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officers is all but un fail accompli, for hy aar alliance with the Liverpool Association our numbers good at over 3000 in October, and subsequently, through our connection with that body which took the lend informing the federation of shirm veia and officère la London, it rose to close upon 15 000. Our alliance with Australis and Shanghai cannot long be defcried, so we understand, and when that is accomplished we shall see what can be done la

·India. We therefore hope that die 1791-drows to a close the world-wide usion of British officers will become an indisputable fact. That ws. should be so united no scheible man will deny, for without it a thorough revision of the laws governing the Mercantile Marina of Great Britain, which are no actoriously unsuited to the times, cannot be regarded as within measurable

distance.

Let us all bear in mind, that it is through her mercanille marine that Britain's commerce bas become the greatest the world has yet known ; It is by means only of her mercantile marine that such commerce can be maintained; it in by. the use and efficiency of ber mercantlle marine that this vast amount of commerce · (this unfathomable s-urce of wealth to the empire) will be even further developed, and by which England will maintain her proud pasition as the Giral commercial Power of the world. Bearing ail these facts in mind let on strain every nerve to maintain the dignity of what should ever be a highly repected profession.

"Unity is Strength,"

CHISNEY DUNCAN, "

Hon. Secretary.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1891.

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ON THE ROAD TO SINGAPORE IN THE FOASTLE OF THE P. 0. 5. S. " THAMES,"

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“Bay Father Thames fhe thou hast been Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy biargustarean The path of pleurs trac

The following attempt at kecoleg a diary was found at Singapore by our Office Goal who inadvertently strayed on board the Thames at Hongkong on the 5th ultime and got left there.

26th December.

Old Travers andJarge number of friends saw us off-great enthusi sm. Tiffin at 1 p.m.~~n10 one absent as yet although Boyle once or twice showed signs of a possible retrest. Afternong spent in unpacking and rehearsal in the music. saloon. Lowson and Barff prove themselves Basse Profundos of no mean calibre. Muster of whole crowd at dinner-plum padding on the job: Lang propssed Cap ain Sexton's health-the proposer almost broke down-Emotion or the other thing? Captain very brief. The Orphans gave "Folly good fellow "in magulfitent style. Barff is beginning to cat eyes to the other side of the saloon. After dinner monkey and parrot time is held-the whole force of the Orphans ranting at the pitch of their voices. The Scoto-Irishman produces, hli book of_mus'e which proves sufficient for the evening. Several men carried to bel shout 11.30 p.m..

26th December:

LBOXING DAY?

Detachment orders by

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1891.

By order

harangued the crowd at 11.30 p.m. I am requested to keep sober on this occasion, as first setting in motion the Police, who never seem to beginning to fear there will be an awful row on | impressions are with difficulty removed. Minday at dinner time when the team entertain Captala Seatos.

28th December.

O`DERS FOR THE DAY.

TASTER

Acting Adjutant.

(1) The team will parads for Divisions at The late conspiRACY() CASE. 10.30 a.m..

(3) Church Parado at 11 1.10.

MIMOS.

(4) The position of the ship will be fixed at Moon,

(4) The Officer Commanding again regrets to have to draw the attention of the members of the team to the danger that arises from sleeping on the safety valves,

(c) Doctor Lowson at 3 pm, will be fried by court-martial for sleeping in the refrigerator when on duty.

President-Surgeon Maja,

F. E. BARROW, M.S. The prisoner and witnesses are duly warned to attend.

By Order,

TASTER,

Acting Adjutant The weather continues of the most magnifi- cent description-a "leetle" warm at sight, as the chief engineer found out later on. To-day, the

crowd went to church for the first time on the official record. It was for many an original X perience-as shown by the ignorance of certai members to when to stand, kneel or sit After Church most of the men lay off. · For an hour after tiffin Barrow entertained the company by standing os his head and smoking a pipe and making faces at the indies in the vicinity, Barrow "bad" the chief engineer to-day. Scene -Quarter Deck, Topic of Conversation-Heat. Barrow loquitur: "It was 105 in my cabin last

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Barrow: "It way actually 107 in Lowson's cabin (next door)" C.E. “Waté till ■ get ma thermo- matar.” A deputation left to inspect said cabins, barded by the C.E. with the thermometer. When Barrow drew the curtain and confronted the C.E. with the metallic label 105, a perfect torrent of nice language fell from the C.E. and he said *ye hauv me this time and I've been at sea for 10 years" Every time temperature is mentioned now that C.E. vanishes. This joke actually went the round of the ship and was practiced by naughty husband ba their unsuspecting wives. The court martial ended in Lawson being found guilty--the crime being more serious from the fact that the remains of a cold chicken and a few, emply bottles were strewed around him when found by bis relief. During the course of after noon, the following unconfirmed rumours were posted up.

(1) That Barff was actually seen talking to a lady during the forenoon-he's a D-7.

That Barrow and his bay Valentine are going to give as extibition of "The way to Sample."

this morning was due to matrimorisi instincts.

(3) That Campbell'smysterious disappearance (4) That The great Captain Blair is doing his atmost to grow whisker to spite his moustache, bat hope that the sea air will improve matters.

(3) That Darby and Smith arclik-wise afflcted, (6) That the Slogger's appetite is 00 10 * prodeeglous" as it sometimes is—this gives

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Barrow a chance.

(7)That the ladies have voted Blair the best looking man on board—but they say he is bad- tempered.

(8) That Lowson walked to bed fast night and declared he'd do it again.

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know anything until it is blazoned forth from the hausetops. He was not even called as a witnes at the Police Court proceedings, in which Maju General Gordon, the Acting Captain Superinte..........); dent of Police, distinctly stated that the prosech tion was instigated by him after consultation with the Crown Solicitor on behalf of the Government. Mr. Ward was made to sign the, information without even having been given time to xak his amplover's permission, and now. both ha, and Mr. Fraser-Smith have been sentenced to six months' "Imprisonment for conspiracy by the casting vote of one Juryinat{ Hongkong to about celebrating its Jubilee, and Throughout the entire proceeding there was no doubt a vast quantity of sentimental talk not one tittle of evidence adduced to sustain about the wonderful progress of the Gibraltar of the charge of criminal conspiracy, and abej the East, its commercial greatness, its just and thing that seems to have weighed most with admirable laws, and the civilizing influences the jury was that Mr. Fraser-Smith unfortunately which it generally exerts upon the great empire, was mixed up with Higbianett in some money upon whose fringe it stands, will be let loose matters, and had an object therefore in getting But in our opinion Hongkong has much yet to him out of the colony. This we do not belleva do in putting its own house in order. Its to have been the case. Again the Hongkong Executive seem utterly incapable of keeping in Telegraph has earned for itself the reputation of Castrol its large criminal population of Chinese being a fearless foe of all departmental abuses, who ply the most desperate enterprises of mur and surely, it never had a better, ground for der, robbery, and piracy with little fear of punish accusation than in the case of Minbinnett, even mert, while with a barbarous irony invocent on his own showing, when he told the disgusting citizens are convicted of crimes which they story of his relations with the woman Aa Ngan Dever committed, and men of the most revolting and her daughter Emily in the witness box. Such character are openly retained in the public a man is obviously anft for any public office. Service, the acilon. of the Executive leaving The conduct of this person in the witness box was them open to the charge of fostering and pro-an losult to the Court, yet some' Invisible bas tecting vice to their midst. Justice, generally potent ægis seems to have been thrown everk mi speaking, seems blind, and the legal machinery and he is allowed to go Scot free, and is again draw- of the Colony is a halting and uncertain contri- | Ing his salary as an official of the Crown which, wa vance which occasionally causes the vilest abuses | bold, is disgraced by such a servant. The attempt to the liberty of the citizen, and at the same to get the woman out of the Colony in the Names time allows real criminals to escape unpunished, on the eve of the trial was a most suspicions Foremost amongst the many gross anomalies circumstance, and should have been taken into we would wish to see abolished is the jury cognisance by the Jury. They did not do bulwark or safe-guard of the liberty of the sub intrinsically wank, so little evidence in support ject which has long made the name of English of the Indictment was adduced, and finally, the law revered abroad for its purity, is in Hong-Judge's charge was such an unmistakable direc kong reduced to a glaring face. In to place tion to acquit that even those most vitally else that we wot of under the British fing Interested walled the result with the utmost THE Company's Steamship does the verdict of one man, who may be confidence, and nothing remained in the minds actuated by the meanest of motives, dispose of everyons in court but for the Jury to acquit of the liberty and even the life of another. the accused. Still, in law as elsewhere, it is In all criminal trials In England, a jury of the uaczpected that always happens, and the twelve must return sa unanimens verdict Jury by a majority of one braught in a verdict of before it carries conviction. In Hongkong guilty with an unanimous expression in favour of the odd man in the panel of seven, the judge dealing leniently with the accused. To the remaining alt are equally divided, can con- meet this expression, and actuated solely by a vict or acquit ! Such a division under any cir. sense of duty, whatever his personal opinion may comstances would imply a large measure of have been, the Judge imposed a sentence of doubt. At home justice, more tempered with extreme severity-six months' hard labour-with mercy, always gives the accused the benent of all the indigni'ies and hardships of a criminal the doubt in such cases; in Hongkong the conviction. Such a monstrous miscatilage of dreadful power into the hands of the man whose rule, and we say that public opinion should for Gentlemen or Male Members of a family by iniquitous ex lock in the reverse, and puts a Justice has seldom been witnessed under British THE JUBILEE PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION BALL, 1st January, of 9 mm. Admission casting vote decides the question of guilt or

exert itself with redoubled efforts to oblain Ticket only. Price of Ticket Five Dollars. indecence. True, in Scotland the verdict is still repeal of the iniquitous mode of trial in Hong-Ladies, Foreign cila and Naval and Military that of the majority, but there they have the kong and effect the release of two innocent men. The opinion is now pretty generally established saving clause of "not proven," which is tinta- mount to an acquittal. Such an arrangement, that the severe punishment which Mr. Frasere we hold, is a monstros abuse of the theory of Smith is undergoing, and which is calculated trial by jury a laid down in the British

not only to ruin his business, prospects but his constitution, and an outrage 'upan our sense health, is not altogether for whatever small part of justice. It may be somewhat late in the day he played in the Mishinnett case, but for pat for us to say that under this disgraceful parody indiscretions and for his laconvenient watchful- upon trial y jury there has been a shocking ness over the public departments in the Colony, miscaniage of justice perpetrated in Hongkong of which the Hongkong Telegraph is the self- in the case of Mes.rs. Fraser-Smith and Ward, appointed censor.---Shanghat Mercury. for it is admitted in almost every circle in the Colony that these two gentlemen have ben wrongfully convicted and are suffering a severe punishment for an offence that certainly was not proved against thema. A widely signed petition has been got up on their behalf, and an effort bas bem made to induce the Executive to remit- a portion of the excessive penalty meted out to them by the Chief Justice upon the finding of the jury in the recent conspiracy trial. But as a considerable portion of their sentence bas now expired and their release seems no nearer, we think that public opinion should be stimulated afresh upon the subject. It is not our intention to review the proceedings in the trial at any great length after this lapse of time, but to call attention to a few of the most salient features of the case. Most of our readers, no doubt, have read the case for themselves, and we need only recite a very fer facts to show how slender were the grounds for the indictment against Mr. Fraser-Smith and Mr. Ward for criminal conspiracy. In August last the second named accused, being then present in the Supreme Court during some bank ruptcy proceedings in re Webber, in which the person Minhinnet was a petitioning creditor, between this person, who even on his own show. is a scoundrel of a very law type, and Mr. Led by that scoundrel Harrow a few of the early which Mr. Ward, with more real the discretion, birds first attacked Lawson, who was calmly accused Minhinnett of certain riminal offences, sleeping the gentleman awoke to find all his belongings which were afterwards the subject of a Police Chinking ancnuncing the presence of armed

sleep of the innocent. This

Telegrams were received here yesterday from lying over him in bis bunk.

prosecution against Minhinnett, who was Campbell also suffered and has not yet found his bed.

bands of maniauders in its neighbourhood. One discharged for want of evidence We have no bind of twenty or, more desperate charac Boyle awoke with a lump of soap in als mouth,

idea of saying that be was wrongfully:liwed to teis has been bold enough to venture within the while dreaming of plum padding. The attack did scape, but we think that the Public Pre-limits of the Foreign Settlement at Chinking to not finish till 8 .. when the chief officer was

cutor having examined into the case against dispose of some plunder looted from the pes- No cricket today. Barrow and Lowson practice sufficiently strong to justify his arrest, and in suburb of the city. Here, in Shanghal, we are compelled to turn the base on the ringleader. his man thought the evidence against him santry during a recent raid in some out lying the Victorious March to the amusement of our opinion it was so quite strong enough to saneyed by the presence of large numbers of evening a great success. Lowson naarthed this disgusting individul was purely a personal raiment gives them at the various Benevolent

squabble in the Court between Mr. Ward and disposed towards us or grateful for the food old gave violent exhibition to which Barrow nothing to do with it. He was not even settlement to relieve their wante

pair of bagpipes from the engine room and

oac, and Mr. Fraser-Smith, obviously, had Institulions established in various parts of the Whistled and Campbell danced. Dinner at 6.30

licked creatimas raid the young lady who bas present when it took place, but on his eruployé, got Buff in her coils, Blair proposed Captain's Mr. Ward, informing him, Mr. Fraser-Smith, as during the past week announcing the reinstate Eealth and requested Lowson to second it which Editor of a public journal, that it bad come to ment of Prince Kung to partial faveur at Court,

Ward's, knowledge at public Journalist the

style

and commencing with "Ladies, Gentemps and felice that Minhfanett had been guilty of as recies of

stating that instructions have been issued to the Board of Revenue to the Treasury of

and to Blackguards, otherwise known as the Hongeerides offences against public morality, which the Imperial Cian Court, to place the Prince on keng Orfans. The ensuing scene baffles dac and which he, Mr. Ward, was in a posklen Kung may probably be due to the fact that NOW

in the interests of Justice auglit to be exposed, the half-pay 1st. This reinstatement of Prince At morning parade Barff and Lowson swore a cription. The poor old Captain was carried solemn swear that they would have a night of t

shoulder

to prove, Mr. Fraser-Smith very properly, and ultimately they did a considerable amount of tests that high despite his persistent directed his informant ‘te redace his state. / Chloe Wang, another Prince of the Blood,

be damaged. The bag-pipe bastle about the second saloon in the afternoon. part of the programme, by Lowson and Barron, ment to writings is the ordinary and correctcently died and thus left several important Dinner this evening best record—the two doctors | cleared the saloon. The evening on deck, that course in sil such cases between Editor and i porta in the varians Hoards vacant, and requiring followed, saw fights brought on by some of the newspaper reposter. Mr. Ward writes out his umbents. Another telegram was received yesterday afternoon from Peking stinctiocing team who would persist in amazing those gentle who took what was undoubtedly the correct step that is, in Ching Wang, who was an uncle of story and hands it to his chief, Mr. Fraser-Smith, the death of another Prince of the Blood Imperial a beard-Bart being discomfited by a chorus Rodyk, and furthermore solicited and obtained may be called on to go into mourning for a term of men who were paying attention to the damsels in submitting the document to his solicitor, Mr. the Emperor, and for whom the whole nation (Barrow, Blair, Lowson and Darky) yelling:—

the services of the Police in the matter, Mr. seven weeks. The latter, however, is not yet settled, #Ya-ka-ba Ya-ha-hal

Rodyk advised that it was entirely a case for the ad is only a surmise on my part, as the telegram Protector of Chinese. Now, up to this stage was very brief, simply announcing, the death of between the two accused to cosplay the deceased Prince at a certain haur yesterday. THIS useful work has been rewritten and

two accuse. The Police and the Feace to his ashes I

greatly enlarged, and is illustrated by Registrar-General,

compulsory morning, lithograph showing the courses of the typhocas Arrived this morning. Lonson carried sebore possession of where at once 'placed in full | the expense of going for but spare the palion

of late years... many, poor on a stretcher. Dunn all bandaged up. Harrow Smith, and if there was any criminal conspiracy or it.asy entail lots of misery to with a black eye. Blair in an arm sling. The tall, which we hold there was not, the people such as the fraternity of Barbers who "The pamphlet is issued at One Dollar, and meaning of this strange ficak being to wable

Police and Mr. Mitchell-Innes were as much customers once or twice a week, and play actor Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Hongkong,

earn their living by shaving the heads of may be obtained from

Baiff and Barrow to get their commissions on serving such a severe sentence for doing what who eaza, a living by entertaining the public

Lanc, Crawford & Co. Cheap Odds of 3 to 7 freely laid on Straits. they considered was merely their duty. It want every day. The Imperial highways In

In Calall In the They will get a shock when all these men tum

Prefectures of Gaupp & Co.. | up ft and well! The following are the orders also be remembered that Mr. Fraser-Smith did prince, especiali spmp.ling-fus, ara jild to be

nothing whatever of his own initiative, but acted infested by

Pas-ting for and

F. Blackhead & Co. highwaymen who are far from throughout on the advice of his soliclior. By a gentle in the treatment of travellers. A few

Heuermann, Herbst & Co, More & Seimund, warran strange oversight, however, this last point was dollars loses a man's life any day. Even a couple never put forward properly at the final trial, and of dollars are considered worth commiling Mr, Redyle did not go into the witness bek, as he undoubtedly should have done, and as the tder to abisis passéation of Things generally

Capt. Blair, Esquire. (1)-Parade at noon for Byculla Cocktails. (2)-Parade at 3.30 p.m. În undrent for bow-

› Dinner this evening rather noisy, Carks flying ling practice.

about freely, Quiet evening spent the mashers (3)-All soher members of the team will doing the heavy on the burricate deck. Forgot parade al 8 30 p.; for dancing; kiltu and spawson is not sure if D. will be able to play io mention that Dunn is app aring on deck now

(4)-There will be a select, pantomime in the yet. Rest of team well, barring swollen beads. December Music Hall at 11 p.m. Chair: Reverend J. A. The orders for to-morrow are out Jawsome, Members are requested not to liquor *gth. up the Chairman.

will, he lower.

(5) The screamers will afterwards give à select variety concert.

By'order.

The above gives fair idea of day's work. Cricket in förenoon and afternoon rather a

Fizzle air is pretty warm. The dancing also slow--Barrow and Lawan open the ball. Only two connies engage. Dinner-lima again Ilvely-all the talent however, is at one end of the table: Lowson facing Birrow with Barg | close by. Birrow's 'antics, at times encroach on Juracy. The pantomime was a moderain success every hade sober. - Blair In. looking after bls men. Ahem 1

With Dicimber.

DETACHMENT ÖRDERS.

(1) Parade at 11 am to fix the ship's position. (2) At 3.30 p.m. the Surgeon Major will lecture on "How to keep Sober during the ensuing campaign."

(3) At 3p.m. there will be a rehearsal of the famous Hongkong Bast-up Nigger Society" conductor-The L. Doctor.

(4)-If any of the team are found sneaking down

cocktails at odd times they will be court martialled.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

(1) The team will parade at 6 a.m. in heavy marching order (towels) to practice the new attack formation.

The Sun will be shot at noon as usual, The team at 4 pm, wilt assemble for practice on the pipes-members will plasse bring their own pipei. Bags will be provided.

(4) The team at 6.30 p.m. will be present in Review order, to entertain Captain Sexton in the Salcon,

the

By order,

SAMPLER Acting Adjutant.

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

WIN

and January, 1891., The weather of lats has been simply delightful and in consequence we have had a most enjoyable New Year's Day, the principal event of which was the Paper Hunt, There neither rain nor dust so confident of a fine rup, crowds of people turned out to witness the start and finish, and many to join in the bunt itsell Many Isdics also put in an appearance and added not a lie to the general effect of the scene, a few of them who possessed the necessary nerve taking part in the run across contry, no easy task for even an accomplished equestrian In the social world there were many parties arranged for the evening and to ase Byron's hackneyed phrase " All went merry an a mardage-bell"

The wreck of the steamer Shanghai, lately barat with such a lamentable loss of life, was towed into port yesterday from the place on the River Yang-ize where the accident occurred; This vessel, like the Pao-thing, may be rebuilt, the bull being of iron and the engines, still

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(5)-During any spare time the men are 12 spectators. The bagpipe practice for the have procured bis committal for trial. The beggars, home of whom are far from being

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-Volunteers wanted for a Guard of Homer this evening at 9 p.m.-Benedicts need no apply.

The first man that says "John Colllás" wut he goes the carpenter has arranged to have a coffin ready at any time.

By order

utdoing themselves the civil representative kowever, scored heavily over his apponent exce or twice, BAID, Lowson, Smith, Carden, and Barrow arrayed faultlessly. The following bencert was given to an audience of about 200. on the quarter-deck.

PROGRAMME.

(a),Bolu & Caurus, “All for sake of Barsh"--The Hongkong

Orphans,

(*) Sold "Fetters of Gold". Mr. Sykes,

(9) Salo" ar no f" Mr, Grant.

(4) Recitation, The Jackdaw of Khaims, by Mr. A. C. Duna,

(1) Solo "In O12 38adrid * Bilsa Evans,

(6) Bale "A Voice in the Night" Mrs, Syku.

(3) Sala & Chorus "Da Ote Banjo," Mr. and Mrs. Horny and

The Orphans.

(1 Violin Bala, Milna Dalafold,

(a) Banjo and Piano Medley, Mise Batie Tüden and Dz. Lowson.

(16) Buccal Sulo (#). "The British Grensstian" (3) "Two

I left behind in Surgeon Major Barrow,

(st) Solo & Chora" Anchored" Dr. J. A. LowEL,

(ra) General Rumpur "Niggs Melodies do," Ehe Hongkong

Orphans

Contuctor. Dr. J. A. Lowon

God Save the Queen with variations ||

Refreshments were supplied by the Hongkong

doctor his own

You really mustn't squeeze me or 11

tall my ma... This had a startling effect—tablesu,

December 20th.

for the day, easiest hi

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(1) The team will assemble at 7 a.m. in fall dress for inspection prior to disembarkation."

Owing to unforseen circumstances the

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Mr, Ward I said to Mr. Fraser.

the two men who

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Telegrams have been received from Peking

men. The last half of the concert was received | ship's position will be fixed at 5 am. Instead of Chief Justice, we think; might very well have a very unsettled in the North/9SE.

with uproarious applause, Lowson's conducting atsOOD SE NEKRİ, DAN K

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