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BY THE MAIL:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY JULY 17, 1899

by 11,000 What they alleged to be the false trade description was contained not only on the| packets, but also on handbills,

A Victoria Cross of the Mutiny. At their salerooms in King-street, St. James's square, Messrs Christie, Manson, and Woods sold by auction the Victoria Cross awarded of Ordnance at the Bengal establishment for John Buckley, Deputy Assistant Commissary the defence of the magazine, at Delhi during the Indian mutiny. After a few steady

rejections of priols heating would be probably altered in a few months; it was also possible that the bankrupt would be able to submit a scheme of arrangement for the con- sideration of the creditors.

"upon her Majesty's Government the desira

Major Marchand bility of utilizing every opportunity which may Major Marchand is in exceedingly bad hum THE TRANSVAAL.

present itself for co-operation with the Govern our, says the Pall Mall Having been forbidden ment of the United States, which would power- The Jameson Haid Damages.

fully conduce to the maintenance of feeling by his superiors to enjoy the sweets of populari of accurity for the vast commercial und financial the family from which he has so long been ty in Paris, and packed off into the bosom of The correspondence relating to the claim of connections of the two nations." The council separated, he has revenged himself by liberat the Transvaal Government for damages arising of the Loudon Chamber subsequently resolved P out of the Jameson Ruid was listed on the 13th unanimously to invite the quentiente ing his soul, to a reporter of the Gaulais, Had ulto, asa Blua-book; President Kruger persist-presidents and Committees of the New Yeu his movements bean: unfettered, ha anys, he' | willingness “to reconsider the Pacific cable advances the decoration was sold for £80. At than now, The application, would, howevar, . in his demand for a million. Sterling a.com.hkuar to a dinner on a dalda Invitation: Fashoday with the assistance of his alliga~} necessaran would be in harmony with the before, was sold for £110. pensation for "moral and intellectual damayes" (agreed, in 4900, and, in reply to the furiosity arould have madd’short work of the English at '}'achsmo on the basis of utilizing the crédit ofthe the same rooms the Lesser George of the.

and 5677,938 33, 3d for arterial damages," The South Africa, Company, wers willing, upon the receipt of vouchers, to submit disputed points to arbitration, and actually did make in offer which Mr. Chamberlalu counidered reason able. The Correspondence extends from December, 1895, toʻlast month, "

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an affirmative responce has just been received, in which the president says:We rejnice with you in the growth of the mutually friendly relations between our respective Governments Founded as these are upon mutual respect and a gathering sense of the common mission for civilization to which both countries are alike The "Pall Mall's" Opinion. sacredly pledred, we believe that time alone would suffice to strengthen and cement them, The Transvaal Govemment have, mistaken

But we are not insensible, to the immediate their vocation; they should let sea-side lux advantages accruing from such occasional and gings. In piling up "extras" on account of the Jameson Raid they leave the most in-vity anal intercourse, as your hospitable ginative landlady at Margate or Southend invitation opens to us." Dowhere. The assignment of £1,649 Gr. 1d; to George Suthers and Co. for "necessaries is a masterstroke of genius. In the first place,. necessaries are ever so much more convincing than sundries, and the solitary penny guaran-

farthing, "Medicine for prisoners" only cost

The Situation in the Philippines.

ant section of the "American public may be How recent Manila news affects one import-

Philadelphia Ladger, representing commercial

the

The Pacific Cable Question: Ottawa, July 12th-Commenting to-day on the statement made in Saturday's Timer that the Imperial Government had intimated their

who would have been ejected" by United Kingdom in the provision of the capital

Canadian

declare that selves in pun lavours Presumably the Major of the Cable Committee resolution, and express

allies, bút.

quits

to declare them... | suri action means the Shiluks, who, if we remember rightly, the hope that the British Government will have since been attending garden parties at assume their share of the maintenance and the invitation of the Anglo-Egyptian command construction of a State-owned cable on the basis ant at Fashoda and professing their loyalty to agreed by Canada and Australla.-Keuler, the Khedive, Possibly, however, there is a veiled reference to the story of that Abyssinian host which came down to the valley of the Upper Nile, and went back again just too soon to make the Major's acquaintance. Anyhow it is clear that Marchand is not content to be the "emissary of civilization which M. Delcassé declared him to be. But these belated crowings of a ridicat is thoroughly characteristic

are rather ridiculous.

·Unwholesome Meat.

to Smithfield which is not all that it should be. It is an expensive amusement to send meat Mr. Thomas Edwin Gay, a Hampshire farmer, found this our at the Guildhall. It was attested against him that contain of his nine of them were killed presumably to save sheep got "blown." by eating new grass, and

them frum dying. At any rate, the carcasses were made marketable when they were not,

Garter, a medal probably never offered for sale

AW

Against Crows, and its

Consequences.

was one of the art of the waiters, to be dealt

Mr. Justice Wright sakt the question of assets. with, and it would be much more dificult to investigate the other matters in a year or two bo withdrawn, and the order would provide for the costs of the Official Recalver and trustas to be paid out of the state. Application withdrawn Accordingly Min. Hooley was present during the proceedings.

The crusade against crows which has been | The First Case for the Inebriatos" waged recently in the south of Scotland

Home, resulted in the destruction of many thousands of the birds, an effort being made in many.

Mr. Lane, at the West London police court, sent the first isotonn Inebriates fonit, under places to exterminate them. The destruction the new Act. The name of the defendant was appears to have gone too far, because there are Ilelena Ward, thirty, who was charged with now bitter complaints that large stretches of being drunk and disorderly in Princes-road, round, particularly in the upper districts, are Notting-hill, and further with having been con being devastated by grub. This is attributed victed summarily of a like offence at least three to the absence of crows.

times within the preceding twelve months, Records were produced showing that the woman had been convicted of drunkenness thirteen times since 1898. Being a Roman Catholic,"

for a term of two years. Inebriates Reformatory, Ashford, Middlesex,

it.

The Royal Societies Club. Club has just been issued. This states that the The Arst annual report of the Royal Societies total appliccions for membership received number 2,411, and the effecdve quembership at" presentabs,369. The library confection. now contains a tela number of 2,035 volumes,

sumptuously than at Claridge's. One S. Gillingham received 43,327, 121. 10% for "pro for prisoner The items presented visions for when Mr. Chamberlain asked for full particulars night be quite amusing, were it not that the the bounds of courtesy The Transvaal Go overtures for peace. The war drags on its probably-progress, if means of locomotion and Mark Twain at the Savage Club; } that of matches and cabbages. Finally they of which 1.480 have been purchased, and 556 language of some of the despatches far exceeds vernment have not stronthened their, following in this country by behaving like quarrelsome near an end." Washington telegmme intimate Kints, on the other hand, must be a cause of Mark Twain was entertained at supper at lived him-by charging him with 400 achieve presented, also paintings, skaches, engravings,"

horse-dealers it a fair.

Oom Paul's Franchise Proposals.

President Kruger's new franchise proposals were laid before the Transvaal Raad on the tah ulo, in the form of a draft law with a

he threw them in two more in prison, ang thel ments in ten months, and with great generosity various maps and charts.

the gaoler. Now he has told the Court that that In co-operation with the Earl of Mayo, Mr. from a drunken companion in misery, one from To Save Killarney for The Nation. drive round Vienna was only his furi, and simplyF. W. Crossley, of the Irish Tourists' Associa for the sake of the jaunt. On second thoughts, tion has been busy yesterday in the Parliament though, he would gladly write down another ary Inbbles enlating, the vid or unend be turned on to discover how much this entitles Trustees for a fund it is proposed to mise får goo thefts. The two Senlor Wranglers might Commons, as members of the Gusncil of him to at six months per item.

the purchase of the estate of Killarney, and its reservation in perpetuity as a public park and national tourist resort. A

A Sporting Criminal. tees careful arithmetic down to the uttermost scen by the commenis. of the very moderate / The Gondition of the West Indies. ) and they were sent by a butcher up to the beat the gentleman whose feats are describeWard: was able to be sent to St. Joseph'e

As a sporting criminal it would be hard to The report of Sir Cuthbert Quilter, M.P, to Central London Markets. The man who by the Standard's Vienna correspondent. Aged the modest amount of £1 145. 6d. On the opinion General Otis wins one brilliant Mr. Chamberlain on the visit which he recently dressed the ment is said to have written a twenty-eight, he has already been sentenced other hand they ought to have fared more victory after another, but they seem to be like I paid to some of the West Indian islands, islettter requesting that the carcasses might be | seventeen times, but that is the least of

brilliant fireworks, having no lasting effect. issued. Sir Cuthbert states that, as the result seen by an Inspector. This was hardly Apparently he ought to have been sentenced The enemy disappears at one point only to of his visit, he came to the conlusion, that palliation of the initial offence, and Mr. Gay 417 or 917 times. When he was arrested he com reappear at phuther. There is little, if any, for Trinidad and Lucie as the beadquarters was fined at the rate of 15 sheep by tu plained that his dignity was offended by the permanent gain of territory, Nor since future in store St. as Guildhall alderman. Mr. Gay lind much better

guinaldo received an ultimatum of uncondi- of the troops, must be fairly and progressively have left his blown sheep to be ly-blown

omission of 200charges to which he was entitled and he got the police to drive him round to th tional surrender have there been any further prosperous. St. Vincent and Dominica would

scenes of his prowess, which had ranged from is transit developed, Antigua, Barbados, and St.

the theft of pictures and, church offertories to. weary length, and there are no signs that it is that the President himself is disquieted, while anxiety until the sugar industry was provided other teams, says the Times correspondent, with the modern machinery necessary to enable politicians are getting anxious about the political such machinery there would be little fear of from various parts of the country suggest that it to hold its own against its competitors. With effect of prolonged indecisive fighting. Others their immediate future.. than politicians are perplexed when they are Siruthbert proceeds; "In certain of the told one day that the Filipinos are incapable of islands, I was struck by the strong conviction, further resistance, and the next day hear that entertained by all classes, that their future was they are fighting the severest battle of the war, dependent on the welfare of the sugar industry, Such is one effect of Algerine Censorship.

and that this could be brought about by the establishment of central factories. Further, it is the prevailing belief that the critical condie tion in which the industry has been placed is due mainly to the neglect of the British Govern ment in the past, and it is 'oying to the policy of the United States that the condition is not much worse... This attitude of mind is worthy of serious consideration, taken in conjunction with the fact that the United States, in a variety of ways, appear to be endeavouring to ingratiate themselves with the inhabitants of some of our West India possessions, and that the New York that there is a wish on the part of West Indies for annexation to the United States: The idea is silently, but gradually, making way, and am satisfied that, If it is to be checked, no time should be lost in introducing. those remedial measures which I believe to be the interest, as well as the duty, of this country to carry out promptly and energetically."

Stormy Scenes in the Spanish Cortes.

MADRID, June 12th.

preamble declaring the necessity of altering the method of obtaining the full franchise to be urgent. There are veral alterations from the President's Bloemfontein memorandum. The income qualification is reduced to £100 instead of 200, the renunciation cinuse in the oath is expunged, and the approval of a two-thirds majority deleted. Young men not born in the State whose fathers are naturalized have the status of their fathers and must register them. Chamber, which was suspended last evening On the resumption of the sitting of the selves with the Field Corna in their sixteenth year. No one who is not considered as belonging to the uproar which followed the state- ment of one of the secretries of the Chamber ing to the white population of the Republic that if Senor Moreya's election were valid he can obtain the franchise by the terms of Article 9 of the Grondwet. All stipulations of laws in

stipulations are similar to those made by the President nt Bloemfontein,

Will the Guernsey. Militiamen be "Banished?

the Savage Club, whereof he has recently been made an honorary life member. Needless to dining room of the club was filled to say, t the Daily Chronicle remarks, the capacious remotest corner, while many Savage Peris lind perforce to stay without the gates. Even in so informal an occasion the usual loyal toasts," which in this case were to the healths of her Majesty the Queen and the President of the United States, were proposed, after which the chairman (Mr. J. Y. . MacAlister) proposed the toast of the evening Mr. Clemens, who was enthusiastically received on a rising, began by saying it was pleasant to hear the com plimentary remarks of the chairman, especially as he felt they were entirely deserved. He

In consequence of the mutiny in the and always felt that when he was spoken about in

North Guernsey Militia the men of the three complimentary terms the only drawback was companies were ordered to return their arms, that he could not propose his own health, as he knew so many snore things to his own credit arms, but all their clothes and accoutrements, to the arsenal. They not only brought in their than did the rest of the world. He confessed, how which they threw down in bundles, some play ever, that he had not had much to be thankfuling football with their helmets. A compar man told him coming along that speeches the ammunition and escorted it to the fort. were not allowed in the Savage Club, he felt The militiamen's mutinous conduct has that there was much to be grateful for. Things estranged all sympathy from them, says the had nof turned out quite as he expected, but given them every opportunity to state their Times correspondent. The Governor has he must make the best of it..

grievances, and the general opinion is that, ns they have disgraced themselves and the island, they should be disbanded. The islanders say that the majority are not Guernsey men, but interlopers. The annual rifle meeting has been Postponed, and probably the usual Bisley team will be absent this year. Had the men the slightest grounds for complaint, public opinio would have supported them, but their only defence in court was that, the adjutant ordered them like dogs and drove them about the parade round like a flock of sheep. The States have power under an old law to banish bad characters from the island for terms of ten years or five years, and it has been suggested that this law might be usefully put in force in the present. circumstances.

A Flight of Pigeons. An extraordinary and very pretty sight was other morning her about eleven thousand witnessed in Jersey at abour half-past five the

The birds belong to the Northern Federation pigeons were ted from St. Heliers pier, of Flying Clubs, and the race thus begun forms onaofa series avergradually extending distances and in France,

conflict with this law are repealed. The other majority šibmitted a, vote of censure on the press loses no opportunity of making it appear for the last few days, although when the chair from the Wiltshire Regiment took charge of frogi different points in the south of England'

The Dynamite Monopoly. Mr. John Weslake, in a letter to the fan chester Guardian, deals, in a very clear and direct manner with the question of the Dyna- mite Monopoly in the Transvaal. Upon the terms of Article 14 of the Convention he comes unhesitatingly to the conclusion that they do not prohibit the creation of monopolies by the State to be worked either directly or through. an agent, and in this view he is in accord with

Mr. Chamberlain' himself. The latter, ir bis

desp tch of January, 1899, however, attached the condition that the concession muse be intended in good faith to beneft the State generally and not simply to favour the conces Aimaniye Mr.Woxtile expresses his inability to understand how “a an anti-foreign preference, which is not

must be admitted, some members of the Bureau. Senor Silvela, the Fremier, begged his supporters to withdraw it; but they declined to do so. It was finally rejected by 165 votes against 34. The Republicans and the Liberals voted with the majority: Much comment was caused by the fact that a number of the Minis terial deputies who were present in the House abstained from voting,

that in the lobbies of the Chamber a number. In an article on the debate the Heraldo suys of depaties who are followers of General Polavieja, Minister, of War, made violent actuations agaitist

his

the Premier.

Senor

Russia and Germany in Asia Minor.

The Novor Premja publishes an article to clay declaring that it is absolutely necessary for Russia to convince Germany, whose schemes of development in Asia Minor, and especially in Mesopotamia, seriously threaten Russian interests, that Russia will not tolerate in those countries any modification of the Stalus que or the foundation of any international enter prizes, more particularly railway undertakings.

asta declared that never in the course of parliamentary career had he ever seen anything to equal what retirred in the course of the anting. Señor Vega de Armijo, another deputy, expressed the upili. . that if the Pres sident had not left the House some of the members would have stuck him with their walking-sticks The Merulde adds that the day will be a sinister one for the Gover-ment, --Reuter nor a breach of and even speaks of Ministerial crisis There- it gives the foreign agents working the mono, however, as confi qution of such a report

-Bouters poly too lavourable terms. We "are 'bound to say that there seem to be considerable force. in this argument,

the Convention, constitutes a breach because

the

The Italian Gatorul Arrected at

PARIS, June 13th..

Mark Twain went on to relate how, when he first came to England twenty-seven years ago, he was taken to spend his first evening at the Savage Club. He did not at firat like the idea, but he found there no talk of "missionaries or any other form of cannibalism. The chair. man said he had helped to bring England and America/more together. He hoped that was truc. le certainly had always written with that object. Might they ever go hand in hand in the path of progress and civilization; and if they should ever fight, might it be as at Samos; side by side, but never face to face-sentiments that found clamorous acceptance at the hands and lungs of the Savages.

A Deep Sea Diving Apparatus. A series of experiments have just been made" A Darwin Statue at Oxford.

at Cherbourg with a new diving apparatus that A statue of Charles Darwin by Mr. Hope enables work to be carried on at far greater Pinker, presented in the University of Oxford. depths than has hitherto been possible. The By Professor Pouton, Hope Professor of apparatus hitheno in usa will not serve at The latter portion, however, of Mr. Weste Jake's letter is of special interesi and import-

Zoology, has been unveiled at the Univers depths much over a hundred feet, whereas it is Sity Resedn. Sir Joseph D. Hooker, in hoped that the new apparatus will prove ance as an express of his ventional Life at Azespach from Nige u the Figuro gives the curse of he asked, but traits ta. Mr. It must be added, however, that the Cherbourg an address on the occasion, effective at five hundred feet and even over tion as the Professor of Interastionul Law Cambridge. He very justly remarks that “in thus following details of the anes of General Darwin's charter appeared to me most re-experiments have so far been made at a depth internation quests in the is no judge to Giletti di San Giuseppe The General" went appeal in, it is one important even than in by fall to Puget Theaters and Toust-de-Bouil table during the many excrcises of his of only one hundred and seventy feet. Still domestic, pues that that documents shall be on the 6tli fest, and went over to Moulin delect that I was privileged to bear witness they have been entirely successful. The in- interpreted in a clear and simple way?" in Rigaud military road, which he studied most indomitable perseverance under bodily suffer M. Piatti dal Pazzo Constructed at Choisy to,, they would be, first, bis self-control and ventor of the apparatus is a Tunisian engineer, an agretinest be worn States spezific terms are carefully. At ourveying that part of the ong, then his ready grasp of difficult problems, le Roi, it consists of a sphere three metres in used permitting this or proibiting that, it is country, the Figure correspondent says, and and, lastly, the power of tuming to account the diameter, fitted with three screws that enable absurd and misleading to talk rout intentiuntuiking what was nothing less than a milliary waste observations, failures, and even the it to shift its position at the bottom of the

sufest

coured in state by the words used, reconnaissance, he returned to Touci de Bouil blunders of his predecessors in: whatever sub ocean. Another of its features is a species of and is give them their natural construction and thence to Nice by train without suspecting jeer of inquiry it was this power of utilizing dredger worked by machinery that can be used As Mr, Westlake justly rymarks, “to read in a that a special commissury had been following the vain efforts of others which, in my friend to pick up cables or other objects. The in qualification about intention is to make a trap him the whole time. The commissary Rept of and a means of creating differences, instead of a distance, and watched, the General without evidence of Darwin's genius. Like so many the fanous American cruiser, the Alabama,

Sir James Paget's opinion, afforded the best

ventor intends shortly to search for the hull of means of settling differences, which an agrees being seen himself, thus becoming the eyewit ment ought to be." Mr. Reita was not over dess of all the officer did. The General's

men who have been great discoverers, or whose which was sunk opposite Cherbourg by the polite in his reply to Mr. Chamberlain, but if object seemed to be to study in the most tho works or writings are proofs of their having Kearsarge during the American Civil Wat he could have expressed himself in courteous rough manner possible all the features and

intellects, indicating great originality, he was terms, he would probably have used Mr. West strategical points in the Vau Valley. From that than ability. It is doggedness that does it." wonl to atribute his success to industry rather Jake's language and logic

time he was kept under strict surveillance On was an expression he often made use of. June 7 he

again went to Touet-de-Beuil and Paget-Thenters, and drove towards the Puget Bridge, Staff map was unfolded before him, andAt the Worship street police-court before Mr An extraordinary incident occurred yester- he scanned the country through glasses. He Cluer, three summonses taken out by Messrs. day, says the Daily News, of the 13th ulto,, at asked for information, and afterwards made Brooke, Bond and Co., wholesale tea dealers, the meeting of Presidents of Sections, MM. alterations in the map. On returning to Puget against Messrs. Lipton (Limited), of City-road Kameboke, De Martens, Asser, Beemaert, once more he travelled to Nice the same even, and other places, came on for hearing, The Bourgeois, and De Staal, who was, of course, ing by rail. He was just about to leave the summonses were taken under Section a of the in the chair. The question before the meeting station, when he was accosted by the commis Merchandise Mark Act, and alleged that the was the expediency of giving satisfaction to the sary, who had been following him, and who defendants had sold ten under a falas trade press and to the European and American public requested him to accompany him to his office description, by including the weight of the by communicating reports of meetings to four Here numerous questions were put to the packet in the weight of the toa. There were

rising to speak, and, General, but he refused to give his name or any addressing M. do about which none, least of all M. de Staal, to the

including his sketch book, plans, &c. He well be granted. Documents had In was released on giving his word of honour that

come out in the newspapers, and some of these deshments; he would not leave Nico However, the cc. anid M. Beernaert, locking the shairman fall amination of his papers left no doubt of his In the face, he had heard. had been stalep? intentions to act as a spy, and he was ze arrested from M. de Staal, but he would not believe this, un Monday evening and taken, to prison feeling aŭro that visitors to the Oud

Pinter Doslen Hotel were all far too honest, to stoop to this 15 M. de Staal roceived this remark in silence.

Curious Incident at the Peace-

Conference.

Rostand, and La Croise. The General

Liptons Prosecuted..

The Revised Version of the New

Testament.

Marriago of Paderewski. The somewhat mysterious journey of M. Paderewski, the great pianist, to Warsaw is. now explained in a very interesting way The. Daily News Berlin correspondent learns that his marriage with Fräulein Hélène Rosen was celebrated in the Tolish capital on the 31st. May M. Paderewski arrived there in the strictest incognito, and only a few of his knew his object. The happy couple are now friends staying at Lausanne, where M. Paderewski pianist's second wife. His first wife died some possesses a house. Fräulein Rosen is the great

Invalid. years ago, leaving an only son, a confirmed

Curious Find in the Thames,

One of the river police, while in the vicinity of Westminster Bridge at low tide the other night, saw a number of bars of what he took to be lead. There were twelve in all, and he took they were found to be silver. They turned the them to the police station at Waterloo, where scales at 308 oz., which at current prices would represent a value of about £35. The police theory is that the bars were the proceeds of a where they were found for remound as required, robbery, that they were placed at the spot and that the thieves, who probably intended to place them a little below low water mark, made a mistake regarding the tide

"Music Hath Charms," Genuine old England music still flourishes in Kentish Town. Mrs. Houtel assured the magis, trate that her husband often played the marrow bones and cleaver at a wedding. A wedding was not the particular festivity that was on the other only that the bailiffs were in; for the benefit of day; not to put too fine a point upon it, it was another occupant of the house. But the cleaver and the marrow bones, or rather the heavy iron poker, were there all the same, and played one of the bailiffs with the cleaver, and Mr. Foreign Medical Practitioners. right merrily Mrs. Houtol tried to play on Houtol did play on him with the poker. A least, so the magistrate found, though Mrs. Council, held on 9th ulto, among a variety of At the meeting of the General Medical Houtol's version was that they had all been jolly and dancing together, mid presumably the matters under consideration was a communica bailiff carelessly got in the way of the orchestration from the Privy Council in regard to the while Mr. Houtof explained that he merely England and the question of

practice of Italian medical practitioners in Still, even bailiffs do not like being shown out executive committee to represent to the Privy showed the bailiffs the way out of the house. McVail mored That it be remitted to the

ciprocity with full band accompaniment.

Council that, in reply to the following

question put by the Genemi Medical Council to Mr. foreign practitioners can be restricted to a re Mair Mackenzie, Whether the privileges to cognition of practice by them among their fellow-countrymen only who may be resident in this country, Mr. Muir Mackenzie has given practitioners cannot be restricted in the manner as his opinion that the privileges to foreign, indicated in the question; and that the execu letter to the Privy Council to indicate the tive committee be requested in a covering difficulties that surround the recognition of medical graduates in foreign countries over examination the Medical Council can exercise whose curriculum of study and professional a supervision, Mr Bryant seconded the resolution, which was carried.

Marooned on the Medway would be a

An Amateur Pirate King

good tide for a boy's book of the blood-thirstier In the Chancery Division of the High Court sort, Mastar Willie German, of Chatham, in of Justice Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy com.spired by such literature, determined to start in the Oxford and Cambridge Universities for an with a dagger, a boomerang (of his own menced the hearing of an action brought by life as a pirate. So, having equipped himself infunction to restrain Messrs. Gill and Son, manufacture), a knife, agimlet, and a chisel, copy-right of the plaintiffs in the Revised pitate king. Navigation, however, not being educational publishers, from infringing the he annexed a waterman's boat and became a Version of the New Testament. The plaintiffs his strong point, he marophed himself on a contention was that the defendants had infringed Medway mud bank, and had to stay there, a Lake and the Acts of the Appostles which con that, too, without supper or breakfast, owing to their copyright by publishing editions of St. melancholy Robinson Crusoe, all night, and tained passages taken from the Revlied Version his having forgotten the trifling detail of The defendants denied the plaintiffs copyright victuals. Next morning the river police came also two summonses taken our againt the same. In the Revised, and also denied Infringment, to the rescue, and the escapade cost the pirate's of the books com parents twelve shillings for damage done to the weights and weights not of the Board of Trade

(counsel for the plaintiffs) stated sixteen, he ought to have outgrown the stage denomination. Mr. Seager Berry prosecuted that the Universities pala-240,000 to the of development at which the Unitish boy does for the London County Council, M

Horace

scholars and diviner who made the Revised that kind of thing. For a lad of his age he Avery and Mr. Grant (instructed by Version, and that by agreement the copyright seems to have been quite exceptionally foolish. Meter Rod one and Brooke Boseruted had been signed to the Universities, who had

be on behalf of Mcars, and

THE OFFICES of the HONGKONG. registered, themselves as the holder. It ap while Mr. Carson and Mr. Charles Mathews peared that the defendants had made a selec represented Lipton (Limited), under instruction of passages from the Revised Version and

Musical Caterpillars.

TELEGRAPH have This Day, beeti removed to: No. 60, QUEEN'S ROAD If the sky fell, we might all catch larks; but CENTRAL, Second Floor, (the premises. The meeting decided that the President of

Mears, Brooke, Bond, und Co. were heard Judgment was given for the plaintiffs with pened to blow a hom in an absent-minded be addressed. tions from Mr. Charles Russell. The court inserted them in the margin for the use of even as it is, some can catch carterpillars. A formerly occupied by Messrs. POWELL & Co.) was crowded. The nummonses taken out by students, Hogs were woman at Catskill (New York State) bajo which address all communications should Weaponsibility, to give any information be thought I May 17th at the bend of fonti men, for the FAANY LANEET with his friend,.

first

oh

nailets, M, B Stau In a pointed manner,description of himself, although he handed over firm by the London County Council, Undervolted the publicate pen-boat. Considering that Master Ganman-is: could be mistaken, said that publicity might as phim,missary all the documents he had on Weights and Measures Act, for using unstampen.

buy nevěry section be ampowered," on his own re-

fit. This result in a great victory for the pross

The Conference is threatened with another difficulty through the arrival of Ahmed Riza, editor of the Mech vers and leader of the Young Turkish party, who intends toʻlay, the grievances of his countrymen before the Conference. If reported that the Sultan has demanded his ex- pulsion from Holland

Anglo-American Lelations, The London Chamber of Comu

cally aging the advant

he appeared

wie jy kind of way the other day, and down camera

hundreds of Caterpillar She blew. again;

breathe in

Commissioners engaged in the work, and that trade description," as alleged was valid in law. I bèrn a rivaler, but became disabled for elevenerpillars at every brepkiler or every.

met with

Intimations.

NOTICE:

Hongkong, 13 May, 1899

The latest news from the Gold Coast is

Progress on the Gold Coast Riisfactory Captain Clement left Accm on

terior on tour of inpection. So far the Mr. Corne Grant, in support of the summons The Workmen's Compensation Act. more centuries Then the whole populace not given rise to any disturbances. This is wholesale tea dealers, of St. Dunstan's hill, to Two points of interest were involved in the teries, dolcimers, and other kinds of muck CHS. J. GAUPP & CO., collection of the hut tax in the Gold Coast has taken out by Messrs. Brooke, Bond and Co., artibutable to the fact that great care has been decide whether the system adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act appeal in Ap and the air y

turned out with flutes, harps, sackbute, pral- exercised by the Political Officer and District defendant company in selling tea "unders falte pleby v The Horiely Company Appleby had time. And now, organ grinders are grinding was solid with caterpillary in no

unlike what was done in Sierra Leone, recently. There were three summonses taken out under months, after which he was employed as time.

fine, and the liberated domestics slaves have not been given the one Act, the Merchandise Marks: Act, in keeper, during which on ployment he

uniform and placed over their former mas respect of rib of tea, ib, and zoz, in packets a fatal accident Ti

with body who wants to bring down caterpillar ters about the most stupid. any stupid. The labels on the packeta represented that the actual employment im

Camkill, as other lad quedion verWar bir doubt, but they did ar tea sold was 1 lb, lb, and a car whereas in week, or was it permissible to go back over the That bees were musical was known but the

*timekeeping at 30s the creatures stayed up in trees and ate them reality the packets only weighed the amounts break of eleven months and take into consider concen going caterpillar is a novelty. Could named when the paper wrappers, were included alon his employment at riveter

cek? not this means be adopted for ridding the in the weight. The lead paper or paper of any. The county court judge, took the

ancient trees of the Ming Tombs of the plague other kind used as wrappers was weighed in and avenged the compensation

lls from which they are now, suffer- the tea, making the tes actually less in pay between the

1g scales MY

half a dozen Chinese bands, eight than the quantity represented by the said that the Judiwan

ild have the desired-result. Purchases had been made at most Cunty argued that he

shops, and the results showed Appeal sided with Mr.

opted deliberately by the the award op hea. The prosecution was that the

• description of stretors, cannot.

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