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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1891,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Donkes-(proudly to friend)-Yes, Sir, I have nice of the finest children—

Mrs. Donks-Eight, if you please, Jack 1 Donks-Thanks—As I was saying, when Interrupted by my wife, I have eight of the finest children, etc., etc.

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WE regret to have tilto hold over a number of Important Items that are of more than ordinary Interest to our readers. It cannot be helped unfortunately; we are abort-handed In our journalistic staff, the Office, gost is sick and the Editor is up to the neck We learn from the Nagasaki Express that the In legal and other business, necessitated by un-Tokyo Asahi Shimbun celebrated its release blushing blackguardiam, which prevents his sole from the clutches of the law on the gth inst, by attention to bis regular duties and the topics of hiring all the metropolitan tramway cars for the the day. We claim special indulgence for a day day and conveying passengers to and fro free of or two after that, the "rag" will, transcend charge, at a cast of about yes 15,000. What even its best form of year ago.

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Ecorder, May 20th, 1890, by GIO. THR tea ex steamship Farthin arrived in New

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* 1.-Smallness of dose,

*2-Absence of unpleasant effect.

3.-Sulphates of Soda and Magnesia in nearly equal proportions.

4-Absence of unpleasant taste.

Op examining the chief waters on the Eng lah market with a view of making a selection, one is struck with the fact thats newly-Imported water, the Franz Josef, contalas 190 and 178 grains to the pound of Sulphates of Magnesia and Soda respectively. This is much in Excess of the quanties contained by either Hanyadi Janos, Friedrichshall, or Aesculap. It is evi dently the strongest water by far, whilst at the same time it fortunately happens to de almost tasteless.

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LI A WAI, Chloese philosopher and, advocate of the liberty of the subject to have some say in ANY man will become weak as water if you put the management of his country's affairs, was handed over tothe tender mercles of the Chinese enough whisky into him..

authorities early this morning, With_erves upon his wrists, he was slung on board a Chinese Junk by the pampered menials of the Hongkong taxpayers, and at noon to-morrow he will be mint a head-the only one he possesses, somewhere in the vicinity of the Bogue forts. Friends will kindly accept this, the only intimation.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Dardanus left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and may be expected on or about the and prox.

Brown.-How does a drink strike you? Jones-It does'nt strike at all. It's a complete union...

Brown-Boy, two cocktailst

wear any trousers?

SOME three years ago the Editor of a New Young Hopeful-Pa, those Highlandera don' Zealand paper, who bad the courage to accuse e local Government official of theft, found himself left in the cart" to a pretty heavy tune, and Young Honeful-Pa, would'nt they be cooler failing to fork to the naressed damages, be had to If they left off their conts?

Old Hopefa-No, my bay,

MR. JAMES Mutch, who hopes one day to be a C.M.G. has gone into strict retirement for the next fortnight, owing to his mistaking the short cropped frontispiece al Peter Sharp, police constable and prorrective Colonial Secretary, for the top of a postal par-box. at 11 p., last night in Queen's Road West. Mr. Mutch sends his compliments to all admiring frlendi.

THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock ;--. ‹ March.............." Nannie, wit thou gang wi me"„Wskelen.

LancerDuke of Fle

Valsa

The Thistet Share".....

Polka Old China

Quadrile..."The Lights of London" Grip." Valentine"

spood.

..DY' Albert.

Ceste. Willema, ...Rella.

go to gaol, and in gaol be died. However, the man whom a set of emasculated abortions in the form of jury-men decided bad been libeled; went. the way of all flesh, and lo and behold, when his books and accounts were overhauled' it was' proved that he was even worse than the thief and scoundrel that the hapless Editor had asserted him to be. Think of this, ye brilliant hers of Hongkong, and a wise posthumous shoes would you prefer to fill the murdered Journalist or the robbing scoundrel whom an honest man sought to bring to Justice for his country's good 7,

of

WHO Is responsible for the disgusting stenches which pervade the functions Queen's Road and Wyndham Street? Does emanate from the Hon. Sammy Brown's cesspools, or can it be that these repugnant odours

out are given

by the loafing JOHN JACOBSEN, barman of the Rose, Shamrock members the Hongkong Club? Of late we and Thistle "hotel, Queen's Road West, has have noticed one member of that exclusive (?) been remanded until Monday next on a charge institution, an erstwhile shipping clerk, by the bye, of having caused the death of C. Hill, a private who passesici a voice of the calibre of a snipe apparently in the midst of a doubtful contem- In the A. & S. Highlanders. Mr. Ed. Robinson, plation of suicide, as the wondrous advent barrister-at-law, appeared for the defendant; of a client who would trust him with an order but his Worship intimated his intention of finally for the purchase of two Punjoms, er one

placing the fraue before a jury in the Supreme

Court.

THE Important Jockey Club question, dealt with in our issue of yesterday, is held ever for the present. Some matters have arteen which the THE FIRST SHIPMENT OF OUR SUPPLY Stewards of the Jockey Club and their very own tout and informer, Mr. Godfrey C. C. Master probably overlooked in their anxiety to make i

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1891.

TELEGRAMS,

SEVERE FIGHTING AT VALPARAISO.

LONDON, August 25th. Desperate fighting took place at Valparaiso on Falday and Saturday between the Republican troops and the Insurgents. A sanguinary battle was fought on Sunday's great carnage le reported, bat the result is unknown, the telegraph lines having been cut. maj

OBITUARY...untuk

Mr. Ceci Raikes, Postmaster Genere), 19 dead, and hie desth is attributed to oyerwork,

LIFE ON THE PEAK. New Visitor-Boy, where's my linen ? Boy-in drying room.

New Valtor --And my socks and singlets ? · Boy--In the stove." New Visitor-Well, give me my Mackintosh and gums.

Boy--Not ploper-waterproof they wet and, gums full of water.

(Visitor faluts.) WOODYEAR'S Roval Australian Cheus, which bar already established a sound reputation In this colony, will shartly claim the suffrages of the Hongkong public. The show is an entirely new one, and contains an aggregation of talent that will doubtless ensure crowded houses to one of the most legitimate amusements the Far East has yet known. We hope to announce fuller particulars in a day or two. Mr. S. Relch is advance agent and Mr. Walter Harland

manager of Woodyear's Circus.

SEVENTY sailors from the Chinese Imperial Squadron landed at Nagasaki the other day and went in for a "real good time." Admiral. Ting, whose philanthropy ought to be known in Exeter and the gay and festive tars were soundly whipped Hall, didn't quite see it as a harmless amusement,

on rejoining their shipt. Their shrieks of agony, according in the Nippon, were heard far and near. Had this happened in Hongkong, dear old Ting would probably have been "run in" and treated to a richly merited dose of his own sauce; in Japan the braculent Celestial reigns

supreme.

EURIKA we have seen Rajah Francis, QC and still we live. The eminent legal light of Hongkong toadyism is stated to have vowed, with his customary Hibernian enthusiasm, to true, and we have really no reason to doubt our "bush up the Hongkong Telegraph. If this is informant, we respectfully invite the ancient vuliance to come right along. The learned Q.C. Is credited with threatening to knock us out in one round. Why doesn't he lavoke the aid of "James Pollte in his somewhat doubtful undertaking. The "princely house" and Rajab Francis, fno. Joe Francis and the "princely house "oh, give us a rest.

half of an imuris share. If this individual

AT KOWLOON. Plman-That's a fine property of your's, who tried him. '

there!

Ditman.—Yes; it brings in $15,000 a year. Pitman,-Gad | That's a genuine. Kowloon tin-mine.

Thus the "alcutts Statesman of the 8th Insti "According to some recent statistics, the Japanese tea trade is Increasing at the rate of shoutthree and-a-half million pounds per annum. Only three bandred thousand pounds are exported to Europe. the bulk going to Canada and the United States, which take eight million and nineteen million pounds respectively. It appears

A third type of the poor is found in the zimy, who have became slaves to drink, and have as their only ambition in life, the desire to get enough liquor to become intoxicated. Thesa are more numerous than is commonly gupposed. They resort to every means to obtala the requisite money. They beg, hold horses, open and shot cab-doors, run errands, carry trunks do chores, and in many cases prove patterns of Industry, But the moment they have cared sufficient, they drop work and make a bee-line for the neighborhood wherein they live. This repair to reached, they

their favorite boozing-ken and there buy the cheap gin, run sed beer, for which England is famous. It is so chean that a man can get drunk for a shilling, and nearly every member. of this class makes two ahillinga a day.

more than one such man from among the judges All of these are practiced in London. Even to this there is a humorous side. One eveningthe Taraing over last year's file of the Sunday writer was standing on the Tottenham Court Times, we find that when the Curaça arived Road walling for an omnibus. Near him were on this station, her crew were in a very dis. two professional beggars, who had stopped work affected condition in consequence of the treat for the day, and just beyond, sitting #gainst a ment to which they had been subjected while on wall, was a blind beggar, reading with his fingers the West Coast of Africa, and one of their one of those bibles with raised letters which are LEG MING, by professtein a bearer of the chief grounds for complaint was that their printed for people without sight The beggars national hamboo, was sent un" for a month captain wis wont to address them is "d-looked at him in silence for a moment and then by Mr. Wise at the Police Court this farenden great fat beasts," "by old cow, and to one of them sold, "Say, Tom, If we only had for-well, ves, for an error of calculation which shower on them even coarser and more disgust that accomplishment, we could double our in- tauferred thirty cents from the pocket of LI Shuing epithets, And yet this is the gentleman,

come, couldn't we ?"" kite seller. to his own capacleus nether forsooth, who was appointed President of the garments. Kites have decidedly "gone up.” Court that awarded Yeo eighteen months' hard labor for having dared to address a brutal tyrant In a somewhat similar strain. We wonder if when passing sentence, he thought of the remarks made by us some twelve months ago in reference to himself! It is obvious that when gentlemen holding Her Majesty's commission can. so far degrade themselves, and abuse the powers catrasted to them, av to address their subalterns in such a manner, they are striking a deadly blow at that discipline which is essential to the well-being of a man-o'-war. We again repeat that if officers would but learn to behare themselves as gentle men, to set a good example to the men under their command by refraining from low, disgusting, and filthy expressions, court-martials such as that held on Friday would cease to be a neces sity. The insulted Heutenant, whose offended dignity has now been felly avenged, rejoices in the name of Reginald Ambrose Cave-Browne Cave, and we learn that he has volanterred to remain on this station, and to do a commission in H.M.S. Orlanda. We sincerely hope that he will see the inadvisability. of so doing, and that he will embrace the first opportunity that may present itself of taking his departure from Free Australia, where men of his stamp are not appreciated. It seems that the Penguin has been ordered off to China; why should be not join her? He would, we feel convinced, speedily become her Commander's right hand and boon

yet companion.

that the demand for Tapanese teas of the commoner kinds is increasing in Austrails, but the statistics on this point are not accepted as accurate, since thuch of what is called Japanese tea is said to have come from Java. There is no doubt that Japan is cutting out, China, in the maiter of exporting tea to America: but, on the other hand, the export of Chinese tea to Rusils is increasing, the Russian dealers refusing to have anything to do with the Jananese variety,

REPORT OF THE HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

SEASON 1890-1891. To the members of the Hongkong Cricket Club. Gentlemen,The Committeekavethepleasure of presenting their annual report on the season 1800-1891.

balance of $5,09053 to the credit of the Club on The accounts which are attached shew a

the 15th August,

The usual list of members, with the batting and bowling averages for the season, is annexed. Captain Dunn heads the list with a batting verge of yo.7. Dr. J. A. Lowson comes next to C. S. Barff with 7.73 per wicket. Dr. J. A. with 25.13. The highest bowling average falls

Lowson comes next with R.6¢. Prizes were

presented by "Unknown" for the best averages. In all, the Club played 15 matches of these nine were won and six lost.

The principal scores were made by Captain Damm, 208, 137, 130, 69, 64, 54; T. S. Smith, 74; E. M. Blair, RE, 72; F. Maitland. 70; Dr. Lowson, 67, 59, 18; E. W. Maltland, 55; G. E.

RA, 50.

Taverner, 53. 3. Leach, 51; G. G. Boyle,

A team was rent to Singapore under the captaincy of E. M. Blair, R.E. The following matches were played:

I really the responsible party, we would reverentially direct the attention of the ginger- bread Rajah of the Sanitary Board, who has distinguished bimself as an especial champion of the coruption and rotten matter of by the way, an idea strikes us! Can it be that Hongkong lo general, to thle nuisance. But-

the poisonous stenches of which we have com- plained and placed at the doors of the misdoings Hongkong suffered defeat in the two former and

of Brown (of that ilk), and the "boosing" ken we have clied, have after all come from the chamber of our eminent legal luminary ? Who will satisfy a yearning public ?

THE other day, at Deniliquis' which town we might explats (for we know that the average Hongkongite is as tunocent of even a rudimen tary knowledge of geography as a possum Is of Its parentage in New South Wales,) the customary Mongolian testifier was in the box swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, after the wonted fashion of a Hongkong court of justice. Then the constable, or court-orderly, or some other official, towed in a rooster to-lend weight to the evidence, and the Chinaman proceeded to hack the bead from the unhappy bird in order to finish the oath and make it binding on his conscience. Next, the partially murdered fowl escaped and gambolled madly through the premises, scattering gore and feathers in all direc- Hons, while the heathen witness went wildly in pursuit in order to finish his osth and put bis evidence on a solid and credible basis. For, having started to swear on the mangled bird, it witness's testimony could be lawfully received, was necessary to finish the eath before the and he couldn't finish the oath unless he overtook the escaped moster-consequently, the course of justice really depended on whether

Hongkong Straits Settlements.

Do. 7. Colombo, Do. 2. Singapore,

proved victorious in the latter

The heartfest thanks of the Club are due to the Singapore community, for the besplisḥle manner in which they treated our representatives,

Owing to ill-health the President (Hon, W. M. Deane) was obliged to sever his connection with the Club. His resignation is regretted,

The accommodation in the Pavilion haring been found insufficient, it was decided at a General Meeting held on the sth June to extend the hullding at a cost of $1.400. The extension will be completed by the 1st October.

The Ground is in capital order. There are 301 members,

The Lawn Tennis Championship Cup was won by W. H. Wallace. The Singit Tennis Handicap fell to F. Pontllex, R.N., and the " Doubles” to Meters, W. H. Wallace and C. Platt.

The Club have to thank Colonel Chater and the Officers of the A. & S. Highlanders for their kindness in allowing their Band to play on the ground during matches.

receiving the Committee's Report for the past The Annual Meeting for the purpose of

season and electing the Committee for the coming, the 7th September, at 5 p.m. season will be held at the Pavilion on Monday,

W. M. DEANE, President, COLONEL CHATER, T. 5. SMITH.

E. M. BLAIR,

R. TRESILIAN, Hon., Treasurer, A. T. LEACH, T. E. DAVIES, W. H. WALLACE,

-Absent.

Members of the Committee

ARTHUR K. TRAVERS, Honorary Secretary,

A NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL IN. AUSTRALIA..

TAR

EIGHTEEN MONTHS FOR INSOLENCE,

Three Months'," Hard" for Giving

"Unsaltifactory Evidence.”

It is greatly to be regretted, says the Sydney Sunday Timer of July 26th, that the present commission of H. M. S. Rapid, which has on the whole been fally creditable both to the ship's company and to the Australian squadron

A matter which deserves mom than mere passing notice in connection with the court martial la question is the sentence of three months' hard labour that was passed on a youth named William Bolt for having given what the Court was pleased to term, "unsatis, factory evidence. The lad in question, who has only just been rated, and is not endowed with a particularly bright Intelligence, was a witness for the defence, and while giving evi- times, absent-minded dence he appeared extremely nervous, and, at His statement was somewhat incohérent, and he more than once contradicted himself, The Court felt insulted, and at the conclusion of its proceedings awarded Bolt three months' imprisonment with hard labor. This sentence caused much surprise and of the Court has been universally condemned. We understand that representations have been made to the Commander-in-Chief In reference to this matter, and that hopes are entertained of the objectionable sentence being cancelled, the more so because of the excellent character home by the unfortunate lad throughout his time of

indignation among the spectators, and the action

service!

THE POOR OF LONDON.

(BY W. E. B. F.) Long ago it was mid by some keen-sighted observer that london, the richest city of the world, was also the poorest. The assertion is sa true and applicable to-day as when it was altered eighty years ago. Of the four milions and half who make up the population of the modern Babylou, one million are so poor as to be on the awful borderland of paaperfim. The steady growth of the great metropolls has changed affaits in many regards. St. Giles and the Seven Dials are now quite decent neighborhoods, What they once were is now found in White chapel and Bethnal Green. Here is the most terrible kind of poverty found upon the face, of the globe.

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It is hard to realise the degradation of the outcasts of these districts. In coelostance the police reported that the rotting stoop of a tumble- down building had been used as a sleeping place for several years. The dark hollow beneath height of one step at one end and four feet high the stairs was five feet long, six feet wide, the at the other, The entrance was through a hole at the side two feet by two in dimensions Within the place the ground was so water-soaked as to be a thick zuud, and the walls and roof were covered with thick mould. Yet this nauseating hole was peopled day and night by anywhere from two to seven human waits, Another case reported by the police was that of a house which through decay had been condemned by the authorities and was supposed be antenanted. Yet every night it was crowded by tramps, and the favorite resting place was the space between the base ment Roor and the earth beneath, a quel cellar not more than four feet high. In this dive there were frequently at night a hundred inmaten, William Morr's, the poet and socialist leader, says that there are 29,000 similar places in London and at least 300,000 souls who infest them. Gen. Booth in a recent address at Exeter Hall uses figures co per cent larger than those quoted, and is his late bock "In Darkest England" describes pictures that verge upon the monstres.

The word "poor" is too comprehensive. It includes too many classes. In Whitechapel there are I know not how many distinct types which are expressed !^^is single term. Many of these types are not - vat a glance. The preponderating one ir. ysical wreck. This bas been joined

is not the man whose

A fourth type is found in that most pitiful of all beings-the fallen woman. And here London and England deserve unrestricted censure. Phariseeism, narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy are developing the social evil in Great Britain to such an extent that it is worse there than any where else in the world: The English system can be explatoed fo a few words. The moment a woman sins, she loses her status and can no longer, find work. Her parents, family and relatives become her worst foes. She can not, as in France, the United States and all other great civilized nations enter a disorderly bouse, because such institutions are prohibited by law, She can, she must and she does take to the streets for a livelihood, and there she remains until death. ~ She can accost everybody, enter every saloon, get drunk, be indecent, but as long as she is not disorderly, the law refuses to recognize her existence. Even when disorderly she is convicted for that offcare alone, and is classed with the "navvy" who has indulged too much, or the clerk who has been to a bachelor's party too late. No matter where she starts, she drifts downward rapidly, and winds up in the ranks of pauperism. Even there she pursues her career and unconsciously does her best to still farther deteriorate and "ruin the miserable specimens of manhood among whom she exists. There are other types, but they are of minor importance numerically. The workman and workwoman are unable to find employment, and they add to the army of the poor. Another is Still another consists of men and women brought up in the country, where they have always made a living, but who have been allured to London in the idea that they might reap a golden fortune. Foreigners unable to adapt themselves to a new language new customs and surroundings make a still different type. One more typë' deserve mention, and that is the one which in composed of dying industries. Every In- new In. vention and discovery creates

The dustries and supersedes, old ones. typewiller, for example, has sung the knell of the copyist. Improved furnaces and stoves are taking away the raison d'etre of the chimney sweep. District messengers have driven out the old-fashioned messenger and errand boy. In nearly all cases, young men, losing one trade, forthwith enter another. But nevertheless, a small percentage of young, and a large one of old men, seem unable to change, and to drift down into the ranks of the unemployed. In London they number thousands. They bear the same relation to active life, as do the sundried whalers of New Bedford, New London and Nantucket to the busy steamboats and steam- ships which dally pass them by

composed of those who are physical wrecke

Such, in brief, are the elements which together make up the poor of London. There are others, but they are so few in number as to hardly require mention. Of their mode of living, Modesty, nothing can be said in praise. cleanliness, decency, all the qualities which raise man above the animal, are absolutely dishonesty and little unchastity. The qualities neglected. Strange to say, there is but little which hold the race together are neatly as strong in the East End as in the West End. But in even this fies a menace to doclety. They mean the continuity and increase of the elements which are drag upon the wheels of progress. Can the evil be lessened ? can it be cured 7 Gen. Booth and his Salvationists say, aye. Canon Farrar and the Archbishops of York and Canterbury say, aye. Tyndall, Huxley, and the great English thinkers say, no, and say further that the scheme for amelioration proposed by Booth will do harm instead of good. Which is right? The Booth scheme is already under way, and the next decade will answer the question.

SOOCHOW.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

August 19th.

The foreigners must be indemnified, That plain hard fact suggests, not in vain, the thought, better protect than pay Indemnity. In accordance with orders from the Trung-li Yamén, the magistrates are calling upon the missionaries in Soochow for Ilats, including number and nationality of missionaries, principal, stations and outstations, schools, hospitals and founding asylums. And the missionaries are requested to state the style of the buildings, whether foreign or native, and the number of rooms in them,

„The request is la the form of a courteous letter sent to each missionary stating that the call for such a list is the result of orders sent'dows from the Trung-Yamén 1 that the object is to protect missionaries and their, propertys, and that the magistrates are required to make new late four, timess year and forward them to the Trung-W Yamin, MS

faster. Thit sort of thing is getting Justice down a Chinaman or a distracted bird could run the. pretty low, and, in order to make the Law look a trifle less of a fool than it usually does, it might be almost worth while to abollah the judicial oath entirely, whether it is sworn pa a Bible or a low), or any other object or substance whatsoever. Why this old superstition was ever started it is difficult to guess. Long ago the Sydney Bulletin kissed an old infected Scripture would be scared opined thatitwassupposed that awitness who bad thereafter lest he should go to Shool if he failed to tell the trath. but the result shows that he doesn't care for the alleged danger to any entent small, where evidence is called, the witnesses worth mentioning. In every care, large and ATYRANNICAL LIEUTENANT AND A HOT-HEADED contradict each other with a frankness and vigour that deatly proves one side is lying, and which does not prove that the other side isn't lying also. And as, in many cases, the witnesses are swearing out of pure friendship, and have not the slightest financial interest in the matter, it is evident that the world is full of people who will take their chance of Bheol to oblige a mere passing acquaintance, and the man who takes HERE is a slab of slush from the London and an oath is no more reliable in consequence of

by drink or vice, but the army who have inherited China Express, which will amuse those of our that proceeding than he would be if he had only

small skulls, scrofuls, anemia, King's evil from readers acquainted with the escapades of Com. taken a drisk, or su onion. Moreover, the old

an ancestry as miserable as themselves, and mander Usborne Moore and his no doubt worthy formula is mischievous as well as useless, generally, should at the last moment have been who will transmit those tendencies to hundred associates - The arveying abip Rambler, When a child-witness is put in the boxtamished by a disgraceful episode which is of generations yet unborn. Even were work which has just returned from China, has done the Coust straightway tesis its credibility eminently calculated to bring the Service into given to such people, they would be unequal good service during seven years on that station, by enquiring if it knows where it will go labsolute disrepute, and which has already to the task physically and montally. As a matter, Bs, thanks to the exertions of Captain Vereker if It violates the oath and if the answer engendered a vast amount of ill-feeling between of biological development they are about on a and Commanders W. U. Moore and L. 9. comes In the one word "Hell," the evidence is - the crew and one of their officers. We refer to par with a boy of eight years of uga. A second DATION, the survey of the Chins seas acceptable-not otherwise, In other words, } the court-martial held last Friday morning on type li the hereditaty beggar. He or she is has been materially advanced, The wessel the infant that knows about Hall can swear Charles Yeo, A.B., a hot-headed and impulsive usually of a fair sirength and health, but has the possession of such a list made from datą left Chatham in 1884 under the command of away the life or liberty of a buman being, and tar, who in a moment of ungovernable panion been brought up to earn a living from the charity furnished by missionaries themselves will prove Captain, the Hon. F. Vereker, who commenced if another fafant that doesn't know about that suddenly rounded on a tyrannical liegienant, of others. Despite the efforts of the law and to be a great advantage to the Chinese gover. the survey of the Chusan Archipelago to the same Institution is at hand to swear in his whom he accused of goading him on to despera reformatory organizations, their numbers seem ment. For with this list in hand the value of south of Shanghai, and ran, meridian distances | defence, it will be rejected, and the prisoner tion. To make matters wone, Yeo indulged in never to decrease, and they bring up their off- any piece of propety, that may in future be between Shanghai, Amoy, and Hongkong, He | might hang as a consequence. Yet common- some very strong language, such as should never spring in follow the same calling. They many destroyed can be easily estimated, and extrbitant was rellered by Commander Moore in the sense and experience bave long since demon pollute the lips of man, but which, unfortunately, early, and the women, marriage or no marriage, demands for Indemnity, met and cut down. The following year, and under the superintendence strated that the more an infant knows about is tou commonly used both fire and aft in the have children as early and ‘as often as possibles man who thought of making up such a list must: of the latter the Archipelago survey was com- perdition the less likely is it to be reliable, for ships of Her Majesty's Navy, The Language From & professional standpoint, the additional have had one eye on Wahu and the other on the pleted and a new plan was made of Hongkong instructionfant; and, moreover, as neither the Saval parlancs as unbecoming the quarter- cally income 100 per cent. When beggar

"In fact, of the class that is described in attraction of a baby Increases a beggar's future ensuring harbour. The most Important work carried ise any infant; out, by Commander Moore and bjs officers, | Law nor the Church, nor all the colleges have | deck," save when it is hurled at a

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women have no children, they bire, ine is raging in and around Soochew. The coffin however, was the triangulation of the whole ever yet proved that there is any perdition at allor" by an epauletted blackguard. For this fants who are la the market for the makers are kept unusually busy on account of coast between Shanghal and Hongkong, and all, the legal test of credibility is that the offence Yeo was sentenced to eighteen months' purpose The prices vary greatly. A fine the great number of deaths, ple the recessity for this task was unfidently shown Infant-witness must know a thing which pro- imprisonment with hard labor. We cantol— healthy babymatch rosy checks and bright; eyes. A ripple of excitement was recently caused by by the fact of some of the principal points of bably doesn't exist at all-in other words, it and even though we could we would not attempt is worth two shillings a day; an ugly, cadaverous's threatening letter thrown into the entrance waY Land and even lighthouses being found to be must lle as a proof that it tells the truth. The to justify the prisoner's insolence, nor do we one brings from 6 pesca to one shilling; one with of the Methodist mission hospital and a few grossly out of position. The Breakwater Polat diemal old process is good for this thinge only purpose finding fault with the punishment sores or ulcers commands from one to two Incendiary placards posted in the southern end lighthouse, for example, was found to be it disseminates germs by means of ancient meted out to him; what we de contend, how- shillings. The diference in the pecuniary of the city, The,leiter was sent to the proper fully a mile out of its true position on the Bibles and thus helps the struggling medical ever, is that in this matter of abusive and attractions of bables has given birth to a horrible magistrate who took a serious view of the matter chart; this and other similar errors being due to profession-It farnishes sundry if dollars for indecent language the officers should set an trade, "child-doctors." These with drugs and and proclamations were linned offering a reward the disjointed surveys previously carried out commissioners of affidavita and in places where example to the men ander their command, and chemicals produce barrible looking tores upon of a hundred dollars for information concerning this extensive ares of coast line. The Ramble Chinese witnesses are plentiful it booms the that it is manifestly unfair to send a blue-fucker | an infant's face, neck, shoulders, arms or legs. The writer of the letter." The Governor of the was last recommissioned at Hongkong in chicken Industry considerably. But no) adult - won feton's cell for an offence which is invariably | Most of these sores are artificial and do not province has issued a large and fali proclamas February, 1889, by Commander 1. B. Dawson, witness that wanted to lie ever lod koy the less langked at when perpetrated by an officer on a ; Injure a child, but at times Ignorant or unskilful tion and has sent a copy to cach missionary, with from the Myrmidan, who now brings the vessel because of his oath 3-and as far as concerns the bise-jacket,,, (( is a notorions fact, that several || professionals employ lunar caustic or nitric acid, particular instructions to have it pasted upon a home. We should like to have Ex-Liest: infeat or child-testifies, this crippled waperstition gentlemen holding high rank in, the Australian and the unfortunate subject. In disfigured for lifes posed, frime" and hung up in a conspicuous Gleig's opinion as to the valuable exertions of shuts out the only kind of chid that ever does Squadron are in the habit of using expressions Evertone knows of beggara, tricks ; the simu- | place. The language of this prociamation Isavea Commander W. Usborne Moose, whose record tell the truth--the child, who hurn's heard about | wilch to a civilan would appear infamous and Intion of blindness, lameness and désiness, and nothing to be desired and many copies of it have is anything but a flattering one.

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