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Lessees and Proprietort: Mrs. N. CHESTER,
Messrs. A. H. & E. J. POLLARY,
TO-NIGHT!
AND EVERY EVENING,,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1901.
Intimation.
The first great event in the Colony of the CHAMPAGNE,
20th CENTURY,
Under the distinguished Patronage of H.E. Sir HENRY BLAKE, G.E.ŅIG.-
POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN OPERA Co.
of 50 PERFORMERS,
TO-NIGHT,
AND EVERY EVENING' TILL FURTHER
NOTICE.
Forthe First time in the Colony, The enormously successful American production,
"THE BELLE OF NEW YORK,"
In Two Acts of Six Scenes,
and, at any rate, everybody, plumed himself for a whole twenty-four hours upon a Boer
held the pass had they attempted to do so | Tux Queen has sent through Sir Fleetwood | ESTIMATES have been called for by the Gov. Edwards a £5 note to Mr. Charles Farrell, of ernment of India for the conversion of the ex- Strand-rd., Merrion, Dublin, who has seven isting heavy balleries in India into position sons in the army, as a mark of Her Majesty's | batteries, armed with long range guns, also for appreciation of the interesting fret, "
the addition of three howitzer batteries to the field artillery in India.
reverse.
The United States' Proposal, "According to the Vienna correspondent A. S. WATSON & CO., did propose to transfer the peace negotia Milling Co. of San Francisco, California) at of the Daily Telegraph, the United States We note that the business of the Stockton
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tions to Washington, and we are pleased to present in the hands of Messrs. Holliday Wise see, on the same authority, that the pro- & Co., will be taken over on Monday 14th inst posal has met with an emphatic mega-by Messrs. A. Fair and T. W. Hornby as direct live. The peace negotiations do not representatives of the Company, and carried on seem to be progressing apace, it is true, but at their Offices 4, Queen's Building, Hongkong they are much more likely to be satisfactory if conducted on the spot. Conducting peace is sentencing two bigamists, the one to three negotiations with China from Washington years and the other to three days imprisonment would be too much like buying pigs by, tele- phone. The McKINLEY Government had Justice Darling drew a distinction $40 restoring peace it the new possesions of the bigamy by miatriages before registrars. He better turn its attention to the question of between bigamy by marriages in church and United States, instead of trying to save said that a church officer who knew that mar China's face and so plunge the whole of the ringe was a sacred net deserved the greater Powers into as big a mess as has been punishment for bigamy. $40 $42 made of the Philippine question.
Jacquesson Fils:-
-Brut Naturel, 1898
Dry Marquetterie, 1593) Boll & Co., 1892, Extrá
Sec.
GIN.
To which Soldiers, Sadors Children and Amalis A. Fine Old Tom
will be admitted Half-price.
PLAN at ROBINSON'S,
PRICES AS USUAL. B. Fine Unsweetened
Doors Open at 8 P.3.
Performance starts punctually at 9 P.M.
Carriages at 115 RM,
The Star Ferry Co. has kindly consented to delay the last ferry to 12315. Arrangements have been made with the Peak Tramway Co. to run a Special Tram a quarter of an hour after the Performance.
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A. LEVEY, Business Manager. A. H. POLLARD, Manager - Hongkong, 13th January, roor. [1514
NOTICE...
E have This Day authorised Mr..
WCHARLES WILLIAM MARSHALL
to SIGN our FIRM per PROCURATION.
GEO. R. STEVENS & CO. Hongkong, 12th January, 1gat..
14c
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE,
ME or the furthcoming Races will
EMBERS are hereby notified that En-.
CLOSE on SATURDAY, the 26th instant, instead of Saturday, the 19th, as per Draft Programme.
By. Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course."
Hongkong, rath January, 1901.
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STEAM FOR
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(Taking Cargo at through Rates to the Brazils, to SOUTH AFRICA, RED SEA, BLACK SEA, LEVANT, VENICE and ADRIATIC PORTS).
THE Company's Steamship
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January, JOHN SMALRINGE KNOWLES, late Secretary of 5. C. Farnham & Co, Ltd., aged 53 years,
The
Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1991.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Murder.
The murder of Mr. YEUNG, the Reformer,
SANDER, WIELER & Co.,
may well cause one to ponder seriously over Agents.
the state of lawlessness into which Southern Hongkong, 12th January, 1901..
[3c China is rapidly declining, and in the general tem Southern China Hongkong may now be included, for life and property appears to be as insecure in this British Colony as in Chinese territory. Our Canton Correspondent writes that robberies ate committed there in broad daylight. So they are in Hongkong;: and it must not be forgotten that we have had two murders within as many days and have two or more murderers at large, not to HONGKONG TO PORTLAND (OR) AND speak of highwaymen. Truly, this is a pitable state of affairs to have arisen in a British possession!
IN CONNECTION WITH THE OREGAN. RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY.
PROPOSED SAILING FROM
SAN FRANCISCO,
VIA
INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, KOBE
AND YOKOHAMA.
If, as is suggested, the murder of Mr. Taking Carge to JAPAN PORTS, THE UNITED YEUNG was prompted by political motives,
THE S
STATES and Canada, Steamship
"ADATO,"
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Ir has been left to an Australian bowfer to in- troduce a novelty in cricket. He is an aboriginal named Marsh. This Marsh has a questionable delivery, and a match in Sydney was no balled by an umpire named Curran. 'On the second day of the match, Marsh appeared with his bowling arm in splints, and demonstrated so successfully that his delivery was fair, that the umpire resigned on the spot. Marsh is an exceedingly fast bowler.
The Elektroteknisk Tidsskrift of Copenhagen states that a Danish electrical engineer has invented an electrical lamp, which will cause a considerable advance in the therapeutical treat meat with light, followed by the Danish Pro Ir is stated that the amount of stamps sold in lessor Finsen. The lamp has been tested at but the postage paid on letters sent from these Copenhagen, and has been proved to produce Bornes and Labuan during 1999 was £20,000, Finsen's Hospital for treatment with light in the colonies nover exceeds the sum of 600 a in an especial degree those chemical rays year. The remainder, £19,200, may be pre-which are necessary for the purpose. sumed to find its way into albums all over the world. We presume this is the reason why the Band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers will play at the Hongoug Hotel, this evening, from Colonies are always changing the colours and
8 to 9.30 p.m devices of their stamps,
PROGRAMME). 1. March .** Fulber's got om .... Wineull, * Selection
„." Belle of New York " Kerker 3. Barn Dance............ "Chlegg» "space, Clifford, 4. Vaise. Länger Le Leo". Fitz Gerald, Cornet Sola..... "The Tolfers"..... Piccolomind.
(1. Granvill 6. Selection. The Citisha "... Jones, FACIL *. Danca
"Des.Demons" Salemán, "God Save the Queen.“.
British Columbia and Japan. British Columbia has taken a very decided step in enforcing the new Immi gration Act on the arrival of the Empress number of of Japan and rejecting a Jarmuese. The question is certainly a very vexed one and requires a deal of study, Japanmust have some outlet for her surplus population, for which her one colony of Formosa is inadequate. British Columbia offers a good field for the Japanese emigrant A SINGULAR breach of promise case was but British Columbia is British and its heard at the Leeds Assizes recently, Solomon population is British and so the influx of Norths, a Bradford merchant, being sued by cheap labour froin Japan would be deleter-Ruth Gurrs, 45, widow. The parties had known ious to the British Columbian workman. each other from childhood, and while plaintiff, The exclusion of Japanese labourers may had a husband and the defendant a wife, Mrs. breed some small amount of ill feeling, but Gurrs alleged that the promise was made, and matters will right themselves sooner or later. that it was afterwards renewed when the obstaA MOVEMENT is on foot in Battersea, says the If the advancement of Japan continues at cles to their union had passed away. The jury Morning Leader of the oth' alt, with the ob its present rate of progress it will not be gave a verdict for defendant.
ject of memorialising the Home Secretary.and very many years before the Japanese
the Chief Commissioner of Police, asking them labourer is as expensive an article as he of
to take immediate steps to put a stop to the British Columbia. Then there will no
ruffianism that takes place in St. John's rdış.. longer be any need to exclude him.
Falcon-rd, and York rd., Clapham Junction, particularly on Sunday evenings. These streets at night are infested by a gang of about 100 young men, who both insult and assault all and sundry.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. CAPE COLONY,
LONDON, January roth.
The reported cyclists' fight is not true.
'POWERS AND THE CHINA CRISIS.
THE Ganiois warns those who have friends in Turkey, and are wishful to send them pictorial post cards that a recent Irade forbids the Turkish post-office officials to receive or to for- wand these harmless soitvenirs. All the cards which have been on sale by Turks in Con- stantinople have been seized, and those the property of strangers have been purchased from them. All new importations are to be con. fiscated at the Custom-houses.
THE Hereditary Grand Dake Michael of Rus- sia, who at present stands in the position of heir to the Czar of All the Russias, is, according to report, to be betrothed to the Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who is a
THE U.S. PROPOSAL. The Daily Telegraph's Vienna correspon-grand-daughter of the Grand Duke Michael dent states that the United States' proposal Nicolaisvitch and a niece by marriage of the to transfer the negotiations from Peking to Grand Duke Vladimir, the Crar's uncle. Prince Washington has met with an emphatic re- George of Greece is "again reported to be fusal.
engaged, this time to Princess Alexandra of Schaumburg-Lippe, whose brother is married to Princess Logise of Denmark.
INDIAN REGIMENTS FOR GARRISON DUTY, NEW REGIMENTS TO BE FORMED:
The formation of three additional Indian
infantry regiments has been sanctioned, and two more are contemplated. The new regiments will be employed for garrison duty at Mauritius, Singapore, Hongkong and Ceylon, the Imperial Exchequer bearing the cost.
THE BRITISH COLUMBIAN IMMIGRATION AOT. JAPANESE NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.
The New British Columbian Immigration Act was enforced yesterday for the first time on the arrival of the Empress of Japan, when a number of Japanese were rejected, while the Chinese remained untouched, their im- migration being regulated by the Dominion
law.
WEATHER REPORT. -
The Observatory report says On the 12th at 11.55 a.m. the baronicter has risen slightly on the China coast. Pressure is high over the N.E. coast of China and W. Japan. Gradients moderate with strong monsoon on the coast, slight with moderate monsoon in the N. part of the China Sta. Forecast-Fresh N.E. winds; some drizzling rain,
it does not require a very great exercise of brain power to perceive that the crime was probably ordered by the Chinese Govern- ment and that the murderer will be rewarded 2,145 tons. Captain J. McIntyre. for his dastardly crime. Should this prove This Steamship will be despatched on to be the case, and Mr. YEUNG's murderer FRIDAY, the 25th instant, for PORTLANDcape, we do not think that a Single one of (OR:) VIA MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA, the prominent Reformers now living in and to be followed by the 5.5. "MONMOUTH Hongkong will be safe, for the successful ac SHIRE," on the 10th February, ̧ .
complishment of the first crime will lead to Through Bills of Lading issued to any Point others being attempted.. in the United States and Canada.
Mr. YEUNG's murderer escaped on account Cargo will be received on board until 5 P.ML; of the calm and collected manner in which the day previous to sailing. Parcel packages he went about his foul work. He appears to will be accepted at the Office of the Under-have simply walked into the house, put four signed until the same time. All parcels should bullets into his man, and walked quietly out be marked to address in full. Value of same is again as though nothing in particular had required.
Consular Invoices, to accompany Cargo des- happened and, in all probability, within a tined to points beyond Portland (Or:), should quarter-of-an-hour of the murder was on be sent to the Company's Office, addressed to board a boat on his way to Canton, or some the Collector of Customs, Portland (Or:}
other spot in Chinese ritory. For a We hear that HM.S. Undaunted will probably premeditated crime of this description Hong go out for firing practice on Monday week. kong is peculiarly adapted. The whole water-front offers a ready means of escape and: A NURSE, to take charge of children on the criminal taking to the water within a short voyage home, is advertised for from Penang
For further Information as to Freight rates, &c., apply to
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Agents. Hongkong, 12th January, 1901 (147
EYESIGHT.
Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London” and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES” at 16, Queen's Road Central, (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL). Business hours-9 AM to 5 PM.
GREAT proportion of cataracts and A
discases affecting those advancing in life ocour to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of Eys Strain' ending in serious forms of disease Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.
Constantly recurring-lieadaches, - spolis of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
Tuz Bangkok races are in be held on the 19th
21st and 23ril of this month.
Ar Bowest, Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson (Limited) have been fined £100 and costs in connection with football coupon competitions in Pearson Weekly and Short Stories.
The Queen of the Netherlands has an "en- ormous private fortune, apart from her civil list, while the royal calates in Holland and in the East are also of great value. Queen Wilhelmina is said to be going to settle 20 millions of marks or a million sterling upon her future husband. According to this arrange meat, the interest (say £30,000 a year) will be at Princo Henry's disposal, witlle the capital will be settled on the young children of the marriage. If there are no children, Prince Henry is to have absolute power of disposing by will of five millions of marks, while the re mainder will ultimately revert to the Queen's
estate.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
FALSE WEIGHTS.
Cheating in 'a wholesale jaskien.
Li Sau, salt-fish hawkers, appeared charged Before Mr. Kemp this morning, Ling Fui and
with having on their stalls weights which were the Colett not in accordance with the standard weights of
measures, gave evidence as to the finding of Inspector Duncan, inspector of weights and the defective weights on the defendants' stalls. They both bad excuses' to offer, of picking the scales up by mistake or of having borrowed the weights.
His Worship convicted the defendants and fined them each $15 or in default three weeks hard labour.
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BY THE WAY.
Can you tell me, Mr. Editor, what A Hard the Hou, F. H. May meant when Nat he said at the last meeting of the Sanitary Boardthat when Europeans, especially members of the Army and Navy, stopped walking in the middle of the road he would clear the side-walks? If the side walks need to be cleared it stands to reason that they to walk in the road, what is to be done? Did are too blocked to walk upon and, if one is not the Hon. F. H. mean to infer that Europeans in genetal,and maembers of the Army and Nayy in particular, are only fit for the gutter? -
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When Is the dredger going to be.. The raised? is a question one hears: Dredger. on every side just now. There are all sorts of rumours afloat, too,
as to
Snow Captain Percy Scott is going to do carriage to her and ron her ashore, while others say she is to be lifted by a charge from a four- what he is about, and will lie low and say.. paint-seven. However, I suppose P. 5. knows nothing, like Brer Rabbit, till she is afloat again. What a nice little bill she will have run up during her stay at the bottom
Twenty seconds per mile was to Olinary be allowed to any bent in to-day's Servige, race provided slic was steered by a
girl who wore her hair down on ordinary service. So ran the conditions of the race, but the Naval Officers who framed them 'quite forgot to mention, what "ordinary sor- vice" meant, and I have heard many of the fair sex discussing the vexed question. I heard one lady whisper to a bosom friend that she often left her fringe downstairs on the drawing. room mantelpiece at 'night; would that be a sufficient qualification to obtain the coveted: twenty-seconds and would the committee give her away if she told them in confidence. A. nursemaid wanted to know if ordinary" meant Recreation Club has doubts as to whether or domestic service, and a member of the Ladies'
no the condition has anything to do with ten nis." I wonder what those M. Os, did mean?
The Etooks.
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What has become of the stocks? They are still in use in Hongkong, or were within a few months back, for I have a distinct recollection of hearing the Police Magistrate, Mr. Gompertz it was, I think, senience a Chinaman to, some couple of hours in the stocks opposite the Canton Wharf Why not trot the stocks out for the benefit of those misguided Chinamen who refuse to limewash their premises, or commit insanitary offences? If the offending party were placed in the stocks for a few hours in a busy street, with a nice red placard setting forth. his crime and a lukong to marshall the crowd; I fancy the number of sanitary offences would rapidly dwindic.
The Cross examination of the Powers.
The list of "over two hundred questions" to be put to the Powers by the Chinese Govern ment sounds "trifle formidable. It looks as though the Dowager and intellectual damages like was about to lodge a cluim
for moral Oom Paul. If report is to be credited, it would have taken more than thar the Powers of Europe to damage the lady's morals, while her intellect is so abnormally developed in the wrong direction that it is beyond repair and could never have been further deteriorated by recent events. Would it not be better to retain a.” Penang, lawyer" for the defence of the Powers ?...
They went to prison. It is well that some of these frauds should be brought to light to teach the hawkers and such people that they must have correct weights, and measures There is undoubtedly a tremendous amount of squeezing indulged in by all kinds of provision sellers, in penished, though many of them, practice the Un Hung tempomry's special telegram f the way of false weights, and very few are ever
According to your morning con- offence openly every day.
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OPIUM.
Punishment jos unlawful possession. brought before Mr. Hazeland this morning for Chau Tai, fisherman of Cheung Chay, was being unlawful possession of one and a half taels of prepared opium.
Sergeant McHardy gave evidence, after hear ing which His Worship imposed a fine of $25 or one month's hard labour,
The fine was not paid so the manwent to
Chan Shing, of Cheung Chau, no occupation, was charged before Mr. Hazeland this morning with being in unlawful possession of thirteen als of prepared opium, not having a valid
certificate,:
Sergeant McHardy gave evidence.
A fine of $100 or in default two months'hard, labour was imposed.
The defendant went to prison.
ACCORDING to a New York message, American paper-makers, newspaper proprietors, and pub-gaol. lishers are watching with intense interest some important developments-which a e about to take place in the paper trade. The National Paper-making Company, & new corporation with a capital of £1,000,000, sterling, will shortly begin to manufacturer paper. from, the waste hulls of cotton-sted, billions of tons of which lic piled up all over the south of the United States, constituting the refuse of hun- dreds of cotton-sted coil mills. The com pany controls a new process for manufat- turing from this material a new pulp, whi h will keep white and never turn yellow, as wooding whereas wood pulp-costs is per top. The pulp does. Moreover, it only costs £5 per ton, new company intends to wage a commercial war against the laternational Paper Company, a gigantic corporation popularly known as the Paper Trust," and an important reduction of prices is expected. In addition to manufact- turing paper, the company will manufacture cotton-seed oil in competition with the Cottons, seed Oil Trust, which heretofore has controlled
the cotton-seed industry.
THE following letter, addressed by Mr. Z. de B, a Commandant of the former Free State army, to a well-known Natal colonist, has been
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CARRYING AMMUNITION WITHOUT A PERMIT
Chinaman gets off with a light fine.. ; Yeung Cheung Lam, clerk, Man On board. house, Des Vœur Road; was before Mr. possession 37 rifle cartridges, without a permit Kemp this morning, charged with having in his
from the Captain Superintendent of Police." and His Worship fined him: $10 or fourteen The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge day's hard labour...
Fine Paid.
The ammunition was forfeited,
AND USING ABUSIVE LANGUAGE
A seaman runs amuck.
Mr. Kemp had before him this morning a man named Fred.-Slitter, snemployed, from the Sailor's Home. The man was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the public
defendant bad hired the vehicle and gone in it gase evidence. It was to the effect that the to the Sailor's Home. He was slightly under the influence of drink but was not incapable When he reached his destination, not all the persuasion in the world would induce him to and used, abusive language to the pay for his ride. He was very obstreperonis
Li Thursday last, Li, like a certain scriptural gentleman's wife's mother, lies sick of a fever, or some other equally distressing complaint. Li's illness is said to block negotiations, and this must be very of agony. I have a shrewd suspicion though soothing to the poor old man in his bours that, like the, skulking blue-jacket, the old. man "don't feel exactly ill like" but "gets a sorter shiverin' all over" "whenever he sees a job of work. Perhaps an offer on the part of the Powers to put him at ease by fulfilling the prediction contained in the second syllable of his venerated name would work a magic cure. Certainly, Li Hung High would cause less delay than Li Hong chang and the Powers would be no longer bothered by Li's lies.
Rifa
Clubs
Whatever may be the case in England, Lord. Salisbury's advicé, re rifle clubs seems to have caught on out here, for I see by the papers that the Chinese, Govohment is distributing rifles and tething the people to use them., This may please and amuse the Chinese but
it
certainly won't please the Powers. Just imagine taking a walk in the country when the Canton Volunteer's were at rifle practice, each loosing off his gun wherever and whenever the volunteers shoot at One another 1 hope spirit mayed him And what will these bold
missionaries, 1 fear. When the whole of the armed with rifles, and the women and children male population of China matches wesHaris follow behind to pick up the fragments of the slaughtered barbarians, it will be a great day' for Europe entirely }
The Municio rincery ne suwningapore song of Pay. services of two Sanitary Inspectors, at least they say they do in a recent Straus paper, and they further state that know- tedge of colloquial Malay is indispensable, and acquaintance with the Chinese and Tamil languages desirable.
Applications, accompanied by copies of testimonials, should state, age and present employment and give some information as to fications the M.Cs offer the princely salary of education and experience. For all these quali- $600 per annum, rising by annual increments of $60 to $1,200 per annum! What a chance for a pushing man, of education and sanitary experience and speaking Chinese, Tamil and Malay Why, after ten yeats' service he would
The Government Printing Office at Singa-
of some sort in readiness at some convenient Secretary of State for the Colonies, as will be about the toughest joh England has when he went to investigate. Constable actually draw A HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH:
time of the commission of his crime effectu- ally covers up his tracks. It is impossible to watch every junk and sampan that leaves the Prayn and to this fact is to be ascribed the immunity om capture enjoyed by gang robbem and other criminals who, having their.. plans carefully laid beforehand and a croft spot, are thuse cimbled to laugh at our police system.
Under present-conditions we should cer tainly advise those Reformers who have come to Hongkong for safety to take every precaution against a possible attack We would point out to them that it is not only Chinese Government to either murder them possible but comparatively easy for the or spirit them away. The lot of the refugee Reformer is by no means a pleasant, out at the present time
The Peokancerskloof Affair. air. Su the reported cyclists fight is not true running together; any of these symptoms indi- and, presumably, tomebody has been pull cute a deficiency in the form of the eye requiring Reuter's leg. There have been sever! ing Classes only to correct and cure. of these false reports spread of late and it is Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES most annoying to find that a reported British victory has no foundation on facr. Büt ADVICE FREE Ca- fragab masked, the cyclists would doubtless have,
only after testing the sight.
street, and with refusing to pay a legal fare to a, forwarded to the Pall Mall Gaselle —
rickshaw coolie. “Harrismith, O.V.S, June 23, 1899-My.F. C. Cashman and the rickshaw coolie business altogether. The farmers only come Dear, These war rumours are, unsettling to town nowadays to hear the latest. A person cannot get them to settle down to business. We are armed to the teeth, and the organization. bis so perfect that within twelve hours of the THE Earl of Onslow, Parliamentary Under different passes leading into the country. It first alarm, llie burghers will be ready at the
appointed Mr. T. C. Macnaghten, of the tackled since the American war of Indepen His Worship imposed a fine of $3 or seven poce is in want of an Assistant Proof Reader Colonial Office, to be his private secretary.dence, and, with a large portion of the Dutch days hard labour on the first charge, and at a salary of $25 per month. Surely Singapore
community of Natal and the Cape ready to on the charge of refusing to pay, a fine of $1 or is being run on the cheap Tur. Singapore Free Press of the 4th inst, anys, at the Cape, wholly with us, and our fixed man was also instructed to pay 25 cents to the join us, with the sympathy of the Bond Ministry seven days hard labour was inflicted. The A Chinese passenger on board the Weng Wan determination to fight to the bitter end if we coolie as compensation.
yesterday committed suicide under novel offce start, the odd are in faveus of a repetition.
in his belt and in the presence of his wife and teeming at that time with English troops, spies, conditions. He dressed in his best, put $300 of history England, with her huge resources, ought to have crushed; America, a country children opened his unibrella, and descending traitors, and officials. Yet she did not and û in parachute into the sen, was drowned. could not.. In our case it will not be the Re- publics, but the Africander nation under arms A HOME paper says:-Sir Frank, Swetterham fighting for independence, and we do not fear-
the result Yours sincerely, Z. Jdo B. PB who has been Resident-General at Selangor Let the English khow that this is the opinion since the federation of the Protected Malay of colonial Africander. Within thirty days States five years ago, has come home on leave, after the declaration of war, I shall have much Sit Frank, who belongs to Belper In Derby pleasure in ordering the execution of the editor thiro, bas been thirty years in the Colonial of the Natal Witness and a few other Jingoes. This will take place in the Market Square, Service, all of which time has been spent in the Pietermaritzburg, in the presence of the Federal Malay, Peninsula.“
anny
The fines were not forthcoming, so the defendant went "inside" for fourteen days,
f notice that the peace-at-any- Boxing. price party of the Colony have been hiring their views in the columns of your two contemporaries on-the brutality of boxing, and the depravity of all who attend? VE ROWDYISM AT THE STAG HOTEL “ exhibitions of the noble, art.-May 1 remind Ho Sen, interpreter at the Magistracy, went these titmerous falk that manly sports form the with some friends to tiffin at the Stag backbone of a nation, and that it is for the pro- Hotel yesterday. Whilst there some European tection of the weaker members of the popula bluejackets, started to knock things about and tion that the inanty sports are kept up. Of make themselves a nuisance. The first named, course -boxing exhibition would be out of therefore, took out summons against the plate in 2 drawing room so would a offender for using abusive. I
language and ator temperance meeting. Then, too, which is tempted assault, FRA likely to command the more respect the manly Mr. Hazeland had the disorderly members youth who can, and doet, promptly knock down before him this morning, when they were bound the insulter of his mother or sister, or the mild over in the sum of 5100 to keep the peace for and effeminsic, spectacled parody on a man three months
who look pon every form of bod
prayer
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