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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1890.

favourable for legislation. Senator Sherman will introduce to the Senate on behalf of the Repubil. can. Caucus, after conference with the Hon. W. Wisdom, Secretary of the Treasury, a Bill providing for the purchase of the surplus silver ballion valued at twelve millions and issue one hundred millions of two per cent, bonds for the purchase of halijön when required, in order to make good the retirement of National Bank notes and recoinage of trade dollars.

THE AMERICAN SILVER BILL.

December 17th.

The Caucus having discussed Senator Sher. These are cond fids English made lentes and man's Bill regarding the purchase of the surplus will give results quite equal to Ross or Dulime-silver, decided to eliminate the proposal to issue yers lenses at a considerably reduced cost.

+ pl. $20

i pl. $25

ipl. *$30

two per cent. bonds for the one hundred millions.

[Senator Sherman of Ohio is one of the oldest | and most prominent members of the U. S. Con- MIDDLEMIRS CAMERAS.

gress, and opposed Senator Stewart's Silver The perfection of a Tourist Camera and Portable Bill throughout, Bis opinions being all in Camera of good solid construction manufactured expressly to our order, each with 3 double dark favour of gold coinage. Of the Hill referred to in our telegram to-day nothing is known here alides, tripod stand and case.

except what appears in the telegram. It is + pl. I pl Kodak Cameras. No. 1, a most acceptable possibly a hedging measure in opposition to the Christinas present to anyone.

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WINES AND SPIRITS. BY APPOINTMENT,

tenour of the Silver Bill introduced a short time agn by Senator Stewart, which, as previously noted, "Senator Sherman fought in principle and detall. Senator Sherman is described as astute politician, and has repeatedly been spoken of as an eligible candidate for the Presidency of the United Stales.]

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THE "SHANGHAI" BURNT.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE,

AN Item for the consideration of all whom it my concern. What maintains one vice would bring up two children..

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Singapore Free Press respecting the Eight Hours Bill as follows :—The Eight Hour' Bill will be a chief feature in the present Parliamentary Session, and is sure to demand a deal of attention from bon, members on both sides of the House. inter alia a resolution will be introduced for compelling all public bodies to adopt a niaximum eight hours' day for their employés, and the Government will be asked to grant special facilities to enable this portion of the question ja be discussed, The Gladstonians intend moving for a Royal Commission on the "legiti mate hours of labour," and the possibility and. legislation, advisability of restricting them by Parliamentary,

EARLY this morning the police arrested a man at Praya West on suspicion of being concerned in the late piracy case. He was taken to the Central Station and placed with a number of men for the purpose of having him identified, if possible, by the officers of the Namen. Mr. Jones, the 3rd Engineer, promptly and positively identified the prisoner as being a member of the gang, and Mr. W. F. McIntosh, although not so certain as Mr. Jones, picked the same man out from the crowd who were draw up line before him for inspection. The man was thereupon formally charged with being con- cerned in the acts of marder and pillage com. mitted on board the Names on the 10th inst. He will appear before the Magistrate on Monday next.

THE Straits Timer of the 19th inst. is our authority for stating that Governor Des Voeux received a telegram, when passing through Singapore the other day, to the effect that Mr. Parnell, while travelling in Ireland, had a bag of lime thrown in his face at historical Kilkenny and that he was seriously injured in consequence but the doctors who were in attendance hoped to preserve Mr. Parnell's eyesight true we wonder the information has not been cabled by Renter, but we suppose the old lady who manipulates the wires in London was too deeply immersed in meteorological studies, for task of sending us thrilling accounts of the rise and fall in the temperature, the rain and anow storms, etc., which occur in the British Isles in common with the rest of the world.

LITTLE Johnny-I say, pa, what does a "star" It is an abbreviation of starration, my son. mean? Pa (who is an actor and has starred)

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We would remind our readers that the perform ance of the "Corsican Brothers" is to take place at the Theatre Royal on Monday evening, under the patronage of his Excellency Sir W..G. des Vox."

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Massns. Benn Ashley and Co, an old estab- lished banking bouse in Bombay stopped pay- ment on the sth instant. One or two other failures are, so our Indian exchanges state, anticipated.

THE next football match under Association rules played on Monday, the gth inst. The hon. the Club . Officers of the Garrison-will be Secretary desires members of the club team to wear blue and white singles

GOD has given us wit, and flavor, and bright ness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage and to charm his nined steps over the burning marl, and when, the pilgrimage is over he Devil gives as-but dear brethren you will know that soon enough,

THE Hongkong Artillery Volunteers did the usual Boxing Day "march out" at Kowloon yesterday. It was nothing like the success it shoul! have been owing to the unusually meagre muster. The firing, though, was good in every respect, and resulted in the utter annihilation of the imaginary enemy. At about 2 o'clock a No. chow chow was served in Mr. Mody's bungalow after which there was a good deal of entertainment for the doughty warriors in the shape of speeches, toasts, sings and recitations.

AM enabled, says a correspondent of the World, on authority, to contradict the report which has been industriously circulated to theffect th Sit Fdwin Arnold has severed his connection with

pirates and taken to the Captain's cabin, where n They all remained in the cabin until after the fave minutes after their arrival the captain expired. pirates left. After they had got the ship under way the chlef officer sent him aft to see if the wheel chains were in order, and in doing so he stumbled over the body of Mr. Petersen who was lying dead alongside the wherl. Witness said he could recognize the leader of the gang and a man who seemed to be second in command, who was always with the leader and both of whom accompanied him to the various places he was taken to about the ship. The other men were placed in separate stations and appeared to have a knowledge of the ship. Witness only saw abou! 20 pirates, but he considered there must have been many mere. In bis opinion resistance was engineer fire a revolver shot, but he was running at the time and didn't appear to have taken aim, impossible at any time. He saw the second

and he could not say whether he hit any of them or not. Witness understood that it was a rule of the Company to supply all their officers with revolvers and amanition, but none had been supplied him during the six months he had been

on the Namoa, and he knew that most of the ei ginter other officers had got none from the Company. had was private property. In other ships The revolver which the second witness had been in, the Captain or Chiel Officer was responsible for the serving ou of revolvers and ammunition, and he thought if they had been supplied with them they would have been of service. When first he went on deck witness noticed that each of the pirates was smoking an ordinary cigar, which he considered was a signal of some kind connected with the attack, he believed that they had their arms concealed on their persons all the time He did not think that the prior to the attack. crew were mixed up in the affair in any way.

THE IDENTIFICATION OF PETERSEN. Captain Booth of the Chinese Revenue cruiser Fei Ho sald he saw the body of Petersen at the Mortuary on the 11th instant. The deceased was a light-keeper fo the employ of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service. He was aither a Dane ora Swede, and an acquaintance

he knew Petersen was unmarried.

to preventing the speedy return of the.. the windlass was broken by showing them two Namos to port, He wasured the pirates that pieces of iron, two handles, which he shid were fragments of the mechanism connected with the wind last. Some of the pirates suggested that it would be well to run the ship ashore but the Chief sald "ne, a lot of lives might be lost; it will be sufficient to let go. the anchor." He, did not hear who shot the Captain and saw no one either shot or wounded. He did not soe, né the time he was on deck, any of the three quartermasters shot at.

At this juncture the inquiry was adj-urned until Tuesday week, e'g.. until the return of the Namoa "rom ber next royige to Foochow via ports of call which commences to-morrow, the 26th inst.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not recostadily andersa ihi opintona exprend by

Correspondenti in this column]. é

THE "NAMOA" PIRACY AFFAIRS THE USELESSNESS OF THE QUEEN'S NAVEE TO THE EDITOR OF THE "llosako e "Talithapa," St. Please allow me, through the medium of your columns, to call the attention of the seafaring community to the fact that it is clear by the speech delivered by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong last week, that the blame in connec tion with the scandalous delay in despatching a British gunboat in pursuit of the villains who committed such dastardly acts of pillage and murder on board the British steamer Namoa, on the roth instant rests with the "Jolly old Commodore" and other Navy celebrities. This fact should be carefully noted showing the utter futility of depending on the Royal Navy for the protection either of Brilish com- . merce or British lives in these sens, This being so it behoves British officers, irrespective of shipowners, to devise ways and means-and that promptly-to prevent a recurrence of the tragedies, British officers should bear in mind. that they are fully justified in adopting means for the protection of their lives, and those of the

the Daily Telegraph and retired frons journalism. of the witness for about to years. As far as Namoa, Greyhound and various other shocking

lamentable loss of life in consequence. It is of late she has devoted all her energies to the able portion of it in Japan. He has had a ver that he was having tiffin in the forecastle on the passengers entrusted to their care. It is their

Telegraphic intelligence was received here yesterday afternoon of the burning of Mess Butterfield & Swire's fine river steamer Shanghal In the Yangstze river on Thursday, and of a 200 or 300 Chinese supposed that some passengers were either burned to death, or A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. drowned while attempting to reach the shore. No foreigners are reported missing. ESTABLISHED AD, 1841.

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REFERRING to the Reuter's cablegram of the 18th instant which ran thus:-"At a meeting of the Caucus the Republican Senators rejected the Bill for the free coinage of silver" the Straits Timer says the telegram relates to Senator Stewart's Bill, and if not considered in connce- tion with the attitude of the various, parties of the U.S. Congress towards it, is apt to be misleading. The object of the Bill introduced by Senator Stewart (who is a Republican) Is to place the silver dollar on an equal basis with the goll dollar all over the world. From the tone of our telegram of to-day it may be thought by persons lil-acquained with American politics that since Senator Stewart's Bill' is not accepted by his own party it will also be rejected by the Senate, which is not necessarily the case. The VANITY is the passion of a little mind and a cold Silver Bill passed last session, was not counten-

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TELEGRAMS.

SEVERE WEATHER IN LONDON,

LONDON, December 23rd. Snow frost and thick fog have prevailed in London for five days. The Trent, Severn and upper Thames are frozen over.

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SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY'S ELECTION.

December 25th. Sir John Pope. Hennessy has been elected member for Kukenny,

SILVER DISCUSSION AT A STANDSTILL. occurred in the A complete deadlock ha U. S. Congress over the silver question.

(From Singapore Pağırtı) - THE MONEY CRISIS.

LONDON, December 16th, Silver securities are advancing and "sising is New York owing to the belief that prospects are

en route to England via Hongkong, Japan, and

the United States.

LADY: Sir, you should introduce a little change In your style of dancing. Gent: How do you Lady: You might mean, mademoiselle ? Occasionally step on my left foot; the right ove has had enough,

WE are informed by the agent of the O, &0. S. S. Co., that the steamship Gastle, with mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 6th lust, has arrived at Yokohama, and left for this port yesterday at 5 pm. BOBBY: "Don't be scared, Johnnie.. Perhaps your father didn't mean it when he said he would lick you." Little Johnnie: "Yes, he did. It wasn't as if he had promised to bring me home a new whistle,"

A PUBLIC meeting will be held at the City Hall on Tuesday, the 30th instant, of 4 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the proposals of the Jubilee Committee relative to the celebration of the Jubilee of the colony.

THE monthly competition for the Faki Chal lenge Cup presented by Dr. Noble, was held this afternoon and was won, a second time, by F.C. A. Watson. Only seven members com- peted and the shooting was indifferent.

ST. PETER'S SEAMIN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennaut C between 9 and 10.30 a.m, on Sunday to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 13.30. SAYED Himself.-Mrs, Schmerz fat break fast): "What was it you were muttering in your sleep last night, Galen-about #pairs and three of a kind "Dr. Schmerz: "Um.-ah I met Dr. Flush while I was out; and he told me some of his experiences with twins and triplets, Must have dreamed about it i".

INTELLIGENCE has arrived in Singapore by wire, to the Agent of the P. & O. Company, that .. Nepaul, which was stranded in a dense fog on Plymouth Breakwater when upon her homeward voyage from Calcutta (ays the Free Frai) is now a total loss, the vessel having gone to pieces. Salvage operations are stlif going on nctively at the wreck of the P. & D. 1.5. Hong ong which rn upon the Aralen Rock off the inland of Perim.

SIR Cecil Smith, the Governor of the Straits Splements, has consented to preside at the Singapore Cricket, Club dinner on the 12th proximo, From Sir Cecil Smith's close official associations with both Hongkong and Ceylan, and the deep personal regard felt for him by the public of both of these Colonies, it is peculiarly, appropriate that to him should fall the pleasant duty of presiding at the Club dinner to the visiting sporting representatives from Colombo and Hongkong.

The simple truth is that it was arranged some time since that Sir Edwin should have a long holi ay, and he determined to spend a consider pleasant time there, is expected back in London very soon, and will then rejoin the edgorial staff of the journal with which he has so long, so closely, and so honourably been connected."

RANGOON has long suffered from the want of a dock in which ships of large siz can be repaired. Vessels of any larga tonnage requiring anything beyond very trifling repairs, are forced to proceed either to Calcutta or Sing spore. A dock capable of repairing the luge vessels visiting the port, will, however, scoi be pro- viced, owing to the energy and enterprise of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, Limited. The Rangoon Times believes the Company have already taken the necessay preliminary steps to commence work and that by this action, the Firtilla Company will place all inter sted in the commercial prosperity of Bangoon, under a great obligation to them. It is to be hoped that their enterprise will be aniply rewa ded by the results.

THE NAMOA" PIRACY.

MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY. Mr. Wodehouse continued the inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of Capt. T. G. Pocock Mr. Petersen and others, who were steamship Namoa on the 10th instant. murdered by pirates on board the British

THE SECOND OFFICER'S STATEMENT. Mr. C. Richardson, second.officers of the Namtoa, said after he had had his tifin he was altting on the 'tween decks with the second engineer when they beard two or three shots fired on the upper deck. They immediately got up and ran to their rooms where the second engineer secured a revolver and then they both went back along the 'tween decks until they reached

was

As a member of a powerful mercantile marine, federation, I can heartily assure the marine officers of Hongkong that they will he warmly. supported by the home as ociations in any mea sures which they may deem it expedient to adont

recurrence of with a view to preventing a dastardly outrages upon itish-ships, British officers, British engineers, and the travelling British public.

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Thanking you for publishing this letter, which forward in the hope that the Maxior tragedy, will not be allowed to end in a mere nine days! wonder, så did the Greyhound atrocities.

Yours faithfully,

A BRITISH MASTER, M.M.S. Association, Hongkong, 27th December, 1890.

WHAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.” SIR,-During the week a well-known coasting skipper who passed through this port had a good deal to say about the conduct of the officers of the Namon during the piratical attack made on that vessel a short time ago. He said that had he been there," he would have broken up some of the furniture in the Captain's cabin, and ston cleared the pirates out," and as good as imputed cowardice to the officers concerned. Perhaps he thinks the Important air be 'assumes would have'

his

crawed the pirates-it might, certainly, for

air is igh and laughty to a degree.

THE BOATSWAIN'S EXPERIENCES. Tong Asing, boatswain of the Namoa, said 10th instant together with 16 others, mem-duty--a duly which has hitherto been regarded as obligatory only qri the part of shipowners and bers of the crew. The forecastic

Government. Had the lamer done their duty in" shut off from the Chinese passengers' quarters this connection, the Namoa tragedy would never by a bulkhead, so that he could not, at that

have been the stern, the disgraceful, the shock. time, see them. At that hour he heard the

ing fact that it now is. But the mere fact of report of firearin's on the upper deck and at the

gross negligence on the one put by no means same time the compradore came running down

is a danger awaiting those who "go down to the into the forecastle. He heard the compradore justifies culminal sang froid on the other. There sea in ships" in Hongkong. The danger is one of the sailor's baths and covered himself up say "I'm afraid of you," and be then ran into with a blanket. Upon seeing this he sent a sailor. Apparent. Protective measures are an absolute

necessity, + up on deck to see what was the matter, and when the man got halfway up the ladder being fired at, at once came down again. At the same time a couple of stinkpots we thrown down into the forecastle. The stinkpots nearly stilled him. Shortly after that the pirate Chiel sang out for all the firemen to go up on deck; he also ordered the boatswain to appear before him. He did not dare to co up, knowing the pirats were there. who told him not to be afraid. He then told him Ultimately bewent up and wasgrabbed by a pirate be wanted all the European officers to go on deck and that if they would do so they would anced by the Republicans as a party at all. Re-

not be hurt, for all they (the pirates) wanted was Witness then went down jection by the "Repablican Caucu "means merely

money, not lives. into the mess-room while the pirates waited that the R publicans will not take it up ass party

on deck. The second officer was down there, so witness, brought him up. He, witness, measure. Last session of Congress it was a Stewart and aided by the entire Democratic party

was afraid that the pirates would burn the minority of the Republicans led by Senator which passed the present law, and that was only

ship. The phrates took them to the Captain's room, aft a half measure, anticipating one providing for a

where they demanded the was ulti mately found in the chief officer's room. They free coinage of silver. In the present session of understood, be taken; that is to say, the minority

did not find money in the treasure-room. Upon Congress precisely the same steps will, it is

key of the treasure-room, which

of the Republicans and the entire Democratic

getting on deck they threatened to shoot party will unite and pass Senator Stewart's Blll,

film, The second officer called the second and before March next it is anticipated that

the engine room. As soon as they came there will be a free coinage of silver in

engineer and two other Europeans up from the United States. It is believed and argued

on deck, they were searched and put into He next went down that in the next election for President, which occurs in two years time, the Democrats

the aptain's cabin. to the saloon and brought out the passen- will again unite with the Republican infaority

gers. The pirate Chief told him, witness, t which embraces the representatives of the silver

Jay that they need not be afraid and that producing State of the West, and will either

they'd all leave the ship at 3 p.m. The nominate Senator Stewart for President, or

passengers then came up and were robbed of possibly some good Democrat and put Stewart as Secretary of the Treasury, in either of which the ladder leading to the main deck when two all their jewellery and money. After that the Chief ordered him go to the wheel contingencies free coinage is sure. In the or three shots were fired at them from the upper house. While they were speaking the other present session the Republicans have a majorly deck. The second engineer returned a shot pirates said "better go and search the Chi- of fourteen in the Senate and of twenty-four in the House, a majority which is lost when the with his revolver and then ran down to the nese passengers." The Chief then left him Domocrats unite with a section of the Republican engine room. Witness ran to his own room and and went with the other to party. The silver producing States have evi closed the door, and wishing to lock it discovered passengers. At that time the pirates were at the helma. He, witness, was standing at the top of dently determined to have free coinage of silver that the key had been removed from its the for'ard 'tween deck companion. When left even at the expense of breaking up the Republican

customary place over the wash stand, where he alone, as be then was, he made his way to the party,

had seen it that morning. He remained in his forecastle which he found crammed with Chloese

passengers, both men and women. room about 20 minutes while shots were being fired at his room door and stink-pots"

of exit from and entrance to "the thrown down the 'tween decks. There was a great deal of noise, shouting and running about the decks. From the port hole of his room he forecastle than the said skylight. The pirater where be stayed until 8,30 pm. At about 4 p.m. could distinguish the Island of Mendoza about made him, witness, go down into the forecastle NFWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL two miles to the southward of them. The boats the pirates came to the forecastle and ordered wain first came to witness' room, and knocking at the cook up to prepare rice for them. Aker the door told him if he went on deck and gave being shut up in the forecastle he could hear the himself up he would not be harmed by the noise of boxes being broken open. The cook pleates. He then went up the companion stairs went up, as soon as called, and did not return. at the head of which he was surrounded by four At 7 o'clock he noticed the ship was going pirates armed with revolvers who took him to the very slow, and he heard several blasts of captain's room, where he discovered the captain the whistle, At 8:30 p.m. the pirate Chief witness he anchor. He at once went up with the carpenter alone staggering about with a bullet wound is his ordered him to go up on deck to let go the | called him by name and throwing

about bis neck and clinging to him in dying agony threatened to shoot him if he was not quick about said "I am dying." Witness fald him on the it. He paid out" 30 fathoms of cable. Doe bed and he asked for some water, which the of the pirates ordered him, witness, to disable the leader of the pirates kad brought to him in a windlass. Witness then said it was broken al- tin cup, but the Captain being unable to ready. The Chief then, pointing his revolver at drink it witness hathed his forehead. The him, said is it really broken?" to which he Captain then told witness if ever be reached replied "yes, it is," Then the pirates throw four Hongkong to give his love to his wife. Shortly lamps overboard. At the time he let go the anchor tindal" came to witness and he saw three junks sailing away from the Namoa afterwards the told him that the pirates wanted him to go and three others alongside. The pirater then, down into the saloon, which he did, or shortly afterwards, left the ship, but before arriving there he discovered Mr. McIntosh in the going over the side said "we've spared your after part of the saloon. Witness told him to go lives. If anything turns up by and by, just keep up to the Captain's cabla and that the Captain was quiet. We've made about $10,000. They were dying there. Mr. Melatosh, with the others in in good spirits, He, witness, then went back into the saloon, then went up to the Captain's cable the forecastle to got a cup of tea, and subsequent. followed by witness, who was again marched off ly went aft to the captain's cabin, As far as he in search of the thief officer, Thinking he knew no Chinese passengers were killed. Ifany of would be la his zoom he went there, conducted by pirates, he knocked at the door and receiving no answer opened it and went in, but there was no one inside. The "tindal" then told him that the pirates said if he didn't get them the keys of the treasure room they would shoot him, so he then pointed out the drawer in which the

search the

I think most people who know anything about the Chinese, and whe have read the evidence of this sad affair adduced at the Magisterial Inquiry will agree that the officers of the Namoa acted room and by remaining there, for had they. very wisely in going quietly, Into the Captain's attempled to oppose the pirates-armed and defenceless as they were all of them would pro- bably have been killed. Perhaps this "gassy" skipper will offer his service to the Force in Hongkong, and by so, doing will soon make work scarce for-that body, It was so

Yours faithfully,

JUSTICE.

crowded that there was no room for them ia sit dowp. The pirates closed the skylight and laid. beavy chain an it. There was no other place

Amoy, 20th December, 1890..

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The E. & A. Company's Australian Ilmer Airile, Capt..W. Ellis, with the Sydney mails of the 3rdinstant, arrived in port yesterday. We are indebted to our Australian exchanges for the following items of news:-

LONDON, November 28th.

THE unrivalled success which attended the brillant racing career of Mr. C. F. Chater in Hongkong and Shanghai has, so far, not followed his efforts to achieve fame on English race. courses. Our popular local "sport," we believe. has been a liberal purchaser of promising blood stock, in some instances paying high prices for well bred yearling but no notable victory bas yet rewarded his enterprise, although a sounder judge of racers and racing, of a more experienced trainer than James Waugh is not to be found at Newmarket or elsewhere. Belter luck will no doubt come in time, but racing must be an unsatisfactory bual ness to follow when the owner le ten thousand miles away from the scene of operations and bis stut or controlling his horses in training. Mr. Chater's sole practical knowledge of racers and racing was acquired in the Far East, but to those acquainted with his racing career here, there cannot be the least doubt that to his rarely making a mistake in the merits of the Mongolian pany and exceptionally accurate judgment in racing matters generally, his victorious career was principally due. It shouldn't be forgotten, of course, that Mr. "Paul's ponies were always admirably trained-poor Mat. Nickels had no superior in this department-and skilfully ridden, also that money was never allowed to stand in the way when anything of really superior class was in the market; but all these advantages Are manifestly strengthened by the shrewdness and sound judgment of the owner himself. And it is more than likely that had Mr. Chater been In England to exercise some personal supervision over his race horses during the past season, his balance at Weatherby's would have been more satisfactory than is the case. These réflections have been caused by our observing fathe Sportiman that Mr. Chater's two-year filly

Witness-I don't think so. Jeannie, carrying 7at. lb, took part in the

Continuing, witness uld be wis roughly Chesterfield Nursery Stakes of 1,000 save, at the Derby November Meeting. As she started at Chief Officer kept the keys, and, it being locked, handled when being put down in the forecastle 40 to 1 in a field of 15, ker chance of wipping they forced it open with their axes. Witness He would know some of the pirates again was probably not thought very highly of, and then picked out the treasure-room key and was should he ever see them. The quartermaster who as a matter of fact she didn't finish in the leading marched down to the treasure-room which he steered the ship that aftercoon could identify the doren, but to make matters worse the Stewards unlocked, and on the pirates searching it and Chief and several others, The pirates ised a The passengers in the forecastle Imposed a fine of one sovereign on the owner discovering nothing of value they appeared very pass-word, kattat, and never used their for not declaring his colours. If Mr. Chater angry and shook their axes over his head surnames. would once more declare his colours to the in a threatening manner, after which they did not make a noise, they merely cried. The Happy Valley, Hongkong lovers of true sport marched him back to the Captain's cabin, women were very quiet also. Two amed men would gladly give the popular "straw scket and and after remaining there a few minutes kept guard the whole time at the top of the white cap" a warm reception next February, he was again summoned by the pirates and steps leading down into the forecastle. They and he would, we feel certain, experience greater, taken to the engine room sky-light to call those wanted the windlass broken so as to prevent pleasure in again winning the Challenge Cup or who were down below to come up on deck. He the officer from liking it, and thereby Champlons than by the victory of Kate Allan shouted down to the third engines, who came getting back to Hongkong quickly. Their on deck with the second engineer and the third object in throwing The lamps verboard or Jeannie in a handicap at Newmarket or

officer. They were immediately surrolided by was also an act committed with a view Epsom

unable to take any active part in either selecting side. As soon as the Captain sais arms and let go the anchor. While doing it thay relation to his position as leader of the Irish

It is understood that Mr. Parne!! will issué à manifesto to his constituents on Monday in pany. He declares that he will fight the matter to the bitter end.

Referring to Mr. Gladstone's ultimatum declaring that Mr. Parnell's etention of the highest degree disastrous to the cause of Ireland, Mr. Parnell asserts that Mr. Gladstone is having leadership of the Irish party must be in the

A second revenge for the Kilmainham affair,

November 29th,

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Mr. 1rnell has issued a manifesto addressed to the people of Ireland. He complains that the wirepullers of the Liberal party have destroyed the integrity and independence of a section of the Parnellites. He objects to Mr. Gladstone claim. ing the right to veto the choice of the member of the Farnellite party as to their leader, and

them were slain be thought he would have heardgrds the independence of the Irish party at of it. postala pod.

His Worship We've heard that two women. and a child were killed ?

above all other considerations.

Mr. Parnell states that in November of int year when staying'at Hawarden as the guest of Mr. Gladstone, the leader of the Liberal party explained to bim the future policy of the Liberal party, which involved a reduction in the number of If members at Westminster to 33, the sclliement of the Irish land question by the the appoint- Imperial Legislature, the Imperial control of the police for an indeficite period, and i ment by the Imperial Government of the Irish in years. T judicar and resident magistrates for a terms of

Mr. Parnell on that occasion replied that it would be, an act of madnes to reduce the Parnel lite party in the House of Commons until the period of probation was over, and until Ireland possessed full powers over her domestic affair, He acquiesced in the other points detailed by at the absence of a liberal provision for the Mr. Gladstons, although he was much concerned scitement of the agrarian question,

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