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ment does not intend to confine reform in this direction to merely removing the old Are-bell Has not the time arrived when the removal of the Clock Tower itself has become a matter of public necessity? We submit that it has,, and would enlist the consideration of His Excellency the Governor and the Hon. the Surveyor- General for what is almost universally conceded would be an important improve inent in the most central part of the city, The Clock Tower may possibly have been an ornament, and 'not an obstruction in its

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE silks ex D. & O. S. S. steamer Belgic were delivered in New York on the 13th Instant.

A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1016, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Tuesday, the 22nd instant, at 8.30 for 9pm, precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

THE bar and lower floor of the Oriental Hotel at Bangkok were destroyed by fire on the morn ing of the 1st inst. Damages to the extent of $1,000 have been claimed from one of the Borneo Co.'s agencies.' ''.

We would remind our readers that the "Military. Mummers will perform Andrew Halliday's comedy "Checkmate," preceded by the scream- ing larce "Slasher and Crasher," at the Garrison Theatre to-night, commencing at 9 o'clock. ANYBODY liking variety should attend the Sessions which will open to-morrow. There are ten cases and thirteen prisoners, and the charges range from murder to petty larceny arson, rape, libel, &c., filling up the programme. A DECAUVILLE ailway--which is something like that in use on the wharves at Kowloon, with fiule engines-is to be made from Hanoi to Langson. There is one at present, a lot bigger and better, and the public object to the change, which will cost four and a half million francs.

A FULL account of the recent examinations and changes in the staff of the Hongkong College of Medicine, and a letter from Viceroy Li Hung. chang, acknowledging the honour of having been made a Fatron of the institution, will appear in our next issue,

Doc TICH and his brother in arms, Doc Vin, are to be exiled to Algeria by the French Govern ment for opposing the colonisation of their country. Their Tonquinese followers are all either in gaol, or enrolled in the native corps, or banished to other districts. The French call that spreading civilization,

THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers, will play the following programme at the Barrack Square to-morrow evening, com mencing at 7:30 o'clock :-

March....... Lancer

Valec...... Polka Galop

** Every land my home "......... Jonas,

„D'Alben. "Connaught

The Yeomen of the fiard Bustabout, "Ahild of the time"......... Carl.

Berial. "Ulanen"

Quadrile.....Prince Charlie Hertel.

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THE deserter Claussade, who was sentenced to death last week at Handi for treason, was shot by a half section of marines, at the foot of the gallery in the citadel, at five o'clock on the moming of the 5th inst. He met his death | calmly, but seemed stunned at his sentence being executed so soon after, it was pronounced. MR. and, MRS. J. E. TAYLOR, of the "Razzle Dassie" Company, two versatile artistes of world-wide reputation, arrived here from Yoko hama the other day, and contemplate giving a short series of entertainments in the Theatre Royal, City Hall, prior to proceeding for a tour through India. Full particulars will be announced in due course..

THE storm seems to have been most severely | felt at Yau-ma-ti, nearly fifty craft, including twelve large junks and a number of lighters, having been wrecked there, and two lives lost. The bamboo bridge leading to the Recreation' Club bath-house was destroyed, a five-ton yacht sunk, and several pleasure-boats destroyed or injured. No other special casualties have been reported. Telegraphic communication has been restored, and the barometer is rising. The steamers Benlarig, Activa, and Amay reported bad weather from the southward.

MINING PROSPECTS IN HONGKONG,

This is a novel heading for a Hongkong.news paper, but if Mr. J. Grant Smith's expectations are realised it will be more frequently scen in future. One day last July Mr. Smith was wandering pensively in the cavine above the Bowen Rond, to the right of the Tramway, when he saw something in the dry bed of a water-courne dawn which a few weeks before a to rent had been leaping. He examined the something, and found that it was ore containing iron pyrites. He took some specimens home and started reading mineralogy. His researches shewed him that where there

were pyrites there were frequently other minerals, and he went back and prospected with a walking-stick. He found several veins of what proved to

be galens in the strate, running · Exterally across the face of the bill. Galena an are which is full of possibilities and other metals-there may be gold, silver, lead, zinc, or anything else in it, and it frequently ranges as high as $-a ton. Mr. Smith having caught his galena, set out to ascertain staying here temporarily, and he was engaged its value. Mr. S. B. J. Skenchley, of Borneo, is

to report. He examined the locality, and told Mr. Smith that it was genuine galena of the most virulent type, mingled with symptoms of zinc-blend-anore which also contains silver. He also said that it was handy for working by water-power. Mr. Smith sent this report to the Government and obtained mining rights in respect to the ravine, subject to some roysity. He then set a lot of coolies to work exposing the lode, which is about a yard wide, embedded in feldspathic rock, just between the granite and the porphyry. Mr. Sketchley is going to make a thorough examination of the place again, and assays are being made, so that in a few days it will be ascertained whether there are millions in the discovery or not. If it is good a syndicate will probably be floated. We beg to suggest a name if we may, How will "The Rocky Ravine Romance Co." do?

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by

Correspondents In this dilumn]

BRANDT. SAMUEL

TO THE EUROL OF TH*" Hongkong Telegraph,"

SIR, I have to ask you to be good enough to allow me to correct a discrepancy in your report in last night's Telegraph of the case of Brands

myself.

In your report this appears :-" Witness.”— "No." I sold 25 Sugars for you to H. R. Midar, who refused to take delivery and you "stuck" me for $250)

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has indeed, been often made in explicit language. In Mr. Meadows' work on “The Chinese and their Rebellions," he quotes some of the too sweeping generalisations of, M. Huc, only to denounce them, affirming them to be “baseless calumny of the higher life of a great portion of the hiïman race." Mr. Meadows is ready enough. to admit that the Chinese are not attracted, either to the bare results of centuries of doctrinal disputes, or to the conduct of the nations which accept those results as their creed, but

Chinese have no longing for immortality, no emphatically denies the assertion that the

condial admiration of what is good and great, no unswerving and unshrinking devotion to those who have been good and great, no craving, no yearning of the soul to reverence something high and holy," Sir Thomas Wade, on the other hand, whose long familiarity with China and the Chinese might be supposed to entitle him to speak with authority on so plata a question, as whether the Chinese have or have not a religion, has recently pub- lished his opinion as follows If religion is held to mean more than there ethics, I deny that the Chinese have a religion. They have indeed inhumerable varieties of puerile idolatry at a cult, or rather a mixture of e-lts, but no creed j

which they are ready enough to laugh, but which they dare not disregard.” Into the interesting. and by no means easily answered question here raised, we do not feel requited or indeed com- pelent to enter. It would be easy to discuss it at great length, but we are not certain that any light would be thrown upon it. In our view there' is a practical method of approaching the matter,' which will serve our purpose much better than abstract discussion. Taoism and Buddhism have greatly affected the Chinese, but the

Chinese are not Taoists as such, neither are they Baddhists. They are Confucianists, and what- over may be added to their faith, or whatever may be taken away, by the other systems of thought, the Chinese always remain Con fucianists. We began by remarking that Con fucianism is now well understood, and we shall close by endeavouring to show in what respects it comes short of being a religion such as the Chinese ought to have. In order to do this, we shail quote the language of a a distinguished Chinese scholar, whose conclusions cannot be

· lightly set aside, “At the end of his “Systematical Digest of the Doctrines of Confucius," Dr." Ernest Faber devotes a section to ""The Defects and Errors of Confucianism;" which are set forth," while

the same time it is acknowledged that there is in Confucianism much that is excellent concerning the relations of man, and many points in which the doctrines of Christian revela- tion are almost echoed. We quote the four-and- twenty points specified, adding here and there

few words of comment.

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a living God.

1. Confucianism recognises no relation to 2, "There is no distinction made between the human soul and the body, nor is there any clear definition of man, either from a physical or from a physiological point of view.-N. C. Daily News. (To be continued.).

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present position when first erected, but if so, times have changed, and while the ornamental attributes have long since passed out of sight the obstruction, with the very largely increased population and traffic, has become a public nuisance.

During Mr. J. M. Patck's regime an attempt was made to havethe Clock Tower removed to A more convenient spot and a numerously signed petition was presented to the Governor on the subject. It was understood at the time that His Excellency had personally no objection to the proposed removal, but was influenced by the Surveyor-General to refuse the prayer of the petition for the time being. It was also generally believed that the Surveyor-General's opposition was mainly on account of the agitation having originated with and had been carried out by a certain legal practitioner, who had given the Public Works Department a vast deal of unnecessary trouble and vexation in other matters, and whose sole object in this instance was the purely philanthropic (?) one of improving the value of some property he owned in the immediate vicinity. But however that may be, it is certain that the Surveyor-General did try his hardest to render the Clock Tower a still more offensive eye-sare by constructing a public uriņal on its northern side, right under the windows of the Hongkong -Hotel-and-sturdily-maintained-the-useful-- ness of this objectionable nuisance, even Post Colour, guaranteed to contain 10 per in the face of public opinion, until

peremptory order from the Governor settled the matter effectually. Now, we imaging that the Hon. S. BROWN must be quite free from the influences which prejudiced his predecessor against the removal of the Clock Tower, to a more convenient locality, and as great changes will, chiefly in connection with the Praya Reclamation Scheme, within the next few years be carried out in Pedder's Street, & commencement might at once be' made with a structure that is very much in everybody's way, and which under any circumstances must eventually be trans- ferred elsewhere. If we remember rightly an inmaginary difficulty was raised about finding a suitable position for our time- honoured town clock. There are, however, plenty of places available where it would be far more ornamental and certainly more useful than it is obstructing the traffic in the middle of our most crowded thorough fare. Probably the best site in the city would be the vacant ground in front of the Central Police Station-we mean that space facing Wyndham Street which has been lying fallow since the great fire of ten years ago. The lawn opposite the office of the Captain Superintendent would perhaps suit equally well, and from both these sites the Clock Tower would occupy a WATSON'S PURE OPAQUE TOILET commanding position and be plainly visible

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the Clock Tower would answer every useful purpose for which it was originally designed and be in nobody's way; and no doubt there are many other places which could easily be pointed out. We are sure that it would give great satisfaction to the community were Governor Dzs Vœux and the Surveyor-General to see their way to carrying out the reform now brought under their notice.

TELEGRAMS

GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

LONDON, October 15th

PISTOLS for two and coffee for one is the intest order in Haiphong. On the 3rd October the editor of the Courrier d'Haiphong, M. Cuers de Cogolia, writing about the scandalous way in which Oberg and others sold arms to the rebels, expressed astonishment at the fact that the Resident of Haiduong should be charged with the holding of a commission in the matter. On the roth October further reference was made to the matter, and on the 12th M. Depince, the Resident in question, sent two of his friends to two of M. Cogolin's friends, and they very politely but bloodthirstily settled the terms. The latest issue of the Courrier coutains all the letters that passed, and the next, we expect, will report which of the duellists got the coffee. His EXCELLENCY CHANG CHIH-TUNG, Viceroy of the Liang Kuang and Acting Futal of Kuang. tung, in his latter capacity has notified t intention of commencing the military examina- tions for the second degree (Military Chu jên) on the morning of the 18 inst. A short time ago we published an Imperial decree appointing Yeu Chit-k'ai, Provincial Treasurer of Kuang lung, to be the Acting Futai so as to relieve the Viceroy of part of his multifarious duties; but as the imperial courier with the autograph decree has not yet arrived (the news of the acting appointment having come to us by telegraph) at Canton, official etiquette forbids the Futai- A PORTUGUESE correspondent writes that it is elect from undertaking the duties of Presiding the intention of the Portuguese community of Examiner, which is a Governor's prerogative.

This should have been as follows:-"No, this data competent Consular Agent, to be sent A STORY of dastardly brutality is to hand you were after me to sell some Sugar sifres for

colony to petition the King of Portugal io -out from Lisban, in order that the interests of his--from-Tientsin,-on-the-part-of-a-colonel-com--you-and-I-told-you that I could get a buyer for fellow-countrymen may be efficiently looked manding one of the disciplined regiments 25 shares for the end of October, and that the after. Some dissatisfaction, it appears, has been sationed at Taku. It appears that one of buyer was I. P. Madar. You told me to make caned by the alleged apathy or indifference of the Colonel's body servants was caught in it so shares instead of 25; I said the man would Mr. A. G. Romano, the present Consul-General. the act of stealing his gold watch, whereupon not buy 50 and you told me to make him sign the but officer immediately ordered that for 50 and go in joint account with him, and COMPLAINTS of sickness are very rife just at one of the culprits eyes should be gouged out that you would not hold anyone responsible for present, head-aches and fever being unusually and the other blinded by the application of ait, and you promised to give me a letter of prevalent. To those feeling" seedy" and who sharp iron instrument. Both orders were at guarantee. After the contract was signed you are not under medical supervision we would once carried out by the other servants, delayed to give me the letter, which I repeatedly strongly recommend Dr. Knerr's anti-pyrine as who were in danger of suffering the same asked you for. On the roth Sept.. I came to a safe and almost certain remedy in even the cruel treatment if they refused. Chinese you for the letter, and you told me that you bad worst cases. We have tried many times and military law sanctions cropping a culprit's car if heard that Madar was worth money and you never yet found it to fail. This valuable his offeace be anything heavier than would be would "stick" him with the go'shares. I fold medicine can be procured at Mesars. Justus fairly met by the application of the bamboo on you that if you "stuck" him with 50 shares Lembke & Cola, who are the sole agents for the fishy part of the calves of his legs: decapita- Madar would hold me responsible for the other

tion Using the third step; but such punishments 25, and that it was not the right way of doing busl are never heard of in the ancient or moderaness. You then said if such was the case you The fact that the French passports of the An-histories of China, and it is to be sincerely hoped had better settle it yourself with me, and you namite women and children who are occasionally that Li Chun-tang will not allow this cowardly "stuck" me for $150. You also told me that I rescued here whilst being kidnapped by Chinese and savage ruffian to go scatheless for an act could deduct brokerage on so shares at the end are apparently regular has been a good deal of a which is a disgrace to the army under the com- of October, when I will take delivery of the mystery to be police. According to the Courrier mandol this enlightened statesman.

remaining 25 shares.”

Your's faithfully, Haiphong it is owing to some fuby business in the bureau at Haiphong, some passports being THE trouble amongst the ten-men at Foschow

J. SAMUEL granted by the, officials without the proper (says the Echo of October 12th) is increasing as Hongkong, 17th October, 1889. guarantee from the Chinese head-men. Officials the season draws to a close. We hear this week seem to be as great a source of trouble in other of five of these ruined men taking refuge in the Colonies as they are in

Kushan monastery, with the intention of spending the remainder of their lives there in preference tareturning to the country to meet their creditors. These men are reported to have possessed con- siderable property in houses and paddy fields at the commencement of this season as well as many thousands of dollars, but all, and more than all, has been lost in the disastrous times they have lately pasted through. Another sad case is reported of a Yenping man parting with his last "chop" of tea at Tis. 15 which had cost him Tls. 35; be committed suicide the same night by swallowing opium. We also hear on good authority that a great many of the teamen have disappeared altogether leaving the last of their tear unrealized in the hands of the Hong- men, fearing to face the end. We have made mention before of the rumoured difficulties of some of the Horg-men, and there in new no doubt that several must break. Such a disastrous end to a tea season was never known since the

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FOUR youths of Canton one day last week went a cricketing-not to play the manly game but to search in the neighboring woods for the lively insect of that name, with the ignoble purpose of gelling up a series of pugilistic encounters between their plucky little captives. Two of the enterprising young rascals were rewarded in a rather unexpected manner by losing their lives through the sting of a poisonous make, which was curled up among a lot of dried leaves and stones under an ancient elm tree, and which being disturbed. by, the two youths in their search for crickets stung them with fatal results,

THE bad weather on Tuesday prevented the boat-race between the officers of the A. and 5. Highlanders and of H.M.S. Mutine from being pulled off, and i will take place to-morrow afternoon, about five o'clock The course will be about one nautical mile, starting from near Keller's Island, and finishing between the Victor Emanuel and the Meance. The crews will be

Rodder, Lieul. Wasey, Lieut. Morrisey, and Capt. Martin (cox); 91st Regt.-Lleats. Thorbum, Grant, and Henderson, Capt. Davidson, and Lieut. Boyd (cox.)

trade was established.

CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS,

POLYTHEISM; PANTHEISM; ATHEISM. IV.

The following amusing account of a supposed law case has been suggested by the wonderful amount of photographic knowledge displayed as a rule by gentlemen of the long robe.

Counsel for Defendant (in an action, say, over defective plates).--Now, siz, how d

did you treat those pintes ?

Plaintiff-Do you mean develop? Counsel (severely). Never mind, Sir, what I mean, I want to get at what you mean. When you took those plates into your dark-room what did you do 2

Plaintiff I developed them-that is, I tried " to develop them,

Counsel. Oh, you tried and how did you try? Plaintiff.—I used pyro and bromide of am- monium with some, and ferrous oxalate with others. In each case the result was failure,

Counsel. Is ferro-oxygen a developer in com mon user

Plaintiff. I beg your pardon, sir, I never heard the name,

In one case of which we happened to be cognisant, where the villagers decided to remove the gods from a temple, and use it for a school-[hesitates about repeating the term. house they had hoped to pay a considerable pro- portion of the expenses of the alterations by the

Counsel (impatiently).—You used it yourself.

silver to be extracted from the hearts of

the late gods. But the simple-minded rustics

were not familiar with the' ways of Chinese

Plaintiff You mean ferrous oxalate? Yes

certainly.

Counsel. And what about the pole and bro. mide of aluminium?'

Plaintiff [hesitating]. The polo and— Counsel. Yes, yes. Yon know what I mean the first mixture you mention. Is it the proper thing to use?

Plaintiff,-Oh, yes. Counsel-Do

journals?

you read the photographic

Plaintiff. Sometimes,

Counsel. Do you know that hydroquinine is recommended ?.

Plaintiff. You mean hydrokinone, I suppose, There are a good many developers in use. There's no rule.

Counsel (baffled)-Ob, there's no rule, and (stoops down and whispers to his Junior)—yes, the ferry-oxygenate, promo

The fudge (gently). The fero-silicate, I think; was the term used by the plaintiff. E.

Counsel (creatly)Well, when you used the

last). Oh, a green fog. Now, let me ask you, something-ate, what did you notice in the Witness.I noticed the presence of green fog Counsel (thinking he has got something at is your dark-raam ventilated

gods, and of those who make them, who are like unto them. For when they came to search for the precious hearts, they were not found right, but consisted simply of lumps of pewter! Cases no doubt occur in which the priests conceal treasures in the images of their gods, and they are matched by correspond ing cases in which the temples are robbed, and the gods either carried off badily pulverised on the spot. Violent treatment of Chinese divinities on the part of those who might be Tava last night's China Mfall under the heading expected to worship them, is by no means "The Typhoon"-"The well known toy unknown, We have heard of an instance in o'clock this morning and sustained some slight involved a priest, and by implication the Buddha damage before it was made fast again." This is which was the occupant of the temple. This god the usual sort of misleading Information on

was summoned to appear before the magistrate! naturally looks for from the Afaiden Libeller, and

and told to kneel, which he failed to do, where is another proof of the assertion that our con- on the magistrate ordered him to be beaten WENG TUNG-HO, Imperial Tutor, Junior Guar Board of Revenue, who applied for and obtained a reliable record of current everits. The toy of a member of the community of Friends, who dian of the Heir Apparent, and President of the temporary is of more use as a wrapper fer that five hundred blows, by which time the god was savoury comestible known as fried fish than as

reduced to a heap of dust, and judgment was pro.. nounced against him by default. There is a story two month's leave of absence from the Throne dredger-the phrase in ours not "Brownie's " last August to repair his ancestral graves at instead of only sustaining some slight damage was stuck on the face by an angry man, to whom Chang Shou, near Soochow, but really to avoid actually sank, after smashing up Mr. Musso

the

Quaker Immediately lamed the other cheek the necessity of giving his opinions as to the wharf Considerably, and is still what under also, which was treated in the same manner. feasibility or otherwise of railways in China, writers, describe as a total loss. When the Upon this the old gentleman remarked to his arrived at Shanghai last week on his way back late Surveyor General's apology for a dradger assallant "Having complied with the Scripture

preking the time month's con hearing first made its appearance in the harbour, we injunction. I now proceed to administer to thee a Counsel. Now, str. I ask you on your oath, expired-and has since taken passage the next had no hesitation in predicting that if it were

Hule wholesome correction," which Introduction: whether it la not possible that the air of the dark. day for Tientsin by the Ching Merchants Co.'s ever exposed to anything like a heavy sea it he followed by a sound beating of bli injudicious room, being moist and warm, and the air outside teamer Hasan.

would inevitably founder. That prediction was opponent. One is reminded of this incident being cold, produced the foggy atmosphere you fulfilled yesterday morning. And, by the way, nearly every year during the season when speak of F BETONE Ma. H. E. Wodehouse this morning where are now the many pretended friends of petitions are incessantly put up to the rain god, Plaintiff (bewildered, and trying to understand at the Police Court, a Sikh constable accused the late Hon. Mr. Price, the signatories of a to exert his powers on the parched earth, which what the learned Counsel in driving at).—I'm aroom-mate, another Sikh, with having attempted certain well remembered testimonial and the cannot be planted until thera in urainfall. After, “not sure, I don't think so, I don't know, I on the night of the 15th lest, to abstract the key other toadies and Langers-on who used to delight Prayers have been long continued, with no did not say anything about a foggy atmosphere, of his box under complainant's bed, with intent to to Row-fat to the talented Jesuit"? Alas administer a little wholesome correction, by words, and so did his lordship.m

result, it is common for the villagers to Counsel. Oh, yes, you did, I took down your steal. Defendant denied the charge, and after for fickle human nature. No amount of abuse dragging the image of Kuas. Ti out of his bearing evidence on both sides, his Worship of Mr. Price and his works seems to be enough temple, and setting him down in the hottest

The Judge. I have on my notes a greet

„da-green- expressed his opinion that the accusation was now-a-days from those who actually fawned on unfounded and dismissed the charge. In the case him when he ruled the destinies of the Public place to be found, that he may know what the in which two other Sikhs were tried yesterday Works Department. Perkaps he deserves it ail, condition of the atmosphere really is at first band, and not by besmay only....... The habit of exhibit. $110 from a comrade home-ward bound, his Worship dismissed the charge on the ground of want of evidence.

Alarm Bell la the Clock Tower. The ing to the Emperor of Germany's toast produced afternoon before Mr. E. Robinson for pillering batifso he equally deserved it when he was here. \ing undisgulord dissallafaction with the behaviour

The coolness displayed by the Czar in respond

present 'linkler! is to be taken over by a marked effect. The prevalent opinion is that Prince Bismark, the feeling of personal coolness at a subsequent meeting with the Emperor and | engendered by the speech had beer removed.

Political relations are improving,

the contractor; and a new one cast in its place of the same size and calibre, of good, sound bell-metal, of good tone, furnished will all the necessary mountings, and fitted in place. So far, so good. Nobody will deny that our present central fire alarm leaves much to be desired; it is, in fact, quite inadequate for the purpose intended, and it is a matter for

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong) BOULANGER.

PARIS, 7th October, General Boulanger has fixed on Jersey as bis place of residence. He has arrived there and will live ilere henceforth.

THE CZAR.

October rith,

rejoicing that the Government authorities; The Car has arrived at Berlin. The Con- efter so many years of solemn cogitation,tinental Freas comment upon the fact that have at last recognised a necessity that has Prince Alexander of Bulgaria left at the same always been apparent to everybody else, time for Munich,

and has been the constant subject of complaint by our local firemen for more than a decade. But surely the Govern

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

AM SAIGON. Mr. Myre de Villers has been elected the deputy for Saigon.

THE following is the Foochow tea export from September 28th to the rath, inst, For London:→→

•

Per Laertes

Per Palinurus Taschenlijs

For Continent of Europe:

Per Palinurus

For United States:

Per Palinurus:

For Hongkong -

Per Palinurus

For Western Australia (vis S'pore).

Pet Palinur

For Canads

Bo Per Port Augusta.

1,145,786 lbs.

,250,244:

21,000 #

5,591

5,875

3,380.n

179.049

For United States

Per Port Augusta

23,515

Echo,

SUREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before Acting Chief Justice Flilding Clarks)

THE KOWLOON. WHARF AND GODOWN

A COMPANY,

the

of the gods, is referred to in the current saying, *If you do not mend the roof of your house in,

third or fourth meen, you will be reviling Lung Wang in the filth moon, or the sixth

We have heard of an instance, in which the people of a large city in China, having been visited by an epidemic of great severity, decided that this was owing to the malevolent influence of a particular divinity of the district Banding Mr. Robinson, instructed by Mr. Bowles, themselves together, precisely as if the god was petitioned, under the Companies' Ordinance of a living bully, they set, upon him, and reduced 1886, on behalf of the Kowloon Wharf and him to his original elements. Of the accuracy Godown Company, for leave to reduce its of this narrative, we have no proofs, except its capital, in accordance with resolutions passed, currency, but that appears to be sufficient in by the shareholders-The petition was not itself. The whole proceeding is not inconsistent opposed, Mr. Robinson briefly outlined the with the Chinese notions about gods and foruralities that had been complied with," "sud | spirits."

TEORISE MONEY AE

asked that day should be fired when the usein view of facts such as those to which we of the words and Reduced "In the Company's have been directing the reader's atten title, could be discontinued one might be most natural for one who

* His lordship granted the petition, and directed

the omission of the woods after the conclusion of | the usual notification by advertisementara

familiar with the Chinese character, to

Plaintiff Few dark rooms are (laughter.) Counsel (triumphantly)-Ifthought not--The day was a cold one, I believe, Plaintiff Yes, fairly cold.

I

fog az

Counsel (exultantly)--Quite so. Be careful, sir. Plaintiff, I am trying to be. The green fog spoke of genomik and,

Counsel. Pray don't argue,

The Judge. Yes, you'd better confine yourell to simply answering the questions of the learned counsel,

Couneli--You hear" what bis" "lordship says? Now, is it not a fact that certain acids give off vapour?relier Women

Plaintiff:-Ob, certainly, but I don't see what that has to do

Counsel (severely)-Answer me, sir. Does not chlorine (whispers to Junior), yes, chlorine acid give off i a greenish gas?

Plantin The vapour of cholorine is green, I believe, but S

Counsel Attend to ime, sir. Will you SFCLI you did not have a bottle of chlorine agid gas in your dark-room improperly corked; and if so would it nor produce the wreen fog you speak of and no injure the plates?

Plaqui have not had any chlorine in my deflo room at all. The fog ↑ spoke of was not in the atmosphere, but on the plate.

not

the

ghe Jodz-A fog on ito plat clearly understand, for it seems to m

inference that it cannot be able that the Chinese have szy zaligion at mich This statemnet