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SIAM'S ADVANCE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1890.

by Chinese constables in plala clothes, under the personal direction of Detective Inspector, Stanton and Detective-Sergeant Melver. The three prisoners were brought before Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning (5th fast.) and charged with keeping a public gambling house. Mr. Caldwell, of Messrs. Caldwell and Wilkinson, defended.

we have the case of a moderately respectable club, or gambling house as the police call it Can your Worship say on the evidence before you that this establishment-no matter what the police think or know about is a public gaming-hours within the meaning of the Ordinance? Three lubangs have been called by the prosecution, and say that under Instructions they went to the place, quite strangers, uninvited, and not being members, and obtained easy access. And what happened? They did not gamble, but they saw others gambling. The law does not lay down that if gambling goes on in a house, and outsiders are allowed to go and lock on, it is at person keeps a place where public gambling goes on, or where outsiders can gamble, he is ilable. For the sake of argument I will admit that all these things in Court are gambling paraphernalia, and that gambling was going on when the police entered. Are these defend- ants therefore punishable ? Not unless it is proved clearly to the Court, that gambling was going on-not among certain unknown persons, but among outsiders. If the police bad gambled, they being outsiders, unacquainted with the members, you would have plain proof that public gambling was permitted. There is no proof before you that any outsiders were gambling, and it is for the prosecution to prove, not for me to disprove.

And we hear to-day that Krips didn't arrive safely at Chemulpo," but picked up, whilst en route to thit part from Chelon, a steamer bound from Newchwang to Whampas, into which he transferred himself and his belongings, on dif, the sum of sixty thousands tacls in aycee. The story goes that Krips was duly landed at Wham- paa, and thence he proceeded without delay in n junk to Macao. He arrivedthere all right, but was spotted" by somebody who knew him, and the fatal telegraph was quickly set in com munication with Hongkong and the North. Krips has evidently "been and gone and don something" not quite orthodox, or so much in and whereabouts. However, a certain firm in this colony was quickly after Krips' scalp, and any amount of talk was indulged in about warrants, extradition, power-of-attomey, etc.,

and Was

Mr. John Anderson and Mr. W. E. Hooper summer, and consequently during the warm agreed to act as local directors. In the first week season is very much frequented. It well repays of May, four cases of stone from Raub were on the trouble of a visit. Away to the west are the view in A. L. Johnston & Co.'s office, on their snow-clad peaks of Thibet hemming in the view, way in Brishine, and these cases afterwards while the Kia Ting plain lies far below on the assayed 51 ouaces of gold to the ton, of other side. Snow falls in all but three months

Towards black quarts.

the middle of of the year, and in winter piles up to the roofe the month more pumping machinery far of the wooden temples. To the east is a splendid the mine reached Singapore from Brisbane, precipice, some thousands of lect sheer descent, forwarded to the Pahang river and there, far below us, the tempests anend their At that date two fury while we look on from above. There are by the Pontianak. pumps had already been set to work at many thousands of pilgrims coming and going Raub, Legal doubts that month delayed the to visit the shrines, and look uponTM" Buddha's establishment of a branch register here; and glory."

It is said that the French Prince Henri, son On the roth May, the shaft at Raub had been of the Duc de Chartres, is in Ta Chien-lu, on" sunk to feet and 12 leaders had been found. On the frontier, having crossed Thibet, passing near the 2nd June, a report caine from Mr. Bibby that L'hassa, and making the journey from Kuldja he had tunnelled through over 70 feet of gold-in ten months, a hard trip and unparalleled. bearing formations, cutting lenders one of which The Chinese authorities are detaining him was six Inches thick. By that time the founda- because he has no passport. He wants to get tians for the engines and battery were nearly- away down to Tonquin via Yunnan. complete, and-most of the heavy ironwork was In position. On the gib, the cap of a new reef was struck,

In the great and general awakening pf Eastern spations, particularly during the last quarter of a century, nothing has been more marked than the way in which those twin-nations-Japan and Sinu-have abandoned the indolent indifference of the past, and entered as competitors in the stirring race of progress with their long-aroused

P. C. 252 stated that at 9.30 p.m. last night Western rivals, The result of Japan's too he went in company with other lukongs to 103 hot catbesiasm has been the frequent triumph Wellington Street, and on going upstairs saw of the Conservative element; in Siam the want number of people in a room gambling some at "of intuential agitators has allowed a too-retarding Jantan, others at baikau.. The first defendant, all punishable; the gist of the law is that (fany terest would scarcely be taken in his proceedings that register, it is now known, cannot be opened.

Tong Man, appeared to be manager, and the other two were acting as accountant and "boss" Witness and the other of the. paikau table. lukongs who accompanied him were allowed to enter the house without being challenged by the watchman who was posted at the top of the stairs. The watchman evidently had no addition to entering suspicion, for in the room he and his companions witnessed the gambling for about ten minutes, when suddenly the people took fright and tried Witness at once arrested the first to bolt. defendant, and other lakongs seized the other two, one of whom attempted to pick up $16.51 which were on the fantan table. It appeared to him that any one could have entered the house and joined in the game just as he and his comrades had done. Witness was a perfect stranger to the house and its keepers. He had never been there before,

influence to he exercised, even up to this day. Siam's ler, King Chulalongkorn, during the 'latter portion of his reign, now extending over nearly a quarter of a century, is beginning to break the hereditary letters of his high office as the ruler of six millions of fubjects, and great good may be expected. His recent tour around the Malay Peninsula-the first ever made by any King of Siam-was conspicuously marked by a spirit of careful observation and inquiry, and whether visiting his own semi-savage vasenis in Kedah, or calling at the English Settlements in the Straits, it was evident that his Majesty was mentally determining to forward a policy which all interested in Siam hope to soon see put into active operation. His Majesty has done much for his country's good-especially of late years. Siam has been surveyed forrailways, Sir Andrew Clarke having sent in his report last year, and although with Orientals delay is only to be expected, we believe that tenders for that important work are now being invited from Europe. In the meantime the country is practi- cally pathless-the jump will be from the virgin jungle or beaten track to the narrow-gauge rail way. The revenue of the country-some ten million dollars a year-has been misapplled; public works until very recently, have been regarded as quite a secondary con- sideration, while immense sums have been spent

cremations. on palace

And yet hundreds

of beautiful launches dot the river Meinam, bearing such names ax" Cockle's Pills," "Pears1 Snap," etc., and the Navy, comprising a large number of smart gunboals, has become an important factor-especially now that it includes The Makat Rajakumar-and under the super- vision of Commodore Richelieu and other Europeans has becomethoroughly well organised. Hundreds of young scions of Siamese families are in Europe to-day, learning western languages, science, and customs, and who will fiil positions of usefincas when they return home. All this con- lips our belief that Siam is a coming Power in the East, the contrary opinion of the Pall Mall Ganttle oracle, Mr. Henry Norman, notwith- standing.

P.C. 178 and 223 corroborated the evidence of the first witness.

William Staaton, Detective-Inspector, sald be organized the raid on the Hing Kee Club, in accordance with recent instructions to prosecute public gambling clubs in that particular neigh- bourhood. When he entered the room on the first floor, together with Detective Sergeant Melver, he observed the prisoners under arrest, and fasian counting-boards and sticks The Hing Kee Club had on the tables. 'been in existence for about two years. The first fleor was protected by a strong iron-barred door, which he caused to be removed to the station, as evidence in the case. He produced papers seized on the premises,

etc.

Our latest information is to the effect that Krips, who evidently knows his way around, quietly left. Macna this morning in a Chinese funk, ostensibly bound for Hnilow, and thereby avoided any possible complications with the Portuguese authorities. But even the cleverest of mortals sometimes make mistakes, and it has struck us that if Mr. Krips is still humping round these tacts 60,000 in solid silver, an accident might very easily happen on the trip down to Hoi. how he might fall overboard, or'a dozen other uncomfortable things might happen to prevent this far-seeing and energetic gentleman from fally enjoying the results of his enterprise. "All in," we don't envy Mr. Krips his present position and prospects. Macao junk-men are the descendants of a somewhat shady crowd, and their inborn piratical instincts may not be able to withstand the temptation of such a treasure-trove as Krips is supposed to have under his sole charge,

THE RAUB MINES.

ITS DEGINNING UNTIL NOW).

1838,

In October 1888, a miner named Robert Sefton arrived in Queensland, bringing word that he had come across a rich gold mine in Pahang, Malay Peninsula, at a place called Raub, in the hands of a chief called Rajab Impey, and that he had made terms with him to work it by means of a company to be started in Australia."

His Worship, In giving his decision, said I cannot understand what advantage is derived from the institution of prosecutions of this kind until the police are prepared 10 prove their case. These houses, or so-called clubs, are known to exist all over the Colony; the police are as well aware of it as This particular one private individuals. has been allowed to go on for nearly two years, to the knowledge of the Inspector prosecuting in this case, and without the slightest interference on his or anyone else's part. Any capricious prosecution in the direction of the suppression of gambling appears to me to do much more harm than good, and at any rate, if a prosecution is to be instituted, it is the duty of the police to see that they win their case, and (A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENTERPRISE FROM that the evidence they produce is such as will satisfy a magistrate that the house is a public gambling house. Few of the Chinese know the Hung Kwan, Police Court interpreter, said nice distinctions that exist in English law between what may be called permissible gaming that the account papers produced by the last and illicit gaming, and it is very unfortunate witness were records of gambling affatts. One when a prosecution is brought in which the of them specially referred to paikau gambling. Chinese are evidently considerably interested. Mr. Caldwell was about to proceed with cross-that the case should break down for want of the examination, when his Worship remanded the evidence necessary to support conviction. case until next Tuesday afternoon.

Nothing can be clearer than the law on the subject at the present time. Up to the end of 1838 not only the keepers of a public gambling- house were punishable, but also the frequenters. In that year an Ordinance was passed making frequenters to go free. What is called common the keepers alone punishable, and allowing the gaming as distinguished from public gaming, is where gaming is carried on by fimited numbers, and in places where the general public have not access, and thisis,not probibited in this Colony; public gambling is the only form of gambling forbidden by law. And the casence of that species of gambling is that the house kept for the purpose is house where any of the public have access and freedom to gamble, and not merely a limited number. I am not prepared Hay that, if proper evidence were brought that is to say I the prosecution were carefully conducted- any one of these clubs are not public gambling house, but the onus of proof that they are lies on the prosecution. In this case there is not the slightest evidence to shew that any outsiders were gambling; it is shewn that outsiders could obtain admission, but it does not follow that they could also gamble the attempt was not made, so that it is impossible to say whether it

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The Police Court was crowded this afternoon (gth ipst.) during the adjourned hearing of the case in which the three managers of the Hing Kec Club were charged before Mr. H. E. Wode house with keeping a public gambling-house at 103 Wellington Street. Mr. Caldwell appeared

for the defence.

Detective Inspector Stanton gave evidence as to the existence of gambling paraphernalia, etc. In the Club, and produced the rules and the books kept by the managers.

Cross-examined-I saw no difference between this place and any other gambling club. The rules found on the wall referred to the place as a society. This is not an informer's case, but purely instituted by the police. I found the three defendants and three others on the premises. I had special instructions to proceed against one against this one in particular. or two gambling houses-these clubs-but not

Mr. Caldwell-Didn't you know that there was rather a keen-edged article in the Hongkong Telegraph of the zud inst. about gambling houses?

Witness-There was an article, but I am not a judge of its character...

Mr. Caldwell-You don't know if your instruc- tions had anything to do with that?

Witness-I would not undertake to say that. His Worship-When you got your instructions the paper was not mentioned?

Witness-The paper was mentioned-I was asked if I had seen the article.

His Worship What was said besides? Mr. Caldwell-If we are to have the can- versation we must know who the other person

was.

During the absence of the King on the tour referred in, his brother, Prince Chow Fa Bhanu- rangeni Swangwongse, otherwise Somdetch Krom Pra Ong Noi, Commander-in-chief, had charge of the Government for three months, and, when relieved, left for Japan, being the first Siamese royal prince who had ever come so far East. What his object was can only be surmised we have been variously informed that it was to return the visit H.R.H. Prince Komatsu paid to Hangkok some three years ago to establish a Siamese Legation in Tokio ; to conclude a treaty ól alliance between the two countries; and to ser and learn all that was to be seen and learned. The latter theory is probably the most accurate, for every paper in Japan rcoids how the Prince and his suite Have wandered about, investigating the policy of the country, studying its institutions, and criticising the results. The information gathered by the King in the South and the Prince in the East, cannot be altogether useless, or forgotten. Previous to the embarkation, of Prince Dha- Burangsai, about the beginning of July, Capt. H. N. Andersen came over to Hongkong to report on the well-known gunboat Filipinas, which was for sale. After negotiating with the repre- sentative of the Spanish owners for some time, he was able to recommend the purchase of this smart and splendidly built craft for the extremely moderate sum of $110,000. The Prince personally examined the vessel on his arrival, and at once authorised the adoption of Capt. Andersen's recommendation, with the result that for the first time in history the pavilion of the "White elephant" Auttered over a Siamese war-vessel in these waters. Under Copt. Andersen's instructions the Filipinos was re-fitted in royal style, and the Royal party will return to Bangkok in the finest vessel that the Mr. Caldwell-Bu1 you knew of this law Siamese fleet numbers. She was to have lefthefore, as a police officer-you knew there has here to-day (oth inst.) for Tonquin to receive the been a law against gambling-bouses all along? royal party on arrival there, but owing the

Witness-Yes, like other laws. illness of Prince Bhanurangsai from malarial

Mr. Caldwell And isn't it the duty of the fever-which attacked him in Shanghai about fortnight ago, and for which Drs. Canthic and police to put that law into force without special Cowie are treating him-her departure has been deferred.

cle will be of some interest to briefly state who compose the royal Slamese visitors now in our midst. Prince Bhangrangsal, as stated above, is the King of Siam's second younger brother, and right-hand man. As Minister of War he has, although only about thirty-two years of age, introduced great reforms into the army, and, with European assistance, has raised it to a comparatively high standard of excellence. Although he has never before been out of his native country, he has acquired a good knowledge of English, and with it the progressive ideas of a Liberal statesman. He costesses in Bangkok a palace which is described as "magnificent, filled with collections of everything Siamese that is rare and beautiful," and he is probably the most popular subject in Slam, and must inevitably wield a potent influence in the 'coming advance- ment of that country."

Among the members of his suite are H.R.H. Prince Vatanar, the King's younger half-brother, a Colonel in the army, and an ardent Progressist H.H. Pridce Prisdang, the King's nephew once removed, head of the Post and Telegraphs' department, for three years Siamese Minister in

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Captain Superintendent.

Witness-I got my instructions from the His Worship And he asked you if you had

seen the article 7

Witness-Yes, and I said I had.

instructions?:

Witness The subordinates have to get permission from their superior officer; if there is gambling they must report it to the Captain Superintendent, and he issues orders.

To his Worship-The house was well-known to me, and has been going on for two years. had no special reason for selecting it, except that it was near to the Central Station,

The Court interpreter said that the books. produced contained the accounts of the winnings' at Patkau for the 6th and 7th months, and for the piyments and receipts. The former included provisions, singing, &c. The rent was put down at $45 per month. The winnings shewn in two of the other books amounted to about $400.

One of the lukongs, recalled, said that neither he nor bis fellow-constables gambled when they got admission into the bouse.

That closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Caldwell, for the defence, said-The real defence in this case is that which has been set up in so many cases both before your Worship and your brother magistrates, namely, that this is not a public gambling house within the mean

1839.

Sefton formed a prospecting party and returned to Raub in March 1889. The prospectors, | including Mr. T. W. Brown, said they found Sefton's report borne out by their own experience, and ascertained that the mine was under conces- . sion held by Rajahs Impey and Ismail, who worked it until Syed Mahomed Alsagoff, who also had a claim upon it, got them to amalgamate with the Malay Peninsula Prospecting Company, Then Meram, Lascelles and Rice arrived from Australia on the same business and from the same principals, and superseded Mr. Brown in the negotiation. The concession eventually passed into the hands of these gentlemen' and others, on terms hereafter stated, and a Syndicate was formed in Queensland to work it. Prepara- tions were then made to send out Mr. Bibby and a party of men to the mine with stamping and other machinery. So matters stond in the middle of last year,

About that time Mr. Brown and Mr. Sefton began to sell shares, but without scrip, each share being assumed to be a five-hundred thousandth part of the Syndicale's interest. For such shares they got various prices from 25 down to to, and the shares were always sold for cash, as a favour, to ager buyers.

Early in July Mr. Bibby came to Singapore, and reported favourably on prospects, one hundred tons of stuff being already on the bank, and Europeans and 120 natives being at work. The stamps and machinery were nearly ready, then to start crushing.

On the 5th August crushing began, just one year after the party left Australia.

In answer to instructions that the results of the "clean-up" of the first crushing should be in Brisbane on 6th September, Mr. Bibby telegraphed on August 19th, that he was working the stamps night and day.........

A telegram from Mr. Bibby published in Singapore on the 28th August stated:

"400 ounces amalgam from tables only, Expect to finish crushing about 1st September, Crushing prospects indifferent? 20 dkg

The following telegram from Mr. Bibby, was received in Singapore on the next day

Crushing prospects are looking fair. QUOTATIONS ON THE 1ST AND 15TH OF EACH

**MONTH IN 1890.

January 9/ ...and..... 8/ February $11

March $1

April $21 to 3 – May $24

June $7,50 July Sz

August $175 September $0.85...

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$12

$1

$2 to'

$2.50

$2}

$1.80.

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On 18th August the price of the shares fell to one dollar, sellers, and since then it has not risen above 85 'cents buyers, with lower prices for large scrips-Straits Times, September 1st.

WESTERN SHANTUNG.

It is also rumoured that there is a serious'out- break down in Yunnan. Reports say 10,000 men are in revolt troops massacred and so forth, No details,Shanghai Mercury..

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"CHINKIANG.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT.)

3rd September, 1890, "Et vox faucibus hasit! Tigers again. A few days ago while somis children were tending cattle.near a certain, village, they were nearly frightened out their wits bythe sudden appearance

of one of these brutes. Upon turning to run one of them fall; the tiger spring upon the poor little creature and began to devour her. Several men from the village, attracted by the cries of the children, appeared, and the animal was scared away, but not until the child was fearfully mangled about the head. The writer was called in to dress the wound, but it is doubtful whether the patient will recover. The tigers, so-called, are seen every day and the villagers are ter ribly frightened by their appearance. There are three of the animals, not of the same colour, it appears, but fierce withal, and ugly customers to tackle. To see these man-eaters prowling about anunoffending Chinese village unmolested, rouses the spirit of every true philanthropist. A plan is on foot to shoot these tigèrs, and unless the philanthropist who is assisting in the con- coction of this scheme gets chawed up, you may expect further particulars.

What the Shën Pão calla a Hae Yi, fell here last night. It thoroughly soaked the ground. here is at present so much distress in China that it is refreshing to hear of plentiful harvests somewhere in the country; and the" joyful rain" of our early Septembergives promise of abundant: rice, and proportionate refreshment.-N. G Daily Neiss.

TIENTSIN.

30th August, 1890. There is a decided improvement in the Tientsin" reach, where the rake is still being used, but the East reach is very troublesome and will not allow any craft drawing more than oft. din, to

Spades gestalt

Atan extraordinary meeting of the members of the Tientsin Race Club, on Wednesday last, the feasibility of holding the regular Autumn meeting.. was discussed. Mr. Dering was voted to the chair. After a good deal of discussion a com- mitter, consisting of Mesars. Detring, Stewart, Frazer, and Seckendorff, was elected for the purposes of exploring the neighbourhood to find a suitable site for a temporary course, and to report the result of their investigations to the Taku road while the course, if found, is being Stewards. Training will be carried on in the

put late condition, e

PEKING.

August 18th, 1895. The floods of the present year do not appear to be at all inferior in amount of water to those of nineteen years ago, when Tientsin and all, its environs were inundated, with little or no inter- mission, for three years. The mischief done by the Yellow River in the central part of the province is much greater than last year. Refugees from the district cities of Lini and Shangho report that the water, now receding, has been The weather during the past week has been up to the height of a man's neck in many of the somewhat oppressive, and a good deal of sick- villages, and the inhabitants are on the rools.ness is prevalent Dysentery-principally of The oldest people cannot remember anything mild description-Is common both among adults like it. In the numerous gaps is the Villang and children, and some of the children ars, in

addition, suffering from boils. river in the vicinity of Linch'ing, at the terminus of the true Canal, whole villages were swept away by the sudden tush of water, and but a few individuals saved alive, Relief is would have been successful or not. The

now given. to some of the survivors. by the local authorities. A part of the large probability is that it would, but it was for the prosecution to prove that, and until it was done On the 30th August, Messrs. Bibby and Sefton, dect of grain-boats have been let out of It was useless, and worse than useless, to inter-along with the prosperters, and the machinery,

the Canal into the Yaliang river, and with the fere with these dens of gambling until the law arrived at Singapore in the steamer Devonhurst.

boats has come a vast amount of water, appar is altered. It is very easy to alter the law if it is They set out for Raub on the 7th September, ently raising the river, which had begun to fall. considered necessary; if it is not done these Clubs leaving in two detachments, some going via The folly of this wasteful system of transporta Pekan and the main body by way of Kuala will exist as they did before, and caused and Lumpur. The latter reached Raub on the rothen. All the neighbouring district magistrates tion of grain was never more apparent than this however much mischief they have

are said to have sent despatches begging that however much in reality they may be public of that month. On the 25th September, Mr. gambling-houses, they cannot be reached under Sefton returned to Singapore, and reported the grain boats be detained for a longer time, Admiral Besnard arrived at the Bar in the existing circumstances antll the Police bring that sixteen tons of machinery had reached but as they "belong to the Emperar," who must French fronclad Triomphante, an the evening forward the evidence which will satisfy the spot three miles from Raub, but that be fed, whatever becomes of the millions, who of the 23rd inst accompanied by the gun-vessel magistrate that gambling is carried on there, not the badness of the ground barred further pro- may be drowned in the process of getting grain pic. The Admiral having transferred himself in the form of common gambling, but as public gress..

to Peking, the opening of the locks has gone to the latter-vessel, crossed over the following gambling, Until that has been done I fully On the 2nd October, several shareholders of on as usual. The real Canal is supplied morning. The Arpic found great difficulty in the Malay Peninsula Prospecting Company with water in the upper part of its course making her way up river, and was finally obliged believe that no magistrate can be found to con vict in a case of this kind. (To the interpreter), applied to the directors of the latter for particu- from the Yellow River, and the water to bring up in the vicinity of the Match Factory. Tell the prisoners that they are. charged with lars regarding the sale of Raub. On the 12th this Canal has been up to the edge of the It is expected, however, that with a good tide being the keepers of a public gambling-house, October, the Company met and heard explana banks, and has also filled to the brim the she will succeed in reaching the French Settle- Having gone through their case I find that the tions that Raub had been sold to the Australian Chaowang river, a stream which sets off from ment-Chinese Timeses k house was public in so far that outsiders could Syndicate, that £5,000 of the purchase money the true Canal at a place called Welchiawan. foga obtain admission, seeing that tour constables had been received, and that $5,000 more were The Chaowang river has carried destruction. in plain clothes got in without the slightest expected at the end of the following month. It to a wide region of country by breaking. difficulty, although there was a man at the door. was agreed to refer the question of the sale of Its banks, at one point in the vicinity of But there is nothing before me to shew that Raub to a committee, On the 12th November Welchiawan, and at another in the Techon these constables carried on any gambling. The the Raub Syndicate was registered at Brisbane district. At the junction of the Chaowang and only evidence that the public were admitte, with a capital of one million sterling. On the the Canal, there was once a strong lock, naw in it given by them and by the inspector, and 13th November, the directors of the Malay ruins. When it is desired to prevent the water the only outsiders they can speak to are Peninsula Prospecting Company reported to the from entering the Chaowang channel, which is themselves. There is much in the evidence shareholders that Raub had been sold to the simply an outlet for the Canal, the entrance is before me to shew that the house was Australian Syndicate for £230,000, of which filled with earth, but when the Chaowang is a public gambling-house-that it was a common

£220,000 was to be in fully paid shares more than full, and the water ought to be shut gambling-house there is every evidence-but I of a company which was afterwards arranged off, there is no way to accomplish It. And all am only dealing with the charge of public gam- to have £1,000,000 capital. News reached this for the lack of a few hundred täels spent Singapore that month that the Australian Syndi. In making a lock 1: It is now reported from bling. The case is dismissed.

cate intended to establish there a local and a

a great variety of sources that the Yellow share register, and also that the difficulties of River bas again partly or altogether left its, transporting the machinery to Raub from Pekan bed, and is roaming about in the south of Shan", were proving greating than the Australians bad tung, seeking the sea. Perhaps it may be anticipated. The Malay Peninsula Prospecting following the old course, which It forsook In: Company met on the 19th November and 1856. But as that bed is much higher than the ascertained that the Raub block sold extended average level of the surrounding plain, the river, over 20 square miles, and that of the £230,000 must, one would suppose, keep to the cutside of received for it so per cent would go to Mr. the old channel. In fact no spot in the plain of Anderson, 20 per cent of the remainder to the Shantung would seem to be more secure from Company, and the balance to Syed Mabomed Inundation than the former bed of the Yellow, Alsagoff and his partners. For various legal River. Except that the whole country is every technical, and other reasons, a valid delivery of where under water, it is impossible to learn any these 220,000 fully paid-up one pound shares has thing with certainty, save what one sees with not yet been made, and the shares on the one's own eyes. The Chinese adage aboutite, market have been the original Syndicate shares dry year is equally applicable, to the year, pl. (for which there never was any scrip) and after-flood

Hapon of sah Mesinise wards one pound shares 17/6 paid, 17ly paid, whes drought is found rumours abounds and 17/9 paid, of "the Raub Australian Syndicate

Raub abares began to be quoted 'la opi sellers They stood on the 31st December at 9 sellers, but these were original syndicate shares, concerning which it was afterwards made clear that 5 of them corresponded to 7 of the shares of "the Raub Australian Syndicate Limited," which latter shares are now the ones quoted. The end of the year found the Australians hard at work making roads for transporting the machinery to Raub

KRIPS.

"On the and inst, we published the following: Considerable excitement and concern bas been caused at Chefoo, says our Shanghai morning contemporary, by the disappearance of Mr. S. Krips, the Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway at Wohu, and registered owner of Mr. the Austrian steamer Anshin Mars. Krips was in fil-health and had gone to Chefoo for a change, but he could not be found on Sun- day morning (August 24th) and the search dur ing the day was without result. Later advices state that Mr. Krips had left Chefoo in a junk, apparently bound for Korea."

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

** 25th August, 1890. ChT Yeb, seventh son of Tao Kuang and. father of the Emperor, Kuang Heil, died yester« day. For the last few hours of his life, the Emperor and the Empres Dowager, were at his - bed-side and did all they could to assuage the pangs of death. He has been in poor bealth for yours and has, had a physician (Dr. Mal, educated by Dr. Mackenzie In Tientsin) in con stant attendance.The Seventh. Prince was a Universal favourite, He gained the everlasting gratitude of the small bucksters in Feking by re- fusing to allow the paying of the streets, which would have interfered with their business.. Tho Viceroy, Li Hung-chang, offered to pave several of the main avenues of this city at his own ex pense, but the kind-hearted Prince could not with- stand the petitions of the poor, and the streets remain in their filth as before. He was destrous af improvement and progress in China. He was in favour of railroads and steamships. Tho Emperor had nearly completed a magnificent residence for his father in the northern part of the city. It will be difficult to tell what will become of it now. The Emperor. seems to inherit some of the generous disposition of his father, as shown in bis prompt, doubling of the monthly stipend of the Manchus in Peking, immediately following. the great rains. There may have been some and rumour says the leaders in the crime are Huang Tel Tre, Yellow Girdles," members of the Imperial clan. [Later advices deny the report of Prince Ch'un's death, but state ho is The seventh of August in the day fixed in the iously --Ed. H.K.T.] A TAVA imperial calendar for the beginning of autumn. Earnest efforts are making to restore the Hun Up to that time both days and nights! in, thin" | fivér to its original channel Under pressure of region had been exceedingly hot and uncomfort of high water the banks were broken just south able. Within 24 hours of the time for autumn to of Lu Kou bridge and the water burst through be established, a rain set in which greatly cooled the Emperor's south hunting park, sweeping In January, Raub scrip began to be forwarded the air, and there has not been one hot night down many villages in its track Reaching the from Brisbane to Singapore, Towards the middle since. This annual phenomenon appears to show Pelbo, it caused that river to break its south of the month, the Australians began to pump the either that the government understands the bank and the waters swept over the plain mine, but met with difficulties from floods. Early climate or that the climate understands the route to the Golf The switness of the current in February, a good deal of scrip from Brisbane govemment or perhaps both-N: C. Dally is shown by the fact that for more than 20 f larges for thevintaj from the break in its banks': the. Pelho flows up reached Singapore. At the beginning of March, New

a bawat stream. It requires a clear head to know which Mr. Bibby, who had been left in charge, reported.

Bebopoda, way you are going when one reaches that portion

of the riverwalk photo to bywater Pigs

Dr. Atterbury and bride retumed safely from Tientsin, making the round trip in eight days. They are now comfortably settled in their own home.-N. C. Dally Newfound

Four days later ( Sept. 6th) we wrote "We learn that Mr. Krips, whose recent mysterious disappearance from Cheloo caused such a sensa- Ltd."

London, and an energetic reformer; H.E. Phyang of the Ordinances of 1876 and 1888, but that ifen, has arrived safely at Chemulpo (Korea) columos on the 3rd December 1879, at 10/6, drowned out, have literally no other occupation; policy, in the act, as already, robbery has begun

Doche, now a major general, and not very long age a pupil at Sandhurst and three or four. other Siamese nobles, the party belag convoyed by Mr. J. Stevens, private secretary, formerly of the London Legation.

We learn that the trip to Dai Nippon, excepling for the unfortunate illness of the Prince, has been an all-round success. The Japanese railway systems, military and technical colleges, hospitals, Government Institutions, public works, etc., ele, have been carefully examined, and it is probable that another and more permanent mission will shonly leave Siam for the Land of the Rising Sun.

In our exchanges from Shanghai received this morning (9th inst.) we find that

NOTICE

1890.

in point of fact it is a club consisting of a in a Chefoe junk. The correspondent adds- certain number of members who, subscribing whether satirically or otherwise we don't know

number of rules, one of which is that? some' three dolan a month, are bound by that the trip is said to have done Mr. Krips member may introduce: one or more friends, health, which had been "indifferent for some My humble submission on this occasion Is

time past, a great deal of service. exactly the same. as I have so often submitted to the Court before-that if this is an institution guided by rules of this kind there is no difference in principle, while there can be zone is hereby given that S. Kripa, a native of practically, between Institutions of its kind Hungary, until lately established at Wuhu a and those of a similar character in Hong-| Merchant and Commission Agent, has by virtue kong, known as clubs, and frequented by of the Commercial Law of Austria, Art. 122—3, Europeans. It cannot be contended for because bankrupt, all claims against said estate moment by any sensible man that in the Euro- should be sent in to this Consulate General not pean clubs a member cannot introduce a friend later than Tuesday, the 30th September, 1890, or friends, who may gamble to their hearts' con at 10 o'clock a.m., and all payments due to that A RAID ON A CHINESE CLUB (7), tent within the club's precincts. Why, then estate should be made on or before that date.

should this extraordinary pressure be brought to A General Meeting of creditors of that estate "bear on the Chinese, if they choose-to-carry-on-

gambling in houses of a similar kind in therwill be : heid at; the office of ERIN CONFULEto show fair prospects, and he sent samples of gold. }

General on Thursday, the 2nd October at i p'clock am, when a statement of assets and abilities will be fald before them, and an official liquidator duly appointed."

THE GAMING HOUSE QUESTION.

Tong Man, Tong Yuk, and Ma Chau, who are of the humblest, character, and that the described themselves at the Police Station as people who frequent them are bumble, but we all know that the Chinese will gamble, no matter carpenter, rope-maker and cook respectively, what their station in life whether they are were arrested at the Hing Kee Club, 103, monied merchants or poor coolics, and they Wellington Street, at a quarter to lon inst night will have places to carry it on in Here

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...... BME & I. AUSTRO-HUNG, CONSULATE= |

GENERAL. Shanghai, 3rd September, 1889

that the mine had hem so far upwatered as to

When flood combs, Rah come too talk as it helps bus, Though ling men are ourous, the princely men are few

The vast multitudes who are practically than to set in circulation all kinds of idle tales, and as none of them can be worse than the truth, they are generally believed; but, mean time, truth lies in a well. nananas, kura

SZECHUEN,

manfaat

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT)

SIN-70 Tith August 800

5th March. Shares went up sixty cents in two daya Early in April news came that Mr. Bibby bad taken up ten thousand shares which had been placed at his option at 6/ cach, as part There is a famous Buddhist, resort near here of his remuneration. In May, Mr. Derrick was called O-mel Shan. ⠀ It is situated about 10,000 appointed local Secretary of the Syndicate, and feet above the sea level, and is cold even in

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