each team present. We faney the members of the Hongkong Artillery Volunteers will have to give more time to practice than they have been doing to make a respectable
THE CHINA MAIL.
5
of the vessel. reducing, calculated as above, core, against a crack team, such as the European Sugar Refineries is that used its conduct and the business mannerin which go, and if they named any of those places, portant interests involved, but lio did not.
Shanghai corps can produce, for with a few exceptions, our Volunteers are seldom seen on the range. This there is no excuse for, fa view of the facilities for practice offered by the Hongkong Rifle Club.
No. 5110 NOVEMBER 22, 187).] from China to Singapore or Penang, are to be included in the return of earnings, and space andor desk unoccupied on discharge st Singapore is to be calculated as worth forty shillings per ton. 1
23. The difference between the earnings and what she would have earned-if a mail steamer on the cargo she actually carried; if any other on her under deck surge capa- eity at the average rate indicated above, shall be considered as her loss, and shall be made good to her by the parties hereto; the mail steamers contributing according to the cargo carried from China ports, the remain- der according to the under deck capacity We regret to have to record the death of Mr run, on the particular voyage, during the w. G. Galdie, chief officer of the P. & 12 months preceding the date of clearance of the vessel reducing.
Company's steamer Malacca, at Yokohama, 24. The date of each steamer's departure on the 20th instant. This is the second from its last port in China or Japau to de- death amongst the officers of this ship of contribution, and the vessel or vessels within a very limited period, Captain H. E. that have had to reduce ratce shall bear Smith having died only two days before, their proportion of the loss. Annexed is a
above,
termine whether she comes within the time
bottoms.
board one ship.
black again. The object then is to boil and a property of which they may well be Queensland, de, against which he had the liquid and get rid of the water with proud. The admirable management of the set his face the moment bo naw Its possi in vacuum pans which require a word of whose hands the business is placed, are ample conditionally pardoned prisoners the prao as little heat as possible. This is done firm, Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., inbility. the found that with regard to description. The sort of pan in use in all surety for the energy that will characterise tice was to ask them where they wished to to 9 feet in diameter. The bottom is double ly, in conclusion, I would destie to acknow-was about going there, they were taken on kero. Of copper, of a spherical form, six everything will be looked after. Personal- Sydney or Brisbane and a steamer or ship leaving a space of an inch or two for the lodge the kindness of Mr Hyndman (Mr board and every effort was made to see that admission of steam between the two Dickie's chief assistant) who, in the indispo- they did go. One Inspector had taken as amount of beating surface a long copper works and explaited the whole process in number, he was not sure of the number, on To still further increase the sition of the principal, took me over the many as 30.or 40, or some considerable pipe or "worm" of three or four inches a remarkably clear and intelligent manner. diameter, also filled with steam, ia coiled Inside 3 or 4 inches above the inner bottom. The whole apparatus is of course perfectly of this spherical construction, a large pips tive Council held this afternoon, at which
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, steam and air tight. Leading from the dome Proceedings of a meeting of the Legisla. leads to a condenser, and into this a rush of cold water is constantly passing con- there were present: H. E. the Governor, densing all the steam or vapour arising J. Pope Hennery; the Chief Justion, Sir from the liquor boiling in the vacuum pan. The water which is constantly rushing into John Smale; the Colonial Secretary, Bor. the condenser is as steadily withdrawn by W. H. Marsh; the Acting Attorney Gono- pan. In such a vacuum pan the liquor Hon. M. S. Tonnochy; Hon. P. Ryrie,
before them was a testimony of how he had completed the task. The Bill was a nece.. might say, there would be suggestions on sity for the Colony. Possibly, probably be ace of the clauses from the many and in- believe they wou'd decrease its usefulness, to allow the second realing of this Bill to pass wi hout endorsing to the fullest extent Hou. Mr. Keswick hardly felt disposed
the opposite side (Hon. Mr Ryrie.) He what had been said by his hon. friend on had been from first toʻlast a long time in the The Chief Justice: When was that? Council now, and he was not aware that he
math. It added that if those about to be but of the Cast of China North and South, The Governor: That practice existed up had evor seen a measure introduced of mora till 2 years ago, when I put a stop to it. Importanco or more calculated to put on a His Excellency read a report from Captain right footing and a permanent foundation the deported desired to go to any port with They were also indebted to His Excellency Deane bearing out the statement above shipping interests nos of this port alone which native janks traded, they were sent for the promptitude and success with which off in the same way. If they said they he represented what was felt to be a most escorted to the village boundary and there manity, that of dealing with foreign as wanted to go to Kowloon City, they were important matter by the Commercial Com-
and condemned the practice of encouraging be greatly appreciated. This ordinance on Polico and Crime touched on the point efforts in that matter would be and should criminals to Australia. He had acted very the Acting Attorney Gen ral, who in the the emigration of provisionally pardoned would be a monument to the industry of strictly in the matter since it was first midst of much work, accumulated work, brought to his notice, and not a single case had had time, stinting himself no doubt of a provisional'y pardoned prisoner being in other ways, to prepare in the ablest deported to Australia bad occurred since manner this comprehensivo and difficult ordinatics. fe had great pleasure in en Stoveus did not carry down a lot of artisans Mr Rycie.
Hon. Mr Ryrie asked whether Mesars dorsing the encomiums passed by the Hon. within the regulations.
pro forma statement exemplifying the Nothing definite has yet been received as to a pump on the other side, and a vacuum is ral, Hon. J. Russell; the dating Treasurer, released. The Committee which reported well as British vessels. His Excellency's
On this side the agreement terminates, at the end of February 1880, unless re newed; and any one can withdraw at a month's notice.
Several stipulations appear in para- fence Fund, and how these are to be calculated: and it is then stated that "the freight earnings for six months out- wards give a fair basis for calculations, and those of twelve months homewards show the average results of in-season and out-of-season business." By para. 28, the agents at each port in China and Japan of the P. and O., Messageries, Ocean, Glen, and Castle lines, shall form a Committee, the decision of a majority to be binding; minutes to be kept and
London.
the cause of these sudden and unexpected casualties. Yokoliama was some time ago visited by a cholera epidemic, but that was supposed to have passed over. A rumour has got abroad which we have failed to trace
death is due to poisoning, an act of revenge
thing of the sort. We should say the prevalence of cholera still at Yokobama is the more likely cause. Telegrama only are yet to hand, and thees simply announce the fact of first one death and then the other. Mr Galdie was a native of Southampton and about 35 years of age.
equal to previous efforts, and the amuse- ment afforded was appreciated by the older portion of the audience as well as the younger. It was worth a dollar to see the children, entoring as they did so thoroughly into the enjoyment of the fun provided for them.
by the same means maintained in the
will boll of course at a much lower and Hon. W. Keswick,
temperature than in an open pan or boiler. emptied on the day I visited the works wAS The first of the vacuum pana I saw boiling fiercely at as low as 140. The sugar boiler with a suitable apparatus known as a
no
Facuum
THE CHINESE PASSENGER SHIPS (AMENDED)
never
-
ORDINANCE.
He
ber was right. There were some takeo His Excellency believed the Ron, mem- down.
were
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THE MERCHANT, SHIPPING CONSOLIDATED ORDINANDE 1880.
The Governor proposed going into Com passed the House in Committee, the Select mittes on the bill. The bill had really Committes having gone through it.
Hon. Mr Ryrie pointed out that the bill was in a new shape; there were alterations since the Select Committoo eat on it.. Had
debate.
This bill passed the Committee without graph 36 as to contributions to the De. to any reliable foundation that the double "proof stick" withdraws from the boiling take the final reading and pissing of this hia arrival in the Colony.
The Governor said the Connell would mass of liquid small samples of the fluid as bill at its next sitting. He had no doubt on the part of some Chinese cook or some-it thickpeas, which, held up to the light if he asked it he would find the Council guish those minute changes on which the and pass It now, but he would take the his finger and thumb, enable bim to dietin- quite willing to suspend the standing orders success of the operation depends, and to fual stage of the bill at tha - xt meeting
he had glanced at her for a moment, so he The Chief Justice said that as a hor. soy man know the points of a borse when fix the second when it has reached that for this reason. stage of purification and chrystallization emigration was one of the most important The subject of Chinese belonging to the class of sugar (there that cou'd engage the attention of this your Excellency to say that Messrs Oly. And although he confessed that he had not as a lawyer knew the points of an Act The Chief Justice: Do I understand although he had not a'udied it in detail. are four distinct classes, manufactured, Colony. As Imperial Act of Parliament phant or those representing them bad com- besides bastards) which it is desired to turn
gone into the Bill in detail he would say out from that b.iling. The
bad been passed with the purpose of munication with members of the Executive that in its conatruation it did display an pan is only filled at first to one third or it imposed, as he had before pointed the Government.
deallog specifically with Hongkong, and Connell before the application was before amount of arrangement, an amount of fourth of its capacity, and more liquor is out, very great power and very grave
putting together of cementing, of con- sent home from time to time; and repre. VAL Vose and Ira Brown gave their last from his examination of these proofs." had had to take action several timos
add d at the boiler directs and thinks right responsibilities on the Governors,
His Excellency: Yes. They held inter-solidation and codification which entitled views.
the framer to the bighest credit, And he tradal questions in which they are not | Hongkong, this afternoon, in St. Andrew's to so watch the gradual progress of the local ordinances, and his preceedings felt bound to ask the question. sentatives are not allowed to vote on entertainment during their present visit to The art of the boilers lies in this, he has under the Imperial law
The Chief Justice said it was so entirely thought it was only right, when one, who and under
and utterly contrary to his idea of what had had a good deal to do in putting to likely to be interested. Provison is next Hall, City Hall, to a most appreciative syrupy liquor at the proper time and to the Council.
chrystallization and aduit more of the had
was right and constitutional that he had gether incongruous documents, a. depart made for a return on freight contributed, audience, The matinée was advertised as proper quantity. The knowledge of these done, however, had been discussed else eeding in Counel ought to have any com say when it comes within the sphere
been questioned in this
No mem- ment of work in which many years of his Some of the acts similar to that already noted outwards;
he had ber of the Council before or after any pro- life had been spent, thinking so should if any agent is compelled by his principal specialy for ladies and children, and the proprio form his craft. The object is to whore, and he had received newspapers munication of any kind whatsoever with of his observations, He knew of nothing to ship goods by San Francisco, this hall was well filled with the "little folks"
knew crop of chrystals, but from Poru and elsewhere in which his sets any person, in any way, with reference more valuable to the merchant, the lawyer lot those forming and formed grow. shall not affect his claim for return on of Hongkong. The weather was rather When the boiling is over the sugar is
were commented on. Other papers again, to such proceeding. As he understood the or the judge than the consolidation of shipments by the combination steamers. uninviting, but not sufficiently so to damp emptied from the vacuum pan, the air belug enough to support the policy he had pur- were the personal advisers of the Crown; the interests of the meresatile class thone published in London, had been good constitution of te Council the members such a large mass of material all affecting After giving the homeward rates, para. the spirits of the comical and funny Johnny opened, into coolers which stand beneath..
let in and a hole in the bottom of the pan sued. He wished the Council to consider and 34 states, that, in order to retain the Trotter, who elicited frequent bursts of lia now a mixture of chrystallized sugar and with regard to this important matter for he
that idea every member ought When these materials were scattered what had been the action of Government to possess to the same extent as if throughout different books and ordinances present trade via Suez, and to meet the
molasses or unchrystallized sugar.
the Governor, action of these controlling the Pacific laughter from the juveniles. By the kind the consistency of very thick gruel, as an
and It is of the past two or three years. With regard secret was to be locked in the heart of trested with for instance in our Book avery in the way they had the shipping interests routes, a reduction of rates from Japan permission of Signor Cagil, three of the account now before me, of the whole leading American house, engaged in that the position, and he was therefore astound- moment, they simply tanded to confuse to Fern, a leading mercantile house, a every member. That was his idea as to Ordinances as it stands at the present to New York or London shall be pro- artists of the Italian Opora Company prepes of sugar refining as carrie.i vided for by a general contribution, "on rendered able service during the afternoon, the next oporation is to get rid of the Olyphant and Co., and the Perusia was Council by any such irregular interviews; know, and his Excellency knew from his ex-
emigration or proposed to do so. on in Java, very aptly puts it; and steps were taken in Hongkong by Messrs had endeavoured to test the view of the of Justice a great amount of discredit. He Certained to hear that Mesara Olyphant and Co., judges and brought on the Administration the ground that it is the interest of this-Signora Roa Genoliai in an operatio, molasses. This is done by running the engaged, Some of the parties concerned if by such interviews they were misled it parience in another place, how difficult men combination to fores Tea via Suez instead of via San Francisco, otherwise the ton- and Signor Cortesi in a comic selection, mixture into centrifugal machines, which, were under the impression that, the license served them quite right, nage provided would be in excess of the while Signor Guarnieri presided at the minute, throw the syrup out through the the majority of the Council were in favour Colony (it was not the first time be had
rotating at the rate of 800 revolutiona a being that of the Governor in Council; if
of the largest power of mind that England The Governor: Hear hear. cargo procurable." Paragraph 37 pro- planoforte, The entertainment was quite perforated copper of which the form is of such a course, that license must necosid so) that men should keep from-gos-in the reign of tieorge IV, although from can produce found it to deal with this mat The bief Justice said that in thister of consolidation. The Bankruptcy Laws vides that "freights on other goods and
composed retaining the chrystallized sugar sarily issue. And before the usual forms
were still as bad as when he first saw them passage money for coolies to the Straits
another loft to cool. The perforated cop-certain steps were taken by certain gentle public matters as much as possible. It wased on his office with a desire to show his iu a semi-solid mass, which is shovelled to shall be fixed from time to time by the
were observed of petitioning for the license siping was the word he used last-about that time every Lord Chancellor had enter agent of the Subscribers, the decision of
per of these centrifugala is a very fine
men connected with the house which led bad enough in a large country as they knew, superiority to his superiors by codifying the the majority to be binding." By para,
the aq are inch; imagine 350 separate and would not object to the Pera scheme. But simpy ruinous to all proper conduct not intend to go into the details of the piece of work, some 350 perforations to them to believe that a majority of his Council but in such a Colony as this it was Bankruptcy Laws. As he had said, he did 39, any dispute, on either route, is to be
listinat holes through left to the decision of Mr J. B. Westray,
stamp and you have an idea of it. After the advies of Council, to follow that advice of all the circumstances of this general knew of the Hill he was satisfied that the penny postage his plsin daty was toelicit all the facts, to hear of publio business. He was not aware measure now, but from what he already and any charge of breach of agreement
cooling in the loft for 24 hours or so, the if the course advised recommended itself to question with which His Excellency had public of Hongkong and everybody who must be similarly referred. The penalty
sugar is sent down to the next for his mind, and if on consideration he could dealt, but he was thankful that bo went senda shi:a to this Colony should be grate. of any established breach is not to
through a disintegrator, which breaks not agree with the advice so given him to excoed £500 over and above a rectifi
up any solid or hard particles there may be, exercise his independent judgment and in carrying out those emigration laws, be- become law. It reflected the greatest cre-
ever beyond the atriot necessity of the case THE CHINA SUGAR REFINERY.
ful for the completion of this code soon to cation of accounts. The agreement may
and then the angr is ready for packing. refuse the license. The emigration to the cause, as they knew, this Colour was once [BY OUR SPECIAL.] be modified (par. 41) by the decision of
This disintegrator is simply a series of iroh Sandwich Islands he would have been glad disgraced in the eyes of the world by the part in is preparation. Mr Wodehouse dit on the gentlemen who had taken The manufacture of sugar from the sugar tions and through between these different also contract immigration, and very positive on
bars whirling in a circle ia opposite direc. enough to have seen carried out, but it was way in which coolie immigration was carried had contributed largely to the work in a referee, or by arbitration. It does not cano and other sources is, I read, one of crushing and toasing bars the sugar has to instructions were given by Her Majesty's They must cut the cancer to the core or it souted the whole moasure in a most read- affect the Messageries Maritimes as re-
And strictness was called for now. volved, and the Attorney General had pre-] gards Continental cargo to and from the largest branches of human industry. find its way to the next floor, getting pretty Government to his predecessors, which in would never be cured. Marseilles, only that from and to It is of very bigh antiquity in China and considerably disintegrated in the passage.structions controlled and bound him, that
able shape and, he believed, in a complete The Refinery has two
The Acting Attorney General, as an ex-and workable form. Hongkong is included in the India, but Its great development is of com- and ion centrifugal machines,
vacuum pans no contract immigration should te permit officio member of the Executive Council, agreement as though it were a part of paratively recent date. The process is at they are now lauding machinery for lonies. With regard to Pera there was the honor of being member of the Council and ted from Hongkong unless to British Co. desired to say that he did not have China. By the last rule (para. 44) the once simple or, rather, easily followed and These vacuum pans hold 75 to 85 piculs the treatment of the Chinese who referred to occurred.
other two pans and ten centrifugals. an penalty clause does not apply to the understood and is interesting to a degree, according to the quality, and the output of had gone there before, and looking to
additional consideration touching at the time the negotiations His Excellency loading, by agents, of vessels (para, 18) not connected with the combination at this Sugar refining, largely carried on at home each action of the centrifugal machine is 3 that and to the instruction from Her side of the line until the end of February at London, Bristol and Greenock, is one of sugar it has to be treated in a different inform Olyphant & Co., and others who remarks on this bill. A clause was insert into Committee on it.
or 4 piculs according to quality. As to loaf Majesty's Government, he felt bound to
The Acting Attorney General resumed his it not better ba published before they went our chief industries here, and a brief account way to the other inasmuch as it is made applications, that he old of a visit to the principal Refinery made placed in moulds and exposed for three or sanction such emigration unless he had ships of war under the Ordinance. The precisely in this position, it had been before not ed aettling the point as to the status of The attorney General said the Bill was the other day may not be without interest. hardens it and the leave are then packed. but that the Sandwich Island immigration was most proper, he thought, that such there was no report.
four days to 110 degrees of heat which specific instructions from Home to do so, Surveyor was to receive no fees; ita Select Committee, from which, however, The first stage of treatment to which the Cuba sugar is hardened in the same way, raw sugar is subjected at the Refinery takes The inventor is or was, if I mistake not prepared to state that there was no enforce would receive the fees, and all would be in a fortnight or 50,
and Lyle's patent machinery is used here,
he would be perfectly willing to sanction an official should bave nothing what. It was agreed then that the Bill should provided that H. B. M's Consul there was ever to do with money. us to the top storey of the block of build- the provost of that head centre of sugar ment of service with regard to coolies from paid into the Colonial Treasury.
The collector be taken up only at next meeting, probably ings. Hore the bags of raw sugar are out, refining, Greenock. The sugar is hardened Hongkong. He quoted at the time Consul
Hia Excelency said it was not to the The Chief Justics: Does not the Har-Governor that any gratitude was dua in con all leaves picked out from it, and the sand-each, and then cut. There was, I have in wooden moulds, 20 in. long, eight bars on like, stioky, swest mess is emptied down been told, a contemporaneous invention of of service. He said they were not permit
General Wodehone's report, in which it bour master at present receive a great many nection with the matter to which the Hon. was admitted that there was enforcement fees?
Mr Keswick had referred but to Sir Michael sponts which lead to large tanks of hot this machine In Europe and America, ted to leave the deck of the vessel until There is a fee of $i on each discharge of believed the principle established on that The Acting Attorney General: None, Hicks Beach and H. M.'s Government. He water. These, we find on the lower floor. Frisco), the former being by the gentle they bad signed an agreement for two or seaman, and it is doubtful under the or point would be most valuable precedent for
man named, and the latter by a German three years and had agreed to work by dinance what should be done with it; but legislative bodies elsewhere. by birth.
The Acting night instead of by day. That in it had been regularly paid in to the Colonial Attorney General's professional skill had To return to the vacuum and the centri his (the Governor's) opinion made the Treasury. The importance of this or been very properly commended, and the gredients are added and the heat gradusity for me, the process was so eleau, rapid, nest, and he therefore was bound to refuse a extent by tao repealing clause. The list of was credit due too to the unofficial members, fugal-which I confess had a strange interest proposed emigration contract immigration, dinance was shown, he thought, to some industry of the Clerk of Counci, and there rained with a view to bringing to the surface clever and regular, so complicated and yet liceuse. He had not yet rereived ang in these totally repealed in the present Bil. not less thn to a learned gentleman, now as much of the vegetable and mechanical ao simple, the molasses runs down a formstion whether the practice had been included twenty ordinances. impurities floating in this solution as is spoot and finds its way to the aubter really repealed. He thought the enforou to Swatow passengers, there was, in re and knowlede was of great vaine; he need With regard absent from the Colour, but whose kill possible. This done the hot liquor is allow ranean molasses tauk. In this state, the ment of service in some shape or other sponse to certain representatione Kwok hardly say be referred to the late Acting ed to run from the boiling pans on to a refuse of refined sugar, it is the treacle and still went on. Not long since there reached Aoheong and others, a clause inserted Chief Justice, Justice Snowden, who took part of the floor partitioned off and full of after another boiling the golden syrup of the bande of the authorities at Canton a allowing passengers to be carried thence an active part in the Ball at a former atage speedily disappears. These hoies represent poorest quality of it and bran, fermenta names of six'y Chinese who went in the Messrs Douglas, Lapraik and Company, holes about the size of a rupes, where it our sunny Youth. Water added to the Chinese letter in which were given the from and to this port all the year round, of its progress. the entrance to the bag filters; which we tion ensues, and then by distillation (the Cassandra, by Whampoa he believed it Kwok Acheong and various Captains would be very improper in him to accept The Acting Attorney General said it find spepended in a kind of iron olosets in Sugar Refinery employs a Carr's com was, to Honululu, and who were forced who had been consulted stating that they all the remake that had been mads as his she next floor going still down, These bag plate distilling apparatus made by their to eign contracts on board the ship never went to sea unless the weather was due. They showed rather the good feel filters are made of a very closely woven cotton cloth, and look like buge lengths of the manufacture of which a regular were tes ed and proved correct. As he bours. The Select Committee had told the the other hon. members who had spoken own workmen bere) we have the spirits before they reached that port. The facts quite safe; the run was only one of 18 ing towards him of the Chief Justice and loss of the German barque Sine (late Cap-through this bag is freed from all mecha-spirit being distilled when I iuspected the moment received no information that the Bill did not affect them. He could not The chief work as he had before explained of fire-engine hose, The liquor filtered account is published in the Gazette. The had already said he had up to the present captains who were before them that the than any meritorious work on his part. singmoon or Anna Rosc), off Palo Canton. uical impurities and comes out liquor of a place was 6over proof. We next visited enforcement of service was done away with. imagine why they should have been told ao. The Sine was owned by Messrs Markwald & port-wine colour, aweet but not inviting the motive power of the whole works lying There was another proposed immigration The Bill was brought in simply to affect give practical effect to the views of various was done by other hands. He had tried to The next filter is the more effective charcoal compactly together on the ground to which be bad refused his license; it was them, The Yesso affair brought the matter minds he had found ready to his hand, but many years by Captain Sorensen. No par- Sugar Refinery, say 80 feet in height, are ele ordinary and 2 multiplex boilers, the Australian steamers. Some members was possible under the old system.
cistern. Of these there are 21 in the China storey in an engine house by itself. There that of skilled arties s for Sydney and for very prominently forward and showe i what he did not think he was fairly entitled to fioulars of her wreck are to hand as the There are completely filled with suimal and some 500 tons of coal a month is con of bis Executive appeared to think favour steamer's boilere might be bad, the engineer
A much credit. news came by wire.
charcoal; that fa charcoal made from bones,sumed.
Council adjourned sine die. Over 100 men are employed in ably of it; they had a good deal of discus. might be incompetent or careless, but there and the liquor percolates through this the works altogether, besides the mansion about it, but ultimately he adhered to was no regulation and no inspection. There mass of matter to tanks in the lower floor, ager, (Mr H. Diakie, to whose courtesy the opinion he had originally formed on MAKING, allowance for the vagueness of in which we find it quite colourless and
1 was indebted for the interesting day at reading the papers-that he should not eam launch in the harbour should have London and Colonial Papers, dat
was a at ict clause providing that every
Shipping Intelligence. Renter's telegraphic advices regarding pure. Close by in a separate building is the works) and a considerable European relax--which was what they asked-in certificated engineer, steamers that have passed the Canal, it from bones, quantities of which are tying clerka and accountants. The company does part with the object of fasliting the the second reading of this Bill. It had the retort for the manufacture of charonal staff of engineers, sugar-boilers, foremen, any way the rules of emigration at this Hon, P. Byrie seconded the motion for seems fair to assume that the O. & 0. about not greatly to the satisfaction of none of its own packing, but leta it out by scheme Messrs Stevens-had in view. It been before the Connell now as they were steamer Oceanic reached Port Said in 25 one's olfactory sensibilities The charcoal contract as ocassion demands The whole was pointed out that it would benefit all aware for a very long time, but the days from this port. She is reported on the days an absorbed all the impurities of the cover a large area of ground, and with but he had to do with
which has been in the cisterns for a few buildings in connection with this industry very materially those who were taken, delay was unavoidable. He thought it 18th amongst thoas vessels that had passed liquor slowly filtering through it during those just completed for the new machinery consideration how far it was desirable for much the Colony was indebted to two the other would not be out of place to express how during the preceding four days, and if it be that time is separified by zetorts, of which make up a large portion of the brick and the Governor of this Colony to do anything gentlemen now at this table. They were taken for granted she passed on the 17th, works, with large sheds for spreading and already fitting up the new machinery which, to allow of the introduction of Chinese notes. They were the only basis on which there are some 20 in another part of the mortar of East Point. They have begun the way of relaxing these rules, purposely indebted to the Clerk of the Council for his the above result would be given. There is cooling the charcoal after it has been sub. with that arrived the other day by the Ro artisans to the Australian colonies at the any knowledge could be obtained of therefore a fair chance of her reaching Lonnay about 500 tons of charcoal in constant the Refinery, enabling it to reach a monthly colonies, every one of them, were more or on the Bill in its original form, and they
jooted to the re-buruing. The Refinery mulus, will double the producing power of very time when the Governments of these the
of the Select Committee. don in 95 days from Hongkong-
circulation; either in the cisterns or cool out-put of 60,000 plonls or 9,750 tons, or less embarrassed by this question. He ing or in the returns regaining ita purifying ay 125 tone s day. There will be 50 char refused the license, six months afterwards the Council. The greatest credit was were the platform of the Bill now before We believe it is the intention of the Shang-pure solution of sugar; tuat is, pure sugar doubling of the number of vacuum pane steam company. Some Chinese workmen ney General, whose painstaking labour powers, The liquor as we have it now in a coal cisterna then instead of 20 as now the some trouble did occur with that very due to his hon. friend the Acting Attor- hat Volunteers to send a formal challenge to and pure water. Now comes the most in and centrifugals I have already men they had obtained in some other way, and and legal skill were amply proved by the the Hongkong Artillery Volunteers to come.esting part of the operation. The appli toned The whole of the additions will be their arrival created a disturbance and way in which he had discharged what was pete in a Shooting Match, each vorne to fire / cation of heat is the only way of getting rid completed by the end of the first quarter caused the Government some trouble, neither an enviable nor light taak, tak-Aug
of the water; such application under ordine of next year. The Company will then have There was another form of emigration, ing over and dealing with Bill lett by a pa its own range, having an umpire forary circumstances would turn the sugar one of the finest guing works in the Baat, is could be so called, to Sydney, previous incumbent of the office. The Bill 12, Taps,
1880.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. {SUPPLIED TO THE "CHINA MAIL."] (Per E. E. à. d 0. Telegraph Co.'s Line)
LONDON, 20th November, 1879. Several arreste have been made in Ireland for seditions language,
Russian military operations in Asia are
suspended for want of transport.
Baker is appointed to superintend the scheme of reforms in Asla.
The movement of the Mediterranean Squadron is countermanded.
LOCAL AND GENERAL The next AMERICAN MATL may be expected here on or about the 24th inst, by the 0. & 0. steamer Belgic, which left Yo- kohama on the 18th inst.
News has been received from Saigon of the
Co., of Bangkok, and was commanded for
In these tanks the sugar is dissolved in as little hot water as possible. Certain in-
work
a
The following is corrected from the latest
VESSELS TO ARRIVE, -AT-HONGKONG,
Left Name.... May.
6, Alexander, 31, Newcastle, June. 27, Pym,
Penarth
Antwerp
Antwerp
July.
3, Undine,
Cardiff
8. Glenrosá,
Antwerp
16, Aurorita, 19. Comus, 28, Belted Will, 24, Primros3, 24, Primitis, 20, York Town;
Hamburg
Glasgow
London
Penarth
Penarth
Penarth
Cardiff
8, John Nicholson, 9, Ella. Rickmers,