Co-day's Advertisements.
TO-NIGHT!
TO-NIGHT!
ELITE SKATING RINK, "AND ALL THAT THE WORDS IMPLY,"
LATE
VICTORIA HALL, DUDDELL STREET.
Afternoon Sessions—from 4.30 10 7 P.M. Evening Sessions-from 8.30 to 1x P.M. NAVAL and MILITARY NIGHTS EVERY WEDNESDAY.
The HONGKONG REGIMENTAL BAND will be in attendance.
A FANCY DRESS CARNIVAL will tako place on FRIDAY, the 11th December.
PRICES :—Skales and Admission'................................$1.00
Admission/
50
N.B. The Managersent reserve the right of refusing Admission,
SAM MARKS, Probriator.
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Hongkong, 1st December, 1896.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
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TTO-MORROW (SATURDAY).
NO COMPETITION
F. SMYTH, Honorary Secretary. Hongkong, 4th December, 1806. ". (1039
HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY,
A
CONCERT will be given in
ST. GEORGE'S HALL (CITY HALL) ON
THURSDAY, the 17th December, 1895, AT 0.15 P.M.
SEATS may be secured at Meases, W. ROBINSON & Co.'s on 'and after WEDNES- DAY next, the 9th Instint,
PROGRAMME will shortly be announced. Hangkang, 4th December, 1896.
VICTORIA PRECEPTORY.
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A REGULAR MEETING of the VICTORIA
PRECEPTORY will be held in the FREE- MASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on WEDNES. DAY. the oth instant, at 5 for 5.10 p.m. precizely. Visiting Sir Knights are cordially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 4th December, 1896.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAI,
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"HUNAN,"
[:86%
Captain Frazier, will be despatched as above
TO-MORROW, the 5th instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 4th December, 1896.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, 'LIMITED. '
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. THE
HE Company's Steamship
"NAMOA,"
Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports o SUNDAY, the 6th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 4b Fecember, 1896, [1864
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAI AND CHEFOO.- THE Company's Steamship
THE
on MONDAY, thé 7th Instant, at 2 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apoly lo
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DEĊEMBER 4, 1896.
Entimation.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
ESTABLISHED AD, 1845.
AND
WINES
SPIRIT S.
ALL these are selected by our London House, bought direct at firat han1, imported la wood and battled by ourselves, that saving all inter mediate profits, and enabling us to supply the best grawibs at MODERATE PRICES.
PRICE LISTS, with Full Detalls, to be hid on Application.
before are,
PORT after removal should be rested a month Wear lequi ad for drinking at once it should be ordered to be decanted at the DISPENSARY before being sent out
SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and After Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are frna Xeres Wires.
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of the sort being treated as confidential, and asserted, doubtless with perfect truth, that he had consulted his Chi nese friends and constituents. What they know about a "Free Port" and what constitutes it, it would be difficult to tell; but that is another question and we will pass it by. Dr. Ho Kar then got virtuously Indignant at the (also imaginary) charge he professed to find in Mr. WHITEHEAD'S letter, that he had acted on the advice he had given the Government from private and Interested mailves, and he denied having any house or land property in the Colony-If he has not what his "Interest In it is we should like to know--and he sat
An official member of Council (other than THE third race of the Royal Hongking Yacht the Colonial Secretary or Attorney-Club will be salled on Sunday next; 6th lost. | Ganaral) then spoke for the first time-for Tas course to be used is Na, 18, from mark bout years is it not in the person of Mr. May. off Lysemoon (par:), Kowloon Rock (part), No. 1 He tried to throw oil on the troubled Dock Buoy (pon), mark bat off Lycamoon waters but without success. It is an un- (port), Kowloon Rock (part) ; a total distance of usual position for an Irishman to take up. 15 miler. but he did not succeed, and. Mr. CHATER persisting in his motion, there was the usun! division with the usual result-the Unofficials swamped by the Officials. We shall always look upon Mr. Wx Yux as an official. He was nominated solely because of his proclivities that way.
The business of the Council concluded
A
at the Council table, a pro-
grame having been prepared and circula fated by the Colonial Secretary appointing
A MOVEMENT fa' the direction of armfag cur merchant craisers was hegun to-day on board the C.P.R. Co.'s steamer Empress of Taban. Workmen from the Nivil Dockyard were engaged fisting her for the mounting of six guss, two of which are to be placed at the bow and stern and two in the waist of the ship.
with an inquiry from Mr. WHITEHEAD IN a batt's between a number of insurgents in about
rearrangement of seats Husbilen, Kwingtang, the supposed leader of the fosurgents, one Chang Huan, a returned emigrant from Australia, was killed. On his body, says the North China Daily News, yan found a valuable gold bunting case stop-watch, and he wore a belt made of gold plates of an Ingenious forefgu deilen, worth some $5.000.
a seat to each member. If each member
seat,
down. Mr. CHATER followed and he did not deny the soft impeachment that he was largely Interested in land and not at all in shipping. He did in very em phatic terms deny that he had engaged in any "private" correspondence with the Governor or Colonial Secretary anent the not free to take the first vacant Light Dues. Mr. Whitehead repudiated any
as in the House of Commons, idea of misrepresenting or maligning any of they should be arranged, if arranged at his colleagues, but stuck to his point that all, in order of precedence; but this correspondence of the kind laid on the has not been done. Neither are they in table is not public, and is therefore pr alphabetical order. What is the dodge? vate," and referred to the private and con- Has the wily Colonial Secretary sought to fidential communications between mem- bers of Council and others and the Go neutralize the wild spirits of the Council
by coupling the lion with the lamb vernment in the matter of the Sanitary Perchance it is a question of spiritual Board, by means of which the Government affinities! It is puérile to was so terribly deceived as to the state of arrangements. Either no arrangement or public opinion on the subject. We may else in strict order of precedence, or the add, a proper of that, that some of that unofficials all together, would be better. correspondence is still unpublished, the writers refusing their assent.
The Colonial Secretary could not, of course, keep himself out of the debate, and followed with a useless question to ascer- betain if Mr. WHITEHEAD had or had not con- sulted the Chamber of Commerce on the subject of this correspondence. As he
CLARET,~Our Clarets, including the lowest Priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of the grape and are not artificially made from ratsios and currants, as is generally the case with Cheap Wines, BRANDY.-All our Brandy is guaranteed in
pare COGNAC, the difference in price being merely a question of age and vintage. WHISKEY.-All our Whiskey is of excellent qually and of greater age than most brands In the market. The SCOTCH WHUKIY macked "E" is universally popular, and i pronounced by the best local connoisseurs to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market.
had done so, he could not have looked on it as private, and if not what had he to say for himself. All the speakers delibe- rately ignored the real charge made against them. It was not alleged that the correspondence was "private" as opposed to "official," but "private" as opposed to "public and open to all the world." Her Majesty the Queen appoints men members of the Legislative Council that they may discuss public questions and advise Her Governor in the fall light of day, at the Council Board, with the representatives of the press and of the public taking notes ol A. S. WATSON & CO. LD. that public writers and full discussion what they say, and with all the assistance'
We only guarantee our WINES and SPIRITS to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our' authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.
-THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Ammakang, 15th September, #los,
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1896.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
and debate can give them, and not in the private office of the senior unofficial member, or by means of demi-semi-official letters which are marked "confidential"
There were other valuables, such as two splendid diamond rings, etc. The booty, on his person alone was worth over $12,000, which with the $4.100 reward offered for his bead"fell to the lot of the fucky saldiers.
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TELEGRAPH' RATES.
THE ERA. & C. COMPANY REDUCES RATES.
SINGAPORE, November ayıb. November sys-The Eastern Extasies As
The Straits Times_la ́lts Tase of 27th
tralasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited,: advantite a farther reduction of telegraph rates from the Straits Setilomanta to specified placem The new ratai came into fɔrea on and aber tha ist Jacuary next, The directors say they make these reductions to meet growing trade require to harmonise through rates with the new Chisa ments, Another reason li alleged to be a wish
tariff. Most of these reductions come into opera ton on the above date and the reminder on July 114 1897. The reducilons with the new year may be judged 61 by the fact that to Hongkong the word rule from Singapore will be niñaty cents
it will be instead
leafcado ondo delar and ten cents insical of one dollar and eighty cents.
THE ADVERTISEMT.
The "ad" referred to by the Straits paper. rends as follows :-
FURTHER, REDUCTION OF TELEGRAPH RATEL
On and after the 1st of January next, the fol- lowing Reduced Rates will be charged for Tele- grams from the Straits Settlements stations
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per word from Penang, Malacci, Alagaparu, Europe-all places ***...*$3.35 $2.35 $1.35 1.TO t.id 1.10 hits Burma......781 ELGSEÐI Ceylon ........ Cochin-Chias |Hongkong.........
Shanghai, 'Amor, Foo-
Slam, via Saigon ............... vis Moulmein... Newfoundland sinosa
... Canada
A CRICKET match will be played to-marrow
chow make such (Saturday) between the H. K. C. C. and the L
R. The HK CC. team is a follows: M. D. Wood, W. Y. R., T. N. Howard, W. V. R., C. W. Gordon, W. Y. R., P. G. Davis, R. AEastern provinces of Ward, E. Mast, R. F. Lammert, H. Arthur, L. S. Crawlord, A. Anderson, and J, Graham. The following will represent the L. R. C.: Dr. Aiklason, C. C. Iuchbald, E. C. Berger, Sargton Major Johnston, Capt; Langhornt, R. A. Capt. Lovebird, A. D. C., R. E. Moussey, F, Flamer, Ree, S. Vallings, and A. S, Anton. Play begins
His Excellency the Major-General commenced his career as a legislator by a happy compliment to our very able and very well-informed fellow citizen, Mr. CHATER, and thereafter certain Bills were read a first time. But we will follow the custom of the Council and postpone con- sideration of them till their second reading,
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
RELEASE OF DR. JAMESON,
LONDON, December and. last night, in an ambulance.
Dr. Jameson was removed from Holloway Gaol
RUSSIA AND THE DARDANELLES. The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette demands the free passage of the Dardanelles for Russian ships alona; also the abrogation of the treaty of 1841.
ITALY AND AFRICA.
The Italian Chamber has rejected the motion of the opposition for an early discussion on the abandonment of Erythres.
BREAKDOWN OF A FRENCH
MAIL LINER.
elegraph and which the writers may require should
be kept secret. Mr. WaITEHEAD is right, THE "SAGHALIEN" UNABLE TO LEAVE SAIGON doubly, tribly right, and the Governor and The Agent of the Messageries Maritimes Dr. Ho Kat and Mr. CHATER were cons-courteously informs us that owing to an accident clous of it, and the indignation was simu- to ber machinery the Sagkallen, with the malls lated, and the pretence of any charge of despatched from London on the 6th November, personal misconduct was "utterly untrue." is not able so leave Satgan. She will be replaced by the Merssger!es Maritimes steamer Tamis, After this exciting episode certain which will leave Salgon to-morrow with the financial minutes were tabled and an anti- | Sagħallew's mails, passengers and cargo. quated report of a Finance Committee was adopted; a Sanitary Board by-law about whitewashing was approved under a sort of protest from Mr. CHATEX that it affected landlords seriously. Mr. WHITE pany has received a telegram from the mines HEAD had leave to publish his correspond-giving the result of the November clean-up as ence with the Government about arms and ammunition and the position of Informers- General to the Chinese Maritime Customs taken up by the Goverment and Police here.
PUNJOMS.
it 11 mm. sharp.
we read in the Stratis Times of the 17th elto.
that the Straits Fire Insurance Argociallon has been approached by the Fire Offices Commitee (loreign) of London with a view to amalgamation. One of the conditions to be imposed in that the | Issua of policies on petroleum and all minerst polls be stilctly prohibited. To this several of the Singapore agents-who are largely in- terested in ell-not unnaturally demur, and a meeting was convened to ventilate optalous. What the result of the meeting was wo have not yet heard, but our Straits contemporary says ií several of the Insurance Companies represented in the Association refuse to accept the terms offered to the parent body and secede, there will
be an end of the untion rates that are so desirable, and a revival of the old system that 'the Association was formed for the purpose of putting an end to.
THE steamship used by the Chinese soldiers in escaping from the Pescadores when the Japanese army occupied the island last spring, and which was afterwards sunk by them, was raised on October 31st by those engaged in raising the wreck of the Keket, a man-of-war, which was wrecked near the Pescadores last year. It is a five ship and not damaged in any way, and will be shortly taken to Osaka. Allempts to raise the Kohe had been made by divers lace last spring, ways the Japan Dally Herald, but the The Secretary of the Panjom Mining Com sea being rough most of the Ume, the work was suspended. It was found that all the bodies were washed away by the waves and that the ship Itrellis broken into three parts, so it could not be raised, but over 4,000 articles out of her have been recovered, all of which were taken to Osaka'and are being inspected by the authorities. The principal articles are four fich torpedoes intact, (wokorpedo heads, four quick-firing guns and one Hotchkin gun, all uninjared.
follows:-
Müll ran 25 days crashing irgo'tons yielding 130 surces of smelted gold, Forly-five tons al concentrates were csiclaed, yielding 77 ounces of gold,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Narcissus leaves for Nagasaki
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W. GRIGOR TAYLOR,
General Manager. Singapore, 17th November, 1896.
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THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The following as the detalls of the discorsion at the meeting of the Council which we were. obliged to hold yesterday :--
GAF ROCK LIGHT DURS,
His Excellency-Gentlemen, I have the honour to lay upon the table certain correspon dence respecting the abolition of the special Gap Rock Light duen. I have taken the liberty of wish to say that late last night, about a quarter laying this paper on the table myself because I
jo elx, while enaged in official work, I received a vigorous protest which was written in his mail uncompromising style by the hoa, member who Chamber of Commerce. I wish to say that the has just been swore la as representailre of the charge he has brought against ma of entering
into private correspondenca on the subject is utterly untrue. The hon. member is aware of the saying, give a mis-statement twenty-four bours' start und you cannot overtake it." The correspondence was perfectly public, so public of all the houses in Hongkong as far as I am that it might have been plastered on all the walls concerned. I leave the unofficial members who are charged with holding a secret conclave and being engaged in "secret confabulations" 10 protect themselves from the charge. I feel are
that some of them have consulted their con
liuenis, Dr. Ho Kal, I think, being one of them, The correspondence was perfectly pubile and there was no latention whatever on the part of the Government to keep it secret,
The first meeting of the winter session of the Legislative Council was held yester day. Some new members were sworn In and conspicuous among them was His Excellency the Major-General, who, as was pointed out by the Governor in his opening address, has very properly been added to the Council on his appoint ment as Administrator of the Government In the Governor's absence. The Colonial Secretary then laid upon the table the Observatory report for 1895; the report of the Po Leung Kuk Society for 1895; the half-yearly report to 30th June of the D. P. W.; the report on the Tai-ping-shan Improvement Works; the raport of the Government Offices Improvement Com-
His Excellency then "did,, mittee'; and the report of the Tung Wah Commission. We do not propose to deal other Governors have done as with any of these papers to-day. With very first business at the the exception of the Tung Wah report session of the Council-read his open "destroyers" Bort and Handy, bava | THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST C. 2. M'KINLEY, togather and discussed the question; Öf course ·
Ing, speech. It was very clear, very factory, although given in the middle and moderate, and, on the whole, very satis nived at Singapore.
not at the commencement of the sitting The attack on Mr. WHITEHEAD was too urgent to be postponed even for an opening address, Certain portions of to-morrow. At the conclusion of the that.'address we shall have to deal with Address there was no reply by the Senior Unofficial, or any other member, as is
they are. of very little importance, Captain Vaughan, will be despatched as above although we shall not entirely overlook them. There is some amusement to bo had out of at least one of them, namely, the Offices Improvement Report; but It will keep.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
- Hongkong, 4th December, 1895.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
(1855
FOR SINGAPORE, SAMARANG AND
SOURABAYA.
THE Company's Steamship
"FOOCHOW."
Captain Blackburne, will be despatched as above OD WEDNESDAY, the 9th loniant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
11857
Hongkong, 4th December, 1996.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA,
THE Company's Steamship
"SUISANG,"
F1869
Captain T.R. Galsworthy, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the fit Instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th December, 1898.
INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Company's Steamship
** SUISANG "
having arrived from the above Forts, Consignees
of Cargo by ber are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo Impeding the discharge or remalulng.
customary.
what all
the H.M.S. opening to-moITOW.
He
Mr.
Tax German flagship Kafir swived here from the north this afternoon.
A MEETING of the Legislative Council will be held on Monday, the 7th inst., when the Bills
further considered. that were read a first time yesterday will be
we understand that Dr. Yersin has completed his report on experiments with plague serum and forwarded it to Paris through the Governor- General of French Indo-China,
OUR Hainan correspondent reports that although there are no French merchants in the place, yet the French Government has decided to open a consulate in Holbow asrly next month. A vice- Consul will be appointed to the post. The Russian Ironclad Imperator Nicolas I. steamed into Singapore on the 37th ultimo from Maolla When she left here recently it was stated she called for Yokohama, but that was not correct. Shoix proceeding to join the Russian Mediterranean fleet.
THE FORGERY CASE,
Hastings, C. S. McKinley, an electrical engineer
At the Police Court to-day before Capt, in the empley of the Hongkong Electric Com pany, was brought up, on remand, charged with having on or about the 3rd October forged latter or document, dated the 3rd October, purporting to be signed by one W. Farmer, of the New Victoria Hotel. Mr. J. Hastings (instructed by Mr. Mounsay) appeared for the appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Robinson
accused.
Mr. Hastings strongly objected to any further remand. The witness had been here and could have been called had the defence wished it. He bimself knew the person had arrived here and had appiled to have a hearing to-day, and the counsel on the other side had been informed that the day bed been fixed. The counsel for the defence had had nearly month in which to consult their client and he objected to any farther delay. He asked bis Wariblp to commit the accused for trizi.
His Worship asked Mr. Robinson if he would have any witnesses if the case were remanded till Wednesday next.
The reports tabled, His Excellency the Governor came to the front and explained that he had reserved to himself the duty of laying on the table certain correspondence respecting the Gap Rock Light dues, papers which, with a very Important addition, Mr. WesternAD-had-The-Honourable-the-Acting-Attorney- faid before the public at an earlier hour General moved the first reading of the in the columns of the Dally Press. The Military Contribution Ordinance. Governor, referring to Mr. WHITEHEAD'S attempted to be eloquent, but failed, and "vigorous protest, written in his usual he tried to insinuate that any opposition uncompromising style," as vigorously, to the Bill on the part of unofficial members and in very much more forcible was unpatriotic and ought to be abandond. language, repudiated as "utterly untrue" He prayed for a unanimous vote in favour & purely Imaginary charge, which he of the Bill and did not get it. The unofficial professed to and In the Honourable members, not unnaturally, wanted an Member's letter, of "entering into a pri
answer to their last protest and demand vate correspondence" about the Gap for the same treatment that has been Rock Light dues. His Excellency left the meted out to Singapore, and Individual members of Council, who were | WHITEHEAD moved and Mr. CHATER | AT the meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday also attacked in that letter, to defend seconded the postponement of the measure, themselves from the charge of "scret The Hon. Mr. LOCKHART opposed the confabulations" made against them, and motion and committed the official It must be said for them that they came members to a vote in favour of the Bill, forward at once and were as indignant, getting a backhander from the member but a little more lengthy than the Gover. for the Chamber of Commerce and another nor. Nelther of them, however, said that from Dr. Ho Kar, the latter supporting the they had had a little conversation with amendment and the other honourable The Baby Exchange, run by the Review. of the Governor in ble private office a few member having consulted his constituents, | Reviews, still appears to flourish. The October minutes before the Council met, nor the leading members of the community, list of babies offered for adoption gires particua did they Inform the Council of what In the Colonial Secretary's opinion there las of 40 giris and 48 boys, of whom 23 only are had been sald or done there. We need is only one leading member" of the legitimate. As Mr. Stead refuses to have any not now refer to the nature of Mr. WHITE- Community, and as he thinks the Colony iking to do with persons who'require premiums HEAD'S complaint which gave rise to all well able to pay even a much larger con for the adopilon of the chlidren, the poor little this simulated indignation. We all know tribution the opinion, of all the "small walls who obtain homes through the medium of the nature of it and all recognise the fry" counts for nothing. From Mr. CHATKE his paper are likely to be well cared for and to justice of it. It has been made the subject the Colonial Secretary drew a very decided of complaint and remonstrance before. and thoroughly well-deserved rebuke, cape the horrors of the iniquitous baby farm, Dr. Ho Kar, with his usual good sense, He had accused the mover and seconder of to which they might otherwise be exposed, declined to express any opinion about it the motion for an adjournment of attempt-
on its merits, while intimating very clearly ing to burk" the Bill, that is, to get
by-laws for t ́e regulation al bakehouses, for providing for the ranitary maintenance of epiam vans, and by lays under section 13 of Ord!- Dance 15 of 1894 (Closed Houses and Insanitary Dwellings Ordinance) were considered and passed.
MEMORANDA.
Mr. Robinson said he could give no such
BUTANCO.
During subsequent discursion between counsel Mr. Robinson remarked that he did "not
Dr. Ha Kai-Although it is unusual, I wish, since you have given me permission, to say a few words on this occasion. As a certain letter has been published by an hon, member of this Council casting a slut upon the whole of his un- official collengües in this Council, I think the earliest opportunity should be taken by individual members to clear themselves la pubile and give the true state of affairs in connection with this question. Your Excellency had referred this question of light dues to the unofficial members In the usual way. That of course, so far as the | reference to unofficial membern is concerned, was a policy adopted by the Government and with that I bad nothing to do. Whether that la a wise policy or an unwiss polley, it is not for ma to criticise. But since your Excellency has seen fit to send a communication to the hon. senior unofficial member, at his request we gathered
the meeting was not conducted as openly as cerned 1 also advocate the polley of the public meetings of this Council, and so far as I am cons participating to the anofficial members' delibera ilons in any place and, at any time, and I think it would be better, if there is no objection on the part of the Government, that in fature acoficial · gatherlags should be attended by the members of the Pressstall events, so tha tour transactions there at the choice of anyone. Now the facts of the cass may not be misunderstood and misrepresented
I.
aze that about a fortnight ago your Excellency Mr. Robinson asked for a further remand on sent a communication in the senior unofficial account of the absence of a material witness, | member and he at once covered a meeting by who had arrived here from Japan and bad since circulating a communication to us, but unfor "gone on to Manila without his knowledge. He innately I was not aware the communication.wan. wished for time to consult Als allen. The marked "Confidential," "I do not know whether witness was Mr. Haaldinson, in the employ of it was marked by the Government or not, but Watson & Co.
the mark was on the envelope, and that was explained to us as soon as I got to the drst meeting. When I was moked by a member specially whether I should regard the mark "confidential" as binding upon me I at once said that I would not be bound by any making on the envelope, since the business affected the interests of those I represent and not my own interests. I further stated that I would not only decile to regard that as confidential, but any other communication of a like nature. I referred to me not fo my private capacity but as a repre sentative of the Chinese, and I therefore would not regard it as binding on myself in any way. In that cast, as in many other cases when I have received communications of that kind, I bave discussed these questions with my can- stituents. Sach were the facts na far as my position is concerned. Certainly this secret conclive, does not apply to me. I BeBurd you never regarded such a meeting as a SECTET COR- clare. We expressed our opinions to each other Mr. Robinson explained that he did not "care as freely as we could and after every meeting button" whether be or Mr. Mounesy came to is invariably my practice to tell the leading the court. He had only been informed that the Chinese about. I think my unofficial colleague, Mr. Wel A Yuk, will confirm me when I say car was coming on to-day at 1.15 p.m.
The sccured, when, asked if he had any. that previously no important question has been thing to Y, was allowed first to see the brought before the unofficial members that i letter after, which he stated that, Mr. Raymond - would not disclose and give away. With regard had given him deep cause for offence to the section of the public which I have not the and knowing that he (Mr. Raymond) was in the honour to repessent, 1 leave it to their own habit of smuggling oplam ke gave information representatives to speak about. This question to the French Consul on the 28th Septers ber, has been discussed at two meetings and the two days before the Hanoi arrived in Hongkong, result communicated to your Excellency, As The Consul considered the foformation insuffi- | soon as the result was communfeated. Í think. cient and asked him for something more definite, the kon, member for the Chamber of Commeros Then he had Mr. Raymand watched, after which | asked leave to publish the communication. be gave to the Consul Information which he Hon. T. H. Whitehead-I did not ask if you
Barnett that I had given the information and I perfect right to publish it. made no secret of ft.. If I had bero gulity was Hon, Ho Kal-You said you would publish l it likely I had done this ? As to the making of and we all said “Yes, ceriainly.* the box I heva an, answer, which I-reserve,” Ron, T. H. Walishend,Did Mr. Belillos any
Accused was then committed for trial at the so? Criminal Sessions on the 18th Instaṇi, bell being Azad at $2,000,
care a button."
His Worship—Mr. Robinson, what do you mean by making such a remark ?
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be landed at Consignees risk and expense into
Godowns at Easy Point.
that he would prefer to have things other as the Burkes In Edinburgh made away wise arranged. He brought out the fact with their helpless victims. Mr. CHATER that the correspondence about the Gap resented the Imputation and explained that Rock Light dues, when it came to him, was his sole desire was to prevent the rights marked "confidential" which is rather a and liberties of British subjects from being stronger word than "private." He repu burked" by the Colonial Secretary, and [1866 | diated the idea of any córrespondence 1 his fellows.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Coy
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th December, 1896,
TO-DAY-4th December.
Hall, Daddell Street,
TO-MORROW,--5th December, Noon-Meeting of New Balmoral Compacy, 230 pm Auction of household furniture, etc., at Mr. G. P. Lammert's sales rooms, Duddell Street.
«Tacoma mail due.
Hoa. E. R. Belllfos--Ok, bertaluly, Hon. He Kai-I understood it was maande
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