We translate below a dispatch received ly members of the Reform Party here from friends at Macao concerning the arrest and trial of Mr. Kin Lienshan, the Reformer, and lately Manager of the Chinese Telegraphs here:
Viceroy Li Hung-chang's emissary, Liu Hsié-hsun, whom three years ago eX: Viceroy Tan got permission from Peki to summarily decapitate for defrautin Government of Weising Lottery dues, arrived here on the 24th of February with dispatches from his patron to the Governor of Macao demanding the extradition of Kin Lien-shan on the charge of having defraud ded the Shanghai Telegraph Administra. tion of several tens of thousands of tael This being a criminal charge the Portuguese authorities were compelled to owse the arrest of Mr. Kin and he was accordingly taken into custody on the following day (25th Feb.) The formal trial was to take place on the 28th of the month at the Barracks (Ping-fany) when Liu Hsid-hsun was expected to produce proofs of the alleged frauds, ete., under which Mr. Kin had been ostensibly charged. On the day in question Mr. Kin was provided by the Portuguese auth th a four-bearer sedan-chair in which he was mandarin. style from his plac of ment to the Court. When he arrived there Mr. Kin was accosted by high Portuguese officials, who told him that he had their sympathies; that he would he treated with every courtesy and consideration, and that the authorities would do their hest to his release, Wa feel certain that Me. Kin and the Party he represents owe all this to the generosity of the various foreign newspapers of Hongkong and Shanghai, and also because Mrs. Archibald Little, the well-known President of the Natural Feet Society, most eloquently wrote to-the Portuynese officials pleading for justice and kind treatment on behalf of our friend, on whose lib If also a large number of wealthy and distinguished friends of Reform had also presented a. petition to the Portuguese Governor explaining the real reasons of Mr. Kin's persecution by the Chinese Government.
Before the day of trial certain English gentleman in Macao, who has been doing his best t gested to the governor of Maca hat_been accused of de-Chinese Telegraphs Shanghai, within the limits of the British Settlement, he should by rights be allowed British lawyers to assist in his defence. This was happily allowed by the Portuguese authorities, who, on the other hand, were being hard pressed by the emissary, Liu Hsié-hsun, who tried his to wet hold of Mr.' Kin without tru, claiming that the preliminary investigation, when Mr. Kin was arrested, was legally sufficient for the turning over of his custody to the Chinese Government, asin other ordinary criminal cases extradition, As soon as the Portuguese authorities to be defended by ins were at once st to Hongkong by friends to engage the lotte there, and accord ly on the morning of the 98th three legal gentle Hongkong appeared ut Court. 1g important occurred on the first day of trial, the time being "ccupied only as regarded identification, ete. The question of the defrauding of Government money was not touched. A remand was then asked for by Me, Kin's counsel and granted, the next trial being fixed week from now, Matters, however, look more favourable than at first.
10, Ist March."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.