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ON October ist The Director of the Mint at Washington purchased 74,000-ounces of silver on ac punt of Philippine coinage at an average of 59 9-17 cnts delivered at Sam Francisco

IT: 15 interesting to note that the Navigating Officer of H.M.S. Fearless, which arrived at Sandakan quite recenty, discovered, whilst erassing the bar at the entrance to Sandakan lay, one fool and a half more water that sa- dicated in the Ship's chart..

We learn thal, on the arrival of the s.5. Prins Meurich from Singapore this morning, two of the passengers were arrested at Kowloon by the ice. On inquiri s being made it appears that he measure was thue in a mistake and the persons in question have surce bern liberated.

Ir is interesting to note, in'connection with the progress made by the Federated Malay States, that Negri Sembilan's out-put of tin has in- ceased 19 per cent, and that quite recently

houses on the hill. The incident is worth re

In the current number of our local For tugatse contemporary, O Porvir, certain trenchant remarks appear on the subject of the creation of Portuguese embassies in On the night of 8 h, a violent just came Takio and Peking. The journal remarks up from the South-East accompanied by very that, according to a royal decree, the Porte-heavy rain which drove right in under the guese Government has at last created per manent legations in Peking and Tokio, and it is said to have nominated at their head; respectively, Messrs. José de Azevedo Cas til fianco and Batalha de Freitas. As for the Portuguese legation in Japan, it might be considered an unqualified waste of THE BEST INGREDIENTS only money and an inutility of the first order. are used,

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since there, is no large Portuguese comini nity in Japan whose protection necessitates such sacrifice, nor has Portugal in the Land of the Rising Sun interests of such vast aagnitude that call for the luxury of being represented there, apart from the fact that this step is not reciprocated by Japan, which has not a resident minister in Lisbon. Our contemporary, therefore, feels unable to con-

gratulate the Portuguese Government upon the establishment of the legation in Takin where, for Portuguese interest, it would more than suffice had a consul of the first class been appointed to look after his national allairs. Regarding the legation in Peking, the circumstances of the case are different, because, notwithstanding that there is not a large Portuguese community in the Chinese capital, there are, nevertheless, many sub. jects of that nation scattered throughout the A. S. WATSON & CO., ports of China open to international trade, a large and important community at Shanghai, and a still very important colony in the south of the Celestial Empire with which Portugal must hold constant commercial and official relations. The Pornir proceeds that "on account of the interests of our colony, which has questions still pending of the highest importance to be solved with the neighbouring empire of which it forms, so

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ALLEGED MALICIOUS

PROSECUTION.

HAFACTION IN COURT.

At the Supreme Court this moming, tha Paiste Judge, His Honour A. G. Wise, heard an action brought by Sa in Sheung, a broker, of 200, Queen's Read Central, against Cheung Wan Chow, a trader, of 178, Reclamation Street, Yaumati, to recover the sum of $1,000 damages for malicious prosecution.

THE NEW LAW COURTS

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bulling a large dome of some forty fest span is cleverly placed on four massive granite piers. 1 hese are connected by heavy arches of brick- work in cement from which springs the inner For some three months, past there has been to ewed activity on the vicant land lying be done, forming the ceiling of the large Court.

Above this again rises the drum of the external- tween the Queen's Statute and the City Hall, done, consisting of granite faced walls support- and the outlins of the new buildings can now

ed on steel framing and surrounded by detached be readdy traced by means of the brick walls columns. From the bass of the drum eight which are daily increasing in height. E.

steel trusses spring, supporting the stone the Guvernor will lay the foundation stone-lantern at the-top, and-which-are united sa In the stalement of claim it was set forth that, to-morrow afternoon, and it will be of interest, on or about the 19th August last, the defendant to leam a few particulars of the proposed their outer surface with steel framing filled in with concrete, and covered externally with cust Courts. The building, consisting of the new granolithic slabs, forming the enter surface of maliciously and without any reasonable and probablu use preferred a false charge of the

Law Courts, Land Offices, etc., will, when

the dome. farceny of promissory notes to the value of $4,300, and goods to the value of $2,360 against completed, form a very valuable şukiition to the plaintiff and caused him to be arrested the architecture of the city. The site lies thereon; and in the 20th August prosecuted between Des Voux, Roal and Chuter Road, him before Mr. Sercombe Smith, when plain and is adjacent to the cricket g and on the riff was remanded to Victoria Gaol until the

west side. The designs for the buildings were 24th August. After several further remands the charge was heard and dismissed.

prepared by Messrs. Aston Webb, B., and "The defendant's statement was to the effect E. Ingress Bell, Fiæ.13ra., of 19, Queen Anne's that he denied the charge was preferred mali-Gate, London, the Consulting Architects to the ciously and without any reasonable and proba-Government of Great Britain, and the work is ble cause, or that the same was a false charge,

or was prosecuted before Mr. Sercombe Smith.being carried out under the supervision of Mr. He admitted the several remands and ultimate H. A. Fisher, A..., of the Public Works dismissal of the case.

Department.

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Mr. C. E. H. Beavis, of Messrs. Wilkinson

The style that has been adopted is, as might

the English school and with details of a Greek

The ground floor of the structure will be oc-

an estate of 400 acres of rubber sold for $300 and Grist appeared for the plaint f, and Mr. O. be expected, purely classic in feeling, foliowing

13 Thomson, represented the defendant. oso, Certainly very satisfactory signs of

His Lordship said he under tand that in a advancement.

rase, rathermoje complicated than usual, plead-character. The pile will form not only one of ings were of some assistance to the Court in the largest but one of the finest erections in the arriving at the facts. According to the writ in Colony, the beauty and skill portrayed in the the present case plaintiff claimed 51,000 dam design being far in advance of anything" to

for malicious prosecution, but un inform- ages! ation whatever was given, while the statement which we have been accustomed. of claim contained rather less. In fact, they were not pleadings at all. Pleadings said whe was plaintiff and who was defendant, and sel for their relative positions and so futh, and how the case aruse. The present ones gave him only the bare fact that the case was taken op. They were not pleading. The statement of defence was all right; that fallowed on the same lines as the slatement of claim Really," he concluded, shall have to consider the advisability, when I order pleadings and get anything like these again, and plaintiff wins his ense, of whether I should allow him costs of and incidental to the pleadings.

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cupied by various offices for the afficials of the Courts, including spacious apartments set apart as Land Offices, and separate rooms for the

Registrar, the Deputy Registrar and their res- pective clerks, and also for the Bailifls. On this floor also is a Prisoners' Receiving Room with a separate entrance, and cells in connec- ion, and there are special staircases leading to the docks of the large and small Courts on the floor above. There are two large entrances for the general public, both on the west side of the

several offices by means of spacious corridors, Access for the public to the first floor.is pro-, vided by two wide staircases. On the east side is an entrance for the Registrar and other

for the use of the Judges.

Internally, the walls of the various rooms will be finished in plaster, and there will be glazed tile dados to all lavatories and corridors. The ceilings will be ornamented in plaster, which' will be formed with asbestos where necessary for protection from fire. The floors throughout except to Lavatories will be finished with hard- wood blocks laid, in preservative composition, and the Invatories will be paved with orna-

mental tiling. The staircases will all be con- structed in granite, with ornamental wisdgat iron balusters and polished wood handrails, The joinery throughout will be in teak, and has all been specially designed for the building.

The whole of the interior of the building will be amply lighted-by means of electric glow lamps, and great attention has been given to. the warming al ventilation of each of the several apartments.

The principal elevation, of the structure will face towards the west, and will consist of a single lonic order some forty-five feet in height, forming fifteen bays with attached columns and square angle piers. The piers are inter- connected by semicircular arches supporting the floors of the colonnade above with oma. mental balustrades and moulded copings, all in gran'ie. Between the piers and the main walls on the ground floor is a wide colonnade entirely surrounding the building except for a small portion on the east side. This colonnade is

which support the walls and floor above. The upper colonnade runs round the greater part of the first Boar, above which is a balcony to the second floor, access to both being

Mr. Beavis wish to make a correction in building, and these communicate with the spanned by a series of semicircular anbes

paragraph 1, my Lord.

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It is reported from Peking to the effect that

afforded, by folding casement doors. The

should there be no trouble with Kassia it is the Kemp to be substituted for that of Mr. Ser. officials, and a separate doorway is provided colonnades will be finished with finely punched

intention of some of the members of the Grand Council to advise the Empress Dowager to send Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai" down South as

Viceroy of the Twe Kwang provinces, vice Viceroy Tsea, taking with him foreign-modelled army, and also to recommend General Ma Yük'un, who is now Provincial Commander-in- Chief of Chili, as Commander-in-Chief of Kwangsi province, with the privilege of also taking down with him his own army corps of 25,00 men.

A PERING dispatch states that certain Censors, disappointed of receiving adequate "presents" from the high provincal authorities of the Two Kwang provinces, have begun picking holes in. the military plans of Viceroy Tsên Ch'un-hsilen regarding the rebellion in Kwangsi province, and lately a strongly worded memorial of a Censor denouncing Viceroy Tsun for various misdemeanours was suddenly presented to the Throne, asking for his removal from office and examination into charges made against to speak, an advance guard, it is incumbim. The Empress Dowager, however, ignored bent on us to have attached to the Chi.

the memorial.

combe Smith.

Mr. C. D. Melbourne produced the original depositions in the case of Cheung Wan Chow a. Sa Hin Shung, heard at the Magistracy, before Mr. Kemp, on the oth August.

In presenting his case to the Court, Mr. Beavis said it would be necessary for him to go somewhat far back in the history of the matter, and he regretted the pleadings were not so full as they might have been.

His Lop ship: They don't tell me anything. I do not call them pleadings at all.

A lift, which wil be worked by electrical power, will be provided in addition to a private staircase, for the convenience of the judges and other officials who may be using the upper floors. The official portions of the building throughout are carefully kept distinct from those to which the general public have access On the ground floor ample accommodation is also provided for the safe custody of official records.

granite walls and arches, and tesselated pave ments. The centre portion of the west eleva- sion is surmounted by a pediment containing one semicircular opening, around which are grouped the Royal arms, and the whole is crowned by a statue of justice standing nine feet high. Behind this pediment rises. the square base of the central dome, which is ter minated at each angle by a graceful pinnacle built of granite. From this base the drum of the dome ascends, consisting of a circular Daric order, the intercolumnar spaces being pierced with windows. Above this rises the graceful outline of the dome, the whole being surmounted by a handsome granite lantern,

Proceeding, Mr. Beavis stated that it seems that Ng Chi Kin, was the owner of a certain birdsnest shop in Jervois Street, There is a small basement in which are where the plaintiff and defendant both lived. suated the furnaces, boilers, etc. for the heat Defendant was & partner or manager of the

ing of the building, which will be on a hot shop, and plaintiff, who was a broker, rented a tom in the shop. Ng Chi Kin supplied the water system at low pressure, with radiators in money for carrying on the shop but was unable all rooms and corridors. The system is ar-terminating, ot a height of over one hundred to attend to the business as he was also mana-ranged in four separate sections in order that and thirty feet from the ground, in' a boldly xer of a native bank in Hongkong. Defend only such portions of the building as are neces-carved Tudor crown, ant, therefore, conducted the business which, in July or August, got into difficulties and sary need be warmed at any one time. defendant, althought lie represented himself as a partner, became frightened and cleared on of the Catony to Canten. Shortly afterwards Ng Chi Kin was arrested on a charge of em hearing of this, returned to Hongkong with the bezzlement and was convic.ed. Defendant, on intention of taking possession of the shop and

The large Court is placed in the centre of the first floor and is surrounded by the smaller rooms and corridors, so that no sound from out side the building may penetrate while the Court is sitting. This is a large and lofty apartment lighted by means of four large semicircular

nese Court some one who will guard those We are still daing business at 31, Des Vaux getting what he could from the goods. Upon windows placed high up, each being twenty.

interests and properly and zealously defend and promote them. For these reasons, the Portuguese journal is in agreement with the 1ST FLOOR, 12, QUEEN'S ROAD, [idea of the establishment of an embassy in Peking, the expediency of which it was one of the first to point out and adniit.. It, how- ever, objects, in no equivocal terms, to the XMAS & NEW YEAR CARDS.appointment, as Portugal's Envoy Extraor dinary to the Chinese capital, of Senhor

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usual accommodation for the Judge and pri soners, and there is a large space also reserved for the use of the public.

Arriving he found that Yei Kas Ting, a salesman, employed in the shop had squared up affairs eight feet in diameter, and four sniall as far as he coull and had returned goods not circular windows. Ample space is provided puit for to the various creditors, but had taken for members of the legal professions, for the away sonic private goods belonging to the prejury, witnesses, reporters, &c., as well as the scut defendant. These he deposited with a Certain person and left the Colony, presumably, because he thought he might be implicated in the troubie. Defendant gave information against Yui Kwai Ting and had a warrant issued for his arrest on a charge of stealing certain gonde. Yui Kwai Ting, either before or immediately after the information being filed, departed from obtain sonic evidence against him for having stolen the goods, asked plaintiff to give evid

There will be four pairs of n assive granite columns ranged along the walls supporting the large dome above, and these will add consider

of the Court. The height of this chamber, from

The elevations no the north, south and east tiles will be similar in chamcter to that on the west, but without the pediment-eacli façade' being finished with a parapet wall and granite balustrade.

COINERS AND COUNTER- PEITERS IN CANTON,

FORGING H. SA, BILLS. - (From Our Correspondent.)

FURNITURE/Castello Branco, The grounds for the jour. / roll holder, pair of binoculars, and photographic theolony, and the defendant, in order to ably to the handsome and imposing appearance quantities of false coin and spurious bank-bills

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nal's objections are that, as ambassador extraordinary and negotiatur of the last Por- nguese treaty with China, the Minister had not given proof that he will properly dis- charge the duties of an important and diffi- cult mission. It points to the failure of the first embassy as disclosed in the documents! printed in the White Book, and assigns the cuse of that failure to the great want of tact and diplomatic skill displayed by the Portuguese Envoy. We have previously seen that, the treaty referred to was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies in the Portu guese metropolis,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE dead body of a Chinaman found near 208 Des Voeux Road West has been discovered to

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Tade is the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

ON the voyage of the S.S. Madeleine Rickmers up from Bangkok, she passed a sunken fishing boat in lat. 16° 15′ N, 15° 40′ W.

A CHINAMAN recently employed by Mr. C. E. LeManyon has been found guilty of thieving from his employer. He left the shop in Des Voeux Road at the car of September, and Mr. Le Munyon having, missed a camera, value $125, got a warrant for his arrest. Inspector iauld, took the case in band, and found the prisoner in, possession of a century camera, a appliances, of the total value of $312.43 Mr. LeMunyon identified the articles as his pro- perty, and at the Magistracy this morning Mr.ence, which he refused to do. Several days the floor to the ceiling of the dome, will be

later a letter arrived from Yui Kwai Ting infony-eight feet. forming plaintiff that the charge was false, and that he knew where the goods were, and if the charge was withdrawn he would tell him

he could obtain them. The contents of that letter were conveyed to plaintiff by the defendant, and the latter agreed to withdraw the charge it being understood that plaintiff would write Yui Kwai Ting to ascertain the whereabouts of the ig on to the colonnade. goods. The letter was written and shortly afterwards a delivery order, or something in the nature of a delivery order, was handed in to the person who had passession of the goods. Defendant engaged a coolie for the purpose of obtaining them from a shop in Hollywood Road, and about the same time some detectives

Sercombe Smith sent the prisoner to gaol for six months for stealing the camera, and gave him another six for taking the other articles, the sentences to run consecutively.

REPORTED MISHAP TO HMS, "AMPHITRITES

On Monday morning news was received in the Colony to the effect that the first class cruiser Amphitrite had met with a slight mishap while steaming in the Southern waters of the China Sea. Nothing appears to be de- Ginitely known although it is stated that the 20- knot vess:1-bad can aground white steaming from the vicinity of liangkang to Singapore It is evident that she has not sustained any serious damage or our correspondent at the Southern port would have informed us by wire, and having regard to the fact that she is now on her way to tiongkong, where she is due to arrive in a few days, it is ap aient that there is not much the maiter with the ship, although she will be docked on arriving in the Colony. She was last in port on the 261 okt., and pro- ceeded that day to Mirs Bay from where she must have gone on to Singapore.

ARMED ROBBERIES,

where

There is a smaller Court on this floor for the use of the Puisne judge, wherein also ample accommodation is provided. This apartment is placed on the north side of the large Court, from which it is separated by a wide corridor, and is well lighted by casement windows open-

Canton, Nov reLS, - Colonel Yeung the Commander of the Shar- mien Guard, has just "inade a most import- ant capture, having succeeded in tracking a well organised gang of coiners and banknote counterfeiters. For some time pas, large

had been put into circulation here, and though it was known that these were 'manufactured somewhere in this city, the culprits acted with such cunning that all previous attempts to trace them had come to naught. The coins, imitat ions of the Hongkong currency and bearing the effigy of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria," are well stamped and difficult of detection. The notes are counterficts of the bills of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and, though printed on bad paper bearing no water- mark, they might pass mus'er with Chinese when placed in a bundle of good ones. All these notes, on which the printing is fairly accurate, though wasting in the finesse of the originals, bear the forged signatures of G. E. flour grouped around the Central Court, and set Noble, Chief Manager, and J. Whittaey; Chief part for the use of counsel and solicitors, and countant, aud tho e bearing a face value of there are also waiting rooms for witnesses and $to are dated, 1st March 1890. Colonel Yeung consultation rooms for the convenience of raided a cash shop, which he had been watch- litigants. In addition to these, there are sepa-ing for some weeks, yesterday at noon, cap. His Lordship agreed with him that there was rate retiring rooms for each of the Judges, tured two men and seized 300 counterfiet notes no proof of malice, and although ibere appear-besides the Jury room, and efficient lavatory of various face values The name of the shop was Wong Loong and the arrested men are I would Wang Al Ying and Liu Ah Kaon. like to draw attention to the untiring energy of Colonel Yeung who, for many years, has faith- fully served the European community here and whose courtesy to foreigners is proverbial.

The south end of this floor is occupied by a spacious Library for the use of the Judges and officials, which is also in communication with the colonnade. The Library is surrounded by a wide overhanging gallery.

to the house, and plaintiff was setives went. There is a large number of rooms on this taken to the Magistracy and charged.

Evidence was then called on behalf of the plaintiff, after which,

Mr. Thomson, submitted that his friend had absolutely failed to prove malice in the prose

cution.

accommodation is provided throughout.

ed to have been a quairel the case was not a strong one.

The second floor is reserved for officials of -Cheung Wan Chow, who attended Cun

the Court Access is gained by a continuation in company of warder, deposed that in the beginning of August he went to Canton of the officials' staircase from the ground floor, and remained there ten days, and upon and by the lift. Here are situated large offices returning to his shop in longkong found for the accommodation of the Attorney General, that the birds' nests, furniture, his clothing boxes, and, in fact, everything had been the Crown Solicitor, and their respective staffs" removed. Hele, rned, that Yui Kwai Ting, of clerks, and a considerable space is set apart and Su Hin Shung had removed the things, for the storage of book, etc. Plaint ff said he would find then again pro vided he would not proceed against Hui Kwai Ting. Witness told the Inspec or and, sub-bricks, the main piers supporting the dome and some other portions will be of granke sequently recovered the goods. He added

The external walls will all be faced in finely that he was at present in custody for debt. "

Mr Beavis pointed out that there was a

punched white granite, all of which is being distinct discrepancy of evi ence in the case, carefully selected for the purpose... The whole was necessary to prove that the charge was made without any reasonable and probable cause, and that it was false.

The internal walls are to be built of red

SHIPPING AND MAILS,

MAILS DUE. German (Prins, Heinrich) to-morrow. American (Nippon Maru) 13th inst Tacoma (Olympia) rʻth inst.

Details of a very determined armed robbery in the New Territory have been reported to the police at the Central Station. It seems that at midnight on 18th ult: four 'five men MR. A..W. Brewin, Re,istrar General, accom-

boarded a dinghy at Laing Shan Wan, in the panied by Mrs. Brewin, returned to the Colony New Territory, and rowed to a fishing boat. from Europe by the Prrust this morning, They "held up" the crew with a revolver, bent the master until he was unconscious and then bound him and his fokis and locked them in The master of the steain launch Kwong Loi the hold, after which they decamped with a was fined $15, or in default, fourteen days' im- $50 bill, articles of clothing, a trunk and sails prisonment, at the Magistracy to-day for ne- of the total value of £80 95. They cut the glecting to exhibit a bright light, on beard his ship's-cable and left the vessel to float down and in un action of malicious prosecution building will be of fireproof construction, and Australian (Eastern) z in inst.

stream. Last week P.C. Barr arrested two men, said to have been concerned in the rob bery, at Shaukiwao, and subsequently two uthers were captured at Yaunati. Two of the men were also identified as having taken part in an armed robbery at Po Tai O last month, when a gang of desperadoes armed with iron bars and knives broke into a dwelling house, bound a man and his wife and stole money, jewelry, and clothing, valued at $104. Inspector Robertson now has the matter in hand.

vessel, visible all round, while at West Point Just night. HE. Ko Feng-shib, arrived in Kwailin, the capital of Kwangsi, on the 27th ult., having travelled there overland from Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi. H.E. according to the same telegraphic advices, took over his seals of office on the rst inst.

THE

"HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

mads in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL.ady in the tropics--SAN MIGUEL.

His Lordship said there was no direct evi 'ence of malice at all, and the question was whether there was any want of probable and reasonable cause for the prosecution from which be could infermalice. On the plaintiff's evidence there was reasonable and probable cause for the arrest, and judgment would be for the defendant, with costs.

"HE Beer to drink in the truples is the Beer: made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL,

: French (Armand Íehiz) 16th inst.

Indian Arratoon Apcar):16:4 inst. -American (Siberia) zoth inst.

Indian (Laisang) 23rd inst. has been designed with a view to efficiently

Tacoma (Tacoma) 4th proxing: withstanding the ravages of white ants. The floors throughout are formed in concrete and

The Apear Co.'s s.s. Arraleon A hear from seel all the metal being well protected by Calcutta left Singapore for this port this morn casings of concrete and asbestos plaster. The ing Small Court, and Library will be covered with The T. K. Ki Co's sa. Nippon Maru with red tile roofs; the smaller rooms and corridors ma 1, &c, left Shanghai for this port to-day,

ut-it aand is due here Friday, afternoon, with concrete flats, and over the centre of the

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Bee HE Beef to drink in the tropics is the Beerade in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL!

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