matters to the extreme.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1893.
paying, tlo-mises in Cornwall whose return is from 50 to 70lbs, of tin per ton of ore.
Item of bank news: "The banks of Melbouras, Įthree per cent, of block tin, and there are many pelor to the recent trouble, held about £13,000,000 in cola, gold, and consols. It is estimated that they now hold £10,500joco So that's pull of 62,500,000 on the alleged coin overturned the show.
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A careful comparison of the speeches made last week at the "reconstruction meeting of a certain bank, reveals the singular fact that the eloquence of the speakers was strictly regulated the size of their respective overdrafts on that
institution.
eMekong Valley. Phys da ihow, General of the Stamese Anny, is about If he has pot already left, for the peaceful the Upper Mekong. Several hundred Left the other day for the East, and more d to be ready to follow. The majority of French China Squadron are now in Saigon. fe in a general feeling amongst fudges of the dation that Sism will yield on the appearance of French force, or a determination to push It It lateresting to notice how a certain good friend with a fat stipend squlims when a plain and commonsense solution of the difficulty is presented in the press. abominable papers 1" shrieks the much salaried Most of the re-constructing banks propose to ornament of Slam, "how cap they suggest such pay all their creditors with shares or long-dated solutions when we stand on our rights ?” We paper, except note-holders, the Government a e afraid the pedestal is something more sub- (which has a prior claim), and "other preference stantial than rights, and that ether motives than creditors." Who are the other perference, seal in Slam's cause are agitating the noble breast creditors? of Sism's friend. Bạt what la amuxing is that these
“abominable papory” are, used as the Instruments of the good filend of Slam and local paper is made to air the opinions of the fountain bed through the Instrumentality of the valaried friend. So that these abominable papers" are of rome use after all, and though they are only admitted by the back stairs, they are made to keep the ball-a-rolling and the pot a-boiling-Free Prai
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Is this a conundrum? ' How will the Austra- lian banking-collapse be set down in Australian history? Will it be believed that the banks were the innocent victims of stupid public panic, or that the pablle were victims of the greatest bank robbery of the century?
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According to Alfred Deakin, in his speech on behalf of Director Bell, of the lamented Mercan- tile Bank, that Institution collapsed simply because of the "stupid absence of outside sup, port* Regarded as a sample of barristerial gall, this utterance takes a high place.
Two days before the City of Melbourne Bank closed its doors the accredited Melbourne reire sentative of the Scotch depositors had cabled, ** the result of a thorough investigation, that the bank was perfectly sound, but neither this, nor the guarantee by the Later Bark to meet the May deposita, apparently slayed the alarms of Australian bank directors' the canny Scots. rovised Litany : "From plague, pestilence, Scotch depositors, and sudden death, good Lord deliver us't'
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John E Aubrey, Esq, Solat NSW., kindly Parnishes the following testimony-In January, 1879, I was master of a provisional school in the wastern district, and I married a delicate young lady, and was shortly afterwards appointed teacher ander the Board of Education. Our first child was born in September, 1580, after which my wife never seemed to regain her usual strength. In May, 1881, the was suddenly taken very lil; the fully doctor was
for and was greatly pazited; ha, however, prescribed and the patient partly recovered. About twelve months later she was very much troubled A depositor, early the other day, drem £500 with a painful throbbing movement in the abdomen, out of Sydney bank. In the afternoon, he specially when lying down, loss of appetite, and reappeared, and was seca soning notes out on what food was taken afforded no nourishment, the counter. To him the accountant-"Just Another doctor was called in, who sounded and now, we don't care about accepting deposits from customers an hour or two after they have with prescribed, but to no purpose. We left the weigh drawn their accounts." "Oh, but I'm not think-urhood and went to Lithgow Valley, hoping to fog of redepositing, thanks. These are this effect an improvement, but without result. Anether bank's notes and I want gold that's all" The doctor did all he could and decided that the case was biak had to keep up the dignity of its attitude one of enlargement of the liver, and this proved to in hard cash.
be the case, as the side sometimes swelled so large. na to prevent drossing 180 matters progressed and got from bad to worse. Numerous doctors cont
continued to do bas little
little good
and that only temporary, but all agreed that the system was gonerally weak and ated building up, and the liver would sometimes well and barst off button after button off her ulster While
"standing to a store. For the last two years the trouble has been complicated with not distressing rushing naiss in the head, so vielent a to render it impossible to lle in bad at night, with violent attacks of windy colle, causing complete prostration, and excoriation of the throat. Even
According to published statements, it would appear that the Queensland National Bank has been more or less on the down grade since 1859 is that year It reached the summit of its glory and the net profits were announced-to be £113.000. In 1800, they were 101,000 in 18gt, they got down to £77,916 and to 1892 they stood at 78,373 The capital was £800,000, and ss 10 per cent. dividend, by any known process of arithmetic, takes 80,000, two years, been paying away more than esrned.
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Dibbs' bank-crisis Act limits the circulation at notes by the smannt of a bank's capital and the rods about Tientsin. About the East gate reserve-fund. To ensure the existence of the it would seem as if the Q.N. had, for the last tually, after further suffering, I read of Glemaster
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Some desirable changes are being made on
.section of the stone road das been taken up and macadam pot in its place. The stone was an Improvement on the mud, which prevalled till some 10 or 12 years ago, gipecially in the rainy season, and it li gratifying To have some portions still further improved. It to be hoped that all the stone sections will soon be condemned and transformed. But changes and Imerove ments go on slowly. A portion of the Chinese banding opposite the costern side of the city, along which passes the Important read leading to the business part of the city and to the Viceroy's yamin, gave way last antume. It greatly impeded traffic, bough it did not stop All the winter and early spring passed, til the crumbling away gradually made the road impairable, and threw all the traffic foto a Barrow, stane-pared back-street, before repairs were begun. This was about two months ago. and they are scarcely completed yet, although the break was less than 300 feet in length. The low state of the liver and the diminished amount of
I traffic previous to the arrival of the steamers would seem to have indicated that as the best time for the proper accomplishment of such repairs, one would suppose.
The macadamising of the great road leading from this to Peking, is progressing slowly. The grading is done for a distance of some 15 miles from the city, and the setailing is done over about to miles of this distance. "If this road is ever completed, and the first part is all kept in repair lill the last part is folshed, it will be a great boon to Peking-bound travellers, provided moes rapid and easier means of transportation, Aying machines for instance, do not supersede Its need.
The weather is bot, the mercury ragtag about go deg, in unexposed shade.. It is also very dry, though scarcely a day passes without some threatening indications of rain, which induces the hope that the needed moisture will reach or
ere long.
Dr. Macgowan, visiting the north, returned from Peklog a few days ago. Yesterday he procured an interview with the Viceroy. He appeared to be pleased with his visit, for he got what he went for," which is not always the good fortune of those who call on the great man. He ment expecting to "get a drubbing" In behalf of his country, and wiss not disappointed. The Viceroy expressed himself very strongly both regards the conduct of the U. S., and the dilatoriness of bla
bis own Government in not at once instituting retallatory measures for the insult received by his Government, and the injury done to many of its subjects. He still thought, however, that a satisfactory arrangement could be reacbed. between the two Governments, by means of a treaty " on reciprocity Lines, similiar to those proposed by the Dactor in an open letter, to Secretary Blaine last year. The Viceroy expressed himself as being in favour of some such course. Dr. Macgowan went out on the railroad to-day, and hopes, from the furthest point to which the trucks
reserve-fund it should provide that the amount be lavested in Government bonds and coin otherwise the limitation is a hideous faice.
To the recent ruspension of a Sydney bank the death of a lady is attributed. The details of the occurrence are pathetic and painful, bat in the Interest of that mysterious thing, confidence, an inquest, as well as publicity, has been dispensed with as quite unnecessary under the dicum-
stances...
The Eureka, accounted one of the few regularly; payable mines in the Northern Territory, and which, during so months ending 31st December last, turned out 69447 worth of gold (C6000 proft) was a few weeks ago sold for £1100 to Tang Hing Chong, who had secured the first refusal,
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reconstraction of the Queensland National Bank means the reconstruction of the sycophantic crowd of stiffs who hang on to the coat-talls of the Government. No proposal for reconstruction should be entertained till a severs enquiry into the overdraft systems her been made..
Premier M'Ilwraith (12) has struck the most statesmanlike idea ret evoked by the banking crisis. He proposes to abolish bank paper and instead State notes for £550,000, that being the Average amount of the Queensland paper circulation, The State notes will be made a
legal tender for the present, hat when the gold now locked op gets again lato circulation, they will be redeemable on demand in the customary way. When he is not led astray by a yearning to grind his own or his friend's private axe, Milwraith is still the best of Australian finan elers, and his simple and logical scheme is a brillant contrast to the circuitous devices of the Dibbs and Patterson Cabinets.
The Colonial Bank of Australasia "re-con- stracted" even its own dividend. The 8 per cent, alleged profit was payable to shareholders on and after a certain momentous Friday, but though a few of the city shareholders turned up promptly and got their carb, very few of the country ones were on the spot. From Monday to Friday laclusive were holidays, and the
A large contractor paid into one of the recently-a suspended N.S.W. banks some thousands of pounds, chiefly to be spent in wages, within a few hours of the notice of suspension. It is only one of many cases differing only in degree. But, can one instance be given of a bank director, or manager, dolog likewise?
A wealthy Hebrew, well known as 'n mining speculator, was recently nominated for taember. abip in the Stock Exchange of Melbourne, and jecting him to this indignity was that he had only paid £300 for the seat, whereas there is an unwritten law fixing the minimum recognised value at £1000.
was blackbaliod. The reason såvanced for sub-
Mining by tribute-system is largely. Increasing in N.S.W. With hard work, cheap crushing, and, above all, most of the dear work done by defunct compsales, tributors are averaging fair ages. About the best tribute in the province is that of the New Bushman's, Parkes, beld by ten men on a to per cent royalty, Last crushing, 363 011, from 168 tons. Reef about a foot and wall opened-up.
Sir George Verdon was carefully voted into the chair at the E.9, and A. Bank reconstruction
meeting. Tackled as to whether he was a share- helder, Verdon stated that he held a few shares, Ha was there as an old friend of the Bank, and
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stomach. I dilated it with water and lucreased it a
In the stomach could bear it. Mri. Aubrey has now taken three bottles and the effect most marvellous; the swelling has
ontirely
inches. appeared, and the waist is reduced by seve The eyeight is renewed and strengthened, the appetite fatured, the noise in the head diminished, and, to use my
my wife's own words, Language utterly fails to describe the relief and benefit the bis
serienced by the use of only three bottles of laments Toule. I consider Clements' Tonto the used in either England, India, Africa, or Australia. most palatable and effective medicine I have ever
"JOHN E. AUBREY."
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and the disappointed stockholder who arrived in frenzy at the big front door was left," like the public in general. The bank that falls down dead in the very act of paying a dividend ir obviously an institution with heart-disease.
The shares of that gigantic_monopoly, the Sydney Gas Co., have fallen. It would please the public if the price of gas fell as well. In. Bathurst the gas-works are the property of the Municipal Council. There, where they have a Hmited consumption, and cannot make a market- able coke from Lithgow coal, the price is-3s. 6d. per rood feet, with a large discount if payment is made within seven days of receiving your sc simply colossal, and big coke market, the price count. In Sydney, where the consumption la lover so per cent, higher, with no discount ! Sydney Gu Co. could pay fair dividends at half the present price. And it is to secure the con- thuence of this sort of thing that the Sydney public is asked to give the Gas Co. and its saug an electric-lighting monopoly in the city! When the City Corporation's Lighting Bill gets through Parliament, which it will, the city will be lighted at half the present price.
Now that the depositors who got their money out of the banks are cursed all round for their want of confidence, it would be well (in the Interests of public confidence) If bank managers and directors would give some proof of their own. It would be very interesting to know the number and amount of cheques, if any, drawn by directors and their confidential friends, na a representative of British creditors within a week before putting up the shutters To happened to clear out when the fruits of the boem were beginning to be gathered,
ron, to get a view of the cistern terminus of the apparently, as the 'former” manager, who had sold a bank-director ship at pro-reconstruction
Great Wall,
Last evening the Dector gave an address before the Literary and Debating Society. It was an Interesting medley of the results of some of his observations, and studies of phenomena and Holk-lore in Japan and China. A catechetical Exercise followed the address, which was full of interest, and not a little information was brought before the Society during the session of nearly two hours: at the close of which a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer-N. G Daily News.
THE WILD-CAT 'COLUMN,
What a bold change bascoms o'er the spirit of the re-construction dream all at once l'
Some Tarmenians are renewing enquiries as to when the directors of the defunct Van Dieman's Land Bank are to be brought to book
There seems to be some doubt as to who stale
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time must, ladred, be trying ordeal. You meet in the street your grey-headed lifelong friend, already apoplectic and shaky in the knees. The loss of his lastane will be for him sentence of death. A word from you, and be will with- draw to gold. But no; perfectly aware that even now the reconstruction scheme is in the hands of tha prister, you tell old Billy Hardcash, who went to school with you, to have confidence,
One of the causes given for the big fasolvency of Mr. Yencken, of Melbourne, la "depreciation in the value of his fratkold vesidences. It is dificult to see how a gentleman can get into debt through a reduction in the rent, which he, as tenant, pays to himself, Landlord. At this rate a sudden fall in the price of diamonds - and that sli is going swimmingly. might bankrupt the husband of a lady who wore
£10,000 necklaco day and night.
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The City of Melbourne Bank, which collapsed last Wednesday, is an institution which ought not to be allowed to reconstruct; it should
*Does having been convicted of a felony disquallly for a seat on a bank directorate?" was | rather be abolished by Act of Parliament. Its a question asked at a recent Sydney reconstruction meeting. The voice was a gentle one, and it owner a mild, non-militant-looking greybeaded person in black, but it made one of the nominated reconstructionists as red in the face as if he had been asked to publicly exhibit the securities for his overdraft,,
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A bank's "reserve fund !, is one of those
whole biography consists of one sentence; !! had four-and-a-half millions in deposits, of which three-and-a-quarter millions were British capital The City of Melbourne Bank was a mere rat-trap for British
money, and a pawn}< broking institution for leading out the same is Australia at massive interest. And, as Australia in already cursed with far too much foreign
klud of business is a disease-and a pretty
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the cash from the notorious -Imperial' Bank | things which religiously disappear when calles 1992 = bank which devotes itself entirely to easit. Dodwell, Carilli & Co.
(Melb.), and possible "revelations are talked for, and the contingency account seems to bad one at that. The City of Melbourne did so have no existence in fact when contingencies Hitle Australian business that, in its local require to be met. Melboume has had recent capacity, it was hardly worth calling a bank. experience of backs professing to hold large It had only five branches in Australia, and
pre funds until they closed their doors, and five agencies in Britain for the purpose of upon the liquidators came in and husted gathering in deposits; therefore, like a shark, it was pretty nearly all mouth. Also, as the result for these mythical resources in vain.
showed, it was a month with a spiked tongue, the spikes mil pointing inwards, so that it only worked one way,
Money Wigrams involventi Alar, for the glorious days of the Lightnings and Marce Pelor, with their rivals, the White Stars and James Balteses1
Some of the Sydney newspapers, even after the suspension of the bank, quoted the shares of the Commercial of Sydney at #sellers 80
ales having been effected with difflenity at 45.
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A Victorian money-order clerk was recently suspended for speaking slightingly of a bank since also suspended. He was permitted to keep his billet after tendering a humble apology.
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The very latest Melbourne commercial novelty is a wall-eyed swell, canvassing for tomb-stones. His foueres! get up, high stepper and dog-cart
Not only do numerons Sydney solicitors now. are absolutely irreproachable. The ceath.. columns of the daily papers give him the one todays engross their own deeds and registration the house of desolation, and the grief being fresh coples, but several firms, making large incomes, and warm, the order for the stone is put in hand have made a stalking-horse of the hard times to even before the cadaver is planted. He is dolag disebarge clerks wholesale, under the pretence of roaring trade, merited by his cast-iron-enter necessary retrenchment. Then thess "weating
lawyers get their articled clerks, who pay Large- prise.
premiums some as high as 300-and receiveWO One of the Joys of the bank re-construction only nominal salaries, to do the required angrom schemes la that none of them, de hardly any of ing grails, while the discharged clerks, who are generally married and familed men, jalbethe un
stored flat they them, place any restriction whatever on the dividends which may be paid in the immediate employed and live on whatever se
with a future. Therefore, some day the re-constructed to calmisal practice, warth, say, 1,500
Latga depositor, he is out to the cold with his money year, runs his office solely with articled clerks at locked up for to years, may hear that his bank
iu The "confidence" doctrine's like a fatter full la paying as per cost, dividends to its share a weekly coat of 2, his managing clerk
receiving the gorgeous stipend of £1 per week. of the deepest sympathy for a good chase, but holders, though it won't pay him scent, and he This noble employer, of his own motion, allows containing no cash. Men with abundance of | may rejoice exceedingly thereat, geyi
hin clerks two weeks koliday every Christ money have no confidence." Those with heape
mastide, willons pay. For absence through 'of confidence have no money,zama
The tin todes of N.9.37. are condemned as vicientas pay is stopped as per period. Another too poor to pay, and many have been worked N.5.W. attorney, whose practice bringnin £3,000 and Abandoned because the yield was not on a year, and who is a shining pillar in so-called than five per cent, A man with a five per cent, religious circles, employs as a clark a married lode tin-ins would be fired "out" of mod man with, three children, paying him the heart Bydney mining chose You, the average of bleeding sans of 305, & werk. And of soos in the and Japan. Boićunth, the graal tlo mine of the world, is only i regiment of Shool/8jdady Bulletin,
When the Royal Bank of Queensland died last week, hoping to rise again on the day of the reconstruction of the dead, therk wis but a praying ripple of excitement. The pubile capsalty Jer notonlehment is about worn dt,
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34o dia,, with a stroke of 16.0
The Bed-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Rooms, and accommodation generally' will be found equal to the best Hotels in the Far Kart, wi
The Table D'Hote la supplied with every 'Iowary, in season, and the cülșine is in experi-
encod hands.
Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, etc., of the best quality only. À WELL APPOINTED BILLIARD-ROOM.
JOHN C. FOSTER, Manager. Hongkong, 'rat September, 1892. HAUENSTEIN'S HÖTEL, A MOY.
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“HIS First-class FAMILY HOTEL-is
Cylinders 208 and is idle, at the Crank pln Totect the beach at KULANGS00
and 7% dla at the journals. The HP. Piston
'Rod is ind Connecting Rod bolts are 4” dia,, Air Pump 144" dia. by.
stroka, Single Acting Circulating Pump 8" dia by 13" stroke, and Double Acting Food and Bilge Pump (uns each) 3o díat by 13′′ stroker.
These Engines have been very little used and are in thoroughly good order,
The Boller is of the Horizontal' Kultitubular with three Furnaces and vertical Deme en type, top. Ita dia, is rof, a” by gft. 10" long, external incarurements; Farnaces, af yding Dome, alex dia. It is in fairly good condition, having 44" dia. by 4ft high; Tubes, 184 in number by recently undergone considerable, repairs and would last la activo service for over five years.
The Engines and Bellor can be inspected on application to the Superintendent at Aberdeen
For further particulars, monly
and has First-ciais Accommodation for Visitors
An EXCELLENT TABLE - kept, and WINES, SPIRITS, and MALT LIQUORS of he very best quality.
Terms Moderate.
R. HELLWIG, Propalefor. Amoy, 1st September, “18ga. TAKARADZUKA HOTEL.
ONE HOUR AND A BALF FROM KOBE;
potofa NISHINOMIYA.
EXCELLENT CUISINE AND CELLAR. LOVELY SCENERY AND COOL, NIGHTS. WATERS are highly recommended by THE IRON MINERAL BATHS and
the Medical Faculty fot Gont, Khesmalam, Chlorosis, Kenema and other affections. FRAJER-SHITH," "). For terms and partienters, apply to gledao
idder's HUL.
MBA HUGHES,