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THE BRITISH ARMY. Mr. Stanhope said he hoped during the coming year to arm all the regulars with manga sine rifles, and that he favoured smokeless powder.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong), FRANCE AND GERMANY.
PARIS, March 7th.
The Chamber has agreed to participate in the Berlin Labour Conference by an almost un
animous vote.
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DAHOMEY.
*March ath.“ The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies has laid before the Chamber a statement of the measures it is proposed to take against Dabomey
(Special to Hongkong "Telegraph) CHINA ASSERTS SUZERAIN RIGHTS OVER COREA.
SEOUL, COREA, 15th. March, 1890. Corea having appointed one Pak Chay Soon
MARCH 18, 1890.
THE.Chinking correspondent of the Shanghai | A SKY Race Meeting, under the auspices of the Mercury writes that large fumbers of refugees, Hongkong Polo Club, will be held on the Race. who have been living on the borders of the course (by kind permission of the Stewards of settlement, are still being sent off to Shantung the Jockey Club) on Saturday the 12th April. by the local officials. Mr. H. Playfair, appointed A programme of seven events has already been British Consul (pro tem), for this port, arrived on arranged and five valuable cups have been the 9th inst, per steamer Fuhwo, and Mr. L. C. presented for prizes. We shall give full parti Hopkins, who has had charge of British interests | culars in an early issue. for the past twelve months, left for Kiuklang this morsing by steamer Peking, carrying the good wishes of the whole of the foreign community It is understood that he will relleva Mr. Allen, British Consul at Klukiang, who leaves for Europe shortly.
IN reply to "Jockey," who writes inquiring as to the actual placed ponies in the Compradores' Cup at the recent Race Meeting, we will write to the clerk of the course on the subject and publish the result. The result as given in this journal, and also in our annual pamphlet, was in ac- cordance with the numbers hoisted after the race, but we have since been informed that this decision was afterwards amended. Of course, it is a matter of considerable importance as regards
the officials could have done was to noilly the press of any alteration from the judge's finding However, we shall doubtless get at the true state of affairs to-morrow,
of
NEAR Sinkiang in the Shensi Province there are, say, a native contemporary, large tracts country which have remained in an uncultivated and desert state for many years past, on account of an absurd idea the people had they were unfil for cultivation. But some time ago the Board of Punishment received permission from the Throne to deport criminals to these districts and see if their labour could not make these neglected lands as fertile and productive, as other districts. The experiment succeeded admirably. Craps of rice, maize, and barley are now smiling where formerly nothing was to be seen but arid lifeless wastes. And best of all, the conduct of the con- vict colony was so exemplary, that the Emperor, at the suggestion of the Board of Punishment,
pardoning their crimes. They will settle permanently in the lands they have thus tilled, and take wives from amongst the women of the Province.
M. BAVIER CHAUFFOUR'S daughter has married Mr. Wiliam Chaplin, an artist's son, at Paris. We are requested to state that the inside course will be open from to-morrow in order to allow ponies to train for the forthcoming Polo Club Races Although no definite decision has yet been arrived at we believe that the whole of the races will be open excepting one" Scurry," which will be confined to polo ponies.
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jostle each other to see their intimat of the softer sex in tights, or even more suggestive attire, at so-called amateur per formances, and they think nothing of appear ingat public receptions and balls almost stripped to the waist in obedience to the arbitrary decrees of fashion, but the notion of their attending a "variety" entertainment is, to use a Shake- aperenn simile, bringing an unhandsome, corse betwixt the wind and their nobility. However, 'the ultra-sensitive members of our local Bras
THE strength of parties in the House of Commonds have no reason to be alarmed on this mons now, as compared with 1866, is shown in particular occasion; Hudson's Surprise Party, if the following table` :—
anything, errs on the sunny side. of sedate 1890,
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madest, nothing in the least suggestive-except- This substantial reduction of the Ministerialing to prurient minds that can make evil out majority it is now less by 32 than it was three of anything and everything-but there is a gains at bye-elections and, by the return to the amount of dramatic ability, some first-rate step- years ago has been brought about by Liberal great deal of musical talent, a considerable Liberal party of five members who were elected dancing, about the best gymnastic business this colony has yet seen, and a couple of bours' wholesome fun that is calculated to make an anchorite rear with laughter. All those who can thoroughly enjoy wit without vulgarity, humour without my double entendre ox coarseness, will spend a pleasant evening at Hudson's Temple of Varieties, where, to quote an old English dramatist, they will hear words
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as Ambassador to the Courts of Europe, the Government, has protested, claiming that such envoy can be despatched only by express per- mission of the Emperor of China.
A NEW ADVISER. General Le Gendre has been appointed Adviser to the Corean Government, wice Judge Denny. China has not approved of the selection. [General Le Gendre is an American citizen of French parentage, who has been many years in Japan-Ed.)
LOCAL AND GENERAL. LATEST advices from Tonquin report a general renewal of the acts of brigandage. HUDSON'S Surprise Party will perform every
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"Se nimble and so full of subtile flame, As that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a lasi,
nresolved to live a fool the rest And then re Ofhia dull life."
The Japan Mail saya:~~The Japan Map Steam- ship Company's steamer Yetches Mars, which left Hakodate on the moming of the 3rd instant for Yokohama, ran on the rocks off Shiriya-saki, a promontory on the north-east coast of the main island. The ship la supposed to be in a danger ous position, bat the extent of the damage is not known. The crew are all safe. --As soon as the news reached, Hakodate, the company's steamer Korio Mard was at once despatched to' carry assistance.--It was afterwords found that Notwithstanding counter-attractions, such as abe was a total loss. Only her mast-heads are the St. Patrick's dance and several privata now visible above water. It is conjectured parties in honour of Ireland's patron saint, the that the rocks which proved disastrous to her Theatre Royal was almost crammed when the are the Rattler Rocks, so called because they 1 curtain rose shortly after nine o'clock and intro- were discovered in a very practical and forcible duced the Surprise Party to a Hongkong audienco manner some twenty odd years ago by H.D.M.S. in the old fashioned Christy Minstrel style. Mr.
of the Yetchin Maru's misfortune. The weather seems to have been clear and fine at the time. A PARIS telegram dated February 7th, informs
A. S. WATSON & CO. Tri night at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, until property to the Jews. Now they are in worse being resolutely repelled, and the house at length Ratiler. Nothing is yet known as to the cause Gilbert was "bones," Mr. Hudson "tamho,"
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Ar the meeting of the Literary Society to-morrow evening, in the City Hall, a paper will be read by Mr. Chesacy Duncan an Corea.
THE Hongkang Schools' Athletic Sports will be held on the Race-course an Wednesday, the 25th inst. Full particulars will be shortly announced. THE Old Mann Fund-Inspector Lee. $3; Mr. Bevan, Public Works Department, $t; Capt. Hoyland, $5 (the first contribution sent. Total up to date-$66.60.
MR. MIDHAM, the engineer for the Electric Co., arrived by the mail last evening. We purpose giving some details of the electric light ing scheme in to-morrow's issue,
AN Emergency Convocation of Victoria Chapter. No. 515. will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland $4.00 Street, this evening, at 8:30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited. CHARLES de Bourbon d'Este Paleologue, Prince 1.25 of Mentone and Montferrat, has failed. He awes £4,000, and has positively not a cent of assets. What price Princes?
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THE Courrier d'Haiphong states that a tele- gram was received from Hanoi on the yth inst. reporting that M. Guiomar, vice-resident at
to
THE Morocco Times of February 4th prints a continuation of its stories about ex-United States Consul William Reed Lewis, in which it tells of an unfortunate Moor who purchased the protec- tion of the American Consulate, and not being able to pay down the price demanded, gave notes on his property with the understanding that he was to have five years' time to pay them in. Within a month after giving the notes he was summoned to Tangier and told that he must Pay or go to jail, and a few days later he was imprisoned and all his property sold. His brothers succeeded in raising money to get him out of prison by mortgaging the family difficulty than ever. The Jews demand money and threaten to take all the property and put all three brothers in prison until the whole debt is paid, together with. all expenses, The Morocco Times says that the only thing to be done save this unfortunate family from ruin and death is for the United States Govern- ment to settle the claims of the Jews and pay all expenses in the matter. They had no manner of right to send a representative here and maintain him in a position to swindle and imprison poor hard-working people. The people who took the poor unfortunate, Moor to Consul Lewis and conducted all the negotiations in the matter were two Jews named Solomon Azogue and Abraham Amselem. The latter is the same who shortly after the incident mentioned above was flagged by order of Consul Lewis and then sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Trus does the Shanghai correspondent of the Kobe Herald" bust the crust" of an apostle of contagious disease One Mr. Dyer, hailing from India, has been bere airing bis notions on the question of social purity. There is reason to fear that he will visit Japan after this. Hecom placently hugs himself as the "best hated man in India, taking, we presume, the violence and extent of the ill-feeling he has caused na a measure of his success and of the righteousness of his cause. It is difficult to imagine that any large number of people can be found to harbour such a feeling as hatred against a man who is the mere expression of one out of a thousand silly crazes possessing the English race. It may be a subject for regret, that with so many ques- tions of importance to humanity unsolved, sa much energy should run to waste in butting against such a stone wall as the Social Evil. Think what a man with Mr. Dyer's energy might do if he put himself on the track of the festive
it in the flank with the mark of cholera and so that unsuspecting people would know question of the personal hygiene of the native races, and persuaded the Chinese that ring wolne and scabies are unnecessary and offensive appendages to the human skin, how thankful many a despairing mistress of native servants would be, to know that they are clean, and not to suspect unthinkable horrors under the flowing robes of her boy and amah ? It is to be hoped that Japan will escape a visit from this gentleman. I am told that he betrays a familiarity with the details and minutia of vice which would be a feather in the cap of a man about town, and disgrace the forecastle of a collier. It is impossible but that he must sometimes sow the seeds in young men's minds of thoughts which they should never know.
A SAICON contemporary reports at length an engagement between native rebels and French troops, at Nam-dinh, Tonquin. A detachment of 75 men were out seeking to disperse the band of Doi Vo, whose very name was terrible enough to make the million inhabitants in the district tremble. The troops, reinforced by 6o more, besieged a house in which the rebels were con cealed. Not a sound betrayed the presence of the immates, until a fire, poured through the loopholes, killed and wounded several of the soldiers. A sanguinary combat, lasting at least three hours and a half, ensued, both sides displaying great courage, the frequent mallies set on fire. When the defending fire ceased, and the place was carried, the corpse of Doi Vo was found inside, the lace charred. The entire band, thirty in number, had been killed. The troops lost three killed, and had as many wounded. But the district, which Dei Vo had devastated for nearly three years, is now tranquil. On Friday the 7th inst., at eleven o'clock, Victor Roque, with his brether Henri, M. J. B. Costa, and an Annamite boy, were liberated from captivity by Luu-ky, the Tonquinese brigand, on payment of the ransom of $50,000, Too pieces of silk, and twelve watches. The exchange was effected in the usual manner among bandi'ti, in the centre of a neutral space 200 paces wide. The ransom filled three chests. The late captives were in better condition than could have been expected. Their hair and beards were long, and their hands still maimed with thumb-screws, but they were not so emaciated as was anticipated, considering that for a month they had been unable to move their arms, and had had to be fed by as if they were infants. They reported that the compradore, Wing-fat-cheong (who is suspected of having instigated the capture) had been beheaded for writing a letter to a mandarin at Canton, in which he gave the names of those members of the band belonging to the Kwang-si province, and recommended that
their "boy.
their families be arrested. By 50 doing he hoped to save the ransom of his party, and make something out of the free- booters. Luu-ky is described as only being about twenty-five years old, and very arrogant through out. The lieutenant of the band, Neo, raised many difficulties before he would bring the captives over, and when at length he did they were overcomic with emotion.
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and Miss Nelly Harvey interlocutress, and the ather three indies, Mesdames A. Clements, Laura Roberts, and Lily Liston, were arrayed in most fetching" costumes, but had not resorted us that Paris continues to be very much excited to burnt cork. Miss May Habgood presided at over the revelations made by Gabrielle Bompard the piano, and of how well she performed her pait of the past taken by Eyraud in the murder of "in the cast" we shall have occasion to speak of the French Marshal Gouffe. Several columns later on. We have neither time nor space to go in are devoted to this celebrated case in each detail through the whole programme, so will only journal, and the editors insist that the police briefly touch on the most salient features. After must by all means and the murderer, in what- an overture, "Excelsior," by the company, in ever part of the United States, he may be which the voices blended well together, Miss hiding. L'Etendard says: The identity of Nelly Harvey sang "The Young Brigade," a who was desig- rubbishy song of the Jingo style, with consider the French gentleman nated yesterday in these col.mns as able effect, eliciting hearty applause from all parts Monsieur X, and who became interested of the house. Miss Harvey does not possess in Gabrielle Bompard in San Francisco, a voice of the first magnitude, but she sings has been discovered. His name is Gueranger, nicely and in good taste, and, taken altogether, and he enjoys general esteem in San Francisco. may be summed up as vay clever little He is a knight of the Legion of Honor and of lady and useful member of the troupe. Mr. many other European orders. He is tall, blonde, Gilbert's comic 1 ! song "Round to me" of very distinguished manners, and is now 40 fetched the audience, but we felt-like-the- years old. Being wealthy, he is devoting his famous mummy in Belzoni's exhibition. That, life to foreign travel. He has visited Burmah, of course, was our lack of appreciation, and India, China and Tonquin. The French Govern- not any want of skill on the part of Mr. Gilbert, ment having intrusted him lately with a mission but if "Round to me" is a comic song why the in Cambodia, fancy induced him to come back sooner we commence on the Psalms of David via the United States, instead of via Aden, and the liveller will it be for the world at large. It Bils accounts for his meeting Gabrielle and was with infinits regret that we could not join in Eyraud in San Francisco. Gueranger, who Miss A. Clements Childhood's happy days," advised Gabrielle Bompard to surrender to especially that antedeluvian Swiss (we can't French justice and brought her back to produce the sounds in print or we would) tra-la-la Paris for that purpose, is very much depressed chorus, but we were again. at fault, as the the now by the fact that her revelations are likely audience applauded uproariously. All to endanger her life, or, at least, to land her in
same Miss Clements is evidently a very smart soubrette, and if she comes right the penitentiary at hard labor for life. Inform ers in France do not enjoy any immunity, and down the footlights the next time she sings, her success will be even more, pro- Gueranger did not know that Gabrielle was, in
nounced than it was last night. Mesdames has allowed herself to be entrapped by the fact, an accomplice of Eyraud. Now that she
Laura Roberts and Lily Linton scored a marked shrewd cross-examining of the prosecuting success in their double song and dance, being.
us in his own inimitable way how to "Skip the Gutter," and, in response to applause that almost brought the house down, gave, in blank, veras of the world from the time of Noah's Ark up to the arrival of the "Dook" of Connaught in Hongkong. The house was convulsed la grippe" reigned triumphant, and our own special commissioner was broken up entirely.
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Quin-hon, and M. Borgaard, acting chancelier, Bacterium, and when he had it in its den, branded THs Duke del Montpensier, who died suddenly Justice, she is in all probability last to the deservedly encored, and then Mr. Hudson told
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SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Justica)
The March Sessions were only two removes from being a "white gloves "function, as will be seen below. The jurors were Messrs. J. D. Logan, J. H. Lewis, J. W. Powell, C. Mooney, F. S. Collins, W., Walker, and C. G. Heimann,
at San Lucas de Barramanda on February 4,world forever. Gabrielle is very anxious to know was born on July 31, 1824, and after being what the papers are saying about her. A few days educated at the College of Henri IV entered ago, as she opened a paper in which the turnkey did good service in Africa in 1844, and was her interview with the Prefect of Police. "Ah, ah," rewarded with the cross of the Legion of Honor. she said, "they're talking about me here, I see." Again in 1845, in the campaign against the "They talk of no one but you," said Inspector Kabyles, he showed bravery and military Juame, who happened to be present. "You are ability. It was in 1846, after a tour of the East, the heroins, the lloress of the day, Gabrielle laughed outright and seemed highly pleased. that he became the hero of "the Spanish mar
The prison life agrees with her. She eats and riages," planned by Louis Philippe. Through
sleeps well, but she dislikes going to bed early, the intrigues of the French monarch he mar
as is the rule in Paris jails. She said to M. Louisa, the sister of Queen Isabella II of Spain. Goron that when Eyraud was in Canada he. ried, on October 10th, 1845, the Infanta Maria
and was appointed Captain-General of the Span- Villeted. In New York he was known as He thereupon became a naturalized Spaniard successively took the names of Labordero and ish army. The marriage created an enormous Vellemaille. In Montreal he manufactured sensation and nearly caused an open rupture liquors and so-called cognacs. between France and England, but the feeling was finally quieted. After the revolution of WHEELOCK & Co.'s Freight Market Report, 1848, which unseated Louis Philippe, the Duke, dated Shanghai, 14th March, says During the with the rest of the Orleans family, took refuge. interval that has elapsed since our last circular in England. Afterward he went to Seville, was issued on 28th ulimo, nothing of importance where he made his home. He received the title
of Infant of Spain, and was made Captain (Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief has occurred in our freight market beyond an advance in rates to London by the P. & O. Co. General of the army. During the stormy and the O. S. S. Co, viz: to jos; and 275. per days which preceded the flight of Queen Isabella ton respectively; the Tientsin ateamers have the Duke was requested by the Premier returned and left again, but business North is Senor Gonzales Braw, to leave the country. He reported dull and consequently cargo for the complied, but before going be renounced bis title, home markets continues scarce. Coasting, gave up his commission the army, and re The war of rates on the Northern and Yangize turned to the Queen the decorations she had lines still exists and there is but little probability conferred on him. After the success of the re- of an carly cessation of hostilities now that the volution the Duke returned to Spain, recognized steamship Kowsking, the greyhound of the the provisional Government, secured leave to the Indo-China Company's fleet, has been with live in Seville, and became a candidate for the drawn from her usual route to enter into vacant throne. He had a fair chance of be competition with the steamers plying on the coming King of Spain until his unfortunate ST. PATRICK'S Day was celebrated in good old Ningpalme have New index-Swatow trade quarrel with his wife's first cousin, Dan. Enrique no settlements been although it is de Bourbon, whom he killed in a duel. The style by the members of the Garrison Staff, who expected that the former port will be open to quarrel was of long standing, but what brought entertained some three hundred of their friends at navigation in about ten days time; for New-it to a head was a letter from Don Enrique a ball in the City Hall last evening. The corridors chwang to Amoy farther charters have been to the Regent, in which he made some bitter and salons were very appropriately and artis effected at rates shewing a decline on settlements reflections on Montpensier. The Duke was so 1.totically decorated, and a most enjoyable pro-last reported. On the Nagasaki-Shanghai route enraged by this letter that he challenged his a drop of 35 cents bas to be noted, brought cousin, and the meeting occurred on March 13th, gramme rendered by the band of the A. and S. 100 Highlanders, dancing being kept up until long about by the excess of tonnage as compared 1870, at the artillery ground near Carabanchel, after conventional hours. The Highlanders with the quantity of coal to be shipped. For three miles from Madrid. The duel was one of a4o purpose celebrating the anniversary of the chief London, uid usual ports of call and Suer the most dramatic of recent times, and it created event of their South African campaign on the Canal-With the exception of the Malls there a European sensation second only to his mar. are no steamers on the berth. The O. S. S. Co. rlage. The two bitter enemies faced'each other 0.402nd April by similar festivities.
steamer Stentor which left Hongkong on 121b at ten paces with pistols. Don Enrique showed 0.50 We are requested by the Secretary to the instant is circulated for despatch on 23rd idem his chivalry by firing bis first shot in the air, and Reception Committee to state that the illumina and she will be followed by the China S. M. S. Montpensier did the same. The Spaniard's tions will take place on the night of Wednesday: S. Co's Ningchow about the end of the month. second shot was evidently aimed to kill, a the 2nd April. As already notified, the Recept For New York, wid usual ports of call and Bucz the bullet passed so close to the Duke's tion Committee invite co-operation in the work
Canal: The Merionethshire sailed hence via right ear that he heard it whizz. He returned of decoration and illumination from all willing Hongkong on the 9th instant. Rate 40s, for tea, the fire, his bullet striking squarely on the butt to help, especially from the owners of buildings are general cargo the berth is now bare of of Enrique's pistol, one half of the bullet, which HUDSON'S SURPRISE PARTY AT therefore we feel no compunction in drawing a situated on the Praya, in Pedder's Street, and in Queen's Road from No. 3 Station to Murray toppage and there are no prospects of another was split in two, glancing on the collar Barracks. The illuminations will be witnessed
steamer being put on before the opening of the of his adversary's coat and the other grazing his new season, Departures for London via Suez left thoulder. Neither bit of lead, however,
"Where be your rhes now! your gumbols! your songs! by the Duke and Duchess of Connaught from
Canal-The Gleafinias via Amoy, and Pall- penetrated the cloth. Then Don Enrique fired your Babes of sortmant, that ware wont to set the table in
roar! the harbour as well as in the town. The general
nurus via Swatow, on 2nd and 9th instant his third shot, but his nerves were evidently effect will be much increased if illumination is carried out by owners of houses on the upper respectively. Quotations are Newchwang to shaken and he missed his mark, Montpensier
Swatow, 26 Mex, cents per picul Nagasaki was far cooler, and his aim was sure and "A first class show was the unanimous ver levels visible from the sea.
to Shanghai, $i.ro per ton of Coal deadly. He put a bullet through Den Enrique's dict of the large audience that thronged the nett, for both steamers and talling vessels, head, and the unfortunate Prince expired Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, to welcome THUS
so the 'return to Hongkong, after an absence of Settlements during the fortnight-Anglo Indian, in three minutes.
that over nine years, of the evergreen Mr. Tommy British barque, 444 tons register, Newchwang to prosteated by contending emotions Foochew, 25 Mex. cents per picul, 16 lay days; he was forced to take to his bed, where Hudson and the talented combination of Sea Swallow, British barque, 332 tons register, a high fever kept him for several days,, A | artistes under his banner popularly known as Newchwang to Amoy, 24 Mex, cent per pleal, month after the duel he was court martialed. 18 lay days; Walter Siegfried, British barque,. The sentence was one month's banishment from 394 tonsregister, Newchwang to Amoy, 25t Mex. Madrid and a fine of $6,000, the latter being cents per picul, 18 lay days; Hideyoshi Maru, in the way of indemnification to Don Enrique's Montpensler's Japanese steamer, 467 tons register, Newchwang family for orders to Amoy, 25 Mex. cents per picul, 7 chances of succeeding to the throne, but he still continued to cherish hopes of being King. Bx lay daya; Newchwang to Kobe, 24 Mex. cents per picul, 15 lay days; Hilda, British barque, years before the duel bis eldest daughter was 306 tons register, Newchwang to Amoy, 271 married to the Count of Paris. He also became Mex. cente per picul, is lay days, disengaged father-in-law of the late King Alfonso of Spain vessel in port. Forph H. Scammell, British by the marriage of his third daughter to the | ship, 1,410 tons register. *:*
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1890,
TELEGRAMS..
THE TROUBLE-IN-SOUTH AFRICA, LONDON, March 15th. Great excitement prevails in Johannesburg, owing to the arrests in connection with the riots. THE VOLUNTEERS.
A motion of Lieutenant-General Sir E. Hamley that the deficiencies in equipment of the Volun- teers and the debts of the corps properly incurred, be refunded to them from the pubile reventes, wie adapted.
a London contemporary: Of the veterans of the Balaclava charge, it is ascertained now that there are five who are paupers. It is not a question of relative, but of actual poverty. A singular scheme has been started for their relief, and a praiseworthy one also. There will be a performance organised at the Empire Theatre, and the proceeds given to found a Cottage Home for these old English worthies, Miss Amy Roselle will recite Tennyson's poem, and for background or scenery the stage will accommodate in their old regimentals these survivors of that wild charge." This may be all very well in its way, but is it creditable to the country that five heroes of the gallant Light, Brigade should in their old age be allowed to besome paupers ?
The Duke Was
Thli duck ended
The next act in the programme came upon us in the light of a great surprise—that is the usual way in which modern novelists ladle out the English language, so we humbly follow suit., Does Miss Colborne Baber in all seriousness the Far East with Hudson's Surprise Party? If Imagine that she can travel incognita throughout eo, she greatly under-rates her own professional reputation and the general experience in the world of music of the audiences she will appear before both here and in Shanghai; and to go further, we will say that this incomprehensible modesty, this no doubt landable desire (from one point of view) to hide one's light under a bushel, must, prove a very serious" draw-back, to the financial success of the tour. Miss Colborne Baber is a vocalist of the bighest class, whore reputation and abilities are almost world renowned, and yet we find Mr. Hudson, one of the cleverest and most far-seeing of business managers, introducing the "Tasmanian Night- ingale" probably the most accomplished operatio artiste the Australasian colonies have yet produced, without any flourish of trumpets, and THE ROW ON THE "FUSHIKI MARU,”
as a simple ballad singer! However, to return to Kilmachi, a Japanese sailor, pleaded not guilty our notice of the performance, Miss Lily C. Baber to an indictment charging him-first with un sang "Old and Young Marie," one of the most lawfully wounding, and secondly with causing charming songs we have ever listened to, as grievous bodily hurt to a Chinese coolie, only a singer in the front rank of the profession on the 20th January-The Attorney-General could have done, and in response to an entbus. prosecuted.—The Japanese crew had a fight with | satic encore very appropriately gave “ Come a lot of cargo coolies, in which the prisoner back to Erio.". Later on in the evening she was stabbed one of his opponents-He was found heard to great advantage in Benedict's The guilty on the second count, and sentenced to bird that came in Spring," and being six months imprisonment.
vociferously recalied, delighted the audience with a most piquant rendering of "Twu ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER. .
within a mile of sweet Edinbore toon," Daniel de Jesus, a young Macaoness, was Miss Baber's voice is a pure soprano of
great charged with causing the death of a Chinaman power and range, she sings with wonderful The Attorney-General prosecuted, and Mr. facility and pleasing execution, her phrasing Pollock defended-The allegation was that the and elecution leave nothing to be dealred, and prisoner, on being asked by the deceased-an her facial expression bespeaks the accomplished old tailor-to pay his bill, pushed him down- artists. We should like to see Miss Baber in stairs, and caused injuries from which he died.her true element legitimate opera, and possibly His lordship directed the Jury to acquit the Mr Hudson may see his way by and bys to do prisoner.
something in that direction. Comparisons aro The Sessions then closed.**
said to be edíóus, but that is merely one of thora antiquated bellels that, without thyme or reason, have been dumbly accepted as truismi. And
comparison between the two rival Australian nightingales-Miss Sherwin and Miss Baber. The former has the fresher voice, but the latter incomparably the more accomplished artistes The second part of the entertainment was composed of "varieties," which we cannot notice in detall to-day, but the songs, duets, and comle sketches were admirable in their way and were warmly applauded. Special reference, however, must be made to Miss May Habgood's rendering on the plane of a fantasia on Scotch airs entitled Abergeldie," Miss Habgood is a brilliant flandrie, with a facile touch and most admirable the "Surprise Party." And with that verdict we execution, and both for this performance and thoroughly and. entirely agree. A more en her accompaniments, which were faultless, the Joyable entertainment has never been witnessed entire audience showed their hearty appreciation. within the historic walls of our Thespian temple. Ouda's trapeze, performance was the grand and that is saying a great deal, The Sur- Anals, and it is not too much to say that this prize Party give what is professionally known talented young gymnast stands far in front of ans "variety ” show, and from this particular anybody in the same line ever seen in Hong- class of entertainment it is quite well known that kong. We won't attempt to describe Ouda's a certain class of play-goers, the whee guid of exhibition-in itself it is worth a Journey to the the colony, the Pharisees of our little social City Hall and twice the cost of admission to ste. world, stand aloof with veiled eyes. Without Smiling commences this evening at 9 o'clock wincing these "prades" and pruriata : will | precisely,
THE CITY HALL.
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