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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1889.-

GOVERNOR Kintore and his Countess attended the Masonic ball at Broken Hill, and are said to hive struck people as being very indifferent dancers, In the third figure of the Lancers the Earl wished to know if the prevailing feature so paralysingly decollette that it is predicted with much confidence that the shears will be at work on all the ladies' dresses before the next Broken

was "women in the middle.". The Countess WAS

Hill hall.

SOME of the exalted church dignitaries of Austria are in receipt of emoluments which are suspri- singly large. The Primate of Hungary, Cardina! | Archbishop of Grau, receives £80,000 annually, the Cardinal Archbishop of Olmutz receives £40,000, the Cardinal Archbishop of Pragas receives 15,000 and the Archbishop of Erira receives 60,000 every year. The Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna is comparatively poor, for he only receives £6,000 a year.

THE N. C. Daily News hears that a contract, amounting to nearly Tls. 18.00, has been signed between the Pootung Deck Company and Mess, S C. Farnham & Co., for the reconstruction of the collapsed upper Wharf and Bund and the strengthening of the lower Bund. Part of the arrangement is that the Dock Co. shall at once commence another lawsuit to settle the question of liability, while Messrs. Farnham & Co, will institute a cross action for damages.

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East End of London nearly one million people, ro per cent of whom sever know what it is to have enough to eat or have a regular home to live in. There are over two hundred thousand people in families of which the head never earns more than $ a week. When the rent is deducted from the earnings there is not enough left to buy any but the most wretched food, such as would cause indignation if it were offered to convicts here."

Tux cricket match between the team selected to do battle with the Shanghai C. C, and the "Stay Behinds" was played this afternoon, and was still in progress when we went, to press. The "Stay Behinds" scored 112 in their first innings, Capt. Davidson, R.E.. (3) and L. Briff (24 not out) alone making any show. wickets when our report left, E. J. Coxon and E. Maitland making a brilliant stand. A full

report will appear in our next issue,`,

A Chinaman was charged at the Police Court to-day with rape. It was heard in camera. The China Mail subscriber has missed, a lot of interesting Sunday reading,

MISS FORTESCUE, the actress who got 10,000 damages from Lord Cairns for breach of promise, is reported to have just screwed 3000 (on similar grounds) out of Mr. Laurence Heary St Paul Moore. It is evident, therefore, that the breaching of Miss Fortescue's affections, the trampling on her vir. in susceptibility, is a luxurious pastime that will soon be within the reach of even the humblest.

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THE rush of European la'erers to Brasil, which began immediately after the abolition of slavery by Dom Pedro, is still maintained in such proportions as to command the serious considera- tion of statemen and social economists in the countries affected. All this state of affairs was, of course, started by the abolition of slavery, and has been fostered and stimulated by Government appropriations "for encouraging Immigration," amounting this year to some $6,000,000. AT the police court in Ryde, New South Wales, the other day, one man proceeded against another for assault. The complainant said that the other man had knocked him down and sat on him, and that the assault was quite unprovoked. Are you sure you gave no provecation ?" asked the Bench. "Did you call him any names?" To which the startling reply was: "I called him a cow-a twopenny ha'penny thing and a low swine, which he is." Verdict for defendant in

one act.

PROFESSOR JENKS, the new Professor of Law at Melbourne University, a pice, smug man, crying There's nothing like leather," gave his opening lecture, the other day, on " The Future of Law Of course, comments the Sydney „Bulletin critic, it was a defication of the infernal Moloch. JAMES SMITH, in his book, "Melbourne to Melrose," writes that a citizen of Italy can buy the whole Civil Law of his nation for ts. 3d. Why is it not so with us? Simply because law exists for the blood-sucking lawyers, and not for the public. As soon as ever a man protests against the swindic, he is, of course, a Communist, Socialist, and Nihilist; neverthe

the outcry against the Law arises not so

merchant and tinder.

assertion. He (plaintiff) had some shares thrown on his hands by defaulters, and be easily sold them at 360 on settlement-day. Settlement-day- was the recognised day for such sales, and he them. The case of Mr. Mooney, which had been expected those 50 Sugars to be realised referred to, was quite different. There there sat a formal agreement to carry the shares over a few days, and about the 5th Mooney gave out that he was going into bankruptcy, so of course be sold then. Mr. Darby, defendant's own witness, and 166 on settling day, so that defendant could had admitted that the shares were selling at 265 not assert that there was no market if he had tried to sell. With regard to the $594, he paid that to Toeg and Gubbay on Grimble's account, and if they diverted it to their own account he would not be responsible for that,

His lordship, in giving judgment, dealt with the amount in dispute as $1 994, of which all but $1,025 was admitted. There was evidence before him that about the 27th August plaintiff distinctly gave the defendant notice that he did not intend to take up the shares. On the other hand the defendant said there was a practical agreement between him and the plaintiff that he should hold overthe shares for a day or two and then sell them. There were only the two statements, and In- setting up an agreement which was to do away with the usual custom the onus probandi lay with the defendant. There was no proof of the agreement. He therefore took the rate of the 31st August, and fixed it for the purpose of the difference at 266. With regard to the $394 charged by the defendant as having been paid on plaintiffs acccount to Toeg and Gubbay, must have had notice of it, and yet took no which the plaintiff denied having sanctioned, be action in the matter. He must therefore be held to have agreed to the payment, and that amount would be set off. Judgment for $391.65 and

costs.

NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.

Eleven criminals, all robbers, were beheaded at Soochow on the 13th September, and five

-more on the 16th.

known.

nections. The petty pillerers, of any region are thoroughly organised, like the members of any other profession, and are under the control of the thief catching department of the district peculiar pertinency in the saying set a thief to magistrate's yamen. There is thus in China a

catch a thief, for there is literally no other thief capturing machinery. An acquaintance of the writer who was a native of a district in the east end of a province, was driven by famine and flood to emigrate to the western end, where 'he but" profitable business. One day, at a at length succeeded in getting into a small fair, he entered a cash-shop, where he inadverte eatly laid down a string of cash, which at once disappeared as if it had evaporated. As the amount was to him a large one (about half dollar) he was much distressed, and cams to the writer to ask if something could not be done to recover his money. Now it is a dictum of the learned, as we have already mentioned, that is the good days of Yao and Shun whatever was lost was at once restored its owner. But at present things are quite otherwise. Nothing is more difficult than to get back lost articles, although the awner and the individual who

has found them are perfectly well A monkey's band drops no dates,' and 'meat-balls thrown to a dog never return. Nothing will avail but personal influence, and a great deal of complimentary language, in which the observation that within the four seas all are brethren, will probably be judiciously intermingled with a certain amount of brass cash by way of testifying to the harmony existing between the owner and the finder. On this occasion a school-teacher, whose home was in stoned to adjust the matter. This he did by the village where the fair was held, was commis. seeking out the head petty-thief (one of his own cousins) and mentioning to him that the man who had been robbed was not so suitable a victim as had been supposed, as he was a friend of the foreigner, who was not to be trifled with. The head petty-thief assured his cousin that the affair was a mistake; the thief-guild did not know that the man was so respectably connected, for bad they known it, he would not have been disturbed The next day the money was returned, with the exception of a small sum for incidental expenses, and orders were issued to the thief guild to let ibis man alone in future'! experience, and in each case with the same discovered, that the person was one of our result. It is invariably a 'mistake'; it was not friends; it shall not happen again and the amount for commission) - property is always, restored, less the small

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ONE of Lord File's divorcée sisters is married to

A large number of disbanded Hunan "braves" have leagued with the Yan savages and fortified the Hunan frontier in Lien Chow, some 700 expedition will be necessary to turn them out of north of Canton. It is expected that a military that.

589 A.D.) 'contains a record of an individual who The Southern History (a History from 420 to

who ought to know the facts, that the plundering will go on unhindered, unless the unlucky carter happens to have some special connection with the others,

"DISPENSARY, HONGKONG." This Kew Estate for £10,000 in the time of the king, and so prepare the tradition-haunted minds 1728 Luh recently contained an account of a objectionable, for the traders from distant | distribution, that the whole village would be

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a London stockbroker, white yet another of the damaged ladies has returned to the paths of respectability as the wife of a medical man. The children of these marriages will, in the usual course of nature, call Tummy's grand-chiklien their first-cousins, and this filtering of "royal-bought his coffin when 30 years old, and did not blood," into the middle classes must eventually

have to use it until he had passed the age of 95, knock a hole in the majesty which dath hedge a coffins in the house ready for use. The Fik -so ancient is the custom in China of keeping

of the bourgeoisie for the coming overthrow of hereditary monarchy. Her Gracions may, how- tragic accident occasioned by this old custom. ever, upset these calculations by making the doctor and stockbroker aforesaid into dukes, for the old lady is a perfect whale in the art of bolstering up the blessed Throne. Quick think- ing doesn't run in the Guelph family, bat the fact will slowly dawn upon Vic. Regina that she should have hitched Louise of Wales to another serene German with no plain misters hanging on to him. Then she may arrange to ennoble Fife's brother-in-law and shove 'em into the Litany, Fancy the prayers of a nation going up for a

Iand boom." Then it transpired that, to save duty, Stawell had, two months before his death, made over £30 oco to a brother Judge and some others. The Master in Equity, however, made them pay duty on an estate of £48,000. The Supreme Court of the United States thus defines a gambling contract:A contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a fature day is vafit, even though the seller has not the goods, nor any other means of getting them than to go into the market and buy them. But such a contract is only valid where the parties really intend and agree" that the goods are to be de-stockbroker! fivered by the seller, and the price paid by the" buyer. If under the guise of such a contract, the real intent be merely to speculate, in the rise and fall of prices, and the goods are not to be delivered, but one pary is to pay to the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the date fixed for execating the contract, then the whole trans- nction constitutes nothing more than a wager, and is null and void under the statute.

SUPREME COURT

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wãe, Acting Puitne Fudge)

-BRANDT V. GRIMBLE.

The hearing of this case was resumed to-day. Mr. Webber defended.

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The Viceroy Chang Chih-lung, says the Hu Pao, has deferred to the wishes of the junk Likin Office at Shih-men, Kuangtang. On 12th men and others and closed the newly opened September, Sua, Prefect of Kuangchow Fu, issued a four-character retrical proclamation, briefly announcing that it has been closed and calling on the people to go about their business as before.

We beard yesterday from our correspondent at T'ungchow, says the Shin Pao of Sept. zand, that the railway from Lu-kow Kiao to Hankow will be commenced at once, and that it is likely that the iron necessary will be procured from Hwoh-lah Hien in Shanal. [Hwoh-lub is in Cheng-ting Fu, in Chibli, so this is a mistake), It is sald a memorial is in contemplation recom- mending the raising of funds by the sale of

official rank.

The instinctive dislike of the Chinese toward strangers is exhibited in their behaviour to natives of other provinces who settle in large numbers in great commercial centres. In this case it is not poverty which makes the immigrant provinces are frequently men of great wealth, and they always establish powerful guilds of their own. Neither is rivalry the source of the dislike, for the interchange of products which is thus to both parties. The root of the matter is that the -carried on is well recognised as a great benefit strangers are strangers. They are not like "us," and therefore, with an impartiality worthy of an ancient Greek, each party calls the other bar barian.' The people of Canton are recognised by those of the northern provinces to be distinctly superior to themselves in many particulars, such natives of these provinces always call the as mechanical skill and trading capacity. Yet Cantonese southern barbarians. The men of stigmatised as "northern Tartars," which means to the south are in like manner barbarians. The Shansi men are the Jews of China and the most capable bankers in the empire, being in fact indispensable; but they are everywhere ridiculed, and are designated, by many appro brious names. In several of the northern pro vinces, a foreigner dressed in Chinese costume and travelling with the writer was repeatedly taken for a 'Cantonesc. A friend of the writer whose home was in Canton took her servants to Swatow on a visit. A servant belonging to the there was a man outside who looked something latter port came to his mistress, remarking that

to the queue, but he could not talk a word of like a Chinese, and who wore Chinese dress, even Chinese Yet Swatow and Canten are situated in the same province. dislike and con-

the north who

there is honour even among thieves. A similar. It is a proverb current in Western lands, that

code may prevail in; China, for, aught that we know, but it is subject to some peculiar varid tions, owing to the exigencies of Chinese judicial proceedings. Accounts pablished in the native papers, and as in a recent instance, in the Paking Garafie, show that it is a common proceeding on the part of the Chinese robbers, when one of their number has been wounded or is otherwisa incapacitated from effective fight, to 8.2f him, as the only way to make sure that he will not testify against the 'rest: In Western lands, it is thought to be an argument for favouring a scheme that it is evidently for the general good, Individuals are occasionally found who are in- accessible to appeals based upon this cinim, but it must be a peculiar community in which the general level of public sentiment would allow to" be thwarted a plan which was manifestly for the pablic welfare, and which could do no one any hasin. Yet we know of a large part in China, where the attempt to purchase ground for native dispensary and hospital, to be under the control of the Chinese" themselver, was entirely blocked by the literati of the place, apparently for no other reason than that the enterprise was promoted as well as suggested by foreigners The same exemplification of the policy known frequently met to history as that of the Dog-in-the-manger was with in the famine relief. Op three several occasions the writer was waited upon by a deputation of beadmen condition. of their several constituencies, and from various villages, setting forth the perishing humbly imploring the benevolent foreigner to visit their insignificant hamlets and administer water to fishes in a dry rut. On each of these occasions a cart was provided to escort the aspector, and on each occasion trouble arose as to the return trip of the cart. The difficulty seemed to be to decide who should pay for the scanty fare of the nearly starved animal used to drag the cart, or perhaps how much was to be allowed for the use of the wretched beast itself or for the cart. On each of these occasions disputes lasting several hours took place. In one instance a lean horse much resembling a scare-crow was at last found to do compulsory duty, but in the other two villages after the and in spite of repeated promises none ever did inspection was over no vehicle was forthcoming, come forth, the foreigners being in each case allowed to make the best of their way home on foot to a distance of several miles. One of these villaees had a population of several thousand persons, and the money involved could not have amounted to more than twenty-five cents. Be- sides this, there was the imminent danger, vividly set forth by an irate assistant in the allowed to starve, as a penalty for the shabby treatment which the inspectors experiencedi Yet considerations of this sort were inadequate to provide small sum which was necessary to entirely absorbed in seeing to it that he did adjust matters. Each individual concerned was nothing for which he was not paid, whether the the village as a whole did or did not starve in consequence of his acts. It is a common Chinese saying, that if three men are united in beart, they can turn yellow earth to gold. This seems like a vigorous figure of speech, but there is extended their social relations, one does not more truth in it than at first appears. However wonder that the Chinese erect temples to the in Chinese history of a fraternal aliance, three men who were the most famous examples Chang Fei, Liu Pel and Kuan Yü. The mutual suspicion which has been so fully illustrated generally prevents harmony of action, although there may often be a high degree of apparent unity. It is a popular adage that if the literary graduates of the first degree ( traf) were left undisturbed to get up a rebellion, they could not accomplish it in three years. Absolute selfishness and mutual suspicion would ordinarily prevent the enterprise from coming to rebellion selfishness and suspicion ultimately a head, just as in the case of the Tai Ping

which seemed for more than a decade to threaten, caused the ruin of that formidable movement the very existence of the empire. Rebellions are indeed of constant occurrence, as has already

are not far more numerous. Things most have come to desperate pass when the mass, of the Chinese population deliberately defy the government Even in cases of local disturbance, safety except such as may be got by the pro when thera. Appears to the Chinese to be no tection of earthen walls thrown up around villages, and when the danger, being most im minent, requires instant action, it is sometimes difficult to secure sufficient unanishity to make a wall possible. In one, such case near to the writer's home, a large village disagreed, and An incidental but striking confirmation of the actually separated into two sections, throwing up reality of the Chinese prejudice against those of two distinct circumvallations, one for each end their own race who happen to have been born of the town, to the mutual inconvenience of elsewhere, is found in the fact often observed, cach, and as a great additional expense. :: A con. the first time is almost sure to be impressed with to combine successfully for the common welfare the evil quilities of the people. One of the most is alloided by the experience of a part of the recent examples of this which we have met, was province of Shantung, in the matter of its grain and whose craft had not brought him by which fractions of a pint or a péck (due at a a fortune-teller, who had wandered widely tax. For many years abuses have been allowed, into contact with the best classes anywhere, fixed rate per acre), however small these fraction Being sent on an errand to one of the central may be, are treated as if they were whole num. provinces, this man came back with such an acbers of the nest higher denomination. By this count of the depravity of the people (although tale frvice, the aggregate muy org

in any way affererefacted from the people is enormously increased. thereby as might have suggested the taler of an Although it is very difficult to retusalers of the Australian as to the condition of society in the sort brought to the attention of the authorities in

description! Something analogous to criticisms part of a few persons, who were unquestionably of reviling, was, he said, of a startlingly depraved the way, the most Indefatigable exertions on the palmy days of Botany Bay. Even their language Poking, since each Intermediate official blocks

of this sort may be occasionally seen in the possessed of commendable amount of public translations from the Peking Gazette). Governors spirit, have resulted in getting the complaint heard and other high officers constantly memorialise and fudgment given. Imperative orders aro the throne, to the effect that the people to the known to have been sent from Peking to the particular province governed by these officers provincial authorities, to have a stop put at once stantly liable to violent outbreaks; it will there collusion between all Chinese officials that in are of a peculiarly intractable disposition, con- to these extortions. But much is the proverbial fore be necessary to allow the provincial officials every case these peremptory orders have been large liberty of inflicting the death penalty in suppressed at some point, or have bech totally

disregarded after they have been received a reference to Faking. A few years since, the

of similar extortions elsewhere governors and covermors-general of several it altogether probable that if the people of the diferent provinces made precisely, the same districts interested could but combine, the representation on this subject, each claiming that would ultimately be completely successful, and his province, should be an exception to the many lucrative posts would be vacated. But as general rule.

it in, with every motive for such combination, in China we have already spoken at length. It spirit and harmony will ever be found to Of the characteristic absence of public spirit there is no visible prospect that sufficient public is manifested in more ways than one can accomplish it. C. Daily News mere legat fiction, while he and his interests enumerate. The public is to a Chinese s

dug a well arranges the sweep as that it will are the only real facts, The man who having cross a highway and make it impossible for carts to pass while water is drawn, is an epitome of the empire. So is the man who throws a opfull of dirty water on the dusty road, or bevel half-full of earth on a muddy one, holding out his palm in each case to the species such as himself ought to be rewarded at next traveller as though benefactors to their

sight, An inn-keeper will not cyen 60 up deep hole at the entrance to his hostelry, though he has visible evidence that other inns, that are Oodle led into all sorts of highways and unprovided with mud-holes, will draw away his sys searching for information about rings custom. Long lines of carts leave Chinese inns former times, according to an old writer, it was at a very early, hour, travelling together for deemed highly Improper for single or unmas mutual protection. But if a part of bandits is persons to wear rings & unless they were jodre discreet enough to attack the last cart, and let doctors or Bouator ber of all but these the others escape, it is the fellmony of those sich an unwarranted rackcon te

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Delendant was called,. He said-I paid short Board of Revenue are said to be still in consulta- to Mr. Brandt $3000 as set-off against so Banks tion arto ways and means for the building of and roo Sugars which he had bought from me, Viceroy Chang Chi-tung's railway from Lu-kow and which Mr. Gubbay told me would very K'iao, Peking, to Hankow. They are opposed likely not be cleared at the end of the month. to a loan, especially a foreign loan, and intend He had taken 50 Sugars for the end of August, if possible to build the line with Government Mr. Gubbay came towards the end of the month, funds received from the various Provinces. They and told me that Brandt wanted me to carry hope to complete the line in eight years at a cost was very sorry, but I could not. Later on ITI 4,000,000 each year. anw Brandt, and told him the same. He asked me mot. to press him till settlement day, and I promised not to, but said the shares must be of the are at the Temple of Heaven, which The Shen Pao gives an edict on the subject sold in a day or two. He seemed very dis-originated, it says, at the building called the satisfied, saying that Gubbay had promised I Hall of Prayers for the Year, during a violent should carry them over. They were not cleared thunderstorm. The officers on watch are to be at the end of the month, and I at once tried to punished for their carelessness. The Emperor sell them. I sold them on the 4th at 256, with accepts the fire as an admonition from Heaven as of my own. I might have been able to sell to be circumspect in conduct, and trusts that all them on settlement day, or got an offer, but the officials, his servants, will draw the same I did not try. I tried the next day. I charged moral lesson from it. It is satisfactory to find 7 per cent, on the value-$14,000,

that as yet no lesson against railways has been deduced from the accident.

By Mr. Brandt-You to'd me that Mr. Gubbay had promised I should carry then over, but i said I had been sick for nearly a fortnight, and

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own race is conspicuously manifested in the southern provinces in the treatment of the Hak kaa-whose very name indicates that they are 'stranger-familles. The mutual animosities of played an important part in the history of the these immigrants and of the natives of the south great Taiping rebellion, the leader of which was considered to be a Hakka. The Hakkas seem to have come from the north at a remote time, and all certain trace of their origin is lost know who their own ancestors were "These fellows," say the Cantonese, do not

THE following are some of the most noted sui. cides in history :-Cato stabbed himself rather than live under the despotic reign of Cæsari Themistocles poisoned himself rather than lead the Persians against his countrymen; Zeng, when ninety-eight, banged himself because he put his finger out of joint, and Hannibal and Mithridates poisoned themselves to escape being taken prisoner. When we search Scripture we

the Philistines, commanded his armor-bearer to held his sword that he might plunge upon it; Samson, for the anke of being revenged upon his enemies, pulled down the house in which they were revelling and "died with them," and Judes Iscariot, after selling the Savior for thirty pieces of silver, was overcome by remorse "and went and hanged himself.” Few ladies who "follow the fashions," or who consult the hundred and one fashion periodicals poured out from the press every month and every week, have (says & writer in the Standard) any idea of the extreme simplicity of the patterns of female attire which were in vogue fifty and even forty years ago. It is sufficient to say that the Is bodice and the skirt of the dress, were

A Russian traveller has obtained through the by hooks and eyes behind; that the skirts him. You seemed disgusted. I did not under were never "draped," and that their sole stand you to say that I might sell the shares Tientsin, under which he proposes to proceed to Kwel kwa Ch'eng, Shansi, thence 800 over the ornamentation was nothing but flounces. The or do what I liked with them, and charge prairie to Kia-yuh Kwan in Kanes (about Long only practical way in which a lady could thought you might perhaps take them up. 97 E.) and thence still further West to li for you with the difference on settling-day, "I show that she was in full dress was to show a There may have been a sale, at 260 the

Kaldja, about Lang 8 E) He carries a map, low-necked dress and to bare her armı, Moré-

in which he will enter any corrections that be over, bodices were, when made low, universally day before I sold; a man might have been

obtains on his journey. The reason of his cut horizontally lastead of on a bias, and the lucky enough to get a sale but it would not female novelists of the last generation found make a market rate. I kept the $3000 back desiring to obtain these observations is abvious, unfailing material of fun in depicting the tor.because Gubbay told me you would probably not in a cart with two mules bent on the exploration ha、was not ̈

A Japanese in Chinese dress bas left Tientsin take up

the Banks and Sugars, and I calculated ments of growing girls at evening parties in their endeavors to prevent their low-necked thee that would come to about $3,300. I dont of the N.E. Provinces from the Amur to Shansi. frocks from slipping off their shoulders. When to go down, and that I should sell soon. My recollect you saying that the shares were bound a lady went to court she glorified herself with own impression was that they would go up. I in the province of Kiangsu, beside the temple of Outside the South Gate of the city of Wu-sihr train, a tall " panache" of plames, and as many did not tell you I had sold 290 SugarI never Kwan-yin, is a boy's school. The schoolmatter diamonds sa fortune had favored her with had so many. I may have said that the Bank being called away one day, his little pupils otherwise the cut of her gown did not materially forced me to sell; in a certain way I was com strayed into the temple, and say there two large differ from that of the school girl's low-necked pelled, because I had not sufficient margin. The coffins. There were five or six boys, and one Bank did not come and say sell these shares of them proposed that the rest should play a Now that the Governor has come back the but they put pressure on me. I might have sold trick on the pedagogue by hiding in the coffins, Legislative Council will be getting ready to sit in any case.

of which this boy would fastey down the lids again, and we suppose the Estimates for 1890 will Mr. Webber, in concluding the defendant's after they had got in. No sooner said than have some little attention. We should like some case, said that the issue reduced to whether done, and the last child was hidden from view Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge. outspoken anoficial to cases urgency without 618, SC., will be held in Freemasons Hall, abolition of a few highly-paid offices which will the shares for the benefit and with the consent everywhere for the boys in great perplexity Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock in due course appear therein, unicus some very of the plaintiff and whether the sum of $594 was when some ona sald Your boys are in the precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.valid reason to the contrary can be shewn, For properly deducted from the plaintiff's account, coffins. Now yuk kwan, the phrase employed, instance it is abundantly evident that no Super- The plaintiff certainly bought the shares, through has two meanings become mandarina," or For the defence of Antwerp the Belgian Govern. intendent of the Gaol, at a salary ofover four thou- Toegand Gubbay, who afterwards gave defendant gone into coffins, although in writing, of ment is about to expend an additional sum of

sand dollars a year, 13 required, since the gor- to understand that they would not be taken up, course, the second character of each group is 30,000,000 francs. The best defence of Antwerp geously-snurred officer who at present is supposed and asked him on plaintiff's behalf to carry thes different. "Hardly that' so soon," said the good is in the mutual jealousies of the great Powers to be performing those duties can find leisure to be on to the end of September. But, as Mr. Grimble old man, I hope they will eventually attain of Europe.

Police Adjurant and Paymaster to the Army Lard had stated in evidence, when he heard this, after to it but at present they have only begun the TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 and from his Peals residence.. If one Magistrate oncerepudiated the responsibility. He afterwards mistaking me said the man, "I mean they are department when not his lengthy journeys to being absent a fortnight through illness, he at Odes and the Book of History," You are o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel ́dag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code

is so soperhumanly energetic as to efficiently act did consent to hold them until settlement day, and in the coffios. Don't talk like that," said the aa Coroner, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, sold them as soon after that as he could. As they school-master with a start, I saw them alive pennant C, to convey men ashore to 11 sm. Pervice at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returning and Colonial Treasurer, also, bis junior colleague were not disposed of on the 31st August the and well bulf an hour ago. The man, now might very reasonably be offered the Gaol plaintiff could not ask that that day's rate should thinking the hoax had lasted long enough, helped Superintendey, at another $100 a month, for the be taken as fixing the difference it was not as the schoolmaster to pull open the big coffins in sake of having a magistrate where he could though he had said in the first instance Realise the Temples but it was too late, for there lay always he found. The Harbour-Master, too, them, and charge me the difference. They the six little boy all dead of suffocation. The has apparently managed to get through his work were sold on the 4th September, and that day, master at once fed from the district and the for a long time without any assistant-ipe the quotations were what must be gone by. Mr. parents of the victims, in their furr, went lo Assistant Harbour Master off the Estimates. Brandt had done exactly the same thing with pursuit of the other boy, who had caused the And we fall to see the necessity fortwo Marine Mr. Mooney, and charged him the difference tragedy, and gut him to death, Surveyors, The Assistant Marine Surveyor between 311 and 258, 199

generally in one piece; that the gown fastenerf | had not seen bim, so I could not have authorised Russian Consuì a passport from the Taotai at / that a man who visits another part of China for spicuous and typical instance of Chinese fanbili

It is announced that Mr. E. B. Drew will take up the post of Chief Secretary to the Inspector General of Customs at Peking.

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SIX shopkeepers were fined $20 each to-day by

Mr. Robinson for having steelyards which were blassed in their representations, A seventh was Fined $30.

BINKS-I saw a man turn pale, and tremble to. day at the mention of the American navy, Kinks -Eh! Was he a foreigner -No; he belongs to the marines, and he can't swim.

about 12.30

SAYS the Sydney Bulletin --Ruskin's latest idea is that military bands are degraded by playing

at dinners and dances. Ruskin is right. On the same principle the decorated soldier is degraded by dropping his sword and taking a switch to "shoo dogs away for Sydney draper.

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muslin frock.

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To keep off mosquities :--Take a small quantity | is still comparatively healthy, after a year's Mr. Brandt, in his own behalf, pointed out that

CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS, of a 2 per cent carbolic acid solution and sprinkle unaided labor; give him the substantive ap. Mr. Toeg, the defendant's own broker, had sheets, coverlets, pillows and bolsters on both.pointment and wipe the assistant out, Similarly admitted that he (plaintiff) told Grimble to

THE ABSENCE OF ALTRUISM., siden, the edges of bed curtains and the wall next the abolition of the post of Secretary to the Law | realise and charge the difference when he refused

1X the bed. The face and neck may also be slightly. Revision Committee would save another $1,op to carry the shares over to next month. There Principles similar to these are put in practice wetted with the solution. Not a single guat or, or so n your. It is worth thinking over, bon. was no mention of carrying them over for a few toward any natives of other regions, who trade morgulto, it is said, will come nearin

and unofficial gentlemen,

days, and nothing to shew in support of the in districts where they have no influential con

fund the road bouwen his house and the settlement in a shick- magistente want orders to stop him, mying that she work be has the pent, notting has bead done about it."

* Bóthe years ago a public-splitted foreign resident of Cheng

log, condition, and set about, repairing it himself izbe petty

longed to the anglerma and po cos alan was to do it Froos

THE CIRCLET OF GOLD.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF RINGS WORN.

AASTAK

ON THE FINGERS