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lum reservoir an unusually discolored appearance. It must be borne in mind that this colony, has been principally dependent upon this source of supply for its potable water for the past fifteen years and more. Further, that periodical analysis has proved beyond question, as the forthcoming Government analysis will confirm, that the rain water catchment in that reservoir is about of as pure a character, as can be obtained anywhere on the earth's surface. Moreover, the
this reservoir at the commencement of the temporary discoloration of the water from
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sarily as to the dangerous quality of the water from its principal source of supply, without first taking upon himself to prove that the established character of the water had suffered.
In endeavouring to find a solution for Dr: HARTIGAN's extraordinary conduct in this respect, we are naturally led to ask what particular class of his patients had he all this, anxiety about. Was it the hybrids mentioned above? If so their epicurean lastes certainly do not run in the water- drinking line to such a degree as to excite his anxiety. Wash on behalf of the interests. of the overwhelming majority of Chinese residents in this colony which occasioned this concern of the worthy Doctor. If su; it is indeed something new to find Dr. HARTIGAN posing as an advocate on their behalf. Furthermore, he would seem to have forgotten that this Island, on account of the pure character of its water, has for ages been, named, and deservedly so, the Island of Fragrant Streams."
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having for over a quarter of a century commanded the highest price throughout the Hindoo provinces of the Indian Empire, If it be neither of these sections that occasioned the compassionate sympathies of the excellent Doctor, we are driven to the conclusion that his concern was on account of his own patients, which of course is commendable enough had there really been anything worthy of so much fuss. But if Fumour is to be credited with regard to these, no one is more resolute than Doctor HARTIGIAN in insisting on his patients using water first boiled and then filtered; a process in itself, which effectually clears the discoloration complained of, and which if the experience of the greater portion of the civilized world is of any account, more especially with rain water such as that of Pokfulum, Is [s healthful in the extreme If it was not potable water which occasioned the doctor's indignation, surely pure rainwater clarified by a little. alum, was all that could be desired for bathing purposes even of the most fastidious, although we
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TELEGRAMS:
IRELAND.
LONDON, May 25th. The Mayors of Dublin and the principal Irish Cities have presented addresses to Mr. Parneli
stating that they never accepted the Commission as a fair tribunal, and that the judges are not competent to decide fairly on the political issues submitted, and that Irishmen relied on the vertici of History..
PARLIAMENTARY.
June.and. Bili for the Naval defences.
The House of Lords has finally passed the
THE QUEEN AT ALDERSHOT. The Queen has reviewed the first Army corps at Aldershot, the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge both being present.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.) THE KING OF ITALY.
PARIS, May 25th. The King of Italy has left Germany 'to re- enter Italy after traversing Switzerland,
THE FRENCH COLONIAL TROOPS,
May zyth, By a decree from the President of the Republic the Colonial, troops are attached to the Ministry
of Marine.
FRENCH NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Rear Admiral Rieunier has been appointed Vice-Admiral and Maritime Prefect of Rochefort.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE Spanish Consul informs as that a telegram has been received from Manila, stating that there are no further indications of a typhoon. Goro coin is at a premium of 64 per cent in the Argentine Republic. An over-issue of paper has broken down the finances of the country.
PAPA'S HOME TO-NIGHT" is the title of a new song. So the old man has yielded at last. Let's see, it must be about fifteen years since they began to coax, him with "Father, Dear Father,
Come Home."
A COMPLETE report, from our Special Corres- pondent, of the general meeting of shareholders in the Socilli Française des Charbonnages du Tonkin, held at Hangay, Tonquin, on May 31st, will be found in another part of this issue.
AN English electrician has invented a material that he calls "alterion," for the prevention of conesion in boilers. The interior of the boiler is enated with the material, and from time to time electrical currents are sent through it. “TRUE, Monsieur le Cure, I am a millionaire, but will you undertake to insure my eternal happiness if I bequeath a large sum to your church I cannot settle that point, Monsieur le Marquis, but the experiment is well worth trying!
We notice that by a rule made a few days ago emigration officers are bound to sign every con tract passage ticket, which must also be stamped. with a view to preventing the fraudulent use of the tickets. This means a little more work for the very handsome commission these gentlemen receive.
THE steamship Carisbrooke, with the "pilgrims" who have been on a special visit to the coal mines at Hangay, Tonquin, ntrived in port this afternoon. With the exception of Mr. J. S. Lapraik, who was unlucky enough to get a touch of the sun" at Haiphong, the voyageurs appeared none the worse for their trip.
Final disposal of city refuse.
For the Board of Directors,
At the Sahitory Board meeting to-morrow the A. G. Mortis, J. Ezekiel, Capt, R. Cass, Monsies with great strides approaches the success so Order of the Day.is
Champla, (Auditor), S. J, Danby, W., H.F. | justly merited by our united efforts,— Darby, A. P. Stokes, and Moysicur Devaux, the Company's solicitor. The press was represented- by Monsieur de Cuers de Cogolin, editor of the Courrier d'Haiphong, and Mr. R. Fraser-Smith, editor of the Hongkong Telegraph..
THE P.&O. S. N. Co.'s extra steamer Teheran left Bombay for this port on the 1st inst, at noon,
·and the steamship Lombardy lett Singapore for this port at 4 pm, yesterday.
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Mr. Chater proposed and Mr. Danby seconded that Monsieur Bavier Chauffour be elected Chairman qfthe meeting, which was unanimously agreed to.
THE Manager of the Hongkong Gas Company Colony East and West was resumed yesterday : informs us that the gas supply to the whole of say individual complaints would receive promptening the meeting and the Order of the Day.
attention.
THE Arratoon Ahrar struck one of the posts of the old F. and O. Wharf this morning, whilst coming alongside, and pierced one plate in her bow, another being bulged in. Both are above the water-line.
The rising generation in Australia is said to be developing a peculiar nasal twang in the valce that promises to become a distinctive as is the Yankee twang in the United States. The school teachers of the country have been exhorted to suppress the twang, “
AMONG the declaration of principles of a large new club in Chicagd are: "No club house, ño constitution, no debt, no defalcations, no pro. fanity, no President, no boses, no dress coats, no dydca, no ducs." That's the sort of club we want in Hongkong.
BAVIER CHAUFFOUR Managing Director, Hongay, 31st Mar, 1889, The Chairman-1 now call upon Monsieur Champin, one of the auditors, to read his report. M. Champin Mr. Chairman. I shall be glad if you will kindly read my report.
The Chairman then read-
THE AUDITOR'S REPORT.
The Chairman, after reading the notice con
stated that there were ten shareholders present. ... Gentlemen, -The report which we have to representing 3918 shares of the value of 2,940,000 present on the financial situation of the Com- francs, which were more than were required by pany will only have to be made, according to the statute to render the meeting valid. In Article 43 of the bye-laws, on the 31st of Decem accordance with French law he would now ask ber of this year. Today we only give you a wo shareholders, the Hon. C. P. Chater and brief account of the works. You have heard M. Grote to act as secretary. The meeting now Mr. Morris, to officiate_as_scrutineers, and Mr..the detailed report presented by the Board of Directors. We have ascertained the correctness being legally constituted and the Order of the Day submitted he would proceed to read the-
of the particulars given in that report, which we fully endorse....
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
We have been following closely the efforts made by the Managing Director in order to push the works forward, and have witnessed the numerous difficulties which he has had to deal
with. The most ungrateful portion of his work has now been accomplished. The trials made with the coal have been satisfactory, and thanks to the practical management of Mr. Beauverie, the engineer-in-chief of the Society, the day is not far distant when coal will be delivered to consumers. We may mention that if this day has been somewhat delayed, it has to be attri buted to the method which it is necessary to observe in an enterprise like this.
Gentlemen, the report we have the honor to place before you this day is but a priumf of the work we have executed from the time we were placed by you at the head of our undertaking And this is all we are enabled to do. Indeed, according to the terms of Article 43 of our bye. laws, our working year terminates only on the 31st December, 89, so that we shall not be able to submit the accounts to you until our At the Harbour Office this morning, before next annual meeting. To sum up, our tran- Commander Rumsey, R.N., Carl Browa, bont-sactions to date are limited to outlays for swain of the bark Camelot, summoned Captain general expenses, first surveys, buildings of all Murphy for assaulting him, on the 24th May, at kinds, and purchases of material, as we have not Hook, which ended in the captain calling Brown with standing that every activity has been disfactorily, and we propose a vote of thanks to Mr.
They had a row about a missing shark- yet entered upon the period of production, -not-
To sum up, the working goes on 'most satis. a Dutch son of a gun (only he didn't say gun) played. We need scarcely state that the greatest which he has shown in the particularly difficult Bayler-Chauffour for the skill and intelligence. and hitting him. Five dollars.
economy has been observed in these putlays and fald out. We will add that in order not to use.. that all monies expended have been judiciously beginning of the enterprise.
Haiphong, 15th April, 1889. lessly encumber our first budget, which owing to force of circumstances cannot be productive, the Board of Directors this year voluntarily resigned the sum of 50,000 francs allowed them as fees in accordance with Article 27 ofur bye laws. It is only to our working so far, to the results, obtained, and to our future hopes that we wish to draw your attention to day.
DR. HENRY DUCUFNNE has drawn up a list of the disorders which especially affect the left half of the body, and concludes therefrom that it possesses a biological inferiority to the right, He says obliterating arteritis affects the left lung aftener; calculous nephritis and renal cysis, the
left kidney ovarits the testicle; varicocele the are fansth, the left side; cancer of the breast
the left mamma.
SAYS the Singapore Straits Times of the 27th ulto:-Messrs. D. Brandt & Co., the local Agents of the Austra Hungarian Lloyd's Steam Naviga- tion Company, have received a telegram that afternoon of the 25th on her outward voyage, put the steamer Electra, which left Penang on the
back there yesterday with fire on board, and that the steamer Medes, on her homeward trip, has been kept back to assist her. The Hongkong Agent informs us to-day that the Electra's cargo in the main hold has been damaged by fire and water, and that the vessel is expected to leave Peaang to-morrow.
On the arrival in harbour this afternoon of the steamship Carisbrooke from her trip to the and to the coal mines of the Sociff Française stranded steamer Ardgay at Cape Batangan des Charbomages du Tonkin at Hongay, Captain Cass was presented by the passengers with an address and a handsome souvenir In recognition of his kindness and courtesy, which contributed so greatly towards making the voyage a pleasant one. The presentation was made by Mr. M. Grate in a few graceful words, Captain Cass, who appeared greatly, astonished by the unex pected compliment, responding in suitable terms amid much applause.
SAYS the Foochow Echa of the 15th inst that some sort of arrangement is on the tapis The little birds have whispered in our ears
for the chartering of steamers by the native teamen of Foochow to take their teas to London
acquiesce in being dictated to, and come to and Australia, should foreign buyers not terms at the proper time. We must certainly congratulate plucky John Chinaman for his sublime idea. There is not the least doubt that the foreign merchants will be only too glad to grant the teamen every facility in order to carry them to help our celestial friends to jump from out their undertaking as it will simply enble
the frying pan into the fire. OUIDA, who is a crusty old maid, thus holds forth on matrimony:If ever one is to pray, if ever one is to feel grave and anxious, if ever one is to shrink from vain show and vain babble, surely it is just on the occasion, of two human beings binding themselves to one another, for better and for worse, till death part them. The two people most concerned, especially the bride. groom, are on such a day willing enough to shrink from vain show and vain babble, but
From the day after the signature of our Act of Concession we took steps to secure the technical staff necessary for the commencement of the works. This task was not easy. Our Act of Concession imposes upon us a French managing
right men for the right place, which was rendered staff so that our choice was forcibly limited, and in addition there was the difficulty of finding the
still more difficult by the antipathy many French- men have to emigrate, especially to Torquin, a Country greatly maligned. After some months we were successful in securing as manager the man who appeared to possess all the necessary qualifications, and on his arrival the works, already been commenced, were pushed along with which during our prospecting operations had great activity. Our chief engineer, a very compe of exploring on a large scale without delay, being tent man in mining matters, laid the foundation thoroughly imbued with our oft-repeated wishes to arrive at a rapid output. Unfortunately his health failed, which frustrated his efforts. Too old to withstand so trying a climate, he was frequently taken ill and was unable to always direct the works which he had inaugurated Thus the delays, the miscalculations, and finally for us the necessity, to replace our Engineer, whose goodwill, as shown above, was neutralised by his state of health. There was no time for hesitation, our responsibility was too great, we were too well aware of your wishes, and in face and from which no new enterprise escapes, of the criticisms of which we were the object,
it was necessary to show our vitality by a rapid output; while on the other hand we wished to
AND. CHAMPIN," Auditor, The Chairman-Gentlemen, I am sorry to have to read the last sentence, but I could not help it. I will now read the special report of our Engineer-in-chief :----
REPORT OF MONSIEUR C. 'BEAUVERIE, ENGINEER-IN-CHUP,
GENERAL INFORMATIONS.
The concessions of the Société Française des Charbonnages du Tonquin are to a great extent yet unexplored. Only the regions close to the coasts and rivers have so far been surveyed.
but their access being rather difficult, nothing Some portions in the interior of the Hangay and Halou concessions have been noted as valuable, definite has been accomplished. The works are at present concentrated on four points, the two principle ones, the Marianne" "Mathilde" mines, and the "Marguerite mine-being situated in the Hongay concession. Thia region is excep tionally rich and its situation on the coast the transport of the first output by water. Its and near the rivers which divide it, will fitte vicinity to Hongay will allow later on of the which will be very important. The third base cheap transport by land of the future output, of operations is at Hatou, and is called the
Fanny" which is at present the only mine known in this concession. The output of this land and sea, the distance being about eight mine will .cre.long arrive at Hongay, both by miles, until the final completion of the direct communication between Hongay and Hatou by a railway which will be the great artery
of these Two concessions.
The Campba.concession has also been the object of preliminary works, which, although effected near the coast and close to the rivers, show that this concession is not inferior to the two others as regards quantity of coal.
I now revert to the works in detail :-
prove to the French Government, which regards THE "MARLIANNE" AND "MATHILDE" MINES. our enterprise with such keen interest, that our About zo galleries, cuttings, and openings are efforts on one of the greatest works which being worked in the veins of the magnificent this young Colony depends, should norte delayed } lower sheaf which contains at least 12 of and that we would promptly adopt such measures them, showing a total thickness of about 33 as circumstances demanded; therefore, without | yards of coal These velas are regular through- looking at the extra expense, we immediately out with a "horizontal development of about owing to the kindness of our Chairman, who was re-appear in the island of Hangay, their direction proceeded to find another Engineer. This time, 2,200 yards. They extend under the Bay and
good enough to give us one of his own staff we being towards the south and south-west. Their think we have secured the right man, to whom probable development in regard to depth is yet we can with every confidence entrust the direction unknown. of our technical work. Since his arrival the under Without delay we shall push on as actively as A REPORT lately laid before the Italian Chamber
taking has been pushed forward with great activity; the inferior quality of the native labor, not yet of Deputies shows that in Italy there are 12 943
surveys have been organised in order to accu-sufficiently trained, will admit of, in the galleries persons who have received licenses to beg, and
rately determine the extent of the coal-beds we already opened. We are opening other galleries who are therefore unchallenged by, the police.
bave to work, and the works alieady commenced, in the seams which are still being discovered, so bill is now before the chamber providing for
have steadily continued to enable us to obtain as to collect all possible 'information as to their the abolition of these licenses and for the erection of a poorhouse in each commune.
practical results as regards output at an early composition and direction. I cannot yet call date.
these galleries proper works for the output of The natives employed, although working in a coal, but they indispensable. They giro but INSPECTOR Quincey dropped on a Chinaman their friends and relatives insist on trotting them satisfactory manner, bave not the necessary adulterated by the neighbourhood of the surface, a small quantity of coal, most of which is are free to admit if this Epicurean fad last night, in Wellington Street, in charge of out and making them shaw their paces. Indeed, knowledge to bring about this double work whb and in order to arrive promptly at a substantia for a man of shy or nervous temperament to be some coalies, carrying fifty old muskets, and as married withcut chloroform is a painful opera-sitated, our obtaining from Franco a certain production. I purpose as soon as the prospecting
out European supervision. This has neces- continues, milk will become the fashion in to be repeated in Hongkong, and are we Hongkong for bathing purposes, as in for $1.79 each, and was taking them to Canton. tion. He may be a strong man, but he feels number of skilled overseers and practical miners racing the galleries already commenced in the
Greece of old, not only for the fair ones of the Colony, but for its bucks, and mashers as well.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889,
Is an interesting phase of History going to have an Epicurean era again? It would secm such a consummation is probable, What satisfied the high-toned Hong. kongites of carlier days is voted too utterly
many bayonets. He said he had bought them
like Samson when, for the sake of a woman
of the layers has been completed, to continue
Mr. Pollock fined him $100, to-day, for carrying whom he loved, he allowed his eyes to be put works since their arrival. We have likewise veins giving the best coal, and to commence
and we already see a vast improvement in the arms without a license, and ordered the weapons out, and heard the Philistines calling upon him imported from France the necessary material, working in the superior portions of the isolated to be confiscated.
common in these hybrid times. Fashions His Excellency the Governor was quite Woosung at 9 a.m. today. The only ather and died out entirely. Think of the blue-glass already made have, by the discovery of new
THE steamship Archists, from Hankow, with ser season's ten for the London market, passed Chinklang at 2 pm, on the 30th ulto, and passed vessel at present loading for London is the Glamorganshire at £3 per ton. The Glanartney and Maskwo were nearly full with Russian tess June).
regret at the occurrence and the unavoidable
to make sport for them.
such as rails, waggons, and sundry other plant, veins that are easiest of access. This will keep Ir is very amusing, says a writer in the Chicago All this has taken time; but now we are suffis employed until the commencement of the real Journal, to think of the sanitary fads that have ciently well organized
place our undertaking working which will be by means of shafts, and which, will reserva not only all the super burst into existence, corruscated a brief while on a firm and substantial basis. The surveys { ficial portion of the veins thus worked, but also. infatuation, when ignorant people gravely dis
seams of coal, given unmistakeable proofs of the a thickness of earth of about 50 yards under the cussed the potent effects of the blue ray of the
great wealth of our concession. On the other continent and about 100 yards under the bay of hand actual mining operations, are progressing Hongay, so as to reduce the Infiltration of water, consumers with suitable coal
No one need be surprised that Jealousy and
·TRANSPORT OF THE OUTPUT.Ä
The openings of the various galleries are con
time when the wharf and railway will admit of the direct shipping of large quantities of coal, which the mines wil then produce.
THE MARGUERITE.” MINE What I said in the preceding article applies to the "Marguerite mine, which, moreover, is in the immediate neighbourhood.
Under all the circumstances we think of the very latest, and viands of the right, as the head of the Executive, to choicest are what is demanded by our deprecate an unfounded alarm, upon so bloods, of the present day.
Moet and❘ vital a question, when investigation clearly and were expected to get away on Saturday, (ist to the expense of having one or more blue-glass so well that we shall shortly be able to supply both by rain and seal N
spectrum, etc., and credulous householders went Chandon, Clicquot, etc. were all very showed its fallaciousness. In regard to well for the hospitable tables of the Egypt, the Doctor was wrong In stating | HERE is a story told as a solemn fact by the gravely asserted that the phosphorus that ill-will have been at work in spreading rumours } nected with each other by a narrow gauge rail.
windows fet in the apartment of the family invalid. Again it was the fish diet. It was fathers of this colony, but nothing that the anhealthiness of the troops there Pittsburg Dispatch "Ladies and gentlemen," resided in the scaly tenants of the waters fur that we he not yet offered coal for sale. For way, rendering transportation from alifthe mines short of special brands with the per- was principally due to the character said the manager of Boston theatre, coming sished just the sufriment required for the building the authors of these reports we had not far foa maiter of Hitle trouble. At present the small sonal monograms of our hybrids will be of the water. British troops have not,
in front of the curtain st the end of a fourth act, up of brain matter. Curiously enough, it never
seck. The reason why our coal has, not yet quantity of sorted coal produced is put la baskets permitted in these degenerate times! we regret to say, reached the highest temperaturs from #bich you have all doubtless who were forces to live mostly upon fish-the It
“we have just discovered the cause of the stifling seemed to occur to anybody that thone tribes been placed on the market is very simple, and conveyed to Hongay in sampans. When true that our coal, in near, the its proportions have increased as the galleries Then again we are stuffed to repletion standard of temperance. In Egypt, the been suffering. The house has been on fire for Esquimauz, the Lapps, etc.-exhibited a low surface, and, of course, it is no better for that, advance, it will be brought to the sampans with Sanitary and Hygienic whims of water of the Nile (not in itself of a low nearly half an hour. In assuring you of my order of intelligence. Generally it was men on the contrary, before reaching lower seams by rail. Later on the waggons themselves will. self-styled professors until we fedi inclined character), fas treated by condensers, accessity of bringing the performance to a close, descanted most eloquently upon the merits of enterprises of this kind had to be undertaken and
who found it hard work to compose a letter who considerable preparatory works inherent to all be embarked and towed to Hongay until the to cry with the poet: Sanitas Sanitatum, bolling, and filtering before being supplied you will permit me to express my heartfelt joy this diet and made themselves its converts. Then the coal which we have worked up to the present all is In-sanity! -
to the soldiers; consequently to climatic that we have succeeded at last in thiomughly came the cold water aposties. They preached. has only been utilised to bank up the works, and
warming up a Boston audience."
cold-water douches on rising and "washed them however much we would desire to begin sales, Not the least noticeable event under and other causes, must be attributed the
selves out" with a glass of cold water before the interests of our Company, be it understood, this head is the publication of the cor- high mortality rate. Before Dr. HARTIGAN SUPERSTITIONS and figures have always been breakfast. Their notion of their internal strange have compelled us, which we are certain will meet ments seemed modeled after that of an empty with your approval, to defer the time till we can respondence between His Excellency the rushed into the controversy, he should mixed up. Here are a few samples/-
Virgil tells us that the gods esteem odd num-barrel, which daily needed a rinsing. Then approach consumers with coal of a superior
THE FANNY MINE AT HATOUSE) Governor, and one of our local prac-have remembered that this colony a not bere
came the cranks who believed in electric tooth quality. That day is not far distant titioners, Dr. PARTIOAN. The Government now governed by a vain imbecile like Sir
brushes and magnetic belts and shoe soles, and Trials we have lately made on board of a
This mine has been opened on a fine vein of of this Colony for years past has devoted Gzoacs Bowes, or a fossilized mummy like
who applied these articles with no more know Government gunboat prove to us that we are, from three to four yards of coal, which we have ledge of magnetic than of ocean currents. Once not far off good coal, these trials having proved fately recognized further on, at a distance of its energies and revenue without stint, W. H. MARSH, either of whom Dr. HARTI
in a great while you see a revival of the notion most satisfactory. Our coal was found of good about 500 yards. The prospecting continues, towards making this a model colony both. GAN's letter, would have driven into fits;
of earth currents, and the necessity of persons quality, slow to combustion, burning well with a especially in the neighbourhood of the sea. This sleeping with their head toward some earth pole long, white flame, giving little smoke and hardly mine, in order to give a large production, will a's' regards hygiene and sanitation, and but that Sir WILLIAM DES VEUX, the
It is an ancient belief that a change in thesid pole having really no existence, and the any cinders. Its heating, power is very great, want a shaft and fallway connection with Hone statistics which cannot be disputed, testify present Governor of this colony, is an body of a man occurs every seventh year. ability to have your slumbering body lle due and although it lacks cohesion somewhat, this gay, both of which are under consideration, only too accurately to the high degree the English gentleman with a mind as well as Falstaff says: "They say there is divin- north or due cast, being dependent mainly upon fault will disappear as we go deeper, where the Provisionally we will complete a line of railway ity in odd numbers, either hy nativity, the compass points of the house you sleep in a contwill certainly have more adhesive power, leading directly to the sea, so as to be able to: Government have succeeded in its aims. a will of his ough and as he is respon- chance or death."
fact apparently never taken into consideration and we shall then produce first class fuel. We load the coal into sampans. The coal, however, A certain section of the community, ible for the Government, he is evidently The number 3 was the perfect number'ófabe | by these theorizers.
base this conclusion on the report of our Chief is still of fnferior quality, but it will pot be long Pythagoreans, ho, said it represented the
Engineer. amongst whom we regret to class Dr. determined to hold the reins and drive his beginning, middle and end,
To sum up; the future of our Company pre- SEAMAN NATURE OF THE PRODUCTE, IN HARTIOAN, are never satisfied unless they own horses. It is this high conception of
DESsents itself under the most favorable aspect, We My opinion is that, as regards chemical com have a finger in the pie, and are always duty which has not, and never will find
possess coalfields, of the richness of which there position, the coal of the three mines just do-- is no doubt, and we are now certain of the quality scribed must be classed as a semi-bituminous ready at fault-finding, never mind what is favour with a small interested minority in
of our products. The shareholders can rely cool, containing from 18 to 20 per cent.? of done or endeavoured to be done. Take the colony, but which will commend itself
upon all our efforts to forward the works as much volaille matter, perhaps even a little more, and for instance the Pok-fo-lum water question, and be appreciated by the vast majority of
too lang a tris), and if nothing anforests occurs steaming call therefore, its suitability would as possible in order not to put your patience to is in most respects similar to Cardiff coal As which gave rise to the controversy referred the population of all classes over which
to frustrate our hopes wo; shall soon enter the appear to be plainly indicated, and÷ɑas 'a matter to above, Wholly exceptional causes have His Excellency has been called upon to
period of production, which will reward you for of fact this did been shown by the trian the confidence you have had in our enterprise, have made. The products of these mines can this year given the water from the Pok-fo- rule.
difficult from the beginning, but which today: [be further employed in brick and c
There were seven wise men in antiquity and seven wonders of the world,
Miraculous powers are supposed to be possessed by the seventh daughter.
Nine grains of wheat laid on a four-leafed clover enables one to see the fairies.
In the Faroe Islands there is a superstition THE that seals cast off their skins every ninth month and assume the human shape,
Among the Chinese heaven is odd, earth is odd, earth is even, and the numbers i; 3.5, 7 the earth cartbygge fram and 9 belong to heaven, while the digits are of
The Siamese hava a regard for odd numbers,
windows and rooms in their houses, and that all staircases must have an odd number of steps,
and insist on having an odd number of doors
SOCIETE FRANCAISE CHARBONNAGES ··PU
TONKIN.
the above named Company was held in the The first general meeting of shareholders in offices at Hongal, in the province of Kwang-yen,
Tonquin, on Friday, Aday 31st
There were present, Monsieur Bavier-Chanflour, Hon. C. P. Chater (Director), Means, M, Grote,
[in greatly improving.AVE MAP PDWAR
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