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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1890.

the Macao authorities are not carefully tending and nursing this forbidden fruit for purely philanthropic motives! Apart altogether from personal interests-and the personal interests of Macao officialdom usually mean a great deal the Government and has a heavy stake, involved, its responsible representatives are very naturally desirous of practically utilising

every opportunity of improving both the commercial and financial position of a colony that has been under a very black

cloud for nearly twenty years past,

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with Great Britain, may have induced an Lisboa" altered polley in. regarding this ancient bone of contention; but at all events we have every reason to believe that Captain or Borja, the present Governor of Macao, considers the Mexican scheme perfectly legitimate, and there cannot be the least doubt that he will do all to his power to make it so. But then his power is so limited. His Excellency may put a stop to the cruel treatment of the Chinese coolies in Macao; he can make regulations, and insist on their being

TELEGRAM'S.

PORTUGAL AND THE AFRICAN CONVENTION.

LONDON, October 16th The Portugueso Chamber Premier Govern- ment is unable to recommend adoption of African Convention, but is willing to accept amendments. [We don't know what sort of a thing the Portu- Ruese Chamber Premier Government may happen to he. Can Reuter's local ngeal enlighten us -Ed., H.K.T.]..

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE tea ex steamship Batavia was delivered in New York on the rgih inst,

MISSAS. Adamson, Bell & Co. inform us that the #Shire" liner Monmouthshire left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and is due about the 24th inst.

The Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. Informs us that the Company's steamer Lombardy A-FELON who had been banished from Hongkong-left Bombay for this port at noon yesterday. after spending six out of the past eight years in Victoria Gaol returned here yesterday, and on being naked by the magistrate at the Police Court to-day why he didn't remain in the great Middie Kingdom replied that be considered" Englishman b'long number one" His Worship sent him back to his old quarters in Gordon's Hotel for twelve months where, to while away the time, he will. be allowed to pick oakum, wash clothes etc., etc, all for the sake of Queen Vic.

It is well known that carried out, that the shipping of emigrans THE cricket match played this afternoon.between

must conform in every respect with the Hongkong C. C. and the Racquet Court which stranded at Hirasato-ura, Boshiu. These

the revenue of Macap since the collapse

Cholera Pills are made from an old, well-tried of the lucrative Wei-sing lottery monopoly, Portuguese law or any special instructions will be fully reported in our next issue.

bottle, $1.50 and $3. formula, and are most useful in the early stage of an attack. Per bottle, go cents.

Dakin's Chlorodyne is Sedative, Anodyne, and Anti-spasmodice This reliable semedy has long been used throughout the East as a stand-by in Cholera and Diarrhoea. In battles, 35, 75 cents, $4.50 and $2.75-

Dr. Robini's Essence of Camphor-Valuable for simple Diarrhea, and in the earlier stages of Dysentery and Cholera. Per bottle, 50 cents.

Fluid Extract of Indian Bael prepared from the unripe fruit of the Egle Marmelos).

Of great service in Diarrhea and Chronic Dietetic Bael-A bighly agreeable and nutri- tive diet, particularly recommended in derange- ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and

of the bowels. ritation of aration has been in use in India for thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific in Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Per tis, $.

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(Telephone No. 60.)

THE October Sessions were formally opened in the Supreme Court this morning by Sir James Russell, and at once adjourned until Monday.

IN August last 6z tins of opium were discovered on board an American sailing vessel, the Haleyn, were confiscated by the Yokohama Customs, and the matter referred by it to the American Consulate. Upon examination, however, it was found that the vessel had stranded on her way

at a Japanese port, and that she posicised a from Hongkong to Vancouver, without calling

clearance ticket signed by the Harbour Master of Hongkong, to prove it, consequently the

received from Lisbon; he can forbid the horrible bai racoons and compel the shippers to provide suitable quarters for the emigrants-but what can he know about the operations of the Chinese coolle-

son, Bell & Co.) that the steamship Mogul brokers and kidnappers in the interior?WE are informed by the agents (Messrs. Adam-opiam will be returned to the Captain That is a matter which it behoves his left Singapore for this port resterday afternoon,

Governor and is due about the 23rd inst Excellency LI HAN-CHANG, General of the Liang-kuang, to thoroughly investigate.

THE perfomance at the Theatre Royal this evening of Donizetti's opera "The Daughter of the Regiment," by Miss Gracie Plaited's com pany, should attract a large audience.

steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C between 9 and 10.30 a.m. on Sunday to convey men ashore to the it o'clock service, returning about 12.30.

ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission

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We regret to learn that our colleague the Editor of the China Mail has been rather seriously in disposed for some days past. We don't exactly "hit it with our u tra-respectat e contemporary but that is no reason why we shouldn't beartily and sincerely hope that he may soon be in battle harness again.

and the transference of its head-quarters to Canton some half-dozen years ago, has barely been sufficient to meet the public expenditure, and it has even been reported that on more than one occasion the Lisbon exchequer has been called upon to contribute to the depleted Treasury of the Holy City. It is therefore quite reasonable to suppose that the new Governor of Macao and his advisers would gladly seize any

From inquiries. it would appear that legitimate opportunity of increasing the public revenue of the colony and improving few, if any Portuguese, outside official its commercial prospects. But is this circles, are actively engaged in this coolie trade to Mexico a legitimate Mexican enterprise-a very different story business that any civilised Government from the slave business of the sixties, when might engage in and encourage without Portuguese residents of Macao controlled what the Chinese very tersely decribe as the whole afair and madeimmense fortunes. " loss of face"? Or is it merely a revival of But still the traffic finds favor in Macao, the barbarous traffic in human beings, with because self-interest predominates; the all the disgraceful and degrading surround-somnolent Macacese, even after a Rir Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL-ings which made Christian (1) Portugal VAN WINKLE sleep of about 17 years, are

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notorious and Macao infamous throughout yet wide awake to the fact that a renewal the world in the early seventies? That of the coolle trade means a lot of dollars is the question we are anxious to solve in easily earned and a short period of the interests of our common humanity. If fictitious prosperity for the decayed strong- the Chinese emigration from Macao to hold of Portugal's impotency in the Farverywhere but in Hongkong. Even in Java A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. Mexico, as at present being carried out East. But can it last? Will it last? If has coined money for its promoters. Why didn' under the auspices of the Macao Govern- the British Government decides to taboo it pay at Bowrington? Why do legitimate enterprises which pay everywhere else so ment, is legitimate emigration and this form of so-called 'immigration, will frequently come to gifel in Hongkong? We on a basis thet would Macao, after the telling experiences of the know, and we shall probably enlighten our be recognised and endorsed by Great past, be permitted to defy public opinion by readers in vry forcible phraseology at no far Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austro renewing the atrocities with which the late Our New Factory has been recently raftied Hungary, and other civilised Powers. Sir JOHN SHALE horrified the world in 1872? we do not hesitate to say that we It is scarcely likely, and our Macao friends can see no reason why it should not would be wise not to lose sight of the fact be encouraged, always providing that that at the present time the diplomatic the Chinese Government is a willing and relations between Great Britain, the one contracting party to the scheme; but on the great Power that will not under any other hand, if it is not free emigration, but circumstances tolerate the infamous coolie merely that detestable form of slavery traffic of byegane times, and Portugal; are known as "contract labour," by which strained to such a degree that the bond of the wretched Chinese agriculturists and friendship which has existed between the

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We must go from home to get news, According to a San Francisco contemporary, Mr. Simons, the U. S. Consul bere, reports to the State Department that Hongkong exports to the United States have greatly decreased. This, be says, is due mainly to the general depression. which amounts almost to a panic. A great many Chinese merchants have failed, and these have heretofore furnished the bulk of invoices for the merchandise exported.

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WHO says the Chinese have no sense of humor? Why, at Shanghai a few days ago, a well-known broker was driving along at the break-neck paca at which he is accustomed to career about the

Settlement, when his trap collided with a ricksha vas seated a prominent member of the in which

China Merchants' Company, The hapless mad, and instead of showing any concern for Chinamon was landed In the middle of a pool of

the victim of bis recklessness, the maidor of the mischief indulged in a bearty fit of merriment, în which a friend of his who witnessed the occur reace very unfeelingly joined ind, sirange to relate, the Chinaman, after picking himself out of the mud and surveying himself ruefully for a moment or two, completed the trio of laughers," and drove away in his ricEsha,

THE police have evidently struck upon an effective plan for driving away the detestable horde of social parasites, known as "Club* managers, who infest our "island home." The plan is to make a raid, put the gamblers through their facings at the Police Coust, and then t them out on bail ranging from one to five hundred dollars. As soon as the bail is lodged in the hands of the Magistracy shroff these very undesirable residents leave Hongkong, and thereby contribute substantially to Her Gracious's revenue--the money being estreated.. Two days ago $500 was raked in that way, and to-day the managers of clubs. situated at 8 and to Graham Street, whore. Hansen, failed to answer to the well-known palaces were raided last week by Acting Inspector

NEWS is to hand from the North to the effect that owing to the appoinment of Pak Cheung Yang the late Korean Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, who, it will be remembered, caused great annoyance to the Chinese Government by presenting his credentials to President Cleve land without the Intervention of the Chinese Amb ssador at Washington-as seulor Vice President of the Korean Foreign Office, Yuan, the Imperial Resident, has sent a sharp China is prepared with "vigorous remen protest to the King in which he ays strances. At the same time two special Chinese call and had their $600 bail estreated, while envoys are on their way from Peking to Seoul, Mr. Wise ordained that warrants he issued for by the overland route, and are accompanied by the absentees arrest in the event of their a small-body-guard of 3,000-picked men 11- returning to these shores. With perseverance |‚in_this_policy_we shall have the_300 “ clubs" WITH reference, to the case of I. Isaac, who'reduced to a mere fraction, a mack-to-be-desired appeared at the Police Court yesterday, on remand, to answer a charge of using threatening

result. and abusive language towards Mr. N. Reuber, ́ ́well known local sharebroker, and who was discharged owing to the absence of the prosecutor, it is only fair to Mr. Reuben and to his solicitor, Mr. Wilkinson, to state that the adjourned hearing of the din ute was fixed by the magistrate (Mr. H. E. Wode house) for the 18th Inst-that is to-day, but by one of those strokes of eccentricity for which the Hongkong Magistracy is so justly celebrated, his Worship thought fit to call the case yesterday, when neither the prosecutor not his solicitor was in attendance. And so friend Isaac reaped the benefit of magisterial neglect, or stupidity and was honorably discharged. Poor old Isaac! There isn't very much in this case, and the mischief; but it nevertheless very strongly miscarriage of justice is not likely to do much suggests that the leather-headed methods of the Hongkong Magistracy are badly in need of drastic reform.

On dit that the general agency of the Green Island Cement Company Limited, has been offered by the so-called Board of Directors to Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co., under certali conditions. One of these conditions is said to be an advance of $100,000, to enable the Company to add to the present plant and machinery so that A paying out-turn of cement can be effected. The report, of course, an air of truth about it that those interested

The Shanghat Mercury regrets to have to chronicle the fact that Mr. Van Tassel's second balloon fared no better at the hands of the Celes tials than the former one. Our contemporary's representative waited last Saturday evening for a long time, but did not see the aerial ship descend to firra Arma. This it eventually did in a cotton field 'on the far side of the Soochow

Creek, close to the Acid Works, where it, or rather the remains of it, were afterwards, recovered. But though Mr. Van Tassel's representative was on the spot with remarkable, celerity, be was not in time to prevent some pig-tailed looters catting the balloon almost to pieces. It was a most wanton act, and it will be hard indeed

pur Customers who prefer to have them to the laborers sell themselves; or are sold, into two nations since the Peninsular War trick, preying upon the fairsex pretty extensively. may be a mere canard; but it nevertheless has Yokohama, on the 9th inst., by the officers in

We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, fria of Extra Charge, to those of

ordinary site.

COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched, by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.

FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.

Counterfoil Order Books supplied on appiles.

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if the proprietor cannot obtain some redress from the village to which the robbers belonged. The the native authorities or from the head-man of balloon is very much injured, a large quantity of the calico having been taken away, and it is questionable whether it can be utilised again." This is not the full extent of the thefts of which the hapless but indomitable Van Tassel was the victim, for while the inflation of the balloon was five or six bottles of naptha, and a large quantity in progress on Saturday evening, a tin of kerosine,

of ropes, were stalen from the Garden,

PRIOR to the dispersal for the last time of Sir For the East End pen and thimble dodge

Nowell "almon's cruising aquadron, the Admiral Chinese sharpers substitute the "gold" nugget

was entertained at dinner at the Grand Hotel, bondage for a term of years before leaving | might be snapped nsunder at say moment, here, from time to time. Needless to say the

command of the different vessels, and the two China, and if kidnappers, and barracoons are and then-what? Can there be any doubt nugget is composed of gilded brass. A couple in the Company can hardly fail to recognise. commanders of the flag-ship. The squadron a part of the system in procuring and of what will result, so far as Macao! of confidence men were run in thi morning by The fact, that the Directors have no power began to disperse next morning, when the

is concerned, should the Lisbon Ministry for subtle reasons of personal diplomacy forget the difference between the fighting powers of a big buil dog and a toothless poodle? The political atmosphere is full of dangerous possibilities, and it requires no prophet to foretell that a storm is brewing which at very short notice might cause wonderful changes alike in Europe and the Far East. Those who run may read, but the pecullar significance of late telegrains from London respecting the strained rela-

securing these hapless victims, it should be summarily put down, with the strong hand

necessary,

If

district watchman in the neighbourhood of Wanchai where they were caught in the act of parting with two cents worth of brass for the trifling sum of six Mexicans. Mr. Wise failed them for six months,

or Authority to enter into any such negotia- tions without, the consent bolders is, in Hongkong, the veriest triflet of the share in this case it may lead to difficulties. We don'. envy the responsible management of the Green Island Cement Co. One of these days some outspoken obstructionist will be wanting to know which are stated to have been paid for a good all about that quarter of a million of dollars

will that did not exist, and never had any existence.

The permanent establishment of this coolie trade in Macao would undoubtedly tend in a marked degree to improve the condition of that almost hopelessly decayed port, and it would also very materially increase the incomes of a considerable number of shamefully under paid officials. For every coolle shipped on board the German steamer Amigo, the pioneer vessel of this latest philanthropic crusade, the Macro tions between Portugal and Great Britain most popular places of resort in the colony. Fullnortherly gale at a speed of about to knots, a

·Government received the sum of three dollars in the shape of fees; the Colonial Surgeon's tariff for vaccinating the entire living cargo was fifty cents per man; the Harbour Master pocketed twenty-five

1 preliminaries can be satisfactorily arranged, we understand that a roller skating rink will be one of the features of Hongkong during the coming winter. This bealthful and exhilarating amusement would most certainly receive. general patronage, and as the promoter is a gentleman who has had extensive experience in the business, and further can make the place especially attractive, we doubt not that the Hongkong Skating Rink will prove one of the particulars will shortly be announced.

Mercury left Yokohama for Nagasaki and her defective condensers made good. It is a Hongkong, at which latter place she will bare disgrace to the English dockeyard at which this ship was fitted out, says the Fagan Herald, that

she should have been sent abroad with her condensers in such a state that she bad to Isy she reached that post, and should now have to up at Hongkong on her voyage out, as soon as

go back again to complete repairs. The Carolina left at the same time for Singapore, vío Naga- PARTICULARS of a very smart and seamanlike aki and Hongkong, and on her arrival at her actperformed by Capt. Heugh, of H.M.S. Raffler, port of destination she will relieve the Porpoise, have reached us, says the Japan Herald of the

which comes to Hongkong. The Wanderer Jelt gth inst. On Monday last, about if a.m., when on the 11th for Shanghai, relieving the Linnad, the English squadron was running before a

which then proceeds south. The Mutine, which left the same, morning, proceeds, to Singapore, man who was securing something up aloft, was calling at Nagasaki and Hongkong. On the knocked overboard. into the water. The ship arrival at the first part of her relief, the Peacock, was immediately stopped, and as the man came land to pay off. The kemeward bound pennant

from the Cape station, she will proceed to Eng to the surface again, the Cook's life-buoy ovei

of the former was 981 feet in length. The managed to get hold of it. The ship's helm was Muting's officers were very popular both afloat - theatern was detached close to him, and the man

and ashore, and as she steamed out she was then put hard aport, the sails taken in, and as it was too rough to lower a boat, she then steamed

loudly cheered by the crews of the other ships, The Rofiler also left at p.m. for Hongkong fore-sall drifted down on him. Meanwhile other The Severn leaves about the zath to be docked. to recommission, amið similar demonstrations, buoys had been got ready with ropes fast to them, and when near-enough one of these war at Nagasaki, from whence she proceeds to thrown to the man, and getting into it be was Shanghai, The Leander, Hyacinth and Pigmy safely hauled on board within ten minutes from will remain on the Japan station, and the Fire the time of bis fail from aloft. By a little catelul brand is also ordered up there, whilst the Plover manuvring Capt.Heugh then got near enough proceeds, about the 20th, to the Strails and

Malacca Division. to the abandoned buoy to be enabled also to pick it up, and then, steaming ahead resumed bis place in the line. On the Raffler signalling that the man was saved, the Admiral ran up the since received the hearty congratulations of bis signal "Well done," and Captain Heugh has brother officers on the skill displayed.

or greasy, or that appear to have been used cents for each emigrant; and although will probably be a good day for the Macao municipality. In a most persistent and reckless up to windward of the man, and hauling out her

No' Credit given for bottles that look dirty, for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used

again by us.

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the Amigo lay at anchor in the roads, some four or five miles from the city and putside Portuguese walers, harbour and other Is dues had to be paid on the bighest scale, We have not referred to incidental charges, but these also represent no inconsiderable sum. It will thus be seen that the Chinese

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BIRTH,

· F. W. RAWSTHORNE, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the 11th instant, at Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., R. H. Nash, only son of R. 17, Nash, of Bristol, to FLORENCE F. HAMLYN, oldest daughter of J. G, Hamlyn, of the L.M. Customs, Shanghal.

At Kelso, Scotland, on the 4th September, W. G. LAY, L.M. Customs, to `BRESIE, eldest daughter of the Rev. A. M. Craig, East Free Church, Kelso.

coolie trade, like the Wei-sing lottery of old, would prove a most valuable monopoly to the "Gem of the Orient earth and some

should not be under-estimated. A very small lucifer match is sufficient to create a gigantic conflagration, and that long threatened war of reprisals may be much nearer than is generally anticipated. It of the future should the Lisbon Cabinet be made the catspaw of a greater Power in dealing with this ridiculous South African imbroglio; but in the meantime the author ties of the Holy City should temporise and "go slow."

Latest Information from Macno z the ooolie business is to the effect that it has been temporarily suspended. The reason for this is not easlly to be found. So far

THUS the China Mail editorially — That” a municipality per se is not a beneficent institution is shown by the history of affairs in Simla. The Municipal Commissioners there have so mis managed public business that the inhabitants have petitioned the Government to abolish the manner the Commissioners did what they ought not to do, and left undone what they ought to have done. They incorted an enormous debt for a new Town Hall and a few other ornamental works and left the sanitation of the town, which should have formed their principal business, uncared for. And the Simia municipality is not the only one in India that has been remise." Great Car1 and the twaddling ass who penned the foregoing rot-actually enjoys the suffrages and support of the Hongkong public that is n very limited section of the community as a journalist, a leader of public opinion, propagator of useful knowledge, a—nothing, or rather a something who would be much more useful if he were nothing.

CORRESPONDENCE;

(We do not processdity endorse the opiniam expressed by Careerpondents in thận cohama). -

THE G. P. O. AGAIN, To TH EDITOR OF riu "Honadons Taleorafu." SIR,-'enclose herewith (for your inspection) * cover of a letter which I posted here on the 4th August, and you will see by postmaric on same

that it was delivered in Shanghai on the 11th October

Letters going stray, and heavy defalcations, are bad enough, but when our Postmaster General takes to sending letters by Price's Dredger it is time the public began to growl,

ONE WHO SUFFERS, Hongkong, 18th October, 1890.

as well as

CORRECTIONS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ Fóngzong TelegraFX;" BIR.-Allow me to correct a misstatement that

of Its worthy citizens, could its permanency as we can gather there has been no direct be secured. But will this traffic in human prohibition on the part of the Macao Gav. beings, as at present openly practised, beernment, ngr have any insuperable difficul- permitted to continue unchecked? We ties been placed in the way of the Mexican At Shanghal, on the rath instant, the wife of doubt it very much. Surely in the light shippers. It is said that the old barrecs of past experiences and in view of exliting were opened for the reception of coolies popular opinion both in Europe and the arriving from the country, but objections Far East regarding this debasing form of to these historical black holes of trade, it is the duty of the Macan Govern. Calcutta" being again used for that pur ment to satisfy itself and the civilised world pose were hinted at, and new coolle depôts of the genuineness and bond fides of this have been established in the Chinese Mexican enterprise; that the coolles quarter of the city. The German steamers shipped are from emigrants, properly indipendente and Pirime are reported to have protected, who will enjoy the rights and been chartered by the agent of the Mexican privileges of residential citizenship in the Company, and we believe the former new country in which their lot la cant;yennel actually proceeded to Macao and lay that they have gone to Independent labour two or three days in the reads before -and-not-to-that-forms of bound slavory proceeding to Aberdeen docks, the latter, which left thousands upon thousands of according to Macao rumour, is daily barbarously treated Chinese in the grave expected at that port. But there is never- yards of Cuba, Chili, and Peru! Wetheless a difficulty standing in the way, know that for many years past the Macao and, if our surmise is porrect, it will not officials have been striving might and easily be got over. The Vicergy of Tuzex would appear to be no reasonable main to obtain the sanction of the Mother Canton Is known to have the strongest doubt that the lately gevived coolie trame Country to a resumption of the forbidden objections to this Mexican emigration Imperial Resident's conduct was unjustifiable, and moreover they did not wish to bare there cheerfully 'publish this contradiction; wo In the neighbouring colony of Macao is coolle immigration, and we also know scheme, and if he has taken decided action receiving the hearty, support of the local that, up to quite a Jato date, the various to enforce his views, the Macáo Government Portuguese officials, and will be fosterad Ministers for the Marine and Colonies is perfectly helpless, and Mexican specula and encouraged in every way possible until have turned a deaf ear to these Insidious cors will either have to go elsewhere for the fat of the Lisbon Government summarily and tempting suggestions. Recent political their coolies or obtain them under the quashes the Iniquitous business, as it did exigencies, and more especially the recognised emigration laws of civil In Decembar 1874. Needless to say the unfortunate differences in South Afrion |'nailons.

The Hongkong Celegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1890.

THE MACAO-MEXICAN COOLIE TRAFFIC,

THE Hachi Shimbun tells a curious story. I anys that during the fight which took place in, Uyeno Park at the Restoration, when rifle bullets THE Ji Tsushinsha reports that a high officer were flying as thick as rain, a man called Teijiro, bad informed it that he had heard a tumour to eldest son of Ikeda Tetsuami, was among the the effect that the Korean Government was band of braver known as the Shoghal. Seeing about throw off its allegiance to China, and place that the rout of the force was imminent, itself under the protection of Russia. If such is this Teijiro removed a quantity of gold a fact, it will be impossible to say what effect it amounting in value to twenty thousand FX0, will have in the falute of Eastern politics. The which was stored in the family strong.room, and buried them in the ground. He then fed from the Daldo Shimbun says the above report was received by the authorities, and adds that a capital, accompanied by one Sato Rinkaku, who Government officer bad lately remarked that the is now living in Koishikawa-cho, Yehara-gorl Korean Government detested interference by the Teijiro died en route, but before expiring be Chinese, inasmuch as their espionage of the entrusted to Sato the secret of the buried galing, so that they were determined to escape affairs of the Hermit Kingdom was excessively treasure, and bugged him is have it exhumed erecting tombs and having incense burned from it. Yuan, the Chinese resident, bas Cape at some future date, and to employ it in making himself particularly obnoious by his for the soldiers of the Shogifai who had almost impossible demands upon the Corean fallen in the fight. Tellino role, a will to appeared in your insus, of the 16th fostant. Yots Government and his interference in matters this effect. It is set related for what reasca speaks of the residents of Touron as "voracious no steps were taken during more than twenty brokers, and boycotting a ship in distress &c, which lay beyond bis proper sphere had embar rassed the people very much, and they do not years to carry out the provisions of the will, whereas I received every assistance, and was know what to do with him. On the other hand, We are only told that Salo recently applied to treated with the mmost_fatimers-by-all with the Russians are doing all they can to court the the officials of the Permanent Museum at Uyeno whom I had dealings at Tonion, favour of these people, therefore it | fact that the Coreans, "in" utter" do bea for permission to remove the treasure, which is

at the said to be buried under a large pinetree standing In Justice to those concerned I would ask you Chinese, have determined to place themselves before the Imperial retiring room of the Fins to kindly publish this letter. under the prosection of Russia-"Yaan bas Arts Society's gallery at Sakura-ga-okay That Yours faithfully, been making himself particularly obnoxious, Committee of the Fine Arts Society would dot says the Japanese paper in a tone which might hear of anything of the kind. They were alto. lead the general reader to conclude that the gether sceptical about the existence of the money,

disturbed and the cut Benny MaKien, Cheong gonspiracy to on him amichler part of 150 enerofund bore af ofbeldi from his post, a plot in which the Koreans But the Permanent Museum oficials have proved themselves were aguire accomplices, it is not less refractory. They agree to permit the surprising that the mighty Yuan should be digging, provided that everything is afterwardIN making the suzerais boots pinch the Korean replaced tatu gue, and the Hopki Shimbu toes somewhat severely Yuan will, we believe says that Mr. Ikeda of the Household Department soon become positively offensive, if he knows all and Mr. Kuboja, Director of the Permanent we credit him with, And then how will Min, Musrum, have made an examination of the Denny, and othery fare).

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JAMES YOUNG, botas en genMaster, steamship Tengokan,

Hongkong, 18th October, 1890.

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*TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HawazonG TELEGRAFE " St-I shall esteem it a favour if you will kindly grant me space for the correction of slight error which appears in your repost of yesterday's Conference, for which I am, I feel, sklady responsible.--