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It is probable that the repairs to the Hangchow, MR. JUSTICE LAW, the Pulme Judge lately necessitated by a collision with a vessel off appointed to Singspire, took his seat in the Breaker Point on the 8th lost, will be completed Supreme Court there on the oth inst. unily sext month.

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THE London Lyrics are now playing in Singapore into the management of the expenditures of the and will shortly open for a season in Hongkong. British section at the Chicago World's Fair. It A number of new (to the East) and reputedly is asserted that there has been gross mismanage clever artistes an enjoyable season may be looked forward to with confidencement, inadequate reperientation and wasteful heads even more than the beautifully poelle Marie's "Little Cat seems to please the bald. "Ta-r-ra-boom-de-ay" did. Happy baldbends! Happy Maria I

have received a telegrams from Lagos, Weat expenditure,

The charches of the London Missionary Society Africa, announcing the deaths of the famous Niger missionary, Bishop Hill, and bli sila.

the express service from Queenstown to London The Government has ordered the renewal of

for the American malls, as they are arriving too late by the ordinary service.

It is said that Major-General Sir Charles ceases at the end of Match next, will proceed Warten, whose command of the Straits garisan home via Hongkong and the United States. DANCING is stigmatised by the Japan Mail un belog an extravagant and demoralising lealuro THE lot of a Colonial Governor must indeed be The late Mr. Douglas G-Parken, whose desth, of Western Civilization." To the refining in big with petty annoyances-even if not with at Penang, was announced a few days since, fluences of what civilisation could the man who misery, Our Very Own" cannot celebrate the wa Ausistant Secretary to the Government of penned the above be indebted, we wander? Perak. He had been for some time,

aniversary of the suspicious day that saw him A RIOULAR Convocation of St. Andrew's R. A. belog ushered into this world of fraud and INSTRUCTIONS have been issued by the Japanese Chapter, No. 118. S.C., will be held in Free Moler without being pelted with chunks of

PARIS, January gtk. The Chamber of Deputies reassembled to-day. Government to the Buddhist and Shinta. priems mazsa Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the

alleged poetry; and now Bold that Sir The election of a permanent President was, post- throughout the country that they are in no way 23nd instant, a1 8. 30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiung of the Straits Settlements, has also been present. The Senate adjourned until Thursday, to interfere in the forthcoming general elections, companions are cordially invited.

Charles Mitchell, the recently arrived Governci | poned, as a roficient number of voters was not

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NEWS comes from Japan that the Chinese Government has decided to constrict 7allway line from Peking to Vladivostock, and that the timber required for the enterprise is now being ordered from Dai Nippon !

CAPT. WALKER of the steamer Kars, which arrived in Singapore on the 8th, reports having sighted on the st fast, the Brilsk barque Cairaishill, of Liverpool fa lat. 6 N. long, 85 deg. E, wishing to be reported “all wel.”

We read that over 30,000 inhabitants of Kaijofu, in Korea, have petitioned the Government to pardon their leader, Kim-kan, who fomented the late disturbance in that city. If their petition is rejected, it is believed that they will barst out agalo into another riot.

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THE New Japanese warship Voskus arrived at Singapore on the 8th Instant, and, recording to latest advices, will sail from that portto-morrow, She is briefly described as being a weasel of 4,100 tons, 34 guns, 1,500 horsepower and manned by a crew of 206 officers and men.

The baby murderenu, Frances Knorr, who was hanged in Melbourne last month, went to the gallows singing Sale in the Arms of Jesus" and even desecrated the beautiful "Fast Falls the Eventide. There can be no measure to the depths of blasphemous cant after this, surely 1 THEE are at present 23,574,974.50 yen of the Japan National Banks paper money in ending on the 3rd inst, was 62,530,951 y making a total of 85,055,925.40 yen or $5.926 sa above the maximum limit of 85,200,000 yan. In his report on the working of the Raub mines for the fire weeks endlag the rat alime, Mr Bibby says: "On the asth December, a general 1015.cz. 14 dwis, 11 gis, smelted gold from 1,140 clean-up of the battery, took place, yielding tons of ore crushed. This was not quite up to expertations, but gives s fairly payable resalt, besides paying for large amount of

permanent work which should be fairly charged to capital account." The general prospects continue to be favourable,

Tax Coroner's inquest on the bodies of the two young children found dead after the fire in Statlon Street on the 14th fost, was concluded to-day. The occupants of the house stated that the fire was caused by joss-sticks at a small shrine in the house; but the police state that the children were letting off crackers. In either case it a distinctly preventable canse One women said she had saved a third litle child, and tried to save the other two but was driven back by the fames she did not explain how it was that nobody told the police or fire brigade. The Coroner (Mr. Wodehouse) entered a verdict of "death from burns or sofiscation,"

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Great precautions are being taken in the Chimber and Senate regarding the admission of strangers into the gulleifes, in view of possible

Two thousand anarchist pamphlets, entitled the "Morlband Society and Ausschy," were sexed to-day at the. Northern railway station. They were intended for the editor of La Revolta and came from Belgium.

ROME. January 9th.

mob to-day overran the town of Role di Puglia A dispatch from Barn says that an anti-tez

and bored the Octral office, sentry-boxes and Club-house, tore up the rails of the horse-car tax bureau. The mah also destroyed the Unlan Hae, cut the telegraph wires and attacked the gendarmes in their barracks.

pressed that they fired a volley at the mob, but The gendarmes eventually were so hard- the rising continued until the arrival of troops sent from Bars. One of the rioters was killed and four wounded. Twenty were captured, but eight escaped and fed to Cerato, with the intention of faciting riots there.

At the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. H. E appeared, died up in handkerchiefs, and showing many marks of bad usage. John Thomas Palmer, of the Naval Yard police, and Mrs. Cettos, overseer, unemployed, charged P C. Palmer with await on the 14th inst, Mr. B. Bowley (Mr. H. L. Dennys) affice) defended, There were also several crore summonses.

Complainant said that on the evening in question he and his wife were at his mother-in- Law's house in Wanchal. During some dispate Mrs. Osborne at the street entrance, the two defendants Came and attacked them. The female de'endant seized witness by the throat from the back, shouting out filthy words at him and his wife; and then

NEW YORK, January 9th. struck Mrs. Cotion in the face, and got hold of

A special to the evening Stats-Zaftung from her hair. Witness managed to separate them, Belia says:-Now that there is no questina with some difficulty. The defendant smelt regarding the legality of the marriage of 1rincess strongly af drink. Then Osb me interfered and

Elizabeth of Bavaits to ex-Lieutenant von told witness to let the women fight it out and not Zefried of Battonheim, the Princess's grandfather, stop them; but Mrs. Cotton was of much less

in order to please her, has yielded to the young weight than the other, and it was as unequal

man's entreaties and decreed her husband' affair, no witness again tiled to part them reception into the Austrian army. Von Zefried, Palmer then attacked Mrs. Cotton, struck ber since January 1st, bas been a lieutenant to the and tore her jacket, besides pushing whiness Schlesien Infantry Regiment of Francis Joseph, off. Several relatives and friends of both stationed in Tropin. sides and some strangers interfered, and at last

BERLIN, January 9th. after a free fight up and down the street they all The central Evangelical Bari has issued a went home. The male defendant was a dock-long address protesting against the readmission yard policeman, and the other was his wife; of Jesuita into Germany and describing them as there had been a great deal of very unsavoury enemies of the Fatherland and Protestantism. gossip going about, and Mrs. Osborne accured defendant of spreading mischief about her.

Why did you give that up?-It has nothing to do with this case, and I decline to answer,

His Worship: Has it anything to do with this case ?

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AT the Magistracyv to-day, belore Mr. W. C. H. Hastings, Sue To Un was charged with fraudulent at 100. Praya Weit. William Walley, manager of Mesir. Sperry & Co's China export branch in San Francisco, gave evidence to show several | points in which the 833 four bags found on defendant's premises differed from the real Sperry bags. The letters printed on them were lightly wrong, and the make-up was got the sacs. The case was adjourned until Saturday, 24th inst, at 10

Mr. Bowley :-It may have some bearing on

His Worbip:-Well, then, the witness most ADAwer.

Witness-It was because I falled in business. And there was a diatraint on your house-7---

VICTORIA (E.C.), January oth. In the Admirality Court to-day Jadge Grenie Russians and ordered to proceed to Vakahams, but which came here, Hla lordship beld that the captain had no idea he was within the pro- bibited zone until he saw land and that the moment he made this discare y he wore ship' and was honestly carrying out that intention with the intention of getting to a place of safety, when the schooner was seized.

BUFFALO (N. Y.) January 9th. Mrs. John L. Sullivan, with an Indian club, administered a knockout to the ex-champion on Sunday morning, beside which James J. Corbett's coup de grace dwindles into insignificance. The story only came out to-day,

THB "Slugapore and Stralis Directory" for 1804, just to hand, is the most creditable work of its kind that has yet been sent in to us. Besides ACCORDING to the Bangkok Times the Siamese Calendars for all the various races represented in 1 Apparently the women had m›de it up to "givo | discharged the schooner Ainoko, veľzed by the Government has la contemplation the panition,lations and tables of fees for all sost of tblogs; first defendant said he would make witness fato the polyglot population of the Straits; local regu- lambasting" to witness and bis wile. The for administrative purposes, of the various pro blatorical noter, and large mass of other in- vinces of the country in accordance with formation which cannot but be of great ulilliy

mincemeat, that he would not be able to sppear in court. scheme drawn up by Prince Damiong. The the directory proper shows signs of more and scheme is said to embrace the opening up of more careful development every year.

Cross-examined:-You used to be a tes Slam by roads.

The merchant once?—Yes, claudication and other detalls aro 6 near the whole book is in much handler form and size perfection as possible, the maps are good, sad than in previous years. The local agents for the Office, are Messrs, Kelly and Walsh, Limited. THIS is how the Eastern World smashes on the Editorial wheel the sheet known within a limited sphere as the Japan Mall:-The bile moir of Japap, tresty revision, is lashed around the sing again and made to snap and kick at the business men of Yokohama, who for reasons that are la explicable by any ordinary method of reasoning continue to support a journal that loses nos op- portunity to hold them up to scom and derision, and which has ever been actively engaged in cap. piring against their interests. Theday when they discover that they furnish the files to sharpen-No. the saw which cuts off the branch that they are sitting on, will come and must came, but so far the Mall's pretended knowledge of state secrets nerves to blind them. We can assure them, however, that the special information of that Journal has no more reliable basis than the his torians of Annlus of Viterbo, who knew their Dames and made his inventions take the place of the

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TELEGRAMS.

THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL.

LONDON, February 14th, 1894.. The statement made on the gth Instant that the Bill had passed the House of Lords was premature. It only passed the third reading yesterday, but with many amandmants which will require its return from the House of The Government is determined to reject the

Commons.

Amendments.

Now, next, and it is believed that nothing will done to settle the personnel of the delimitation party on the British side natl the summer, although the French Government have been notified that Mr. J. G. Scott is be the British Commissioner, Probably the Government of India will decide on who are to go, and will almost certaloly send men from the Intelligence and Survey Departments.

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lost originals of their writings, rifully adding commentaries by pressing passages from knowo thors into service, in the same way as the Maff uses its translations from Japanese papers.

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off --She was security for the money which And did Mra. Osborne lend the money to pay barrowed.

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and had the quarrel? No. I went to live in And that was the reason you left that part another house in the same street, and had no quarrel.

Was there a quarrel with Captain Weight?

Did he not leave because you were so quarrel- some ?—No,

was la Batterfield and Swire's. -

You call yourself an overseer-of what 7--X-

Why did you leave ?-Through a false charge. to do with this case.

You assaulted a Chinaman ?—It has nothing

No, the contractor never said anything galast A Chinaman summoned you for assault 2... me it was only a coolie.

Well, he is a Chinaman, imn't be 1—Oh yes, He charged you with assault, I believe with breaking bis arm."

No;

Well, isn't that assault ?—That has to be seen. And it was proved, and that was why you were dismissed P-I was not dismissed, I

aged, because I had to f

Afterbis appearance at the Court-street Theatre

about 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. Friends on Saturday evening Sullivan made a tour of the drinking places. He returned to the batel assisted him from his canfage to his room.

heard the crashing of forallure. The porter The porter who was the last to leave him stood for a moment on the stairs, then hearing nothing more preceeded on his way to the office. A moment latera barefooted woman, whose night robe and blonde hair streamed out behind, ran across the lobby to the clerk's desk,

"Send for a doctor, quick i John is dying," she screamed, and then fell to the floor in a falut,

Call boys hunted for the doctors, who quickly brought Mrs. Sullivan around. All then pros ceeded to Sullivan's room. John lay upon the floor, with a little stream of blood tricking from for an hour before he was restored to conscious his forehead.. Three doctors worked aver bim

ness.

He left to-day to join bis company, on evident good terms with bis wife, who from her appear. ance felt, now that the trouble was over, that she was really sorry for the big fellow, who will bear the mark of her prowean for some time to come.

While the doctors were at work Min. Sullivan

tearges against Mrs. Quin ?-No, only telling Quin that Osborne bad been making falasta ligeat her as soon as he came in. In stll- This present quarrel began with you telling told them how it came about, John had started defence she seized the Indian club which he used

H. M. S. Pigmy, which onlied hence for the scene of the recent collision between the China Navigation Company's steamihip Hangehow generally supposed to be the Saint Asaph, was passed by the Thalas THUS the Singapore Free Press of the 9th fast. about & clock last night, this aide of Breaker of the bar heen busy lately amongst the ranks Polut Tay Pigmy is now cralaing boni tó

of the uncouth gang of Thibet traders who have search of any wreckage by means of which the in their own little way created quite a sensation Ideality of the junken steamer may be in Singapore, not only as traders but sy the Captain Derby of the Hangshow has applied to of them, trading set all, now divided established. In the meantime, it may be added, victims of a whimsical vow. Before they left on travels the whole colony into several gange, one of which is sald to be in Saigon, sware neither to wash nor to change their clothes and they reached home this explanation be the true one or not, there again at least so the story goes; and whether can be no question that physically it is some where near the truth, if "frowsy pores that taint there had been a quarrel between the Cottons In the course of her evidence the witness said. the ambient air" afford any criterion. The

and Captain Wright's daughter; the Waights time then left the neighbourhood, but for what reason

the witness could not say,

the Harbour Master to hold a Court of Inquiry to Investigate the matter, but no date has yet been fixed for the assembly of the Court.

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Batavia some

Against Mrs. Quin -Not that I remember. There were stories about her ?—Yes. Originated by you ?—No.

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Mrs. Cotton was then called and gave/corro" borative evidence as to the brawl,

TENDERS for the supply of 3.558 tons of from pipes, which are will deficient, for the Osaks Waterworks, will be received by the Committee on the arst inst. tenders from an firms having been invited by the Waterworks Office There gang in Singapor will be required 10,610 3, 13.340 sla, found their way here from 15,530 6-10, and 370 12-in. pipes, all to be's feet few weeks ago, where it is understood most of long The Japan Ganelle states that through them contracted malarial fever. Finding them sliver depreciation, the office will lose 30,000 selves sick they made for Singapore, and since yen by laviting tendere now, while five months' their arrival their number has been decreased delay in the construction will entail expenses in by alx, five of whom died in Hospital. The alaries, etc., amounting to 200.000 yaw The Felice, however, are not altogether satisfied with gains on the Waterworks Loan will thus not only the fever theory, at lesat not without further be swallowed up, but there will be a net loss of examination, and the stomachs of the deceased I never did. 60,000 1

ars to be subjected to analysis.

Palmer's black eye I don't know, but when she got hold of my hair of course I let out all I Mr. Bowley How do you account for Mrs.

could.

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you --No; she is very much bigger than 11 Did you not stiks her before she touched she once hit a man in the sye and blacked t

There were six of your party against the two but mot on our sides they all said "Let the defendants? N, there were many people there, women fight it out, don't loteriera.". to-morrow at ten o'clock.

At twelve o'clock the case was adjourned until

CORRESPONDENCE,

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in training and struck him with it. The force

of the blow was greater than she had intended and Sullivan experienced a knock-out such a the prize ring has never brought him...

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John L. has frequently beaten bis wife in the

clubs are removed from his room. He promised past, when in liquor. When he enters on another carousal he will probably see that the Indian solemnly to-day that he would never make another effort to subdue her. Perhaps he will not.

Balmacedists, have occurred here. An attempt

SANTIAGO, January gik,

has been made to seize the artillery barracks, Serious disturbances, said to be due to

arrested, and twelve leaders of the conspiracy" have been.

Kirt, January gth.

Dr. Paul, William Forchhammer, the famous German sichmologist, is dead. He was born at Husun, Schleswig, in 1805.

LONDON, January 10th, Government's refusal to comply with Minister Commenting on the Hawaiian Provisional Willis' demand upon the Government to surrender office, the Głoka remasies :---The- siluation is enough to make the President of the United States sums the tile of "King Maker" or #Patron of Royally." However, it is singular to find the President of typical Repubilo acting as the champion of sa Injured Queen. Eat It is not way to see what To vas Korrin as tim “Howarang Telarasu,” Tramp" is your last inve, there appears to be no debt, would like to see the unfortunate other course Prealdent Cleveland could take with. DEAR SIR-Re the letter from "Another due regard for the houer of Americans. Some,

Selgel's Syrup Can you kindly explain this ing the Constitution, there are other people great omission, no reference, in that elegant islands annexed. Apart from the difficulty of composition having been made to Mother dealing with Hewall in that way, without sirain deficiency would advise your correspondent, bealde Hawaiians and Americans who will have. before again rushing into print, to make himself something to say is the matter. perfectly as fald as to the facin of the fate poet of cullion, and to exercise. Certain amount of common arose, should he have any. Yours faithfally**** 2 MELAN

COASTER. Hongkong, 16th February, 1804.-

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THE Japanese authorities seem to be very hisch This is the sporting season apparently for the als on the gut vios, just now on the subject. of seems thick with the tidings of matches already female exportswense the term advisedly. At run and of others yet to eventuate. The latest Singapore on the oth fast, acting at the instiga decided was one out rather of the common, tion of the focal Japanese Consul, the police for Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, P.M, C.M.G., etc. boarded the steamship Macduff and took charge acted as judge. Doctor A. M. Cowin and a of a party of Japanese girls, 34 la number wheel-barrow coolle were the principals, and who, it is alleged, were unlawful brought into from the evidence it would appear that the waters of that colony, Mr. Wray, Protector the event was brought off at Bowrington of Chiness, accompanied by Police Inspector yesterday afternoon. Briefly the facts are Black, boarded the Mords and annexed the as follow:-Tha Doctor was siding lots town women, who, it is said, will be shipped back to from East Point, and had got as far as Bowrington Japan. Six men, also Japanese, were arrested Canal without having to make any particular on board and will be called spon to answer the entry is his log-book there, however, be charge of kidnapping. No action has been encountered a coolle bearing down on blas (with taken against the captain or agents of the steamers they presumably, being in no way emulating the famous sction of Don Quixote 1. barrow in tow) desirous apparently of Interested or concerned," "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND

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were differences, however, Cervantes' here was A MALAY, who arrived in Singapore on the 4th armed, and mounted on the gallant Rost Special Advantages sa an Advertising Medium, A French official despatch from Blerra Leone, inst, reported there a case of daring, piracy, nante in this instance it was Resinante who It her an extensive circulation in all Ports in explanation of the last collision between the ale recently corned off the coast of Sumatra, was charged. Luckily the Doctor: saw the between Singapore and Newchwang, in the Australasian Colonics, the United States, and French and British troops, states that the English other things, mas attecked by a party of Malays, was enabled to dodge what was regarded by It seems a Chinese bost, loaded with rice and danger and owing to his superb horsemanship the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges Police had occupied a French village, and warehodiled it the Chinese, and loosed the cargo, the semi-petrified onlookers as an inevitable has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate. trying to impress the villagers into their service These things, thys theyfres Pris areal collision. Once clear, Restante was discarded Terms can be learned on application

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periodical occurrence, and there probably And the athletic medico set all sall in parsult of

pas many more that are nevis heard of the fisting enemy. The prize was eventually NEWS BY THE AMERICAN It is, of course, difficult, if not impossible, secured and handed over to the Admiral-wo print them entirely but surely the Datch mean the Sikh policeman, and the drama gunboats might do a great deal more la tale was spain · enacted at

The Paclic MAI 8. 8. Co's stedt the Magistracy one occurrence of the kind is recent years in the Celestial freak as being one fraught with Francisco, Yokohama ih direction than they do. There has only been this morning, Mr. Wodehouse, looked upon Peking Capt. Wa B. Seabury Singapore, and then the perpetraties were all auch danger to equestrians and pedestrians alles, January 18th, amired in, port caught and executed. To bars to record such and imposed a penalty of $10, or a month's remar Ban Francisto wacha piracical doings at ai, savoura of the lawlessness retirement. The coolie's in the asylum nowend the following telegrami pia and ilcenes of history, ritkár" than the yamkied ne Mitle credit is dus to Doctor Cowie, whose enlightenment and security mi, the nineteenth startions in the direction of street transG BALDAIN will desitions, be much sypedeśated by the public

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The Tier publishes a letter from Lord question of Cimetalliam, Lord Randolph, tel: Randolph Churchil to s eprrespondant on the the respondent to President Cleveland's mes. sage upon the subject and bin striicing argumentai in favor of the repeal of the purchasing class of

attempts to give an artificial valss to pliver, the Sherman Act, and his impressive description of the rain brought upon the United States by: AWith the experience America has so forcibly set

before us, Lord Randolph says he falls to under.. stand how any rational man can advocite the: smallest departure from the gold currency, up to

MOON ROME, January 10th. Lake? In the aništax flot at Corats the troops wars.

compelled to fire on the mob, killing several; VIENNA, TShukry tot, seilla de Venanda saya tha odmmit