the officer of the watch when the ship had tuš her distance from the time of the last observation, but seeing the special curcumstances of the care when the ship was steering stem on to the land with a prospective alteration in the course of about eight polats which could only be | made after the land skend has been approached to within about two miles, the Court is of oplaton that more definito orders should have been given with reference to calling the master, and ¦ foowing that the speed was regular the master should have left orders to be called at a certain time. The Court is further of opintos that had the second officer, who was on watch, | displayed a sufficient amount of taterest in the navigation of the ship to cause him to consult the chait when doubt had arisen la his mind, he would probably now have been entitled to the credit of having averted the Casualty. The ship sustained so damage and with the exception of the above appears to have been navigated in a proper and aesmanlike manner. The Court does nat deal with the certificates of master or officers. The Court is of opinion that the attention of the licensing authority at Kobe for pilots for the foland Sea might with advantage be called to the opinion they have expressed with regard to the negligence of the pilot Bischot, who was plat in charge of the Minmuir at the time of the casualty.
THE CAMPHOR QUESTION IN
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1896.
kiss an the writer's part in same respects. For example, his allegation that, the treaties mon obstantia, the state of affairs actually existing should be recognised as lawful, amonats simply to saying that whatever is is right. Nelther can we agree with his theory that the proper course for the Japanese authorlies would have been to legalise whatever stoves were found working when zo efficient administration came: IDIG operation, without any inquiry into the cireum- stances under which the stoves were erected. But it is easy to see that the situation is beset with dificulties, sad that their ouravelling can scarcely fall'ta be attended with fricilon. Mean- while, the Japanere Government will find it useful to know the opinion entertained. by foreigners in Formosa as to the conduct of the junior officials,
SIR CLAUDE MACDONALD,
THE CONTROL OF THE NATIVEŠ. | The guarantee will be $72,500 a month or $870,000 a year, and It provides for chartering
The outbreak in Matabeleland belogs once by the association of a certain amount of space more into prosinence that fact which forms on the steamships of the Pacific Mail Company, the cardinal difference between South Africa consideration of maintaining established rates,
MADRID, Apeli rjih, and Australia or North America, considered as Areas of European colonisailon. The coloured The elections are expected to result in the Faces, instead of dwindling or disappearing before return of 300 supporters of the Government, to the advance of civilisation, have thriven and Conservatives, 48 Liberals, to Carlists, to tocreased. The Native is still there, and remains ledependents, and 3 Republicans, including an element of danger-lessened, indeed, but Castelar.
QUEENSTOWN, April 15th. The White Star Line steamer Majestie arived this morning. She reports that on the first and second day out from New York strong gales were encountered. Heavy seas swept repeatedly over the steamer. One sailor was killed.
À CLEAN CUT INDIVIDUAL OPINION, BOLDLY EXPRESSED.
It is for this reason that an asertion like the following sticks up shore the dead level of our stupid talk, and becomes noticeable; Phen I saw how pale had grown I said to myself, it was because some thing had gone but of my Blood,“
There that is a statement with the woods of idea in it. Suppons we follow it up by quoting the rest of the latter which contains it.
In December, 1830, says the writer, "I fall into poor state of health, I was tired, languid, and woury without any apparent cause, My appetite left me, and all food, even the lightout and simplest Hinde, caused me great pain in the okeet and stomach. When I saw bow pale I had grown I said to myself it was because something had gone out of my blood.
"Then my sleep was broken, and night after night I scarcely closed my eyes. It wasn't long before I became so weak and dejected that I took no interest in things around me. I was so nerrons that common sounds autoyed and worried me even the noises mads by my own children in their talk and at their play.
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formidable enough. The Boer is the most serious drag upon the wheels of South African progress, but he is not the only retarding foflaence. There is, however, this difference between the Beer and the Nalive the former op to the present has in no shape or form contributed
NEW YORK, April 15th. to the material prosperity of South Africa; the latter has, at times, especially by working in the The police say that it is against the law for a mines, furnished his share to the rough work Young woman to half undress on the stage and of commercial development. And, properly go to bed in view of the audience, so fast night organised and controlled, there is no reason why they stopped the performance of Orange
Blossomi" at the Galety Theatre, labour-power required in South Afrles. he should not provide the bulk, if not all, the
The pantomime was first produced here on the even« But before this consummation can be reacheding of April 6th, and it aroused a whirlwind of
censure from the dramatic critics. The perform
There wxe a disgusting taste in my mouth is naive control. This task of 10 training the great deal more has to be done in the way of
smmation ance was, however, continued before crowded made ma slak, and often garo man shivering ● Kafir as to render him capable of playing a
houses, and the arfiscal censure began to die out, all over. When I saw others eating and enjoying useful part in the development of the enormous
At last Chief Coalla chanced to read an their meals I felt as though it were a strange thing
in a way I wondered how they could do it. For natural resources of South Africa is one of the advertised criticism of * Orange Blossoma” and rent an Inspector to see the show. The blushlag
I could est bardly saything. Food weat two great problems which South African states-
me and I aguiard 108, 1
turned
turns officer made his report, and a warrant for or sights that are offensive. And yet I
away from 15, na ozna manship mart one day solve. At present, in view of the massacre of whites to Matabeleland, Manager Doris's arrest was promptly issued knew, what everyone knows, that without sufflelent It is the element of danger inseparably con-
The manager, who doubtless expected, sama-
food the body languishes and weakens. And auch nected with the mere presence of this dings thing of the soit, was paroled yesterday on his
was the case with me as month after month went by, dark-skinned population" which is uppermost in
promise to cut out the most objectionable features of the startling pantomime.
*During all this time, so full of pain and dir.HIS ESTABLISHMENT, situated in the our minds. The numerical relationship between
"CON- elegant Building known *$ netragement, I was attended by a doctor who did the Europeans and the naiives speaks for
what he could to relieve me, but without meows.
NAUGHT HOUSE" offers First-class AccoES- itself. On the one hand we have 750,000 Kuro-
I do not say he did not understand my complaint
modation to Residents and Travellers. peans, and on the other 3,000,000 coloured
for may be not have understood it without having the people. This in reference to South Alles as a whole; in Natal the natives are ten to one, and in Rhodesia they are probably forty to one. And of these coloured people the great majority are dark-skinned tribes, the military branches of the Bantu family, whose while business in life was until yesterday "war and councils of war. Up to the period of Sir Bartin Frere's administration, when (In 1977-79) the two heads of the military Banto, Krell on the (then) eastern border of the Cape Colony, and Catewayo in Zululand, were successively crushed, the Europeans" were compelled to maintain their supremacy by a never-ending series of wars Since the desiraction of Cetewayo and his "man-slaying machlae," the supremacy of the Europeans has not been.seriously contested. The Basutos successfully repelled the Colonia troops in 1880-3 but submitted to the amikority of the Imperial Government. The Kaffir in the north-east of ibe Tranavail have recently "given trouble"morethen once to the Boers, and
It is at once Interesting and amusing to nuta the enconlums envoked in the Far East by the speeches of Six Claude MacDonald in Hongkong and Shanghal The new Minister uses brave words; words that certainly echo the sentiments of his nationals in this quaites of the globe. but they echo, with equal truth, the sentiments of every Belilah Cabinet, and that is precisely what seems to be forgotten by journalists who shout applause at Sir Claude's virile eloquence. It is not to be denied, of course, that the character of the man charged with the duty of guarding British interests in China counts for something, A merchant of long expertenca in Formata Bet none the less contain is the fact that the writes as follows, with referents to the camphor British Minister in Peking is simply the mouth- question, to the Japan Mall: That the piece of the Foreign Offer in London, and old Chinesa system was bad need not be though he may delight the patriotic Instincts of repeated; that tha Japanese will prove British residents in the East by language stoat better in practice remains to be seen. The enough to satisfy any liego, ble pulis, Island was for a year without-any govern-
whether they be military or diplomatic, are ment at all, and in accordance with the old ideas absolutely ruled by the telegraph. The English about camphor forests it could not have been man in the East is apt to have his sensa considered wrong on the part of southern firms of proportion disturbed by the closeness of to go on ballding stoves. Contamed building ls the events in which he is an actor. The essential if production is to be kept up. The whole vista of bis moral perception become theory formerly entertalced was that official occupied by his immediate environment; and interference hid for its object the raising of he loses sight of the fact that he and his revenue and nothing more. Provided that cam-affairs constitute only a very small fraction of phor producers did not fall to pay the tax when the cares of an immense empire, and must be required to do so, all necessary conditions were managed with das regard to their relative, sot believed to be satisfied. It is true that permits their "actual, lasportsnce. Thus he la never were larued, but they were not strictly called for content with his country's representatives, for- getting that whatever may be their impulses as Individuals they have to strictly obey Instructions holding them in line with the general interests of the British Empire. Brilleb Cabinets and British subjects do not differ one whit in the matter of zeal to malotain, and if possible Increase, the heritage that the unter- prise and courage of their ancestors have won. Bat the ways of iba subjects are not always the ways of the Cabinet, especially when the subjectLobeegala compelled the Chartered Company Is a newspaper editor knowing little, if anything, of the problems he undertakes to discuss and driven by the exigencies of his post- tion to sabititule
In all places. The stove certificate, copials ing the same of the place and of the producer, 'partook of the character of a tax receipt rather than of anything else. It was handed back to the tax collector whenever the stove to which it related was cold, fe, cot working for the time. One of the principal camphor dealing foreign firms for eximple, had very few of these cenificates remsining when the Japarese a ministration compaenced, and might have been seriously Inconvenienced had it not possessed a general concession. The Japazese Government should appreciate and practically recognise the moral responsibility of having left the island for a long time without effectively organized administration. In view of that fact surely the fatter course would have been to direct the reistreiden of all stoves actually existing, when due antborly came lato force, and to forbid the election of any more without
blind patriotism
for
calm reasoning. In truth, no spectacio can be more amazingly illogies and revolting to common sense than that afforded by men who arrogate competence to denounce the conduct of Ministers and Ambassadors to matters every detail of which is familiar to the lacrimioated officials, while only the barest outlines are known
to destroy him and his military system la 1893. But these disturbances were local, and did not
mensce the general safety of the Europeans Nor is there any reason to doubt that the Chartered Company will be able to give a good account_of_kielf in the present rising in Matabeleland. At the same time, so long as the European population remains so small, the presence of the dense native populuiloa must permanent source of anxiety and remain a
permission, exʊ pt in the case of persons holding their critics. Such displays have thrir se, at danger.—A frit in Critic.
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course; they serve to indicate the temper of what- ever section of the pub'ic the newspapers repre- sent. But they are the very antipodes of just judgments. It is safe to predict that the new British Representative at the Chinese Court will not enjoy a freer hand than did his prede Cessor, who, although much local depreciation of his ability is implied by the great expectail:ns penned about his successor, earned the unquall. fied approval of Her Majesty's Government, and has been conspicuously rewarded for ser vices that his nationals in the East do not seem to perceive or understand.—Exchange,
being
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NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.
LONDON, April 15th. A despatch to the 7imer from St. Petersburg 1891-A scene of pomp witnessed by thousands to-day was the removal of the Imperial crowns and regalla from the Winter Palace for con ryance to Moscow for the coronation of the CEAT.
Baron von Rekazdstein, military attaché of the German Embassy, was married to-day to Mias Grace Maple, daughter of Ste J. Blundell Maple, at St. Albans' Abbey. The Bishop of St. Albana officiated. The guests included nearly all the diplomatic corps at London and many notabillies. Aker lanchean the bridal couple started for the Duke of St Albans
chalean, near Seville, Spain, The bride and
groom received over 600 gists.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE: English (Rosatia) to-morrow, Australian (Trinan) 20th lust. American (Gaelic) 20th Inst. Australian (Guthrie) 21st inst. Tacoma (Strathirvan) aand (nai. American (City of Paking) 31st last. Canadian (Empress of China) zað prox. American (Doric) 9th prox..
W2 are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co.) that the E. & A. S. S. Co. steamer Guthrie, from Australia, left Port Darwin for this port on the raih inst.-
SHIPPING RETURNS. From & p.m. yesterday to 6 pm. to-day. ARRIVALS,
The following telegrams from our San Fran- | Klasepak................................steamer, from Canton, cisco exchanges were "crowded out" of last Names
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The Sun's London cable saya? There is no exception, Hterally, from-Prince-to-paupers- in- the gambling vice in this country. An ancient pauper · arraigned at the Birmingham Police Court yesterday, charged with absconding from the workhouse, explained to the magistrate that he had made's book on the Manchester races in | Bygdo steamer, for Canton. the simsbouse, Thirty paupers laid penny bets Courfi amannas on Lady Helen, aty to t, and the horse wao, Taliang The prisoner was unable to settle, and afraid to
Glenorchy meet his indignant creditors, he ran away. The
Banlarig s magistrate admonished the ancient pauper and
Tallest imposed a mest cruel punishment-sent him
Thales. back to live with the thirty inmates of the work- Chowfa hours to whom he owes seven pennies splice.
Faban man41412 William Waldorf Astor is engaged to be|Klangpak mam married to Lady Randolph Churchill. Thli statement, made by one of the Astor family, confirms the rumour that has been current in socicly circles of New York and London for several weeks. No date has yet been announced for the wedding, but probably it will not take Plas, Astor s
Mr. Astor is at present in this country, having 1st, accompanied by his three children. He announced his intention of remaining here only fortnight, so it is supposed he will soon sai' for the other side. He has spent most of his time bere in looking after his property, passing several hours daily with his agents.
Aggregating 14,910 tons reglates.
Calcutta on the 29th ultime, Penang on the 6th The British steamship Catherine Apcar lalt Instant, and Singapore on the oth. After leaving Singapore experianced moderate mod fine south of Bombay Shoal; thence to port had weather with variable winds up to 100 miles
confused north to east sex.
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The answer to the lady's question is: Yes, easily mongh. All intelligent, studions doctor ander stand" consumption, oholem, cancer, &o, without (as yet) having the means of curing them. There usually a wide gap between the discovery of a Wani and the way to supply it.
"I will now," continues the letter, toll you how esme to be cured. In April, 1801, I read in a small book ar pamphlet about Mather Beigel's
Byrup. The book and the Syrup was a certain remedy for all diseases of the stomach, indigestion in every form, and drapepsia; and it also said that most of the complaints we suffer from are caused by that. On looking over the symptoms described in the book, and somparing them with my own, I saw plainly that
allment was dyspepsis. my
"We sent Immediately for a bottle of this medicine, and after taking it a few days I began to feel better.
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ugth back and with It the colour to my face. In short, after a few weeks me of Mother Solgel's Syrup, I was haarty and strong na over. And I should be indeed ungrateful if I were not willing that others should have the benefit of my experienos. You are therefore free to print my letter If you think it will be useful. (Signed) (Mrs.) M. Truma, Marton, Lincoln, April 24, 1805."
I simply desire to say to Mrs. Truran that her idos shout the blood is a perfectly correct ona. All our food (the digestible part of li) is turned into blood, and in that shape It feeds the entire body. When the blood gete thin and poor Cacking in nourishment), we lose flesh and grow feeble and pale. And the cause of the blood getting thin and poor in indigestion, er dyspepsia. How say this is to understand when ano you get hold of the right and of it. Mother Belge Syrup has the peculiar power to correct what Is wrong about the digestion, and thus enables the digestive machinery to make good rish blood. Whith fe and bealth and beauty —sddos. Į
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Concessions. That every camphor producer and every camphor merchant unable to show a per- mit should be considered a poscher or a smuggler, was to view the question in a manner so distrusts fal as to reflect upon the character of the Japanese themselves. Abuse, tos, seem to be taking place. Thus, in one of the southern districts a local magis trate, having entered into an wangement with some c-mphor merchants, stopped all making of campho: by the persons thee engaged in the work. his project being to dispose of the confiscated strves to the merchants in collesion with whom he was acting. Ramours of this case have been heard now here, now there, and it fa at length stated that the corrupt official has been placed under arrest. In fact, there is a good deal of unsoundness among petty officials, and the "beller twelve" in Tamsul koow it very well, With regard to the Sugar Regulations, which but are apparently without power to stop it
a correspondent calls "peculiar and unintel Officials go round investigating private affairs in Ligible," and which, he says, "if carried out, a most vexatious way. Their conduct eoght amount practically to prohibiting, or at least not to be journaletically defended unless the very materially restricting, the produce," one writers have faller information than they seem to need only read them to apprecluid the ezira- possess. What the Japanese Government most vagance of such a criticism. They may be requires at present is frank criticism by persons atated in a very low words :--No one can engage free from general ill-feeling against Japan. Blatsed in the sugar business without a licence, the cost defences simply provoke ridicule and do no good, of which is 20 cents per annum. On each The administration here made a law that pro-angar mill a yestly tax of 83 is to be paid. ducers must pay a tax on their stoves and their When it is desired to transport, sugar to camphor, but that merchants would not be re- the coast for export, a rassit past, good quired to pay anything beyond export duty for three months bat costing nothing must The 23rd Article of the new regulations pro-
be obtalaed, Finally, duty at a fixed rate for vided, further, that merchants must pay duty each of the grades of sugar has to be paid. on cld stocks also. This is Ulogical, and can not be upheld excep! @galast delebreless Chiness except, of course, in the case of sugar shipped arrived from London, on the Mazziile, on April oderate, north-nonk-cast gale and very high
for Japan. Could anything be simpler? We The pelly offctals at one place alleged that a
fail to discover anything pecallar or usia- certain foreign-owned station was held in the telligible" about such a system, or to see how it name of a Chinese and was actually Chloese will prohibit or very materially restrict" the property. They even maintained that the cam phor did not belong to the foreige, firm, although production of sugar. As to the "old likin they had been allowed to inspect the books of stations," which, the corespondent says, "are furbished up and are to be in fall the firm The head of the film, expecting that swing on and after April 11th," and which its Chinese employés would be arrested, put a lead him to declare that " à condition of stop to the business by asking the German Con- affairs closely approaching that attempted by sul to wire to the German Minister in Tokio Liu Ming-chuan somo years ago scams on A reply came at once that the Japanese Govern the point of being once more instituted;" ment had ordered an investigation, and had
the question naturally foggesin self, what directed that German rights should be respected. hardship is involved in passing a likin station it Japan's real enemy here is not the foreigner or
Priscers Fedora of Saxe-Meingen, and that of Kashing. no tax be levied there. Tranzit passes are to be his compradore, but the petty Japanese official granted free of cost, and it is evident, therefore, King Alexander of Servis to Princess Maris of HoxaKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNE
Marcoties in Kowloon full of arrogance, prone to chicanery, bound that the object of establishing stations on
BERLIN, April xrth.. tightly with red tape, and entirely lacking the routes leading to the treaty part is not yet
Rattler (...) a 14 Intense interest has been aroused in medical Ingraða in common sense. Moreover, numbers of forthcoming on thens polais, but we can adventurers, some in an official capacity, some be very certain that the foreign Consuls and other circles here by the announcement of Faithos. merchants, some alternating between official and representatives would quickly interfere young physician, Erich Langhold, at the Interna-Taschow w and private life, do a great deal of harm. Among obstacles such as those described by this Hosal Physicians' Congress at Wiesbaden to-day, Ocampo
that he had discovered a new remedy for tuber: St. Auno the Chinese population & appears to have
placed in the become a settled conclusion that the Japanese path of trade. We can also be certain that the ingredients, it appears, are ozone and cod-Liver Bennington aamuums
correspondent were wantonly
enloals, samad anti-microbia. Its principal Kaisang s are bad. The foreigners, of course, now and Japanese Government are entirely opposed to then see the good class of Japanese at the any, obstructive procedare nl the kind, and it f oil, applied by snbestanengr injection. In the Exkm@yusu{Bensone.
experiments of the past five years, he explained, Wandering Fr. # tradal centres, but the people at large have seems fair to infer that the Tainan correspon no such experience. There is now a question dont's ideas about the fiscal system adopted with the greatest difficulty to overcome was that of whether the packing and receiving camphor stations of large foreign firm are lawfalitistegard to sugar in Formers are not much clearer kesplag the arone pure and easily available.. Of than his ideas about the "bureaucratie despotism a question that will have to be settled to Toklo
so rampant in Japan."-Japan Mall by the Japanese Government and the Minister of the firm's nationality. There is no sense in saying that the treaties between Japan and foreign states do not provide for these things, and that, consequently, foreign ownership can, mot be-recognised. It is almost as though one should deny the existence of human beinga #tanding before one because they are not registered in a certain official list of births, The foreigners have tried as much as possible to get along in a fiendly manner, but it seems bepelers. Reasonable men like Mr. Ha shigucht appear to have no power, and Mr. Salgo a very pollie, but not much more. Mr. Maki cannot be called active, aven by his friends, and the Prefect at central Taiwan ir doubtless good admiral, but what than? It is perhaps as
as well not to be a Chlak. man in Fermons, By-and-by, doubtless, things will get into working order again. · The present confusion can scarcely last. If it. does, in onfe break of some kind may be locked for. It is said that Mr. Hashiguchi is to be Prefect at Talpeh. He is the right man, for though the occupant of a similar post in Europe may have a more thorough education, he could scarcely be
■ finer character or hawa ntore common sense, The Hoff adds the following nota z«We | 709—Lễ Lai Tọng v. Hung Shleg Pan pabilsk the above became's frank_'expres sion of opinion from a responsible foreigner|| thoroughly familiar with the subject Glaset kal to be useful, Thweg lo, indent, an orsóma
on the sth fastant, and had strong north-east winds and following ses to Amoy, Left Amoy on the raih, and had similar weather, Left LONDON, Aprli xxth. Four betreibals are impending, that of Prince watow on the 13th, and had strong east-north- Albert of Flanders to the second daughter of at winds and sea to Pedro Blanco ; thence to Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria that of port had light east winds and light deszling rain. Prince Christian of Danmark to Princess Pauline, In Amoy the steamships Kalgan, Honglong, daughter of the King of Wurtemburg; that of Sabine Rickmers, Shelley, Rio, and Prosper, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to In Swatow the steamships Hallong and Wananga Waterfreshing
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
SUPREME COURT.
SUMMARY JURIDICTION, (Before His Honour Mr. Sercombe Smith; Acting Pulme Judge)
May 15th,
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the ninety exses of tuberculosis located in the Moabit Hospital during the past year all havo been cured. Professora Gerhardt and Sensice bez of vessels ballt and documented in the Daring the first quarter of 189ő the total num- |fully confirmed the foregoing statement.
United States was 124, of 98,170 tons, as com LONDON, April The prefect of police in Paris has arbitrarliggared with 128 vessels, of 29,316 tons, for the previous quartar. Of the vassale bulit during and ungallantly settled the question at what age the quarter 65 were sail and so slaam. The An unmarried woman may be called an old steel steamers built were 9, of 12,949 tone of malda fist to thirty years. A worthy cities which 3, of 7,004 tons, were built on the Great had bequeathed a suid of money for annual pre. Lakes," Forty-eight wooden sailing vessels, of sentalons to foung unitarried people of both 9,089 tons, were built on the Atissile and Gall sexes who had supported their parents in the coasts, and ag wooden stazm vassals, of 5,319 declining years, the object being to enable them were hulle on western rivers. to settle themselves in life, No age was misza according to his best judgment, M. Poubelle has issued, a decree setting forth thai báchelors and spinsters shall be considered young wat they have attained the age of gor
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