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Wore the statements which were untrue made by Mr. Joly with the object of inducing the defendants or their agen s to issue to him an interim receipt?--We think they were not.
Were the defendants or their agents influ- enced by the statements to grant this receipt P
They were.
Was there fraud on the part of Mr. Joly in obtaining the contract on which plaintiff is now sning P We are not satisfied that, there was.
Upon these answers leave was given to both parties to apply for judgment and the 19th inst. was the day fixed for the argument. settlement of THE RIENNING
affair was
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The signing of the bond by which the gentry of Kienning pledge themselves to prevent fur- ther violent attacks on the Christian Church took place in the Prefect's Yamen at Kieaningfu on the 25th of October. The Rev H. S. Phil. lipa and Dr. Rigg were present and also signed the bond as witnesses to the signatures of 89 of the ward councillors. The Prefect's arrange ments were admirable and he took the opportunity of having a feast at which the missionaries were able to chat with the native literary men. The a decided success and will we hope inaugurate a new and more satisfactory relationship between the missionaries and their former opponents. The idea of the bond ori- ginated with one of the native Christian workers and presented itself to those responsible for the settlement as a means of preventing further trouble which had the very great advantage of causing as little bitter feeling and resentment as possible. The native authorities ară exert- ing themselves to settle the matter honestly and fairly on H.B.M. Consul's terms and the missionaries express themselves as well satisfied both with what has been done and with what has not been done-Foochow Echo.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
course o me before the Magistrate, Yiang 81. | SKIZURE OP A BRITISH STHAMER BY THE shing, who, upon hearing the evidence of the
·AMERICANS. husban i, o: dered Lao to be arrested and brought Direct advices from Manila report that the before him. Lao, for speaking with what British steamer Labuan, Captein H. Pfort, was doomed a want of courtesy, was ordered owned by the Sabati 8.8. Co., Limited, of this by the Magistrate to receive fifty strokes port, has been seized by the U8.8. Castine, I of the bamboo, but the lictors, knowing that Caldera Bay, and sent to Manila in charge of Lao was a respectable man, a member of the prize crew. The Labuan left here on the 25th gentry class, and an honorary mandarin, drre alt., with clean clearance papers, for Sulu and net inflict the punishment. The Magistrate | Cota Bain, Captain Pfort reports that his thereupon left his judgment seat and going vessel arrived at Bulu on the 28th, where per- into the body of the court himself disrobed Lao, mission was sought to proced to Cota Batu with the assistance of the lictors, and forcing to bring away several families, the Moros bim down, inflicted the decreed punishment, having already committed a number of murders and with such severity that the skin was broken there. The Governor of Sulu could not grant and blood drawn. After this he put the victim the desired permission, but requested the Cap- in prison and loaded him with chains and the tain of the Port to give the Labuan a clearance merchants and the people in general, Unfortaing the officer commanding the US.S. Castine. oangue. This startling news frightened all the for Masinglok, with a view to there interview. aately, before one trouble was over another Captain Pfort left Sulu next morning, and ran cropped up. A man named Yeang Kwai, em into Coldera Bay the same evening, smoke played in a foreign firm whose Chinese name is having been observed in that quarter; it Cheong Shing, in Sai Woo Street, had also been turned out to be the Castine, so the in the habit of frequenting the house of Mr. Labuan at once anchored. & launch from arrest also. As he was employed, in a foreign to go to Cota Batu was asked, and instantly re- Chan Sow-lan, and the Magistrate ordered his the man-of-war came alongside, and permission firm the police dare not enter to make the ar- fused, the Commander of the Castine ordering rest, so the Magistrate went with some soldiers the British vessel to be seized and searched. to make the arrest himself. It so happened that This latter was done, but nothing incorrect Yeang had gone out on business, and the could be found. Instead of allaying susp.cion Magistrate thereupon ordered another man
this only appeared to make the matter worse, - named Cheong, also an employe in the and next morning the prize crew were put on sa me firm, to be arrested, and without board, and the ship taken to Manila, the Cɔm- any process of legal examination put him in mander of the Castine absolutely refusing to the oangue. Upon this coming to the know-consult the U.S.S. Yorktown, which was believed ledge of one Yu, a compradore in the foreign to be cruising in the vicinity. The anjastifi. firm Tak Cheng and a friend of Cheong, he able seizure was immediately protested before went immediately to see the Magistrate and H.B M. Cousul at Manila, bút up to the present begged him to release Cheong on bail. Ya's
no word of the vessel's release has been received language being also considered disrespectful here. It may be mentioned that the Labuan is the Magistrate ordered him to be bambooed subsidized by the British North Borneo Govern 1,300 strokes and had both him and Cheong ment, who are seriously inconvenienced by her flogged through the streets. This greatly 'on- absence. It is to be hoped that the British raged the public, and all the shops closed and Government will make immediate enquiries in- suspended business. A Weiyuen attached to the to this grave matter, and take steps accordingly.
BRITISH AID SPANISH PRISONERS. | guard house with a military officer named
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THE PEACOCK TAKES SUPPLIES TO ALBAY PROVINCE,
Manila, 9th November. As a result of the interviews held recently between General Otis, Admiral Watson, the Spanish and British Consuls, the President of the Spanish (hamber of Commerce, and the British gunboat Peacock, the Governor General stated yesterday to the Spanish Consal that permission was granted for the Peacock to be the bearer of supplies for the Spanish prisoners held by the insurgents in Albay and Camarines provinces.
Chow Kum-tong and other went about to persuade the shopkeepers and upon his repre- sentations the shopkeepers re-opened their shops and business was resumed. The gentry, togeth- er with two graduates and a dologation of the merchants, then went to the yamen of the Taotai and the Prefect and jointly presented a petition complaining of the injustice and despolio con- duct of the Magistrate. The Taotsi, Cheong, and Prefect, Wong, upon reading the petition were very much surprised and ordered the parties under arrest
to be brought before them, but the Magistrate refused to send them. Thereupon the Taotai sent a flag baring an Imperial order to the Magistrate and the prisoners were brought before him. an investigation in which the innocence of the accused was demonstrated, they were imme- diately released. The Taotai and Prefect have sent an official report to Viceroy Liu Kan-yi, complaining of the conduct of the Magistrate in that he had punished innocent men and also raised complications with a foreign Power two of the accused being employes of American
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the North.
H.M.8. Iphigenia arrived on Tuursday from
for Kwangchauwan.
The French oruiser Pascal left on Thursday
Messrs. Jardinė, Matheson & Co. inform na that they have received a telegram from the head office of the Indo-China Steam Navign- tion Co., Limited, London, stating that the shares of that Company are now quoted on the Stock Exchange.
Atkins" in a letter published in another column We should think the complain" of “T.
has only to be mentioned in order to have its cause reinoved. To keep a man with a healthy appetite waiting for his breakfast until eleven o'clock is not quite the way to treat the soldier. gomerie and Dr. Lowson, representing Hong. At Shanghai on the 19th inst. Captain Mon- kong, played a golf match with Mr J. Mann and Mr. Ferrier, representing Shanghai. On the first round Hongkong were two down, but
This permission having been duly obtained both from General Otis and from Admiral Watson, the Spanish Consul held an interview with the British Consul yesterday, and the Pea- cock will probably start on her bumanitarian in tripa couple of days, having on board twenty thousand rations, estimated to last a month, In addition she takes two suits of clothes for each prisoner. These supplies are sent by the Spanish Military Commission, it being thought that other provisions will be sent besides from other firms. The American Consul has visited the eventually they won by 2 and 1 to play.
sources.-Manita Times,
A CHINES & LEGAL SCANDAL. The Shanghai renacular papers have recently pablished the pticulars of a legal scandal which has shock Chinkiang society, and the Hongkong nil Canton papers have re- produced the articles. The caza"is of interest as showing that there is such a thing as public opinion in China and that it can on occasion be exerted with some effect,
It appears that in the West Gate of the City of Chinking there is a silk shop named Yun Cheong, the proprietor of which is one Lao, a kindhearted and upright man. He has been successful in business and is the possessor of honorary mandarin rank of the fifth grade obtained by purchase. Of late he mada the soquaintance of a Mrs. Chau Sow- lan, a prostitute, whose husband is named Sow Ngan. The latter quarrelled with his wife on acount of her not complying with his de- man is for money, and, upon Lao interfering, took her to the guard honse and lodged a charge of misconduct against her. The case in due
Taotai and Prefert in connection with the case
and, it is said, has made a claim for Tls. 200,000 damages.
SANDAKAN NOTES,
lith November.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
Dr. N. B. Dennys, formerly of the Straits Settlements and China. presently Protector of Chinese and Superintendent of Immigration here, has been appointed a member of Council. Dr. Dennys also holds the position of editor of the British North Borneo Herald.
It is said we are to have a visit from Mr. Angier, proprietor of the London and China Express, shortly, in the course of his Eastern trip. There is also some talk of a visit from Lord Brassey, early in the coming year.
A recent order issued here is to the effect that for the next twelve months no dogs from the Straits Battlements, China, and the Sulu and Philippine Islands will be permitted to land in British North Borneo territory.
Another order prohibits the exportation of arms, ammunition, or any naval or military,
The cases of communicable disease reported enteric fever, none of which proved fatal. last week were one of plague and three of All the enteric cases occurred in the barbour and two of them were imported from Singapore by the Italian man-of-war Carlo Alberto.
On the night of the 18th November Sergeant Ritchie,, and a party of lukons raided the first floor of house No. 12, Yes Woo Street, and arrested 13
man engaged in playing the game of potse. other was killed by endeavouring to escape down the smoke hole. $33 and a potze found in his possession. The men arrested were brought before Mr. Gomperts and on the 17th, fined $3 each.
were
For some time past a considerable quantity of chains, crosses, and wreaths have been missed from the Protestant and Roman Catholic come- teries at Happy Valley, and in consequence s party of police were set on watch. They saw no one on the first two nights, of the watch but at about four o'clockon Friday morning 17th a man was observed busily engaged collecting chains etc. He was arrested by Bergeant, Ritchie, and Mr. Gomperts sentenced him to six months hard labou
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