1891-04-30 — Page 5

No. 2831

BIRTHS.

MAIL SUPPLEMENT

The Hongkong Telegraph.

On April 22nd, at St. Jako College, Shanghal, the wife of J. RMKIN, Esq., of H.M. the King of the Netherland's Consulato, Amoy, of a daughter. On the 22nd April, at 21, Elgin Road, the wife of T. DE FARIA-NEVES, of a son.

DEATHS.

At Hankow, on the 14th-Inst., WILLIAM- FORBES SHARP.

At Shanghai, on 22nd April, WILLIAM ADRA BURR, aged 55 years.

At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 27th instant, Captain JONN PARKINSON LAND, steamer Fatshan, ngid 50.

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The ostensible object of the Gambling Ordinance was to remove a doubt as to what actually constituted, 8. commori gaming house in this colony. A large number of so-called Chinesa, cluba had sprung up in the town to. which all and sundry could resort and indulge in games of chance, and in certain cases, when the offenders were hauled up before the magistrate, they were acquitted, owing to the alleged ambiguity of the language of the section under which they were

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régime, some of whom are still staunch of his best friends he stuck to his post, after advocates of the triangles and the cat."his health had exhibited evident symptoms of late years sentences of flogging have of an Impending collapse, until Nature been greatly on the increase, the present fairly gave way and he had to be carried, Chief Justice having set what we consideras on that fatal night the 24th February a most unworthy example both in this 1584, to the Government Hospital, where

victim to direction and generally as regards severity he died two days ago,

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unofficial members contented themselves principal promoters of the projected new with briefly expressing their dissent, Instead water supply for the capital of Kwangtung, of turning on their heels in eloquent silence. The Viceroy sets out that the labour and Their position must have been a most expenses necessary to carry out the painful one; conscious of the justice of proposed works would be enormous, and their cause though they were, they had to that if the community were called upon to submit to be addressed in terms which at captribute, towards the cost and upkeep, any other time could not have been too serious troubles would probably arise. And lindly resented, and that they have the HAN-CHANG, at his advanced age is sympathy of the public whose cause they naturally desirous of avoiding any conflict have championed admits of no doubt. The with an irate populace who most assuredly situation is critical-how critical we cannot would kick against" any. Increased say until, by a perusal of the utterances of taxation even for such a boon as a plentiful his Excellency yesterday, and by the lapse supply of good water, he has solved the of time, we see exactly what weight to difficulty to his own satisfaction at least attach to a sick man's fulminations. by shelving the petition, and refusing to memorialise the Emperor in favor of the tak

project. His Excellency has further given. erders for the Immediate arrest and severa punishment of Ho Lung Kas, whom he official dismissed. from describes as an office, and who has already been under the ban of the Emperor's displeasure:

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of sentences, an example, however, which the exaggerated notions of duty and to the Acting Pulsne Judge appears determined gross neglect of the Directors of the This policy is neither Steamboat Company, who ought to have to imitate. in harmony with the times in which relieved him from duty weeks ago. And we live, nor is it calculated to effect his requiem from the official representative the main objects in view-the reduction of the Directors was that chaste specimen of crime, the rehabilitation to honest of cynical philosophy, the same old thing, life of first offenders and other persons suppose!" For shamel who are not habitual criminals, and the The success achieved by the Steamboat intelligent treatment of the whole criminal Company since its inception has been due classes. Hongkong has retrograded, not In no inconsiderable degree to, the skill advanced, in its criminal system during and care exhibited by the commanders the past ten years, and it is undoubted that and officers in managing the steamers, the excessively severe punishments inflicted and also to the courtesy, tact, and obliging any commentary on the flimsiness of the in cases of petty larceny, and in many dispositions of the captains in dealing with boasted civilisation of Westerners were instances for other trifling offences both passengers. No commander in the service needed-if a good example of the latent

barbarism common at the Magistracy and Supreme Court, has been more deservedly popular than

The Governor's, reply is' couched in have contributed in no inconsiderable Captain HoYLAND, none has ever been and the Chinese. alike were demanded a pretty much the same terms as the visit to Kowloon City yesterday (26th inst.) Viceroy's. He opines that if the extant to the increase of crime and the more kindly and obliging

On the people were forbidden to use water steady augmentation of the ranks of the passengers, none more skilful and efficient would have supplied the want.

own wells-almost every criminal classes. A Chinese who is once in the performance of his onerous and strength, of sensational rumours that from their

six so-called "pirates" were to be house in Canton has a separate well of its dogged in gaol is at once placed outside the Important duties, none a more devoted decapitated and a woman tortured by own, and compelled to pay for a supply. pale of decent life; any honest occupation and faithful servant and advocate of the for the future is rendered almost impossible; Steamboat Company-no man living has thing, che process at Kowloon city, from the proposed Water-works, and the indelible marks of his disgrace, done more for the interests of his morbid moh of residents in this Colony would be difficult to get them to obay with which he will bear on his body all his life, employers and not one has been ao pent their Sabbath in reeking gambling delight. He also foresees serious troubles render him a social pariah and drive him to scurvily recompensed. "The same old! hells and grog-shops across the water in the suggested monthly, collection of a steal in order to satisfy the pangs of hunger. thing. I suppose," sneered His Mightiness; hoping that they would be so fortunate as to water-tax, sums up by concluding that He must either starve or steal; he prefers the "mere stribe" of the Company-the see seven hapless wretches-especially the the benefits of the new scheme would the latter, is againarrested, tried, sentenced, description is Mr. BELILIOS, chairman of woman-butchered to make a Hongkong be very little and the disadvantages flogged-and becomes a hopeless case: the Company, not ours-when he learned holiday! From Saturday afternoon until proportionately great, and therefore refuses It is against this short-sighted method of that Joan HOYLAND, after half a life-time's late last night that pestilential spot was to accede, to the petitioner's propasals...

This is only one more instance of manufacturing criminals that we have hard work in the service, had been carried the scene of what can only be described

As a disgusting and disgraceful orgie. A the strong disinclination of the Chinese consistently protested for years.

to the Hospital to die. And we repeat

tó adopt foreign, 'methods;; unless At the Criminal Sessions on the 20th Inst. "for shame HOTLAND and the present more mixed crowd was surely never seen Acting Puisne Judge ACEROTD sentenced writer have had a dispute, extending there than that which, until dark, gazed absolutely compelled to do so by the a well-known expectantly towards Kowloon Point, round necessities of the moment. The proposed FAN K1, an ex-police constable, to three over some years, over years' imprisonment with hard labour, and passage from "Horace; wy never could which the gun-boats bearing the condemned Water-works, would undoubtedly have three whippings of twenty five strokes each satisfactorily settle it, and it is too late would have to come; women, not one nor proved an invaluable boon to the within the first six months. The man's now, but we hope one of these days to two but over two score, attended the millians who crowd the narrow streets of crime, to use the learned Judge's own oblige the Secretary of the Steamboat Co. promised torture of one of their own sex Canton, but the difficulties in the way of definition, was in watching so as to allow with our version of the wisdom of the with all tranquility. Drinking, gambling, realising the scheme on the lines proposed

elbowing past lepers to gaze curiously on. his confederates to commit a robbery. This great Latin philosopher and savant, and the exposed heads of the nineteen men was the head and front of the policeman's to be able to convince him that to carry, who were executed the preceding week, offending; and even admitting his guilt and into effect the cynicism in which he

all these and many more examples of the its aggravation by the fact of his being appears to delight, a man must be as blessings of modern Christianity must a public. officer, the sentence was out of insensible as a granite rock.

have helped the missionary cause greatly all proportion to the crime, especially as

and Impressed on the minds of the it was a first offence and the prisoner had.

pagan natives the greater good of being personally committed no violence. · For

Christians, as thereby they, got a day off the seventy-five lashes we can see no

cach week to go and see executions. But justification whatever, and his Excellency the

Governor

THE GOVERNOR AND THE,

PUBLIC.

waste time and excellent sentiment on the all the moralising in the world won't alter these things, we suppose, so we need not, subject, but go with the stream, and supply for general Information, a few ghastly. -details.

were almost impracticable from the first.

any attempt to impose a fresh fax or a proverbially conservative and stiff-necked populace, who, Chinese-like, are satisfied with the water already at their disposal, would inevitably have led to riots and bloodshed, and without such tax the carrying out of the works and maintaining them after completion would have been

collapsed. qui impossible. And so the undertaking

OUR CONSTITUTIONAL DEAD-

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harmless sports and pastimes of Europeans At 8, Honan Road, Shanghai, on the 19th fast..tend in any shape or form to reduce the the wife of J. B. CAMERON, of a son.

particular vice against which this law is specially almed? If not, what is the good of it, as at present framed?

The legal gentleman who framed this model of Hongkong modern jurisprudence. must either have been imitating RIP VAN WINELE or attending the Sunday school classes of the Salvation Army. He defines a common gaming house as "any place opened, kept or used for playing therein at (a) any game of chance, or any mixed game of chance and skill, (1) in which a Hoy-bank is kept by one or more of the players

exclusively of the other or others, or (2) in | 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 managed, or against whom the players stake, play or bet-or (3) in which any commission, or percentage is charged in connection with the game, the THE GAMBLING ABORTION. stakes or the winnings-or (4) In which excessive stakes are ordinarily played for." Tux bite noir in this most original of Any place which is held for the purpose of legislative efforts was discovered in section a lottery or lotteries comes under the

the proposed ordinance. The section ordinance. If there is anything new, reads:"A place shall be deemed to be original, or sensible in the foregoing, we opened, kept or used as a common gaming shall be glad if the Attorney General or any house, or for the purpose of a lottery, of our readers will point it out. The existing when gambling is one of the main and Lottery Acts, unless Sir GEORGE PHILLIPFO was principal objects for which the said place is all at sea, and we don't think he was, fully opened, kept or used, although such place provide for race-lotteries, parl-mutuel, is also used as an ordinary social club, totalisator, and everything connected with and the public at large have not access horse-racing-side his lordship's judgment therato." This was too much even for the in the very interesting case of Fraser-Smith Official Phalanx of the Hongkong Legisla. Moore in 1884-, and we cannot see tive Council to swallow without making the slightest necessity or any reasonable wry faces, and from Governor DES Vaux grounds for this threatened interference downwards-and it is a long way down with the long established social privileges from his Excellency to that lay figure the of the foreign residents of Hongkong. Colonial Treasurer--they prevaricated and Horse-racing, race lotteries, the totalisator wanted time, thought gambling was a and pari-mutuel, a dollar limit at poker wicked thing and angel's visits were few or a fifty cent point at whist, are to and far between, and opined they would be made criminal offences-why? have quickly settle the difficulty if they only these wicked Indulgences shocked public knew how. But they didn't know how, morality, outraged "olo custom," inter- and hence the trouble. We don't know fered in any way with vested interests who drafted the original ordinance, and or the rights of the community? Oh! there is

desire on our part to dear not but the low Chinese gaming print a single offensive word regarding dens must be shut up, and our official that chef-d'œuvre of legal short-sightedness. legal luminaries cannot see the difference But we must really break a lance in defence between a low hell, open to all and of public rights, no matter whether Mr. sundry for purposes of gaming and for ACKROYD or Mr. GOODMAN is responsible nothing else in Lascar Row, and the for the thing so realistically described in Hongkong Club in Queen's Road and the heading, of this article.

the City Club in Ice, House Street, If Governor DES Vaux cannot see his way to absolutely withdraw this most Quixote prevent what on the face of it is ince his return from sick leave in December should interfere and Ir has frequently been our duty, especially of intended reforms, the representatives of นค uncalled-for 'outrage on public last, to acquaint Governor DES Vaux with the public in the local legislature should justice. The inequalities of sentences unpleasant facts. His Excellency doubtless practically, protest by declining to vote passed in the Hongkong Courts have was not influenced one hair's-breadth by and leaving the Council-room en masse. become little short of a scandal and should what we said, although he has hitherto

The ling chi process is of a three-fold We seem to have arrived at a period in The man who makes a common gaming long since have been firmly dealt with had the grace (save and except when the nature. It is commonly interpreted by the the history of this by no meana house of every respectable club in the by the Executive; we shall, review a Military Contribution question was on the colony, where games of chance are few noteworthy examples, for public fapis) to listen to the voice of the public to learned ignorant as meaning "cutting into unimportant. Crown colony which needs common-whist, poker, euchre, billiards, information, at an early date.

someextent as represented by the Unofficial that punishment is called the sink, and The atrain at present existing between the a thousand pieces.". As a matter of fact careful thought and most cautious inquiry. bowls, etc., in which excessive sfuker

Members of the Legislative Council is reserved for rebels against the official and unofficial members concerning are ordinarily played for, is only fit to be

Yesterday morning (27thinst.), however, he

reigning dynasty. The common form the various questions before the Legislative. charged. All that was required to regulate tarred and feathered and left in that "MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN" took the unprecedented and in our opinion of the particular barbarity now under Council in Hongkong have their counter- gambling in Hongkong and keep it within condition. What are excessive stakes?

very questionable course of convening a reasonable mits, was to distinctly lay Twenty dollars or twenty cents? Who

"THE same old thing, I suppose!" Such semi-private meeting of the Unofficial review Is the tai ling chi, the "plece parts in Ceylonand the Straits Settlements. Gutting." In which thirty-six wounds are The questions being dealt with may not have down, without any room for doubt, the shall decide? A Hongkong police was the satirical comment of the Secretary Members, at very short notice. Those inflicted. An excellent example of that form been skilfully handled, nor perhaps are difference between a properly constituted magistrate! Not scarcely that feeble of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao gentlemen responded to the Invitation with club and a common gaming house. A bubble has burst. Sir WILLIAN DES VEUX Steamboat Company, Limited, on learning more or less alacrity-thereby, without of capital punishment is afforded by the they aut methods of bringing out the fact ) simpls matter apparently, but it is leaving here shortly for good; before that the senior officer of the Fleet, Capt. the least shadow of doubt, weakening photograph taken by Mr. SHARP, late chief that discontent exists. The discontent is

one point or engineer of the steamer Feishan, at Canton, not, however, on nevertheless resulted in the evolution of he leaves, we strongly recommend him to JOHN P. HOYLAND-whose death we their hitherto unassailable claim to

one question. It.ls deeper a very much involved and, a appoint a Mixed Commission of sensible recorded on Monday last-had been public support-and met His Excellency last year, excepting that he did not get the reference to whole, decidedly Idiotic ordinance which and practical men to investigate the removed from the steamship Fatshan on (who was accompanied by General Dia mutilated head. This terrible punishment than that; it is the spirit of autocratic threatened the rights and Independence of gambling evil in Hongkong and to report

a stretcher to the Government Civil BARIER) in the Council Chamber. As inflicted on parricides, and on women versus Government-by-representatives that every social institution in Hongkong, on the requirements of the colony in that Hospital, suffering from a severe attack shorthand-writer from the Daily Press was who have poisoned their husbands. The is on the balance; it is the attempt of the third, and, least terrible form, Is the sin Crown Colonies Government to perpetuate And the Unofficial Members very naturally direction. To pass the present Ordinance of pleurisy, aggravated by a general in attendance, lo order, we presume, that ling che, or eight cuts. It is reserved for a condition of things which cost one at kicked against it, and Governor Das Vaux In Its present shape would be the height of break-up, which eventually caused his the representatives of the tax-payers womens who have committed crimes too least of the English Kings his head, practically upheld their objections... folly.

death. The remark was not a judicious might be impressed with the fact that serious to be explated by simple strangling and two or three more their thrones. We have already quoted the objection-

one; it was totally uncalled for, and their utterances would be recorded, not It was this last mode of torture which it is a repetition of the old mistakes able section of the ordinance as originally DETERRENT sentenceS. had circumstances been otherwise, it was necessarily as a guarantee of good faith rumour alleged would be inflicted in which lost the United States to the drafted, and we cannot really see that the

in shocking bad taste. The Secretary to reverse the editorial phrase, but for proposed amendment is any Improvement. Ar a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Steamboat Company enjoys the publication if they said anything that this particular case on the Vanishing British Crown. The continued divisions It reads "A place which is used as an of the Hongkong Legislative Council reputation-whatever it may be worth could be construed as disrespectful." Lady-or rather the Phantom Female Into Unofficial and Official groups In

at. Kowloon city last Saturday.

the Legislative Council here betoken ordinary social club to which the public hold in December last Mr. Registrar of being the cynie par excillence of this | No independent reporters were in attend.

It is hard to say how much (or how little) a condition of things which has only at large have not access, shall nevertheless Actors, who was then acting as Attorney colony. The words of wisdom which fallance, no accurate and authorised account

truth there was in this rumor, but a member had one result in the history of the English. be deemed a common gaming house if kept General, in giving his views on the from his lips like glittering dewdrops are of what took place is yet obtainable, and of our staff, who was at Kowloon city on speaking people for the last 800 years. or used elther for the playing of any proposed extension of Victoria Gaol, no doubt treasured by an admiring His Excellency's Private Secretary this of the games mentioned in A, or for the practically advocated wholesale fogging Board of Directors; his opinions, to use afternoon gave us to understand that we Saturday and Sunday, saw the mandarin It aiay be the fault of the system of and the "commander of the forces," both Government more than the governing purpose mentioned in B in section 2. as the punishment most likely to have a MACAULAY's well-known phrase, may be were dependant on his master's august of whom said they expected the gunboats class which demands reparation, but it is Now, before going farther, we must deterrent effect in the reduction of crime "acidulated with scorn and still may | pleasure as to whether we ever got one

at any moment. In the squalid little gaal evident that something has to be done, and explain, as far as we can, what the misty In this colony. And notwithstanding the be the virgin metal belleved in by some or not.

were two middle-aged women-one of will be done soon, If not with a "reeking references to "A" and "B" mean. The fact that the Secretary of State positively shareholders, but we fail to see how he So far our readers will simply have whom had a very contused arm, which whittle" at least in no uncertain form. genius who drafted this legislative master and absolutely declined to accede to the is going to justify, giving him every formed the opinion that this paper she said she was unable to get doctored! We are honoured with a representative of plece wants to define what a lottery is, recommendation of the Gaol Inquiry licence and every possible advantage smarting under the loss of some good forgetting that the Lottery Acts require Committee, of which the worthy Registrar available, the gross and bitter and copy" but we will try to show that under An official gave our representative to the Queen, and could we get that understand that they were implicated. In representative to Imitate the position neither explanation nor definition. And of the Supreme Court was chairman, cowardly insult he offered to a man who cover of this policy of privacy, his the same crime as the woman who was to her Majesty holds in matters constitutional ho says that "a lottery includes any game, that dogging should be sanctioned was practically on his death-bed and Excellency la concealing, or trying to method or device whereby money or for number of comparatively minor who for the long period of nineteen years conceal; the fact that he has gravely be tortured, having helped her to kill her we would not object to the infliction of a money's worth is distributed or allotted in offences, we now find Mr. Acxxord in his had been a most faithful servant of the insulted the whole of the residents in this daughter-in-law; but somehow they had lay figure, But such is not the case. any manner depending upon or to be present position of Acting Puisne Judge Company which pays Mr. THOMAS ARNOLD Colony, as represented by Messrs. P escaped her sentence. There was certainly Her Majesty's representative is permitted "determined by chance or lot for gnoring the very plainly expressed his very handsome monthly stipend. In Rrait, JJ. Kaswick, T. H. WHITEHEAD, pretence made of keeping men on the by the peculiar constitution of a Crown the result of any race or contest) instructions of the Home Government, and England the remark which opens this and Ho Kit. For nearly an hour, ignoring look-out for the gunboats, and a man who colony to reign pretty much as he pleases. whether the same be held, drawn, ordering the lash with no unsparing article, under the circumstances would any interruption, Sir WILLIAM DES VUI Was alleged to be an assistant-executioner Helaughs at unruly members of his Council exercised or managed within or without | hand on a hapless prisoner who probably have subjected the speaker to stood in front of those gentlemen and

was pointed out, and apparently filled the and rejoices how affectively he handles the colony." And there is a lot more had the misfortune to come under his personal violence of a serious character; harangued them on the text of Humility responsible situation to hisown satisfaction those revolutionary gentlemen; he creates a Sanitary Board in which the elect of the Ignorant rot intended to mean the same furisdiction:****

In Hongkong it will possibly lead to an in language which, we have reason to At the same time the official countenances thing Horse-racing la perfectly On the broad question of Begging for increase of salary; but to those who know belleve, was not resented simply on account wore an expression which Impiled con- people may expend their energetic howling legitimate and legal pastime isevery hedge offences against law and order there is no the truth and are not altogether debased of the Governor's former popularity and celea Joy at having fooled the barbarians against what ja mere screen for the to completely, and in 'view of the fact autocratie doings of wilfully short-sighted lawyer ought to know right well, staketle room for the judges in Crown colonies to from common manhood, thatfamous saying his present shattered state of health. He that the gambling dens were driving such officialdam. All these are tactics which connection with racing, are just as valid make any serious mistake. Public opinion of ROBERT BURNS about "man's Inhu accused them of seeking to dictate to her trade, as they never did before, the hide the truth for a time, but when the as the transactions of ordinary mercantile in England has distinctly said that floggingmanity to man" will inevitably pressupon | Majesty's Representative on the subject of Nie; but our Hongkong legal: SoLox as legal punluhment, excepting for the memory when the Secretary of the the Milliary Contribution and the Salaries probability is that the modern Chinese Anglo-Saxon seriously takes up malters, Shylock, his Excellency, LA HAN-CHANG,especially matters. constitutional, woe whoever he may be not that that matters garrotters" and "In cases where brutal Steamboat Co.'s charitable comment upon dispute ho directly Insinuated that and his shabby crowd of obsequious betide any one who obstructs his reaching "very much, as he is most probably a fitting violence has been used, will not batolerated, an old and trusted servant, who had their joint letters on these subjects were ordinates were at the bottom of the his goal, more particularly when the representative of the mixed crowd of and that expression of public opinion practically died at his post, comes to be insolent to a degree, and he said, in so whole thing. The Customs officials in advocates of progress are offensively Knaves and fools who have flooded this has been supported by Her Majesty's carefully and dispassionately analysed many words-If our informant's memory Hongkong, who would certainly have ridiculed by their time being masters, colony to its detriment for years Government. Fifteen years ago the state and considered,

is to be rolled on-that he should make the heard if the gunboats really had left e has made the subscribers to an of affairs vid Hongkong was simply The same old thing, I suppose The Colony suffer, by neglecting his duty to it Canton on Saturday morning, assort that LOCAL AND GENERAL. ordinary racing sweepstakes, a universally infamous public floggings at the back of meaning is only too obvious, its brutal li the Unofficial Members did not acknow the whole thing was a canard recognised legal":"contract, common the Harbour Ofice were of frequent heartlessness leaves no room for further ledge their sins and withdraw from their thedepey la criminals in the eye of the law and subject | occurrence, the almost daily scenes at question. But where in the justification? offensive position.o

CAFT H. T. Hawkins, R.A.; has resumed his to the pains and penaldes provided the whipping_post being of a most Ay, there's the rub, Mr. Secretary For Such is the tone which our servant-the

duties as Adjutant of the Hongkong. Volunteers from, the 15th instyes yelling you a bandwer of for by this ordinance. Supposing ten degrading and demoralising character nineteen years John. HozLAND served the servant of every tax-payer in this Colony owners of race-pontes subscribed 820 The colony owes the removal of that relle Steamboat Company faithfully and well has adopted towards the public's represent en

"AT A Apecial #EFNICs of the Justices of the Peaco

a apesisi: a-place for a cup or awanpatakes to be run of barbarizm-to-Sir: Jong Porr HENNESSY, he was blown up in that wretched tatives in the Cowards Castle" of the the local Chinese paper Chung Ngo on Tuesday, May 5th, Mr. Robert Isherwood for at Happy Valley, they would place who not only abollihed public flogging but abortion of a steamer the Fetal and guarded Council Chamber, His Excellency Sun Pe is well informed the Cantod wit apply fox a cease to sell and, retail intoxi- themselves under the bar of this ridiculous reduced corporal punishment in gaol to the only saved this life by a miracle he is ill, very ill-we understand that the Water works scheme, which has attracted saung liquem at the Mount Ausilo Hotel definition of a lottery and could be fined narrowest limits; and this he did walked the streets of Hongkong on medical diagnosis of his casels very gloomy considerable public attention in this colony Victoria Gaponunt sunst metus dan Agenda or sent to prison. Was this decessary to with the entire approval of the Secretary his appers, for many months through the and the Hongkong Community: can lately, has collapsed. Ourved temporary jo enlaatda "prevent" the existence of low Chinese of State, and to the satisfaction" of base ingratitude of the Directors; for nearly forgive much in a dick man who has proved publishes what purports to be replies from pleted his one care him of nonconsent, an CAPTAIN F. de Vero Creighton, (who has com25« gaming houses under the name of clubs the vast majority of the Hongkong seven years afterwards he commanded himself, in several Britidi colònies, Wory Viceroy Ly Han buano and the Governor Muliary Instructor Ipaka Koli Mihara Cada Will" offensive" "Interference with it, the community, the principal dissenters being the Company's steamers in a manner that ablerepresentative of English Trifereata. On of Canton to the petitions of Ho LUNG| College of Siam, has left for England, whos), jon- Comparatively innocent And Certainly certain officials of the old and brutal has neverbeen excelled, agálnil the advice that account and on no other¬tke kon, ! Kaw, who, we understand, was one of the will rejoin his regiment,

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