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THE « NÁMOA" PIRACY.

MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY."

SUGGESTED PREVENTIVE MEASUREI.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1891.

́able and ineffective, unless very rigidly carried out. He agreed with the chief officer as regards the armament of the ship was concerned, He thought nothing more was necessary than what Mr. Eldridge had suggested. As to the velessness of a stand of aitris he agreed and Mr. H. E. Wodehouse continued the inquiry, also as regarded the sentry, also as to limiting at the Magistracy to-day into the circumstances the number of passengers allowed on deck st connected with the death of Capt. T. G. Pocock.netlás. He could not suggest any structural Mr. Petersen, a passenger, and others, who were

improvements. He had thought a good deal about the matter and had come to the conclusion murdered by pirates on board the British steam-

|that the simplest way would be to muster the ship Namoa on the toth ultimo,

prirengers on deck and allow couple of detectives to go through them before the ship. G. B. Eldridge, chief officer of the Name would inform, the officers and the latter would' Then if there were bad characters on houd they recalled, said the examing:lon-shed he referred have them turned out. He thought if that was 'to the other day as desirable, was' one similar { done it would be almest vanecessary to aim the to that which is now in use on the Cantonships, for the fact of it being known that such steamer wharf, He would suggest that the duty would not come on board. He would not have was done (the search by detectives) pirates of preventing passengers from coming on board the luggage searched it being sufficient to turn from boats ought to rest with the Government. all bad characters out of the ship-for one or two Asa male vessels commence to receive passengers men could not injure the ship's company. The twelve or eighteen hours before starting, bose in the engine room was for drowning The Government might place an officer on board ashes, cooling hot hearings and for filling out -the steamer twenty-four hours before that, to

the condenser. There never was any'idea of prevent the passengers from boarding them from using it for protective purposes for it was, only boats. He did not thick cargo should be no long enough for the engine room itself. In his trested; that could come on board from any bonts, opinion, even sapposing it to be suitable for He presumed the Government, might pay the turning team on pirates, the fact that the expenses of the Preventive Service out of tonnage hose would not stand the pressure of steam- dues or something of that kind. In the case of 70 or 80 pounds-it would take too long to ships not lying alongside a wharf the

preven get it ready. He thought it would be a very tive officer on board might receive passengers good thing to have a hot water hose connected by permit issued from the officers on wharves with the bridge so that it could be turned on at where the passengers could be examlued previous any momenis. It would neither he a source to going on board. He did not think it would be of danger to the boiler por difficult to work sufficient to only search the luggage of passengers. Such a hose could be turned eff at any moment, -If the search was conducted on board all ships The hot water would be in the pipe connected it would entall the employment of a large and be with the bridge whenever there was s staff of officers. Chinese passengers were very large crowd of passengers on board. When no seldomi transferred frame one ship to another with attack was possible or probable he would have out landing. He would say the examiantion the bar water turned off at the boiler, There should be conducted, as regards Chinese

was no prospect of an outbreak on the lower deck passengers only. Under the system he suggested pasange money might still be received. on, board, because some of them have no

without tickets.

only. He did not think that there was any necessity for searching the Chinese crew. ft persong than to search their bagged by detectives was more necessary to examine passengers'

the passengers were examined and the hot-water hose kept ready there would be no further danger of piracies on steamers.

INSPECTOR MATHIKSON SPRAKS.

John Mathieson, Inspector of police, said he agreed with the last witness as to the hot water hose. There should be a search of the passengers' baggage on the gangway, for arms. It might be done by the Government at the expense of the shipowners. He also agreed with the chic! officer that there should be examination,sheds an the wharves. He had no remarks to make. on the case in general. "The police bad an inking of what was about to happen; which surp tring. The arrangements for such an affir must have been very elaborate, and then there would be, perhaps, only one or two men connected with the Force who would know that something, not knowing what, was going to happen. "It was very strange the Chinese palice knew nothing of it. The Chinese detectives were cognisant of all crimes that were perpetrated and very little goes on that escapes their notice. He had no reason to suppose that Chinese detectives were in collusion with the pirates, and the fact that they did not know about it was another tribute to the skill of the pirate chicf. He thought the Chinese passengers ought to be kept in the tween decks, and none but a very few at a time allowed on the upper deck. A European quartermaster should be stationed at the 'tween deck companion, armed with a revolver and cutlass, should be retired men of the Navy or Naval Reserve-men having a knowledge of the use of arms. Only one half of the officers should be allowed to go to meals at one time. There should also be a signal-such as three blasts with the whistle-when an outbreak took place, or was contemplated:

Such quartermasters

very valuable, I feri convinced that if ron! attention is paid to the matter by all concerned In the security of our lives and our commerce really effective measures are easily within the resources of our civilization,

THE FINDING.

I find that Captain Thomas Guy Pocock, late master of the British steamship Names, light. house keeper Petersen and others were willi ly murdered on the 10th December, 1899, on board the steamer Names, while that vessel, was in Chinese waters, by a gang of pirates who banght their passage tickets from the compradore af the ship on board that day.

MERTING OF THE SANITARY, -BOARD...

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bling block of a really dangerous character. Mare ikan that, however; in an authecratic countri there are always undeveloped potentialities ip the personality of the sovereign in the beginning of his reign, and widespread interest has already been shown in the suppound idiosyncracies of the young Emperoral China, which have hithertä bren wrapped up in Pal-e mystery. He camer of a hardy strick, noted ler independence, of character, and bis not very remate ancesİSTE have evinced special curiosity in foreign matters, 11 well as considerable originality in intecraft. There is na antecedent reason, therefore, why his Majesty should not take a personal interest Lin the affiíms of the Empire, external as well as internal, not why he should not find certain antisfaction in caitlenting friendliness with foreign Ministers at his Court, and thus a real revolution may be silefty-effectid "in the mol- of conducting public business.

A meeting of Sanitary Board was held vester- day afternoon. There were present :-Mr. Sinised as it is by concentric circles of Brown, President; Mr. W M. Diane, Vice President; Dr. Ayres. Colonial Surgeon, Mr. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Registrar-General; Mr. Wong Shing, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. N. J. Ele, Mr. H, McCallum (Secretary),

MINUTES.

The Imperial power in China, hampered and

officials of every prade in thick set array, seems to be impaled'in its administr. tion y the very overgrowth of the machinery which con- we the instrument of Government. How is even, An Emperor, to break the dgh these seried tarks; how

emancipate. himself from the thraldom of one set, without getting mere hopes lessly entangled in the toils of another ? How The minutes of the last meeting, convened for

is even a Son of Heaven to learn what is the 26th ultimo, a public holiday, at which none

parsing on the Earth, while he is surrounded Ministers of the members appeared, were confirmed after by

an army of eunuchs and Amendment-the words “no quorum formed "

of State who neither dare nor being inserted lastead of the phrase "no meeting transmit truths to the Imperial ear? is it not was held.".

then just possible that the introduction of an entirely new element in the Imperial entourage may open up ** channel for the conveyance of useful knowledge such as no Emperar has enjoyed for zao years.

there are the minutes of a meeting which was The President in signing the minutes rempiked not held 1"

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THE CULTIVATION OF VACCINE LYMPH. A report by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon on the subject of the cultivation of calf lymph in Japan was laid on the table.

There was a minute appended by Dr. Canilie stating that the importance of having a calf vaccine station was not an much that every Cellenished new and again. Lymph from the calf person need he vaccinated directly from the

that had passed twice or thrice through the human organism became more polent. It was only when it had been so used, sy ten times, that it failed to give the protection needed. Therefore it must not be given to the public to understand that calf lymph vaccination was necessary la Individual instances.

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If there be anything in the notion to which we have repeatedly given publicity that the exclusiveness, the insolence, and even brutality of manner to which "foreigners have been subjected Bre essentially the outcome of the Chinese

nature combined with Chinese

traditions, and especially Chinere ignoraner, Sovereign. When the Seventh Prince 4 came there ought to be a good hope of hetter thi g3 in

out," five years agn, the foreigners who came in contact with him were charmed with bis effa flty and modest demeanour and by the interest which he evinced in the personal concerns of th a with whom he conversed; It is no mere idle fancy therefore to think and hope that the vCLY

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contract no matter whether it is to run or walk or ride a given distance in a given time, or to knock a man out in a given number of rounds. It does not do, however, to laugh too consumedly at what is done in bulsing matters by our friends down under, as some of our own performances in the same line are open to considerable criticism, not to say consider able contempt also. It is likely enough that if black Jackson had bot known it has been sworn to at the Surrey Sessians in England, by members of boxing clubs and backers of

man ever has been hurt with the gloves, it is prize-fighters, that it is not possible to hurt a man with the gloves, or, at all events, that no just on the cards black Jackson would not have essayed the hopeless tank of endeavouring, with full-sized gloves and in eight rounds only, to knock Goddard senseless. Despite the tremen dous excitement that has been shown in some London papers because Jackson lost-and he did lone notwithstanding that his friends on the

suppose the result matters a red cent to either hoxer. In nil prbability the affair was simply got up to draw a gate; and except that Jackson would not like to fail in task he undertook just now--being so very great a conquering bere at this present moment-it did not matter the turn of a penny to bim whether he knocked Goddard out or whether he didn't. When I was in Sydney I was drawn into a show by a bill which stated that Jackson, then not a person of a fifiich part the account be in cow, had contracted to knock another nigger out in so many rounds for a confidence- dodge prize. Jackson sparred well and prettily, but he never tried to knock the other man out, and it was only too evident that he never intended to.

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his refined all right, but had forgotten to account for the dirt.

Recently New York has staked a new swlodie, in which mufacturers lavested nearly $100,000. It claimed to be an invention Bur hand-painting lamp shades by machinery. Now, one would as soon expect success for a device to lay eggs by machinery, but this succeeded to the extent of getting a larga sum of money advanced

cash in hand to the swindlers, who under.. stood the money value there is in the fascination of fraud.

of the social evil, the bistory of alge painting, and many other histories of many other things, common and curious. The bistory of fraudulent inventions would make a valt ble addition to the list. It would be a marvelous, record of criminal ingenuity and human credulity. It would prove that the eye of the serpent when charming his prey is not more

An invention.'

Bookmakers have published the history of advertising, the history of slang, the history.

The Secretary said a recommendation had spirit of Chinese foreign intercourse may undergo directorate declared the match a draw--I don't į fascinating than a fraud that pretende to be

been forwarded to the Government some time ago by the Board, that an establishment for the cultivation of calf lymph should be erected, and the answer that was sent back was that the matter would be considered at the time of fram- Ing the estimates.

The President-It did not appear in the estimates,

Mr. Ede-Vaccine has been cultivated West Point by Mr. Ladds, I know, since last year.

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The President-Only as an experiment, I think.

The Colonial Surgeon-Mr. Ladday unto tunately, when in Japan only saw the military establishment. The place where we get our vaccine from is a sort of private sanitary society. This society did not appear to care to show him anything at all. When I was there myself I' very much, and he had great difficulty in seeing

had the greatest difficulty in seeing anything.

The Vice-President-There is no lack of vaccine In the colony at present ?

The Colonial Surgean-No, we can get it as usul from this society. It is very good lymph indeed. I gave Mr. Ladds some of it for his own use when he was experimenting.

The President-I was under the impression that when the matter came up before, the Gavern ment wanted a recommendation from the Board as to establishing such ap ́institution. In the Colony.

tien was made.

The Secretary-Yes, and such a recommen'a-

estimates, and the question is whether it is The Chairman-No provision was made in the desirable to take any further steps in the raalter.

the Institution.

THE SUMMING UP AND YINDINOS His Worship:-There is now on official record evidence of the most daring, best organised and well carried out pleacies that has ever disgraced these sexy, and I deeply regret that the inquiry was ever occasioned; not in consequence of the non-arrest of the perpetrators of the daring satrage, but an account of The Colonial Surgeon-We cannot take any the Ismentable death of Captain Thomas. Guy further steps without the money being voted for Pocock, lighthouse keeper Petersen and others. It is unneceraary to go through all the particulars of this piracy which has engaged the attention of this Court for so many days. They reveals power of organizations and a skillfulness of com- mazd which is at once admirable and appal lings and there are very few who could have carried through, and have brought such an achievement to a successful issue-presenting as it did numerous difficulties—unless a

The Registrar-General-If the Board is of opinion that its last suggestion holds good, the only thing to do is to call the attention of Government to the last recommendation, which has apparently been overlooked.

The Vice-President-To judge from the tane of the discussion on the estimates; I do not think the Finance Commitee, would have sanctioned

a change..

The recent public acts of the Sovereign to which w drew atterion list month appear in be ut the prelude to an Imperial career in which the Sovereign intends, as his heroic contemporary the German emperor has done, to take the reins of Government into his own hands and rule according to his conscience, and his own perceptions.

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THE Company's Steamship

Captain Goddard, will be despatched for the #NAMOA,* above Ponta, TO-MORROW, the 11th Instant, at DAYLIGHT.

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Now that Jackson is so much greater & cham. pion than he was four years ago, he may have expected Goddard to go out whether knocked out or not; but Goddard may have put the double on, and refused to "come it" as arranged. It is not so easy to knock a man.out just when FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. you want to, unless he happens to be the com platest duffer and you are the best man in the world; and even then you can't be sure of bringing off the desired hit at the desired moment. From what I personally know of these things, and from what I have been told as well, I should think the action of the judge who declared Jackson the winner and the referee who decided kept his cand caused by Goddard not having knocked out at a part of the boxing to be upon beforehand. Australian officials rend such fools as to give a decision like that which was given between Jackson and Goddard without good and sufficient reason. The referee, Miller, is himself a well-known boxing practitioner, Or it may bave been, if everything was fair, square, and aboveboard-which in an affair of this sort is none too likely, as I don't believe any man would be fool enough to try and koock another man out in a given number of rounds for a money stake unless the other man were a consentingparty it may have been that the judge and the referee did not like to hurt black Jack's delicate susceptibilities by telling him, in his now great and glorious position, that he was a loser. For the fighting men of now are jealous fighting men, and full to the bung of their new importance. They like to have everything their own way, they do and Jackson might have bad the law of the judge and the referee, espec- ally the referee, if they had dared say anything that happened to displease him. A fighting man's wounded honour must be a thing worth looking at

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAIWANFOO.

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FOR SHANGHAI. Steamship

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oppertunity to go to the effice for tickets, he such late passengers they should Invariably have their baggage passed through an examination shed for they could do that at any hour of the day or night. It might not be an improvemest to

for have tickets ́passengers sold at the examination shedr, so na to prevent passengers from coming on board It might be done, but there would be difficulties. In most cases a boarding house master takes tickets at the office for hatches of passengers. It would have been pos- sible, under existing arrangements, for the pirate chief to have taken all the tickets for his men and have distributed them as he pleased, It would also have been possible for all the men to have been In the same boarding house. Under the present system there was no guarantee that a man who might be compelled to take a ticket at a wharf, after his baggage

Many depressing rictures of the future of this was examined, would not transfer bis ticket to

great empire have occupied the columns of The another Chinaman, and his beggage also.

Chinese Times. We have honestly cast our There should be an examination of the person

eye to the north and south, to the east and of Chinese passengers, as well as of their

the west without discovering any signe of the luggage. It should be done as they pas1

coming regener lion of the Government and through the barrier (the shed). He thought

the social system, and it, as we believe, same that after the gangway was up some detectives

thorough regeneration le necessary to the pre- might looke about the tween decks so

but encouraging There seems to be but one ray servation of the empire, the outlook is anything ace whether any well known bad characters were going in a ship, and if they found any such on board they should informs the chief

of hope, and that is in the personal initiative of a Sovereigh resolute and strong and with a long officer. It would not be necessary to adort

life before him in which to develop his reforms. these preventive measures at DY

It may be that such a ruler is now on the throne, ather than Hongkong. He had mentioned

and his proceedings will be scanned with very all, the precautions he considered necessary

eager interest by both natives and foreigners. prior to a ship gåting under way. With regard

The new relations which have been established to the armanent of vessels all officers of ships

by imperial decree, and which may opra a door should be efficiently armed. Every office's

to the exercise of a besithy and living foreign room should have a revolver and a Winchester

influence, put the Emperor in possession of repeating rifle in it. There should be the same

auxiliaries such as were not available to any armament in the wheel-house and engine room.

of His Majesty's predeceg, But this points He would not recommend that arms be placed

an ideal combination which is a fitier in the passengers' cabins and it should be

for the indulgence of the imagination than for left optional to the officers as to whether,

the consideration of probable actualities for they should wear arms. If there was a very large number of passengers on board they should

great Elchis are exceedingly rare birds in the earth, and are outside of practical cal wear their revolvers when on duty. The arm when not worn should be kept in some convenient

culation. Indeed, this novel state of things would have special dangers of its own, place cnally accessible in the officers cabin.

The foreign Ministers could scarcely be The amunition should be kept close to the

the highest, conception arms, handy for use. The quartermasters should

expected to rise to of the occasion, for though an elevated be armed with revolvers to be worn when on

sense of public duty might in some carci duly. He did not think a stand-of-arms for

bring about that self-effacement which sub each vessel was any good when a vessel was

ordinates the minor to the major, the tempor Burprised. It was not necessary to carry

ery to the permanent, it would be an idle dream beavy guns. At present no restrictions were

to expect a whole corps diplomatique to be placed, on passengers on board. They were allowed to roam all over the ship, except on the

inspired by ideas extrating much beyond the sphere of their patriotic duties. They have their quarter deck aft, which was reserved for first

"stara" and "Crosses" to gain and perhaps sub. class passengers. He would say that an armed

stantial pecuniary promation, and such

personal sentry be stationed at the top of the 'tween deck

interests will always, with average men, overrule companion ladder, whenever a large number of

all unselfish aspirations. There will probably passengers were carried. Such sentry might contretemps of some kind had existed. Every also be possessed of a police whistle so

be in the future, as there has been fo the past, detail appears to have been very carefully

a great deal of pushing and bustling merely to as to be able to give warning in the event

considered before hand, and not a single emer-

attract notice and to secure patty advantages of any attempt by the passengers

over rivals. Instead, therefo e, of the new inter- to make a rush on deck. All the revolvers hegency left without proper provision to meet it. The European crew of the ship was not weak in

course of foreigners being made subservient to numbers, they were efficiently commanded and

any high aims of the Court, it seems just as had Malays and Chinese to support them;

probable that it will degenerate Into a bot-bed of nevertheless they were completely paralysed,

Levantine scramble. Not from that, therefore,

THE FASCINATION OF FRAUD, at solutely no show of resistence being made- The Colonial Surgeon said so far as he knew but from quite another focus of foreign Influence, unless we'except the shots fired by the engineer there was nothing more than the usual number springs the true hope of the regeneration of (Mr. Ramine the whole of the 250 passengers, nothing like an epidemic.

Ramsay) in

All Inventors know the cold inattention of of cases of colds. He should say, there was China. Those who have the responsibility of the engine room-and in a

counselling the State must have their interests business men to some of the leading inven- Officers and all on board were at the mercy Mr. Ede sald he had heard there was a great and amblilons consolidated in China, and notions of the age, which had to drag along THE Forty-ninth Ordinary Half-yearly of this Forde of pirates, and to such an exient,

a exient, too, Heal of fever about, and he abould like to know amount of wisdom, tact, devotion, and magna- helpless until they had nearly dragged their EETING of SHAREHOLDERS is the that on perusing the evidence and contemplating if the recent earth-cutting was answerable for it. nimity will be too much for the men who during inventors into the pour-house before they se Company will be held at the Office of the Com what took place, one is forced

next twenty years may fill this onerous cured recognition and success, The Colonial Surgeon said he thought I position, As there is already not merely hat opposition on the part of the commander

reaping, threshing, sowing and other devices Day, No. 18. Bank Buildings, Queen's Road was not attributable to that cause. The costing Por and officers would have been not only useless that was now being done' was not on virgin soil, theoretical kay to true raform bat, perfect for farm work were in this list. The inves. Central, on FRIDAY, the goth fastaaf, at 13. o'clock Noon, for the parpose of receiving a but even wicked, for it was by succumbing to the and'engineers, Had all these precautions been inevitable that no greater loss of life took place and the cases he had at present under his charge i working, model, on which almost all needed tions to facilitate and make safer the various Report of the Directors, togather with a States, than is now recorded. Ja the whole of this dastardle and occurred very far from where there was any reform may be based, the Emperor Kwang 6 operations in practical railroading underwent ment of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, sud)

does not need to go far afield for working auxi- this experience. Westinghouse is a milion-electing Auditors. adopted previously he considered the pirates outrage, which has to strongly excited the indig. catting going on,

llarice,—Chinese Timer. would have been repulsed with marked success. pallon of ell who have beard of it, one redeem The contravention of the Market Ordinaner, It would be the duty of the master of a ship to seeing feature only is to be recorded, and that, the drainage of two new bouses on infand lot. No. that such precautions were taken, and the duty of notwl hatanding the masterly way the scheme 795, the defective condition of drains at Sey- the company to see that the necessary revolvers

was proleted and carried out, it was not mour Terrace, and improvements in the system Bic: were supplied. In the case of the Namon

tarnished by any deeds of outrage or brutality of the Dusting Service also occupied the a ten. there must have been a rush of passengers on other than the chief considered necessary for the tion of the Board, which adjourned matil Friday, deck, for he was the last to come along the upper deck to the saloon, aft, for timo, and then the Chinese were li below except one who atrolling about. Whether or not he was one of the pirates it was Impossible for him to say, Barring arush he thought the sentry would have nothing to do except prevent very large umbers from coming on deck at any one time. Two or three minutes after he left ble cabin to go to the saloon the firing commenced. The man walking about the deck was not the pirate chief. He could identify the chief at any time. It did not appear to him that they could

O necesary to go fully into the evidence to have special reasons for attacking the Namen on

In features, illustrate,

„Tickets, $a cach, may be had of Messrs. LANK, pure spontaniety, which is the saving virtue of as Joe Goddard. The conditions of the match any times have been so keenly endowed with thistrip, When stating that piracy would not accurate, all his desires, the priming stuck

of

this Imperial Decree. The solutios of the long were that Jackson should knock Goddard out in the inventive genius as ours. Out of the usefal CRAWFORD & Co., on Friday, 23rd instant, at on board ships leaving Chinese ports he magnitude and involving somuch forethought and pending and apparently unmanageable question eight rounds, and it was thought he was inventions when successful, wait forces have ocotia. 10th Ja did not have in his mind the case of the organization was carried out in our midst without could not have taken a happler form, and if it certain to do so, as, in addition to Goddard's been made, and these are the golden background Hongkong, January, 1891. [US Spark, which-Inspector Matheson polated out the very slightest knowledge or inkling of it on

were permissable to deduce from this one act of being regarded is merely an extra rough sort of upon which successful frauds outline their af being pirated between Canton and Macao the part of those whose business list booky by reign, we should be tempted to say that the star sigger bed Footngs two of thre Inches the tricity, ran a marvelous career. The machine N Shares have this day been FORFEITED, the Emperor an augury of the character of bis larrikin with no pretensions to science, the promises. The Friend combination, which LABUK PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED. having left Canton where there was a Custora

a the advantage proposed to refine raw spgar

elec by

TOTICE is hereby given that the following House. By legislation passengers could be such things. I have concluded the inquiry by prevented from taking valuables on board, but obtaining the opinions of some witnesses as to of hope had arisen on this country,

what preventive measures should be adopted The mere reception of the foreign Ministers taller. To the astonishment of the spectators, delivered beautifully pure and well-granulated he would not suggest that there, should be any in future. It is not for me to express on may not in itself be a matter of much practical however, who seem to have been Jackson mad sugar, and Investors leapfrogged each other to and that the existing scrips are sot now steps taken to prevent passengers from taking valoables on board. He did not think it was opinion as to the value to be placed on those importance, for it is not to be supposed that to begin with, and Goddard mad directly they secure stock. Just one man who was beset by negotiable.

Nos. 4031/4035 5 Shares. opinions ar on any of them, but they will be business will be transacted, or even alluded to, found Goddard was virtually victorious, the the swindlers kept his head. Class Spreckels

'n 3391/3410-30 necessary, for the anfety of a ship, that Europcar useful in enabling us, generally, to come to at the Imperial Audiences, The official routine arsikin fajtly held his own to the finish, and was taken to view the results of the process. He

n 3411/3435 quartermasters should he carried-Malays were

some kind of conclusion us to how these will no doubt prevail, much as it has done here should, according to the conditions under which saw raw sugar put into the machine and the re-

# 3405/3410 quile suitable.

cvpots, which sie a stricture on our existence tofore. But the granting of audience removes the pair met, have been returned the winners fined come out, and then he asked, "What OTHER MEASURES..

hare, are to be prevented. And in forwarding a alux which has rested for thirty years on the the judges, however, disagreed, and the referee becomes of the dirt ? That floored the swindiers. the evidence for the information of the Govern foreign representatives, and places their relations on bring called upon decided that honours were It proved that no matter how smart the inventor ment I shall consider it my duty to direct atten- with the highest officials in a light which is at easy, and that Jackson and Goddard had fought of a fraud my be, he is sure to forget something

`a drawn batilo, e

that a coldly self-possessed/practical man will tion specially to the suggestions offered on once clear and defensible, while it, at the same

potice, Friend had arranged his raw sugar and

spoke of should be kept loaded. The sentry should be a Malay. It should be his special duty to see that the passengers make no rush on deck. There were the only restrictions he would place on the passengers. He would not

sugrest that the passengers be separated in try way. The present crew could conduct the extra entry duty. He had no suggestions to make as to constructuri improvements in ships. He did not hear any firing forward before he heard in the after part of the ship. He was in the aloon when the outbreak occurred. The firing commenced at the after and fore parts of the ship simultaneously. In speaking of the officers of the ship be referred to the deck officers

F. H. Mackintosh, chief engineer, recalled, iaid he did not agree with what the last witness and said in the malu. He thought the scheme for bearching passengers' baggage was unwerk,

moment's

the conclusion

the expense.

Ultimately it was agreed to forward the report to the Government calling attention to the pre- vious recommendation,

INFLUENZA IN HONGKONG.

The Vice-President asked if there was any truth in the rumour that inflsenza was prevalent in Hongkong.

THE IMPERIAL INITIATIVE,

accomplishment of bis sims and that the ship the 13th instant, bring secured and the passengers paralysed and overcome no further loss of life was allempled. Although the evidence taken bas been very voluminous, and has, apparently, been a mers repetition of details of which the testimony of any one witness might bare sufficed, still it was necessary to record all that has been said in order to grasp, in all its bearings, the full mag nitude of the conception of the piracy and the necessity of the steps to prevent any

was

The Decree which was published last we ordering arrangements to be made for receiving the foreign Ministers in Audience la the first moon of next year-the 17th of His Majesty's telgn-will have been received with general satisfaction throughout the world. It would be

REFEREE.

The following is what our friend "Pendragon" has to say in re the recent fight between Jackson, the Champion of the world, and Goddard-x giant who is credited with possessing all the necessary qualifications of a world-beater.

Looking through the papers in search of something sporting to write about, as I am afraid my readers must be getting tired of so much Stanley and Parnell and politics and religion, I came upon an account of a match in Melbourne between black Jackson, who figured here some months ago as one of the wonders of the

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The various

"AMOY," Captain Th. Lehmann, will be despatched far the above Port, on TUESDAY, the 13th instant, at 4 P.M.

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By Order of the Board of Directors,

sire, but he was a wayfaring man, acqualated The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company with grief for many a day, before he secured the will be CLOSED from the 17th to 30th fastank, attention of railroad men to his life-saving in-

Inclusive, vention, which is now a necessity

upon crery railroad in, the constry. The inventor of the

whirt sewing-machine had not a second to his back for a long time before his invention was accepted and cheapened the shirts on the backs of | ́millions · But if these inventions had been frauds

they would have been taken hold of by capital HONGKONG

much sooner. There is a definite fascination in a fraud. The transmutation of metals into gold. the distillation of gold from water; the finding of electricity in solution of mud; the refining of sugar by a battery; the new power hidden ander Keely's hat, all have found patrons, and the men who worked them have made thousands by understanding the fascios.

in the first dusb of this new departure, medern boxing world, and very likely is as lipa of fraud. This country has been prolific in

recur ence of such outrages. Further, it hath that would dim the lure of wonders go now, and a local braiser known useful invention. No people elsewhere or i

weight,

this subject, many of which are, no denkt,, ilme,remevés from the Imperial palkway natum......... This is very ridiculous, ag a ́essimet la al

́T. ARNOLD,

Socretary, Hongkong, 10th January, 1891.

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CHORAL SOCIETY

"THE GONDOLIERS." The Society will give their FIRST PERFORMANCE OF Gibert & Sullivan's New Camlo Opers,

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the 31st January, commencing at 9 pas.

35 Shares TURNER &

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