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Intimations. DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMISTS.

AERATED WATES.

Our Plant comprises the latest improvements, and is one of the most complete and efficient ever shipped from England. The Purity of the water is certified by analysis. The construction of the machinery and system of manufacture in the force ensures cleanliness and absence of all contamination in the finished

waters.

The quality of the Soda Water is equal to that of the best English makers.

The Flavour of the syruped waters is equal to any produced in England or abroad.

DAKIN'S AERATED

SARSAPARILLA.

Our make of this popular beverage is not merely a flavoured water, but is prepared with an extract of Sarsaparilla rout manufactured in our own laboratory.

Price, so cents per dozen, ' (Telephone No. 60.)

No. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S 'ROAD CENTRAL,

Hongkong, 14th June, 1890.

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HY APPOINTMENT.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1890.

The Japan Gasetio says that Mr. Tsuruhara Sadakichi has been appointed 'Japanese Consul to Shanghai,

DR. MEDEIROS, Bishop of Macao, left Singapore yesterday for this port by the Messageries Mari- times steamer Melbourne. "TRUE BILL" from the Singapore Free Presse- Burgling is off here for the present. 'Bezzling still an In Hongkong." Right you are, pard. How doth the little busy bee, etc., elo, Wx are informed that Captain S. Asbton, the popular Commodore of the Douglas Company's line, has accepted the Presidency of the British Mercantile Marine Officer's Association, THERE is no truth in the report that the Devil is dead and that his funeral was attended by His Excellency the Administrator and Mr. Attorney-General Goodman-the windy man from Mauritius, 1

AT the Chief Presidency. Magistrates' Court, Calculta, on the 7th inst., E. H. Solomon was remanded, previous to being committed for trial, on the charge of defrauding the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank of Rs. 350,000.

THE steamship Canfa landed about 1200 tons of railway iron at the Associated Wharves, Shanghai, the other day. This is strong evidence that somebody believes in the railways for China, of which we have heard so much lately. SYED MANOMED ALSAGOFF, the well-known Singapore merchant, was on the 16th inst. com- mitted for trial at the Assizes, on a charge of illegally administering drugs to a certain women to cause miscarriage, etc. He was admitted to bail in the sum of $20,000,

Ar the Magistracy this morning, before Mr. Wodehouse, application was made for an adjunct Ncenso for the Marina Hotel of which Mr.

Andrew Foster was registered as manager. There belog no objection the application was granted; THE Douglas Company's steamer Namea reports that very heavy rains were experienced in Foochow last Saturday. At Pagoda Anchorage the ships did not swing to the flood tide, and when the Namos left, rain was still falling in toricats.

THE Peking Garaits of May a5th contains a decree sanctioning the retirement of Yu Chih- kai, Acting-Governor of the Canton province, who has applied to be relieved of this duties on account of ill-health. The Viceroy at Canton is directed to take charge of the vacant post in addition to his own functions. K'ual Te-piao has been transferred to Canton ■ Provincial Treasurer, and Yi Yin-lin is appointed Treasurer for Fukien and Formosa,

THE China Merchants' Companies' Wharf at Cauton is rapidly approaching completion, and in a very few days the Kiangkwan will possess the same advantages la shipping passengers as the opposition steamers. And yet for many years the Steamboat Company and Messrs Butterfield and Swire have been under the impression that they had an undisputed monopoly of wharves in Canton. This only shows that even the great Homer (vulgarly known as "little Mac nods sometimes. But the Chios Merchants may find difficulties in the way after their new wharf is in full swing. Valess rumour lies, which is frequeally the case, the China Mer chants' title strongly resembles that Act of Parlia inent which is traditionally associated with a Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam-carriage and four. Time will show, ship Parthia lelt Vancouver on Saturday after THE remains of the late Marquis Tseng arrived norn, the 21st inst., for Japan, &c. The silk ex at Shanghai by the Hsiny on the 19th inst, Parthia hence on 15th May and from Yokohama

and were conveyed through the Settlement to 29th May, was delivered in New York on the

the Kiangnan Arsenal, where the local officials will pay their respects before the final transfer 19th inst

of the remains to the native place of the

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, MESSsss. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the

Establishro A.D. 1841.

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.

OUR AERATED WATER MANUFACTORY is replete with the best Machinery, embodying all the latest Improvements in the trade. The greatest attention has been paid to appli- ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to secure which we have added a Condenser cap- able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers. Our Sweet Waters casinot, be surpassed anywhere.

The pitrest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.

LARGE BOMBAY

"SODAS"

We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.

COAST, PORT ORDERS.

whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving alter receipt of order.

FOR COAST FORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.

Counterfail Order Books supplied on applica

tion.

Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG" And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.

The following is a List of Waters always

kept ready in Stock

PURE AERATED WATERS

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH, WATER

SELTZER WATER

LITHIA WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE.

No Credit given for bottles that look dirty, or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.

AS. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, Hongkong, China, and Manila.

DEATH.

On the 15th June, drowned, at Malacca, JAMES WOODFORD ERNEST, eldest son of E. W. Birch, aged seven years.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1890.

TELEGRAMS.

THE SILVER BILL

NEW YORK, June 17th.

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The Senate bas voted the Silver Bill by forty. two against twenty-five votes.

[Through the courtesy of a friend who has received a private telegram we ate enable to say that the bill has passed with trifling amendments. Ed, Singapore Free Press).

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

LONDON, June 17th. An Anglo-German Convention has been con cluded by which Germany withdraws all claim to Witu and Somaliland and fo exchange receives the island of Heligoland,

[Heligoland is an island in the North Sea in 7 deg. 51 min, E. long, and 54 deg. 11 mln. lat, and about 25 miles from the mouth of the Elbe. Area, inclusive of the adjacent island termed "Sandy," three-quarters of a square mile.

The population, as taken at the census of 1881, was 2,001, and is now about 2,200, it is the smallest organized British Colony.

Heligoland was surrendered to the British arms in 1807, and formally coded to Great Britain by

THE "Glen" liner Glenearn left Foochow for London on Saturday Inst with a cargo of 2000 tons of tea at the noble rate of 30/- per ton. Three other steamers, representing the "Shire," "Mutual Shippers," and "Blue Funnel" Hines respectively, are under orders to take tea from Fonchow to the metropolis of the Universe," at the uniform rate of 20/- per ton. Tempora mutantur, etc.

TIE day before yesterday a dreadful murder was committed in Chinese territory, just over the frontier at Yaunati. A girl of sixteen had bad ten dollars given to her that day by her uncle, who had just returned from California. The same day three old women living in the same village strangled her for the sake of the money, aspector Mathieson made inquiries, and found that two of the culprits were in custody at Kowloon City, the third having escaped. THR Stanley Opera Company plaved the popular opera bouffe "Paul Jones" at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, to a fairly good house The excellent acting of Mr. Harry Pyne, ably seconded by Mr. W.Driscoll, who would do much better he could introduce a little variety in his business, chiefly contributed to the success- ful result achieved, We don't propose criticising "Faul Jones" in detail at present, but would suggest that it could safely be repeated sametime next week, and in the meanwhile Mr. Stanley might try and secure a stage manager who can instruct his young ladies in the histrio- nic art and in something approaching a decent pronunciation of the English language. And will that throaty tenor (Mr. Packard) kindly leave his eye-glass at home-Spanish naval officers don't wear that article and try and sing from his chest! To-night "Olivette" will be repeated, by request.

A MOST terrible accident occurred in Osaks on the 15th inst. The day was chosen for the launch- ing of the newly built sailing vessel the Dai

·San Seiko-mari, the ceremony being fixed for four p.m. The occasion naturally excited a good deal of interest, and a large crowd assembled About 250 people had crowded on board, but the proprietor, Mr. Kino, who saw the danger of so many being on the vessel, ordered a hundred of them off. The vessel having been decked with bunting, the launch was commenced, and, she began to descend the slips. Unfortunately the ropesused in securing the ship were too short, and as it was cho tide and the current was very strong, shs heeled over to the north, still being on the shoal. The people on board, to the number of about a hundred and fifty, rushed in dismay to the other side, which had the effect of turning her completely over. Cries for belp resounded on all sides, but they were speedily drowned, for all the people were precipitated into the water before help could be rendered. Those on land hastened to give what assistance they could. Boat hooks were used to try, and get the victims of the catastrophe out of the vessel, for some were below when she sank, but their efforts were unavailing, as the water was very deep. Eventually the vessel was pulled to the Chiyosakibashi Bridge by means of ropes, and It was attempted to pump the water out of her, but it was found that there were holes in her bottom, so the efforts were not successful Governor Nishimura having been informed of the catastrophe, rendered all the assistance in his pawer. He and others lent boats to save the lives of those who had managed to keep affoat, and to search for the dead. The latter work is still going on. Fifty-five bodies have been recovered, and four persons who were on | the vessel are missing, zo were also wounded in

the work of rescue.

deceased.

Legislature had deliberately omitted to insert such a 'povci,

Mr. F. W. Cress was then called. He said:- I am the man ger of the Gas Works, and bavi been here three and a half years. We have Rever been assessed on our mains until this year, when Mr. Chapman claimed on the pipe-line. We occupy two Marine lots at Lap-sap-wan, with c

area of 63,000 feet. There are a number of buildings thereon, in connection with the works. The valuation this year—$8,850 is excessive by $3,000, unless the value of the plant is included. We have never been assessed for the land through which our mains run; we bave a right to lay them, free of any charge hut that of repairing the road. The Surveyor- General can stop that right at any time, however. We intended to appeal last year on an assess. ment that was lower by $950, but did not do so,

The Attorney-General, for the Crown, con- tended that it was the duty of the Assessor to include everything of the sort, for the public benefit. The fact that the Company had never paid it before did not protect them from doing so now, as similar concerns did in England.

Mr. A. Chapman, Assessor of Taxes, was then called. He said was appointed in November last, having bad nine years' experience as Assistant Rating Surveyor to the North-Eastern Railway Company in England. I calculated the assessment now in question on the value of the property as set out in the Company's report, but made deductions. For example, the 63,000 feet of land occupied by them I valued at $2.50 per foot, although adjoining land is valued at $3.50. I made other allowances as well. On the figures given by Mr. Cross the assessment should have been higher than the one of which he complains. By the Court-I calculated the rental for the mains at $850, but it should have been $1800

or $2000.

Mr. Francis then closed the case for the appellants, contending that the assessment had been based on the English system, and not under the local Ordinance,

His lordship reserved judgment.

When the Hingsil passed the Taku Forts, the soldiers lined both sides of the river and kept up a fusillade in honour of the deceased

THE BARRADAS "CASE. statesman. On arriving at Woosung, the forts and gunboats fired salutes. · The pro- Last night the steamer Nansing arrived, cession was one of the most imposing of its bringing f om Manik Detective Inspector Stanton kind that has been seen in Shanghai for and Detective Sergeant Melver, who had in their a long time. It took nearly half an hour custody the now notorious Barmadas, the Post in passing, and caused considerable interruption Office clerk and embezzler. They had had him to vehicular traffic on the Bund and Nanking handed over to them on Saturday, at the British Road. There were the usual straggling detach Consulate, after a delay of about a month. He was ments of banner bearers and soldiers, most of then in tears, and said nothing except that the the latter carrying an antiquated gun in artount he had embezzled was less than $46,000. one hand and an umbrella in the other, to keep off On the voyage he stated that he bad lost heavily the rain! There were also a few sailors, inferior in speculation, and that his accounts had been mandarins, trumpeters, etc, and the rear was wrong since 1888. He was in Manila three weeks brought up by a brass band, the funeral car (in the without being even suspected, and his arrest only shape of a huge dragon and borne by 32 men) and took place when, on applying to the Colonial several white sedan chair, which filled the place Secretary there for papers of identity to enable of mourning coaches in a western funeral proces-him to go into the provinces-where he wanted sien. Many tablets and other marks of the to start as a teacher of English-that official deceased statesman's importance were carried, recalled the fact that the Hongkong Government and altogether the show was an imposing one from had wired something about wanting a man of the a Chinese point of view, although to the average same name, and therefore caused him to be foreigner the noise and bustle were more unusual arrested. He had not à cent on him when than pleasant, The remains arrived at the searched, but that may be accounted for by the Kiangnan. Arsenal about noon. A band of fact that his wife had been visiting him daily military musicians played what seem to be during his incarceration. latended for foreign tubes, on foreign instruments, to the best of their ability. The only ship at the Arsenal was just about to leave the dock, but fired three guns as the procession wended its way up to the main entrance. We hear it was intended to deposit the coffin in a building which had been hastily erected out- side the Arsenal for the special purpose. A message, however, was received from the Viceroy at the last moment to the effect that the Mar- chioness would remain near the coffin so as to pay the proper ceremonial observances every day, and as it would be inconvenient for her to pats to and from the official quarters assigned for her use and the proposed new building, the coffin must stand in the large reception hall of the offi- cial quarters. It was accordingly placed in this building with the usual ceremonies observed on such occasions. There seems a certain amount of appropriateness in selecting this place, because it had been used by the Marquis when living, In 1872 he stayed for some days with his father Tang Wen-cheng, and subsequently, before

His Worship-I will remand' it till to-morrow leaving for England as Ambassador, he spent a few weeks in these same quarters, portions of at present-if there is any reason for further which are furnished somewhat after foreign remanding it then, for the purpose of your fashion, and lighted with gas made near the pre-defence, I will do so. Bail will be refused. mises. The Director of the Arsenal being the brother of the widowed Marchioness, and H.E. the Total's wife being the sister of the late Marquis, it is supposed the coffis will remain at the Arsenal for some time before it is removed to the family vaults in the province of Hunan,

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Pulmo Judge.)

AN ASSESSMENT APPEAL

agaist the assessment of their property by the The Hongkong Gas Co., Limited, appealed Eating Authorities.

When brought before Mr. Wodehouse this morning he looked thin and anxings. Melver prosecuted, and in, answer to his Worship said that no charge had as yet been framed. He applied for a remand for a day or two for

that purpose,

His Worship-I suppose the charge will be that Zelludo Maria Barradas, 34, Portuguese, did, on the 22nd March, 1890, and on divers other days between January, 1889, and that date being then employed as clerk, in ore putant service of her Majesty in this Colony, steal divers sums of money, amounting in all to $16,000 or thereabouts, belonging to the Post- master General.

Detective McIver-Yes, that is the charge. He was handed over to us in the British Consulat: His Worship: I will remand the case until to-morrow, subject to any alterations. Have Prisoner-No, I leave everything to my you any questions? counsel. But I would like a remand of two days, if possible.

ANOTHER EMBEZZLEMENT BY A PORTUGUESE,

therefore every Chinese woman living in this Colony who is in the position of a second or third wife or of a concubine, however respectable the parties and however honorably they may be looked on by their neighbours, is living in a state of prostitution.

Under Section 6 of the present Bill any Chinaman who takes any gül under the age of 16 by English computation as second or third wife or as concubine, in accordance with Chinese law and custom,, is guilty of a misde, meanour and on conviction is punishable with two years' imprisonment with hard labour,

The girl's mother and every friend or relative who has act or part in inducing her to go and live with the man is also guilty of a mis demeanour under Section 5 and is punishable in the same way.'

It is useless to plund that the girl was given in marriage, that she was a fully consenting party, that Chinese law and custom recognizes and legitimates such unions. These are no defences, for a Chinese marriage is no marriage, according to the Attorney-General, and of course bo is absolutely correct, if English law in its integrity applies in this colony to the Chinese in their social relations,

"He withdrew from general business with the foreign community after the Honourable East India Company left Canton, and confined him- self exclusively to the house of Messrs. Russell & Co. Through them his foreign business was entirely managed His yearly shipments to Lon- don of those celebrated Chops of Congo, grown on his family estates in the Woo-Ecountry, were well known and appreciated in the English market. His transactions were on very important scale, and he entrusted them to his Canton agents, through whom they were carried out, with the well-merited confidence (which they inspired. They embraced, England, the United States, and India. As another illustration of his generous nature, I may refer lo an affair that took place nearly fifty years ago, in which his orders were not complied with. We had shipped a cargo, principally of raw silk belonging to himself, which he had ordered from the silk country. It was sold at a large profit. His instructions were that the proceeds should be returned in East India Co. bills on Calcutta. To our surprise and his disappointment, the result of the sale' was invested in a cargo of Baitish goods. It was as injudicious an arrange- ment (free trade then beginning) to ship largely Now for the 50 years this Colony has be a in of English manufactures, as his own shipment existence, no attempt has been made to put was sagacious, for but little silk was exported English law in force in such respects at all. The immediately after the op ning of the trade. The Chinese have followed, with the tacit sanction of result showed a difference of many thousand Courts and Governments, their own laws and dollars to his detriment. On the deviation of their own customs-married as they pleased, orders becoming known Houqua was at once had wives and concubines as they pleased-informed that be should not suffer for this breach adopted sons as it suited them. Property has of instructions, and for the loss we would credit. passed frem father to son for the fifty years. bis account. under this dispensation, and no one has ever "The old gentleman replied. "My consider, asked whether the person claiming the property my show you to mello—that is to say, he would of the deceased was a son by a first wife or by think it over and let us know, his decision 'to- adoption. Yet there has been an Official morrow. The following day be was at the office, Administrator whose duty it was to see to those and this was his decision, which he emphasised things and an Attorney General whose duty it was by striking the floor with his cane-Write to to see to the rights of the Crown where there Mr. Cand tell him he must be more careful were no lawful heirs or next of kin. The Gov- la future, must take care. He accepted the ernment has deliberately funked 'the question. woollens, and refused to accept any indemnity. Fxcuse the expression-it is the only one that

'This last chief of the world-renowned 'Co- truly expresses the attitude of the Government Hong,' which ceased with the treaties after an towards that and other kindred questions existence of 130 years, died at Honam on -full of brag and bounce, when there was no September 4, 1843, aged seventy-four, having special need for action-weak, timid, helpless been born in the same year with Napoleon and when the question had to be fairly faced Wellington, 1769." and met. The Courts have deliberately evaded the question of Chinese marriage and hinese seemed necessarily to involve the seulement of adoption. Case after case has arisen that

one point or other, but they have gone off on some side issue and the thing has never been brought to a test.

For services rendered to English subjects în Canton, Houqua was the recipient of various which were most highly appreciated hath by handsome proseals from the British Goverment,

himself and family; and his son, whose death we have just recorded, was always prond to dis- play these princely gifts to the numérovus visitors' There is a case pending now in which a

of all nationalities to his famous mancion and decision seems almost impossible to be avoided, gardens in Honnm. Mr.Ng Chising knew little or yet I doubt if it will come up fairly, that it must nothing of the English language, but was reputed be judicially determined whether adoption is aa thorough master of the Chinese classics, and was in every respect a well-bred and courteous recognisable custom.

gentleman. Houqua the younger will be as much missed by his friends and acquaintances in Canton and Hongkong as his father by the enterprising traders of Canton and Macao forty- seven years ago, and he will be sincerely mourned by a select circle of intimates, Including fr Woo members of our Chinese community. Lin-yuen, Mr. Ho Amei, and other leading

So long as only civil consequences are involved the question may, as His Excellency the Acting Governor said, be safely left to the Courts, but when what is a recognised Chinese custom cames. to be declared a crime, for which a man is liable to be punished with two years' imprisonment serious, and the Government, the Legislature and hard labour, the question is much more must formally declare itself and say distinctly whether that which has hitherto been subjected to no law is to become criminal. To pass the ordinance in its present form without a formal declaration on the subject would be a crime.

Blackmailing is a common practice among the Chinese-very common. Witness the cases in the Police Court arising out of the old ordinances relating to kidnapping. Think of a respectable Chinese merchant who, relying on the sanction given by the Government for the last 50 years to Chinese usages, takes as his second wife a respectable young girl under 16 years of age, being blackmailed by some scoundrel, or charged with the full consent of her parents and relations, at the Police Court under section 6 of this Bill. Once charged he is absolutely defenceless, if the Attorney General's view of the low is correct, and must be convicted. What a scandal!

The Chinese were publicly and formally in vited to come and settle here under a promise respected. That proclamation was never that their laws, customs and religions should be formally repealed or revoked. It was only re pealed, il repealed or withdrawn, by implication, when the ordinance introducing English law was passed and proclaimed. For fifty years Chinese religions, Chinese customs, Chinese law, so far the succession to property, has been in full as it regulated the inner life of the Chinese and operation with the full knowledge and consent of the Government.

If the Government is now to go back upon that fifty years and upon all it has sanctioned, then it must make up its mind and say so in express terms, and face the anger, of the Chinese popula- tion and their righteous indignation.

JNO. J. FRANCIS.

-STRIKE OF FOREIGN CON-

STABLES AT SHANGHAI,

ཡོན་

For some time past the man forming the last addition to the Municipal Police Furce Eave been ngitating to be allowed to remit half their ony home on the same terms ng previously arrived members of the force. The Council allowed some of the latter men to remit home through them at the rate of 3/9 per dullar, a concession that has been refusent the new men, although The men say that they did not know when they they petitioned the Council for this privilege. were in England that the privilege, as regards remitting at a certain rate, was enjoyed by the other men, otherwise they would have insisted on being equally favoured. They also say that they were handed a slip of paper in England, setting forth, among other things, that their fand would them $15. They also state that they did not not cost more than $roa month, whereas it costs sign their agreements till they came to Shanghal, and that there are clauzes in it which they never would have signed bad a copy of the agreement been shown them in England. Under these circumstances nine of thent, went on sifike on

Wednesday night, and several others were ex-

pected to join them. The Watch. Committee seat for the mea yesterday morning, but as the men were requested to go in one by one, they declined the invitation, especially as the Watch Committee had refused their demands on Tuesday. There is no question, that as far as their actual The epidemic of Portuguese--or ought we to

rights go, the men have not got a leg to stand say to say Macanese rascality is still raging.

on, as the Council have acted fully up to the By reliable advices from Manila we learn that If without formal proclamation by the Govern-agreements made with them; but the misfortune 1. Jorge, a clerk in the employ of the Banco ment that Chinere marriages are illegal, and is that these agreements contain no penal clause, Español Filipino-a cousin, we believe, of nothing better than prostitution, any man is and all the Council con do is to dismiss the Gabriel Jorge, who was sentenced the other day convicted and punished for taking a second wife strikers, which is no punishment to them. A to fifteen months Imprisonment the local or a concubine under 16, or even prosecuted, it special meeting of the Council was heid at 4 Criminal Sessions-has been arrested on a will be a public scandal. and disgrace-the. p.m. yesterday, at which it was decided that charge of forgery, the amount being stated at administration of injustice, not of justice. Captain McEuen should to form the strikers that

Yours truly, the modest trifle of $25,500. It appears

if they agreed to return to daty their action were cashed' at the

should be overlooked, and the Council would Bank, aggregating the amount that certain cheque

named, Hongkong, 24th June, 1890.

undertake to investigate the whole question which on investigation proved to be forgeries,

before the next ratepayers' meeting; bat if Mr. Francis, instructed by Mr. Bowles, and the crime was eventually traced to Jorge, DEATH OF A NOTABLE CHINESE. they refured these terms they would be at appeared for the appellants, the Attorney General who has accordingly been carefully looked after

once dismissed. There is, no doubt that the (Mr. W. M. Goodman), instructed by Mr. Johnson, e 18th inst, states that some days before the treaty times with the Hongkong and China of more than a pretest, and that the real dissatis by the Spanish authorities. The Comercio of Another link binding the old Canton of ante- complaint about the rate of exchange is not much representing the Government,

Mr. Francis, in opening the case for the Banke authorities received a letter purporting to to-day was snapped asunder the other week, faction is with the present rate of pay, with which appellants, said there were three grounds upon come from a prominent firm in Manila, asking when Mr. Ng Chi-sing, better known as Houqua, the men have been more or less discontented which the appeal was based. The case arose for a new cheque book, to be given to the bearer passed over to the great majority in his splendid ever since the reorganisation of the force. They from the fact that for the first time in the history of the letter. No suspicions being aroused, the mansion at Honam, at the comparatively early age serve now six hours a day; and Captain McEuen, of the colony an attempt had been made to request was complied with. On the 16th inst. of 55 years. Mr. Ng was the son of that historica! We understand, suggested some time ago that We publish in another column a very able letter assess rates upon the Gas Company's mains, two of the cheques were brought by the sarse character Hauqua, who more than half a century they should be on service eight hours and receive from the pen of Mr. Jne. J. Frar cis, QC, on the In order to show how the law should read upon person, one being filled in for $10,200, and the ago was the principal member of the unique tacis instead of dollars, which the men would subj.ct introduced in the Legislative Council the the subject he would ask his lordship to suppose other for $15,300. Everything appearing to be corporation in Canton known as the Co-Hong, uke, Captain McEuen also suggested a silding other day regarding Chinese concubines, eis., for a moment what the result would be if Mr, regular, they were paid in silver, the only objec- through whom the whole of the foreign trade scale of pay, which would give the men soine etc. Our views, and they are those of an Cross, the Company's manager, had just arrived tion offered being to the inconvenience of the was transacted in the old Factory days, when thlog to work for; and the public will hear with On the 17th the firm whose the East India Company was still a power in satisfaction that these suggestions have been old China haud," practically agree with those of in this colony with all the necessary machinery arrangement. the learned QC, and when we deal with the for starting gas-works, and selected, upon arrival, name had been forced received an anonymous the land, and Hongkong was a terra incognita. taken into serious consideration by the Watch question at length, as we propose doing in a day the present site occupied by the Company at letter, tolling them what had occurred, who had Houqua's wealth was said to reach a fabulous Committee.

The communication made to the men by or two, we shall have the painful duty of pointing the extreme western end of the Prays What done it, and where the money was. They at amount, and it is recorded that, when Canton out to Mr. Administrator Fleming and Attorney would the owners charge him for that site with once communicated with the Authorities and was threatened with attack in May, 1841, by the Captain McEuen last night was debated by the General Goodman that the sooner they drop the buildings thereon? No matter what figure they the Bank, and the house fodicated was visited. British forces under Sir Hugh Gough, who had strikers, and they ultimately asked to be allowed Colonial Office dictatorial style they have assumed charged, and it was reasonable to conclude that In an iron chest were found twenty bags con- taken up a position on the heights north of the to defer their answer until 11 x.m. to-day, na as their recognised policy in Hongkong, the easier they would charge no more than the proper taining $1,000 each; $900 more in a bag on the city, a ransom of six millions of dollars was levied they wish to consult the British Consul General will be the cropper" they are bound to come market value of the property, the price table, being part of a sum of $1,000 generously on the city, of which the great Co-Horg merchant before finally replying: The Council's terms in the near future. Mr. Fleming, notwith paid-its current market value-would be the given to the landlord; and 3200 in notes, consjbuted no less than eleven hundred thousand are quite reasonable, and it is to be hoped that standing blunders which will not easily be sum assessable. At one time the Company $1,700 mars were found hidden in the barrel of dollars. On another occasion Hoagua was the men will accept them, as their diamjsza! got over, appears to be a well-meaning and was charged upon $5,000, and of late years upon a musket. A young man-presumably Jorge, mulcted to the tane of a milijon dollars on the means a lorg to the ratepayers of about fifty The main island is a red sandstone cliff about best for the interests he has been specia850, which latter, owing to the ephavced'| although no name is given-two men, two requisition of the Viceroy, 10 pay off the debts pounds sterling a man.

sensible man, who is desirous of doing his

value of property in this colony, was probably women, and two native youngsters, were of three members of the Co-Hong to foreigners.

and to sent out to guard and conserve. Mr. Goodman, correct, and it was possible that no question arrested. on the other hand, is a long-winded twaddler would have been raised about it this year had not of the social purity style, who altogether mis the Government tried to assess on the Companyia understands public feeling and public infidence mains. Any land, with or without buildings, was In Hongkong. He will have to be taught. considered as a separate tenement in a strictly legal And might we be permitted to ask Mr. J. J. sense. Bat'as regarded the Gas Company they Keswick and Mr. C. P. Chater, who voted simply had the right conceded to them by the against their colleagues the other day, to cars Government to lay down pipes. This did not fully read over the "Protection" "Ordinance partake of the nature of an easement in any bfore the next meeting of Council. We shape or form. The mere right to lay down SIR, Will you permit me through your don't believe that either one of these worthy pipes did not constitute a bolding, and the columns to protest formally and publicly against gentlemen knew what he was vollng for, And Company could not be considered as the way in which the Attorney General and the will Mr. Jno. J. Francis, QC, the next time he holders of the land through which the maius Legislative Council seem inclined to treat the very wants anything printed in our widely circulated passed. No one would give ten cents for grave question raised by Dr. Ha Kal in connec paper, send us his "copy" before 6.30 p.m. the company's business if it were shown that on with the Bill before the Council' yesterday when we

its mains down in any part of the Colony, protection of women and girls..

By the law of England, which the Attorney The Government had no more right to'asicas on the property of the Company, theland through General prodalma to be the law in this Colóny, which its mains passed, than it þad to charge affecting the Chinese as well as the Europeans, taxes upon wharts and piers. Easements were not all connection between a man and a woman to be taxed unless power to do so was expressly otherwise than in marriage in prostitution,

English law, he says, recognises neither contained in the Ordinance, and as no such power was contained therein it was evident that the polygamy nor concubinage in any shape or form,

Denmark in the treaty of Kiel, 1814. ·

It was formerly much larger than it now is, in fact the two islands, now nearly mile, spart formed one up to 1720, when a storm separated them. It is of Sandy Island that the sea bath ing, perhaps the finest in, the world, takes place.

170 feet high, with (but in one spot) inaccessible mides])

(From the Diario) SPAIN.

MADRID, June 17th. Cholera has broken out in five towns in Valencia, and many deaths have occurred.

Yellow fever has developed itself in Malaga.

THE "PERAL"

Isaac Peral, the inventor of the submarine boat, has been granted a title arid $100,000.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. OWING to extreme pressure on our news' columas, some interesting correspondence and other items have unavoidably been held over. CAPTAIN JOHN P. ROBERTS, according to latest advices from the North, has left Shanghai under Instructions from the Insurance Companies, with all the necessary appliances for salving the cargo of the wrecked teamer Yangiiss.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessarily sudorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents In this columu).

THE RECOGNITION OF CHINESE MARRIAGES. TO THE EDITOR OF THONGKONG TELEGRAF

For the following references to this Chinese worthy, we are indebted to the author of that most fnteresting work, The Fan-Kwae at Canton before Treaty days":-

"The amount of Houqua's fortune was free quently a sul ject of debate; but on one occasion, in referring to it in connection with his various investments in rice fields, dwellings, shops, and the banking establishments known as shroffs, and including his American and English ship ments, be estimated it, in 1934, at twenty-six millions of dollars. Assuming the purchasing power of money at that time as being but twice greater than at the present day, it would now represent a sum of $5,000 000. He was a per style of living) from choice and from being of á feeble frame of body, His generosity wat boundless, and in accounts he was singularly methodical and precise, never multiplying them beyond" what was absolutely necessary. The two or three, rooms which he occupied during hours of business in bis vast regulated Hong were furnished with simplicity seiz

LATE TELEGRAMS,

BUCHAREST, May 29th. The court-martial which assembled to try the Roumanian soldiers charged with the murder of the seaman Page, of H.M.S. Cockatrice, at Kustendje, have acquitted the nerused.

The British residents in that city and here are Indignant at the miscarriage of Justice,

PARIS, May 29th. Fifteen Nibilists have been arrested in Paris with a score of bombs in their possession,

These, with others, are afro charged with being concerned in an extensive and widely ramified

hand

were actually. In press-otherwise it did not possess the right, free of taxes, to jay to consolidate and amend the law relating to the son of remarkably frugal habits (as regards his plot against the Czar Soria, May 30th,

we shall be awfully sorry to have to. Accijng to print the learned counsel's vices. He an old journalist, and knows quite well that in sending his letter to the China Mail (an evening paper) about tiffin time, and to the Hongkong Telegraph-published at 5.30-six, hours later, he was firinging a universally recognised rule of journalistic etiqueta,

The Bulgarian State trials-are now concluded. Major Panítsa has been sentenced to death, and will suffer the extreme pamity unteus, ag - is expected, Frince Ferdinand commutes it to fifteen years Imprisonment,una enfor

The Ramlie Agent Kalobheff has been sen tended to nine years' imprisonment; Armandefi