To-day's Advertisements.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1899.
To-day's Advertisements.
NOTICE.
PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of U Teak Signal Station is completed, the
the felting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the asth day of September, 1899, at 3-P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excel- lency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor to Her Majesty the QUEEN, for one further term of 75 years. (120ga PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 9
LOCALITY.
Tai Kok Tsti.
Raumdery MeasuremetuM,,
It. (.
ft. ft.
❤ | Annual Rent
➡Upres Price.
1,921
Petung by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 25th day of September, 1899, at 3-15. P.31., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excel- lency the Govenor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by llie Surveyor to Her Majesty the QUEEN for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
)ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of
LOCALITY.
Itoundary Measurements
D. 11.
IL
Blacker Road, o sub 150 150
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1210
Upel Price.
172 3,500
Examination of the Gun
Usual Signal for Mail Steamers will be DIS- CONTINUED.
R. MURRAY RUMSEY,
R. Com., R.N., Harbour Master, &c.
[1212a
Harbour Department,
Hongkong, jul Soptember, 1899.
THE POPULAR DINING ROOMS, 18, PRAVA CENTRAL, (Near Hongkong Hotel).
WILL OPEN shortly. Good Home Cook-
ing and Meals at all hours. Hongkong, 23rd September 1890.
Entimation.
Dzia
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED.
SEEDSMEN.
OUR SHIPMENTS OF FLOWER AND VEGETABLE
SEEDS
OR THE SEASON 1899/1900 ARE NOW
READY FOR DELIVERY. Orders are executed from New Stock only.
Priced Catalogues, with Wints for Hardening, can be obtained
on application.
These SEEDS, are supplied to us. by the best growers in the World.
THE Undersigned has received instruction It is particularly requested that care
Sell
PUBLIC AUCTION,
at his Sales Rooms, Zetland Street, No. 2.
on
SATURDAY, the 30th September, 1899,
Commencing 3 P.M.`
-À LARGE AND VALEABLE LOT OF
DIAMONDS and JEWELRY.
All guaranteed to be genuine Brilliants and 18 Carat Gold. Comprising:
-BROOCHS, EARRINGS, SCARP-PINS, LADIES and GENTS RINGS, BRACELETS, PENDANTS, with DIAMONDS, RUBIES, EMERALDS, SAPPHIRES, ALENAN- DRINES, OPALS and PEARLS.
Catalogues issued Prior to Sale.
On View at the Undersigned's. Terms of Sale-Cash before delivery,
PAUL BREWITY, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 2301 September, 1899.
[12061
AUŢIIORITATIVE telegrams have been re- cloved, says the N. C. Daily News, denying the existence of plague at Chefoo: Quarantinė is being enforced there against infected ports, The reports from Nowchwang are still very unfavourable.
Tuz concert to be given by the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Mount Austin takes place to-night Mr. Norvel McGregor, of the Janet Waldorf Company, is programmed to recite, and by special request of the R. W. F. officers Miss | Queenie Lambert will dance.
The opening of the new Mixed Court at Shanghai, which was to have taken place an the zoth, has been postponed for a week, is to be hoped that in the interval some steps will be taketi in construct a proper rond to the new temple of rough and ready justice which at present is only approachable on stilts.. THE accountant of the utan who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by the Acting Chief Justice in the trade mark case should have appeared at the Police Court yesterday to answer to a similar charge. He, however. did not appear, and his bail of $300 was ordered to be estreated anda warrant for his apprehension
was issued.
A JAPANESE, journal states that is representa tive was informed at the Pilot Office that Captain Meyers, the pilet in charge of the forgan City when she sank, has no license in pilot ships through the Inland Sea. The paper adds that Captain Meyers will probably be brought before the Marine Court on a charge
of violating the Pilot Law.
Tire Band of the Hongkong Regiment will play at the Hongkong Hotel this evening from 8 pm to 9.30 p.m. :-
March.
PROGRAMME., "The Officer **Sevilla"
Selection...
2. Vaise
Story Fotka.
Cik, Matchu
•Reminis auf Fugland “... Godfrey ***The Geisha,
"Farewrit
"Lilliputien "
ethiod save the teen.
Brewel
MIN. 35 sec, for the mile was put up by Har rew in the Lingfield Park Stakes, and stands as the world's record. The Lingfield Mile course is an easy one, they say, but even then min. 35 sec, is marvellous going. Harrere be taken when sowing, and super-mile before, and on the occasion in question had been credited with some fast timing over a
vision exercised over Chinese ghe won fairly easily from Sibola, who is con- deners, whose incompetence in deal-sidered a smasher. ́
ing with the seeds may sometimes had to disappointing results.
-CLAYS FEHETILIZER Supplies natural nourishment to the soil. Is Tiss.
10lbs, each 250s.
- $1.75 $1,50
RANSOME'S LAWN MOWERS.
HONGKONG SHARE MARKETEN ·INLAND WATERS STEAM
NAVIGATION.
Mr. R. Chatterton Wilcox, Secretary of the Hongkäng|General Chamber of Commerce, bad forwarded the following correspondence for publication :-- ., •
THE STEAMER,COMPANIES TO THE CHANDEH
register, the...) steamer Kongpak, for Inland navigation. After reference to a Péking this was refused by the Inspector-General of Customs, whose decision on the matter given in the Samshul Commissioner's letter, copy or which is attached. While we still think that the privileges asked for might be accorded without danger to the safety- of the revenue of China, we must at the same time admit that there are considerable difficul Hongkong, 11th September, 1899.ies in the way and that probably the only Chatterton Wilcox, Esq., Secretary,****** effective way of meeting them would be to open Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Dear Sir-We beg to send you herewith Kongcon or some other place situated at the
mouth of the river as a treaty port, whence. copy of a joint letter which we addressed to and also from Samshui and Wuchow, after pay H.11.M. Minister at Peking on the 38th March
ment of duties, goods would be free to find their Inst, pointing out the hardship catailed upon way inland carried either by the importing or the owners of foreign steamers trading off the other steamer as was found most conveniant. West River by the Inspector General of Cus- So far we have only dealt with the effect the toms' interpretation of the Steam Navigation opening of waters has had on the direct trade Inland Rules and Regulations (amended) 1893; † with. Hongkong, the craft engaged in which a copy of which we enclose, and in connection come under the heading o
of vessels engaged in therewith we would particularly direct your at trade with ports outside Chinese jurisdiction tention to paragraph of the said Regulations, and are therefore excluded from any direct which reads as follows:--
The inland waters of China are hereby opened to all such steuners, Native or Foreign, as are specially registered for that trade at the Treaty ports. They may proceed to and fro at will under the following Regulations, but they must confine their trade to the inland waters and must not proceed to places out of Chinese territory. The expression inland waters' is used with similar meaning to that given for places in the interior (nei-ti) in the fourth article of the Chefoo Convention."
HONGKONG, Friday, September 22nd,
·Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts, in their. weekly share report, state-Since our last- circular the market has continued dull and very little business has been transacted. The China Traders Insurance Company, Limited, has advertised its Thirty-third Ordinary Meeting for the 10th October. The transfer books will be closed from the 26th instant to 10th proximo, both days inclusive. The Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited, has given notice that its twenty-sixty ordinary yearly meeting will be held on the 12th October. The transfer books will be closed from the 2nd to 12th proximo, inclusive. Bank-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks have suffered a slight decline and have been sold at 347 and 348 per cent. prem- ium. The London quotation is 261 10. Nationals are firm with buyers at $261. Marine Insurances-Unions are firm with buyers at $260. China Traders are wanted at 863 Yangtszes have been sold in the North at $125 Fire Insurances.--Hongkong Fires have been done in small lots at $335. China Fires have been placed at 388 Shipping Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats have suffered a slight decline and sales at $203 have been effected. Douglas Steamships after sales at $32 have been sold at $50, $491 and $49. Star Ferries have changed hands to a small extent at $10 and Sigt. Indo Chinas have been sold at $7 and $70), Refineries.-There is no change to report in stocks under this heading, Mining-Punjoms have been booked at 50 and $54, Charbonnages have been sold in small lots at $230 and are wanted. Queen Mines have been sold at 47 cents. Jelebus are much firmer with sales at $13.73 and buyers at $13.80. Raubs are quiet and can be cotained at $62). Olivers A have been fixed at St and the shares at $7.80. Great Eastern and Caledonians have been done at $2.70. Docks, Wharves and Godowns.—Afair number of Hong. kong and Whampoa Docks have been taken off | the market at 535 and 530 per cent, premiam. Kowloon Wharf shares have been done in small lots at $98, Lands, Hotels and Build. ings-Hongkong Lands have found buyers ating of the West River. $ and are steady at the nite. Hongkong Hotels, after sales at #135 are offering at $133 Humphery's Estate have been sold at $125 and $10.35. China Providents have changed hands al So. Cotten Mills.--We have heard of no busi- nessinstocks under this heading. Miscellaneous. Green Island Cuments are a shade easier owing to a few forced sales for the settlement and $28) and $28 have been accepted for shares. thina Borneos have been negotiated at $ic A. S. Watsons have been fixed at $16.85 and are obtainable at $17 Hongkong Electrics have been sold at $18. Ropes have been done
$190.
GREAT EASTERN AND CALEDONIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY, LIMITED.
Messrs. Lutgens, Einstmann & Co., the General Agents of the Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Limited, have received the following report from the mines written by air. Thomas Cash
wx (Chiun Gazette) learn that the officials of Chcking fearing local excitement, have determined, not to put Ying Wen-te, the popular leader of the antiFrench Christian faction of Taichow, upon his trial in Palmen or Taichow,
Since my report of the 6th July last, the fol but will take him to Hangchow for examinationlowing work has been done at the different before the chief provincial authorities. I would mines to date scem that the local officials up to a certain point, have treated Ying with a good deal of consideration, but that he went beyond the latitude they allowed him.
Tite Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, says_the_//yogs
IN THE MATTER OF ORDINANCE No, The Best and Cheapest Machines in Evening Neres, has begun importing pig iron
OF 1892,
AND
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF
THE-DOE PORTABLE ELECTRIC)| LIGHT AND POWER SYNDICATE LD. OF BROAD STREET, LONDON, FOR LETTERS PATENT PUR' IMPROVIS -MENTS IN GALVANIC BATTERIES.
NOTICE is hereby given that, the PETI.
DECLÁKATION and SPRCI- FICATIONS required by ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1892 have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong and that it is the intention of the said DOE PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHT and POWER SYNDI CATE LO. by Messrs. DENNYS and BOW- -LEV heirlicitors to apply at the Sitting of the Executive Council hereinafter mentioned
for LETTERS PATENT for the exclusive USE in Hongkong of the above Inventions,
And Notice is hereby also given that n Sitting of the Executive Council before whom the matter of the said Petition will come for deci. sion will be held in the Council Chamber at the Government Orvices, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the anil day of October, 1899;
at 11 A.51.
Dated this 22nd day of September, 1899.
DENNYS & BOWLEY. 12074]
Solicitors for the Applicant.
IN THE MATTER OF ORDINANCE No. 2 or
1892,
AND
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF THE ANTOMATIC TELEPHONE CO., LD. OF 13 AND 14, ABCHURCH LANE, IN THE CITY OF LONDON FOR LETTERS PATENT FOR AN IMPROVED SYSTEM oF AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE EX- CHANGE.
NOTION DECLARATION and SPECI FICATION, required by ORDINANCE No.
(OTICE is hereby given that the PETI-
the Market. Supplied at Manufacturer's Prices.
FERMINGER'S MANUAL OF GARDEN- ING FOR THE TROPICS PRICE $7.60.
A. 8. WATSON & Co., Limited.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
The
jongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.1899.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS.
LONDON, September 2181.
from Hangyang, China. Hitherto the firm has imported English hon only, but the recent rise in quotations led them to make a trial of the Chinese iron, which is obtainable at fós, a ton -135., less than the English iron. The iron is stated to compare very favourably with the average foreign article-its quality is not first class, buy the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha is stated to have made arrangements for a regular supply of iron from the Hangyang Iron Works, and there is considerable consternation in the Japanese iron market.
CALEDONIAN MINE.
The main drive north of the old main under-
he shaft has been extended a further, distance of 13 feet, making total length of drive from ald face 18 feet. The reef is from
3 to 5 feet wide. At present the reef in the face is 5 feet wide and gives much better prospects than it did when the drive was started. The drill hole prospects from the face show about & dwts, per ion. At first I thought of sinking the air shaft to connect with the new main shaft directly under the old underlic shaft, but as there is a break in the reef at the bottom of the old shaft we have decided to drive north on the reef 30 or 40 feet and they start the air shaft near the end, I will then be on the stone all the way to the new level. We will get out a lot of stunc from the sinking and will be proving the reef We have already broken about 50 tons of quartz for 70 feet deeper than the present old working. from the drive. The poppet legs for the new main shaft are completed and the truck line to carry. the stone direct from the shaft to the battery floor is now being prected.
BANK OF ENGLAND MINE.
The main drive north has been extended feet, making total length from main shaft 84 feet. In the face there are two reefs, one on the hanging and the other on the foot wall. Each reef is about one foot wide and carries very nice mineral, also about 6 dwts. of gold per ton. There has not yet been sufficient work done on the hanging wall reef for one to say much about it at present. It is certainly a new make of stone. Nn. I back stope noith in height. No. 2 is 23 feet long by 55 feet in height. For the last fortnight there. lias. been a reef on both walls in the back stopes, which brings the average size of the reef to about 3 feet 6 inches wide. The prospects are stil! good, but the true value of the ore can only be known after it is crushed in the battery. I estimate the quantity of stone at grass to be 150 or 160 tons.
|
participation in the benefits which should result therefrom. There still, however, remains tha Canton-Wuchow trade, the steamers on which being vessels engaged in inter-treaty post trade, are also by the Inspector Genem's ruling, debarred from inland water privileges. It is to this decision as affecting this class of vessel that we would beg your most earnest attention, as we are of the unanimous opinion, that if en forced it will, as we have already stated, render. the whole concession valueless.
From the beginning our vessels on the Can Our representations to H.B.M,'s Minister were
ton-Wuchow line have been subjected to such duly forwarded under cover by Mr. Mansfield, restrictions that it seemed quite hopeless for the British Consul at Canton, and by the reply them to attempt to compete with their more receiveth enclosed herewith with other corres favoured Chinese rivals, win, by means of pondence on the subject, you will see that our specially constructed lighters towed, by steam effort to obtain redress of our grievances has launches, secure the great bulk of cargo and been futile, although according to Mr. Consul until recently, of the passengers. The system Mansfield's despatch 7th July, the Inspector adopted at the treaty ports is for these lighters General of Customs' ruling was in direct con- and their cargoes to come under the Ickin ad- travention of Regulation No, as quoted above. ministration, and the steam launch, which is And even the privilege of calling at way ports increly the means of propuLion and carries no for passengers has been withdrawn, the trade of cargo, comes under the I.M. Customs, a dual foreign steamers being now confined solely to system of control which gives the advantage of the treaty ports and the four ports of call men- the quickness of steain transit and an elastic tioned in the orginal proclamation at the open-tariff for the payment of duty on the cargo ear- ried on the lighters. Nor is it so much the fact that the lekin collected on this cargo is less than the one and a half duty; which would be levied by the 1.M. Customs if it were carried in our steamers, as it is so carried, lekin taxes before shipment and after discharge would be payable in addition to the Customs duty and a half. The forgoing facts are only too well known and have been frequently coinmented. oo, notably by H.B.M.'s Consul at Canton in) his trade report for 1897; but if further proof be needed it is abundantly supplied by the fact that the only domestic trade of which we aecure the carriage is a few piculs of goods between Samshui and Wuchow, whereas the merchants refuse to ship the same goods by our vessels between Wuchow and Canton even: although the freight charged be the same in both cases! That is to say taxation and cost of transport." being equal for both distances they will ship by our vessels over the shorter one bat steadily. refused to do so over the longer one! The ex- Limited.planation of this is simple. At Samshus by
From the foregoing it will be seen that the freedom of traffic and trading on the Inland waters, about which so much has been said and written of late, is absolutely non-existent. Wẹ would therefore ask your Chamber to be good enough to take the matter up, and endeavour to obtain the removal of the restrictions of which we complain in our letter 28th March last, and which constitute a very great hindrance to the development of trade on the West River, so much so that we have had to take one of out Steamers off the Line,
We are, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
THO. ARNOLD, Secretary Hongkong, Canton and Macap
Steamboat Co., Limited. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., fieneral Managers, Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Limited.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents, China Navigation Co.,
THE STEAMER COMPANIES TO THE
CONSUL
Si-We hand you for your information a
Hongkong, 28th March, 1809. joint despatch we have addressed to H.D.M. Minister at Peking on the subject of Inland Navigation together with the enclosures therein alluded to.
vigorous protests made at the opening of the port the native goods.carried in foreign vessels are to a certain extent exempt from lekin taxes. Canton the reverse is the case, and as the bulk before shipment and after discharge, while at of the domestic trade of the West River districts is destined for or comes from Canton as being the great centre or mart of trade the natural result of this differential taxation is that our These we shall be glad it, after perusal you Chinese rivals secure the carriage of the whole will transmit to their destination with any of it. Nor does the evil stop at this, for know- remarks you may think it well to make in ordering that our comings must be made out of the to, emphasize the restrictions of foreign steam traffic in Inland Waters.
We have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servants,
(Here follow signatures;) To R. W. Mansfield, Esq., II. B. M.'s Consul,
Canton.
THE STEAMER COMPANIES TO LBM'S MINISTER,
Hongkong, 28th March, 1899. Sir,We have the honour to enclose copies of certain correspondence relating to the open ing of the inland waters of China to do navigation, from which it will be seen that in addition to an evasive policy with regard to the publication of the Rules to be in force at the various Ickin barriers promised in clause 8 of the Suplementary Rules the Chinese Govern ment seek to impose such restrictions on the opening of these waters as will render the whole concession valueless,
opening of these waters by foreign steamers we Before any advantage can be taken of the are of the unanimous opinion that:
carriage of foreign goods, into which, as far ar the carrying in steamers between treaty ports: goes, the question of taxation does not enter--- they can either conform to our rates of freight: and compete against us, or by lowering them slightly get the monopoly of the carriage of these as they do of the domestic trade.ee
Although the subject of this representation is the disadvantages under which we suffer as Britsh Shipping Companies engaged in the carrying trade of China we will for the moment waive this question and look at it from the broader standpoint of trade in general. From the foregoing, it might be argued that although we as individual concerns suffer, the great circulation of goods is facilitated by sleani traffic Were such the case, we might well find compensation for our losses in the general. prosperity that would result, but it is only to the privileged-lew that permission is given to-- run this class of vessel and any attempt to encroach on the monopoly thus secured, either on the part of Chinese or Foreign steamers is rendered nugatory by differential duties in the manner we have shown, w
The Afrikander members of the tape Parlia.panies, however, the case appears to be on the main reef is now 45 feet long by 42 feet provincial officer referred to in Clause 9 of the Customs, entailing an increase in the distance
ment have telegraphed to President Kruger urging him to do bis utmost, short of sacrificing the independence of the Transvaal,, to avert
War.
1
WEATHER REPORT.
HONGKONG OBSERVATORY REPORT, The Observatory report says:--
On the 23rd at 11.45 am. The baromet has risen generally. Pressure. is high ove China, and low in the Pacific to the E., of the Loochoos. Fresh inonsoon on the China coast
Ir is generally understood that to obtain pay- ment of an insurance policy it is necessary for the person or persons to whom the money is payable to produce proof of the death of the assurred, and that failing such proof they are obliged to seek for it themselves, receiving no help from the company, whose business it is to pay on receipt of the proofs and not trouble about hunting them up. With mutual.com-
different, as the following instance will show. It transpires that Midshipman Govett, of H.M.S. Orlando, who met with such a sad fate in the new territory the other day, wasiostred in the New York Life. His relatifs having no regular proof of death, the ndon office of the Company in question undertook to obtain it for them and the papers have arrived at the Hongkong branch and have een handed by Mr. A. H. Myers, the Resi- dent Manager, to the Naval Authorities to be filled up and returned. Such a graceful act is calculated to create confidence in any insurance
and in the N. part of the China Sea. FORE. Company and serves to show the benefits of the mutual system, where matters are con- trolled by the policy holders in their own interests.
CAST:-Moderate N.E. winds ; fine.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
of 1892 have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, and that it is the intention of the said ĂUTÖMÄ. TIC TELEPHONE Co. Ln. by Messrs. DENNYS and BOWLEY their Solicitors to apply at the Sitting of the Executive Council hereinaftermentioned for LETTERS PATENT THE hearing of the Hunghom murder case has for the exclusive use within the Colony of been further adjourned. Hongkong of the above: Invention
And Notice is hereby also given that a Sitting of the Executive Council before whom the matter of the said Pethlon will come for deci- sion will be held in the Council Chamber at the GOVERNMENT OFFICES, Victoria, Hongkong, MONDAY, the 2nd day of October, 1899, at
Dated this 22nd day of September, 1899,-
DENNYS & BOWLEY, 12081]
Solicitors for the Applicant. CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
THE Company's Steamship
SUNGKIANG," Captain Moore, will be despatched as above The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this: Steanter.
MONDAY, 10e-a5th-instant-
The Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Livin
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta, Hongkong 23rd September, 1899.
THE new Assistant Harbour Master; Mr. B. R. Hamilton Taylor, arrived by the on yester day.
A MEETING of the Lion and Rose Lodge, R.A.0.B., will be held on Tuesday next at 7.30
Again, with the passenger traffic the Chinese 1st. The prompt publication of the Rules vessels had the option of using all routes con and Rugulations promised in Rule 7 of the innecting Canton with the West River, whereas land Rules and also of the appointment of the we were confined to one only laid down by the latter;
traversed of some thirty miles. They were also privileged to stop at any and all places en roule for the embarking and disembarking of passen- gers or cargo while we were confined to four ports of call (See Canton Commissioner's - Trade Report897, pars, 4, and 7)
tion:
.
2nd-The rescinding of the Inspector-Gen- eral's decision that inter-treaty-port steamers shall not also be registered for inland naviga
3rd-The strict enforcement of Clause 5 of the Supplementary Rules must be insisted on As explanatory of this letter we attach a me morandum dealing fully with the subject.
We have the honour to be,
(Hear follow signatures) His Excellency Sir Claude Macdonald, K.C.M.G., K.C.B., H.B.M.'s Ministerin China.
MEMORANDUM RE INLAND NAVIGATION
in order that the nature and meaning of these restrictions may be fully understood it is neces sary to enter into somewhat lengthy details, but the importance of the stake at issue will, we think, farm ample apology for doing so.
RISE AND SHINE MINE.. Underhand Stopes-No. I stope is 11 feet north on the reef by 24 feet in depth. No. 2 To stope is 18 feet long by 21 feet deep. No. 1 stope is 35 feet long by 12 feet deep. No. 4 reef is very small in the stope at present; we stope is 40 feet long by 6 feet deep. As the have decided to shut this mine down pending the result of the crushing. We cut a very hard. blue bar of rock on the course of the reef in the last lot of stopes. This caused the reef to be small, namely, about 8 inches wide. I have no doubt the reef will make again at 10 or zo feet deeper, as the hard blue bar will not exist long in the reef channel. We have two men prospecting for the reef south of the shaft and I feel sure they will cut it in a few days.
ZULU MINE.
PRIVATE letters from Peking, from thoroughly reliable quarters, ridicule the absurd alleged telegrams published in a section of the Shang- hai press, foretelling all sorts of immediate
Underhand Stopes.-No. 1 stope north of disasters and political struggles, and assert that
main shaft is 6 feet by 14 feet in depth. No. 2 the political atmosphere of the capital has stope is to feel long by 10 feet deep. No. 3 never been calmer for years. Everyone is on stope is 12 feet long by 6 feet deep. No. 7 the look-out for the romancer who supplies stope south of main shaft is 4 feet long by 14 a Shanghatimorning paper with hair-raising long by it feet deep. No. 3 stope south is feet deep. No. 2 stopt south is fect tales, which for downright mendacity re31 feet long by 7 feet deep. You will see by cal the historic Munchausen performances. the depth of the first stopes that the main shaft of its mythical war correspondents of has been sunk a further depth of 10 feet since Ma. F. Seymour, editor and proprietor of The 1894-5. The leader of this noble band of last report. As I have already stated, it is, ne- American, Manila,-was-a-passenger to long-monumental liars, says the China. Guzelle, i stopes. The reef will still average about 18 cessary to keep the shaft going down to make kong on the N. Y. K.'s gleaner Yazała maru,
thought to have recently emigrated from the inches wide and shows nice gold. I expect to and left to-day for Japan en route for the front" to the Chinese capital. A record of the have 70 tons of stone from this mine by the
alleged telegraphic messages from Peking for end of this week. the past two months has been kept in that city,
p.m.
United States
A LITTLE Chinese girl was going down lot tinger Street on Thursday night carrying and not one of the countless startling assertions lighted lamp when she fell and set fire to her he has made has been discovered to have even clothing. She sustained severe injuries and the most slender foundation on fact. During lived only a short time afterwards.
he past week or so he has been singularly in- active and it is surmised he must be busy at work concocting another "secret" treaty--this ime between China and Japth--which will be given to the world one fino morning as the little sister of the famous Cassini Convention which was begot-in-the same unholy-way.
MR. II. Phelps Whitmarsh special correspon dent of that well-known American journal Outlook, arrived here by the China en soute to the Philippines. He is stopping a few days in [1175a the colony, putting up at the Hongkong Hotel
BATTERY.
We started to crusli with 10 stamps and two pans on last Monday alternoon, the 14th, and up to date have put over 80 tons of stone through the battery. I am pleased to state that all the machinery is running very smoothly. We have lost no time, whatever with the uria
The Dam is full of water and even if thereis no rain for months we have sufficient supply for crushing. There is a certain amount of loss in running 10 stamps, but the difficulty cannot be overcome before the new cams, arrive so as to put the other 10 stamps in working order,
chinery.
The
The question of opening the shorter roules to foreign vessels was made the subject of re presentation to HM.'s Consul at Canton, but so scandalous had the disabilities under which cured, in running steamers practically empty we laboured become and so heavy the losses in- that the question of withdrawing them alto gather from the trade was being seriously con- sidered when the throwing open, of the inland
waters gave the 1.M. Customs the chance, of which they gladly availed themselves, of at- tempting to place us on terms of equality, with
our opponentsThis equality in respect to the carriage of passengers we now enjoy and wo At the opening of the West River to foreign were not without hopes that, by Clause 5 of the trade two lines of steamers were started by us Suplementary Rules under Inland Steam Navi- to engage in the carrying trade of it-one for gation Regulations, goods carried in native the direct trade between Hongkong, and Wur boats towed by steamers would come under the chow via Samshti and the " ports of call"; the same rules for duty payment as, goods carried other between Canton and Wuchow also via in our vessele, but up to date there is no sign Samsbui and the "ports of call." On the direct of any attempt being made to bring this about, route the advantage accruing to merchants from and, moreover by the Inspector General's deci the payment of a fixed sum for import duty and sion it would appear that instead of a further transit dues which franked their goods through step being taken to secure equality of taxation to the remote paris of Yunnan and Kweichow for all goods, no matter how carried, a retroga caused a considerable rush of imports to find movement is contemplated which will place us instead of via the Pakhoi overland ruute, etc. opening their way in from Hongkong by water carriage in the disastrous tion we occupied at the
the trade etc, which they had followed previous to their hig opening of the river. The lekin authorities have sibility of from time to time held out threats of reducing good their import duty on goods, thus diverting them be best Canton provincial authorities have adopted pay from foreign to native craft, but although the goo these tactics with the success which usually characterizes their actions of this sort, there har been, up to date, no-systematio-attempt-to- extend them throughout the length of the West River, so that to a large extent the competition we encounter although keen: ip bai the natural. result of rivalin trade
When the inland waters of China were first declared to be open a good deal of doubt existed as to the conditions under which the navigation of them would be allowed, and with a vier gaining information on this important por important to us, not only from the expan trade that would result but also that seriously modify the plans of vemels then contracting to have bulls ap the Imperial Maritime Custom, Al-
oodithe
ring.
carriage of