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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 1889.

the whole of the members of the Peace

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trouble.

THE announcement the other day that the Lorne Athletic Club (of the Argyll and Suther and Highlanders) intend giving a couple of salt at Arms in the City Hall about the beginning of November, should give great satisfaction to local athletes. This is a most interesting form of entertainment which, in connection with the London Athletic Club, West Landon Boxing Club, and other similar institutions, attained very large amount of popularity in the

modern Babylon some twenty years ago, and it can scarcely be doubted that under the auspices of Colonel Chater and the Officers of the Regiment, it will prove a decided success in this colony. We are told that the Argyll and Sutherland. Highlanders contain a considerable number of capital athletes

of the Hongkong Recreation Club-who will and gymnasts, so that, with the assistance of the ather divisions of the Garrison and the members doubtless gladly assist-a varied and attractive programme should be easily arranged As soon as arrangements have been decided on, we shall publish full puticulars.

the tune of fifteen strokes on the leader of the

Bang, and ten strokes on each of his two accomplices.

His lordship repraved Brands for using such language.

Brandt apologised—"it slipped out.". It was very difficult to conduct a case when the witness interrupted.

Mr. Webber-And it is still more difficult speech in the middle of a cross-examination. when the 'plaintiff insists on making a long

Brandt (to witness). "On the roth September you came and told me you were concerned in the sale of so Sugars for the end of October ?

Witness-Never.

Brandi-And you asked me to allow you to seile it before?

Witness-No, I sold 15 Sugars for you to H. R. Madar, who refused to take delivery, and you *** stuck" | må for $250,

His lordship here stopped the cross-examina-

Plaintiff, in closing his case, quoted a case decided by Chief Justice Russell in February 1889. in which he was plaintiff and a Chinaman defendant. His lordship then asid that the defendant was entitled to his commission, but not until the contract was completed." If it fell through he was not entitled to anything. The contract afterwards fell through, and the principal refused to pay.

Mr. Webber was proceeding to say that the case quoted was entirely different, buf

His lordship said he would look at it, and give his decision on Friday, - ́ ́

NOTES FROM CHINEșe papers.

The Sun Pao reports that a place about roo miles from Tientsin was visited by a severò, hailstorm, the smallest of the hailstones being as big a good-sized bean, and the large ones as large as peaches (of ordinary size); the place was covered with these stones of ice, and the crops in that locality are much damaged.

Society, instructing LI HUNG-CHANG, the A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. The Xuangpas in an editorial on Monday fouling her. She sustained no other damage, leading and most powerful statesman in the 1105, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland strongly advocates the establishment of a however, and her auchors held. A small steamer built for Penang was driven ashore Chinese Empire! Only think of it, and then Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. "Mutual Admiration Society" to consist of a

membership of two, China and Japan. Russia at Yau-ma-ti, bat not materially injured. About sum up the consummate cheek of this Visiting brethren are cordially invited. unknown table-thumper. It is a very safe THERE is one shameful Institution in this colony appears to be the great object of distrust, that 1.30 a.m. the Price Dredger, which was moored great Power being likened by the local editor to at West Point, between two wharves opposite assertion to make that the Viceroy of to which we would direct the earnest attention

a tigress or a famished wolf. And the Czar has the Italian Consulate, got adrift, and, after Chih-ll knows more about the principle of the Hongkong Police, and that is what is only quite lately had an ironclad and shot-proof smashing up one of the piers considerably, of arbitration between great nations than known as Female Gambling Club (Nu yanrallway train made for his own special use. The heeled over to port gracefully, and sank on her Mr. Joxes, Sir Josurit PRASE, M.P. and woon there are said to be no fewer Russian Bear is not likely to worry either China side. The waves soon stripped her of her deck

than fifty such institutions at the present moment

furniture, and she now lies with the spray Aying well-informed Chinese with about nine-tenths of THREE youngster whose united ages totalled position. The Hon. S. Brown went and had a in active operation, and they are credited by or Japan during this century.

over her cagines, and ber derrick in a horizontal the domestic troubles amongst the native com forty-five years were brought up before Mr. H.E. munity, rich and poor. The reason why so Wodehouse this mersing, at the Police Court, for look at her this afternoon. A large two-masted junk sank near the old P. very litle of the disastrous consequences stealing thirty earthenware plates, worth some and G. wharf, and all but two got ashore inveigled into these dens are made public, is last night. As they were caught in the act no busy, and clung to it until eight o'clock, when a generally attending females who have been thing over one cent each, from a crockery dealer The couple that were left managed to reach a because Chinese in every position of life fear excuse could be offered for the vile deed-launch took them off in a very exhausted condition, the loss of "face and scandal more than the excepting perhaps that the youthful marauders tion. A lot of sampans were smashed up, and pecuniary losses they sustain, and the domestic wanted the plates in the interests of science as several conservancy boats, but no lives were troubles they have to put up with. We intend | insulaters; but as the principal object was to

lost at the western end of the Prays, "A lot of one of these days dealing more fully with this obtain a little lucre, his Worship very sensibly sections of hatches, evidently belonging to a subject, but in the meantime the police might ordered the administration of the rod of Solomon

large ship, were washed ashore near the do good work if they only cared to take the on the seat of their youthful understandings to

Sallon Homes, and it is feared, that there has been a wreck. There is nothing to Indicate the name or nationality. of the vessel.. At the Harbour of Refuge the damage was very A SHORT time ago a correspondent of one of our considerable. When the sampans went down Shanghai contemporaries gave out what pur- there many were driven past the entrance, and parted to be an "open secret that coal mines at

mashed against the sea-wall, but here, as all Kelung, Formosa, were to be let to an American along the water-front, the police were up all be too good to be true and we had always grave firm as concessionaires. The story appeared tonight, rendering assistance, and nd fatalities occurred. Several of the out-stations were doubts as to the accuracy of the statement. We crowded with refugees during the night. At Yau-mati a number of bonts were lost. On the now learn the Mr. Chang, for sometime General

other side of the island there is practically na Manager of ibe Kelung Coal Mines, instead of being degraded, as the correspondent wished us

damage reported, nor has any serious casualty, to believe, by Governor Liu Ming Chuan, has

in the way of land-slips, occurred anywhere. lately been promoted to be the head of the

Ashore. The weather moderated after daylight, Formosa Artenal as well as of the Commercial though it still rained heavily, and the lumpy sea Bureau at Tai-peh-fu, and that his former post

prevented launches from crossing until nearly noon. Telegraphic communication, which was at the Mines has been given to Mr. Tang, the

no more "disgusted" with the effete Mr. Chang. typhoony symptons are reported from the Assistant Manager. By these appointments it interrupted for about twelve hours, is being will be seen that Governor Liu Ming Chuan is

The barometer is now rising, and no further than he is with our famous office goat because that sagacious animal daily makes his breakfast

Observatory, off the typhoon prophet's reports in the China Snail. We are afraid that the concessionaires of the coal mines in Formosa are not yet on Two snake-like boats, having on board some terra firma.

eighty or ninety pirates, made a sudden attempt to plunder a ferty boat plying between Canton and Shi, T'ou while on its way to the latter place on the gth inst. in broad daylight; but the plucky crew of the passenger craft ran to arms, at the same time ring the bow gun of the boat-o rusty old four-pounder--and with such effect that the shot tore through the bow of one of the piratical craft and struck down seven of the desperadoes. Another dose in the shape of some twenty-five musket bullets took away all stomach for loot on the part of the pirates who as suddenly sheered off, picking up at the same time four men who had jumped off the ferry the pirates. These men had boarded the ferry boat as soon as they saw the fight going against boat as passengers at Canton, intending doubt less to attack the crew and create a diversion in favour of their comrades whilst they were occupled with repelling the attack of the pirates. And where are those aft-mentioned newly raised levies of the Viceroy who were promised "to make a complete sweep of all the pirates in Kungtung, and even of the whole world?" Gone to steep, we are afraid.

Society rolled into one; and it must be quite, evident to anyone acquainted with the history, character and policy of Li, that during the whole of his interview with JONES. His Excellency was quietly and humourously "drawing the leg of the aspiring apostle of peace. We have no time to criticise In detall the childish nonsense which Mr. Jones loftily relates he poured forth to the Grand Secretary as information"; if we had it would not be worth while, although it may be true that ignorant demagogues of this sort tend to foster altogether erroneous Impressions in the minds of Chinese officials and create a great deal of mischief. Mr. Jones has been in Australla and says he is going to the United States, and on the strength of his experiences in the former country he informed the Viceroy that jealousy and fear of cheap labour wers at the root of the difficulty between the Australians and Americans and the Chinese, and prophesied that "time alone can bring about such a change in public opinion as may sweep away such unjust laws as those passed against the Chinese." And in saying all this the Peace Society delegate has yet to learn even the rudiments of that wrote himself down an Ignoramus, who vast and comprehensive political problem popularly known throughout two continents as the Chinese Question. Let us tell Mr. JONES and his friends that when the empire of China has been freely thrown open to the whole world, and after Chinese emigrants have attained social habits to fit them for association with civilised people, then there may be some force in the allegation as to unjust laws having been passed against. Chinese in the Australasian colonies and the United States of America. At present any such assertion merely displays sheer ignorance of China and the Chinese, and also of the countries-which-abject-to-be-over-run-by- the seam of the Middle Kingdom.

Mr. Joses, quite naturally we assume, gravels to Sir JosERN PEASE. He mentioned The Anti-Opium Society to LI HUNG-CHANG and that he was intimate with the President, and was surprised when the Viceroy promptly asked whether I meant Sir Joseph Pease, with tokosename he was evidently familiar. We hope A voU OSTER, at 12, was arrested by the the leading light of the anti-oplum "éranks" Canton police on the night of the 15th inst. Dear felt gratified on reading this babyish gush! the "Sai Kwan" of Western Tithing Station, And now we have had about enough of Canton, having in his possession a large bag of Joses, and in consigning his letter to the gunpowder and a bundle of paper thoroughly waste paper basket would add our recom-saturated with kerosine oil. On being arrested, mendation to Li HUNG-CHANG'S, that the the hardened little incendiary showed the best thing he can do is to go and preach his captors, stated that he had received orders utmcat sang froid, and when questioned by righteousness and justice in Russia."

from his chief to set fire to the residence of a

A METRICAL proclamation by the Namhoi magis. trate has been issued at Cantos, the following translation of which is given by our very own pact laureate. The verses speak for them- selves

The winter season la nigh,+

And the winds should now blow high, When all thinga become a idry, An to foll victima 25 fra 1

O'er your ranges and stores, watch!

Ihat wheno'er the fire doth scorch,- Your "Fai-ping" palis should be such As to be ready for fires 1

"Tin Important these palla-fact i

To be filed and ready to act. -To p eserve your homes intact

Gainst the ravages of fru! "William," our office fallow deer, “chow. chowed the balance of this poem, and we are now looking for--na, not the four footed cele- brity, but the poet, with a club, And we think, we shall have to dismiss that Celestial Tennyson, the Namhoi magistrate, even as an occasional corespondent.

THE Steam Launch Co.'s floating Bructure passengers aboard the French mail steamer this yclept the Perseverance tried to take some morning. There was very little sea to face, but a strong swell made the trip from Pedder's Wharf to the Caledonien something like a test of her sea-going powers. And how did the newest thing in arks respond? Well, just as we predicted she would; she rolled about like an empty barrel and only got her passengers Hongkong Hotel Co.'s small launch made rings round the Perseverance and got alongside the mail steamer without any trouble. We

restored.

SUPREME COURT.

The following news is contained in a telegram

villages have suffered from the floods, involving received through Sheng Taot'ai, Chefon, from Tsi-nan Fu, Shantung Ascertaled that goɔ

300,000 people in distress. Sixteen hundred cash lowest necessary to relieve each family without. Tla. 70,000 impossible to work. Shang-ho Hsien worst place, 200 or 300 villages, Tis, 20,000 necessary. Lin-yi Hsien, 400 or 5oo villages, though food latest to arrive there, 100 villages in great need, Tis, 10,000 required. · District of Li-ch'eng (Prefectural City of Tai-nine Fu), 302 villages, great distress, Tis. 10,000 already dis Mr.tributed"

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

Judge.)

BRANDT AND HIS BROKERS, Joseph Samuel, broker, for $75, alleged to have

Oscar Brandt, commission agent, sued

been wrongfully detained. Mr. Webber defended

Investment shares in August last, and on the Plaintiff stated that he sold certain Land 30th September handed them to Mr. Drude. his broker, to give to the defendant, who was the purchaser's broker, instructing him to receive the money. He did so, but received $75 short.

Plaintiff was then sworn, and stated!---- On the 9th August I sold 25 shares in the Land Investment Co., at 130, for delivery on the 30th Rogge. On the latter date I gave the latter the September, to Lo King Chee, through Mr. shares to deliver to the defendant, and receive the money. Defendant should have paid him $3.462.50, but he only paid $3.387.50.

Cross-examined structed Samuel some time or other to sell so Wharves for me, and as Sugars, but not to charge me all the brokerage on the latter. I am not a great operator on the market, fairly large, I know that go cents is the customary charge on Sugars and Land Investments. I settled with Samuel and Reuben shewing a balance due to me of $3,387.50. I on the 30th September. I got an account, wrote them a letter telling them it was incorrect $75 short, and threatening legal proceedings default of immediate payment.

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His lordship You instructed them to sell shares did they sell them 7

Plaintiff No, because all except the pur- chasers of the Lands were defaulters.' I wrote

wealthy merchant living near the Tithing LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Station, because he had refused to pay the sum of two thousand tarls black-mail which had been demanded by the Chief of his band AMONGST the names of the slicerssful candidates from the merchant in question. A roast for Master of Arts at the examinations at Peking held last month, we observe those of two of application of the bamboo on the youngster's Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's younger sons, Chang. buttocks had the desired effect of making him aboard after they had given up all hope. The again on the 4th October, telling them they had

The difficult task of ping and Chabg.mou. obtaining this honor may be seen from the fact that only about three hundred and eighty were successful out of eighteen thousand candidates. Literary ability in the Viceroy's family would seem to be hereditary,

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SIKH, and ye shall find," is the motto of our Indian police, and sometimes they get into

trogners, who was going home to the Punjab on account of the murder of his family, drew all his savings—$110-out of the Bank, and put them into his chest. Whilst away on duty he was robbed, and two other Sikhs-P.C.'s $39 and

729-were arrested. They were before Mr. Robinson this afternoon, Mr. Wilkinson defend-

ing. The case was still going on when we went to press. Another Sikh constable is in custody

on a charge of robbing a comrade's box. As our report of the storm states, the Dredger is

wrecked. In the absence of news we treat our

[readers to a short lyrical gem on the subject

On October 15th, at Altona, Germany, the wife of TH. YON PUSTAU, of a son.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONOLONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1889.

A GOODLY number of persons of one sort and another have within the last dozen years, on various pretences, interviewed His Excellency Li HUNG-CHANO, Viceroy of Chibli and the actual Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire; The person who least appreciated an honour he had no sort of title to whose published report of his personal experiences with the Viceroy stands alone for vulgar and inexcusable offensiveness--was Mr. HaNEY NORKAN, the unattached representative of the Pall Mall Gazelle; the latest and most amusingly impudent intruder is a Mr. WILLIAM JONES, who, it appears, owes his

It Importance to the interesting fact that he was once Secretary of an institution in England called the Peace Society. Mr. Jones has written a letter to Sir JosEPH W. PEASE, M.P., dated Tientsin, July soth, In which he records his interview with Li HUNG-CHANG, and this letter has, as a matter of course, been published in the London papers, Probably enough that latter fact, a conspicuous advertisement in the London press, was this Peace Society apostle's main object in holding himself up to ridicule before the entire foreign population in the Far East At all events he has succeeded in beating all past, records for childish conceit and blatant ignorance.

Mr. WILLIANS JONES naively states in his precious letter to Sir JOSEPH PEASE that his main object in going to Tientsin was to instruct this influential ruler in the recent progress in the Western world of the principles of arbitration as a substitúte for war, ⠀-Jones, /@x-secretary of the Peace

It is "after" Tom Hood-about as far after as "Brownie is subsequent to a jackass - One more unfortunate Relic of Price.

Cost, half a lakh

And dear at a pice,

Left out in the wat

And expoged to the rain,

Went to the bottom

And there should remain.

THE N. C. Daily News of the yih inst. says:

place

charged me brokerage which they had pot

carned.

whether they were entitled to brokerage or not. His lordship-The sole point at issue is

recommend the Directors of the Steam Launch lake in the Happy Valley; with a fiddle and a Co. to turn their new ship out on the ornamental Plaintiff I want to have it laid down-that is the principal reason I have brought this action tambourine on board she would prove an attrac-whether or not a broker has any lien on money tion there. But what about the challenge from which he receives for shares on account of a the owner of the Alice If the Perseverance is

principal.

His lordship-How is he going to collect back, or to the Nine Fius, or to Macao on Sun- brokerage? day next, believers in her speed can make any

Plaintiff-Collect it from the principal amount of shekels, as out of pure sport the Alice,

His lordship-Then he must hand over all the money and then the principal will return the if she hasn't gone down in the typhoon, will accompany her.

brokerage 7

reveal the hiding place of the remainder of his band but when the police went to the house the birds had flown, with one exception, and he was the man left behind, to report on the result of the fire in case the young lad should have been Arrested in the act. The trial of the two prisoners afternoon. was fixed by the Namhoi Magistrate for this

We hear that an organized band of insurgents authorities of Kiang-si, and that the Futai of that province having sent an urgent request for aid to the Viceroy Tseng Kuo-chuan at Nan- king, that functionary sent on the 1st instant three battalions of disciplined troops (1,500 men) | to the scene of disturbance, which is at FROM a memorial to the Throne by K'aci Jen, Kiukiang. The despatch of this large body of Board of Revenue and Chief Supervisor of. about ninety miles south-west of member of the Imperial Clen, President of the troops, who will doubtless be joined by a much the Sacrificial Board, we gather that amongst larger number of the Kiang-si provincial militia, indicates that the rising has assumed such the articles saved from the late fire of the serious proportions that the local authorities Temple of Heaven at Peking on the 18th ultimo, were not equal to the occasion It is believed eight in number, cack tablet. containing the were the ancestral tablets of the present dynasty, that the insurrection in question is the outcome of the invasion of the neighboring province of

name of one of the Emperors, commencing from Shan-Chi down to Tung-Chi, enshrined Fukien by a body of Klangal boatmen, who in miniature temples and complete in every swooped down as the Fakienese inhabitants of Hsing Hus last summer, to revenge the murder chairs or thrones, appertaining to the eight There were also eight ceremonial by them of a number of Kiang-si boatmen plying tablets, cncrusted with various gems and inlaid in Fukien inland waters. Our readers will with mother-of-pearl, and most of the sacrificial doubtless remember two memorials to the Throne by the Viceroy of the Min-cheh provinces anant utensils made of gold, silver and copper ned fu the affair, translations of which were published accessories of the temple were either totally the temple. The rest of the furniture and by us early last mouth,

destroyed or damaged by fire and the water from the fre-engines to such an extent, as

detail

nothing else. The defendant has deducted $75 Plaintiff He may deduct brokerage, but

in a loose way of doing business in this colony for transactions with my broker-Rogge. There which is very bad-a dangerous way of entrust ing brokers with the whole amounts.

His lordship Why do you do it, then 7: money-the risk is too great.

Plaintiff I would not entrust them with my

Cross-examination continued-1 gave the second letter to the defendant in front of the Hongkong Hotel.

was entitled to brokerage, having received definite Mr. Webber, for the defence, said that Mr. Samuel instructions to sell certain shares. Plaintiff had admitted that he had only bean charged the usual brokerage. Whether the contract was put through or not, was perfectly immaterial so far as the broker was concerned. It was laid down in "Chitty on Contracts" that an intermediary was entitled to his commission although) an actual sale was not effected, if he brought the out a defaulter, the defendant was entitied to his parties together. Although the purchaser turned

brokerage if there was no lackes on his part.

The defendant was then called. He said-Im ashare and general broker, in partnership with Mr. Reuben. On the 21st August, Brandt instructed me to sell certain shares, and I sold then to Wong Lat Shee.

I want to know if any obscure, broker is Mr. Brand-There are two issues in this case, entitled to bundle bir principal's money india criminately.mp3

Witness, continuing-I sold so Dock shares, charging $25 and 25 Sugars charging $12.50 because Brandt said he had already received ball-brokerage, and I must charge it all to him. 50 cents in the usual charge:

Plaintiff cross-examining-Have you an office No.

Where do you do your business ?—In the Hongkong Hotel PP

The apathy with which the commercial classer | THE Kuangpas records an encounter between a in China and their Chambers of Commerce are marauding band of robbers and village "braves" to be utterly useless in future. We bave Companies to get the Telegraph Convention night of the aznd ultimo, a large band of robbers of Heaven," as it is the name generally regarding the attempt of the two great Telegraph in the district of Hsin Hui. It appears that on the designated the destroyed structure the "Temple ratified in Peking is almost incredible. The made a raid on a village peopled by the "Chang" known amongst foreigners to China and effect of the proposed convention is to bind us clan. The village" braves," being the weaker elsewhere; but in point of fact, the Temple down to a rate of 82 a word for some fourteen party, resorted to a rare which proved so far of Heaven is an indestructible edifice with ne years, in exchange for which the two companies successful as to end in the death of siz members roofing and enclosed by thick solid cubical agree to pay China a subsidy of about $100,000 of the gang. While the robbers were engaged blocks of marble and grey granite. The year. For this sop China is prepared to give in rifling the contents of the house of a village building which was destroyed by fire, and refrain from building the line to Kiachta and dried corn stalks, that had been saturated with Chinese the ancestral tablets-were placed, up her independence as a sovereign power, to elder, the braves" carried large bundles of where all that is most highly prized by from joining the International Telegraph Con- kerosine oil, and placed them at the different is the Ch'i Nien Tien, or Temple for vention, and it is obvious that this $100,000 and approaches to the village which the robbers had sacrificing to the Year, that is to say the temple the large profits which the two great Companies to pass on their way to their lairs in the Stork in which the Emperors of China, since the early are making under the present tarif are to come Mountains. As soon the robbers got past a part of the native Chiorse Ming dynasty in the out of the pockets of the senders of telegrama to certain point on their way back, where the fifteenth century, have been accustomed to offer and from China. We are grieved to know that saturated corn-stalks were plled, these were set on up sacrifices on the first day of each Chinese while Mr. von Brandt has stoutly opposed the fire by while the valiant villagers, lying amongst New Year, praying for a propitious year for the ratification of the Convention, our own Minister, the uncut com fields, blated away with their whole Empire. It also made use of to Sir John Walsham, is backing up the Russian guns at the robbers who were lighted up by the sacrifice to the God of Thunder whenever there Minister, M. Coumany, in getting it ratified; and bonfire of cornatalies. Two robbers fell at the is a drought in the land. our Chamber of Commerce here, which must first fire and four more were seriously wounded, know what is going on, sits quietly down and a number of the others being more or makes no protest. The Convention was fought lexa tofured, but not very badly as may over in our columns two years ago, and it was be confectured by their successful escape from The typhoon with which Dr. Doberck has withdrawn for the time; but we wrote on the 28th the hands of their now pot-vallant antagonists, threatened the Colony since Friday last has of December, 1887 :—""

"The telegraph companies The two robbers who fell at the first fire apparently not missed it by a very long way, are rich and Chinese virtue is not always unpur. were abandoned by the robbers, but the four The sunset last night was magnificently lurid, chascable, and it will be well for the Chamber men dangerously wounded were carried along and the barometer, which then stood at 19 66, of Commerce to keep on the alert, lest Mesirs, until they dropped, when they were, hastily was falling. At eleven it had touched a point | Shông Taotal and his foreign friends come to an buried by their comrades (but unearthed after lower, the N. N. W. breeze then blowing about agreement once more, and bring it safely towards by the villagera) who all the while faced half a gale, und rain setting in heavily. Many signature before the public has time to take the their pursuers as they retreated; the #braves" of the steamers, most of the launches, and Chambers of Commerce have gone to sleep, and so the robber band by dint of sheer courage following their examples us, bewing that a alarm," What we feared bas happened, The and villagers not daring to make a charge. And all the sampans had sought shelter, the Pewan Messrs. Sheng Tastal and his foreign friends and some sort of discipline managed to get all Canton, as the drum was up, showing that a have come to an agreement, which is on the their booty safe to the Stork Mountains, losing typhoon existed to the eastward. The night was point of ratification and the extortionate rate of Loply six menang #braves ** and "villagers very temperivou, and those aboard the abips two dollars a word is to be paid for some fourteen remunerated themselves for the loss of the in harbour felt no little anxiety, some of the years, with Sir John Walsham as a consenting plunder by cutting off the hands of the six Khind's moorings gero way and she swung party. As a high commercial authority writes robbers, and sending them to the Hale Hul vary close to the Afganes, but did not break loose, us from Ticatsin :-"Perish commercial Interests Magistrate, whorewarded them with two hundred The Canton lost her buoy, and either it or the as long as the Investments of royalties and dollars out of his private parse and six hundred Arvation Aptar, bony was seen going down imperialities are protected, and the success of dollars from the Goremmest fatday apportioned the Ly-o-moon pass about 5 am. The Canton autocrats of electric cable companies ensmed," I for the purpose by Viceroy Ching Chikerungen also, lost "ber, bowsprit, owing to a junk ass Brands 1-- Wit you pisase akut up?

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The Municipality of Macao governs that tection under Portuguese rule, but they have to colony well, and merchants enjoy the fullest pro- pay for it in the respectable sum af between two and three million dollars a year in imposts of various kinds. The heaviest contribution-of-all- is levied from the gambling-houses. About Tir 100 000 are levied from this source annually, and we hear that they have now been farmed för a period of six years for a total sum of $840,000. good society, but such an investment cannot be The farmers are gentry of Hsiang-shin Hsien in regarded with approval from a moral point of view.

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The Hu Pao says: The Japanese newspapers have an amusing story about a recent purchase

by the Corean Government. It recently ordered 2,000 rides to be made by a firm in Tokio, which having "frugal mind" addressed itself to the Japanese military authorities to ask them if they had any old rifles which they could not use in off their hands to supply to the guileless Coreana stock, as if so they would be happy to take them We have not heard what reply the Japanese War Office made to the proposal. Perhaps the worthy armourer thinks the Corean army will be as contented with guns that will not go off as old Tao Yuan-ming, that good easy-going roul, was with his inte with no strings to it...

The Shin Pao of 8th October has a leader on the apathy of the educated men of China (well qualined to teach their countrymen morality and purity of life from their own education, and having the ChineseClassicsand the Sacred Edias for texts for their discourse) displayed in their neglect of their duty to the illiterate classes in preaching and expounding, in which many a missionary sets them an example. It fears that in these days of travelling abroad, when foreign teacher are devoting such attention to the teachings of Confucius, and bringing their pure gold back to China made into current coin at a foreign mint, there is danger of the minds of the Chinese becoming Europeanleed en masse unless the literaft make an effort to withstand the propagandism..

junk admiral, was recently out with his flert A letter from Kiukiang says: L, the Yangtze ascending the Great River, when a violent storm

arose, the waves ran very high, and the war-junk captains begged him to allow them to take in all and anchor till it blew over. Li, thinking them afraid, gave the order to proceed to Lung. tang for the review which had been commanded, blow high, blow low and threatened that he who showed the white feather and hung back should to martial law. When the order was known, pay for his disobedience with his life according sweeps were out and the junks began to struggle again forward against the gale. One boat capsized, and a number of the crew were drowned. The Admiral then anchored. This occurred on 27th Sept.

The Chang-huing, Wu-ch'ung, and "Au-chih hsigns are districts of Cheklang where this, and the people have been forced in some aptemn's foods have worked especial ravages,

Instances into theft and robbery by sheer pres sure of banger A farmer of Ching-hsing was carrying some 30 piculs of rice to market in a boat last; September:: when he was boarded by about 30 men from three sampans, each of whom shouldered about five bushels of his half of the rice, although they could easily have cargo, thanked him, and retired, leaving hims relieved him of the whols of it. Does this meau that there is too evén among thieves, or that the uninvited, lightermen would willingly have remained honest bat for Irresistible neces-

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The ox li a stupid animal, but in ploughing and harrowing he works hard to bring "grist to our mills, and afterwards in grinding it one ox will do the work of five men. The Buddhist priests teach us that of all ways of accumulating demerit nose is worse than to slay the harmless. necessary ox, that beef eaters will have no posterity, and that those who abstain from beef, What were you before -In Messi Darid will not die of cholers or other pestilences, Sassoon', an mugavuse while those who buy oxen to spare their lives Where-In Shanghal, Tientalb, everywhere. will themselves enjoy longevity. Outside the You know me, too, so gray MSU Mac, a gate of Soochow at a place Mr. Webber abjected to these questions, called To Chan, or date-stores, is a Niu- His lordship want to see what he is driving wang Miao, Temple of the King of the Cows, will tena of stalls for the reception of sick or Witness continued--I have charged brokerage feeble cattle ransomed from the poor peasants on all shares I have sold, whether they were who would otherwise sell them to the butchers. taken up or not, and in every tostance, have got Here they are regularly fed and watered, and paid. I did not charge you on the Sugar in when they die they are interred. The funds are August because you said you had paid Reuben ralted by a tie on the oil extracting mills, which I said the Dack shares to Wong Lai Shee, but pay six caps have not been trying to get brokejage from him. The mantgms are 211:

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