1890-10-09 — Page 8

ŠUPPOSED BREAKDOWN OF THE "GUTHRIE"

A telegram was received from Bolibao this morning (6th inst,) which ran as follows:-"On the 4th about 10 miles north of the Capones "Islande a two-masted fiddle-bow steamer was seen either on shore or at anchor. Belleve name of steamer to be Guthrie and that her screw is broken,”—Mesors, Rustctl & Co, expect that li is the Guthrie, now six days overdue, in which ease the Co's agents in Manila will send Assistance promptly.

SERIOUS DISTURBANCES AT HOIHOW,

Captain Handewadt, of the German steamship Maris, which arrived here on the 7th inst, fram

Hoihow, informa us that very serious trouble has arisen at Hoihow owing to the recently imposed lekin tax, which the natives refuse to tolerate. Thousands of people are flocking in from the country, and on the afternoon of the 4th the soldiers, under orders from the Tantai, who bad just arrived, fired on the mob and killed eight. Next day, when the Maris left, all stores were closed and business suspended, the steamer being compelled to go without her cargo. The strecta were crowded with x, desperate crowd of natives from the surrounding districts, prepared

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1890.

Lam Tax Nam, a clerk in the Wel-sing Lottery farm at Canton, said that he wrote out the ticket according to the applications forwarded by the sat witness. He denied that any came to Hongkong...

His Worship-He thinks the Gambling Ordinance will apply to him (A laugh.)

Witness admitted writing one out for "Ma ti-son in Hongkong. It had been forwarded by the last witness. No blank tickets were applied to Hongkong agents, or so'd here, except in that »

Li Kiu, a foki in the defendants' employ, said that the firm received Wei-sing ticket from the first witness's Canten post-office, and also for warded applications and money from investors here, but none were sold in the shop. The applications and money were brought to them, and they simply sent them on. They got one andareen for each dallar so forwarded, from the

Yan' On Tai firm.

savee that pigin to fashion," with a hopeless expression of obtuseness.

A little steamer, built at Whampoa be Mr. Cooper, and called the Fei-ma, or Flying ers, runs between Hongkong and Canton about twice a week, stopping for the night at Macao. It is to start at twelve this day, according to announcement-bills in English and Chinese, on the walls: and it is for Canton I at bound.

Leaving the club, I find the heat of my room is nothing to that of Queen's-rond-the main artery of Hongkong circulation. The Europeans, in their white jackets and trousers, and round pith hats, are driven under the shade of the shop colonnades and thick-leaved trees, to talk. The Sou'west monsoon is blowing freely out at sea; but, as Hongkong—or rather Victoria was built, with a noble dinegard of position, on the north-eastern side of Victoria Peak (which is not a peak at all, but a rounded bill), not one breath summer or autumnal air ever reaches it, except that which "cannons " off the hills, at an angle against you. But this moist, stifling heat, so terrible to us, it evidently healthy and bracing to the Chinese, They revel in it, and stretch themselves out to enjoy its fiercest rays like cats in a window; or foil with heavy stones sis g on a bamboo, or chalis containing fourteen-stone Britons, up the steep paths to the bungalows, with their closely shaven beads unsheltered by anything except bralna mus! dry up and rattle in their skalls like s preserved lychee,

Pontine Marshes; although even that might not be to great an antithesis."

to resist the tax at any cost, and the outlook was applications for tickets from other places they their pigtails twisted round them, until their I living stream'of the railway. Tais, however, is

very serious indeed. The steamship Fr Capt. Lund, left at the same time as the Maris, also without cargo.

Yung Hok Tau, the k-eper of similar "post- office" in Queen's Road, and defendant in another case, said that he simply transmitted, the applications for tickets as they came in; he neither received the money anr paid the winners. Mr. Francis said that that was his case. He submitted that on the evidence it was perfectly clear whit the method was on which the defendants conducted their business. The Lattery was established by the Chinese Governme tat Canton, and as the most convenient way of getting in the

arranged with the native postal agencies to send them in expeditiously, and in return paid the agents liberally. The defendants only kept a branch of the forwarding "gency, teply collecting applications for tickets, but selling none. They wer paid for this-not by the Wel- sing lottery farm, but by the Yan Or Tai shop. The only question for his Worship was whether such dealing, remote as it was from direct traffic in tickets, was "dealing is the could not be, in the ordinary sense, any more than the employé of a rice merchant could be said to deal in rice, and he asked that the case be dismissed.

It happens to us all to witness a great many rows in the course of our lives, of various phases-physical, as on the old Jenny Lind nights, amongst the superior clases (whose manners and customs I am sometimes permitted the delight of studying); moral, as when Re- verend Boanerges Gong meets Reverend S Bookay on the platform; domestic, as in a stre ly family party after the reading of a will; general, as at the anrual meeting of any company you please, started by an inventive genius to make himself secretary thereof; Irish, as when Paddy O'Raggedy-that broth of a boy-cries Harroo !! and allows his nutive ready humour to run to fracturing his friend's skull, or biting his nose off; and patriotic, as when a lot of nature's nobility, possessing nothing in the world, go in for a division of property and universal auffrage. But we have never had a clear notion of a down-right row, until we have dropped anchor off Macao amongst the lanka ghis,

The tanka is, as its name implies in Chinese, at the stern, and hooped over with arches of an egg-shaped boat, little at the prow end, hig bamboo and matting. It forms the home of more than one hundred thousand of the amphibious Cantonese ; and these residences of the wind stretch out on the Pearl River to Whampoa ani Macao, as our rows of clerks houselets do to Woolwich and Gravesend on the scarcely a comparison. The tanka population is considered so low as to be almost unworthy of Queen's road is all alive, and the natives are a place in the census. They live and marry running up and down like ants. Nobody remains amongst themselves; and are as distinct from where he is but the tarbers, who place their little the Cantonese proper as the fishing inhabitanta stools under the shade of a clump of trees near of Portal are from the people of Boulogne, the club, and keep up a noise all day long which As soon as the steamer nears Macao, the almost out-clamours the crickets above them, tankas shoot out from the share towards the spot Sometimes be travelling cook-shop keeper pauses where they know she will anchor; their oars are here for a minute. His establishment is sturg plied so well that their approach assumes the air over his shoulder, and it consists of two bamboo of a catting-out expedition. Throw a bun into the frames, about three feet high by two square. water of St. James's Park, and the ducks will when he stops, he conn cis them by a board give you the best notion of the manner of attack, forming a sort of counter, or table One frame

One woman sculls behind, and the ther takes holds his kitchen, which is chiefly a copper her place on the forecastle, with a rope and a was just the case that the Ordinance was intended other has his materials in drawers and on

Mr. Johnson, for the prosecution, urged that it heated by charcoal, and containing "stock." The boat-book, prepared for the worst; and, as the entire fleet makes for the sponsons of the steamer, to deal with. The law intended to stop the sale shelves; and, on the top, his spoons and little when they meetthe row begins, A-moon, thebelle of Wei-sing lottery tickets, and if the publishers basins, with saucers full of pickled shrimps, of the tinkas, arrives first; and showing her beauti- could not sell them here they tried to do it wheaten paste, small oysters, fowls' entrails, ful white teeth as she chin-chins, orkes fast trough their agents, the defendants. However park fat, fish, and long onions. From a string, to our paddle-box, and then nods her preity. many hands the tickets went through before he now and then hangs a rat or a large fat frog: head, over which she has lightly tied a red hond.

tickets. I was to the first defendant (Mok but simply forwarded and distributed lottery. a more varied carde, than any two-franc the hail of the opera house when waiting for the agents. They kepi no general post office, more dishes, by artful combinations, and provides ladies who know they are nice-looking adopt in Kung-shan) that he handed in the numbers on tickets, and he asked for their punishment. restaurateur, with "quatre plats au choix" in their carriages to come up. But A-tye, who is a which he staked the sum of eight dollars. He

His Worship said that the only defence put the Palais Royal. A potage he vends at, "two" | sort of rivs! in good looks, sculls strenuously up, was told by him to come again on the 22nd ulto. to get the books and tickets. On the 29th ullo.warding agency.. On the face of it, however, cash go to a penny, it cannot be dear whatevertern oar, runs forward, banging between the forward was that the men simply kept a for-cash a cup" is inscrutable; bat as twenty-five and then with a good way on her host, ships her be went to the agency and Mok Kungshan then their real business was to obtain, and distribute it is.

tankas of Amoon and Amfu (who is a terrible banded to him the books and tickets, now

tickets direct, practically, from the lottery farm produced in Court.

vixen, and, they say, can fight like a cat, whence. in Canton, and he thought that the case came

her name, which appropriately signifies. Mrs. well within the Ordinance. With regard to the

Puss, in Chinese), runs in well and gains her punishment, he had no alternative but to

place. Amiu immediately springs on her, all imprison them with hard labor. However, in

claws set, and knocks her over into the other the event of the appeal which he supposed would

boat. Amoon resents the intrusion, with a boat be made, they could in the interim regain their

hook, upon which Atye seizes a chopper, not her freedom on substantial bail.

Aling, Aming, and as many more as you please. diately shoved out to sea by Ayatig, Achung,

THE GAMBLING CRUSADE" :

WEI-SING AGENTS IMPRISONED.

At the Police Court this morning (and inst.) before Mr. A. G. Wise, Mok Kungshan And Fong Fat-ting were charged with "keeping a Wai-ding lottery agency, in contravention of the provisions of Ordinance 27 of 1888. Mr. A. B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor, prosecuted; and Mr. Francis, Q.C., instructed by Mr. Mossop, appeared for the defence.

Ha Nam, an employé of a scroll shop' in Queen's Rad West, said that he remembered the roth of last month, on which day be went in No. 214 Queco's «Road Central 'and - bought some Yi-sing lottery tickets. The defendants

sense of the Ordinance. He submitted that

In great agony, as the swell moved his broken, bone, he floated for nearly an hour, with the assistance of his chair. Once it escaped from his hand, and in turning to recover it, as he rose on a wave higher than ordinary, be discovered, a lorcha working to windward; and, from his nautical knowledge, he knew that, ut, being weatherly, his true course would bring her within hail. And he was right; she came nearer and nearer, until she got within ball, and just within taken on board as the hapless Quzz was seen an hour from his leaving the steamer he was, slowly standing to the northward, and was now my

half-funnel down.

The lorcha took him on to Macao, net, how ever, before the crew had asked him how much money he would give them to do so; and even then they would not land him amongst the Chinese boats. But he wrote on a card in pencil, "Mr. William Dent, or any other Euro- pean," and in half an hour Me Dent arrived, and took him to his house, placing him on a bed, which he did not leave for many months distinguished for athletic exercises, limps about He is now a cripple, and although farmerly in great suffering.

All the Europeans on board the Queen verni murdered, and the ship was batat. The whole planas conceived and carried out by that fiendish, miscreant Ych-another link in the chain of his hideous cruelties, Mr. Cleverley declared that if a couple of men had stood by him he could have recaptured the boat

As this narrative was finished, the sun went. down. A hand was playing on the Prayathe inhabitants were turning out in their best costumes for a walk in the cool evening, that ing cool by comparison, for the thermometer was still at go and A-moon, Atya, Amil, and the tanka sisterhood, were burnings coloured: paper and beating gongs until the next steamer

.came.

Commercial.

THE WEEKS SHARE BUSINESS.

Hongkong, 4th October, 1890. A fair amount of business has been put through during the week at Increased rates, the market closing very steady.

Banks have shown signs of weakness, and before rates dropped to 222 per cent. for cash there was nothing done in them. At this rate a fair amount of business has heen done; also at 424 per cent. for October, 2a7 per cent. for November, and 229 per cent. for. December. Quotations advanced to 229 per cent, for October and 236 per cent for December, at which rates there was a very large business put through, and rates closed at 226 per cent. for cash, steady. New Issue were done

19h for, cash, and thers are further Marindo Insurances-Asmall sale of buyera at this rated and galle

China Traders has been put through at

3. Cantong at 1171 and Unions at too.

Fires.-Chinas are in strong demand at 89, and Hongkongs are neglected at 3574. Docks, have steadily advanced from 70 to 74 for cash, and a very large business has been done at the intermediate rates. They were also done at 77 for December,

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for January, and 79 for February. Steamboats were done at 343 for cash, and 351 for December, the market closing weak, bet retrainstens me la

Douglas steamships are quite neglected, and rates are nominal at 48 for cash. || #Sugar Refiderles-Chinasara steady at

Mining Punjoms are now freely offered at 4 Imurls are weak at 89. Raubs are 120 at which rate some small sales have been made. Balmorals were done at rr. Charbonnages at 375 for cash, and 425 for, March

"You will go bathing with us to-morrow, about five ?! asked my host:37 117.1337forcash and Luzons are downto for cash,

"Certainly; anything you please."

at which räte shares are difficult to get. best, warbee-pigeon morrow

"Boy!" he cried, "go catchee three piecey

Lands were done at 91 for cash, and Then he added, are steady at this rate. to me."Atre will row you out, because she can speak pigeonEnglish |”

An "What!" I exclaimed. "Nonsense! I can't. go bathing with that young person.'|'

"It's all right, my dear fellow it's thought nothing of bere: it's the custom. She don't care, if you don't. You're over particular, and should go to Japan for a little while, or, better still, to

"Bless mel" I replied," how very odd!" And then we all went to bed, and I was again sweltering inside the mosquito curtains.

were present in the room where he bought the reaching the purchaser, the defendants were still.and out of these specimens of food he compounds kerchief in that coquelish style which young Ramsgate. I can assure you it's all proper. have beon effected at 223 for cash.

Cross-examined by Mr. Francis-He went to

the defendants' offices by orders of Inspector Mathieson, whose name, at his request, was entered on the tickets. A lukong, No. 233, was there. It was he who received the tickets from the man Mik and, harded them 'o, witness. This was the first occasion on which he had acted as

an informer. The police would not give him any semuneration for informing in the case. The tickets were in envelopes, and bore n bogus address in Canton. The address was a "blind." As far as he knew three were six receiving agencies of the Wet sing lottery in Hongkong 'They were branches of a central depot which was kept by the defendants. The lottery was not conducted in Canton were it done in Cabion the public hère would not stake at all. Witness knew from personal experience the difference between Cart n and Hongkong We sing lotteries. The defendants kept the tickets under a blanket on a hed. The rules of the agency were these produced in Court which ran as follows:-

Any customer who pays ready money into this shop for a ticket, will btain a ticket on which te shop's chop is stamped-"ready money" The winning prize will be paid in the shop on production of the ticket.

Should he intrust any one whom he bought an unpaid ticket from, he ought to hold him (the latter) responsible for the winning prize, but he must on no account demand payment in the shop by producing such ticket, as we only

recognise the buyer, and not the ticket itself.

"No payment for a winning prize will be made should any of the chops or writings (on a ticket) be found to have been erased or damaged. This is previously notified to avoid disputes,

Issued by Trun Fu Kwai, in the Kong Yan year of Kwang Su."

Mr. Francia said it would probably save trouble if he explained that it was admitted the defendanta kept a house in Hongkong where money was deposited by investors in the Chinese Government Weissing lottery at Canton. The money was deposited at their agency and it was forwarded to Canton, just as letters in a Chinese post-office. The question for the court to decide within the ruling of the Ordinance, the was whether the case of this agency came defendants being merely the Hongkong agents of

■ Canton syndicate and not dealers in loes! Wai-sing lottery tickets. He would ask for an adjournment so as to be able to produce witnesses to prove his contention that the case was not such as the prosecution sought to show.

The Crown Solicitor-The prosecution will prove that it was not a post-office; far from it.

Mr. Francis-If the prosecution admila that it was merely an agency for a Canton firm, tht there was no dealing in any local Wei-sing lottery, then his Worship cop'd deal with the matter at once on these grounds.

merely a forwarding agency at all.

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Mr. Francis intimated that an appeal would be made against any convictior, and asked, in view of the number of cases involved, and the exceptional nature of the prosecution, that bail should be allowed pending appeal. He under tock that the business should be suspended in the meantime.

Mr. Johnson opposed such a course, His Worship committed the men to gol for a month, the same sentence being passed in the fur other cases, and allowed bail at the rate of $1,000 each.

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A TALE OF OLD HONGKONG,

FOOCHOWA goluri imotopsig

October 4th.

out very unsatisfactory to the farmers, not a We regret to learn that the rice crop has turned total loss, but close on half only of the usua}; yearly gathering. They attribute it to the long drought, but we believe the last flood is more to be blamed, as the young plants were at the

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Watsons are out of favour, and sales

and more shares are wanted at this rate.

Hongkong Ropes were done at...1z0

CLOSING QUOTATIONS, MA Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, 236 per cent. premilum sales and buyers. KO SE NE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, New Issue-

stor per share, bayers. Union Insurance Society of Canton-$100 per

share, buyers. ChinaTraders Insurance Company-163 per North China Insurance Tis. 340 per share,

thare, sellers.

not care much about the fruits which they wish own, and cuts Amiu's tanka adrift, which is imme-dme barely a foot high, so they were all covered/Canton Insurance Company, Limited-$1173 per

Then people go by with large fat baskets containing what looks like squares of yellow soap, marked with a red Chinese character. This is their substitute for cheese. Nothing will induce them to touch milk in any, shape'; and this article, called "taou," is made from beans a species of curd precipitated by an arid. I do

three inches long, and, cut through, its section me to buy. The Chinese goosebery is over forms a perfect star. The persimmon is like a large egg-plum, but containing half a dozen stones; the pear is as hard as a potato, quite round and tastes of nothing; bananas I abominate, reminding me of cotton wool and bear's grease mixed together; and I cannot agree with Mr. Wingrove Cooke that the Amoy pommelo is the finest fruit in the world. Be assured that all over the globe, there is no garden like the centre avenue of Covent-garden; no fruit so fine as our strawberry, peach, and hot-house grape. People say to me, “Ah! but you should be here in (some other month) and taste our

folks. They are of those who, when you say you have been to Chamounix, always reply, "Ah! but you should have gone to Zermatt," Hongkong main street-coolies, naked to the Amidst the restless hurrying crowd of the waist, carrying enormous weights; merchants in bamboo chairs, braving coup de soleil, fever, and dysentery, everything, for the almighty and out of their "go-downs," or, warehouses; dollar; c'erks, tea-tasters, busying, like ants, in sleek, sly-eyed Parsees, able to cope even with the Yankees oily compradors bearing bags of Mexican dollars to the banks; boat-girls in to coquettish handkerchief, beaded cases: toddling women with little feet; babies in pig- tails gravely barking in sunny gutters-through all this mingled action and still life, we come down to Pedder's Wharf, and embark in a little bost, covered with arched matting, and pull off to the Fir-maa.

A herd of female jackos after one nut in their native jungle could not have made such a screeching clatter, and their Chinese swearing must have been something awful. The first bold man who disembarked had a terrible time of it. He carried letters and despatches. Now I have always considered the conveyance of the mails in Russia on an insecure and unsatisfactory footing, as illustrated by the Courier of St. Petersburg on his four horses, at Astley's but I saw this man, with my own eyes, in four boats at once. I never beard whether he reached the shore, or was pulled to pieces. A-mlu now with her oar; but the girl swam like a fish, and climbed up the boat in an instant-her clothes, only a silk blouse and trousers--soon drying screaming, fighting, and struggling-crying, in the Macao sun, And at last, amongst laughing, and swearing-I got to shore but how, I have no more notion than how I once fell with a burst balloon, from the height of a mile, Vauxhall-road, which, for the life of me, I never surrounded by fireworks, into a street in the could find out afterwards.

by it

share, buyers. Yangtze Instirance Association--7

The following are the tea cargoes of eachhäre, buyers. issue of 27th Bitime: steamer as per Consignees returns sioce our

For London-

S.5. Glenfallock Hampshire

For Continent of Europe→→

S.S. Glenfallock ...... For Hongkong

S.S. "Hampshire

.617.564 lbs. 266,386

41,157 1

26,191 L

IT is a glowing, glaring morning at Hongkong. † (some other fruit)." I always want to hit these | returned and knocked A-tye over into the water eutside of Hongkong, which port she left on the awake inside my nel-muslin safe, wherein my boy, A-Fow-an urchin in baggy blue breeches and soft thick shoes, which allow him to glide about like a ghost-bas, consigned me for security from the flies, like a jam tart under gauze in a pastry cook's window, during the dog-days, A Pow is about nine, of grave demeanour, and wearing a litle pigtail. The rest of his head is shaven down to a leaden blue tint, with the exception of a "cheveux de frise" following the course of the c ronal suture, over, the bead from car to car, in the dotted line on the profile of the popular advocate for self-measurement as regards wigs. This fringe, about an inch long, sticks bolt upright, looking rather like a glory: more like, perhaps, one section of a bottle-brush. I had seen him so often on fans, with a veneered ivory face, that when I first engaged him, I felt we were old friends.

"Gud morg," he says.

"Chin-chio, A-Pow," I reply. He thinks he is speaking English, and I imagine I am talking Chinese. We are both equally wrong.

"Ey Yan he cries, with an expression of bas annoyed me all night, in a state of bloated delight, as he sees the inevitable mosquito that gluttony in a fold of the curtains, No hab catchee ho."

And with beaming triumph he squeezes him between his fingers and thumb, leaving a red splash, about the size of a florin, on the muslin. "Maskee (never mind)," I say. "Wilow down sye, talkee that comprador catchee my one piecee glass beer all plopab cold. Chop 1 chop ["

Which interpreted means, "There--ever mind that: get away down stairs and tell the steward to let me have a glass of cold beer, Quick!"

It is a dreadful thing I know to confess to

There were seventy or eighty Chinese already on board, partitioned off, on the main deck, by themselves, with all sorts of dirty packages wondrous to behold: pil- lows made of bamboo matting, raw pork, fish packed inside lanterns, umbrellas, giblets edy clothes, plac-apples, old shoes and dried carried by a string, and collections of such miscellaneous household things generally, as you see la the last lots of a sale catalogue.

The English passengers occupied the deck toder the awning, and the saloon. We started | punctually, and glided out of the harbour between many green islands, with small villages in their nooks and bays, wherein very suspicious pirata craft were lying ready to dert out of their holes, like spiders, upon any hapless Hitle Junk that got caught in the meshes of the shallows.

We went pleasantly on for two hours or so without the scenery changing, until we emerged,

A very agreeable dinner, with plenty of cool beer, and "cups" of various descriptions, and a ride round the city, with a visit to the grotto of Camoens, caused the evening to pass pleasantly enough. The kindness and hospitality of the great English houses in China is unbounded. Travellers bring in their luggage, and become aquatters" in the establishment for as long as it suits them, coming and going as they please. It was my good fortune that evening to meet Mr. Osmond Cleverley, ar Captain Castella had Presaged. He alone escaped from the terrible massacre on board the Queen, the year before

pellets at the dogs and tanka girls along shore, last; and as we sit on the balcony overlooking the bay, whilst our younger fiends shot clay

shore, he gave me the following particulars -

He left Hongkong one fine moming in February, 1857. In the Queen-as I had left in the Fri-mad--with a mixed crew and passengers, English, Portuguese, and Chinese-the latter predominating.

The E ropean passengers bed, as usual, sat down to dinner in the saloon, off Lantan, when the Chinese left on deck and about the boat, by a preconcerted movement, suddenly knocked the mate and the man at the wheel on the head, threw them overboard, seized the arm.

On Sunday morning last the "Shire", Line steamer Cardiganshire paid us a most unex pected visit. It seems that as soon as she got original cargo from London, sho encountered and September bound for Nagasaki, with heavy weather, which continued without inter- mission for the two following days until on Thurs- day last, while to the south ward of Ockser; it culminated in a typhoon of considerable violence: Although her decks were swept, there was loss of life or limb and the damage sustained trivial. She put in here to replenish her bunkers, and sailed on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the last month.have produced some sensation The news of the large settlements of tea during

owing to the lower range of prices offering they in the principal districts in the country, but prefer to leave the leaf to grow old instead of picking it. It is believed by growers that s clean picking off of the leal every year dots harm to the plants, and that the short picking of last year has greatly added to the strength of this season's tea in the cup. For this reason, coupled with the low prices, they almost unanimously refpretopick any further quantity the supply for the season may now be coreputed. no larger amount that 370,000 chests.--Echo

-Th

On Til Insurance Company, Limited-Tia 150

per share

Hongkong Fire Insurance Company-$357% par

thare, hellers." China Elie Thabrance Company-89 per share,

buyers.

Tongkang kad Whampoa Dock Company-873

per cent premium, buyers." Jongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co. China and Manila Steam Ship Company-15

34 per share, sellers.

per share, buyers, longkong Gas Company--#135 per share, sellers.

eller Jongkong Hotel Company $165 per share

songkong Hotel Co.'s Six per cent. Debentures

do-China Steam Navigation Company.

Limiteday ber cent, discount, sellers. sellers.

Tel Suglas Steamship Company-548 per share,

China Sugar Refining Company, Limited-$171

per share, sellers,

ongkongle Company-95 per

per khare, buyers. ),uzo/ Sugar Refining Company Limited-1105

Hoagong and Chida Bakery Company,

880 per share,t |Hongkong "Dairy Fani Co, Limited--$10 per

S. Wasson & Co., 1ibuted $13 per share,

sales and buyčís. 10 palve PARAK Chinese Imperial Loan of 1884 per cent, Chipese Imperial Loan of 1584 C-5 per cent.

premium, buyers.

Chinese Imperial Loan of 1886 E-1 per cent.

premium.

Company,

o kong Rope Manufacturing

Pimitedigino per share, buyers. The Hongkong Steam Laundry Co, Ld-825′′

per abare, nominal ligg Punjon and Sunghie Dun Samantan Mining Co

The Rabb Gold Mining Co, Ld,150 per share,

CHUNGKING, HEM

onet vuur. Alen (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

September 17th The deputy in charge of the is here is still per share, sellers, vigorously pursuing his policy of raising more money, regardless of anybody else's interest but Karmen. his own. He has just established no less, than your winter Co., Ld-to per share, Bellera. lae new stationsthat is, one at each of the The Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited--$ city gates of Chungking, where taxes are to be collected. This new regulation came in force Himpkopeild Kowloog What and Godown

pershire, sellers Join 770 September.) He has modified his plans to Tinde Coalling Ca~8450 or share on the rat of the 8tbmoon (14th of * certain extent; he now days in thisi provales and buyers.

The Crown Solicitor-We do not admit it was drinking beer in bed before breakfast, but there by the Laniso passage, as it is called, into open chest, which was on the bridge, with itscntlasses clamation that he intends to collect Zekin, and rougiej??) High-Level Tramway · Co. is no help for it here. I am perfectly assured water, and then we prepared for "Hiflo." I say | and ready-loaded muskets, and began firing down cotton yarns only, but, it is)" an open secret fel Stoç per share, buyers, all av His Worship-Then the case stands adjourned shall not have strength enough to dress unless I prepared, for the passengers all looked to on the passengers. The captain (Wynn) and until Wednesday at eleven o'clock, pending the get it. For I feel completely washed out, and not the tables whilst the English and Portuguese up the ladder. The former was cut down as he intends to ́add: one article: after another until

their revolvers, and placed them within reach on Mr. Cleverley seized their revolvers, and rushed production of the proof which Mr. Francis says can be adduced.

crew stood at the different entrances on the, It was then arranged, with the consent of Mr.

main deck with loaded muskets and drawn Mossop (who appeared for four other men

swords, charged wib keeping a Wet-sing lottery), that the evidence being one and the same as in the case then before the Court, that his clients would abide by the ruling of the Court as applied to the present defendants,

"What does all this mean ?" I asked. repiled Captain Castella. They are nearly six “We have too many Chinese on board," to every one of us; so we do not wish to be served as the Queen was served, a year and a half ago."

And how was that?"

that, as soon as he thinks it is practicable, he, reached the deck, and, falling on the latter, they very article of import is included. It would were both thrown back into the cable, and the

bave been too risky for him to attempt to collect batches were immediately closed by those above, proposed. The piece goods, dealers are very this tax on piece goods at present, as be originally one of whom fell dead into the cabin by & shot strong, and he was given pretty clearly to under from Mr. Cleverly's revolver, upon entail GAMES look forward to but to be killed like. beasis. mostly small dealers who trade by the land

stand that they would not submit without "Thus closed in a trap, they had nothing to

struggle; whereas the cotton yarn' mengara The captain was almost senseless from a sword-routes with the outlying marts, their merchandise cut on his skull p the engineer was undressing being chiefly transported by coolles, rapidly to leap over-board; and passengers and Toers is much dissatisfaction expressed at this crew were too panic-stricken to do anything. new move and ominous rumours are la circula- Knowing that when the guns of the Chinese were jou, and it will surprise no one' here if trouble, Bredthey had no means of loading them again. Me abould arise out of the stair, 23 Cleverley went alone up the ladder with a fresh balleved that he is acting on bis own, respond It generally revolver, and, forcing, the cabin-door open, siet.sibility. This energetic, deputy declared his his assailants, He was received with their fire, intention to raise the skin on the me but shot three of them dead. They fell back, exported, but he dropped that idea after and, emboldened by this, he was advancing of interview with the heads "of the when s masket-ball, passed through his thigh medicine guilds. The principal smashing the bone. He again fell down back meeting to discuss the question. into the cabin, and the captain, seeing this, salt, clasion they came to

Then all is over, fr.Here, take my revolver, but their answer to him and God bless you! we shall never meet again." petition, stating that He then stumbled to the stern-port, and threw his authority, to raise the himself into the sea, followed by the engineers dull and profits to sta Macao looks as Weymouth would do after a never seen again set or left for them to purus,

The Chinese fired after them, and they were the tekis there would be very long rezidence in Portugal Its shore la Mr. Cleverley-now-bound-up bis broken fog, trading altogether, as they crescent-shaped; but edged with purely conti- and was Imping to the aft cabin, when another money. The medicine de nental buildings and convents. There is a volleys from deck was sent after him, followed by turbulent lot, and this ind Praya, or promende, along its border, whereon: a Chinese yell of victory as they rushed towards courage to attempt to cancy? appear Portuguese troops, and now and then a the loan. Certain there was no chance lett, he grimme This maner it been band. You bear convent bells ringing the scited one of the rattan chairs common in China, notice of the Ministers at Pekin Angelus in the still eventide; priests, apparently and dragging it and himself towards the port hoped that they wife come to without insides, alink about and look at you side sponsons, threw it into the water, and dropped understanding, and have the ways; there is Teatro San Somebody, and you in afterte Fortunately he was not perceived jawlithe Central Government, wonder what on earth has become of China.the steamer, with nobody at her enginer kept aisle to the option of every now! You could not feel more bewildered if, one day her way and he was soon matern, floating, but appolated to pile on as much as he thin turning out of Belgrave-square, you entered the alone in the scar

the serious detriment of traders Mir

dried. My thermometer, which I have plunged into a cold bath, stands at 889-only four degrees lower than the average heat of a warm bath in England! The air is blowing through the open blinds as if it came from a hot blast furnace There has also been a heavy rain at daybreak, and a hot mist is rising from the steaming rank vegetation of Hongkong, wrapping everything in its muggy embraces. The gum water I made last night in a little saucer is all At the Police Court this morning (8th Inst.) Mr. dried up my bottle of hair-grease seems filled Wise had again before him the two principals in with thick yellow all; and a colony of very small Wei-sing lottery agency established at 207 red ants no love the orange-scented traces of it

The steamer was captured, and the crew Queen's Road Central, who werb charged on

on my hair-brush that I knock out myriads as I and passengers murdered. Mr. Osmond Clever remand with keeping such agency.-The Crows rap the brush in borror on the table. The shockley was the only one who escaped, and you will Solicitor (Mr. Johnson) prosecuted, and Mr. J. J. | starts a cockroach from underthelooking glais j'

meet him at Macao to-night. He will tell you Francis, QC (instructed by Mr. Mossop) and causes him rasbly to commit suicide in the his own story much better than I can,"\/ defended. The evidence for the defence was

basin.

The excitement gave us all an appetite, and as follows:-

My bath and my beer are disposed of; and the pale ale (I suspect gave us valour. The Poon Sun Hing, master of the Yan On Tai now, in a few minutes, I pay for the indulgence, eatables were good and well cooked, and the shop, Canton, said that his business was that of A copper-coloured rash begins to cover my neck

tiffin was a success, and passed off in safety. a general Canton postal agency, and he also chest, and arms. I pext see it about my ankles, When it was ever we all went upon deck. The transmitted letters between Hongkong and the and know it is on my hack. This is the Cow and passenger discharged their firearms at Wel Sing Lottery agents at Canton. He only terrible prickly heat' of the tropica- com-

birds and other objects, to show that they had received letters from the delendeats, enclosing bination of pins and needles and stinglag-nettles. been really loaded, and then we sat and chatted money and applications for tickets, and for- It is bad enough in itself; but, when you are

in the laziness of repletion, until we arrived warded them to the lottery people who scot him congratulated upon having it, it is maddening about in the afternoon at Macao. in reture the tickets and two cand reens com All right, old fellow," they say "the best mission for each doll's worth. He then thing that can happen to you. You're safe not sent the tickets down to the defendants; who to have anything one while that's was out, distributed them to the subţëribers, and received I play with my breakfast, dwelling on the one of the two candarcens he had been paid. charms of a cold raw November day in our own He had seen, among the other spplications, one climate, and then crawl up-stairs again to pack or moic sigued Matson" (Inspector up my portmanteau. My impedimenta are very Math erop).

well condensed, and the portmanteau is under Cross-examined-The defendants were sup overland alsa; but the labour is so excessive that plied with capital by the same men who flcanced I am glad, once or twice, to sit down on my for wiiats. Neither he nor they could supply hamboo chair, panting with exertion, A-Pow he lottery tickets they could only receive and cannot help me. I point to my things and the forward the money and application, Cr compartmented trunk) but he says, “No can

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