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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1890.

odus against a conviction being obtained the use of the club, that is of the shareholders. before a magistrate were quite fifty to one. In our opinion it seems quite clear that This had particularly been the case since Mr. POLLOCK's Interpretation of sections November, 1889, when Mr. POLLOCK, who | IV and V of the Ordinance was erroneous, was then acting as police magistrate, and that his decision ought to have delivered the following erudite judgment been appealed against. However, at the of which the Legislative Council took present time gambling houses are as not the least cognizance: --

thick as mosquitoes all over the colony, and are causing wide-spread mischief, so that the police authorities should experience no difficulty in obtaining another legal judgment on the subject from the present magistrates; and if that goes against them, we shall at once agitate for an amended Ordinance.

"The sole question which I have to decide in this case is whether the defendants have been Builty under Ord. of 1876 if either keep public gambling house, or haunting the same, or acting as masters of it. This case has been well-argued by Mr. Caldwell for the defence, and he frankly, admitted that gambling was being carried on in the these rooms, but contended that gambling was not carried on in a public gambling- house, but in a private club consisting of some 21 persons. While I am discussing the question of gambling, I feel called upon to point out the strange difference between our local law and the statute law of England on the subject, the origin of which difference, I have been unable to deter- mine.

"The statute at present in farce in Hongkong is Ord.IX of 1876, which, roughly speaking, re-enacts

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LONDON, August goth,

H.M.S. Zinnet and the U.S.S. Monocacy were at Cbefoo on August 25th.' THE steamer Glenfinips went ashore at Pheasant Island, a few miles above Nanking, on the 27th ulto,, but got off without damage and proceeded on her voyage to Hankow,

THE following tea cargoes left Foochow from the 23rd to the 30th ullo:- For London by S.S. Orestes 234.567 lbs. Melbourne by S.S. Taiyuan......1,413,065 Sydney by

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THE Coolie who went into the Supreme Court a year or two ago and lifted therefrom the cleck, while the business of the court was en train, was a deuced cool "cuss, but the party who walked into the compound of Wellington Barracks at an early hour this morning, and with a hatchet tried to hack off about twenty feet of the copper lightning-conductor that specially put in position to guide the electric current clear of the gunpowder magazine, fairly coolia in the act, and brought up at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Robinson,

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were good-and $100 worth of bricks and mortar, Probably the creditors would get so per

There was no opposition, and the order was granted.

A BANKRUPT BROKER. Mr. Recce, on behalf of a cæditor, applied for the adjudication of Leung Pó, a brok, as bankrupt. The debt amounted to $176, and the act of bankruptcy was in the debtor cutting his fucky" in' July,

Order granted, with protection..

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THE GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.

LAVING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE,

the weather is favourable the work will progress quickly and the expenses be less; if the weather is bad, then, there will be delay and consequent increase of expense. This light- house will be about 140 feet high above mean aca-level, and be visible from a distance of a1" miles. The more navigation increases, as it' does every year, larger ships are made with greater speed, more valuable cargoes are carried round the world, greater numbers of passengers are carried and greater should be the securities for safety; and amongst these latter none are greater than those beacons which are erected in all parts of the world for the guidance of vessels through the boisterous and obscure waters found in every sea all the globe over. It is, I repeat, a very great pleasure to me to lay this foundation stone to-day, and I hope that before. the end of next year, or early in the commence- ment of the following year, this great work-so long thought of will be brought to a satisfactory conclusion. (Applause).

It is now about two years since Governor Des Vaux, in response to the representations of the Chamber of Commerce, reopened negotiations with the Chinese Government, through He The stone was then lowered into its place and Majesty's Minister at Peking, for the concession declared by His Excellency to be well and truly laid, announcement which was followed with of a barren rock situated at the southern ex- tremity of a chain of islands which extend for a three hearty cheers by the Europeans there distance of 30 miles south of Green Island. Gap assembled, added to volleys of bombs and A Rock is so-called owing to the fact of its being fusilade of crackers which the Chinese workmen a large jagged rock about 300 yards in circumlet off until the Administrator and party were sea-level, and being divided into two distinct parts and the little steamer going her eleven knots in by conspicuous weather-worn gaps on its west the direction of Hongkong, whilst the company. and east sides. Immediately to the west of Gap were doing justice to an excellent tiffin, Rock, and about two miles distant, is the Greater Ladrones Taland, whereon an important fishing the numerous fishing craft seek shelter when the station is to be found, with a small harbour where weather is too boisterous for them to carry on their operations in safety,

the provisions of one of the earliest Ordinances artillery has taken, up a position in Melbourne takes the bakery. He was caught by a pankah ference, rising to 50 feet at its highest point above again on board the Fame, the anchor weighed

of the Colony, viz. Ord. XIV of 1844. The wording of this Ordinance appears to me, by the light of English law, to he peculiarly unfortunate; inasmuch as it practically enacts that playing at unlawful games is no offence at all, provided that it is carried on in any but a public gambling house. The law of England on the subject is far more direct and sensible, and appears nimoat in its entirety, in the learned judgment of Justices Hawkins and Smith, in the case of Finks Turpin which may be properly regarded leading case on the subject. Apart from the

which renders the keeper of a common gaming house liable to be indicted for a nuisance, the judgment refers to what I may describe as belag the two main English statutes on the subject, neither of which have ever been adopted into our local laws. (Here follow several interesting precedents).

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As a precautionary measure, a detachment of

The city is in a state of complete darkness.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Austrian cruiser Zrinys arrived at Woosung from a cruise up the Yangtze in the afternoon of the agth ulto.

THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. informs us that the Company's steamer Nisam

who sent him into retirement for three months.

thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific entlier statutes in the Common Law of England; | left Singapore for this post at 4.30 p.m. yesterday sible for the suicidal competition between the rival even the navigators of these early days estimated which the tonnage dues are to be abolished.

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Looking at the propositions contained in the judgment referred to, I should find na difficulty in deciding this case if it were governed by English law, in holding that this house was kept by the two registered proprietors for the purpose of an unlawful game being played, and that the first defendant was assisting in conducting the A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. business, so as to render all three of them liable to a heavy fine, under Section IV of 17 and 18 ESTABLISHED AD. 1841.

Victoria, cap. 38. Unfortunately that statute was not introduced into this Colony. Ord. IX of 1876 makes gambling an indictable offence only if it is carried on in a public place, and I am not satisfied on the evidence before me that this

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THE China Navigation Co.'s steamer Changsha, Capt Williams, which went ashore on Rattray Island, near Bowen on July zoth, on her last voyage from here to Sydney, succeeded in getting off without sustaining any damage.

We read that the British barque Contest, which arrived at Shanghai on August 15th from Freemantle, has been purchased by Mr. Nils Möller, The Contest is a composite barque of 485 tons register, and was built at Sunderland in 1857,

house can be properly described as such, inas- THE E. & A. steamship Catterikus, which much as I not consider the evidence of the arrived here this morning from Sydney, reports two informers worthy of credence. The question that the British ship Volga, from Newcastle, then arises, could the registered proprietors of the bound for Negapatam, was wrecked in Torres Club be indicted for a nuisance in Common Law Straits a few days previous to the Catterthun's as the keepers of a common gambling-bouse? I arrival at Thursday Island, and sank about two think that they cannot be so indicted, notwith-miles no th of Goode Island Highthouse. standing that this house is, in my opinion, a common gaming-house, both within the definition laid down by Mr. Justice Hawkins and Mr. Justice Smith, because I am of opinion that Ord. 1 of 1876, making public gambling an offence, and making no mention of common gaming houses, must be taken as superseding, by impli- cation, any Common Law or statute power of indicting keepers of common gaming-houses, stricter proofs being required in the former case than in the latter,

I am therefore reluctantly compelled to hold that no offence has been committed in this case, and to discharge the defendants, but at the same time I venture to express a hope that it may be found possible, at no distant date, to more closely assimilate the laws of Hongkong with those of England on the subject."

MESSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam ship Abyssinia left Vancouver for this part, via Japan, on Friday afternoon, the 29th ulto. The tea ex Abyssinia was delivered in New York on the 26th ulto. The steamship Straits of Belie Trle, from Vancouver, arrived at Yokohama on the 1st inst.

A SLIGHTLY hysterical Sikh constable, who rushed up to the Central Station from his beat in Hollywood Road' at half-past seven o'clock last night, and in breathless accents reported "house on fire 1 " is sadly blame for disturbing the whole colony unnecessarily. It was merely a paper lantern, hung outside a gambling den, that caught fire and quickly burned itself out.

CONSIDERABLE excitement and concern has been caured at Chefoo, says our Shanghai morning contemporary, by the disappearance of Mr. S. Krips, the Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway at Wuhu, and registered owner of the Austrian steamer Anshin Maru. Mr. Krips was in ill-health and had gone to Chefoo for a change, but he could not be found on Sunday morning (August 24th) and the search during the day was without result. Later advices state that Mr. Krips had left Chefoo in a junk, apparently bound for Korea.

A SYDNEY contemporary says that arrangements have been made by cable for a match between W. I. O'Connor, who was recently defeated in Sydney by Stansbury, and Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, for $500 aside and the sculling chum. plonship of America. The race is to be rowed somewhere on the Pacific coast, and is to take place within 10 weeks of O'Connor's arrival in America from the Colonies, O'Connor states that Hanian has evidently improved, but that he shall consider himself to have fallen off very much if Hanian can beat him. Should Kemp ever visit America, O'Connor expresses himself ready to row him, and also as being willing to row the champion in England,

The final conference between the steamship Conference of Seamen's Unions, was held in owners and the delegates to the Intercolonial Sydney on Saturday morning, July 26th, and terminated unsatisfactorily. The employers Informed the men that it would be a matter of impossibility to concede their requests, as at present they were running their boats at a loss. The men pointed out that they were not respon- companies, and that they were determined to enforce their revised rules, the principal feature in which is the introduction of the eight-hour system when in port. The serious results of this divergence of opinions, wholesale strikes in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, and a collapse of all shipping business, have been notified to us by wire. How the struggle will end remains to be seen, but a crisis is no doubt fast approaching.

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THE Police Court was the scene of a good deal in which an old hawker tried to "fix" a young sailorman for taking under his wing the fifteen- year old daughter of his (the hawker's) No. 2 wife. Mr. Robinson, before whom the case was brought on decided to remand the affair until next Monday, the pretty little maiden mean whlie returning to her papa and mamma, while the precocious sailor-who admitted the charge, but denied that his fiance was under age or unwilling-was let out under ball in one surety of a hundred dollars. As soon as the young vixen was made to understand this capital arrangement she screamed at the top of Her voice and rushed up on the Bench, much to the amazement at the Magistrate, who, under the trying circumstances, kept remarkably cool, and collected. He gave orders for the removal of the shoeless maiden, and then the fun started; twice she dodged the ushers successfully and got behind Mr. Robinson's chair, and it was not until assured that the Inspector in charge of the case would use his good offices to obtain the parents' consent to her marriage with her sweetheart that she could be induced to leave the Court,

of amusement this morning at the close of a case

sobbing pileously, protesting her unbounded love for the cailor man, and her profound respect for the Bench.

NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

The E. & A. S. S. Co.'s-steamer Caltertkun, Capt. J.. W. B. Darke, R.N.R., from Sydney and ports of call, arrived in harbour early this morning. We are indebted for the subjoined items to our Colonial exchanges

LONDON, July 30tb.

Shortly after alx o'clock the party was landed at Murray Pier after a most enjoyable trip to the We say Anglo-Chinese advisedly, for though it is neighbouring Anglo-Chinese isinnd, Gap Rock

virtually ceded to Great Britain still the Chinese. Government remains in nominal possession, in Barren and apparently, useless as the Gap proof of which a small land tax will be paid to Rock appears to have been for untold ages the Chinese Authorities annually. The cost of past, still, since the British occupation of Hong-building the lighthouse will, we hear, be met by kong, it has possessed an Importance which dues levied upon shipping entering this port, after with considerable accuracy. Up to 1836 it was The Gap Rock light, or rather lantern, we may an inaccessible rock, useless in itself and in add, has been purchased from Mesars. Chance some respects a danger to navigation. When Bros' of Birmingham, who are, with the exception Great Britain took possession of this "island of a well-known Paris firm, the most successful home," and even in earlier days, when makers of these complicated, and most useful of the opium-laden clipper ships of the East all lanterns. The lighthouse is, we understand, India Company used to pay periodical visits to be supplemented with a powerful fog hora to Whampoa, it has been of considerable which will be a guide to vessels fog-bound importance from the fact that it is the first point, within a two miles radius of the rock-a most the landmark. which vessels "make" when important and invaluable adjunct. coming to Hoogkong from the South. Hilberto ships have been obliged to sight this little is tod in day-light or, if coming up to it at night, wail the risk attendant upon entering the inner about in its vicinity until dawn rather than run

track without having sighted it. If, too, the rock happened to be enveloped in fog when a vessel arrived within five or six miles of it she had either to "heave to" or sleer a circuitous deep sea course away clear of the islands and try to get in at our northern entrance All this, of course, entails delay and additional expense. Quite recently a large mail steamer bound for Hongkong, lost nearly two days in dodging about Gap Rock, being u able to make out this important land mark owing to a dense feg. The great importance, therefore, of a lighthouse and fog horn at this point can well be understood) and the laying of the foundation stone of such a boon to those inte rested in shipping off irs; and to those with important commercial interests at stake in this colony, was a subject more than usually interest ing. This important ceremonial was satisfactorily completed by two o'clock yesterday afternoon, by His Excellency the Administrator, Mr. Francis Flemming who ft Murray Wharf shortly after 9 a.m. in the Government steamer Fame, Captain Allen, accompanied by a representative party of local officials. Among those present on board the Fame were Major-General Digby Barker and aide-de-camp; Commodore Church; the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Fielding Clarke; The Acting Attorney-General, Mr. E. J. Ackroyd; the Surveyor General, Mr. S. Brown; Captain Rumsey, R.N. Harbour Master; Major-General Gordan, Acting Caplain Superintendent of advance £1,000,000 to the Congo State, and According to the convention Belgium was to Police; Major Dempster, Acting Superintendent after ten years was to have the right to nnnex of Victoria Gaol; Mr. McLeavy Brown, Com-it. The King of the Belgians also bequeathed missioner of the Imperial Chinese Customs & his sovereign rights over the Congo State to Kowloon; Captain Booth, of the Chinese Re-Belgium, provided the State was not annexed by venue cruiser Fei Hoog Mr. F.H. May, Private the latter during his lifetime. Secretary, and Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C. to the Administrater; several prominent members of the Public Works Department, etc., etc.

The trip down to the Rock was done under 3 hours and half, the pleasure of the last two hours being somewhat marred by the unruly motion of the steamer as she pitched into the bead sea, On reaching her destination the Fame was made fast to a buoy on the east side of the island, so as to avoid the heavy rollers, to give the passengers a chance to land, which even on by no means a safe or pleasant business. First an exceptionally fine day, such as yesterday, is of all the Surveyor General, accompanied by Mr. Mudie, the engineer in charge of the works, got into the landing beat, which was steered into a cove, where a large chair suspended from a derrick received them, and they were hoisted, like a bale of piece goods, up about 30 feet and then swung in and lowered on a ledge of rock. In this undignified way Hls Excellency the Administrator and the whole party were landed on the sterile rock which is to shortly become a beacon-light to navigators.

It is rumoured that the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the other telegraph. companies' interested in 'the Australian service are considering the advisableness of laying a Pacific cable to Australia themselves.

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July 31st, forbids Protestant missionaries to exercise their A ukase has been issued by the Czar which calling in Russia under pain of expulsion across the frontier.

is impending in Germany in the near future, owing to the activity of the Socialists.

Prince Bismarck says that a bloody cataclysm

The Liberals of the Ayr-Burghs have cabled to Sir Thomas Millwraith, requesting him to allow bimself to be nominated for the Ayr Berghs, Scotland, at the next election.

The Belgian Parliament has passed the bill embodying the convention recently concluded between the Belgian Government and the Congo Free State,

Speaking at a meeting of the Katherine Deck Company, C. M. Norwood, chairman of the dock other busybodies" who had been leading companies, said that cardinals, archbishops, and public aplaion concerning the London dockers astray, ought to see that the men adhered to their part of the agreement.

BRISBANE, July 31st.

In reference to the cable stating that the Ayr Liberals bad cabled to Sir Thomas M'Ilwralih Thomas M'Ilwraith received a cablegram from asking him to stand at the next election, Sir his brother yesterday asking him whether he would stand for Ayr, as requested by the Liberale. He cabled an answer declining to do so, as be had no intention of leaving Queensland. He had previously received a letter asking him to stand, but wrote declining.

LONDON, August ist.

Mr. Norwood says that the Socialist epidemia in England is decreasing, and that there are Indications that labour will soon be compelled to adopt a very different tone to that by which it is characterised at present,

THE Foochow Echo of August goth says:-The rain we have had during the week bas relieved the anxiety of the farmers for their second rice- crops, which the heat experienced during the last fortnight had greatly affected, many dried THE Sydney Morning Herald of August 4th up stalks being seen in the fields. We under-publishes the following regarding a once famous stand that a few days more of rain is absolutely China tea clipper that will be well remembered necessary to save the crop from ruin,

by many old hands 'in this part of the world: The judgment just quoted referred to a

For a ship of 20 years of age, the composite- charge of public gambling brought against

built little ship Cutty Sark has a record as a seven Chinese who were arrested while

salior no it eclipsed by any sailing vessel offent. She can sail rings round quite half the ships of playing fantan in an establishment in

more recent build, and there are few steel or Hollywood Road known as the Tung On

iron clippers capable of showing their heels Club. When the so-called Club was

to her. This time she is from London again, 75 days from the Lizard to Sydney, or 10 days raided by the police there were about forty

from London Docks.. Captain R. Woodget says of the voyage :-On May 14th we left the persons present, indulging in the favorite

docks at to a,m, and proceeded to Gravesend. Chinese amusement of bucking the

After taking on board 30 tons of powder, we left tiger," the great majority of whom escaped

Gravesend at 6 p.m., and had variable winds down the English Channel, eventually taking by the roof and a convenient back-

our departure from the Lizard on May 19th. way which had been left unguarded.

Moderate to fresh S.W. winds veering to west prevailed up to May 28th, when we got a It was admitted by Mr. CALDWELL for the

N.E. breeze for a day or two. We got the true defence that the prisoners were gambling,

N.E. trades on May 31st, and lost them in but he contended it was not public

13 deg. North on June 5th. We then had the usual run of light airs and calms to the S.E. gambling, as the institution was a club in

trades, which we caught in z deg. N. on June 14th. which members and visitors.could gamble

and crossed the Line the same day in 15 deg. as much as they pleased. And the

W. We had aqutherly to easterly winds, which drove us to 48 deg. S. and 25 deg. W., and ended magistrate accepted this rendering of the

in a hard E.N.E. gate and high confused sea [slaw of Hongkong, and acquitted the

The prime meridian was crossed on July 3rd in accused, holding that the evidence was

44 deg. S., and the Cape was passed on July 6th in 45 deg. S. The run from the Cape to the not conclusive that the house was a public

meridian of Cape Leuwin was accomplished in 15 place within the meaning of the ordinance.

days, the meridian being cut in 441 deg. S. on July 21st. Cape Otway was a beam at midnight Now it so happens that Ordinance got 1876,

on July 31st, so that it will be seen the Catty quoted by Mr. PoLLock, does not contain

came up the coast in steamboat time, the run a single word to justify his contention that

in about 40 hours, or an average of 141 knots from the Otway to Sydney Heads, being covered gambling is only an indictable offence if

right round the coast. Wilson's Promontory was "carried on in a public place "the term

passed at 10.30 p.m. on August 1st, Gabo at 3.15 am. August 2nd, at 3.30 p.m. passed Jervis Bay, "public place" is not once made use of

and took the pilot on board off Sydney Heads at in the ordinance. Section III says that The Yokohama Box of Curios saya :—The new To pm. on Saturday, anchoring at Watson's Bay "any person who shall keep any office, Stock Exchange opened on the 9th inst, and at midnight. From the Otway to Sydney carried agency, or place for dealing in lotteries, as well attended by most of our leading strong southerly and S.E. winds. Some fast shall forfeit & sum not exceeding two apitalists, but not a single broker showed up. sallieg was done between the Cape of Good We can understand why the brokers do rot Hope and Australia a total distance of 3.737 miles was covered in 13 days, an average hundred dollars," etc. Section IV lays it endorse the movement, and it is simply for the

reason that if the Exchange proves to be a of 287 miles per day, or 32 knots right down that "any person who shall keep success it is sure to make the price of all local through. On five days of this time the ship did

In response, to a sharp protest from Lord all, in fact gives them an opportunity up at the back of Garden Island to land the afford safety to the great and ever increasing Salisbury the Portuguese Government has cabled or any place on land or water, for public

to buy or sell at better prices than they can by powder she has on board. Captain Woodger amount of shipping bound to this Eastera part instructions to the authorities at Mozambique to playing or gambling, or shall permit any seeking buyers or sellers. Those having shares mentions that on July 10th, the Cape of Good of the world, in log or in storm. We know punish the commander of a Portuguese steamer HONGKONG, TUZsday, September 2, 1890.

person to play within such house," etc. to dispose of will naturally seek the, Exchange, Hope having been passed four days previously, that when this project was first seriously shall forfelt a sum not exceeding $200; while buyers will attend the auction sales where he passed a barque steering, east, about 1,000 thought of several almost insuperable difficul. off that port...

tons in size. She was painted black,, with a' ties arose in connection with it, but it wAS KO at least a limited number of shares will show THE GAMBLING-HOUSE BOOM.

Fifteen hundred joiners in Newcastle-on-Tyśe and the following section provides that the asking price. Object as they may, the white or yellow ribbon and a white figurehead, generally admitted that a lighthouse to the have struck against the award of of Mr. Burt, brokers are bound to come within the fold, or a full poop, and a red-painted bottom. He south of Hongkong would be desirable that apportioning the work to be done on versele in We are continually being requested by any person who shall use, haunt, or behave the quotations of the Exchange explode holsted signals, but no notice was taken, to sur wiser counsels prevailed and the difficulties course of construction or repals by shipwrights respectable Chinese merchants and other found within such house, etc., shall be their reported sales of shares at a price raised they did not want to be known, as the were at last overcome, and to-day we give and joiners. The joiners demand that the leading residents to expose the "boom" able to a fins of $50. Of course every- beyond the real market price. At the sale of vessel was under very easy canvas; but when the real commencement to a work that wo question shall be re-considered. in gambling-houses which has been going body knows that public gambling can be the fath instant, the attendance was small, and they saw the Cully coming up they seemed to all trust will be a boon to many, it is well

in the absence of representatives of particular take heart and set a little more sall

known that His Excellency Governor des Vœux on throughout the colony for some time, and is very extensively carried on in stocks, offers to sell at a price below the market

used every endeavour in order to bring this work to completion, bat his exerüous would have and we contemplate doing so thoroughly private houses, and therefore the contention value, while they did not find buyers, yet made the quotation of the shares, which will stand as

availed but little had he not obtained the co- at an early date. There is no doubt as to the Tung On Club being a privileged the price of the stock until better offers or

oremtion of the Chinese Authorities. Therefore those who will der.ve benefit from this light whatever that the ranks of these pests of institution was no defence in face of the transactions are made. The low figures caused

hereafter will not only owe a debt of gratitude principle of eight hours, which was demanded The German Government has conceded the the community have been greatly swelled evidence that public gaming at fantan was holders to grow a little excited and anxious to buy, which they would have had an of late; even the authorities admit that actually in full swing when the police opportunity of doing if they had been present. (Before Mr. Fjelding Clarkt, Acting Chief Co-operated with them to carry the scheme much. A representative of this paper entered the promises.. It would be quite If they show an Indifference to their investments, they will find others willing to place a value on asked one of the Inspectors of Police the a new departure from custom for private their shares different from holders' views. The other day why these low and notoriously clubs to admit visitors wholesale for the. Exchange has come to stay, simply for the known gaming houses were... never express purpose of playing jantan and reason that the number of local companies assures a movement in shares, and thus demand raided nowadays? He answered that other illegal games, but in this particular reliable quotations which the Exchange sales It was entirely useless-that the local club the co-manager frankly admitted that and Call List give at each sassion. The meetings bave been changed to weekly sessions, and will law, as at present interpreted, simply gambling was allowed, anda percentage of take place every Tuesday at 11 am, thus made fools, of the Executive, as the five per cent, charged on all winnings for giving a larger list of shares at each sale,

DEATHS.

At Shanghai, on the 25th of August, CHARLIE MEADOWS, aged 20 years.

At Shanghai, on the 28th August, ŢEANNETTE HANNAH, the beloved daughter of Eric and

Jessie Lindström, aged 2 years and 10 months.

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Alter the visitors were landed in this very unceremonious manner, they wended their way up to the summit, where the ceremony of laying The statue of the late Right Hon. W. E the stone was performed. Prior to doing, so, Forster, Secretary for Ireland in the second the temporary quarters however, His Excellency personally inspected Gladstone Ministry, erected on the Thames of the overseer Embankment. was unveiled to-day by Lord of works, Mr. Fraser, and the hundred Cranbrook (Gathorne, Hardy.) He highly labourers, amongst whom, mirabile dicin, since eulogized the Imperial character of Mr. Forster's the beginning of the work in March last, not one patriotism in hoping to unite Greater Britain case of sickness has occurred. Upon returning with the mother country so closely that the to the 'summit again His Excellency rested for British empire would become a mighty instru a few moments ander an awning, where the meat in the civilisation and progress of the contractor, Mr. Teang Keng, stepped forward world, Lord Knutsford (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Mi Goschen (Chancellor of the and presented the plans of the lighthouse,

His Excellency then said-It affords me great Exchequer), the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers, pleasure and satisfaction to take part in the and Earl Granville were present. Representa ceremony to perform which we are here to-day, tives from Australian cities were allotted special The laying of the foundation stone of this light places in the gathering.

The Hongkong Telegraph

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SUPREME COURT,

IN BANKRUPTCY.

Justice.)

A BUSTED CONTRACTOR

The expedition under Emin Pasha in East Africa has been- engaged In severe fighting at Ugogo with the Masai tribe, many of whom were killed.

Hanlan has challenged Gaudaur to row for the Championship of Ame ica,

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to Hongkong, but also to the Chinese who by the miners' delegates, and has reinstated the

to a successful issue. To Sir. Robert Hart, the chief of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, also, as well as to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, who did all in their Mr. Hastings applied, on behalf of Su Chee, power to further Sir William des Vacux's for an adjudication order. He said that the wishes in this connection, a debt of gratitude is debtor was in partnership with others in the due. There is no doubt but that this work will Wing Hing Loong shop, 35 Hollywood-road. be somewhat costly, the revised estimate being His schedule showed debts amounting to $6,442, I believe, $150,000; and carneally hope and nearly all due from the partnership, and his trust that this estimate will not be exceeded; of asseta included, debts $4,109-nearly all of which ' còures a great desi depends on the weather, if

dismissed strikers.

In the Legislative Assembly of the Caps of Good Hope Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the new Premier, moved that the Cape Government ought to havÐ been consulted respecting the agreement in the delimitation of territory south of the Zambesl and claimed a voice in the disposition of such territory.

The motion was agreed to unanimously, The London postmen decline to dissolve their recently formed union,