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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1889.

CHARINI'S CIRCUS is expected to open in Yoko-. | THE latest official return atates that 81,036 bama at the beginning of next week.

ADMIRAL Salomon has reached Nagasaki. The Imperieuse man a full-speed trial on the way, | and attained a speed of sixteen knots,

ACCORDING to the Shanghai Mercury, the Government of Korea has again forbidden the teaching of Christianity to the natives of that country.

THE Singapore brokers, following the example of their brethren in Hongkong/are considering the advisability of starting a properly organised stock exchange.

THE P. M. 5. S. Co.'s steamer City of Piting, with mails, &c. from San Francisco to the 3rd inst. i Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow,

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, representative of Messrs. Mappin and Webb,

LIMITED,

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Opposite Hongkong Hotel,

HONGKONG.'

(Telephone No. 60.) Hongkong, 24th June, 1889.

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD,

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

We understand that Mr. N. 5. Marshall

proceeds from here to Shanghai, where we have no doubt he will do a roaring business.

OUR Shanghai morning contemporary says that no news has yet been received of the opening of the market in Foochow, although there are some 300,000 chests in stock, and the muster shown are counted by thousands.

THE flooring of the premises in which the mineral waters of the Hongkong Dispensary are manufactured got ignited yesterday afternoon | through the proximity of the boiler flue. The fire was quickly extinguished with buckets, and no great amount of damage was done.

persons between the ages of 17 and 40 years earn their livelihood in Japan either as sållors or fishermet.

MESSRS. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Glaucus, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and is due on the and proximo.

YOU'RE a nice editor,,, Chubbs" "What's the matter now?" "Why, you say the pub. lisher. of the Daily Voice is an unmitigated ass,TM"

Well, he is?" But you add :

We advise. our brother journalist to reform his stupid

ways

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A CORRESPONDENT in Cho Chia Kou, Honan, who had just returned from a visit to the breach in the Yellow River, writes on the 5th Inst, that he found things looking much better than be expected, and that nine-tenths of the districts. recently flooded are now under cultivation...

A CURIOUS instance of rapid rise in the value of a picture is afforded by Lord Wemyss's recent purchase of a small head by Greuze, from Colnaghi, of Piccadilly, for 40. He was almost immediately offered 1,000 guineas for it by Mr. Ferdinand Rothschild, but wants 5,000. It is only fair to Mr. Colnaghi to say that he is of his original doubtful opinion as to the picture's authenticity.

"An old fellow with eleven black marks against him—for cutting down trees and housebreaking alternately--was banished last November. A natural anxiety as to how one of his daughter over here was getting on caused him to retum, will be able to return the visit at the Tai Kun. and he was arrested yesterday. His daughters

twelve months. otherwise "topside," anytime within the nex

NORTH BORNEO NEWS.

A hospital is now being built close to the British Borneo Trading and Planting Co's Saw Mill on the Leila Road, Sandakan, for the use of coolics sent in sick from the estates. An European ward is also to be added, as also a house for a dispenser, who is coming up with his wife from Messrs. Maynard and Co's business in Singapore. The wife of the dispenser is a trained nurse.

We hear, that arrangements are being made to import Japanese coal from China. Te is doubtful whether for steam producing purposes it is equal to Muara coal, but it can be sold at a cheaper rate, as ships, engaged in the timber trade intend to use it as ballast on their return from China.

The Pillsburg Disßätch of February 27th has the following article:-).

'chtain thom. I feel that there is a desire to operate | MINING ‘FROSPECTS IN MEXICO.

as much as possible against Boulanger. Probably you will hear more on this subject soon, Salisbury.. seems to be in good odour. He was not well. last year, R. sald, but he is much better now, When Randolph C. was bere he was very anxious If there is any gold or tin in Mexico, Pittsburg- to be received at Friedrichsrehe, but did not suc ers are determined to have it, and a company ceed, and Prince B. actually delayed his return to has been formed for that purpose. The purchase. Berlin to avoid the appearance of having come of large tracts of land by a concern composed to him. The Crown Prince reads your papers principally of Pittsburg business men wis every day and marks passages in the leader. I published in the Dispatch several months ago. saw in R's room the first page of the 7th or gth--None of the mines had been developed, and in April all underlined in red. "I am waiting for order to ascertain what they were with a com your letter. Bismarck leaves town to-morrow mittee was appointed to investigate. This com for Varzin, and is expected to be back in eight milites was composed of Mesars. C. Y. Dixon, days. Your letter of the roth came to hand Herman Kunkle, and H. A. McCormick. They today. Many thanks. I shall read to R-Yours left the city on January 5th; and returned truly, E. Steinkopff.”

yesterday morning.

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All of them were well pleased with the trip,to the mines, notwithstanding the fact that they

bonanza and the tin mine will be a bonnriza had to ride on the backs of bronchos a distance of go miles. The gold mine, they claim, is a also, ifatariff is placed on tin plate, but nothing of tin will be made profitable by the passage of will be done with the field unless the manufacture the Senate tarif bill.

Mr. Richardson, of Messrs. Bradley & Co., of BISMARCK IS WILLING, BUT DARS THE Swatow, is expected here soon in order to promote the direct importation of coolics from that part.

AMBASSADORS. As Mr. Richardson may not be able to visit they dear Greenwood, I have shown your "Berlin, Monday afternoon, May '14th, 1888. different estates it may be possible for managers letter to R., who has expressed his and B.'s to appoint an agent in Sandakan or Kudat to

entire satisfaction and their readiness to work negotiate with the well known Swatow firm which with us in a thorough manner. I have told him Mr. Richardson represents for the importation of coolies for the present season. The chief difd. of cur desire that the Embassies at Paris, Rome. and Petersburg should be instructed to wire or culty about Swatow labour is that no contracts

Mr. Dixon, one of the committee who returned' write us information; but this, he says, is im- yesterday, was seen by a Dispatch reporter. He signed there for service abroad are binding on

possible. Were this to be done it would be said-We had an elegant time. Mexico is not the coolies, so that the latter might repudiate

Known all over tile world at once, for, says he, we what it has been represented. The people are their agreements on arriving here. We do not

know almost every telegram which foreign Gov-as accommodating, or more so, than any I ever quite see how this difficulty can be overcome

ernments send out; and, secondly, cur people in met, and I have traveled a great deal. They do but perhaps Mr. Richardson may suggest some

the various places could not be depended upon; solution of it.

not hesitate a moment to ride 50 miles with a instructions. It may be necessary to have nine times out of ten they would forget the person to show him the road. They are not cutthroats and bandits, as claimed by some correspondents at each place, which would persons who have written them up. I would be mean £2000 additional expenses. On Wednes willing put all the money I possess in my day I am to meet Herbert B. The Crown pocket and tide alone into the mountains, and looked upon as the man. Prince is said, to be admired much and is

would return with every cent of it. They are I believe everything not thieves, "but the most hospitable people I is going on as well as possible, but it takes ever met, If we got wet or cold while on our time to put it right. Their idea concerning journey the natives would take as in and provide Boulanger is that an English paper should for us. They would give us their beds, and they by what Boulanger does at present and has done

"We reached our gold mine all right and for some time-namely fomenting dissatisfaction found it in operation, and the result exceeded and disobedience in the army. But B. told me. they awaited further news before proposing any

our expectation, but I do not care to say much observations on the subject-Yours truly, E.

about it.

MEXICAN PROFANE PROFITS Steinkopff,"

IN drawing attention to our special prepara- tions, we beg to state that we continue to import Drugs Chemicals, and Goods of every CHIEF JUSTICE SIR R. T. RENNIE, accompanied kind of the best description only. No other by Mr. Wilkinson, crown advocate, and Mr. quality is kept in Stock. Our long experience Malcolm Jones, clerk of the court, left Shanghai and intimate acquaintance with the Trade and

on Tuesday last for Amoy, in order to try the the best sources of supply enables us purchase direct from the Producers on the very best second mate of the British schooner Leong Wha Tue' Shik Pao reports a conflagration in the of Sandakan were present to pay the last tribute say that Germany, and only Germany, benefits would sleep on the floor. terms, and thus gives us an advantage which for killing a Chinaman on the 12th inst. enables us to offer our Constituents the benefit of a considerable reduction in the price of all Specialities of our own Manufacture or putting up, as cumpared with similar articles sold else

where.

WATSON'S CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA REMEDIES. CHOLERA MIXTURE.

As prescribed and recommended by Dr.

A PROCLAMATION has recently been issued by the authorities of Formosa, advising the tea merchants not to mix dust with the leaves, and. not to park in old, damaged chests, as they have received from one of the American merchants a communication which says that the decrease of the tea trade is mainly due to these two reasons.

Tux Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play at the Murray Barracks this evening, commencing

residence at Peking of Chang, the son of the Governor of Shantung, on the day of the Dragon Festival, The fire was caused by the firing of crackers in idolatrous ceremonies, and it lasted from one to five o'clock. More than two han dred houses were destroyed in this conflagration. On the evening of the name date a fire started again outside of Ch'ing Wen Gate. The flames, after destroying between thirty and forty houses, were got under control at about midnight. A JAPANESE native paper, the Shimanome vessel belonging to the Naval Department, was sunk off Yajima by the Tokio-maru. About 120 persons were drowned, and as the vessel contained 260,000 yen, together with a cargo of weapors, and military stores, the loss to the Government was very considerable. Many at- tempts have since been made to recover the submerged property, but as the Osaka went down in 38 fathoms they all proved unsuccessful, Lieutenant Asai and three natives of Yamaguchi Government have promised them everything recovered except the weapons.

We regret to have to record the death on May 30th at Cliff House, the residence of Mr. Henry Walker, of Mr. Alexander Menzies after a very short illness. Mr. Menzies, was about to proceed home, having completed his business in North Borneo. The funeral took place at 5 p.m. on May 31st, the Rev. W. H. Elton officiating, the coffin being carried to the Cemetery by a detail of the Sikh Police. A large gathering of the residents of respect to the memory of the deceased, who during his sojourn in North Borneo had made himself exceedingly popular with all classes.

During the stay in Sandakan of the various chiefs and the followers from the East and West Coast the Commandant improved the 'occasion by letting them witness the firing from the Maxim gun at two largeis consisting of barrels, anchored out in the bay at 600 and 1000 yards distance. Altogether 1000 rounds were fired, the gun acting admirably and both targets being sunk. The quick action and rapid firing of the gun evidently fighting against such a grim weapon was not exactly a "square game," as the advance would be all slaughtered before they could come into action. Captain Barnett also treated them to a view of some practice with the 12-pounder guns

"WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?" CRIED THE JUDGE. Mr. Justice Denman inquired as to what was the bearing of all this?

"There is a silver mine near our mine, which is owned by Maximilian Damm, a German, and he is realizing $350,000 a month out of it. The product of the mine is shipped to California by rail, but it is hauled about 50 miles in wagons before a railroad is reached.

AYRES, Colonial Surgeon, when President of the at 7.10 o'clock. The following will be the pro- Shimbun says:-In 1875 the Osaka-māru, impressed the chiefs, one of wher remarked that justified in throwing up his engagement on the about go miles from the town. After we visited

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1889."

TELEGRAMS,

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THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

PROSPECTS.

DENMARK has a new and unique society, called the "Celibacy Assurance Society," its, object being to provide for women who can't or won't niary. Premiums begin at the age of thirteen al end at forty. At the latter age an unmarried woman receives an annuity for life. If she mar rics at any time after taking out a policy she forfeits all claims on the society. The profits of the society are expected to be enough to provide well for members who never marry.

ANOTHER deserving candidate for the Belilios decoration and the accompanying shekels. A Japanese paper tells us that Mr. Sennosuke, an old gentleman seventy-one years of age, was passing over the Kojima bridge at Oraka the other morning when he noticed a little girl struggling in the water beneath. Without the slightest hesitation he plunged in and rescued the child, who had fallen from the bridge while an her way to school. Gallant old fellow.

THE Shih Pao says that in the great fire which began at Lü-chow in Szechuan' on the 12th April-and was mentioned some time ago by our Ichang correspondent--no less than 36,017 families were rendered homeless. It adds that "the number of persons killed, both by suffoca- reckon. All the sufferers that escaped from and by being trampled upon, is too numerous to death now live on the bank of the river. As they have no houses to live in, nor food to eat, the authorities are providing for their necessities and soliciting help from the benevolent."

We regret to hear of the death of Mr. T. G. Laats, Government Surveyor, when working on the Segaliud Estate. Mr. Laats had only lately joined the Survey departingal and his health had

TIENTSIN.

General would say that Mr. Greenwood was Mr. Finlay understood that the Solicitor

ground of something that had taken place in connection with foreign politics, He, on the other hand, would contend that the transfer of Mr. Steinkopff was very largely due to the efforts of the plaintiff; and that he declined to continue editor upon the ground that the paper was not to advocate those views which he considered should be advocated.

Witness continued: He had serious reason to believe that the St. James's Gazette was, to be turned to the purposes of the Emperor of Germany. He was offered £1,300 for three months' service; and that alone was to him a very suspicious circumstance. He was asked to continue editor after certain correspondence between Mr. Steinkopff and certain gentlemen at Berlin, and he did not know but that his con- tinuing to be editor for three months were neces- sary for the carrying out of that arrangement.

Yet you were to have the control of the paper? insert what I considered improper, what was I to do? It would at once have been a breach of the agreement-And what remedy should I have

THE N. C. Daily News gives the following as the ten settlements at Hankow on the 18th

Tientsin, 15th June, 1889. inst:-

The French gunboat spit arrived at Tienisin English buyer. Russian buyers. Total. on Wednesday evening.

t-chests 1-chest, chce s Hankow Tea 2,000 1,660 3,660

It is rumoured that Captain Brissander, of the Kiukiang,.........1,646

1,646. Kungpai, is shortly leaving China for Sweden,

to superintend the construction of three new-if Mr. Steinkopf had ordered his printer to Total...3,656 1,660

5.306 steamers for the Tientsin trade.

The tides on the Taku Bar daring the past few Shipments to Shanghai on native, account

days have ranged from 12ft. 6in, to 13ft 6in. 660 4-chests. Prices påld ----

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ing left the port, the time occupied in coming from Taku has been under five hours. With a few good tides it may be hoped that the current at the ebb will wash away some of the shore spits in the Tientsin Reach, and make a clear river for the steamers.

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"A RELIGIOUS (3) NUISANCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkong Triasrash."

SIR,-May I ask you to make public a crying nuisance which the inhabitants of this city living in the vicinity of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. are subjected to by the constant ringing of begins at 5 a.m., and, of course, awakens every. bells in the early morning The annoyance body in the vicinity; after a while you may manage to drop off to sleep again, when you are startled by an even more hideous clanging than before. This nuisance will no doubt go on increasing unless something is done. to check it.

for the gratification of the priests? Have we no Why should people have their rest disturbed remedy?

Yours faithfully,

RATEPAYER.

Hongkong, 26th June, 1889. [Our correspondent should take out a summons against the Pro-Vicar Apostolic for the nuisance complained of.-Ed., Hongkong Telegraph.]

NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS,

The recent want of rain drove up the price of rice to $3.80 the shik of 160 calties; but the recent heavy rain-falls have lowered it to $3.60. The agriculturists, who were beginning to be seriously apprehensive of a drought, are delighted at the change.

THE irrepressible Mr. H. M. Becher, who is described in the Ceylon Examiner as Managing Director of the Punjom, etc. Gold Mining Co., has been airing himself at Ceylon on his way home to England. We read that he has gone on a special mission to London "to obtain [5 machinery and other plant required for mining operations, and is expected back at Paliang, where the Company has been floated, at no dis- tant date." This will be news with a vengeance to the shareholders. Mr. Becher also engaged at Ceylon a Mr. C. Leembruggen to be Surveyor to the Company, who was highly recommended for the job. In our opinion, if the Directors could manage to put a muzzle on Mr. Becher and reduce him to something more consistent than an inflated gas-bag, the prospects of Punjoms would be greatly improved. Canada is again this year sending her band of markomen to the Wimbledon meeting, and Private M'Vittie, of Dumfries fame, is to be one of the team. The veteran "Bob," as he is always

At the beginning of June the Viceroy Li Hung- called by his brother rifle shots, was not success chang wrote to the Board of Revenue recom ful in business in the old country, (he was Amending that Tis. 16,000 spent on coals for the builder in Langholm) and recently emigrated to Government vessel Chin Hai should be Canada, Though he was never won the Queen's recovered from the likin collected on opium by Prize he has the distinting of harief been the Tientsin Customs, The Board has not yet oftener in the "Sixty" and the "Hundred " than given its consent. any other man. In shooting he invariably use the notch in the backsight in preference to the straight bar, which is not a usual practice with sliding bars, one with a central notch and the other two with the notch cut right and left respectively, just enough to make a certain degree of wind allowance. These were passed as fair sights by the Council N. R. A. on the notch in each was "eyeably" in the centre, as their opinion was worded,

On Tuesday morning about 5 a.m., the long looked for rain came, although not in the desired abundance, only half-an-inch falling. During the whole of the week the sky has been overcast, with occasional breaks, and the temperature, which registered tos last week, was 95 • on Monday, and on Tuesday registered 69. The atmosphere has since been delightfully cool, and at times almost too cold, following the intense. heat recently experienced. On Friday a con- siderable quantity of rain fell, introduced by a thunderstorm in the morning-Chinese Tinies.

BISMARCK AND THE "ST. JAMES'S

GAZETTE."

7.

AN EDITOR'S ACTION FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSAL. 'The action of Greenwood v. Gibbs came again before Mr. Justice Denman and a special jury on 21st May. Mr. Hindmarsh said that the plaintiff was Mr. Frederick Greenwood, and he sued Mr.

Henry Hucks Gibbs for damages for wrongful

dismissal from the position of editor of the "St Famer's Gazelle without the twelve months notice to which he was entitled. The defendant

had?

He did not tell Mr. Gibbs that he should leave the paper. He did not consider it to be possible for him to go on with Mr. Steinkopf his business. The question whether it would be

aroje

duty to wait and see whether his fears were May, and he thought that it was his

proceeded he made up his mind. His suspicion corroborated by subsequent events, and as events

the paper an organ of the German Government was that it was the ultimate intention to make

more or less.

THE MASTER OF THE ST. JINGO IN THE BOX.

Mr. Edward Steinkopff, the proprietor of the St. James's Gazette, residing at Hampstead, was then examined by Mr. Arbuthnot, in Mr. Finlay's absence. All the negotiations, il appeared, were conducted through Mr. Green- wood. The first intimation received by him AÐ to Mr. Greenwood's determination not to con.

tinue editor was his letter of roth August, which was sent to the press at the same time, "I was greatly surprised," said Mr. Steinkopff, who then explained how Mr. Greenwood's letters to him originally began Dear Steinkopf," ther commenced "Dear Mr. Steinkopff," which became "Dear Sir," and ultimately reached the fourth stage of a mere curt 4 Sir." A question from Sir Edward Clarke elicited the information that the price paid to Mr. Gibbs by Mr. Stein kopff for the paper was between £3,000 and £14,000.

"The mines are located near Durango, that is

the gold mines a member of the party proposed that we go to the tin mines. This was voted down very promptly, as it would necessitate a ride on the back of a broncho for several miles and a tramp up a mountain of 4,000 feet up and the same number of feet down. We were too tired for such a trip and decided to let the tin mine go. If we can make any money out of it we will certainly develop it. In a short time, I believe, there will be a railroad running near the mines.

Mr. Dixon is well pleased with his trip, and believes that the stock in the gold company will advance, and as there is none on the market, the holders of stock will realize handsomely.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE.

In these post-centennial days it is interesting in Virginia the Anglo-Saxon, hitherto penned to remember that with the first colony established up almost entirely within his island stronghold, began that career of acquisition, conquest, and assimilation which must end in Anglicizing every country that is not already civilized, and in all language of the future. probability will make English the universal

that the adoption of a universal language will be For it takes no prophetic vision to discern

into which all nations will ultimately merge. one of the forerunners of that federation of man

acutely felt, and has given birth to such anomalies Even now the need of such a language is as Volapuk and its imitations. But Volapule can never supply the need. A language cannot be deliberately invented; it must grow and develop as part of the heritage of a nation, strengthening with its strength and embalming

all its glories and traditions."

fore, will be either some natural out-growth of The universal language of the future, there

current languages, formed through the processes of corruption and phonetic decay which are already in existence. familiar to etymologists, or else some language

In a generation where the masses are educated, where the majority can read or write and where there in perpetual Intercommunication, à lang. age loses its plasticity; it crystallizes into forms dictionary, the locomotive, and the telegraph are which are no longer subject to corruption. Thoy. effectual barriers against the disintegration as well as the further evolution of a language.

The language of the future, therefore, must be And then it was at inst admitted that Rothen- found in some tongue already existing. Now, burg was private secretary, Oh 1" said Sir there are two ways in which a language impresses "R.. has Itself upon the ouside world the red hand of Edward, reading the letter again. expressed his and Bismarck]'s entire satisfac conquest and the intellectual ascendency of the tion, and their readiness to work with us in a race that speaks it. It was in both these ways that the Romans made Latin enter as an-impor thorough manner." And then the letter went on: "Their idea concerning Boulanger is that tant factor into all the modern languages of an English paper should say that Germany and Europe and survive for ages as the scholastic only Germany benefits by what Boulanger has tongue of the descendants of those barbarians whom by arms or by intellect they had vations on the subject." He (Mr. Steinkopff) done at present." "R. told me that we must. have further news before publishing any obser. conquered deliberately said that all they were to get from

Berlin was news.

An interesting enclosure "in a letter was then mentioned, Mr, Greenwood having sent the new proprietor of the paper is cutting from the Pall Mall Gastle of the 12th July as to the alleged virtual traprisonment of the

nations of Continental Europe, the most polished, An France was for years the greatest of the the most, civilized, the most advanced, its lan guage became the court language of European nations and is still understood of all educated men.

But the Anglo-Saxon is now dominating the world. He has thrown a girdle around the earth, and from the cramped little faland in which his language took its birth it has invaded the remotest corners of the globe vaded the

LONDON, Jude 19th. A more hopeful feeling prevails on the Con- tinent, and the alarm of war is subuiding. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA ON PEACE

June 24th, The Emperor of Austria, in reply to certain delegations, said that the Allied Powers were striving to maintain peace; but that success in this. direction was uncertain while the budge experienced shots. He is said to have thre Kow (Kalgan) has written to the Tientsin year's notice, and there were two letters which were headed A Lying Rumour, and as the Pall Mall connects the Anglo-Saxon of the Old World with

show signs of continuous arming,.

(From the Courrier d'Halphong)

FRANCE.

PARIS, June 17th. The Chamber of Deputies is discussing the Naval Budget.

The strike of cabmen is over.

THE CHOLERA ON THE "CALEDONIEN,"

June 18th. The health of everyone on board the Mes- sageries Maritimes steamer Caledonien was good when the vessel reached Suez.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Our Shanghai mowing, contemporary hears that the market for second crops has been opened in Hankow at Tis, 23 10 25 for Ningchows.. ENGLAND gets most of its ice now from Norway, Scandinavian coro petition baving almost entirely destroyed the business of shipping ice from Boston to England, which was once very profit ablan Ice is sold in London for from 58 to 81 cents per cwt.

pleaded various matters in mitigation of damages, and he paid 405. into court. The Solicitor- General stated the facts on the part of the plaintiff. He said that Mr. Greenwood was the first editor of the Pall Mall Gasetts, and alleging that that paper changed its politics, be left it to became editor of the St. James's Gazelle." The defendant was gentleman of wealth, deffo, nada fee city, or a chewwa terms of engagement were that the plaintiff last year proprietor of the latter paper. The should have £1,300 a year salary, and he was to be paid in addition for any articles that he should contribute to the paper. The journal,

not altogetherTHE "PALL MALL" AND THE WHACKING bowever, was unfortunately successful, and Mr. Greenwood voluntarily

OREAT TYPE. reduced his salary to £1,100 a year, and ceased to charge for bis contributions. In 1888 Mr. Gibbs was desirous of making some arrange. ments with members of his family as to the paper. This, howe: er, was not carried out, but in July, 1888, the defendant, through the introduction of the plaintiff, sold the paper to Mr. Steinkopf. It The Superintendent of Customs at Chang-kia | was admitted that the plaintiff was entitled to a Catoms with the view of obtaining a verification relied on as amounting to notices; one being Kalgan last year by British and Russia of the values of duty-fres goods, passed through | dated the 1st March and theother the 1st of May, merchants, consisting principally of tea. Had

1887. The plaintiff continued to edit the paper these goods been taxed at Kalgan, the revenue

down to the end of July, and when the pale was completed he left. He was pald one quarter's there obtained from them would have amounted salary-373-and there would remain due to to Tik 13,000.

complete the year's salary £975. The plaintiff, however, had during the remainder of the year earned faco by literary works and deducting this he claimed in this action the balance, £775. The defendant contended that the plaintiff was not entitled to this, because he was offered to retain his position under the new management, and declined to accept it. ・・

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The Shin Pao pablished the other day as a supplement a picture of the recent fire at Lichow, in the south of Szechuan, with descriptive letter press and subscription form. The fire broke out outside the East Gate of the city at go'clock on the night of the 12th April, and burned for twenty three hours, spreading, with the strong wind that was blowing, rapidly westwards, and burning

MR. STEINKOPFF'S ADVENTURES IN BERLIN.

The Japan Mail publishes a lecture "Concern ing Reasonable Men," recently delivered before the English Law School, Tokyo, by a gentleman who is described as "E. T. Piggott, Esq." The lecture was a good one, but why does our Yoko hama contemporary, who rarely makes a mistake In this direction, descend to such snobbishnese as to describe the lecturer as "Esq."? It may be the correct thing to describe (in advertisements) down 87,000 dwellings. Over 1,200 persons per-fas to a great deal of correspondence that had the directors or promoters of public companies,ished in the dames, and four hundred were crushed er the patrons, stewards, and committees of to death in their efforts to escape. Nearly 170,000 charitable institutions, clubs, etc, in this high people were obliged to camp out as best they falutin' fabion, but every respectable newspaper could without any shelter overhead, and were in the English-speaking world holds fast to the dying at the rate of about 100 a day from want rule of describing, every untitled person by the and exposure. The Viceroy authorised the issue time-honored designation of "Mr." In Hong of Tia 100,000 from the Salt Revenue Treasury kong it is the fashion to address all letters, even for relief, and Tis: 4,000 to Ti. 5,000 arrived if they be addressed to "a broker out-at-elbows, a from charitable persons in Chungking and Fu Barber's clerk, or a grocer's apprentice, to shun, but as this would only give each person So-and-so, Esq., although we know it is a requiring relief about. To cents, the Shin Pes sham title. But that is no reason why publle appeals to the charity of natives of Szechuan Journals should stamp this childish, custom with and others at Shanghal to increase this rellef "The ball-mark of their approval.

fund with the their contributions,

Empress Victoris at Berlin." "At once, and for our next edition," wrote Mr. Greenwood to Mr. Steinkopff, "I put in the paragraph enclosed,

Gibraltar, Malta, the Isthmus of Suez, Aden, Ceylon, Hindestan, Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies form a continuous belt which

had issued a bill with whacking great type I got the Anglo-Saxon of the New. It is only a ques out another to hang by it all the afternoon, . . . tion of time before the Continent of Africa, Reuter and some others are sure to complain, whose most flourishing States are English, But that must be expected Mr. Steinkopff whose wilds have been penetrated by Anglo- then said his attention had been called to a Saxon explorers, will become as English in if paragraph in the Pall Afall Gaselts of the 16th Australia and of North America are Loday.

and traditions as the Continents of July, speaking of " Englishmen who conducted a London evening journal which is here supposed And as the United States is the land of the to the latest Reptile acquisition of the German future, the land of promise for the older nations, Chancellor's menagerie, and to eat the gold dust the meeting ground of all races, wherein they of the German Reptile fund."

shall be fused into a higher and nobler civiliza "The language is Pall Mall,” said Sir Ed- tion, it becomes a vast center for the diffusion wards, with a deprecating shrug of his shoulders, and the perpetuation of the language which, it amid laughter, "and I am not responsible for it!" | "speaks.-V. Y, Harald. S

A question from Mr. Arbuthnot elicited the Intimation from Mr. Steinkopff that Mr. Green wood urged him to bring an action against the Pall Mall Garette for libel in reference to this paragraph.

Mr. Gibbs, the defendant, said that during the negotiations for the transfer of the paper the plaintiff never led him to suppose that he would not be editor of the paper. He atver gave winess any reason to see that he objected to Mr. Steinkopff. The plaintiff bad Introduced him, and witness had never before seen him,

Mr. Greenwood was then examined in detail passed in connection with the sale of the paper to Mr. Steinkopff. Portions of the letters were as follows:-*-*-*-*

"Kaiserhof, Berlin May 14, 1888,-“ My dear Greenwood,I wrote you on Saturday morning, and I hope that the little difference with Mr. Gibbs has been removed. I have seen Roffen. burg more than once yesterday, and there has been a good deal of conversation, which is all of a very satisfactory kind. To-day I intend to ask This concluded the evidence for the defence. him for actual help in the future. Perhaps it The Jury, after an absence of an hour, returned may be necessary to have some one here who in court and having stated that it was impossible receiver the news to transmit, but in whichever for them to agree to a verdict, they were dis- way the newshavetogo I believe we shall certainly | "Charged.

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MAD MONARCHS.

The Economistian journal published in London. and zealously attached to the monarchical form of Government. Its full name of Warkly Commercial Times Bankers Gazette, and Railway Monitor, indicates with certainty the conservatism of its principles and the sincerity of its belief in the established onder of things. Forft would he just as absurd to expect advanced on liberal views.from a newspaper devoted to capital, as it would be to look for dis- satisfaction among capitalists themselves with the existing state of society which zenables them to enjoy most of Kid's water mud?