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ers of the Government forces to re- pol the attacks of the insurgents.

Wong Chung-ho is further com- manded not to return to Szechuan until the rising has been quelled.

H.E. TANG SHAO-YI. :- AGAIN. TENDERS RESIGNATION.

[By courtory of the "Sheung Po!}

Peking, 16th May. H.E. Tang Shao-yi has again ten dored his resignation from the governorship of Fongtion.

His Excellency's resignation, advised by telegram on the 13th inst, has probably not been accepted.-EL, H.K.7.].

RIOT IN HANKOW.

POLICE STATION, DESTROYED.

· [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.")

Hankow, 16th May. A number of hawkers in Hankow

has rioted and destroyed the police station in the city.

The whole port has gone on strike. [No reason is assigned in the telegram for the disturbance at Hankow; it is believed in well-informed Chinese circles in. Hongkong to be due to a proposal for the licensing of haw. kom-Ed., 2.E.73

FOREIGN WARSHIPS PREPARING

TO LAND FORCES..

CHINESE TROOPS GRAPPLING WITH

. THE SITUATION,

[From Our Own Carrespondent.).

Shanghai, 16th May, 1.20 p.m. Serious, rioting has broken out at Hankow.

The cmcute is confined to the native city.

Chinese troops, reinforced by the presence of Chinese warships, have arrived at the scene of the dis- turbance."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The Frefect has fled.

Owing to the great distance of Chibli and the Hukwang Provinces from the scene of the unrest in Yunnan, H., Yuan Shih-kai has counter-manded his instructions for the despatch of reinforcements from the North in aid of the Imperial forces engaged in suppressing the rising in

Yunnan.

THE CHINESE TELE. GRAPHS

GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL

ABANDONED.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pò”]

Peking, 17th May.. H. E. Chan Pik. president of the Board of Posts and Communications, upon learning that the shareholders of the Chinese Telegraph Co., Lt.. are unwilling to part with their holdings in the Company has abandoned the proposal to buy in the shares on behalf of the Govern- |

ment,

THE YUNNAN RISING.

PROTECTION TO FRENCH SUBJECTS.

[By courtesy of the "Shrung Po."]

Peking, 18th May,

An Imperial edict was issued on the 17th inst. directing Lu Chun-lum to proceed' with all haste to Kwangst and co-operate withi H.E. Chang Ming-chi, the Governor of Kwangsi, in suppressing the rebellion in Yunnan,

At the same time Imperial instructions have been despatched to H.E. Şik,Liang, Viceroy of Yunnan, commanding His Ex- French subjects residing within the province, cellency to afford suitable protection to

*of Yunnan.

FOR THE TWO KWANG."

MACHINE NYAND

AMMUNITION.

{By courtesy of the '" Sheung` Po."]

Peking, 18th May..

The foreign men-of-war in port are making preparations to land. Chang Jen-chun, Viceroy of the Liangkwang, has wired to the Ministry of forces to protect the foreign com-

War that the rebels in Kwangsi are armed munity in case of eventualities.

with modern weapons.

(The above telegram was received on Satur day afternoon, but as the publication of that day's paper commenced at an early hour in the afternoon, it could not be printed in the same issue.-Ed, H,K.T.]

SIRIKE ENDED.

JAPANESE CLAIM FOR COM. PENSATION,

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po,"|

Hankow, 16th May.

In reference to the strike at Han- kow, a number of soldiers has been

It will be necessary, His Excellency urges, to purchase twenty machine guns and 10,000 rounds of smokeless ammunition for the defence of Kwangtung in case of emergency. His Excellency's requisition has been acquiesced in.

A GOVERNMENT VICTORY."

LARGE NUMBER OF REBELS SLAIN.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Yunnan, 18th May. The Imperial troops have secured a signal

despatched to put down the disturb victory over the rebels.

ance.

All work in the port was resumed to-day.

The Japanese merchants of this city have formulated a claim for compensation for a big amount of money for losses alleged to have been -incurred as a result of the strike.

THE RISING IN YUNNAN.

REPORTED SUCCESSES.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung. Fo"]

Yunnan, 10th May. It is reported that the Imperial troops. have made. successful attacks on the rebels.

A SERIOUS SITUATION., RAILWAY SEIZED BY THE REBELS.

[By courtesy of the “Sheung Pu."]

Yunnan, 17th May. The strength of the anti-monar- chist ranks is getting formidable.

A quantity of arms and amouni. tion has fallen into the hands. of the raiders.

The insurgents have cut off tele- graph communication and have taken possession of the railway,

They have stormed and captured the forts at Mengts2.

The rebels have imprest the ser vices of the railway engineer as guide] in marching on Namkai.

So large has been the increase in the number of the insurgents, that the Viceroy of Yunnan has applied to the Governor of Kwangei for

assistance. CHIU-TUNG PREFECTURE

urgent a

FALLEN.

THE PREFECT FLED,

[By contiosy, of the "Sheng Pe3) : Peking, 17th May,

.

A large number of the insurgents has been slain.

"PROTBUION OF KWANGSA

DESPATCH OF TROOFS.

By courtesy of the “ Sheung Po.

Peking, 19th May. Kwangsi Province having been somewhat depleted of its garrison, the Imperial Gov ernment has wired ingructions to H.E. Chang Jen-chun, Viceroy of Cintan, to despatch several regimcals to Kwailin for the protection of the capital of Kwangsi,

COVERNMENT CONFIDENT.

EARNG. SUPPRESSION OF THE RISING ANTICIPATED.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."}

SATURDAY MAY

The Opium Question LUR, SUPPLY: OF THIS COLONY

PREJUDICED ACTION OF A PARTY.

REAL CHARACTER OF THE SITUATION,

Para It was ■ ely to be expected that one who has had his whole public carcer identified with the Straits Settlements and the Malay Protected States, who brought about the Federation of these States, and who has afterwards, at Governor of the Colony, directed the conjoint fortgues of the two allled territories should take the occasion to make head against the ignorant and prejudiced agitation in England against the excise basis of an important portion of the revenues of these two groups of ter ritories, one British, and the other, happily for ittell, not "British. Sir Frank Swettenham, who of all men living has immeasurably' the best claim, from long inside understand ing, to speak both for the Colony and the Peking, 19th May,

Federated Malay States, has done not less H.&. Chang Ming-chi, Governor of Kwang-out his manifest duty in declaring in the si, reports that H.E. Sik Liang, Viceroy of situation endeavoured to be forced upon this columns of the Timer the real character of the Yunnan, knows the way how to cope with Colony by the prejudiced action of a party the rising. This being so, the time is not which is incompetent to thi k of the Empire far distant when he wiil deal a crushing save as a field for the exploitation of these blow to the rebels.

wrong-headed views which it is its peculiar satisfaction to promote on every possible occa sion. Bir Frack touches the spot when he exposes the

HONOUR FOR CANTONBSE, CHOW CHEUNG-LING APPOINTED

CUSTOMS TAOTAI.

RANK HYPOCRISY

of the agitators who want to take credit in England for preventing Asiatics thousands of miles away on the Equator from indulging in By courtesy of the " Sheung, Po.") the solace of a sedative peculiarly suitable to the tropics, which neither to body or anul works Peking, 19th May, a tithe of the barm that alcohol works to tho Chow Cheung-ling, a Cantonese, bas been people of temperate zones.". The cynic observer appointed Customs Tactal of Shephaikwan.is gratified to note that the House of Commons which accepted the Johnston Taylor Resolution went perhaps thereafter off to dinner, and pro- PARING-HANKOW RAILWAY. bably three-fourths of the members conta +- plated their good work over their claret, or whisky and soda, with coffee and a little li« queur brandy to fioish with. There are várjous shades of dishonesty, but the shadiest is bat which seeks to adorn the borders of its phylacteries at the expense of other people, They are of the crowd that Samuel Butler de- fined so well when he a oke of those who

PROPOSED BRANCH LINE TO SHANGHAI,

{By courtesy of the "Sheung, Po,""]

Peking, 20th May, the administration of the Peking-Hankow Railway decided, on the 19th inst., to build a branch line to Shanghai."

INLAND WATERS,

of China not opened by Treaty.

THE OPIUM GAMPAIGN,

FOREIGN MINISTERS'

CONGRATULATIONS, ..

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Compound for sins they are incl and to, By damning those they have no mind to. Sheeplike, not knowing what opium, and its merits, properly used in moderation, may be. the ignorant who make up the bulk of the House and of the British pub'ic, who love to be virtuout if it costs them dotting and stil more if it costs somebody else a good deni," follow the lead of the agitatine, because it im plies an attribution of merit even if unintelli- gible. Sir Frank Swettenham got home on the hypocrisy very neatly in the title to his Times

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and of the Federated Malaz States? – Will coolies be the more ready to come here from China if they know this is to be an oplam prohibition country or will they be less willing "to come? : If, eren in a partial degree, this possible state of things will induce the coolies from Amoy and Swałow to prefer Indo-China, Siam, Java, Border, and Sumatra, where there ara opium regulations but no probibition, then the

of the Malay Peninsule may be implicated.

certainly meani

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a rag of wages on a diminishing (sbour supply. And that will react, through the whole of the conditions of living and range of prices in the Colony. We should greatly desire to hear that the Government will cause some inquiry to be made in this direction. In conclusion we are zind to see that Sir Frank Swoltoabum is strong against

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"TOWED TO CANTON YESTERDAY,

BARNETnd inst ~ It will he remembere i that, on the occasion of the half-yaarly meeting of shareholders on the 25th February last, iba, Chairman :: Mr. Robert Shawan, said Severe Chinese com petition on the Canton-Macać line canini' such alors in the working of the small steamar Lung shan that your Board withdrew the vessel from

the lins pending other arrangement Thic particular trade has been stagnant and without profit for many years, but with an economical and suitable vessel employed we abail hope to hold our own on the run. The mutter has the attention of your Board. Increasing com pechting in which the actual owner of the vessels seldom receive or appear to look for any return on their outlay, makes the opposi-" tion in much harder for us to struggle against, and in consequence Your Board have to make greater efforts to obtain - what?"wa consider our fair share of the business.

The Zungskan has not been: lọng laid up. The Hongkong, Canton and Mació Steamboat Co. has succeeded in disposing of the handy

THE PRESUMPTION OF COL BRELY in bracketing the Federated Malay Slater with the Colony. For economical and administra live reasons there has been established an as- similation of the services and departments. came obvious that it was inequitable so But that we urged many years ago, when it limit a man's departmental promotion to the vessel to the Canton-Hankow Railway Co. service he had originally joined. And it will be recalled that fornight go narrow opportunities of the one State whose urged the grading of the services as in Burma Canton relating in the tenders sent in by we' furnished the exclusive Information from

public servant from ane, State to another. he building two ferry steamers for the Canton... and India with the transferability of every the firms of shipbuilders in Hongkong for thing was perfectly textible because in theory Bankow Railway Co. It is hard on the

the Civil servant did not serve the Sulias of Any State, but was on the staff of the Resident. Beyond that outward appearance of assimile. tion, there is nothing else whatever to justify Any dissoost pretenca at tampering furtively with Treaties that are as binding to-day as on the day they were signed. We trust Sir Frak will insist on this, because no honest man. can be a party to a fraud of this kind unless, as an unfortunate official of the Colonial Office, be must carry out improper instructions or resign. The service in such a case his necessity, though it does not'absolve him, excuses him. «Singapore Free Press;

EXCITEMENT NEAR CENTRAL

MARKET,

FRIGHTENED pony upsets cart and .

DOES SOME DAMAGE,

22nd inst.

A ship coolle carelessly sting fire to a bundle of crackers very nearly brought about another wild runaway this morales. It was bntunate, however, that something yaforeseen occurred to check the tanawky, otherwise there would be no knowing what might have bap," paned in such a crowded thoroughfare. As it public ricksha totally wrecked. was three lads were slightly injured and a

FOREIGN WARSHIPS' CRUISE.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 20th May.

letter, The Foreign Ministers in Peking haveOUR MORALS; OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY,"

At about eight o'clock this morning a pony, «ttached to a cant, was driven up outside one agreed that the war vessels of their respective it does not appear that in his letter, for whose of the shops near the Central Market, where Governments will not cruise in inland waters text we shall have to await de course of the the driver alighted to make a purchase. During mail, he elaborated. that poist That has his absence a careless individual, who had been already been done as we reminded our readers given a permit to buro fire-crackets in order to the other day, by Jord Morley of Blackburn, chase away the "Plague Devil." set slight n when he faced just the same sort of agitation bundle and flung it on the sidewalk, near the in respect to the question of Indian oplum pro pony's hoofs. Naturally, the pony took fright, duction and revenue: "We cannot indulge our feared and kicked viciously. He then started sense of righteousness at the expense of other in bolt, but before he had covered twenty yards people." And indeed when you come to think the cart was overturned, thereby bringing the it out the vica of indulgence in the arrogation of frightened animal to a standstill. In overturn. [By courtesy of the "Sheung Pe."]

a pseudo-righteousness which is nequired at the ing the cait fell on a public rickiba which cast of others and at no cost of individual self- Peking, 1st May.

was standing in the sidechannel and demolished denial, is a good deal lower in the scale than The Foreign Ministers in Peking have re-endue-indulgence in smoking tobacco, in cat- ceived instructions from their respective leg, in uxoriousness, in drinking, or in opium Governments to tender their congratulations smoking. Sie Frank proceeded to business by to the Waiwupu [Ministry for Foreign Affairs] expressing his conviction, with which every on China's policy in the conduct of the anti-sensible man who knows the conditions of this opium campaign............

Colony and the infinite capacity of the Chinese, for secret organisation will fully agree, that there is reason to doubt the feribility to sup- press by law the consumption of epium, Sir Frank is plainly right in saying that. So long as this Colony derives à revenue from the high rate charged for opium so long it can afford, through the machinery of the Farm, to maintain the present preventive system for the detection of smuggling. Thoic who know the Asiatic character are nware that even that service may be in some cases made.

TAONAI, WEIHAN,,

PROMOTION RECOMMENDED.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po"]

Peking, arst May.

His Excellency Chang Pik has recom- mended Taotai Weiban, of Canton, for appointment as one of the secretaries of the Board of Posts and Communications.

[Captai Weibun and of the few Chinese

The N. C. D. News, of 15th inst., saya--Ac- cording to the latest report of the anti-monar. chist eruption, the Government troops, who are armed with absolete rifles, have been repeatedly defeated and Nanch'i, and Mengize districts have been entered by the insurgents, Viceroy Hi Liang has snot another telegram to the Capital singing the sanding of reinforce-officials possessed of Western ways of thinking ments from the Peiyang and funds from the and endowed with an education on models Viceroy of Ezechuan and the Governor of principles which should be of assistance to: Kueichow.

wards the advancement of China.. Taotsi Wei is the Director-General of the Canton Kowloon Railway (Chinese section) and in that capacity is often brought into contact with Brish officials and representatives of the

"It is stated in a native paper that Dr. Sea Yat-ién has sent a secret agent to assassinate Viceroy Hai, Liang who, as already stated, is now at Tunghaibsien. The same paper states

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the instrument for fostering smuggling. But that is inevitable. But with the vanishing of

the Farm system, and the

The poller of the sickiba was away-at-the- prentice blacksmiths, were passing at the time fime. Three boys, who are believed to be ap- the cart upset, and they were knocked down, each receiving slight bruises about the bead, elbows and arms.

Police Sergeant Garrod arrived on the scene promptly, and attended to the lads, who refused to go to betpital.

The pony and cart, we are given to under stand, belong to a Chiuamao, who resides at Wong-nei-chong, and he has decided to give reasonable compensation to all parties.

COWARDLY ASSAULT,

D. W. FINED FOR ATTACKING A COOLIE.

WITH BATON..

22nd ist.

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puding companies to know that after All the trouble they had gone through of specifications and the hundred and one in the drawing up of plans, preparation details incidental thereto, it is all so much labour lost; for it would appear that, for the present at all events, the prospective orders from the Railway Co. bave fallen through." What is the shipbuilders loss is the Hongkong, Canton and Macno Steamboat Co.'s 'gale." WIT

Mr. J. Lind, the superintendent of the Rail. way Co. at Shekwaliong, proceeded to Hong- kong last week and in the course of this practically completed negotiations for the pur chase of the Lungtham. We say "practically" in that, as far as we are informed; the vassel has to be delivered at Canton to her new owners before the purchase can be said to be completed. That is a minor detail, however

have it on reliable authority that the Lahan was taken up in tow to Canton by chartered launches fast night and should be at her destination by now.

We un ders, and also that Mr. W. E. Clark, the

secretary of the Hongkong, Canten and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld, proceeded on board the Zungshan last night to attend to her safe de-m ivery to the purchasers..

The Lungshan is one of two composite vessels built by the, Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. for the Bengkong, Canton and Macao Steam- bat Co., Ld., in 1896. Her sistership the 'Lungkizup—was sold to Manila: a few/yours ago. The dimensions of the Lungahan are:-

a feet long, 18, 6′′ wide and o feet deep. Sha is capable of carrying about 200 passengers.

SUSPECTED LARCENY,

HAWKER ACCUSED OF STEALING A WATCH:

FROM A LADY AT THE PHAR.

191b.just.

The story of how a lady at the Perk lost at fated to Mr. J., Kemp in the Police Court, gold watch, which she valued at £5; was ro- this forenoon."

The complainant was Miss Hall, of the Peak bawker: residing at 309, Queen's Road West.

olel, and the defendant Wong Sian Hing, a

Io effect the evidence was that 'st about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning the defedant, carrying a tin box containing some Swatow drawn-work, approached the com plainant, who was scated in the verandah of the hotel, and offered her some of his fancy work for sale. Complainant had bor gold watch amine the drawn work. Soon after the defend. in her lap at the time, and proceeded to ex-

abt had departed she discovered that the watch was missing. Sargeant Floyd; of Mount Gough. Police Station, was promptly notified.

A Chinese detective deposed that, acting on instructions received, be proceeded to lo vestigate the matter. Ha met the defendant sented at the Peak Tramway terminus at about half-past ten o'clock and questioned him. At about eight o'clock last night he found the

missing watch, and placed the defendant in

custody.

The Court-What were you doing from half. past ten o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock at night?

fendant at the Tramway terminus he accom

Witness stated that af er questioning the da panied him to the city and most of the day. was spent in searching the pawnshopa

The Court-Had he his tin box of drawn

that a foreign government is secretly furnishing -British and Chinese Corporation under whose If the Resolution in the House had the remotest At about eleven o'clock last night the defendant, work with him when you firat mal him?'

the insurgents with money and other supplies (eic), "vä learn that the anti-monarchists have issued proclamations to the effect that any in-

surgent guilty of murder, outrage or incendiarism will be put to death: the same punishment

to be administered to any one killing a foreign- er or selting fire taTM Christian churches. The proclamations also declare that the insurgenta will rigidly respect all treaties that have bee made by the present Government with foreign States, while foreigners caught assisting the Government will be-treated as prisoners of

·War

: CHINA'S CURRENCY,

SYCEE "SHOES" FOR THE MELTING POT.

[By courtesy of the “Sheung Po."]

"Peking 18th May, The 'Board of Revenue has issued instruc- tions to all Provincial Governments to discourage the use of sycep shoes" as currency, and to call them. in with a view of

minting them into standard coins.

THE RISING IN YUNNAN.

EMERGENCY FUNDS RAISED. [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

direction the Chinese section of the railway is being built-Ed, H.K.T}

LIANG_AND_HỤ KWANG'

Witness--No,

ABANDONMENT OF REVENUE FROM OPIOM,

Mr. JR. Wood, second police magistrate, and the consequent want of any motive for in-

fistened most attentively, this morning to the curring expenditure on the check of smuggling, story of a most cowardly Assault made upon he would be a sad doll indeed who failed to see coolie by a District Watchman, last night. The what the result would be The Colony would watchman (No. 31) denied the allegation. It have too much to do with a dimicisbed revenue would appear from the evidence, however, that to maintain what would be a venal Asiatic the defendant and the complainant-a shop department to hinder importation of a com- modity from which it would derive no benefit.viously, which difference had never been settled.

coolie had had a quarrel some months pre

pretension to honesty we should have heard of who was in plain clothes, saw complainant some clause by which compensation for any leaving, the Ko Shing theatre. He followed local loss of Colonial revenue would be or a

Continuing, the witness stated that (after se him as far as Possession Street. Defendant was matter of course provided. Vicarious virtue, then alleged to have drawn bis truncheon, and, searching the pawnshops he paid a visit to, the does not run to that in this case, even with the ushing up to the defendant, dealt him a violent defendant's house. He found the tin box at precedent of the abolition of West Indian blow on the right temple, drawing blood. These bead of his bed, and on searching it found slavery as a guide and precedent. The “dead-

two men closed and ferca struggle waS

the watch wrapped up in a fancy table cloth, at head" righteousness can only claim respect of under way when an Indian policeman came

the bottom of the box. the persons of the same kidney. When Sirup and placed both men under arrest on a Frank states that he fears that the inter-charge of "fighting in the public street.” ference with oplum consumption would mean Arriving at the station the two men were Telegraphic instructions have been dis- the replacing of that sedative by the stimulant arched. On the complainant the police plain how the lady's watch got into his.

of alcohol in some form or another, he merely gives expression to what is the universal helief of intelligeot men. And that change would be followed with worse results, but how bid these may be can only be conjectured with, as a basis, the temperament of

PROVINCES.

PRECAUTIONARY "INSTRUCTIONS.

[By courtesy of the "Shewng Pa""

Peking, 21st May.

patched to the Viceroys of Liang-kwang and Hukwang Provinces to take special precau- tions against the rowdies on the frontiers of the respective provinces under their adminis tration.

The Imperial commands enjoin. care on. the part of the Provincial authorities against the malcontents joining the agitators in any anii-monarchist movement.

THE HANKOW RIOT.

ORDER RESTORED.

Hankow, May 16 ̈ The disturbance in the city on Thursday morning was caused by a proclamation issued by the Total forbidding hawkers and stalls in the public streets. A body of hawkers march ed upon the yamén, but was driven off by the police. Thereupon they smashed, the police boxes in the streets add hurjed stones at'the. windows of the police station.

Poking, 19th May. The Board of Revenue has instructed all

The rioters then marched through the streets, Provinces, by telegram, to remit to Peking compelling shopkeepers to close their doors their respective contributions towards the The proprietor of a Japanese shop reluted Yupaan Emergency Funds, so that the and fired on the mob, killing out and wound. money may be transmitted to the province in others. His shop was promptly de of Yunnan to defray, the extraordinary ox-stroyed and he himself was wounded, penditure in suppressing the rising there.

"ARMS AND AMMUNITION,

VICEROY TUAN FANG'S CO-OPERATION.

[By courtesy, of the "Sheung Po!]"

Peking, 19th May. Hi Viceroy Tuan Fangs reports that he forwarding supplica of arms and Almuni tion to Yunnaný

It is reported that the Chiu tung prefecture, in Yunnan Province, has fallen in the advance of the antiis monarch

Soldiers from Wachang arrived in the after noon and order was restored.

The Taotal bas Issued a further proclamation withdrawing the previous one, and everything is now quiet.-N. CD, News,

found nothing, but on the defendant Inspector Smith came across the truncheon, which was slained with blood. This was sufficient evidence. The charge of street fighting was wilbdrawn and the defendant detained ops charge, of assault occasioning bodily barra, have his wound attended.: The complainant was then sent to hospital to

Defendant denied the charge emphatically, He never assaulted the complainant, he said, He did not know the man, so why should he assault him? · As a matter of fact he was the most grieved person.

A DISHONEST SERVANT.

zand inst

On being questioned defendant said that bé went to the Peak Hotel yesterday to sell some. cloth to the complainant. He could not ex-.

box. He believed, however, that, while she was examining the goods the watch must have dropped into the box unnoticed and was hidden by the cloth which was in the box. The Court-But how came thɛ wajch to be rapped up in the way the policeman found

Difondant-I don't know." I never know the which was in my box

317.

The Court (to the complainant)-1 under stand you do not want to press this charge?:

Complainant replied "No." She did not: know whether it was her fault or not, my wor

The case was remanded till to-morrow mora ing to allow the defendant to produce witnesies,

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THE LOWER CHINESE MASSES and the character of the dreadful raw liquor imported here. Whereas the opium acts in mitigation of the Chinese temperament to the immenso gain of the public peace and of the public afety, the alcohol will act towards the Aggravation and infliming of that tempera- ment, with what criminal; results, it is He was found guilty, nevertheless;{ and order. Last difficult to imagine, A point Sired to pay a fine of $5, or go to gaol for fourteen

Frank Swottenham, makes, assuming the days. loss of opium revenue, is one on which we' have frequently insisted." That is the difficulty of raising"-new revenue. We have already insisted on the upchallengeable equity of the Chinese, who are the sole and altogether ROUS HIS EMPLOYER, DURING HIS ABSENCE, voluntary providers of the opium revenue, revenus might be needed. There are various, being required to provide, whatever substitute

Lau Kong, a coolie, was charged before Mr. ways, from a carefully graduated capitation lox, J. H, Kemp in the Police Court, this morning, varying according to assessment of dwellings with stealing $33 in cash from his employer inhabited; down to taxes on tea, tobacco; fire Wong Sun, a gardener, residing at 3. T. Shek works, and all articles of Chinese consumption. Koo, Yau-ms-ti. The accused admitted the The Chinese may not like it, but they will have charge-Complainant stated that he had en to square all that with the gentlemen who have waged defendant only a few days ago to attend ogitated for the disturbance of the present ex. ta bir vegetable garden. Yesterday morning, cize system. These gentlemen, if honest, will defendant complained of festinganwall and perhaps feel morally bound to use their for remained in the house, while complainant went. frail grant of dre million dollars or so to d in the afternoon defendant was not to being and large turn out of the members of the regular annual out to attend to his business. When he retaro British Clabs in Foreign Countries are compat- recoup the Colony for the arcise revenus of found. Getting suspicious complainant exam: Reserve Association is hoped for Imporial five which it may be dictatorially deprived. Sirihed the room and found that his trunk had. Frank suggests the abandonment ofths Military heen opened and $33, which_bei bad placed | Two painters-Young Mukand-Lov Contribution, but that would not, ba

mälter at Yag-ma-ti Police Station. A detece day, at the instance of Inspector

Liast, Col. Chapman, Hongkong Volunteers, has kindly consented to act as Range Officer with the assistance of Capt.: Thompin The butts will be in charge of experienced markers from the Army. The eight highest scores will constitute the team. The prize is hundred guinen cup offered by the Oem Sear Darly Mail

all the British Colonies and

During the absence of Inspector Collett, who

earned holiday. Inspector Robertson, late of sorry for the Chinese, but the heavy tax that is tire was sant guy and defending war focived in srekjjng a quanily of paint from Shau-ki-wan Police Stationį has been assigned: "bauging over their heada ja ibe mere: wanton: "a shop. When searched $32,60 were found in | Docks on Lie 17th (brikut: tive, Sergeant. Morison who bat lately been filanda, here is one point that bis 10 bay Defendant had nothing to say in his defence samo to have been stolet to take charge of the Western district. De work of some of those who profase to be their 'his possession, anx kalvijams accused of receiving the pain appointed to the rank of inspector 11 chante ateninto account. What afies, will the private and he was sentenced for six works': Imprison. proved, and each

sien of opium kare upon the

felt for the Homeland Inst Saturday on & well- 'enough to make up for, the fuss wally: here that morning, missing. He reported tha, were charged at the Pulice Coars