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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890.

magnanimity displayed by the Portuguese Government, after robbing the, British and American capitalists who have constructed the Delagoa Bay railway in the most barefaced manner recorded in modern times, is worthy of all praise, and we trust the Cabinets, of Washington and London will duly appreciate the condescension of the Lisbon Ministry. It is really heart- rending to think what might have happened had his Most Catholic Majesty, and his advisers,gone on another tack, and boldly defied both UNCLE SAM and JOHN BULL. We certainly should not at the present moment beenjoying our dolce far niente amidst the cool sea-breezes of fair Macao. But joking apart, Portugal has an ocean of serious trouble to face in the near future, and unless she "gangs warily" there is more than a possibility of "ancient Lusitania "being summarily wiped out of the map of Europe. No one could possibly regret a contingency like this more than the writer, and no One has

a higher opinion of the glorious past history, splendid admirable achievements, and many qualities of the Portuguese nation; but the

SOLDIERS ON STRIKE. The second battalion of the Grenadier Guards refused to answer the bugle call for kit inspection On the and locked themselves. In their rooms. inspection being abandoned, the men fell in and hooted and hissed the remarks of the Colonel

THE SILVER QUESTION. The Joint Conference has adopted a substitute Silver Bill, which provides for the monthly pur- chase of four and a half million ounces, and no bullion redemption, certificates to be full legal:

tender redeemable in coin.

THE WRATHER.

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Dr. Doberck Issued the following notice yesterday afternoon :- Typhoon cast Formosa, which appears to be moving north wards.” In to-day's report he says that the centre has entered the mainland near Foochow

A telegram from Manila, forwarded. by the Spanish Consul, states that the typhoon had re- curved towards the cast,

BAD WEATHER IN THE NORTH.

The German steamship Deuteros, Captain Diase, which arrived bere this morning from Japan with a cargo of coals, encountered a

THE Highland Land Court has reduced rents on the Duke of Portland's estates in Caithness on an average of 29è per cent. About 60 per cent of the artcars were cancelled.

PRINCE CHARLES of Sweden and Norway was recently summoned to a court in Stockholm tr serve as a juryman in criminal case. But the Judge decided that on account of family connec- thans he was ineligible.

In reply to "House-wife" we regret that we have no plan and speclications in stock an to

the most economical manufacture, of pickled onions; but doubiless either the Dock Company or the Hongkong Hotel will be glad to do the needful.

THE annual report that King George at Greece is about to abdicate is again on its travels. It is high time he did abdicate, ar drowned him. self, or retired into a nunnery, or did something to get outside public recognition. A bigger ass never wore a crown.

OUR Texas Siftings friend says that an unthinking partisan is like a sightless monkey. who blindly follows an organ. He must have been thinking about the signatories of the notorious protest ry the lease of Bowrington. Gardens to the Hongkong Athletic Club. STRATEGY in the Supreme Court.-" Time will prove my client innocent!" cried Squillie. Q.C. "Your argument carries some wait with it, facetiously observed the Court, who had just quiljig laughed so heartily that he won bis case. THE thickest octavo volume in the world known is the latest addition of Whitaker's "Reference Catalogus of English Literature. The bank weighs twelve pounds and is eleven inches in thickness, which is the exact weight and thick- ness of the skull of the China Mail's very own "Brownie."

Nos. 23 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Portuguese of to-day are not practical, they typhoon on Sunday the rath 'Inst. in Latitude returned from a big tiffin at, the Club. And

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either cannot or will not recognise the "only too palpable fact that they are a mere cypher, a nonentity in modern politics, and instead of conserving their strength and limiting their colonial enterprise to the actual power ofthe Central Government and A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. the necessities of the country, they needs must engage in quarrels with Powers that cannot be gainsaid and about imaginary privileges which, at least. so far as Portugal is concerned, are entirely chimerical and valueless. Nations cannot exist and prosper in these prosaic days on mere memories of the past; they must strive to utilise their opportunities in every possible way to create trade and establish a field for the products of the Mother Country, What has Portugal done in this direction during the last half century? Absolutely nothing. Look at her South African colonies, Mozambique, Timor, Goa-look even at our immediate neighbour Macao, once the great centre of European clvilization and commerce in the Far East, and now a decayed city, almost without trade, with a blocked-up harbour and tied down with a series of monopolies, gambling and otherwise, which kill frée commerce and leave the colony with an empty treasury and

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27.50 N, Longitude 173.40 E. The sea was very high, and the wind blew with terrific force for nearly twelve hours. During the storm the vessel lost all her boats, and all her deck ge was more or less damaged. When the storm was subsiding, and attempts were being made to clear away the debris, the chief mate, named Burmeister, and a European sailor were washed from the bridge, but fortunately the next wave washed them back, and they clung to the rails CLEMENTINE DE VERE, a soprano, has jus engaged for the choir of the Rev. Dr. Paxton's After the storm had passed one of the Malay Church, New York, at ored £1000 a year, the sallors was missed, having been washed over-largest salary, says the American Musician, board and drowned. The cargo was shifted to ever given to a choir singer in this or any other

on the cheap in that joss house. such an extent that the vessel has a list of about country. They evidently don't praise their god 18 or 10 degrees.

A telegram wAL, Te

by the China Mer- chants S. N. Co., yesterday, stating that the Kwangles, which left here on Friday, bad encountered a typhoon off Wenchow on Monday, and had had all her deck-houses and boats

smashed.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are requested to intimate, that there will be Service at the Peak Church at 5 pm. next Sunday.

HALF the fews in Europe reside in Russia--and a jally high time they have of it in that most civilised country.

Viva la France: Well-informed circles" in St. Petersburg declare that no estrangement exists

Bundle and Doamne

THE members of the "Devil's Own""are strong power in the United States Congress, Out of the 412 members no fewer than 288 are lawyers.

We are informed by the agents (Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.) that the steamer Arra- toom Apcar, from Calcatta, left Singapore to-day for this port.

expenses. Fair, Lusitania is in a bad way, and unless some great political cataclysm shortly takes place in Lisbon, bringing to the front some patriotic, statesman who' will thoroughly recognise the position and determine, at all hazards, to move along with the times, it is only too probable that Portugal will not only lose her colonies which, as at present managed, are worse CAN it be only six o'clock ?" said John, open- than useless but may also sacrifice hering his watch. "There goes the factory autonomy. And this latter contingency Mrs. John. It is the new cook singing in the whistle. "That's not the whistle, daar," put in the world at large would deeply regret. kitchen,"

TELEGRAMS..

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE STRIKE.

LONDON, July 7th.

The London police have issued a notice

warning shopkeepers and others to close early to-day and to make their own arrangements to guard their premises, as the Force go on strike to-night for certain.

THE English Presbyterian Church has now in China twenty ordained European missionaries, ten medical and sixteen lady missionaries, the number of communicante in connection with the church being 3,572.---Cui denot

ALL men are equal at their birth Heirs of the earth and skies; But since we guaged his Comp'oy's worth Stanley don't advertise.

(More power to his elbow.)

THE Stanley Operatic, etc., etc, crowd once played "Hamlet" with Harry Pyne as the melancholy Dane. "What's the matter ?" asked the stage manager, who noticed that something "It's the first grave digger," whispered Horatio, was going wrong during the grave-digging scene. "He says that unless the manager sends him back the price of a square meal right away he's going to eat the loaf of bread they're using for Yorick's skull."

we observe that Mr. John Want, Q C., M.L.D. who was in Hongkong last summer, has received a general retainer from the New South Wales Government. Mr. Want is one of the most effective advocates that ever addressed a jury in the Australasian Colonies, and as he has been successful in getting number of alleged blg criminals off lately, it is suggested that the N. S. W. Government has retained his services as a matter of policy.

THE Yankees whop Creation, even in bail-stones. At a pace called, Rolla, which is somewhere near St. Louis, Mo., a hallstom occurred on June rath, the hall-stones being on an average four inches in circumstance, They were too much for poor old Jesse Cox, who was out in the fields attending to some cabbage plants when the gates of he ven were opened. Jesse was literally pounded to death with the hail stones, and he now peacefully plays a harp in "the mansions of the blest.'..

THE Bishop of Liverpool is not in entire agree the care of young women. At a meeting of the ment with some of the directors of societies for Liverpool Rescue Society he said: "I do not quite agree with the White Cross and other societies, which look upon all young women as lambs and angels, and all young men as raven ing wolves going about seeking whom they can devour, I think human nature is the same in females as in males, and that young women are often as prone, unless there is a good principle in them, to run into sin as young men. We must look at the matter in a common-sense manner."

ACCORDING to the Japan Gasitte the average daily number of suicides in Tokyo Just now is 10. The modes chiefly in favour are drowning and hanging.

THE Rev, Mr. Wi'gut-It has been only a short time ago that I read of a drunkard who, in attempting to blow out a lamp, caught fire and was entirely consumed-a genuine, ease 'of pontaneous combustion. There is a lesion in that, my besotted friend. The Bestted-There is, furn fact. He had no business lettin' hi sef get so dry,

AND this. v gets, is fime. A writer in the "rishane Boomerang remarks į Henry Nar man, not Governor Norman, but' r«man from Singapore who has visited the much yaunted Raub gold mine, savs that Bibby, the manager. talles very pessimistically about his job and cannot find the rich outcrops of the Inde seen by Brown and Sefton--all these things he tells to every visitor, which means that he is either a very honest man or a very wily "bear."

THE Straits Times hears that a German firm is at present trying an experiment in exporting coolies from Shanghai to Java, or Sumatra. This we believe, is the first attempt to obtain conlie labour from Shanghal, most operations in that line having hitherto been carried on at Hong- kong, Swatow, and Amoy. One thing however. remains strongly in favour of men from that part of China.-namely, their pencenblens«<, ag compared with their compatriots from the Smib, which is an important consideration.

We see

announced that the Stanley Operatic crowd will shortly leave for Shanghal. Heaven help them when they face the tender mercies of the irrepressible" guys" and critics of the Model Settlement. There are no regiments of soldiers and dead-heads in Shanghai; the players there pay their money and expect value for it; if they don't get it. then trouble generally. eventuates. And Stanley after Majeroni is come down-a sort of a descent from heaven to-well, let us be lenient and sav purgatory.......

THERE is a characterivic story about Mr. James Nasmyth, showing the confidence he felt in the effectiveness of his own inv ntion. It was-On- To show the gradation of the hammer's force, he the occasion of the trial of his steam-hammer: placed his watch under it. Owing, however, to some mistake, the wrong power was put on, the hammer descended with a blow.fito shake a parish, and the witch was smashed into a million atoms. Nothing daunted, in order to prove the sincerity of the error, Mr. Nasmyth placed his hand under, and the hammer came down this time with the required gentleness.

AMONGST the catch-words, or time-procurers, of the British Parliament the most marked is Balfour's "Very well, air! This he repeats constantly by way of marking his divisions, sub- divisions, and the progress of his oratorical paragraphs. Sir Charles Russell's pet expression is "Let that pass; Gladstone, when he wants time, takes a drink of water; Goschen clears his shroat, and Harcourt drags out a long "Ah! The Sydney Bulletin ways that in the Australian Senates the three favourite phrases would seem to be "Howsumever, as was a-sayin,' an' I'l say it agin," "Yerallar!" and "Come outside an do it!"

THE last sensation visited upon Parle is a pamphlet by the well known Radical deputy, Camille Dreyfus, entitled "The Necessary Wat." It says: "The moment has come for France to obtain the revision of the Frankfort Treaty or tear it up. France should appeal to Europe in the name of general peace, menaced by that treaty which consecrated the abandonment to Germany of Alsace Lorraine. The moment has come for France to make war on Germany, Let us make war; diplomatic reasons permit it; economic reasons impose it on us and military: reasons.command it. Let us make war; the historic hoor has come. Two years ago would) have been to soon; in two years it may be too}} late."

PROFESSOR Collier, the pioneer of the sorghum- producing industry in America, reiterates his firm belief that in the near future sugar from sorghum will be produced on an ecomeus scale at an absurdly cheap rategy a half- penny per pound. In an experiment recently made on 133 tons of cane, over 18elb. of sugar and about 16 gal. of molasses were obtained. The difficulty of cheap crystallisa tion, however, has yet to be overcome, but as; Professor Collier asserts, this was the chief obstacle in the production of best sugar, and it is hoped that as the result of further experiments this may be surmounted as it was in Germany achieved in connection with sorghum syrup manufacture both in the United States and Canada, and several factories are in operation

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WILL wonders never crase 1 Mr. Glo S♫ was actually seen at the bar of the Hongkong Hotel the other day. After this the millennium.

FROM England comes word that the Admiralty han determined to fit out an scean telegraph ship for use in future naval, manœuvres as weil ng in actual warfare. For his duty the Heck, hitherto A torpedo depot ship employed half a year in the Mediterranean and the other half at Portsmouth, has been selected. A corpse of signal-men are to go through a course of instruction in tele- graphy, and the ship is to be prepared ler atow Ing 2000 miles of cable, so that with one end of the wire at the basis of operations the Admiral at the scene of hostilities may be in immediate communication with the authorities at home.

CAPTAIN. MACKINTOSH, of the Chinese sleani- ship Smith, again attended before Mr. Robinson at the Police Court this afternion, in answer to the charge of carrying 109 passengers more that was declared in his Port Clearance. Mr. Wotton, of Messrs. Wotton and Deacon, appeared on behalf of the defendant, and urged that as the ship cleared" at the Harbour Office at least 36 hours before she sailed out of the waters of the Colony, and, or a large number of passengers must have been taken on board unknown to the commander, after he had com-- pleted his clearance he should not be subjected a heavy fine, more particularly ne this was bis first offence, His Worship said that any British bipmaster should be certain of his facts before he made any official statement in writing,

responsible for a very considerable, 'breach of and he could but hold Capt. Mackintosh the Ordinance. However, as this was his first effence he would not be severe, and would fine bim one hundred dollars only.

THE Pilgrim Congregational Church in New York city celebrated its twenty-eighth anniversary the other week, and a special feature of the occasion was the singing of the familiar hymn, The Morning Light Is Breaking," in Chinese. The words of the Chinese translation were taken down phonetically by a stenographer, printed, and distributed through the congregation. Here is the first verse in English and in Chinese:---

The morning light is breaking, The darkness disappears; The sont if earth are woking *To penitential tear;

Each brecam chat sweeps the ocean

Brings tidings from afar Of nations in commotion,

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Prepared for Zion's war, Tingshen jeo wang gum gow sing,

Hock dam zem zem say met.

Shay shayung auf mun gum sum aing,

Hosgful sham fost mult, Hoy ngoy lulloy Joo fang shing, Nay dle ngah yum bu yut. Choon bew mun sumgeejta hing, Yra bo praw jeo dlo yut.

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice).

The July sessions opened this morning, there being only three cases In the calendar. The following jurors were empanelled:-Messrs. A. Denisen, Ji M. Carralho, F. M. Gutierrez, W. }, Saunders, W. Gaskell, C. P. Tupes, and A. Š. Joseph.

THE BARRADAS CASE,

The Acting Attorney-General (Mr. E. J. Ackroyd) said that Mr. Francis, who defended Bairadas, desired to have a day fixed for hearing the case.

His lordship-Is there any reason for it-da you wish it 7 htm

The Acting Attorney-General--Yes, in order to summon a special jury.

His lordship agreed to fix Wednesday, at 10.30.

COUNTERFEITING COIN.. Wo Amei was indicted with being in posses- sion of fifteen counterfeiting Mexican dollars, and some twenty cent and five cent pieces.

The Acting Attorney-General prosecuted. Sergt: McIver stated that he found a quantity of quicksilver, some tools, coins &c., in the house of the prisoner, 23 Lascar Row.

Prisoner stated that he had been away, but returned to his house on the 5th instant. The informer, Ah Lum, met him at the house and had a smoke of opium with him. On the 6th instant Ak Lum charged him with the misappropriation of his opium dress, but the trouble ended in an amicable smoke to the police who took all the things now produced. He was not in his own room when arrested, being the tenant of the cock-loft. All this things were really the property of Ab Lum, who had informed to get money, If his lordship.would thoroughly investigate the matter he would find that he (prisoner) was not a bad man at all.

Many constables were suspended yesterday THE Catholic Synod. silting at 'Kilkenny, has doing. He has demonstrated the fact suggested and in France, Good results have been gether. Ab Lum afterwards went out and brought

8th July.

for refusing duty.

The strike was a failure. [The following manifesto, circulated among the Police, sets forth their grievar ces :-"To the whole of the Metropolitan Police.Comrades As we stand to-day we complain, and justly, of the way in which we are treated. We have sent in a petition, and although it has met with the favourable opinion of the Chief Commissioner, has not with the other officials to whom we trusted it would, as you by this time know. We stand no chance of our petition or our demands, that we, acting on your behalf, made, being conceded, and so we are obliged to take very serious steps,

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adopted a decree forbidding the use of intoxicating liquors at wakes funerals. No priest shall ask prayers for the departed where this com- mand has been violated. Another insult to the down-trodden Irish peasantry. They will have to abolish the priests.

COMPLAINTS both loud and deep reach us dally regarding the shortcomings of the Public Works Department, and, generally speaking, most of these complaints would appear to be justified, | The Government will have to do something to remedy this very soon, or serions trouble will have to be faced at no far distant date,

PRETTY teacher (intent on the lesson)-And vast swarms of flies descended on the land and came into the houses of the Egyptians and covered their clothing and their tables and sit their food, bat impressively) there were no flies on the children of Israel. Small Boy-Please, ma'am, there ain't now, either. (Hongkong share brokers

so serious that we at the eleventh hour hesitate to do so; but it is the only way in which we can rep the difficulties and dangers that to-day sur round us, and do away with the evils that we We cannot, at wo said complain ol before, obtain · better pay and the many please note.] things that we want to better our condition, unless we are determined, and peaceful means

MANY men are supposed to take liberties with their stomachs, but few people turn their stomachs into biological laboratories. This, however, is what a French savant, M. Abelous, has been by Pasteur that certain microbes exist in the stomach which play an active part in digestion. He took the microbes from his own stomach by washing out the latter after a long fast, having previously taken precautions to ensure that the microbes did not come from the mouth. He then cultivated the microbes on peptonised gelatin, potato, &c. until he eventually raised and deve loped 16 different species. The chief fact dis- covered about them was that resistance to an artificial gastric juice in greatly in excess of the mean duration of digestion in the stomach.

MESSES. Kuhn and Co, whose reputation as dealers in 'Oriental goods and curios is of over a score of years' standing, have taken a couple of shops between Brewer's and Kelly and Walsh's and will open on Monday. The store of quaint and marvellous objects with which the premises are stocked would take a connoisseur three or four days to examine, and certainly its equal has never been seen in this Colony before, at any rate. Magnificent bronzes, only within the reach of the wealthy: screens of ivory, gold, silver, silk, lacquer; delicate cloisonné ware; armour, costumes, cabinets, kažímonos, we note that Von der Mehden, who used to all are scattered in attractive profusion in and that mammoth aggregation visited Hongkong, range from about twenty-five cents to ten was lately performing with the Faust Family at thousand dollars, and anything that Japan pro the Theatre Royal, Brísbrus. The Faust Family were also a part of Chiarini's great show in this duces will boobtained, on order. The Japaneries

well worthy a visit. colony, and included amongst other stars the beautiful and accomplished "Zaro."

In both countries.

The Jury unanimously found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment with hard labour.

PETTY LARCENY.

KAISER WILLIAM selected a dinner at Königsberg for delivering his conception of kingship in the following speech: "It was here, in the palace church, that his Majesty the late Emperor William 1. agais proclaimed before the whole world his Kingship by the grace of God. This Kingship by the grace of God expresses the fact that we Hohenzolleros accept our crown Tong Sul was charged with stealing 1,000 only from heaven, and are responsible to heaven cash, a calty of tea, a calty of all, and a picol of for the performance of iis, duties. 1,, too, am rice, from his employer on the 20th of August' animated by this view, and am resolved to act 1889 and to govern on this principle." If this bellicaseThe prosecutor, who is the contractor to the scion of the Hohenzollerns relies on safely Dairy Farm, entrusted the goods to the prisoner retaining his kingship by the grace of God" he

to carry to the Farm. He decamped with them, will trust to a very fickle and uncertain, support, and was not caught until the 7th instant, Remember, William, what poor old Noll Crem well said over three hundred years ago put your trust to God, but keep your powder dry." A wink is as good as a nod to a blind hovse, Willam, and don't you forget it. ·

The Hongkong Celegraph having falled, we, as your commille, ask you "Corle on the cornet" in Calafrin'e when validity of in which

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890.

Ir relieves our troubled mind very greatly read to in home papers that Portugal has accepted in principle the arbitration on

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notto resume duty on June zoth, but to leave your uniform at the Station-house, and "come out." We honestly appeal to all of you to do this. If not you will, never obtalu what you want. We are of the opinion that a man on entering the Force should receive 278, per week for 54-hours' work, or eight hours per day, the eight hours to be worked right off, and that, on rising to

required? We don't think much of French law, ner of English either, as far as betting is con

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We are constantly having inquiries as to the clerks, store-keepers, etc., bind themselves not to carry on opposition business in Hongkong and so on. For advice of this nature a lawyer and elsewhere within a certain period of years, is by far the best man to apply to. Generally speaking, any contract entered into by a man with his eyes open, is valid, unles, the stipulations the sensational are not unreasonable. It may, of course, be a matter of legal opinion, but we don't think that any agreement would hold if preventing a min Carrying on bis business in Chins, unless

lordship sentenced the prisoner to two month's hard labour

The Court then adjourned until Wednesday. the 23rd instant.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Comespondents in this column).

THE PROPOSED ATHLETIC CLUB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONOxong. TheVaraPH.”. SIR-As a member of the Golf Club I have much pleasure in endorsing every word you have said in exposing the attempts of a small and uninfluential clique to binder the progress

THE Stanley Operatic Company announce THE Paris Tribunal, in the course of a recent that they will perform

drama "East Lynne" "at the Theatre gambling sult, announced the doctrine that "the Royal, City Hall, this evening. This is Delagoa Bay Railway question proposed by the second-class, a constable abould - receive' when it is not made on a game in which skill is special purpose. The Editor of this journal, places and time wero specifically stated of the proposed Athletic Club. I might, indivi«, law grants no action for the payment of a bet free advertisement, but it is given for a England and the United States. This will 30 per week, and all first-class men 338, per | required." Can anybody tells as the name of who is also the dramatic critic when there If a person engages not to enter into business | dually, benefit by the success of their opposition, " no doubt restore confidence in this colony, week. Promotion-That two years should be any game in which skill, more or less, is not wrything worth criticising, has been residing in was for some time past it has been an the limit for a man to be in the third-class, and

Maceo for the past week, and he has come open secret that the Lusitanian ironciads so on, iising in six years to a first-class police

across specially to sum up the merits of Mr. Stanley's company in melodrama. He has also Tejo and Rio Lima might at any moment man ; that extra work should be paid for, that

came over for the express purpose of giving the receive telegraphic instructions from Lisbon after 20 years' good service in the Force a mans Kobe Herald of the and instant says third-rate military rowdies, who organised a come over and take possession of should be released without any restrictions, and Mr. Sim, we understand, this morning added "plant" the other night on a defenceless man, Hongkong. And where would the noble, paid a pension according to what grade te is another to the number of lives which he can take an ex-member of our staff, an opportusily of army of brokers have been then? In in that constables be allowed one Sunday off the credit of having saved. A visitor was carrying out their original intention just as far as in every month and that belter conditions be bathing opposite the boat house when he was they think fit. Had he been aware that so Portugal they hang a share broker without made at the Station for all single men. This is seized with cramp. Mr. Sim, who was also much gallantry existed amongst the histrionie bathing, went to his assistatice, and although he members of the Garrison he would have come going through the form of a trial, and we are what we want, and what we will have, if you but had suule, succeeded in rescuing him and getting back sooners but better late than never, and not sure that that is not the best plan. The stand together on June 20th Age"

S him to the bathing stage.

te-night he will be quite "at home"?

to

in Hongkong for ten years, that would, in busil quinthe right of Mr. Gershom Stewart our opinion, be held a valid contract; but if totally disclaim the right of Mr. Gershom Stewart no time were stated and the prohibition was for to represent at least one, member of the Golf clernity, the judge would probably decide that: Club-myself, I understand that a circular was the stipulation was unreasonable. We have no sent round to some of the members of the Club, time at present to consult legal references, but asking us to empower Mr. Stewart to represent we remember a case in which contract pro, but I for one never saw the circular-and if hibiting a man from stating business within two I had I should most certainly not signed it I hundred miles from York was held not binding cannot, but characterise the whole affair as a on the ground that it was an unreasonable and hole-in-the-corner plot to rob the many for the

Yours; &c., unnecessary restriction. A great deal depends benefit of the few of upon the judge: in questions of thisnature, and glas we would recommend our correspondents to all:

Hongkong, July 17th, 1890. cases to consult a firms of competent solicitora.

XERXES.

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