CURIOUS PETITION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1944, 29 March 1875, Page 3

CURIOUS PETITION.

The following petition, says the Hong Kong Times, was handed in at the Police Court by a boatwoman on the 6th January:—

. The humble petition of " Wong Shup Ng " a female. Most respectfully showeth—

That your petitioner was plied for hire in a small" Tanga "■ and always,connected on the "Vyiiarf near the P. : and' O. ; coal stores.at West Point. V

There got, a man, whose name called ""Ali'Uhig," he always in* company with three or four meri^ to toiefes thef" knife to come on my boat by night-time aboat 7 or 8 o'clock, to extorded the moneys and trentened with violence.

Yoar petitioner's husband was employed on board, ihaving: gone abroad was not in Hong Kong. Your petitioner much trouble 1 be killed, robbed, or deceived to sold, because tliat ** Ah Chig " he took the knife, arid in feompanyfwith three oi| four others to some on my boat by night time, if he used some things thrust into mouth, and rowed away,,then took me to sell.

. Therefore Y©ur Petitioner addressed this petition to reported the matter, and begs my Lord You are Kindly to settled this case, if that *< Ah Ciiig " came again, i Your petitioner fishes to informed, the' Police to arrested him;; and preserve me j meirom the dangers. And as in duty bound Your Petitioner will ererpray. 1 Victoria Hong Kong 6th January 1875.> '% r.y v .■£? „.. '

Horace preeley once wrote a note to a brother editor in\New York, wliose writing was equally illegible, with his own. The recipient oi the note* iiot being able to read it,* sent it back by the same messenger for Supposing it to be the.answer to his own note, Mr Greeley looked over it, but was likewise unable to read it, and said to the boy, " Go—take it, back. What does the fool mean ?" " Yes, sir," said the boy, " that is just what he •ays."

Two natives of the Emerald Isle were traveliing-along a road, and in consequence of the warmth of the weather, were much exhausted. When sixteen miles from the place they wished to reach, they saw a milestone to that effect. " Come, chare up, Pat," said one, " we've only eight miles each to go! " Public men are frequently mentioned in the Southern papers of the States with such personal remarks as the following : —:-" He is an undersized German teacher of language?, distinguished by his un paralleled cheek and his remarkable unfamiliarity with truth as an abstract principle ; indeed, it may be said that with him truth is stranger than fiction."