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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1891.

which the chances of the game are not alike favorable to all the players, including among (sic) the players the banker or other person by whom the game is

TEACHER-Why does Great Britain support really? Papil-Because royalty cannot support, itself. He went to the top of the class. CALAMITIES that well the death rate of a nation -epidemics, for instance-invariably bring

Tax Queen held an Investiture at Windsor Castle on the 18th ult. and conferred the honour of KC.M.G. upon Major-General J. Bevan Edwards, late Commander of the Forceshere, and Mr. "P. and Q." Sutherland

Two Chinese were sent to gaol for a month each

principal objects for which the said place is opened, kept or used, although such place is also used as an ordinary social club, and the public at large have not access thereto." This was too much even for the managed, or against whom the players | about an increase in the number of marriages; by Mr. Wise this morning, being convicted as

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stake, play or bet-or (3) in which any commission, or percentage is charged

poverty and want, however, constitute exceptions to this general rule..

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"My Star! Its A Liar Tax, I Notice."

Tax Admiralty have issued instructions for the composite sloop Wanderer to be paid out of commission Sheerness 'on her arrival the Chinn station, where she be barve by the Archer, transferred from the West Coast of Africa.

nighton suspicion of having been connected with the piracy at Chai Wan on the 12th inst. As the master of the pirated boat and two of his crew filed to identify him as being one of the band, he was discharged this morning. THE Band of the 1st Argyll and Sutherland High. landers will play the following programme at the Officers Mess to-morrow, commencing at 7.45 p.

A CHINAMAN was arrested at Yau-ma-ti lisi

MarchLe Père ja Victoire”...............Canne.

.."Au: Remit"

Waldiauit. Selection....!

pon...inātkiran, Serenade"Quand tu Chantes "...

Secunde Belegis.......The Grand Duchess”........................ Offenbach,

WATANABE ISAO, the escaped convict, who, under the assumed name of Tsujimura Kurata, studied law, obtained a situation in the Judicial Department, and eventually rose to the rank of Judge, before he was detected, was sentenced in the Nagasaki Salbaniho, the other day, to six years' minor imprisonment, for illegally changing his name; and his father, Watanabe Heitel, was at the same time sentenced to eighteen months

lance, for being implicated in the matter. imprisonment and six months' police survell

Official Phalanx of the Hongkong Legisla- tive Council to swallow without making "HEMISTS AND ́AERATED WATER wry faces, and from Governor DIS Vaux in connection with the game, the "BURONG," a Hongkong correspondent, writes CHEMISTS

downwards and it is a long way down stakes or the winnings-or (4) In which to a Singapore contemporary: MANUFACTURERS.

from his Excellency to that lay figure the excessive stakes are ordinarily played for."-Twist the letters of the wards--

"A Straits' Milltury Exacifon* ColonialTreasurer-they prevaricated and Any place which is held for the purpose of and you get the following anagram :-- wanted time, thought gambling was a

a lottery or lotteries comes under the wicked thing and angel's visits were few ordinance. If there is anything new, or and far between, and opined they would original, or sensible in the foregoing, we quickly settle the difficulty if they only shall be glad if the Attorney General or any knew how. But they didn't know how, of our readers will point it out. The existing and hence the trouble. We don't know | Lottery Acts,unlessSir GeoRGE PHILLIPPOWAS who drafted the original ordinance, and all at sea, and we don't think he was, fully there is no desire on our part to provide for race-lotteries, pari-mutuel, print a single offensive word regarding totalisator, and everything connected with | that chef-d'œuvre of legal short-sightedness. horse-racing-vide his lordship's judgment But we must really break a lance in defence in the very interesting case of Fraser-Smilk of public rights, no matter whether Mr. | p. Meore in 1884-, and we cannot see ACKROYD or Mr. GOODMAN is responsible the slightest necessity or any reasonable for the thing a realistically described in grounds for this threatened interference the beading of this article.

with the long established social privileges The ostensible object of the Gambling of the foreign residents of Hongkong. Ordinance was to remove a doubt as to Horse-racing, race lotteries, the totalisator what actually, constituted A common and pari-mutuel, a dollar limit at poker gaming house in this colony. A large or a fifty cent point at whist, are to A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, number of so-called Chinese clubs had be made criminal offences-why? have sprung up in the town to which all these wicked' Indulgences shocked public and sundry could resort and indulge in morality, outraged "olo custom," Inter- games of chance, and in certain cases, fered in any way with vested interests when the offenders"were haled up before or the rights of the community? Ohi he magistrate, they were acquited, owing dear not but the low Chinese gaming to the alleged ambiguity of the language dens must be shut up, and our official of the section under which they were legal luminaries cannot see the difference charged. All that was required to regulate between a low hell, open to all and gambling in Hongkong and keep it within sundry for purposes of gaming and for reasonable limits, was to distinctly lay nothing else in Lascar Row, and the down, without any room for doubt, the Hongkong Club in Queen's Road and difference between a properly constituted, the City Club in Ice House. Street. club and a common gaming house. A│If Governor, Das Vœux cannot see his way simple. matter, apparently, but it to absolutely withdraw this most Quixotic nevertheless resulted in the evolution of of intended reforms, the representatives of B. very much involved and, as a the public in the local legislature should 1.10 whole, decidedly idiotic ordinance which practically protest by declining to vote 1.25 threatened the rights and independence of and leaving the Council-room en masse.

every social institution in Hongkong,

The man who makes a common gaming And the Unofficial Members very naturally house of every respectable club in the kicked against it, and Governor nas Vaux colony, where games of chance are practically upheld their objections. common-whist, poker, euchre, billiards, bowls, etc.,-in which excessive stakes are ordinarily played for, is only fit to be tarred and feathered and left in that condition. What are excessive stakes? Twenty dollars or twenty cents? Who shall decide? A Hongkong police magistrate! Not scarcely! that feeble bubbla has burst. Sir WILLIAN DES VEUX. is leaving here shortly for good; before he leaves, we strongly recommend him to appoint a Mixed Commission of sensible Now, before going farther, we must and practical man to investigate the explain, as far as we can, what the misty | gambling evil in Hongkong and to report references to "A" and "B" mean. The on the requirements of the colony in that genius who drafted this legislative master- | direction. To pass the present Ordinance 2.50 piece wants to define what a lottery is, in its present shape would be the height of 13,00 forgetting that the Eallery Acts require | folly.

best growths at moderate prices.

In ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired.

Onders through Local Post or by Telegram receive prompt attention. PORTS. (For Invalidı and general use.)

COMP Bo

$10 $1.00

A Alto Douro, good quality,

Green Capsule

B Vintage, Superior quality,

Red Capsule

Par does

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SHERRIES.

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wine, Green Capsule........ 6 B Superior Pale Dry, dinner

wine, Green Seal Capsule...7.50

C. Manzanila, Pale Natural

Sherry, White Capsule.... to

Pale Superior Old Dry,

Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule......................... 10.

D Very Superior Old

Dry, choice old wine, White Seal Capsule.........

E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule (Old Bottled)

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We have already quoted the objection- 0.75 able section of the ordinance as originally drafted, and we cannot really see that the proposed amendment is any improvement It reads "A place which is used as an ordinary social club to which the public at large have not access, shall nevertheless be deemed a common gaming houre if kept or used either for the playing of any of the games mentioned in A, or for the 1-purpose mentioned in B In section 2

Par Cam. For Cass.

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A Superior Breakfast Claret,

CLARETS,

Red Capsule

C St, Jullen

D La Rose

B St Estephe, Red Capsule... 450

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CAM.

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Capsule....

! B Superior Very Old Cognac,

Red Capaule

..$12

C Very Old Liqueur Cognac,

Red Capsule

D. Hennessy's Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac, 1872 Vin.

tage, Red Capsule

SCOTCH WHISKY,

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A Thome's Blend, White Cap-

sules)

B. Watson's Glenorchy Mellow Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark... 8 CWatson's Abelour-Glenlivet, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark..

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D Watson's H K D Blend of the Finest Scatch Malt Whinidies, Violet Capsule... to E Watson's Very Old Liqueur

Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsula ra IRISH WHISKY.

A John Jameson's Old, Green

Capsule...

B John Jameson's Fine Old,

Green Capsule...umagaj 10 C John Jameson's Very Fine

Old, Green Capsule........ 13. GENUINE BOURBON WHISKY, Gnoold, Red Capsule, with Name. 10 GIN.

A Fine Did Tom, White Camale-4.50 B Fine Unsweetened, White

Capsule uomo.450

C Fine A. V. H. Genera.......................5:25 RUM.

$4.50

5.00

Per Boneither explanation nor definition. And

1.35

1.50

1.00

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he says that "a lottery Includes any game, $1.10 method or device whereby money or money's worth is distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be

chance determined by

or lot. (or the result of any race or contest), whether the same the hald, drawn, exercised or managed within or without the colony," And there is a lot more ignorant rot intended to mean the same thing. Horse-racing A perfectly 0.75 legitimate and legal pastlim, haeveryhedge lawyer ought to know right well, stakes in 0.75 connection with racing are just as vaild as the transactions of ordinary mercantile 1.00 life; but our Hongkong lagal Sozox, whoever he may be-not that that matters very much, as he is most probably a fitting representative of the mixed crowd of a75 knaves and fools who have flooded this

colony to its detriment for years- has made the subscribers to an 1.10 ordinary racing sweepstakes, a universally

contract, 1.00 recognised legal

common criminals in the eye of the law and subject 0.40 to the pains and penalties provided for by this ordinance. Supposing ten ajo owners of race-ponles subscribed #20

1.10

1,00

0.40

TELEGRAMS,

THREATENED STRIKE IN AMERICA LONDON, April 11th.

At Pittsburgh seventy thousand miners intend to strike on the sat May in favour of the sight hours movement, and a bitter struggle is expected.

THE LABOUR COMMISSION.

The labour commission which has been appointed in England includes the leaders of the

labour unions.

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

April 12th.

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AT the Magistracy this morning three Chinamen were charged by inspector Butlin with being the masters of a public gambling house in Heung Lane resterday. The Inspector said he raided by the landlord, who had frequently ordered the the house in consequence of information supplied tenants to desist from gambling, Mr. Dennys, who appeared for the defendants, asid he would prove that the house was not a gambling place, but a sailors' boarding house. The case wal adjourned until to-morrow, the defendants being allowed bail In the sum of $100 each.

By the classification of States made by the Census Bureaut, Ohio, Illini Is, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas form the

"Northern Central Division," while Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Califomis form the Western Division," the others being the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Southern Central, This recognizes no "Eastern States, but it is not improper to apply that term to all of those cast of the Missouri river, for the centre of the United States from east to west between New York and San Francisco is west of the Missouri. MR. E. W. MAITLAND, Hos. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial Hospital, begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds.

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Mears. Jardine, Matheson'& Co. ......$100 Messrs. E. N. Mebla & Co................ 25 Messrs. Tata & Co... Dorabjec Nowrojec, Esq............ Messrs. H. M. M. Ally & Co. Messrs. N. Mody & Co......... Mess. E. Pabaney & Co. Messrs. H. Rahmitoolabhoy & Co. W. J. Saunders, Esq.......................................ki

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On the 13th ult, in the House of Commons, Mr. Norris asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs If he could give any information as to the position of affairs between the Sultan of Brunei and Rajah Brooke; and if the Sultan had addressed any further protest to the Govern- ment-Sir J. Fergusson: Her Majesty's Government are awaiting a full report from Her Majesty's Consul st Brunel, who proceeded to his port at the end of last year. Representations have been received from the Sultan, and he has been informed in reply that full inquiry will be made on the arrival of the Consul, and that it is hoped that an arrangement satisfactory to his Highness will be effected.

being the masters of a pubite gambling house in Cross Street, Wanchal. The defendants were arrested by Inspector Bremner and a party of police yesterday afternoon,

By beating it out between pieces of membrane gold may be formed into leaves of such thinness that a8a,000 of them will only make a pile, one inch in height. A single ounce of gold may thus be spread over a hundred square feet. That's the sort they have at Punjom, ink it i

We urgently estreat his Excellency the Governor awarded to the convicted lutong Fan-kl by to withhold his sanction to the cruel floggings

Mr. Acting Justice Ackroyd in the Supreme to British justice, and we shall not hesitate to Court on Monday. The sentence is a disgrace deal with the maiter from that point of view.

It is remarkable bow curiously superstillana are liable to spring up occasionally, even amongst people generally credited with the gift of keen observation like the Japanese. Until lately the Hokkaldo (Years) fishermen, almost worshipper

the whale, because the advent of this manater

marine mammal on their coasts always ushered in the herring season. However, their minds. were disabused when, a few weeks ago, a whale was washed ashore, and, on being cut up it was discovered that bis whaleship bad managed to get "outside" no less than about 16 Lote of herrings, equal to about do picals.

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AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C. will be held in Freemasons Hall, Letland Street, on Friday, the 24th instant, at 3 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

"THERE'S NO viethryin' to edjycate the Chinee," their own language. Of asked wan o' them ald Patrolman Flynn. "They don't even know phwat the warred fur St. Patrick's day was in Chinese, and be hevins he cudn' tell me."

CHAN ALAI, the man arrested at British Kowloon on Sunday last for piracy, was again brought before Mr. Wise at the Police Court this morning. Two seamen, who identified the prisoner, gave evidence similar to that already reported, and the case was adjourned till Monday, THE Census of Penang, taken on the 15th inst.,

shews that the grand total for the seillement population of the Settlement, which then included WAS 237,368. By the last census, 1861, the

the Dindlags, was 100,597, thus showing a nominal increase in present population of 36,771, or nearly 20 per cent, more. When the Dindings figures.come to be considered the increase, of course, will be found to be much greater.

IN Parliament,' on the 10th wit, Mr. Beaufoy asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he had received any information

asta the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Keeble in Ton- quia in January last; and, if 10, whether any steps had been taken to bring their murderers to Justice-Sir J. Fergusson: No information has been received by Her Majesty's Government beyond a statement in the French Journal Officiel of March 16th, but Her Majesty's Ambassador has been instructed to ask the French Government whether they can furnish any details.

LIFE IN VICTORIA GAOL.

(Continued.)

V

It is in regard to sins in which we are found out that we may say or sing (in an under- tops, in most penitent and Jugubrious minor key) misere modis, miserii pecca- toribus.

Thackeray. Gaol is intended for people who have done

To yachtsmen who may have been sailing past. the Arsenal the other day, says our Shanghal contemporary, the sight of a locomotive flying along the river side on the railway leading from the gun factory to the proof mound, and the sound of its shrill whistle, must have awakened many pleasant reminiscences as well as hopeful.

locomotive has been built in Shanghai by anticipations. That a real and serviceable Chinese workmen under foreign superlatend. ence, and that its preliminary trial proved most satisfactory, are facts which-to say the least of them are highly encouraging The ruthless tearing up of the Shanghai wrong, and the system that has been evolved Government, and the removal of the whole. Woasung Railway by orders of the Imperial plant out of the way to Formosa, grievances that are still fresh in the memory of many a Shanghai resident? It is gratifying to find that there are now progressive native afficials in our midst, who so far from being afraid of the "iron road" and the "iron horse or the disas trous consequences to the "Fung-shut," have actually laid down a short railway and constructed a powerful locomotive to run upon it. It would be a graceful act on the part of the Total to invite the residents of Sbangbai to a formal trial trip on the banks of the Whangpoo, and thus publicly inaugurate this sweeping innovation upon the past conservatism of this locality. We under stand that Mr. T. Bunt, M.LM.E., is the designer of the engine, which is to be used for drawing heavy guns and other weighly appliances within the Arsenal and to and from the trial range Details as to its construction may be given later on. It is, of course, a mere question of time as to the covering of this district, as well as the whole of China, with a network of railways." In the sitting of the French Chamber of Deputies on the 19th ult, M. Montfort questioned the Government as to the situation in Tonquin, and strongly censured the substitution of a croft for a military administration lu that colony. They had gone to Tonquin, and must now remain there; but they were threatened with a great misfortune the necessity of again despatching a large force to the Far East, Three years ago the colony was quiet, now the very reverse was the case. This change in the situation was to be attributed to the removal of so many troops from Του

The step had been taken with quin. view to conciliating public opinion. M. de Montfort went on to say that at Cho-Bo the Militia deserted to the enemy. The colony was in a state of anachy, and the Government was to blame for having kept the truth from the country. He wanted to know what steps the Ministry intended to take. M. Etienne, Under Secretary of State, admiited that acts of piracy had been increasing in Tonquin, bạt declared that the battalion of soldiers sent from Cochin-China had sufficed to restore a normal stale of things. At present the situation was not in any way worse, but was, on the contrary, improving. The Government, while appealing as little as possible to the deration of the troops, would continue its work of pacifying the country by obtaining the bands. This announcement evoked Jeers from submission of the chiefs of the pirate

the Reactionaries, wha interrupted. the increased when M. Etienne declared that the Cabinet had no idea of modifying the position of the civil Governor-Genersi who was at the head of the colony. This did not imply that, the Governor-General directed the military opera tions; but, as a matter of fact, no expedition was undertaken without his consent. No cheers arose from the Republican benches when M. Eflenne resumed his sext.

**Since mon first passed his fellow-med,

Lika brutas within an icon dan,“- has been directed, at least 'latterly, first to the puofihment, and secondly to the reformation, of the offender. The post of Superintendent of a gael cannot be pleasant to a man who is “full necessity compels that a prisoner should be the milk of humankindness." In the first place deprived of anything which appreaches comfort, miss (within certain limits) be made careful not as I have already tried to show. In the second he

European prisoners participate," according to our to get lo again. The “card-playing in which meraing contemporary, was not an evidence during my term of residence As I have tried, to convey in previous articles, bard work, poor diet, unquestioning obedience, and complets silence are the order of the day-to offend is to Jaffer. Some officers will overlook the exchange of an occasional word-others will report a mán almost for a whisper. To have 'failed to com. plete the task of oakum-picking, to drop The shot, carry away food for consumption at Jeleure in the 'cell, possess anything that has not been served out, cast a con temptuous glance at an officer, move without

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The House of Commons, by a majority of the general opinion is that the old law has speaker repeatedly, and their dissatisfaction thirty-the numbers being 160, against 130 rotes--bars adopted Mr. Peasc's motion for the stoppage of licenses to grow the poppy and of the sale of opium in India except for medical purposes.

THE NEW ORLEANS LYNCHING.

April 13th. The Italian Ambassador has left Washington and sailed for Europe, declaring that he was only going on furlough and was still Minister.

THE CHILIAN REVOLT, The Chilan Insurgents have captured Arica.

MUTINOUS ARTILLERY MEN.

April 20th.

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A battery of artillery at Portsmouth refused to parade on the grounds of excessive drills.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

a-plece for a cup or sweepstakes to be run | A-waan pitch has been discovered that can be for at Happy Valley, they would place | run into deck seams hot, and will stand the ins's themselves under the ban of this ridiculous beat in any climate, definition of a lottery and could be fined or sent to prison. Was this necessary to Herring's Cherry Cordial Di. Siegert's Angostura prevent the existence of low Chinese Bitter, c. gaming houses under the name of clubs?

Finest Old Jamaica, Violet

Capsule mam 12 - 2.00 Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon LIQUEURS.

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THEY are considering the advantages of impri- sonment for contempt of Court in Pennsylvania, good many drawbacks. An alleged clergy man over there seduced a lady under promise of marriage, a and when the Court awarded 6,000 damages he rose and stated briefly that the judge and jury, and the U. S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence, and the spirit the Immortal Washington might all go and frimle in Tophet. before he would pay a cent Then the Court got up in a towering fury, and sent him to gol indefinitely. He proved a model prisoner, and used to preach to the other Inhabitants of the gaol with such fervour that they almost all became converted, and there was so little for the warders to do that they grew careless, for a gaal with 300 broken-hearted penitents in it needed practically no supervision it all. And so things went on for a walle till one day the parson and most of the contrite Christians surprised the warders with pades and crowbars, and crippled them, and then bolted. The majority were recaptured, but the reverend gentleman has never been seen since.

WE commend the following to the Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes-A performance in feats of memory was given at Madras the other day by Professor Vedanta Desika Charlar, under, the distinguished patronage of H. E. the Governor. The Professor in a few words explained that the performance he was about to give was known technically as Sathe Auytkanum, which meant the remembering of 100 things at the same time. Though he was quite prepared to give such an exhibition of memory, such a performance must necessarily be tedious to the audience, and he would therefore confine himself to 21 feats,

asking leave-all these things, and very many reconstitute grounds for a report, and as a rula who have been clothed in a little brief authority. are taken, full advantage of by the myrmidons -- For Instance a man may ask another if it" fan't nearly eleven "a harmless inquiry, surely. The officer reed, not say anything at the time, but simply fills up a form (I have sech moré than one such) with the words "No.--, tawking in Uropen yard" Next morning, about aine o'clock, No. is ordered to drop his work and join the batch of offenders against discipline who are daily paraded before the Superintendent. After waiting a while he is marched down to the office and, when his turn

comes, pushed into a doorway to hear what he was done, as described by the party in uniform. What Is alleged sgálast him need not be trup, it will be all the same to him, for the golden rule in gaol is "Don't believe a prisoner." If It ja kis first offence, and not serious, he la cautioned; if his second he will get anything from simple bread-and-water to "solitary", (which means the dark cell) for three days. Bread and water means also removal from the Ea-

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ropean yard to one's cell for the time allotted. But" solitary is tarible. I was told that sli the cells were pretty walk supplied with vennia. in warm weather-1 saw nose-but the dark

loathsome creatures. A man who gets in there cells, situated on the ground floor, are simply crawling with blackbeetles, spiders, and other

is practically dead for the next 48 or ya hours; Cimmerian blackness surrounds him so com pletely that he only knows it is night by the fact that he has had his two thin blankets thrown in at 8 p.m., and by the unusual stillness. A China man doesn't mind it one bit; a sailor can stand It but when (as I have seen with pity) a European accustomed to comparativeluxory is sentenced to be so Immured he emerges å year older in appearance. And a magistrate can sentences man to fourteen days there, with only one day of grace each week.

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PT | With pffensiva interference with the night after the concert at the Theatre Royal, profits of these agencies and what was the annual | 4. Distinguiren at one and the same dad; the forelga prisoners, especially for Idleness,

On the 22nd April, 1, Elgia Road, the wife comparatively Innocent and certainly harmless sports and pastimes of Europeans tend in any shape or form to reduce the particular vice against which this law

good of it, as at present framed

The Hongkong Telegraph.

The chief offences are talking and having tobacco. Be he who he may, almost, s prisoner will get tobacco somehow. Exchanging bread with Chinese is the general way of obtaining it. How they get it they alone know. Sil, the fact remains that they do, and on occasion even a cigar can be come by. Chewing is the principal- use the weed is put to, and I have known an officer suddenly seize by the throat a man whom be suspected of having a guld, and tell him to couldn't swallow quicker than the turnkey could open his mouth, to make sure. If the man

In this House of Commons on the 13th ult. Sir and explained how those who were to be grab it was a case of very frugal fare for the T. Eamonde asked the Under Secretary of State judges were to examine him in these various next few days. Sometimes a few small pinge for the Colonies If he would state what were the tests. The following were the mental opera cake tobacco will be thrown over the wall into relations between the Colonial Office and the tions he was subjected to, at one and the yard, and the officer will see them. He st ARROULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 545, Crown Agents for the Colonies; whether the the same time:-1,- Playing chase with two ence orders the men near by to stand up and will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zeland Street, control exercised by the Colonial Ofice over the persons simultaneously on two separate boards; strip, and proceeds to search, first them, and ou Friday, the 1st proxime, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. Colonial Agents comprehended any division of without seeing the boards; a. Multiplying long then their clothing. And yet in spite of all they precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invital the profits of the agencies; If so, to what rows of figures; 3. Finding the square and cube will conceal the treasured luxury sometimes!!

amount and under what tend was it credited roots of any given number; three or four such The Chinese are punished much oftener than A zare tram will run to the Pask to-morrow | to the Imperial revenue; what were the annual numbers

accurately" "various ; natiye: | when their relative, number is considered... THI City Hall, in aid of the widow and children of amount of their business; and whether he was tunes played on violins Committing to way they look at the matter is this-If they do the late Bombardier Ashdows, R.A, leaving the aware that the West Indian colonies, including memorya Sankskrit verse and a sentence in their task, picking oakum or whatever it is, they St. John's Place Station at 11.45. A special British Honduras and British Gelana, had re- Latin, the words forming there being numbered will get so er, of rice a day, and have to work tram will leave the Peak Station af 8.45.

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will resolutions through their Legis and given in any order in instalments 6 hard for it if they do nothing they passed Iatures condemning the agency system as an

Counting strokes

want--espei and giving the action of their business; and, if so, upon

what

day after day, autabers of them are arraigned grounds had these resolutions been overridden by sound the cup struck each time out of 11 for refusing to work, with atter. Indifference. I by the Colonial Office-Baron H. De Worms: cups yielding various sounds 6. Repeating they have risen to the dignity of a billet the The hoz. baronet will find full Informa- a number of serial diglis given out of order are more carciul, as a slip will not

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the Parliamentary Paper C. 3,075 9. Giving the total number of strokes given the loss of the position but of 1881, and there has been

Chinese no change with a rattan on the back of the performer offender to crank labor for a week All Cl With the frown Agents, who are appointed on in permutation and combination; 17. Filling crank; and turn a wheel, lifting since then in the relations of the Colonial Office during the performance; 10. Solving problems prisoners on pedal labor have to work: at a dead weight fixed salsites. These officers derive no personal up magic squarça; 13. Giving out in order et Lalb34,17,500 times a day. Sometimes they profit from the transactions of their office beyond cards in a cut pack and naming the balance in won't do it, and, tying their belt to the bell-wire hair remmeration as fixed by the Secretary of each suit left in the remaining pack, etc. The or cell-gate, start to hang themselver, State. No charge is incurred by Imperial Professor went through the various feats with Frequently they are caught, and reported for revenues in connection with the Crown Agents' scarcely hlich; his mental operations of trying to strangle themselver." It is difficult olice, and no receipts seus to those revenues. Sgures being simply astounding. The perfor to punish a man who doesn't mind banging, but The Secretary of State la satisfied that economy mance concluded at 9 pm with an impromptu caulon raay be given, or he may be threatened and eficiency are secured in a notable degres Sankrit complimentary aleks on a given subject, with a fogging next time if he doesn'z ogran by the employment of the Crown Agents. that selected belag Pachalyappal's Hallo “the conitaba by mocoading/">If it is a simple.

bell rung at interuals and that is quite mich Beck or 197 KEILKRAVU is specially aimed? If not, what is the Tax Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play expensive and wasteful medium for the tran- during the performance 7. Distinguish cially if they are only in for a

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 33, 1891.

THE GAMBLING ABORTION.

Tux bite noir. In this most original of Legislative efforts was discovered in section 3 of the proposed ordinance. The Lection reads: "A place shall be deemed to be opened, kept or used as a common gaming house, or for the purpose of a lottery, when gambling is one of the main" and

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The legal gentleman who framed this model of Hongkong modern jurisprudence, must either have been. Imitating RIP VAN WINKLE or attending the Sunday school weND FAT CHEONG, the compradore to M. classes of the Salvation Army, He deflaus Victor Roque, of Haiphong, who is suspected of a common gaming house as "any place having betrayed that gentleman and M. Henri opened, kept or used for playing therein Roque to a band of plates about a year ago, has been arrested by the authorites at Canton, at (de) any game of chance, or any mixed according to the Courrier Haiphong The game of chance and skill, (1) in which a chief greads for sapicion are that the chief of bank is kept by one or more of the players the band's bald the chan had been killed, while aatter of lagt he was making his way to kis oxclusively of the other or others, or (a) in I fasilly."

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