RUFFIANISM IN MELBOURNE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1932, 30 November 1888, Page 8 (Supplement)

RUFFIANISM IN MELBOURNE.

A street encounter, resulting in the death of i Chinaman named Ab Yong, took place early m Saturday night, the 17th inst., in Market lane one of the numerous narrow alleys leading from Little Bourke street East, Melbourne. It seems that shortly before 7 o'clock in the evening a number of roughs went into Market lane for the purpose of molesting the Chinese, who are almost the exclusive occupants of the nlace Visits of this kind are of frequent Occurrence, and the Chinese, warned by past exDeriences, avoided a disturbance by shutting themselves np in their houses until the gang had msS I Finding themselves baulked of, their amusement, most of the the Europeans went away but a man named Stephen Guttler, and a companion whose name has not been ascertained, remained behind, and it is alleged attempted to lew black mail upon one Ah Tack, a cabinet maker who had been incautious enough to reIn hS door Cuttler demanded that Ah m P I IfnnM nay for drinks, and when the ChSese e^useThimself on the plea of having Chinese ex-use violent blow with hifi fi s O t mO Ah y Tack retaliated by knocking the ,*«ni and getting into his house as ag^w,Sble once morl tookrefuge behind quickly aspossiDie^o wen toff witl I- rre LSon toSds Little Bourke street At theXTr of the lane they met a Chinese At the cotneru Qnce mnienced , l & Zt attack ufon hi*, apparently with the brntal attacß : upo - lyes for the!r forme , object of av^Qg^o"^ be statement of severa Ah Tack, who *»« jf^ one o e hia compatrio* h^pmn^ja^jo^^^gg^iyi^iig^iii^Bmg

ons The evolutions under have- elicited the highest prov'al from fill who had rifcy of witnessing them, lino- of the British nava

t the fleet on its way to the one cf complete surprise at at once that China, in so few ble' to acquire such a for

both in ships and guns. The ing- Yuen, on which the Vicefey travelled, is a very fine type Ibe'it she is a little obsolete ■ihe first-class ironclad frigate Ml points very similar to the (/-"war Sachsen. Her driving shed by a twin screw, with )0-horse power nominal ; her i 3 7430 tons; her engines, naearines are well protected

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jHPHfffS^Snd iron, tier armameuu wu - S?s of fojr breech-loading Krupp guns capable of throwing a shell of 7251b. Inese formidable engines of destruction are mounted upon two echeloned turrets, covered with 12-inch iron plates. Such is Li Hung Chang s flagship, and the Chen- Yuen, the second big ship of the fleet, is exactly similar m every roint. True, their speed is not anything like that of ships of recent construction, like the Impevieuse, but it is fully up to that of the Audacious, and their draught of water is lighter, while their coal carrying capacity is greater. Next in importance come the two new Armstrong cruisers the Ching-Yuen and the Chi- Yuen, built last year by the famous constructors whose name they bear. They are probably the most formidable vessels of their class afloat, having had expended upon them the best abour of the wSb skilful naval arahitoots. They are built of the best steel, have a draught of 17ft aft with 2300 tons displacement so that they are specially adapted for na^gat incr the dangerous and shoaling Oninese These were snfflraent to^pve panson to the Oorclelia, »^ . t ,s, s Bhip3 on SatelUte, and mMt o( *a ais J lace £ C nt. the station ot abtjit ».— e v m U esae 5a oonStog her steaming ffsS\SE"rf^^ East that could S£S«» vessels mold B^ Prince and toMM^-J,^ £* [2£Z£i&* *S*li www d^ f p?*

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Bowellireotea" tothe mumplicaHoßTOr llmies and the fitting out of great'fleets, and %hen the war cloud seems to hover over all from St. Petersburg to Portsmouth, it may perhaps be useful to turn our eyes further Lstwlrd for a little, and see what threat nations of Asia are doing in the game of getting ready for the day of reckoning. In fuch a survey, China, with her almost countess miUions, naturaUy,comes first amongst the nations of the Orient are quite independent of European interference and control. Except the army of the north and which, alter all, forms but a small portion of the military strength of the empire, in point of numbers at least, very little precise. or reliable information is in the possession of foreigners, or, for the matter of that is known to the people of China herself. The army which the Grand Secretary, Li Hung" Chang, has grown, so to speaK, since the days of the Taipmg rebellion is however, the best drilled, equipped, and officered in the empire, and its mo ra to is higher than that of any other portion of the defensive forces of China. But it is the naval and not the land forces that at the present time are brought the more.prominently into notice by reason of the more important series or manoeuvres^which have been in progress in the neighbourhood ot Port Arthur, and in which the fuU strength of the "Pieyang," or Northern Fleet took parr A grit lumber of people at Home Almost invariably connect the .idea of countless flotillas of quaintly-shaped and picturesque-looking, but F™*^ o "*^ the idea of the naval forces of the Celestial Empire In the pictures of the war with CMna in 1854, when Admiral Seymour destroyed so many of these junks , in the Bogue waters around Hong Kong, where the blue expanse is now ploughed up all day lon°- by the incessant movements ot the° masses of shipping, this association of ideas was perfectly correct. But in the 30 odd years which have elapsed since then a great many changes have come to pass, even in this slowly-moving old empire, where they count centuries for our decades The most striking revolution which these thirty odd years have brought about is, undoubtedly, that in the naval forces of the empire. It may rather astonish people at Home to hear that the Chinese squadron is, as far as material and armament at least go, quite a match for, if not superior to, the British fleet in Chinese waters. The subject is one worthy of serious attention when we consider in connection with it the fact that it is only 34 years since the naval strength ! of China was a thing that only provoked the I . — £ —^— of - our Dava i men who had ntance with the subject. ■you'tliatTit the present day •pinion is entertained by her officers respecting the naval Dower in whose waters they 'Her Majesty's squadron in jat^elsvaters includes some varying in size from the 5500 (not yet arrived), to the ew iron gunboat, of 364 tons. -qi ttie Imperieuse, no doubt, pal force in Chinese waters mproved; for her predecessor, has grown too much behind ,inent and speed to be of any ctual warfare. The retiring make a very good guardship ; as .the Sapphire, Constance, OTild make admirable training are utterly unfit to cope with owerful, and heavily-armed dew Armstrong and the new r 3 , Lai- Yuan, King-Yuan, ad Chi-Yuen, which arc the is to the Chinese Northern taking ship for ship in his th'bse in the British squadron ■ Kong, the Viceroy, Li Hung all feel .proud of the success j ortS' to" establish a means of t ee and defence for his country aswered with much force that ition of the splendid looking ntly,left the Peko for a two ! or the "special benefit of the ' himself, with a select few more attention had been paid el than to the men, without sf ships and guns would be it takes generations to beget Ming dash and dogged courage yer, distinguished the British * '"' ling that a nation who is r to shake off the dust of t, and to enter the race .she so, long affected to y such a fleet must not be a one for those who know rise preparations as China taking her place amongst

{ uJmsbett ' -wltti roari f j tubes, and is altogaO: able-looking monster! o there are two Armstrong Wen and Chin-Yuen, of still eminently useful enough for the work t'ne I had almost forgottei torpedo boat Yarrow, naval authorities are go model in a number of t< about to construct in tl Foochow. A flotilla of them lightly armed and 12 knots, others of thai as the " Alphabetical." 35-ton gun, with the ship, and the Wei-Ytiei up the squadron, from that Li Hung Changes : be treated lightly ; a.nc ships are armed with loading gnns.it wooili and manned, be foui enemy for even our eai its present condition. It must be recollec squadron only forms naval resources, an Canton or Southern, headquarters -at Foe transitory stage, the] that by-and-by whei brought under the sa the maritime strengtl greatly increased. A eastern waters, it is that there always has of ships detached f< and the Peiyang squ the seas north of She fleet's domain ranges Vladistock. __ THE PRESET TBy Alexander B Bbi The freezing and > able for the expori are unfortunately keeping of eggs in ness, neither for journey. Many ot ving can be appli< quantities, with n have tried 17 of tin keeping monthly i eggs, as experimen and trials, as desc English, French, i no process excepl composition can b< keep eggs in qua none gives, prope for family purpos universally applie< factories, dyewor turer in every co when eggs are pie cheap. For industrial pickled in lime i Zealand for the poultry farm nor regions in Franc but for family £ kept, would find chigh prices for tl: As fresh eggs t is prohibited in countries, exact b allowed to soil ; or margarine. 13 the following dra served in lime f special taste and poaching. 2. T eggs out of the li and to clean then trace of lime. Sc process to do tl ducing the large less the percent* in lime varied according to tl them, and t. post, in wliicl ',], The albumim colour of the wl it looks more w; They must be i possible, or the; taken out of tin greatest drawb; The most sue eggs at preson traction of the air" of tho cc inoffensive ?as trials were mac

the progress ofw«^ Aas fcraiifl* *f * the r< risitora from AMf !^ woa id *»*»"& the; srsftf BsfeJsSsrt each h»w {•» f^i Ba^^g °?/ jadg>' D S {2 HUM following "Pf^ffi began bj c f s tt,e e * hlb '' MM what tney ul Wan moment bition had £%f c*e * pII lority that waa * feel §»■ yofld M* 3 "* "^ , further i& 8 r i f mir-leus tiiiliii SJ to c exhibit fe c a once?u than anything £Si.ll ] -fJ/ ul S OO e C dTd not supposi they of the>-ind^ heid ' ran deurs of the Melbourne cou ld imitate *f° f r^ lt would be a great misexhibition, and towgW «t Bufe gurely ifc fcak ? /iftoSkthatsize was the only element » mistake to tbinK"> w&8 the only jfsuccess.audthat tooeg row SsS " MriftatJ Wexhlbition, and KthSa Tn an original light, and m a. more SSlfeUso «8 to make it an engine of Ste S and moral progress, th«n the exhibition oS be a far greater success for all practical urnosed a nd for all national purposes than any Si iou that had yet been held.-(Applanse.) The Rev. Dr Belcher said that as this was robably the only occasion when the whole idv of shareholders would meet together he ould like to say that it would be just as well for ie m to understand that they had the impri■dur of the body of shareholders as to the spirit which the exhibition was to be approached, dependency of the industrial side of it. He >ped the meeting would feel that the exhibim and the collateral matters connected with it

or puritanical spirit. He trusted the meetw would feel that the exhibition was to be made ■ attractive in every possible way as it could po sibly be made. That they should have, tor 1 stance, a good band connected with it, a con« hall, and he hoped he might hint at a skating rir and collateral matters of that kiad, which woi bring people together, not ouly to be instruct but also to be amused. As a professional Btructor he had found in bi3 life that if th was one thing above all others that people ha it was to be instructed, and if they could be eoyed into instruction by wsy of amusemei) the two things were done simultaneously— t not only took the sugar bnt swallowed the with it, and he hoped that in this partic matter the coating of sugar would be toler thick. The exhibition, he was sure, would great deal towards raising the spirits of our i \.mtinitv. ~- Victuals -W^reji-vejy^eheap. in of capital. AccordiZtoth? V s , the mcr ™ tarn the capital waTll^Sg 8 ° f assoc " thought it wise to incrPasA tw v «c« c coi »mitte of £1 each, which^would s ? mnl £5000 sha « assistance. He ZZd^&J^ 1^ 16^ -reased by the addition «?%,*£-?« J hands ±hat £10,000 would bes nffl y - h ? rd on a being so, he- thought thevlhnS?^ ? nd tha the capital. Besides E tfc -? Ot increas thoroughly canvassed, and' ifcw ° lly , had beei ee^rous subscriptions b y pab*,^ 8 onl y.by *h, they had been able to mfb* com PPanesP a n'es tha £10,000. He did not tJiSwl Up life another £5000 thmk the y "hoSld ask fo The Hon. W W r w , would only divide the 5,? H? thai «* expected to get £10,000 fa K 1 "/^, *b*l pretty nearly that amoun? t^u alone ' <> districts he knew there we' .- the countr J willing to contribute!- anl^. Pa u tles^ bo wer receive aalwriptiSto X, II Z Sh ? ul f^ he^^ although the loss micht mflJ I U K of £l5 »000 Jfwt of the oapitanSJff&Jj £500 ? ? O°lj called up; the proposal ».! • r f quire fco be fche responsibility PP c ont n ? h, f S - mply . fco Ac offered from other pS^FX 008 , Were bei^ instance, there had been" ciSfh C K IoDy ' F <» the French Consul in KS lbutlon Be nt by nght the .director." Sd ft Itwa . s receive these contributions and\ P, S - iMon * c the province was thoron«*i . he Sieved if be no difficulty iTgSg y S% c i * here "™ l « ngs would be requ&dto'Jfy^ P ro «eed' ronld be very acJSSbto "1* J"* a PProbat4 aeetmg only a sufficient numb P , *f V"^ 611 *

mwm ff3fl 'rnfof the colony. Mbe qu ;te a ai g bt pO ion^TfavoSr of the term, bat in ae ww a 7irthev might think that Dunedia was SrX tKS to speak for the whole :h On e Mr n ST gg A OT OO R i> offering to formally move ais motion f , , The Chairman said he thought it bettei there should be no distinct resolufoon fused by that meeting. The matter might safely be Ml in the hands of the committee. The proceedings then terminated.