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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1890.

1.The shipmaster is the proper and filtest representative of nautical interests, having in almost all cases graduated from boy to master, and is therefore fully qualified to represent seamen of all ranks. 2.-"Masters, officers, and engineers. contribute fees in support of the shipping offices, and have to undergo their examination before the officials of Local Marine Boards, whereas seamen are called upon to pay any fees, or in any way contribute to the maintenance of these, offices.

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3. To have able seamen appointed by the Board of Trade and sitting in judgment upon masters, officers and engineers, with power to suspend or cancel

Tax Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says he has no sympathy with an eight-hour man who runs a fourteen-hour wife. "What about Mrs Tilton, Heary?

Tux agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) inform us that the "Shire Line steamship Carmarthenshire, from London, &c., leût Singa pore for Hongkong this morning.

A TELEGRAM dated London July 1st gives the result of the July Stakes run at Newmarket, as

follows:

Baron de Rothschild's b c Beauharnais... x

be, by Camballe-Queen of the Hills 2 Mr. Brodrick-Cloete's Unicorni............. 3 LRUNG KI PO was again "before Mr. Robinson at the Palice Court this afternoon when further evidence in his defence was heard. The case was remanded until Monday, to give Mr. Caldwell, the counsel for the prosecution, time

for the defence.

THE BARRADAS CASE.

THREE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT,

At the Sessions this morning, Z. M. Barradas was again brought before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice, on four charges of ember- zling Post Office money. "The Attorney-General (Mr. Ackroyd) prosecuted, and Mr. J. J. Frands. Q.C. (instructed by Mr. Wilkinson) defended

Francisco Freirie, whose examination was continued said: I do not see the sum of $1,133.87 entered in the books up to the 20th of May of this year although it should appear in accordance with the entries on the receipt form. This receipt refers to an entry in the books which reads "28th February 1868 £267.17.17 credited to London." That account, of February was passed by me as correct. The red ink inscription on the receipt form is in the prisoner's hand-writing,

specified in red, written in the Collector's Account. In the way I passed the account there see that there is any entry of the $761.36 in the was the credit given for postal notes. I cannot book where it should appear. It is only entered

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them without paying, has usually very littlemerit, though it has some limes been redeemed from its commonplace nature by the adoption of a title, or the use of an aristocratic name, or some appeal to the dealer's vanity, or other pecularity of dis position which requires thought and may indicate some faint tmce of geolus. The man who lately, at Calcutta, lived for some weeks as a peer, taking a name now little known, was in my opinion at feast as high in the swindling social scale as an ordinary forger,

now he sought to justify that by detailing number of unheard of rules that the prisoner ought to have obeyed. The erasures, misrepre- sentations, and running-away might all point to guilt on another charge, but had no weight in the present charge against Mr. Barradas. After making the above speech three times the learned Queen's Counsel resumed his seat.

The Attorney-General, in closing the case, pointed out that the prisoner, by running away had left his books in such a state that positively

A swindler was recently committed in the nothing could be made of them. But all that the prosecution had to do was to shew that

south of France, who at first sight looked as if a whilst, on a certain date, he had produced a receipt from the Bank, for a certain sum of great artist in swindling had appeared. A

Gresk Prince" took rooms in a hotel in Mar

his way to money, the Bank's books shewed that he had matreilles, declaring himself to be paid in any such sum, and the presumption was Paris: he bought houses, lived at an enormous that he had stolen. As to the fourth count they rate, borrowed fifteen hundred francs from his landlord, professed to have fallen in love with a girl he saw in a train, and actually arranged with her family a contract of marriage, which looked very like'n sale of the young lady by her brother. The Prince was a convict, and his

it was 'not to be duped, and in availing himself. of the prevalent bellef that the arrival of a Greek Prince was a possibility and the universal ignorance of what Greek Princes would be like, showed a fine perceptive mind. But then it was immensely stupid to declare himself a Turkish subject when Torkey has a consul in the port, and to forge Turkish bills of exchange. The first man of common sense who got one of these Fills it happened to be the young lady's brother took the document to the Consulate, and the bubble exploded and Prince Kalemaky wan speedily in prison again.

Tonic in all cases where the system is depressed their certificates, is to inflict an indignity to produce evidence to rebut that of the witnessca! There is a corresponding entry for the amounts, made the Treasury certificate serve two purposes, success induping so many persons whose interest

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BY APPOINTMENT.

upon those who hold certificates of competency which must inevitably tend to prejudice the possessors of them in the eyes of the public, and, what is perhaps of greater, and certainly is of the utmost, importance, cannot fail to undermine, If not completely subvert, discipline at sea. 4.By this new departure a concession is made to men who have no claim

The Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square,

this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock:-

Marth.........Sleeping MargleTM

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Tancer El Dorado".

‚“The Duke of Fifa”. VI'

Polka.......... See me dance" Quadrile......" Madame Angot'

"Wings of love"

Hewill Wond

Royle. · Salomen

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Mejder.

on account of orders.

Mr. Francis-That' is no evidence-a mere coincidence of figures. You don't know that it is the same sum of money exactly.

Examination continued-There was no audit of the Postal notes account,`y

To his lordship-For the purposes of my audit I only vised the Treasury receipts. I Treasury receipts at the time I audited the

52whatever to a seat upon these Boards royal-mast of the British bark Annie Stafford | don't recollect whether I saw any erasure on the.

and who will be sure to follow up the advantage they have gained and demand still further power.

"In conclusion the Council of this A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, Association has to state that it feels called upon to present, in the name of British shipmasters and officers, an emphatic protest against the new departure of your honourable Board, and expresses the earnest hope that the grievance may be

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certificated mariners and engineers the privilege and right of full representa- tion, by elective process, upon these

Boards."

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YESTERDAY, about 9 a.m., during a severethunder- storm which passed over this colony, the main

was struck by lightning. Beyond a slight which is discharging cargo at Kellet's Island, splintering of the mast and the scorching of a portion of the deck no damage was done; which was most fortunate and surprising, owing to the fact that she has no lightning-conductors and ail. Lucky for the underwriters, who are $30,00 her partly discharged cargo consists of kerosene to the good!

LONDON is the biggest and richest pince in the world, and more people eat too much there than in any other capital. Also, more people eat loo little therr, and more children die of hunter, and more women are sweated on to the streets. The earnings of 25 per cent, one out of four of its population, is less than a guinea a week when they are working full-time; 20 per cent, one dat of five, dies in a workhouse or other charity' institution; one out of eleven gets poor-relief every year; and all the time the rents are creasing at the rate of £6,000,000 annually,

nice sop for the rent-robbers.

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THE fool-killer is abroad. A Sikh employed as a guard at Stonecutters' Island started to split wood with a yib. Hotchkiss shell yesterday after noon. One hard has not yet been found, but the rest of him was cremated at Happy Valley, this evening. A comrade who was passing is not seriou ly injured. Let us sound the load timbrel-

Sikh

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accounts. I may have seen it.

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would remember there was a paying in certificate for $1934, 26 which corresponded with no entry in the books, and must have been embezzled-it had never been placed to the credit of the office er the Government. The prisoner most undoubtedly it became a receipt for two payments in the place of one. Nothing was casier than scratching deceiving the auditor. His books showed the money was paid into the Bank out the words "postal notes and thereby

and the cashier had sworn to it, and yet he succeeded by this system of double receipts in defrauding the Revenue."

His lordship, in summing up, informed the jury that by a local ordinance it is enacted that any one in the service of the Gor ernment who shall embezzle any money received in his official capacity as a public servant shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the money. If the evidence was weak and it they were asked to merely draw an inference then the line of defence adopted by Mr. Francis would be very forcible. If it were shown that the money was paid into the bank then the evidence appeared to show that the sums were, received by the prisoner. His lordship could not see any impropriety on the prisoner's part in adding memoranda in red ink to the vour hers The money order department was regarded as a separate department, and the prisoner was in sole charge. With regard to the history of the first charge there was strong evidence that the sum of $1,913 was a receipt given showing that it was "on account of postal notes." The jury could examine the receipt, and see if those words had been erased or not, with a view to serving another purpose. He thought that the inference was pretty clear.

The jury retired to consider their verdict at 4.15, and after half-an-hour's retirement returned in order that his lordship might again point out how the prisoner had obtained credit twice for $1.913

The Attorney-General said, in reply to his lordship, that all the accounts of the Money Order Department were lost for the period rat In cross-examination witness said-I have January to 30th June 1899. been 1 years as audit clerk in Government Service. Before joining the Audit Department I never did any audit of any kind. I had only to audit Revenue accounts. I don't remember going to the Money Order Department. My impres- sion is that the present arrangement of the Money Order department has been going on for seven years. Usually the imperial order book would show receipt of much more than was paid out. Sometimes the indebtedness of the Australian Colonies to this office would exceed $20,000. I never received any instructions from the Post-master General or Mr. Travers respecting thd management of the innova tion in the Money Order department. I knew nothing of the special ru'es until the late dis- turbance arose, in the department: I have only seen, the prisoner's tin cash box since the prisoner went away, and I don't know how much he had in it when he went on leave. In the middle of last year a question arose,respect ing the prisoner's account. I was then called in with Mr. Rocha and audited them and found all correct. I have since heard that that audi was not correct; but from subsequent examina-His lordship-You have been convicted of tion I find such criticism unfair and incorrect, My audit at the Money Order department was simply to see that the money orders paid and sums received corresponded with the entries in the books. I had nothing else to do in the execu- tion of my duty as monthly auditor. I never observed the entry of Shanghai accounts, except the red-ink writing, when auditing. ⠀⠀⠀

To His lordship-With reference to the erased entry of the words "Money Orders" on the certificate of May 1889 for $1,717.93, had they not been erased I should have observed, in making my audit, that there was an apparent deficit of $1.737-93-

To Mr. Francis-Had I noticed the red ink writing there (on the certificate) at the time I audited I should have passed the account absolutely correct. I would have taken no special notice of it at all.

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We have no hesitation in saying that this new departure of the Board of Trade is not onlyanunwarrantable outrageupon British certificated mariners, but also a hare- brained, ill-judged and unnecessary inno vation well worthy of the antiquated fossils

PROMOTION At last! His Excellency, the Officer who for somany years past have constituted the "powers that be" in the Board of Administ ring the Government has approved of Trade, that dull man Sir' MICHAEL Hicks the following acting appointments being made but only temporarily and subject to the Secretary BRACH, as the late JOHN BRIGHT designated in the Plice Force, to date from the 1st inst,, the present President, not excepted. of State's approval. (whatever that may amount Everyone interested in sea-faring matters to) vz:-Senior 1st Class Inspector Cradock to be Acting Chief Inspector, Senior 2nd Class is naturally desirous of seeing the position Inspector, Mackie to be Acting 1st Class of our seamen improved as far as possible, Inspector; Senior 3rd Class Inspector Perry to be and Class Inspector; and Sergeant Hanson, and it can hardly be denied that in many No, 83. to be Acting 3rd Class Inspector. respects there is ample room for improve- Possibly all this is better than a black-eye or a ment, but it is certainly not in the direction kick-out, although in several cases it cories indicated by this Quixotic decision of the after the recipients of the honour (save the

Re-examined-I do not think it possible for mark) has been "stuck" at inspector for about authorities at Whitehall. Of what possible so years. Slow and sure, eh? That's it. a voucher to be altered after it is returned.

did not examine the prisoner's balance after use could an able seaman be, no matter A CONFERENCE between. the Steamship-owners going through the books, I had nothing to do how intelligent, sitting as a judge in an Association and Marine Officers Association was with the money order books. I do not recollect investigation regarding an intricate ques- held the other week at Sydney,, Mr. Willis that I was specially sent down to do so, I must

(of the Steamship-owness) in the chair, when. have been sent for something of the sort. tion of navigation or seamanship, or some

the officers made the following proposals had only to do with the revenue accounts. IfI technical defect in a vessel's machinery. That the minimum rate of wages shall be, had known that the prisoner sold postal notes I subjects of which he could not possibly have, chief officers, 16 per month; second officers, 14 would not have accepted the account which only The shewed a money order account. I went in nor is he supposed to have, any practical

January to audit the October accounts. knowledge? Any such proposal is really second, 9 to ro; third, £5 to £8. z beneath sensible discussion, a reductio ad That all intercolonial steamers should carry three certificated officers beside the master, absurdum that cannot be seriously enter-and that a system of three watches should be tained. Poor "Jack" asks the Board of [s Trade for bread, and that high-toned department throws him a stone. Make our sailors' experiences both afloat and ashore as pleasant as the circumstances of maritime life will allow; pay them adequately, afford them proper accom modation for sleeping and reasonable recreation feed them as hard-working men ought to be fed; and above all treat them like reasonable beings, and they will have no grounds for complaint either against their employers or their officers. To remedy their alleged grievances by nominating them, as members of local Marine Boards is nonsense of the most mischievous type."

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

A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, Hongkong, China, and Manils.

The Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1890.

LOCAL MARINE BOARDS. Tux President of the Board of Trade having nominated able seamen (forecastle "hands") to sit on.Local Marine Boards, certificated mariners and engineers are

greatly irritated in England, the feeling of indignation is increasing rapidly, and the Colonial Mercantile Marine Associations have written to the home unions notifying them of their warm sympathy in the matter, In the meantime the Council of

the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool has, we hear, addressed an

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s teamer Lombardy left Bombay for this port at 3 pim. on the 23rd insi,

per month; third officers, C12 per month. wages at present are: Chief, £12 to £14

observed at sea. 3 That all reagoing steamers trading within the limits of the colony shall

certific ted carry two

officers beside the master. 4 To define the work of off- cers in the four principal porta-Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. 5. Thai all steamers licensed to carry 100 paries. gers or over in the Hobson's Bay trade shall carry at least two certificated officers to addi- tion to the master, for the safety of the travel- ling public. The steamship owners notified their branch. The Chairman, in reply, said that they intention of referring this malter to the Melbourne considered their demand very moderate. He spoke highly of the officers, and stated that the proposals would be considered.

On

His lordship having explained the matter, the jury again retired for a few minutes. their return the foreman announced that the prisoner had been found "not guilty" on the first three counts, and guilty, unanimously, on the fourth.

Prisoner had nothing to say before sentence was passed."

stealing the sum of $1,737. The amount is comparatively trifling, and of course I need hardly say that I do not for a moment assume that you are guilty of anything else but what the jury have convicted you of." You have been found guilty on one count, and acquitted on the other. But although the sum is comparatively small there are circumstances in the case which make me deal more severely with it than I should with an ordinary case You were a public servant, entrusted for a long time by the Government with the conduct of an office, confidence was placed in you--confidence of the most complete kind. You committed sidérable atrocity, by this robbery under circumstances of con- the alteration of vouchers shewn to the Auditor-General, and by the erasure of some words you have been able to obtain certain sums. In addition to that you attempted to escape from Justice by leaving the colony. This conviction, as I said, is for stealing a comparatively small sum, but the sentence shall pass on you is one of three years' impri- sonment, with hard labour,

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The prisoner began to cry as he was removed.

A SWINDLER ON SWINDLING.”

Three days ago that child of misfortune whom Hongkong knows as Charles, Count Popoff, emerged from the privacy of Her Majesty's gaol, where he had spent the last sixteen months in expiation of an embezzlement. He did us the honor of calling at this office yesterday morning, and tendering an article for publication in con- sideration of some pecuniary reciprocity. He was the same old Popoff that made a splash in "fast" circles for a few days before he was caught last year; always good-humored-except when he ventilated bis grievances about prison treatment-still talking with easy indifference of the remittances he expected from Calcutta, still

Yet even in the remarkably clever swindle, related in the Times, there is one, evidence of vulgarity. Most of the incidents are remarkably artistic in the very highest degree, but there is a defect in style. A gentleman, it appears, who, wished to let his house in Berkeley Square, was informed that a Mr Montefiore was willing to take it, and called upon that gentleman to arrange the lease. Mr. Montefiore thereupon informed him that he did not want the house, but had asked for it because he wished to relieve its owner's embarrassments, and prevent the sale of a place he might afterwards require. An offer so unexpected and unusual would of course have excited suspicion, but the swindler, with really high feeling for his art, had prevented this by adopting the only name which carries with it a presumption of henevolence, as Rothschild rines of wealth. The owner, accepting the offer, Mr. Montefiore told him that a, bank with which he had influence would open a credit for him, provided he paid in 500. Had this been done he would doubtless have offered in the kindest way to take the money to the bank and bolted with it, but the victim. had not so much in hand. With sang freld of the most creditable kind. Mr. Montefiore explained that it did not signify, that 200 would do, and that he himself would lend the remainder, to be repaid the following morning. A cheque for 200 was produced, Mr. Montefore showed another for £303, which under the circumstances was not examined, and drove his victim to a bank, where he pretended to get both cashed, although he really cashed one only. Then they drove to Rothschild's bank, where he disappeared with his plunder, leaving bis victim in the cab. To make the fraud still more perfect, there was a Mr. Montefiore in the bank, and on the 'victim inquiring if he were there, he was of course answered in the affirmative. The swindler thereby gained an hour mote to make his escape, ~-- or rather to escape pursuit. Now here we have nearly the perfect swindler, the consummate actor, who marks. his victim, understands his clicumstances and character, lays a 'plot involving little danger at the outset, meets an unexpected difficulty with complete self-posses sion, and in the kindest, most charitable and most gentlemanly manner, robs the man who, trusted in his effusiveness. There is, however, one blot in this kind of swindle. Mr. Montefiore is liable when detected to rather severe penalties, and I take it the ideal swindler is the man who, doing all he did, and doing it as delicately, would at the end of it all be only within the grasp of the civil magis- trate. To swindle so as to be imprisoned is a defect in art, showing want of culture and sense of proportion-an act very inferior in intelligence. to a bankruptcy with property concealed, or other unpunished chefs d'œuvre.

The highest order of genius in the swindling line belongs to the performer of a little drama I heard of the other day, and he ought to be made President of the Academy. He actually devised a safe form of swindling. He opened an account at a bask, and commenced a practice of paying in his office balance every evening and drawing it out every morning. He did not like, he said, toleave so much money, usually some thousands, in his office overnight. The practice, though unusual, was tolerated for several weeks, and on the last day of the month the chèque was presented as usual. It was not until it had been paid, and the money lost, that the clerk discovered that the cash, had not been

a lover of "diamond" rings, and never tired of paid in as usual the previous night, The drawer expatiating on his connection with some Russian had relied, with a curious, knowledge of human secret society whose motto was "Obey or die." nature, on the influence of habit, the dislike of We would have preferred that he should have all banks to display unnecessary suspicion or to added to his article an analysis of his own

do anything so violent as to refuse an ansurpected artistic efforts, but the count's retiring diposi customer'e cheqes. On the other hand the lion prevented it. So the essay one which he swindler knew perfectly that if the chequo certainly was well qualified to write must go in- | should be refused it would be in the ordinary way as he left it. It was headed "The Swindler as by a mere memorandum of "insufficient effects," an Artist,” and runs thus tempus and now that it has been paid he is only in the posi

tion of a, customer who has overdrawn and is:

The swindlers of the East should form an

merely liable to civil process. That little fraud is really what I must call artistic paindling and may almost reconcile the Mr. Mathew Arnold of the profession, whoever he is, to the blundering clamsiness of most of the fraternity, who seem to imagine, as such wretched industrials do, that if the result is attained, theft and swindling are almost the same thing. A great mistake,

***** CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr. A. S. Stephen, cashier of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. said I produce the cashier's book for 1888. On the 16th March there was received $2014 from the Postmaster General, made up of 1913 and 81or. There was no other sum paid in that day. On the 28th February no sum of $1,737 was paid in by the Postmaster-General,

Cross-examined-On the 16th March 3861 were paid in, besides the amounts stated.

Inspector Stanton-On the 20th May I went to Manila to arrest the prisoner. He was handed over by the Spanish officials, in the British Con- salate. I told him the charge against him- that of stealing $46,000. He made no reply.

Mr. Francis, for the defence, having made the conventional appeal to the jury to decide the case without prejudice, called their altention to the absence of evidence that the Government had lost a single cent-not a single witness had shown that there was any deficiency, general or CANADA, says Professor Goldwin Smith, is a disjointed tier of provinces lying along the particular. With respect to the specific sums which academy. As with the other middle classes of porthern edge of Continent inhabited by a the phener was charged with stealing convidence Great Britalo, for I like it the true rank of a population identical with the bulk of her own, had been adduced that the money did not exist swindler in the criminal world is between and with which her own is being rapidly fused in any of the Government accounts. There was burglar and a thief-they have the virtue of by reciprocal migration. The American Con- evidence that the prisoner had received money, industry, and they produce results; but they are tisent forms her natural market, and she is and had not paid it into the Bank. If the pri terribly deficient both in intelligence and style, divided from it only by a conventional line. soner had had control of no other moneys, and Mr. Mathew Arnold would despise them heartily The fundamental institutions of the two had only one way of dealing with it, the inference even if they contrived to chest him out of a 950 masses of population, as well as their race, would be plain ; but, as it had been shown, he note. They are always doing something which, Language and religion are the same. Will the received money for money orders and postal even when efficient, is exceedingly clumsy and Canadian provinces citimately gravitate toward notes, and had to pay any orders that were pre- offensive to persons penetrated with a just sense their own Continent, or will they always remain sented, and until the prosecution shewed that he of the value of the ideal in att. They embezzle, on the other side of the Atlantic? That is the before the Court a complete statement shewing numbers; but embezzlement usually is nothing but theft under very easy circumstances A person inform us that the "Ben" Line ateamer Canadian problems. The Canadians by their all the prisoner's receipts and payments, he HICKS-BEACH, President of the Board of Benvenue, from Leith and London, left Singa-present political relations are excluded from could not be found guilty of embezzlement or entrusted with money steals it and abeconds, an Trade, on the subject, in the followingpore yesterday for this port.

their natural market. To exclude people from farceny. Mr. Travers, with a reluctance that operation about as artistic as the construction of their natural market is to condemn'them to com- was easily understood, had stated that the the brick box with holes in it which in London terms: ----

mercial atrophy, which, in fact, is the lot of prisoner should not have mixed the imperial and is called a house. If a professional has obtained your correspondant "British Truth." I am at a Canada. Can the Canadians be expected to the local money, but it was well-known that he bis altuation with the view to embezzle, studied his loss to account for his remarkable statement endure this forever? Would the British them. did so. It had not been shewn that the prisoner employer's character and books, and embezzled, that fally 75 per cent. of all ships are British, selves endure it 7 Canadians are not knights was not obliged to at once bank the money he at the precise moment when emberlement Had he taken the trouble to consult, Whitaker's errant in quest of the Holy Grail; they are received he was at liberty to use it for a most profitable, then indeed his work is Almanac for the current year, p. 657, he would husbandmen, mechanics and tradesmen in quest legitimate purpose--that of paying Australian redeemed from vulgarity, and he may go to have been able to place before your readers the of their bread and most of them working hard money orders. In the absence of evidence as Victoria Gaol with a serene consciousness that real percentage viz: British ships 35 per cent,

other than British 6a per cent.j. and living hard to earn it. Of late years there to any deficiency in the departmental accounts he has displayed intelligence lifting him quite out of the rank of inere industrials. But few iwen has been an increase in the volume of the trade the feferences drawn from the erasures fo the between Canada and the United States, com Banke receipts must be disregarded. Consider have the ability for harmonious scoundrelles pared with that of the trade between Canada and lug the wretched system-of-want-of-system of thir-kind. They prefer simpler or more England, notwithstanding the American tariff, in keeping and auditing and accounts, was it to brutal expedients. Forgery, for instance, in the Paiting all the elements of he problem together, be wondered at that mistakes occurred? He (Mr. absence of an academy which would enforce it appears thats to keep the members of the Francis) never had a very high opinion of the sound lewe, strikes them as really artistic, and Dominion united in themselves and severed from departmental officials in Hongkong, but in his they are always forging. In reality forgery in to their Continent a desperate war against nature wildest dreams he never thought that such a true swindling what photography is to set--it discreditable system existed as had been shewn produces a great result, but by purely mechanical must be waged.

He did not wish to impute personal blame to means. There is no originality or style about it, Mr. Traven, who had been the acting head for for a mern imitation of handwriting does not eighteen months he found the system already - allow of style, and the labour of ascertaining the in force when he took office. It was the Audit state of an account requires very little thought Office that had to be blamed. The accounts in after all, and is only an inferior, though acces the whole department of the Post Office, and sary, accomplishment. The power of making up? Treasury were in such a state that the auditors does not constitute a good actor,, A professional could not strike a balance. Until that had forger may of course belong to a high class of been done it was ridiculous to accuse the swindlers, just a photographer may be an prisoner of theft. Mr. Travers had algaed artist, but the business itself is not within the anything put before him, without inquiry, and I'domain of true art. ⠀⠀ Ordering goods and selling

emphatic remonstrance to Sir MICHAEL THE agents (Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Coparated from it and connected with a kingdom could not have paid the déficit away, by bringing for instance, with some success, and in great

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A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, Da Friday, the 1st proximo, at 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. THAT famous old bone-shaker the Kiskiang resumed running on the Hongkong-Macao route this afternoon vice the Houng-shan, which has gone to dock to have a lesking boller overhauled

and repaired.

"The Council of this Corporation, in common with kindred bodies, and the masters and officers of the British Merchant Service generally, have been informed of the decision of the Board of Trade to nominate áble seamen as members of Local Marine Boards of Great Britain, and that several able seamen have been so appointed.

"As this is an important departure from the usual practice of the Board of Trade, who have almost invariably chosen ship masters as their nominees, and as masters,

MR. Wodehouse hold an inquiry at the officers, and engineers are by this change Magistracy this morsing into the circumstances subjected to an injustice which they regard attending the death of Chinaman, who was pulled out of the water at the Bank Wharf about as derogatory to their profession, I am o'clock in the morning of the 17th instant. directed by the Council of this body to After taking the evidence of PC. 73, who ask your serious attention to the repre-recovered the man's body, as well as medical evidence which showed that the man had sentations made in this communication, suffered from dysentery, his Worship found

that the deceased dled from natural causes, and especially to the following points:

ATELEGRAM from England to Calcutta says that owing to the large increase to the purchase of silver and present scarcity of bullfen, experts predict a further rise of two-pence in exchange with India by the end of the year.

THE CALCUTTA FRAUDS,

A telegram was received from Calcutta, this afiemoon to the effect that E. H. Solomon, who had obtained eleven lakhs of supees from the Bank of Bengal, and three lakhs from the branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, by forging opium bonds, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment.

cassully code the opinions expressed by Correspondence in this column).

THE MERCANTILE MARINE, © TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONGKONG TELiGzAPH.”. SIR-Truth is evidently an elastic term with

As his other remarks are not of sufficient public

interest to warrant a lengthy and useless discus. slow, thank you for the valuable space thus accorded me, and sign myself,

A FOREIGNER WITH BRITISH

SYMPATHIES. Hongkong, July 24th, 1893, P

¿THE ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. TO THE EDITOR, The "Ho vakonG TELEGRAPH.” DEAR SIR,—I shall be obliged if you will acknowledge a donation of $50 received by me from Mt. 1. McLeavy Brown for the funds of the Hospitals Band. Yours faithfully)

EW, MAITLAND, Hon. Trenumer Alice Memorial Hospitale

Hongkong, asih July, 1800,