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MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
WATERS. E devote special attention to this part of WE der business, and our process ensures a perfect filtration and purification of the water, and thorough saturation with Gas.
Our plant comprises some of the largest and finest machines ever shipped from England, and embraces a combination of all the most modern improvements for filling corked bottles or syphons. Our machinery is fitted with tin-lined | tubing, and the fact that our Waters are free from metallic or any other contamination is certified by Messrs. Hassall and Clayton, Analysts to the City of London.
The following are manufactured daily -- AERATED WATER, GINGER_ALE, SODA WATER, LEMONADE, TONIC,
SELTZER, LITHIA, SARSAPARILLA.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 17,
Most of us worry over our trials, remarks a Yankee cynic, but the lawyers worry when they baven't any.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held to-morrow to consider the Draft Bill for regulating, etc. water supply.
SMALL-POX is rather prevalent_amongst foreigners at Shanghai just now. There are six or seven cases in the General Hospital "He was a good, kind, excellent husband," observed the sympathising caller, "and I am sure nobody can ever take his place." "N-not, entirely," replied the bereaved young widow.. OUR intellectual contemporary the Macao Independente gravely states that a large number of young missionaries are starting from England for Nyassa, taking with them, a tremendous lot of Bibles, "rewolvera,” rifles, scientific instru- menta, and bicycles. Also a number of portable zinc houses, handy for adjusting the frontier. VISCOUNT HINTON who travels around London grinding a barrel-organ until his peerage (the carldom of Poulett) fills due-is alleged to have made at gallant joke. His wife plays a comet while her husband wrestles with the organ partner in greatness was "the fairest flower that blows "
SINGER-My eldest brother writes songs, the | second composes the music, and I sing what they write. Critic-There should be one mon brother. Singer-What for? Critic-To. biss it all.
The Timor men who killed Governor Maja, ever so long ago, are having another trip. They were sent to Macno and back about a daten times, and now they are being brought over gain. This time they will leave the Holy City for somewhere in Africa, to serve their sentence ́of thirty years' penal servitude..
THE Summary Court was temporarily at a stand still this morning. A number of coolies in Queen's Road had some observations to make to each other, and all the rickshas in the colony tried to pass at once, so that his lordship had to gesticulate to the lawyers, who were trying to cross-question the witness in domb show, to let up. Wood, pavement and a policeman would
have saved all that.
WHAT is said to be the oldest lawsuit ever known is now before, the, aupremo tribunal of Rusrin, for final adjudication. The suit was brought' coo years ago agafist the city of Kamenes- Podolsk by the heirs of o, nobleman to
·recover, an estate of several thousand neres which had been confiscated by the municipality, The accumulation of manuscript upon which the testimony in the case is written weighs forty-five tons.
THERE was recently a sharp conflict between the revenue cruiser' Aulk and some salt meg. upon the smugglers, who replied and anade a glers near Whampoa. The cruiser opened fire desperate struggle to prevent capture, and save their cargo, but the contrabrandists, being out numbered, had to give up the battle after a struggle of about half an hour, leaving all their salt to the revenue cruiser's people. Some se,coo caltics of salt were seized. But the smugglera themselves managed to escape.
1890.
fluid extract of Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla made handle, and the Viscount once declared that his (3-) That women wear tight-fitting dresses and quiries concerning alleged crooked racing being large a sum to find employment foria Hongkong? as charges incurred by Imports and Exports
Our Acrated Sarsaparilla is prepared from a
in our own laboratory, and is not merely a flavoured water as so many brands of this popular beverage are,
THE Sultan of Turkey has sent three hairs from Nos 21 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, the beard of the Prophet, by a saccial messenger,
Hongkong, 14th April, 1890.
[52 as a present to the town of leppo, Wherever the messenger appeared during his journey he WINES AND SPIRITS. was received in state, and the Governor of Aleppo came down to meet him before the gates of the town. More sensible to have sent them to Barbary,
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THE lite Doctor McDonagh, of Sydney, used to relate how a patient and compatriot of his, on being "given over," became, naturally enough, very nervous. The Doctor tried to soothe him by saying, "Well, M'Ginnis, we must all die once, ye know."" Faith, Doctor, that's exactly
times I wouldn't mind this wanst,"
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THE Rev. R. N. Shutte, a Portsmouth parson, has just given his reasons for separating the male and female worshippers in his church (1.) That it is an old custom (2.) That it diverts the attention oặ man to sit behind a bonnet.
scanty underclothing. (4) That men if seated near women will think of studies of the female figure. (5) That a girl, if seated near young men, will be tempted to do things that we cannot talk of (6.) That the Church knows nothing of family arrangements, and cannot recognise the desire of a husband and wife to worship together.
In the fact that H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught dined with the Shanghai Tactai the W. C. Daily News sees "a decided step forward. The stone has been thrown into the water in Shanghai, and the ripple has reached Nanking, and will reach Peking, Such a change as this incident indicates can only came very gradually in such an ultra- conservative country as official China, but it has begun. We shall not be satisfied until a royal prince has been received at Peking with the bonours that would be paid him in a Westem capital; but we accept what occurred here as a step towards that consummation."
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The estimate of 7 per cent, and 8 per cent.. respectively has been supplied to me by one of the leading firms at Shanghai. In the modified values shown above no allowance has been made for freight either outwards or'inwards, for the reason that Chinese ships have as yet no appreciable share in the Foreign carrying trade. Foreign ships for the most part bring the Foreign goods to the frontier and receive there the return cargoes of Chinese goods, and it is at this point of interchange that it seems to me best to endeavour to fix the respective values for the sake of comparison. The merchant's warehouse on shore has been suggested as a triser position, for the reason that, as many warehouses in China are Foreign-owned, their profits do not belong Foreign warehouses in China are spent in the to China. But in so far as the profits made by
country they are to that extent not diffcient from the profits of Chinese-owned ware-houses, and in so far as a margin of the profits may be left unspent and eventually be carried out of China by their "carnem, they seem to me to differ in no respect, except that of quantity perhaps, from the surplus of their earnings which the thousands of Chinese subjects employed, in Foreign ships and in Foreign lands, in the interests of this commmerce, bring back with them annually to China; and as regards quantity it is an open question if the Foreigners who work in China return home to their respective countries with a larger aggregate of savings than thera Chinese subjects bring home to China as the fruit of their years of work and thrift while out- side the bounds of their native land.
for which this Company is formed are from time was included in the values of all Imports of 1888 to time and at any time to do, transact and carry and 1886, there were some 27,000 picuix of on in the colony of Hongkong and elsewhere." | Opium which included' Likin at Hk. Tis. 80 a With the other arguments in Mr. Francis' letter | picul also in the values supplied for these direct I have no sympathy whatever. As a shareholder trade statistics.... The excess in value of the in the Company his letter is the first expression 1888 Imparts over that of the 1848 Exporta I have heard of a desire on the part of most amounts to about Hk. Tis. 1,900,000, and I find people interested in the Company to see its capital that the net movements of Gold and Silver reduced and its constitution altered, or the thing Bullian in 1888 were an export of Hk. Tis wound up. I am-natonished at Mr. Francis 1,671,941 of Gold and Hk. Tis, '1,909,871 of assuming that the company has a capital so Silver. But 188 was a' year of ́abnormal tremendously in excess of the requirements of the results as regasis Imports, the stocks of Catton, Colony, and so far beyond the legitimate objects | and Woollends and Metals in Shanghai on. of the Company that the course nearly every the fat Januar, 1889, being estimated in value shareholder would adopt with pleasure would be at Hk, Tis. 2,600,000 over and above the stocks the reduction of the capital and the return to the of the same commodities on at January, 1888 members of the surplus money. When Mr. and a year also in which China, under the Francis uses the words "a capital so tremend- stress of scarcity, imported for the Canton. ously in excess of the requirements of the province alone, Hk. Tls. 9,000.000 worth of colony" it is difficult to believe he is writing Rice and Paddy, to feed a population whose seriously; he had better confine himself to the fields had been devastated by floods, legal aspects of the case, which I presume he The excess in value of the 1889 Exports. over does understand, and leave employment of capi. that of the 1839 Impor's amounts to about Ws clip the following from our Sydney con-cal, which evidently he does not understand to Hk Tis. 15,0:0,000, and I find that the net temporary, the Bulletin The Sydney Morn those who do. What are the available fandsel the movements of Gold and Silver Bullion in 1889 ing Herald has arrived at the conclusion that
Land Investment Co. . $3,750,000 Capital and were an export of Hk. Tis: 1,625,638 of Gold and horse-racing in New South Wales is a thorough Reserve, and when the remainder of the sub an import of 4.7/5, 6,005,155 of Silver respec- ly corrupt institution and that one of the best scribed capital is called up the mount will be tively. means of purifying the turf is to insist on all in- $6,250,000. Will anyone presume la ene this iston open to the press. The Harald is here right. Ridiculous! Why I would myself take the whole About two-thirds of those who live on and by amount, and on fair security too. I should means of the turf are ruffins, loafers, vultures. imagine three members alone of the Board of In ordinary life when a min-is accused of a Management represent three times the amount crime, a report of his trial appears in the press, of the capital of the Hongkong Land Invest. and when he is honourably acquited the report ment Co. locked up in Hongkong. It is not emphasises his officially declared innocence. If,
that $3,750,000, or for the matter of that however, he escapes through mere technicalities, $6,275,000, cannot be invested in Hongkong, but became aware of it, and form their own con- or on a practically not-proven basis, then people that this sum seeking investment in addition to closions about him. Why should those turf employment, causes competition, and creates a other surplus capital similarly looking out for swindlers who are so fortunate as to escape by difficulty in securing first class investments the skin of their teeth have the evidence which returning a high rate of interest. It seeme to morally damns, though it may not legally acquit be accepted that the Directors of the Land them, suppressed? And why should the judges, Investment Co. require larger powers than too many of whom are themselves mixed up in betting transactions and who occasionally num- Association, but, without being a lawyer, are provided for in the Memorandum of
ber among them "men of piebald character, be I should like to ask whether that memo permitted to hold court in secret and mayhap randum of association does not give thera dama the characters of men less guilty than all the power they require. Clause I of article themselves F
3 rends "To invest any money belonging to this Company." In the Memorandum of Association of a London company in which I am interested the same power is more clea ly expressed, thus: "To invest the money of the company net immediately required as may from time to ti ne be determined to make advances for the purposes of the company on property of all kinds on personal security, and în particular to customers of and persons having dealings with the company." Now it seems to me that if the Directors of the Land Investment Company want larger powers they had better set their lawyers to work and find out whether
To invest any money belonging to the Com- Imports 1889 were valued at H. Ts. pany" does not enable them to do all and 110,884,355. This value falls under thât of everything described in the extract I have 1898 by Hk. Tls. 13,900,000, or 11 per cent. quoted from the London company's Memorandum There were Hk Tin. 1,000,000, or & per cent., of Association. At present the only people less of Opium; Hk. Th. 8,300,000, or ig making anything out of the Land Investment per cent, less of Cotton Goods Hie. Tis, Copare the Hongkong and Shanghai and the 1,100,000, or 22 per cent, less of Woollen Goods Chartered Bank, who borrow from the Land Hk Tis. 150,000, or a per cent., less of Investment Co. at 5 per cent and lead to the Metals; and H. Tis, 3,430,000, or 7 par Land Investment Co's, shareholders at 7 per cent, cent., less al Sundries. Opium fell off and I fail to see any substansial reason i'r the in quantity by 6,360 piculs, or nearly 8 per cent., Land Investment Co. paying a commission of two represented by 3,743 plcuis, or nearly to per per cent on business they might equally well do cent, at Shanghai for Northern and Central themselves. If the Memorandum of Association China; by 1,543 piculs, or over 8 per cent, at of the Land Investment Co, does not allow the the Fuhkien and Formosan ports; and by 1,074 Directors to invest except in Land and Buildings piculs, or 4 percent, at the six Kwangtung ports. or in Mortgages thereon, let them take larger The result is dua most probably to the increased power, but for the benefit of Hongkong, not for use of Native Opium, which supplanted Foreign the purpose of remitting the Company's funds | Oplum by being cheaper at a time when general elsewhere. My contention is that clause of impoverishment arising out of ruined harvests article 3 "To invest any money belonging to in nearly every seaboard province redaced the this Company" gives the Directors all the spending power of the masses. Compared with powers they require, as it does not limit them to the quantities of 1888, Cotton Goods decreased; any particular form of investment, and so long Shirtings, by '$30,000 pleces, or 6 per cent; 7- as they lavest the moneys of the Company in Cloths, by 700,000 pieces, or 29 per cent.; Drille, Hongkong, or in companies registered in Hong. by 197,000 pieces, or 18 per cent; Jeans, by 9,000 Long, or in businesses in Hongkong, they can pieces, or 7 per cent.; Sheetings, by 1,314,000 do so.
pieces, or 50 per cent. ; Chintzes and Prints, by Yours obediently,
215,000 pieces, or 29 per cent.; Twills, by A SHAREHOLDER. 116,000 pieces, or 63 percent.; Cotton Lastings, Hongkong, 17th April, 1890.
by 672,000 pieces, or 73 per cent; and Corton Yarn, by 4,911- piculs, or nearly 1 per cent., a backward movement in a trade which had grown from 108,000 picula or in 1818 to 683,000 picals in 1888. Of Woollen Goods, whịch do not count for much in the aggregate of China's Imports, Camlets improved by 31,000 pieces, equal to 30 per cent.; while Lastings retrograded by 45,000 pieces, or 31 per cent. Spanish Stripes, by 19,000 pieces, ar 29 per cent; and Broad, Medium, Habit, and Russian Cloth, by 21,000 pieces, or 48 per cent.; Long Ells Jast bolding their own. Under Metals, Iron receded from 1,265,000 picule in 1888 to 1,116,000 plauls By the opening of the Kowloon and Lappa in 1889, a fall of x2 per cent. † Tin, from 77,000 offices is 1887 the very large Junk trade of piculs to 64,000 piculs, a fall of 17 per cent, 1 Steel, from 50,600 piculs to 39,100 piculs, a fall Hongkong and Macas with the mainland came under the control of the Foreign Customs, which, of 22 per cent. ; and Spelter from 33,600 picula beginning with the year 1888, was thereby to 24.700 piculs, a fall of 26 per cent,; while enabled to publish statistics of almost the entire Lead advanced from a30,000 piculs to 255, 00 Foreign commerce of China. But these statistics plculs, a rise of 11 per cent,; and Unmanufactured of values, il unexplained, prove what is contrary Copper, from 15.000. plculs to 30,000 pícuis, a to fact, namely, that China's Foreign Imports rise of nearly 150 per cent. Under Sundries, most invariably outvalue ber Exports whereas of the items, large as some of them are, must be the Exports not only pay for the Im left to speak for themselves; and I select five only ports, but suffice also, to reimburse China's for special remark, namely, Coal, Raw Colton, Foreign creditors the pri cipal and Interest Kerosene. Oil, Matches, and Rice. Of these, due on account of loans; and to yield besides one only, Kerosene Oil, is an unqualified Import a surplus, which enters China as Silver of annually increasing quantity and benefit; ita Bullion. It is therefore well to explain what the import rose nearly 25 per cent, from 16,613,000 values as given in these tables mean. Now, those gallons in 18:8 to 20,615,413 gallons in 1889, of Imports are based on, far as can be but it has to be noted that some of the increas ascertained, the prices of the commodities in the was due to the failure of the Ground-mat crop in various markets of the ports at which the Imports Hainan, Kerosene Oil taking the place of Ground enter China, and those of Exports on the pricesin nut Oil as an illuminant. - Matches, valusd the markets of these ports at which the Expans at HL: Tie 1,123,013," came in great part from get China. Anyone can understand that the Japan, whither the main source of supply has market price of any article must; as a role, moved from Europe-in time to move probably reimburse the seller all outlay incurred an it up into China herself. The other three items, to the time of axle, and must exclude all prosper. Coal, Raw Cotton, and Rice, came to satisfy tive outlay, Thus, such price of an import a'demand which in this land, abounding In Includes not only the prime cost of the thing them, cannot in the nature of things last long, when it was about to land, but also costs incurred The Coal,, 30,000, tonu," was for the most by it after landing, namely, the expense of land part imported at Shanghai from Japan; but the Ing, storing, and selling, and the Daly paid on time is no longer fat ahead when Chloeso/coal its so also the market price of an - Export | will," out of lin^matchless' store, meet all and: excludes the cost of buying: Gư, the exporter's more than all the home demand.-- The Import of
IT is stated in the native papers that the China Merchants' S. N. Co. are going to build a wharf at Canton, and have petitioned the Viceroy for
THE N.S.W. Minister for Lands' estimate, says UR late piquant visitor, charming Miss Nellie permission, which has been granted, so as to the Sydney Morning Herald, of the cost of ly, the lady journalist, who put a girdle round rabbit fencing requlied for the Central and
the earth, or rather a.considerable portion of it. facilitate their business, and also in order to
Western divisions of the colony, is £3000.000 inside eighty days, without male companionship, enable them the more successfully to compete with the other shipping companies engaged in
or a total of 43,632 miles of fencing. When is evidently a daisy. Two years ago, says a we state that this is but a part of a contemplated London writer. she feigned insanity, and suc- the traffic between Canton and here.
expenditure which is regarded as necessary, itceeded. in being committed to an asylum. THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play will be realised by our readers what a costly post In order to render her journalistic experiences the following programme on the Barrack Square, the rabbit has become. The attempts to exter
sensational she hinted that the doctors in to-morrow evening, commencing at 7.300'clock:minate him have already cost £700,000, with sulted her. The charge was proved to be mis-
March......Sleeping Maggie"
the result that it is acknowledged that the country Inken, but the article had served its purpose. Lancer. The Old Guard
on which this large sum was expended is now Since this Miss Bly has followed her favourite Vahe Southern Freers......
as badly infested as ever it was since these tiny Jika Teeulall"Gungʻi
newspaper work. - 'On one occasion she went to Quadrille.
troublesome enemies crossed the Southern
Central Park and made eyes at the passing men, Galop
border.
until one responded to her advances. He made 1.25 NEWS has been received in Shanghai of the
her acquaintance, suggested a drive, which was wreck of the Tetuan, from Singapore to Shang-
accepted, proposed a visit ton questionable resort, hai, with timber. The vessel was lost on the
which was accepted, offered refreshments in a 1.50 Loockoo Islands and the crew appear to have
private apartment, which were accepted, and then arrived at Kagesima, in the Gulf of Simabara,
made proposals to her which she asserts she Captain Brown having telegraphed from that
rejected with scorn. She had secured material 0.60 port. The cargo and freight were locally
for a good sensational article, and she used it to insured.
her pecuniary profit. Her next exploit was to 0.75
advertise for the position of "amanuensis." The language of her advertisement was equivocal ; so were the repli s. From the mass of letters received she selected those most useful for her purpose, and called on the writers. By her actions and, remarks she succeeded in bringing the conversa tion into the desired channel, and thus secured several more dramatic opportunities for rejecting proposals which never would have been made to a woman whose actions did not invite them. Afterwards she published an account of her experience, with the names and addresses. of her victims. It's a good jab Nollie is going to be married; the matrimonial halter should effectually put a stop to ber somewhat dangerous inquisitiveness,
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SAM HOGAN, an American ex-pugilist, now a preacher, says: Pugilists are not taken from the gyronasiums, but from a class of natural fighters-they are born, not made. You cannot make a boxer into a pugilist any more than you can convert a pug-dog into a bull-dog. We have in the States many fine scientific boxers in our gymnasiums, who, with the gloves, could Indian Engineering of the 9th ult. says-The
beat a first-class pugilist. But take the gloves alarm said to be manifested in Russia with
from the boxer's hands, and let him face regard to the insecurity of the Siberian frontier the
who is fighter on account of the probable construction of a
to use his bare hands the glove fighter Railway between Peking and Kirin la generally wouldn't do it. He would fall to picces considered in China as a rare to cover the-wouldn't have the nerve, Boxing, is the despatch of additional regiments, to Siberia for
finest exercise I know of. It gives an erect the purpose of future aggrandisement, probably bearing to the body, elasticity to the legs, makes in the 'direction of Korea,
the brain quick to act, and cultivates the eye Is the Contemporary Review George Russell and lung Boxing, is harmless; but priae telle a story of his uncle, Lord John Russell fighting is brutal, 1.52 Queen Victoria once said to him; "We are told, Per Case For Case
Lord John, that you hold that it is lawful for a dos.
subject, under certain circumstances to disobey Quarta.
his Sovereign, and we want to know if this is true." To which Lord John characteristically $4.50, replied: "V ell, madam, speaking to a Sovereign S.00 of the House of Hanover, I can only say that I 7.50 suppose it is."
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IN a colony where there are so many pious sharebrokers who "travel" on their godliness, it is strange to see two people discussing in the
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A CORRESPONDENT of the London Timer asserts that there are in the library of the old university at Upsala, Sweden, certain ancient maps of Africa, 200 years or more of age, upon which are shown many of the geographical features which are popularly supposed to have been the discoveries of modern travelers., Thelakes nów 0.75 called the Victoria and Albert Nyanza are shown on these old maps, as well as other features which are claimed as the work of the last half of the nineteenth century,
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1890,
LOCAL AND GENERAL. Tux Sessions will commence to-morrow. There are five cases on the list, including those of
embezzlement and arson,
We read that Sir John Thurston, K.C.M.G., Governor of Fij, was originally second mate of a missionary schooner, and first landed in Fiji A NATIVE Contemporary says that on the 15th of this moon, at Newchwang, a steamer char tered by Chinese, with a full cargo of beans and beancake, left, that port and near Makwan struck upon a sunken rock and sank with all the cargo, the crew wore saved; the cargo was insured.
*e* ́as a " beach-comber.”
Now that they have sacked the Emperor of Brazil with superanuation allowance there isn't in the whole of America, from the Horn to the frozen north, one king, one hereditary "grand duke, or hereditary humbug of any sort. Where- fore let the eagle acream-
Her claws are in the hair of fate;
Oh, what a grip she's got And on the peaks of kingdom come
Her eagle eye is sot!
The cons round about ber roll,
THIS is how W. 5. Gilbert sums up in "The Gondolier," our gallant Commander-in-Chief, the Dook of Gampbridge:-
ACCORDING to the British Catholic directory for 1890, the estimated Catholic population of the British Empire is 9,730,000. It is distributed as follows: Ireland, 1.913,000; England and Wales, 1,360,000; Scotland, 327,000, and the SOME more sound 'sense from the Sydney colonies and dependencies, 4,130,000. The dis- Bulletin: The new lay chairman of the New tribution among the colonies and dependencies South Wales Baptist Union, Mr. Joseph Palmer, -is-as-follows:-America (Canada, Newfoundland, sharebroker, has, we see, been inveighing West Indies, etc.), 2,200,000; Australasia (Au-against gambling. Now, in the sacred name of stralia, New Zealand, etc.), $80,000; Asia the Baptist Union, who are the clients of the (British India, Ceylon, etc.), 1,044.000; Africa stockbrokers if they be not gamblers? Who (South Africa, Gold Coast, Mauritius, etc.), are the stockbrokers themselves if they be not, 131,000; European colonies (Gibraltar, Malta in nine transactions out of ten, merely stake and Gozo); 175,000. There are 25 archiepiscopal holders for the gamblers? Pure gambling, of sees ;.96 episcopal sees, and 20 vicariates and course, means wagering on pure chance, and it prefectures apoštolic. Several writers assert is true that many of the men who invest in that at least 6,000,000 of the British Catholics mining stock do so because they have reason to are Irish.
belleve that the mines they favour will turn out well. But the fact remains that eighty out of ninely lavestors boy in not because they have formed a favourable opinion, on a practical acquaintance with the mine, but simply because they hope to sell out to advantage-and may the devil take the hindmost. The average purchaser of mining stock gambles on the chance of there being a vein in the mine at all, on the chance of the shaft striking the lode, on the return being payable, on the gold or silver or copper-extracting capabilities of the machinery being equal to the occasion; en the honesty of the legal and mining managers and newspaper mining reporters (the odds being about 200 to 1 against him for each event) and so the stockbroker stalks through the land and "joyfully," to quote Mr. Palmer's bomlly on the heterodox brand of gambler, "accepts bis gains with the utmost selfish unconcern as to the circumstances of the c.ee.”: The man who invesis with the stockbrokeris, so far as we can see, exactly on a level with the man who puts his money the totalisator, Firstly, he back hit opinion, however formed; secondly, he takes his chance as he would at Yankee grab. We counsel Mr. Palmer to buy a treatise on logic and retire to think out the situation with a wet- clatb round his skull.”
"In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behind-
He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment rao,
His place was at the fore, O—
That celebrated, Cultivated, Underrated,
Nobleman,
The Duke of Plaza Tore1 "When to evade Destruction's hand
To hide they all proceeded, No soldier in that gallant band Hid half as well as he did,
He lay concealed throughout the war,
And so preserved his gore, Ol
That unaffected, Undetected, Well-connected,
Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro! **
CORRESPONDENCE,
[We do not necsandrily andursa tha opinions expressed by Correspondents là thle colume).
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CHINA'S TRADE IN 1889.
The Statistical Bureau of the Imperial Marl. time Customs have just issued their report on the Foreign Trade of China for 1889. It shows that the total imports amounted to Tis, 110,884,355, and the exports to Tis. 96,947,832, or a falling-of of nearly fourteen million Tarls in the former category, as compared with 1888, and an increase of four and a half millions in the latter. The report then continues
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THE Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the New York. Herald says:-If there ever existed a clase-ridden country the Empire of Brazil was that country, and this governing class was that of lawyers. From their cradles the young Brazilans of certain families were taught to She's bound to see 'em through,
expect that after their five years at the Law Academy at San Paulo or Pernambuco a place THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT profit or commission), the expenses of pack Foreign Raw Cotton, 11:500 piculs, large as it - And thrill the blood of coming time,
under Government was certain, Sometimes the With "Yankee-doodle-doo.”
ing, and shipping, and the Export DutyTM is and into the Kwargtung, province = almost formality of opening an office was gone through TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.” focrements of value xll of which" averse to | exclusively, may in time succumb to′′ Chinesa #VICTIM' will be very foolish if he allows with, but there are more than a sufficiency of SIR-We may, I suppose, assume from Me it in China and have to be added to the cotton, now exported, in quantity four times ka bimself to be victimised in the matter he asks working lawyers in Río, and the young legal Drummond's published reply to Mr. Francis' market price to ascertain the value of the dimension. Foreign rice entered "Chink almost our advice on. There can be no doubt on the luminary had merely to wait until a place could letter, that the special ordinance the Directors of article at the moment of its quitting China. entirely through the Kawloos Customis, to take point whatever. If we remember rightly it was be found or made for him. Cases were frequent of the Hongkong Land Investment Co, sought to And for the purposes of comparison it is the place of the 1888 harvests destroyed by floods, In 1884 that the Court of Appeal confirmed the newly fledged lawyers going almost immediately pass will not be proceeded with. Mr. Francis value of the Imports at the moment of These payments for food, which amounted decision of Mr. Justice Hawkins, that when a from the lecture-room to the Chamber of writes!! a majority might force on reconstrup landing and of the Exports at the moment of to HkTie, /9,000,000 in 1888 Sand HIER person employs an agent to bet for him, there is Deputies, and this predominance of lawyers|tion, but a shareholder could not be forced to shipment that I have to estimate. Roughly Tis, 5,500,000 in 38'g, should cease largely ** an implied authority to the agent to pay the bets, in the administrations of the empire, by remain's member of the new organization, he considered, it may be said that all Foreign with the abatement of the consequences so that he can recover from his principal the which the portfolios of war and navy were. must be paid out and satisfied." Mr. Drummond Imports and Exports of the northern and central of nearly concurrent calamities of floode money paid by him. There was a subsidiary held not by soldiers and sailors, but by lawyers writes: "The only real question Involved, provinces enter and quit Chine respectively and death which in the two years just passed: dispute as to the power of the principal to dependent upon, their technical advisers, was whether dissentient shareholders cannot compel through Shangbat, with the exception of some beleli places so far apart and generally to revekethis authority under certain circumstances; one of the causes of the army finally rising in the Company to buy them out, is of such importance Tes, which quis it through Hankowi and Tien, mutually helpful as the north, the centre, and ibs but the main point at issue was whether, bets revolution against the Ouro Preto Cabinet. as to render it undesirable to proceed to carry tsin, and that cach port of the southern provinces south of this empire. not being legally recoverable "the law should The present Government is likely to seek to con- out the alteration by means of an ordinance. mainly carries on its direct, Foreign trade inde Exports 1989 were valued at Hk. Tia, enable the agent to enforce payment of the very trol this element hereafter. Already military Mr. Francis deserves the thanks, and it pendently's so that for the compilation of these 96 947,831. Those which tower over all others, debis the payment of which the law would aut and naval officers have been appointed to post necessary the hearty support, of all share tables it is Com Shanghai and the southern Tea and Silk, fared differently in 1889 3. Tea enforce, Lord Chief Justice Bowen, (Justice tions held by civilians heretofore-namely, holders, for showing how the design of the ports that this office derives its data. In the fell behind and Silk went ahead, each in its Fry concurring, but the Master of the Roll, Sir Garemors of States Director-General of the Board of Management may be defeated. The matter of Opitim values; Shanghai, for uniformity respective race with his rivals of the outer world, Ballal Brett, dissenting held that the principal Government Telegraph System and others. It Memorandum of Association in clear. The sake, adds the Duty to the market price; but at. The quantity of Tea which left China was, was bound to recoup his agent for bets paid by seems pretty certain that the lawyers so long in objects for which this Company is formed are some of the southern parts, where the bonded Black and Green, "x 518,880 piculs in 1889, the latter, because the contract was not a wager- power will not abandon their political supremacy from time to time and at say time to do, transact warehouses are much used, the Oplum valuce, agafast 1,751,587. picul in 1888 and 1,814,501 ing contract. It was not because a horse had without a struggle, and this struggle will be and carry on in the colony of Honggong and based on the market rates, constantly exclude picule in 1887 Brick and Tablet 18,061 lost a certain race that the agent was suing the manifested at the elections in September next. Its dependencies, but not elsewhere. We may both Dity and Likin, and at otheis, Canton,picals in 1889, against 413,64%; plenlo in principal, but because the principal had directed As there is, according to all Brazilian authorities, presume this point to have been fully discussed, where the importere make no use of the banded 1818 and 2931,281 piculs in 1987, c the agent to put himself in a position compelling but one repablican and undivided party in the and decided upon, before the Company was warehouse, the market rates on the menpectively, which altogether in estimated the latter to pay money by virtue of a contract Republic, the elections will become questions of registered, otherwise it would have been perfectly principle, Incitide both Daty and Likin. Making Alses stand out as Hk. Tie, 18,200,000 in 1 that the principal, would indemnify him. Wan
simpleto Bave worded this anilole." The objects" (1 allowances, one may assume that while Duty · Hk - Tis, - 10,200,000 In 1885, mod Hik. Tát