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N. 2766.

BIRTHS.

PREME

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

At Foochaw, on the 27th January, the wife of the Rev. J. S. COLLINS, C.M.S. of a son.

At Fenches Fu, Shansi, on December 16th, the wife of Rev, F. W. DAVIS, of a 10%.

At Shanghal, on the and February, the wife of EDMOND RICCO, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

unenviable notoriety who describes himself as an Honorable, and we, as well as the Hongkong community at large, would like to know the why and wherefore-how the patronage sleight-of-hand game has been worked, and what it all means. It will doubtless be argued that no real meaning attaches 10 this tinsel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1891.

On the 31st January, 1891, at the Holy Trinity decoration. and that its wholesale uso of gold erasments and also a bank cheque,

any but if

M.A., JAMES VALENTINE, of Shanghai, to EDITH | signification, is entirely without significance, ELIZA, daughter of 3. F. Sharp, Esq., of it can only be a degradation to all who Southampton, England.

are saddled with such a doubtful ornament. On the 7th February, 1891, at the Roman There is a good deal of humour in styling Catholic Cathedral, Hongkong. THOMAS HENRY

our worthy police magistrates your ENGLAND, to ROSA LINE D'AGUIAR.

Honours," but somehow or other these VACATI DEATH.

antique excrescences on commonsense of a times made the subject of ribald laughter bye-gone age are in these degenerate and openly expressed ridicule. There is another title, that of "Reverend," which might fairly enough be made the subject

JONANY HINRICH, Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. At No. 9. Queen's Gardens, on the 8th inst., H. GARRRIS, aged 3 months.

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elegraph.

onghong-Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1891.

"THEIR EXCELLENCIES!!

UNDER the above heading a writer in the Chinese Times deals some trenchant blows at the ridiculous custom which has long prevailed with newspaper correspondents In Chinese towns and amongst writers on ¡Chinese matters generally, of describing every petty official in the Middle Kingdom "his Excellency." This childish fashion of indiscriminately using purely honorary and utterly meaningless titles to all and sundry "button-holders " is not confined solely to Chinese man- darins--even in Hongkong It has developed into a sickening nuisance, of which the literature connected with the recent Jubilee tomfoolery gives very conclusive proof: Governor, Des

time,

of adverse criticism, but may safely leave it to find a quiet resting place all in good And we leave C. M. G-ships, Windsor uniforms, and some other similar old-clo'-shop anomalies to find their own level; but our Tientsin contemporary's comments on Their Excellencies" are. too good to be held over, and therefore we need make no apology for their repro- duction.

hive not yet been productive of much, if any wood. We najice now that a Chinese house is In course of construction quite close to, und| overlooking the Racquet Court. Shader of departed players Whit would have been thought of this ten years ago i

man an1a woman occupied the room with me. It was about midnight when I first arrived there, A min and woman were in the room, and the first defendant had to knock at the door, an those inside were already aileen. They were the same man and women who slept (here eich | night. The woman is the adop'ed daughter of The authorities are taking every precaution in the first defendan', and the BD is her hushard the city to prevent troubles amongst the people As soon as I got into the room the first defendant Bettling the usual yearly accounts, when, searched my perion.

I had on me a number fighting is generally freely carried on, Soldiers rs posted on watch all over the streets. This is n wise step, as despair, may lead a man to do any misch ef

We regret to hear from Fuhoing that the Rev; H. M. Evton Jones, of the C.M.S. at the above station, has met with a somewhat serious acci- dent while out riding, having been thrown from is borse and broken, bis arm The accid: having occurred close to the C.M.S. Hospital at

Taylor all particulars are not yet to hand, Fahning, the reverend gentleman wis taken there and his injuries immediately, attended to by Dr. but we understand that the patient, was doing well when the last news lef--Ecke,

except my gold finger-ring, which I would not give up. The jewellery was in my packet. I heard the first defendant tell her adopted daughter that she had bought me for $170 and that she had already paid $10 as, bugain moner. She told her daughter to lork after me and see that I did not gel out. She

On the afternoon of the 3rd austan the palice gave the cheque to the daughter and asked her to go and cash it Tae cheque was for $300. cime and took me away. I wish to go back to my mother and to get back my things. I have known the second defendant for two

months. Her sister is living in our house

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1 do not know who sold me to the first defen- LOCAL AND GENERAL.. dant; in fact, I was not sold at all. daughter-in-law objected to keep me if I was kidnapped, but said that if I had been purchased.M.S. Linnet arrived at Shanghai on the zad away from my house my mother was asleep THE Portuguese gun vessel Rio Lima loft Make Chi, the Pa Leung Kuk detective, lives in Singapore for Lisbon, vie Bombay, on the goth our house. I bave lived all my life in Hong. ult. kong. The first defendant used to come every morning to see me in the house I was takes to; she always locked the door and took away the "Who is responsible" asks the writer, key. She use to bring me food at about go'clock "for the practice of dulthing every China- in the morning and at 9pm. She threatened man above the rank of a water-coolieto kill me if I cried out or made a poiss. "Excellency?" or- for the translation of te jes by, that word at all? There is surely sufficiently definite meaning attached to the title to save it from such. No one thinks promiscuous misuse! of addressing a Customs Taotai as His Serene Highness, and there is about as little authority for styling him Excellency. One inconvenience of the practice is, of course, that when this title is given indis criminately to all Chinese officials, there is nothing left to distinguish those of high

The evidence of this witness was read ever to her, and she made a few conections, as follows: -The jewellery was taken from me in the second defendant's house, not in the foreigner's house. It was the daughter-in-law herself who said that I was sold. I heard her say so.

THE Deli Courant contradicts the rumour that Dr. A H. Vander Harck, lias the Baron de

torn, had sold his estates there.

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MR J. SINCLAIR formerly of the Chices Revenue Service and late'y connected with the Tai-U-Shan silver mines, has been appointed second light-housekeeper, wice the late Mr. Mather.

SIX DOLLAPS PER QUARTER.

THE U. S. S Quicha lefy Shanghi for Japan on the Sih inst.

nistes and mariae magisten'e is going home hear that Mr. R. Murray Rumsey, harboure on sick leav by the troopship Himalaya on the MAJOR T. C. Dempster, Army Pay Department 22nd inst. Mr. Hastings, the assistant harbour- ar Adjutant of the Hongkong Police Force, master will doubtless nc as locum tenens. leves for home by the Himalaya on the 22nd The Mainichi Shimbun compares the member inst. With his departure the office of Adjatent of the Japanese. Det to a company of irregulat trops in the old leudal times, when each soldier of the Police will cease to exist. The Registrar-General estimates the population sought to distinguish himself by sealing a march of Hongkong to be 193,743, mi which 187,770 aten his comrader. The representatives have Chinese and 1972 British and other foreigners. in this re pect showed unmistakable signs of This is a very much lower figure than has been ingering attachment to the ideas of feutaltimes. In consolution to know that our local generally estimated for some years past,

Cnunci lors cannot be accused of this.

THE appointments, dating from the 1st of January of Mr. F. H. May to ho Assistant

the Government Gegette of last Saturday, in Colonial Secretary and Mr. T. Sercambe Smith to be Assistant Registrar-General, are notified in accordance with instructions from the Secretary of State.

THE Japanese Government has sent two reasons

in 16 deg. of min, N.Itt, and 142 deg, 27 min to search for the sunken rock which the master of the steamer Abyssinia "sted to he is existence E long, but no sign of any such danger could be found. The same result, says the Herald, ́attended the researches of the “British ships THE Japanese Consul at San Francisco reports | Zinnet and-Swift so that it has been decided that the total value of the trade between Japan and that no rock crists at the shot'irdiested.. ¡San Francisco during the month of November Inst was $956,776 of which 398 666 represented exports from San Francised to Japan and $868,060 imports. The value of articles for warded to the Eastern States of America through San Francisco during the same period amounted

to $156,322.

The "red-letter" day at the Magistracy

THE fancy dress bill at Government House last night (toth inst.) is reported to have been only a qualified success. Accarling tot talk of the town, the most conspicuous elemen's in the exhi

Governor of Madras, and the Hon. Mr. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, Colonial Treasurer of this highly

ion were the Right Hon. Lard Connemara, late

fivated colony. It will be observed that we

Veux is of course, for obvious reasons, rank, Viceroys and Governors, to whom plainant Li Yung. The second defendant, I THE Anerican back Belle of Oreron, Captain to establish himself as a general merchant' and the eminent paragraphíat a distisesive person.

his Excellency," but even in that special case the manipulation of the vain-glorious title is very greatly overdone. The constantly recurring letters "H. E." in official despatches and other documenta ars anything but elegant, they are not in good taste, and their use is by no means necessary. In referring to the Head of the Executive, his proper title of Governor is a simple but | dignified and suggestive description of the Actual rank and position he holds, and the same custom has equal effect In the cases of the General commanding the troops in garrison, and the Admiral in charge of the fleet on the China Station, These high officers aro, strictly and officially speaking, all Excellencies, but such an absurd description of an executive authority was never intended for general use, but merely In relation to Important official documents of a formal or legal character requiring a full description of rank, titles, etc. The Prime Ministerol Great Britain Isinvariably spoken of and described in the public press as the Marquis of SALinux, and the First Lord of the Treasury as plain Mr. W. H. SHITH-the high falutin' and frequently satirical "Right Honourable" and such like sickening garbage are the exclusive delight of Colonial toadies and shoddy prints, of which latter class the China Ma In its tasty Marlborough House dress coat and fixings is a notable example. But the showman business in trumpary and allly titles in Hongkong is not restricted to the Governor and the respective chiefs of

SOME 500 Japanese emigrants will start from

on the morning of the roth inst., was not give these two withies their full titles on this man for the Hawaliso Islands about the middle

to busy a time at we predicted for our local | orcasion. His lordship was tastefully willred in, of next month,

"beaks," Mr. Wise, upan whose energy Aanmewhat highis colored divorég suit; - Mr/ THE U.S.S. Afenscary left. Shanghal for Chin-4 to 1 was said to be laid, took his seat Mitchell-innes modes ly represented the Light kiang em, the 3rd inst., where she will remifa on the bench at 9 15. By 9.57 his "dock" was of the World." Publico-inion is divided as to until the roth March.

cleared, he having disposed of twenty-five exses, which of the pair bare nww the malm. two of which were remanded for further evidence. There is no doubt Justice was just as well dealt out Our evening contemporary has won a new asif he had taken the whole morning. Mr. Wode-name-an original on 100-and actually forme house wis entirely out of the running.

the subject of an illustration In the latest issue of the Extralla Oriental.. The "Miden Lib-Ver" The first defendant volunteered a statement. Tiig returns of the number of visitors to the City A CORRESPONDENT writes from Chemulpo is depleted, clothed in a Muribarauch House to the effect that the child ran away from her Hall Museum for the week ending Feb. 8h, are: (Kore) in the N. C. Daily News on January dress suit and the famous patented Club steps ad-How rapidly our place in rising is best smile, looking down sympathetically at. Jonah home because she was il-treated by her mother.--Europeans 188, and Chinese 1,866; total 2,054.

shown by the recent rise in the value of land, J. Francis, Eq. QC.. who is trying to The well.ry was given to her be first

THARE were 487 births and 1,196' deaths regis-which went up recently several hundred per queeze himself out of the intricate folds of defendant) for safe custody only

The second defendant corroborated this view: tered in this eniony during the quarter ended cent. I hear one of our best known residents, a Saturday evening's copy of the Chien Afall. "Broj "is supposed to be an inside passenger of the case

the sath December. In the British and foreign the former harbour-niaster, Captain Ferdinand Wan Kay, aged o. said she knew the cam-communities there were 30' births and 47 deaths. Mörtel, has resigned from the Customs Service, with Torah, but the artist evidently forgotto-ive commission agent at our part, There is not the ality. The new name for the Mail is the Salt (nother to witness) sent her to call Li Yung

least doubt that Mr. F. H. Mürsel knows more Fisk Wrapper, the eminent hwyer and about this country than a great many other philanthropist is suggestively described as people, who put on all sorts of airs and frills, Outridjus.". We don't know what the last without more knowledge of the place than Mr named formidable jaw-bre-ker may happen to F. H. Morsel, a hard "working gentleman, de-mean, but we hope it is not too gross a libel on,

The embryo Lord Chancellor. serving every success in his new venture. A LARGELY attended extraordinary meeting of THE Hveco News makes the following very members of the Hongkong Jockey Club was

sensible remarks in reference to the action of å held in St. Andrews Hall, City Hall, on the missionary, who evidently has more zest than 10th inst, for the purpose of confirming the common-sense, and who came to grief le con- special resolution passed at the meeting held equence: The Rev. G. L. Perin has only his on the 27th January. On the proposal of Mr. n temerity to blame for an adventure which M. Grote, Mr. W. H. Forbes took the chair, might have ended in the most serious results. And stated that he proposed puiting the resolution remittion to use a theatre in order to deliver an Ho ventured Into Nigoya Band, obtained to the meeting for confirm ion. Mr. Fraser. Smith suggested that the first thing to be done address on Christianity. Mi. Perin knew that he Was to have the minutes of the previous 18 entering a town which is the stronghold of the Buddhists. He must have known, too, that meeting read and confirmed. Mr. Ing. J. he had no right to lecture, nor had the police Francis, QC, said that as the meetings were not consecutive meetings, it was not necessary the platform was stormed, the speakers hustled, nny piwer to permit him. The result was that to have the minutes of the previous meeting reid. The Chairman thereupon, on this it and they could only reach an hotel with the dixit of the learned Sir Oracle, proposed that the Assistance of police protection. It would have been more creditable to the Japanese to have resolution be confirmed, without allowing any tried persuasion rather than force, but religious discussion, which was seconded by Mr. G. Genthusiasts are usually hot-healed. It was only.

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A COMPLETE dearth of news exists throughout the Colony. Business in the Supreme Court is at a standstill and at the Magistracy it is very little better, whilst the outstations report a clean silf. The streets are cheerless and hear a somewhat deserted appearance, and the bitterly cold weather is exercising a depressing effect all

round.

the title of right belongs. If Chinese

Ho Achon, wife of a "boy" employed by Mr. Cradhourn, which arrived here on last Sunday, * titles and forms of address are to be translated at all, it should be by Lerge, said: I live with my husband in a par's having spoken a British ship, which hoisted European house, on the basement Asor. On J, S, T, ‚R. 126 days nut from Philadelphia some reasonable equivalent, and not by the 1st instant, about midnight, my husband and as route to Nagusiki in pity's south latitude a foreign term which turns the whole were asleep, when we were awakened by the and 179? 38 cast longitude. thing into ridicule. According to English arrival of the first defendant and the little girl.. usage the title "Excellency" is reserved The first defendant is my mother by adoption, PRINCE SANDA died early on the morning of the for Ambassadors (not Ministers), Viceroys ad she told me that she had bought the child 23rd ult. at his residence at Kobe. He High- at Canton for $173. She desired me to keep the mess, was one of the old Dimins who after of Ireland and India, Governors of

and child for a day or two, and she then would sing through many vicissitudes after the fall Colonies, Commanders-in-Chief, possibly one or two others. The Cane it away. I objected to keep the girl affettalism, eventually realised a large forton's

unless she wis purchased properly, and in reply by land speculations in Kabe. tinental usage is more liberal, many to that she said. "never you mind. I wil THERE was site an exadas of men-of-war from persons receiving the courtesy in common take core I don't bring you into trouble. I will this art on the 4th inst The Rossiin cruiser parlance who may have little right to it take her away in a day or two." At the same Kerrytz felt for Singapure, the French drouclad The Foreign Ministers in Peking accept time she gave the role which I see in Court, La Triomphante, and cruiser Inconstant sailed the prefix Excellency, which it would be a I gave it to my husband, and told him to show it for Manila, and British gusboat went out for as solecism to apply to any English Minister. to his master in order to know whether mer airing, commonly styled craise.

could be got on it. My husband showed it But from no practice of foreigners inter se

to his master, and then it was given back to could any translator be justified. In filling the first defendant by me. I told her that every Yamén of China with Excellencies, the note could not be cashed yet, and that thereby robbing the word of all meaning. the actual depositor of the money must Is this weakness only a phase of that spirit of present the note for payment. On the 3rd adulation which tempts so many foreigners instant I went to the first defendant's house, and she asked me to go with her to the Bark; when to heap up flatteries of all kinds on the

we got there she told me to go in ard present the Chinese in order to win their smiles? cheque and ry, it asked, that my dead mother There is a little too much of this kind gave it to me." I went in, was told to wal, and of Chinomania. The rendering of the was afterwards given into custody. The girl title of TSENG-HOU by "Marquis" was a told me she came from Canton on the night that she was taken to my house. She said, however, legitimate and reasonable translation of a real title of nobility of the second grade. that she had not been banght. She did not Young Fat, a Chinese deceive, said that But what of the Right Honourable the complain of being whip,ed by her mother, Lord Viscount Li, the English title he was on duty at the Hongkong and assumed by the adopted son of LI HUNG- Shanghai Bank and took the late THE Selangor 'correspondent of the Straits CHANG? The Chinese know him simply as into custody here. She accompanied hit to the Times wires on January 31st that Mr. Vaughan, Li Kisa-roxo, and there is nothing that we house of the prisoners in Upper Station

son of Mr. J. D. Vaughan, barrister-at-law, ever heard in Chinese usage to afford the Street. In reply to the question--"where Singapore, had that morning shot himself dead in the little girl?" the last witness said least justification for loading the 'distin

straight to the house of Mr. William Legge, in Robinson Road. When I got to the base. ment for of the house I found the little girl in a room which was padlocked. THE Tokyo Electric Light Company bave was unlocked by the husband of the last resolved, says the Japan Daily Herald, spon witness. The girl stated that the first prisener, bringing an action against the authorities for whom I compelled to accompany me, had taken having laid the, cause, of the fire in the Diet ber jewellery. The last witness produced: the buildings to the electric light. The majority of little girl's finger-ring, which the said the child the shareholders & svo approved of this, sad the had given to her. After ladging the little girl at lawyers, engaged for the plaintiffs are Messrs. the Central Police Station I went through the Takanashi Tetsushiro and Urata Jihei, pawn-shops with the prisoners and recovered the THE Chinese authorities of Kwangtung cele complainant's jewellery.

ild, brated the close of the aid year by getting rid of A number of criminals who had been arrested at various times during the year. It is said that over 300 criminals were sent to the scene of their crimes to pay the death penalty. On Saturday last six pirates were sent from Canton to Kowloon City and were made a head shorter early on Sunday morning, their bodies being

beach,

Wx read that Holt's Company and the Packet Navigation Co. are keenly carrying on a war of rates down Java way. The passage fare for crolies, between Deli and Batayin has now fallen to ten guilders each. Planters and coelia recruiters rub their hands with glee, and hope that neither Company has said: "the last ward on this point.

Mas'er and carriel nem, con.

WE would direct the attention of the Editor of the China Mail to what purports to be a verbatim report in last night's (10th inst.) Isus of that paper of what was said at the Jockey Club meeting held yesterday afternoon. The only remark of particular importance, Mr. Ino, J. Francis' extraordinary reason why the minutes of the proceedings at the previous meeting should not he read and confirmed, is carefully

omitted, and words are put in the mouths of the other speakers which were never uttered. And present with probably two exceptions were the statement that the hands of all the members

come five months ago that in Sherborne, Dorset,

a party of missionaries from Utah were severely beaten by the Christians of the various denomina- tions in the neighbourhood, and if England has not yet learnt religious tolerance, Japan can hardly be expected to show her an example. The Rev. G. L. Perin doubtless imperilled his fe in what he regarded as a haly cause, but he was really breaking the law of the land, and must therefore, put up with the consequence.

- our military and naval · defenders; the i gulshed and learned gentleman with the the girl was at her house, and she took me with a pistol in the Kuala Lumpor Rest House, held up in favor of the resolution, is a deliberate knowing that the last batch of constables receive

judges of the Supreme Court are addressed courtesy titles which are peculiar to the a" your Lordships," the police magis eldest son of an English Earl. Were Li trates as "your Worships," and both the Huno-crans Indeed an English Earl he, official and unofficial members of the and he alone, would be commonly styled Legislative Council as "Honorables." "Lord LT." and his eldest son would enjoy The proper style of address according to the second title, whatever it might be, as official regulations for a Colonial judge is Earl RUSILLL-Viscount AMBERLEY. But "your Honour"-whatever that super- there could not be two Lords: Li. Li lative phrase may be supposed to mean, KIND-rong therefore may be the Lord but the learned counsel of the Hongkong knows who, but by no law or custom, Bar and their allies, the gentlemen by Christian or heathen, can he be Lord Li Act of Parliament', have sanctified a custom during the life-time of his father. This all their own, and my lud this..and patent of nobility granted by the public at *may it please yer ludship that, have the bidding of some amateur herald, or become so universal that for barefaced assumed without a bit better thing fawning to constituted authority our legal mockery. If titles are to mean anything gantry stand well in the front rank of a at all, and to have any value for those on goodly army of backboneless sycoph- whom they are bestowed, they must be ants and retailers of nauseous taffy, defended against poaching, and it would To handicap a man with the prefix #Honorable because he happens to be a member of a sham legislative assembly possessing less actual power than an ordinary vestry, is a direct insultat least to the unofficial members, practical men of business who devote both time and trouble to generally abortive fegislative work without hops or expectation of either roward #

acknowledgment. It is different with our good friends the Govern ment oficials, who delight. In handles

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be an acceptable service on the part of the official sinologues to find some appropriate titles for small officials as his Honour, his Worship, or the like, and purge the land of the dirty mob of "Excellencles,"

ANOTHER KIidnapping cASE.

THE HOUSE OF A' EUROPEAN ́USED AS A BARRACOON,

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Yu Akuk, mother of the kidnapped child, ld she missed her daughter at midnight on the fat instant and at once made a roport to the police. This witness fully corroborated her daughter's statement as to the kidnappin

For the defence the pioners ulated girl came to them voluntarily and said she would rather kill herself then go back to her malber.

Li Yung, recalled," said My mother does not beat me, I was 14 years old on the 21st of January of this year,

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At this juncture the further bearing was manded until Wednesday next, the ith instant As soon as the case was over Mr. Legge' "boy" was charged with stealing a dog collar, valued at $1, from his master, The charge, however, had not been proceeded with when our reporter left the court.

The two Chinese women, Li Kau and Wong Pak, who were examined at length by Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Court last Saturday, in

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HONGKONG is a wonderful place for anomalies of the most glaring type. The latest pheno menon is asnnected with the rank and file of the Police Force, many of whom, in addition to

per month as against the $40 for which all the old hands signed articles, now find that the increase of $5 per month, which was to be Year, is not yet forthcoming 1. Some of the men granted to them from the 1st of January of this bellese they will get the $5 increase, about "which"; there was such a floudsh of official trumpets a month or two ago, in good time, while others of a less sanguine turn are express ing serious doubts. Patience is indeed a great virtue, and by a free exercise of that most desirable quality our guardians of the prace may yet jog along through life, a plain unassuming beef-atexk-and-onlous once-a-week existence perhaps, but nevertheless with enough to keep body and soul together and even that's something in these days of

wide-spread com-

It is stated that Mr. Vaughan had been engaged falsehood. At least a dozen members refrained by a French mining company to go to Pahang from voting one way or the other. It would be too much, to expect unblassed, accuracy in our vis Kuala Lumpor..

evening contemporary, but surely it's few strage gling subscribers are entitled to common honesty its public reports! They don't always get even that, however, We fear, says the Shanghal Mercury, that the chances of the British bargue Charity ever turning up again are so remote that we may now almost give her up as lost. She left Nagasaki on the 8th Jan, with a full cargo of coal for Shanghai and nothing has been heard of her since. The vessel, which was built on the Wexer, in Germany in 1864, was originally called the Stam, and salled at first under the Hanseatic flag of Bremss. She was built of the strongest materials and was considered mercial depressie policemen to be allowed s capital saller. Some years ago it was thought thing for ordinary be to picked up and and they ought to take that fact fato considera- tion when cogitating during iba,nili watches of these dreary winter nights in the bitterly cold streets, whether they were not very much better off with twenty-five shillings a work at hɔmə. than they are with from farty to fifty dollars per month and exile from all that is worth living for,

that she was lost in a

buried shortly afterwards in... the' sand on the hal, but she was after outside Shang. even exist in such a favored city as Hongkong.

The

hrought Into port by a local plot. She w then sold, and put under the American flag Dux Shanghal morning contemporary "is directly and her name changed to Chorley. Her career informed that it'le he intention of the directors since then has been checkered. She went of the Trust and Loan Company of China, Japan ground to the west of the mouth of the New and the Straite, Limited, to propose, at a meeting chwang River and the captain, who shortly to be held probably onthe isthias ant, or as soon afterwards surived in the bean-cake port, THE Dell Corans has the following:-The Java as requirements of notice will allow, that the ported her lost. But the very next day - the style of the company he changed to the "Bank Charley was brought up by Newchwang pilot, tobacco crop for 1889 realised forty millions of of China Tapan and the Straits," with an addi- Mr. Sinclair, if we are not mistaken, and she guilders, and 1893 has provoda particularly good presumably, to existing shareholderente a tion of,000,003 to the capital, to be issued, was afterwards pat up for sale and transferred to year to planters, Tobacco came then into greates the British fing, under which she has sailed demand than ever in America, and high, rates

ruled for lemf shat suited the lastes of bayare.. premium to be decided on at the meeting successfully ever eloce for the Shanghal Shipping few growers found fortune adverse to them, but Company Last sprieg, she was docked and

most planters had every reason for satisfaction, Two Chinese women,. Li Kiù, agod 40, and pet to the charge of kidnapping a little gid THE popular Cantonliner «Powan, Captain | overhauled, and was valued at some ten or twelve new tariff in America is expected to bará ́a”

and forcibly detaining her in Mr. William Goggin, ator undergoing a thoroughs over thousand tacla

bad effect on prices, and as the new crop is to their names to such an extent Weng Pak, aged 36, were brought before Mr. Leggo's house in Roblason Road, were again | hasi nad --refuIDRA deck came over from 12 last night's (10th Hastant) Isus of the estimated at 230,000 bales, an unusu«lly high

brought up yesterday morning No further

including the renewal of the lower. evidence was heard and the case was formally Hunghaus go. Sunday last and took her place on China Mall there is a paragraph which if figure, buy than the planters would for this remanded until Monday next, the 26th lost, 24 the berth for Canton, for which port she sailed not contradicted le calculated to upset the own way than planters would like. The the same afternoon. The same Company's equilibrium of the poor old lady who is latter have gone against their own true intereste 11 only hope and support. The creation in setting quantity above quality, thereby steamer White Cloud went into dock for

runs thus: "We hear that a European officer and turning out much tobacco which falls con general overhaul as soon as the Powan carpa

four Bremen of the C. M. Co.'s steamer Meaforsiderably below, the mask, and If no ime out, ber place on the Canton-Macan line being

were removed to the Hospital this morning provement takes place, a good deal of the taken by the Kuklang, Captaĵo, Risby-When

will it in feared remain suffering from small-por. The vessel arrived from feat turned out We regret to learn that the price of rice has the White Cloud comes out of dock the Shanghal on the 3rd Instant and left the same unsaleable. Neglect on this palet and adherence risen considerably during the week and is now mpany's fleet will be lo complete going day for Whampas, returning on Saturday. It to modes of cultivation that no longer suit the fully one dollar per pical higher, Such an occurr

is supposed, that the five men contracted the times are said to be as rife in 1890 as in bygons rance at this time of the year amounts to a THF Skimpo, in referring to the subject of disease in Shanghai,, where it is prevalent at year. The planters showed lass remissness calamity.

the wide gulf that exists between officials and present. They were on shore In Hongkong in dealing with the coolle question, which A country teamen belonging to the Benmoo ordinary people, says it is a curious fact that no and mixing freely with people before the

importation of labour from Chine, was resorted has substantial reasons for strengthening room in the same house. The second defendant accounts are unsettled. It is stated that some ment post than he assumes a haughty and Now from information derived from the most This flow of coolics show steady increase, the position of some threadbare "plant" on t known as "the Dwarf After being there fifty thousand dollars is the amount he has to superior aft, and thenceforward regards himself reliable source, we can assure the Snail that the and though the cost of direct immigration public credulityünder the nil-powerful segle | fog Pa Litle: while the first defendant, sald give an account of 7-7 pm Pagi svinty e * Immeasurably the superior of less favoured ficis argus follow The Affog arrived here presses heavily on the planters, they have the of the Companies Ordinances by appearing she would take me to a house to get something Times must be very hard even with thieves, mortals. Our Imparese contemporary, hes, blt from Shanghai on the 3rd instint, and the chief satisfaction of winning a victory, over the coolie. on the Immaculate and disinterested I understood her to mean that she would give We learn they are cutting the cues off their fellow the mail fairly on the Band j'bar how much more officer, complaining of being ill, was immediately brokers in the Straits for yours, had the directorate as the Hon, Hoox'z Survey me something. She took me to a European men for the sake of the ties that fasten them, taly can the sense of his alteron po applied sent to the Government, Civil Hospital, where Dell labour market in their hands, and fixed house up the hill and there put me lajo, s room and that they are very careful in choosing the to many of the winicials of illegalen f be, now being convalescent, awaits the return of both prices and importellon st, will. Them but such red-latter days are few and far myself, on the basement borit that kept in best, which costs me fifty cents exch 1 Rasier for instance, one of the No G5 Querellibre, bis steamer from the North to rejoin her he directly Imported cooled up out to be of better between. We have in this colony at the moon of shree days," Duites the daytime i poilsperated references to the filthineer and Wikyze ble etter, and endale till hetvibes alarm raised by the China Moff his se tounds. cruality and prove less turbulent than the former present Uma a certain official person of i was monod up in the seem niente. At night at opsador of the village next the Rood Trini bosat i manered with Che quil at low Futury's

den in loss whatevat:

that they do not even scruple to Wodehouse at the Police Court on the 7th Inst. describe themselves: In other lands as charged with decoying girl named El Yung, 14 "the Hon. So-and-So from Hongkong, years of age, away from the custody of her mother although knowing right well that their on a second count, with detalaing the said Li tin-pot gilding, is only valid within the Yeng for an gnlswful purpose against her will; boundaries of the colony. There may be yung of certain Jewellery and bank cheque of and on a third count, with robbing the said Li particular occasions. when propriety the waits of $270, N demands that a legislative councillor should have all his barren honours hung round my mother in East Street. On the 1st lost, at *Li, Yong-1 am 14 years of age and live with his neck like a soup-kitchen medal for about fim, the second défendant's daughter whatever they may be worth--for instance, caine to our house and said that her mother when he goes out to a masquerade, bali wanted to see me. I accordingly went to her arrayed. In a borrowed. Court suit, or a house in New West Street and asked her what she wanted,... I sat down for about five minutes

FOOCHOW.

January 31st,

“Marlborough House flunkey's get-up, and she then took me to the, first defendant's districts has mysteriously, disappeared; and his; sooner is an individual appointed to's Govern- symptoms of the discase becane manifestored a hard problem to solve until direct

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