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Intimations.

DAKIN'S

OLD

UNRIVALLED

SCOTCH WHISKY.

A

BLEND OF THE FINEST WHISKIES

that Scotland can produce. Thoroughly Matured.

Per Bottle $1.

SOLD ONLY BY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1889.

THE Band of the A. &5. Highlanders will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8.30 o'clock. The following will be the programme:→→

Overtues...The Yeomen of the Guard". Sullivan,

**Elves and ever mine

Cook Selection..."The Rowe of Contille

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Altco Comet Sao... Return and stay Selection.....* Gipsy flie

Lo Thiere,

ཨཱནཝཾ ཋཱq ཝཱཉྙཱཀཱ ཝཱ

THE Migalite party, according to Vanity Fair, are very active just now in Portugal. The wretched state of the national finances, resulting In such unpopular schemes as the attempt to interfere with the Oporto wine trade, has played into their hands; and, observes our contemporary, the Lisbon Government are not unlikely to have, before the year is out, little leisure for carrying out their ambitious plans in Africa.

Specially constructed of steel and fitted with engine and boiler power sufficient to enable her to make the voyage to

Valen Canton and back, dally, the original cost of the vessel when handed over to the Company in Hongkong harbour was sald to exceed $300,000-n very heavy outlay when it is remembered that the Honam has never made any attempt to carry out the programme which, according to the Per Dozen $10. Directors, justified her construction. As a matter of fact she lacked sufficient speed to ranke the double journey within reason- able hours, and what was perhaps of equal importance, her coal consumption proved far in excess of anticipations. This latter drawback has been to some extent remedied, chiefly by diminishing the furnace-power, which of course means a consequent decrease of speed, but she is still and ever will be a most voracious coal fis consumer.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA LIMITED, CHEMISTS, and

AERATED WATER

MANUFACTURERS,

HONGKONG.

(Telephone No. 60.)

Hongkong, 23rd July, 1889,

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.

all the latest improvements in the trade.

It has been said that the Honam was A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, ordered by persons who were a signorant of what the Canton River trafic required, as of the actual character of the steamer they had contractedfor. And wethink this is very likely lobetrue. But whatever the steamer's OUR AERATED WATER MANUFACTORY defects and shortcomings, there cannot be is replete with the best Machinery, embodying the slightest doubt that she has been The greatest attention has been paid to appli-ssly mismanaged from the beginning ances for ensuring purity in the Water supply, to srcure which we have added a Condenser cap- able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers. Our Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed anywhere.

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout."

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FOR COAST FORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties

when received in good order.

Counterfoil Order Books supplied en applica

tion.

COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched by firal steamer leaving after receipt of order.

Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, DISPENSARY, HONGKONG."

And all signed messages nddressed' thus will receive prompt attention.

The following is a List of Waters always kept teady in Stock:- PURE AERATED WATER

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

LITHIA WATER

SELTZER WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE.

No Credit given for hotiles that are dirty, or greasy, or that appear to has been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.

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PURE FRUIT CORDIALS.

Fresh Ripe Fruit:

Prepared from the Juice of the finest selected

Raspberry Strawberry Damson

Pine, Apple Morella Cherry Lime Fruit, &c.

Black Currant Red Currant Orleans Plum

A table-spoonfal (more or less according to taste) added to a tumbler of plain or acrated water forms a delicious beverage. The addition of Wines or Spirits produce excellent and piquant results.

Price, 15 Cents per Bottle, or $7.50 per dozen

Cate Assorted.

RASPBERRY SYRUP STRAWBERRY SYRUP

RASPBERRY VINEGAR

Price,

$1 per

Bottle.

For imparting a delicious flavour to AERATED WATERS, SUMMER DRINKS, &c., &c.

Sole Agents for Hongkong and China for MONTSERRAT LIME FRUIT JUICE CORDIALS,

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD, Hongkong, China, and Manila.

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THE Government of the Philippines has pub lished returns showing the mortality from cholera at diferent places in the islands during the recent outbreak. The figures in several instances evidence an unusually high death rate, AL Tayahan for example, out of tay peronnattacked, 120 died, and at Nueva Ecija, 119 died out of 40. The malignant nature of the disease is significantly indicated by these figures.

A CURIOUS proof of the profundity of legal knowledge with which our C. M. G. Magistrate is endowed, was displayed this morning. When giving, judgment on the club robbery case Mr. Wodehouse concluded by saying, "It is also a suspicious feature in the case that a barrister should be employed to prove the facts!" In other words, Mr. Wodehouse, we suppose, disapproved of barristers being engaged to pros cule. so long as he himself was on the bench to perform such legal functions,

THE troupe of Spanish Estudiantina, composed of handsome young Spaniards whose exquisite singing and dancing, have gaind them sech popularity that they have played to crowded houses in Manila for a whole year, has left for Saigon. We hope they won't come here. They are artistes, and we don't feel any enmity to them, so we beg to inform them that we have no workhouse here, and they will need one the worst way if they try to live on public support in Hongkong. around-

Now if a ballet were roaming

MR. POLLACK did a good deal of re-bearing this morning. In addition to the prosecution instituted by Mr Comper, S.S. to he. S.B., A.A. S G., I. of B, &c. & the owner of the Man Yuen shop. Queen's Road East, who was recently fined Sco or selling whisky to policemen dressed as soldiers, had his case reviewed. Mr. Wilkinson defended The evidence, as before shewed that the constables were supplied in the street, and, as the advocate pointed out, several firms in Queen's Road did the very same thing every day, sending spirits out. So the decision was "busted."

Having no keel, and being constructed of fine steel plates, it was the most suicidal policy to employ this vessel on the Macao route, where, night after night, she had to drag her way for two or three miles through the mud to her. anchorage. The Directors were warned times out of number in these columns that the steamer was being ruined, and they could easily have obtained the opinions of experts in confirmation of our assertions; but they preferred 10 do nothing, and after paying in six years for "extraordinary" repairs the immense sum of about $70,000, they are now face to face with a probable expenditure even in excess of that amount, We do not say that the whole of the damage to the

THUS the Shipping World: The new unsink. Ilonam's bottom was occasioned by hering te te safely ship, the inventor and patentee Il-judged employment on the Macao route, of which is Mú Edwin Rollason, of Coventry, is a novel and marvellous invention, and in speed, as we are perfectly well aware that at one time she was most recklessly handled in staty, and strength will compare favorably with most ships aflist Four screw propellers her daily negotiations with the well known are placed in line along the centre keel, and Salt Flats near Canton, but it is undoubted speed and propulsion. Passages are provided are so arranged as toʻgʻve the ship double

that Macao harbour was the main cause under her bottom, from bow to stern, in carry of the serious trouble that is

off the swell of the waves, and thus increase her now

speed as well as stop the usual rolling and coming to light.

tossing. The ship has been so constructed as to enable her to with stand collision without dinger of sinking; and in case of fire, any part can be isolated and flooded without fear. Her working machinery engines, shalls, screw pro- pellers and rudders-being fixed in duplicate. greatly reduce the consumption of coal. and triplicate, while increasing her speed, will

When the Honam was in dock'a few weeks since, her temporary repairs cost, as stated above. $22.432.41. Anopportunity was then afforded of carefully inspecting the vessel's bottom, when the rough usage she had undergone was plainly apparent. It has been estimated, when this pride of the Pearl River is next laid up, that from thirty to thirty-five of her plates will require to be taken out and renewed. The outlay for such an extensive work, added to the loss of revenue caused by detention, will considerably reduce the balance at credit of Depreciation Fund and curtall the available dividends for

years to come.

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Comercio.) THE VISAYAS CABLE.

M.DRID, August 9th, September next has been fixed for the letting of the contract for the Visayas submarine cable.

THE "PERAL."

The submarine boat Peral has been submerged in a dock for three hours, with completely satis

Hangkang Telegraph factory results.

Hongkong, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1889,

The report of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited, for the half-year ended the 30th of June last, states that

"The cost of repairs to the Bonam's bottom has been much greater than was anticipated at the date of the last seport, and it is expected that a further extensive" outlay upon this vessel will be necessary when next she is laid up.”

On referring to the Statement of Accounts we find that the repairs to the Honam during the half-year under review is set down at $22,432.41, and it has been reported that "the further extensive outlay that will shortly be necessary to patch up this vessel, will aggregate something between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars.

ANOTHER TYPHOON.

A telegram has been received announcing another typhoon in the Pacific, to the E.N.E. of Luzon,

An express was issued this afternoon, stating that the typhoon was moving westward, and had approached the southern part of the Formosa Channel.

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THE sale of the China Merchants' S.N. Co.'s steamer Kiang-pias at Shanghai has been post- poned till Friday, the 23rd instant.

THE P. & O. Co's steamer Pekiu ran ashore off, the Garden spit in coing up the Shanghai river on the 13th inst., but got off without sustaining any damage.

THE "FOOH-BAH" FARCE.

by means of a proper drain. The section had down that the work was to be done to the A decision was given or rather confirmed--by satisfaction of the Board, and although it was Mr. Pollock this morning which must surely not necesviry for him (Mr. Pollock) to express make the Government do something. From the an opinion on that point he thought it probable that the work would have to be carried out hy details given below it will be seen that either Mr. Pollock's interpretation of the law is bad. the Bond's officials or by persons approved of or that the Public Health Ordinance is only half-by the Boned. However, it was only necessary for him to decide whether or not the defendant in that case was bound to obtain a permit from the Surveyor-General to open up the road, Ho held that under the provisions of section 52 no such permit was necessary at all, He therefore discharged the defendant.

drafted, or, which is most likely, that the superla-

THEN. C. Daily News.hears from the North

tively idiotic system of making every official here that a skilled Belgian engineer is now prospect an "acting" something else must be swept away, ing in parts al Shantung for minerals who is a On the 17th ult, one of the principal building con, man of considerable reputation in that line. tractors in the colony, Tsang Sam, was summoned by the Public Works Department for cutting AN American inventor has just patented on the road to the Peak without having the artificial lung, capable of restoring life in pet-necessary permit from the Surveyor-General. sons apparently drowned.. As yet no experi The alleged offence was committed by the ments have been made upon human subjects, defendant in connecting a private drain with the but the professor has drowned a favourite pet public sewer. The plan had been approved by rabbit to times, and suffocated it with the fumes Lord Chesterfield Cooper, as Sanitary

Surveyor of burning charcoal, yet the animal is well and.

to the Sanitary Board, and the prosecution was happy.

instituted by the same bland official as Acting Assistant Surveyor-General! Mr. Pollock, very sensibly, dismissed the case. To-day, pursuant to an application by Mr. Stokes, Crown Solicitor, be re-heard the case.

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Ar the Police Court this morning, before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, the Gutzlaff Street club rabbery case was again up for hearing. Mr. Robinson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Webber defended. Mr. Webber succeeded in proving an alibi on behalf of his client, who was therefore discharged with caution. Of the other three, two were bound over to keep the peace, and the third, who had revolver when arrested, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, Wx read in a home paper that Sir J. Pope Hen- nessy, who, by the way, has been instructed by Lord Knutsford to remain in Mauritius for the present (he was to have returned in June), has just raised another stormy question in the island, although, as he now has a Council which is unanimously of his way of thinking,' may not cause much public excitement. It seems that about 1830, when the island had been twenty years in British hands, English was made the language of all proceedings in the superior courts of law, and it bas remained so ever since. This decreeing the use of French concurrently with state of things the Governor proposes to alter by English, and he has appointed a committee to consider and report upon ilie subject. There appears to be a god deal of opposition on the part of a section of the population to this altera- tion in a state of things which has lasted for about sixty years, but naturally the proposition is meeting with the support of the French creoles, who have been Governor Hennessy's supporters

all along.

CORRESPONDENCE.

time on various occasions you have contributed

(We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Crespodenta la this column)

THE SHARE MANIA IN THE COLONY. To the Editon or the "Honakong TelmoratH,”“ Si-The masterly and out-spoken leader in Saturday's issue of your widely circulated journal nment the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Mr. Cooper's evidence, given in a very Corporation is an unfailing testimony to the negligent, indifferent, "I recognise no superior wilter's thorough, acquaintance with the com- sort of way, was shost, but very interesting. Hemercial history of the colony. From time to began by reciting his titles. He said: I am Sanitary Surveyor to the Sanitary Board, Acting Assistant Surveyor-General, and Inspector Di Buildings. In the course of my duties as A. A. S. G. I became aware that the Peak Road had boen broken up, a trench dug across, and the sewer broken into. I saw this, myself. As A. A. S. G. I had not in any way authorised the opening of the road. I produce plans of the place, I passed these plans but only as Sanitary Surveyor, in accordance with the Public Health

Ordinance.

Mr. Pollock repeated the question as to how he passed them, several times, and in the end exclaimed ;—I must really ask you to answer me' directly. When you passed these plans,shewing a drain 300 feet long, you must have known that

Peak sewer. they intended that the drain was going to the

Witness-I understood that was intended, Then why did you pass them ? People can give the Sanitary Board anything they like, so long as there is nothing contrary to the Ordinance I have to pass them..

But you are not obliged to pass what you have no jurisdiction over—that is, assuming you have, no jurisdiction as Sanitary Surveyor ?

The Sanitary Board have passed a resolution directing me that as long as there is no sanitary objection I have to pass all plans.

First you say that as surveyor to the Board you understood the plan you approved to shew. a junction with the main sewer, and then you

LI HAN-CHANG, elder brother of the Viceroy of Chihli, who has been appointed Viceroy of the Two Kuang, vire Chang Chih-tung, is an Anhui man and a Licentiate. He was Taotai in Kiangsi in 1863, Grain Com-say you did not authorise it. missioner in Kunngtung, in February, 1863, and Judicial Commissioner there, and subse quently Financial Commissioner in the the same year. In March, 1865, he was appointed Governor of Hunan, and removed to the same post in Kiangsu in 1867 and in Chekiang in 1868. In September 1870 he was appointed Viceroy of Hukuang was removed to Szechuan in January. and replaced in Hukuang in October, 1876. He went into mourning in 1882, and was appointed Director General of Grain Transport in October last. Charg Chih-tung, who is appointed Viceroy the me ropolitan examination in 1863. He was of Hukuang, is a Chihli man and was third in

appointed Judicial Commissioner, Kuangtung, in March, 1865, and Financial Commissioner in Kiangsu province in May. 1858. He was Governor of Shansi in January 1881, and was' made firat Imperial Commissioner and afterwards Vicery of the Two Kuangs in August, 1881.

Mr. Stokes pointed out that he approved of a plan as Sanitary Surveyor which he could not accept as A.A.S G.

Mr. Pollock: Do you mean that if the plan had been large enough to shew the construction of the drain right down to the connection with the public aewer you would have approved it?..

Witness:Yes, as Sanitary Surveyor. That is so, then?

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL, SESSIONS.

(Before the stating_Chief Justice.)

THE TRIAD SOCIETY CASE.

A coolie from Singapore was charged with belonging to the Triad Society. He had been Harkin, with a Triad Society ticket in his posses- found on board the Bestarig by Sergeant ston.

THE Jutransigeant publishes the report sent by. M. Richaud, when Governor-General of Indo- China, in which the accusations against M. Con- Messrs. A. F. Ribeiro, W. Matheson, F. Skött, The sessions continued to-day. The jurors were stans, the predecessor of M. Richaud at HO. Baptista, L. Baptista, F. do Rdzario, and C. are clearly defined. M. Richaud stated that M. Jesus. Constans accepted presents which, from their great value, could not be regarded as anything but bribes. For example, after M. Constans had larised the re-establishment in Cambodia of King Norodom presented to M. Constans the gambling known as the jeu trente-six bétes, his gold belt studded with precious stones, estimated to be worth' a million francs. M. Richaud declares that he cannot become the accomplice of such acts. In consequence of the publication of this report the Union des Droites held a meeting at which the following motion was moved "The Chamber invites the. Government to prosecute M. Constans, formerly Governor-General of Indo-China, for the acts of corruption laid to the charge of that functionary In the telegram of May 23, 1888, and, in the report of June, 10, 1889 addressed to the Governor-General Richaud.". It was rejected.

The Acting Attorney-General, Mr. A. J. Lench, prosecuted, and stated that the Ordinance laid down that any person found with any insignis of the Society in his possession was to be deemed to belong to the Society.

The Interpreter from the Magistracy identified the ticket as being issued by the Society, but, in answer to his Lordship, said that he knew nothing of the Society except from hearsay,

His Lordship refused to accept such evidence, but capressed his willingness to postpone the case if direct evidence could be obtained.

unlikely that he would be able to do so.

The Attorney-General replied that it would be

His Lordship thereupon directed the jury to acquit the prisoner.

THE CLUB ROBBERY CASE Four men were indicted with being armed and robbing some gamblers in a "club in Stanley Street on the night of the 5th inst. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. As nothing proving partici. pation in the robbery was found on their persons when arrested, the jury found the prisoners not the amel-guilty, and they were accordingly discharged,

THE monopoly of the Canton River passenger traffic by the Hongkong, Canter and Macao Steamboat Company and the China Navigation Co. has not yet become un fail accompli, in fact it looks farther off than ever. The Parig con tinues running ss an opposition night boat with marked success, obtaining more than its fair share both of passengers and paying cargo, such as aplum. We hear that last month the Parig's net profit amounting to over $3,000, which a The mean attempt of the Directors of the last gamated Companies to prevent the Chinese- owned craft from running on the Canton River not only signally failed, bat has obtained for the Pasig a considerable amount of substantial support which otherwise would probably never have been forthcoming. The feeble effort to crush Tok Kee's steamer by shadowing her with the Kiungchaw also failed ignominiously, as might have been expected, and eyen Mr. H.M.S. Merlin, was to leave Hankow on the Director to the Board of the Steamboat Co. Belillos's grand idea of adding two Chinese 13th Instant on her way back to Shanghai.bas not snuffed out the irritating opposition; LATE advices from Sooloo, where a numerous The shareholders may not be aware of it, but it faction among the natives have long been in is nevertheless a fact that this enterprising Com rebellion against the Spaniards, bear a peaceful pany is badly in want of a new feet. aspect. The heir to the throne and his mother, who had hitherto stood at the head of the disaffected, are reported to have unconditonally submitted to the Spanish Government.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE French Consul at Manila writes, in a letter Cotton manufactures continue to occupy the published in the French Journal Oficial:

first place

BENTENCE.

Chan Kut found guilty yesterday of robbing a school-boy on Kennedy Road, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, and at the end of the first six months of bis incarceration to have twenty-five strokes of rattan.

Thesessions were then adjourned till to-morrow morning at to o'clock,

THE HONGKONG, CANTON, AND

MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., *

LIMITED.

Yes, as Sanitary Surveyor. And

you do not say that anything was done that was not necessary to connect the private sewer and the drain? .. No.

Then as A. A. S. G. you withdrew the approval you had given as Sanitary Surveyor?

Mr. Stokes:-No,

Mr. Pollock--Yes, that is so. He approved it as Sanitary Surveyor, and withdrew the approval as A. A. S. G.

Witness No, I did not; as A. A. S. G. 1 re quired farther conditions to be complied with.

And supposing these plans had been approved by you as Sanitary Surveyor had you any right, as A. A. 5. G., to insist on anything more ?.

Mr. Stokes thought that was a question for argument.

started that line of argument.

Mr. Pollock thought not-Mr. Cooper had

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Mr. Stokes replied that the Government really wished to have that case re-heard in order to determine whether the passing of plans by the Sanitary Board's Surveyor was to away the right vested in the Surveyor- General, on behalf of the public, to have notice of any interference with the public roads.

Mr. Pollock-But Mr. Cooper is going on in another way, You are only confusing the question; I am perfectly ready to hear you by and-bye. (Te Mr. Cooper) So the only objection you had to what had been done by the defendant was that the drains were not to your liking as

A. A. 5. G.?.

Witness:--As no notice had been given to me in my capacity as A. A. S. G. I had no opportunity of looking after the public safety.

Then you objected because your Department had given a permit to the defendant, and you sum- moned him? That was the reason, wasn't it

Yes, because I had no opportunity of seeing that the work was being properly carried out.

That ended the evidence.

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not a little in dealing effective blows at the reckless and unscrupulous speculation and gambling in shares in this colony, which have been at their very height during the past few months, and which in course of time threaten to prove the canker-worm' which may cat up the very vitals of the colony, if effectual remedies are not devised to nip in the bad the feverish mania of speculation engendered by a handful of irresponsible and reckless brokers in conjunc tion with a few daring and affluent principals. It is beyond the scope of this communication to comment at full length on the wide divergence between the intrinsic values, coupled with the earning powers, and the highly inflated market

values of not a few leading local stocks. The present market values of Lurons, Docks, etc, and also those of Steamboats, Kowloon Wharves, China Sugare, Cements, and of various Mining and Planting concerns, compared with those ruling some time ago, are striking evidences of the curious methods devised to work up un- naturally the market prices of joint-stock shares in consonance witli individual requirements, and the queer fancies of feverish speculators, stock-jobbers and joint-stock concem promoters. These unnatural processes and temporary hatch nes-up form a very serious evil, added to which the army of brokers is being added to in an alarming fashion by fresh recruits, some of whom have gone the length of throwing up their the pagoda tree by this line of business, and substantial appointments in the hope of shaking

some are said to cam their living by simply gambline in stocks.

It is greatly to be regretted that the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has been la an indirect manner the promoter and cherisher of speculation in the colony, by affording numerous facilities and liberties to the brokering fraternity, and by advancing large sums without a wide margin on securiles whose intrinsic values in relation to their market values are considerably divergent. But also it must not be allowed to pass unmentioned that, under the new rigima" inaugurated by the present Chief Manager, reports are current that an overhaul. is being made of over-drawn accounts, that strict supervision being exercised in regard to this part of the Bank's business, and that advances are being gradually but materially curtalled.

You would most assuredly confer a great boon on the commercial circle, genuine investors, and also on the gullible gentry who are inveigled into putting their money into thady and doubt- worked up to their highest pitch from absolutely ful concerns whose quotations are artificially selfish motiver, if you were to follow up the line you have lately adopted on several occasions, of plainly exposing the pessimistic side of joint- stock companies, and their artificially rigged market values. "Your services to the public in this line are too meritorious to be ignored and lightly passed over. They certainly deserve public appreciation and recognition

Apropos of this, I beg leave to`make a sugges-

tion as regards your column of Closing Quota tions: instead of giving only bare quotations and occasional remarks, which are too valuable to be any time amitted, it would be well to adopt mutatis mutandis, and publish at least once a week the form, or some such form, of the circular issued every Saturday by Messri. Stokes and Young for private circulation.

1 enclose my card and beg to subscribe myself,

Yours truly, CIVIS

Hongkong, 19th August, 1889.

PIRATE, OR PATRIOT?

The Courrier d'Haiphong devotes the greater part of its issue of Tuesday fast to blazoning the Mr. Pollock-The only point you raise, Mr. hubmission of the two principal rebel chless- Stokes, is whether the Sanitary Board has power | Doc Tich and Doc Lan. The history of their to authorise this work witbor" permission from the Surveyor-General ?

Mr. Stokes replied that that was not his point at all. Public safety required that before a road could be opened it was necessary that the Surveyor-General should have notice, so that he could see that the work was properly carried out, Otherwise it would be impossible for him to be

responsible for the state of the roads.

The witness was then recalled, and in answer to further questions stated that he approved the plans a considerable time ago, and was going on to say that it was not an uncommon thing for plans not to be executed until some time after they had been approved, when

Mr. Pollock' interrupted. He had to review the question according to its legal hearings, and without regard to the expediency of the general precedure.

who drew the plans and got them approved The completed the case for the prosecution. Defendant's only statement was that the party

ought to have told him what to do.

insurgent career is not given, but the letters that are published are especially interesting as showing the real position of the sanguinary "b buccaneers." In June last a letter was sent. to the Resident General by a French agent who had gone up country to try and bring the sill disaffected docs, or chiefs, to terms. In it he enclosed a communication from Doe Tich, in which that redoubtable chief said that be had been formerly an official under the Annamese Government, with the rank of mandarin, and had always preserved pence and tranquility 'in- the districts which he governed. He had served his sultan faithfully, quelling a serious rebellion, for which he received promotion; and then settling down as a dice-grower again. After the treaty between France and Annam was ratified in 1885 large bands of Chinese robbers ravaged the country, and he, at the head of the

higher rank. He protested that he had ever Inhabitants, drove them away. For this and later services the sultan of Annam ralaed him to

attacked the French, and said that he had always Mr. Stokes then addressed the Court at some made the people whom he governed pay all the length. He said that his instructions were to regular Imposts and furnish the usual propors oak his Worship, if be reversed bis decision and tion of cervés. In conclusion he offered to nominal pena his decision as to whether the ments between his men and the French columa, found against the defendant, to inflict only a submit to the French rule, with all his following. The object of the re-hearing This offer was followed by half-a-dozen engage- was to have

This is certainly a cheerful ON 10th August Imperial Edicts app ared Philippine g articles imported into the following resolution may from time to time Surveyor-General's department was right in which ended: jay his being blockaded in■ outlook for holders of the Company-to the post of Director General of Grain Trans-out of the market, although the latter are often eliminated from Article No, 30 of the present permission. He relied on Ordinance 12 of 1°56, met Doc Tich and Doa Lan, and received their

appointing Sung Chun, ex-Treasurer of Chibli,

scrip, and it is an especially significant port, vice Han-chang, who goes to Canton as fact, and one which ought not to be over- Viceroy of the Two Kuang Provinces. The looked, that the Chairman (Hon. P.RYRIS) of Grain Transport until Ch'un arrives.

Tactal Sul Wentah acts as Director General

in his address at the ordinary half-yearly

An extraordinary general meeting of the afternoon, for the purpose of conarming the shareholders of this Company was held this

English cotton are those

That the Company which sell best in the colony by their low price reduce its Capital. they have turned the local products of the group

2-That the words four thousand shares be superior in quality. I bave forwarded a collection Articles of Association, and that, in lieu thereof, of specimens of the principal foreign cotton goods there be inserted the words 'eight thousand for which there is a demand in the Philippines shares.! |—this collection is now on exhibition at the The Hon. P. Ryrie presided, and there were

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asking that they should have control of the roads, which should not be broken open without the

small island, surrounded by gunbaate, HỌn Sunday the 11th inst the Resident Superior

section 6, sub-section 2, in support of his case, submission in the presence of all the men on It fell naturally into the Surveyor-General's each side. The ceremony is described as being province to have charge of the maintenance of very dramatic the little island was lined with the roads, and he (Mr. S'okes) looked to bis the savage adherents of the chiefs with their the swords being.

meeting on the. 3rd inst. carefully avoided THE Reuter's jelegram published in the N. C. | French Ministry of Commerce, 30, Rue de present:-Messrs. E. R. Belilios, F. A. Gomes, the only valid defence that could have been } laid on a table with a letter from the exiled

making any reference whatever to the large cose, icads as follows:-"An agitation a cotton manufacturers should observe that the F. Dodwell, C. A. Ozutie, Elias, &c, and T. sums already expended for "extraordinary" spreading to get the scatence on Mrs. Maybrick English weaver does not merely push the Arnold, secretary.

commuted on the ground of the conflict in the machinery which he uses to the last The Chairman said, with respect to the resolu- repairs to the Honam, or to the still more medical evidence." This is quite different to degree periaction, but that he takes care tions which they had met to confirm :-Some formidable "bill of costs" looming in the the telegram published here. Which is right ? to use the smallest amount of material people have an idea that it is the Intention of possible. Among these textures there are some the Company to immediately reduce its capital, near future.

A NUMBER of opium-divan keepers and lovers which are so flimsy that it is difficult to under but I can inform you that that is not your direct Admitting the Honam to be by far the of that delusive drug were fined in amounts stand how it is that they do not tear the very tors' intention. It is a mistaken idea. At his finest and fastest steamer of her class that ranging from $too, this morning. One offender, first day that they are need. Such goods must, request

dealt with yesterdays illustrated the argument of course, be frequently renewed, and their 14- Coben ikun moved, and Mr. Sin Aslo the Far East has yet seen, we think of the Hon. F. Ryrie and his partisans perfectly cheapness appears to be only a balt; but they seconded, the confirmation of the first resolution. it will hardly be denied that up to the He was a rich old mandarin, but when he landed are less fatiguing to wear than French goods, Mr. Dodwell, on being asked, moved the irisent day she can only be regarded from the Canton boat he had four mace of the and this is no slight matter in a tropical second, which, Mr. Eilas, by request, seconded. stuff in bis stocking leg, just like any coolle. He county where the lightest garments always Both were confirmed, and the proceedings then "la "the light of an expensive failure, ¦ was fined $5,..

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set up to asked his Worship to entirely king Nam Nghi, exhorting them to resist the dismise from his mind the fact that Mr. Cooper | Invaders. Tich is described by the romantic happened to be Sanitary Surveyor whilst filling editor who witnessed the submission as being still the position of A.A.S.G. It had no bearing on the young, medium-sized, and elegant, with an air of matter. The question was simply whether in the native dignity and distinction. His follower, intention of Ordinance 24 of 1887 could be found Doe Lan, was of the true bandit type. Pifted any words which took that control out of the Sur- with smallpox, his shifty eyes and ferocious veyo General's hands, He submitted that there expression, Jelned with his heayy adominents, were none.-A lengthy legal argument followed, gave him more the look of a Spaulslt bugand at the conclusion of blah

was chunk soribing piss - Dadi da radiale, lead Mr. Follock delivered judgment, He thought trembled, for their heads were by no mean it was quite clear, from the express words of certain to remain on their shoulders..). The section 52 of Ordinance as of 1889, that the French Resident General spoke in them in low Sanitary Hoard hul full power to authorise any dry tones, and was inconically replied to "Tich private person to connect with the pubiis sewer - wald 1-3 only know one King - Liẩm Nghi, who