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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1890.

THE TYPHOON.

Dr. Doberck states in his Weather Repon to-day: "There is a typhoon to the East of Formosa. The barometer has fallen in South easter China" and gradients are very moderate for N.W, winde."

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

H.M.S. sloop Matine arrived to-day from the

WHILST the steamship Changsha, en route to || The Ruslan Volunteer steamer Marktua arrived Sydney and Melbourne, was at Townsville, the at Singapore on the toth inst, from Visdivostock, ladies of Hudson's Surprise Party, who wers Capt. Radloff during his stay conferred with passengers on board, amured themselves by the mangers of the Siberian Syndicate upon fishing. During this recreation one of them lost the company's fature operations, a diamond ring worth £20, which slipped off her finger and fell overboard.

DR. DE MADEIROS, Bishop of Macao, returned to the Holy City on Tuesday last, after having been absent in Timor, Malacca, the Straits Settlements, etc., for upwards of a year. The Bishop, on arriving at Hongkong by the French mail, went quietly to the Spanish Procuration instead of to the Portuguese Consulate, being THERE will be a game of Polo at Causeway Bay, desirous of avoiding any fuss and ceremonial on at 5.30 p.m., to-morrow.

North.

Ar the Sessions to-morrow there are only two cases besides that of Barradas.

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WE hear that Mr. G. French has been appointed Chief Officer of the C. N. Co.'s Australian liner Chingtu.

The Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co, informs us that the Company's steamer Ancona left Nagasaki for this port at 6 pm. yesterday.

MEMBER'S letter e the so-called representa- tion of the Golf Club in antagonism to the prospective Athletic Club came too late for insertion to-day,

We are informed by the agents of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Melpomene left Singapore to-day for this port, and is expected to arrive on the 22nd inst.

THE meeting of the member of the Hongkong Athletic Association, that was to be held in the Hongkong Hotej to-morrow afternoon, has been postponed. Particulars are given in the advertise-

ment,

We learn that the directorate of the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, at the meeting this afternoon, authorised a dividend of fifty shillings per share. In February they paid a dividend of 30/-, at 3/14d. Hooray for the far-seeing Jackson! WE are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co.) that the China Shippers' Mutual S. N. Co.'s steamer Pingsuey, from Glasgow and Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday, and may be expected on or about 22nd inst.

WE leam that Captain Fred, Wallace, formerly commander of the Canadian Pacific steamer Parthia, is leaving for England in a short time to take command of that Company's first new steamer, which is expected to be ready for sea in the early part of November.

reaching Macao.. His departure by the Heung- shan, however, was wired to Macao by Consul- General Romano, with the result that on that stcamer's arrival the San Francisco fort fired a salute, greatly to the annoyance of Dr. Medeiros, who had specially requested Capt. Clarke not to fly the usual flags or give any other indication that he was on board His lordship was received. by neatly the whole of the Portuguese com munity at the wharf and appeared to be very glad when the ceremonial was over, and he was permitted to proceed to his residence.

We learn that on Monday evening, at a farewell dinner given at the Peak Hotel to Major Fletcher, R.A., by the members of the Felo Club, he was presented with a silver salver, bessing the inscription :~~

To

MAJOR WALTER B. FLETCHER, RÁM IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

OF

HIS ENERGY AND TACT AS FOUNDER AND HONORARY SECRETARY

THE HONGKONO POLO CLUB.

FROM

THE MENDERS.

HONGKONG, 14TH JULY, 1890, THUS a Chinese contemporary:- -We reported a few days ago that the people of Wuchang created a disturbance in consequence of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung wishing to take down some bridges in order to facilitate the passage of boats laden with machinery he was transporting to some new factories. We are assured now that the difficulty has been overcome in a manner satisfactory to all parties concerned. When the officials who were roughly used in the fracas came with their complaint to H.E. he delivered some remarks to the following effect."I am very sorry for you, officers and magis trates; who were resisted, fosulted and abused. by the people, when trying to execute your for the treatment you received, for I know now that I overrated the confidence the people have la me and you, and I am afraid I have done wrong in trying to take the bridges down without first getting the people'a cereale be more careful and prudent in future, though my intentions in doing what I did were solely for the benefit of the people, and the country. Out of the compassion I feel for the

THE Peking Gazette of June 1oth states that, on impeachment by the Governor of Kuangsi, two district Magistrates and two military officers are cashiered for avarice, carelessness, stupidity and other shortcomings, whilst ten district officials who have been commended by the Governor are rewarded by the expression of His Majesty's approval, and are exhorted to a further continuance in well-doing.

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SUPREME COURT.

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION. (Before the Full Court.)

Ex Parts APPLICATION. Mr. A. J. Leach (instructed by Mr. Rodyk) applied ex parte, in the case of Chan Kin Cue v. 7. F. Webber, for a rule nisi calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the order of the Court, dated the 14th inst., should not be set aside or reversed. He also asked leave, to add the alternative or why it should not be stayed until the retainer of the furniture by Mr. Fraser Smith has been investigated by the Court of Civil Procedure."

The Acting Chief Justice admitted the amendment.

Mr. Leach said that on the evidence brought before his lordship in chambers recently in support of the application for leave to sell the defendant's library and furniture an order was granted, and a prohibitory notice served on Mr. Fraser-Smith, in whose possession the goods then wore. The circumstances of the case, as far as the evidence produced in support of the application went, was that on the 16th May 1889 Mr. Fraser-Smith lent Webber $2000. Webber gave him a receipt, which no doubt intended that the books should form security for the loan. The order given by his lordship In' chambers was not contested on the grounds then shewn, but on other grounds. He (Mr. Leach) Was content to take it that the receipt was in the nature of a bill of sale-

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The Acting Chief Justice- have seen the further affidavit; if it had been produced in chambers I should have ordered an investiga tion.

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Mr. Leach-Then perhaps your lordships will see your way to giving me an order nisi.

The Acting Chief Justice-You will have to pay the costs if there is fresh evidence.

Mr. Leach consented.

His lordship-Upon the affidavit shewn to me In the first instance it appeared to me that it was in the nature of a bill of sale.

Mr. Leach-It was doubtful whether Mr.

or not.

China the material ready to his hand, and it will not be strange if it is forced upon bis attention, whether he desires to contemplate it or not, as happened to the writer in the following highly illustrative case. Many years ago, Chinese teacher in the writer's employ had leave of absence for a definite period, but when that period had expired, he failed to make his sp. pearance. This is so common, or rather so almost universal as occurrence in China, that it might have passed with but a temporary, notice, bat for the explanation which the teacher after wards gave of his inability to return, an explans. tion which appeared to be so peculiar that be requested to reduce it to the form of a written statement, of which the following in a synopsis.

An elder sister of the teacher was married to a very poor man in a village called the Tower of the Li Family, an insignificant hamlet consisting of only four families. In a year both the sister of great farmine' 1878 ກ. and her husband died, leaving three Bons, all married. Of these the second died, and his widow re-married. The wife of the elder nephew of the teacher also died, and this nephew married for his second wife a widow, who had a daughter of her own, twelve years of age. This widow enjoyed the not very assuring reputation of having beaten her former mother- in-law, and also of having caused the death of her first husband. The wife of the third nephew was a quarrelsome woman, and the two sisters- in-law were always at sword's points, especially an all four of the adults and their four children shared the house and land together.

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Orders through Local Post or by Telegram Mecting, under the auspices of the Hongkong duty in accordance with my order, I am sorry Fraser-Smith took posscąsion under that receipt the men of "The Little Camp," which is a large

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His lordship agreed that it was possible that a case might be sustained.

Mr. Leach asked that execution might be stayed pending the investigation, to which

Mo Mossop, who was present on behalf of the plaintiff, consented.

Their lordships accordingly granted a rule

3..Third reading of the Bill entitled "An people, who acted only in ignorance of mix | hizi, with slay of execution,

2. Report of the Finance Committee.. Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Fraudulent Marks on Merchandise,”.

Third reading of "The Waterworks

1890.

time.

Bill

real motives, none of them shall be punished for their treatment of you, reprehensible though I admit it to bave been. So the injured officials were rent away in bewilderment, and when the Viceroy's decision was made known to 0.60 NINE months with hard labour, and two whip the people, they were overjoyed at his magnani

pings of twenty-five strokes each, was the mity. A general meeting was held in the place, 0.75 sentence passed by Mr. Wodehouse this morning at which several prominent persons spoke, ex- at the Police Court upon still another earring tolling the forbearance of the Viceroy, and 1.00 snatcher who "lifted" a lady's twenty dollar recounting his services to the province. Amongst aral appendages in Queen's Road Central yester-ether things they dwelt on the way ho saved the day evening, and pleaded fastification upon the district from floods, threw open the Government 1.00 ground that he "no have got chow." The scamp granaries to the starving people, reduced the has got plenty of "bamboo chow chow by this pawn-broker's rate of interest and raised the tax on opium, so that the people might be induced to give up the consumption of the drug se Injurious to their health and well-being he whe bailt factories to afford it was employment to the people. After all those services, said the elders of the place, the Viceroy might be allowed to have his way in this trifling matter, and putting aside all obligations on the part of the people, the Viceroy could easily punish them for disobeying his orders, and this he has not done. These speeches created a salutary effect on the minds of the people and at the termination of the meeting several young men rushed off and tore down the bridge amid general acclamations. They then invited the boats to pass along and accommod- ated foot pass ngers with a temporary arrange ment of planks. There is now perfect tranquillity between the people and officials, and air's well that ends well.

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Hats.

Ar last a much-needed ambulance corps, under the style of the St. John's (Police) Ambulance Society, has been formed under the presidency 1.53 of Major-General Gordon, with Dr. Cantlie as For Case. Lecturer. The Committee comprises Inspectors

Mathieson, Stanton, Perry and Swanston Sergeant Butlin and Messrs. H. Smith, J. Gauld, W. Ross and W. McCracken-police constables. $450 Lectures are to be delivered once a week at the

5.00 Central Station. 12.00 CARDS announcing important domestic re-adjust

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Mr. J. Pallip McGina Announces his divorce trasn'

ANOTHER EXTRADITION CASE.

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guarding the house of the Lord-of-bitterness, to the Little Campers. The latter now altered their demands to a payment of eight hundred strings of cash, which by much chaffering was eventually reduced to four hundred. The Lord. of bitterness offered two hundred and filty strings, but this was rejected with disdain. Upon the failure of these numerous negotia tious, the local constable presented another complaint to the magistrate, reciting the facts in the repeated refusal, on the part of the family of the woman, to come to any. terms. The magistrate, recognising the case as one in which the relatives were resolved to make the utmost possible capital out of a dead body, ordered eight men from his own yamen to go on that very day and attend the funeral, in order to insure that there should be no breach of peace. These yamen rumpers, after the customary Chinese manner, hoped to be bribed to do as they were ordered, and did not go to the place at all. The Lord-of-bitterness and all his neighbours continued in obicurity, but in the interval the men from the Little Camp again gathered their hosts, and made four more visits to the premises at the Li Family Tower, breaking everything which they could lay their hands upon. The next day the yamen runners arrived, and the Lord-of-bliterness, now thoroughly exasperated, succeeded in collecting a force of several hundred men from other villages, intend ing at all hazards to hold the funeral and also to bave a general fight, if need arose. But the men of the Little Camp filed to put in an appearance at this time, and the funeral accord- ingly took place at last. The friends of the woman, however, obstinately refused to consider the matter as settled, at which point the curtain falls, with a plentiful promise of future law-guits, fights and ruin.

The reader who is sufficiently interested in the laner working of the life of the Chinese to follow the tangled thread of a tale like this, is rewarded by the perception of several important facts. It is an axiom in China that the family of the married daughter holds its head down, while the family of the man whom she has married holds its head up. But in case of the violent death of the married woman, all this is reversed, and by a natural process of re-action the family of the married woman becomes a fierce and formidable antagonist. Principles such as there have but to be put in issue between two large villages, or families, and we have the well known clan fights of southern China, in all their perennial bitter ness and intensity. One of the weakest parts of the Chinese social fabric is the insecurity of the life and happiness of woman, but no structure is stronger than its weakest part, and Chinese society is no exception to this law. Every year thousands upon thousands of Chinese wives commit suicide, tens of thousands of other per- sons are thereby involved in serious trouble, hundreds of thousands of yet others are dragged lu as co-partners in the difficulty, and millions of dollars are expended in extravagant funerals and ruinous lawsuits. And all this is the out- come of the Confucian theory that a wife has no rights which a husband is bound to respect. The law affords ber no protection while she lives, and such justice as she is able with difficulty to exact is strictly a post mortem concession.

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In the month of August of that year, the third nephew started for a distant market, with a boat- load of water-melons. On leaving, be ordered his wife to fetch his winter garments, which she refused to do, upon which they had a fight, and he left. The next day was cold and rainy... The elder nephew was sitting in a neighbour's house and beard his wife engaged in a violent quarrel with her sister-in-law, but he did not even rise to look into the merits of the case, and no oitier neighbour intervened to exhort to peace. The younger sister-in-law left the house in a 'fury, and from that time she disappeared. About noon her continued absence became alarming to the elder brother, who searched for her till dark, and then sent word to her mother's family, at a village called "The Little Camp," two li distant. This family, upon hearing of the disappearance of their daughter, raised a company of ten or a dozen persons, went over to the Tower of the Li Family," entered the yard, and smashed all the water-jars and other pottery- ware which they could. "Peace-talkers" | emerged, and succeeded in preventing the attack ing party from entering the house, or the damage would have been still greater. After they had gone, the "Lord of bitterness" (e. the elder brother) begged his friends to interfere and "talk peace, for as he was a resident of a small village, he could not for a moment stand before village. These latter belonged to one of the numerous small sects which are styled black doors," or secret societies. In these societies there is often a class of persons called "Seers" or "Bright-eyes” (ming-yen), who profess to be able to tell what progress the pupils have made in their learning of the doctrine. Sometimes, as The reality of the evils of the Chinese system- in this instance, they also undertake the functions of marriages is evidenced by the extreme of fortune-tellers. To the Bright-eye of their expedients to which unmarried girls sometimes sect, the Little Campers applied for Information resort, to avoid matrimony. Chinese newspapers as to what had become of the missing woman, not infrequently contain references to organised In response they learned that she had been

societies of young maidens, who solemnly vow never to wed. The most recent reference of this beaten to death and buried in the yard of the "Lord-of-bittemess." Upon learning this, sort which has come under our observation le the family of the murdered woman went to is the following paragraph, found in the trans every door in their village, making a to toulations from the Shih Pa

SAMSUNG SUICIDE AS A VIRTUE. · · at each door, a common and significant mode

There is a prevailing custom in a district called of imploring their help. Thus a large force

as raised which went to the "Tower of Sheingteh in the Canton province, among female the Li Family," armed with spades to dig up the

as "All pure”:,who swear vows to Heaven' body. Warned of their coming, all the male society to form different kinds of sisterhoods such never to get married, as they regard、marẻ residents of this laiter village fled, the family of the "Lord-of-bitterness taking refuge at the slages as something horrid, belleving that village in the house of the local constable, who their manied lives would be miserable and had charge of several villages. The teacher in anholy; and their parents fail to prevali upon question, being a near relative of the Lord of thers to yield. A sad case has just happened t bitterness," and a man of intelligence and plea- a band of young maidens ended their existence sant manners, was asked to look after the house in this world by drowning themselves in the of his nepher, which he did. Owing to his Dragon River, because one of them was forced was then dons to the property, but the whole in her childhood before she joined this sister- presence, and his politeness, no further damage by her parents to be married. She was engaged yard was dug over to find the body. After the hood. When her parents had made sil the failure of this quest, the Bright-eye modified the necessary arrangements for her marriage, she former announcement by the revelation that reported the affair to the other member of her the body was outside the yard, ur not mors sisterhood, who at one agreed to die for her cause than thirty faces distant. The search was kept if she remained constant to her sworn vows to be up with spades and picks, by day and by night, single and virtuous. Should she violate the laws for a week. On one of these days, a brother of of the sisterhood and yield to her parents, her. the missing woman espied the twelve-years-old life was to be made most unpleasant by the other step child of the older brother, and pursued her members and she was to be taunted as a worthless with a manure fork, so that she fled in terror to being. She consulted with them as to the best a well, and would have plunged into it, had not madeofescaping this marriage, and they all agreed bystanders interfered to stop the pursuer. The

from her parents on the night of the marriage. As- mother thereupon attempting to fly from the to die with her, if she could plan to run away village in which he had, take refuser there were many friends to watch her movements, another still more remote, passed along river it was almost impossible for her to escape, so she bank, and sat down to rest. A boy who happened attempted her life by swallowing a gold ring, to be cutting grass in the neighbourhood, but any serious consequence that might have recognising her, and designing to terrify her, resalted was prevented by the administration of cried out. The people of Little Camp are after powerful emetic. She was finally forced and you!" On bearing these alarming words, the made over to the male aide to her great grief woman at once threw herself into the river. According to the usual custom, she was allowed A relative chanced to see her, and planged to return to her parents. During all this time: la after her, but being a mere youth with she was planing a way to escape to her sisters. no strength for the task, both of them By bribing the female servants she was taken would have been drowned, but for the friendly one night to her sisters under the cover of dark- help of some men who were watering peas,The sisters at once, joined with her in vegetable garden' near by." After repeated terminating their lives by jumping into the Dragon atterupts had been made by the Lord-of-bitter River with its swift carrents, which rapidly carried news to get the matter adjusted, and after the them off This kind of tragedy is not uncommon other party bad refused to listen to any terms, in this part of the land. The officials have from the latter lodged an accusation in the district time to time tried to check the formation of Buch magistrate's yamen. The magistrate beard the sisterhoods, but all their efforts were in vain. case twice, but each time the family of the Girls must have reasons of their own for missing woman behaved in such an unreasonable establishing auch societies. Married life must and violent manner that the official dismissed have been proved by many in that region to have their case. merely ordering the local constable to been not altogether too sweet. However, such enlist more peace-talkers, and make the parties wholesale suicide must be prevented by law if the come to some agreement. It happened that about that time another case somewhat resembling this parents have no control over their daughters, had occurred in that neighbourhood, in which s woman was suspected of having drowned herself. FRED BRINE" On this account a sharp watch was kept at the ferry of the district city, some miles lower down the The following notice of the late General Brins river, for any doating body. About the time of the is from the Times of Indiayed. Brine" Magistrate's decision, a woman's body appeared The death of General Brine "Fred. Brine abreast of the ferry and was identified as that as he was always known in India-reminds us of the missing woman from the Li Family Tower of a fantastic eccentric, but very clever in The official held and inquest, in which all parties dividuality Ho Joined the Royal Engineers in made diligent search for wounds, but none being 1847 and managed to see a good deal of service found, the magistrate compelled the family of the all over the world. He served as a Volunteer, woman to fix their thumb marks to a paper and with much distinction in the Crimean War. recognising this fact. He also ordered the Lord He was present at the chilefnaval engagement prate the a feral, startede en Enge prepare other appointments for a showy facral, started the Volunteer movement in lacluding chanting by Buddist priests, and to kong. For other services, not officially have the body taken to his house. He also reconded, he was made a Knight of the Tower instructed the constable once more to secure and Sword of Portugal. He spent many years in peace-talkers, to arrange the details and to hold the Public Works Department, and was for long the faneral. But the Little Campers proved to Executivs Engineer of the Agra Division, where be the most obstinate of mortals, and would not he developed an inveterate dislike to the members only listen to no reason, but drove the peace of the Civil Service. During his different periods talkers from their village with reviling language, of furlough he travelled far and wide. He visited never so exasperating to a Chinese when the Crimea more than once to report on the employed against those who are sacrificing graves of the British soldiers buried there. His their interests for those of the public. At this map of the tombs warmly welcomed in hundred of the until matters are again' in a settled channel, on dificulties to which their form of civilization returned from the water melon market, went a stop to the neglect into, which the cemeteries himself to the home of his late wife, and ex- had fallen. He went to Iceland and made reserves there is not sufficient pasturage for any the other hand, it will have the effect of improvmakes them especially Hable. additional number of animals. Under these ing exports from this side, But inksmuch 28 so The best way to study phenomena of this sort postulated with her family and also urged place an elaborate map of that little-known inland. clrcumstances memorialist proposes that the great a part of our revenue is obtained lo silver, is through concrete cases. A single fastance, through still other third parties. But the Little He was eno of the founders of 16, Balcon 1,000 borses in question, which have not yet bath in freight and passage money, I look for well considered in all its bearings, may be a Campers insisted upon funeral paraphernalia Society of England, and tried without much arrived, should be sent on to the pastore ground ward with confidence to an improvement in the window which will let in more light than which would have cost. ten thousand strings of success to cross from Dover to Calde He in the neighbourhood of Kalgan instead value of silver being upon the whole advan volume of abstract statements. Whoever lo cash. One more effort at compromise was made, then brought the idea of military ballooning out disposed to enter into such studies will find in I by the visit of an uncle of the teacher who was to ladley and, falling to yet. An appelaiment as iggeous to the operations of this Company!! Sanctioned by ritmipi.

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THLY have queer ways in Siam. The royal 2.00 visitors here and to reflect whether what they did would be regarded as orthodox at home or not. Now the Siam Gazette, in mentioning that 0.75 the case of the Siamese Government vs. Stam Mercantile Gaxetle to all appearance will no be postponed again, but will come on for hear 0.75 Ing at the Imperial German Consular Court, on Tuesday next at gs. m. adds that today (sth inst) at to a. m. the Siamese witnesses in this case 0.75 will take the "Oath in the Siamese temple

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Leung Kl Po, for whose extradition the Chi- nese Government have applied, on the ground. of burglary, murder, and kidnapping in Chinese territory, was again before Mr. Robinson at the Police Court this morning. Mr. Caldwell, of Messrs. Caldwell and Wilkinson, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Phillippo (Instructed by Mr. Rodyk) was for the defence.

Before bringing the prisoner into the dock bis Worship questioned the three witnesses for the prosecution, who stated that they knew the prisoner well by sight and could easily Identify him, not by any distinctive marks but from their knowledge of his general appearance. This preliminary exanimation of the witnesses being completed, his Worship, accompanied by Messrs. Philippo, Caldwell, Radyk, Arthur, the Press," Inspectors of Police, Detectives, and Gaol Warders, repaired to H. M- Gaol to witness the identification of the prisoner by the witnesses severally, which was done to his Worship's satisfaction, and the prisoner was then placed in the dock.

His Worship then requested the Chinese clerk to interpret to prisoner the charges preferred against him.

Mr. Caldwell objected to the charges, being made only in Chinese, and desired that they should be delivered in plain English also, in order that he might know what the specific crimes were that the prisoner was formally charged with.

His Worship agreed to this, and the clerk then AT the half yearly meeting of the P & O. Com- suld that the prisoner was charged, firstly with pany, held on the roth gif, the chairman, Mr. | committing a murder on the 17th of May last in Sutherland, M.P., referring to the repayment of the Fo-tao village in the province of Kwangtang; portion of the capital, said: "I am not likely secondly with burglary and theft of 200 ezers to refer to this matter again at any time the said village at the bouse of two of the villages or at any length, but perhaps before I pass and thirdly with kidnapping a child named finally from the subject I may be pardoned for Leung Kwan Fong, a native of the sald village, contrasting your financial position with the on the 19th of May, 1890. financial position which the Company occupied in the public estimation a few years ago. I do not for the purpose of producing this contrast go back to those old times when upon the opening of the Suez Canal our affairs were in a somewhat serious state of embarrasment, and our paid up shares were then at a market price little exceeding 630. I do not go back to that time, but I go back to 1879, and I find our old shares at 1531 and I find that those Shareholders who were fortunate enough to purchase their interest the Company to years ago have exactly doubled the value of their capital in their holding in this Company, not counting the interest which they have been paid in the shape of dividends in the meantime, which interest, seeing that our aver age dividend has been £6 18s. per cent during. that period, must have been in the case of those fortunate Shareholders, between 8 and 9 per cent. Gentlemen, I mention this simply in order to close my observations upon this new depar

SIR,Can you tell me what advantage a high ture which we have taken with regard to your rate of exchange Is to a man who do not capital account, a departure which I believe will remit ?. I fail to see that it makes any differ prove to be even mere for your Interest in the ones in the prices charged by the tradesmen of ago Wx read in the Peking Gausite that Chang future than it is at present. I do not claim that this place, for two years ago I paid ag cents for Shan, the Military Deputy Lieutenant-Governor the result is either wonderful or exceptional, but a drink, and 310 for a case of whisky. Then at Chinchow in the Manchurian province of at the same time I feel bound to say that if none the Almighty" was only quoted at 2/11, An Finest Old Jamaica, 'Violet

Capsule 121.00 Shengking, who is also charged with the general of us had invested in anything worse than P. & increase of 15 per cent. in value, which at home Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon, superintendence over the Government reserves O. shares during the last few years our condition is considered a respectable profit, is thought

and pastures along the banks of the Taling would not require much pity or commiseration" nothing of here. LIQUEURS,

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river, reports that in the early part of November-He then referred to the interim dividend pro- Curiçoa Herring's Cherry Cordial last the Chao Uda league of Mongols sent in posed, at the rate of 5 per cent, on preferred and

Hongkong, July 17th, 1890. Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura their usual tribute offering of 1,000 horses, which 7 per cent, on deferred stock, and expressed the Bitters, &c. were placed with the Government droves in hope that it would be many years before they the above-named reserves. A similar number were required to hesitate as to the payment of

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF should have been forwarded at the same time by the interim dividend upon the basla then

A CHINESE Girl. the Cho-so-t'a league, but as the animals were in announced. Upen the sliver question he mid-r

IIL poor condition and there was no fresh grass to be-Whether or not the advance in sliver was' obtained on the way so late in the year, it was likely to have a disturbing effect on the

(Continued.) proposed to keep them back till the ensuing Company's business was a question which

It is an ancient observation that one half the spring. The officers in charge of the Talingho it was only possible to answer by making a sort pastures have, however, represented to memorial of guess at the results "bat," he proceeded, world does not know how the other half lives. Let that the droves of Government horses there whilst it is my opinion that undoubtedly It is quite possible to live among the Chinese have so increased of late years by breeding and considerable advance lo the price of allver will for a long time without becoming practically by purchase, that they now number

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1.00 LAST night an attack was made upon a China: man's house in British Kowloon just within 1.10 about soo yards of the frontier. They were all armed with revolvers and swords and their faces were blackened with charcoal. The object of the attack was the seizure of some $5,000, which, 0.75

fortunately for the old gentleman, he had 1.00 paid into a Chinese bank that very day, The rufians therefore contented themselves with "clearing the decks" generally of every thing portable, and then retreated into 1.00 Chinese territory. Detective Inspector Stanton and Detective Sergeant McIver are on" the 0.40 case and will, if it be possible, run the daring

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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1890.

TELEGRAMS.

THE SILVER BILLE

LONDON, July 14thì ̧. President Hantson has approved of the Silver

July 15th. The Silver Bill taket effect from August 13th.

BILL

robbers to earth.

Mr. Philippo objected to the charges being made in an informal and, as he alleged, unusual manner, and requested his Worship to state whether or not the original information upon which the arrest had been made was considered as cancelled,

His Worship held that the original information was virtually correct, but decided to adjourn the case until next Saturday in order to give the prosecution time to formulate their charges and The case was then adjourned until Saturday.

information in the usual style,

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necessarily endorse the opalona expressed by Correspondents in this colama).

THE RISE IN EXCHANGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hosastong Teliomar56,"

FAIRPLAY.

and that owing to the narrow exted Dead, tend to operate sgalust exports from the East acquainted with their modes of settling those functure the husband of the drowned woman of English households, while his writings put