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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30тĖ, 1881.
Madrid, but from the zeal which oc- casionally leads sailors on foreign stations astray, it appears that a Spanish guuboat even sought recent ly to compel a village within the company's domain to hoist the Span- ish flag. The natives, however, re- fused, and the vessel went off with a menace. It is not understood that either Spain or Spaniards ever took any other step to act upon the powers the Sooloo Sultan assumed to con-.
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Hongkong, December 29th, 1881.
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and, more mysteriously still, Datu Bandaharas, sound strangely in these days. Charters by which, under the guise of incorporating a trading com- pany, the British Crown virtually takes a considerable territorial trans- fer might have been thought to be out of date. But there are venerable precedents which, from the side of theory, Spain can scarcely disregard. When the practical aspects of the undertaking are viewed, the Spanish Government may be reasonably ex- pected to take no umbrage at British capitalists for attempting what it is perfectly aware Spanish capitalists would never venture upon. As our Madrid Correspondent points out, the introduction of British wealth and civilization into North Borneo cannot fail to stimulate the prosperity of the Philippine colonies of Spain, and tend to abate the piracy from which those colonies have already suffered.
case.
Borneo is too important a na- tural treasure-house to be allowed to waste its natural riches upon the beasts of the forest, and its noble expanse of coast upon an anarchical population of sea robbers and their victims...
The Band of H.MS. Inconstant, by
The Princos have signified their în tontion of attending the Public Ball tonight.
The Pacific Mail stoamer Oity of Rio de Janeiro has postponed her departure. until Wednesday the 4th proximo.
Lord de la Zouche, Lord. and Lady Harris, and Mr. Tufnell, who have been the guests of Sir John and Lady Hen- nossy, left Government House yesterday
for Canton.
We have roodived from the Mer-
cantle Printing Office, Macao, an ex- form, which teems with interesting and useful information.
The Vigilant, espatch boat, Lieut.- Commander Lindsay, arrived from Canton yesterday with the Princes on board. The Vigilant steamed over to Sam-shui-po Dock this morning.
The American barque Nicolas Thayer and the Geroan barque Malvina will undock at Sam-shni.po this morning, H.M.S. Tourmaline will into dook thore this evening.
The steamship Chinkiang from Shan- ghai, which arrived late last night, brought down the well known race. ponies First Cornet, East Wind, Se- cond Violin, and First Trumpet, be. sides three good-looking griffins.
We learn from the Agents, Messrs. Gibb, Livingston and Co, that the E. and A. Co.'s steamer Catiarthun left Sydney for this port on December 26th. She is expected here on January 19th.
We learn from a correspondent that
permission of Vice-Admiral the Earl of daring the torpedo practice at the other Clanwilliam, will play a selection of
music on the Cricket Ground this after- noon from three o'clock to 4.30 on the ocoasion of the match between the Club and the officers of the Detached Squa. dron.
The ananal calendar issued by the Scottish Imperial Fire and Life Insur ance Company, of which institution Messrs. Meyer & Co. are the Hong- kong Agents, has this year assured the form of a most convenient blotting pad. The covers of the little hook are quite works of art, and the likeness of Kilchuriu Castle, Loch Awe (we speak from personal knowledge) is an ad.
airable one.
site of the barbour, by the boats of H.M.S. Iron Duke on the afternoon of · the 28th inst, a torpedo value about £500 was lost by one of the boats.
We understand, says the Shanghai Mercury, that Dr. Mano, of Amoy, bas made a
very interesting and most carious collection of Chinese Medicinos, and we have reason to hope that a list and description of them, and the pur- poses for which they are used by the natives, will soon be published.
another's plantations or plans of The words of promoters, oven when plantations wherever they may be. they bear the very high character of Great Britain and Holland have made those of the British North Borneo an airangement which bars. British Company, must not be taken too settlements in South Borneo, though literally. The gold may be found by, the vague unfulfilled Dutch claims the grain, and not by the ingot, the over it would not. Great Britain sugar-canes may be periodically sub. and Spain have no similar arrange- merged in impromptu lakes; the price ment about North Borneo.
of birds' nests in the Canton market Spanish convention with Sooloo has
may stand at the four hundred instead no more to do with Great Britain of the four thousand dollars the picul. than has the British convention The company is exposed to worse with Brunei to do with Spain. Both dangers yet from its attempt to Spain may very possibly be able for Spain and for Great Britain the combine trade and sovereignty. Pre- to point to stipulations by the Sultan various districts recited in the char-vious instances in which the conjunc-coodingly well got-up calendar in map- of Sooloo which conflict with the ter of the company, from Kimanis tion has been tried are ominous of the stipulations between him and Mr. Bay, on the north-west, to the River effect of the experiment upon capital. Dent. Spain has had many alterca- Sibuco, on the north-east, form a sort From the side of national interests no excessive alarm need perhaps have tions with the Sultan, whose subjects of no man's land, according to the have not always been agreeable principle which Europeans have been boen felt had the north coast of Borneo neighbours of its Philippine possos in the habit of pursuing in regard to continued to be left to the discretion sions. It has occupied one of his the territories of Malays and Papuans. of the first European comer. From principal islands, and it was given Treaties by which private merchants the commercial aide, the offer of a by him a species of suzerainty over
contract with native princes for the body of English capitalists and geo- North Borneo. On the other hand, purchase of wide dominions, and are graphers to step into the gap lest the Sultan of Sooloo is not undis-appointed Rajahs and Maharajahs, Germans, Russians, or Spaniards puted ruler of North Borneo. The
should occupy it is, at all events, Sultan of Brunei and his Prime Mi
courageous. But then courage in nister between them claim the same
trade, as in some other things, proves States as the Sultan of Sooloo. They
itself at times the best policy. Cer- and the Sultan of Sooloo have by
tainly, on behalf of the world at large, separate and independent compacts
and of Borneo in particular, it is to made over their jurisdiction to the
be hoped it may be so in the present North Borneo Company. If Spain insists upon its prior title under its treaty with Sooloo, the company can deny that Sooloo has any interest in the country to convey. As against the Spanish pretensions to interdict territorial bargainings in Borneo with any other nation than Spain, the company may go on to place in evidence the agreement of the Sultan of Brunei in 1847 to make no cession of lands to any other nation that the British. Treaty for treaty, and cession for cession, the company can as plausibly shelter itself under the authority of the Sultan of Brunei as can Spain under that of Sooloo. If, indeed, the Sooloo rights over North The commercial prospects of the Borneo be better founded than those company are another question. It of Brunei, and if Spain should care has not yet commenced operations on to rest a serious claim against the a scale which justifies positive anti- company upon them, the real answer cipations. Three Residents have of the company is that Spain never been appointed, who, under the took the slightest step to use the charter, while they are servants of the cession of which it now speaks until company, have also official respon- this English company was embark-sibility to the Foreign office. The
The N. O. Daily News correspon- A STATEMENT in our Madrid intel- ing its capital in the island. Cessions population is declared already to be ligence, says the Times, announces of great regions by princes whose discerning the advantages of British dent, writing from Peking, says: that a question had been put in the
dominion reaches no farther than fiscal administration over the irregu-"It is with much satisfaction I record an improvement in the health of His Spanish Chamber on some alleged their pirate fleets can penetrate can lar system by which the Brunei and British encroachment upon Spanish. command little respect, whether they Sooloo Sultans collected their cus- rights in Borneo. Our Correspondent be in favour of Englishmen, or of toms dues where they could. But adds from his own source of know- Spaniards, or of Dutchmen. Little the company's aim is only second- ledge that diplomatic representations sympathy can be felt with the affec- arily political sovereignty; primarily, are about to be addressed by Spain to tation of obscure chiefs to assign it is trade and dividends. Its promo- the Foreign Office on the subject. thousands of square miles of coast Last Tuesday's London Gazette ex- and forest, with their inhabitants, as plains in some measure the cloud being the private property" of the which, as in the dispute the populace vendors. The Dutch in this way lay of Lisbon got up against England claim to the whole centre and south last summer on the Delagoa Bay of Borneo, though they do nothing Convention, seems, without any
to realize their title. Spain now si warning to the British nation, to be raising similar pretensions to teh suddenly obscuring Peninsular ami-
entire north of the island. The only ability. A charter, it was formally sound title capable of being shown notified in the Gazette, has been by any European State is that which granted by the Crown to a company is supported by proof of substantial styled the British North Borneo Com- settlement within the region and by pany. This association, of which Mr. the acceptance of European adminis- Alfred Dent, a member of the well-tration by the population. The known Hongkong firm, Sir Ruther- ford Alcock, Mr. R. B. Martin, Ad- miral Mayne, and Mr. W. H. M. Read are the directors, has had trans- ferred to it some very large territorial grants made to Mr. Dent by the Sultans of Brunei and Sooloo, and the Prime Minister of the former po- tentato. The cession, or a large part of it, was obtained originally by an American company, which, however, was not sufficiently prosperons to care to continue to act upon its pri- vileges. The Spanish Government is probably disposed to maintain that neither the American adventurers in 1865, nor Mr. Dent in 1877, nor the British North Borneo Company in 1881, can assert any title against its Cown rights. These it traces back to a treaty extorted from the Sultan of the Sooloo Archipelago," who ar rogates: sovereignty also over the north of the mainland of the vast neighbouring island. Acting, pre- sumably, not under orders from
Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONA, 30TH DECEMBER, 1881.
practical benefit from treaties exe cuted by Sooloo or Brunei Royalties is simply that they constitute a gua rantee of neighbourly amity on their part to the foreign planter. This is the best practical construction to place upon the annual payment the Sultan of Brunei is to receive from the British North Borneo Company of six thou- sand dollars, upon the allowance to his Pangeran Tumongong, as his Minister is called, of three thousand dollars, and to the Sooloo Sultan of five thousand. If Spanish merchants and capitalists desire to found new settlements in those seas, they can find abundance of other land not pre-occupied. The North Borneo Company has the priority over them in North Borneo not so much through having gained the consent of the native suzerains to its scheme as be- cause it has begun to carry it out. European States may bind themselves mutually against interfering or let ting their subjects interfere with one
ters and directors are naturally confi- dent on this score. They can point to their coast line of five hundred miles and a harbour, Gaya Bay, certified by Sir Henry Keppel to be "one of the finest harbours in the world." There is coal. There are navigable rivers. There is, perhaps, a lake, though Borneo lakes have an uncom- fortable habit of disappearing in a drought. There are forests full of inexhaustible timber, besides many precious woods. There are edible birds' nests worth from four hundred to four thousand dollars the hundred and thirty-three pounds. The dia- monds of Borneo are famous. It has copper, tin, iron, gold, and quick- silvar. The shooting is excellent. One gentleman connected with the company shot a rhinoceros for which the Zoological Society of London might have been willing to pay £1,200, had it been good enough to transport itself without a ballet in it into their delightfull gardens. There are sugar-canes, rice, cocoa, sago, tobacco, cotton, pepper in fact; and coffee, tea, and quinine in pos- sibility. Though geographically it ought to be hotter than Hongkong, it enjoys a climate which renders blankets a luxury. Lastly, if Euro- peans should, in spite of the cool climate, prefer to be Residents and Rajahs to acting as day labourers, and if the 150,000 natives remain averse from systematic toil, there is a sure supply of the most persistent workmen in the world ready to pour in from the near Empire of Ohina.
Excellency the German Minister. Buth here and in Japan, Herr von Brandt has been distinguished for possessing those high qualities which chinnan the devotion of his subordinates, ond the respect and esteem of all who are. brought into contact with him."
We note the arrival in this colony by the steamship Viadwostock from Su
gon,
of Madame Olga Daboin, the cele- brated Russian pianisto, Madame Du. boia, who hai the honor of playing be- fare H.B.H, the Prince of Wales, at Calcutta in January, 1876, and has completed most successful tours through Australia, and all the Dutch, Spanish, and French colonies in the Bist since that time, proposes to make a very short stay in Hongkong, although she hopes to be able to give one or two performances in the City Hall. From itors Madams Olga Daboiu will proceed to Shangbai, and from thence to Japan.
The position which the Imperial Customs here have lately taken up on the question of the right of foreigners
to land and store merchandize on the
We (Shanghai Courier) beg to draw attention to the fact that the Italian Opera Season commences this evening with the opera of Il Trovatore. As we provously stated, iu..addition to the special company brought out by Signor Corti, there will be a full band and chorus, which will no doubt add greatly to the effect of the whole performance.
The complote list of officers of Zot- Land Lodge, No. 525, for the ensuing year is as follows:-W. M., Bro. C. L. Gorhamn; S. W., Bro. S. R. Neate; J. W., Bro. J. Cradock; Treasurer, Bro. . Herbst; Seoretary, Wor. Bro. W. M. B. Arthur; S. D., Bro. J. Mac- Watters; J. D., Bro. G. C. Cox ; I. G., Bro. A. Apear; Stoward, Bro. L The vonin; aud Tyler, Bro. J. R. Grimble.
We hear by wire from home that a large meeting of landlords has been held in Dublin at which a resolution was passed condemning the adminis- tration of the Land Act and demand- ing State compensation. The state of the country is still greatly unsettled, and a large quantity of arms and am. munition have been seized by the au- thorities at Limerick.
A case was heard before Mr. Justice Russell this morning, in which Mr. P. Doyle, C.E., sued Messrs. De Souza, and Co., printers, for the sum of 850, for services rendered. From the evidence of the plaintiff it appeared Pooting side, has been subject of much romark during the last few days. The an arcangement had been made between interest of the marcantile community himself and the defendant for the pub- in the mattor is increased by the wear lication of a newspaper to be called termination of the time within which Noon, by which plaintiff was to re- tenders for the purchase of the Naval ceive, as editor of said paper, a salary Yard will be received. It is manifest of $150 per mouth. The proposed that the question of Customs permits publication afterwards fell through, to warehouse merchandize in Pootang and the claim now before the court
was to recover compensation for advica: in its present uncertain position, the
and professional services rendered by value of the Naval Yard and of all other property on that side of the river Mr. Doyle to the defendants. After is detrimentally affected. We, and we hearing defendants' statement the believe the foreign public, shall there- Judge dismissed the action, romark fore be greatly surprised if the Almi-ing that his duty was to assess the ral, my Lords, or whatever naval a value of the work actually performed thority with whom the decision of sale by the plafatiff, and as nothing, so far may rest accept any tendera for the as he coulu soe, had been done, the Naval Yard until the action of the Cas. plaintiff was not entitled to any re- to mas has been brought under the notice
munoration, The defendants, wuc- of the Foreign Ministers at Peking.- were represented by Mr. Francis, de. N. 0. Daily News.
olined to ask for costs,