Wagner, has done a very handsome thing in paying as compensation to the relatives of the Chinaman who, it was alleged, was killed recently by @ French policeman. We are informed that in his despatch to the Taotai, Mr. Wagner stated that he had sent the policeman to be tried
satisfy Chinese feeling on the subject.
pani ed at Saigon, and this ought to 'The money sent was distributed by the magistrate to the relatives of the deceased, General Tehéng Ki-tong io under urrest at Ie has been reported that the soidisant Foochow, that he has been condemned to death at' Peking, that he has never got beyond the protection of the British fay at Hongkong, ete., etc, We believe that he is really at Tokio with his intimate friend Li, the adopted son of H.E. Li Hung-Chang, and at present Minister for to Japan.
preliminary ngs in actions brought by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, and the Comptoir National @Escompte de Paris against the partners in the late firm of Russell & Ca. took place d States Consulate, Leonard. red, for the ud Mr. H. 8. Wilkinson for the defendants, ani Mr. C. Dowdall, on behalf of the China Merchants' 8.N. Ca., watched the proceedings. They consisted of the examination of Mr. C. Vincent Smith, one of the defendants, who had applied for leave to give his testitnony on that day, he having been advised that it was necessary for his health to leave Shanghai. This application was agreed to by the plaintiffs, Questions in examination and cross-examination were put to Mr. Smith, and the further hearing was adjourned till to-day. The trial of the actions will take place later.
We have received a communication from Mr. John Roberts with reference to the charge brought against him of assaulting his boy. This case was heard at the British Police Court on 26th June, and ended in Mr. Roberts being fined $5. He has sent us a document, signed by sixty men who were on the Leuconna island (where the alleged assault was committed), corroborating the statements made by Mr. Roberts at the hearing of the case. Had
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