c, and asked him business into a company, and gave him the if he had any friends who would like to take for you," and I said "All right, as it would shares. He said "Oh, let me put this through save me some trouble. I had previously shares. I showed him a list of their bames. I spoken to some people, who had agreed to take told him not to make the matter public. I met had done nothing, as he did not care to mention him again a few days afterwards, and he said he it since I did not want it made public. He also told me he had ordered a hundred saw the proof, and he corrected it in some caples of the prospectus to be printed, I upimportant particulars On the sth March all the shares had been applied logot a difficulty in floating the Company. I did not large number of applications, and had no give 'Mr. Sampson to understand that all appli- cations made through him would be granted; I told one man about that time that was not so. One individual offered to, take up all the shares not applied for, but I told him it could not be done it would not be in the interests of the Com- pany. I continued to receive applications and gave alphabetical list and gave to Messis. Wotton Mr. Sampson the names, which he made into an and Deacon. That practically finished his work. I have gone through the list of share holders, and divided the shares allotted through me and through him.. There were 1671 allotted to him and his clients. That makes $417, at one per cent. The shares were allotted on the THE PUNJOM BOOM. 15th March. I allotted them as I liked, in the best interests of the Company: Mr. Sampson sent in his bill on the 31st March; I had asked aim to do so, I did not give him 4 02 shares to place; my idea was to place that number privately and then advertise the rest, but that did not need to be done.

4. First reading of a Bill entitled The Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1889."

5. Second reading of the Bill entitled "The Chinese Extradition Ordinance, 1889."

Benalla (Vic.) the other day, an aged a Our Sydney Bulletin friend relates how at bowed with the weight of years, and bald from repeated marryings, was hauled into the local police court and shored up in a safe place, whilst a bow-legged constable who had grown hops, and asthmatical, and ugly proceeded, with measured speech and slow, to charge him with stealing an eighteen-shilling saddle in some far-off time when Moses was airily across the face of the continent, and the young, and the Depridoten Loniceps skipped junk of the awed Mongol came up from the sea in solitary majesty. The constable could call no witnesses, because everybody who knew anything about the saddle was dead, and wouldn't come if

jurisdiction of the court, and not caring a cuss if he called till his teeth ached, being beyond the they were convicted of contempt. The man who

had gone out of history and left no documentary owned the saddle was dead, and his posterity evidence regarding the saddle and no legitimate issue to inherit the lawsuit. The saddle itself had been worn out, riding from Dan to Beersheba with Her Majesty's mails before Cobb's coaches took up the route, and the man who made By. Mr. Webber:-1 did not engage Mr. it was drowned chasing Muses across the Red Sampson as a sort of confidential agent; I prout beyond the word of the prosecuting on the list Mr. Sampson prepared that: I allotted Sen on a bicycle; consequently there was no aged him as an assistant to place the shares I did not employ any other broker. It was on stable that there had ever been any saddle in the case at all, and that it should not be merely applied for, according to that list when it was the shares. There were more than 6,000 shares common charge ofinsulting behaviour "an' tearin' me uniform, and he was not so sure after all handed in by Mr. Sampson.1 did not speak that he had not dreamed about the affair, but to Mr. Sampson when I heard he had been should make it a caution to prisoner, anyhow. shares they applied for. Mr. Sampson told me seemed to incline to the belief that the Bench Promising his clients that they should get all the After mature deliberation the Bench solemnly on the last day that he could place the remala decided that the man who lost the saddle anghting 1,200 shares with one man. I did not say to have been embalmed in order to enable him he could not have them because he would

FENWICK & CO., LIMITED.

The first statutory

meeting of the shareholders in this company was held in the Hongkong Hotel this afternoon. Mr. Fullarton Henderson George Fenwick (general manager), A. Woolley, presided and there were present Messrs. G. R. Stevens, and H. Harms.

Ordinance there was nothing to report, but any statutory meeting required by the Companies questions would be willingly answered. There being none, Deathk

The Chairman said that as it was simply the

gressing as satisfactorily as was anticipated, Mr. Fenwick stated that the business was pro- and he thought they might safely look forward to an interim dividend of five per cent. at the end of the six months.

That concluded the business.

CORRESPONDENCE.

mind, thal

[We do not necessarily endone the opinions expressed by -

SEN VnCorrespondents in this column,↑

TO THE EDITOR OF THE Hongkong Telegraph." was at its height, a cleverly and carefully SIRA short time before the Punjom “boom worded letter from a correspondent in your widely circulated foomal had made the Hong- ong public believe that many agreeable Surprises werd in store for the Punjam investors.

convey that millions of dollars would be forth-

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plain wards your correspondent meant to

boldly before the public, and say in plain and coming by the out-put of gold from the mines. beseech your correspondent to now come forth

demonstration or practical results attained till anmuffled language, whether any scientific

justify his, rosy-colored assertions. Let

philosopher be left out of our calculation; solid statements, and roscate chimeras, and cobwebs spun in the brain of an Utopian and logical proofs should be forthcoming, or must we conclude that he used the public press simply for the purpose of working up the "boom

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to appear in evidence, also that Mases should then have 1,900 shares. I remember Min its highest pitch to satisfy, his sacra sitiz

have been subponned and the saddle-maker bound over to appear, and a copy of Josephus works retained for the Crown; but, as things had been neglected, they had no option but to discharge the prisoner without a stain on Eis character, whilst complimenting the constable on his intelligence and zeal.

SUPREME COURT, :

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

(Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Puisnë” Judge)

THE SHAREBROKING CASE. The case of Sampson v. Fenwick came on again this morning.

Mr. G. S. Coxon was called. He said -I am a broker, and have bein here seven years, I know the custom of the so-called Stock Exchange here, I have never been connected with the floating has, except in this instance. I am a shareholder of a company, and do not know any broker who

Mr. Sampson. I heard he had to do with the in Messrs. Fenwick & Co, I got my shares through disposing of the shares, and so I went to him. I did not hear that all shares applied for through him would be allotted at least I do not recollect him saying so. I only got a portion of those get on shares in a case like this. broker of fourteen years standing. I consider Mr. E. George:-I am a stock and share myself able to give an opinion on sharebraking, had been called on to promote a company or do anything you might put in my way. If I should have made a special arrangement. I think that one per cent. would be a pany. If I were asked to turn a private business moderate charge. I have never floated a Com-

the shares unless there was a special arrange

Company I should charge brokerage on ment. The charge is a quarter per cent, on ten

Sampson saying he didn't care ten conts got the shares so long he get his brokerage

aurti If that was his object, his efforts to shake off pagoda trees must not have proved an decisive victory scored by him at the expense of upset, and he is to be congratulated on the the gullible Singaporeans, and a few daring and reckless Hongkong speculators.

The solemn vaticinations, couched in Sergeant Busforstyle of mighty Mr. Buchanan Smith in the columns of your morning contemporary are getting far from being realised, and the much wanted American capital of Mr. Nelson, a practical mining expert as he styles himself, seems to have collapsed.

enclose my card, and beg to subscribe myself

Yours truly,

Hongkong, 15th May, 1889.

CIVIS.

A WAIL'EROM WYNDHAM STREET.

This concluded the case for the defence. Mr. Ha ting, in summing up, again criticised Mr. Sampson's claims to be considered a pro moter of the Company. To be that he have held a fiduciary position with regard to the Company, and be responsible for the state ments in the prospectus, being liable to return all profits if those statements, were found to be misleading. Mr. Sampson had no such liability: If the prospectus had been found to be mislead ing, and an action brought against him, he would simply have set up the defence that he was only the agent for the distribution of the shares. The only question was what remunera tion he should have for; his services, Mr. Webber, in his opening, remarks, said thaj he would prove the custom in the matter, and certain gentlemen belonging to the stockbroiding fraternity had been called to do so, but none of them knew of any case where brokerage, had

To Tie Eorron of any !! Konekong Telegrap{}," been paid to a man for canvassing for suffering, amiable mortal in the Far East than SIR,-I don't think there is a more patient,long- plications-there was no custom in Hongkong tam, but lately, since, I've needed to traverso in the matter. Therefore they must look at the Wyndham Street, I have got to be so laritable amount of work done, the skill required, and the that I don't know what the end will be. I'm between the 18th February, and the following alsh up by being a murderer, Just let me tell responsibility incurred. The work was alone rapidly becoming a maniac, and I think I shall Tuesday, probably all that Mr. Sampson had to you what I have to put up with at least twice a was to stand in front of the Hongkong Hotelf why day, and see if I have not reason to complain. brokers most do congregate, and take down the pAt the bottom of the street are two fica of chairs. names of the people who wanted shares. He Now it is possible that I might want one, but if

was entitled to brokerage at all, or whether he their hands on the chair-handles in turn and baw] beginning of the case as to whether the plaintiff irritating to have the rest of the yellow disput $25, or something like that-but Mr. Fenwick Brock some of their heads off. Then there are was not entitled to be paid so much a day-sayt Chat sah I feel sometimes that I could

a percentage on every allotted share placed by rascals who seem to imagine that I am coming desired to deal generously with him, and give him the Bower-girls. They are dirty, able-bodied him. No special skift was required, and nup in the middle of the day specially to buy. responsibility. He left the case to his Lordship than the gentlemen who had given evidence as a better judge of what was a reasonable amount

degree, and to whom it would be a great advant uses that deem full of women with nothing to do who were interested witnesses in the highest the top 1 come to a riest of green-patated tage to have a rule laid down in that Court

but lean out of window and gossip-laxy, alat- applications they seat in, and not the allotments By Mr. Hastings I have never known these He asked his Lordship to decide that the farà piano, and every plano has been out of to do with it. And every house brokerage charges to be made upon obtaining amount paid inte Court was ample. uniform. If a number of brokers sent in applice agreed as to the facts the only difference lay with a towbone in ons house, blown by a applications for shares. The charges are not Mr. Webber, in reply, said that they were away at every one whenever I pass, and what tine this ten years, and somebody is pounding tions for shares in a new company they could in the question of the amount the plaintiff earned lunatic who can sound two consecutive notes, only charge on the number allotted.

There was no express arrangement as to what and a wherry, skreking old clarionet a little By Mr. Webber; That would apply equally be should receive, but it was plain that bewafer up, and girls practising singing in every to a case where only one broker was employed. retained as a sort of private agent, not a rather room, I feel that my cup of bitterness in Mr. John Andrew-I am a broker here. I have moter, and that he had, in his capacity as a broker, fall Cast you do something, or get somebody never taken part in floating a Company. I to obtain applications for shares tause the words to do something, to stop it, and lengthen the have been a shareholder in Fenwick & Co. 1 of the defendant to save me the trouble of days of boogte vi and to

in the absence of an agreement, that the plaintif Mr. Hastings innocently enough, perhaps, was to be paid in the usual way as a brokeron

had estimated the value of a brokers Work at sa5 a day, and made out that the plaintiff only at work two days, although as a matter of fact, he was employed; over the affairs of the SOME OF THE Company at least a fortnight, during which time, according to the evidence of Mr. Danby, he was very busy, indeed, It was clear that he was from

BARON VON KNIGGE (died 1795), the author of the well known work, "People I have known," occupied in his younger days the post of Recorder at Hesse-Cassel. He was a general favourite in society on account of his brilliant wit, but so numerous were the victims of his satirical húmour that on his approach everyone involuntarily stood on the defensive. It thus frequently happened that Knigge was paid back in his own coin One day the papers reported, with reference to the military disturbances in Turkey, that the THE attendance at Madame Cara's entertain Mussulmans at Constantinople had; on the roth of May, by way of proplating the great Prophet, ment in the City Hall last night was small and buried a Jew by the side of an ass. This piece silent, as is generally the case here when any of intelligence created general amusement, and thing under grand opera comes along. The performance in itself was excellent, the various Knigge, who was sitting amid a gay circle feats of sleight of hand being remarkably neat

of ladies of the court, called out to Feidel, in their execution, if not altogether novel. The the highly respected Jewish purveyor, who was applied for. I do not know what a broker would (Mr.", Hastings) had very great, doubts, at the don't, and tell the first coolie so, it is intensely concluding exhibition of thought-reading was

present: "Hos lacky, Feidel, that you were especially good-it quite bewildered the Chinese Certainly," the old genticinza replied, with a not in Constantinople on the 10th of May 1" spectators, and not a few of the European shake of his head, "very lucky for me, but it Altogether, Madame Cora very successfully sus tained the interest of the entertainment for two there, Herr Baron," "For me? How's that? I was equally fortunate for you that you were not hours..

am not a Jew!" was the startled reply. "No, I was not, says the New York Sun, until the indeed,” said Feidel, without moving a muscle time of William the Conqueror that oysters were enten. In the year 1669, in the month of besides the Jew another party was buried." of bis face, "but the Herr Baron forgets that HONGKONG, Wednesday, May 15, 1889.

September, a younger son of an impoverished This repartee, uttered, as it was, with the rabst French family swam the channel to England. delightful calmness, was received by the One of the most practical solutions of the In clambering up some rocks out of the company, our deafening shouts of laughter,

water-it was low tide he put his hand whereupon our sanitary problem of the Colony lies, wa on a stone, as he thought. The stone, lost his head that he fled from the room in i think, in the extension of the town west-

however, closed upon his Angers, pinching towering passion. wards, and in the building up of a sea- forced the rock open and released bis fingers, PROBABLY not one citizen in a

them severely. With his trusty sword he side suburb in the neighbourhood of which he put into his mouth to comfort. He writer in the New York Commercial Advertiser

a hundred, says tasted something so delicious that be forgos his had ever heard the word "champerty" before Pokfulam, which considered to be one pain, His hunger overcame his prudence, and the twenty five lawyers who had been suing the of the healthiest localities in the Island. he, though with fear, swallowed the moist mass elevated railroad were accused of that obscure The southwest monsoon is intended by that lay in the "stone" be had opened. It was crime before the Grand Jury on Thursday, nature as a compensation for the oppressive have forgotten the name of this hero, but are clear idea that champerty is the act of aiding

an oyster and he was the first to eat one! We Readers of current news now have a tolerably summer heat we experience in these not his deeds related in Beaton's Annual for person in the prosecution of a lawsuit, under an latitudes. To forego its advantages. 18657 They are of a verity. Really, though, agreement to share in the proceeds of the litiga! | applied for a hundred shares and got seventy. | coming up to town. It was implied, therefore, insoll Yours truly, had a and substitute thêm by the artificial/2ystery have been eaten since the time of the tion or to make some profit from it...The law is five. I got them through Mr. Sampson; he

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plectic at yet, I know. Then, when I've toiled ap ouquets, and they, pester me so out of reach of my stick-that-well, I shall have an apo

wag so completely dollar shares, balf per cent, on '$50 shares, and deciding that they must bé!pals'on the number da anni dave "Sir, I would make it penal, if I

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WAYFARER.

A Hongkong, 15th May, 1889: BOL

AUFREAKS OF LONG AGO.

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REMARKABLE CREATURES WHO

IN-PAST-CENTURIE

raid to a writer in the St. ocrat, an enterprising English

Greeks and Romans,

an inheritance from an old English stalate of told me to put my name down for as many as I punkah has so far been our mis-

Henry Vill's time, and like many other wanted. Trexpected to get a hundred, from THUS the Sydney Bulletin-A sorrowful laws of similar origin, is aimed agelost That he said. If I had been asked to obtain taken polley. We have systematically specimen of humanity signing himself" A.HM.cally objectionable practice, but unfortunately applicants for shares in a new company I should preferred to roast in the northern slope of writes to the Sydney Daily Telegraph con covers by its terms other perfectly proper legal expect to get, brokerage on each application. I Victoria Peak to enjoying the breezes that cerning the failure of "Captain Swit in Sydney; methods. It has proved difficult for the keenext should expect fifty cents a share. I should still Your correspondents Truth and Swagman, legal interpretation to separate the efforts of a expect it if there were three or four thousand. sweep its southern shores throughout the in calling the piece dreary and only a partial lawyer to arrange for a puit with a 44

shares. pontingent whole length of the summer. Yet it would success from a literary point of view? disagree lep from enterprises of the Dodson & Fogg By Mr. Hastings I have applied for shares appear that no easier task could be found ally with the London and Sydney press and order. Hence the law has become practically in other companies and only got part, but I have the fact that he obtalded application for over Loult Globe-Du

set themselves as critics above the Prince of Wales, obsolete, and in many States has been formally on Sccasion got all, as an original applicant. three thousand shares. He submitted, in con- publisher got together a collection of portraits than that of extending the road which now who said, I never saw a piece I enjoyed so much abolished by act of Legislature. The defendants do not think it is usual to cut down the number,clusion, that his client had established his right and memoirs of remarkable persons who have reaches as far as Kennedy Town, round Surely H.R.H. bas seen as many first class dra- in the present case are accused by the railroad when they are vended, privately. I understood to the sum originally claimed, and therefore to lived from the beginals of the reign of Edward

mas at your correspondents." We don't want company of inciting property-owners along the from Mr. Sampson that I should get a hundredthe lesser amount. "the base of Mount Davis, as far a

to sit on "A.M.H." conecessarily, but still we line of the elevated railroad to sue for damages,

III., in 1338, 16 the middle of the eighteenth By Mr. Webber:-It was not the same as if it His Lordship, in delivering judgment, having centuryThe matter was in three volumes, that Pukfulum, skining the hills as near the sea think these three impalpable Initials are making and agreeing to draw the legal fees from the was advertised in the papers briefs stated the nature of the claim, sad were issued at such long intervalsthat by the fine as possible; an area might be embanked known in literature only as the son of the lady for an indictment will, therefore, be of interest, M Hastings, in opening the case for the the work done was called remuneration or almost callfely disappeared) (221

an ass of themselves, The Prince of Wales expected indemnity. The result of this effort That closed the case for the plantiff.

that he did not think 1 mattered whether the last way reached the preceding two had below the Reservoir, as large as Shamien who wrote "Leaves from my Journal in the not only to the profession, but to the laity. The defence, submitted that the plaintiff was not the brokerage. Plaintiff bad evidently been at con- Matthew Hopkins of Maningtree, who was In Canton, and a suburb built there, with Highlands, and "More Leaves from the same necessary adherence of the counts to phioler cent promoter of the Company, and had no claim to siderable difficulty to fid out how to assess bis in 1644-16 wilchfloder for the associated counties gardens, with bathing plers, with water distinguished as au able critic of the British Leg. but in modern practice how country for character was that of an agent for the distr. charge of go cents per share. In either case it his own county of Essex He pretended to be'

funereal paraphlet, and in art he is chiefly English statutes has had more than one queen that title-he performed none of the duties and remuneration; he had first-based it on a pet. of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Huntingdonshire, falls, and all other appliances of modern show As to the number of plays bp has Englisliman, under trial in his own Coppity for

accepted none of the responsibilities. His only centage on the shares and then on the usual changed in one year no less than sixty witches in civilisation and comfort. A steam tramway any ory gentleman who has been eighteenth to submit the case to CHATS Barley The was admitted that he did certain services, in that bring it within the jurisdiction of the Court Warts, that were supposed to be teats to suckle witnessed, that doesn't count, for anything, murder, astonished the Court by soberly bution of the sbarcsa canvasser for them. It was dyer $1,000 but it had been reduced to great critic in special marks such as males and line might be made to start from Kennedy trombone or forty-second bassoon in an orchestra, lawyers were incredulous but examination of capacity, so the only question really before the The defendant treated it differently. It could, Limpa menjamo al dimen Town; and, later on, brought on along the for 30 years has seen more of the stage than the old statutes showed that the defendant had Court to the repitineration he was entitled Mave been decided by custora, ar MyWebber, Laultimate method of proof was by tying new reclamation, to the neighbourhood of authority, the hair of" A.M.H." would probably the matter by fighting champion of the king one per cent on the whole of the shares, in- the sort established here. He proposed, theres song aboutwapsowalstwar fastened cord, the Wales, and yet, if he were quoted as a superior the right to his claim, and was entitled to settle to, ether 29, and entitled, as he contended, to justly observed, but there was the precedent ofjgelber the thumbs anddons of the suspected pere the Clock Tower, and thus & great outlet stand up. For which, and several other reasons, with club and buckler, in the presence of the cluding the defendant's Boo, or as an alternative,fore, to grant a lamp sum which he thought fajr *would lie found to the crammed condition we ask "A... to form his own opinions, and Court, from sunrise to the appearance of the to fifty cents, share on the hole of the and reasonable for the services rendered Th

which were held on the banks of a river not borrow them from an heir-apparent who ban evening stars No champion; offered himself applications sent in through him, or whether the services had beca rendered was admited by the

power it was to strain or of the City, as well as a great hygienic very few to spare,

and the accused was accord

Parged contention of the defendant was right, and he payment Into Court of $420,

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