seem to you to be too satisfactory, but the fact was, gentlemen, thất, having such implicit con- fidence in the value of the property, I was not too anxious to get a large sum down, without prospect of participating in future profits,
the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1892.
THE IMURIS MINES.
AN OPEN LETTER.
SERIOUS TROUBLE AMONG THE】 ASIATIC ARTILLERY IN SINGAPORE.
QUARD ROOM!
I
was therefore content to accept thecomparatively To the Chairman of the Interis Mines, Limited, 45 MEN VOLUNTEER TO BE IMPRISONED IN THE small sum of £50,000, the option as to whether we should take li in cash or shares belog lelt with us. In the latter case we were to get 17 per cent interest on our shares, after a payment had been made at the same rate on the amount expended by the syndicate in payment to us and for the development and working of the property, the balance of profits to be then divided equally between the syndfeste and the
a
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It is with great regret that we have to record that the troubles among the Asiatic Artillery, which have before been hinted at in there| columns, have now taken a very serious form. From the very time these soldiers arrived in
most unfortunate and ill-advised manner. To srive under Stich officers; they were placed under the charge of a very juntor subaltern officer who knows absolutely nothing of the manners or customs of the natives of India, and is ignorant of the meaning of a single word of their language. Improperly frd and officered, they were the very moment they arrived in the Straits, banished to a desert island where there were no barracks to accom modate them, although there was plenty of barracks could not, however, be used, as Sir New Barracks were urgently required as he was obliged to kerp men ander tents
Singapore they seem to have been treated in
with this rikisha nuisance, which would seem to be on the increase rather than otherwise. The rikisha everywhere continues to crowd round the catrances to public buildings and to block the sirecis, or at least to impede the traffic, and it seems high time that something further should be done to remove this growing scandal," and that the rikisha man should not only be taught his duties but be made to do them,
ATTEMPT TO HÀNG A EUROPEAN CONSTABLE AT SHANGHAI.
parent company, during the whole term of the amongst shareholders, in China that you HAV }, start with. Mabimmedans were expected to morning of the 26:h inst, af about 8 o'clock some lease. This arrangement was made subject to report by an expert, to be obtained at the expense of the syndicate, their reply to be given within two months after the report had been delivered, are the The syndicate managed to acrvices of Mr. William Felle, of the firm of Messre, Walker, Peile and Wilson, an engineer of known experience and ability, and an expert in coal, who had been specially selected to In spect mines in Australis, and who was stopped
The N. C. Daily News, reports that on the Chinese attempted to hang Constable Madsen. who is attached to the Louza Police Station, and in employed on the special duty of sector that the wheelbarrows plying for hire here licenses. He was engaged on this duty when the affair hear the Chefeo Road Bridge over the Defence referred to occurred, and saw a wheelbarrow
had no license he took bin by his queue to Creek, and having ascertained that the coolle take bim to the Station; but the coolie turned round and hit Madsen's hand, compelling him to let go bis hold. At the same time the coolle a large number of other coolles rusted out, and sen and the Station. One of them threw & TIOOSE over Madsen's head from one side and another performed a similar action from the other side, while a third lassoed him from behind, and then they dragged him to a lamp post, with the Intention, apparently, of banging hims. Others tenk hold of his arms. While this was going on,
· In Slogak together, "We should have Madsen heard an expression as of pain from one
SIR-You have lived sufficiently long in ihly world to have beard that the road to Hell is said to be paved with good in- tentions. Your Intentions de re Imurls were no doubt good perhaps excellent, bat whether for yourself or for those your name and influence caused to fall into the trap is a point; anyhow an uneasy impression prevails heen feathering your west at their expense. Whether that is the case or not, you know best what do When I look back to three years ago, I see? A promise that the Imuris mine would not only be at work in a year, but paying dividends of forty percent. And the actual performance, broken promises and broken hearts: What have you to show shareholders for the two hundred thousand pounds, one million three bundred thousand dollars, of their money you have squandered, at Colombo en his way home, and requested to. / and the fifty thousand pounds'more you wapk) barrack room for them in Singapore itself; these them to squander Absolutely nothing, so far as I can ascertain. You may have a railway, leading from somewhere ta nowhere 1 You may same time at Hongay, and went most carefully
have a mill, cabing machinery, and other things Into every question, and his report (or rather copy of it, for it was part of my arrangement with of that sot, which could not be sold for old Iron on the spot, and which It would not pay the syndicate that I should have a copy) I,.now
sayone to remove Bot a paying mine ? place on the table, where it is open to the in-
but 1 t spection shareholder who likes to ses it. No. You say there is a valuable mine,
any This report goes far beyond the statements I made mining expert who visited the ground saya there is not, Whom am I to belleve? You, to the syndicate about this property
him, of the Nagotna coal, he says "there is abundance of coal, some millions of tons readily avail- able, and no doubt the coal produced from the lower levels will be of excellent quality, equal, we would say, from handling. It and from its analysis, to Ś. Walen smokeless steam coal." In regard to the cost of working he writes, "allowing for percentage of small cost in screening, we think it will be a safe estimate, if
proceed to Hongay, with the special purpose of reporting on Camphs, so is to enable the
syndicate to give their reply. Mr. Polls remained since you ray one has been built and rebuilt. | Charles had to be able to truthfully report that I called out fa, ja, whereupon of between Mad.
though
Naturally discontent was rife, and these natives found no one to where they could make known their grievances; maiters were not improved when Sir Charles addressed them in a fatherly manner to the effect that now they had come to they must give up all caste try prejudices and
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written from a buyer's point of view. In writing / whose past promises havs been fallacious, of thought that even Sir Charles Waren, though of the men who was holding him, and after- 1
who presumably knew with what he was dealing? You discredited his statement on the ples that be wanted a paltry two hundred pounds for his Information, and that he had spent only hours instead of days in examining the property. It seems to me that he, being a practical man, discovered in three days what it has taken you three years and two hundred and thirty thousand pounds to find out; and being now of his opinion
the
better than, to make such a tactless speech as
he has ns Indian experience, would have known that i Still greater grew their discontent when the steamer Bombay went through to Hongkong, having on board the new Regiment for that place, and the local Asiatics were not allowed to go down to the ship, although some of them had reason for this restriction being, at least so the brothers on board and all of them friends, the
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On arrival at the Station he reported the state:
of affairs, and Inspector Howard went to in vestigate, but found the people so threatening blu men. With these he again proceeded to the that be returned to the Station and called out
all goes well, to pat the, actual cost fo.b, at 6. you sand to Chida and ask shareholders here to radians belleved, that the General did not focality, and found all quiet. The district
amall.coal, and when this report was written the dollar was at 3/1. Mr. Peile's concluding words are to sum up in a sentence, we belleve the supply of coal in these Tonkin concessions to be practically unlimited, the general quality
you
have advanced, and another twenty thousand pounds besides to prove a foregone conclusion. Surely Mr Womble's report that the whole thing was a finie deserved a better fate than it met with at your bands! Surely it might bare Indaced you to take steps to get it authoritatively
of the coal to be strallar to that of Welsh steam contradicted by some other, equally competent coal, though probably a little more anthraciticmising expert! But lastead, and knowing that and the costs of working and of freight to markets so comparatively moderate as to ensure you bad to deal with a pack of simpletons on its successful competition with rival coals in the the other side of the world, you merely ridiculed which yeu 117 could have east." Hr. Peil's estimate, however, of the cost statement
for two hundred pounds, and of opening up and working is much larger than been bought
We had you AfC believed while Mr. Womble Is what in our opinion was requisite, been given to understand that $25,000 would be not. I am afraid the San Francisco expert made himself too cheap; If he had asked two sufficient, but he requires co, and even goes on le say that for safety's sake the worklog thousand pounds for the information instead of capital might be put at 100,000. This high two hundred, what then? Would it not have and estimate no doubt deterred the syndicate from been worth possessing? Who is right
how will you, Sir, put yourself right before your arriving at decision until they get further China supporters ? Mr. Whittall, I am ashamed
the probable cost. report from Mr.. Warren upon This gentleman is now in Tonkin, going into of man like you, with a reputation for Integrity this very question. Meanwhile no definite reply and abilly obtained by many years residence, in from the London syndicate having been received, Chins a local manager of the "Princely and the two months during which decision House" (how things are changed I) risking B such a questionable had to be arrived at having explied, sormanaging your good name
director, happening to be in Paris, and seeing
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were those who had joined the Hongkong Corps than the poor unfortunates who had volunteered for Singapore. All these injustices and a mass of petty annoyances brought things to a crisis last week, and when some four men were ordered to be locked up in the guard room, 45 of their friends weat with them and refuser to leave, adopting this desperate measure to That the situation is considered serious by the obtain a bearing for their complaints. military authorities there is no doubt, and a supply of ammunition was sent post haste to the R. A. at Blakan Masi in case they should have to fire on the mutineers. The Officer Command. ing the R. A. has also applied for a General Court Martial, the highest military court that can be held. It strikes us that this is a case for one of those searching Courts of In- vestigation of which Major-General Warren is so fond, hat perhaps that would not solt his book in this case as it looks as if the responsibl. lity, to a certain extent, would fall on his own shoulders,
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native who, the assailants of the policeman told CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGA- the magistrate, had been stabbed with a pocket knife by the policeman. The magistrate wanted to the Mixed Court, which he declined to do, Inspector Howard to take the injured man but took him and another man whom Madsen recognised as one of his saraliauts to the Police Station. From there the wounded man' was sent to the Shantung Road Hospital, where Dr. | Milles attended to him. The wound was on theon arm, an ineb and a a quarter broad and some three inches deep, and could not have been inflicted with the kind of knife a foreigner would carry. The district magistrate was told this, but he was so firmly convinced that the policeman did the deed, that he postponed his visit to Soochow to report the affair to the Tao-ts, and cone of the argumente adduced by Mr. Emens and the police at the Mixed Court. whither the magistrate had proceeded to Instruct Mr. Tsai to make a thorough enquiry, could induce him to alter his opinion. He told Mr. Tast to order bis runners to look for the foreign knife that the policemen had used, while the should look for the Cheese khilt, he runners | knife. In conse
quence of what had happened, there was no sliting of the Mixed Court yesterday.
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tters Mr. Bosman, a gentleman of somewhat shady have progressed) so favourably that these gentle-repute here, who I hear is becoming a great } public money in paying for troops who through very powerful, and yesterday morning did not] VICTORIA. CHAPTER |factured for coating the inside of STEEL SHIPS, men have decided to send out experts to make swell at home and bragging about the twenty a local inspection, before giving their Enal thousand pounds he made out of those flats in answer, the time allowed being in this cass China-tell him in common decency to hold his also two months, so, I trust" "that" we shall tongue,
shortly beaten definite. As regards
our stiff, I am
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looking at the disturbance from a mere civil
Madien is a quiet, Inofensive man, though point of view, there has been a careless waste o
even have his baton with him. He is the cons- state, while from a military one there has evitable' who was decorated by the GermRN mismanagement are allowed to get into such a dently been a gross breach of discipline-Free Emperor some time ago for saving two people Prass
one of them a Chinaman-from drowning in the Huangpu.
Referring to the above so-called "Mutiny" correspondent, shave the nom-de-plume" Y”. writes the Free Prost on the 23rd inst
With regard to the disturbance in the Asiatic Artillery reported in your issue of the zist inst., I understand the outbreak had been expected daily for some time past, and it seems that the mutiny might have been avoided had the officers on the spot brought the fact that the men were discontented more forcibly to the notice of their General; if this step had been taken Sir Charles Warren might have realised in time that a grave error had been made in placing Sikh officers over Mahomedans; but unfortunately in this Garrison the officers hold Sir Charles Warren
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Have you no word of comfort, most explent that no nos could have bellever in the Impossible, for your guils ? done better work than our Chief Engineer, must it be still everything for you and nothing Mr. Durand, under whose able direction great for them? You Induced them to subscribe to progress has been made, as testified to both by your mine on the understanding that it was a Mr. Warren and Mr. Peile. Unfortunately this malted Hability company, and that when they gentleman fell ill, and was obliged to leave had paid their one pound a share there would
No. 18, SPECIAL. Hongay, come to Hongkong, and hence proceed be no further call; but no sooner de
1 am exceedingly glad to be able to inform From last things lose their roseate but, with barren hopes 10 Japan to recruit his health.
CHINA SEA-BONHAM STRAIT, and meretricions promires no longer belleved
you that the foreign community of Tientsin has advices, however, I am glad to be able to inform
risen to the occasion of doing honour to that you that be is now very much better and expects in or marketable, then you coolly round
venerable Chinese planeer of progress, Tang WRECK OF STEAMSHIP "PEKING,” 16 esume his darles next month. In anticipation on them and say pay me an extra five
Kissing in celebration of his statici birthday. REMOVAL OF LIGHT-VESSEL. of the output from Haton, and to relieve, Mr. shilings & share or I will take your property
Honour in whom honour is due," is a trus Durand from some part of bis onerous labours, away and sell it to anyone from whom I can
TOTICE is hereby given that the temporary we had engaged a second in command, Mr. raise filty thousand pounds. This may be good
though ancient proverb, which has never been more appropriately applied than in this testare we had era has most eficiently Billed Mr. law-I know to my cost that law is full of pit-falls in such awe that they dare not approach him. Tong Kin-sing, whom this foreign tion to mark the wreck of the steamship Durand's place during the latter's absence, and but it is not good legle. There is neither like they would any other General, and there la community delighted to honour with a banquet "PEKING," having been found unreliable, will think we may certainly congratulate ourselves commonsense, boucity, nor decency in it, and probably not one amongst them who would in the Gordon Hall last night, is a self-made be withdrawn as soon as practicable. In the
the acquisition of this gentleman. Very good you know, or should know, that we pride venture to point out defects in Sir Charles
man, well known to many people in various meantime Navigators should make use of the werk too has been done by our
Engineer, ourselves upon these quallles
organisation of the Indian soldiers; it does not
parts of the world. He told us himself last night Lightson BONHAM ISLAND and GUTZLAFF Mr. Brossard, who, I am glad to her period. mean to shareholders out here
has placed you know what your
and proping
appear, therefore, that any blame can be attached
that he had commenced his career of utility as to guide them clear of the wreck. his services at our disposal for a
to the officers of the R. A.
an auctioneer's clerk in Hongkong, some 30 Or We have to deplore the death last summer of rain. Many followed you because they. It is much to be regretted that the officers in, and believed fa you
and you Dr. Bataillard, whose place has been flied by knew
Singapore are treated with a great deal of 40years ago. He is now sixty, sound in mind because you accored Jardins, Matheson & Co.. Dr. Lefevre, In conclusion, gentlemen, let me
narrated his long and useful ife's doings to assure you that your directors have done and to represent you here. Others went in because discourtesy which has a tendency to make them though rather feeble in bodily health. He
keep their opinions to themselves at times when
the assembled members of this community in will de all, that is in their power to ensure as what was good enough for Jardice's was good it might be very essential for them to speak out: quickly as possible the success which I am enough for them, and one of the partners in that to give an instance of this treatment, I would excellent Englishs giving credit to many Chinese and foreigners alike, absent and present, who confident awalis our undertaking. During the last emloent firm la reported to have recently said alx months I have myself visited the mlacs and | that personally he was, one of the heaviest / mention that an officer of high standing has had assisted him in his numerous and useful | COAL MERCHANTS, SHIP'S COMPRA- recently bad grave accusations brought against gone carefully into all matters (applause) sufferers by relying on your promises. And now Bim by Sir Charles Warren, accusations the undertakings, notably the formation of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co, the Kal- and another of your directors, Mr. Mody, Jardine's have chucked the thing up.
General is quite unable to prove the same
ping coal mines, gas works, coals, the Cement proposes to leave for them in the "Avochte"
With your specious allurements came an ad- officer has rare than once been threatened with
works at Tang-Shan, and the Tientsin.Kal-ping on the 3rd Janc. Wo: should be
very vanco of one hundred to one hundred and fifty per arrest and otherwise bully-ragged to such an Railway; all of which are now flourishing under- pleased to convey thither any of the shark cent in the value of your scrip. Did you check this? extent that he is offering the large sum of some takings, though commenced under many great holders preses!, 30 that they may see Not a bit of it. Your promises came faster and
$5.500 for an exchange. for themselves what has been and is Felug done, thicker and so did your shares also, until Chien, Things have come to a pretty pass when we simas simest stifled to death by the narrow- disadvantages and discouragement and are: and Judge what results may be expected from our instead of owning thirty thousand shares at par. hear that the General is on the worst terms s efforts, which we trust will shortly produce the awoke one disty morning to fod itself with the officers of the
ofcinia. not improved under Sir An excellent address, prepared for the occasion, caed. waiting.
I say this was smart of Charles. The Colonel spends a great deal more was read by Me Michin, and will be presented cent premium, Again I. The Chairman then invited questions from the you, very smart, but was it legitimate, was itquite time than he can afford in dancing attendance to Mr. Tong Kimsing as soon as it has been signed by all the subscribers to the banquet. broken up by half the officers being banished to Blakan Mail, and at the latter place they pig capital speech, enlogising Mr. Tong Kla-sing it" in a mat-aked, and have not the oidlowy in well deserved terms, and including in the bouse comforts they are entitled to.
#peach the names of Shép, Tao-tal of Cheloo, With the officers all scattered, one and allie Ch'o Ya Ch', Director of the Kai-ping collieries, dread of a General whose tact and temper are
and others, winding up with a scarcely of the first water, It is not surprising to
cheers for their respected guest. Cheers, find troubles amongst the mes, and it is mars
applause, and enthusiam were manifested sa vellous that, after the disimbance of more than a required to a manner well befitting the occasion, year age, Sir Charles has not taken precautions to avoid the recurrence of such a calamity.
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the effect that splendidly, crushing Bity foss a day at would shortly be crashing one hundred tons a Two hundred pounds a day profit, sixty day. thousand pounds a year on a capital of two hundred thousand. No wonder people set down Mr. Womble as a wrecker i the next we knew was that shares were going a-begging at eighty cents, under two and sixpence each. If people had bellesed Mr. Womble the shares | would never have been worth more than half a Arving to take his place, and this appointment crown on the market. They believed you instead now requires confirmation.
On the motion of Mr. Davies, seconded by and paid from two pounds five to two pounds teo Mr. Hoppius, the appointment was confirmed,
The Chairman:-Gentlemen, our local chair, man, the Hon J. J. Keswick, having had to leave Hongkong on account of the bad state of his health, the directors farited Mr, J. J. Bell
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position to society had ever been hereared THIS useful work has been re-written and greatly enlarged, and is Elinstrated by Str Cecil Smith, Governor of the Straits before, was a noteworthy event. May the present lithographs showing the courses of the typhoons
prova a siseful precedent for fature to to give of late years, Settlements, met with an accident on the even when many more foreign may be due to give The pamphlet la ised at One Dollar, and Always on Hand, a
unite to obtain an independent report on the mine for Ing of the 33rd inst, which might have been honour to whom honour may the information of your shareholders in the Far abanded with serious results. On leaving the
The principal Chinese officials present were may be obtained from East? They themselves would have done Singapore Town Hall, where he had bess His Excellency Shen, Tao-tal of Cheloo, a native Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Hongkong. Very able manner in which they have pulled the shut the tending a performance of "Our Flat" bin of Klingen Province, HALALU Tro-tal of Tien- Terpany through. A trying time, and also for raised but drumming the shareholders Excellency was being driven home by Captain in Customs native of Ho-nan, General
to raiso even a thousand pence, let alone
Mr. Lapralk-Gentlemen, before separate I think it is due to the directors that we pass resolution expressing our thanks to them for the
Lang, Crawford & Co.
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the very valuable financial assistance rendered only disclosed supty pockets and an inability.ksha, another Tricky' also getting-under Expectant Tad-tul Lo, a native of Fabien, Ex-1
AD.C. when the trap collided with a Mesby, Chinees - Army, aɛnativo of, Jernate PVY
(laughter)-and they deserto very great crédit ]. pounds of advance without doing anythlog for it P Capizin Talbot alighted unlojured, but the Hung-chang/Barawak, besidas a number of minor
by Mr. Chater and Mr. Modra (Applauso a thousand pounds. Do you propose taking any the horse's feet. The animal took tight and péctant Tac-tals Heror, and Ch's, both mattres If not been for their timely help, i do not Kite hadere beshould have been sow with our steps to find out whether Mr. Womble was ris bolted, dragging the dickahas along in front of Kuangtung the Honourable L. fourth property-probably it would have reverted in or wrong labis estimate of your property ar, do until the shafts of the conveyance broke and the son of Viceroy: Lin, native of Ngan-hul, property-probably It French Government you intend merely to pocket your thirty thousand occupants were thrown heavily to the ground. Expectant Prefect, Titog Lai Sun, aire of and sink she other twenty thousand pounds Governor was greatly shakes, and his escape from officials, principally sons, nephews, grand-sone, you wish to raise, in further costly and useless severe injury is described si marrelious. The and grand sephews of Mit Tony Klu-sing.
The principal foreigners present were Consul bir Chater, on behalf of Mody and him. experiments Your many friends in China, trap was considerably damaged and the horse, self, thanked them very much indeed for 11 her interested to the curls plans or not, which got clear of the broken shafts after a lot of Bowman of the United States of America, Com
knocking about, susikined, several sevens cute mbetover Detring; of the Tientsiu Customs, a compliment. In reply he could not say anything will be glad to see in print a full explanation,
for that, and also for bringing the Society so
I through these troubious times. (Cheers)
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more than he had already said. He was cure both Mr. Mody and himself would do their best
to promote the interests of shareholders and to
Yours faithfully,
Hongkong, gist May, 1892)
make the Company's socolas,(Cheers.)
The proceedings than termlaxtedi
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