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HONGKONG THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891-

A CLERIC'S CHIMERA.

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MATL SUPPLEMENT.

TARDONT ENDIJMOH CRT

Hongkong Telegrapy.

on the rise and fall of stocks and shares

THURSDAY, JAUARY 8, 1891.

universally

shady, remnants of past folly, in which so many of our readers are unhappily Implicated, as victims, that, we hall with pleasure the advent as the chairman of a public company of such a straightforward. putspoken man of husiness as Mr. DAVID GILLIES and the introduction of the sensible plan of felling the share holders the plain truth in the fewest possible Words,

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THE Nagasaki Expressistates Mr. S. Ichimurs, of Sascho, has entered into a contract with the Naval Department to make a ship-building yard, at Sarcbo, at a cost of yen 38,000, fr:ix;"...

WHEN a man is drowsing in mid-ocean the one thing that is needful, no doubt, is that he should want his feet firmly on terra Arma" is the logical elucidation of an apparent impossi-

lity given by General Basih.

Russian equivalent of our C. M. Gashin, is con Nesent Russia has about 1,000,200 titled persons out of a population of 100.000,000. The ferred on the worst of the political prisoners, and

drgaded more than exile to Siberia.

THE inrensing value of property in Yokohama may be judged from the fact that at an auction Held verently by Mr. Hall for Lot No. on the Bind, containing 720 tsubo, the property way withitman, when the bidding bad reached $27 too. A year or two since it changed hands at $8,000,

Jesuitical system of reasoning, but his lordship's cure for the evil he apparently meant to deprecate is 'plainly enough expressed. To put a stop to betting and gaming, the Bishop of Manchester seriously suggests that gamblers should be com. pelled to pay over all their winnings to charitable institutions-including, of course, the "boss" charitable Institution of the THAT Right Reverend social reformer the world, the established Church of England. Now, dear brethera who bet at cards or Bishop of Manchester has made an impor- on race horses and boat races, who wager tant discovery-nothing less than an effectual method for knocking betting out

and on time bargalas, or margins in all of time in one round. Ever since England you who indulge in any and every sort of sorts of commercial produce-in fact, all has had an existence it has always een speculation, must hand over your winnings held as a matter of hard fact and 'quite to charitable institutions, or there is beyond the range of argument, that a very great chance that your Betting. is an ineradicable trait of English souls will go to the bottomless pit. character; Englishman the whole world The Bishop of Manchester says so, and he speaks with authority-no doubt he has over must have their little bet, and up to got the straight tip" by telephone. This the present time all the repressive legisla- most original prelate is quite sure that if a tion that has been devised has proved quite law to the effect mentioned were success. ineffectual in even materially checking, fully enforced, gambling would not last a sanctimonious promoters of bogus com showingba loss in working of over defeat has come to hand. Mr. Arthur K. Travers

year, and all gamblers would he got rid far less stamping out what, almost as

of So are we quite sure. But he does much as female prostitution, is amongst not explain how such a law is to be goody-goody people a universally acknow- enforced, and we are afraid he will ledged social evil. The well known And Insurmountable obstacles in that Betting Acts associated with the name of the direction. The Bishop may be an late Chief Justice Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN but his wisdom is more like that of the excellent and well meaning old gentleman, have no doubt had the effect of making excellent knight Don Quixors than of the gambling, especially on horse races, far saintly SOLOMON. Betting will flourish less public than used to be the case, but it like a bay tree when the Bishop and the may be fairly questioned whether the Church he belongs to have been relegated expressing our views on subjects of public lections of what occurred at the last how the Tapanese are going ahead."

to the long forgotten past.

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THE CHINESE COOLIE TRAFFIC.

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SIX DOLLARS PEP QUARTER

TAK Brith stemmer amor which arrived in pont yesterday morning reports that the Japanese steamer Trungd Mark-the pioneer vessel of the NippYusen Kvisha' Co's Japan, via Amoy, Manila line-was in Amoy on the 5th iast.

the 1st of January 91 onwards the Singapore Opium Farmer shall be allowed a reduciton of $10,000 a month in his rent, thus making a. reduction of $240,000 on the year 1891. That is to say, the agriet up in rent of $1,351,000 la reduced to 1.111,000. Further, it is agreed that an' certain esibians the Farm for the years 1892, 1893, and 1891, shall be re-let to thz sams Farmer at the (reduced) 1891 rintal

THE Siraits Government has arranged that, from

To Inspector William Quincey of the

via:Hongkong' Police Force

by

Colonel Ho Chang Chiag As a token of -egard for his meritorious and gallant conduc in capturing

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the notorious burglar and murderer Sa Fei Wing

in the 5th October, 1990. Is the inscription on a very valuable watch presented to the above-nam-A officer on the 6th frist.. by direction of the Vie roy of Canton, Detective Sergeant C. Had tenant A Maciver are recipients of similar tokens, of regud" In

wangiang Province" in First Stres of it to the part the tank with Inspector

De'ober.

,,`,‛ Truth in commenting on the action of the Tostaí óf Tientsin during the recent riots near

abolition of the list offices in London- which marely led to their transference first to Edinburgh and Glasgow and finally to Boulogne and Paris, and the crusade against the stool and umbrella business Ti inuguration at the port of Holhow on race-courses, have had any appreciable of the Chinese coolle traffic to Sumatra is effect in abolishing the alleged evil or even another instance of the dogged persistency in reducing its effects within very much with which the Dutch planters of that narrower limits than in previous years. island have, against strenuous opposition The most.. that can be claimed for the and manifold difficulties, followed up their aware, the British consular authorities have are now most favorable; and a very useful be. Jittle' doubt but thit, these gentry richly impossible for one to express any opinion on the

tendencies, is previously was is now

done in secret;

on

unpopular Cockburn.betting enactments, which are almost unrivalled in the statute book for their unfairness, and one-sided that wagering which carried openly but the advantage of this both from a moral and practical point of view is, in our opinion, a very doubtful quantity. Betting can never be entirely suppressed by Act of Parliament, but it could be placed; were far higher basis by being recognised within certain reasonable limits and placed under proper legal control.

Kaiping adds the following ante-To Jutge from the foregoing sample, it would be no bad

justice from their Chinese neighbours. The thing, if the British authorities at Hongkong were to take a lesson in the administration of

oublishes a most grave indictment against the Hongkong Telegraph, in a recent issue,

is well as against the official koown as the Magistrates and the law officers of the Colony Proiector of Chinese," in connection with the recent moscation of a man named Minhinnett; in official in the local Surveyor- General's Department;; "At this distance it is

-facts-and moreover, the charge is one of a FULLY three weeks new we wrote a "para"thorities can clear themselves of the charges most repulsive kind. But unless the Colonial announcing to a grateful pable that a lady well which the Hongkong Telegraph makes, the known here-Mis Colherne-Baber to wit, was

jmatter call for the active intervention of the the time "starring" through one of the Auralian colonies and last night we rejoiced

Colonial Office, or, failing that, the House of Commons: with all its prisring brilliancy, the front page of Ter Bangkok Times on the alleged opening of our dull-witted contemporary-the Evening Lure.he province of Shen-si ibu:-According to exceedingly to see the identical item adorning

Fortune has dealt harshly with us, and we have Reuters telegram of Saturday fast we learn that been almost everything in one time, but to have the province of Shenii s been opened to Russian to provide food for the Swall to surreptitionslytrada, Shepsi is one of ihren fise provinces in the. Annex is about the hardest, knock of all. Polo-called northern's one of China, which produces Balaam.

he grains, froits, and animal of Northern Eumps. There the children are red-chéeked, The catural productions are wheat, barley, oats, poles, and potators; it is als's rich in wood and minerals. According to the last census (180) the population was 10 107, 46 and it can be reached by stormers along the Yelow giver. The most important fate, however, in the opening of This province, is that it offers an enormous impetus to Russian trade through Mongolia. Ia 192 1857 Count Putistin endeavoured in vain to phtain from China permission to tride with Shen-il, since when, however, she bay acquired the braid and wide territory comprised between be river Amoor and the month of the Temen, besides the large trading town and military station Possiet. The opening of Shen-si to ONLY an "ad," from the Daily Prayer of the unscrupulous aggressive power which has doring the Raslan's is only another sign of the 6th last-

the last thirty years so stealthily and silently been gaining ground in the East with the view to the ultimate conquest of Kores.-:-

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short-sighted bigotry less prevalent, on the Dutch plantations in the Straits. We supervision of the Chinese authorities, who facture of these products as a paying Wedohouse held an inquiry at the Magis, and the exTemes, of heat and cold, are great

can only ignore their official instructions industry in Hongkong, it nevertheless from Canton at great personal risk,

THE DIRECTION OF PUBLIC COMPANIES IN HONGKONG.

appears to us from what we are bound to consider from very reliable data as to. local requirements that a large extension of the Hongkong Brick and Cement Co.'s scale of operations would under the present efficient management, be attended with complete success.

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meant to be evaded and advantage taken of the ignorant and misgolded coolies,

So many people in various capacities are financially interested in the coolie trade that it is quite impossible to deal with the sul ject fairly and impartially in the public press without giving grievous offence in all directions; somebody's corns are sure to be trodd non, and as we have had frequent occasion to point out, it is unfortunately an almost practised doctrine at this end of the world Cement Company Limited, has hitherto The career of the Hongkong Brirkanı. 10 sacrifice principle to pocket. That been distinctly, unfavourable, hut in that this deification of filthy lucre, must respect only equalling various other some, of human nature is only a stale truism, but pretensions. And Mr. GILLIES. In his be regarded as one of the inherent frailties what similar enterprises with far greater has frequently been our consolation capacity of Chairman of the Board of when free expressions of opinion regarding Directors, frankly told the shareholders the doubtful surroundings of the coolie that "a great deal of money had been lost emigration and similar shady methods of

in the initial stage of our business' From following Fora's famous provel about incapable management and in the purchill making money have called, forth abuse plant ill adapted to the working of the clay,ori and had language of the worst kind-when he Company's property." There was professional philanthropists, professed no bolstering up of the real causes

THE lamentations of Jeremiah were as nought, Christians, reputed merchant millionaires, which led to the balance sheet compared with these, that, are being recretly rehted in Hongkong to-day-for news at another panies, and even grave and reverend $34.000 on a capital of one lakh, but is in receipt of a telegram stating that Colombo senators have heartily combined with an honest admission that Dutch slave-drivers, cosmopolitan coolie had been wasted in bad management and bv:170, and now Colombo by to wickets I. the money heat Hongkong by to wickets! Singapore won catchers, and Macao darracoon keepers in a unniess plant. It was open to any share, What can it be the whisky or the weather? kicking against their particular interests holder to demand who being threatened by criticisms based on responsible for all this, but our long- THE Mike Mary, Cant. J. B. Macmillar, will

was directly' sonda anch

of humanity. But however unpopular the habituated io losses sustained through non today! This is the first Japinere-owned the vindication of the laws and the rights suffering shareholders have become so sail for Melbourne wa Singape and Sydney at theme may be with the classes or the incompetent" experts and masses, we are not to be turned aside machinery, that no anxiety was, dvinced which, taken in conjunction with the line, jerryster that has been desnatched to Australia, from our settled purpose of always plainly and no questions, asked. Perhaps, recol-established between Japan and Manila, shows which the enterprising 'owners have just concern by either virulent abuse or Punjom meeting may account for the will, Iphs Chinaman launch out in the foreign.

When innoruous threats. And as this Chinese apathy displayed in this direction, or it trading line? coolie traffic is especially a matter of may he that the Chairman's outspoken' to the desk public concern we do not hesitate to say frankness was the inducement to let TWENTY-FIVE on the breach with the rattan and that it ought to be earnestly supported if sleeping dogs lost. However, in' thus ex months' imprisonment with hard labour was it is legally and honestly conducted, but chronicling the new departure in public, the magisterial fiat sent forth by Mr. Wodehouse old, slave trade under another name, has inaugurated, were also glad to pect tongar-ring snatcher who was caught piring summarily suppressed if it is the company direction which Mr., GILLINS the Police Court this morning (7th ins), in res- no matter whether it be in Hongkong, observe that the prospects of the Hong-ions pidgin, way down in Lyodhurst" Whampoa, Swatow, Amoy, or the latest kong Brick and Cement Company, in spite craterday evening. Twenty-five strakes market, Hoihow. As we happen to be of the heavy losses suffered in thepakt: view of 5 frequency of this offence there can * pretty good dose of pickled rattan, but in

unsuccessful attempt a few years ago to of commerce in Swatow and Amoy, and rosition amongst local manufactures,

kept a watchful eye on this delicate branch Industry Bids fair to take a promiilent desetre a forging. make Hongkong the central market for it is therefore quite possible that difficultles Experience has always to be paid for, supplying their tobacco estates with cheap which are always threatening may have and in this case the price has been a heavy labour. Our Holhow correspondent in a sprung up at these ports, rendering the one; but with losses and errors of manage

Holhow experiment an absolute necessity.ment-openly admitted and the necessary recent letter states that the German steam. However, until further particulars of the prrangements made ito prevent their ship Deris had left for Dell on December actual state of affairs at Holhow and recurrence in future by the introduction of 12th with a freight of what he terms.Pakhal come to hand, it is impossible suitable plant for at ever increasing "emigrants: and he further intimates to definitely pronounce on the character and lucrative business, an era of that this is the pioneer of a projected line of this latest emigration undertaking prosperity may be anticipated with of steamers for the regular conveyance of while we doubt not that any additional And without presuming to pose as under German auspices; and mean a reasonable amount of confidence. coolles between the island of Hainan and shipments will be under the close a practical authority on the manu have known for some months back that attempts were being made to introduce the Sumatra coolie trade into the southern dis-j However, the Bishop of Manchester's tricts of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, with proposed method of grappling with a either Pakhoi or Holhow as headquarters, difficulty that has proved too much an and have watched with considerable inherent trait of English character to be legislated out of existence by the most interest the progress make in an experi-Tux remarks made by Mr. DAVID determined of British statesmen, is of too ment that. If permanently successful, can-GILLIRA, Chairman of the Board of unique a character to be entirely lost sight not but greatly enhance the commercial Directors of the Hongkong Brick and DARING ROBBERY IN THE T of. The English clergy and notably in prospects of these hitherto much neglected Cement Company. Limited, at the fourth

HARBOUR. the higher grades of the profession, have not of lats years been dis-treaty parts. It is not without an immen-general meeting of shareholders held on

canized tinguished for taking the lead in any sity of trouble that any reliable informa- the 29th ulto., are a model of candour and

Sameldes of the large number of dangerous Important question affecting what may be tion can be procured regarding Chinese business-like precision. Unlike some ofriminals that find Hongkonga, congenial termed popular interests, and their efforts coolls emigration, wherever it is carried on our local directors of public.companies-hunting-ground may be gathered from the as spiritual legislators, outside purely as a regular business; and the bad name whose notions of duty are to gloss over senected with the Naman piracy, the three Church matters, have seldom gone bayond Lords in opposition to that legislative those not immediately engaged in it, must details, throw dust in the eyes of share of robbers on board steamers antling from their annual appearance in the House of the traffic has generally obtained among shortcomings in management and working murder 'mmitted here within a week after hat tragedy, the arrest of two armed gangs curiosity, the "Deceased Wife's Slater bill." be attributed in a great melure to the holders and the rank and file of the Hongkong to Canton, and finally from the It may be that the leading lights of the suspicious manner in which the arrange share market, and generally give, ashamedrattack made upon a boat in the waters of English Church, foreseeing with their custo- ments have usually been conducted. It little useful or reliable Information, this calony by Monday evening. The facts of mary prescience the tolls slowly but surely has been argued with some reason that if gathering round the Establishment” hava

as possible-Mr. GILLIES evidently cons off vir ate as follow: At 6 pm, on the 5th, been devoting, almost exclusively, their this extensive emigration to the Dutch siders that shareholders are entitled to instant, a sampan loaded with four chests of time and energies in strengthening their settlements in the south is fair and above be made fully acquainted with their own hium was despatched by a Chinese merchant ranks to meet the gathering storm which board and in all respects legitimate and affairs and to be told the truth in plat from the Harbour Office piler to Shau-kfwon for threatens the savoury. flesh-pots of Egypt legal, that there ought to be no necesity language, an excellent example which the purpose of wing it repared for one of the to which the professional saviours of souls have clung with such grim persistency for for any mystery in collecting and shipping could be generally followed with advant-plum Formers, boiling down establishment centuries past! Perhaps the extraordinary the coolles, nor for the planters or age. The history of limited liability com- Whitfield was passed, when suddenly the which is usted there. All went well until furore created by General Boorn, the chief their agents in Chins refusing to strictly panies in this colony during the past two of the self-supporting Salvation Army, adhere to the regulations promulgated by or three years, contains a formidable pumber of died who, rowing it

pechpants of the "sampan were fired upon by with his daring scheme for housing the the Chinese Government and the Treaty number of smudged pages that; If the came daring alongside their craft Thres of As a furious pace, starving poor, may have suggested to the sichly endowed Bench of Bishops the for bodies as well as the souls of Britain's that the emigrants will have their rights several of our prominent citizens 'disagree. / occupants surrender' under threats of instant fumped up three of those useful colas to cover most triumphant over their exploit, and duly suffering millions require looking after, as free laborers, as well as their persons ably close to that boundary line which botlightedra skibgck and, after death, translipped the sopluma to their own and that there are other social problems protected from tyranny and outrage of marks the difference between company threatening to shoot them as dead as stones affecting the national morality and public every kind. The so-called, stringent welfare waiting for intelligent solution! emigration laws of this colony, which promoting and directing as a legitimate the informed the palicetiek in northerly direction. After the sampin people recovered But whatever the Incentive, the fact self-interested planters and the numerous undertaking

and o Bean Infringe from their winght they rowed back to West Ar the Regular Meeting of the Lodge Star of remains that the Bishop of Manchester army of outsiders financially mixed up la ment of the criminal law and Fold with 01 harte,and informed the Salthard China No. 1013 E.C. at Canton of has publicly put himself forward with the business say are so troublesome.as to amongst thore are more than one police were infowned tre le asid did nothing affalled at Wors Master for the ensuing year. Nogged in ens hi wil for tinchla j

merchant to whom the oplum belonged. The Sandy, the 3rd Insh Bro, 0. Müller was duly a new scheme, all out of his own be practically prohibitive, will scarcely prominent director who made good use of patil yesterday morning, (6h last), when they The following officers were invested by the reverend and learned head, to make bear this character, when impartially coo. betting as extinct as the dods and the sidered: The Hongkong Government has, their opportunities, at the expense of an recovered five balls of opleid in the house of a Wimalused - Men det ut

noted shady" character at Tokakwan who said other mythical specimens of the brute so far as we can ascertain, no objections eally blinded crowd of Infatuated fatalists be picked it up on the beach, Latewish the

Br, Loft creation with long and unpronounceable to this port being made a convenient | In fact we have had the South Sea Bubble day three biolhawwero! dirested

-nisa Holworthy **** names, to say nothing of our ancient ally centre for, any reasonable, scheme of modernised and played over again on a close to the House white the five b

Kranji the sea serpent, alle dine emigration that has the approval, of the small scale in about a dozen more or shop, 317 halls of the stolen: ding were found

3 purposes was ♬ abominable and accursét His lordship presided a few weeks Chinese authorities and is in harmony with less sham fadustrial speculations that can stowed in cofin These three coffin deflers

the devil in solution, in fact." -A Mrs Fall- wood told a story of bow, by some means, the ago at a demonstration held at Bolton, our own inws and usages and would easily be picked our to our daily list of were arrested and brought before Mr. Wodehoute

unfermented wine was recently forgotten at a Lancashire, against betting and gambling, willingly foster any legitimate enterprise share quotations, and if we are unable to this meming, charged with stealing 31563

suburban church uni too late. The minister and took upon himself to assume the rils that would be likely to add to our particularise any professional company fouth of oplam and were reminded", for werk

in his difficulty appealed to use of his members, of Sir ORACLE, He laid it down as an commercial prosperity and at the same promoter or guinea-pig director: with the pading the apprehension of several offer bright

white,ilbharite, and said, ''1 suppose I must unanswerable proposition that a gambler's time Improve the prospects of China's genius of Law of Lauriston, it would bare been connected with the calles maue in WHAT prompts an ass to bray This is a wine, but were

not use, port wine 7 of humanity who are supposed to ipecimens

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not shar ...They tried to make a drop of raisin motive was simply covetousness is desire teeming millions, hy uiding the emigra- not be difficult to name half a dozen to win was btwrong in itself-it ton of the surplus population to and that number could, materiálly" be

kunnasta van de solo se question that has puzzled astoralists from time i resort's gentlem, quatuccessful, and me a last was the modve of all action and other lands where their labours would added to who have displayed even. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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imano 10 mmemorial almast se much, indeed as did that, poured some boiling water over it, strained It, tin of raspberry Jam, ta desire ra thing rightly wasnot be appreciated to a far greater extent more unscrupulousness, than, the daring, fale won alcon buenos Da

of the procreation of the ornithorhynchus, and produced an excellent wine, which was... only justifiable, but beneficial. But, and be better remunerated than is the cake schemer who, with all his shortcomings, M., Maynard Sanders, for the last eighteen phigsspher 100 Ere the subject much attention buy-raspberry jam for twenty cents a tin at any with a spordi hun al paradoxur Laurenco Sterne, the parsons used in the sacrament that night”. You can continued his lordship covetousness was in their own country. But a han is strictly rendered the world an immense service months calipt of the Hyege, Nawr, lest Kobe fon bild meretentie, even to, bir own local store and hot water is cheap enough, bat wrong at the beginning, because it was and very properly placed on anything in as the father of modern banking That Yokohamadu lag 2016 949. kreusefor Englandi. intration hather".it 49 from pain or what a revoltingly proinic religion, must that be desire placed upon an Improper object.. the shape of slave dealing, and that there. aday of reckoning will come for those stafjordguf:12 2.5 3.14 Bế hệ 112 kes and sites, and her hose fanatics, by the same token does not says shove bleasure, sorrow oranger, that the donkey brayed, the imagination of whose followers generally The worthy Bishop revidently meant to has been ample cause in the past for legal schemera who have caused so much ruin, convey something weighty to the restrictions to combat this infamous trade and distress among all classes in the For, Tus Imperiat Brith East Africa Company ever been in Interesting study to us, ich lady series maiters by saying 28 are reproduced in the China Moll, crushed-sugar, and turnin sed A creed is Lancashire lads who comprised his only too well known: These greatly East (a sure enough, and in some directions are applied to the Gryzenment of India for Teleprieve of the prisoner Tang, L by csatainly not " the highpriest, and in which definition of gambling just quoted" was so so much has been heard, in connection. closing, in, on; shamel doredon that were fernda as allowed to the Straite Settlemdito) 34

Des Voeux is the latest, gablast in gesloman a strains, raspberry, jam in order heavy and so curiously Involved as to be with locally owned exfatos in British North conceived and given birth to with" thể

but to beyond the comprehension of any Borneo, as well as in the train to the primary object of securing or the parent PERCIVALS enter the fah ballileep Excellency's action, no one not even, more, is a blasphemy, kalau this barn, hamp Whether in protest against, or in acqulesence millions of Christians sad, adored by millions ordinary Intellest, We frankly admit Straite Settlements and the Dutch colonies thasards, a velted Hight In other | Calems where he will bluff the public course but as naus made a dismal fatture of

didn't top hom the cloudé? MARIANNY&b th Neddy himself, can say, He tried zuch of veneration, Na one is so obsc:n as your our inability to grapple with this are troublesome only when the law is people's money. It is in view of these presumedly, fast as he did in Hongkong.

forged religioni 4 but th-ok Heaven they don't both of then sound an object of klisele trouble sa mucis du žirnghang.

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tracy, yesterday morning into the circumstances connected with the death of two bricklayers who met their death while pulling down the wall of a house, at Yaumati recently. It transpired in evidence that the men while deliberately ander mining the wall were killed by Us sudden collapse, being buried in the debris which was composed of half and quarter hundredweight stones. The mortar, too, was of very inferior quality which accounted for the wall falling. none that the deceased exnected. His Worship found that "death resulted from in- juries received by the falling of a wall on the deceased.".

NOTICE.

Noticia hereby given. That on cha 44th Decembar Inst., I, the

esperaris Gr Dabts incurred by the sald Beer Bux or any other enteniast parthased frige. Heer Bar One Sle, Fleres Cora and Eloven Cilves, now being upon the Dairy Fann or Prezi formerly of the Bald Theer Bux, at War-net-chunt, and her.caforth post in having charge of the said Cattle in my employ

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the undersigned, mar Cattia aforesaid shall be

mast worthy of admiration in connection with the above Beer Bux, the ball of the anther It's difficdlt to lenow whom, or what, or which,

thereof. Our sympathies, however, are with the cattle which apparently at one time, carried all the responsibility of their owner's debts.

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INTELLIGENCE Las been received from Niagps to the effect that a bush baitaken place there between the authorities and a band of pirates, and that the officers had been the victors in the encounter. As Is the custom at the approach of winter, the military commander at Ningpa orderal an inspection of the cons, to see that no piratical craft were lurking about. Accordingly, a cruiser. *as. despatched on. this service, and, when approaching a place called: Sakpoo her at Hongham got badly left on the 6th fest, on bound for Wenchow, and deep loaded Lay Awoy, a contractor deleg some drain pidgin people descried. Ningpo trading Junk the occasion of his debut at Mr. Wise's magle with aperchandise, surtounded by ave piratical drain and falling to put planker over it or even speed on the junk The cruiser immediately terisi fever. Poor Tal, it seems, dog a deep craft, which were bearing down with all bet dzhibit light

there at night, it became a man- opened fier, and was fortuiste enough to sina

tone small extent. Aboy admitted the negligence for they only succeeded in capturing two of the ofon.heap fast Saturday night, damaging himself cruiser, which no doubt seared her people trap fato

which storm,tossed garines, fuel remaining junks opened fire pluckily on the two of the piratical vessels. Nevertheless, the

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marched their ten prisoners to Ningpo, in addit- in the scrimmage. They would undoubetly ind to four heads they had managed to secure have been able to show a much better result, other three hoisted their walls and bore away. only that when the two Janks were suck, the two captured pirates have been handed over to the tedder mercies of the authorities at

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It was mentioned at a recent meeting of the Australian Women's | Christian: Temperance Upion that the fermente l wise, aned for ssCERA mental

audience, and we venture to think that the abused regulations in Hongkong, of which the tolls arb already gradually but surely permission to recruit [abolo Indig onthehime Gore the ofscle of the Szafi bray 7/2ily something which is venerated by

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