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No. 2613.

BIRTHS.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT

The Hongkong Telegrapy.

At Shanghai, oh the 6th of August, the wife of ALEXANDER HOSIE, H.B.M. Acting Consul, Wenchow, of a sob.

At Wuhu, on the 8th instant, the wife of E. MOLLOY, Customs, of a son-Australian papers please copy.

MARRIAGE.

At St. James' Episcopal Church, Leith, on the 3rd July, by the Rev. J. Shitren, M.A., LOUISA ELIZABETH, daughter of the late Capt. Johnson, of Laith, to Capt. J. A. MORRIS, Scottish Oricatal Steamship Co., Hongkong.

DEATHS.

At Newchwang on the 23rd July, ALBERT DOANE, son of Arthur L. R. and Hester Smith, aged 11 months and 5 days,

At Shanghai, on the 2nd August, 1892, HENRY CLIFTON, eldest son of Henry Joseph and Bertha Liaby, aged 8 years and to months.

Chi Reestina

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1890,

HOW IS IT DONE?

still employed by the Surveyor-General, Another member of the Department had fourteen turkeys giving a musical entertainment in his back-yard last Christmas-all presents from contractors and other persons who, no doubt, expected some quid pro quo, Yet the latter officer is probably as "solid" with his chief as his colleague who was above being bribed.

The fact is that the whole system wants to be thoroughly and carefully investigated and a big clear-out" commenced. And then, when the Government pro satisfied that our allegations, regarding the Public Works Department are substantially con firmed, we will enlighten them' in respect to one or two other branches of the- Service where reform is almost as badly wanted.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1890.

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KELLY & WALSH. Ld., hive sent us a copy of monograph on "Leprosy" from the able pen of Mr. Ins. Cantlie, M.A., M.B., FRCS., a portion of which appeared in our columns last October. experiences of this loathsome disease will be

Dr. Cantlic researches and 'his

studied with interest by the medical world.

NEWS was received last night (tath inst.) that

SIX DOLLARS PEP ARTER

THE Hiogo News, says that Mrs. Smith, a Assenger by the steamship Oceanic, died on Sunday the 3rd inst. on the passage between.

ongkong and Kobe.

THE Scottish Oriental Steamship Company's

entering the inner harbour of Singapore THE cbolcra reported cases in Nagasaki, up to

Hadhe 3rd inst. totalled 1305 and the deaths 717. for the purpose of coaling. European war been raging, or even any DR. DOBERCK notified yesterday that in future serious trouble or complication suggestively the bservations made at Victoria Peak (on which imminent between Great Britain and any incal storm warnings depend) will be entered in forelen power, an arbitrary step of this the meteorological register whenever receiv,d. kind might possibly have been justified'; but in these piring times of almost

A GENTLEMAN who arrived by the French mail | Oagar Brandt, who was a passenger from Shangports of call, to replace the universal pence, where was the necessity trom Shanghai on the 12th inst inforins us that chai for Hamburg by the German mail steamterately sold to a San Francisco firm. She will for the imposition of a vexatious regulation leant from one of the leading physicians of that as useless nt it was impotent? As a Settlement that cholera, in a severe form had Singapore paper, the Strails Times, broken out.in the native portion of the city, and hat several cases were under treatment by him; forcibly puts it the prohibition "was as absolute, unexpected, and causeless as any decree of HAROUN-AL-RASCHID; but ARRANGEMENTS are on foot to establish n. Sen Singapore is not Bagdad; and while weman's Registry Office in Kobe for the purpose must hear and obey, we can also protest of supplying trustworthy Japanese scame to foreign vessels. The capital of the company is and appeal."

yen 3000 in 100 shares of 30 yen each. The sanction of the Government for the scheme is expected in a few days.

And those interested did protest and appeal and in no hesitating" de uncertain terms. The Singapore Chamber of Commerce, the Straits Association, and the trading companies and firms whose interests were affected, all denounced the Acting Governor's arbitrary, innovation. and the French Ambassador in London is credited

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THR first meeting of the shareholders of the Shanghai Switchback Company was held on the cth inst., in the Hotel des Colònies, General Mesny presiding, when a first dividend of 10 per cent, on eleven days' working was declared and $500 carried to the Reserve Fund after paying all expenses. And the Hongkong Switchback,

horses, has been sold up to pay expenses.

with the bust-up merry-go-round and elephantine

THE new buildings for the Bangkok branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank were opened on the 1st inst. The cast was $30,000, and the Timer says that it is a very fine, substantial, of the river and in close proximity to all the three-storeyed edifice, situated on the east side other business houses, the Post and Telegraph Office, the Custom House, etc. It is fitted with every convenience, and is in a most desirable situation,

Sachsen, had died at Singapore. Remembering the old saying de mortius nil nisi bonum, we will not write the deceased gentleman's obituary, but we nevertheless cannot forget, to use an aphorism of the great Napoleon's, that although death may explate faults it cannot repair them. The Yapan Gazelle states that since the cut break of cholera on the Erlougroud there have been 23 cases, and deaths, but there are eleven patients whose disease has not yet been properly diagnosed. In view of the above we are not surprised to read in the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun that the inhabitants are taking steps to memorialize the Government to order the Ertugrout to "opanchor" and go. The presence of the vessel is undoubtedly a menace to the town, while the object of her stay is not apparent. The commander of any other power would have have had his ship in mid-ocean long before this. XAVIER, the late ass stant bailiff of the Supreme Court, who levanted to Macao a few weeks ago with $t oog which he had collected by virtue of a writ of execution, and who is now in gaol there pending an application by the Hongkong Govern ment for his rendition, was examined by the Macao. judicial authorities last Friday with to have embezzled, when in charge of certain reference to a sum of $100, which he is alleged mess accounts, prior to his arrival in Hongkong. We have not learned what transpired at the Hongkong Government to get Mr. Xavier duly hearing, nor what steps have been taken by the banded over to the local police.

vessel Mongkut, Captain (Anderson, has been chartered by the Canadian-Pacific Company to un between Vancouver and San Francisco, via

steamer Danuda, ·

sail for Vancouver on the 21st instant. The fact of the Mongkut being detached, so to the American coast may say, for duty on lead to the conclusion that the Scotish, Oriental Company have more. boats on the Hongkong Bangkok line than the trade war- rant This, however, is not so, and at the present time a new Box-fon steamer, under command of Captain Wotinn, is on her way Tut to take the place of the Mongkut in he ever-increasing Bangkok trade, and she will shortly be followed by another new steamer which will be brought out by Captain Muris, late of the Phra Chula Chom. Klao, and a third will not be long after her. Even with these additions to their well- ppointed fleet the Scottish Oriental Company will not have enough vessels to meet the requirements of a trade which they have ben mainly instrumental in developing, with

the

astonishing rapidity during past six years; for we find by late accounts that Messrs. Butterfield & Swire and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. have shown symptoms of an inclination to "chip in" and do a fair thing by running an occasional boat down Sinm way. Altogether the shareholders in the Scottish Oriental Company may well congratulate them. selves upon the wisdom exercised hitherto by

the directors of this promising concern.

THE PUNJOM PUZZLE, - "A SHAREHOLDER" in the Punjom Company writes to the Daily Prisi, wanting to know what Mr. W. G. BRODIE is supposed to do for the $500 per month he receives as Managing Director ofthat mysterious gold mining concession. And the Daily Press, as customary, doesn't know, or at all It is thankless work pegging away at events maintains a discreet silence, doubt abuses which are so ancient that they have less with an eye to future contingencies, "A Shareholder"-we are almost inclined almost become entitled to recognition as privileges; but in the light of two or three to doubt his right to that designation, as recent cases in the Supreme Court we feel if he were actually a shareholder he constrained to once more urge upon the would, almost to a certainty, be aware of Government the necessity for a thorough what transpired regarding Mr. BRODIK's investigation of the inner working of the appointment at the meeting held only a notoriously corrupt and disgracefully few weeks ago-is of opinion that the incompetent Public Works Department. Managing Director's place is at the mines For years it has been the subject of in Pahang, exercising a proper supervision over working operations, and not idling general discussion, and we know. It is an

We are open secret in the lower official circles away his time in Hongkong. of the colony, that the majority of the bound to admit that this also is our iden European subordinates-the men who of the duties of the managing director of a come into daily contact with the purse. mining enterprise; but then it must be proud Chinese contractors-are venal to remembered, and it is only fair to state an incredible extent-incredible even to the fact, that Mr. Bronn's services were to those who remember the damaging specially retained by the Directors

clearly enough evoked, attend to telegrams, correspondence, etc., although winked at and ignored by the in the office in Hongkong. The Directors bogus Commission specially appointed by found they had no spare time to devote to Governor.Bowns to whitewash our now- such matters, and as they apparently absent friend, the late Hon. J. M. PRICE. forgot that the Company possessed an The honor and profit which the Hongkong able and energetic Secretary in Mr. Telegraph gained for the trouble taken GOURDIN, who certainly ought to be able in exposing the utter rottenness of the to do the needful with telegrams and serious riots and trouble. However, it is Southern China. Certainly to get to Lao-ky carriage corresponding with bisticket. In every predecessors, and we respected him. Long live compelling a notoriously corrupt Admini. Board was expressly engaged to direct Dickson's ill-judged and offensive, although from nearly two months to less than half that cials to mean that a passenger must not ride in May be grow wiser and wiser, be blessed with a Surveyor General's Department, and so correspondence, the Chairman of stration to institute an inquiry, were altogether too thin, and airy, and

admission's

the

the Company's business at head-quarters in this colony..

friendly representation" on behalf of his Government, which doubtless would carry considerable weight at a time when somewhat delicate negotiations' were in progress regarding the Zanzibar and Madagascar, protectorates dangerous Canadian Fisheries question. It is assumed, and doubtless correctly, that Lord KINORRLEY consulted Sir CECIL SMITH." and the result was a special telegram to the Government of the Straits Settlements, giving instructions for a return to the statu que ante, and that foreign should have the privilege war-vessels of coaling at the wharves in Singapore. Foreign transports are also included in the order, but with the proviso that, so far as they are concerned, only one transport at a time will be allowed alongside the wharves. The reason for this restriction is, of course, obvious, as

or three French transports e if two route to Saigon or Haiphong were permitted to coal at the same time and flood the town with semi-disciplined hordes of Algerian troops, it could not menace to the public fail to prove a pence and might, easily enough lead to satisfactory to know that Sir FREDERICK doubtless well-intended, restrictions on foreign men-of-war have been disapproved of by the Secretary of State, and if the snuh administered by his lordship is a severe one, the admirers of the Acting Governor of Singapore, if he has nny, must admit that it was richly deserved.

THE V. C. Daily News of the 5th inst, says': - "The Tacnan arrived at. Shanghat on Sunday with Mr. Weir, the Marine Superintendent of the C.M.S.N. Co., the engineers; of the Faye, and

some of the cargo salved from the wreck. The

Captain, deck officers, and some of the crew remain at the wreck, and, with the divers, are engaged saving what they can. The cargo is deposited on the beach under a guard of soldiers, and as it accumulates, steamers will call and fake it away? Messrs. Hopkins, Dunn & Co. will sell the wreck at auction on the 16th inst.

TO-DAY (11th inst) His Majesty Kunng Su, Em- peror of Chios, entered upon the twentieth year of his existence-bence the distracting cracker-firing which disturbed, many of our subscribers at an early hour this morning. We did not join with. our Celestial friends in their jubilations, because we think that, upon the whole, the youth who is reputed to sway the destinies of 400,000,000 of people is rather to be pilled than otherwise. But we promise." His Most Gracious" that as soon as he comes out of his shell, studies the com

AN amusing instance of the mechanical admini- strailon of regulations by the Japanese officials occurred on the railway between, Kobe and Osaka the other day. A passenger took a ticket for the latter place a first-class ticket, prin- cipally for the reason that, being a stranger to

starts in earnest to build much-needed railways, Japanese rai ways, he should not tray 1 in a bigber, class carriage than that for which he had mercial and military interests of his subjects, and we will fire off six dollars' worth of crackers and a ticket. It happened that he got into a second

fou dollars worth of bombs just outside our class caninge. The conductor came round to examine tickets, pointed out the mistake, and

office every Kuang Su birthday; and that when was told it was of no consequence. That

His Majesty goes the way of all fish, flesh THE verdict of our contemporaries in Tonquin, was from the point of view of the passenger and fowl (which joss forbid he ever should 1) we There will sum up his virtues in a three column black- after the recent experimental trips of the Faunanthe conductor. thought otherwise. up the Red River, is that this route to Western is a bye-law among the regulations of the edged leader and hang sack-cloth in abundance China is far ahead of those through Burmah or Japanese railways, as there is among those all over our entrance gates for three solid months of all railways, that a passenger must ride in a

—just to show that he was better than all hin insid sixty hours, and so reduce the time con-

other country in the world were there are rail-

the Emperor of China, "boss" of all the dragons, sumed in reaching the great entrepot of Yunnan

ways that rule would be interpreted by the off. King of Kings, the mighty Potentale, etc., etc. time, is an achievement which should bring

a carriage of a higher class than that for which sturdy young Kuang Sus annually and experience Messis. Marty and d'Abbadie more substantial returns thin the mere decoration of the Legion he has paid a fire. That, of course, is the many happy returns of this day. We can't say spirit of the rule. But the Japanese conductor

more, except that we think our Commodore might of Honour. One Interesting feature of the trip bas ro discretion. There are his orders-be as well have hung out his ship's rags to-day, was the friendly way in which the Chinese

must carry them out. And so at the next station seeing that a Chinesegunboat, in holiday rig, was authorities treated the expedition, one mandarin even going the length of sending, some cham- another official appeared and politely insisted Iving within a dozen cable lengths of the Victor pagne aboard the little pioneer vestel. On the upon the guilty passenger accompanying him to Emanuel. We wonder if the jolly old "Com- a first class carriage. He has not yet been pro-modore remember the old adage "politeness return to Hanoi the inevitable banquet took secuted, but is not altogether certain that he will vaunteth not, is not puffed up: and costeth nothing." Now, let us be charitable for ste place.

and say that he must have forgotten all about young Kuang Su,

unsubstantial to make it worth Our while risking a repetition of a struggle which, in the very unsatisfactory state of the law of libel, might even involve a temporary loss of personal liberty; to will nevertheless venture but we point out

cold, hard One or two facts which are sufficiently suggestive in themselves, keeping in mind the soldier's motto "No names, no pack-drill." Not that we are in any way disinclined to again holders. That was the reason given for Mr. to be a Portuguese subject. The Celestial will whilst on a recent excursion for target practice Robinson at the Police Court yesterday afternoon

face the music in a criminal prosecution should the occasion arise, but that time is not yet.

Oneofthe European overseers who lately died in Hongkong, left considerably over $15,000-a sum very far in excess of what he had actually received as wages during the whole term of his employment in the Department. We knew one who left behind him $75,000 after ten years "over-seeing at $150 per month. Another foreman of works, who sometime since returned from

In the Directors' latest report, dated June 9th of this year, it is alleged that as so many important questions which required close and personal attention were pending in connection with the disposal of portions of the Pahang concession, the Board felt it would be to the advantage of the Company to have some one at the helm, for some months at least, to devote all his time to the interests of the shara. BRODIR'S appointment, and at the meeting of June 16th, in reply to a shareholder, the Acting Chairman, Mr. E. L. WooDIN,, Seid Mr. BRODIE will be permanently in the office for twelve months, giving the whole of his time to the Company's business, and in answer to a further query he remarked, as stated above, that there had been so many matters cropping up in the office-so many letters and, telegrams-that the Directors had no time to devote, to them. We trust this explanation will fully satisfy our morning contemporary's dissatisfied correspondenti

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

IN Bangkok the other day a Chinaman claimed play it very low-down, sometimes.

Up to July 1st there had been 27 cases of cholera on board the Turkish man-of-war Erlougroul, of which eight had proved fatal. The Shik Pao, the Chinese newspaper published at Tientsin, has been entrusted to the direction of the Rev. Timothy Richard, by whom it will be conducted as a thoroughly independent paper... AT the annual meeting of the Ararat Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners, No. 264, EC, held last evening (11th inst.), Wor. Bro. P. Hazonjec wAS re-elected Wor. Com. N. Bro. W. Goulbourn, was elected Treasurer, and Bro. J. R. Grimble re-elected Warder.

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OUR Haiphong contemporary reports that a French trader named Lasserre was polsoned by antires as Quarguyen last week, His servant, who is supposed to have put the poison in a cup of coffee, lins been arrested, with several suspected accomplices.

leave, and whose salary all told is $1.380 per annum, lived at the Hongkong Hotel

But will It satisfy those who are really for a while at the rate, taking the lowest and substantially interested in the success estimate, of about one half more than his of the Punjom Company? Is it not time monthly salary. He was quite right that the Managing Director, or the of course; he had property-houses, Board, or somebody responsible, informed shares, mortgages; he had evidently the shareholders what, has actually studied HORACE and obeyed that wise transpired with reference to the Company's man's dictum,get money, honestly if business during the past seven weeks?

etc. can, but"-etc.,

The absolute sale of twenty square miles Supreme Court the other week, another of the concession to a London Company in foreman in this wonderful Department, a which the Punjom shareholders are largely man whose total income is set down at a Interested, was stated to be un fail accompli little under $1,700 a year, sued a debtor on on June 16th. If that is the case, what a promissory note under circumstances has been done since, and what operations which, to say the least, were shady. In his evidence this lucky official admitted that he had lent a third party considerable weeks ago that the Company's agent, rumoured that a syndicate has proposed to take

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We observe that the "war of rates" between the Canadian Pacific and Pacific Mall Steamabip lines, which commenced on the 13th site, with a drop of 20 per cent, in passage fares, has come to an abrapt conclusion, which doubtless indi- cates that differences have been satisfactorily adjusted.

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not be.

of their misfortunes. On May rath the vessel wat leaking badly, and a large portion of the cargo had to be jettisoned. On June at the captain, completely worn out no doubt by the anxieties of the past two months, was stricken with fever, and is still, weregret to learn, seriously ill. From henceforth, there was no one to work the vessel was already occuped by the care of her child and sick husband. No praise can be too high for the

but the mate and the captain's wife, whose ilma

A BAD Accident, resulting in the loss of two lives,

62 Wellington Street, was brought before Mr happened on board the U. S. flag-ship Omaha, CHAN SIN TSANO, master of the Pao Ching shop, outside Kobe, at the end of last month. Whilst and charged with unlawfully receiving and having THE account of the voyage of the schooner off Owari Bay, the usual firing was going on.

in his possession a large quantity of stores, the Yohann, remarks an Australian contemporary reads like a story from the pen of the well-known The fifth gun, a nine-inch smooth bore had been

property of Messrs, Lane and Crawford. Mr. fired. The gun had been sponged, the cartridge Bowles appeared for the prosecution and Mr. sea novelist, Mr. W. Clark Russell. Indeed, in inserted, and the shell was being rammed home, Recce defended-Mt. Denson, manager of

the navigation of the vessel by the captain's wife there is a touch of romance.which more than one when the charge exploded. The effect was dis- Messrs. Laue and Crawford's store, identified a

mass of property, including labels and capsules novelist has anticipated. The good ship Johann astrous. One of the men, Emanuelsen, lay on the deck a mutilated mass, with the top of his for Teacher's whisky, glass-ware, cigars, knives, to use the phraseology common to marine head blown off, showing nothing but the bare skull, his left arms was partially torn away and etc. He said that some of the things were found story-tellers and bills of lading-left Ma ritius as hit chest crushed in. Death of course was in the house-coolie's room, and the rest in the far back as April 3rd. She bad scarcely got out of and labels had been missed from the stock continued for nearly 70 days, till happily, in instantaneous, and the same m rciful fate befel prisoner's shop. No less than 4030 capsules sight of land before her troubles egan, an they Mr. Reece asked the Magistrate to discharge. Fremantle, a port of safely was found. One of his shipmate Kirke, who was shot clean off the vessel. A protracted search failed to discover the prisoner on the extraordinary grounds that the apprentices was seized with fever two days any trace of Kirke's remains and it is supposed no case had been made out, and, on Mr. Robin- after the vessel left Mauritius, and he has been

was shattered to pieces The beavy fiting at orce ceased and In the evening Emanuelsen's son declining, called witnesses who swore that ill ever since. The wonder is that his constituilon remains were interred at sea, the vessel returning the prisoner had nothing to do with the shap should have held out so long. The mate was next attacked, but happily he soon recovered, and where the goods were found-After Mr. Bowles into port the following day."

had replied, his Worship said-In this case I to this fortunate circumstance is due the fact that the ship was not left entirely in the hands of have to find whether the things were unlawfully. The Tientsin correspondent of the Shanghai bined I do find that the labels, capsules the captain's wife, and probably ultimately Mercury writes on the 25th ulto.:From Honan and glasses were unfawfully obtained. Secondly, lost. On the roth of April, just a week after learn that the Yellow River has burst its whether the defendant was receiving stolen leaving post, the sedousness of the situation first southern banks near Cheng-chou, and has finoded goods I cannot hold it proven that the began to disclose itself. On that day three of the country for many miles to the south. There defendant was in acul possession of the goods. the able seamen and the cook were taken ill, and are now two gaps. in the embankment, one at I must therefore discharge the defendant-At by the roth of June all of them had died. This Lang Wang-mizo is Shantung, and the piher the close of the proceedings Mr. Bowles applied was quite sufficient for one voyage, but that which I have just mentioned, and the water for a warrant to arrest one of the witnesses, but survivors had not yet experienced the full brunt through both is flowing outh. The Chinese his Worship refused, were quite right when they predicted some time ago, when the Hoangho, the Graud Conn), and MESSKS. WHEELOCK & CO's Shanghai Freight the Peiho were very low, that the dry banks, Market Report of August 8th has the following: after their long baking in the sun, would not Since our "last report, dated July 25th, there are now actively in hand? It was reported. The Hyogo News of July 29th says:--It is stand any great rush of water. The banks were has been no change in our freight market, rates in places ao dry that they went into powder and bomeward having been well maintained. For or manager or whatever his position up all the unapplied-for shares in the Hiogo were entirely unequal to the strain put upon Lindon very little cargo in going forward and actually wad we are referring to the Hotel Company at par, but the Provisional them last month, when the freshers came down, steamers find great difficul.y in procuring enough

pluck and and heroism shown by Mr. Mainders versatile Mr. H. M. BECHER had Directors, having in view, we understand, the The Grand Canal hetween here and the Yellow to fill their allotted space, while for New York arrived at Singapore from England, great desirability of shares being as widely River has overflowed and burst its banks, and tonnage is barely equal to the demand. and no doubt the Directors have distributed as possible, prefer to allow the lists the same thing has happened on the big and Negasaki-Shapgh-There is still a demand and the rest of the little company under this received a full account of his somewhat to remalu open an at present advertised." | small West Rivers, to that Tientsin is now for tonnage at slightly lower rates but no heavy load of disaster Fate would indeed have surrounded by water as far as the eye can see owners are not willing to accept the figure been cruel had all their efforts proved futils, New As it is, besides the pleasure which the safety OUR Shanghai morning. contemporary is and the road between the City, and the Settle offered, no botiness has transpired. prolonged and expensive.mission to London capitalists. That would be an

For London, vid usual ports their story, there is the added gratification that Cr stoms is to be established forbwith at Chung-feet.

mall craft, interesting document to shareholders, and on that an office of the Chinese Maritimement is flooded in some place to a depth of two chwang Amoy A slight enquiry exists for of the survivors must give to everyone who sends of call and Suez Canal:-The Holt's steamer a most dramatic and also true tale of the sea has its publication might effect some good, king, and that Mr. H. E. Hobson-s, was sur-

not been doomed to oblivion by the loss of the while it could, not, possibly do any harm.mised when he was appointed to Icbang will OTTAVE JOURDIN, the Frenchman charged with Palinurus and the Mutual Cols Pabling are The shareholders are anxious far be the first commissioner, Count d'Arnoux re the homicide of a coolie named Sing Ang, on the only two boats on the berth beside the schooner and the death beneath the waves of information as to what has really been placing him at Ichane, as acting commissioner, the Asahan Planting Company's Estate, Sumatra, Mails, and as there is a great scarcity of cargo, the few who have survived to tell the story of accomplished and what is being done and Mr. R. J. Abbott from Shanghal being about May 19th, 1892, was examined before Mt. 1oiding is slow. The former is advertised for their peills and dangers innumerable, The now-and they are fully entitled to know. appointed acting deputy-commissioner at Han- Anthonisz at the Singapore Police Court on the dispatch on the 13th instant and the latter will report of the voyage reads as follows: Inward With the shares, quoted at as low as being set from Shanghai to Chaseking.

Vow. An assistant and a Chinese clerk are also ist inst, with a view to extradities. Mr. sail tomorrow. Rates remala unchanged, 35 report of the German schooner Johanna, 294 Burkioshaw appearing for the Dutch Govern per ton all round is asked. For New York vid tons register, from. Mauritius bound to 67, when the prospects of the Company

ment, said that there were three persoas accused | usual ports of call and Suez Canal:-The Melbourne, put in to distress. Left Port Louis are authoritatively stated to be more A MEETING of the members of the British of killing a Chinese coolie on May 19th, under departure of the Baalfdi yerterday has left the on April 3rd; wind N.E. On the 5th of April promising than ever they were, it is Mercantile Marine Officers Association was held the following circumstances: The first accused berth entirely vacant, but it will be occupied one of the boys took sick with fever, and has with the " fever, but scarcely to be wondered at if shareholders last night (12th inst.), in the Marina Hotel, Prays was acting manager of the plantation of the by the Euphrates amving here to-morrow the been laid up ever since. are beginning to lose that confidence which West. There was a large attendance, and Capt. 5. Asahan Planting Company the second latter, being a very small carrier; her space the mate took sick

able seamon and the cook took mick, and has so unreservedly, been placed in the Ashton, President of the Association, becupled Jourdin, the prisoner and the third was a head available here has been readily taken up at soon recovered. On the soth April three Board of Director

the chair. In an interesting, address which "ndal" on the estate,, The evidence showed that 45 per ton, consequently her stay will be

on the 3rd of April the first death pressure on our space compels us to hold over the deceased Chinaman was taken to the koffe: short. Itisdifficult to give the order in which the Capt. Ashton sketched the objects of the move of the first accused, fled by, and besten, others will follow, as there are several steamers accurred, and on the 26th April another seaman There are several honest overseers in

ment, and congratulated the Association on its and it was alleged that fourdin had taken pan, Dready on the bejth in Japan, vits-Bunia did. On the 1st May the cook died, and on this Department, of course, and we heartily

already powerful membership and on its excellent Then be was taken to a place called Rumah Port Phillie, Gleneagles Albany and the roth May another seaman died On the 1st sympathise with them. Men with 8:00 a

prospects of meeting a want long felt in this Kiing. He had previously been handcuffed, Strathendrick, Via Caper-The Luzon is still June Captain H. Mainders took sick, and is now and here a rope was fastened to the handcuffs, Loading, she has been more than fortunate in very ill. The mate, with the assistance of the month must find it a hard, struggle to

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and carried over a beam, by which he was hauled securing a fair cargo from here, as when she was captain's wife, has navigated and worked the refuse the "cumshaws" which the rascally Tux excessive zeal for his country's welfare ANOVEL exhibition is promised in Kyoto, remarks up by the wiists and again violently beaten (or taken up the prospects were very poor. We vessel for the last week. Pilot Butcher boarded Chinese contractors press on them, and to displayed by Sir FEEDERICK DICKSON, The Fapan Gaiette, compared with which the some time, After this he was taken insensible doubt it another ship will follow for some little the schooner at 5 pm on the gib, and when he have to return, as a matter of conscience, Acting Governor of the Straits Settlements, self-old narration by the Bank of England forger the Rumah Sakit close by, and died the moodine Quotations are -Newchwang to Swatow learnt what was the matter, took one of the crew the generous contributions towards, their has brought that energetic but indiscreet ofhis experiences, and other like entertainments, after, purdin As alleged to have taken part 19 Mer, cents per pical, nomidal Newchwang tut of the pilot boat, to salst to work the vessel, ngheWhen the mat fled the to Amoy, Mex, cents per picul Nagasaki to and eventually got chain on deck, and the anchor Christmas cheer which they sea- their statesman into rather troublesome relations willing into the shade. We are told that in the second being pa fellow employdi accepting wholesale. They with the Colonial Office, Shortly after Takejima Takegoro, a liberated guel-bird who, three secured, had ready gone away. One of "Shanghai, 31630 per ton of coal nett, for both over the bow, and brought her safely to an anchor Famers and sailing vessels. Settlement during | at 9 pm, On the Tath May 520 bags of sugar unfortunately get but little credit force the departure for England pay leave of his served his sentences for breaking into, 97, the messes went to inform them, and ourdla

the Tarinight Fellung, Brillah steames, 752 were thrown overboard to lighten the vessel; as exceptional honesty. Not very long ago absence of Governor Sir Caeri Siri, his godowns, robbery with threats of violence, ordered his baris] had directed "here he wa

und register, Newch wang to Amoy at cents per she was making water. The vessel te jo days WAMPY

cold, a days for leading? Disengaged vessels from Mauritius, and for the last three wocks sha several Chinese contractors were reported. Klonini feuer, apparently without notice or for breaking into private houses, ke, has tepented be buried, in

of his past, doings and, baving pbtained in reached by paibu, "The deposit! to the head of the Department by one man any particular, cause of relion, suddenly menu's license, proposes in give an exhibition in of (wo peons Ahmet and To

pat. Nancy Pendleton American ship/ n,yag: hun been running and drifting under her two syce, who said they saw the bes

105) Idrister, Lanedot #British ship, 1,436 topsails, foretopm einsinysail, and close-reefed of integrity, for trying to suborn him, and issued an order absolutely prohibiting any the Glon Kwan theatre, Kyato, in which be will

mainsail. was again remanded; strangely enough, these scoundrels are foreign" war-vessel or transport from portray his past burglaries and robberies,

amounts during the last year or two-he did not know exactly how much, and he really could not say how much had been repaid-it might be $2,000, and it might be more or less than that amount. A man who "doesn't know" to a few months salary what he has been repaid, is certainly a rara avis but then he belongs to the Public Parks Department, And report has it that this forgetful individual has a plitow-case full of other promissory notes, and a good many more bouses than virtues. And when we point to a clerk in the Department who hasa more than a "snug" banking account, although his remuneration is only $1,200 a year, (not to speak of the financial position ofone or two absent officials), we have not by any means exhausted, the list of auspiciously affluent employés at present under the Hon. S. Baowa's Jurisdiction. But we will return to the charge before long.

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THE SINGAPORE. COALING DISPUTE.

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