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POLICE COURT.

Monday,

1516

September.

BEFORE ME.. A, Hassland (POLICE MAGISTRATEJ

ALLEGED #THEFT OF FIRE-CRACKERS FROM THE P. & Q

Wong Kong, junk-water, was charged with stealing 100 packages of fire-crackers, value about £2.0, from the P. & O. 9. 8. Co. on 28th June. He pleaded not guilty,

Mr. J. Heys, solicitor, spppeared for the prosecution, and asked for a remand, which bis Worship granted, Bail was fired at $5,000.

The caso comes on on Monday next at ten

BORDELIKS IN THE HARBOUR, Five coolies were brought up by Inspector Gauld on charges of committing armed rob beries ut varions dates on sampans in the barbour and of receiving stolen goods; female friend of the prisoners was also charged with receiving stolen goods, the process of the robberies.

The cases were remanded till Friday at ten

o'clock.

ALLEGED Serious assault.

A case in which a Chituss watch was employed at Messrs. Jardins, Matheson & Co.'s godowns at Wanchai was charged with having aasuulted Mr. J. E. tinclair, the caretaker, by striking him with an iron bar, was remanded till Friday.

BEFORE MA J I Keme (ACTING.... POLICE MAGISTRATE)..

"A" TIRED' COOLIE,

LATE TELEGRAMS.

NEWS VIA SHANGHAI,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEI TEMBER 16th, 1902

THE HAYTIAM GUNDOST AFFAIR,

Berlio, 8th September. The Hamburg stoomer Marconano has been plundered by Haytian rebels, who wore in pos session of the Haytion gunbust Créte-d-Pierrot The German ganhnat Panther thereupon destroyed the rebel ship. The crew escaped and test to Gonalres. The Panther than rotarned to Port-au-Prince. No diplomatic complications are expected to arise from this action,

Berlin, 9th September.

The news of the action of the tierman gun- boat Panther against the Haytian rebels has everywhere been received with great satisfaction

A DIPLOMATIC CHANGE.

Berlin, 8th September.

The French Ambassader in St. Petersburg, Marquis de Moutebello, has been forced to resign his post. The Paris Press intimates that the reason is to be found in the view taken up by him towards the Republican Government,

WESTERN EUROPE AND EASTERN ARTA,

Berlin, 8th September.

An international conference will be held in Paris on the 25th instant in order to discuss the question of direct traffic from Western Europe to Zast Asia by way of the Chinese Railway.

GERMANY AND BRITAIN,

Abdul Samad, clerk and interpreter at the Magletracy, charged ricksha-coulie with refusing to complete his journey and also with THE SUPPOSED DISAPPEARANCE traveling at 1 as than a reasonable rate of speed. The defondant plead d'not gulity.

AT" SINGAPORE.

THE COMMERCIAL TREATY

A commercial reader with considerable éx- perience in regard to the Transit Pass system, favours ur contemporary, the Peking and Tientsia Times, with the following remarks ou the subject of the just concluded treaty -

The different telegrams that have reached here in regard to the new Anglo Chinese Commercial Tronly will have been read wits the utmost interest by all business men con nected with the China traile It must be surprising to many that the address of Mr. C. J. Daigeon at the Special General Meeting of the Chins Association in Shanghai on let July last, has not called for mille ventilated opini nis. Whoever is responsible for the appointment of Mr. Dudgeon on the Commisson to assist, Sir James Mackey ia discussing and drawing up the proposed treaty with the Chinese Commission, we do not know, but we accept his qualifications for the psi tion by the calms maunor in which the members of the China Associatiou listened to what he had to say and what has more or less been agreed to by the Commissioner, especially the abolition of skin and the substitution of a aurtax on all exports and imports to r compense the Chinese Government for the loss. What the amount of the wartar is does not clearly appear, but when we are told by Renter that there will be a total daty Un importe to the extent of 15 per cent, it takes our breath away, H. M. the Emperor has conferred high We are fully aware of the failure of the decorations upon his British guests at the Transit Pass system, bat it is not generally Gempaa mercentres, vir: Secretary of War known why it was a failure. It was the apathy Brodrick, and Generals Kenny, French, and of the representatives of the British Govern- Flaier. Field Marshal Roberts was the receiverment in not enforcing treaty rights, in the of present from H.M. the Emperor.

treaty of lientsin it is provided that British goods having paid an import duty of 5 per cont. are gatitled to go to any iuland market by paying an extra duty of 3 per cent. for which the owners get Transit Pans to take the gonds to their destination without any Recently there was reported the mysterious disappearance at Singapore of a young Italian payment whatever. Transit Passes for exports are arranged for much on the same named Alfredo de Lucchi, who esms ont un an

lines, so that for sign imports which go assistant to Messrs. Portile and Co., on July inland market and native goods from the 31st, and vanished from his home at Fair interior dealined for a foreign country should Panjang on the 14th ult. Great sympathy was pay a toist daty of 7 per cent. (say 5 falt for his friends at the time, because it was

per cont. and 24 per cent). The Transit Pass feared that he was siling and got lost in the system was perfectly simple and if the British jungle, or had met with foul play. When it Consals at the treaty ports, had supported it transpired, however, that he had purchased there would have been no question now about ticket to Penang by the 85. Calypso, the teken on foreign cargo. The duties on native sympathy died away, and the reward of $200 produce scarcely some within the considera for information as to his fate or whereabouts tion of foreign Powere. When the Protocol was withdrawn. It now seems, acording to

was accepted over a year ago it was agreed in it the Straits Time, that de Lucchi's departure was not unpremeditated. Prior to leaving, heat gols for the use of Europeans which had

hitherto escaped duty should pay an ad valoren | took several blank cheques from his frm's eheque book, and, it is alleged, beautifully forged ax of 5 per cent, which was bad enough, but

when we see in the distance a further increas then es payable to himself to the aggregate of 10 per cont, the position is simply appalling. amount of $9,000. This sun was duly paid by There is little more to add beyond the fact the H. and Bask, and de Lucchi took the that if the Chinese authorities have ignored money to Penang. There he did a foolish the Transit Pass system where there was decu. The Indian police sergeant who arrested kim thing. He went to the Chartered Bank aumentary proof in the shape of a Transit Fan changed his good money into a draft on London how much more are they likely to do so without forks 000, and proteeded on his way to England. such a document. It is saly a fow years ago

canwhile Horses Pertile & Lo. looked

to foreign trade, and in consequence the telein up their bank-paas book, and found they bad that the West River in Sout! China wes opened stations along this waterway lund to be abolished beau swindled out of 89,000. Immediately, the authorities were communicated with, and the

What was the or the staff largely reduced. ful facts transpired. Then telegrams were sent result? The men from these stations had to to step payment of the draft and arrest the and living elsewhere and became river pirates. man at Port Said. It is stated that the forge we can only conclude that if ickin stations all ries were works of art es regarded the signature over Chins are abolished and no provision is of the firm, etc. De Lucchi is believed to be a made for the employees or Provincial authorities passenger on the N. Y. K. liser Bingo Muru, who depend upon lekin for a living, a dissatis- which left Singapore on the 16th ult. and was faction will arisa which may be difficult to cope due.nt Port Said on the 9th inst.

with and wholesale robbery and violence will result. We are firmly of opinion that the Transit Pass system should be upheld and in the meantime there should-be e increase of duty Ir. H. J. Such's remarks at the China As ciation meeting referred to were much to the point, although they are reported to cause laughter.

The complainant stated in aridlenes that he engaged the defendant's rickshnet West Point, and lind not properly started when the coolis dropped the vehicle and declared that he was too tired to go any farther. Eventually he consented to proceed, only to repeat the performance. When the complainant was at last successful in getting him to again resume his very un- certain way, he walked so slowly that the journey from West Point to the Laval Yard occupied three-quarters of an hour.

The defendant told his Worship that he was fired and that his feet were very sore. He wanted the complainant to take another rickabe, but this he refused to do.

The charges were found prored and the defendant was fined a couple of dollars.

DISORDEELT: BEAMAN, A

Au American seaman on the U.S. transport McLellans pleaded not guilty to creating disturbance in Elgin Road, Kowloos, on Sunday night.

said the defendacz was indulging in a noisy argument with a riekebo-coolin, whose vehicle he was dragging along the road. The coolis told the sergeant that he would not accept the defendant us a passenger because he was too drunk.

The defendant was discharged with a caution.

HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING & DYEING CO., LD.

BERTA.

The fifth ordinary meeting of the above Com pany was, bald yesterday in the offices of the general managers (Mesars Jurdine, Matheson & Co. The Hon. C. W. Disksón (chairman) presided, and there were also present A. Haupt and R.Chatterton Wilcox (directore). W. A. Cruickshank, K. McK. Ross, C. B. Ross, J. Barton, K. A. Chinoy. J. A. Chinoy, Ho Fook, Lo Cheung Shiu, Ho Tu tam, A. Shaw (manager), A, Brooks Smith (secretary), and others. the

rend

The notice calling the meeting having been The CHAIRMAN said Gentlemen, The report and statement of accounts now before you. I propose with your concurrence to take as read. The result shown I hope you will regard se satisfactory. Uar yarns are becoming well Bud favourably known and there is a steady and increasing demand for them, which under normal conditions should allow of our working with fair mergins. The position appeared to your Lonsulting Committoo sufficiently on- couraging to justify the purchase of additional preparation fuachinery and a further 5,000 spindles, part of which has already arrived and been erected and the remainder is expected to be tu working order can handisapped to wome early next year. Although

WATER RETURN.

to an

GOLD DECLINING IN VALUE. Vatil recent times both gold and silver have been used as measures of values, enys Mr. C. I Redfold in the Engineering Mugurine, and both have been produced by munal labour, sesisted by such tools as the minor could carry with him. As neither metal occurs in large mases, the amount of effort required to producs them long rengined a nearly constant quanlity, from which fact came the idea that they repres LEVEL AND STORAGE OF WATER IN RESER sected definite and uniform values. In the

VOIRS ON THE ler SEPTEMBER. sermatics large silver deposits became available by reason of the introduction of improved machinery. The consequence of this was n reduced cost of production, and this reduced cost was in a few years reflected by a fall in the price of silver compared with sold During the last decade concentrated effort has been going into the production of gold, exactly as it went into the production of silver some 30 years ago.

This concentrated effort has been, and is now, reducing the cost of producing gold. Cring whisk the improvel methods of producing gold partly to the comparatively short time through have been in operation, and partly to the tem poury shutting off of the least expensive supply, by reason of the Sonth African war, the amount

Tytam

LEVEL 1901

1902.

1902, 384,800,000

Total..... 395,000,000 480,894,000 CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND HILL DISTRICT DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

lation

Consumption per

head por day

1901.

1902.

215,100

CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON PEN-

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INLAND WATERS' NAVIGATION.

Mr. Frederick Greenwood is very wroth at the provisions of Article 10 of the now-Anglo- Chinees treaty, Writing in th, Westminster, le says i

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"Inland waters." Whether these words include all the great waterways of China wo do not know yet; but they certainly include two of the greatest of them, the Canton River and the Yangt: to. These are to be freely opened up, with liberty not only to trade in their many populous towus, nudreds of miles from the sea, at to build wharves, jetties, warehouses, fact- ories in them. Moreover, the foreigner aul lik traffic with the native population and their $4,000.00 IN PRIZES (IN U.S. GOLD CURRENCY), steamboats may compete for the whole river

junks, and do so on equal terms. Now seopase vs Englishmen were in the position of the Chinese, the Chinese possessed of our enormous advantages in trade and war, and suppose it understood that wherever the Chinese plant in a'strange country their wharves and warehouses. they also plant a claim to the country itself; how then should we like a convention of this sort? We should rebel, and looking first to the unexpended "Boxer movement " in general, and then to the special provocations implanted in Axticle 10 and author, there should be little doubt of the consequences of carrying out the provisions of these artides.

Then what of the ex-territorial privilege when scores of little foreign settlements stud the inland waters of fanation" China? Thees settlements will here the Chiness workman and sorvants are they to be ex-territorialised also? Dues permission to "supervise agencien in natives hands" signify that they are to be brought into the privilege as it is said the con. vorts are Whatever the answer, how can it be doubted that at such a time, with so much bad feeling at work, in each a country, thes inland settlements would be highly provocative of the people swarming about them. I hope that our own mandarins will remember that every privilege they obtain in the Yong- leze regions must be shared with oue European Power and will be shared by the rest ; moreover, that when the privilege includes lawful opportunity to overboar and exasperate the native population, its full enjoyment may be

In other words, or confidently reckoned on. are dangers of a popular rising on those inland waters, of maasacre which would take in account of the difference between one set of "foreign dovils" und another, or which was most provoke irg. Far better is it to forego un inredte rush for commercial advantage then to grasp at them at such a risk as the good folk in Shang hai are so willing that we eliould undertake.

THE MANCHURIAN RAILWAY,

It was my fate, writes "Chersoness" to the Tines, to be obliged to hurriedly leave beautiful Japan and our warrior actist 'allies. Intely, as business recalled me home. Leaving Nagasaki July 5, I arrived at Chefoo at 11 p.m. en Mou- in one of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's boats on day, July 7.

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Hongkong, 2nd September, 1902.

1,650 B. miles from Port Arthur, at 5 p.m. these are points in favour of the racial distinct- Tite occupied in transit 105 hours.

uess of the elephants of the maluland on the Four-and-a-half days in a train with the eastern side of the Bay of Benga! from their thermometer at 85 deg. F. in the shade and Indian and Sinhalese relatives "To determine nothing to eat bat sardines and Armour's Liuned these and many other points connected with bacon, with indifferent local breed to supple the distinctions or otherwise of the local forms. meat there, made us glad of an enforced rest of elephants requires carofal examination of a bors. The food at the buffet was less good han number of living animals, and also a comparison thist emptied in barracks to the British soldier,

of skulls from different localities. Unfor but we were glad to eat and pay highly for it.tunately, the lack of specimens renders it quite Menjurie is a raing, literally a rising town of impossible for naturalists in England to under- some 1,500 inhabitants. It boasts a baker, a take the latter part of the tank.

villainously dirty dry goods stores, and an hotel, vi and very deur. Round the town campments of Barista with their ponies. We tickets (an by good luck a first-class carriage left Manjurie on Jaly 16, taking first-clas

was attached to the train) direct to Ivkatak. On, or, toiled the iron horse, stopping often for his wooden forage and his wacer. On pass Chita, whose nine regimzapts of Trans- Baikal Cossacks arn watering their steeds in Maucheria; past. Mogsdon to Mistoval on the JAPANESE · BEER and there of Lake Baikal. Here we arrived at 4.50 p.m. on July 12. Trans-Baikalia, though not to be compared in richness with Maachuris, is a country, with grown stoppes, covered with tlooks and herds tended by pig-tail. ed Burials Midet rast forests of ounters and its deciduous troos rolls the stately Selenga on way to feed the waters of Baikal. The journey from Manjurie station to Missoraia occupies 70 hours. There is but little food te he obtained PLEASANT. on the way; still there is enough to live on, which is suarezly the case between Port Arthur and Hartin. boats, and slept on board the steamship Angara (built by Armstrong) until 6 am, when we dis embarked, entored the train, and arrived at Irkatak at 10.30 am. on July-20. Having loft. Port Arthur on 10th, and having been dutained.

in 24 hours sa route, we did the journey 10 days. The whole distance is nearly 2000 E, miles. I shall loavo Irkutab by the train de luze on July 29. This will show you that to return home from Jupan it is not now neces:& y to double the golden.”

Across Baikal we steamed in five

RUSSIA AND THE TRUSTS,

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At Chofoo there were à few cases of illness, but I managed to get a passage in the East Chinese Railway Company's ship Nuguten for Port Arthur. As yet no quarantine had been established as this port against Chefoo, and if I landed there I might be able to travel home tria the East Chinese and Trans-Siberian railways, A bright July saa, an nudulating line of ochre- coloured hills, with a break near a lighthouse. the On either side of the break, wears hillside, with no yawning embrasures, but just little scooped out indentations for over-bank fire: the scars merely showing ont chroms against ochre at the Basos, north and sonth of the break, parapets for quick-firing guns; at signal station staff a white flag crossed saltiro- wise with a St. Andrew's cross; a big passenger steamer flying a dag of white, blue, and red in equal horizontal bars. The Nugadan steams quickly in. To the north is a big dock or basin, in which rides the dernier-cri" of Cramp's yard in Philadelphis, the cruiser Variag; in front, Bastward, a poor assemblage of Chinese shauties; to the south a land-lucked bay, with at low tide not more than enough Below overflow. Abovo orario, room for three battleships to swing: br the

8 ft. in. ft. 1 in.

shore a towing mans of ma 30,000 Chinese Above overflow. Level.

coolies busy erecting barracks, hospitals, Pokfulom1-ft. 8 in. ft. in quarters, streets of private houses, laying out

Below overflow. Below overflow.

Parks, entling drains in a word, creating a Wongniekeong 20 ft. 1 in. ft. 2 in.

beautiful now town. To the south-east and STORAGE GALLONS.

north-east a row of hills from 1,200 it. to 1,500 1901.

ft. high, sach crowned with battery whose Tylam..... 315,870,000

open gorges reveal to us what in the distance Pokfulam ... 69,640,000 66,000,000 em like 7.in. or 11 in. guns, all directed land- Wongneicheong 9,780,000 30,094,000

wards; whilst now from the inside ore sees that heet for discussion of great combinations of Darlington for a copy of hie Hand-by

capital only one more vign of the European similar guns in rows of eight fill the insides of dread of the American peril." In particular, the chrome scars on the ochre background. it will be said, Kussia fears American compati- This is the ever-open fortress, Port Arthur. tion in China, eves in Manchuria, whieli she the Intest acquisition of Russia fu the Faciless marked for her own, and is plotting in. Ocean.

this way to retain her markets for herself I left Port Arthar op Jaly 10. The

while winning a better chance to compete Consumption... 119,529.000 105,318,000 gallons peuimala of Luno-toug, on which are situated under the system of the open door in the the fortress and the town of Daluy (far off), is Orient All these things may be alleged, Estimated popu-

213,5 0

treeless and waterless sase in the time of the and may be trae, yet our exporters will do well. spring floods, All the provisions for Port to note the alternative which M. Wilte holds up. 18,5 15.8 gallonsrthur's sustenance and of the coolice along Failing an international agreement, says the St.

the income from hefoo and Manchuria, Petersburg Financial Messenger, This province is, in its southern divisions of one remedy, namely, increased customs duties, Kirin and Shout-tsian, fertils in the oxirume. In other words, that staff of protection on which NORTH WALES. Consumption 11,000,000 17,432,000 gallons Maize, poppies, corn, hemp, vegetables, melons, American exporting Trusts lean at home, may Estimated popr-

potatoes yield luxurious crops, great be as a sword levelled at them abroad. In the waterways of Manchuria fertiliseitandenableits idea itself of an international congres on DEVON AND lation

37,100 57,500 Consumptionper

produce to be borne cheaply. The railway line Trusts there is something alluring. Nor does CORNWALL head per day 4.5

B.S gullons is hold by the Russian ogrance traj, or railway the movement for calling one come badly from

A little wider

the Tear Disarmer. A reason frequently The Government Analyst reports that the "an ure computed at

in number, and are. dispersed in small,

for the given

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Visitors to Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, water is of excellent quality.

sometimes fortified pests, interconnected by armaments is the trade rivalry of the Bournemouth. Wye Valley, Serem Valley, telegraph, and provisioned at a distance of some leading nations. Cobden saw and declared, Bath, Weston-super-ware, Malvern, Hereford, even in his time, that the ory for new markets. Worcester, Gloucester, Llandrindod Wells, 10 or 15 miles from each other, all along the eveni line. Now stations of legal stone are now being might become se mischievous on the old cry for Llangollen, Aberystwyth, Towyn. Barmouth,

Harieck, constrasted, and everything points to a pro- extended dominion, and that jozlousies about Dolgelly,

Criocieil,

Pwllbelly A GRUESOME PLAGUE SCENE.

lungen stay. On July 8, according to the terms trades might lead to war as directly as disputes Llandudno, Rhyl, Bettwre-y.ooo. Isla of the convention, was the date for the som

about territory. There is no doubt, there- Wight and Channel Islands should use The following gruesome picture of what mencement of the evacuation; but, cariots to fore, that if the nations could make an DARLINGTON'S HANDBOOKS, la ench.

18., THE HOTELS OF THE WORLD. befell on a pligae-stricken village in the relate, co the 6th the inhabitants, as a rule amicable agreement covering international Panjab, whose inhabitants persistently refused perfectly quiet and contented, attacked a trade, the chances of general disarming would A Handbook to the loading Hotels throughout all advice in the direction of plague Russian post at Te-lin, not very far north of be greatly brightened. As for the neoassity the World. precantiduary messures, is taken from the diary alokden, the old Tartur capital. As a cou-of-common setion, that is not at present of a plague officer. He writes:This village sequence all the troops, who had received orders clear; nor is it easy to see what effective plan Mr. J. BARTON moved the confirmation of It loss excellent work, especially manifolding, bas a population of 3,000, and the destia from to hold themselves in readiness" to more, were of repressing the international ili effects of the appointment of Mr. B. C. Wilcox as a

plagu last cold weather came to

up The people were morose, and when dry 80. rected to stand taxi- Our train crossed the Trusts could be devised. Yet even if the pro- j member of the Consulting Committee, he bay and is always ready for use.

rivar Sungari, by the magnificent new iron the epidemic The SMITH PREMIER Las as automatic was at its height and the officials tried to bridge at 9 am, and steamed into Harbin Joot is only a dream, as yet, we must not forget that the dreams of ons generation are often the persuade them, they flatly refused plagae (Sungari station) at 2 p.m. on July 12.

realities of the next. The Common Law has the re-election of Messrs. A. Haupt and R. Cypo-cleaning device, whereby all the type is precautionary manures, using absurd argu- At Harbin there were on that day 320 cases long simod its weapons at regrating and "Wilcox to the Consulting Committee,

ments in defiance. Owing to the large number of cholers and 110 deaths. All work was at a monopoly who knows that some sort of inter- Mr. K. M¢K, Ross seconded, and the motion endly cleaped in ove minutes time. No other of bodies to be disposed of daily, which became standstill, for the 20,000 coolies engaged in national status against internationally operative j was adopted unanimously,

machine has this equipment. It also possesses a heary task, they were simply throws in the building had ded in a panic. We mot parties Trusts may not hereafter and a place in the jus

of them on our way northwards, camping out Bir W. A CEDICKSHANK moved the reall the Intest improvements that all other

fields surrounding the village; this attracted a

gentium? the steppe. Some bud Hed as far as Tei-tai election of the auditor, Mr W. Hutton Potts

pack of wolves and all the village dogs, which, Mr. C. H. Ross seconded, and the motion writing machines have, besides many others, having lived on these bodies for some time, bar, where we arrived at 1a.m. on 13th July, were found dead pot far from the scene of thair The railway line before this passes over a part The temperature, which had which will be explained at the agent's office.

recent gruesoma feast, doubtless due to plagas. of Mongolia Now there are scarcely any dogs left in this registered as high as 10 F. in the shade at One would like to hope (saya the Chotou, now beone sensibly couler. Waving village." Civil and Military Casette) that this bare grasses, studded with lovely flowers. Look the official record may prove an object lesson to place of the flourishing craps. Cattle and those who ignorantly mofuss the only measures shoop, driven by dark-faced Manchus, different that at the present time leave been found at all in 0 and speech from the shattering Shen effectual in staying the pingue, ez, esaenation tung collee, dotted the vast and verdant of infected dwellings, the zagregation of the plains. sick from the healthy, the temporary isolation the Hingan mountain chain. A tonnel appear to be less uncommon than in either of those who have been in contact with the sick; ne mile long is here under construction. India or Ceylon; and there is also the circum- --35 balek raw silk For St, Chamond:10. The Sole Agents for Southern China are and inoculation as a measure of personal protas. On 15th we passed Hallar, and arrivatance that Burmese elephants breed much Messrs. WM. MEYEBINK & CO., of our tion against the danger of contracting theel at Manjarie, the frontier station and more roadily in confinement than is the

I terminus of the East Chinese-Railway, some case with Indian elephants. So far as they go, or Colloquial. Chinese place.

[240 disease,

latterly, we hava extent by conalderable sieksies amongst our woperatives, yet we have reneou to congratulate yourselves that we this year escaped any swAEA visitation of plague, and if only we are ext

led to the genoral stock at the reduced cost year equally fortunate we may hope to benefit of production los afected market values to only by increased production from the addition to our a limited extent. With the re-opening of the plant and also from the gradual improvement Scalk african mines and a coutinuance of the which is taking place in the aptitude of our process of reducing the cost of producing gold, workpeople, The health of our employees is a its.value as a purchasing commodity will de

eline. It is impossible to say to what extent matter of very great importance to the Cam pany, and it is obviously good policy to ensure the value of gold will decline, but it seems lausir being comfortably housed To this end possible that during the next twenty years the it has been durided to expand a considerable decline will amount to about fifty per cent, sum in the erection of a large aud suitable Whatever may be the extent of this decline, we building capable of accommodating some 800 may be quite certain that it will be considerable hands, the site solected being upon land adjacent and will continue for a number of years. We to the mill itself and belonging to the Company may therefore say that in the immediate future. There quarters should be ready for occupation price will be stated ju uuits of continually by 140 and of March next, and it is hoped that relating value. In other words, it will tako being kept as they will be in a e rictly sanitary quereasing amount of gold to pay for artivice concition the dangers of an epidemio will bo

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