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MAIL SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

JOINT STOCK ENTERPRISE IN CHINA.

CHINESE COINS.

The small silver onins issued by the Canton

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of the Chinese also an omission which

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

4TH, 1892. coonomy any move than to overll the de- WOODTATT was interviewed by the reporters of the year, in these portions of the city trap owners of property Are Government [ conuts, and so the Collieries also are de. of the Bingapore mpore, and gare a highly where the operations of the Water and servants not to be allowed to invest in these

Instico and Consul General. An alteration In prived of the principal advantage, which bond favourable opinion of the prospects and Drainage Department were pretically coin-Companies, or, having invested. are they to

the parastrel of the Court, however, does not It is a common formula with amaters of Ade casocations. of shareholders confer on gold mine but a gold field, which were it in hami, "many of which, arú now, in leappars unworkable, and if i remízus in Mint secra to kave in finding their way forreal to say the Consulate had been abolithod.. capabilities of Run, which boys is not a pleted the roads artistcoate-have been taken be expelled to sell out? The mulation

at its existones or jursidiation, and in the present case it would not have been more in- Chinese regeneration that if the Govern an undertaking. Nor have they the benefit of nested in Australia would bavo à population antisfactory stata of repair." ment would but stopt this or that measure compotition which, even in the absence of of 20,000 mins. This expert went on to ob have been interesting if the mues of for frequent applications are sure to be made tent have taken emancutably prompt steps might to be suppilod in fatare sditions. It would fores will opta a vide door to favouritisni, down a Singape, but the Straits, Geron. The abzies of information on the burial customs of reform Chas would be savol. The such estociation, often serves to protect in-serve: The geological formation is singu some of those stres had been given, an authors do not all agree on the particular dustrial enterprises from wasteful uŭnage-

larly like that of Gymto gold held in that the publie might have bed an oppor- application.

to the Government for exemption from its to prevent the local obsidiary currency be. The subiect la briefly touched upon under panaces which is to affect the saving ment.

Australis, which was supposed, until Kaubtunity of learning what the Acting Surveyor-

Eng displaced by them. In this respect then hilf finns going further into it on the the bending of momining, kat Mr Ball on miracle, but each proposal involves so

was openisf op, to be the only known fiel General considera The Cuina lailway Carapany was

Hongkong Government might with arivant ground that there is such an ament of tedious noia the world where carbonerous strata in repair.. Mr. Coeren has been earning a satisfactory state of much that to assure that Ching had adopted doubt started as a shareholders Company, teracted to so large an extent ns to great very favourable reputation of late, but we

age follow the example of the southern minutio about the whole subject." A good deal it would be to assume that she was already but in spite of the most agent appeals to ly-influate the deposit of gold. In Gym are afraid, s

of the minat might be left out, and 'still colony. It has become quite a rarity to see sery interesting article writton on the sab- Topoaking

ten or twenty cant piece with the Queen's jet Going some bend the funeral, the slate or rather carboureous beds, the gold speation of buildings Mr. COOPER says the

author might also have given some explanation

of joint-stock or co-operative enterprise as

that public opinion was able to exercise to

the one thing needful for China, and the

presses t

is not calculated|

THE "NAMCHOW" ENQUIRY The result of the official enquiry into the

whem!

A QUARANTINE ABSURDITY.

The P. and O. stemmer Forové savival from

on the meat printing and general get.ap of

infliction and declension, the Chinese is again

selves have already appreliended its merits, tories of all kinds conducted on Government metal exists in abundance mid in paying the late Mr. BROWN devotal a special soc- some ebaque. reason. The super beer Japan on the 1st inst. with a case of stain. sure bour by putting some of the gems of Eng

at imperlanc efforts, in so far as they spring from a details of their cost over against the not pro- Governwent to open up to British enterprise estiver by Mr. BROWN. We believe that Mertoo was at the time, in into quarantine. She was

It Bainrally to the interest of the Britet me were done in future reports, and allowed to leave the colony, and though

well worthy of attention.

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THE NEW MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE AND STEAM

· LAUNCHES,

new developingots certain elements have keen [that their working is not going to afford any provided favigation of the rivers to be these abuses, in a question that naturally requirvinent of the new Merchant Shipping

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REVIEW.

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THE LOSS OF THE "NAMCHOW"

CFFICIAL ENQUIRY.

THINGS CRIZESE. Bur Notes on Various steamer Nach which occurred on the 7th

A Court of Enquiry was opened on the 27th - Jan. at the forbou Master's Offica, into the efrewmasterans ettonding The foundering of the Subjects connected with China, By J. Deuxist between Hongkong and Swatov, and by BALL, M.A.3. H.M. Bielt dorview. Hong which over these hundred lives, including niuo kong. London: Sampson, how. Marston &inpeans, were lost. The Court was con Coäribed. Hongkong, Shanghai. Yoko atituted as follows: Hon. W. C. H. Hastinga bama and Singaporn Kelly Walsh, President), Capt. WH. Farrand steamer Pro Jimited. 1892.

paatis, Capt W. Waring (steamer Teris!), marks that the Chinese are po, surt me, G. Morgridge (17.3. Dont want t antipedes with regard to position on the globortis non arrival of the lust-named the proved but they are our opposites in almost every ings were delayed for three-quarters of an hour. setion and thought Te bevor dois to judge The President said that for some reason they

reformed beyond the need of momedy. One patriotism sad to enpidity it is not known, where the quer12 reefs internest thee to inhance it. Under the houding of iu- Namchow dissater is about as unsatisfactory head in Hongkong, the Colony's requirements) of" poited ancestors." ons of the Things Chinase clase of writere, for example, postalates as that a single Chinaman took stock in the "is very heavy, 1 have seen mines there roterus dow at ipcreused activity in buila and ridiculous as it well could be. Instead of in the ester of enbsidiary coinage being thed parzin new comkre, who ummlly ind it yay the preliminary measure of reform that Elie concern. It may nevertheless be conceded" bringing down from 1,000 to 2,000 25. ing operations in 11.as compared with lucidating the circumstances connected withi officials all over the cupite shall be paid that the form of a Company, even without" of geld every charge of dynamite that 1800, but a reference to the preceding re-

with one of the most terrible maritime calamities who must be making a splendid revenue the banat of the ford and potting them

now supplied by the Canton Government difficult to obtain any precise information is to adequate alaries so that the teropiation and the substance, my of roul advantage to the" was fired for a fortnight, and this is port deeg not Bert to bear out the state of recent years in the China Sea, it toriiaat- from their mint, Tie apathy displayed the whole, however, the book la singularly the reason of the peculiar custom of taking ap the excase for peculation may be taken railway, for the directors for years ked up the same; there is not the sighed the same form intliga reports, which; for left everything for which it was constituted Ofties in this matter is truly surprising. B. indat deres hearty thanks for the mon no isolated case either. Bale willment. The figures jaje not given imprecisely ad on the 28th Jat, in a complete fiasco, and by the local Guvement and the Colonial free from eriors and the omissions re less away from them; while others suggest other the fiction that they were responsilite to doubt of it. So far Mr. Bray has only the purpose of citation, ie Enfortantendons Public plaion won the affair has Far years the Colony had to plod star in which he has performed his turk, and changes no leas radical as the fitat step to shareholders who would overhaul their ac-"lad an oporinuity of working a levnt we gather that whereas in 1890 there

mameron than raight perhaps beerpent: Mr. wards placing the country in a positiva counts, and that every effort land to be made smal quartz haulers running through 69 plans deposited in 275 buildings come freely and is very kindly expressed urgently with the Colonial Oles to be Mossrs. Kelly and Walsh are to be complimented improve itself. Some of the advisers of to reduce expenditure and develop earning the slate, and they are all tremendously pistol, in 1891 the number of plans deposited it was highly desirable that a far as allosed an adequate supply of subsidiary on has over China are content to move on a lower plane, power.

**rich. A large body of quartz reet has was 245 and the number of hidings certi-possible, every detail connected with the coinage and the insignificant increase. Mr. Bull's acquirements as a linguist mande na Some rather elementary accounts evidently been aked out by Chilangad under section 53 of Urdinson 15 of foundering of the vessel should be brought and to lay the foundation of social purifies were oren at ouo time publisheit, but from hundreds of yesssage. It would be curious 1889, which is presuribly equivalent to the to it. Intendues have 40 cast by the granted fronte to time was given most rischio and we sprodao hie nel qu tion on ground whereou everyone may tread. genuine publicity the Mangers seemed to "to know how much gold Chim has taken number of building complotel, 155. Obser- One of our northern contemporaries not long shrink. Still, the whole affairs of the rail-out of Paling State; literally illicas,vation bat led us to the expelusion that thore survivors upon the officers of the ill-fated with its inferice and cheaper coins, and the

grudgingly. Then cause the Canton Miut, the subject:-- sgo for crample, put forward the principle way were conducted in so opera inanner"I'll swear. When Mr. ByBUY he had been a considerable decrease in build steamer nud in un attempt to clear their repu Colony for the first time lu its historyu Boglish nearly equally difficult for them to

Pidgin-English,

When foreignerssetted in China, finding the further into the slate hus I should not be Coore's figures seem to confirin that the fullest posside evidence shoubi, bave of sail einage. The cozivenieure to theme was the mgml talk, called pidgin-English. pliances to get down and explore littk ing operations during the year, and Mr.tation, or at all events to explain she wreck, found itself with something like a sufisicay squiro, a middle course wis atrask and the ost Hogange dikeilt to burn, and the Chinens And certain extent the check which only a body a bit surprised if the gold deposits to be view. We can only surmise, one panacea which possesses the merit of of interested proprictors could have done as found there astonish the reholders of the hon. gentleman's statement that theren taken on the print. Nothing, however, community is great,, int the less in the Wauny strpela miidle couree, for the words

therefore, that being well within the euch of the people it ought to be dana. As a conseqsence of Raub and the whole world. It is u tromen. has been an increased activity is a misprint of that kind was done by the Court, whose pannot have a suliekney of our use the defective pronunciation of the Chineso. For

rereatie moral beansiderable. If If it is argued, the Chinese could get into this volunteer supervision it has often been

we employekar generally Foglish modified to sit "dously big

That is what imfor decreases. The sections of the report duty it was to huruughly sit the wire-coins, as a matter of practical convenience exople, the letter is dropped and I substitaten, the way of trusting weh other sa fully na to asserted that the railway which has been

4.the Australians. Five acres is referring to extraordinary public works will stances and weigh the evidence. Nor was anywe am glad to have the Cainese ecine, while the idiom is Chinese, and, in the abrease of Place their money in the hands of directors running for some years now, in the provincə

property in Australi. Some of the largest be found rep

reproduced in author column and reference made to the duet of the officers but that the Colony should be compted the regale has been most wonderful gold fells are not more than three los speak for themselves. With reference to the of the fecio, wis actually saw the Nepelled to lose revene in to use an infor gibberish, capscially when talked in ita parily. and managers of companies to be employed of Chihli is one of the cheapest and the beat froni cue end to the otir. Here at Baub Praya Reclamation works, technical details show dimppear berah the waves, and then coinage is a striking couple of Govern-It is, of eiras, not at all likes. Chan999, and is no for the common good, the advantages of the at the price in the world. Whether this you can walk in a line six miles on gold are given which cover but littie ideo to an proceeded on their course. Tillerent opinions meita heptitude. There can be the reason ulike English, that new comers require tra system would soon become so patent as to economical distinction will be maintained a bearing stone, alaust erury ton of which professional cuales, but from a tabular have been expresso as to the part played by whatever why the authorities at one should. The fence between it and proper Bag- cause the spread of the principles which somis hat douthful, far the fution of a Com-would to rush." These rurks apply statiment, aliached we gather that the that vessel, am! it justice to Capt. LUAT, not meet in full he requisitions of the Colish was once unconsciously expressed wittily by

wore or less to Punjom, which will no doubt it was founded, and a vast stimulue would pay he beca lately dropped, and the railway turn out equally rich. A great deal of ex the 31st December last was $300,478, out the consider tion of his share in the und-louy in the matter of subsidiary coinage, a Cent:aese shop-keeper, who, Buding brandfa

ult total expenditure on this work un to thereby be imparted not only to the material is now in name, what it always was in fact, ploration has been done ahely, and both of a fotil estimated cost of $2,941.428. of the Court. Instead of all this, however, matter to put an end the circulation of arrival, taroud to his friend, an Ani prosperity, but to the social elevation of the Government work. It is pretty well known air. Bina and Mr. BLAMET aro practical No hint is g of the probable data the Court finds itself on assembling abso the Chiness colos

48 ought to have been the atletion and it would be a comparatively simple it loss to understand the correct English epiken can, and said: Moh Battah you don talkos people. And this foreign postrum has the what Government works are in China who do not waste money in costly ex- of completion of the work

Bagtishan talk, my no sabbes Melican talk, A advantage over the more ambitious but more unchecked! expenditure with minium roof money, and the results achieved, though with the report, namely, that nothing is mid that of Capt. Buan, of LMB. Porquise, was periments. But their bands are tied for fuck point may be mentioned in connection any kind beyond two reports, one of which, Use other lately with any witness ar exilence of

very few of the wo sis employed in plågin-Eng- bulous schemes that the Chinese them-sults. Workshops, arsenals, docks, and the satisfactory as showing that the precious about the staf. This report for 1820 actually denied publication in the press, for

lish aro Chinese so distorted as to be almost sast recognition. winle Portuguese, Malay, and Indi- fat buvo also očďed a few words to the socabulary. and have made several serious attempts to principles would probably netonisk the world quantities, are necessarily limited and stien to this subjre, and it would be well if it was

Some residente rare occasionally, used a loi- wall, ind to, put it in force. On the success of theso if statements could be exhibited showing the Perimental

Esh litenture into his jargon, with the venult information made somewhat fuller thau! the

pos amongst tlo crew, an

sent that dismouds of the first wabor bave been genuino souse of a want to be supplied, and duetion. If the China Railway Company, the riches of the Malay States, in reductions have for some time past been Instead of throwing any light upon the the Sud instant, after, disinfection. Then do, how fashion, as well as Excelsior, atd.

Capt. Luse was net subpened to appear.

refeused on plunged into ashes. The soliloquy in Ham are not foisted on to the Chinese by out-transformed into the Imperial Railways of gold, tin, timber and tropical produse. These going on in the number of offers employ-Liss of the vessel, dissipating the existing delay to which she was subjected was they offer ines have shared this fate. Wa Jet conimonaing, in pl'gin-English, Can do, no siders, very important issues depend;, and North China, shunib hewing such a con. countries are alus nibited and vast od, several vacancies which have centred not doubts, or clearing aspersions which have fore not a long one, but it was herlictessive spelen at the and of this article but though it is still rather early in the day to ceru as these other imperial works where all tractsnro covered with jungle which doubiless having been filled up. The department lind been laid upon both the living and the dead, Fuvanveient. Every precaution had corpsont it as it is really spoken, au á look for definite results, the progress already the commercial and economical cherks are known, however, that tia ad

Conceals much wasnspected wealth. Thus is becomis unterional overmannel and it is this Court of Euqairy makes the erudite

sury few of any of the picos publato tire togo.

made in developing the co-operative idea is release?, and a blarer sheet is a superfluity; been worked "there for nges by Chinusa and the evil is being gradually reduced as oppy that the Namehew was a British doubt inson taken on board to isolida the suf, and rear all·left ju, letters which, whe

fund gold have antisfactory to learn, if it be the fact, that these railways from being among the cheap- Malays with the most primitive appliances tauity offers. The annual rigors, however, lost on a curtain day wear a cermin spot. in heaping the other passengers on board as anally writion, rapresents it a spoken by the

rossct of a certain tonnagu and that she was forer, and what object there could be less spot it, are not pronounced, bat pe h

ta and are used instead. The ridgia-Carth It is with no small degree of satisfaction est, may easily take their place among the but with marvellous results. The surfare giros us no informatioti on this point.

The Fuling, which appears in that we claim the first fruits of this kind of disrest in the world. A free flow of funds is so far only boon touched the real source.

another

her for twenty-four or thirty-six mara it is oiener, but not as spoken by the majority of otterprise for this colony, where the exam-

of the wealth remains to be tapped. It is

column, is a striking comment upon the difficult to discover, A dozu junka wight Chinese, and the latter we would maintain a the 1s the ideal condition of things to attract in-e

negative qualities of the Court. Wo

| proper pidgin-English. ples wat before our Chiasse friendy have fluential Chinese, and from information while aferest of British capitalists to turn

GOVERNMENT OFFICERS NOT TO hing about what it has done, we can board and nothing wont be said ab at the Baglish, which has had an existence of more than The attention to

arriva a aingle day with amallpox ort This virgiu Geld now that

Fortunately for all vonezrned, thin dia!oot of prousted them, many years ago, to establish has reached us at different times since the Australia is gradually becoming worked

only deplore the things it has left alone. Turhaps there are some deep reusods of red, matter, but if a well-appointo? reamer iali a century, seems doomed at last. Ther companies for marine insurance. The princi imperialisation of the northera cuilways was out. The gold mines of South Africa are no pla was tried on a large scale in Shanghai effated, pupkyment on the railway has, be some of the fadio mines are facing out allowed to acquire or be a part owner of ceedings; but if so, why was the Court ever the treatment of mutive and forgets in the employinist of pidgin-English is to

doubt very ich, and are yelling well, and

"No Government officer shall hereafter bees and the fareical character of in whole pro- quarantine. The reason for this differences the part of the Chinese is entpersedingte 18, tapcion which explate the absense of wines arrives with a case she is promptly set into teald nequisition of some knowledge of English when the "China Merchants Company "como so popular among native officials as to very sccessful, but it may yet prove that any land in the Colour, ther than that hall, why expectation was raised of full craft is diffent to discover. Disinfection Chinese frunz different parts of the empire,

wy meus Thamiral to any. One very eurions fo purchased a steam floer, and a trading com-point clearly to a general expectation on their Malaya is eva more eaters then covered by his duelle house and cacion disclosure of facts and some definits opis property or from her we glad together, occas pany was established in London: composed part test them is to be a warmen fartige Lasither Tigg dimasa to

ever there has been a case of infectious ag aran exclusively of Chinese capitalists. The Kai-live on in future.. Public cananations from is thick, and facilites for transport ar wording of a notification which appenes in

rot beal:by, and though the jungle ground attached thereto, Such is, the opinion pou certain actions?

T le to averse occasionally disease, but so far as the passengers' bugurace forced to use it, in order to be able to hold my ping Mining Company followed and then the Head Offer, ton, seem to sound the nolo at

is concerned Hatyaight. Le effected in fuscomauication with each other.” present very far from what could the last Gazette A more serious reflection The China Railway Company. Out of these of a mere gerous scle of expenditure, desired, sere altacles which can

Baurs. To keep the passengers im board various schemes some lications of the from the benefits of which the foreign em-easily be sammured. M. WOODYATT hally he imagined. Great indeed must ou the honesty of the Civil Service could

twenty-four hours after arrival altogether objectiess propeding. probable fate of joint-stock operation ployés are not to be excluded, for a general ferring to the diffenties said Australian hare beau the abuses which were considered among the Chinese might have been derived advance in antaries has already been granted overvinent do thot part in de constrie to justify the framing of such a regalation.

etiners would soon get over them, and

and the bad the system so well establishes) in long- to them. Whatever may be the result to them of read there will only remain the What has been the character and extent of Harbour Master drawing attention to the A drealar has been issued by the Acting kong been closely followed. But in all these the railways themselves, it is at least clear more

efficient

wieiet cult he accomplished admitted which invalidate axe conclusion criterion of the offency of co-operative exophy light draught stern wiwielers. In has gained circulation of officers having of masters and engineers of steam launches. hegrests itself. From time to time reports Ordinance with respect to the qualifications deduced from, their working. There is the omy is a reforming agent in China:

del, it is

is all a

a question of capital judici. official and the clan element, which, however

only Imployed combined

with intelligent made a good thing by dealings in land, but as the law formerly stood launches liccused direction. The necessary to the formation of these great

the adreut of companies, he prevented the co-operative |

hementine transpired. If there were abuses to te oor-ertificated costine and caziers, but the seating further. principle from having a perfectly fair trial.

direction of encouraging and promoting rected surely ther could have been dealt with anmerous launches not carrying passengers Official interference, whether in the way of

At rather fitful intervals the gold wines of Chinese bug, as the Jelebu Mining and by other means that the very sweeping were allowed to be run by men who had under. patronage or of exaction, is in fact fatal to Palang. Be the tin mines of the other Ma. Trading Company has done with aneb satis-regulation abore quoted. It is desirablo | rono no examination wittever. Someowners, how a Chinese would act valor certain dream-had not got all the winesses they might. The the very ides of a sharchaldurs consecra, for lay States, have excited a spasmodic attention to this is out of the question of that thrift should be practised by Govern- recognising the imparkatze in their own in-stanou front els at arselone word to if placed supervargs of the ship hand left a week ago for fia llongong and Shanghai, siue tothe severe this is out of the question in Hougent servants as well as by other classes, teresis of subjecting the No 1, as he is would do the very actions we would vor think prove that this was ugch a ship as the Narachow no Chidaman who is a free agent work ever

kong for the present, but resolute eiloris be indwel to put his money into say vet-limited liability estapane formed to exploit le made by the residente both and it a man. saves a fixed proportion usually called, and the engineer to a of performing: think the very thourbis that and acest again to-marrow.

them. These companies, however, were in of Hongkong and Singapore to bring of his income be outwally looke for a sufo tura so hampered. How far the China

test of competency, WAPA in the habit would never occar ke me and say what 'io Phillipe 36 Mado, storu, stated-I am "Merchants"" Company deserved its title the first instance, it is to be feared, regarded minently to the alteration of European capite and remuneratire investment for his saving-waen they had to engage a man of gend-desire to kuow something off the people one anus to negls prior to their departure. I Juraiguer would ever think of wiering" The first sterk at thn Harbin Office. I isme dar- we shall perhaps never know, but what apthan as carnest and sober fforts to develop figurs as one of the most valuable possessionat the regulation st been aimed only tions to the general rule, however, and in sentiments, of the natives romalu suy

lists to enormes possibilities ut Malaya, What objection can then be to his selecting rather in the light of a joint stock gabic country destinod, wa believe, some day to house property as his form of investment 2/ing him to some qualifi-d person to ender. lives amongst is general, but in the esso of produce the zinwaterfcil issued to the British pears probable is that a certain coterie of the undoubted mineral restaross of the of the British Crown,

Bo an examination.

Then were excap the mmers and customs. the beliefs and Anoy on the 6 inst, with a general cargo, 68 China, to the majority, even of, old reddents, steamer Naachew, 1,109 tons, that cleared for. Cantonese made a harguin with the over- Malayan Penineula and win the waith that ment which induced them to collect the lies hidden there. Ae a proof of this it is

ugunst Government officers competing at

crow, no Encopo passougere, 191 Chinese. necessary capital from their friends; and it notorious that the simres of the Peak and

sales of Crown land which private individuals practice nearly the whole of the launches nutrans luThings Chinese we have star Su might bere kad loss but not more. I roaning in the harbour were navigated by When Mr. Chamberlain's "Things Japtuose Ale. W. Lane, en e caring, slowing the number andleoncise answers to many of lusin eozundens produire the declaration made by the mager, is probable the public has but a trifting in Selangor Tin Mining Companies and of the

had asked to have put up to public aumen who had never been called upon to was published weesprosed the hope that we one of passengers 191. terest in the affair. The accounts are no Punjom Cold Mining Company were load

tion there might have been some reason in The Hon. F. A. Corts is to be com.th, for there have been cases in whiob Go give any formal proof of their efficiency would compile a similar manual of reference ca Franois de Cruz, swart, stated-I, a Birth doubt kept very accurately, as they are to a premis of more than 200 per cunt gratulated on bis very full report on the formation which they had no right to make now Merelaut Shipping Act to extend to Hr Ball, than whom probably an ons is better the book pristned. On apuary 5th 1 tash

vernment offers, possibly trading on in Advantage was unken of the passing of the thiban wa are glad to find the tusk bask in the Tarbour Offics. It is my duty to Lown so speedily and creditably perturned by make a copy of the ship's register and enter it rendered in such a manner as would not before any ore had been estraeter from either, work of the Surveyor-General's department use of, have stepped in and overbid the

arrangement of Things Japtace have No 63688, date of register 1889, port belongh from the past history of the Company that there are practically no independent share, the properties thoughtlessly invested in by payers as to the works in progress, the one case a few rests agu an affeer was the wisdom of the new departure there cat-out, for whish des nukusaledgment is cauertihonto U1745-5 20 1109.06, of

given the option of canellugu parchase made not be two opinions. Incompetency ou te in the preface. The title and plan adopted by our Car Yts Pang consignees Ex the sbareholders. The inevitable reaction maintenance of existing buildings, etc., and under such circumstances or of sending in part of the oxswain er engineer of a lune soom to have hit the popal & Faney, and aetated A. W. Le holders at all. The Directors and Managers

Mr. Chusberlin in bis funt work on Japan Maleipt for ginter Jamary ttb, sigo- are appointed and reinovod by La Husa-

of course. The first named Con- will promate a lie thy interest in public his resignation. It is not imreasonable may had to residents endangering ut only road requirement, and Mr. Bull, we epine, will book. On the 5th April 1991, the maetors Capt prost the shipping CRANS alone; she finds are dealt with by patice have disappeared and with the improvements and the proper use of the out when Crown land is put up to antion bis own craft but others, and although the not be his only imitator. Before long wo shall Calitin. preload the passings verifiate his orders; and though the Cantonese pro-The Punj Company live on, but its shares the Surveyor-General's office had any op themselves made the first application for would, in the former state of the adresive as it deserves a warm welocato, and wal by the Caual at Swatow, were read by the Prow nearly every cent of the money invested. Colony's funds. Formerly no one outside the servants of the Crown should be pre-owner might be liable in danges the tour doubt read publishery ronnements of fod Potong, 18th February, 1891, for one year,

cluded from bidding, unless they have by whose defanit the accident occurred Things Siuose," "Things Malay," ete. I mado yusukey. I koop the shipping book. muters have sunk their own and their family have falen to a discusint of 80 per cent, portrinity of awartaining the expenditure the land; but to prohibit them from having able to no punishment whatever. Under

Mic. Ball's Things Chinose" will no doubt i The following depositions of survivors, taken money in the concern it does not appear that, now there is as more to he extracted from although its prospects from a mung n aus particular project, the detaile any dealings in property whatever seems us the now law his scrtifiesto way be cancelled be parsed with interest not only by tim recent gidat thew, they are ever consulted. Had the point of view were never so good as supplied even to the members of the thus a few thousand dollars to invest, Master furls tak be ms been guilty of in-rue, there are many books on Chins fu which the Nenehner frota uang to Hongkong and Tang Cheong Seng baring beon sword states desirable as it is unmesser. If & publicar suspended if en dus inquiry the Harbour arrival anxious in familiarino himself with bis

Our new surroundings, but also by ol residouts a native of Amoy. I was passager in Company bean really what it masses at the present moment. This is due arilygislative Council being of the most cage and there is a house to be sold which would competency or negligenes in the performance most of the information gitu by Mr. Ball,way Stance for Awov. Om Janary 9th. 1-92, we left

to the capital being nearly exhausted, partly description. Under the new system of an afford in a good inement, why should of his duty as unster or engineer. merchants Cam-

This be obtained. but de alphabetical arrangement Hongkong as sizin, when the steamer was di pany, i would be in a position to be to the extreme stringency of the ones reports we are embled to judge what the Government step in to treated with, and the pool combination which the gambling ruania. The Kaub Australian port winton by 31. Cooves follows in at for being the possessor of a house corresponding dininion in the tin fcne that insy be taken up for hire minutes and bat pouple said they were injured During the

market, and partly to the disappearance of the work of the deputizwart actually is. The Would he be lit prevent him? provision is likely to raise the standard of makes the velame andar review particular sight. Al sine, c'clock on the sight of a

as a public

public the class of men employed and lead to ly conveseat for referacy, and the book is the anglers would not move, I don't know why, was tried on the cast for some years would! probably have been renewed. But it is syndicate, sinon startel, bas been even more its general lines the form adopted by the If he were building a bolese there might be possible that when only qualified men are information obtainsblo on the various subjects on the 8th, in the morning, people said tha fron which he derived an aunca! rentul accidents occurring in the harbour. It is uywhere will a certainty of fusting night wall slept sow. I slaph in a mhin aft

samething interesting. To fast it orgelullion thead board yo more. About five or six o'clock- successful in vinning gold, but its shares late Mr. Brows in his report for 1890, but some suspicion that Gorerament contractors allowed to be engaged there may be a slight treated of and saves the casual inquires tromblestemmer was going to founder. She had a fat difficult to wake terms with a concern that are likewise a discount for similar reasons such falter in deuil, especially with rewould do the work for bins on sach easy increase in the rate of wages, but it is not a research, while for the mers srius siu-over then, but I do not recollect to which side. has no responsible head and no sentient and perhaps also frous an opinion that the gard to annually recurrent exper ditare. This tarus as to amount in effect to a brile ikely to be considerable, and whatever it may dent who wishes to pursue his Investigations. At about six o'clock or a little after the lady, and the Company has owed a large nominal capital is too large. Both thesetty interesting from the general reader's if its ruchers cannot be trusted to that ex- ingreased security obtained' by weeding out are supplied. The book commences with "Abs with him. Before e c'elook at We

scetion of the roport, though not subcient The Service must is in a bad cause, however, be it will be amply ccepenented for by the greater length tuneful references to thorities saproargo lowered a gig, and I got into it sum to the late stoarner pol for about three mines are now manged by capable end point of view to warrant ils reproduction at tent. Moreover, the regulation does not the mea who cannot p years which no one has any authority to pay practical men, who ure sangoise of ultimate length in our columna, contains much valu- prohibit a public servant building a house nation as to their duties. The fee duped In sorus for enses, Lowever, Mr. Bull's in frightened and cold the time and did not cus and ends with "Zoology" and "its use stomer a long way off, and we hoped she would of pass a reasonable exam and there is no one to sue but Lr HexOsuccess and only Dead capital to assure it,able information which it is important for his own occupation, so that the op-for examination is

fulness in increased by a pious inder, and save but hadid not come I was CHANG, end na'court to sue him in bat his Meantime the capital is 6 procorable, in should be rence. One of the paragraphe with contractors remains to tint extent nn-aken to the requirement that on being the words of the pr-face, does not "treat exhauswers 87 of us in the gig. We were taken le put on record in a permanent for portunity of making improper arrangements dollars and a half. Some objection has been ably be exproted, evin in a handbook which, in stock am a fishing boat reseed us Thera nowital one of tw formation is not quite so full as might raseu not what she did ur where she went. Als OTA. As a Company, therefore, the China Hongkong at any rate, and so far as Punjem for fatures Merchants Steau Navigation Company has sencerned mining operations can only be of this section of the report informs us that touched. Cases suggest themselves, too, in granted a certificats a master or engineer tively of the different this need panapohi and rounhad it in the afternson, fis no significance.

conducted on a very limited and economical" the old Central Sebcof buildings have which difficulty wight rise in the inter-sball produce the copies of a photogmp. Under the head of Artey, for instance, to ex-Vistance being great. The ofloial there gave scale. If the shareholde in the Peajon rained noveupled ovcept by The other encore named have been Pahang Company, the company formed in but it is west adrable to caretaker, pretation or application of the reculution. (Photogra.be, however, aré u very convenient to Gada only a single page, and that conveying so mucner to feed us. The official gave us a police- fent quirer way not unuaturally fod disappointed when lot of us clothes and the supereargo berromed equally onder the thumb of the Chinese London two years ago to take over a portion pending some decision being arrived at as in lung for himself and in the worse force it is Colony in regard to many other only trimanoas given are to Mayers Chineses the 12th in the afternoon, I heard tho raper ren ere theni For instance, a 18 builds or buys a aid to lifeation and the state is in very definita a precise information, and flat fleman to esport us to Swotow, which we reached officials, who began by patronising nad ended of the parent Company's vast concession, aid the future utilisation of the site." It sects of a few years finds it too barge or too watters. Tinrinkslis roalies, chair coolics, Government" and an articles by Sir Thomes cargo say in Capolad that the Namshow bad 230 by oppressing them. Whether accounts are up their calls a few complexion would a wasteful procenting to allow the site and small for him, according to the nose-targo hit ownere, hawtore, the tenants of Wade in the Chines Repository" both of passengers. I do not know how long she took

be put bon maiters and work would be carried kept of the Kaping Colhery no one seems to on with caergy. Even then, however, the there is some intention of using bom for change his resident. It cannot be said for print ships hit have to hard in pho-search Mr. all might have pepared a notes on look. We slept during the sight, and I was ried buildings to remain idle so long, and unicas mentes of his family, and wishes to stals in a rauricet, end Chinese surgeons which are now out of date. With a little resta sink as I was creating in the gig afraid to know, though doubles the shread Carmour of capital would be insufficient to public tonese who bore the brunt of the venture explore and fovetop the enormous concession purposes it would l well to sell throw that this case Dubos within the vong ch

without necessary loss of time,

tograph themselves to the departurent the Chinese aresy that would base brought the know whether repeire were being made. When know pretty well how they stand But theyminton Mining Company. There is raon paying for other poble works and the Colony devise and not bf purchase." Le he there also for : e pret tén youre beati, royaleed in Estepa it would probably have been considers I knew, the chief mate, and noother The attached to the regulation, for the property large ith their regulation. The toasters information ou that zabjot, in which much in I woke people were ranning shout looking for possessed by the l'union and Sunghi Dua amount restised would go esame way towards has not rome to har by lose immensely through the vaut of that forth braction of half a dozen empanies would benelit aamunily

inheritance orgund jeu, sers of passenger lanches have rest felt in many quarters, up to date, and man of saring themselves. I saw the captazz supervision and criticism which a body of to wait this gold field, sud it is possible that tervet. In another paragraph the entting up regulation anya distinctly that he may consider any hurdship that the meters on the Nave much more extensive. In the told by a mun, in English, to as, "Don't be

by

of one of the most ineful sections of the bank. foreigner walking shout, their face green, and of in-fore to be compelled to Bull. 16P farsisk botographe, and it cannat Nor ie the information contayed in the article they looked excited. The oaptain said. I was real shareholders would supply. In when the autoution of European capitalists of the roads and strests for the laying of new not even be a part owner of a house and on teers of other launches should article on xterritoriality it is so afraid Colliery, as in all mining works, there are lue been seriously devoted to Pahang there sowers and water pipes is touched upon, and lees de fires in it or it has come to his bave to t. the same. It has long been the what surprising to be told that "the Supreme don't know whether they obeyed orters given to The mitra were also afraid but I infinite ways of wasting money and of work.will be the needel juflux of capitul.

we are told tha: until such operations are by devise or inheritance. Are not the generalinion that the nummer hohes Court bau now boon aboiled meatite Hor them. They were running abent,

I do not ing on prodigal principlex. Thas tlie Kai-the event utterances of Mr. J. WOODIATT, aaway to attempt to maintain the in streha pasy, the Humphreys Estate and Finance day faster control-sid the provisions or nÀ Japen. "That Court is gtill in varist-heard thero were seven. I saw a gig fall from

These remarks have been augested by completed it is practically throwing money sharekullere in the Land Investment Complying in the harbour should be besight Britannic Majort's Supremo Ccort in Chins know how many giga there waze, but I ha ping management has escaped those errors wiping engineer, who was sent oat cu beball condition as would, ander onlinary circum-Company, the Wharf and, Golos Com- the Merchant Shipping Act dealing with on and likely to resnio no. The mistaka i one of the falls, the other fall keeping her tight, would be too much to hope, but there is no of some British capitalists to inspect Baubatanes, be voidered antisfactory. It ie pany, and Wouchal Warehouse Lad Storage this importaal ehjeet hid fair, we think, to Balt's old cut by the recent appointmen of werdrawn i't know what happened to the Benzin to bave ariano Eryn, same confusion in Me, and the people in her fell into the water and pas to ask questions or to call attention to and outer mining districte i Palang. Bir added, however, slut during the latter part Company, and various other routers, work well,

as four bolding the dual appointments of Chief other gigs. One or the people got up the ship's

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