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fact that the Secretary of State positively And absolutely declined to accede to the recommendation of the Gaal Inquiry Committee, of which the worthy Registrar of the Supreme Court was chairman, that flogging should be sanctioned for a number of comparatively minor offences, we now find Mr. Acxiorn in his present position of Acting Pulane Judge Ignoring the very plainly expressed Instructions of the Home, Government, and ordering the lash with no unsparing a hapless prisoner who had the misfortune to come under his jurisdiction.
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THE Superintendent of the, P. & O. S. N. Co. informs us that the Company's steamer Ancona tel Nagasaki for this port at 4 p.m. yesterday. ACCORDING to intest accounts from Singapore, the health of Sir Frederick Weld continges unsatisfactory, no real progress towards recovery baving been made.
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principal promoters of the projected new water supply for the capital of Kwangtung The Viceroy sets out that the labour and expentes necessary to carry out the proposed works would be enormous, and that If the community were called upon to contribute towards the cost and upkeep, STANLEY and his Rear Column are at Sourabaya. serious troubles would probably arise. And They call it the Operetta Campany there. We as LA HAN-CHANG, at his advanced age, ised it the Saw-setter Singers here. And bles
they'd advertise. naturally desirous of avoiding any conflict A MASONIC LODGE has been started in Sandakan, with an irate populace who most assuredly British North Borner. It is styled the Borneo would kick against any increased Lodge, and will be consecrated as soon as the taxation'even'for such a boon as a plentiful charter arrives from the Grand Lodge of England, supply of good water, he has solved the THE law of evolution works in language, as well In other things. Twenty thousand words difficulty to his own satisfaction at least have been added to the English language in the by shelving the petition, and refusing to department of biology alone since Darwin's memorialise the Emperor"in favor of the, discoveries. project. His Excellency has further given orders for the immediate arrest and severe punishment of Ho Lung Kan, whom he describes as an official dismissed from office, and who has already been under the ban of the Emperor's displeasure.
The Governor's reply is couched in pretty much the same terms as the Viceroy's. He
if the opines that people were forbidden to water, from their own wells-almost every house in Canton has a separate well of its own-, and compelled to pay for a supply from the proposed Water-works, it would be difficult to get them to obey with delight." He also foresees serious troubles
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in the suggested monthly collection of a water-tax, sums up by concluding that the benefits of the new scheme would be very litle and the disadvantages proportionately great, and therefore refuses to accede to the petitioner's proposals.
A COUPLE of conlies who wished to assist in the reclamation work by dumping a quantity of rubbish in the harbour yesterday afternoon, were fined $2 or fourteen days at the Police Court, by Mr. Wise, this morning.
A LIGHTHOUSE has lately been erected at the port of Kudat. It is said to he a substantial structure, and shows a powerful light that can be seen a long distance off. This is the first light-house opened in British North Borneo. THE Persians have this curse, which has come down' to them from former generatious: "May his face be turned upside-down and jackasses sít upon his uncle's grave." There is a good deal of originality in this, when carefully analysed. A CHINAMAN was arrested this morning at his house in Wellington Street and charged with being in possession of ten taels of prepared oplum and 112 balls of Persian opium. He will be brought before Mr. Wise to-morrow morning,
Ax Italian, charged with n stabbing a night it North Bridge Road, Singapore, on the night of ship Bornes as the vessel was preparing- to the 15th inst,, was arrested on board the steam- leave the harbour on the afternoon of the 17th Inst. We read that a Tacoma woman, Mrs, Hannah Dober, mother of five little Dobers, has invented the most unique toilet apparatus on record. It is a machine that bathes rinses, drips and dries the entire Deber broad simultaneously by the simple turning of a crack.
THE largest hospital in the world is in Germany -the Allgemeine Krankenhause, which contains coo beds. This hospital, which is now one hundred and sixteen years old, is managed In the interest of students, not humanely for the benefit of the poor patients.
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of barbarism to Sir JOHN POPE HENNESST, who not only abolished public flogging but reduced corporal punishment in gaol to the narrowest limits; and this he did with the entire approval of the Secretary of State and to the satisfaction of the vast majority of the Hongkong This is only one more instance of community, the principal dissenters being the strong disinclination of the Chinese certain officials of the old and brutal to adopt foreign methods, unless gime, some of whom are still staunch absolutely compelled to do so by the advocates of the triangles and the "cat" necessities of the moment. The proposed Of late years sentences of flogging have | Water-works would undoubtedly have $1.00 been greatly on' the increase, the present proved an Invaluable boon to the Chief Justice having set what we consider millions who crowd the narrow streets of a most unworthy example both in this Canton, but the difficulties in the way of Tax British North Borneo plantere have taken a 1.29 direction and generally as regards severity realising the scheme on the lines proposed new departure as regards procuring coolie of sentences, anexample, however, which the were almost impracticable from the first.labour from China. The steamship Menmon has gone to Holbow to endeavour to ship coolies 1.50 Acting Poisne Judge appears determined | Any attempt to Impose a fresh tax on a direct from that part to Sandakan, instead of
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MORE DISGUSTING DISCLOSURES IN HIGH LIFE.
LONDON, April 16th. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Captais Verney, M. P., and Mr. De Cobain, M. P.; the former is charged with attempting to procure a girl for immoral purposes, and the latter with unnatural offences. The where- abouts of both are at present unknown.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. H.M.S. Tamar left Singapore, homeward bound, on the afternoon of the 17th inst.
THERE will be a game of polo at Causeway Bay to-morrow, commencing at 4-45 pr. THE Tews-barp-"What's doing in Banks to day?" P. S.-This applies to the Christian broker too.
THE complimentary dance to be given to the
Ox the &th inst, the police authorities at Batavia, accompanied by the British Consul, visited the land Royal Mail line. They were anxious to steamers Darunda and Taroba, of the Queen find a person by the name of Waterhouse who had fled from Sydney; having embezzled the of £3,0:0. The search was unsuccessful. MR. BECHER bas been prospecting for the Pahang Corporation. He wrote a short golden vision of Mbita the other day beginning" I am pleased to report that the prospects of the mine are uncharged, and that we continue to break excellent stone," &c. &c. Lord! Panjom to a pop, except that the shareholders are break. ing the stones,
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THE Frie Pritz says that at the Singapore food-allowance to bread-and-water for three days Police Court last week a case came up for tria! in which a mutton butcher named. Belilios, of Rochore Road, was charged with obstruction.
Surely not our "Honemble "E. R.- and yet-1
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THE automatic dreșa suspender lately invented, most ingenious, and now that long skirts are coming into fashion, it is likely to be extensively used by ladies desirous of displaying a neat foot and pretty ankle. At a touch of the hand to the back of the dress the skirts may at once be adjusted to any height the wearer prifers, and the letting down process is equally simple. This is done from the outside so that even when tilp ping along Queen's Road it is possible to effect any alteration that the state of the weather and the muddiness of the place may render desirable. AT the Magistracy this afternoon Mr. Wise, Acting Coroner, held an inquiry into the circum stances connected with the death of Ah Fook.
who fell from the roof of a house in Tank Labe last Saturday. From. the evidence it appeared that the deceased had a quarrel in the house, and, in trying to make his escape by the roof, fell into the street. He was taken to the hospital in a state of collapse, suffering from a compound fracture of the elbow joint. bat he never rallied, and died the same day. The cause of death was a rupture of the liver, caused by the shock. The Magistrate returned a verdict of "Accidental death." Stroke the Jews-harp gently for the pore man |——
It wasn't, in a fair-altal rlag, That At Fook meet his foeman dire; But he fet right into space, and now, ha's gstring grace
“That is of course if he ain't in
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for a whisper or for nothing! These are the type of officers who make prisoners creep about the yards and corridors in a state of perpetual terror, vaguely fearing that the morrow will ses
them "run" on some unknown indictment.
As regards the knocking the prisoners shout," which is sometimes alleged outside, I am not in a position to say very much. The Eumpenn
prisoners certainly are not even threatened-for the sufficient reason that they would at once report the officer. But the Chinese could tell some tales, especially the short-sentence men-the beggars and hawkers and other petty offenders who are serving their week of fortnight for lack of fifty cents. They are provoking 'sometimes, certainly; they seem to have lesssense to the square inch thana fleck of sheep; but the question is whether even shrep ought to boxed and hanged by a short-tempered thirty-dollars myrmidon solely because they don't understand him when he "baa's 1" It is very seldom that they know that they have.. a right to complain to the Superintendent or the superior officials, and those who do know also know that it is dangerous. Protective rules may be, and are, made, but whatever else the officetă will do they will always combine to screen each other, and as marks are rarely left-not that the blows are not given with good-will, but a soft spot is chosen the appellant generally gets Bent away with a prospect of bread and water for "bringing a false charge against an officer,"
And thenceforward he is marked out for reports innumerable, and his life made a misery. There was some talk a or two ago of engaging regular officers English prisons; I rather think a vote was passed In Council, but there' It stopped. And in the meantime the shirtless dead-beat buttons up his coat, gets the Superintendent to engage him, dons the uniforms, and blossoms inte Sir," and a reformatory power!
A CORRESPONDENT of the Sumatra Courant writes from Kota Radja:-No impariant fighting has taken place during the past week or two, but sbots were continually being fired by the enemy: A gunner at Siroen, on 18th. ult., was hit in the chest and died immediately. At To turn from officers to prisoners, I would Lamdjamoe the enemy caused alarms during } like to ventilate, one distinct grievance. the last nights of the month. There was firing In Victoris Gaol, in 1886, the "mark on all sides but nobody, was hit. On the 23rd system was but pria maent setenced March Captain Ross of the English steamer to twelve months imprisonment he knows Edle river. He received severe ldewang wounds marks a day. So long as he keeps at work, and Whasis was attacked by Achinese in the that he has 1460 marks to gain—365 days, at 4 on the head and hands and was taken to our is not reported, he is credited with six marks fortification for treatment. It is hoped he will der diem, and so obtains his freedom in two- he not die but his condition causes great anxiety, thirds of the time. If he is in hospital at all Three of the Rajah of Edie's men
guarding the
earns ave marks daily, and when on punishment entrance of the river were killed by Achinese bis record is lowered, on a fixed scale, to the and their Beaumont rifles were taken away. bare four marks, thus lengthening the period which must elapse before his time is up. But the The guard from the fort whilst marching out la Pedawa Pontong were attacked by a single naval and military prisoners, and those sentenced Achinese who was probably mad. He was shot in the Consular Courts of China and Japan, must work their full sentence! This was down before he could do any harm. In the | confusion one of the Acblaese guides was surely never contemplated when the system was mistaken for an enemy and he was unfortunately extended to the East-and yet for lack of Interest shot dead:
on the part of the powers that be these men are enduring years of unfair defention and every day seems a month, mind you. Our present of the lethargic Secretary of State at home with Governor is doing something-poking the ribs
minutes" every few months, I suppose-but-it- is a matter that in justice calls for more energetic hopeless men. action on behalf of these friendless, characterless,
CAPTAIN E. H. VERNEY, member of Parliament member for East Belfast, are "wanted" by the for North Bucks, and Mr. E. S. W. de Cobain, London police the one on a charge of attempting to procure a girl for Immoral purposes, the fother for an offence, that has no name. Both these worthy legislators, It is hardly necessary to say, have vanished; probably they were and took advantage of the warning. Capiala warned la time, like the Cleveland Street gentry, Verney, is a retired officer of the Royal Navy who saw some service in the Crimea and during the Indian Mutiny, and he is likewise the author of several very readable books, "The Shannon's Bilgade in India," "The Last Four Days of the Eurydice," Four Years He is a Liberal and Horne Ruler, and has sat för North He is the son of the
of Protest in the Transvaal, etc. Bucks since 1885.
Rt. Hon. Sir, Harry Verney, Bart., and was born in 1838, so that he is 53 years of age. Mr. de Cobain is about so years old, the son of a Wesleyan minister, a Toy in politics, an eminent member of the Belfast Harbour Cóm. mission and Belfast Corporation, and Deputy, Grand Master of the Orange Institution of Ireland.
LIFE IN VICTORIA GAOL.
(Continued.)
VII.
The insolence of office, and the sparns That patient (prisoners), of the unworthy take."
Hamlet, slightly altered.
(To be continuadh)
CORRESPONDENCE.
.......[We do not docemarily endorse the oplalune expenssed by
Canaspondence in thie columo).
A POINTER FOR PASSENGERS. To the Editor or ser "Kaspxone Telxoratx," SIR.---As an occasional visitor to Canton I have been accustomed to use the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.'s line, or Butterfield & Swife's boat. I did so a few days ago, and it cost me $3 for my fare and as much for two plain meals. Last night I returned by the new Chinese-owned steamer Taí-on, and í think many would be grateful to know that although the vessel is not yet in ship-shape order internally bad better accommodation, much more kladly courtesy and attention, and Infinitely better how do you call it ?---" chow,” than on the other lines. And I paid $3.50. Henceforth the Talon is the vessel which will receive the exclusive patronage of
Yours truly,
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Hongkong, 24th Apell, 1891.
PASSENGER.
SANITARY BOARD, ATTENTION |
To rus Editor or the “Hosakond Teimoraru,”* "SIR,--Allow me 'n'few lines to draw attention
One of the most important factors in the proper conduct of such an establishment is having good and efficient officers. Writing of to the filthy state of the nullah which ruus the personnel of the Gaol in December 1883-through between the grounds of the Royal when there could scarcely be any insinuation Artillery and that of the Naval Yard. of personal bias-I wrote that the officials may truly be characterised as Ignorant, lazy and intemperate ne'er-do-weels, deficient in almost all the qualities which men in their position ought possess. Many of the "Europeans have been beach-combers, the
There are at the present moment several feet rubbish accumulated at the lower end of this of thick decomposed vegetable matter and other sullab, extending upwards to a distance of about 300 feet, and the steach emitted from this deposit is anything but pleasant. Of course it
It is against this short-sighted method of Garrison Staff at the City Hall has been fixed brought before Mr. Wise, at the Police Court, this wails and strays of the rum mills in Taiplag. sete in, and the authorities would do. well to see
manufacturing criminals that we have consistently protested for years.
for the 30th Inst.
most feeble specimens of manhood; and there "shan; the alleged Portuguese are as a rule
become more unbearable as the hot weather
of it begin to tell on the health of those who reside in close proximity thereto.
about the removal of this nuisance ere the effects
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{ "Dodo," in_Reynolds's Newspaper, says ---- Frequently have I called attention to the Parliament when questions affecting their pro disgraceful conduct of the legal members of fession arise. They then sink the politician and become acute professional men.-But he should see the "honourable official Legislators in Hongkong when the Salaries Increase question is on deck. Talk about sinking I THe master of a cargo-bost, who was charged last week with being in possession of a quantity of articles, including a couple of lengths of chala cable stolen from the wreck of the Nansing, was morning. He said he could account for the possession, and gave a long story of reference" them from departed friends, but as the was too improbable he was ordered to pay $25 or go to prison for two months. THE boasted suitability of the steamship Heung- than for the Hongkong-Macao traffic is pretty
to-day, regulating her hours of departure from here to Macao during the summer months. As the hours range from 1 to 5 a.m., passengers are certainly booked for a real good time. In the
TOTES EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG TELEGRATE." Ste.-Can you spare me space to affer my face of this slipshod kind of business, it is not to be wondered at if the Steam Launch Co.'s | an American; an Indian, and a Barbadien. Mosi rich harvest on this route. Piriviranca, as reported, has been reaping a of them have been sea-faring men-and boys, apologies to "Lady Reader" for having impugned for half-a-dozen are but mere lads and a few (the correctness of her arithmetic. Her answer- 28 years is the correct solution of your problem, CHANA LUN was charged at the Magistracy say this without pre in the fontity to generally both according to Cocker and other arithmetical this morning with snatching a pair of gold the most bearable in their attitude towards the
prisoners) have themselves known what it is to authorities, antiquated and modern, earrings, value $15, from a married woman in
wear the broad arrow on another uniform to that
Yours, &c., Queen' Road Central yesterday afternoon.
CORRESPONDENT. The complainant wald she was walking alone
"Hongkong, 24th April, 1891. near the Central Market when she felt her ear-
figure." Friend "What's that " M. Mclearly shown up by the time-table circulated
"So little of it goes to waist,”
THX execution of six men and one woman at At the Criminal Sessions, last Monday or early to-morrow morning.
Kowloon City will take place this evening 0.75 Acting Pulsne Judge Acorn sentenced
Ar the concert last night; Military Masher. FAN Kr, an ex-police constable, to threa"There's one thing I like about a trim, palita 1.0 years' imprisonment with hard labour, and 1.to three whippings of twenty five strokes each within the first six months. The man's crime, to use the learned Judge's own 75 definition, was in watching so as to allow 1.00 his confederates to commit a robbery. This | sun,
was the head and front of the policeman's | AN Emergency Convocation of Victoria Chapter, No, $25, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zealand Street, this evening, at 8:30 for 3 o'clock precisely. Visiting companions: are cordially lnvited."
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M. MASPERO, the Egyptologist, in his "Histories! Readings, devoles several pages to establishing the fact that strikes occurred in Egypt over 3,000 years ago. There's nothing new under the
Tax Singapore Fres Press notes the arrival at that port in H.M.S. Tamar of Major Hannay
" in a sprinkling of Indian and negro turnkeya whom one would think hardly fitted to hold the power with which they are invested."
I may add, too, that the entrance to this place Those, to a great extent, are my sentiments is silted up with aznd to, a considerable height. observation. There are some thirty turnkeys to-day, after twenty weeks of enforced
I am, Sir,
Yours faithfully.
DOCKYARD, of various_ranks-assistant second-class, ditto
Hongkong, 24th April, 1891. g first-class, &c., and they comprise (if I remember rightly) about four Englishmen, five Irish, five Spanish Portuguese Chinese mestisoes four Scandinavians, one or two Itailans and Maltese,
they now pOSICIE
Their lot is not an enviable ons; Joining the
offending; and even admitting his gulit and 1.00 its aggravation by the fact of his being a public officer, the sentence was 'out of all proportion to the crime, especially as 040 it was a first offence and the prisoner had and Lieut. A. Sutherland, of the Argyle and rings snatched from behind, and, turning round, corps must surely be a last resort, for at the 9.50 personally committed no violence. For only a a
the seventy-five lashes we can see no from Hongkong "for some big game shooting of the Water and Drainage Department, barely enough to keep them in clothing and tobacco after their mess charges are paid. They 1.00 justification whatever, and his Excellency in Negri Sembilan. We trust the gallant Major said he saw the complainant walking a short are, when on day-duty, ibirteen hours in
will have good sport. Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Galion, the
distance in front of him and, the defendant Governor should Interfera and LIQUEURS.
the face of it is THE proprietor of a Japanese coffee shop in defendant was caught wear the Stag Hotel by charge. They must not smoke, nor sit down, natch the car-rings. He gave chase, but the form, subject to regulations hardly less strict than those which bind the wretches under their Benedictine Maraschino
prevent what on
Wellington Street was robbed of his watch and another man. The defendant denied the charge nor speak (except in giving orders) to a prisoners Curacoa Herring's Cherry Cordial | an uncalled-for outrage on public chain live night by a Portuguese clerk, He Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura Justice. The inequalities of sentences informed the Police, and this morning Inspector and, in answer to the Magistrate, said he was they are perpetually spying on each other,
fifteen years old. By the Law of the Ladrones Bitters, &e.
to report any dereliction of duty they cannot passed in the Hongkong Courts have
receive a whi, plag of a dozen strokes, he was sent to gaol for a month, and ordered to
even call their evenings the'r own; all lignor become little short of a scandal and should
has to be passed by the warden before it can
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Quincey and Detective Hadden, who were on the alert, caught well-dressed damsel pawning
| the watch and chain in the same street. She
HE TAKES OFF HIS HAT.
LONDON, April 5th.
SLATE TELEGRAMS,
News from the Comoro Islands states that the
have taken place with French forces, in which British Indian settlers there have risen in revolt against French authority, Several engagements the former suffered a heavy loss. salama, pasi piper BRUSSELS, April 3th.
The Belgian Workmen's - Congress · have unadimously resolved to empower the Council General of the Labour Party to postpone the
elegraph. long since have been firmly dealt with was at once arrested, and sold the articles had
by the Executive; we shall review present is "wanted." Boy 1 the benjo:-
been given to her by a Portuguese, who at Wise, Kawashima Jintaro, his brother, and nine by a comparatively early hour, and sober, or they the Labour question be commenced on next
of the Magistracy this morning, before Mr. be taken into the quarters; they must be la general strike unless a revision of the debate on
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1891.
DETERRENT SENTENCES.
Ar a meeting of the Finance Committee
few noteworthy examples, for publis Information, at an early date.
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THE PROPOSED WATER-WORKS FOR CANTON,
of the Hongkong Legislative Council Is the local Chinese papar Chung Nget held in December last Mr. Registrar Sun Po is well informed, the Canton Acrrorn, who was then acting as Attorney Water-works scheme which has attracted General, in giving his views on the considerable public attention in this colony proposed extension of Victoria Gaol, lately, has collapsed. Our contemporary practically advocated wholesale dogging publishes what purports to be replies from as the punishment most likely to have a Viceroy LI HA-CHANG and the Governor deterrent effect in the reduction of crime of Canton to the petitions of He Luxe
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And Japanese have (Portuguese) And so ad infiniENING,
SILA. April 6:b,
young Japanese women were charged with are excluded for the night and, fined for being meeting The Chamber of Representatives secreting themselves on board the British steamer out; and they are at all times liable to be budget providing funds for mill hands on strike Zambril on or about the 16th inst. The whole searched, with very little more ceremony than is the only expenditure that has been voted by of the defendants-poor girls-pleaded guilty, a prisoner. All for $10, $40, or $50 a month { Workmen's Congress,... Captain Parsons, who appeared as prosecutor, The respit is that they have to either conduct A NUMBER of small causes were summarily dealt said they had no passport from Japan, and be themselves angelically, or forfeit a considerable A serious outbreak has taken place in Miran.
*men with in the Supreme Court this morning. In thought the two
had taken the proportion of their pay monthly. Yet they za The North West, frontler tribes have com the course of one suit the assistant balHff who women on board. They were. hidden in flourish-perhaps they live on their winnings bined to prevent the construction of posts on the served the summons (retumable on the 13th the fore-peak and were not discovered at "the card-parties*** at which the Euro Sunarla range, Twelve on our side have been last.) Innocently stated that he delivered it to the ull the day before they arrived here on Thurs- pean prisoners are allowed to participate, killed." It is probable that a large expedition will defendant on the 18th, and seemed not a little day. Mr. Wise thought the Japanese Consul according to the Daily Press
be despatched there to punish the turbulent Bun., formed his duty. The Acling Puline Judge at would be the best person to deal with the up to the standard of the Police the rest are a proud of the efficient manner in which he per- should be informed of the case, as perhaps he There are perhaps half-a-dozen men who are gach Pathan, dengan pan
Mtransal in Western fosil of the F Kobat die once dropped on him. "I have had to speak defendants. Captain Parsons sald the men| disgrace to the institution. Often have 1 heard trict, in the Punjab consisting of, the Miranzal three or four times of the manner in which these were willing to pay the passages for all the more than one of them boast that he had got valley, and inhabited by a tribe of Bungnah summonses się served. - You say that you knew women, but having no passports from Japan, he through bottle of brandy" the night Pathans. It has long remained a wild and law. it was returnable on the 13th and yet you only scarcely knew whether he would not incur some before, and more than once I have known. less fact of country. Its area is about 400 delivered it on the 16th P# The "oficial feebly responsibility for having brought them here.-- cases where warders have been ordered aquafes miles.. assented, and retired, looking surprised and hurt Me, Wise adjourned the case fill to-morrow I so to leave duty and get sober, in their 30,000s 1/3 tition in 1863 was at the kies that there was room for anything but that in the meantime the Japanese Consul could
be communicated with;
'thip colony," And notwithstanding the ! Kan, who, wo understand, was one of the commacodation,
quarters. – And perhaps, five minutes before, A letter from the Census Commissioner has those men had set about reducing a prisoner's: ) been purifiishod. The respits of the preliminary
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