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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1890.
BIRTH.
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At 39, Broadway Road, Shanghai, on the 20th My, the wife of W. H. LUNT, of a son, ..
DEATH. Frowned at Amoy, on the 24th instant, DAVIE, youngest son of the late R. S. Orr, Banker, Helensburgh.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1890,
TELEGRAMS.
STANLEY ON ENGLISH JOURNALISM.
LONDON, May 15th. Stanley, when receiving the freedom of the City at the Guildhall, censured English journalism which he said was the sɔle obstacle in England taking over and settling the Congo and East Africa.
THE SILVER BILL.
May 16th.
The debate on the Silver Bill continues. The general feeling of Congress, notably in the Senate, is in favour of the free coinage of silver
LOCAL TAXATION. The Local Taxation Bill, containing clauses Empowering the County Councils to negotiate the withdrawal of 'publicans' licenses, and to ermpensate the holders, has been passed in the House of Commons by majority of seventy-
three.
TROUBLE IN TURKEY,
May 25th,
Five Turkish officers have assaulted the wife and daughter of the Russian dragoman at Stamboul Russian sailors rescued the ladies and secured their assailants, who are confined In the embassy, and the Russian Ambassador refuses to surrender them.
THE UNITED STATES TARIFF BILL The House of Representatives has voled the tariff bill,
LOSS OF THE "DACCA."
SUEZ, May 19th. The British India Co.'s steamship Dacca ran on the Daedalus reef on the 16th instant and $1.00 sank. The passengers and crew have arrived
at Suez.
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POLITICAL CRISIS IN JAPAN. (Special to W. C. Daily News.)
YOKOHAMA, May 19th. Admiral Viscount Enomoto, Minister of Education, has resigned and is succeeded by 0.60 Mr. Yoshikawa Akimasa, Vice-Minister for Home Affairs; Mr. Iwamura Michitosi, Minister 0.75 of Agriculture and Commerce, has resigned and is succeeded by Mr. Matsu Munemitsu, late Minister to Washington. Count Yamagata relinquishes the posts of Minister President of State and Minister for Home Affairs and is
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THE steamer Straits of Belle Isle, which arrived | WOODYEAR'S CIRCUS at 'still Singapore, per- here to-day from Batoum, brought a consignment forming to good houses.. of 74,000 cases of krosine oll for Messr9 Adamson, Bell & Co.
IT is notified in Saturday's Gazette that Mr. William Cheetham assumed the duties of Executive Engineer in the Public Works depart ment on the 22nd inat,
LIUT. COL. Donald G. Anderson, of the Nor thamptonshire Regiment, baving completed six years' service, as a regimental Lieut. Col., bas been placed on balf-day.
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AT the Harbour Master's office this forenoon,
two Chinamen were fined $2 each for having their cargo boats, which contained kerosene oil, anchored in forbidden quarters.
REUTER wiles to Singapore that Stanley, the notorious African bacher of defenceless niggers, is engaged to marry Miss Dorothy Tennant, lady well known in art circles in London, next July.
MR. David E. Sassoon rode four winners for Messrs. Startseff and Irwin on the first day of the recent Tiensin Race Meeting. During the second and third days he did not have a single winning mount.
1. C. D. Harman, agent of the O. & O. S. S. Lo, inform us that the steamship Garlic, with mis, &c., from San Francisco to the 8th inst, arrived at Yokohama on the 25th insty and left for this port to day,
News) appear to be making a good thing out of THE Chinese at Hankow (says the W. C. Daily the Tea Season. One native told a foreigner that he had invested Tis. 8,000, and expected to realise Tis. 30.000 during the season,
H.M.S. Alacrity left Clefoo for Taku, to pick up Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, who, with Lady and Miss Salmon, had returned from a trip to Peking. The Imperieuse and the Alacrity were under orders to proceed at once to Yokohama.
COLONEL DENEY, United States Minister to China, is now on a tour of inspection of the American consulates, at the treaty ports. He arrived at Shanghai in the Swatara on the tgh inst, and will come south in the old paddle. wheeler Monocacy.
THE U.S.S. Swatara will shortly proceed from Shanghai to Nagasaki to go into dock and replace a defective shaft. It is a noteworthy circumstance that Yankee men-of-war very rarely favor Hongkong with a lengthy, visit | now-a-days. Timer chang, etc..
A NEW Russian tea steamer, the Orel, went up the Yangiste, bound to Hankow, on the 21st inst. This vessel was built in England and is reputed to be able to ste um 18 knots an hour. What are the odds against her beating the Stirling Castle's run from the Red Bucy at Wo sung to Sue: ?
Two Eng'ish boys siling a small boat in the a sulder gust of wind, ard, but for the ti nely harbour, y se dy afternoon, were capsized by asistar ce of a couple fan-launches, there was little chce of their escaping drowning, as the boat was compler ty under water and neither of the boys appeared to be able to swim..
THE agents (Messrs. Carlowitz & Co.) inform us that the Navigazione Generale Italiana steamer Bisagno left Singapore for this port on the 24th inst, and may be expected on or about the gist.
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THAT lying missionary humbug Mr. Alfred S. Dyer, in the Sentinel for May, describes Shanghaias "A"Model" Infidel British Settle ment" Tarring and feathering would do this Christian apostle an infinity of good, and teach him a lesson he appears to stand badly in need of..:
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AT the Singarore Assizes, on the 16th inst., William Norris, ex-Sheriff of the Settlement, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Chief Justice O'Malley, for misappropriating some thousands of dollars which he had received in his efficial capacity. He had lost the money in speculation.
IN the Sunreme Court this afternoon, sitting in Vice-Admiralty, a case in which the owners of the camship Pollux sued the 'owner of a juuk for damages caused in collision last February, was part heard by the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. A. J. Leach represented the plaintiffs, and' Mr. Francis, Q.C., defended. The case was adjourned, until to-morrw.
IN the London Gazette of the and ult. It is notified that the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Cecil Smith, K.C.M.G, now Governor of the Straits Settlements, to be Her Majesty's Consul-General for the territories and Sarawak; and Noel Trevenen. Esq, to be of the British North Borneo Company, Brunei, Her Majesty's Consul for the territories of the British North Borneo Company, Brunel, and Sarawak, to reside at Brunei.
THERE was a dead-heat of four, in a field of six for the Mongol up at the Tientsin Races on the 16th inst., the judge (Mr. A. Leith) being unable to separate Block Prince (Mr. J. M. Dickinson), Plush (Mr. W. H. Forbes), Schlingel (Mr. Heister), and Graf (Mr. W. W. Dikinson). In the run-off Plush, owing to lameness," did not face the starter, and Mr. C. H. Hutchings being substituted for Mr. W. W. Dickinson on Graf, that moke wan cleverly from Black Prince, Mr. Forbes riding the last named. A dead-heat of four, we may remark, is without precedent in the history of the Turf
We regret to read in a home 'paper that Sir Henry Keppel had been confined to his bed in consequence of a danger us fall which he had in Portsmouth Dockyard The veteran Admiral of the Fleet, while walking along the staging under the bow of the Centaur, sinned and fell backwards into the slip way, a dept of reven feet, where he lay insensible for several minutes. He fortunately received no internal injury, but suffered from severe laceration. He was approaching convalescence when the last mail left home, and expected to be able to leave the house in a few days.
A RATHER comical story reaches us, illustrative of Chinese idens. The operations at Gap Rock workmen, controlled by a European. They necessitate the residence of rome three-score built matsheds, and now form quite a little colony. The Chinese fishermen evidently looked on it as an annexation, and got the idea that the European was a mandarin, at least. They therefore sent a deputation to him, asking per
THE E&A. Co's steamer fentnuir, Capt. Hugh Craig will leave here for. Australasian ports at daylight to-morrow.
CHINESE doctors (says the Hospital) are very particular about the distinction being very strictly kept up between physicians and surgeons, and would not tr spars on one another's ground for the world; but this delicacy of feeling has rather a disastrous effect on patients' pockets | sometimes. A Chinese gentleman was struck by an arrow, which remained fast in his body, A surgeon was sent for, and modestly.requesting | 'his fee should be paid in advance, he broke off the protruding bit of arrow, leaving the point cmbedded in the wretched man's body. He refused to extract it, because, said he, medical etiquette forbids its the case is clearly one for physician, since the arrow is inside the body!-- Hospital's leg has been pretty badly pulled.
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WR note from the Japan Gazetta that the Duke and Duchess of Connaught travelled rather as civilians than royal personages during their recent stay in Japan, and the native papers have incidents to relate of the "thrift," as they as pleased to term it-of the Duke. At Nikk, are told, the jinrikisha cool'es engaged by or for the Prince, requested more than the ordinary fare on account of the roads being exceedingly heavy by reason of the continued rain; but the Duke declined to pay above, the usual rates. Again, at Fujiya's Hotel' (Miyanoshita), and the Kalbin-In (Kamakura), the chadai (tea presents), which are usually expected from visitors, were not forthcoming, and beyond a couple of dollars to the proprieter in each case and $1 to each of the maids no gifts were offered by the "Dook."
SUPREME COURT.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice).
A CHARTER-PARTY CASE.
His lordship gave judgment in the case of Leung Ayon v. the Flensburger Steamship Co. --Mr. Francis, Q.C., (instructed by Mr. Wilkin san) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. A. J. Leach (mstructed by Messrs. Wotton & Deacon) defended.
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in the course of the award his lordship said: have been unpaid in respect of the hire of the This is a claim for repayment of monies alleged
defendant's steamship Peniptos and of charges connected with the charter. The plaintiff is admittedly entitled to $34.69 in respect of matiers alleged in paragraph 6 of the petition, and of this amount $103.12 has been brought into Court, leaving $tot 57 due. The plaintiff is further entitled in my opinion, to $118 over and above the $140 paid into Court in respect of the coals and water required for the use of the Capain and crew. In arriving at this amount I allow 4 tons of coal per month and assess the value of the water in reconlance with Captain Anderson's evidence. The matters of claim in the 7th and 8th paragraphs of the petition were withdrawn on the heating, except as to $120 paid into Court. The claim in the trth paragraph, must be totally disallowed, as the defendants in stopping the discharge were within their rights under the charter party unpaid. There remains only the claim arising to long as any of the charter money remained
from the filure to maintain the contract rate of
by the Customs officers on the suspension bridge guaranteed only if Cardiff cool were supplied. MUN LEE, a Chinaman, bustled into Canada speed, viz. 10 to 1: knots on a consumption of from the United Stater, was stopped last month
a1 tons of coal per diem, such rate being. crossing from Clifton, and the Dominion tax of The vessel broke down near Aden on the 4th $50 demanded, which the Celestial was unable June, 1888, and lay in Aden under repairs from The Canadian officers thereupon June toth to August 1st. I am satisfied that at refused to allow the Chinaman to enter the Aden she was supplied with Cardiff conl of country, and sent him back across the bridge to sufficiently good quality, hut on her voyage America. The United States authorities, how thence to Singapore her speed was considerably ever, shut the gates on the pig-tailed wanderer. below that entracted for owing to the fouling of in accordance with the American Chinese her bottom, and from the evidence of the captain exclusion law, and the Chinamn remained it appears that this fouling was due to her walking backwards and forwards across the prolonged stay at Aden, the water at that, bridge, and seems kely to remain there unless he port being specially favourable to the growth throws himself over A later telegram, how ver, of barnacles. I am asked to read into the says: The Chinam who was forced to guaranty of speed a condition that 'He ship's remain on the suspension bride because of his bottom should be clean, but in the face of the inability to pay the entrance fee of $so has at charter party I do not think I can do so. The last been allowed to pass into Canadian terri-parties there provide that the steamer was to be tory."
docked and cleaned whenever required at the. owner's expense, and that no charter money was that the charterer should not oblige the steamer to be payable during the period of cleaning, but
during the charter. I cannot see in this any to go into dock oftener than once in six months absolute undertaking on the part of the char
to pay.
1 reference to the Report of Governor Des Christian Editor of The Friend, a religious ing, Vœux on the moral condition of Hongkong, the cheerfully remarks: "The Friend is not the place in. which to publish the loathsome details which are designed to make manifest the moral achievement' is concerned, and to expose ulter falrity of the Governor's dictum so far as the guilty partnership existing between the
hardly knows how to account for so strange a laudation, except as a result of that moral obliquity that calls evil gond, and good evil; that puts darkness for ligh, and light for darkness. A woe' is pronou ced on those who thus mislead others; but, alael how many of This sort of blasphemous twadd'e is scarcely those who are misted fall into the horrible pit."" calculated to bring local sinners. to the stool of repentance.
British Government and sin in that island. One
clern I think it merely means that he was to terer that the vessel's bottain should be always
ity should reasonably demand, but could not insist up-n the charter being hung up for this purpose more than ence in every six months. The plaintiff is therefore in my opinion entitled to damages for the delay, and I think that these should consist of the charter money for a period equal to the difference between the time the Pembios would have occupied between Aden and Singapore at a uniform rate of to kro's ard value all cost used, in excess of 21 tons for the time she retually occupied, together with the every 240 miles of the distance. If the parties cannot agree as to the amount it must be asurssed by the Registrar. Judgment for plain- tiff Sarg 57 above amount in Court, and for such
be agreed upon. Plaintiffs, general costs of action. Costs of further enquiry, if any, reserved.
allow her to be docked as rccasion and neces-
succeeded by Count Saigo, whose post at the THE Lordin Gazette of the 22nd ults, has the mission to fish in the waters of his territory. He Pondent" in Chile. We used to write it "Chil" | farther sum as teR gistrar may find or as mAY
Admiralty is taken by Viscount Kabayama,
(The accession of Count Saigo to the post of Prime Minister is a triumph for the Satsuma clan, but it is doubtful how long he will be able 1.52 to retain the post-En.].
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THE King of Siam arrived at Penang on the 17th inst."
THE U.S.S; Palos left Shanghal for Nagasaki
on the 21st inst.
THE Italian cruiser Volturno is expected at Singapore from Zanzibar.
HM.S. Portoise returned to Singapore from a cruise through the Straits, on the 16th inst.
H.M.S. Plover, by latest advices from the North, was on service in the Gulf of Pechiii.
MAJOR-GENERAL BARKER, que new Commander. 0.75in-chlef, arrived here yesterday by the English
mail.
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THE tea steamers Glengarry, Glamorganıkire, Moyuna. Mogul and Antenor, were at Hankow t.ro on the 19th inst
THE appointment of Mr. F. A. Cooper to be 0.75 Resident Engineer in the Water and Drainage
department is gazetted.
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1.10 THE Japanese Government, it is sald, have declined to sanction the holding of the proposed "Beauty Show " in Tokyo.
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0.40 THE German war-vessel Leipzig, from Kobe. and the U.S.S. Swatare, from Chefoe, arrived 0.40 at Shanghai on the 20th inst, -0.50
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THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. Informs us that the steamship Tekeras left Sings- Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon, pore for this port at 1 a.m. yesterday. LIQUEURS
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Herring's Cheny Cordial Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, &c.
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The Houghong Tolagongk'a mumbär at the Taliphons Central Exchange in No
MESSRE. Adamson, Bell & Co. inform us that the "Shire liner Hampshire, from New York, left Singapore yesterday morning for this port..
THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending May 25th, are:-Europeans, 951 Chinese, 1,187; total, 1,282.
IT is stated that the Feibo river is getting shallower every day, and in consequence H.M.B. Firebrand has no chance of getting out at present..
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THE silks er the Pacific Mail 5. S. Co.'s steamer | China, hence the 17th ulto, and from Yokohama the 27th alto,, were delivered at New York on the 25th inst.
THE Japan Garille learns that the Japanese Government have contraciet with a Glasgow shipbuilding yard for a new man-of-war on the lines of the Chiyota.
THE steamer Sual, en route from Shanghal to Hankow, ran aground on Rosa Island on the 20th inst. She was towed off by the W. Cores de Vries the following day,
following notification:-Downing-street, April 19. The Qeen has been pleased to g redirec nous for the re-appointment of Phineas Ryrie, Esq., and the appointment of Ho Kai, Esq. barrister-at-law, to be uncfficial members of the Legislative Council of the colony of Hongkong,
THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland ligh landers will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess, this evening, commencing
at 8 o'clock - •
March... Tannhauser",
* Warner, Valse Eramortellen
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„Sullivan. Selection. Condellors" Ari.......Lada di Lamzar Gat".....Donizetti, Selection...... Ermalnie"
...Jakobouki.
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THE Admiralty have given orders for the follow ing ships, which have lately returned home from the China Station, to be paid out of commission: -The Satellite, cruiser; the Espoir, the Cockchafer, and the Merlin, gunbazis. None of the gunboats i be ag-in employed on foreign service, but hite Cockchafer and Espoir will be refitted for coastguard duties.
gravely acceded to their request, with the result that ever since they have pretty regularly sent him tribute in kind out of their takes.
WE are glad to learn that Mr. A. G. Romano, the Portuguese Consul-General. has been exalted by the Portuguese Government to "Carta de Conselheir" of the kingdom of Portugal. His Majesty the King of Portugal granted his sign manual to the warrant for this well-merited decoration last Thursday afternoon, and the telegram conveying the news to the recipient, who for thirty-seven years has served his country on this part of the Far East, arrived here on Saturday. We understand that, next to the Hon. P. Ryrie, Conselheiro Romano is the oldest resident in Hongkong, and has reached the highest civil honor attainable under his Government.
SIX of the members of, the Hongkong Associa- tion competed in the usual monthly "shoot" Police Constable McNab carried off the trophy for the Faki Challenge Cup on Saturday Jast.
a second time, his opponents, excepting Lieut, Carlyle, shewing unusually poor form," as the appended scores shew:---
100 yds, standlog. 4334545 4443554 244448 4314344
We read that the manufacture of Murata rifles for the Japanese Army is being pushed forward with alf op ed at the Koishigawa Arsenal, under the personal superintendence of Colonel Murain, and when these are completed and distributed, the riftes now in use will be supplied to the Army reserve. The range of the Murata rifle is WP Braidwood... sald to be greater than that of the repeating riffen. of France and Germany.
THE N.S.S. Palos and H.M.S Hyacinth had a batting match in the Whangpoo river on the 22nd inst. The Paios was leaving ber moorings to proceed down the river, when the b cama unmanageable and ran into the Britisber. Very little damage down, the Pales lost her bowsprit, Hyacinth unirjured. We wonder if the Yarkee terror of the Eastern Seas was trying the strength of her batte ing ram on the steel-bound hide of the English cruiser!
Ir appears from the proceedings of the Police Court yesterday that Lo Chan, cook of the Lock Hospital, has a neat way of squeez'ng the rice. allowance of the i¬mates of that institution.`Hia. vagaries, however, do not end there, for he was proved to have threatened to poison soms young girls who promised to report him for stealing their chow. Mr. Robinson dropped on the worthy pretty sharply, ordering him to find two sureties in $50 each to be of good behaviour for six months, or in default two months with hard labour. For the lesser offence, squeezing, he was fined six Mexicans. The "Ah Lum" days have gone long ago, as Lo Chan has now found to ble cost.
FC P. McNab Lieut, Carlyle, R A. Gregory T. 0. Callus
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THE N C. Daily News has an "owa corres- in the old days, but the Editor of our Shanghai contemporary bas doubtless been at the recent Missionary palaver and, of course, has picked -up lots of originalities. Anyhow, here is what the Shanghai paper's "very own" has to com- municate on the 7th March -The Diario Oficial (Oficial Gasette) says that a Chilian Consulate in going to be established at Yokohama (span) and the Consul-General, Mr. A Cocq Porter, now at Santiago, will leave in a few days more. The price of nitrate being so low in the English market, the Chilian Government is looking for a market in the Far East, being of opinion that China and Japan may need as much nitrate as Europe. It is generally sup- posed that this measure taken by the Govern- ment will greatly promote the Interests of Chilian trade. A direct line of sailing vessels will be put on to run from. Valparaiso to Yoko hama and vice-vezia,”
THE following is the finding ofthe Marine Court teld at Singapore on the 19th inst. to inquire beard the steamship Borneoon April 27tb, when into the circumstances connected with the fire on on a voyage from Singapore to Bangkok:→
"After considering the evidence the Court is unable to arrive at any definite conclusion as to the cause of the fire.
A SHARE TRANSACTION. .
Mr. H, N Mody aned Mr. C. L. Gorham for $10,500, in respect to a share transaction. Mr. Francis, Q. C, (instructed by Messrs. Wotton and Deacon) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. A. J. Leach, (instincted by Mr. Wilkinson) de- fended.
pleadings. The petition was as follows
Mr. Francis, in opening the case, read the
1. The plaintiff, Homusje Nowrejce Mody, is a broker, residing and carrying on business at Victoria in the colony of Hongkong.
2. The defendant, Charles Leary Gorbam, is a clerk and resistant in the employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and resides at Victoria aforesaid.
plaintiff sold to the defendant and the defendant som of $105 per share too shares in a Company bought from the plaintiff at or for the price or known and registered in Hongkong as H. G. Brown & Co., Limited, and the defendant agreed to take delivery of and pay for the saltshares on the 30th day of June, 1889.
*** On or about the 13th March, 1889 the
4. On the said 30th day of Juge 1889 the
"The Court however considers it probable⠀⠀ that it a rote from careless loading of the cargo inscrip certificates for the wald 100 shares were the main hold during the night previous to the ship leaving Singapore, but there is no direct evidence to that effect.
not issued or ready for delivery, and it was agreed by and between the plaintiff and the defendant that, the plaintiff should carry the said shares "After the fire had once been discovered, the last past and that the defendant should then the defendant until the 31st December now Court considers every credit is due to the Captain, officers, and crew of the ship for their pluck and take up and pay for the same shares at the price perseverance in putting down the fire and bring purchase money $10,gon at the rate of 7 per aforesaid and should further pay interest on the ing the ship safely back to Singapore. Centum per annum from the date of issue of "From the evidence of the chief mate and the such scrip until the said 31st day of December chinchew it appeared that the whole responst- or until payment. bility of taking in and stowing the cargo is left to tally clerks instead of being, as in the opinion of the Court it ought to be, directly under the supervision of the Captain and officers of the ship."
S. LESLIE THORNTON, President, F. WM. FREEMAN, R. Nautical JOSEPH GRAY, N
Assessors, HENRY DINSDALE,
On the stat day of December last the defen. dant was absent from the colony and the said shares were tendered to his brokers or agents who were unable to accept the same, having no
instractions. The shares were again tendered. for acceptance to ibe Defendant on his return to the Colony early in January 1890, but be refused to take up and pay for the same or for any of them
The Plaintiff therefore bumbly prays'-
1. That the Defendant may be ordered to specifically perform his said contract and to lake and pay for the said too shares,
Of in the alternative, that he may be ordered and decreed to pay to the Plotatiff bis damages $10,500.
2. That the Defendant on el'her event may ordered and decreed to pay to the Plain. tiff interest on the said sum of $10,500 from the rst day of July, 1889 at the rate of 7 per ¿centum per annum,
LATEST advices from Edie, according to the Penang Gazelle, show affairs there to be in anything but a satisfactory state. The Achinese are fortifying themselves on the hills round Edie, and are keeping the Dutch at bay. Meanwhile, we hear, the Dutch are waiting for reinforce ments and as they have full command of the port, they are trying bring the Achinese to terms by cutting off their supplies, and refusing to allow any pepper to be exported until affairs have settled down again, Even then a heavy extra export duty will be charged to recoup the Dutch for the expense they have been put to owing to the recent fighting. The action of the Tx Inns of Court have issued Consolidated Dutch in not allowing any pepper to be exported | Regulations this year allowing solicitors to be from Edile will fall hard on the Fenarg merchants, called to the Bar without keeping terms and who have advanced to the Achinese on their eating dinners. There are some conditions,
The solicitor must have! pepper, and were expecting to receive it about however, imposed.
been in practice for five years ; he must remove, his name from the rolls before his admission as THE Straits Timer of the 19th inst, holds forth as a student; he must pass the Bar examinaba 'sarkastically 'as follows:-At a meeting of the tion; he must give at least twelve months Chinese Dargling Syndicate held on Saturday notice of his intention in writing to each of the there was under was under consideration a pro- four Inns of Court and to the Incorporated Law posal to explore the Treasury at an early date, Society, and must produce a certificate signed by and figures were submitted of the number of two members of the Incorp rated Law Society In the Divorce Court last month the case of poods of precious metals supposed to be there, th if he is a fit and proper person to be called to Thatcher v. 2 hatcher and Jacobs was heard. and of the probable cost of arranging for a the Bar, The Masters of the Bench may exempt It was a petition presented by the husband, a few hours of uni terrupted work. Some doubt him from the, Bar preliminary examination, The defendant admits the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd marine engineer, praying for the dissolution of was cast upon the figures given, and it was also
which consists merely of Latin and English paragraphs of the plaintiff's petition,"
a la answer to the 4'h paragraph of the said bis marriage on the ground of the misconduct of suggested that perhaps the safes only held a history, but is often an obstacle to men in his wife with the co-respondent, Mr. Frederick note of the balances, and that the bullion was middle lile,, who are frequently somewhat pelition the defendant saya na fillows - Thatcher said he was a marine engineer, and removed nightly by the Colonial Treasurer's rusty in Lain. The Bar final examination be That on or about the 1st of July 1889, the. way married to the respondent on Sept. 18,187,"boy." Finally, it was agreed to postpone the must pass that however, is not harder than the plaintiff hvritg failed; to deliver the shares in and after that they lived at Forest-lane, Stratford, visit to the Treasury until further particulars had necessary examination for solicitors before accordance with the sal cortice of the gib and continued to do so until last year. He was been obtained and in the meantime it was qualification. Mr. Justice Field, recently raised March 1889 the plaintiff and d-fendant entered ngaged on board one of the steamships of the resolved that the plate should be removed from to the peerage under the title of Lord Ventris, into fresh terms of an agreement for delivery of Glen" line, going to China. On his return Government House at an early date. Much was originally a solicitor. He was admitted to}} the wild shares on in th4h paragraph. men.. fom sea last year he found the respondent disappointment was expressed that the opera- be solicitor when rather older than the average, tioned, upon the condition that on or before. altered in her conduct. He saw the respondent's tons of the Syndicate, although so. silfully being 27 years of age. At az he was called to delivery of the said shares all formalities neces mother, and after that he went in search of carried out, had hitherts yielded so small a proft, the Bar, though he had practised as a special say to chable the Company to carry on business Jacobs, whom he did not know-Hr. Justice but confident hopes were expresied for the future. pleader under the Bar for some years before in the Phlippine Islands should have been The Chairman thanked the police for their then, He took silk when he was 51, and a complied with and that the plaintiff should satisfy Butt: What was Jacobs ?-Mr. Deane :: I am
old, my lord he is connected with some mission courtesy, and the sealer constable present made years later at the age of 63-was, elevated to the defendant the enf ball in the City. Evidence having been given a suitable reply, and concluded by moving the Bench. The late Mr. Justice Malaty also a The objects of the said Comonny according
formerly practierd as a solicitor,
|\so, their memorandum" of "Association; aKO Į his lordship granted a decree nisl with cost vote of thanks to the Chairman,
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3 That the Plaintiff may have his costs of suit and such other relief as the nature of the cup may require.
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