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Intimations.

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Is cooling, refreshing, and Invigorating, It relieves all stomach derangements.

It relieves headache and sickness.

It allays febrilo symptoms.

It quenches thirst."

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Is of special benefit to those suffering from the Enervating Effects of the climate.

$1.50 per Bottle,'

DAKIN'S VIN DE QUINQUINA. This Wine will be found of great value as a Tonic in all cases where the system is depressed of where there is the slightest tendency to Malaria or Climatic Debllity.

It is prepared from the true Bark in combina. tion with our Finest Port Wine, and is un admirable form of administering at the same time the appetizing properties of the Bark with the strengthening qualities of the Port.

Price, $1.50 per Bottle.

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Hongkong, 30th June, 1890

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890.

The indefatigable services of Acting Sergeant Haddon, of the detective force, have met with recognition by the "powers that be," who to-day proniated him to full Sergeant.

THE Czarina--Oh, my dearovitch, does it not make your heartovsky beat with pridesky to think what a beautifolevitch country our own Russin is? The Czar-No, sweetesky, I do not lovesky Russia, Would you know what I thinksky of it "Yes, my petsky, What do you think of it It - bomb-inable !"

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THE following copy of a letter from His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, on the record of drills and the report of the annual gun practice for the season, 1889-90, has been circulated for the information of the members of the Hongkong Artillery Volunteers, by Acting Commandant McCallum

MILITARY SICRETARY'S OFFICE,

Hongkong 7th July, 1890. SIR-1 am directed by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1097, of the and ilimo, with enclosures, therewith returned, and to request that you will inform His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, that His Excellency Major-General G. Digby Barker, C. has perused the record and reports with much satisfaction, and invites attention to the satisfactory report made thereon by the Officer Commanding Royal Artillery. His Excellency considers that the results reflect great credit on the Hongkong Volunteers.

(Signed) DIGBY H. BARKER, Lieut., A.D.C. | The Hon. The Acting Colonial Secretary,

A CASE of self-immolation by a young woman of 24 years of age took place on the 3rd instant at a village called Ngi-su, about to miles distant

from Nantai. The facts that have come to our knowledge, concerning the brutal act, says the Foochow Echo, are that, in consequence of ber February last, she being childless, and having A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. husband having died of leprosy about the 17th no one except distant relatives to depend upon ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

for support, she had no other alternative but to take this step of self-sacrifice. The Chinese 'consider it a matter of great virtue in a woman MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED

who puts an end to her life in this manner. WATERS.

Several invitations to dinner in grand style were given her, which she gladly accepted and partook of with great joy, as if nothing was to happen in the sequel. After the feast she willingly ascended the stage expressly. built for the purpose, where the elders of the village came to kowtow each three times before her just in the same manner as if she were a Jess, after this a signal, by firing off a gun, was given that she might accomplish her purpose. As soon as the gun was fired she ascended the scaffold, with her hands unpinioned, and strangled herself. Her body was placed in the coffin, duly prepared beforehand. We are told that the Emperor will grant a tablet extolling the virtue of any woman who has died in this way as soon as the Viceroy represents the case to him...

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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 sixe.

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FOR COAST PORTS, 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.

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THE report of the Director of the New Oriental Was hear that Mr. George Ramsey, late of the Bank Corporation, Limited, held on the 3rd inst. E. and A. Ca's steamship Airlie, has been at 40 Threadneedle Street, London, states: Inappalated chief officer of the C. N. Co.'s Austra submitting to the Shareholders the sixth annual lian liner 7'sinan, balance sheet, and statement of Profit and Loss for the year ended 31st March, 1890, SERGEANT EUANSON, of Yaumati, who has been the Directors have pleasure in being again eight years in the Force, has received the able

to shew a satisfactory result of the apointment of Tospector of Nuisances, vice Bank's operations. After payment of working. Wylie deceased. expenses, interest, income-tax, rebate, exchange on foreign assets, and making full provision

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THE phenomenal rise in the value of the dollar, due to the American Silver Bill, has had one

these effect-it has busted the sale of the local Exchange Tables, which only run up to 3/61.

WE are courteously informed by Capt. H. N. Andersen, special agent of the Siamese Govern ment, that he received a telegram from Bangkok yesterday conveying the inteligence that there are good reasons for believing that the Ferairt, the steam yacht of H.M. the King of Siam, will soon be raised, and that a new party of salvors had started for the scene of the wreck.

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A MEMBER of the "Amalgamated Association of Earring-anatchers and Burglars" was up before Mr. Robinson at the Police Court this afternoon and charged with stealing bangle off the arm of a child, which the mother was carrying in Queen's Road Central yesterday" afternoon. In defence the rascal pleaded that he "picked it up," an excuse far too "thin" for the magistrate, who failed him for six months with bard labour.

for bad and doubtful debts, the nett profit Ir is probable that the sale of the Filipinas has (including 2,511 128, 118, brought forward) | been concluded, as a Bangkok captain in the amounts to £62,440 169 48. An Interim dividend employ of the Government has been telegraphed of 6s. per share, being at the rate of 6 per cent. for, to take her over. per annum, for the half-year ended 30th September, 1889, was paid, free of income tax, in January last, and the Board now recommend further dividend of six shillings per share, being at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, also free of income tax, for the half-year ended 31st March last, the same to be paid on the 16th July. They also recommend that all dividends payable at the Branches be paid free of local income tax. His Excellency the Viceroy has get into trouble with the Ningpo junk owners, according to the Foochow Echo. It originated in his ordering an extra charge to be levied besides the usual tonnage dues which have been paid since the Deluge. The junk owners upon receipt of His Excellency intimation, held a meeting at the Nixpo Joss bouse, to decide what steps should be taken, and to send a joint reply the Viceroy. Accordingly, the meeting took place on the appointed day, and it was unanimously decided that they not caly firmly repudiated the absurd intended extra impost, but that the immense trade between Ningpo and Foochow should be stopped in foto if His Excellency persisted in levying the extra charge. Up to date no reply has been made nor steps taken to carry the new squeen into EXTRACT from an inspired article in the China but from what we hear, the Viceroy has

to the owners of the junks, Mail of the 24th April, re the Hongkong Land had to give and retreat from the step he so unadvisedly Investment Company "Truly the directors are in a sorry muddle, They seem to admit did not ponder maturely over his action before that they cannot expect to get fair profits under took. It is much to be regretted that the Viceroy putting it into execution, as in the present case their present constitution."-Extract from to the result is far from satisfactory to his honor, day's advertisement column: An interim and if he had persisted in putting into force the dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum new tax, the Ningpo traders would undoubtedly for the six months ending 30th June, 1890, will be payable on the 23rd inst."Comment is have brought to pass what they promised, and stopped all trade between Foochow and Ningpa, needless. It would suffice to cause a complete revolution in the county were such a step taken and kept in force for only one month. What has caused His Excellency to take the step we believe, was his frequent visits to the Arsenal, during which Le no doubt observed the numerous Ningpo junks in the harbour, and upon enquiry, he was informed that their trade was lucrative but he probably forgot that, after tea, the pole trade is the only thing the people have to rely upon, and that he should alleviate the taxes instead of augmenting them..

A TAIWAN correspondent of the Hu Pao says - Our Governor had given a contract to the foreign firm "Jui Sbêng" (Bachheister) of Shanghai for several kinds of gunpowder from Germany. The amount was about Tls. 100,000, of which Tis. 20,000 were paid as bargain-money. The custom in such cases is for the Chinese Envoy, resident in the foreign country concerned, to bave the pwder tested before it is sent forward. It the present Instance the powder had already reached China when intelligence was received in Talwan from H.E, Hung, Minister to Ger-

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THE Torres Straits Pilot reports a curious tra- gedy recently. A Queensland Government vessel, The Albatross, was at sea, far from any islands, when a black object was espied. The vessel was pul about, and the disappearance of the object showed it was a native who had dived under the water. When near him, the boat was lowered, but he decid dly objected to be rescued, pre-many, that the gunpowder had been shipped

ring to drift about with the ocean's currentsin the fond hope of eventually reaching land, to sacrificing his liberty to the white would-be He was a perfect diving duck in rescuers. the water; and Captain Reid sent two men to the mastheads to carefully watch him. The Albatross's engines were stopped, and the boat was soon engaged in a veritable black-duck hunt, On one occasion the native came rather close to the Albatross, but before he was captured be had again disappeared and in a few moments had risen for a breath of fresh air on the other side of the steamer. It must have been merry sport for these on board; although no doubt the men working the boat felt grievously vexed; while the native apparently preferred death to capture An hour or so of this hide and seek work and the native suddenly became lost to view, and was never seen again, although the search was kept up for a long time. When the Albatross was some distance nearer home they spoke the schooner Lancashire Lass, which reported hay ing a similar fruitless chase after a sative who was scea floating about. It is supposed that they had quietly left Forbes Island to swim to their homes on the mainland; but had been carried away by the currents. It is also probable they bad been in the water since the previous alternoon.

ithout any preliminary test having been applied. On receipt of this intelligence, the Governor of Formosa sent a Deputy to Shanghai to test the powder in the Arsenal there, in the presence of the Taotal. The Deputy's report stated that only one kind of the powder was suitable; and,

the ground that the the Governor, Jai Sheng's Compradore, Prefect Ho, had arranged for the purchase. from the hong, ordered him to recover the bargain-money, Tls. 20,000, and rejected the gunpowder, Ho has not yet replied, and the Governor has notified him by telegram that if the powder cannot be returned, he will be denounced. Mr. Buchheister contends that the Chinese purchaser la liable for the balance of Tis. Bo,000, and that if the purchaser signed the contract with undue precipilation the seller is not responsible for his Zachs. Ho has sent the gunpowder down to Woosung and "Jul Sheng" has petitioned the German Minister at Peking to use his influence with the Tsungli Yemen on his behalf, expressing his willingness to sign a bond. It is not known what the Yanten will do, and meanwhile Mr. Ho is in a very unenviable position. The Governor has also contracted with Messrs. H. M. Schultz & Co., of Shanghai, for thirty thousand cattles of gunpow- der, and that firm has telegraphed to Formosa that it has arrived at Shanghal. The Deputy already in Shanghai has been ordered to inspect it, and to take delivery, if in order, and ship it

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CAPT. Mackintosh, the popular commander of the Chinese steamship Smith, who arrived here this morning from Formosa via: Amoy, was at once, upon arrival, requested to appear at the Police Court before Mr. Robinson to answer to a charge preferred against him at the instance. of the Harbour Master, who averred that he sailed bence on his last voyage with 109 passengers in excess of the number entered on the port clearance. Capt. Mackintosh stated that as he was merely navigator of the Smith and in no way responsible for the number of passengers shipped, he would His Worship like the case remanded in order to have time to communicate with his agents. remapded the case until Friday afternoon.

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Chief Fustice).

ANOTHER PROMISSORY NOTE CASE.

W. Goulbourn sued L. de L. Barretto, a clerk in the Naval Yard, for $124, due on a promissory note-Mr. Rodyk appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hastings defended.

Plaintiff said that his wife lent the money in July 1886 and $25 had been paid on account, leaving $174 dus. He did not know of the debt until last month.

Mrs. Goulbourn said that defendant had borrowed money from her on four occasions, and repaid all but the last lean of $120, which he got on the ground that he was in trouble, and must have the money, He gave a promissory note for $150. The money was her own-saved out of house-keeping money. A lawyer's letter had to be sent before defendant repaid anything. He also paid her $13 outside the Naval Yard, when she threatened to go to the Commodore and report him, and he begged her not to do so,

Mr. Hastings set up a defence under the Statute of Limitations

ANOTHER TYPHOON.

We are indebted to the Spanish Consul for the following telegram:-

"Typhoon in the Pacific to the north-east of Luzon; probable direction N. 4 N.W."

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE the funeral. It is considered disgraceful to com

CHINESE GIRL.

III.

The fact that Chinese girls are married so yo ing, and that they have not been taught these lessons of self-control which it is so important for them to learn, suffices to demonstrate the an element in the absolute necessity for the existence of the Chinese mother-in-law, as family. A great dent is heard of the tyranny and cruelty of these mothers-in-law, and there is a firm basis of fact for all that is so often sald upon that point. But it must at the same time be borne in mind, that without her, the Chinese family would go to utter ruin. The father-in-law is not only unfitted to take the control which belongs to his wife, even were he at home all the time, which would seldom be the case, but pro- priety forbids him to do any such thing, even were he able. In families where a mother-in-law is lacking, there are not unlikely to be much greater evils than the worst mother-in-law Abuse of the daughter-in-law is so commen a circumstance, that unless it be especially flagrant, it attracts very Kittle attention.

Every detail of the funeral is arranged.to-be as expensive to the family as possible. There must be a cypress-wood ceffin, of a specified sixe and thickness, a certain variety of funeral clothes, often far in excess of what the coffin could by any possibility contain, and some of them made perhaps of silk or satin. A definite amount is required to be spent in hhing Buddy, bist or Taoist priests, or both, to read masses at pound with the family of the mother-in-law, by receiving a money payment, instead of exacling all this funeral show, but doubtless such com- positions are sometimes made. As a business arrangement merely, it is evidently more to the interest of all parties to pay the girl's relatives say two hundred strings of cash, rather than to expend a thousand strings on a 'Chinese'sensitiveness to public sentiment is so funeral which can do no one any good. But extreme, that such settlements for a mere trans. fer of cash must be comparatively rare. The wedding outfit of a bride is often very extensive, but in case of her suicide none of it goes back to her family. We have heard from eye-witnesses of many cases in which huge piles of clothing which had been required for the funeral of such a suicide from the family of the mother-in-law, have been burned in a vast heap at the grave, We know of one instance in which all the wedding outfit, which had been a largo one, wardrobes, tables, mirrors, ornaments, &c., was taken out upon the street and destroyed in the presence of the girl's family. The motive to this is of course revenge, but the ultimate effect of such proceedings is to act as an imperfect check upon the behaviour of the mother-in-law and her family toward the daughter-in-law, for whom while she lives the laws of the land have no protection.

When the funeral actually takes place, under conditions such as we have descrited, there, is great danger that despite the exertions of the peace-talkers" from both sides, the dispute may break out anew. At sight of the girl's livid face, the result of death by strangulation, it will not be strange if, excited by the spectable, her family cry out "Let her be aveaged! Let her be avenged ? To keep the woman of the girl's family quiet at such a time, is beyond the power of any collection of "peace-talkers," however, numerous and respectable. If the respective parties are restrained from mutual reviling and from a fight the funeral is regarded as a success- ful oar. The girl's family complain of every. thing, the coffin, the clothing, the ornaments for the corpse, and all the appointments generally. But they are soothed by the comforting reminder that the dead are dead, and cannot be brought to life, and also that the resources of the family of the mother-in-law have been utterly exhausted, the last acre of land mortgaged to raise money for the funeral, and that they are loaded besides with a mill-stone of debt.

(To be continued).

THE INDO CHINA S. N. CO.

The eighth aantial report of the Board of Directors of this Company, presented at the ninth ordinary general meeting, held in London on the 19th ult is as follows:

The Bard of Directors in presenting to the proprietors their report and statement of accounts for the year 1889, regret that unavoidable cir. cumstances have caused it to be larued some- what later than usual.

to a week ago They are glad to report that no loss nor any very serious accident had occurred to the fleet, though there have been a good many minor casualties. With vessels 40 constantly employed in crowded river-navigation, most of these can hardly be avoided; and one most fruitful cause of them is the very bad state of the navigation in the River Pelho, which is rapidly sitting up, and threatens before long to totally close the port of Tientsin to sea-going vessels. The accident just reported by telegram 18, that the Tai-sang bad got ashore on Sugar loaf Island, but was subsequently got off and beached in Swatow Harbour. Nothing is known

The Yuan Sang took her place on the coast as yet as to the extent of damage incurred, lines in the month of September, and has proved a very efficient vessel. The new steamer referred to in the last report has been named Lin Shing, and is at present on her outward voyage to China. Her efficiency is most favourably reported upon, and it is expected that she will prove a very satisfactory addition to the fleet. Owing to continual strikes of various classes of workmen employed in the Clyde shipbuilding yards, and to the very irregular way in which delivery of this vessel was delayed for four and the men worked, even when not on strike, the a-half months after her contract time, for which the Company, under the strike clause, could obtain no compensation, though the steamer has lost, in consequence, the best of the shipping season in China, N

It would be wholly incorrect to represent this an the normal or the inevitable condition to which Chinese brides are reduced, but it is not too much to affirm that no bride has any adequate security against such abuse. It assumes all varieties of forms, from incessant scolding, up to the most cruel treatment. If it is carried to an extreme pitch, the mother's family will interfere, not legally for that they can not do, but by brute force. In a typical case of this sort, where the daughter-in-law bad been repeatedly and ab time- fully abused by the family of her husband, which had been remonstrated with in vain by the family of the girl, the latter family mustered a large force, went to the house of the mother-in- Inw, destroyed the furniture, heat the other family. severely, and dragged the old mother-in-law out into the street, where she was left screaming with what strength remained to her, and covered with blood, in which condition she was seen by foreigners. These proceedings are designed as a practical protest against tyranny and an intima- tion that sauce for a young goose may be in like manner sauce for an older one alto, One would suppose that the only outcome of such a distur- bance as this, would be a long and bitter lawsuit, wasting the property of each of the parties, and perhaps reducing them to ruin. But with that eminent practicality which. characterises the Chinese, the girl was carried off to the home of her parents, "peace-talkers" intervened, and the girl was returned to her husband's home upon the pro- mise of better treatment. This would probably be secured, just in proportion to the ability of the girl's family to enforce it. In another case reported to the writer, similar in its nature to the one just mentioned, the girl was sent to her husband, after "peace talkers" had adjusted affair, and was locked up by the mother- in-law in a small room, with only one meni a day. Within a year, she had hanged herself. It is not the ignorant and the uneducated only who thus take the law into their own hands, on behalf of injured daughters. We have heard of a case in which the father of the girl who drowned herself, was a literary graduate. He raised a band of men, went to the home of his son-in-law, pulled down the gate-house to the premises and some of the bulldings. In the resulting law-suit be was severely reproved by the district magistrate, who told him that he had no right to assume to avenge his own wrongs, and that he was only saved from a beating in court by his literary degree. A still more striking example was offered by an official of the third rank, whose daughter's wrongs moved him to raise an armed band and make an attack upon the house of the son-in-law. This proved to be strong and not easily taken, upen which the angry Total contented himself with reviling the whole family at the top of bis voice, exactly as a coolie would have done. Wronge which can only be met with such acts as this, on the part of those who are the most conservative members of Chinese society, mirst be very real and very grievous, In the very numerous cases in which a daughter-in-law is driven to suicide, by the treatment which she receives, the subsequent proceedings will depend relatives. The first thing is to notify the family mainly upon the number and standing of her of the deceased that she has died, for without their presence the funeral cannot take place, or if it should take place, the body would have to be exhumed, to satisfy her friends that the death was a natural one, and not due to violence,

The charter of the steamer Moray terminated which is always likely to be suspected." ~A Chinese in the employ of the writer, was sum in January last, and her place on the Calcutta moned one day to see his married daughter inline has been taken by the Kutsang, which another village, who was said to be not "very appears to be well adapted for the purpose. The

any way diminished during the past year. well" When the father arrived, he found her competition experienced on this fine has not lo In cases of this sort, a law-suit is exceptional. The year 1889 has been one of bad native hanging by her girdle to a beam 16

act as deterrents from such a step as sending in of it. Money has been scarce and dear, and There are several powerful considerations which trade in China, more particularly the latter half an accusation. It is almost always next to many of the traders have been crippled by impossible to prove the case of the girl's family financial dificulties: This state of matters so represent the matter as to throw the blame business, and consequently on the earnings. for the reason that the opposite party can always has had a very prejudicial effect on local on the girl. In one such instance, the husband of the steamers, which it will be seen show brought into court a very small woman's shoes a largely decreased total, £43,953, against explaining that he had scolded bls wife for $71.307, in the previous year. After allowing a wearing so small a one, which unfitted her for sufficient sum for depreciation upon the fleet, work. He alleged that she then reviled him, the Directors regret that they are unable to for which he struck ber (of which there were recommend a larger dividend than 3 per cent., marks), whereupon she drowned herself To a which is partly provided by a transfer of £3,316 defence like this, it is impossible for the girl's rod. from Underwriting Account to the credit family to make any reply whatever. The accusa of Profit and Loss Account. This will leave tion is not brought against the husband, but Underwriting Account with the satisfactory against the father-in-law, for practically the law reserve of £40,000 to meet future contingencies. does not interfers between husband and wife. The balance to be carried forward amounts to It is only necessary for the husband to admit 45 126 13 40 which is larger than uoal; bot the fact of having beaten bis wife, alleging the Directors consider it absolutely necessary to a reason that she was unfilial" to his strengthen this provision in view of the uncertain parents, to screen himself completely. We have prospects of the coming year. $50 heard of a suit where in reply to a claim of this 50 sort, the brother of the girl testified that she had 50been beaten previous to the alleged "unfilial" 50 conduct. This seemed to make the magistrate 20 angry, and he ordered the brother to receive 20 several hundred blows for his testimony, and 20 decided that the husband's family should only 15 be required to provide a cheap willow-wood 15 coffin for the deceased. Apother even more 15 efficient cause deterring from such law-suits, is 15 the necessity of holding an inquest over the The current year has opened with only a 15 girl's body, This is conducted with the utmost moderate volume of business, while the Com 15 publicity, upon the Oriental plan of letting the pany has been subjected, by the action of other public see how the matter really stands.: A | ship-owners, to a most seyere competition on threshing floor is turned into an official areas, parts of the Chinese, coast. The immediate a set of mat-sheds are put up, and the whole effect of this has been a general reduction in village soon awarma with yamên-runners. The the rates of freight and passage money, In corpse of the deceased is laid uncovered on many cases to one-half of the rates previously mat exposed to the sight of every one, before paid, and in some cases to even less Tha and during the Inquest, In order to avoid General Managers are doing what they can to the shame of such exposure, the most bitter raise the standard of freights from these very 2 enemies are often willing enough to put the low and unremunerative figures; and it is to bo I matter in the hands of "peace talkers," These hoped that the uselessness of a competition

Your's faithfully, BAN

and they meet to agree upon the terms of benefit or augment the trade it professes to serve represent the village of each of the principis, which only causes waste and loss, does not even settlement. These terms will depend alto may, before long, become apparent The Board E. W. MAITLAND,

gether upon the wealth or otherwise of the will assuredly do all that lies in their power in Hon. Treasurer,

family of the mother-in-law. If this family is a bring this about, with a due regard to the future Alice Memorial Hospitalrich one, the opposite party always insist upon protection of the Company's important intereste | bleeding":"it so the atmost practicable extent; I in the Chinese trade,

Defendant was then called. He said-I have paid two lastaiments on the promissory note one in August 1886, and one in October 1886, to Mr. Ewens. I never gave Mra. Goulbourn anything direct. I would have paid the whole amount if I had had time.

Cross-examined-Me Goulbourn lent me the money, but wished me to put it in his wife's name. She was not present. I have never borrowed anything from her, but I have done so once or twice from him. I did not excuse myself from paying because I had to bury my son, There was a subscription made for my brother's wife when my brother died. I borrowed some of the money, and am paying interest for it. I have lost the receipt for the second payment on the promissory note on which I am now being sued. Mrs. Goulboura never asked me for repayment it was never applied for until last month.

A Chinese derk in the employ of Messrs Ewens and Reece stated that the books showed the first payment of $12,50 to have been made in August, and the second, of $13.50, on the 6th October, 1885.

His lordship gave judgment for the defendant, with costs.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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We take the following para, from a recent issue of Hayes Sporting News-Finding that the growth of ideas which are essential to the successful ronning of a newspaper was entirely THE Penang Gastle of the 4th last says checked by the heat of Calcutta, I started on a The s'eamer Hoh Canton, which arrived from trip to Bombay. The terrible tedium of 58 Edie on Sunday, brought eleven out of fourteen hours in the train was happily mitigated in my of the crew of a small schooner which had been case to a certain extent, by the fact of some of driven to take shelter on the coast of Acheen, my fellow passengers being devoted to the and bad been looted by the Achinese, According American national game of poker. Like every to the story of theap men they are natives of the other good thing or person it has its detractors Malabar Coast and of the Maldive Islands, to as well as lovers. Its immense advantage over which latter place the schooner belonged Some all sther combinations of skill and chance dime ago the vessel left one of the ports there for is the freedom it allows to individual action. another, with a cargo of rice, silk and other There is neither club law or forces, and valuables, but, meeting with very bad weather, was driven far out of her course, and when land the player is as much at liberty to make a bet as he has to decline it. I am sorry to was sighted a few days after the crew were glad to cast sight on another. On some of them Advertisers are requested to forward all nocas intended for note the existence of vicious sel isms among our

Indian poker fraternity. These heresies were going ashore to obtain, water, of which they had insertion la that day's faste not later than Three ofClack O RE soi to retard the early publication of the paper.

no doubt due to ignorance of the genius of run short, they were met by the natives who Advertisements and Subscription which are not ordered for x

the game, and were strengthened by the told them to bring their vessel into "the Axed period will be continued until countermanded.

publication of a book on poker by "Cyper river, Without in the least suspecting treachery, English newspaper published in the Far East, and is therefhes the Redali," who used to expound to us Allaba- the crew did, so, but no sooner was the best mediam for Advertisers, Terms can be learnt on application badites the ideas he had acquired of the game schooner safe at anchor in the river, than a

THE ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL The Hongheng Telegraph's number at the Telephona Central

during his journalistic career in China. "Chias large number of armed Achinese boarded her,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Homixong Telegraph,”. Kuchangu No. 1,

Jim and Mr. Kelly Maitland, like the author of and ordered the crew to discharge the cargo, TO SUBSCRIBERS,

Karma, baving gained most of their knowledge threatening them with death if they disobeyed,

Sia-I have received the undernoted subscrip. tions to the funds of the Hospital, and 'I shall be Subscribe to The Hongkong Telegraph are respectfully of the game in the Far East, did much to dis and molens volens, they were obliged to do as reminded that all Subterištions are payable in aaleancs. seminate it in India. The chief false doctrine they were told. It happened, fortunately, that

Introduced by these teachers was that of a forced one of the Achinese could speak Tamil, and obliged by your acknowledging same in your high ante, which deprived the game of one of its being perhaps more scrupulous than the rest,

be advised the men not to remain where they Lo Hok Ping.............................. greatest merits. They also, to encourage gam. bling, tavoured the employment of packs from were long, but to take themselves off as soon as Hop Hing Hong.... which as many small cards as possible were possible if they valued their lives. The hint was Yuen Fat Hong

ste taken out. The orthodox tolerate only a full not lost upon them, and the same night they Man On Insurance Co. song pack, no matter if the game be a duel between heaved ancher. Just, however, as they were Tung Sang Wo two. Again, they ruled, contrary to the law, that leaving, the Achinese became aware of what they Kwong Man Chung the cards, not the player, speak, that a mis- were doing, gevechase and fired upon them with Kwong Chung Ta

killing three of the crew and knocking Man Moh Hong...... statement or under declaration of one's hand big gun, could not be rectified for lostance, if a man a hole in the ship. The rest took to the Hung Kee Hong declared a pair and had a full band, he could boat, and by great exertions soon distanced How Fung Hong... nat, in case of need, utilise two threes. This, on their pursuers. They afterwards fell fo with a Wo Ke Hong the face of it, was absurd; for the expression Dutch man-of-war, which took them back to Sul Cheong Winguipm is "I'll see you" meaning I'll see what you have the place where the schooner had been looted, Tai Fong Sun got in your hand. They also wrongly held that and arrested some of the Achinese. The vessel Kwong On Wo the person seeing another was not bound to was found, but with only sixty nice bage of rice Lau Wel Chune....... show his own cards. And finally, they used to in her out of the valuable cargo she had carried. Wang Hing make the much more readily obtainable "threes" She was then towed, wa bellave, to Chichtel, See Wo....... superior to a straight," Poker, I may where, owing to their ignorance of the language Tung Cheong .... remarks, is a game that has to be approached of the country, the men found it hard to dispose Sun Singin with great humility of split for nothing is so of the rice, which, however, they afterwards: Lun Inn.......... dangerous to one's pocket as the belief that one made over to the Dutch authorities, who in Yuen Wo Tongioioie Is conversant with all its mysteries. There is return provided them with some money. After Fook Wo Tong an old story of a young poker davotee seeking remaining there for some twenty days, and Ty Sing........................ the consent of a straightlaced father to his spending all the little they had, they begged to Cheong Wo marriago with his daughter, "Sir," replied the be sent to the nearest British port and were about to petition the Government on the matter, stera parent, I'll never give my daughter to a consequently brought to Penang. The men års man who plays poker You might do worse, Sir" remarked the lover. How so?" asked and relate their grievances with the object of the father. You might give her to a man who getting redress. The schooner, we understand,

Falled under the Turkish fag thought he could play poker,"

The Hongkong Ceingraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, EC., will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8,30 for go'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially

invited.

ABOUT 5.45 this morning Mr. T. Smith, acting captain of the Kiuliang, was found dead in his cabin on board the vessel, at Cosmopolitan Dock. He was in good health yesterday, and it Is supposed that death was due to heart-disease. He was about fifty years of age, and had been In the employ of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company for just over two years, and had been about twenty years on the coast, in other vessels. He was well-connected in England,

ngkong, 13th July, 1890.

Another influential element. In producing the unfavourable results of the year 1889, has been the facreased cost of coal. There was a considerable scarcity of Japanese and other native coals used for the steapjers, and inferior quailties had to be resorted to. It is estimated that the higher prices pald, and the increased quantity used owing to the reduced quality, have made a difference to the Company of £17,500 RE compared with previous years.