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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1890.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
WEATHER permitting, there will be a game of Polo, at Causeway Bay, at 5.45 p.m., to-morrow. THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s extra steamer Venetia left Bombay for this part 1 p.m. yesterday. Tuk Regimental News publishes a rumour that the gallant gist are going to Mašta nexi March.
WE are informed by the, agents (Mesars. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.) that the steamer Japan left Singapore for this port to-day, and is expected on or about the 26th inst.
Tix Stanley Opera Company performed "She-e" for the third time at the Theatre Royal last night, to a rather thin house, To-night they appear is "Les Cloches de Corneville."
AN energency meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 23rd instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.in. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially
invited.
THE agents (Messrs. Carlowitz & Co.) inform us that the Navigazione Generale Italiana steamer Formida, from Bombay, left Singapore for this port at 5 p.m. yesterday, and may be expected on or about the 25th inst
THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. informs us that the Company's steamer Ancona left Nagasaki for this port at 5 p.m. yesterday. MESSRS. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Hector, from Liverpool, left, Singapore for this port on the afternoon of the 19th inst, and is due on the 21st.
BARRADAS hasn't come yet. The police-officers sent over to Manila to obtain his extradition complain of the dilatoriness of the Spanish officials. We hear from a correspondent that the course most likely to be adopted by the Court will be that of ordering his deportation, on the ground that he has no cedula personal, or warrant of identity. As the British and cannot obtain one now, so he will be put on Portuguese consuls refuse to recognise him he board some steamer leaving for Hongkong, and arrested when outside the three mile limit by the Hongkong officers.
OUR worthy friend the Editor of the Bangkok
allusions to the libel suit pending, in which the
·Times certainly cannot be complimented on the taste he displays in making certain covert
King of Siam is plaintiff and the Editor of the Siam Mercantile Gazette, the rival paper to the Times, defendant, If Mr. Williamese cannot see it for himself, he can safely take our assur ance that the one-sided and pointed extracts he makes from the "Law of Newspaper Libel" are calculated to pejudice the trial so plainly An address will be given by Miss Ackerman, of referred to, and are a sufficient publication con- the American Women's Temperance Union, incerning a case still sub judice to constitute a the Seamen's Reading Room, Sailor's Home, clear contempt of court. It is not journalistic to-morrow evening. The chair will be taken etiquette for the editor of one newspaper to heap at 8 pm by the Rev. A. G. Goldsmith, Seamen's coals of fire on the head of a rival when that Chaplain.
rival is under the ban of the law, before the trial, and especially when the plaintiff, or pro. secutor, is no less a personage tan a crowned king.
NOTWITHSTANDING that the population of New York is rapidly increasing, there has been no increase in the number of drinking places for
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their possession, and first accused each other of being the thief, but afterwards one of them admitted that they all had a hand in the robbery, The first prisoner was acquitted, but the second, who had a bad record, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, the third escaping with eighteen months.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Six onlies were indicted with stealing with violence $480 and some clothing and jewelry from a woman on the 24th ulto. at Tai-ping-shan. This was the case in which an old woman who employed the prisone s to make bean curd was attacked during the night, gagged and bound, and robbed of her money and jewelry, which she kept in a stocking.
against three of the men during the hearing of The Attorney General withdrew the charges the case, and two of the semaining three were found guilty.
His lordship said :-This was a most cowardly and brutal assault, and the only way is to treat you as brutes, and beat you. Each of you will go to penal servitude for seven years, and receive two whippings of twenty strokes each, within the first six months.'
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION, ... ·
{Befors Mr. Justice Wire).
A PREMATURE ENDING,
Leung Ayon sued a contractor for $1,000, for breach of contract in respect to the erection of ten houses at Wanchai. Mr. Webber appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Phillippo (instructed by Mr. Rodyk) defended.
Piointiff, after giving a few details of the matter, put in the contract.
Mr. Phillippo pointed out that it was un- stamped, and could not be admitted as evidence. His lordship, decided that it must first be The stamp originally would have cost fifty cents-the penalty for omission is $roo
threatens to raise a point that will certainly affect trade in China, generally, if allowed to go as at present decreed by His Excellency. Herewith a copy of translation, which I have managed to get hold of for you. Perhaps you may think it worthy of independent publication. Meantime I would beg to call attention to the fact that the Governor now claims the right, to fix a solitary lekin barrier where he likes, and make it do duty as "first barrier for a large area, through which all produce must pass, ro matter from what part of the district it comes. By this means an obstructive official could absolutely nullify the value of transit passes should they be thought inconvenient, and so, of course, have the foreign trader entirely at his mercy! That is precisely flank attack establish the camphor menepaly what the Governor wishes to do here, and by a This is how he does it :-He fixes on a place in his late effort so disastrously failed to ffect. the north, and one in the middle of Formosa. The locality selected, is separated from nearly all the camphor districts by almost impassable: hills and wretched roads." He decrees that all camphor got in these districts must pass these barriers or it will be seized. He has, on the ́strength of this) detained another lot of Menirs. Lauts and Hacsloop's drug which was coming down the old and direct route, and it looks as if there was going to be a row over it! On this occasion Germany will not be the only nationality involved, so it may come about that His Excellency will have a tougher fight then be thinks to defend onc the most audacious breaches of treaty that of has as yet been attempted in China, and that is saying a great deal 1. In a word, it this contention of the Governor's were admitted, then foreigners need not attempt trade in camphor, and of course the same means might easily be used to oust them, not only from Formosa, but from all China! You may judge whether other power Liu would like toget for himself and them, You have the Proclamation; any one that reads it can see what is meant, so I need not trouble you further.
TE invite attention to the following old several years. The report of the Excise Departs A BAREFACED Scamp who unga stall in Graham stamped, and adjourned the case for that purpose. officials would be slow to avail themselves ofthe
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eight less liquor saloons than there were last year, Tue Almanach de Gotha is over a century and a quarter old. When it was first issued, among its collection of sovereignities written up, there were only three republics, Switzerland, San Marino and Andorra, while to-day, cut of its total of fifty-eight States mentioned, twenty-six are.republics.
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THE Bangkos Times learns on good authority. that the libel suit, the King of Siam v. Mr. R. Güte, editor and proprictor of the Siam Mercantile Gazelle, has been definitely set down for hearing on June 24th in the Gesinan Consular Court at Bangkok. We shall probably have a few remarks to make regarding this cause cdfibre,
after the opera is over.
17 was currently rumoured in shipping circles this morning that negotiations had been all but completed between the P. & O, and Pacific Mail Conipanies for the purchase by the former from the latter of the steamship China, now employed On on the Hongkong-San Francisco route inquity we find that the report is a mere canard, neither of the local Agents having heard a single word about any such proposed transfer. THE China -Mail published in its to-day's "Extra"-stated to have been issued at 130 Pm-two Reuter's telegrams which were circulated at 1.45 p.m. yesterday, This is of faith and of con- a direct breach
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dant
yesterday morning, and would have succeeded there been rio "bobby" in the vicinity. He was brought before Mr. Wodehouse this morning and charged with swindling. It was proved that the widow had handed to the defen
ten-dollar note to charge when she tin of tobacco from him, and in purchased exchange he gave her back four dollars and sixy The old lady had not gone far when the discovered the discrepancy in the change, so she returned to the stall and demanded the other five dollars. Much to her surprise and annoy- ance the man denied receiving a ten dollar note at all, and tried in various ways to cheat her out of her money, with the result that he was arrested and is now entering upon a career of three months' hard labour in H.M. Hotel.
one cents.
"BARRADAS"
established at the district city of Changwha will' henceforth be considered the "First Barrier" for inland transit for mid-Formosa. Foreign mer- chants and their employées bringing down camphor or other produce from the interior of the island must, in obedience to this notification, take out a San-lintan from the Customs, which must accompany the goods in transit to the said barrier for Inspection and identification, The San-lieri-tan will then be exchanged for a proceed to Lok hang. At the Lok-bang barrier transit pass and the goods will be allowed to
the pass will be vist, and the goods may then be shipped either south to Anping or north to either Tamsui or Kelung, at which ports, the final barriers are established, and where the half- duty must be paid. Any infringement of these hang or by shipping from any port other than regulations, either by proceeding direct to tok-
North or South, avoiding Changwha and Lok-hang, by taking goods overland either neglecting to exchange the San-lien-tan for a transit pass, will be puntsbed on discovery by the seizure and confiscation. of the goods, and the offenders themselves will be further deal with. No allowances will be made.
THE ADVERTISER'S CHARITY.
Novelists, dramatists, essayists, satirists and lampooners have from time to time made merry over the rich old hunks who, after devoting his whole life to penurious hoarding, miserably adding cent to dollar, penny to pound, frightened slice of his fortune (or at his demise leaves the at the near approach of death, gives some huge whole of it) to some foundling-institution, orphanage, library, hospital, or art-academy. To the best of his ability, throughout the whole of his paltry, pence-accumulating exist- ence, be grinds down the poor and moils and worries about making a fortune. All his days on earth are spent in serving the Mammon of greed and covetousness; and then, at the end of his litle span, becoming terrified at his own heartlessness, selfishness and inhuman isolation, and thinking to square things with God and his conscience (for he now, as the outcome of conscience) he hastens to secure a front-seat in his debilitation and failing mentality, possesses a the celestial orchestra-chairs by donating largely to something or other designated as a "charity." Guy's Hospital, Londen, was founded by such a miser They receive the reward they deserve, speedily forgotten. There is nothing fine, nothing these miserable creatures; they die and are large, nothing truly benevolent about them, They are simply superstitious, and their gifts are merely sops to Cerberus-fines imposed upon their greed by their fears. Shrouds have no pockets," and they give perforce, because they Proclamation issued by Cheng. Prefect of Tai- can take nothing with them. Often they give to Nati, &c., &c., &c., dated April 16th, 1890. spite their relatives; often for post-mortem fame The Prefect has received instructions from the-which they seldom get, for man, universal fool as he is, has generally an admirable nose for a motive.
The savages, lately the objects of the Grand a party of merchants the other day and killed Campaign South, are up again! They attacked
some.
It is said that the authorities do not
.:THE PROCLAMATION.
from Mariin, by the steamship Zafire, to the effect Information has been received bere to-day
that Z. M. Barradas, the Superintendent of the Hongkong Money Order Office, who has been intend to take any steps, ns, in face of the "warted Government, will be surrendered to Inspector secured peace", lately sent up, it would be for some time past by the local glowing reports of "car queat, submission and
kong Folice, as soon as the Spanish authorities say anything about this latest mente! So, no Stanton and Detective MacIver, of the Hong-"inconvenient," as the celestial phrase runs, to in Madrid, who have been communicated with end of bleed, money, and show has been expended by wire, sanction his extradition. It appears that for absolutely nothing, and so it ever is, and, I
fear, ever will be! the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and 'Spain has never been proclaimed in Maila; hence the necessity for special reference to Madrid in this instance. Barradas, we are as sured, does not claim Portuguese protection in 'form; but, even if he had done, it any shape would not have formed a barrier to his extradi-Tantai that on the 6th March, H.E. the Governor tion to the British authorities. The rendition Liu instructed him that the head lekin officials of this absconder, in consequence of the of the Zetin Board in Formosa reported that "He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the formal and strictly courteous deinand of the they bad received a copy of a despatch from the Lord." This was Swift's text for a charity sermon. Hongkong Government, will be merely an act Tsung-li Yamen, which the Yan,en had addressed "If you like the security, down with the dust" of courtesy due to a friendly neighbour,, and to the German Minister, informing him that they added the witty Dean, Herein lies the main it is scarcely within the limits of reasonable proposed writing to the Governor, calling on reason for most alleged benefactions. Love conjecture to suppose that the Spanish Govern him to report fully on the rules governing foreign of humanity, desire to serve one's fellow-men 1 ment will refuse to confirm the decision arrived merchants bringing down produce from up. Nothing of the sort, but a bid for a crown of at by the authorities in Manila to hand over country under transit passes, both as to the pro-glory and lear of the Christian hell i But this Barradaa without question or difficulty,
ducing district and the position of the first typical miser of literature is a thing of the past. barrier, where the passes should be exhibited, and Harpagon is dead, and his epitaph has been of the last barrier at which duty was to be paid, willes. Shakespeare's Shylock and Muliere's the passes in all cases accompanying the produce, "L'Avare" no longer dispense the sacred The Governor was further to communicate with "functions" of " charity." Thomas Guy founds the foreign Consuls, requesting them to instruct no more hospitals, To-day, from his millions, foreign merchants to conform to the rules laid the advertising speculator tosses to the poor down. Orders were to be given 10 the various
a handful or so of gold, and cheaply officials concerned to make inquiries and report, buys a reputation for munificence, beneficence, in order that the question might be further desit and other qualities designated by abstract nouns of Latin origin. Sir Edward Guinness, with, The Board was also to be instructed to points, reporting proceedings in order that further by purveying drink, gives a few thousands
untold and unteliable examine into the question and settle the various amassing
wealth
action might be taken. It appears that as regards Carnegie, the author of Triusis phant Democracy, camphor and other produce brought down south purchases" kudos" by liberality; the papers ncise by foreign merchants from mid-Formosa, the their virtues and grovel amazingly; the givers lekin stations near the Customs at Anping should are advertised-under false pretences. Of their be considered the final barrier.
liberality before they became millionaires, history saith nothing. A truly generous man does not wait for wealth to become charitable,. “Be and lose not the glory of the mile," said old Sir
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY
THE Arab woman, according to an Algiers correspondent, save in rare and pleasant excep- tions, is hardly what the poets and painters have shown us. If she be graceful or beautiful it is extremely difficult to discover it; and she possesses neither of these attractions after she is twenty-five, for she is a wife" at from twelve to fourteen years of age, whatever that station or condition means among the Arabs. All there is about this being to become eastatic over, is that subtle prompting of the poetic fancy which ever, to the male mind peculiarly. blooms like the rose in any soil of apparent coyishness and the gentler sex. The Arab mystery in woman is simply a vacuous, insensate, voicele: s and dreamless human animal, sheeted like the dead in the streets, and dead to the world when within the four windowless walls where the majestic being who owns her keeps her penned, You can make nothing more or less of her. RELIABLE intelligence from Shanghai informs us that Oscar Brandt, who absconded from this tract,, and as it is not the first time the colony a few weeks since to avoid arrest under a į dangers consequent upon.
writ of execution, is now living with his ancient Chinese friend at No. 101 Szechuen Road, police, strong symptoms of insanity of a Shanghai, under the strict surveillance of the dangerous character having suddenly become prominent. We can scarcely say we are sure
feeling pity for the
now poor devil that he tether. He is the only genuine kleptomaniac reached the end of his we have ever known, and the disease in him was of the most pronounced and virulent character-and he couldn't help it. We shall write, Brandt's biography one of these fine morning, doing him ample justice. He was a pretty shady customer, even in his palmiest days, but we have our eagle optic on several local genuises who wouldn't pan out very much Oscar and he bad actually taken out two separate writs against us for $10,000 apiece, for alleged libels, and retained Francis, Q.C., to break us up. How are the mighty fallen!
missionary "rag" has been guilty of the same meanness, we hereby notify the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce that if it occurs again we shall cancel our subscription to these tele- grams and publish them, or not, just as we please. It is a most remarkable thing that the
Rev. Stigginses of the world are the least reliable prized at this result, and we cannot help official balting between two opinions is but foreign vessels lie at anchor. If the foreign charitable before wealth make thee covetous,
of all classes of inen as regards honour, honesty, and fair play.
has
It has leaked out that the reason why the Hongkong Electric Company has not yet started to set up its posts and wires, in order to keep faith with the general public by illuminating portion of the city not later than October
fact next, is attributable to the
that the "powers that be" are racking their scanty brains over the question of reputed over-head lighting" and the alleged very serious consequences, resulting from a possible down-fall of the wires are based upon truth, and we have reason during typhoons. Granting that these whispers for believing they are at least component parts of the whole truth, then this last episode of another contribution to a long list of wearisome lature the laughing-stock of the community. deadlocks which is fast muking our local legis
In reference to this particular subject, the and insinuations of public usual rumours interests being sacrificed to suit private ends have been in circulation, but such need not be seriously considered. It would, however, appear that there is an unwarrantable dead-lock some- where, for we leam that the plans of the Electric Light Company have been for some General, whose failure to grant permission for the setting up of the poles and wires has practically stopped work and is causing grievous annoyance to the welfare of the enterprise, and, of course, a considerable loss of time and money. It will ing of the Company held at the Hongkong Hotel be remembered that at the general meet-
on the 24th ultimo, the Manager promised to have the tight in full swing not later than October of this year; should be fail to carry his
Thomas Browne,
$110
WE regret to hear of the death of Mr, W. H. 1.25 Western, which occurred at the Civil Hospital last night, from what is known as Quarry Bay 1.50 fever. Deceased, who was Senior Warden of the United Service Lodge, recently obtained an appointment at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, at 7.00Quarry Bay, where he was attacked by the fever peculiar to that locality. So deadly and swift is the effect of this: fever, and so many deaths better if put through the crushing mill. Poor weeks past in the hands of the Surveyor reign of Tung-chi, however, an agreement was recognised as being something more than a mere
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are caused by it, that the Chinese employés get double pay as an inducement to stay. For a number of years before his death Mr. Western was a sergeant in the Commissariat Department. The funeral, which took place, this afternoon,
friends.
was attended by a large number of Masons and
At the instance of Captain Jackson, Ip Kan, s 1.00 sailor, was charged at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Wodehouse with maliciously 1.ID and seriously wounding a fireman on board the British steamship Taisang on the goth, ultimo, at Swatow. It appeared in evidence that the 6.75 furiouslar," who war knocking spots out of a boy on board the steamer, objected to the freman 1.00 interfering with a view to saving the youth from the would-be prass-maker with a knife, which savage onslaught, and suddenly turned upon he plunged into the muscular part af bis arm, 100 causing thereby a very severe wound. The
accused set up the defence of justifiable assail 9.40 alleging that the complainant attacked him in the first instance. This excuse wouldn't wash 40 with the magistrate, who jailed him for six weeks
with hard labour,
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It is with infinite regret that we have to record
all
interested in
The advertiser of to-day, however, does not desire to do good for good's sake. He spends a certain amount from a great superflully, and receives a certain return for his expenditure-a return commensurate with the amount spent. He has no desire for post-mortem fame. In his life- time be buys a reputation; he advertises and publisher his goodness in the newspapers at so many thousands per column. Wealth is means of obtaining rich, food, good shelter, rank, men's respect and simulated affection. luxurious repose; it buys power, position, name, Give and you will be praised 1 The advertiser gives and is praised. There is nothing to grumble at only we demand that this sort of thing be pat on its proper footing. Let us have no flummery, no. hollowness, no humbug about the matter. Happened the other day in London a curious thing: a banquet was given by the Smith soap tion," Mr. T. J. Brown, one of the partners, made proprietary. At this great advertising.
#func a speech. He honestly admitted that they were wealthy simply because they advertised. Without
The treaty post of Tamsui comprises the two parts of Ho-bei and Kelung, where the merchant is bringing camphor and other pro duce from the central districts for export from a northern port, the first barrier should be that established in the central districts, and the final barrier either at Kalung or Ho-bei. If the produce is from the northern district and for export thence, then the lekin station at Banka must be considered the first and Kelung ar Ho-bel the last barrier. There is no open port mid-Formosa, and formerly foreign mer- chants did not bring merchandise there. In the made by which foreign merchants were permitted cruntry, paying the Customs duty, and as the to bring down the camphor produced in the bill distance by road between mid-Formosa and the north and south is very considerable, merchants were permitted to make use of the non-treaty port of Lokong, whence they
shipped their cargo: in native boats either north or south, where it was transbipped and exported; but as there were no barriers in those days the half customs the regulations have to be distinctly laid down, duty was often evaded. On the present occasion and it appears that in mid-Formoss the whole of the camphor and other products come from must pass the district city of Chang-wha, had no greater advantage over other soaps than inasmuch as the various branch roads pass not any common or garden soap of them all, that for far from that city. It is, therefore, expedient an expenditure of £106.com per annum in adver watch barrier station should be instituted there tising, his firm received the advantage of a circu- which should serve as the first barrier for mid-lation amongst at least one hundred millions of Formosa, Lokong being the examining barrier, English-speaking people a year. As Smith and in the hill country has not provided himself with were they enabled to sell more cheaply than If the foreign merchant parchasing produce Co. increased their advertising expenditure, so a San-lien-fan the goods will be held as not ever before. This was sincere, but then ́ Mr. Brown claimed some laudation for what he had covered by a pass, and will be confiscated whether they are being conveyed by land or done for the press by advertising. Why? There is no obligation on either side; it is purely a In the case where produce covered by a San business transaction. At the conclusion of the lien-tan, which is not taken with the merchan banquest Messrs. Smith & Co. presented to the discussion as segards Hongkong, seeing that it dise it covers to the first barrier at Chang-wha Newspaper Press Fund rooo guineas, and the will be many decades before our island home" for inspection and identification, and there donation was acknowledged with "deafening becomes covered with a network of heavily exchanged for a transit pass, but is taken to Lok- and long-continued cheer" by the pressmen charged electric wires such as are complained of hang direct, or is taken by land either north or present. Why, again? Because the gift was in New York, London, and other densely south, it will also be held that the regulations nearly double that of any previous single contri- have been broken and the produce" will be | bution to the same und Pshawi The
nothing more.
the death, at Canton, last night, of Mr. Leong On, one of the best known of Hongkong's leading Chinese, and who for something like forty years has been associated, as comprador, with the old Mr. Leong On was 61 years old, and for some and widely known fit of Gibb, Livingston & Co. considerable time past had been in failing health, It was known last week that the end of a busy and useful life was rapidly approaching, and
we have just stated, he joined his Justified to recover from those responsible what the hill districts, and on their way to Lokong the press, he said, Smith's soap would have ancestors last night laden with honours, and having reached a ripe old age. The deceased gentleman was at one time the possenter of great influence over his Chinese compatriots. The faith reposed in his judgment and good luck was so great that he was familiarly known as the "s-map," and until his disastrous failure a few years ago, caused by no fault of his own be jafallible in all matters of business. Like most workers in the world of commerce, Leong On had to face
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promise into effect it will be his bounden duty to publicly explain the delay and, in the interests of shareholders, take whatever steps may be
ever loss may be incurred through their arbitrari-. ness or culpable neglect. That this city has been only too long in semi-darkness and at the mercy; in respect to street lighting, of a powerful clique of gas shareholders, is a notorious fact which will scarcely be contradicted. It is there fore regrettable from every point of view that hind rance rather than help should be the policy of the Government towards the enterprising capitalists who have flaked' a good deal with a view to lighting Hongkong in a manner befitting the As to the question of actual danger, accruing reputed third sca-port in the world,
MAJOR-GENERAL Edwards, before leaving for Loo the North last month on resigning his command, adversity, and he did, lace it like the grand from "overhead lighting." any argument about
Benedictine Maraschino Curaça Herring's Cherry Cordial Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, &c.
The Hongkong Gelegenth
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1890,
TELEGRAMS.
THE LONDON POLICE ON STRIKE. LONDON, June 17th. The London police have given notice of their intention to strike on the zoth inst. if they fall to obtain redress of their pension grievances. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE COMMONS, Mr. Goschen will probably succeed Mr. W.-H. Smith in the Autumn.
THE SILVER BILL
water,
old man he proved himself to be in every lency the Major-General commanding desires to ment of life, and worked himself back into the express bis appreciation of the support he has leading position he had so honorably filled for over a quarter of a century. Mr. Leong On was received from all ranks, especially in regards to
once highly favored as a candidate to represent the arrangements which have recently been carried out for the defence of Hongkong. The Chinese interests in the Legislative Council, but mobilization scheme which giver effect to these his knowledge of the English language was not arrangements would have failed to produce such extenslys, and he had no ambition to glorify populated cities. And as the Company's poles seized and detained in order that the regulations amount was merely the price of an advertisement, excellent results in so short a period if it had himself at the expense of his countrymen, as he always considered that educated men like Mr. not received the cordial co-operation of all con. cerned. The Major-General greatly regrets that Ng Choy and Dr. Ho Kai could far better repre- circumstances have obliged him to resign his sent Chinese rights than members of the old command, but in bidding farewell to the troops, school whose lives had been entirely spent in he assures them that he will always take the deservedly respected than Leong On has yet the colony. No man more widely or more greatest interest in their welfare,
figured in the history of Hongkong.
WE observe, with feelings not altogether unmixed with pleasure, that Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, à legal luminary of some local notoriety, left here for home the afternoon by the French mail. Itis to be hoped (for his own sake) that Matthew John Dunman has gone for good; during a lengthy and
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IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
and wires are to be erected with a view to with- standing the most violent typhoons-the former may be thoroughly carried out.
to have a two inch gas pipe through their cen're The Board requested that their report right and be cemented into four feet of concrete at
be conveyed to the Yamen, &c., &c., &c. From their base-it utterly surpasses comprehension the above the Governor finds that it is right to understand official obstruction fer which there that a barrier should be established at the dis would appear to be no reasonable justification, "First Barrier" in the case of produce, brought trict city of Ching-wha which shall serve as the It is culpable delay in matters such as we now draw attention to that causes us to wonder at down by foreign merchants in Central Formosa; times how much longer the community of Lok.bang to be examining barrier for produce Hongkong will tamely submit, in matters of a taken south for export, and An-ping to be the purely local or Municipal character, to the last barrier, arbitrary rule of a red tape' officialdom that has lang since out-lived its usefulness, Hongkong be left unturned in securing without delay what is the undoubted privilege of every. British community.
laborious career in Hongkong he has amassed (Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief sorely needs a Municipality, and no stone should
a considerable number of shekels, and be will
be wise to take all the enjoyment out of them
he possibly can get Mr. Stephens latest exploft in the law courts was in bucking up agalost Victoria Rex, represented by the Attorney General The United States Senate has voted the Silver of this colony, in one of these extraordinary con- Bill by forty two against twenty five.
Alicts which are not inaptly described by the term "fighting cobwebs." How that will end we don't know; but anyhow, we unite with our learned friend, Mr. Joo. J. Francis, QC, in Germany is proposing to abolish the sugar wishing pid Stephens bon voyage and the best
of good fortune.
bounties.
(From the Comercio.)
THE SUGAR BOUNTIES.
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BURGLARY
Three Chinese were charged with breaking into 44 West Street, on the 25th May, and sealing several dollars and a quantity of jewelry. The jurors sworn were Messrs. J. F. Lemm, J.J. Barros, R. Lang, J. Humby, H. A. Rosario, f. R. do Rosario, and M. J, d'Aquino,-The Attorney. General prosecuted. The prisoners weroarrested in the street at Huogham by a lakong, the day after the robbery, They bad the plunder to
For produce taken north, Ho-bel or Kelung will be the last barrier, but for produce bought in the northern districts for export thence, Banka will be the "First Barrier," and Kelung or Ho-be the last. Whilst authorising these regulations as requested, and giving the necessary orders in connection with them, the Governor is farther: reporting to the Toung-li Yamen, who will inform “SOUTH FORMOSA NEWS.
the Foreign Ministers in order that they may instruct the Convuls, and be is further direct (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
ing the Tao-tai to order the Prefect to take TAI-WAN-700, 10th June. immediate steps for carrying these rules into "The fat is in the fire," and camphor once effect Wherefore, in obedience to the foregoing more becomes a "burning question." Apart | instructions, the Prefect now notifies the mer- from merely local interests, however, a pro- chants and people belonging to the district clamallop just issued by the Governor's orders' | under bis, jurisdiction, that the lekin bater"
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Pullman, the car-maker, always flatters the press and pressmen. When he supplies a Government, or a company, with his cars, he makes certain stipulations for the benefit of thereat immensely, and advertise the clever travelling pressmen. The pressmen chuckle scheme to his heart's content, just as the Roman rabble cheered for any and every emperor who gave them bread and provided them with games. Smith and Pullman have something to sell- soap and railway carriages; Gulness and Carnegie bave something to buy-a reputation forgoodness, or whatever they call it; and they all advertise their various wares in a business fashion, although the buyers are very apt to put the question on a falar footing. What merit have they, anyway? Is the wealth theirs? Yet, if we recognise the right of a mAD to monopolise portion of the earth, above and beyond the needs of his bodily and mental existence on it, we recognise his tight to the whole should he manage to obtain it beneath existing conventional laws of property and of commerce. When a millionaire, a Duke of Westminister, for example, makes millions per annum by neglectlog hii tenantry, by sub-leiting
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