1890-02-06 — Page 3

No. 8447-FEBRUARY 6, 1890,]

With

THE CHINA MAIL

undor growth of the cloacat description, work by the European assistants, so you the various Companies wore lead to be the Gazette úffica, which is merely a tribes have been taken in hand, some of all this, one must acknowledon that he is a pensar farmers in danger of starvation, I

trom

almost totally."ucinhabited, and before for the market, which takes about six | essential is there to make it a succes, and it { into the chamber of the Grand Connell. ́It

THE SAVAOKS 67 TURNAN

the Gazette, But next to him, beyond all raised mountain sides will dasure you that «you can setually under and what is going / weeka, and showed the grest care and at- is simply a question of good luck and gand that body thinks it advisable that any of

Do thure yùu must picture to your- tention which the work requires.)

management as to whether that sucoess in the documents should not be given openly has been shown in repressing or subjugate on one's guard, and not to be led away one. In Shens, however, the inhabitants Dating the last year or two great spargy doubt, cures Chang Chih-tung One must the season is for them an unusually good solves the whole north-cut as nt pre-

to be assured, or not. Dividends will not to the world, it plans avoto on their pubing these sabages or somi-envages in several by Obeng Chih-tung's exceedingly high lite of one of the mountain districts live, chilly sent one vast forest of denio jangle-

BIFFICULTIENFANG DELAYS.

be realized in six or twelve or eighteen | lication. Copies of the remainder are. forest where the trees are interlac d The Chiness have to be trained for this months, as perhaps some shareholders of taken day by day, and ure banded out to quarters. Some of the Yunnan frontior fary capabilities, or bis undoubted power of on potatoon; and then have retted in the blowing his own trumpet. But allowing for ground from the excessive wat, leaving the whera iti

is impossible get along ton farde can very well understand that in the earlier live at the commencement, but dividends concern. The office prints

to

being apparently those very Kachyens In any direction unless you cut your war. days of a planting estate in the great will most certainly be restined at the end pleason of the papers, selecting, I suppose, between Bhamo in Burts and Tong-yuoh os dition to bis indufatigable activity, heap stated to sabaiat also in part on maize, the many as who give so much trouble to caravans passing most striking, vigorous personality. In ad-should mention that these potato caters are I am spanking from my own personal know tobacco industry of Borce it is not so of two or three years and they must be ex- those which it considers of most interest; Momein. The Canton Government is just pears as a man who means to be master, and crop of which has in like minner proved a lodge, for I went with a party 120 mies very say to get all these things done and tremely handsome dividends indeed. At The rest are no more lienet of up the Kinibatangan River and tried to land to get people to do them, and that the present the Companies have difficulties in With these remarks I will pass on to live in the north-west corner of the jurisdiction. Bureaucracy is very strong in

taking measures against the Yau tribes who males over those who are under his failure -atsevarsi, places, but forms we could not cultivation of tobacco is much more ex- their way. They havo to spend a lot of what is my main object to-night, bamely, province. The Governor of Formosa an Governor breaks down, becauza the officera Dably been done in Kiangan, in the country Of the thirtoon provinces where distress. China. Many awell-intention, intellectual has occurred, the greatest damage kos pro- get five-yards without cutting our way. pensive than it is likely to be in for money, and they have to spend what is to draw your attention to the amount of The whole coast line is covered with man-years, when labour will he more readily perhaps gran noro valuable, a lot of time, information which may be derived from it grovo, sometimos milo ar mile and a obtained and competent and experienced and it depends on good luck and good concerning China, and to bring to your half in depth, a vast mass of roots with airmen more plentiful. A company starting management whether tobacco caltivation in notice a few matters of interest which have unknown depth of water or mud below, hera under the most favourable circum Borneo is to be a success or otherwise. paourred during the last year or two, Unless you take n dezen or twenty men stances in the beginning of 1889 could

At the close of the lecture a voto of before thanks was passed to Mr Franc on the with perangs you can't eat your way into lurdly lope for any return it. There are no roads, no patle, no means May, June or July 1891, and that premisce motion of Mr A, P. Stokes. of it from one part to another by land that everything has gone well. On soDIG univas yep, ent à road. The Government estates as many as 80 cent of the cooliún |

per as yet has made no roads, so that communi. have been lost by sicknese. One state is cation from one calate to anothor is entire not so healthy as another; one management -ly by ses and river. The estates are very is not na successful as another, and one lot

THE SINGAPOREANS AT BONG- KONG. The Straits Times saya; At the hour

TUB KELIABILITY OF THE NEWS 15 TAE

GAZETIE..

Except for what happens within a mile or two of the few treaty ports, the Peking Gadle is pretty wall the only source whance we can get any authentic informa-

Bandakon to the mouth of the river, and you ↑ na another. There is a great deal in man- pureage. whom we rent to Hongkong will course it is not always ontirely to be de- the Lolos in Southern Suchaan, portion could pivo information southorized subek, and atit fos going all the time, however; in a firm found that tobacco can be grown for corno badly beaton is beyond question, especially poloon the Great "votedly employed the these bold and hardy mountaineers, others of less criminality were panished in 10,000, gira by disgraced officials in the

water, but with nothing on either side but dense forest. The only connection between astato and estate, or between the estates and Sandakan, is by storm launch, and sometimes when the weather is bad you can't get out of Bandukan and roand the const for trecks. Durvol Bay is 26 hours Uran in a powerful steara launch.

OPENING UT AN ESTATE,

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海 way.

thera ara

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ali that has got in be paid, the cost of materially inferior to that of the northeration. And the other day; reading a factivity, they descend frequently from When the great floods of 1888 occurred true that the donor very ofton knows that

the

to spot in neam wages of ma-

to be. Take,

has got to be done is to obtain a e mpetent/the third year of its existence with uny.regards the billiards, however pleased we the bank for instance, the breaking of always attempting to geek: safety in fight it. But I know of no other high mand.vernment or the public at all. Thus and

haye

DIG PROFITS.

the freshelf have to make godovin it to pay in May or June which they doserve our hands; and it will.

OA

THE POSITION OF THE EMPEROR.

have

CHANG, CHIH TUNG'S ADMINISTRATION.

waa

POLICE NEWS.

or will it, as it ought, merely prove a constructed by the Contenint en time to his ueras in the Viceroyalty at (and when he is paid forgets to rehira tho

if Kuei.

island have been completely subdued. 3. The under his orders secretly thwart him instond not far from Shanghai But the people nounces that the satagon throughout that Chinese have understood the old Reman of supporting him when he attempts to re there being more well-to-do than in almos maxim that the way to effect the conquest form any abuco. But with Chang thorp is may other part of the Empire, they will be of a country is to drive roada through it. Ahort, poremptory manner, and those who able to tide over the misfortune with less. It is by paths which have been opened would balk him soon find the danger of the actual suffering than any other provinciale through this trackless mass of mountains game. His belincie and vigour are well-could, that the Emperor for the first time in the known in thecuspaign heinstituted last

THE LIBERALITY OF THS CHINESE history of the country, has already been against the criminals who abound in Onn-- able to placo his yoke on the neck of the ten more than in any o other part of the Em. Turning over the pages of the Gasete ono savages in Formues. But, perhaps, more pire, Under his orders special commissions cannot but bo struck by the constant nolsworthy yet in the fact that oporations were sent into orory part of the province willingness to contribute to charitable evidence of the liberality of Chinese, of their scattered. It is forly miles from of coolies may not be so carefully selected when theso columna aro read, tho Sization ou encrent Chinese history. Of have been successfully conducted again need to. Enquiries were mado, those who fubjects.I am speaking bure of bond fide

and troups moved up to support them if But that has not been the of whom have boon made tus

todo ifte, nt of contributions malo to some. have forty miles to go up the river beforo agement and in inek, int going into the bo on their return voyags: basten, tit, we pentod on.

to sna for peace

list for the sake of cass with regard to official publications in and swear allegiance. Renders of Mr, and large numbers of you come to tho dist estate. You are figures as carefully as one can it will be hopo, not dismayed. That they have bout other countries as well as in China. Na- Baber's interesting travels will remember were seized, tried, and summarily ozaented equiring oficial.

and as those maltors which they have wim arg

Io all 10 mon were thus put to death, while usan the large sum

sum, generally Tis of thing liks 70ents at The 135 only extras added as an afterthought, and

that it can be sold at cents of a frin per pound. I see by not really contemplated when the visit was them to. Again, as recently as the last juts not like a promonturg into. 1 nman. That his action benefitted the province is this lost peitions. Rel dunations of The ing the Freneli bolijevo what he wished of the Yangtze whountry sing just north

a portion of Seahann various ways and then reirased on bail, hopes of their being permitted to regain book published by the British North Borneo arranged. The object of the tour was Company the average price of tobacco cricket, and in three cricket matches-British campaign in Egypt, one has found Though surrounded on all sides they have certain, and it dau bliss was cadarsed by 1,00 or Tls, 2,000 are very often recorded already sent home from Borau has been involving in all oloven inning cur theZ one of the Generals publishing his own hitherto always preserved their independ public opinion. Still none but a bull and a big prosented for the relief of distress, 21 per pound. So far as I can make ont have been so invariably drubbed as to at out of some of the fallitary movemente once, and have verur suffered the presence energetis afficer would have dared to broak the sport of schools, or other works of the figures, and making a liberal allowance make it beyond doubt that our cocinket is of 10 bontradict the oficial statement of a Chinose in their country except as thou

though the ordinary legal procedure in public bentät. Thus resently use retired of the Commander-in-chief of the expadi- pronor. Endued with great vigour and activity

Of Chang Chih-tung's Officer of rank a given money and land to land, the cast of preparing the ground, the but it was generally thought that in tonnis ponted as saying, test thers, are three rounding country, and carrying off captives So much wa perhaps expected, story, I found a young English officer their mountain fastnesser, larrying the sur colony.

many indications the value of nearly Tis. 20,000 in order to found a college in his native town. It is cost of preparing house, The best thing you have to bear in mind. nagers, aasiatanta and coolies, no esiste can we might bold our own, and there also degrees of comparison. First, prevarica whom they keep se slaves & French

the East River, ho hurried to is the very grave difficulty of getting from ba carried on under an expenditure of have been beaten, except when two of our tion; second, alio; superlative, an official priest was taken by them in one of their himself to supervise the measures that were

launch in order stone archway will be erected in his bour. delo retard for his liberality a poî-losi or pue estate to another. Every estato must $5,000 per month. An-estate carried on at ladies stopped on the groen and so far re- have itssteam launch, in order to get every- that expenditure is able to cultivate from doomed the repitation of the Settlements. pot. But though one cannot put ima. raids some years ago, but after a short da takon. A little latur, when similer danger But this is only a parallel of the staluo ect thing that way ba required aput. Take the case of a company formed and it it gets a fair average aaran-picul crop out that, ble Coxol, whe won the singles carefully will be of the opinion that it is far literally naked and wounded. The Chinese pixson, ordering, organizing, and encourage us how grocerity withoy, the brought to the three to five hundred fields each year, On the other haud it is only fair to point Gazelle, I think that those who study it worth keeping and was allowed to escape, and North Rivera, he won again present in bonofactura in England by their gratuitul

plicit contienes in what cue reada in the tention he was apparently not considered was threatened in the valleys of the West up, or the postriit still oftener presenter

bero for opening up and planting an estate from these fields, as very one down there for Hongkong, is an eld Singapore man,

follow-townemen. Moreover, many large of, say, 10,000 aeros; the first thing that fully expects to do, that compang will in and a Singapore champion to

boot. As

mare accurate than it is generally supposed villagers hold them in the greatest activity for the ruler of an imperilled dis- Bames of the donors coming before the go-

ing This

may not seem very extraordinary

manager. He must either Le a Dutchman thing lika ordinary lack be abls to repay aro to congratulate Mr Braddell, we cannot re

of the Yellow River in Honan and not during to offer resistance.

Their or an Englishman, any a man who has out of the product of its crop, the whole precisely describe the game as an athletic tours ago. A very complete account complete subjugation is necessary for the sin who would have done the same.

that in four years the sun of Tis. 226,601 had experience in tobacco cultivation capital that has been expanded and have one, while It is only fair to admit that Mr vernment to meet it, was given in the effected by the Chinese troops, who, armed the calamity and of the efforts of the Ga-panace of the country, and will probably be

subscribed by

bed by persons pot mentioned, la Kings alone, for nofterers from foods in Sumatra or Java. Then assistants something like $100,000 to the good. Trogarthen, who won the single sculls, have to be obtained,

published on the subject. Yet with foreign weapons of precision, are now coclies

came to Singapore through Hongkong, and writers in the newspapers, and writers to able to face those who have defied them for by its ceulightened character. It is not so friends, collected in the south tunge than

memoriala

in the one province of Shantung. Simil- His administration has also been marked arly, one gentleman, with the help of a few to bo get from Hongkong or Swatow. Then

There is one estate-I am not going to us claim his prowess as the result of Straits cinued to put forth conjectures and theories, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINING INDUSTRIES,

has scarcely been long energiz here to lot the newspapers, tenth after month cen-ager sean launch must be chartered or

uncommon thing to sea a unndazin adve Tis. 56,000 for the relief of the 'distressed bought the manager and his assistants, the mention its name-managed at the present training-although he has trained here

cata the diminution of scine tex, because the coolies, the tools, provisions, materials for ornit by a Dutchman, and I am told on vers regularly and in a steady fashion to timely disregarding and sometimes diruot

greater trade thereby ensurod will bring is in this province of Chill. As far as I can The Gas fte bears evidence to the desire a large revenue. But it is a very rate thing contradisting the intelligence given in

learn, The record as a

rowards were given for this the construction of houses, and everything the boat authority that that estate puta which deserves succes. you can possibly want you have to get to couple of thousand dollars to the good on whole is therefore one of very great defeat. einent ougineers of more that one nation duratrics. The official y worked mines in done with the Canton iron trudo, its the rough whose perseverance nad industry the pages of the Gazelle. But now that of the Government to develop mining in to see one take off duties, as Chang has multicence, not even to the persons the forest and jungle has to be cut down. per cent last year and has tobaces in ita and lost Than navor to have gone at all that the officials reports from first to last Whether they are successful in a peex-provincial Custorns receipts aitist he rocuc- where your estate is. When you got there its first year's wall planting, paid 117 Nevertheless, tis better to have gone have visited the locality, it is wail-known Yuman continue to send copper to Peking. hope of assisting commerce, althoughs the it was gathered. There is nothing

waiting for shipment which when our cricketers have done their best, fur

were in a high degree orrect anti trnetary point of view, it would be very rushed thereby. Ila has his faults of course, everything fur

The moment you sold will

Ons may teruse with advantage even to say. The Superintendent, Tang Chiung, but they are not those of timidity or advoid what is called, satirically, the Police to be done is to clear not something like 55 per cent. The scarcely be negociary to remind them that worthy

asks for more capital and promises a larger ing responsibility. His boldness in altemp News portion some serall space and put up tomport don't think any of our companies do. I mean to play cricket well they must prac rary Dutch companies do something which I the lesson of their dsfest is that if they

our-put in coming years.

the dazette, that is the Hohne boca Ling to broak trough either buildings, and then you set to work to ent a broad road along the whole front of your don't know whether they are compelled to tica more. It may be added that if another year are, I need hardly say, the marriage tags: Be is one of the purcat and must to receive more than one novare anub fcom cases often throws light ou social customs

standing Or The most noteworthy evants of the past granted an additional sum of a million special instructions has caused him recently out of trials for murder and other zarious crimes, For the narrative of the ostate. Then broad roads have to be made do it by law, or whether it is simply a inter-colonial contest is arranged it will be sul accession to power of the Emperor. capable of the Emperor's servants; and if the Emperor. Only the other any he was and habits is different parts of the country. right into the depths of the forest, to enable custom of their own, but they are in the well to remember that there are a number The baby, who by fores of circumstances the mines en succeed in the hands of any sharply rebuked for asking to be excused Ons learns, for instance, how in some Jon to got to work. These roads are some habit of replacing out of the gross receipts of good cricketers in the Straits with whom sixteen years ago, was suddenly carried into oficial, they will do so in his. ite will be from sending ia detailed accounts of his places the hired labourer lives in the houto swanty feet wide and thoroughly cleared of the year the allo of the capital we might strengthen our teams, and whom the palace and proclaimed sovereigr., hus remembered by you, perhaps, so the military expenditure, on the grounds that rud messes with the family, if his employer. of roote. They are not masadainized, of exponded in land, buildings, cost of man- we have hitherto omitted to recognizs for now begun to role in reality. His position Governor of Yunnan who was sentenced to the Treasury clerks would make them a In another paper one reads that a fan in course, butthay arofairly decentraads. Dorp agement and an on before they consider rather insuficient reasons. The Singapore is curious. As Emperor he ie supreme and death for his unsuccess against the French opportunity for aqueezing Indeed, bis drains have to be cut along these roads that they have got any profit to desk with. Recreation Club-which means the Eura lord of a But his adopted mother, who in Tongking Copper mines have been regardlessters of contine la usid to have led in the habit of going to the bi-monthly fair Then the forset and jungle has to bo cut If English companies noted

that sian Club-contains come cricketers who, bus heen regent for five and his father, to public company, but it is too 2006 to know down, and the wood that you don't mako princip'e they would not be paying such though they may not be equal to our best is abilli or five and twenty yeara,atarted in Kucichow also, in this case by him into terrible financial difficulties vive a man with as

nad.

turning in the evening unerry, which nse of on the spot has to lay buried: very good dividende, shhought still very men, with their old home training, would whom to as a 37n esos implicit obedisuse. whether they will be likely to inecend, were in such a condition the urlter day that pportunity to knock him on the head.

is no secret that his provincial accounts

a grudge against hint the It takes six competent men a month to handsome dividends the first year or certainly give strength to any team to which Will this trango situation lead to un- cut down an nore of jungle. When I ass two, but they certainly would be in a goai- they misht be added. It is unnecessary worthy falrignes and secret strivings, Hainan,Very large

The samo may ho aid. Tron minis in bo coukl not hand user charge at the proper particular instance, corn, at 36 f.c.

liero a usurar Jorida money, or ratlus in the agy tinn to pay an enormous dividend in the for the present purpose to mention sens, an acre I mean a space that is

interest, rough- ly called an acre but is really about an oere third or fourth year..

but auyous who understands cricket and helpful apport to youthful inexperience chew near Ssu-chon Fu in that province.

Canton. He is an opponent of foreigners, and a third. All their calculations are

note, but presents it again years watches it will admit that several of the

as one wightexpect a man ef his tempera afterwards. There a baily tries to extort made by fields, and what they call a field

YBĖ EXTENT OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY,"

Recreation Club men are stronger cricketers

An inundation this summer of unprevdent ment to be; and, he has thereby been ledmone Perhaps there is no subject with which to eight has Hooded the buildings and into gigantic mistakes," which ond would aunt's illness. The illness was alleged t

money from a neighbor for causing his is 60 fast in breadth and 150 feet in depth, It may be thought that the increase in than at least several of those whom we sent

delayed operations. There is doubtless have thought so clear sighted a man could have arison becues is capable of planting that fioid, but after effect of reducing prises, but I sen no which no one should recognize case. The the national reveans. Though the informa-But the surrounding country is Ond coelis, if he knows what he is about,

to Hungbung. Now cricket is a game in many memorials are concerned as that of good ore there in plenty and easy of access.

neighbour cut down have committed. Rat he has some trees a bowshot distanco from s tavo it is cleared. To cut down the wood is a avidance of that. Is Borneo there are only social rule which governe the composition which they give is fragmentary, still a sparsely inhabited, and means of com

Dustust foreignri inventions and which the bully claimed to belong to his the stuff and dry it so that it is it to burn, ceded or let cut one way or another by the players shall beams is that professional good deal of matter may be picked up from mmication with the richer provinces are sin of telegraph linen in that extenfamily'; though, as the trial prosed, the moria's work for air men. To gather up very nearly a million seres already con-tion of cricket

app intices. He has prumuted a diferently chased from gen. thom. The duencial system of China is a costly and difficult. It is therefore doubt. Einingtung and Kungsi. A

the two provinces of

or grave Fas sorgebody ela, a property antires aix weeks, and when the wood has been estates on the Kimbatangan River, ofthers, and of cares we all know curious mixture of extremo centralization Tul whether the enterprise can ever to striking instance of his willingness to say. These moite are trifles, certainly,

British Norths Borneo-Company Cely mis-

still light of that rule the creation Offb and equally great decentrabzation. Auth commercially exccessful fo new methods was shown by what he did and custome Bat I hope you will nader soopt but they add to 's knowledge of manners about a thousand seres each, have been cricketers (and other men of Eurasian de ority must be obtained from Peking before expenditure can be incurred

year ago to improve the channel of the stand that the last thing which I sm tisose of the other Clubs in the Colony. In iu avy of

The triennial examinati-as hold in their called the Kueichiang in Kuang, desirous of doing is to draw general deduc ace there are four gone simply get-nelf, and everyone down thero assures me

This atresia descends from Kuei-lin, he tions from these isolated alances; for the in nrgmcy money is often spent first and capital of every province have taken place ting a few fields ready into which to that it is excellent tobacco land; on portions our houses we freely accept in

capital of the provi cu, and joins the West plant your tobacco, and whether you of it most excellent tobacco has already equality those men of mixed lood who sanction is given the same cannot be charged having been held to commemorate the It was notorious as, alio més silicone

example, to arguo from them that dranken- succeed or mót in that time depends dean grown. I think it has been proved to prove themselves to be our social equals, in the provincial accounts. On the other Emperor'a marriage and accceaíou to postgate of all the important water-ways in Some of us, perhaps all of us, are mucli too on whether you are successful in getting the satisfaction of everyone down there that La cricket the qualification for crickets épaule ropene and financial system. them in the Guzelte is more curious that Trbung Under the Vicarora orders the insufficient grounds..

a practice of sending in their bills twice. band, each of the twenty provinces has ita Perhaps nothing recorded concerning Cina, far more no than the Zangla above prone to theoriza in Chinese piatters on asofu! isbourers who have some knowledge the soil is as good and as suitable for to-equality is to be a

a good cricketor and of forest work.

bacco culture as any in Java or Sumatra, man is no less a good aricketer, or a good Each province is required annually, accord- the giving of special degrees to aged rocks which impeded ita course were in eapable of growing tobacco equal to RHY race instead of getting as he might larger sum to the Peking Government, and favour must have competed three times any places blown up by dynamite, zad

fallow, because he stays among

others of ing to its wealth, to furnish a smaller OF scholara. These who are granted. thue The Chinese have no knowledge of such spite of till drawbacks, in spite of the cost of easily get-admission to the clue frequent the remainder of its grips it spurds must be eighty years old, and their com rapida was thereby in a great degres saane is described is year age in a town in

produced in Java or Sumaira and in

mes, the difenity of passing the dangerous Again, to return to my subject, a striking. work, and they are found to be almost use- labour, they are able to produce that tobacco ed by persons mostly--but not all of pure locally for authorized purposes. The positions must bo declared to be less from that cause. They are useful field and put it on the market at a price which European blood. Indeed, we believe that wanliliter provinces, however, ora anbject quality. From ovey province the use hands, having that wonderial patience and gives them a very handsome profit, some

the true reason why oricketers of Eurasian to calls made upon them under orders from of a few men who have fulfilled these can- industry which enables them to giva. the.

ching like 50 or 60 or 70 per cent on the ence are apt to be overlooked is a doubt Peking, ou account of satratirdinary ex-ditions are sent in; and one or two of them tobacco plants the careful attention they actual cost of production. Tobacon can be whether it is just to ask them to encounter ponses in same of the poorer regions. Thus are stated to be even ninety years of age. want day after day, bat they are of little or grown at retinerstice prices mul there is the beary expenses incurred in auch in the Parkentan Government .ceives sub This pursuit of the distinction on the very no usa in the earlier work on the eastate increasing market for it at home at the ozcursion; but that argument of course sidies from several quartara on behalf of its verge of the grava is a striking testimony Think what this position of a manager is

present ruling rates. There is this peca- would not 'spply to any matek played here, ac subiecta of the Emperor to keep a What would you think is the pecuniary authorities was the Governor-General Ts'en ple The tax perhaps iafired in kind. diwn there, with hundred and fifty fiarity about tobacco,

which has not only the Moham- to the honour in which it held.. or rin any place less distant than Hongkong credat coolies, the sweepings of Hongkong, en- overdo the market with it, because land on We are glad to heat that a match is check upon, bat is also supposed to make a valas of a provincial degree? Of course Yiying, who died at his post last summer. tirely

ignorant of the work they are which it has Lees grown has to be put out being already arranged in which the play of force with which to cutron fuerenity. i use thing, positions whom any lust of the great mandarins of the last again its exchanged for silver. The catra in commuted for so many cush, and this ed to do,

and I don't think you of cultivation for will be astonished-if there have been bufule is can be used again. Therefore play those who went to Bongsong-the sent time the total of these North-western cot he bought and even if it could be the Taiping rebellion. Ta en Yü-ying owed and son, All these things give the local

for five, alx or seven years cricketers who stayed in Singapore will Russians across the frontier. At the pre- price, it is one of positions which can- twenty years, were brought to the front by percentages are charged, fees a great

for receipts many delaya in

in opening operates there is a

to 11 the buyer would be known to have obtained his elevation to the Mohommedan or treasury olerks ere is a quantity of land thrown out suggested data being the public holiday on military anbventions amounts down there, Suppose, then, you have of cultivation and the new land will the 8th February; and in that watch it is 1,300,000 per annua, Nimilarly, subsidies it by purchase, and would rank far lower

Panthay on some cintos arrenty have been oprave, deficiency; so that the supply of tobacco tors will be induced to take a band. The and to Manchuria. If a province cannot ad heir degree by marit. But I will sa pression of this widespread and long endur. the people think even without reason that talking about pening a thousand fields a strides as one would think which we hear of and it may be hoped that the wholesome cislly bankrupt, is obtains permisaion to question. As you probably how, Those apictions figures. To undoubted conrage bably never a year goes by bus in

Balenzio & hot inercaling with with enormous result will be walc'hed with much attention, meet its calle, that it to say, is in fact offt plain why i asked this rather queering xovole, he was one of the two most con- they are paying thors that is right. Pro- has been roportul you may depend upon it any places in which it is beginning to be rivalry aroused and the interest crested postpone its remittance to other places til examinations are competitive, not pass not belied by his country meu, suast ex- Hampden stands forth and refuses payment that it can't be dune.A thonsand Belis eultivated. The Dutchmen are enming will tend materially to raise the standard of the following year, the would-be recipient examinations. That is to any, each tu traordinary power of dissimulation. He was of a claim which he believen unjust, The pase and governing caproity, he added, it he be corner or other of the Empire a Village means from 10 to 2,000 cookies, and over to Britah North Borneo because the Straits Settlements cricket. they could not get it ready for entivation and in Sumatra is beginning to approach

getting on in the meantime as well as it vinga hea silatted to it a certain axed a native of Kuangsi, but was said to be by (out of which he himself in anfa ander a couple of years. If people begin the point of cxhaustion, Therefore it ap

can without money in hand.

number of places, and that wanber of men descent of Shan and uut of Chinese blood is only a fat shillings, or cyan a few pence, ia unfairly melted, quietly with a hundred and fity or two parts to me that there is no very serious

PALACE EXPENDITURE,

is selected at each exspiiaation. Nowever There are many Siran tribes scattered along Be will be in all probability hopelessly hundred they inny do something, but if they danger of the supply of tobacco being over

brilliant a scholar any one may be still lo are fro ambitious they are in re likely to done and prices falling away,

One meets also with onions items as to fail if there are enough better than be to the frontier of Yunnan and Kuangai; but ruined for life, prelaps banished, peasibly be disappointed.

At an ordinary meeting of the Tientsin Li. Palace expauditure. Last year over twenty fill all the places. But under certain their members ever ruse to a high a native sturdiness nud stubbornness ho pas probably it is the first time the one of beaten, to death; but supported by his OTHER INDUSTRIES WILL FOLLOW TOBAGO terary and Dubating Beeiety, held on 7th thousand tacle wore paid for porcelain for circumstances, by a special out of grace in position in the official hierarchy of China. sisis steadfastly to the very end. His cause THE TOBACCO PLANT. Toboero is first planted in the nursery,

Jantiary, Mr Bullock read a paper on the the single year. The greater part of this the part of the Emperor, the number and in about six weeks it is sufficiently wel Borneo-and I have no doubt it will

Now if tobacco is a

Peking Gazette, with reference to current was for actual use in the palace; but a vacancies may by increase on some parti-In noticing Teen Yu-ying's death, theo that of all his neighbours and friends, BLICOFRS in Chinese History.'

portion, it should be said, was intended to colar occasion. Thus there sesais to be a which he performed beyond the frontier in

Emperor speaks of the brilliant exploits and whether he be successful er vanquished: grown to be planted out in the "felda.

After remarking on the presumed unpa be given away in presnis. It camo, of rule that if the inhabitants of any province 1884 I am not well enough sequuiated | try side...

be lives or diea tho hero of the whole coun- It is planted ant in rowa, which are bes great success—almost every other palarity of the Gazette/among general Kiulos Mujesty, costs over Tls, 15 distress and the like in such a case at the Then toyboy. But it would be interest fer raplod tu suma questions made by

course, from the famous works near contribute a aum of Th

305,000 to any with the history of the war in Tungking to three feet apart, auch plant being two feet description of cultivation and industry will

Every ounce of ginseng sup- public object, important works, relief of distant form the norm. In that way the Its does not pay to grow gambier or pep follow It is merely a question of labour.

plied to His

keow what share in was actially taken by At the conclusion of the paper the lec regulation Bold carries about 10,000 subacco

Forturatoly the amount required does not next examinations, for one time onlying to learn if one could, how he secured various plants.

Now it is absolutely true that per or anything of that sort because the

the number of literary and of military

mombers, among others by Mir when it is put into the ground it is fall-profils are not so good as to pay for the compel us to study the written language of Dunces a year,

nuch autocess, while the other commander Bryson, who in the course of his remarks grown about six weeks, but during these pormous cost of labour. But the supply China, are botter acquainted with the con-

There is a vast num spant on silks and creased by one. Under this rule the pro- Chiung, was condemned to death, as has 2 weeks it has to be ment carefully at ber of fresh immigrants coming in is incres and study it day by day, as being the best in the Imperial felonies at threo phions, of subscriptions smounting to T 600,000 TES DESTRUCTION DONE BY TLOODS.

of labour is increasing daily and the num tents of the publicationWo tako it up satins of the Emperor and his household. vince of Sechuan alaimed swe extra places been mentioned aborg.

mony on matters referred to by Mr Bullock, fended to, if there is no rain it has to be

The manufacture of these articles is carried at the last examinations, on ocenunt

Mr Bryson gave inforinstion about the high * carefully watered, it has to be carefullyg. The government of British North source where we can and a supply of docu

ability and courage of Chang Chih-sung earthed up and kept free fruar insects; and Bernen has now almost completed arrange me to couched in that style with which we valiow. Haugchew, and Nanking. What A rule also exists that a contribution to

when quite a yanng and unknown man, and warsaly praisexi thu murniirial writing of the a by which Indian labour may be safely desire to be as far as possible acquainted with ordinary indents, supplementary in military objects of Tia: 100 000 will couro Chicanan is in charge of each field, and his

Chinese, whose enganoy and perspicuity in arguing out a question it would be difficult

and then burn it, takeethon six men another

burned off, it takes another six weeks bu

the cultivation of tobacco will hate the

Flemen

THE NATIONAL REVENUE.

ed

access. not

very

TRIENNIAL EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREES.

Tore

Arab up all the smaller roots and bring the opened, up. I aan perfectly certain that arent are precisely on the same footing as new or a raviness; though in cases of

nil into a fit state for cultivation. So you this is good land; I could see that for my this Colony, not only in our Clube, alleare asked for afterwarde : but till that again this notums; au extra examinatun River close to the frontier of Kuangtung uess is common in China, er créditorajnjake

A

months

CHINESE LABOUR.

It is difficult to

busin

*

of

RESISTING THE AUTHORITIES.

the success of this experiment will facilitate in summer and the growing crops were rain- diminished. One cannot but think that Kiangai, whore, when the water bad failed the application some day of similar meaed, the country people marched to the Ma- seres to the famous rapids above Iohang.. gistrate's office, bearing in their hands bundles of withered rice stalks and demand- THE LATE VICEROY OF TENNAN

ing that their land tax might be remitted. The only other.

conspicuous A never-ending cause is the land tax of character among the high Chinese struggles between the officials and the peo

very

Th

a handied or two hundred felda cleared little more than. make up for the believed that tho Becreation Club cricks-aro regularly furnished both to Yunnan in the public eye than those who had gainsay Rebellion of Yunnan. In the aup more than they ounities for ellorting

ot

IN BORNEO.

THE PEKING GAZETTE.

AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION.

readers, the anther prooneded:

128 ZATEKARY VALUE.

of gum.etirees make

Some of us, however, whose avocations seem to be very large-less than aidates chosen may be each of Yunnca troops, the unfertugsts Tang. I gave so very interesting personal Yeati

ке

The past year has been noteworthy for

Exchange.

it is no Chinaman's work to do that. Queported, and some of the Dutch plante: The authors of the paper are the moat doris, and special indsats, one cannot say

a similar favour, and a contributing of Ta, the extraordinary number of foods which .ស. using their powers to get the permission skilful and practised writers in the Empire what the cost is to the country. But the 300,000 will obtain it in perpetuity. This hare occurred during the summer and Athe profila pí that field. When fairly well-Jarances into the country. The cost of originally won their position by their lite spent annually taust be well abora† when the Empire was in pecuniary straits extreme-disaster as the great inundation

Pay and profits, if he gets any, come out of the Dutch Government to intenduse They are either high mandarins who havegures that one lies at hand show that the more liberal rule was doubtless instituted autumn. There had indeed heat no such to surpass in the West, Brown-it seems to grow to a height of chinese labour is also diminishing, end the ary ally, or else they ara carefully £100,000 sterling, I may be twice as at the line of the Taiping rebation, which last year buried deep bouçath" ita | two-and-a-half or three fect, comewhat like Chinese although comparatively of little value lected and, for Chins, very highly paid much. At the amallest estimate it seems has just been put in force an n'cabbage grown to scod, with a big stalk-·

seats of water thousands of aquare miles of fe tile It is cut down and thrown into baskets and for the wind of work which isrequired inópan secretaries. As au instance of the groat an immensa anm to spend on dress mas paying off arreano se troops in Lend-in Manoburia or anything like the carried into big sheds, where the plants are

an estate, are. valuable 12 COUâectLD

desolation caused by tho importance attached to skill in memorial torials, even taking into consideration that Fungs hung og on bauibue polus to dry, in such a with the cultivation of the tobacco way that the air gois Tisbetween thum. Speaking of the extent of tobacco band, drogy I was told a few years ago, and I some of the pieces are given away as pre- The ausuber of candidates who compete tung which awapt from the face of the earth

buy it in the case still, that His Excel-ntested and it is not only on the side of British leney the Viceroy kere finds time amid all

duinge

io Shan

||will surprise those who are not scquainted fue blade of corn through a wide tract

Country

on every occasion for the provincisi degroo

But it is, I belfero, quite with the facts. In Fukien this year the unprecedented that

reperta

of damage done umber in was stated to be over 11.600; and should be made to the Emperor from great province of Sechuan it was as as many provinces 34 (58) the CASU this year many as 17,000. Taking the whole E which have escaped than those which have shorter to enumerate those pire, the number of candidates must be about 200,100

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as high as ton, but that is su unusually

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crop, the beat they can expect to get From the best land.

Now, gentlemen, to sum up what I have Mr Francis then described the socomid, I am personally bonvinced that the romed it.

the second cultivation of tobacco in North Borneo is All thero state papers, Detrees and Mema stage in the process of preparing the leaf pound to be a very great success. Every riala pass from the presence of the Emperor

the foot of the document after bo lisis pas

Thore the tobacco remains for five or six North Borneo that there is good at Const anther of repute in order that he way not weeks, drying slowly in the atmosphere. If

land; but I his business to read daily a portion of some the weather is tou diap, wood fires are

told by the

the Resident 013 the lighted for the pur keeping the air Me Dastens, a man of great experience, that loss bis power of composition,

purposo

The dealings of Chins with the abori fairly dry

dry. In clist

gines within her bordea is a great test of process the tobacco there is a great deal of valuable tobacco Laker on the ordinary

Land on the appearance of a

West Coast, not in

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leaf, and when it is teen enab tremendoza blocks

As you probably are aware, the Peknigral prosperity of the country,

of whom, it should be aufered. Of the Fold eightson that the veins of the smaller stems are other coast, where there is no population, Queet's consists of three portions. First things are going on wall, one hears a ramembered, have already obtained one there ars at the most five, namely fairly shrunk and dry the leaves are but still it in there. There is oro advant there is a short page of Court Intelligence, good deal of the attempts made to reduce degree, that of Astu ts as or bag alor of arts Fukion Kisugai. Kuanghi, and Kusichow, stripped from the stalk, the stalke being "ge attached to land on that side, that with stating what the Emperor has done, whom them to order. But when the country is as we sometimes call it, in the Fu or pra from which no official tale uf von has coque. thrown away and the leaves gathered the large native population you are in a he has received in audience, and su oni, fully occupied with other troubles, extern- fectural city to which they belung by birth, Eu all the rest there have been invadations into position to get your wood-cutting and road. Then follow the Imperial Edieta or Decres al wars, rebellion, bandisti, famines, la CHANG CRIE TUKO'S MEMORIALS distribution of charity, and to some extent bundles. I think it is at this period that

making and 20 un done by pative of the day, and anally what constitutes the mention is made of these people. When steadily reading the Gastes, one this remission of the land tax or postponies

fently apricu

aarious to requirs the official the leaf in weighed for the first time. each tuk oredited with its own bour, and there would be no necessity for body of the Guscite, a number of reports to such times” nro' dứnhtiems, holding comes to get some knowledge, or at any ment la ila collectius. From Shen there

Jamporting Chinese till the ground had been the Emperor from various officers, merdo- oan or aven encroachle, upon the Chinese. The average product of a field secus to Cleared, houses tolt and everything ready rials to the Throne as we are in Lie habit at the local government then are suzions rate to think that one gets une khanledge, is raport of what I believe its very rate have becoin Borneo seven picule. La que for them.

of calling them, each with the Emperor's to remain junctive, and shut their ever and of the parsons from whose pens the various thing in Chius namely distruss in the brief instructions or Rescript soncars are as much as possible to ligence on the int The Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, why a rule, onde a piece of land is raised so On

papera emanate Among ail the memorla highlands from supershandence of rain. Ing the matter in hand appended by him

DO intelligence subject Guies i aty to the caserta, at han luat left Canton, atands out spécially as polo noch danger of doute, it ca able to take the aborigines in hand that he bang, we are aware from other sources than whose farma ars, parched on the naturally only when some Govertor Ends himself action. Of the pre-eminent position tivatora care little how much rain may fail -

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the Viceroy hers, Li Hung- and when the plains are drowned, these

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