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HONGKONG,, WEDMELDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1893,
TELEGRAMS.
BYE ELECTIONS,
LONDON, February 7ih, The election of Colonel Master (Conservative) member for Cirencester has been declared vold, the voting for both candidates being equal. The Hon. P. Stanhope (Liberal) has been elected for Burnley in place of Mr. J. S Balfour (Liberal), resigned,
THE UNITED STATES AND THE SILVER QUESTION. The U. S. Senate has refused to conskier the Bill for the repeal of the purchase of silver.
FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. Disastrous foods have taken place in South Queensland, Brisbane is isolated and other towns have been submerged, houses and bridges collapsing. Many persons have been drowned and hundreds rendered homelesu.
UGANDA QUESTION.
It was stated. In the House of Lords by Lood Rosebery, and in the House of Commons by
band to set subsequent to the withdrawal of the WE inve attention to the following Brands Mr Gladstone, that Sir Gerald Portal hait a free African Company from Uganda, lncluding the Fight to take over the Company's forces. He was also authorised to subsidise Mwanga,
all of which are excellent quility and good value for the money,
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May-So you're going to marry that hold, ich old Mr. Peak?
Irene-Yes, dear; he's so rich and has such a bandsome con.
THE number if American women who are now
supporting themselves in the profession of law. medicine, literature, journalism, etc., is computed
at 200,000
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She, I was a fool when I married you." He. "Aren't you a fool still p" Sbr. "No, I'ẩm not,” He. "Then you should be thankful to me for reforming you."
AT the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. Hastings, two Chinese boarding-house runners were fined $15 and $15 respectively for rushing on board. the stermibip Fushun without the captain's
permission.
person gets a salary another carns.
She-So a sinecure is position in which
He--Precisely, my love.
S' e-That's the kind of » job I want, He-You have It, dearest.
THIS morning Mrs. Gordon was presented with a beautiful sliver tea service and salver, in the name of the whole force of Hongkong police, Europein, Indian, and Chinese, as a mark of personal esteem, and of regret that the illness of Major-General Gordon compels bis departure from the colony,
the value of $70,464,000. Great Britain pro- Tux United States produced in 1890 silver to duced $182,375 worth, France $3.363 950 worth, Germany $1,000,000 worth and Rusta $56,000 worth. The United States produced nearly ball of all the silver mined in 190, and next came Mexico, with a production of $50,000,000.
The King of Spain, who has been suffering, THE favourlie Chinese mode of conversing from scarlet fever, is recovering.
yelling to each other from distances of a, few |miles is one that ought to be pa- down in some way, it possible. Some coolics who were making the night bideous last Sunday were interrupted by a constable, who was thereup charged before the Magistrate to-day with assault, but, rightly, not convicted.
"THE CITY OF PEKING," Mr. Van Buren, local agent of the Occidental and Oriental and Pacific Mail Steamship Com. $1.00 Pintes, courteously informs us that he received
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The City of Paking arrived in San Francisco on February 6th, with her shaft outboard, er propeller broken. Her ailing from San Francisco, and her departure from Hongkong on March 11th are cancelled. The Company' steamer China will leave Sth. Francisco on her regular date and all other tailings will be made as per schedule."
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Miss Skinny What is the best care for love?
Mr. Flint-Marriage. ·
LiQ | "PAPA" asked the small boy #what lo * | dignity ?” “Dig ly, my son," replied the
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In the House of Commons there are seven House and all of whom were re-elected this year, Jewish members, all of whom sat in the last A London correspondent says that they are all related to the Rothschilde. Baron Henry de Worms, Sir Julian Goldsmid, Mr. Stern and Mr. Cohen ate cousins, Mr. Montagu is a brother-in-law of Mr. Cohen and Mr, Leon's wife is a cousin of the others,
The old father of the Rothschilds, at Frankfort, Amschel de Rothschild, was very 11, when Blucher called upon him and tried to cheer him Diet" said the Field Marshal. "Why, you will live till you are a hundred 1"
"I am afraid." Amschel replied, "the old
enemy won't take me at pwr when he can have
me at elgbty-two."
THE venerable Rabbi Gedalia Sebi Josephson is now in Hengkeng on a mission to collect anb scriptions on behalf of the Eash Nidablm Society of Jerusalem, for the relief of destitute 135 A WRITER in the Boston Transcript has fi med Jews in Palestine. He has letters al recóm up that barven contains 1.8oooo souls, against mendation from the British and American consuls a population in hell of 175.coo ono DOD. There in Jerusalem, Mesus, Sasson & Co. of Calcutta, |are some Special Juror to come yrt,
and others. He will be bere for a few days, and will no doubt receive generous support from the The smallest inhablied island in the world is few who can sfford it for this most worthy object. $4.50 that upon which the Eddystone lighthouse The Rabbi visited the East some six years ago
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A SHORT Ime irce a Mr. Knott was tried for a
violation of the law. The verdict was: "We find the defendant Knot guilty." The Judge wag at a loss whether to pass sentence or not. THE police report having found a pale of boots near Sban-ki-wan, apparently Portuguese, in such a condition as to Indicate that their lehabitant had gone insiden tiger. High's is not Alver, it is as near as we expect they w'i ever be to catching him.
Bobby Barns The best-laid rehemes of mice an' men gang aft agler,
Mitchell Innes-Very well, then, we won't have any "best-laid" schemes-we will have the worst.1.
THE new printing types, made of malleable Risss, prem ive their cleanliness, and are said to
type.
Wear heffer than metal. They can be cast with. a sharpness of outline that will peint more didingly then is possible with the old style of He made it all right,—She' (i »pp-Inted)-The ring is pretty, hat the pearls are so very vary stanik.
He (airily)Yes. I 'old them it was for the smallest hand in the clty,
ALL who have ever been near it, says the Philadelphia Times, know the apreitzing with wine poured over it. But there is one thing fragrance of terrapin steaming on a chafing-dish that beats it. The lady (one of the accomplished gourmets of the Acorn Club) will not be pleased to see her pet litle dish given away to the world in this way, but for the benefit of epicures here It is. She orders freak oysters opened with plenty of juice, with a lump of baiter thrown in and About the time, they get ralt and pepper. thoroughly hot and when the chafing-dish begins 10 get in its work she has a plot bottle of chat- pagne opened, and this the waller slowly very slowly-pours into the stenting, fragrant mass. In a few minutes she dishes them out a champagne oyster stew Then she smacks her lips. The Clover Club is great on dainty dishes, but unless it catches on ta champagne oyster slow, It isn't in it.
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A NEW process for rope-naking turns out, rope from straw and hemp at a cost of a penny per pound.
THERE is nothing new under the sun. Corsets have. lately been found upon the waists of
Egyptian mummies.
Tire P. and O. steamabip Aden, in which Major General and Mer, Gordon go home, will probably not be ready to sail until Felday, as she is being fitted to carry troops bome.
THE following why res appear in the arifele on the French Academy in the Encyclopedis Methodique
Sommes-nou trenie-neus? `Ön eat a nŋa genoux' Somizen=nous quamente! On se fiche de nous. Can any of our readers translate these lines so 10 to show the point of the joka ? In the Police Court to-day, before fapt. Hastings, George Washingto i was charged with smashing the Grand Hotel barman's rose. George ralied bis eyes to heaven, a tear trickled down. his enaburnt (hemi) cheek, and be said "I cannot tell Re I was drunk." He did not became the father of bis country. He went to gaol for 60 days.
A provincial newspaper calls attention to feeding-bottle-4.,, nursing-bottle-advertise- ment #bich concludes with the words
When the baby is done drinking. It must be If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk, It unscrewed and laid in a cool place under a tap,
should be boiled,
This is a trifle hard on the baby. A PLUCKY and determined effort is being made Debating Society; on a more populus basis baz to resurrect the defunct Li erary, Scicolific and
before. A provisional working committee has been elected by the supporters of the movement, and a meeting will be held on Friday, at p.m., in Dr. Cantle's rooms, Fank Buildings, to which ladies and gentlemen ste freely and cordially invited.
A HOUSE in Pound Lane, Txt-ping- han, in by Mr. F. Maitland to have been broken open charge of Mears. Linstead & Davis, was een ye.terday, though supposed to be closed ¡ and on search being made, two coolles were laund occupying the picmires on the cheap. One of belcie the Magistrate 10-day and given still the men ran away, and the other was brought cheaper quarters for go days, with pleasant secreation and light refreatments thrown in. THE Simplon Tunnel will, when completed, be the longest in the world-over twelve and a half miles it length. The power required to drive the drills will be obtain. d by damming the River Massa on the northern side of the lannel, and from the River Cairance on the South. The former will supply 1,550 horee-power, and the latter 3,760 horse-power. It is expected that the work will take eight years, and a half for its completion.
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sympathetic car of the Assistant Magistrate A PLAINTIVE, pathetic story was told into be
to-day. A poor forlorn-looking crolle was charged with having attempted to commil uic.de. From the evidence it appeared that another man owed hits $7 and could not pay Whether it was anxiety to avoid baving to dun the defaulter, or whether it was despair at ever getting his money, anyhow the creditor bad tabbed himself badly and came in for a severe primand from his Worship. If we had only know, before paying those Special Jurors their $to!
IT is said that an attempt was once made by Jay Gould to corner all the gold in, the U. S. Flity millions of dollars was the price simed at The price of gold in March of that year was $1.30k, the lowest in there years, Gould bought to $1.40. A few days later gold rose to $1.44 $7,000,000 worth at $1.32 and put up the price On September 24th, the famous" Black Friday," Gould unloaded bis holdings and sold a large part of his gold at $160. The corner collapsed on an order from Washington to sell $4,000,000 in gold and hundreds of business men and speculators were ruined.
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(3) Over what period of time have there. defalcations extended, so far as in at present: known,?
(3) Was the defaulter guranteed in any way. and (if so) how, by whom, and for what amount?
(4) When were the defilentions first discovered and when were any steps taken for the arrest of newspapers, that Alves was allowed time during the defaulter ?—Is it a fact, as stated in the which he was able to make away with books and accounts incriminating him, and to escapa from the colony
Mr. Whitehead gave notice to ask the Hon. Will the Government appoint a Commission, the Colonial Secretary the following question:-
composed in the main of persons unconnected with the Government Service, to investigate and report: publicly on the management" of: the Treasury department and on the circumstances Connected with A. F. Alves' defalcations?
THE VOLUNTIES. The Volunteer Bill was read a second time, passed through Committee, read a third time, and became law.
THE PRAYA WHARF OWNERS. The second reading of the Bill for compensat. ing owners of wharvës affected by the reclama- ition was again postponed.
ADJOURNMENT. The Council adjourned for a month.
VICTORIA GAOL.
The following is the report of the Superia. tendent of Victoria Gaol for the year 1892 -
SUPERINTENDINT'S OFFICE, VICTORIA GAOL,
Hongkong, r8th January, 1893- SIR-I bave the honour to forward, for the Information of his Excellency the Governor, the Annual Report on Victora Gaol for tlga.
lens, the average number of prisoners consned 2. Daving the year there were 5,237 admis
In the Gaol being $15, which is alight increase on the previous year. The daily maximum number was $95.
offences to each prisoner as compared with over commited during the year, being about 149 3 There have been 7:494 prison offences
23 in 1891. The comparative re am attached #how the number of the most common se treze offences
conduct during the year, but the conduct of the 4 Nine officers have been dismissed for mils- remainder of the Gaol Staff has been satisfac
5. The officers' quarters are devoid ni neces sary comforts. There is no mess-roum of recrea- j it is almost Impossible for an officer employed tion
room, and, under the existing circumstances, on night duty to get proper real during the day, ho being constantly disturbed by these on day duty, who are compelled to use the same room.
6. The eccessity for introducing the separate: tem generally has been frequently urged and.. I would most strongly recommend its adoption.. At present from the time prisanets are locked up. hours, is Impossible with a limited staff to. moming, and again during the officers' meal in the evening until they are unlocked in the
exercise proper supervision in the corridors to as: to prevent prisoners communicating with cac'a incalculable amount of harm which this must do other. It fi unnecessary for me to mention te
and how the deterrent effect of Imprisonment is lessened thereby,
7. Extra store room and bith accommodation are required. The latter is so limited that bathing cannot be conducted properly,
8. The insufficient yard accommodation has s one of the most serious deficiencies in the. also been repeatedly pointed out. This 1 regard Gaol, and makes it a matter of the atmost diff culty to keep the various classes of piterners separate when at work. If this were iner cared many more prisoners could be employed use- ful and remunerative labour.
average number of females in prison during the 9 The female prison is badly altualed. The yer was 27, and, owing to the inadeqante accommodation, it frequenly hapres that remand prisonera have to be placed in the same ward with convicted prisoners.
10. I forward berewith the usual reinriis.. I have the honour to be, Sle,
Your most obedient servant,
H. B., LETHBRIDGE, Superintendent.
THE HONGKONG, POLICE.
POPULAR delusions die hard, says the London Insurance Observer, and the delusion that it forms a part of the business of Insurance companies to maintain fire brigades, continues The Honourable The Colonial Secretary. to enjoy a vitality which, although intermittent, seems destlard to be perpetual It will be through no lack of municipal bodies in various districts, if it should become extinct; and, unfortunately, the newspaper press is too often
The annual report of the Capt-Superintendent found giving an illogical and thoughtless of Police, for the year 1897, was laid before principle which is radically the Legislative Council this afternoon. It is as unsound. As in England, so apparently in follows 1-m. support to Ireland; fr we inlely read a leader in the Derry Standard, condemning the fosurance
POLICE DEPARTMENT,
CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,
information of his Excellency the Governor, the
Hongkong, 19th January, 1893. SIR, I have the honour to submit, for the Police Report for the year 1891.
against 10,869, in 1891, being a decrease of 1,199
The total number of cases brought to th notice of the Police during the year was 9.732 cases, or a decrease of 10.47 per cent,
Sub-divided into serious and minor offence (so-called) there wore in 1891, 2,983 cases of the former class against 2,994 In 1891, shewing a
IN Casull's Saturday Journal for December we find the following: There is open bribery of the Press which eve ybody sees. A newspaper has free passes to places of amusement, which are not sent from disinterested, motives. If an exbibition is to be opened, there is always in avoiding contribution to the local fire brigade. offices, in no measured terms, for their conduct Press day and a sumptuous luncheon. If a new The theory of the writer appears to be that railway lae is to be made, journalists, will be the offices are more deeply interested than the conveyed over the route free of cost, and enter-atepayers in the maintenance of such organiss bribery, but it is above board. What I wish to reasoning faculties are conspicuous by their tained in princely style. All this is really Hons. It is clear that, in this argument, the refer to Bre the cases where silenco abienes. has been bought by gold
It seems to the Derry Standard Every reporter that, (nasmuch as the losses of the cffices whose datles take him much into police are limited by the efforts of the fireman, Twx man who enjoys Shakespeare, recently courte is subject to affers of money if they ought to pay for the advantages thus D.75 Lord Rosebers, anters a freemasonry to be undertakes not to allude to certain charges secured, But there is another side to the gate | decrease of t cases or 0.36 per cant, and it which all the greatest who have lived since Bustness men sometimes find themselves looked tion. Supposing the brigade to be nelle the latter class 6,747 cases against 7,875 in 1891, Shakespeare belong. He is down at a banquet to which no rack and no wealth without the necessary qualification-without the secerary wedding garment-can ob1ala admfitance,"
1.75 THE London Grocars" Goustie says that some Ites may be gained of the ritent of the Australian ferson meat trade in England when it is men tioned that, owing to all the avaliable pice on the steamars, helg already bespoken, the Victorians have bern empeiled to fall back upon the sailing vessel, Receatly there was to 1.10 leave Melbourne by one saller the enorm us shipment of a cool sheep and lumbs-all for 1,00 London.
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up for being drunk, and have to appear before a magistrate. I have known on more than a single occasion ane of these cowardly drunkards throw half-a-crown upon the reporters' table, with the exclamation, "There, you fellows, bay drink with that, and don't mention my case. The money has generally followed pretty quickly after the briber, and the reporters have taken good care to revenge themselves by giving all the details, particularly mentioning, the defen dant's business and address. I remember, how ever, an instance in which a bribe was successful, A most serious charge was made against a clergy- man. There was but one reporter present. The rollcitor saw the journalist, and after some con- Ma 1ATHERIDGE, the new Superlater dent of versation he asked what he would take to Victoria Gaol, bas made his public debut make no reference to the charge. The reporter 75. It will be found in another column. Mr. hesitated, and, thinking he had better fly high; 1.00 Lethbridge is a Gorgoment officiel, and Heald 500. He was offered to. Oh, no, he strongly advocates the separate system for would not think of it. Then more and more was Chinese prisoners. And Mr. Lethbridge has effered, but he held out for 300. Unless the been only a few weeks in Hongkong and can
sum was paid, he x-jd, by four o'clock that know absolutely nothing about the proper afternoon, bis report would be sent to all the London papers. At last it was agreed the money treatment of the seam of Kwangtung. We should be paid. Would he take a cheque ? No. Notes? No; he aust have gld, And Sve Ip ehearsals are any criterion, there has been hundred sovereigns were shortly afterwards avast amount of hard work which is bourd to counted out 10 him la hotel, and bis produce excellent results at the City Hall theatre shorthand book was pitched into the fire. Bilbes Tonight, when the "Black Diamond" amateur fast as high have been offered to other
Journalists, but without avall. One of the best knows London presim a was ro: long ago in certain law court when a case implicating
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ESTABLIKKED (ND: 1849, A Zi Hongkong, 19th January, 1893.
shall deal with his repot very soon.
minstrels, under the able and experienced leader. ship of Mr Frenar, will make their first appear ance in Hongkong. The choruses are vely centre and back will be such as Hongkong ančlenses rarely have the chance to enjoy.
and conflagration to run its natural course i could the companies stord low ra cs? Clearly fall upon the insured persons. The interests of not; and the increased rates of premium would the latter, therefore, and, for other and equally conclusive reasons, the interests of the entire population, tia in the direction of effective pro- tection against fire. As for the efficer, they may be relied upon not to conduct their business at a loss to themselveg.
ALVES.
The police rendition has returned from China -without the biçandlig Aires,
Th Polico telure to give pay Information to the Press not having any to give.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
giving a decrease of 1,128 cases or a decrease of 14-32 per cent.
murder, the victims being a boatman named Cheung Chi, an Indian watchman named 3. During the year thers were three cases of
Ramsammy, and a man named Chung Ho.' In connection with the second case two Indians. were committed for trial, and acquitted in the other two cases the Police were unable to effect: any arresta
4. There were..iwo serious, cater of man- slaughter during the year. In connection with, the first, two coolies were arrested, but there was in the second asse the assailant made good his not sufficient avidence to obtain a conviction escape before his arrest could be effected.
5. Of the highway robberies the most;" flagrant case was that which occurred on they 11th July, when two men employed by the Dairy Farm Co. were waylald and zóbbed by five men, unknown, on the. Pokfulam Road. The Police. had no means of tracing these men, aud sou, Krrents were rando,
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon, There were present H: E.
6. The facilities for leaving the Colony aud Sir W. Robinson, K.C.M.G., Governor! Mr. G.
the proximity of the mainland of China, added, TM OBrien (Colonial Secretary) Mr. W. M. Goodman (Attorney-General); Mr. F. A to the reluctance of respectable people to lay Cooper (Director of Public Works) Mr. J. Has witnesses against them, render it very difficult faformation againstcriminals or to come forward Stewart Lockhart (Registrar-General); Mr. N, G. Mitel-Innes (Colonial Treasurer Comt. H. Murray Romsey (Harbour Master) Measts. T H. Whitehead, C. P. Chater, E. R. Bellios
ANNO MINUTES,
for the Police to bring the guilty parties. Yo Justice In many instances the offender has made good bis escape before the Police have received information of the offence, and on many reluctance of witnesses to come forward and give evidence. 2)
effective, while the flaw of wit from corners to some prominent person was mentioned. Ha | J.J. Bell-Irving and Ho Kal, unofficial members. F'occasions a case has broken down through the
did not want it for his own paper, but he thought he might earn a modest five shillings by writing-
The minutes of the last meeting were read
RIPORTS,
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Police and Gaol reports for 1893.
a piragraph for one of the news agencies. He and confirmary. A new and very plexilog collection of pictures did, but before sending it away the solicitor in is now on view at Mr. Neftaly's gallery in the matter asked what he would take to keep Daddell Street, comprising some exceedingly the subject quiet. The pressman was not going pretty Japanese works, scenes all over the world, to have his reputation tampered with, so be panoramic printings of Teharan, Tauis, fern declined to negotiate. Would he take? salero, London, Tokyo, battles in various No. A hundred and fifty, two hundred three countries, etc., and a large number of photographs | hundred P. He was obdurate. He would take | In great variety. The Anatomical Museum also no bribe; all the money he had he would earn 1. sonilauss open to the public, and both the honestly. So he sent his paragraph. But it muscum and the panorams are wory well worth was not used, and he was not paid for bis
trouble, This was vistus rewarded:
7. Only three, cates of piracy have been reported during the yaar, all of which took place the quently mide by the Portuguese and Chinese in Chinese waters. Several arrests were subse- Authorities In connection with these piracies.
THE TREASURY FRAUDS. Mr. Chater gave notice to ask at the next meeting →
(1) What is the total amount, as far as has been certiained to date, of the less to the Treasury through the defalcations of A. F. Alves, late clock and accountant thereto 7
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Every precaution has been taken against u repetition of the Wamon chlamlly, and teater carrying Chinese passangers have been iegularly searched before leaving the partiti poliger
8. All the Police Stations are in good repair, The new station at Kennedy Town was occupied by the Folloe on the stat December,
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