No. 3409.Joy 18, 1898.)
ALL detachment of recruita for the Asiatic Artillery arrived this morning by the steamer Lihtning.
THE Legislative Council will meet i Mon day nort-Business-toport of the Finance Committee (No. 4). Motion by Mr E. B. Belilios.
Is the Supreme Court to-day Chief Justice Fielding Clarke insured an order cupruleg
■ resolution passed by the Yangise Insurazion Asacolation, to the effect that $40 per share
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
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OF COMMERCE
THE CHINA MAIL.
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be paid off upon 8,000 shares, upon the foot-adjourned meeting which was held resulted | tainty of the supply from Maxien, he fairly d foreignerov bora them; and where | foot of the hill, where they made a fire of leaned on mortgage of real estate in Singaried, but Mr Wikholm, I hear, was engegul
ing that the amount returned or any part thereof may be called up again, and that the sum of $350,000, he placed to the credit of a hand called The Return of Ospital Account, that the sum of $20 per share be paid off ar anon as practicable and that the balance of $20 per share be paid off on a future date to be fixed by the Doard of Direstora Nawa 3 received to-day of the death of Mr G. Dr Bottomley, which occurred on the
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THE STRAITS INSURANCE cials, they returned to Hankow in the sa
COMPANY, LIMITED,
Palica. From what they heard at Hwang- PETITION BY BANKS IN FAVOUR OF dead against nature that the inhabitants of of the mins shows how far the miners bad
ABRITISH DOLLAR,·
the colder and rougher country shond net ponotrated into that oxicodingly rich mino
The sixteenth crafnary general meeting show Me Archibald and Mr Land declare The followine fa a verbation report of Mr The following in the petition of the Banks be fun are in fact the Tiontainers) more rai voin. But anakilful engineering, as lina Granville Sharp's speech, bld over from on the anbject of a British dollar, and the characterised by fiue pt sicuo and voluirt been so otten the care in Chios, proved of the shareholders of the abovo nomed that the two unfortunate Missionaries were ur report of last night's meeting of the letter of the Chamber, referred to at yaster- moral qualities, than those who in the fatal to the work at this place. The mine Company was held in their new offices at murdered at the direct instigation of the the Chamber of norvating languor of the Santh, must caved in and buried. over a hundred men. Singapore on the 8th inst, for the parposs officials and literali of Sungen and the sar- 'doy'a meeling of Chamber of Commer
make cunning replace both physical The laity was overwhelming and the of receiving the directors report and ac- rounding districts, and that the rahas M-Gravile Sharp I am sure that we Commeron
Hongkong, 16th February, 1877. strength and mental vigour. Compare the enterprise thenceforth entirely abandoned counts for the your ending 31st 31sy, 1893, who perpetrated the crime were receiving of the four men who warned the murdered are much indebted to Mr Kawick for the
interesting acount he has given us af To the Honourable J. Gardiner Austin, Italiam from Tombardy and Naples! The immediate effoot of the diameter was and for the election of directors and audi- payment from the same source. They
0.M.G., Colonial Scorotary..
But there is other ground for quas for- desponed in the winds of the people by the tore in the room of those retiring by gave the Viceroy of Wachang the namer the bistory of this curement and the
Sir-The undersigned, representatives of ing the experience of this etranger; at fennt belief that it was caused by the wrath of rotation.
3r Theo, Sahat, the Chairman, said-men to leave Sungpa ou pala of death, and Order of the Day.-Second reading of present position of affire. You will all of the Bill ontllied the The Statutory Declayon know that this is not. new ground by the Banking Institutions in Hongkong, his experionos of the North Possibly, the spirits whose domains had boon in. rations Ordinance, 1893 Third reading any means. This matter has boon before have the honour to submit, for the on-bowerst, he may have litherio only enjoy-vaded and whose treasures were being car. The report and accounts for the year ended also the names of the chief actors in the of the Bill for the incorporation of the the Chamber for the last 20 years within sideration of His Excellency the Governor,ed the society of the Foochow liturati, who vied off. The mino was wholly deserted 81st December, 1892, have now bass in cruel erims. Ms Land adds that in his desirability of endeavouring to induen by the way he coperta as being anxious All this transpired more thans hundred your hands for some time, and, if you have opinion the Tantai of Hwangobor is Trustees of the Hongkong and, South China few months. It bas husn Frequently pra the desirability ment to take stays for aro expeled the rad hairs (a peaulter years ago. And rothing has einee burn no objection, we will, as customary, take ashamed and afraid to give up the bodies,
posed since 1873 that the Japanese yen the. Masonic Benevolonco Fund
There will be a meeting of the Public should be made legal tender in Hongkonsupplying to Hongkong and other Clucios Tiantan spellation)." It may be remarked done toward reopening the mines si this them se rexd. I will bristly call attention they are so mutilated; and he wants them. Works Committee immediately after the aud on every oceanan apon which this where dollars am the standard aurrency, in pare. thesis that the Tintain cry is particular point. We did not venture fur to the changes which our operations dur to decompose before their friends arrivo, Council, to condider the Kowloon Water question has been discussed in this room ainage of British manufacture; feeling maoz hats and is only used into thoes old nincs, the damp crambling ing 1899 have wrasght in the position of so that Native bodies, free from disgrace- the discusion has resulted in a stronger confident that in a country like China, wild chaff by tiny children. Red-hairs' walls and slippery floors not being speci- the Campany, The arsets have been in. fol titilation, may be substituted for
not known.
ally inviting, but our guides seemed fami- creased by 835,000 and now amount to them. Me Lund further maintains that. Supply project.
emphasising and a more general expression whore British interests are predominant
Ha apoaks of
sagot having into the dark cavernous opening, from whichng, while the liabilities are not materially spite and nothing elso, and he will nes of the desire for a British dollar, in which ovos those of any other foreign country, a am sure every Briton in this colony will coinage of well acertained purity, guar- Tiantaiders and to relation between liar with the pheo and disappeared at once $1,127.000, of which £52,000 are in stert. the massacro is the outcome of official: bats which they had capturod.st of investments will, I think, bo sonst his country to take the matter np vigorous- sympathise and which will also be folt by anteed by the British name, would, in a changed sicce the massacre, and seems they emerged after a time with a dozen or greater than at this time last year. The every endeavour to get the government of Neither of the murdered men was mar other nationals who are hore. The first very short time, be received throughout the surprised that no lore is borne the for-more
much discussion took place in December, 1873 treaty. Portes freely as the Mexican wiguere. Where in China, one would ask, These they carried with then down to the dered satisfactory to you. The amount dry twigs and leaves and roasted them pora is reduced by $47,000 and every oppor Thers were two meetings hold and the dollars, and might, in view of the uncor is there
do anything to ear it? But in point of fact these relations have whole. They made aigne to us to indicate tanity is being taken to realise mortgage and to a young lady lu Loudon who was to been rapid'y improving more arpecially that they were dainty tid-bits, and we had real estate investments which do not give come out to China shortly to be united to in a resolution, proposed by Mr Whittall. expected, eventually, to supersede the of Mars Jardine. Matheson and Co., and coinage of that constry. seconded by Mr Kaye, the Manager of
leaned. On properties so realised during and Me Wikholm 33. Depending, as we do at present, upos since the advent of the present Commis- no desire to deprive them of the least ample margin of security for the amount him. Mr Johaneco was only 32 years old the Chartered Balt, that every effort Mexica for the dollars current in Hongkongioner, at which opuch the police guarding morkal.
LATE TELEGRAMS. should be made to obtain by all practic and the principal ports of China, it is hardly the way to the Vinerug's Yamda, wed Within recent yuora several attempta have 1892, a net tons of $800 was incurred and themselves to join in houting the passing buen made to mins this rich deposit of has been written off exchange and invest- Tintain the copper. The whole ridge, in its length meat flactation account. The gold storl
(Rangoon Gazette. 200 able means a British dollar for Hongkong. ascessary to point out the very sorious in- On February 16. 1877. the banks in the convenience which is frequently experienced foreignor. Now, not only
TUR CLOSING, OF SHE INDIAN, MINTI, Lendan, June 27-In reply to a question colony united in a memorial to the Crysern- from the stoppage of the supplies consequent only plier I know of in Chins where and breadth, appears to be one solid massing investments have been increased by ment, which was supported by the Obam-upon the almost chrasto state of disruption foreigner may pass alone through the heart of copper ore singularly rich in quality, but £15.0.0. They are mostly first class Gro- ner of Commerce, that the Home Govern- which exists in that country, and it is a of the Chinese city and hear na breath of the facilities for mining, the unborisin vermont Guamateed Bonds and to-day
our books. The recent financial crisis in stated that the Government of Indis were weut should be induced to take stops for matter of notoriety that during the last insalt, but two ladies of my sequaintance condition of affire in the district zur they are considerably more than the value in in the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone and the cost of conveying the oto Australia hus not affected us to say serions free to admit silver already shipped to India the prison of the rear box to Flong kong, sul font, Than Bastelby Eats the sould actually go--and oftan tid--by item- rounding, the deadly malaria, said kong with a view to the ultimato re- Hongkong and that, financing business in stropping there, in
andured almost insurmountable obstacles. and used deponits with four of the suspend: Press goperly approve the decisio stablishqunt of the Hongkong Mint. On of the vulvay we ceriously hampered busiest streets, without mesting with dielo the sea coast, bare hitherto been cou: extent; but we have on current account to free coiuage if they think fit, Tas
groeables of any sort,
•Thinly lacquered r with some superci Our attention was called to several placesed Banks, £6.500. Of this sum, 43,000 are at regarding silver.
Allahabad, Juny 20-at the meeting of 10th just, at Buxton, England. Mr Bon March 7, 1878, at another mesting of the We would respectfully point out that Chamber of Commerce, the subject was tomloy was an old and well-known resident again brought forward, and Mr. Ryrie, who with colonies such as are possessed by Great al applicatious (BL) of western ciri-tes where new mines had recently been with the Commercial Bank and the Austra
vastatin against the parvailing groon of the Banks, we are informed by cable, have introduced an Act to amend the Coinage and He began his business was then Chairman, proposed a resolution. Britain, where dollars are the only current tion the Tientsiner may be ! But why, af er opened, the fresh gashes and yellow de-lian-Joint Stock Bank, and both of these the Legislative Council, Sir David Barosur of Hongkong.
where these fresh attempte reopoued and resumed payment. The Paper Currency Auta, based on the report of
Committes, career here in the Sixties in connection which was supported by Mr. Fackson, that coins, there is an element of unfitness in all, should steam, telegraph, and railroad
had been made.
The Indian so when such de- with him thon with the Southerpor? with the firm of Messrs Hogg & Co. and
every step possible and practicable should supplies, mors especially
His miplines, trustworthiness and hos in the tillage and elsewhere we learned in Bank is very likely to be successful, sad
general way, that a company composed the Board therefore see no reason to to the free coinsge of allver. Until farther later became partner in the firm of Mosers be takon therannte. From 1878 to 1880 pendence is a country so utterly ao- Hughes and Bottomley, brokers. After the matter remained very quiet, when we reliable as Mexico, and that, from a purely pitality, however, always retocin, making
were awakened by an application from business point of view, there is absurdity in him a plate, blunt man that loves him of Chinese capitalists in Hongkong and anticipate any ultimate loss to the Com-orders rupees will be issued from the minis They Carefully come her increased by $1,000, a portion of per rupes, and gold will be received at the wards he joins the firm of Musses Datglas Singapore, bogging and praying the supposing that England pancet compete friends, as I hope the experienced writer Canton had obtained- offici- permission to paay from this source. The premium in in exchange for gold: at the rate of 15, 42. ago, when he has done abising him and est avoided the old mine, which was re- which is due to our taking over from the Government Treasuries at Lliu mane rate, Lapraik & Co. He left the Colony sever Chamber of Commerce to ucite with them with America and Mexico to the manu- of the Notes will fud us to his adsant operate these mines.
of years ago and bad been in fasting heath in obwining à British dollar for Hongkur g, fncture of cufuage for her own prissenemis
4.--The experience
to the right. velceling a location on the the contract for reinsuring the marine present gold is not made a legal tender, Singapore, and the Straits Settements.
to tha Muut establish- ; quniatazic
back f the ridge. Representatives this business of the Bingapore Ineuranos Com. and the question of the rates of exelmago for some time. As a mark of respect for in May 31, 1887, new creat happened in
company or ayudicato had visited the place pany Limited. All the marine risks of will be dealt with afterwards. Sir David him the hong ng of Meses Douglas Lathe for which the Government revived ed in 1866 in this colony was such that it would, we fear, be hopeless to endeavour to
only a few months before over arrival, and the Singapore Insurance Company have Barbour said the oporation of these me from the Japanese Government to coin
the story of their experiences, had we boen ran off or have been reinsured, with eures would be watched closely before any prack & Co, and the flags of the Douglas silver you for Hongkong, Singapore, and laduce a repetition of the experiment at the
kuown it before starting, would have made results satisfactory to our Company, and further legislation is adopted. So Straite at i par cent. This was dec in present time. We are, however, strongly of steamers in the harbour wore half-masted
The Viceroy dicimed that the proposed ua hesitate to follow their footsteps, as we there remains only the liability under ed by the Chamber for a variety of reason, opinion that the failure of that institution to-day.
bad done in a measure. There were the policies of the year 1892 for petty general measures would give relief to the Govern it was thought undesirabla st that time was too readily admitted; that with farther
operators, with a guard or escurt of throw and particnlar average losses and for which meat of India in ite dificulties. He said to enter into the arrangement. I think experience, careful management, and vous
soldiers and a number of attendants.
an ample reserro has been made. The the measures would not produce any great that we shall all agree that our present mical working, the addony would have baco
The chief attraction in the deighbour They drank of the water, so it was said, intstost earned is practically the same as change in prices, and there would be no currency is inadequate and unsuitable, filed by its continuance, and neighbouring Wu colonist, as well as the porta of Chise. would
a little short of $51,000. The violent disturbance of the existing one underwriting The fama of the operators died a few days after their afternoon in the Company's Odico, Prayare still burning the rushlight in the Central-Me J. Orange, Chairman, pref electric currents. (Laughter.) It may such a subject is, however, useless, but we Hills' a few miles discont
these hille kan spread far beyond their im- arrival, and all had a very teying time off so profitably as we expected, but in this rid of the silver currency, and the ratio
They attributed their misfortunes entirely
Bombay, Jace 26.The Bombay Gazette's siding. There were present-Mears David be deemed economical to vso a dollst would express an opinion that the introduo-
of all other Companies; we bave been able, Gillies, and W. II. Ray. (Director), R. E
which is made and sont to ne all ready frtual a British dollar into the British Oolo
ear meroia article says that the Hongkong mediate vicinity. They have attracted to the climate and wate. We are disposed respect our experience was similar to that fixed was a provisional one, Inigh, B. O. Wilcox, J. B. Coughirie, W.
for us here, but I think it is about equi- nies is this part of the world, and eventual B. Wiokhan, J. Maciebune, 0. A.
valest to all the foreign eminunity gingly into Chins gecerally, would probably lead capitalists from distant points and repeated to think the fault lay ahi-fly if not entirely however, to double our reserves, to recom-
to the re-establishment of the Hongkong
drinking stagnant water it may be, so ifore the balance of 1892 underwriting tender silver at the Mint and the refusst of Tomes, W. Legge, W. H. Patte (Socre bout in slop clothes or the British army
urs which these hills ovalain in almost foxposing them elves to the hot sug and account untouched. The settlements to the metal by Majar Scott, the acting Miat Company)
uniforms of France, Russia, and Germany. the cheapness of skilled labour, and the faul The Chairman asid-Gentlemen, at the. Mr Kravick has very properly and wisely that it is a British possession rendering exhaustible quantities. We had beard malarious night air. We experienced 31st December last on 1854 account Master, was the first intimation to the
that before we can think of indulging Hon-kong eminently suitable for such umeny reports about the place, and now that ni trouble or oyil effects whatever from the amounted only to 33 per cent, as against banks that such a measure has been put private meeting held just now I entered in a British dollar, we mast institution.
á. For the present, however, all we would / We were so near them determined to see climate or water, and the appearance of the 49 per cant. for 1891 and 48. per cent. for force. The Manager of the Hongtang Bank fully into the operations of the Company
bese famque hills for ourselves. From the natives certainly indicates a good condition 1890. Since the 31st December the settle immediately protested against this, action ments on account of 1892 and previous through their legal advisers, Major Scott was not prepared to offer any explanation sa during this year, and the reasons which cast the cost. This should be done in all
Rfecting up the question of theen have compelled the Board to rummend things and in this mach as in any
be contacted us to get our opinion as to
the bare fact that on Bunday night he was r to you the dissolution of the Cougany. Thathing eles. An iden has occurred to us
upper end of the chief's village, whither of things in this respect.
years. The ratio of expenses to premiota is the lucution of his town in regard to the rich mineral Lifts, it seems sa tray instter years amount to $171,200, a very favour- aly this morning, about an haar before whole history of the Company is vory dis
propitious or contraev inflienige of earth, air to solve the problera of obtaining their ble record as coepared with preceding to the action of Gavurement, and beyond
pany in which wo meet to-day were formally orders, he knew nothing. taken possession of on 3rd Juno, and I think
SELAMA TIN MINING.COSIPANY, LIMITED,
the Hongkong Mint be re-established and dependence upon any foreign country for be azp cted to have wicked moze magic hillside showing from what was told aanherne for reconstructing the Nations! the Herschel Wints are to be eloxed at once
Verament with regera or Mainstr's Go sparn a little time towards misking his ac- i garded na naluvky, and went a few mila Straite Firo Insurance Cofpany, Limited, that is Rs. 16 to the sovereign, For the
PEQUAVI,
I am, Se, your obedient serrant, Fouchow, 10th July, 1893.
AMONG THE LEES IN HAINAN. V
A meeting of this Company was hold this we have the currency of 1813 in 1853 have shared auch benefit. To theorize upas hard of Shui-k'au is found in the Oopperaud two of the soldiers and two of for 18 count for 1391 did not randitions. No attempt would be made to get
torr) and E. O. Bilis (Solicitor to tnging clothed by the worn-out súd cast-o | Mint,--the central position of the Island, attempts have been made to tice the rich in themselves, in want of proper diet, in mend a dividend of 5 per cont., and to and Shanghai Bank was the first here to
iu
matrous: the original discovery at Kelamute into this room, that perhaps the ap- was deceptive in the extreme; it was hard diction which the Japanese made to us to being favourably considered the representa- to believe that the rich ore found was allow them to do the work of coining the tives of the Eastern Hanks in London should and water, a mrporatizavo borrowed from reasures unless the one be too poor 18 per cont. The new offices of the Com- instrunted to refuse silver notil farther
merely a pocket and that nothing else was to be discovered thero, but our eastly experience proved, that we could not strik the lode, if a lode indeed exists. On the failure of Selame, the prospects
at Blanda Mabek and Takka, seemed excellent. The Perak Government gave as gonerous assist auce and a liberal concession, in recognition
exertion and
(Sd.) C. MORLAND KEER, Meager. For the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India,
London, and China,
(3d.) H. H. NELSON, Manager, for the Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and Chinu,
(81.) HY. TROLIGAN, Acting Managor, For the Cumptoir D'E-compte de Paris,
(8d.) E. J. MACKENZI A Manager. For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banting
Corporation,
(81. T. JACKSON, Chief Masgar. For the National Bank of Ladia,
is
which
the
(84) C. E, Tomson, Acting Manager, amusement and delight of his constituents, The capital required would not be exson!
enter: rise.
**
The newa at the closing of the Mint spread
Bombay, June 27-The Exchange Banks through their legal advisors have entered a... protest against the closing of the Mints for free coinage without notice.
Allahabad, Jane 38-The Pioneer says of the minta tä slange of a
the scheme for the together with
ask is that Her Majesty's Goverment will soin in England dollars equal in fiveness and weight with the Mexican dollars, and we would suggest that, in the event of this
the Coless, we had a full view of these qualtity to respond to ordinary expediente to designs and other details. remarkable hills. They extend in an it used for brasking it up and demchingit fro Japanese gen for circulation in Hongkong be consulted
6.-Representatians from the Biraits Cobs. regular ridea about ten miles long sad pre- its bed. It has been suggested that almost the shareholders may be congratulated on capidly in the Bazaar and the immediate and the Straits, might be turned into an
not only the old pickaxe bat blasting pow. enquiry on our part whether the Japanese nice have already gone home on this subjet, suig two thousand feet high and are well Fure coppar is of such a consistency that the acquisition, without any increased cost effoot was that rupee paper which opened Ta
and we trust His Excellency will see it toivered with tree Soveral bars place on
spacions offices. The new office premises At the banks matters were at a dead-look internment would be willing at their min,
impression upon it. It is tough and at the of our London Branch have also be and there was a disinclination on all hande heir magnificent mint one of the test give hearty support to the saggeation wa
mining operations.
Aware of the treacherous nature of the same time not cohesive enough to hold completed and are now occupied by the to do business. The first impression was mists in the world-at Oasks, and with all have the honour to put forward. We have their upper slopes show the marks luft byder al even dynamite can make but little Company, of such handsome and the morning at 107-15 went up to 108-2 the advantages and guaranicus which that the hongar to be, sir, your obedient servante,
jaazle paths by which we should have ta togather against great pressure. It has
pany. Limited, and in this case also the provisional measure and Government would nint possesses sad which have boun For the Orisuta! Bank Corporation,
travel, wa oppiled to the chief for a guide. chunrage so that the eff-at of drillen and joint staffs of the Siraits Insuruttes Com- that, the plating of the impression, was has now reached india or is at prosent of our
expenditure.ferred by the Chairman in connection with
in very stiff clay and puffing it out by porivatment as well as convenient branch silver Chatinned work at thus places shew the the Japanese yen, whether they would con
He promised to go with us in persen, but blasting is not unlike that of boring a hole Board are satisfied that they have a round not refuse to coin. A large amount of British dollar on the same terms on
delayed so long shat we wore obliged
no good evidence that the offices. I shall be happy to answer any on its way. The banks also expect to learn existence of extremely promising lodes.to n
isiah opon an immediate start being made. der. There which they proposed to in the Japanese
will provide some menus for indemnifying hat as funds grew low Tekka a 48- ing the mare certain was proceeded with, yes. They might possibly refuan: I think it
We followed him out of his village and ore in these hills is of such an unasage questions if any abarebokter desires further that this decision of the Viceroy's Connoil cro the little stream, under some mag-sule character. The hills he loss than information as to the report.
The report and sodomie were adopted, the present holders of silver agatust loss. while Blenda Mabok was temporarily closed; is quite possible that they might comment
The and the Puz-
aificent trees, with orchids in great clusters thirty miles in a direct line from the coast, country intervening comparatively
and the retiring directors, Mr Sohat and however, the promise of the Tekka lode was The cost would be the same,
like mosts covering their trunks, to another level an that a rod for tracks or av na tram Thompson, ware ro-elentad
introduced us to several not fulfilled. Extremely rich deposits were ydent, if it is an advantage to us, would bo
rillage, when he found at about 50 feet, and the shaft was found by them in our carrying ont the aug
THE MISSIONARY MASSACRE continued to a depth of 105 foot along the gestion, for the couârmation of which we
bouses and whore we were good surrounded way could be easily constructed, by by crowds of the ice peculiar specimens the ore could be quickly transported to
large coast town of Hoi-tan, where it of the human race already noted.
AT SUNGPU. course of the supposed lode, but no winers! are called here to-day, that the Japanese
to the could be smelted on the spot or sent by
the privata having exhibited us for some time was discovered in the last 50 feet. At the yen should be made legal tender amongst
atceror or junk to say point desired.
(Shanghai Mercury Correspondent.)
the admission of gold ns a legal tender at a point where cross cutting was to be com If the Japanese Government will cuin a British dollar, and make that dollar legal
Baskow, 6th July 1893.
has been before tho fixed ratio to the rupse, menced to thoroughly exploit the ground, a
who wore Tory divil and friendly in water became top heavy and overpowered tender in Japan, wo may very well in re-
their behaviour toward us, he quietion from the Chinese Guvernniont to
sive, The question of getting permis
By this time no doubt, you have heard public for many years and, fully criticised as it has been, has emerged from the whirl- the pumps, and compelled the ceasing of urn make the Japanese yen legal tender
February 21st, 1877. informed us that he could at arose its zerritory and of the Lees to works fall particulars of the barbarous massacre work. At this time the Perak Government in Hongkong, Singapore, and the Straits. Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
to the Copper Hills'
which the mines could probably be settled by of the twe Swedish Missionaries, Messrs pool of the arrency controversy at any rate Sir. The Managers of the Banks esta-with o Enspector of Mines (newly arrived in the I have had no opportunity of speaking to
upon having guides, state) gare an unfavourable report on the the numbers of the Committee on the sub-blished in Hongkong having forwarded to insisted
The chief drawback appease such alt, and consequently I will nos proposals. It is true it involves a low to true lode would not be ject scause the idea only ocurred to me the Committee of this Chstaber supy of a he consented to provide apon the payment pecuniary compensation or a share in the Wikholm end Johansen, st Bungpu on the far less shaken than any of the competing. property, aging
to be, that in this part of the work copper trouble to go over the gruesome story inadia of an automatic system of ourroney, found until the granite was roached; the one hour age, but it seems to me that if one despatch addressed to you by them on the of an adequate pecuniary compasstion.
is so cheap that the profits on such opera dolnil again. Mr.Jabu Archibald, of the but the benefits of that system have not been uncertainty of depth where the limestone per cent is regarded by the bankers as 16th instant respecting the coinage and in Having suafiod him on this point, be led
pag- would cease, and granite moske, together reasonable cost for seignorage it might
Her Majesty'e Government of a dollars to the Southern cntrance of his fortified
amill.
Rev. Mr F. E. Loud, of the Swedish it with some equanimity, while the situation with the
to go with us. They lack of foude determined sibly load to a solution of the id ficu ty. In by day in Eneness and weight to the domain sad there detailed two of the tions would probably be comparatively National Bible Society of Scotland, and these large but that we cau afford to relinquish On the hill crest above the old mine the Mission, left here in the Taiwo last night promleed with every certainty that the the stoppage of
Tekka which wo are at present placed. The Ent accordance with the decision of the Japanese would and great advantage in Mexican collur for cironiation in this and guards at the moeting of shaenholders held on the the it, other ouiunits, I am requested to addrees or dark, light, wiry-looking sen
it would submerge the country. We bave December alluvial mining was' next tried, good in Japan at the present tip of excita. Fou on the enbjoet, and to express the fall dressed in abort skirts and armod with vegetation we most luxuriant. Manses of for Sangpa. Their intention was to innd longer this theoretiṣal advantago was elung:
abalute silence, leading 28 over the min pikaate leaves, interposed a norious bar River, and there get an escort of soldiers
We out several sturdy to go with them overland to Saagpa, to passed instead, by Monday's legislation, but so i aro mentioned at the private.] ment and questioning than the circulation 00000Frenзe of this Chamber with the tenour match-locks They want on before us. in ratten, with their thorny enter husks and at Hwangebow, a on down the i to the more appalling were the evils in which
with our noble It is ungessary to recapitulate the argu-otrest of the plain, which assumes the rior to explora lon
which uesting, it found that unless the of a number of ant cuius
Bovoral variaties which showed long join où men and bring them back to Hankow for dit encnot be denied in goon, and the uncertainty of obtaining calls returned for the eighth sime from a visit to menta so foroibly set forth by its writers as made of a river in the time of her canes and admired the bristling olunpa Dreaver the bodies of the two unfortunate | under an inconvertible motopoly standard, a Company has a large capital it cannot and rovered Queen upon them. I have just
to the advantages of having such a eain pro-rains; then through several miles of hily ove
het mossible apulogy · to the village well pleased with our expedi that Mesere Archibald sad Land have bookable objections,
that can be made for the change is that it really nettles that the best course le to Japan, and amidst all its beauty of scenery dued under the guarantes of Her Britannic country ow red with a thick growth of tens of unusual thickness. We rosurned desert burial. I am sorry to say, however, dissolve this Company and to wind up and poople there is something lacking Majesty's Government, the inconveniences shrubs and young trees from ten to fit illtion and proceeded to note us many of the thwarted in their averageous and laudable
thore. There is banething facking, and I riding frits the eggauictial interuptions of foot high, which completely shut out all strange features and objects about us as design, thwaks to the diffealties put in should have received the sanction of i body possible in the remaining half of the day. their way by the obstinate officials of like Lord Herschell's Committee, which cer Before putting the formal resolution I am not quite sure that Englishmen are
aupplies from Mexico, and the unfitness of view of the surrounding country.
brought to the will be glad to answer any questions from loved as much there as they ought to be or relying upon any foreign country to furnish approached the hills we passed a cluaggi, c. coanuis and papayes of a pecu tarly Himangohow. As soon as the story of the tainly would never have been shareholders.
Englishman and other foreignzes with the current soin of British Colonies. The large trees on a knoll near the roadside, doliciou: f PUT were brought in to us, and in besoreresched bure Messrs Arobibald and conviction of the necessity for tampering as they were. Possibly it is that there Na questions were asked.
opportunity which would be afforded of in- and here our guides uttored the first
trup of youngsters, boys and girls, started ties about going to sangpu to recover the demonstration that the policy of leaving pany he wound up voluntarily under the contact are not those whose influence British dollar, sad the maraibly oventus stertod. Their call was responded to by merrily for the fields along the little river, bodion; std after a great deal of diffenlty things, alone and waiting upon svents was The Chairman moved That the Com-whom the Japanese come inte most close porting Into China gehorally a standard sounds that had passed their lips, since we answer to a request for grass fut our horses, Land, made representation to the unthori- with the standard excopt nader the cleares
and soon appeared again with arms full of they obtained the necessary permission and one that was no longer posible
EXCHANGE AND THE SERVICER. HTADE grare which our horses were told that the fandarins at provisions of the Companies Ordinances calculated to impress favourably the Japa
nese as a nation. I do think that while re-establishment of the Hongkong miat, ome one among the clump of troca,
London, June 28-In the Hones of Cam- 1865 to 1800
hailed with Me B. C. Wilson seconded.
and s they are studying earnarly this English form additional arguments in favour of the was impossible for us to hold Agreed.
destination. As I have already said, they Saymour King, said the question of relieving fus Chairman then moved That Mr
The fields around the town were planted returned here to day without having even the Civil and Military servants in Indis, possibly get them to look favourably on in the despatch in questis e Fuggestion froh Impression of the skill and warines appolated Liquidator for the purposes of the English currency, and I do think that thet fler Majesty's Government he urged to four chief in thus stationing sonținele his village by surprise,z, Sat
Thorlay was hot and water was scarce country are of superior quality and for his return, and this is what he talls me most careful attentice, but it was necessary and rice, and were wrongly sadlosed by short their experiances at Hwangehow, to casealt the Indian Government before de- rozneration as such Liquidetor be the sum the way for treaty revision in the senso in the anhjaut of $1,250, and that Mesara J. Orange, C. which the Japanens desire their treaties to
so that the steep ascent we had begun be
a Hero, fold Unlese a change was made in the carrongy C. Iuchbald, D. Gillies, W. H. Eay and be revised than anything elas they could C. P. Chater or suy 3 of them be and they passibly adopt. Is would bring us more His Excellency the Govenor, with a view came a very toilsom undertaking. We had un dels pee ng lakas, which prove a The Tuotsi of Hwangchew, to whom they siding anything in the metton
that, thirsty as we wers, we passed several pecallar stiles made of mall, tough air and advised them not to go to Sangpa contiene la circulate there. mittee to assist the Liquidetor by their that. You will remember the raying of Colonies of the opinion of the Chamber. —I | effects of drinking the water on the hill. In the narrow lanes between the fields were them at frei that his knew nothing of the arrangements of Caylon, ne sud, rapees will ·
tempting streamilets without daring to taste brashes intertwined which no animal at all; but if they went they ought not W KESWICE, Chairman. Beranger, the French post of the Bretam, sir, your most obedient servant,
could venture to cross in safety, and which it. We had boon told that the Lost t pain-
highly excited state; instead of doing so Lord Kimberley, replying to Lord Cross, Boapiro You make the lawas
ckly found rather difficult to get over. After it would be wies for them to takes a round said the despatch sent to Indis relating to Mr Logga asked several queatioku satojme write the bail.de.' And I think The Honourable J. Gardiner Austin, C.M.GG and lostheroute dissases were quickle Bonie of our beures with their burdens a direck, as the country people wore in London, June 28. to the House of Lords brad by the poisureus matter contained in this water-that no one who drank it dinner in the evening we sat under about ronta As this would delay them Mr Paul's resolution regarding the Indian
the eaves of the chief's house and were the
Blairs.
work at
of the despatch in question.
commi
_EX
a
of
has a formidable
sound' and
formid-
*
but the
language, English, literature, and English Prot. And this Committee would only nisation with them. We could only Burmins frash green Jeht Pictures and bsada chow would be instructed to send a deputy' William Hutton Patte be and he is haruhiy, it would be fine thing if we could add to the considerations must falls discussed that this was a picket post, and it gas were dieributed and rewiyad with exandy of soldiers on with them to their mons last night, Mr Bussell, replying to Siz winding up the Company and that his re- the Qmen's head wonid do more to pave bestow its immediate and careful attention along the way to prevent any parties taking chiefly with sweet potatoes, which in the lee got to Sangpu. Linterviewed Mr Lund on owing to the fall in oxohange, was receiving
advice in the winding up of the Company*
Mr J. B. Ceughtrio wounded.
let
the amount spent since the last meeting and Fill find that of avantage to us in Hoog.
as to the remuneration of the liquidator, kong. There is too little disposition on
and these questions having been answered the part of the Chinese to render unto
by the Chairman the resolution was agreed Cear the things that are Car's, and I do not think the Chinese in Hongkong
tu.
liquidator, AN
I have, therefore, the honour to regavet
that you will lay this communication before
to
(Signed)
Culonal Secretary.
CORRESPONDENCE.
A DEFENCE OF TIENTSINERS.
bad
·Jamo
clamaticus of plone376.
·child
for
(THE, CFS) EXAMINATIONS:
ROMAN CATEGLIG FISSIONS,
could escapa onharred, but would probably centre of a syringe throng. It is imposseteral dare, Messre Lund and Archibald Civil Servios Examinations, was not a fall a victim and dia a horrible death. Able to describe the appearance and general refused to do so, and inelated on proceed. proved by the majority of the Indian
ing direct and at suce to their destination. Council.
PRESS CRICKET. we cacer.ded: var pall merged into, the effect of that remarkable company. They The Taolal then tried to compromiss
with London June 28. Lord Shrewsbury's Mr Potts noopted the appointment of behave to us as they did 35 years ago when To the Editor of the CHINA" Maid of the mountain brock, when the sper giggled and nudged oach other and seamen i maltera by offering to go half wa
I first came here. I think they want to Six.In your leans of the 29th June, almene of sulphate of copper began to enjoy the brosk in their ordinary cute them, but this the two gentleman England eleven has beaten the Australian his was all the business before the see the Queen's head among them a little some Notes from Tientsin cover some to appear in re routine of life which our coming had made. One very rightly refused to agree to again toom by an innings and a hundred and fifty-
of the indl of the Chief's family whoadled insisting that the Total should curry three runs N more, and a few more of thosa. dollars what sweeping attack on the character of Under the leafy coverte by the brook ide meeting.
which once cirmatated in the colony and the native Tientsiner, which I should be we found everal springs of crystal water, me into giving her a loo ripe papaya, ook the fastractions of the Hankow
anthorities by providing them with Rome, June 26-A Papel Encyclical lis which are now hoarded up for their busuly grateful if you will allow me nokta pars un- saf, osating naide utr fears, we took deep high we had just paul double price art and either accompanying them him- been issued urging the necessity of native LATER COKELINT-Dr King's Dandelion whic
hallenged
and refreshing draughts. No evil con
to her child on the pretence that the his self or tending a (sputy with them to their ] priests in India, China and Japan, and ex and Quinine Liver Pills, without Merary, area and associations which liuger round them
The Tiontain people, we are told, insequenoss followed, only fresh strength and
was not well, and we found that nari potent remedy remove all Liver and Stomach Les as yet more of them, though mot to the cordially opport
luscious tree
tree melon. We Complaints, Bilioaeneis, Headache, Sickosa, exelusion of the pen. stigation. Made only in London. Bold every, gan get our British dollar coiupd in Ispinofthe article-fastbeing fall of the finally tanaheer precipice in the upper | Chinese altandby:did not share our fee: Fox with them for some time longer, and the foundation of seminaries fa India Shoulder Pains Heartburn, Indigestion, Con the resolution brought forward, but la Pres an experienced stranger (the writer zest for our toilsome task. Wo
old mine. Making the accent of this shear fage of enjoyment and interest in the new then they left bla in disgust fatending
ecenas and characters around They
Calcutta, Jane 26.The bim again next morning, and renew upon the condition of making the Japanes quintessential essence of insincerity and face of which appeared the entrance to the
ozoning,
is evidently stranger that risks haight by a circuitous side path, sins were far from comfortable in their though their demand. About 3 ... homarac, Aviation have addressed a letone to the TO OTERODZE WALIOKss-Pepper's Quinine yen legal tender in Hongkong and the and Iron Toningives Now Lits, Apelite, Health, Sernits Settlements, I think it would be expressing critique sosthing and, nt to s shelf at the top of the precipice on the and fuelings as they mingled with this stond the Tastat sent a rather dilapidated sedan Director-General of the Post Offiez reg
the same tima, so disastrically opposed to edge of an ever-green orawn of trees and of Loss. They informed us afterwards that chair to them with the initiation that this ing the dafnement of postage labels. Strength, Energy Cures. Neuralgia, Indigos good arrangement for all parties. tion, Norve Bability. Specially useful in hot,
the opinion of, I should say, all old Tientsin shrubbery that thickly covered the bill.
and behaved in esther an insolent way and then and that stay had better, proseed at with rubber starape cannot be allowed to depressing climate or malarious districts. Evary. A Fam, Braugzoz Sun-Sulpholine Soap residents; but he can hardly be an expe. From this point, descending a for fost by during our absence at the bills the Lee was the only conveyance he could give They admit that the deforeniers of hels
then of the pit was
gave it as their opinion that the town mat qace in ji dunga. The baly thing they continue, but dilacement by the pen they ne should keep up sugth by taking Peppers's
English Tonic Bol gires the natural tint and peach-tika Bloom of a rienced stranger. Rather one who has a precarious path, the mouth of the
simply a den of robbers and got a logit coull get for breakfast was some vermicelli consider a protection against ety theft and Quinine, the word
parfect Complexion; makes the Skin smooth been taken in, and in no biblical sense. soached.
The mines, at whose suitance we now malu stilement of Lees 43 alf. Agangi andar, and as they were tracked with think it should at least be a loved to 000- Lies everywhere,
the quintessential cunning. TO COKE SKIN DISKAM Lotion supple, healthy, comfortable. Sulpholine Soup To talk of the
facile skill stod, are said to producs almost para quickly drives away Eruptions, Pimpics, Blot Tablets. Everywhere.
TO DARKER GRY HAM-Lockyer's Salpharqueezing capacities, and ches, Redness, Ezeras, Ammo, Disfigurements,
destination. Tao Taotsi continued fone-horting ull. Catholics in Europe to assist in
POSTAGE LAFFIZ
Oalentin Trades
eBe
the rightful a
cafes, recognizing him less Skin and beautiful Complexion. Golphelins } loss, effecks more than any other. The color ontainer: as pumpared with those que one hundred to one buadred and fifty year sighed and sealed by the Chinese Mg-made snabber fotila attempt to see think the Post Ofion could effect a conside Boughness and Bonel, Ec., leaving's dear, `kpot | Hair Bestower is the quickest, best, ratest; cost in making guin' of the blag and sturdy | copper and were extensively worked from this charge we set the chief's credentials, very scant politazess by everybody, they tissu fut noma Limo us an experiment.buy who knows both camo shows that a great amount of labor chief of this district. olimates. While in London. Soll everywhere the only English Hair Rectores univery without mentioning the fact of it being had been done at some time and the depth
Sliding Bottle
Socid.
ridioulags to ona
PHILO-LER.
debauch, sad then, seeing they were to et. labels if the exsdom of granting oerlificateu post no assistquos from the innegabow of. of posting were extended,